Yunzhou is located north of Yan Yun City. The two cities' main urban areas are over one thousand five hundred kilometers apart.
Yunzhou is also the northernmost city in Shenlong Province. From here, just across the Shenlong River is Boliya Country.
Xiao Fan's high-speed train traveled for two days on the railway before reaching Yunzhou's territory.
It was already September, and the further north one goes, the colder the temperature becomes. Upon entering Yunzhou's territory, the temperature had already dropped to the teens, and it was still daytime.
Many people followed Xiao Fan on this trip to look for a new settlement base. For this search, Xiao Fan brought most of his military power with him.
Now there are only three platoons and an engineering platoon left in Yan Mountain Town.
Xiao Fan gave them two main tasks: to protect his father and sister, and to quickly build the base vehicle. The latter is extremely important.
According to Xiao Fan's estimate, there are no more than twenty five days until the total power failure. The base vehicle must be completed before that and leave Yan Mountain Town.
By then, not only does the base vehicle need to leave, but his family members, students, townspeople, and other survivors staying there must leave together.
Those willing to follow Xiao Fan can come to the new base together. Those unwilling can go their own way.
Of course, Xiao Fan's most urgent task is still to select the base location as soon as possible and start large-scale construction.
Xiao Fan is not worried about this. He now has one hundred and ten thousand gold that can support this endeavor for a period of time.
Everyone who came with Xiao Fan this time consists only of Red Guards soldiers without any other people. He does not need to worry about his secrets being leaked either.
Sitting on the train, Xiao Fan felt drowsy.
It wasn't until Xue Ninger woke him, “Commander, we've entered Yunzhou's territory.”
Xiao Fan rubbed his eyes awake and immediately opened the map.
The location he chose is called Kaoshan Farm. It is located in the south-central part of Yunzhou, about three hundred kilometers from the main urban area.
It is also near two county-level cities. One is Qingyang County, about one hundred and thirty kilometers away, and the other is Sishui County, about ninety kilometers away.
Several hundred kilometers south from here leads to Yan Yun City's territory.
After looking at the map for a while, Xiao Fan pointed, “Let's eat now. After passing Sishui County train station, we’ll stop the train near Baihua Town and get off there. Then we'll drive to Kaoshan Farm.”
"Understood."
Xue Ninger immediately went to arrange it. The kitchen team urgently started cooking.
By the time they finished eating, it was nine o'clock in the morning.
On both sides of the railway were desolate wilderness as far as the eye could see.
Originally, there were many crops in the fields, but they have been unattended for a period of time now, resulting in the crop fields being overgrown with weeds, looking somewhat desolate.
However, the grains in the fields had ripened. As the train passed by some places, Xiao Fan could still see some grains having been harvested, likely by some survivors.
There are survivors not only in cities, but also in towns, villages, and the countryside. The survivors there find it easier to escape, so there are actually many survivors surviving in the wilderness now.
But Xiao Fan knows the most difficult days have yet to come.
The power failure is one major factor, and another is that winter is approaching.
Once winter arrives, if these survivors don't have a warm shelter, the northern winter would be enough to freeze them to death in the wilderness.
Looking at the roadside scene, the train gradually slowed down.
"Commander, Baihua Town train station is five kilometers ahead. But our high-speed train does not stop there."
"Don't stop at the train station. Find an easy place to get off the railway and stop there."
"Understood!"
Soon, the train stopped on a ramp.
Xiao Fan immediately ordered everyone off the train. All the soldiers got off.
The engineers took out their tools and opened a hole in the fence by the railway. They then built an iron bridge to allow vehicles to come down from the carriages.
Xiao Fan brought many vehicles, including two infantry fighting vehicles, three armored vehicles, his Gyrfalcon, a Humvee, two 212 jeeps, a Mountain Cat all-terrain vehicle, kitchen and medical vehicles, and three Edge motorcycles.
Although it was somewhat crowded, they could still fit.
Xiao Fan sat in his Gyrfalcon off-roader, with the Mountain Cat leading the way.
He checked the map. It’s about thirty kilometers from here to Kaoshan Farm, not too far.
"Move out!"
The convoy roared as it started towards Kaoshan Farm.
In these wilderness areas, it is actually not that easy to encounter zombies if you don't take the highways or provincial roads or go through towns. Even if they encounter sporadic zombies, it is unlikely to have any impact on the convoy.
The journey was smooth all the way until near Kaoshan Farm.
The farm has a farm office location with about five to six hundred households that likely have some zombies. But Xiao Fan did not pass by there.
When the convoy stopped midway, he got off to look for water sources.
"Commander, what are you looking for?"
"I'm looking for the source of this river."
Xiao Fan pointed to a shiny white river not far away.
Xue Ninger checked the map beside Xiao Fan, "Commander, this river is called Haoyuan River. Its source is the not far away Xing’an Mountain Range, probably less than ten kilometers from here. As long as we follow the river upstream, we should be able to reach the foot of Xing’an Mountain Range."
"Alright, the convoy will move forward along the river. I want to see what it looks like at the mountainside."
They got back in the vehicles and continued forward, and after another ten minutes or so, they finally arrived at the edge of the Xing’an Mountain Range.
Xiao Fan got out again to take in the view.
What lay before him was the lush Xing’an Mountain Range, stretching as far as the eye could see.
A medium-sized river flowed out from between the mountains, forming a large alluvial plain here.
Beside Xiao Fan stood Red Guard officers.
Xiao Fan gestured from this side to that side of the plain.
"Look, this is where the survival base I have chosen is located. The north side borders on tall mountains, and mountain peaks also surround the west side, blocking the northwest wind, forming a small climatic zone with slightly higher temperatures than other areas."
"The east and south sides are plains, which are grain production areas. The Haoyuan River also flows through here, providing abundant water sources to sustain production and living."
"As long as we build a city here and enclose the entire Haoyuan River within the city, we will have control over the water source, without worrying about pollution."
"There is warmth, water, food, and we can retreat into the mountains at any time if problems arise. What do you think?"
"Brilliant, Commander!" All the Red Guard soldiers unanimously praised.
Xiao Fan felt a little speechless. These soldiers are good, but their blind worship and unconditional trust in him can really give him a headache sometimes.
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
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he colors of other people’s emotions. Light red meant anxiety. Gray meant exhaustion. Orange meant excitement. Yellow... meant repression. At the same time, he could gain unlimited control over one of those colors. Pale cyan: relaxation. Using this ability, he started offering “two-yuan hugs,” spending an afternoon exchanging emotional-color experiences with others. Then came his final female customer of the day— a girl whose emotional color was pure black... —— A week later, Xu Chuan had become skilled at using pale cyan—Relaxation—treating it like a bottle of menthol balm whenever he needed it. That was when he discovered he had unlocked another unlimited emotional color: Purple, the color of fear. So these emotional colors refresh every week? Fine, I take it back—I’ll never call you useless again... —— Much later, after Xu Chuan had accumulated countless emotional abilities, one night, he suddenly found himself inside someone else’s dream. There, he could use the emotional colors he possessed to paint. And in her dream, he painted her a shower of pink shooting stars, spreading across the depths of the night sky...
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
