"OK."

"Can."

"no problem."

"Get in the car."

Bai Chen, Long Yuehong, Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao almost spoke in unison without any hesitation.

The young man wearing a dark shirt, trousers, and a black windbreaker on the outside immediately walked around the front of the car, came to the passenger seat, and opened the door.

He smiled lightly and said to Jiang Baimian:

"Can you go to the back row?"

"No problem, sit, sit." Jiang Baimian stood up enthusiastically and moved away from his seat.

When the man took off the silver rifle behind him and sat in the passenger seat, she bent down slightly and said with a pleasant smile:

"What do you call you?"

The black-haired and golden-eyed man frowned slightly invisibly:

"Qiao Chu."

"It sounds so nice." Jiang Baimian was not stingy in praise.

"Look at the name of others, look at yours." Shang Jianyao turned his head and slapped Long Yuehong.

Long Yuehong was not surprised at all, and agreed:

"Yeah yeah."

Amid their admiration, Jiang Baimian opened the rear door and said to Shang Jianyao:

"Turn into the middle."

Before she finished speaking, she changed her words:

"No, you come down first, I'll sit in the middle."

Seeing Shang Jianyao was not very happy, Jiang Baimian emphasized again:

"I'm the team leader!"

Shang Jianyao then got off the car reluctantly and watched Jiang Baimian sit in the middle of the back row.

After hearing the term "group leader" from the gray dirt language, Qiao Chu, a man with black hair and golden eyes, subconsciously turned his head and looked at Jiang Baimian.

Jiang Baimian seemed to have been waiting for him, and he had a smile on his face.

Qiao Chu didn't say much, and withdrew his gaze either quickly or slowly.

Jiang Baimian was not disappointed, leaned forward, held his chin with one hand, and admired Qiao Chu's side face as if he couldn't take his eyes away.

After Shang Jianyao sat down again, he found that due to his position, he could only see the back of Qiao Chu's head, and from time to time he would be blocked by the pillow of the chair in front of him. Unconcealed disappointment suddenly appeared on his face.

Qiao Chu looked at the broken bridge in front of him and suddenly asked:

"Do you have something to eat?"

"Yes!" Bai Chen quickly turned sideways and opened the armrest box.

"Yes, yes!" Jiang Baimian retracted his hand that was holding his chin and hurriedly looked for food in his pocket. Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong straightened their bodies and turned to the back, trying to get Qiao Chu the canned braised beef.

There is no doubt that Bai Chen handed Qiao Chuyi the fastest to a small bag of compressed biscuits and an energy bar.

"That's it. You can eat a little too. You probably won't have to rest at noon, so you have to take turns driving." Qiao Chu took the food and issued an 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 the items on, waited for a while, turned his head to Bai Chen and said:

“It’s time to go.

“The hilly areas towards the northwest.”

"Okay." Bai Chen, who had finished lunch, agreed, but did not look away.

Qiao Chu stretched out his left hand, patted Bai Chen's right arm, and smiled gently:

"Driving well."

"Okay!" Bai Chen was flattered and immediately sat upright and activated the jeep.

Qiao Chu turned to the back row and smiled:

"I want to take a break. Pay attention to the situation around you, and wake me up when you arrive in that hilly area."

"Okay!" Jiang Baimian and others answered in unison.

Qiao Chu didn't say anything anymore and turned his head back.

The smile on his face quickly disappeared and his eyes became extremely cold.

Then, he took out a sky blue box from his pocket and snapped it open.

This box contains a small mirror.

Qiao Chu stared at himself in the mirror, raised his right hand, and carefully sorted out his hair.

After repeated examinations, he slowly put away the camera 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 team had already left.

Without reminding, Jiang Baimian and others turned into alarm clocks and woke Qiao Chu up on time.

Qiao Chu looked at the dim sky:

"Let's rest here tonight and continue to drive northwest tomorrow morning."

"Okay." Bai Chen found the familiar camping site and stopped the Jeep.

Then the four of them rushed to prepare the tent, lit the bonfire, and took out several military cans from the trunk.

"You have quite a lot of supplies..." Qiao Chu sat in the passenger seat without closing the car door, leisurely watching Shang Jianyao and others busy.

Not long after, Shang Jianyao trotted over and volunteered:

"I'll go there to get water."

Qiao Chu followed the direction he pointed, looked at the location of the clean water source, thought for a few seconds and said:

"No, our water can last for several days."

"Yeah, the can will be hot later. Do you need me to sing a song for you?" 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."

"Where is the Gold Coast swaying hula dance?" Shang Jianyao asked.

Qiao Chu frowned slightly:

"No, I want to calm down for a while and call me when the can is hot."

"Okay!" Shang Jianyao responded enthusiastically.

After he turned around and walked towards the bonfire position, 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 sighed in a low voice:

"Oh, it's really troublesome..."

In this way, the night passed quietly, and the sun rose again from the east of the Black Swamp wilderness.

After breakfast, after a secret contest, Jiang Baimian finally took advantage of the authority of the team leader and grabbed the responsibility of driving. Shang Jianyao, Long Yuehong and Bai Chen could only squeeze in the back row with a little aggrievedness.

Qiao Chu turned his wrist and looked at the mechanical watch, and determined the position with the compass on the dial.

"Drive in that direction and keep opening." He pointed to a place in the northwest.

Jiang Baimian drove the jeep first, walked out of the hilly area without any doubt, and then ran straight towards the direction Qiao Chu said.

As time goes by, the surrounding terrain becomes flatter and the soil becomes darker and worse. In the end, silt has become the main scenery, and the harder pavement is less and less.

This is heading deep into the swamp.

Compared with Bai Chen, Jiang Baimian has little experience in this area, and he almost trapped the car in the bottomless mud twice.

She had to give up her driver's seat and return to the middle of the back row. Bai Chen tried hard to control the Jeep, just like a child looking forward to praise.

The Jeep's speed undoubtedly slowed down a lot until noon, and did not travel more than thirty kilometers. Various plants gradually grew in the surrounding swamps.

Compared to normal, they are either dull or bright and look quite weird.

Jiang Baimian still remembered the responsibilities of his team leader and casually reminded Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong:

"Seeing similar aberrations of distorted plants, it means that they have entered the contaminated area. However, the plants here are not strange enough and not dangerous enough, and the pollution level should not be too high.

"In such an environment, ordinary people can also move, but if they do not have protective equipment, it is best not to exceed three days. People who have undergone mature genetic modification can last for about ten days, but the premise is that there are pre-prepared food and water."

Qiao Chu turned his head again, glanced at Jiang Baimian, but quickly withdrew his gaze and pointed to the side and said:

"Go to this side."

"But..." Bai Chen subconsciously wanted to make his own suggestions.
To be continued...