An Xi was handing out water, A Xin was sleeping, and Old Man Li had not gotten out of the vehicle. He had probably passed out drunk again.
Chu Sheng had gathered with the already "dead" Zhu Qing, Lu Guan, and Captain Hui.
"Let's rest here today."
"The nearest Anomaly is over a thousand kilometers away."
"We could rest here for two days, but we're leaving at nine tomorrow morning."
"Let's get out of this godforsaken place sooner rather than later."
Captain Hui glanced at An Xi as she handed out water and sighed. Then he turned to Lu Guan and asked, "You came from the other side. Do you know how big this place actually is?"
"How big?" Lu Guan tapped his skull with a finger bone. "I walked for three months. There were stops along the way, but on average, I still covered twenty or thirty kilometers a day. By my calculations, this place should stretch over two thousand kilometers?"
He had never realized it before doing the math. Now even Lu Guan was startled.
Over two thousand kilometers!
Before the Apocalypse, their country had only spanned a little over five thousand kilometers, yet this extreme heat covered more than two thousand!
Seeing how horrified everyone looked, Lu Guan hurriedly added, "But I wasn't walking in a straight line!"
"Sometimes I took detours to check out other places."
He paused, then continued, "Still... even when I took detours, I kept heading south."
"It might not be over two thousand kilometers, but it's definitely over a thousand."
"Where were you when you entered the Extreme Heat zone?"
Lu Guan answered without holding anything back. "At the border between Southern Hunan and Northern Hunan. The convoy I was with before had been heading toward the coast."
Silence. Utter silence.
Captain