The Dawn Army departed from the base once more, heading towards Qinghe.

This time, Ye Fan was accompanied by the Second Battalion.

The road from Dawn City to Qinghe had been traveled several times, and there were basically no dangers along the way.

The First Battalion was still collecting building materials. The first snowfall had not yet blocked the roads, but once the second snowfall came, the entire northern land might become impassable, so time was of the essence.

Ye Fan's strong bull RV finally came into play, leaving Dawn City for the first time.

Ye Fan lay on his bed, not feeling too comfortable.

It was too narrow, only enough for him to lie down.

Unless a bunk structure was used, a second person couldn't fit.

The vehicle was large, with the cockpit at the front, the bedroom, kitchen, and bathroom in the middle, and four rows of sofas at the back for the warriors to sit.

Ye Fan didn't have too many people in his car; the driver was Wang Hu, his first conscript.

Wang Hu was the first production unit of the entire Red Alert System, and something felt a bit different about him to Ye Fan.

Even though the Red Alert System now had over a thousand people, Ye Fan still liked to keep Wang Hu by his side.

Also in the car were Sniper Zhao Ming, Engineer Luo Jiaxin, Medical Soldier Xiao Jing, and He Xiaoting, as well as the guard Zhuge Yunxue.

Beside Ye Fan's bed, Xiaotian and Heaven-Suppressing lay there, playfully eyeing Ye Fan.

Zhao Ming was constantly observing the situation; as a sniper, he needed to be the first to shoot if danger was detected, to protect the commander.

Meanwhile, Luo Jiaxin and Xiao Jing were conducting research.

The research subject was a crystal.

Ye Fan already had several of these crystals, including even a Level 2 Crystal.

The ones in the brains of the King Kong and Crawler were called Level 1 Crystals, and newly evolved zombies had Level 2 Crystals in their brains.

Ye Fan had once consumed a crystal, which led to evolution in his left eye.

However, that time he wasted too much crystal energy; clearly, this thing should have a better method of consumption.

The Engineer was the tech personnel of the Red Alert Team, while Xiao Jing and the others were highly skilled medical personnel, both useful for research.

On top of the car stood the first War Hawk produced.

This War Hawk had evolved today, becoming a One-Star War Hawk.

The height of the One-Star War Hawk had grown from 1.4 meters to 1.6 meters, standing almost as tall as a person, with its weight breaking through a hundred kilograms, looking extremely imposing.

This time it followed along to protect Ye Fan but refused to stay inside the car, opting to stand on the roof.

Ye Fan had given it a name: Dark Clouds.

Although it wasn't gray, its over five-meter wingspan soaring in the sky truly resembled a dark cloud.

Zhuge Yunxue had gone to the cooking team to oversee the preparation of lunch for Ye Fan.

Everyone had their tasks, leaving Ye Fan to lie idly in the car, waiting for the convoy to reach its destination.

The convoy had covered about half of the journey when Sniper Zhao Ming suddenly spoke up.

"Commander, signs of human activity spotted."

"Oh, what did you say?"

Ye Fan activated the radar but found no survivors within its range.

"Commander, I discovered footprints indicating survivor activity, heading into the mountains."

"Approximately how many survivors?"

"There should be a dozen or so people, and it seems someone was injured; I saw bloodstains."

"How long ago?"

"Judging by the snowfall and footprints, roughly two hours ago."

Ye Fan said nothing.

This snowfall could be considered a natural disaster for ordinary survivors.

In fact, there were still quite a few survivors alive, but only a small portion had joined major factions.

Most people were hiding in various places, with no way to contact the outside world.

From the increasing number of people not listening to broadcasts, it was clear that more and more people had lost their electricity source.

For ordinary people, having no electricity was akin to a disaster, and many accustomed to modern civilization would find it quite hard to adapt.

If it weren't for the snow, they might still persist, but after the snow, finding food became difficult, and keeping warm became an issue, forcing survivors to leave their hiding places and face this harsh world.

In the past, Ye Fan generally ignored this situation.

He would choose to accept anyone who came to Dawn City, but he wouldn't actively search for those scattered survivors.

This was because it would be unfair to those who brought gold and silver to Dawn City.

This time, Ye Fan didn't plan to make an exception either.

Originally intending to ignore it, Zhao Ming then said, "Judging from the footprints, someone was running ahead and being pursued by others."

"Oh!"

Ye Fan sat up.

If that was the case, he did plan to intervene.

In the lands surrounding Dawn City, no one was allowed to act arrogantly.

"Dark Clouds, fly over and see what's going on. If it's bad people being bad to each other, ignore it. But if someone's bullying ordinary survivors, change the perspective."

Dark Clouds flapped its wings and took to the sky, flying along the survivors' footprints.

After waiting a moment without receiving any news from Dark Clouds, Zhuge Yunxue showed up by the roadside.

Holding several large lunchboxes, the strong bull RV pulled up beside her, and she boarded the vehicle.

