The preparations before departure were simple. Bai Zhi drew several detailed maps of Northeast China and Siberia. Zhang Tianzhao went to Dragon Palace to pick up a crystal core-powered off-road vehicle, and asked Ren Xiaonan to help him modify a snowmobile and a light rail vehicle. Bai Zhi comforted Mi Ning and Mi An, and asked her aunts to help take care of the children for a few days. Then she packed two pretend pockets and some clothes and other supplies. The two of them put on Tonghui's coats and set off.
Tonghui City has undergone great changes. Several areas have been isolated inside and outside the base with solid stone walls up to six meters high. Standing on the high mountain outside the city, you can see the scattered small fields in the base. The crops half a man tall are full of vitality in the morning breeze. Outside the city, stretches of grassy beach and strange-shaped trees and saplings can be seen everywhere. It is common to see humans fighting bugs, or humans leading mutant beasts fighting bugs, dozens of kilometers around the base.
"Let's go due west-north and find the railway." Without a GPS, such a small thing as not knowing whether the compass is accurate or not is not a problem for Zhang Tianzhao. With the Baizhi brand standard map in hand, he can do the calculations by himself.
"Wolf Cavalry." Bai Zhi stood on tiptoe and looked in the direction of Tonghui City. In the valley a few kilometers away, a dozen mutated wolves dragging carts were walking in the front, followed by two to three hundred people carrying tall bags. The neatly arranged squares of the soldiers are quite conspicuous, and the few black guys in the team of international friends are even more conspicuous.
"They are very quick to recruit people." Bai Zhi tiptoed, "Follow them for a day and see how far they can go."
"Okay." Zhang Tianzhao pointed to the mountain ridge that Bai Zhi could not see far away, "There are people watching there and there. It seems that Tonghui's friends don't have high trust in international friends."
Bai Zhi also noticed the details and said with a smile: "I remember Yun Lai took a lot of space wallets to Tonghui to exchange for crystal cores. Why do these people all carry big bags when they travel far away?"
Zhang Tianzhao asked Yun Lai for a comment and said with a smile: "Yun Lai said hello to Tong Hui's people, and they must keep a guard against foreigners, and the space equipment must not be exposed."
"How long can I keep it secret?" Bai Zhi said as she pulled out two pretend mountaineering bags and threw one to Zhang Tianzhao, contributing her own strength to the concerted effort to deceive Wai Guoren.
"At least this city-wide operation should be hidden from others." Zhang Tianzhao smiled, "It seems that Tonghui has great expectations for the seed warehouse."
After finding the seeds, one or two hundred people each packed a space wallet, leaving rows of empty shelves for the crooked nuts. It was still great.
Bai Zhi's eyes sparkled, "My expectations for the seed warehouse are getting bigger and bigger."
There are gangs of about ten people, teams of three or five people, and many duos like Zhang Tianzhao and Bai Zhi who are following international friends back and forth. Occasionally, the two teams met, and both tacitly gave in. Although the team at Tonghui Base was not very friendly, with the presence of international friends, everyone suddenly became more restrained.
The large group led by international friends was not slow and entered a desolate town before dark to stay.
Of course, the ones who are following you can’t just go to the town to find a place to live. Zhang Tianzhao had his eye on a village a few kilometers away from the town. This village is separated from the town by a bare hill. Although most of the houses have collapsed, there are usually cellars in northern rural areas. It was convenient for them to spend the night in the cellar.
There were messy footprints on the path, and someone had already entered the village. Bai Zhi looked around. There was a team of about ten people walking towards them in the direction they came from. The tall and short figures were climbing over the hill.
"There are people coming from behind. Most people will choose to stay here." Bai Zhi looked ahead. In the deep dusk, the silhouettes of tall buildings on the horizon were particularly clear.
If help is needed, Zhang Tianzhao can definitely bring people from the East China Sea or Dragon Palace. There is no need for them to come into contact with these people. Zhang Tianzhao decided to go to the city to spend the night. The closer you get to the city, the more houses there are on the roadside. White bones can be seen everywhere, and occasionally you can see dry and hard feces left by mutated animals. Although many houses collapsed, there were not so many vehicle wrecks on the road into the city that it was impossible to drive.
