Chapter 23: Arrival in Syracuse
Han Huo walked to the rear of the patrol car, patted the modified small trailer, and said:
"Brother King, the weight of this car after modification is too much, and the fuel consumption is very high, so I asked someone to install a small trailer for you, and the fuel on the trailer is estimated to be enough to run from the west to the east of Huaguo."
Chen Moying gave Han Huo a thumbs up on the side and said, "You are very thoughtful. β
Duan Yuan walked to the patrol car, patted the sturdy bulletproof body, and looked back at the camp.
A mud tanker truck loaded with concrete is pouring concrete into the formwork, which is the foundation of the fence to be built.
In the distance, on Huaiyang Lake, a sand mining ship and a transport ship honked their horns and headed farther away.
Didi β
A car horn honked and pulled Duan Yuan's attention back.
A large red truck full of goods stopped beside Duan Yuan, and Xiao Qi jumped out of the cab.
Xiao Qi looked at Duan Yuan and breathed a sigh of relief: "I finally caught up!" β
"It seems that Xiao Qi has found a lot of good things for Brother King." Han Huo quipped on the side, "She ran out in the middle of the night last night, saying that she thought of something to give Brother King." β
Xiao Qi's face turned red, and he raised his fist towards Han Huo, and said:
"Brother King has helped us so much, this trip is so far, I have to prepare something good."
Xiao Qi opened the door of the patrol car and pulled the compressed biscuits, energy bars and other things prepared by Han Huo to the ground.
"Alas, alas......" Han Huo hurriedly grabbed Xiao Qi's hand, "You have to give King good things, and you can't throw away all the things I prepared." β
"Look at what you've prepared! Is it eaten by humans? Xiao Qi crossed his waist and said angrily.
ββ¦β¦ Good fellow, I'm going to get rid of you for eating all these things every day? Han Huo touched his nose.
"Don't talk about these things if they are not nutritious, they are not delicious!" Xiao Qi jumped into the truck compartment and kept throwing all kinds of things towards Han Huo from the compartment.
"These are self-heating rice, shredded fish-flavored pork, potato beef, and kung pao chicken...... There are also pre-made dishes that can be eaten as soon as they are heated. β
Xiao Qi threw them to Han Huo one by one, and Han Huo's arms were soon filled with all kinds of delicious food, and he hurriedly stuffed those things into the patrol car, and said:
"Your stuff is delicious, but it takes up too much space......"
Xiao Qi stood in the carriage, glared at Han Huo, and said:
"Now it's not a wilderness survival show, King and they walked along the road, and if they found the town, could they still have anything to eat? Of course, to preserve the taste of the food.
β¦β¦ Then, I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to find vegetables, so I looked for some multivitamins. β
Han Huo caught the medicine bottle thrown by Xiao Qi and asked strangely:
"Where did you find all this, we didn't find it in Huaiyang City."
"It's outrageous, the supermarket I found before didn't even have these things...... I've seen it on our way here, I ...... Hidden a little. β
When Han Huo heard this, he coughed and said in a rather serious voice:
"Okay, you Xiaoqi, you dare to hide materials privately, you are a serious violation of discipline!"
"Humph! If you violate discipline, you will violate discipline. Xiao Qi made a grimace at Han Huo, walked to Duan Yuan's side, and said softly:
"Brother King...... Be careful all the way. β
"Thank you, Xiaoqi."
Duan Yuan looked at the little girl he met when he first went to look for Jing Wei, and looked at this little girl who should have died in the courtyard where Jing Wei was, and felt a little emotional.
It was precisely because he rushed to the small courtyard where Jing Wei was located that Xiao Qi did not die, and the Seven Heroes of Jiangcheng did not become the Six Heroes of Jiangcheng.
Duan Yuan stretched out his hand, rubbed Xiao Qi's head, and whispered softly in her ear: "Live well, if Han Huo punishes you for this, just tell me, I will support you." β
"Hmm!" Xiao Qi nodded heavily, with a bright smile on his face.
Duan Yuan turned around, looked at the bulletproof body, and said to Chen Moying and the others:
"Let's go!"
Xiao Qi watched the patrol car go farther and farther, waving his hand desperately.
"Xiao Qi, what did King tell you when he left?" Han Huo asked curiously.
"I won't tell you." Xiao Qi kicked Han Huo, "Didn't you say that I violated discipline, hurry up and punish me, and after the punishment is over, I will go out to find supplies." β
"Alas......" Han Huo grabbed Xiao Qi, "You tell me what Brother King told you, and the punishment can be waived." β
"No need, you will punish me if I violate discipline, and what Brother King said to me, it is impossible to tell you." Xiao Qi raised his head slightly and walked towards the camp.
