Chapter 108 Wei County

On the surface, the ten of them had indeed retired, but in fact they were assigned to a special department and received other tasks.

Everyone in the team is a selected elite, has rich combat experience, and has their own areas of expertise.

"Strongman" Awen is two to three times stronger than an average person and is good at repairing all kinds of vehicle machinery.

Wenrou is good at psychology, has a strong physique and rich experience in survival in the wild. If you give her a dagger and a flint, she can stay alone in the dense forest on an isolated island for a year.

Han Lan is a sniper. He once set a record of lurking in the mountains for three days and three nights, and finally hitting a target 2,500 meters away and killing it with one shot. He is also good at close combat.

Liu Shuang is good at fighting and diving, and has extremely rich rescue experience and reconnaissance skills.

Cheng Yu had always been ranked first in the military academy. He was good at close combat, grappling, and assembling all kinds of weapons. Most importantly, he had carried out countless missions, most of which were high-risk operations, and had a lot of practical experience and on-the-spot adaptability.

So this team, which looks ordinary on the surface, is actually full of hidden talents. There are also experts who are good at computers. Even the short team member who just got embarrassed while opening a bag of bacon is also a blasting expert.

They all knew what it meant to take on this mission. It was an indefinite mission. Even if they found the superpower, it did not mean the mission was over. What the authorities needed was to keep looking for news about the superpower and keep everything under control. No matter where the superpower appeared, they would rush there.

In other words, their mission will not be over as long as the land they are on is not flooded.

But at the same time, other rescue and transfer missions are no longer within their mission scope. This is why Liu Shuang said that they were on a private trip.

This time they are going to Jiangcheng in the north because they heard news that a person with superpowers appeared there. The source of the news is relatively reliable, so they plan to go straight there.

If Wei County was not near the route to Jiangcheng, they would not have taken a detour to rescue people this time. Instead, they would have chosen to send messages and locate the teams at other rescue points.

They didn't expect that they would meet Shu Fu and Yao Ruoyun here, and they didn't expect that there was a person with supernatural powers hiding in the small Wei County.

In fact, his brother was the first person with special abilities that their team of ten encountered after they set out.

She had thought she could at least see it with her own eyes, but unexpectedly, a snowstorm lasted for four days and four nights, and her life came to an end.

Only then did Yao Ruoyun understand why no one in the team reacted when the female psychic was grabbed up.

Their mission is to find the superpowers. If possible, they want to save the superpowers more than she does, but this does not mean that they will completely abandon and violate humanity and principles for the mission. It is useless to find a superpower with such a mentality.

"Then - what happens after we really find the psychic face to face?" Shu Fu opened his mouth and asked what Yao Ruoyun wanted to ask.

"Of course..." Han Lan paused deliberately, and smiled at her after a moment, "Of course we should talk to the other party. What's the matter? We can still capture them and study them. Talk to them. If they are willing to go back with us and help the authorities, there will naturally be a long list of generous treatments waiting for them. If they are not willing, they can also provide some real and detailed information about themselves as part of our collection of information on psychics. Of course, the information can also be exchanged for materials."

"What if neither of them wants to?"

"Then forget it, let them go." Han Lan shrugged and said with a smile: "But we can't make this trip in vain. We will record all the superpowers we have seen and come into contact with."

Of course, those who are unwilling to reveal even the slightest bit of their own superpowers will definitely not want to be recorded in their books, but this is not something they can decide on their own.

All the recorded faces and information will be transmitted to the most secure and powerful satellite. The authorities are currently developing a new software for finding people. In the near future, the authorities will be able to find them via satellite whenever they need to.

The reason why the authorities have been waiting and watching the superpowers is because they don't know enough about the situation. At present, there are not enough people to fully control this matter, but even so, they need to control everything in secret.

Simply put, the authorities currently do not have the spare capacity, so they can allow people with special abilities to walk freely in Hua Country, but just like a kite, the other end of the rope will always be firmly held in their hands to ensure that they can reel it in at any time.

Shu Fu did not continue to ask what would happen if it was recorded in the book. What would happen next could be guessed by speculation.

She was very grateful to Han Lan for answering all her questions. She knew that this might be related to the fact that she had pushed him out of the collapsed ice wall on the snow track. He was closer to the center than she was at that time. If she hadn't pushed him, he would have been injured.

But at this moment, even if she was grateful to the other party in her heart, she would not show it on her face. She was just an ordinary person who was curious about this matter and should not have too much reaction to it.

