As we headed northward, in September, the weather finally cooled down, the temperature dropped to 17 degrees, and after a few autumn rains, the survivors finally calmed down.

Under Zhang Min's insistence, they stopped on the side of the road every evening. They got on the bus again at night and rushed north day and night. No one could tell when they would stop completely.

The wind blows the grass along the way, the autumn is long and the sky is vast. From towns to gas stations and islands, as long as the convoy stops, all they see are zombies.

They either wander in the wild or walk down buildings, slowly rushing towards the whistling convoy that would never catch up with.

Occasionally, several times the life detector sounded, and they were in a big city several kilometers away from the national highway. Lin Musen rejected all proposals for search and rescue on the grounds of insecurity and insufficient food.

All the people who followed him out of the chemical factory knew very well that those reserves were enough to eat.

Moreover, Lin Musen ordered the parking whenever he saw gas stations and small towns on the road and plundered all the supplies. During these days, their food was not only not less, but more and more.

Rou's mother used to be a fashion designer. She took on all the work of sewing clothes and started to change clothes.

She always looked at the head of the bear in the pocket of Cassia's coat, and her eyes were red and dazed. Cassia gave her the bear, but she didn't want it, and finally got a few sets of military uniforms. Compared with Meng Feng, Zhang Min and the others' figures began to be modified.

A few days later, the first batch of modified clothes were completed, and most of the men were searched out from the barracks and renovated the fitted military uniforms.

Rou's mother smiled and said, "Does it fit, Cassia?"

Cassia sat on a chair by the side of the road, looked up at her, and said nothing.

Zhang Min said: "Baby, what should I say?"

Rou's mother hurriedly said, "It's okay, the young man is dressed in a very energetic manner." She turned and left.

Cassia wore a yellow military uniform and a hat with a field team style, and there were six junior high school students squatting in front of her.

A little fat man was two years younger than Cassin. He had just entered the second year of junior high school. He pulled his shoulder and looked at it, saying, "Is this our team uniform?"

Cassin said: "Well, Uncle Meng said, I will be in charge of you in the future. You six of you will listen to me."

"Okay." A boy was half a head taller than the Cassin and asked, "Are you the boss? Do you take us to fight zombies? What team are we called?"

Cassia pulled the logo on her arms and showed them that the children were big and small, and the military uniforms were modified by Rou Mom himself, without exception, with cartoon logos sewn on them - purple mushroom head and a thin pole.

Cassin said: "We are a timid mushroom team, so we don't have to rush up to kill zombies. Just hide behind them. If there is a task, Uncle Meng will tell me."

The children nodded in understanding and a young man said, "Where is Uncle Meng?"

Cassin said: "They are the Wogua team, and they also have man-eating flowers and ground thorns, responsible for hand-to-hand combat and front-line; the people my dad leads can shoot, they are pea shooters, double-shoters and machine gun shooters teams."

"Where is that person?" The fat man looked up at the rear of the container truck under the sunset, Liu Yan sat on the edge of the container, swaying with his feet, and putting his head on assembling a machine.

"His name is Liu Yan, and he is a technical job." Cassin said: "He is very powerful, like a dormant cat, with a lot of new things. That day it was his alarm clock that saved you."

The little fat man said, "He is a Gemini sunflower?"

Liu Yan's military uniform had a prominent portrait of an uncle with his eyes sewn on his chest, and Cassin said: "No, he is Crazy Dave, the one who drives the garage store."

The children laughed.

Cassin learned from Zhang Min's words and said, "Tell me about you."

Cassin took out the little bear in his pocket and shook it casually, signaling his team members to talk about themselves, communicate with each other, and understand each other.

Zhang Min stood in the distance, watching Cassia and his teammates with interesting interest in increasing their relationship.

"Liu Yan." Zhang Min said.

Liu Yan didn't raise his head and said, "What?"

Zhang Min said: "Cassin has become much more cheerful. He used to have no friends at school."

Liu Yan nodded and replied, "You're welcome, you can let him make more friends."

Xie Fenghua sat in the car and helped Liu Yan register the parts specifications. He suddenly spoke, "Cassin feels too small."

Zhang Min said: "He wasn't big at all."

Xie Fenghua smiled and said, "No, what I mean is that he doesn't look like the mentality that a junior high school student should have. A 15-year-old boy, a child whose thoughts and emotional intelligence are close to ten years old, or eleven years old... I heard him say that he was only eleven when you met him? Perhaps it was because you have been protecting him over the years, which made his interpersonal communication and communication skills stagnate."

Zhang Min said: "There is no way. When he was studying, he didn't talk to strangers. He thought that his classmates were not kind to him... He bumped his head once when he was 11 years old. In fact, the students also liked to laugh at him. I asked the teacher to report it several times and transferred to the school once..."

"No, no," Xie Fenghua said: "The reason lies in you. You are like a safe haven. This is called the wall effect in psychology. It is tightly protected, which makes him unwilling to take the initiative to communicate with others and find responsibility."

Zhang Min: "Then what should I do?"

Xie Fenghua said: "Give him some exercise opportunities appropriately."

Zhang Min: "It's impossible, it's too dangerous."

Xie Fenghua smiled and said, "Yes, but it's really inappropriate to put him behind you."

