Ye Fan didn't come up and start killing everywhere.

Zhao Xiaoman won the first round, her excited little face flushed, and Ye Fan's cards were hearts 678, losing twenty hits to the palm or two pinches to the cheek.

Zhao Xiaoman chose to hit the palm.

Ye Fan's hand was grabbed by her soft, smooth little hand and slapped, not too hard, not too light.

Ye Fan squinted his eyes slightly; he could still endure this bit of pain.

After almost ten hits, Shen Ruihui, who was passing by, watched with some concern Ye Fan's Udyr and Zhao Ming: "You two don't need to look so worried; how could the officer possibly suffer a loss? According to physics, force is mutual, and generally, those with thicker skin benefit."

Zhao Xiaoman, who was hitting, froze.

"That's right, why should I hit the palm? That way, I'll also feel pain. I want to pinch your cheek."

As she spoke, her little hand pinched Ye Fan's face.

It was a bit painful after all.

After all, Zhao Xiaoman is also a Level 2 Evolver equivalent to a Heroic Unit under Ye Fan, and her hand strength is quite strong, even if she didn't exert much effort.

Ye Fan glared at Shen Ruihui, then rubbed his face. It's okay, set a long-term plan, first give them a little benefit, so when they lose, they won't deny the account.

He let her win eight times in a row, and Ye Fan's face was a bit red.

It's about time to recover the cost.

This time, Ye Fan used the commander's satchel to sneak out three Aces.

The biggest card in "Fried Golden Flower," ensuring a win.

Learning from experience, Ye Fan first said to Shen Ruihui: "Company Commander Shen, go over there and see the soldiers' rest condition, physical condition, and psychological condition. Ask these over two thousand people one by one, don't miss anyone, remember?"

"Yes!"

Shen Ruihui took the order and went.

Ye Fan breathed a sigh of relief; now he could start.

However, Zhao Xiaoman looked at Ye Fan suspiciously: "Why do I feel your cards are big this time? I choose PASS."

"You even got rid of Company Commander Shen, I PASS too."

"Me too."

Zhuge Yunxue and Xiao Jing both passed in sequence, leaving Ye Fan holding three Aces, feeling his gums itch.

Even after Shen Ruihui was sent away, he could still affect the game.

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The vehicle roared forward, bypassing the bay, gradually leaving the land of Luqi Province.

Along the way, they encountered abandoned trains, but all were handled by the military's engineering vehicles, causing no major impact.

After leaving Luqi Province, bypassing the bay, they reached the Adjacent Province.

When passing the outskirts of Fengtian City, Ye Fan was on the train and saw a scene that shocked him.

He actually saw someone hanging red lanterns in a town!

The time was now close to the Lunar New Year, just five days away.

Before the apocalypse, this scene would have been normal: people across the nation celebrating the arrival of the New Year in their ways.

But this year was different.

Now it's the apocalypse, people are rarely seen, and there's someone hanging red lanterns.

This showed that the town had been reclaimed.

But looking at this town, it wasn't remote; even from the train, one could see a distant small city.

Could it be that the small city also reclaimed?

If so, the survivor base's strength must not be underestimated.

Ye Fan stared at the people below in a daze, and the people below watched the speeding train also in a daze.

Since the apocalypse began, trains hadn't appeared; railway lines had become mere decorations.

Unexpectedly, at such a time, one could still see trains, and an armored train at that!

The rugged body and design, heavy armor, mounted machine guns and missiles, all made these people's eyes shine with excitement.

Could it be that the military has come?

Some below even waved their hands and shouted loudly, indicating there were survivors here.

But most people just watched, without any other actions.

This proved they weren't people urgently needing rescue, at least they could basically live.

Conductor Ji Xun asked Ye Fan whether to stop, Ye Fan waved his hand.

"No need, seeing they can live well enough, we don't need to intervene unnecessarily; let's quickly head home."

The train didn't stop, rumbling past.

The vehicle didn't enter Fengtian City; it was hard to traverse inside the city anyway.

After bypassing the train station of a small city, Ye Fan found the small city hadn't been reclaimed, with many zombies still at the station.

Hearing the train's approach, zombies rushed out, trying to intercept the train on the railroad.

But they couldn't make the train stop for even a second, the train sped past, smashing zombies daring to intercept into pulp.

A King Kong Zombie roaringly blocked the railway line, unable to cause the train to pause, crushed to death directly.

After rushing past, the train gradually entered the wilderness.

Leaving the Fengtian Region, the vehicle traveled two more days, entering the white mountain Province territory.

The capital of White Mountain Province is Spring City; passing the edge of Spring City, Ye Fan took a closer look.

Among the provincial capital cities he was aware of, Ice City, Quancheng, and Fengtian City all had substantial survivor forces. He wanted to see if Spring City was the same.

However, as the vehicle passed through Spring City, they did not find any significant survivor forces.

