Chapter 60 (Asking for Recommendation Votes)
"Okay."
"Yes."
"No problem."
"Get in the car."
Bai Chen, Long Yuehong, Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao almost spoke in unison without the slightest hesitation.
The young man wearing a dark shirt, trousers, and a black trench coat immediately went around the front of the car, came to the passenger seat, and opened the door.
He said to Jiang Baimian with a light smile:
"Can you go to the back row?"
"No problem, you sit, you sit." Jiang Baimian stood up enthusiastically and gave up his seat.
When the man took off the silver rifle behind his back and sat in the passenger seat, she bent down slightly and smiled flatteringly:
"What do you call me?"
The black-haired and golden-eyed man frowned invisibly:
"Qiao Chu."
"It's so nice." Jiang Baimian did not hesitate to praise.
"Look at other people's names, look at yours." Shang Jianyao struck Long Yuehong sideways.
Long Yuehong was not surprised at all, and echoed:
"Yes, yes."
In their admiration, Jiang Baimian opened the rear car door and said to Shang Jianyao:
"Move to the middle."
Before she finished speaking, she changed her words again:
"No, you come down first, I'll sit in the middle."
Seeing that Shang Jianyao was not too happy, Jiang Baimian emphasized another sentence:
"I am the team leader!"
Shang Jianyao reluctantly got out of the car and watched Jiang Baimian sit in the middle of the back row.
After hearing the term "team leader" from the gray language, Qiao Chu, a man with black hair and golden eyes, subconsciously turned his head and glanced at Jiang Baimian.
Jiang Baimian seemed to have been waiting for a long time, making eye contact with him and smiling sweetly.
Qiao Chu didn't say much, and retracted his gaze unhurriedly.
Jiang Baimian didn't see any loss, leaned forward, held his chin with one hand, and admired Qiao Chu's side face as if it was difficult to take his eyes off.
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 pillow in front of him, and his face suddenly showed unconcealable disappointment.
Qiao Chu looked at the broken bridge in front of him, and suddenly asked:
"Do you have anything to eat?"
"Yes!" Bai Chen quickly turned sideways and opened the armrest box.
"Yes, yes!" Jiang Baimian withdrew the hand holding his chin and hurriedly looked for food in his pockets, while Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong straightened up and turned backwards, trying to get Qiao Chu canned braised beef.
There was no doubt that Bai Chen was the fastest and handed Qiao Chu a small bag of compressed biscuits and an energy bar.
"That's it. You also eat a little, and you probably won't rest at noon, so you have to take turns driving." Qiao Chu took the food and gave the order like a leader, but Shang Jianyao and others had no objection.
After eating the biscuits and energy bars with the water in the water bag, Qiao Chu put away the items, waited for a while, and turned his head to Bai Chen:
"It's time to go.
"Go to the hills to the northwest."
"Okay." Bai Chen, who had finished lunch, agreed with all his mouth, but did not look away.
Qiao Chu stretched out his left hand, patted Bai Chen's right arm, and smiled gently:
"Drive well."
"Okay!" Bai Chen was flattered, immediately sat up straight, and started the jeep.
Qiao Chu turned to look at the back row and smiled slightly:
"I need to take a break. Pay attention to the situation around you, and wake me up when you get to that hilly area."
"Okay!" Jiang Baimian and others answered in unison.
Qiao Chu didn't say anything more and turned his head back.
The smile on his face quickly disappeared, and his gaze became extremely cold.
Then, he took out a sky blue box from his pocket and opened it with a snap.
This box contains a small mirror.
Qiao Chu stared at himself in the mirror, raised his right hand, and tidied up his hair seriously.
After repeated examination, he slowly put away the lens case, leaned his head back, and closed his eyes.
In the evening, the jeep returned to the hilly area where Black Rat Town was located. At this time, Wang Beicheng's 23rd Brigade had long since gone.
There was no need to remind, Jiang Baimian and others turned into an alarm clock and woke up Qiao Chu on time.
Qiao Chu glanced at the darkening sky:
"I'll rest here tonight and continue to drive northwest tomorrow morning."
"Okay." Bai Chen found a familiar camp and stopped the jeep.
Then, the four of them scrambled to get the tent, lit a bonfire, and took out a few military cans from the trunk.
"You have quite a lot of supplies......" Qiao Chu sat in the passenger seat without closing the door, leisurely watching Shang Jianyao and the others busy.
Not long after, Shang Jianyao trotted over and took the initiative to ask for help:
"I'll go over there to get water."
Qiao Chu followed the direction he pointed, looked at the location of the clean water source, and thought for a few seconds and said:
"No, our water can last for several days."
"Hmm, the cans will still be hot for a while, do you need me to sing you a song?" Shang Jianyao didn't insist at all, and asked with a smile.
