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Chapter 80 Seeking shelter from the snow at the gas station

After lunch, the heavy snow still hadn't stopped. Qin Yuan and the others wanted to go to the convenience store to get some water or something, but when they opened the car door, they found that the snow had already submerged half of the tires.

When they fled, Qin Yuan took the highway. Because the route from G City towards X Province consisted mostly of small towns, there were usually few cars on the highway, so there was no need to worry about zombies along the way. Similarly, they rarely entered any towns or counties along the way…

They drove for a long time before they found this gas station after it snowed; otherwise, they would have had to stop in the emergency lane.

The gas station is small, and the convenience store is also small. There are three gas pumps in a row, and only the side facing the convenience store and the row of gas pumps has a roof. The other side extends out a little bit, and it can't even keep out a car when it rains.

Their RV was quite large. Qin Yuan and the others hadn't expected the snow to last so long. Plus, there was a rather large, damaged van parked in front of the convenience store. At that time, only he and Lin Yun were awake, so they didn't park inside.

Considering that the heavy snow might not stop all day, Gu Nanfeng suggested pushing the old van in front of the convenience store aside so that their RV could move to the inside. Then, he asked Du Wenqing to use his earth-based abilities to surround the vehicle to prevent it from being buried in snow.

The group acted immediately. Lu Yuan and the other four wrapped themselves in down jackets, but immediately shrank back inside after getting out of the car because it was too cold outside. He then searched through his spatial storage and finally found a military overcoat and a thick, heavy hat, the kind that Qin Yuan's unit was issued. Only after getting out of the car did he finally feel less cold.

"I never expected to see such heavy snow in the South," Yang Xiao exclaimed, while playing with the snowflakes. Southern children always get excited when they see heavy snowfall.

With a "thump," a large snowball landed on the back of his military coat. It was a prank by Lu Yuan, another boy from the south, who couldn't contain himself. In an instant, the two of them started fighting. To make an even bigger snowball, they ran to the open space next to the gas station to get snow. Later, the other three were also accidentally injured, and in the end, the five of them started a snowball fight right there in the open space.

Qin Yuan and Lin Yun got out of the car and used their superpowers to melt and blow away the snow in front of the RV. Du Wenqing turned the steering wheel and drove the RV toward the convenience store. When he saw that the young students who should have been pushing the car were having a snowball fight, he couldn't help but honk the horn.

"Beep beep—" The RV's horn rang out in the empty highway gas station, and the echo returned from the valley.

Hearing the horn, Lu Yuan and his friends stopped fooling around. They quickly walked to the damaged van, which Qin Yuan and Lin Yun had already determined was undrivable. Lu Yuan and his friends went around to the back of the van and prepared to push it, while Gu Nanfeng went to the driver's seat and elbowed the already cracked glass, shattering it completely. He then gripped the steering wheel and controlled the direction of the car.

Soon, they pushed the van away from the convenience store's entrance. Their luxury RV pulled up and completely blocked the view of the store. However, the front and rear of the RV still exceeded the length of the roof and couldn't be covered. In the end, Lu Yuan found a huge waterproof tarpaulin in the space, pulled it from the roof of the van to the roof of the convenience store, and set up a canopy to cover the entire vehicle.

Afterwards, following Gu Nanfeng's advice, Du Wenqing used his supernatural abilities to build small earthen walls around the RV. Lu Yuan and the others followed Qin Yuan and Lin Yun back into the convenience store. This convenience store hadn't been ransacked, but because it was so remote, besides an abundance of bottled water, the food selection was pitifully limited.

Lu Yuan walked around the store, starting to store the mountain of bottled water into his spatial storage. He observed the signs of daily life in the convenience store and guessed that the damaged van at the entrance probably belonged to the employees of this gas station.

There might have been two or three of them. After the outbreak, they probably didn't get infected immediately, but rather encountered a car that had been infected and then drove here. Or perhaps they were accidentally exposed during the first wave of viral infections. In any case, they've all disappeared without a trace...

After he finished collecting all the water, the others moved all the remaining edible food from the convenience store to the RV. There wasn't much food, and everyone felt it wasn't necessary to put it in Lu Yuan's space.

