The truck was driving at a moderate speed. As time passed, Utaha also closed her eyes, retaining only a little awareness of the outside world.
Yao touched her head, let her lean on his shoulder, and kept scanning the changing scene around him.
Occasionally, a few zombies appeared, but they were either crushed by the truck, or they were left far behind, stretching out their hands while running, screaming helplessly.
After an unknown amount of time, the truck had already driven into the extremely quiet urban area. Apart from the scrapped vehicles standing on both sides of the road, there was not a single zombie around.
"Um?"
Sensing that the speed of the car slowed down until it stopped, Yao quickly pinched Utaha's tender face, and then stood up.
"Everyone get up."
After patting the cheeks of the napping team members one by one, Yao took the lead in jumping out from the rear.
"what happened?"
Looking at Kato who came down from the passenger cab lightly, Yao frowned slightly, there is still a long way to go to the main square.
"Captain, there are several cars blocking the road ahead."
After walking a few steps forward, Yao saw several small cars parked askew in the middle of the road, and nodded clearly.
The last time he and Kato came here, they were driving a small car, which could barely pass through. Now the truck is huge, so naturally it is difficult to get through.
"Yao, what should we do?" Eriri pondered for a moment, and made a suggestion, "How about we push those cars aside?"
Judging from everyone's physique at this time, this is not difficult to do.
"Yao-kun, let's go on foot." Unlike her own daughter, Sayuri did not agree with this proposal.
"The truck makes a lot of noise, and we haven't figured out how wide the hearing range of the zombies is yet."
Facing the gazes of the women, Yao weighed the pros and cons in his heart, and decided to accept Sayuri's opinion.
Left and right are just a long way to go, there is no need to cause unnecessary accidents because of saving time.
Following his instructions, everyone returned to their positions again.
"Saeko, drive back and find a suitable place to park."
"Um."
Saeko nodded, and steered the truck back the same way.
After about ten minutes, the vehicle stopped on the side of a spacious road.
After pulling out the car key, Saeko and Kato got out of the car and joined the team members behind again.
"How much fuel is left?"
Yao looked up at the sky, it was still early, the sun's rays had just risen, and the sky was dyed a touch of golden color.
Saeko, who has been paying attention to the fuel level, immediately replied: "There is two third left."
"That's enough."
Yao nodded and began to assign small teams.
"Sayuri and I are in a group."
"Saeko and Mashiro are in a group."
"Megumi, Eriri, and Utaha are in a group."
No one was surprised when they heard his distribution plan. After all, they had been together for such a long time, and they had a clear understanding of the captain's character.
Only Utaha's was a bit disappointed, but she didn't say anything, and stood obediently with the other two team members.
"Take these three rifles with you, Eriri." Yao added, and then distributed the guns.
"Now there are 271 points left, and they can be exchanged when we reach 1500. At that time, Sayuri and I will exchange for one gun, and then the Saeko group will exchange for two."
Saeko and Shiina had no objection and nodded to show their understanding.
Just when Yao was about to tell the time of the rendezvous, Sayuri hesitated for a while, and still announced her indirectly first.
"Yao-kun, I think it's better not to regroup tonight."
"Oh?" Yao raised his eyebrows, he didn't rush to refute, and motioned her to continue talking.
"After all, this task is not something that can be solved in a short time." Faced with everyone's gaze, Sayuri said calmly.
"After a tiring day, the respective teams might as well find a place to rest nearby, which can save a lot of time and energy."
"Besides, there are guns, and threats other than zombies are not a concern."
After the words fell, everyone looked at each other, thinking it was reasonable, only Eriei frowned at her mother, and moved her mouth slightly.
"Ok."
Since none of the members raised any objections, Yao would naturally not refute. Taking advantage of this action, it is also a good thing for the team members to get used to it.
After all, it is impossible for everyone to stay together all the time, and there will definitely be times when they leave the team.
"Then choose a path each, remember to check the space from time to time, and share information as soon as you find new discoveries."
The parking place Saeko chose happened to have a fork leading to different roads.
After the members answered and whispered "be careful", they each chose a road and set off.
"Yao."
Looking at the figure of her mother not far away, Eriri pulled Yu Gongyao's clothes, and solemnly said in his ear:
"You have to take good care of mother, don't let her run away! Otherwise..."
"Otherwise what?" Yao couldn't help asking.
He knew that the reason why Eriri was worried was mostly because of Sayuri's previous gaffe.
However, he already knew the cause and effect of it, so there was no worry that the players would run away.
But since he had already promised not to tell, it was not easy to explain it to her.
Seeing her sweetheart looking at her playfully, Eriei was a little embarrassed, stomped her feet and hummed softly.
"Otherwise, I won't let you go back to your room to sleep, and you don't even try to go to Saeko-senpai's side!"
After that, she blushed and ran towards the two team members waiting in the distance.
"this..."
Yao glanced at Utaha who was pouting at him, smiled and shook his head.
What a silly girl, letting the enemy win on your own initiative.
Sayuri, who had been paying attention to the conversation between the two just now, couldn't help asking the doubts in her heart: "Yao-kun, what did Eriei tell you?"
She wasn't so curious, it was just that her idiot daughter looked towards her while talking, and finally ran away blushing.
This kind of scene aroused her curiosity, and her little heart felt extremely itchy as if it had been scratched by a cat's paw.
"It's nothing, she just said that, if I let you run away, she won't sleep in the same room with me." Yao's answer was mixed with a deep smile.
"this..."
Sayuri's expression froze, she was a little speechless about her stupid daughter.
"So, I have to watch you carefully, so as not to hurt myself."
There are no zombies now, Yao joked while observing the surrounding situation.
"Yao-kun, are you trying to imprison me?"
Sayuri also knew that he was joking, so she pretended to be a weak woman, "I will definitely be obedient, Yao-kun can treat me well, please don't be rough?"
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(End of Chapter)
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