This city named Jiangping has been abandoned for a long time, and there is deathly silence in the city. Most of the buildings were only made of reinforced concrete shelves. There were dried and black blood stains in the room with the open door, as well as the feces of people or mutated animals.
Hundreds of cars were crowded into a big group at the entrance and exit of the city's expressway. The expressway looked like a parking lot, but the railway track not far from the highway was empty. Zhang Tianzhao decisively returned to Dragon Palace to get the rail car.
Time was too tight, so the rail car delivered by Dragon Palace was only a semi-finished product with a power system and chassis, and it looked like a big black iron plate with wheels. Ren Xiaonan also used Dragon Palace's customary caution to add a manual power system to hide it from others.
This kind of temporary modification was not difficult for Zhang Tianzhao. He popped up a big water balloon. The water ball changed its shape on the iron plate and quickly turned into a solid ice shell. By the way, the tables and chairs were firmly fixed on the iron plate. Put on the animal skin mattress and turn on the crystal core lights. The rail car will feel warm and comfortable like home. Bai Zhi spread out paper and pen to draw a map of the three northeastern provinces and Siberia from memory. Zhang Tianzhao had nothing to do, designing a mobile house on the other side of the table.
The rail car stopped and went, and when there was a place that was difficult to pass, I walked. When I encountered a city, I switched to an off-road vehicle to go around. I was out of the country in five days. Siberia was sparsely populated before the end of the world, road transportation was very inconvenient, and small towns had a serious population loss. They traveled north without encountering any human settlements.
The wind is getting colder and colder, snow appears on the ground, and the thin snow gradually turns into rolling snowfields.
Zhang Tianzhao returned to the Dragon Palace, handed over several trains filled with steel or ore that he picked up on the road, got back a light snowmobile, measured the direction, and moved forward in a straight line.
"Nothing grows, and there are no insects. Mineral resources are abundant. In fact, it is good for us to establish a rear base here." Zhang Tianzhao suppressed the idea of mining along the way.
Bai Zhi thought about the wildly growing vegetation outside the East China Sea Hunting Ground and Tonghui City, and sighed, "When the weather warms up, this place will turn into a forest again."
"The living space of human beings will become smaller and smaller. Fortunately, we have a defensive shield." Zhang Tianzhao smiled and turned the steering wheel, but suddenly his smile solidified, "There is smoke ahead!"
A few wisps of black smoke stood out among the gray-white sky and earth. The presence of smoke means there is human activity here. Zhang Tianzhao looked back at the traces left by the snowmobile, got off the car, found a big tree, climbed up and observed it with a telescope for a few minutes, then came back and said: "There is a temporary settlement ahead, and there are about 10 people active outdoors. Bai, the clothes are quite thin, and there are people of all races. I remember Dongting went to an international school, and I asked him to come over and have a look."
Half an hour later, Yue Dongting teleported over. He went up the tree with a telescope and observed for nearly ten minutes. Then he jumped down and said with a wry smile: "I saw a classmate. Two months before the end of the world, the classmate association sent me The email explains what may happen in the next few months and hopes that I will take my family to Chita City to find them.”
"No wonder you organized the people in the community where you live so well. Did you make some preparations in advance?" Bai Zhi poured him hot tea.
Yue Dongting held the cup with both hands and nodded with a smile, "I didn't believe it at the time, but I also organized several community residents to conduct anti-terrorism and fire and earthquake drills. If I believe them, I will follow their instructions and try my best to persuade the donors to Exchange all your wealth into survival resources and bring them to Chita."
"Will the sponsor believe you?" Zhang Tianzhao raised his eyebrows. When he was a teenager, he once asked Shen Tang whether this was possible with a zombie movie, but Shen Tang dismissed it as nonsense.
"The donor will definitely think it is a new way to ask for money." Yue Dongting shook his head and smiled, "But it seems that my classmates believe it."
"The straight-line distance between Chita City and Yakutsk is not too far. The group of international friends who went to Tonghui are very likely to be with them." Bai Zhi smiled bitterly, "If so, with their ability, they will definitely survive. There are seeds. If not, we walked in Eastern Siberia for two or three days without encountering mutant animals. It is said to be very safe except for the cold. Why do those people go around in a big circle to find someone in Tonghui? "
"They are short of people." Zhang Tianzhao and Yue Dongting said in unison.
