Uncle Qin called over Zhou and others to move the dozen or so barrels of gasoline stockpiled in the factory out.
Li Yu and others also helped to load the gasoline onto the vehicles.
Thanks to everyone's efforts, all these items were quickly transported onto the vehicles.
In the end, Uncle Qin stood in front of the factory, gazing at it. There were many memories inside this factory, and now that they had to leave, there was a trace of reluctance in his heart.
It wasn't just him, Zhou and others standing beside him also looked at the factory.
Today, they were going to leave.
Before leaving, Uncle Qin filled in the earth above the head of A'Huang buried beneath the tree in the center of the factory.
He also piled up a small mound and wrote on it, "The Tomb of Qiao Sanhuang."
"A'Huang, we're leaving," Uncle Qin murmured.
Then he got in the vehicle.
The sunset is infinitely beautiful, but it's nearing dusk.
At dusk, the clouds on the horizon were tinged with a yellow halo.
There are many hills in the Southern region.
After driving for a while, they saw the layered mountains ahead.
Under the sunset's glow, a faint light shone on the mountains, adding a touch of charm.
No one in the vehicle spoke, all were quiet, as if not wanting to disturb the beauty in front of them.
The sunset and the birds return to the woods.
Eager to get home, Li Yu and his group drove at maximum speed.
The car windows were open, and the evening breeze blew through their hair.
Ahead of them, the glow of sunset was brilliant.
Behind them, the shadows stretched long.
Sitting in the vehicle, Uncle Qin and others carried the hope for a better life in the future, mixed with the unknown apprehension, as they quietly felt the caress of the wind.
The wind was still, and the birds in the sky were silent.
Only in this evening did the insects in the mountains keep chirping.
A row of vehicles drove against the evening breeze.
They had just left Chen City and entered the outskirts.
Li Yu remembered the scene on the way here earlier, where the vehicle nearly slipped into the river not far ahead.
So he said to Li Gang, who was driving, "Drive slower, there was sand and gravel on the road we came on. Don't skid again."
Li Gang didn't turn his head but nodded and said, "Okay, don't worry."
And so, he slowed down the vehicle quite a bit.
Their vehicle was leading, and the others saw it slowing down, so they also decelerated.
"Director Li, what's going on? Why are we slowing down?" Uncle Qin, also in the vehicle, asked.
Li Yu glanced at Uncle Qin and told him about the incident they encountered on the way here today.
After listening, Uncle Qin fell into thought, looked around, and had a guess.
So he began to say, "We've been here before and encountered some people. Could it be..."
Before Uncle Qin could finish his sentence.
Two loud noises came from the back of the vehicle.
The vehicle quickly swerved, and Li Tie, inside, swiftly steered the wheel to adjust the vehicle, avoiding a rollover.
You should know that the back of the vehicle was loaded with lots of lathes, which had some weight.
Despite some distortion due to inertia, the vehicle still braked steadily and stopped on the roadside.
Another vehicle behind also suffered a tire blowout.
The two vehicles further back braked in time, avoiding blowouts.
"Big brother, our tire blew!" Li Tie said from the first vehicle to have a blowout.
On Li Yu's vehicle, Uncle Qin was saying, "Could it be... Wu Lao Er and his gang?"
But because at the same time, the vehicles behind had a blowout, Li Yu didn't hear it.
Li Yu, hearing Li Tie's voice through the headset, quickly took out the walkie-talkie and said to everyone, "All on alert."
Everyone quickly stopped their vehicles and then took out their firearms.
Li Yu said to Li Tie and Lao Lü, "No one is injured, right?"
Through the headset, everyone's voice came in, "No injuries."
"That's good," Li Yu said.
He then directed everyone:
"Lao Lü, Third Uncle, check out the situation behind, be on guard."
"Hangzi, Li Tie, you guys watch the left, Lao Xie, Dapao, Tianlong, you guys watch the rear.
Gangzi, let's get out of the car.
Everyone else, stay in the vehicle and stand by."
After speaking, remembering that Uncle Qin hadn't finished what he was saying, he unbuckled his seat belt, and while getting out of the car, he said to Uncle Qin behind him, "Uncle Qin, what were you trying to say?"
Uncle Qin's face changed slightly, and he immediately said, "I was saying there's a Wu Lao Er around here, often blocks the way.
Before the apocalypse, he was just a local thug, and after the apocalypse, he gathered some people, specifically to block vehicles here.
We've also had some conflicts with them, but we're not easy to mess with either, after several fights, they basically stopped bothering us.
I heard they had some conflicts with Mother Wusheng as well, I thought they had joined the White Lotus Sect long ago, didn't expect they were still here."
Li Yu's steps upon exiting the vehicle paused momentarily, then he said, "It's fine, anyone who dares to block our way only has one ending."
His Unimog was equipped with run-flat tires, not afraid of nails, so there was no blowout just now.
But the two vehicles behind them, damn, although there were four spare tires, it seemed like several tires got punctured.
Li Yu turned to Uncle Qin and asked, "How many of them are there in total?"
He didn't ask if they had firearms, since Uncle Qin and his group could handle these people, meaning they couldn't possibly have firearms.
Without guns, it's just a beating until they drop.
After Li Yu got out of the car, he heard Uncle Qin say from inside the vehicle, "There are about thirty of them, roughly the same as our numbers."