出发: to set off, to start (on a journey)...
打雷: to rumble with thunder, clap of thunder...
祖籍: ancestral hometown, original domicile (and civil registration)...
破旧: shabby...
曲线: curve, curved line, indirect, in a roundabout way...
霸占: to occupy by force, to seize, to dominate...
之后: afterwards, following, later, after...
北方: north, the northern part a country, China north of the Yellow River...
安全: safe, secure, safety, security...
频频: repeatedly, again and again, continuously, constantly...