Night’s Nomenclature-Chapter 461: Hitchhikers

Everyone was dumbfounded.

They huddled on the ground, watching the vehicles that had brought them here turn into fireballs.

Soon, someone realized they had no transportation.

The vehicles of Qing Chen's film crew were all destroyed.

Director Zhou's car was still there, but the keys, along with the assassins, were taken away by Shadow.

The Federation's vehicle anti-theft technology had advanced through countless generations. Even without fingerprint, iris, or voiceprint activation, it was impossible to start the car without the keys.

The crew members looked towards the camp, where their tents had been completely slashed, offering no protection from the wind.

In other words, they would have to endure the coming days in the freezing wind.

The snow falling from the sky grew heavier, and the beautiful scenery they had anticipated became exceptionally deadly.

Liu Liqun stood blankly in the snow, "What can we do? It's at least six hundred kilometers back. If we try to walk back, everyone will probably die in the snow."

Their supplies and food were in the destroyed vehicles.

Sun Chuci quickly reacted and said to everyone, "We have to continue north towards the town outside Forbidden Zone 065. Although it's expensive there, at least it's inhabited and has vehicles. Compared to the distance to City 10, it's only another 120 kilometers to that town. We can make it."

Based on the army's marching speed, a forced march is about 45 to 75 kilometers per day, while a rapid march is 200 kilometers a day.

However, the physical condition of the crew and artists was far inferior to that of soldiers, and the weather was snowy.

It would probably take three or four days just to walk these 120 kilometers.

Some people would surely not be able to endure it along the way, but they had no choice.

Qing Chen was pondering a question. It turned out that Shadow had thought of this as well, and was certain that the crew had to go to the town outside Forbidden Zone 065; there was no other option.

He suddenly sighed. Being an enemy of Shadow must be very difficult.

Shadow knew there was something wrong with the vehicles but did not warn the crew in advance.

Such high-ranking figures never considered human lives as something precious.

But why would such a person help him?

After getting up, Song Niao Niao did not run towards the vehicles. She quietly sized up the crowd and noticed that Qing Chen was no longer among them, feeling a sudden sense of loss.

Her agent asked in a low voice, "What do we do now?"

Song Niao Niao said, "What else can we do? We can only follow the group north."

The agent looked troubled, "I heard that the town is a den of desperados. I'm not afraid of spending money there, but I'm afraid someone will try to take advantage of you."

Song Niao Niao thought for a moment, "Stick with Sun Chuci. These people are decent and have connections with the Qing Family. As long as they are willing to help, we should be fine."

The agent muttered, "That person invited you here but didn't take you with him when he left. How far have you two gone? Did you even hold hands?"

Song Niao Niao laughed and said, "What are you talking about, Sister? I'm just trying to repay him for saving me once. There's nothing between us."

The agent grumbled, "All men are the same. He invited you here but didn't take you away, which means he doesn't care about you. Let me tell you, you can't be too eager to get close to him, or he'll never take you seriously."

Song Niao Niao smiled and comforted her, "Sister, maybe he has more important things to do. After all, even Shadow came personally. How could he care about such trivial matters?"

Zhou Cang, who was nearby, looked strange when he heard the agent discussing him so openly.

Qing Chen was hidden in the crowd, looking as lost as everyone else.

The snow was getting heavier.

Qing Yi said to his Guardian, "Gather the supplies from the camp. We need to get on the road as soon as possible. Also, bring Sun Chuci and his people. They are Mr."s people; we can't let them die in the wilderness."

The Guardian hesitated for a moment, "Why didn't that person take you with him when he left?"

Qing Yi's expression turned cold, "Is Mr. someone you can criticize? Go gather the supplies."

The Guardian said nothing and led people to collect the few remaining food supplies in the camp. Some people wanted to complain about them taking all the food, but they didn't dare to speak when they saw Qing Yi's subordinates.

Qing Yi thought for a moment and said, "Keep what we need, and throw the rest to them."

The Guardian was stunned for a moment, seemingly puzzled.

Qing Yi said, "Mr. would do the same if he were here."

The Guardian pondered for a moment, threw out a quarter of the supplies he had collected, and then walked ahead in the heavy snow to clear the way.

Qing Yi waved to Sun Chuci, "Follow us."

It had to be said that the Guardian arranged by Qing Yi's father was very competent.