After a while, Wenrou, who was monitoring the situation at the hotel, sent a message via the intercom, saying that after the death of the psychic, the raft that had been smashed into pieces also disappeared. Apart from the snow, the broken container house and the supplies scattered on the ground, there was no trace of the raft left on the open space.

Liu Shuang concluded: "So, this raft is unique and exclusive, and it cannot be stolen by killing the mutant."

But ironically, the prerequisite for knowing this is that someone needs to kill a mutant, and the raft must be taken out and witness the raft completely disappear after the mutant's death.

But if they could make this known, it would at least prevent some of the fighting and death.

In the end, Cheng Yu, Liu Shuang and Han Lan agreed to report the result first and have the official side announce it on the Internet. This announcement, of course, does not mean that the official side will come forward to acknowledge the existence of superpowers, but rather spread it on the Internet through the mouth of a third party in the form of folk news.

However, after the news is made public, they cannot control how many people will see it and how many of them will believe it.

The atmosphere in the room was a little depressing, but soon, the fresh aroma of rice and the rich meaty aroma of steamed bacon wafting in from the corridor outside filled everyone's nose.

Shu Fu and Yao Ruoyun woke up late and had breakfast late today, so when Cheng Yu called them, they had not yet had lunch.

As for Cheng Yu, all the team members not only got up early, but also dug a snow track for the whole morning, and were already hungry. The aroma of rice and bacon mixed together, dispelling the wrinkles between everyone's brows. Not to mention Shu Fu and others who were originally staying in the basement, even the few people who were baking blankets in the venue and monitoring the surveillance could smell the smell.

Especially the two people whose hands, feet and eyes were tied. They slept in the basement corridor at night and ate compressed biscuits during the day. Although they did not freeze to death or starve to death, they really felt like they were dying after eating biscuits for four days.

Smelling this scent at this moment, they almost lost their souls. Even though their hands and feet were tied and their mouths were blocked, they tried their best to moan. As a result, they were given a big slap by Awen, who was guarding them.

"Be quiet, what are you thinking about? You're lucky you didn't starve to death or freeze to death! You're thinking of killing people and stealing cars. Do you think we're possessed by the Holy Father and will feed you rice and bacon? It's good enough that we can let you hear and smell the smell!"

As Awen was speaking, the two people in charge of cooking came up and called for dinner. The psychic in the hotel opposite was already dead, and the raft had disappeared. There was no need to continue monitoring, and the personnel could be evacuated from it.

As for guarding the two people in the venue and taking care of the blanket, only one person is needed.

However, they would not treat their teammates badly. They directly used a thermos bucket to fill a large portion of white rice topped with bacon, sausage, salted chicken and pressed duck for the person who could not go down, and also gave him a thermos cup of freshly made vegetable and egg soup.

Vegetable egg soup is made of dehydrated vegetables. The ingredients in this dehydrated vegetable soup are even richer than those of Shu Fudun. It contains not only black fungus and shiitake mushrooms, but also eggs and diced meat. When you have compressed biscuits in the wild, you can soak them in hot water and you can have hot nutritious vegetable soup to eat with dry biscuits. It is convenient and quick.

Today they can eat this hot soup with rice, bacon, sausage, salted chicken and pressed duck. Just looking at it makes them feel happy.

Han Lan, who was always talkative, had not spoken since he picked up the stainless steel lunch box. He was so engrossed in eating that he completely ignored his image. The others were not much better. In comparison, Cheng Yu was the most polite eater, eating at a speed similar to Shu Fu, Yao Ruoyun and the others.

Shu Fu and Yao Ruoyun were trapped in the building for the past few days, eating delicious food every day, with three meals a day plus a snack and a midnight snack, so they never felt hungry.

As for Cheng Yu, I don’t know if he wanted to save food for Shu Fu or because he had strong self-control. Although he ate very happily, he was only half as slow as the others who devoured the food.

Shu Fu finished a small bowl of rice topped with bacon, sausage, salted chicken and pressed duck, and began to drink the soup contentedly. Although the vegetable soup was not fresh enough, it had been kept warm in the pot, so now she was drinking it hot in her hands. The light vegetable flavor just neutralized the saltiness of the bacon.

She drank up the half bowl in her hand, then stood up to get another serve. When she passed by Han Lan, she suddenly braked as if she had been electrocuted. She rushed in front of him without even putting down the bowl. She tripped because there was a mat on the ground and almost dropped the bowl on his head.

Han Lan reacted very quickly. He put his chopsticks into the lunch box and caught her with his free hand. He asked with a smile, "What's wrong, Fu Fu? Why do you miss your brother so much after not seeing him for a few days?"

