The road ahead, as Wu Li had anticipated, became increasingly difficult to traverse. In fact, the ten kilometers ahead could be said to have completely lost any semblance of a road.
The destructive force of the massive earthquake is not something ordinary people can imagine. The mountain roads ahead were essentially gone. Huge rocks, mounds of earth, and disorderly trees were scattered everywhere. With each step forward, utilizing both hands and feet was necessary, making progress painstakingly slow.
The final ten kilometers took Nie Zhenbang and his companions over four hours to traverse—it was a delay nobody had anticipated.
At one o'clock in the morning, they were only ten kilometers away from the Yizhou urban area. After resting for more than an hour, when they finally saw the Yizhou urban area at the foot of the mountain, it was already 6:20 in the morning, and the distant sky was beginning to lighten.
