APTnovel Chapter 94 Heading to the South China Base
Chapter 94 Heading to the South China Base
Ji Lang is a well-known major in China. Unlike Pei Simin, he is an orphan who was sold multiple times due to bad luck. He eventually grew up in a military unit in the north and was subsequently sent abroad on missions. He rarely appeared in China, so not many people had seen him, and he had seen fewer Chinese people than foreigners.
When Ji Lang came out today, he received an order to take Pei Sihao back to the base. When he came out this morning, his deputy was still mocking him, wondering if Pei Sihao could arrive at the checkpoint safely. If he couldn't get to the checkpoint before six o'clock, they wouldn't wait for him.
When they returned to the vicinity of the checkpoint, they discovered something was wrong. They actually knew that there were several discordant forces in the area. They had tried to persuade these people to return to the South China base with them, but they refused. After several attempts, they stopped trying to persuade them. However, they did not expect that this time, while they were away, these people would attack their checkpoint.
The children in the port were orphans. When the survivors in the vicinity had extra food, they would take care of them. When they didn't, some would leave them to fend for themselves, while others would capture them and eat them.
Several of these children have mysteriously disappeared in the past three months, and they know that their friends have probably been eaten. The adults in these ports are just keeping them as meat dogs.
This time, Boss Wei promised them that if they managed to seize the supplies, they could take as much as the children could. Although the children were afraid of dying, they also wanted to have a full meal.
When the supply ship docked, the children squatted at the entrance of the checkpoint to keep watch. They had to tell the adults what they had observed, and of course, the adults didn't care at all whether they would be bitten by zombies.
So this morning, after Ji Lang circled around the children from behind and gave each of them a compressed biscuit and some candy, the children were recruited by him.
Afterwards, Ji Lang led the members of the supply team to the border between X Province and D Province as planned to meet the supply trucks coming from D Province. D Province is one of the few developed provinces in South China, but because there are many overseas personnel coming and going from there, D Province fell very quickly. After the South China base stabilized, the command organized several small teams to go to D Province to collect supplies. Ji Lang's team's mission was to meet these supplies and transport them back to the base by supply ship.
In fact, Ji Lang had rushed to the port ahead of schedule today. He found the group of children and confirmed that Boss Wei and his men had indeed taken advantage of the fact that only two soldiers were left to guard the checkpoint.
They were ready to storm the checkpoint when they saw Pei Sihao's car pull up at the entrance. At that moment, they didn't know who was in the car, but it was a modified luxury vehicle. They weren't sure if it was another group of survivors gathered by merchants in the vicinity.
According to the children's intelligence, the most ruthless group in the area is Boss Wei's organization. They don't let anyone weaker than them go unpunished, and they're always looking for trouble. They even lure zombies to attack others. Another group is the survivor organization of the merchant guild, which even Boss Wei doesn't dare to mess with. These people used to be ship merchants, and it's unknown which boss they have connections with. They also have a batch of weapons. Almost all the merchant ship owners near the port are in this organization. They have the richest supplies, and no one dares to mess with them. Once they come out to look for supplies, everyone else has to give them a wide berth.
This group, numbering around a hundred, used the largest warehouse near the port as their base. A month ago, they started recruiting survivors with special skills, but they didn't want children, which is why these children remember it so clearly.
“So kids can hold grudges a lot.” Ji Lang recounted their previous experiences, then glanced at Yang Xiao. This kid had just mocked the youngest child; he wondered what Yang Xiao’s mindset was now.
"A child can be a devil or an angel." Who knew that Yang Xiao didn't take it seriously at all, and even pulled the child he had mocked in front of him, ruffling the child's hair.
What ability do eleven or twelve-year-olds have to resist? Absolutely none, so they can only swallow their anger.
At 6 p.m., the snow still showed no signs of stopping. The supply ship arrived at the port on time. With the help of Ji Lang's supply team, Pei Sihao and his group brought all the supplies they had originally planned to abandon on the G-Class. Following the supply team's arrangements, the group finally boarded the supply ship bound for the South China base.
The South China base is said to be located in H province, but it is not actually on the main island of H province.
H Province itself is quite large, with a large population and many tourists. In particular, the outbreak of the virus coincided with the tourist season. Therefore, when Ji Lang and his troops received the mission to build the South China base, they did not consider building the security base on the main island of H Province.
They surveyed the small islands and archipelagos surrounding H Province and finally chose an archipelago not far from H Province to build a base.
After boarding the supply ship, Ji Lang said that it would probably be after 8 or 9 p.m. before they arrived at the South China base. He arranged a small room for the four of them to rest and then left.
Finally, they were able to rest peacefully for a while. Just as the four of them relaxed, Pei Sihao suddenly vomited.
"Brother, are you seasick?" There was no bathroom in the small room, so Zhong Qiang searched for a long time and found a plastic basin under the bed, which he handed to Pei Sihao.
Pei Sihao hugged the plastic basin and vomited violently.
"How could I possibly get seasick?" Pei Sihao said, vomiting but still trying to stay calm. Well, it wasn't exactly trying to stay calm; he'd been on all sorts of boats since he was a kid, and he even owned two yachts. How could he possibly get seasick?
