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The appearance of Lizhizi was merely a minor interlude; Gao Yuan admired and respected Lizhizi for his sentiment of descending the mountain to save people in times of chaos, yet clearly, the Expeditionary Army had no place for Lizhizi.
Rest continued until three in the afternoon, when Commander-in-Chief Liu Muyang ordered the troop to move out again.
Back on the bicycles, they resumed their journey along the expressway.
Occasionally, bloodstains could be seen on the roadside, or near a service area; evidently, the troops ahead were not idling—they regularly needed to clear zombies to ensure the main contingent could pass without disturbance.
When they rested again in the evening, they had covered another seventy to eighty kilometers.
The next day, the troop advanced over a hundred kilometers, then left the Taihang Mountain Expressway and switched to a typically busier major expressway.
