Doomsday Traveler

Chapter 152 Power and Order

Going further south, we walked on a flat road and soon left the territory of Liangcheng County.

The inexplicable pressure in the sky was gone, the fog over Liangcheng had dissipated, and Lu Xian and Yao Wei gradually felt a lot more comfortable.

The two encountered a cold wave. Although there was no wind or snow, the extreme cold was still so terrifying that it was beyond their imagination.

They saw an abandoned car in the wilderness. The glass of the car windows had been broken by someone long ago, and only the front window was still intact.

But in the extreme cold, they saw with their own eyes that ice crystals formed on the car windows, and then shattered with a "crack", with no resistance to the severe cold.

Frost also formed on the trees beside the car, and the leaves shattered into pieces, as if the glass could not withstand the strength.

However, their car was fine. I don’t know if it was because of the air conditioner in the car, or if the car was special and had undergone special modifications for the doomsday and could adapt to the extreme cold.

"This car should be different from the others. I've seen other cars covered in ice because it was so cold, but this one is fine."

When Yao Wei saw the scrapped glass of the abandoned car, she said this to Lu Xian.

Lu Xian nodded, thinking that Yao Wei's car was indeed different. The materials must have been specially processed so that it could withstand extreme cold and still be suitable for people to stay in.

He said, “It’s strange, though, that the windshield of this car has managed to hold up until now without breaking.

"Logically speaking, extreme cold weather often happens in this world, so the car windows should have shattered long ago."

Yao Wei said, "I don't know."

If you don’t know, just ignore it. There are still many unknown things in this world. Who can get to the bottom of them one by one?

Lu Xian couldn't help but think back to the days when he was traveling alone in the Far North.

The extreme cold there is far greater than here, and the world is sealed in ice everywhere.

He picked up a notebook in Wanhu Village. The paper was as brittle as glass, so he was reluctant to write on it.

He carefully protected the notebook and waited until the weather was a little warmer and the paper was no longer so brittle before he would gently write on it.

I have to write. I am facing the vast white world alone, and everything seems to be sealed in ice.

So when he found food, he had to chisel it out of the ice, and making a fire to cook also depended on the weather. He would only take the trouble to light a fire when the weather got a little warmer and he could cook.

The food that had been exposed to the severe cold was so disgusting that I could only swallow it with difficulty.

The place where he took shelter from the wind and rain was often covered with ice and snow. When he was in Wanhu Village, he was like an Inuit, often living in an igloo.

The dog's metal body was exposed to the cold wind and became even colder, making people afraid to touch it easily.

In such a world, walking alone, how can you not find something to do to comfort yourself?

Most of the words written in his diary were expressed in a joking and light-hearted manner, which was actually a hint to himself to relax a little.

If he had not insisted on guiding himself and maintaining a good mentality, coupled with his new human body, he would definitely not have been able to hold on.

But now it's better. The weather in the south is much better than where he first arrived. He also met Yao Wei and got on a car that he probably would never get off.

The hardships of the past are over, and good days are yet to come.

Lu Xian was in a good mood and glanced at the dog.

Speaking of which, the material of this dog is also extraordinary. It will not be frozen into ice even in the far north.

After coming all the way from the north to here, the dog is getting better. I didn't dare to carry it before because I was afraid of freezing my hands.

Now either Yao Wei carries it or I carry it myself, so I don’t have to use this short-legged thing to walk by myself.

When the weather cleared up, the two continued driving south.

After the car started moving, Yao Wei took out the "World Atlas 1" and took a look. Then, they drove further and left Liangcheng County and arrived in Gu County.

After passing Gu County, walk down the mountain for a while and you will reach Jiannan City.

Jiannan City should also be named after Jianshan City. In that case, why is Pingchuan City not called Jiandong City?

On the way from Liangcheng County to Gu County, you will pass through a village called Tungu Village. The name of the village is clear from where it got its name.

But when Lu Xian and Yao Wei drove to the village, the village had lost its old appearance.

The entire village had completely collapsed, with not a single building remaining intact. Outside the village, vast expanses of wasteland were overrun by weeds, stretching as far as the eye could see, a truly deplorable sight.

Lu Xian couldn't help but think that if he let Lao Shu bring his corn seeds here to cultivate the land, he would be able to grow a large field of corn, right?

I don’t know if the old man can find a suitable place to plant the land when he arrives in Pingchuan County?
But it should be possible...

Pingchuan County is a plain at the foot of the mountain, so it should be easier to find a place to farm than on top of the mountains.

The only problem now is that the corn grown by the old tree is poisonous to ordinary people. If this problem cannot be solved, what he grows can only be enjoyed by him and the new humans.

