章 113: 113, Meeting gift

The vehicles headed south, and occasionally small stone monuments with inscriptions like "18, 223," "18, 224," appeared along the roadside.

They were like boundary markers.

Uncle Li Dong explained to Qing Chen that they were still within the territory of City 18, and the subsequent "223" marking was a landmark for easy recognition of the location.

As the sun began to set in the west, Qin Cheng suddenly said over the walkie-talkie, "It's getting late. We will soon reach the iron net entrance, get ready to camp."

In the back of the truck, Qin Yiyi and Qin Tong started packing things up.

The pickup trucks pulled off the highway, and Qing Chen turned off his reader, looking up to ask his teacher, "Why were these characters' personalities deleted?"

At this point, he had memorized all the known plants and had started to read through the character profiles provided to him by Lin Xiaoxiao.