Ye An

When the convoy set off again, six people were missing from Kapok's team.

These people did not leave voluntarily, but were driven away by kapok.The thoughts in their embrace disgusted Mu Mian, and made her vigilant. She didn't want more people in the tribe to be bewitched, so she made a decision immediately, even if she was resented, she would drive them away.

"Kapian, are you really going to do this?" asked the woman following Kapok, watching several figures supporting each other and disappearing into the wind and snow, with a look of unbearable expression.

"If more people want to live, they must go." Mu Mian said firmly, looking at the RV where Ye An was, thinking of what these people said before, a chill ran up her spine.

She felt more and more regretful that she hadn't found any similar signs before, and she only wanted to protect her clansmen, but in the end she raised this group of people who were ungrateful and even wanted to repay their kindness!

"Do you know what they want to do? They want to avenge their kindness, want to betray you, and even trick me into poisoning you! Not to mention how whimsical and hateful it is, if your lord knows about it, he will allow it." Shall we follow?" Kapok's eyes fell on the woman's face, and she lowered her voice, "If you don't follow the Lord and don't get shelter, do you think we still have the ability to build another settlement and survive under the forces of all parties? Our only The advantage is mining and smelting, you know what I mean?"

The woman was silent for a moment, and the unbearable look on her face disappeared without a trace.

"I understand. If the tribe has any objections, I will explain it for you."

"No need." Mu Mian shook his head, turned his gaze to the clansmen who were boarding the trailer one after another, and said in a deep voice, "Those who understand should have understood by now, and those who don't understand are just pretending to be confused. Living is a problem, and you still have to think about those unrealistic things." Such a person is not worth protecting, if there is a sign, drive them away immediately!"

Kapok wants to keep more people alive, so what should be discarded must be discarded.

In fact, she has shown mercy. If it were someone else, not to mention giving weapons and food, when those people made a sound and tried to encourage the tribe, they would be killed on the spot to avoid future troubles.

Ye Pingan saw what Kapok did.He didn't show up, just waiting for the other party's choice.

Fortunately, the final result did not disappoint him.

The convoy set off in the snowstorm. Ye An did not use kapok to lead the way, but followed the memories extracted from Benjie's mind, found several secret bases one after another, obtained a large amount of food, animal skins and medicines, as well as the fuel that Benjie had stored privately And weapons, just what the convoy needs.

At a material storage point, the convoy met three guards. They were Benjie's confidantes. They didn't know that Banjie was dead. When they saw the strange convoy, they immediately blew their whistle to warn their companions.

This stronghold is built in a cave, the cave is very spacious, and the entrance of the cave is blocked with stones and planks.There is a thick layer of ice on the wooden board, which is easy to defend but difficult to attack.

The guards shot arrows behind the planks, trying to stop Ye An.

Ye An put down the front fender of the RV, stepped on the gas pedal, and smashed the wood and stones at the entrance of the hole.The guard couldn't retreat in time, and flew upside down on the spot. His back hit the rock wall heavily, and he was hit by gravel. He couldn't move after landing.

Ye An threw the guards out of the cave and handed them over to Mu Mian and others to guard them. Then he returned to the cave, kicked away the bows and arrows and short knives that had fallen by his feet, and walked towards the animal skin bags and wooden boxes stacked against the wall.

The fur bags contained millet and wheat, as well as some blackened jerky.There are all kinds of things in the wooden box, including weapons and tools, broken parts, unpolished ores, and rough or refined bone tools.

To Ye An's surprise, there were two short knives pressed on the bottom of the box. It seemed that the wooden handles of the knives had been damaged and the scabbards were rotten, but the blades were as sharp as ever. fish pattern.

Haicheng?

Ye An raised the short knife, carefully observed the patterns on it, and confirmed that these patterns were indeed very similar to those in the ruins of Haicheng, and also somewhat similar to Xiao Yun's usual long knife, so he couldn't help frowning.

The ferret climbed onto Ye An's shoulder, pointed its paws behind the wall, and barked twice.

Following the guidance of the ferret, Ye An found the secret door on the wall. Judging from the gravel and soil filled in the crack of the door and the moss crawling on the door panel, this door has not been opened for a long time, even if it is used as a stronghold Benjie and others have never discovered the secret behind the door.

At this moment, there is only Ye An in the cave, Mu Mian and others are all guarding outside the cave, driving the sled according to Ye An's order, naturally they don't know what's going on inside the cave.

Ye An cleaned up the dirt on the crack of the door, and tried to push the stone door open, but the door remained motionless.

The ferret started barking again. There was obviously something good hidden behind the door. Ye An put his shoulders against the door, his feet firmly wedged on the ground, and with all his strength, there was a creaking sound, and the stone door was finally slowly pushed open.

Through the gap beside the door, Ye An discovered how thick the stone door is, and the height even reaches the ceiling of the cave.

Pushing open the gap that allowed him to pass sideways, Ye An stopped moving. The ferret stepped into the door first, then turned back after a while, dragging an animal skin bag behind him, clearly asking for credit from Ye An.

Ye An opened the animal skin bag and found that it turned out to be a semi-crystalline bone, but the surface was dark in color, unlike whale bones and tortoise shells, and the energy contained in it was not much.

