hotmtlnovel Chapter 159 The Whole Team Sets Off
Chapter 159 The Whole Team Sets Off
After an unknown amount of time, as the rain gradually subsided, the camp woke up early and made all the necessary preparations.
Wang Hu gave the vehicle a final check.
"Is everything ready? Can we go?"
Fu Xiaojian and Xu Si exchanged a glance, their unspoken understanding unspoken.
Xu Si didn't see much change in Fu Xiaojian's expression; it seemed that yesterday's failed promotion hadn't affected him much.
"It's alright, the vehicles are basically fine!" With Wang Hu providing support, the convoy was much more relaxed.
Everyone silently got into the car.
The engines started one after another, sounding somewhat muffled amidst the rain.
While visibility has improved somewhat, it has not seen a substantial increase.
The convoy did not continue climbing, but instead drove downhill towards a lower elevation.
This is also the best option right now.
Going downhill saves fuel and also increases the chances of finding supply depots.
The convoy's next goal is to find supplies.
Even Xu Si is running out of supplies.
At the mine market, he traded half a bucket of cooking oil for some food, but not much, less than ten days' worth. Fortunately, he was unconscious for two days, which saved him a lot.
All that was left was a small half-bag of flour, rice seeds, and dozens of bottles of water.
He only had two compressed biscuits left; any more and he really wouldn't have any more.
Therefore, finding supply points is now extremely urgent.
Xu Si did not expect that the terrain would become lower and lower after the hills, but the road he was driving on was very flat.
With such heavy rain, the roads they were traveling on should have been raging with rivers by now, but there was nothing there.
It was as if something was deliberately guiding them to keep moving forward.
After driving for a while, Xu Si felt that something was wrong with the car. After Xinggui probed the road, he discovered that the road surface that the convoy had driven over was gradually becoming solid from muddy.
Occasionally, you can feel what appears to be broken asphalt or concrete underneath.
These are the remnants of an old era.
The rain finally subsided enough that he could see objects hundreds of meters away. At the end of Xu Si's starry eyes seemed to be...
"It's the city!" Fu Xiaojian's voice came through the walkie-talkie.
The convoy suddenly stopped.
After only a few breaths of silence, everyone was plunged into a state of shocked ecstasy.
Oh, city!
The colossal structure before us, almost entirely obscured by rain and mist, was actually a city.
Those who could open their windows didn't care whether it was raining or not; they simply stuck their heads out, wanting to witness the long-lost "old soil."
The little girl was extremely anxious. His driver's side window had long been broken and welded shut by Wang Hu with sheet metal, so he couldn't see anything now.
"Can you tell which city it is? My home is in Yinzhou."
I'm from Hangzhou.
My family is from Jiangcheng.
"My family is from Xi'an!"
"I miss home, I really want to go home!"
……
For a moment, the people on the bus who couldn't see the city were all crying.
Little Lolita and Little Luo couldn't help but shed tears.
They're not homesick; they just haven't been home in a long time!
Deep within the rain, the city's silhouette resembled the skeleton of a giant beast stranded in time, silently lying at the edge of the sloping earth.
Although he could only see a silhouette, Xu Si was certain that it was not a mirage, but the real city.
Tall and short shadows pierced the gray horizon; those were the remnants of buildings, their window openings like countless empty eyes, staring at the tiny convoy that had struggled through the torrential rain.
Now it's the team's turn to hesitate.
To go in or not to go in?
There was complete silence on the walkie-talkie.
All eyes were fixed on the silhouette of the city; no one spoke, no one cried.
It is so huge, and so tempting.
At that moment, they seemed to forget everything—the apocalypse, the eeriness, the danger, and even life and death.
"We're going in, aren't we..." Jiao Jiao and Su Su squeezed into the passenger seat, staring blankly at the scene before them.
Su Su did not answer immediately.
She clenched her fists tightly, her cool eyes gazing at the distant city.
The power brought by Sequence 3 surged within him, yet it could not dispel the inexplicable unease in his heart.
The city is too big, big enough to hide anything.
It doesn't belong to them.
Judging from the silhouette alone, Fu Xiaojian couldn't tell which city this was. His body was also trembling, not from fear, but from excitement.
"Old Xu." Fu Xiaojian pressed the call button.
He didn't say anything more, but Xu Si already understood. He wanted to go in, if Xu Si agreed.
Although Su Su has been promoted to Sequence 3, Fu Xiaojian still believes that Xu Si is the team's anchor.
If Xu Si agrees, he'll give it a shot.
The main problem is that the convoy is running out of supplies and fuel.
The convoy's intercom system fell silent; everyone was waiting for an answer.
Xu Si did not answer immediately.
He knew what kind of outcome everyone was expecting.
For everyone, a city represents a place of belonging, memories, and the fact that everything they have experienced was real.
Xu Si's words may have determined the fate of many people.
The city could also be the graveyard for all of them.
Reason told Xu Si that he shouldn't step in after already losing the first gamble.
Staying away is the wisest choice.
He could feel the held breaths, the burning gazes, and the trembling hearts in every car in front of him.
"You really will die! Reinforced concrete is not suitable for making graves!" Xu Si said helplessly.
Tears fell silently from everyone in the car, but they couldn't hide their smiles.
Dust to dust, dust to dust.
Rather than being buried in the wilderness, it is better to be buried in one's hometown.
"If you're ready, then go in!" Xu Si reminded him.
Sometimes people are like that, knowingly doing wrong.
"Then let's go in!"
"Then let's go in!"
"Then let's go in!"
……
No one backed down; even Xiao Yaoyao clenched her fist to encourage herself.
"There's no need for everyone to be so pessimistic!"
"Cities attract eerie things because there are many people. This city must be a ghost town now, maybe there aren't any eerie things at all!" Xiao Luo said.
Everyone knows this is just a consolation; nobody knows the true state of the city right now.
It may be true, as Xiao Luo said, that there are no strange things at all, or it may have become a den of strange things.
However, this reassurance had a significant effect; at least people were no longer so fearless of death.
"It would be better if there were none. If there were, let Brother Dao chop them all up!" the little girl laughed over the walkie-talkie.
Xu Si naturally didn't say anything that would dampen morale; he only hoped that everything would go smoothly on this trip.
Everyone exchanged knowing smiles, while simultaneously raising their vigilance to the highest level.
Although I say it's easy, this trip will definitely not be easy.
However, they were finally going to return to the human city.
Even Xu Si couldn't help but feel a surge of emotion at this moment.
Looking at the [Sword of Punishment] placed in the passenger seat.
Xu Si was speechless; even the sword understood him better than he did.
"City ahead, team, advance!" Fu Xiaojian's voice was resolute.
"The whole team is on their way!"