"I'm going to take a look at the international friends who are leading the way," Yue Dongting looked at Bai Zhi, "How far can they go in one day?"
"About a hundred kilometers. We have teleportation points along the road. If we teleport and drive, we should be able to catch up." Bai Zhi said, "Zhang Tianzhao and I avoided these people and moved forward. Maybe they are not the same group."
"I'll go back to Dragon Palace to pick up the car and go to Tonghuizhui. Give me the map of the three eastern provinces." Yue Dongting drank the tea in the cup, took the map Zhang Tianzhao gave him and teleported away. Zhang Tianzhao restarted the snowmobile and walked in a large arc to avoid the temporary camp. After advancing dozens of kilometers, they saw a second temporary camp with more than 30 people busy dismantling tents. Several human-powered sleds carried packed supplies toward the first camp. In the next few hours, they saw several camps, each with two or three tents. The distance between each two camps was about fifty kilometers, which was exactly what humans could reach by walking in the ice and snow for a day. distance. These campsites are obviously reception stations.
Zhang Tianzhao drove the snowmobile to the top of the mountain and stopped at the top. Directly in front of them was an endless snow-covered plain. The camp at the bottom of the mountain and the two camps farther away formed a straight line at three points. Snowmobiling in this unobstructed natural environment is sure to be spotted.
"We can only walk." Zhang Tianzhao opened the car door as he spoke. The hot breath from his mouth was cold, and a few bright ice crystals fell on his sleeves. Bai Zhi was not as cold-resistant as him, so he was so frightened that he quickly closed the car door again.
Bai Zhi rummaged through her backpack and the cloaks she pulled out were all black. In an environment where the sky and the earth are completely white, wearing all black is too stupid. Bai Zhi thought for a while, then thought that the NPC sold dyes, and quickly said: "I will go into the territory to find the NPC to buy a few packs of white dyes."
The territorial space is sunny, the fragrance of flowers and fruits is intertwined, and the waves of wheat are rolling and the pine waves are bursting. Compared with the ruins of cities covered in dust and bones that she had seen on the road these past few days, her space was no different from heaven. It's a pity that her children can't enter her paradise. Bai Zhi sighed softly, opened the warehouse panel in front of the NPC rolling over, took away the fruits and put them back into the empty basket, opened the store panel and bought a few packs of white dye, and then turned the pages backwards habitually.
There’s actually a new recipe! Bai Zhi looked at the transaction panel and couldn't believe her eyes. She hasn’t cooked up a new recipe for several months, but this time a guy cooked out a whole page for her! In addition to the simple, beautiful and lightweight leather armor suit, there is also a belt with leather armor and an exquisite small leather bag. The description of this small leather bag is simply incredible: the mezzanine of this bag can store ten space equipment, and the space for ten space equipment can be used combined together. The energy required to make this small waist bag is also amazing. It takes 3,000 efforts to make one, and requires a whole piece of reindeer BOSS skin from Eastern Siberia.
"I hate the taste of energy recovery potion." Bai Zhi quickly bought these formulas to study. When she turned to the next page, her eyes were blinded by a wing icon again.
"ideal wings"
Type: Enchantment. The production energy is 2,000 points.
Materials: One hundred pairs of transparent wings, one hundred meters of mithril wire.
Available Equipment: Ideal Belt
Gain the ability to fly after using it. Each flight lasts ten minutes and the skill CD is one hour.
Bai Zhi turned back and looked at the belt that she had not noticed at all just now. The material for the belt requires the skin of a level 40 mutated BOSS. In addition to a piece of mithril, it also requires two hundred points of energy. In addition to being able to take photos of this incredible enchantment, buckling the small leather bag also has an even more incredible ability. Store the leather armor suit in the small leather bag, and wear the belt to instantly switch between the leather armor suit and normal clothes. Switch back and forth. This is the job of plug-ins in the game.
"Have you even done the plug-in work?" Bai Zhi quickly turned over and looked at Zhang Tianzhao's formula. His formula had two extra pages, including the treatment of various metal blocks, the forging of metal wires, and some names that were given to her. The leather armor is made of small parts as accessories. When Bai Zhi saw the names of mithril and mithril threads, she bought them all.