"Xiao Qi, why are you unreasonable!"
"I'm not being reasonable! ...... slightly" Xiao Qi turned around and made a grimace at Han Huo.
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Li You Gathering Area.
Li Qiaoqiao, Lin Qian'er and Long Yuxiu were busy rummaging for something.
After leaving the group from Jiang University, they had arrived at the gathering area a day earlier.
Now, Li Qiaoqiao and they already know that the Li You clan was known as one of the three clans in the historical period of the Sixteen Kingdoms Rebellion, and if they can find something in the history of the Li You clan, it may be of great help to find the strange arrival and sudden disappearance 1500 years ago.
Maybe you can know the reason for the strange advent now, and maybe even find out how to solve the strange arrival.
After questioning his parents, Li Qiaoqiao learned from his parents that the Li You tribe had moved from the coast to where they are now.
The original temple of the Li You clan was in that place.
The temple in the settlement has been rummaged through by Li Qiaoqiao and the others, and they have not found any useful information.
A few people thought about the temple in the birthplace of the Li You clan, and there might be some clues. Li Qiaoqiao's parents also informed that there should still be a small number of Li You people who have not migrated in the original birthplace of the Li You tribe.
The problem that bothered Li Qiaoqiao now was that they first had to find out where the birthplace of the Li You clan was.
When they first migrated, Li Qiaoqiao's parents were so young that they had long forgotten the name of the place, and only remembered the feeling of the salty sea breeze on their faces when they were children.
The coastline of Huaguo is extremely long, and with such vague clues, I am afraid that I will not be able to find it for several years.
"Some people of the Li You tribe have the habit of compiling genealogies and deeds."
The words of Li Qiaoqiao's parents gave Li Qiaoqiao and the three of them a glimmer of hope.
Except for Li Qiaoqiao's parents and Li Tianming, who had broken his arms, all the others died in the last Luozu appearance, and the three of them could only smash the doors of the Li You people one by one, and search one by one.
"I found one here."
Lin Qian'er held a yellowed booklet and shouted at the other two.
Long Yuxiu and Li Qiaoqiao quickly gathered around Lin Qian'er, and after the three of them studied it carefully for a while, they found that this genealogy was compiled in great detail, but the time was too short, probably from 600 years ago to about 50 years ago.
But the problem with this booklet is that, although it is detailed, there is no information about the place of ancestry, perhaps because they have been living in one place and are not preparing to migrate, so they do not indicate their ancestral places.
"It's been a long time, it's a useless thing......" Lin Qian'er threw the family tree to the ground.
Li Qiaoqiao bent down and picked up the booklet and carefully put it in his backpack, "This thing is useless to us at the moment, but when we have time, we can study and study it, maybe it will be useful in the future." β
In this way, after looking for a few more, Li Qiaoqiao patted his head and said angrily:
"How did I forget this, how did I forget their house."
Li Qiaoqiao took Long Yuxiu and Lin Qian'er to the very edge of the settlement, where there was an independent four-story building with a huge courtyard in front of and behind the building.
"This man is the richest man in the settlement, and he must have a family tree in his family, and it must have been long and detailed."
Li Qiaoqiao pushed open the door and walked into the yard overgrown with weeds.
"Sister Qiaoqiao, why are you so sure?" Lin Qian'er followed behind Li Qiaoqiao and asked curiously.
"Their family was not rich before, but after recruiting a son-in-law, they suddenly jumped up. Then he began to find someone to compile the family tree, and asked many old people in the clan to inquire about the past.
Climbing relatives randomly, it is said that he has hung his relationship on his ancestors. β
"Ancestor?" Long Yuxiu suddenly spoke on the side, "You won't say that at the time of the Sixteen Kingdoms Rebellion, the ancestor of the Li You clan, right?" β
"It should be." Li Qiaoqiao used a weapon to cut down the weeds in front of him, "I remember that their family also found and collected some old things to fill the faΓ§ade, probably because they also wanted to confirm that they were the descendants of their ancestors." β
Lin Qian'er suddenly heard such a thing, covered her mouth, and said in surprise:
"Whose descendant is this, can this still be pretended?"
Long Yuxiu: "What's this, money can make ghosts grind, not to mention just acknowledging one of his identities." β
As they spoke, the three of them walked to a closed security door with the latest electronic door lock from before the strange arrival.
"Long Yuxiu is right, at that time, his family spent a lot of manpower and material resources to help some people repair the genealogy, and at that time he spent money to add the names of his ancestors to other people's genealogies, those people are all prominent people in the clan, and they can really have some blood relationship with the ancestors."
