126 Chapter 126

Chapter 126

The subordinate was caught, and he felt helpless as he saw that the person who caught him was not going to give up until he got an answer.

He also knew that letting a child go was not a good idea, but it was not something that subordinates like him could influence. Even the leaders above must have thought about it for a long time and had no other choice but to decide on such a child.

"I don't really know what you're asking me. After all, I'm not a child, so I don't know what a child might be thinking. I just know that the child didn't resist our question at all. He even agreed immediately after listening to us, without wasting any time."

After the subordinate finished speaking, he saw that the third captain still wanted to pursue the matter, so he spoke again.

"Otherwise, you know where the child is, why don't you go ask him?"

He didn't have time to continue arguing with the third captain, so he reached out and took the third captain's hand off his arm.

"Go ahead and find the child to verify it yourself."

After the subordinate finished speaking, he turned and left.

It was just a moment of distraction, and the third captain could only watch the man walk away without even having the time to chase him.

With a sigh, he chased after him again.

"I'll ask the child. If he doesn't want to go, then you can just cross his name off the list."

Although he himself could not catch up with his subordinates, it did not prevent the other party from definitely hearing his voice.

Sure enough, after hearing his voice, although the subordinate did not give a reply, he also gave an ambiguous answer.

"You go ask first. If the child really doesn't want to go, we can go find the leader together."

After the subordinate finished speaking, he completely ignored the captain who was still yelling at him to give a definite answer, and left immediately.

"The person has left?"

Seeing the subordinate coming back, the leader raised his eyes slightly and looked at him, then asked a question.

"Yes, the leader, he has already left. However, he doesn't want to give up. He will probably go to the child later and ask him to say that he doesn't want to go."

As the subordinate finished speaking, he looked up at his leader again.

"Leader, if the child is really persuaded by him and doesn't want to go with the frontline people, then should we make a list?"

"Row."

The subordinate's words made the leader silent for a while, and then he only said one word.

Although the list was finalized after comprehensive consideration by him and people from other departments, it would indeed be troublesome if a person with critical ability was missing at the last minute, but that was not a problem, he could withstand the pressure.

After all, the leader was one of the people who didn't want the child to go from the beginning.

However, his opinion was in conflict with the proposals of others, and in the end, the others participating in the meeting gave the choice to the child and let the child make his own choice.

And the results are on the list before you.

Thinking of this, he raised his hand and gently rubbed his temples, then stood up and walked to the window, looking at the rain outside. There was no emotion on his face, but a sense of loneliness emanated from his whole body.

Being in his current position, he has to make some decisions in order to ensure the survival of more people.

He knew very well that the choices made by such a young child would usually not count, but he still followed the child's choice, remained silent, and agreed to let the child go on this mission.

In fact, when he put the list down, he felt that he was hypocritical. Since all the children had to go in the end, his initial opposition was even more ironic in comparison.

The captain of the third team went to the child specifically because of the list in his hand. His intention was very obvious, which was to persuade the child to give up following them, but the final result was not what he wanted to see.

"My dear, you don't know how dangerous the place we are going to this time is."

The captain of the third team squatted down, looked at the child in front of him, and persuaded him softly.

"Uncle Captain, I know. I'm not one of those kids who knows nothing."

Faced with the persuasion of the captain of the third team, the child just shook his head. When he saw that the captain of the third team hung his head in disappointment and was unwilling to continue persuading him, he finally spoke and made his decision more firm.

"you……"

Faced with the child's determined look, Captain Three was speechless.

He wanted to say something more, but didn't know how to say it. In the end, he fell silent and turned to look at the drunk who was watching their conversation.

"This kid wants to go, and no one can easily influence his decision."

Meeting the third captain's gaze, the drunk shook his head slightly.

His child was so determined that he, as a father, could not easily influence the child's thoughts. Since he could not persuade him, he could only agree.

"I don't know where this kid got such a righteous idea. No matter how much I try to persuade him, it's useless."

The drunkard said this, his tone full of helplessness.

"So you're just going to watch him take risks?"

The third captain couldn't understand. Wasn't this the child he'd searched so hard for to find? Why did he seem so indifferent now?

After staring at the drunkard for a long time, Captain Three saw that neither the father nor the son had any intention of moving, so he had to give up.

"Why……"

As the man walked away, the drunkard walked over to his own child.

"There must be a lot of people sighing because of you today."

As he spoke, he leaned over and picked up the child.

Normally, given the child's current height, it would be inconvenient for a drunk to hold him, but he just wanted to hold him like this now.