However, Lu Xian felt that Luo Ping could solve this problem. Yao Wei had said that there were people farming in the south, but they had become serfs in the hands of the leaders who ruled the land as kings. The crops they produced could only be enjoyed by the leaders or core figures of the forces.

This is probably a characteristic of this world.

After order got out of control, ordinary people in the new world had no power to resist newcomers with extraordinary powers.

Ordinary people who lose the balance of power can only become prey, or become minions or vassals.

During the chat, Lu Xian also asked Yao Wei who the leaders in the south were, ordinary people or new humans?
Yao Wei replied that all the people she met were new humans, but because she had always been avoiding people, she actually met very few people, and most of them were met when she was with her mother.

Of course, ordinary people have heard of it, but they have only heard of it and have never seen it.

Lu Xian thought that even if an ordinary person became the leader, such an ordinary person would probably have extraordinary means.

The unchecked growth of individual power has thrown order into disarray. The power of individual strength has been infinitely magnified, while the original creativity of humanity has been obliterated.

At this point, Lu Xian finally understood more and more what Luo Ping had said, and felt how precious it was to have someone like Luo Ping.

There are other kinds of food in this world, Luo Ping should be able to get them, right?

If we get other grain seeds and give them to the old tree, or let the old tree teach some other people who can farm, then what the old tree grows will not be just for the new humans.

After passing through the village, not far away, Lu Xian and Yao Wei suddenly saw a small path on the side of the road.

The path was covered with weeds, but the tall trees on both sides made the two people realize that this was once a road.

The path goes straight ahead for about a hundred meters, and then you can see the collapsed courtyard wall and a row of single-story buildings inside that are still standing.

Looking through the trees, the two could vaguely see several rows of steel frames beside the single-story building. Some were upright, some were fallen down, and some were covered with vines. No one knew what they were used for in the first place.

"It seems like an agricultural park in the old world..."

Lu Xian guessed. He had seen this kind of large courtyard built in the countryside before, where some things were planted and turned into a picking garden.

That steel frame, it seems, is where the plants were originally planted and picked, right? Unfortunately, there are only weeds and vines on it now, and I don't know where the original plants have disappeared.

"Ah."

Yao Wei responded. She didn't know what the park was, but it didn't matter, as long as Lu Xian knew it.

She just wanted to know if there was any danger in there, and if not, could she find something there?

Niutou Mountain and the fog have gone far away. In the past few days, they have no longer felt the inexplicable pressure from the sky. Although they have not yet left Jianshan City, the surrounding environment does not seem as dangerous as before.

So they can search for supplies along the way as they did before.

Lu Xian turned on the drone, asked Gouzi to control it to take off, and took a look around the park.

The drone did not fly back afterwards, but the mechanical dog's eyes lit up, confirming to Lu Xian and Yao Wei that there was no one or other beast inside.

Without people and beasts, there is no risk.

So Lu Xian turned the car onto the small road, slowly drove through the deserted road of about a hundred meters, walked into the original gate location, and parked in the yard.

What is surprising is that the big iron gate of the courtyard is still there and has not been removed.

But the gate and walls had collapsed, and two thick, rusty iron plates lay quietly on the ground, embedded in the ground. I don't know how many years they have been like this.

Lu Xian guessed that the two gates were probably too big and too heavy and had no practical value, so no one dismantled them and moved them away.

However, as the courtyard wall collapsed, the gate also collapsed, and the two large iron plates had long lost their former function.

The yard was paved with bricks and stones, which were arched up and down by weeds, like the scales of some unknown creature.

The brick floor leads directly from the gate to the single-story building, with a large area on both sides of the building. Near the gate, there are two pieces of land fenced off, which should be the vegetable gardens from last year.

Well...now this vegetable garden is full of weeds.

Lu Xian and Yao Wei got out of the car, retracted the drone, and did not go to the steel frame.

They glanced over there and saw that there was soil under the steel frame, no bricks or stones. It looked like it was exactly as Lu Xian had expected, where the plants in the picking garden were originally planted.

The two planned to search the single-story building first. If they really couldn't find anything, they would go out and look elsewhere.

So Lu Xian carried the dog and went into the single-story building with Yao Wei, the door of which had already been opened.

This place must have been searched by someone. The doors and windows are wide open, and the glass on the windows has long been shattered all over the floor. The inside is in a mess, but the places that should be empty are empty. You can take another look, but it is unlikely to yield any results.

Lu Xian and Yao Wei learned from their previous experience on Taobao. After entering the house, they put the dog down and searched Taobao themselves while letting the dog look for it on its own to see if there would be any unexpected surprises.

Then, the unexpected surprise really came.

When the two men searched the main room and found nothing, the dog's eyes suddenly lit up.

(End of this chapter)