On the outskirts of Chen City.
Li Yu and the others were eating and resting in the vehicle, and five minutes later.
He Bing led Li Yu and the others towards the lathe factory. Along the way, the buildings seemed somewhat dilapidated.
Everyone in the vehicle heightened their vigilance, observing their surroundings, with bullets fully loaded in their guns.
The lathe factory wasn't located in the city center, nor was it in the distant suburbs, but in the north industrial park of the city.
All along the route, they didn't encounter any survivors, which Li Yu found somewhat strange.
Even in an apocalyptic world, such a large city couldn't possibly have not a single survivor.
Traveling along, the whole city was quiet, as if only Li Yu and his group existed.
When they reached a tire shop, its signboard seemed to have been torn by something; half of it was broken and hanging in mid-air, the words on it no longer discernible.
Instead, there were a few large red characters written in blood:
"The White Lotus Sect saves the world."
Additionally, some large characters written in blood were on the wall.
"The vacuum homeland, the virgin mother."
"When the ancient Buddha appeared, he secured heaven and earth, and the Virgin Mother established the heavens first."
"The Virgin Mother gives birth to Yin and Yang; as a baby cries and a girl rises, called Fu Xi, and Nuwa her body."
"Save from the sea of suffering, the Virgin Mother."
The blood-written characters, combined with the signboard hanging in mid-air, and the surrounding walls blackened as though burned by gasoline.
In front of them, there were traces of cremation; looking from the vehicle, you could vaguely see some fragments of bones.
Overall, it gave off an evil yet fanatical aura.
Upon seeing this, everyone curled their lips in disdain; here comes this trick again.
Especially people like Dapao, they had long before witnessed a church worshipping some god near the Big Camphor Tree Base.
It was later exterminated by the Salvation Army.
Li Yu suddenly realized that in this doomsday, the more resounding and righteous-sounding names, the eviler they tended to be.
Everyone didn't believe in these things, but Li Yu was a bit curious, so he turned to He Bing, who was driving beside him, and asked, "Did you see similar signs the last time you came here?"
He Bing shook his head, indicating he didn't know about these.
Li Yu glanced again at the sign, then after thinking for a moment, about to retract his gaze, he saw a black shadow flash by in the rearview mirror of the passenger side.
A flash of cold light appeared in Li Yu's eyes.
It couldn't have been an illusion, Li Yu was always confident in his eyesight.
But he was always cautious; the place where that shadow appeared was on top of a row of buildings. If Li Yu and his team went looking, and the person hid, it would be very difficult to find him.
And even if they found him, it would be meaningless.
Wasting time, wasting energy.
They came for the lathe factory, everything else was unimportant.
As long as no one obstructed him, he wouldn't care.
But if anyone dared to obstruct him, they would face their death at his hands!
Thinking for a moment, he said to Li Gang, who was driving, "Drive."
Then he had He Bing continue to lead them to the lathe factory, and the group slowly proceeded.
After about five minutes.
Li Yu suddenly took out the walkie-talkie and said to the whole team, "Level One vigilance, I've seen someone through the rearview mirror just now. Don't look back; they might be following us.
Now, everyone stays sharp; Lao Lv, Third Uncle, you two stay at the rear, if they dare to come close, eliminate them on the spot."
Lao Lv grunted an affirmative.
A deadly atmosphere immediately enveloped the entire team.
Everyone dared not let their guard down and heightened their alertness.
He Bing continued to lead Li Yu and the others towards the lathe factory.
Less than 1 kilometer from them, three or four people standing on a building observed the direction of the convoy, then left.
Each of these three or four people had a dried streak of blood on their face.
Like a cinnabar mole, right in the center.
"Let's go, some outsiders have arrived. Some of the vehicles look familiar; the last time we followed them, they went to the lathe factory but managed to escape because they drove so fast.
Didn't expect them to come back, heh, we better hurry and report to the Virgin Mother."
A skinny guy beside him, his gaze somewhat murky, but looking very fierce, clasped his hands and silently recited the name of the Virgin Mother.
Then, these people quickly left the area with a few agile movements.
The vehicle continued traveling, not fast but seemingly slow, and Li Yu also wanted to see if those people behind would continue to follow.
If they followed, Li Yu wouldn't mind letting them know his group was not to be trifled with.
Half an hour later, He Bing rolled down the window and pointed ahead to Li Yu, "The industrial park is ahead. The lathe factory is over there."
"Okay." Li Yu nodded.
He then instructed everyone to slow down the vehicles even further and drove them to a spot not far from the lathe factory.
About 200 meters away, a distance where things were clearly visible through a telescope.
Getting any closer would make it easy to be detected.
"Dapao, Lao Xie, you two go to higher buildings around to guard and observe. If anyone approaches, report it immediately," Li Yu said while holding the walkie-talkie.
High places needed snipers and observers to avoid the enemy approaching unnoticed.
Dapao and Lao Xie both responded affirmatively, then carried their tactical backpacks and weapons with munitions, leaving the vehicle.
On this trip, they didn't know how long they would stay, so they had to bring enough food, water, and ammunition.