Cheng Yu: ...

Shu Fu: ...

She should have let the bowl fall on his head.

She was speechless, but her eyes were still fixed on the top of his head.

It was indeed a white light bar, flashing at a slow frequency. It disappeared for more seconds than it appeared, as if it had just appeared and the progress bar was not yet half full.

So, the light strip she saw on the snow trail before was Han Lan's?

Is Han Lan also one of the awakened ones?

At this moment, Shu Fu subconsciously felt like complaining.

He also went out on secret missions to find and bring back people with super powers. Wow, there are two in his team!

Maybe he is a psychic with extremely high abilities!

What are you looking for? Why don't you just take yourself back?

**

This was the seventh day after the blizzard began. The snow had stopped for two and a half days, and started again in the evening.

In the clinic building converted from a teaching building, and in the hotel building on the same street, both the survivors and the rescue team members were wrapped in thick clothes, hiding behind reinforced windows, looking at the snow outside with panic in their hearts.

They thought the snowstorm had passed, but they had been busy these past two days just to clear the snow that had buried the doors and windows on the first floor and to clear a snow path leading to the boiler room.

The temperature was too low, and the electrical system had broken down due to the continuous freezing rain and heavy snow. The water pipes had also been frozen. The buildings around the clinic, which originally had water, electricity and heating, have now become dark and cold ice caves like other places in Wei County.

On the first night of the power outage, the clinic building survived with the backup power of the generator, but with the arrival of a sharp drop in temperature, even the inverter air conditioner could not continue to provide heating, and relying solely on chopping down tables, chairs and cabinets to burn for heating was not a long-term solution.

On the second day of the heavy snowstorm, the survivors who had been living in nearby houses came to the hotel building where the rescue team and several troops were staying, wearing snowshoes made of plastic or rattan boards and braving the severe cold.

They came here in the snow because the new rescue station service point is set up here and the supply warehouse is also here.

It's fine to have no electricity, no water, and no heating, but they can't be without food. Some of them are experienced in life, and even though they can't check the weather forecast because of the Internet outage, they can still vaguely sense that something is wrong from this fierce blizzard.

Therefore, they gave up their small space for living alone and would rather sleep in the lobby and corridor of the hotel building to be closer to the rescue team members and troops, so that they can be the first to know if there is any news about rescue from the outside world.

In addition, special situations require special treatment. The road is blocked by ice and snow, and they don’t know how long they will stay here. They all think that the rule that each person can only receive one supply package should be changed. They come here to get more supply packages.

However, the supply packages here had already been consumed due to the arrival and transfer of a large number of people, and were later destroyed in an explosion. It was thought that the car that sent the survivors to Xizhou Province could bring back a batch of supply packages when it returned, but the traffic was blocked by freezing rain and blizzards, and the follow-up supplies could not keep up. The rescue team has also been worried about food these two days.

There are about 200 survivors and their team members in the vicinity. If all the supply packages they have are distributed, even if they live frugally afterwards, they can only provide food for these 200 people for about 5 days.

But this blizzard has accumulated nearly a meter of snow in just one night. Will the blizzard stop after five days? Will there be rescue?

All these unknowns made them dare not distribute all the supply packages they had at this stage, because they knew that these survivors had received a supply package after arriving, and the food in it could guarantee seven days of rations under normal circumstances.

At the same time, not everyone came here with nothing. Some of them already brought some food and water with them, so for these survivors, it is far from the end of their rope.

What's more, among these 200 people, there were about 30 who were originally residents of Wei County. The reason why they were reluctant to leave was partly because they had a lot of food hidden on hand.

The temperature is low now, so food doesn’t spoil easily and can be eaten for a long time if stored well. But if you take these foods with you to move, how to carry them safely to the destination is a big problem, so the residents of this county who have survived until now have a certain amount of food on hand.

They are rescue workers. In the extremely cold weather, they have to ensure that everyone can survive. Food should be left for those in need, rather than dividing the food too early, causing some people to accumulate half a month or even a month's worth of food, while others can only hold on for a few days.

So, on the second day of the blizzard, when survivors braved the snow and rushed to the hotel building to request distribution of supply packages, the application was not approved.

The survivors were indignant and protested in various ways, denouncing the rescue team and asking them whether they intended to eat the food for themselves!

This suspicion seems reasonable under the current circumstances. However, even so, the rescue team did not agree to distribute the supplies. If anyone can disrupt their plan by making a scene, what qualifications do they have to be a member of the rescue team?

