章 167: Chapter 167: Encounter and Growth

At the highway out of the city...

"Sir, we have thirty minutes before arriving at our first destination." The driver mentioned.

"Okay, remind me again when we are five minutes away." Lingang sat back in his front seat and pulled out the map Xiaoyun handed.

The map was by a trader who had traveled through hundreds of settlements, with their route drawn toward the tenth largest settlement they could reach within a day.

"It's nuts that there are nearly a hundred settlements near our base. How did we miss all these Qi Ren?" Lingang muttered.

"Probably 'cause we stuck to the city and didn't explore the countryside much," his second-in-command Qi Ren pointed out.

"Yeah, now that I think about it, Xiaoyun's plan to rescue people from the city instead of the countryside feels a bit backward."

"I wouldn't say that, sir... if it weren't for Commander Xiaoyun, half of us wouldn't be here," Qi Ren objected.