This continuous mountain range is called Cloud Mountain, and if you want to bypass it, you can either go northwest, through the sphere of influence of the "White Knights", or all the way southeast to the Great Plains, where the "First City" and the "Salvation Army" confront each other, and the defense area of the former Eastern Legion.
In the old world, Cloud Mountain was not an insurmountable natural danger, many bridges and tunnels connected the two sides, but today, many bridges collapsed, many tunnels were blocked, and only a few routes were left to cross the mountains, and these were guarded by the people of the "Original City" and the "Salvation Army".
Bai Chen in the driving area let go of a hand and pointed to a road into the mountain in front of him:
"From here, you can climb over the clouds and mountains without encountering particularly strict interrogations.
"It is a low-level highway in the old world, winding around the mountains and relying little on tunnels and bridges.
Jiang Baimian nodded "hmm" first, and then asked curiously:
"Xiaobai, haven't you been here before? Why are you so familiar......"
"Because I know how to read maps." It was Shang Jianyao who helped answer.
Bai Chen explained while driving the jeep towards the mountain road:
"I've never been here, but I've known about it for a long time.
"At that time, the 'Salvation Army' sent people everywhere to gather wilderness wanderers and organized them to go east of Yunshan, saying that although there was still a certain shortage of food, relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on water to draft water, and strictly following the rationing system, everyone would definitely be able to barely survive, and then work together, fight the danger together, reclaim farmland in less polluted areas, and establish factories one after another, so that everyone will no longer be troubled by famine and cold......"
The more Bai Chen spoke, the slower his speech became, as if he remembered the feeling of hearing these things for the first time.
Shang Jianyao straightened his back, pressed his left chest with his right hand and said:
"For all mankind!"
"For all mankind" is the slogan and ideal of the "Salvation Army", and "to save all mankind" is Shang Jianyao's own, and he knows it very clearly.
Bai Chen ignored him and said to himself:
"At that time, the 'Salvation Army' also came to our settlement, and he described such a future to us, and also gave us a way to bypass the army of the 'First City' and pass through the cloud mountain.
"This is the way.
"Before, in the original city, when we were collecting maps and information separately, I noticed it at a glance."
Long Yuehong, who was listening carefully, hurriedly testified:
"Yes, I remember that Xiaobai specifically asked about the situation on this road at that time."
"Yes." Gnawa said it was.
Jiang Baimian is not so concerned about the problem of this "path" for the time being, she is even more curious about another point:
"Xiaobai, did anyone in your settlement follow you to the 'Salvation Army' at that time?"
"There are quite a few, my parents originally wanted to, but because I am still young, I am not suitable for long-distance travel, so I decided to wait a few years before talking." Bai Chen pursed his lips, "Later, they passed away, and in the past ten years, I haven't heard of the 'Salvation Army' still doing something similar."
"That's right......" Jiang Baimian skipped the topic smoothly.
While several members of the "Old Tune Team" were communicating, the jeep drove into the mountains.
The further you go, the more lush and lush the trees on both sides become, and from time to time birds chirp from afar.
Less than seventy years after the destruction of the old world, the influence of human civilization on this region has only faded for so long that nature seems to have erased all traces except for the tattered, overgrown and in disrepair road.
Shang Jianyao listened intently to the birds, as if he was thinking about what different cooking methods could be made in the wilderness.
He only thought of "roasting" and couldn't help but raise his hand to wipe the corners of his mouth.
The jeep stopped, and several members of the "old tune team" would come down every once in a while to clean up the insurmountable stones or get a few trees, which were set up in some inconvenient depressions, which made it impossible to raise the speed of the vehicle.
From early nine o'clock in the morning to around four o'clock in the afternoon, Shang Jianyao and others were still struggling to move forward in the cloud mountains, but they seemed to have escaped the actual control of the "original city".
When passing through an area with high cliffs on the left and cliffs on the right, Jiang Baimian's movements as he watched the scenery suddenly paused.
She was neither fast nor slow, and looked sideways out the window quite naturally.
At the same time, she said casually:
"There are bioelectrical signals very similar to humans, two."
Relying purely on bioelectrical signals, she cannot make very accurate judgments, after all, many medium-sized animals are close to human physiques.
Shang Jianyao immediately responded:
"I don't sense human consciousness."
Long Yuehong and Bai Chen tensed their nerves all of a sudden.
Jiang Baimian nodded:
"Either two big 'monkeys' or two awakened ones.
"The patrol officer of the 'Salvation Army'?"
Since this is the hidden route given by the "Salvation Army", it must be under their supervision.