"He still has a high fever." Lin Yun touched his forehead; Pei Sihao's face was flushed.
Because they hadn't expected to get sick, Lu Yuan hadn't considered preparing emergency medicine for everyone. The three of them searched through all four backpacks but couldn't find any medicine. Lin Yun then asked Yang Xiao to go ask Ji Lang if there were any medicines on the ship.
"Actually, it's okay if it's not there. We can hold on for an hour or two until we get to the base. It shouldn't be a big problem." Pei Sihao vomited everything in his stomach and finally stopped vomiting. He leaned against the bed, and Lin Yun covered him with a blanket. Although he had a fever, Pei Sihao felt very cold, even wrapped in two blankets.
"Do you have a cold? It suddenly snowed and the temperature dropped today." Ji Lang followed Yang Xiao to the room where the four of them were resting. As soon as he entered, he saw Pei Sihao, whose face was flushed red with fever.
"I'm not sure, but we changed into warm clothes before getting off the bus, so we shouldn't have caught a cold." Lin Yun glanced worriedly at Pei Sihao, who was delirious with fever.
"There should be medicine on the ship, but the supplies are all packed up now, and I don't know exactly where they are. I've already sent people to look for them. Let's just hang in there." Ji Lang was also helpless. They hadn't brought a medic with them, and since they were only going to be back in a few hours, no one would have brought a first-aid kit. The two soldiers who had been beaten up were still in terrible shape, and they had no medicine. Now even this young master had a fever, and he was at his wits' end.
"I'm fine," Pei Sihao said, while rummaging through his pockets as if looking for something.
"You're a patient, so don't move around too much." Ji Lang couldn't understand why this young master couldn't just lie still.
"I want to call Brother Feng." Pei Sihao was indeed running a high fever at the moment, and as he spoke, his eyes closed.
"Holy crap, is this going to happen?" Zhong Qiang was terrified. To be honest, he had never seen anyone faint before. Usually, people just faint while talking.
"Let's try physical cooling first." Seeing that Pei Sihao had fainted, Ji Lang couldn't ignore it. He had a lot of experience in field marching and knew a little about dealing with fevers. He immediately instructed Yang Xiao and Zhong Qiang to find a basin and get some water and snow from the deck. He then turned around and went to find the logistics officer of the supply team to ask for two towels. He remembered that he should have brought some.
Lin Yun didn't wait for them to find these things. He first took a bottle of mineral water, wet the towel in Pei Sihao's bag, and used it to cool him down.
The mineral water had been outside with them for a while, and it was quite cold. Lin Yun wrung out a towel, and his fingers were red from the cold. Fortunately, after his evolution, he was not so afraid of the cold, but he could still clearly feel that this snowfall was colder than the previous two.
The supply ship arrived at the South China base, but Pei Sihao still hadn't woken up. When Pei's mother saw her youngest son with such a high fever, she fainted on the spot. Fortunately, Pei Simin and Pei Siji remained calm and quickly took Pei Sihao to the base's hospital.
Before Lin Yun arrived, Gu Nanfeng and the others had already told Pei Simin about his situation. After settling his younger brother in and leaving Pei Siji to take care of him, Pei Simin had his team members take Yang Xiao and Zhong Qiang to the base registration office to arrange their future living and work, and then took Lin Yun to the research institute.
Upon entering the research institute, Pei Simin introduced Lin Yun to several researchers, who eagerly came forward to greet him. One of the researchers, wearing thick-rimmed glasses, circled Lin Yun a few times and asked, "Major Pei told me before that three people in your team have superpowers. Why are you the only one who came?"
“We encountered a landslide, and the other four people got separated from us,” Lin Yun answered truthfully.
"Ah, I see~" The researcher said with some regret, but he quickly turned his attention to Lin Yun. "Could you demonstrate your special ability?"
Honestly, no normal person could accept the scrutinizing gaze of a mad scientist. Lin Yun took a deep breath, swallowed his discomfort, raised his left hand, and made a slight movement towards the researcher's face.
A strong gust of wind blew directly into the face of the researcher with black-rimmed glasses, tilting his glasses to one side. After a while, the wind stopped, and he looked around. The other researchers with him were unaffected, as was Pei Simin. Only he was the one who had been blown away by the strong wind.
He suddenly jumped up excitedly, "Yes, yes, human evolution, this is human evolution!"
"Hello, hello, I'm Liu Qi, the current leader of the evolution group at the South China Base. I thought you were all just making up stories about having superpowers to get into the base. I'm so sorry for offending you." Liu Qi, wearing black-rimmed glasses, suddenly changed his attitude completely. He gripped Lin Yun's left hand, which he had raised to blow on the air, and exclaimed excitedly, "Actually, we've already discovered that some survivors have superpowers, but no one in the national forces or our research teams has them. We're quite worried about that."
As a soldier, Lin Yun naturally understood what these concerns meant. One concern was that it would affect the country's ability to resist zombies, and the other was that the zombie virus would spread and the government would be unable to control all the survivors.