Embers Ad Infinitum

Chapter 60 Acting in a way that defeats one’s purpose (recommendation ticket)

“Okay.”

“Yes.”

“No problem.”

“Get in the car.”

Bai Chen, Long Yuehong, Jiang Baiman and Shang Jianyao almost spoke in unison without hesitation.

The young man wearing a dark shirt, trousers, and a black windbreaker went around the front of the car, went to the passenger seat, and opened the door.

He smiled lightly to Jiang Baiman:

“Can you go to the back row?”

“No problem, you sit, you sit. “Jiang Baiman stood up enthusiastically and stepped aside.

Wait until the man took off the silver rifle behind her and sat in the passenger seat. She bent down a little and said with a smile like a favor:

“What do you call you?” p>

The man with black hair and golden eyes frowned slightly invisibly:

“Qiao Chu.”

“It sounds so good.” Jiang Baiman didn’t mean to praise him. .

“Look at their name, look at yours.” Shang Jianyao slammed Long Yuehong with his head sideways.

Long Yuehong is not
strange at all, agreeing :

“Yes, yes.”

In their admiration, Jiang Baiman opened The car door in the row said to Shang Jianyao:

“Move to the middle.”

Before the voice fell, she changed her words:

“No, You get down first and I’ll sit in the middle.”

Not too happy to see Shang Jianyao, Jiang Baiman emphasized again:

“I am the team leader!”

Shang Jianyao reluctantly got off the car and watched Jiang Baiman sit in the middle of the back row.

After hearing the term “group leader” from the earth language, the black hair and golden-eyed man Qiao Chu subconsciously turned his head and glanced at Jiang Baiman.

Jiang Baiman seemed to have been waiting for a long time, and he exchanged his eyes with a smile.

Qiao Chu didn’t say much, but withdrew his gaze unhurriedly.

Jiang Baiman is not lost, leaning forward, supporting his chin with one hand, and it is difficult to remove his eyes to admire Qiao Chu’s side face.

After Shang Jianyao sat down again, he found that because of his position, he could only see the back of Qiao Chu’s head, and from time to time he would be blocked by the chair pillows in front of him, and his face suddenly showed unconcealed disappointment. mood.

Qiao Chu glanced at the broken bridge in front, and suddenly asked:

“Do you have any food?”

“Yes!” Bai Chen quickly turned sideways and opened the armrest box.

“Yes!” Jiang Baiman retracted his chin and hurriedly searched for food in his pockets. Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong straightened their bodies, turned to the back, and tried to get the braised beef for Qiao Chu can.

Without a doubt, Bai Chen was the fastest, handing Qiao Chu a small bag of compressed biscuits and an energy bar.

“That’s it. You guys eat a little too. I don’t think I will rest at noon. You have to take turns driving.” Qiao Chu took the food and gave the order like the leader, and Shang Jianyao and others had no objection.

After eating the biscuits and energy bars with the water in the water sac, Qiao Chu placed the item, waited for a while, and turned his head to Bai Chen:

“It’s time to go. Now.

“Go to the hilly area northwest. “

“Okay. “Bai Chen who had finished lunch agreed, but did not look away.

Qiao Chu stretched out his left hand, Patted Bai Chen’s right arm, gently said with a smile:

” Drive well. “

“Okay! “Bai Chen was flattered, and immediately sat upright and started the jeep.

Qiao Chu turned to look to the back row, slightly said with a smile:

“I want to take a break.” Pay attention to the surrounding situation, and wake me up when you reach the hilly area. “

“Good! “Jiang Baiman and others responded in unison.

Qiao Chu didn’t speak any more and turned his head back.

The smile on his face quickly disappeared, and his eyes became extremely cold.

Then, he took out a sky blue box from his pocket and snapped it open.

The box contained a small mirror.

Qiao Chu stared at himself in the mirror, raised his right hand, and carefully adjusted his hair.

After repeated inspections, he slowly put away the mirror box, leaned his head back, and closed I lost my eyes.

In the evening, the jeep returned to the hilly area where Black Rat Town was located. At this time, the 23rd brigade of Wang Beicheng had already gone.

No need to remind, Jiang Baiman and others’ incarnation was the alarm clock and awakened Qiao Chu on time.

Qiao Chu looked at the dimmed sky:

“I will rest here tonight, and continue to Northwest tomorrow morning. open. “

“Okay. “Bai Chen found a familiar camping site and stopped the jeep.

Then, the four of them scrambled to set up the tent, lit the campfire, and took out a few military cans from the trunk. /p>

“You have a lot of supplies…” Qiao Chu sat in the passenger seat with the door open, watching leisurely as Shang Jianyao and others were busy.

It didn’t take long, Shang Jianyao ran over and offered to ask:

“I’ll go there to get water. “

Qiao Chu followed the direction he pointed, looked at the location of the clean water source, thought for a few seconds and said:

“No, our water can support a lot day. “

“Well, it will take a while for the can to heat up. Do you need me to sing you a song?” “Shang Jianyao didn’t insist at all, but instead smiled and asked.

“…” Qiao Chu looked at Shang Jianyao with suspicion for two seconds, “No. “

“Then the yellow golden sea shore swing hula dance?” “Shang Jianyao asked.