I turned it over again, but I didn't find out the new recipe for Hai Fengqiu. Why do they have it but Hai Fengqiu doesn't? Bai Zhi thought for a while and felt that it might be the reason why she and Zhang Tianzhao went on a long trip, but Hai Fengqiu stayed in the East China Sea. It is very likely that new recipes will be released when a new map is opened. It is also very simple to verify her conjecture. Just ask Hai Fengqiu to come over when he has time.
Bai Zhi teleported out and handed a thick stack of formulas to Zhang Tianzhao, "Make me a piece of mithril first, and a hundred meters of mithril thread. The NPC prepared two heaven-defying formulas for me, and a belt that can be photographed. A skill enchantment that takes ten minutes to fly and has a CD of one hour. A small leather bag that can be stuck on the belt and can combine ten space bags."
Zhang Tianzhao whistled twice in succession, while learning the formula, he said with a smile: "Is this a home-robbery suit? When ten space bags are combined, the maximum capacity is 900 cubic meters, and the space equipment you make in the future will become larger. There is room for improvement. Even if I have a backpack, this thing is still very useful. I will apply for the right to use the first set."
"Of course, the belt also has a plug-in function, which can switch back and forth between the leather armor suit and normal clothes." Bai Zhi sorted the materials and then processed and dyed the "Exquisite XX" series of leather suits and cloaks.
"No wonder many of the spare parts in the formula given to me are named Leather Armor XX. It turns out that they have this purpose." Zhang Tianzhao put the table into his backpack, took out his tool table, and poured mithril ingots for Bai Zhi on the spot. He has a lot of mithril ore hidden in his backpack, and now it finally comes in handy.
"A piece of mithril costs one thousand energy, and ten meters of mithril wire costs 200 energy. Not including the leather armor, these two items took up all my energy. It took a total of two days to make. Fortunately, I got the total mithril It's a lot." Zhang Tianzhao put the materials into the tool table, and after confirming the production, he shamelessly put the tool table into his backpack.
"It takes two thousand points of energy to do enchanting. The small leather bag requires all my energy at one time." Bai Zhi flicked Zhang Tianzhao on the arm, "The auxiliary materials need the skin of the reindeer BOSS, and we have to fight the BOSS."
"It's easy to defeat the boss. I'll ask Haifengqiu to make a potion right away!" Zhang Tianzhao immediately made a note to tell everyone how incredible the new formula prepared by Bai Zhi was.
"Tell Haifengqiu to kill more winged beetles. To enchant the flying skill, you need a hundred pairs of wings. Only beetles above level 20 have wing materials." Bai Zhi stood up and tied the belt of Zhang Tianzhao's cloak. .
"You already have four orders for your house-breaking suit. A conservative estimate is that you need to process twenty sets." Zhang Tianzhao quickly changed into a snow-colored protective clothing and checked that Bai Zhi had wrapped herself tightly. After a while, he opened the door and got out of the car.
The snow is so hard that no one can leave any footprints when walking on it. They took a parallel route five kilometers away from the camp. After dark, Zhang Tianzhao built a small snow house to stay on the top of a mountain where he could see the camp ahead.
"We should be able to reach Yakutsk tomorrow. I think we have gone far enough." Bai Zhi looked at the map. There was no reference in the snowfield, and they did not encounter a city along the way. She was a little confused about the direction. .
"Mark the positions of us, and I'll do the math." Zhang Tianzhao put down his telescope. Black smoke rose from the tent in the camp ahead, but the people inside didn't come out, so he couldn't get any useful information.
Bai Zhi took out a piece of Bai Zhi, sensed the positions of everyone she could sense, marked the points of Dragon Palace and the East China Sea, and then marked Tonghui Yunlai, Dongting moving all the way north, and themselves in proportion.
Zhang Tianzhao converted the proportions, found their location on the map, smiled and said, "Dear, we are already here."
The point Zhang Tianzhao marked on the map with a red pen is northwest of Yakutsk, about thirty kilometers away in a straight line.