Because the surroundings were safe, the heavy snow really kept the southerners at bay, especially Lu Yuan and his group of five. After finishing their business, they went to play in the snow. Yang Xiao, a sculpture student, built a super big snowman, a character from their favorite game.

He had just finished building the snowman and hadn't even had a chance to take a picture with his phone when Zhong Qiang hit the snowman's head with a big snowball, tilting it to the side. Yang Xiao was so angry that he wanted to tilt Zhong Qiang's head too.

Compared to Yang Xiao's art, Lu Yuan's snowman was just something else entirely. It looked like something out of a cartoon I watched as a kid: a big snowball and a small snowball piled together, with a carrot stuck in it. Pei Sihao even gave it an ugly gas station employee hat...

Gu Nanfeng was recording the four of them playing around on his phone, and was about to criticize Pei Sihao for his unnecessary embellishment when his satellite phone rang. He had called Pei Simin after lunch, but Pei Simin hadn't answered because he was probably busy. Several hours had passed before he finally called back.

Over the phone, Pei Simin said that both families had settled in at the South China base. In the past few days, researchers from all over the country had also arrived at the South China base one after another. He asked Gu Nanfeng how long it would take for them to reach the port of X province so that he could arrange a ship to pick them up.

Gu Nanfeng told Pei Simin that they had just left G City when they were trapped in a highway gas station near a small county town by heavy snow. He couldn't even be sure when they would arrive in X Province, let alone when they would arrive at the port of C Province.

Pei Simin is no longer the commander-in-chief at the South China base. He is currently only responsible for coordinating helicopters to pick up researchers from various places, so he has not yet received any reports of snowfall in inland areas. However, if southern cities like G Province have already experienced heavy snowfall for most of the day, then the situation in the north is probably even worse. We don't know what the situation is like in Beijing now.

After discussing the snow, Gu Nanfeng confirmed that Pei Simin was alone in the office. He then told him about Qin Yuan, Lin Yun, and Du Wenqing's development of superpowers, but he did not mention Lu Yuan.

No one has been found to have evolved superpowers at Pei Simin's South China base so far. However, since the outbreak of the virus, relevant virus experts and genetic research experts believe that humans will inevitably evolve like zombies, because most of these experts believe that this virus is actually evolving humans.

After thinking for a long time, Gu Nanfeng finally asked whether any experts from the G City Security Base had been transferred to the South China Base. Pei Simin knew that Gu Nanfeng's mentor was at the G City Security Base, but he was receiving so many experts from various city security bases almost every hour that he hadn't received the registration list yet. He could only promise Gu Nanfeng that he would keep an eye on the relevant information from G Province.

Before hanging up, Pei Simin still reminded Gu Nanfeng to take good care of Pei Sihao. He also said that if the experts were still trapped by the heavy snow after a couple of days when most of them had been transferred, he would arrange for a helicopter to pick them up. After all, there were now three people with evolved superpowers in their team, so he figured those meddlesome people wouldn't stop him anymore.

Gu Nanfeng had just hung up the phone when Lin Yun, seeing that the five of them had been playing outside for several hours, worried that the weather was changing too much and they might get too cold, opened the RV door and invited them to get in.

Back in the car, Gu Nanfeng briefly explained the information he had obtained. Among the survivors currently on record with the national government, no other humans have been found to have evolved superpowers. Of course, it cannot be ruled out that there may be such people among the survivors not on the government's records.

Lu Yuan guessed that there might still be such people in the G City base, otherwise Wang Qiang would not have locked up all the frenzied soldiers and Qin Yuan and Lin Yun, and even let Professor Lin use them as experimental subjects.

“We can’t rule out that possibility, but it’s also possible that none of them have evolved superpowers, but they want to acquire them…” Lin Yun listened to Lu Yuan’s guess and also expressed his own guess. After all, during the days they were locked up, Professor Lin had to draw blood from him and Qin Yuan every day and kept asking them what had happened every day since the outbreak of the virus, trying to obtain all kinds of information from it.