After all, they had weapons in their hands, and the indignant survivors were suppressed. However, they were unwilling to take the risk of going back, and said that they would wait here for the first rescue news.

In the end, the team members marked off two floors for these people to temporarily stay in, and added more people to guard the stairs.

Later that day, some of the survivors who were watching from other nearby buildings decided to stay in the hotel building before the heavy snow completely blocked the road. In this way, about 50% of the people in the nearby buildings moved over, and of the remaining 50%, 20% stayed in the First Clinic Building, and 30% continued to stay in their own shelters.

Problems and conflicts are likely to arise when too many people live in the same place. The six people who were stranded on the mountain road overnight had been kept under guard in a room in the hotel building by the army since that day because three lives were involved.

Later, a blizzard caused a sudden drop in temperature, and everyone was trapped. The team members had no time to continue investigating the matter, but these six people had been vague in their statements before, and there were many suspicious points about them, so it was naturally impossible for them to just let them go.

Not releasing them means that they have to deliver meals, water and cold-weather supplies to them every day. In this way, these six people will live better than others even if they lose their freedom for a while.

How could the survivors who came later and wanted to fight for supplies be happy? The food and drinks of those six people should have been distributed to others! The survivors didn't understand how a group of murderers like this had the right to continue consuming food and water supplies. Wouldn't it be better to just register their information and events and let them fend for themselves?

They even placed them under guard, how much do they think they have nothing to do?

The protests could not be suppressed, but everyone was just talking and protesting, and no one took any drastic actions. Apart from giving warnings, the rescue team could not directly attack these people.

But within two days, a few survivors took advantage of the guards' inattention and broke into the room where the six people were placed and beat them up. After the six people realized what was happening, they began to resist. By the time the rescue team arrived and took out their weapons to stop the farce, one of the six people was already lying quietly in the corner of the room.

One person died in the melee, and the others didn't even know whether he was beaten to death by someone or accidentally bumped into something and fell down and was killed by a heavy object. No one claimed this life, everyone was shirking responsibility and blaming others.

The troublemakers were undoubtedly recorded, but now the county is blocked by heavy snow and they cannot leave here at all. Moreover, the network is down and the recorded incidents cannot be archived on the national network for the time being. For them, it doesn't matter at all.

The five people who were still alive among the six had injuries of varying degrees. Because of this incident, the rescue team lifted their restraints and no longer provided them with food and water. They could stay in the room or go out for activities, but the problem was that everyone now treated them as aliens, and even if they left the room, they were watched by others all the time.

They didn't understand why they were not blamed by everyone when the group that rushed into the room before was the thugs? At this moment, the whole world was full of malice to them.

Because of this incident, the hotel was relatively peaceful for a few days.

The real change happened the day after the snow stopped.

On the first day after the snowstorm stopped, rescue workers and military personnel organized a large number of people to go out and clear the snow. In addition to burying the ice and snow on the doors and windows, the most important thing was to clear a snow path to the boiler room and complete the previous emergency repair work while the snow stopped, at least restoring the heating.

But this snow trail is a huge project, and the rescue team cannot complete it alone. Everyone has to be mobilized. Finally, the rescue team provided a paid labor method of two meals a day. Everyone who participated in shoveling snow and clearing snow on that day could receive a unified lunch and dinner.

Driven by food, almost everyone joined in the cleanup.

The first day's snow clearing and shoveling work was completed successfully. However, on the second day, a small group of survivors from other buildings took advantage of the fact that they were getting farther and farther away from the snow clearing work and the guards in the hotel building were lax, broke in and stole nearly half of the supply packages.

Someone in their team had hidden weapons, more than one. After arriving in Wei County, in order to avoid a body search, one of them did not go to the rescue station service desk to register for supplies, but quickly found an empty house nearby to hide. After that, his companion successfully retrieved the supply package, took back the weapon and shared the supply package with this person.

They hadn't intended to do anything originally, but by chance they got a few guns and two grenades, and they kept them with great joy.

After all, this world is too chaotic. Having guns and grenades means having a few more lives in your hands.

They had been hiding in a building near the hotel and keeping a low profile until this severe snowstorm trapped them in Wei County for a week, when they finally couldn't help but take action.

By the time other rescue team members and troops rushed back, the supply package warehouse had been broken into and their teammates were lying in a pool of blood. In the open warehouse, there were other survivors who took advantage of the chaos to grab the supply packages.

Those who took advantage of the chaos to grab supplies said that they were not the ones who started the looting. They were attracted by the noise and only saw some supply packages scattered on the ground and could not help but rush forward to grab them.