After Li Qiaoqiao finished speaking, he raised his foot and kicked straight on the security door.
Bang β
A hole appeared in the security door.
Li Qiaoqiao originally wanted to continue to raise his foot and kick the door, but was stopped by Long Yuxiu, he raised his hand and threw out a paper figure, and the paper figure became larger in the process of falling to the ground and became a paper man guard.
The paper man guard raised the paper knife and split the security door in half with a single sword.
The three of them entered the house and found the family tree without much effort.
The family used a large room to place the ancestral spiritual seat, and the genealogy was placed at the front.
"Shouldn't these things be placed in an ancestral hall, how can they be placed in your own home?" Lin Qian'er asked a little puzzled.
"Our Li You clan does not have an ancestral hall, and the Luozu Temple cannot put these things."
Li Qiaoqiao opened the family tree, and saw the name of the ancestor at the beginning - Li You, and there were some life deeds and the like at the back, Li Qiaoqiao didn't look closely, she knew that these things were mostly boasted by some descendants, and they were not necessarily true.
After all, the old ancestor had a strange power at that time, but Li Qiaoqiao had never heard of this matter before.
Li Qiaoqiao flipped the family tree to the end, and after some searching, Li Qiaoqiao found what she was looking for.
"In 73 years, there was a great change in the Li You tribe, the statue of Luozu God collapsed, and the ancestors trained it, and the descendants of Li Jin migrated from Haidong County to Liyuan City with the people."
Long Yuxiu and Lin Qian'er also saw the information on the genealogy at this time, and the two looked at each other silently.
This Haidong County, they have never heard of it at all.
Fortunately, there is enough information on the Internet now, and after some searching, I found two Haidong counties.
One is located inland, which obviously does not meet the conditions of the seaside mentioned by Li Qiaoqiao's parents, while the other Haidong County was incorporated by Tianhai City more than ten years ago and became a district of Tianhai City.
"Great!" Lin Qian'er cheered loudly, "Finally found a clue!" β
Li Qiaoqiao pushed her glasses, with a smile on her face, she looked around the room and found two books covered by glass.
One is called "Chronicles of Scenery" and the other is called "Travelogue".
It seems that the years are not short, and it should have been collected by Li Jin from other Li You people or purchased by himself in other places.
"Li You, Li You." Long Yuxiu suddenly spoke, "The name of your Li You clan is the name of your ancestor?" It's weird. β
"Maybe Li You, he's lazy, too lazy to name ......," Lin Qian'er said with her head tilted on the side.
"Don't worry about these details."
Li Qiaoqiao took out his mobile phone, edited a message, clicked send, and said to Long Yuxiu and Lin Qian'er:
"Now that we know where it came from, we're going to hurry up and head over there."
Li Qiaoqiao opened the map on his mobile phone, looked at the map and thought for a while, and said:
"Let's follow this road to Tianhai City, try to avoid those big cities, there are many dead areas in big cities, we are in a hurry, try to avoid unnecessary battles, and strive to rush to Tianhai City as soon as possible, find the Luozu Temple there, and see if we can find more clues."
After listening to Li Qiaoqiao's words, Long Yuxiu and Lin Qian'er both felt that Li Qiaoqiao was thinking quite comprehensively and there were no mistakes, so they both nodded in agreement.
At this moment, Li Qiaoqiao's mobile phone made a "ding dong" sound.
A friend signed "Duan Yuan" sent a new message.
"Pay attention to safety, when you arrive in Tianhai City, be careful of the black gold shelter, and be careful of Wang Yongxing."
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On the highway, a patrol car with two huge iron plates on top of it drove steadily forward at an unfast speed.
In the car, Chubby in the driver's seat listened to a powerful song with a pair of headphones, and kept chewing mint-flavored gum in his mouth.
But even so, he still felt an endless sleepiness coming at him.
"Chubby, I said you didn't choose this song very well." Chen Moying leaned in from the back row and tapped Chubby's shoulder with his hand.
Duan Yuan heard Chen Moying's voice at this time, opened his eyes slightly in the co-pilot's seat, he looked at the chubby and sleepy appearance, grabbed the steering wheel, and stepped on the brakes.
After the car stopped, Duan Yuan, Chen Moying and He Yixin jumped out of the car, listening to the snoring of the little fat behind them, the three of them smiled heartily and began to observe the nearby environment.
"Is that Syracuse over there?" Chen Moying asked, pointing to the tall buildings on the left.
"It should be." Duan Yuan nodded, "The first big city we encountered was Snow City. β
Duan Yuan took out the [Weird Compass] from his arms, and was surprised to find that the pointer of the compass was facing Snow City on the left.
(End of chapter)