Qiao Chu browsed slightly wrinkle and said:

“No, I want to be quiet for a while, and call me when the can is hot.” “

“Okay! “Shang Jianyao responded enthusiastically.

After he turned and walked towards the campfire, Qiao Chu once again took out the blue plastic box that day and opened it with a snap.

Looking at himself in the mirror, Qiao Chu’s expression became a little more vivid, and he sighed in a low voice:
“Hey, it’s really troublesome…”

In this way, the night passed quietly, the sun It rises again from the east of the Black Marsh Wilderness.

After having breakfast, after a secret contest, Jiang Baiman finally took advantage of the authority of the group leader to grab the duty of driving, and Shang Jianyao, Long Yuehong and Bai Chen could only squeeze in the back row rather aggrievedly.

Qiao Chu looked at the mechanical watch and relied on Compass on the dial to determine the position.

” Drive in that direction, keep driving. “He pointed to a place to the northwest.

Jiang Baiman did not question, drove the jeep, went around the hilly area first, and ran straight in the direction Qiao Chu said.

As time goes by, the surrounding terrain becomes more and more flat, and the soil is getting darker and more rotten. In the end, the silt has become the main scenery, and the harder roads are less and less.

This is heading towards the depths of the Great Swamp.

Compared with Bai Chen, Jiang Baiman’s experience in this area is slightly insufficient, and he almost made the car sink into the bottom twice. Inside the silt.

She had to give up the driver’s seat and return to the middle of the back row. Bai Chen drove the jeep seriously and hard, like a child looking forward to praise.

The speed of the jeep has undoubtedly slowed down a lot, until noon, it did not travel more than 30 kilometers, and various plants gradually grew in the surrounding swamp.

In comparison, the colors are either dim or bright, which looks rather weird.

Jiang Baiman still remembers his role as team leader, and casually reminded Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong:

“Seeing similar aberrant plants gathering indicates that it has entered the contaminated area. However, the plants here are not grotesquely shaped enough, not dangerous enough, and the pollution level should not be too high.

“In such an environment, ordinary persons can also move around, but if there is no protective equipment, it is best not to exceed three days, and those who have done mature genetic modification can last about ten days, but, The premise is that there is pre-prepared food and water.”

Qiao Chu turned his head again and glanced at Jiang Baiman, but quickly retracted his gaze and pointed to the side:

“Go here.”

“But…” Bai Chen subconsciously wanted to make his own suggestion.

The routes she chooses are all types that are less polluted and suitable for vehicles. If you change the route rashly, you may encounter the kind of swamp that expands the area. Even the car and the people will fall into it. To the bottom.

“Go this way.” Qiao Chu emphasized again.

“Okay.” Bai Chen chose to obey.

After the vehicle changed lanes, it entered an area that Bai Chen was not familiar with, which slowed the speed of the Jeep a lot. Bai Chen needed to drive and judge the road conditions based on his own experience.

About 25 minutes later, when everyone in the car finished lunch and was about to let Jiang Baiman replace Bai Chen, the scene in front suddenly changed:

The dark swamp on the edge was not visible Inside, thick vines with rotten soil drilled out from the bottom, forming a low “forest”.

They are blue and black in color, and each of them has the thickness of ordinary pythons, and there are countless slightly red spikes on the surface.

These weird vines are entangled, covering every area visible to the naked eye in front of the jeep. Except for the dark swamp itself, everything else has become their embellishment—even the sky seems to be low. The shelter of the short “forest” or other problems becomes gloomy, gloomy, and depressed.

Seeing this spectacular but terrifying scene, whether it is Jiang Baiman, Bai Chen, Shang Jianyao, Long Yuehong, all have a hard to describe shocking feeling at the same time.

In their shock, they almost simultaneously had a question:

“Why are we here?”

At this time, Qiao Chu’s mouth came up, A gentle smile appeared:

“Don’t be nervous.”

This voice dispelled the doubts of Shang Jianyao and others, making them look towards Qiao Chu infatuatedly.

Qiao Chu sat up straight and began to seriously instruct Bai Chen how to drive and where to drive.

Looking at the python-like slightly red vines passing by the window, Jiang Baiman moved his five fingers with his left hand.

She instinctively took out a pen and paper from her pocket and recorded what she saw.

Shang Jianyao looks at the back of Qiao Chu’s head from time to time, and sometimes looks out the vines, there is always a feeling that they are gestating great danger.

At this moment, he felt a slight bump on his left arm.

Shang Jianyao turned his head subconsciously and saw Jiang Baiman leaning the white paper in his hand.

He stared at it, and saw that the white paper faithfully described the current scene, and apart from this, there was a strange sentence at the end:

“…Great Swamp deep There is such a severely distorted area, but the magic is that the chip on my left arm tells me that the radiation pollution here is not too serious. Maybe the pollution has decayed and weakened over time?

“…Those vines are covered with slightly red spikes, as if they have just been sucked in blood…

“…The chip on my left arm tells me the current position and the intended target Qifeng Town acting in a way that defeats one’s purpose ……”

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(End of this chapter)