bayedsolid Chapter 226 Escorting to the Hangzhou Base
Chapter 226 Escorting to the Hangzhou Base
However, Zhou Yang was still a little worried about taking the siblings from Li Mei's group directly, so he asked again:
"But if you send the healer directly to me, will it be alright after you go back? Those people who are eyeing the healer won't let this go, will they?"
Li Mei scoffed, "What can they do? I never wanted to stay in the capital anyway. When I go back this time, I'll call my sisters and we'll come over to your place after the extreme cold! You'll have to give the older sisters a welcome feast then."
Zhou Yang smiled and nodded: "Of course, no problem. The Black Rose team is always welcome at the Baijishan base."
Li Mei nodded in satisfaction, pushed Sun Jing and her brother in front of Zhou Yang and the others, and then, amidst their reluctant gazes, decisively turned and left.
After seeing Li Mei off, Zhou Yang looked at the siblings again: "Come on, you two come back with us first. But didn't you bring your luggage? Just a small bundle?"
Looking at the light little bundles in the hands of the siblings, Zhou Yang fell into deep thought.
“We left in a hurry and didn’t bring any with us,” Sun Jing said softly, supporting her younger brother’s shoulder. “But we have quite a few level 3 and 4 crystal cores in our bags. Before Sister Mei brought us here, she also gave us a level 5 water-type crystal core, saying it could be used as our lodging fee. We will work hard to earn crystal cores to pay you back later.”
"Level 5 water system? Tsk, Sister Li really gives us whatever we need." Zhou Yang chuckled. "Don't worry, we don't lack crystal cores. The level 5 crystal core Li Mei gave you is enough to make up for the food and lodging we've provided for you. Just come back with us without worry."
"By the way, I don't think I've ever heard your brother speak. Is he particularly introverted?"
Since Zhou Yang first rescued the siblings, he had never heard the child speak. Even now, the child just stood quietly by their side, watching them talk, blinking without making a sound. Zhou Yang was immediately curious.
Upon hearing this, Sun Jing lowered her head and patted Sun Peng's little head: "My little brother has never been able to speak since he was a child, it's a natural disposition..."
"..." Zhou Yang awkwardly touched his hair, "Ahem, well, can't he heal himself...?"
Sun Jing shook her head: "I had Xiao Peng try it himself, but it didn't work."
Zhou Yang touched his nose: "Uh, okay. Maybe my level isn't high enough, or maybe it'll be better later. Let's go, we're about to leave."
The group quickly returned to Baijishan's group.
Sun Jing and her brother Sun Peng were also taken directly into the Qianlong Squad's car by Zhou Yang and his group.
Seeing that Zhou Yang and the others had brought two more people back, one of whom was the healing ability user who had saved the leader of the capital base and seemed to want to go with them, the others were quite surprised, but no one asked any questions.
Having multiple healing-type characters in the team is a good thing for them.
Just after 8 a.m., the teams from Hangzhou and Baijishan bases, along with nearly 10,000 ordinary survivors from the Shanghai base, set off first, followed closely by the teams from Shicheng and the capital bases with the other half of the survivors.
Not far from the Shanghai base, the two large teams reached a separate intersection. Zhou Yang and his group followed the main force south to detour to the Hangzhou base.
Because the highways are currently inaccessible, the main force can only travel along a national highway from Shanghai to Hangzhou. Fortunately, there are no traffic restrictions, and the team is moving quite quickly along the highway.
However, because this national highway passes through many towns and villages, there are a lot of zombies on the road, and there have been many times when the road was blocked by zombies.
Since this provincial highway is the shortest and most convenient route to Hangzhou, the team couldn't take a detour and was forced to stop and clear the area each time.
Fortunately, the ability users in the team were all of relatively high level, with several above level 5, so clearing out these zombies didn't take much effort.
In addition, the ordinary people at the Shanghai base had seen many more terrifying sea monsters, so they were no longer afraid of these zombies. Except for the elderly, the weak, the sick, and the disabled, the young and strong got out of the car one by one to help fight the zombies.
This makes the process of eliminating zombies much faster.
Seeing this scene, the Hangzhou base team members, who were initially reluctant to take in ordinary survivors, all shut their mouths.
These ordinary people at the Shanghai base are much more useful than those lazy bums at their base; at least they dare to fight zombies, so it doesn't seem like it's a bad idea to take them in.
The same scene also occurred on the way to the escort teams from Shicheng and the capital base, which greatly changed the survivors of these Shanghai bases.
Not only were there many zombies along the way, but what was most annoying were the mutated plants and animals that had long since recovered and were now hunting extensively, launching attacks every now and then.
Most of the mutated plants are roadside flowers and grasses. Fortunately, Chi Feng is there, so he can basically sense the presence of mutated plants in advance and send out vines to clear them out in advance, and also harvest a wave of elemental cores along the way.
The mutated creatures were basically poultry and livestock such as chickens, ducks, and geese raised in the villages we passed by. Most of them were huge, and some had even evolved superpowers. We weren't afraid of them; in fact, they provided extra food for the team.
On the contrary, the few elusive mutant cats they encountered during their rest stop were more of a headache for everyone. Despite their small size, they were a group, each one more ferocious than the last, and extremely fast, catching everyone off guard.
Even the pea couldn't keep up with the mutant cats; instead, it was beaten up by the mutant cats' incredibly fast "meow punches."
Zhou Yang finally appeased it by rewarding it with a large basin of spring water.
Fortunately, these mutated cats only intended to steal the mutated poultry and livestock that the team had hunted and did not intend to harm anyone. They were probably domesticated cats before the apocalypse, otherwise Zhou Yang and his group would probably have been beaten to a pulp by these mutated cats.
After stealing the food, the mutated cats ran away as fast as they could.
Seeing that the crisis for the group had been averted, everyone quickly finished their food, packed their belongings, and got into the car to continue their journey.
After another afternoon of travel, the team finally arrived at the Hangzhou base at around 4 p.m.
After the people from the Hangzhou base had brought most of the survivors inside, the team from the Baijishan base was preparing to leave when they noticed that the last vehicle hadn't gone in yet.
Song Lian looked puzzled and went up to ask him.
"Why don't you go in?"
The middle-aged man driving replied, "Officer, we'd like to come with you to the Baijishan base, is that alright? There are six of us in this car, all of us are from Anhui Province, and we'd like to go back and see if we can find any other relatives."
Upon hearing this, Song Lian couldn't bring himself to refuse, so he readily agreed, only instructing them to stay close to the group.
Without the main force holding them back, and with everyone eager to return to Baijishan, their speed will only increase.
The middle-aged man nodded repeatedly, quickly turned his car around, and drove into Baijishan's convoy.
Although the team leader at the Hangzhou base strongly invited Bai Jishan's team to rest at the Hangzhou base for one night and leave early the next morning.
However, everyone in Baijishan was eager to return home, and the journey wasn't too far, so after saying goodbye to the team leader at the Hangzhou base, Song Lian led the team away directly.