The two cars left He City and traveled along the highway heading north. They experienced robberies, porcelain collisions, and harassment by ferocious animals along the way. The friendship between everyone became deeper, and the tacit understanding between them was even higher than during the half year on the mountain.
They stopped and went for a week, and as usual, when the sun set, they found a slightly secluded location to set up a tent and rest.
The light of sunset passed through the gaps in the trees and sprinkled on the five tents, adding a touch of clear light to the fire rising in the middle.
"It's so hot." Chi Yue wiped his sweat.
The temperature had recently climbed to thirty-nine degrees, and she was sweating all over her body while packing her sleeping bag.
She silently moved away from the fire to prevent the heat wave from rushing onto her skin: "Qizhou, don't cook my food tonight."
"Don't you have an appetite?"
"Yeah." Every summer, she couldn't eat much, or their food couldn't arouse her appetite.
Wen Qizhou didn't force it.
After all, there is a lot of cooked food in the space that can be eaten by her at any time. She has no appetite now, so there is no need to stuff it into her stomach.
He handed the cattail leaf fan to Chi Yue, put his palm on the top of her hair and rubbed it, and then he and Yan Shuo and the others processed the ingredients.
"Xiao Yue, are you really not going to eat?" Yan Shuo didn't know that they had endless food, so he asked out of concern.
"Don't eat."
"Okay." He poured rice into a bowl: "If you are hungry at night, ask Qi Zhou to cook you a bowl of egg noodles."
He and Wen Yaxian are the oldest in the team except Mingming, and they often take care of them as brothers and sisters-in-law.
Chi Yue also accepted his favor.
She said "Okay" warmly, holding the handle of the fan to fan herself and Wen Qizhou beside her.
"Speaking of which, the temperature has risen so fast recently." Xie Changxiao wiped his sweat and looked out at the road outside through the shade of the trees: "Isn't the extreme heat coming again?"
"Bah, bah, bah, don't be shy!" Chi Yunyan really didn't want to experience a life wrapped in a heat wave again.
"I am serious."
"It's not Bailu yet. It will take time for the temperature to drop. Don't think too much."
Xie Changxiao didn't want to think too much.
I am really scared by the changeable weather. Once I encounter high and low temperatures, my whole body becomes extremely sensitive.
He sighed and said no more, so as not to cause panic to everyone: "How many kilometers are we from the capital?"
Hearing Qizhou: "One thousand three-four."
Due to the tsunami and the plague, they took many detours along the way, shortening the journey very slowly.
"That's not far." It's more than a thousand kilometers away, and it should take twenty hours of driving to get there unless something unexpected happens.
However, changes came quickly.
At eleven o'clock that night, Chi Yue, who felt hungry, took out a steamed rice dumpling with garlic vermicelli from the space while others were sleeping, and sat cross-legged with Wen Qizhou in the tent to enjoy it.
The wave dragon still radiates heat.
The hot air carried a fragrant aroma and brushed the tip of his nose, arousing Chi Yue's appetite and making Wen Qizhou greedy after dinner.
Chi Yue ate a piece of lobster meat wrapped in vermicelli, and her taste buds were instantly satisfied. She narrowed her eyes slightly and was very satisfied.
She ignored talking to Wen Qizhou and ate the shrimp meat one bite after another. She was just sixty percent full when she suddenly noticed a vibration on the ground under her feet that was hard to ignore.
The sound of "boom" came into my ears.
She swallowed the shrimp meat wholeheartedly, raised her hands to put the dishes and chopsticks into the space, took out toilet water and mouth freshener and sprayed them with him to cover up the smell on her body, and then walked out of the tent.
"Pack your things quickly!" Wen Qizhou kept moving his hands, not forgetting to remind others who were awakened by the strong vibration.
Earthquakes can trigger landslides.
The location they were in at the moment was between mountains. If they didn't leave as soon as possible, they might be in danger.
Wen Qizhou got into the driving seat.
Seeing them packing their things and getting into the car, they stepped on the accelerator and drove forward according to the route pointed by Chi Yue.
After driving twenty or thirty kilometers, a pressure wave carrying a "rumbling" sound surged from directly in front of them.
The windshield shuddered.
Dazzling fire suddenly appeared, and thick smoke reached the sky, seeming to block the hanging bright moon.
"Qizhou, go to the right!" Chi Yue, who realized the volcano was erupting, immediately told him to change his route and follow the fork five hundred meters ahead to take another road away from the volcano.
She closed the car window to block out the thick smoke carried by the wind, held on to the armrests on the roof of the car, and stared unblinkingly at the magma surging in all directions with the volcano as the center.
Magma causes temperatures to rise.
The sense of urgency and high temperature made the people sitting in the car sweat. Even Wen Qizhou's hands holding the steering wheel became sweaty, and his fingerprints seemed to be deeply imprinted on the leather.
They looked at the chasing lava through the rearview mirror, and their hearts jumped into their throats as they raced against it.
The extremely shocking and oppressive scene came into everyone's eyes. They didn't dare to say a word, and they only wanted to distance themselves from it.
"Master, will the fire burn us?" Xunsong grabbed the seat belt, his watery eyes filled with fear.
He didn't want to be burned to death.
Mingming retracted his gaze: "No." An unnoticeable nervousness flashed through his eyes, but his tone remained calm.
Listening to his determined tone, Yun Qi, who was also shrouded in fear, took a deep breath and held his hand tightly.
He looked out the windshield ahead, watching the high beams sweep through the trees, illuminating a path that would take them alive.