"......" Qiao Chu looked at Shang Jianyao with suspicious eyes for two seconds, "No."
"What about the Gold Coast swing hula?" Shang Jianyao asked.
Qiao Chu frowned slightly 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 around and walked towards the campfire, Qiao Chu took out the sky blue plastic box again 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 quietly passed, and the sun rose again from the east of the Kuronuma Wilderness.
After breakfast, after some secret competition, Jiang Baimian finally used the authority of the team leader to grab the responsibility of driving, while Shang Jianyao, Long Yuehong and Bai Chen could only squeeze in the back row a little aggrieved.
Qiao Chu turned his wrist and looked at the mechanical watch, relying on the compass on the dial to determine the position.
"Drive in that direction, keep going." He pointed to a place in the northwest and said.
Jiang Baimian didn't question it, drove the jeep, went around the hilly first, and then ran straight in the direction Qiao Chu said.
Over time, the surrounding terrain became flatter and the dirt became darker and rotter, and by the end the silt became the main sight, with less and less hard pavement.
This is heading into the depths of the Everglades.
Compared with Bai Chen, Jiang Baimian's experience in this area was slightly insufficient, and he almost sank the car into bottomless silt twice.
She had to give up the driver's seat and return to the middle of the back row, while Bai Chen drove the jeep seriously and hard, like a child expecting praise.
The speed of the jeep undoubtedly slowed down a lot, and until noon, it did not move forward for more than thirty kilometers, while various plants gradually grew in the surrounding swamps.
Compared with normal, they are either dull or bright in color, and they look quite strange.
Jiang Baimian still remembered his duties as a team leader, and casually reminded Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong:
"Seeing similar aberrant plants gathering means that it has entered the contaminated area, but the plants here are not strange or dangerous enough, and the level of pollution should not be too high.
"In such an environment, ordinary people can also move, but if there is no protective equipment, it is best not to exceed three days, and people who have undergone mature genetic modification can last for about ten days, but the premise is that there is food and water prepared in advance."
Qiao Chu turned his head again and glanced at Jiang Baimian, but quickly withdrew his gaze again, pointed to the side and said:
"Go this way."
"But ......" Bai Chen subconsciously wanted to make his own suggestions.
If she changed her route rashly, she might encounter the kind of swamp that expanded the territory, and even the car and people would fall into it and sink to the bottom.
"Go this way." Qiao Chu emphasized again.
"Okay." Bai Chen chose to listen.
After the vehicle was diverted, it entered an area that Bai Chen was unfamiliar with, which slowed down the Jeep a lot - Bai Chen needed to judge the road conditions based on his own experience while driving.
About twenty-five minutes passed, and when everyone in the car finished lunch and was about to let Jiang Baimian replace Bai Chen, the scene in front of him suddenly changed:
In the deep black swamp where the edge was not visible, thick vines with rotting soil drilled out from the bottom, forming a low "forest".
They are dark in color, each of them is the thickness of an ordinary python, and there are countless reddish spikes on the surface.
These strange vines are intertwined, covering every area visible to the naked eye in front of the jeep, and except for the dark swamp itself, everything else has become their embellishment - even the sky seems to have become gloomy, gray, and oppressive because of the obscuration of the low "forest" or other problems.
Seeing this spectacular but terrifying scene, whether it was Jiang Baimian, Bai Chen, Shang Jianyao, or Long Yuehong, they all had an indescribable shock at the same time.
In the shock, they had a question almost at the same time:
"Why are we here?"
At this time, the corners of Qiao Chu's mouth curled up, showing a gentle smile:
"Don't be nervous."
This voice and words dispelled the doubts of Shang Jianyao and the others, and made them look at Qiao Chu with fascination.
Qiao Chu sat up straight and began to seriously direct Bai Chen how to drive and where to drive.
Looking at the python-like blue and black and reddish vines passing by the window, Jiang Baimian's five fingers on his left hand moved.
She instinctively took out paper and pen from her pocket and recorded what she saw in front of her.
Shang Jianyao sometimes looked at the back of Qiao Chu's head, and sometimes looked out at those vines, always feeling that they were harboring great danger.
At this moment, he felt a gentle collision in his left arm.
Shang Jianyao subconsciously turned his head and saw Jiang Baimian leaning the white paper in his hand towards this side.
He stared at it and saw that the current scene was faithfully described on the white paper, and in addition, there was a strange sentence at the end:
「…… There is such a distorted area deep in the Everglades, but miraculously, the chip on my left arm tells me that the radiation pollution here is not too serious. Perhaps the pollution has decayed and weakened over time?
「…… The vines were covered with reddish spikes, as if they had just sucked blood......
「…… The chip on my left arm told me that the current direction and intended target of Qifeng Town are ...... north and south."
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