"Commander, the logistics support team did a great job on the meal today. There's chili-fried mutant beast meat, wild vegetable scrambled eggs, as well as specially prepared steamed fish for you, wild ginseng chicken stew... all highly nutritious."

Ye Fan sighed, "Even if we replenish, it's not like we can make much use of it. Never mind, let's eat together."

The benefit of being around Ye Fan is that you can get to enjoy good food.

However, Ye Fan's group doesn't have a big appetite, and the girls eat even less, while the engineers, as a technical unit, aren't big eaters either.

Ye Fan believes that only Wang Hu and Zhao Ming are real food tubs here.

There's also Xiaotian and Heaven-Suppressing, but they have special dog food.

Halfway through the meal, suddenly Nana brought news.

"War Eagle Dark Cloud requests the commander to switch to its perspective, should we switch?"

"Switch."

The scenery changed, and Ye Fan felt like he was soaring into the sky.

The War Eagle was flying high in the sky, already over ten kilometers from here.

It has already penetrated deeply into the Xing'an Mountain Range.

In the War Eagle's view, the situation in the mountains was laid out clearly.

In a valley, two groups of people were engaged in combat.

One side had seven or eight people, while the other had only two.

The seven or eight people were all men, young and strong, and three of them were evolvers.

One strength type, two speed type.

The two people fleeing were a man and a woman, with the man shot in the abdomen, already powerless and collapsed on the ground.

The woman looked about twenty-five or twenty-six, wearing tattered cotton clothes, her face very pale, but her beauty remained.

"Is this... Teacher Wu?"

Ye Fan took a good look before recognizing her.

It was Wu Ting, his high school teacher at Lingshui, even his head teacher, teaching chemistry.

However, this head teacher didn't get along well with the school administration, possibly due to disagreements over hiring foreign teachers for Lingshui School.

Wu Ting's teaching was very high-level, especially in chemistry experiments where she had deep expertise.

Because she was highly skilled, her ambitions were high, and she dared to confront the school administration.

Another reason was her youth; she had just graduated from university and hadn't yet experienced society's harsh realities, belonging to the type still naive in human relations.

When attending school, Ye Fan felt a mix of pain and joy in her classes.

Classes taught by a beautiful teacher ensured few boys skipped them.

Ye Fan, being mischievous, wasn't spared by her either.

After graduation, Ye Fan didn't see Wu Ting again.

Before the apocalypse, Ye Fan heard Wu Ting's family had opened a company, and many graduates attended her housewarming party.

Wu Ting's family is from Qinghe County in Huacheng City, and the company is also in Huacheng.

Classmates booked a car to Huacheng, and Gao Dongliang even texted Ye Fan to ask if he was going, but Ye Fan was studying in Ice City and had twisted his ankle, was financially strapped, and decided not to go.

Seeing Ye Fan not going, Gao Dongliang also didn't go but sent his gift money through a classmate, while Ye Fan didn't even send that.

It's said many high school classmates went, but unfortunately, that was the day the apocalypse broke out.

Ye Fan was lucky not to go; otherwise, that might have been his last lunch, never mind the system.

Thinking all the teachers and students perished that day, Ye Fan was surprised to see them here.

Ye Fan looked again at the guy, one of his high school classmates indeed.

Class president, Zhou Bingtian.

One of the organizers for the gift party.

Also one of Wu Ting's trusted aides during school, often helping punish Ye Fan, always reporting Ye Fan's mischief.

Wasn't it just because he was jealous that I was more handsome than him, and had better relations with girls?

That's what Ye Fan concluded.

Now Wu Ting and Zhou Bingtian were in dire straits, surrounded by those chasing them.

The strength-type evolver gasped, "You're really good at running; neither of you are evolvers, yet you tired us out like dogs. It's quite commendable."

Wu Ting's face was grim, but she didn't seem too tired; if Zhou Bingtian weren't injured, she'd keep running.

Unable to escape, she seemed resigned.

"Go ahead and take me, I won't conduct research for you when we return."

"Hehe, that's not up to you; hasn't our Mountain Cave Base treated you well? You've been staying with your students here for nearly two months, having food and drink, yet stalling research."

"This time when we take you back, if you still don't cooperate, don't blame us for being ruthless. Take them away!"

A few people surrounded her, bound Wu Ting and the injured Zhou Bingtian.

Escorting the two, they headed back the way they came.

Should he rescue them?

Ye Fan didn't believe he could save them right now; Dark Cloud could ambush one person, but there were three evolvers on the other side.

Forget it, no need to rush; let's wait until they reach that so-called Mountain Cave Base.

"Dark Cloud, keep monitoring, track to determine their base location."

"If you fear losing track, you can drop some bird droppings on Zhou Bingtian to mark the location."

Having issued the orders to Dark Cloud, Ye Fan withdrew his gaze.

The convoy continued forward, heading once more to Qinghe.

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