Apocalypse: Last Traveler-Chapter 400 - 379: The Light Boat Has Surpassed Ten Thousand Mountains

Lu Xi'an looked at the last entry in the diary, pondering for a while, then asked Yao Wei, "Do you think... the person mentioned here could be Luo Ping?"

Yao Wei seemed a bit confused.

Lu Xi'an then remembered that he first asked about Teacher Luo Ping while urinating with Luo Ping, and Yao Wei wasn't there at the time. She hadn't heard it, and he hadn't mentioned it to her afterwards either.

So, he briefly recounted the story about Teacher Luo Ping to Yao Wei.

Yao Wei pondered for a moment, looked at the words in the diary, nodded, and said, "Hmm, it seems quite like him. Someone who can write a diary this well is certainly extraordinary.

"Few can write this well, and Luo Ping's teacher is one of them."

This was an evaluation of the overall cultural level of this world, and a comparison. There was nothing wrong with what Yao Wei said.

Lu Xi'an laughed, "I didn't expect you to be able to judge the quality of a diary."

"Hmm."

Yao Wei nodded, looking at the diary, said, "To have a grand dream before eternal rest, I couldn't write such words."

Her standards for judgment were simple and straightforward but accurate.

Lu Xi'an said, "Then let's assume it's him. We'll take this book with us, and when Luo Ping goes to Caiyang Mountain, we'll let him take a look. He should recognize his teacher's handwriting."

"Hmm."

Yao Wei nodded, told Gou, "Gou, mark this place, if confirmed, we can let Luo Ping come here."

When she was attentive, she was very meticulous indeed.

Lu Xi'an carefully flipped through the notebook in his hand again and suddenly discovered something was tucked in the cover's pocket at the back. Thin and spread flat, he couldn't tell at first touch, but upon closer inspection, it was evident.

He immediately pulled out what was in the pocket, revealing several folded pages.

The edges of the paper were unevenly jagged, the material was the same as the notebook's paper, clearly torn from the book.

Was it scribbled by someone earlier or created by a Mushroom Eater later?

Lu Xi'an and Yao Wei exchanged a curious glance and unfolded the pages, examining them one by one.

The pages were indeed filled with chaotic abstract drawings, lines swirling, squares and circles intersecting, making it hard to discern any content.

Yet Lu Xi'an studied them for a long while and inexplicably saw something familiar. The lines, when disassembled or visualized, gave a sense of returning to a past life, towering buildings, a stable and prosperous...

He suddenly felt that Luo Ping's former teacher might have been like him, traversing from another world.

But then, it might be some old fellow who lived from the old world to the present. The old world and the world before his traversal, after all, were quite similar.

And wasn't Yao Wei's father, Yao Huo, also living till now?

After all, Neo-Humans are not ordinary people.

Anyway, the person was already dead, there was no need to explore the past further.

The path taken had been walked, it's time to look ahead.

"Let's go."

"Hmm."

The two left the house, returned to the car, and continued northward.

Along this road in Jiannan City, sporadic fungi still grew, suggesting it was a specialty of Jiannan.

But when they reached the border adjacent to Jiangdong, no more fungi were in sight.

"Maybe we could use some of these fungi as weapons."

While leaving Jiannan, Lu Xi'an suddenly thought about it and said to Yao Wei, "However, the two of us don't need any right now; let's tell Luo Ping and the others later, and see if they need to collect them."

Yao Wei had no objections, simply responded with a "Hmm."

But the signal was really poor during this time, they couldn't reach Institute 923, it would have to wait until they could get through afterward.

Entering Jiannan City, all the way to a gas station nearby, Lu Xi'an and Yao Wei stopped the car, stood for a while, and sighed, "With this, our journey is all connected."

"Hmm."

Yao Wei nodded, saying, "We've traveled from Mengxin Yu Bei southward."

Indeed, they had met in Yu Bei, then entered Mengxin, descended Sword Mountain, returned to Pingchuan, detoured to Linghai, and then to the decisive battle in Jiangdong.

After returning to Linghai, traveling from Jiangbei to Pingchuan, and then along Jiangbei all the way to Jiangnan, completing their revenge.

Afterward, they traveled by car again, covering Jiangbei and Jiangnan once more, went to Mengze, followed the East Sea, Jiannan, and returned here, having toured through all the cities.

Unconsciously, they had traveled through so many places, looking back, it's hard to fathom.

"In the future, we won't need to be so nervous when traveling. If we want to hurry, we can run directly, if we want to leisurely wander anywhere, we can drive."

Reflecting on the past compared to now, Lu Xi'an had a sense of light boats passing ten thousand mountains.

After marveling here, they got back into the car, continued north and reached the return capsule Blade had taken them to initially, and looked around again.

After that, they continued north to Sickness Village, which was already completely deserted, followed the Guanhai River downstream to the former Healing Village, now empty and poignant.

Further north, they arrived outside of Yangcai County.

They didn't know how many cold waves they encountered, forcing them to stop, thus the return journey took them more than three months, and Yao Wei's belly was visibly showing.

When Lu Xi'an placed his hand on Yao Wei's belly, he could already feel the fetal movements, filling him with joy and indescribable emotions.

Upon reaching the outskirts of Yangcai County, the sea tides came in, and the road was blocked by the sea, so they had to stop the car and wait.

After the tides receded, they ascended Caiyang Mountain, parking the car at the peak. Then they tried to "call" Institute 923 again and astonishingly got through immediately.

"Hello? Hello? Big brother, big sister? The signal has been down for so long, we haven't been in contact in ages."

Luo Ping's voice echoed through the speakers in the RV, chatting incessantly, "Big brother, big sister, you've been gone so long, you wouldn't believe how well we've developed here.

"Do you want to come back to see sometime? I promise you'll be surprised."

Lu Xi'an said, "If there's no danger on your end, we won't be returning for now.

"Yao Wei is expecting, and she needs to settle down for a quiet rest. We've come to live on Caiyang Mountain. If you can't get through by phone, continue using pigeons."

There was a burst of happy congratulations from 923, and Chai Xin even clamored to come to the mountain to touch the sister's belly to see if there was any reaction.

Lu Xi'an laughed, "Alright, we'll wait for you on the mountain, you come, and let you touch it.

"Also, Luo Ping, you'd better come over too; I have something I need to discuss with you."