"Since it's so close, I'll ask Hai Fengqiu and Lin Yun to come over. Let's divide into two groups and take advantage of the darkness to explore." Zhang Tianzhao called his teammates with a note.
After a while, the five-person team gathered together.
"Let me talk about the situation I found out first." Yue Dongting shrank toward the stove and suddenly teleported from the northeast above zero to Siberia at dozens of degrees below zero. He was not very used to it. "The group who went to Tonghui to find assistance One of my international friends, one of whom was my teacher, was named Nikolai. I went to talk to him directly. I am one of my own, and Nikolai told me the truth. There is indeed a seed warehouse, but - this so-called plant The Ark Project is part of the Noah Base, and those seed bases have been taken away long ago. The entrance to the Noah Base is a cave in a mine near Yakutsk, more than a thousand meters deep underground, and it is very large. They also Aware of the population problem, they used seeds as a guise to attract new immigrants."
Yue Dongting smiled and took out a map printed with ink, "This is the route map he gave me. With this map, even if I can't catch up with him, I can get supplies by finding their reception station and go directly to Noah." base."
"Are you all going?" Lin Yunlai was very excited. He had been bored in Tonghui camp for almost a year.
"Of course it's best to go all the way, but what about the Tonghui camp?" Yue Dongting laughed, "Hao Xing is almost a bottomless pit eating crystal cores now. Without the stable supply of crystal cores from the Tonghui camp, it will affect the development process of the teleportation array. of."
"One person must stay in Donghai. Bai Zhi..." Hai Fengqiu felt that there was danger and wanted to get Bai Zhi back to Donghai.
"Only when a new map is opened will new recipes be prepared. I must go." Bai Zhi's attitude was very determined. She regretted that she could not participate in the battle from the beginning when she killed the giant octopus last time.
"Then I'll go back to Dragon Palace and discuss with Brother Gu, and let Brother Gu go to Donghai to work for a few days." Hai Fengqiu didn't insist anymore.
"Hey, you don't use T when opening up the new map!" Lin Yun came and slapped the table, "Do you really dare to say that you don't want T?"
"Since Bai Zhi has gone, can I not take you with me? You have to make arrangements for the work at Tonghui camp first," Haifengqiu thought for a while and asked, "Where are the people from Tonghui?"
"We are almost reaching Mohe. They have to walk for at least half a month." Yue Dongting replied.
"Then the three of us will go back first. We will meet again in two weeks." Haifeng Qiu smiled, "Should you two return to the East China Sea first, or continue exploring in this area?"
"We are heading towards the Arctic Ocean. The new recipe requires the skin of the reindeer BOSS." Zhang Tianzhao smiled, "If we encounter a super big BOSS, we will ask for help at any time."
The map given by Yue Dongting marked the supply and reception route. With a map in hand, it is quite easy to get around these small camps. Zhang Tianzhao and Bai Zhi wandered around the Arctic Ocean for a few days, found a reindeer colony, killed more than a dozen bosses, and made their first set of ideal belts and small leather bags.
This small waist bag looks like a key bag. The opening is very elastic and can be inserted into the space waist bag. Whether it is a space wallet, a waist bag or a space bag, it can be put in. There is no limit to ten types.
Bai Zhi finally pulled out all the small bags and stuffed them into ten 90-cubic space bags for Zhang Tianzhao to hold ore.
Zhang Tianzhao happily put on a new belt and buckled his small leather bag, showing off in front of Yun Lai, who came for dinner every day. Yun Lai calculated the time and stayed with Bai Zhi to regain his energy, so he helped Zhang Tianzhao mine for four hours a day in exchange for the second set of robbery suits.
"The skin from the octopus killed last time was only enough to make about ten sets." After counting the materials, Bai Zhi sighed with her face in her hands: "Where can I find another big boss above level 40?"
"There must be some in the sea. Maybe there is one under Noah's base. Just take your time. After the five of us are equipped, if there are no special circumstances, we can collect the ideal suits for a dozen people and give them to them together. By the way, we also need to include Sun Heping, who actually needs a large warehouse and the ability to fly to save his life the most." Zhang Tianzhao lowered his head and continued to pick ore. The names of the new materials that appeared were very uncreative, such as copper and purple gold, but he couldn't find any of them.