They are also very hungry. If they don't take it, others will. They are just trying to protect themselves.

Some of them were hiding in the room and saw the movement outside. They said that the group of survivors who came from outside were not very clear about the location of the warehouse. It was the original survivors in the hotel who took the initiative to step forward and tell them. This group of people were the five people who were trapped on the mountain road before.

They told the other party the location of the warehouse and even took the initiative to lead the charge, attracting the attention of several team members guarding the warehouse, which allowed the foreign team to successfully launch a sneak attack.

Because these five people joined the other team and their numbers increased, they were able to move nearly half of the supply packages at one time.

They questioned the members of the rescue team, asking why they stopped watching over the people who had returned from the mountain road at first. This was equivalent to letting a time bomb wander around them. How could nothing happen?

They complained about the injured rescue team members on the ground, saying that they were young, inexperienced and stupid, and that they would actually attract the attention of someone with a bad record!

They also blamed the rescue team, saying that if they were willing to distribute all the supply packages earlier, they would not have been forced into a desperate situation and attracted the covetous villains!

Now those people have snatched many supply bags and ran away. Since several snow trails have just been cleared nearby, leading to various buildings, they don't know where those people are running to. Obviously, they have been secretly observing for a long time when everyone was shoveling snow and have made a plan.

They must be hiding. After all, they took so much food that they could hide for a long time.

Several members of the rescue team and the army were shocked and angry at first, and even tried to control the situation and let the survivors go back to their rooms. But as they listened, the expressions of shock and anger on their faces gradually faded and became numb.

They didn't say anything else, and went straight forward to drive away the survivors near their teammates and check on their own team members. One was dead, and the other two were still alive. One was shot in the chest, and the other was shot in the hands at close range, with skin and bones torn, but because the wound was not in the vital part, he did not faint, and was wailing in pain...

These two people were only in their twenties. Their families had long since evacuated to Xizhou Province. They had been rescued and helped by the rescue team before, so they volunteered to stay and join the team. They were still students, had practiced shooting during military training, and had experience in firing guns, so they were all equipped with guns.

But even so, it still cannot defeat the evil of human nature.

They were going to send the person to the clinic across the street for treatment. Before taking out the stretcher and carrying the person away, the person with the highest rank spoke up and instructed the other team members who had arrived later to distribute the supply packages evenly.

"Notify everyone to take care of their belongings and weapons. From now on, just take care of yourself and your teammates. If you sense danger, use your weapons immediately. Don't hesitate. This is an order."

These people would hide in the room and not come out when something happened. After the people left, they would rush to the scene as soon as possible, regardless of the lives of the rescue team members lying next to them, and only cared about taking supply packages from the opened warehouse.

Aren’t they supposed to keep the supplies themselves?

Since these supply packages are the only ones they have their eyes on, they will distribute them all now.

They simply did not understand that, under the current circumstances, having extra supplies on them would only bring them greater trouble.

But from today on, the other party's life or death no longer has anything to do with them.

Outside the hotel building, heavy snow began to fall again.

When several team members were carrying their teammates along the snow trail, they couldn't help but look up at the gray sky where snowflakes were falling.

The thick snow wall that had just shown signs of melting was once again covered by flying snow. It was foreseeable that it would not be long before the snow track they had just dug would be filled with snow again.

Everything they did seemed to be a futile effort, as if even the heavens were laughing at their incompetence.

Sometimes, a person is holding on only by relying on a breath, and when that breath is taken away, that is when his faith completely collapses.

**

Night fell again.

After staying in the gymnasium for two nights, Shu Fu and Yao Ruoyun decided to move back to the small teahouse in the next building.

The first reason was that the snowstorm, which had stopped for two and a half days, started again in the evening.

Shu Fu reasonably suspected that the snow was far from stopping. The gymnasium was nice and it was lively with everyone together, but if she had to stay here for the whole winter, she felt a little dizzy just thinking about it.

Yao Ruoyun was able to use the satellite phone to assure her parents of their safety, and Shu Fu was also able to use the satellite phone to send and receive messages with Chen Fa.

But other than that, there's nothing else to do.

In addition, after eating rice with cured meat and instant noodles for two or three days, they really don't want to eat anymore.

It would be fine if Yao Ruoyun hadn't awakened yet, but now that she has awakened, the two of them are as free and comfortable as they can be in the small teahouse.

The second reason was that the other suspected companion with the light bar had been confirmed to be Han Lan. As for whether there was a third one, nothing had been discovered in the past two days, and no new tasks had come. She thought it would be better to go back to the teahouse and stay there.