Along the way, they even saw a group of survivors, holding rifles and shotguns, driving SUVs, and struggling through the snow.

By looking at their weaponry and their skinny, sallow bodies, it was clear that their living conditions were quite poor.

Not to mention compared to the people from Fengtian, they were still much worse off compared to those from Quancheng and Ice City.

These survivors were also dumbfounded when they saw the train, and after a stunned pause, they shouted loudly.

"There are people here!"

"Help! We need food!"

Some even shouted SOS, waving their hands vigorously.

But Ye Fan did not stop the train. They encountered survivors more than once on the road. These people had weapons and could still survive. He couldn't be benevolent to the point of stopping the train every time he saw a survivor.

Although Ye Fan didn't know if these people represented the highest level of survivors in the Spring City area, it indeed seemed inferior to other places.

At least when the train ran at night, Ye Fan didn't see lights turning on in those parts of the city.

The whole land seemed dead, with darkness everywhere.

If some survivors had reclaimed the rural villages, there would be at least some power generation.

Especially at night, not only Ye Fan couldn't see, but even the occasional flying War Hawk couldn't see.

Even if lights were occasionally visible, they were merely like fireflies in the night, only a trivial sparkle.

This indicated that the power of the survivors on this land was negligible.

"Maybe they've all gone far into the wilderness."

Ye Fan comforted himself; he didn't want to see the land completely dead, with nothing but zombies.

......

The further north the train went, the more difficult the road became, even the railway.

In fact, once they entered the adjacent province, snow started appearing on the ground.

It wasn't too bad in the adjacent province, but it got heavier in White Mountain Province, covering the land in a blanket of white.

Past White Mountain Province, reaching Shenlong River's territory, heavy snow would occasionally block the railway.

Under the engineer's design, a massive metal shovel was mounted at the front of the armored train. It didn't need to stop for snow, pushing through it with the train's powerful force.

Towering pine forests flanked both sides of the railway, remaining green even in winter.

The sky was densely clouded, with snowflakes swirling.

In the expansive snow, the train advanced as if parting a wave.

From afar, it was a breathtaking sight.

On the fifth day after leaving Luqi Province, the train reached the borders of Ice City.

Beyond Ice City, they could continue towards the Huacheng Region.

Upon entering Ice City, Ji Xun sought Ye Fan's permission on whether to take the railway through the city.

According to War Hawk reconnaissance, a railway bridge within Ice City was still passable.

Ye Fan calculated the journey, figuring that a detour would take most of a day longer, so he decided to push through Ice City.

He also entertained the idea of taking the railway bridge to see if the Jiangbei Region had been reclaimed.

Following Ye Fan's orders, the train proceeded, entering Ice City.

The railway wasn't laid in bustling areas but in relatively remote locations, which was the case for most cities.

Therefore, although zombies were frequently encountered on the road, their numbers weren't large enough to pose significant obstacles to the train's progress.

The only trouble arose when they reached the Ice City train station.

A derailed train was blocking the way, requiring it to be moved aside to continue.

However, the station was teeming with zombie hordes; as Ye Fan's armored train was forced to halt, the surrounding hordes frantically surged forward.

Yet Ye Fan wasn't particularly concerned, as the armored train's firepower was beyond the capability of ordinary hordes to withstand, unless their numbers were overwhelmingly large.

The train stopped, and the machine guns locked onto the waiting hall, initiating a fierce firepower blockade!

The metallic barrage acted like threading a skewer through candied fruit, with bullets knocking over not just one zombie, but a whole bunch at a time.

The Red Alert soldiers fired calmly, shooting down masses of zombies in front of the waiting hall entrance.

Windows of the carriages opened, with countless guns probing out.

The design of the armored train provided each soldier lying on a bunk a small window, which allowed for ventilation and served as a firing port.

On one side of the car, there were over a thousand firing ports.

Under such a fire blockade, no matter what kind of zombie it was, none could break through. Soon, the pile of zombies in front of the waiting hall was akin to a mountain.

While the engineer led the engineers off the train, operating barrier-breaking vehicles to quickly move the derailed train to the sides of the railway.

Once the path was cleared, the vehicles reboarded the train, which then restarted.

Though some zombies still attempted to crawl out of the waiting hall, they could only watch as the train moved away.

After a while, chasing proved futile, causing the zombies to lose their target and wobble back to the waiting hall, where they began devouring their companions' corpses voraciously.

A bald-headed old zombie specifically chose internal organs and brains to eat.

During the continuous devouring process, his eyes grew blood-red, suddenly emitting a roar that simultaneously stopped the hordes as they fed.

The old man sprawled on the pile of corpses, savoring his solitary meal.

But Ye Fan was unaware of all this as the train had already charged onto the Jiang Bridge, and he was about to see the Jiangbei of Ice City.

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