Leaving aside his strength level, he walked ahead to break the wind for Qing Yi and even slowed down his pace so that the relatively short Qing Yi could step in his footprints.

The two people's stride lengths were completely different, but the Guardian could adjust his stride to make Qing Yi more comfortable.

Qing Yi said from behind him, "I'm sorry, my tone was not good just now, but Mr. is Mr."

The Guardian smiled, "Young Master, you don't need to explain. I understand. By the way, what about that Li Yu? Is he still alive?"

Qing Yi looked back at Li Yu behind him and smiled, "That kind of person won't make it to the town. Let's go."

At this time, others in the camp saw Qing Yi and his group leave decisively and quickly followed.

Of the twelve assistants Li Yu had brought, only eleven were left, five men and six women.

One of them had been shot and killed during Director Zhou's interrogation.

Li Yu said, "Let's not go. News here will definitely reach the Federation soon, and my friends will come to rescue me. Don't follow them. Walking one hundred and twenty kilometers in the snow for three or four days will definitely lead to freezing to death on the road. I can't walk that far!"

The assistants tried to persuade him, "Let's go. No one will come to rescue us. The nearest city is more than 300 kilometers away."

What they didn't say was that Li Yu's friends were just drinking buddies; who would really come to save him?

Li Yu didn't want to go, simply because he was too pampered.

This guy had previously demanded a strike because of a small injury on his hand, causing the entire crew to stop working.

However, the assistants didn't expect him to be so willful in this situation.

Li Yu looked at the male assistants and said, "I really can't walk that far. How about I give you some money to make a simple sled out of the tents and drag me? One million per person, five million for five people. It's not too hard."

The assistants exchanged glances, all tempted.

In their opinion, they should be able to walk more than one hundred kilometers with everyone working together, right?

Their usual salaries were only three or four thousand. If they could get one million, they could open a small shop in the Federation and pay off some loans.

The assistants looked at each other, "We need a signed agreement."

Li Yu's eyes lit up, "Sign it, sign it now!"

Five million was nothing to him. With his salary, he could earn it back in just two days.

Liu Liqun called out to the stagehands to gather anything useful on the ground, while he tore down several tents, saying that they might be able to piece them together for use. Not only that, the guy even stripped off the clothes of several dead bodies, saying he would wear them.

While stripping the clothes, Liu Liqun looked at Li Yu and muttered, "Money really can make the devil push the millstone. Even in this wilderness, you can still use money to treat people like animals. Zhou Cang, don't just stand there. Come over and help."

Zhou Cang smiled, "Chief Liu, you really don't care about anything."

Liu Liqun smiled bitterly, "We stagehands have cheap lives. How many times have we had to work harder than this when cleaning up the clothes on props? Just treat those dead people as props."

However, at this moment, the howling of wolves came from the distance in the snowy night. Qing Chen looked up and saw vultures circling in the sky again.

The wild beasts had smelled the blood and finally arrived.

Qing Chen frowned. In this sparsely populated wilderness, what would be the size of the wolf pack?!

If the wolves targeted them, the Metahumans would be fine, but ordinary people who fell behind would probably have no chance of survival.

While pondering, he turned to look south, where seven Crows wearing black linen cloaks were approaching quickly.

The leader was Si Yue, an old acquaintance.

The Crows walked extremely fast on the snow, and the fierce wind rustled their cloaks on the silver-white ground.

In a few minutes, the Crows arrived at the camp. Si Yue glanced at the bodies in the camp but ignored them.

She asked the crowd, "Are you going to the town in the north? Can we hitch a ride?"

Qing Chen was stunned. Even the Forbidden Artifact Tribunal's Crows had come. Didn't this mean that there would be extremely fierce fighting in the town?

At this time, Liu Liqun said to Si Yue with a wry smile, "I'm sorry, the vehicles in the camp are unusable."

Si Yue frowned her delicate willow eyebrows, "I see some intact vehicles outside the camp, don't I?"

Liu Liqun explained, "Those cars don't have keys."

Si Yue was stunned, and her small Face[-] instantly turned bitter, "It's all that Qing Chen's fault. Not only did he make us go on a business trip, but we don't even have a ride."

Qing Chen thought, what does this have to do with me? He asked curiously, "Did you walk all the way here?"

"Not really, we hitched a ride to a place dozens of kilometers south, but the car we hitched was detouring elsewhere, so we had to continue walking north," Si Yue sighed, "It's so annoying."

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