"What to do next?" Long Yuehong did not follow Jiang Baimian and looked at the cliff covered with a large amount of vegetation on the right.
Jiang Baimian smiled and said:
"Don't worry about it, we have to deal with the 'Salvation Army' people after all, and pretending to be stupid is not necessarily a bad thing."
"Well, we also know Xu Datong from the 'Public Security Management Committee'." Long Yuehong quite agreed with the team leader's statement.
The core organization of the "Salvation Army" is called the "Material Coordination Committee", and the "Public Security Management Committee" is directly subordinate to it, which is equivalent to the product of the merger of the "Pangu Biology" Order Supervision Department and the Security Department that eliminates external combat functions, and the real power is very large.
In the old world, the "Salvation Army" belongs to a highly unified force of the army and government, and many places have a strong military color in internal affairs management.
On the gray soil, this is not a special case, but the norm, and only a few places have a particularly clear distinction between the military and managers, such as "Pangu creatures".
Hearing Long Yuehong's words, Shang Jianyao snorted:
"How do you know that there is no political struggle or factional strife within the 'Salvation Army'?
"What if I meet Commissioner Xu's political opponent?"
Long Yuehong was speechless for a while.
As far as the old world entertainment materials he has seen and the several forces he has experienced, there are fights where there are people.
Jiang Baimian sneered at Shang Jianyao:
"Don't you always believe that the 'Salvation Army' has fallen and think that they are still the organization full of ideals and brilliance?"
Shang Jianyao's expression darkened little by little, and he said sadly:
"That's why I told you the worst case scenario in advance."
Uh, is it Shang Jianyao who values feelings now, or is it Shang Jianyao who is jealous of evil and takes it as his responsibility to save all mankind? Jiang Baimian said to Gnawa, who was driving in rotation:
"Maintain the speed just now."
Not long after, at the turn of the dangerous road, a female voice suddenly sounded:
"Stop!
"Don't keep going, or you'll be bombarded from a distance!"
This is in gray language, but with a bit of a not-so-serious accent.
Jiang Baimian raised his eyes and found a slightly rusty loudspeaker tied to a tree on the edge of the road.
It is connected to the lines, and the lines are hidden in the grass and trees.
"Stop." Jiang Baimian said to Gnawa as if prepared.
The jeep stopped in the middle of the road, and several members of the "old tune team" got out of the car one after another.
In such an environment, sitting in a car is not so safe, it is too easy to become a target, and it is inconvenient to dodge.
"Who are you and why are you here?" The female voice sounded through the radio again.
It may be because the equipment is old and the sound is slightly distorted.
Jiang Baimian replied:
"We are relic hunters and want to live east of Yunshan."
"Why don't you stay in the 'First City'?" The woman's voice asked in the air.
She was outside the range of business induction.
Jiang Baimian looked "helpless":
"We were unlucky and wanted by the 'First City'.
"I think there should be a hunter guild on your side, and we can check through them whether we are really wanted by the 'First City'."
"Name, hunter number." The woman's voice was quite polite, and she didn't let the "old tune team" hand over the hunter badge directly.
When Jiang Baimian finished reporting the fake name and real number, the woman's voice asked:
"Why are you wanted?"
Belch...... Jiang Baimian couldn't remember for a moment what he and others were wanted for in the first place.
Wanted by "First City" too many times!
"We robbed three military exoskeleton devices and two bionic intelligent armor!" Bai Chen, Long Yuehong, and Gnawa joined forces but failed to stop Shang Jianyao from blowing up his family.
There was silence on the opposite side.
Shang Jianyao followed and smiled again:
"Just kidding."
There was still silence on the other side.
After a while, the woman's voice came over the radio again:
"After confirming, you are indeed wanted by the 'First City', and the bounty is very high.
"And you haven't been arrested until today, which shows that you are very strong."
"Yes, yes." Shang Jianyao was not modest at all.
Jiang Baimian smiled and said:
"But we came with kindness, and our final destination was the ice field.
"You shouldn't reject foreign hunters, right?"
At least no one mentioned that the "Salvation Army" does not allow relic hunters from other forces to enter the country.
"Ice Field?" The woman's voice suddenly took on a bit of a strange tone.
She paused for a few seconds before saying:
"We just don't welcome the kind of relic hunters who act as spies.
"You can continue to move forward, you cannot enter the settlement, you can only camp outside, unless you are subject to further inspection."
Seeing that the communication was quite normal and smooth, Jiang Baimian quietly breathed a sigh of relief and said:
"Okay."
(End of this chapter)