"Philosopher." Liu Yan said: "I don't think there is anything wrong with this. They have their own way of getting along. You are in love and I want to say anything. Do you think his intelligence is sound?"

Xie Fenghua's pen pressed against his chin and nodded, "The intelligence is normal, but it can be said that it is very smart. It's just that his thinking is too divergent. Zhang Min, are you really planning to protect him for the rest of your life? This is unrealistic."

Zhang Min said: "What's unrealistic about this? Why is it unrealistic?"

Zhang Min's tone was already a little unhappy, but Xie Fenghua did not say it in a tit-for-tat way and nodded tactfully.

Zhang Min seemed to want to distinguish something, and his tone was as rush as usual, saying:

"A lifetime is a lifetime, fifty years, sixty years, until the last year, one month, one hour and one second, what is unrealistic?"

"I was the one who made a mistake." Xie Fenghua said: "Sorry."

"Nothing." Zhang Min's cultivation is still very good: "His teacher has said this too. You are much gentler than her, thank you for your concern."

Zhang Min turned around and left, Liu Yan smiled, and there was a feeling of Xie Fenghua's success in his eyes.

"Philosopher." Liu Yan exclaimed.

Xie Fenghua was so amused and shook her head helplessly.

"My dad and my stepmother..." the fat man said hatred: "Just throw me there and run away."

Cassia listened quietly without saying a word.

Someone asked: "What happened later?"

The little fat man said to them: "Later, I secretly followed upstairs. My dad went back to pack up his things. My grandmother rushed out of the room and bit my stepmother to death in the living room. She also bit my dad, and she deserved them."

Cassin said: "Didn't your dad take you away?"

The little fat man said a little cruelly: "I stole the key and locked him at home. Who asked him to hit my grandma every day? I threw the key into the sewer, ran downstairs and ran into Pastor Wu, and later I was with them."

Cassia nodded, her eyes a little complicated.

Lin Musen gave the order, Meng Feng shouted from afar: "Sunflower, the cowardly mushroom team gets on the bus first! The rest are on guard and set off!"

"Look at the heavens," said Cassin.

The sunset is setting, and the sky shows the bright autumn starry sky, gorgeous and prosperous.

"There will be aliens to save the earth and humans." Cassin summarized his conversation and asked his team members to get in the car.

When Liu Yan heard this, the corners of his mouth twitched unnaturally. Zhang Min smiled and said, "Cassin's argument... is actually similar to that of the pastor. They all think that if you believe in things in heaven, you can be saved."

Liu Yan had a terrible expression on his face and took a few summary of the convoy maintenance handed over to his hands and ordered people to get on the car.

Gasoline is enough to run 3,000 kilometers, but the tires can't hold on. You have to find another place to replenish supplies along the way. It's best to be in the city, and it's also a roadside auto repair shop.

However, there were not many specific tires in the container truck. The next day they carefully bypassed Wuhan and passed through the Yangtze River Bridge. The rolling Yangtze River was endless and the bodies on both sides were floating.

Five days after crossing the river north, they bypassed Henan and entered the boundary of Shaanxi. The tires of the first container truck exploded. At four o'clock in the morning, the last container truck suddenly honked the horn, and the front of the truck was horizontal. Six cars stopped on the side of the road one after another.

Fortunately, Liu Yan had already expected that the order of the convoy was adjusted, otherwise a series of car accidents would be inevitable.

Everyone woke up in the dark night and was clamoring.

Meng Feng said, "Everyone stays in the car!" He jumped out of the car in the middle and went back to inspect it. Three flashlights shone on the tires.

Liu Yan said: "It's overweight, you have too many things, plus the natural damage caused by excessive wear. According to the test, it's been these days."

Lin Musen said: "What should I do if there is no spare tire?"

Liu Yan had already thought about this problem and only hoped to find spare tires along the way. However, along the way, there were no tires in the auto parts store.

"Wait for dawn." Executive Hu Jue got out of the car and suggested: "If you don't want to abandon the car, you can only go around after dawn."

Lin Musen accepted the proposal, Meng Feng went to arrange for people to patrol, and Liu Yan erected a detector on the roof of the car.

After dawn, Meng Feng and Zhang Min each led a team of people to investigate along the fork at the end of the highway. Lin Musen's face was gloomy and very irritable.

In the evening, the two teams came back almost at the same time.

"There is a residential area in front." Zhang Min took off his gloves and sighed: "There are several grocery stores inside, but they are empty, like a very small village, with small groups of zombies wandering, about a thousand, without any frontal contact."

Meng Feng said: "Along our direction, walking for four hours, I found a Hope Primary School. To the west of the highway, there was no abnormality. There was an excavator, and the road had not been repaired yet."

Lin Musen was quiet for a moment, then said, "Go to the west, bypass the zombies, and the two cars went over and took a look first."

On the morning of the third day, two container trucks arrived at a lonely building in the wilderness.

This place has entered the geological zone of the Loess Plateau. In autumn, the wind and sand are severe. As far as you can see, there is only one place on the continuous plain that has built a school.

It is a deserted area that is nearly twenty miles away from here, and on the other side of the Tushan Mountain is what Zhang Min calls a small village.

The loess is everywhere, and the wilderness is very flat, and the place where you can't see it is the Qinling Mountains that separate the sky and the earth.

A small river rushes through the distance. Looking at where it goes, it should be the confluence of the Yellow River.
To be continued...