Putting the animal skin bag away, Ye An walked sideways into the door. After his eyes adapted to the darkness, he found that there was another cave behind the door, which turned out to be another cave.

The deep tunnel leads to nowhere. There are several skeletons scattered on both sides of the passage. Weapons and animal skin bags are piled up beside the skeletons, as well as long scrolls wrapped in animal skins.

The animal skin bag brought by the ferret was found next to a skeleton with a rotten rope tied around its waist.

Ye An walked through the tunnel, stopping to observe every time he passed a skeleton.

All the way to the end of the tunnel, Ye An saw rows of caves dug into the mountain walls on both sides. He climbed up the rock wall and found that the caves were interconnected, and the layout was somewhat similar to the underground caves on the isolated island.

There is a stone bed hearth in the cave, and there are a lot of decayed wood, which can no longer see the original appearance.

There are also a large number of bones piled up in the depths of the cave. There are people and animals, and behind the bones are scattered stone skins.Ye An picked up a few pieces and was sure that they had been wrapped with crystals, but the crystals had disappeared, and no clues were found after searching the corners.

Ye An passed through several caves one after another, without feeling any trace of energy.

However, after returning to the tunnel, some were found among the scattered animal skin bags.Just like the animal bones brought to him by ferrets, these semi-crystallized bones didn't have much energy, most of them were no different from ordinary animal bones.

Ye An picked up a roll, curious about what was inside, and quickly unwrapped the outer layer of animal skin.

The reel is made of animal bones, and there are corks screwed at both ends, but the corks have decayed over time, and become fragmented when pinched lightly, as if pinched on rotten flesh.

Ye An shook the animal bone to confirm that there was indeed something inside, and immediately cleaned the cork, and poured out a few rolls of animal skin as thin as a cicada's wing but very tough.

These hides have been specially treated so that they will not spoil through the years.

Ye An unfolded one, and found that the animal skin was almost transparent, and it didn't feel like any kind of mutant beast on land, but rather like a sea beast he had encountered before.

A roll of animal skin the size of a palm was unfolded, and the length and width were close to two meters.The hides are painted with simple lines and unique callouts.Ye An couldn't see the meaning of these symbols for the time being, so he simply spread out all the animal skins, and pieced them together one by one according to the lines above.

After the animal skins were stitched together, Ye An was shocked to find that it was a sea chart.To be more precise, this is a treasure map based on sea charts with special symbols added!

The appearance of the treasure map made Ye An re-examine the cave and the bones on the ground. He was [-]% sure that these people were related to Haicheng.

There were still seven or eight reels on the ground, Ye An collected them one after another, did not have time to look at them carefully, wrapped them all in animal skins, and prepared to take them back to the RV for further consideration.

Before leaving, Ye An used the tools and wooden boxes found in the cave to collect the scattered bones one by one, buried them underground, and then closed the stone door and made a camouflage on the door to ensure that the dead would not be disturbed again.

Back on the RV, Ye An put the package with the reel in the driver's cab, and reversed the car to get out of the hole.

"Move things!"

Ye An stretched out his hand from the window, motioning for Mu Mian to lead people into the cave.

In order to carry more food, Kapok and others hurriedly made more than a dozen sleds, and tied ropes with hay and animal tendons, making the convoy grow longer.

The women moved quickly. Except for the boy who took care of Xiaowei, everyone else came to help, and quickly emptied the cave.

After everything was dealt with, Ye An moved several huge boulders to block the entrance of the cave, and no one would enter the cave unless they were moved with tools.After the snow season, the place will be full of mutated plants, completely isolated from the world.

The convoy continued to set off and cleared two more strongholds. The number of sledges had exceeded [-]. They were dragged by the RV and trailers across the snow, leaving traces as deep as half a meter.

Having collected enough materials, Ye An turned around, passed through the edge of a forest, and started heading towards the delta.

Birds and ospreys lead the way in the sky so he won't get lost in the snow.

Encountering malicious teams along the way, or hungry mutant beasts, the easiest way is to let the mutant tiger stick out the car door and roar a few times.Most people and mutant beasts will retreat, and the few who rush forward desperately will be dealt with by mutant dogs and kapok and others. Ye An rarely needs to do it himself.

The convoy moved forward in the wind and snow, and soon left the wasteland where kapok once lived, and drove to the delta that was also covered by heavy snow.

At the same time, the convoys of Xiao Yun and Zhao Weng arrived at Qiancheng one after another and stopped a hundred meters away from Qiancheng.

The scene in front of them surprised everyone.

The once magnificent city was in ruins, and all buildings, whether masonry or timber, had collapsed.Several ground fissures with a width of several meters run through the city, devouring the collapsed buildings.

The corpses of humans and mutated beasts were scattered among the broken buildings. Those who were still alive ran out of the city desperately. When they reached the edge of the city wall, the ground suddenly shook violently, and another crack in the ground appeared, blocking their way of escape.

Thousands of people fell into despair, cries, screams and curses were intertwined, and the rising black smoke was like terrifying shadows holding sickles, constantly harvesting lives.The whole city seemed to be engulfed by the black light of hell, being swallowed up by blood and death.