"Dad, don't worry, I'm strong and will come back safely."

The child did not struggle even when being held by his father. Instead, he seemed to know that his father would be sad and tried to comfort him.

"Yeah, I know. I know our good boy is very good."

The drunk responded. He knew what his child was like. When faced with the child's comfort, the drunk responded as the child wished.

In fact, the drunkard's ability is no less special than that of a child, but the drunkard's strength is weak. Although his ability is special, it is not so useful when there are too many people.

Moreover, because the drunkard's ability tends to be auxiliary, if he goes with us, we will have to find someone to protect him, which is inconvenient.

That's why the people who decided the list didn't include drunkards.

However, the people above did not consider that no father would watch his child take risks, and there is even a high possibility that his child will lose his life.

The drunk man didn't show any movement on the surface. When the child was comforting him, he still had time to smile and pick up the child to go shopping.

Also because he was so quiet and reassuring, many people began to ignore him.

So much so that when the organized front-line team of capable people set off, no one saw or noticed him among the people seeing them off.

Finally, it was a member of the third team who stayed behind to defend that went around to each house and found that the drunk was not there.

After checking the surveillance footage for a long time, it was discovered that the drunkard had left the temporary residence area ahead of the group that had set out earlier.

"Well, it's still raining outside, the weather is getting colder, and the mutant plants and animals are showing signs of strength that a single user can't handle. What does he want to do by going out now?"

Everyone who saw this scene looked at each other. One of them couldn't stand their silent atmosphere any more, but he didn't dare to say his guess directly, so he could only ask this question.

In fact, they all already had the answer in their hearts, but none of them could express it out loud.

How could they say that they were pushing a child of only a few years old out on a dangerous mission just to survive, to buy space for them to survive?

Or is it that these powerful people can only hide in the dark, watching other people's children go out for adventures without even paying much attention to their relatives, or only realize that they are gone long after they have left?

"Don't think too much about it now. We've been busy preparing supplies for war these past few days, so it's inevitable that we might have overlooked something. You never expected him to choose to leave."

After hearing about the situation here, the subordinates around the leader came over to check the surveillance and confirmed that the person left on his own and that he deliberately avoided others when leaving. So they knew that this behavior was the result of careful consideration.

Although he felt a little uncomfortable, he turned around and saw some silent players in Team 3, and still spoke out to comfort them.

This is not their problem in itself. Because of the leaders' decision to transfer the strongest group of people with special abilities away from the temporary residence, it is not easy for the remaining people with special abilities to fill the vacancies left by those who have left. Given their strength, it is still very difficult to completely prevent the original positions of those who have left.

Even now, there are still people with special abilities left to defend against the gap, but they find that they cannot defend it, so they can only defend one gap with two or three people together.

If you don't have enough strength, you can only make up for it with numbers.

With such a shortage of manpower, it is already great that some people still want to take advantage of the rare rest time to check on whether the relatives of their teammates who have gone out on a mission and left behind are doing well.

"So what should we do now? They've already left, and it's so dangerous out there. Are we just going to leave it alone?"

Knowing that they still had work to do and could not leave without permission, let alone go out to look for people, the members of the three teams were worried and didn't know what to do.

"Don't worry about this for now. I'll talk to the leadership. The research institute can use satellites to detect the ground and locate the communicator. Do your best to find it. You guys can continue working."

After the leader's subordinate finished speaking, he waved his hand, indicating that he would take over the matter and the members of Team 3 went to do their own things. Things had come to this point and they could not delay the work at hand any longer.

They were so busy that they had little time to rest. It was important to defend against the mutated animals and plants that came to attack. This was a consensus among those who knew the situation outside.

"Okay, let's go to work first. I'll come ask you when we're done. We'll be leaving now."

Since they said so, the members of Team Three also knew what to prioritize, so they could only agree and turn around and leave.

The incident on their side came to a temporary end, but for the drunkard, the whole incident had just begun.

After all, his ability is not as good as those people with strong hidden abilities. To be honest, in terms of the ability to survive in the wild, he is not even as good as the foxes who followed Ali and Huhu back to the village.

At least the fox could move among those mutated plants and animals without being detected.

As long as it has enough power, can be used continuously and is not exhausted, it is no problem to hang out outside every day.

The drunkard's abilities were different, he could only appease the mutated plants and animals.

His abilities don't provide him with any means of attack. When he encounters mutated plants and animals that aren't affected by his abilities, he's no match for them. He can only quickly run out of their attack range to survive.

Of course, he did not rush out without any preparation. Before he came out, he took with him all the weapons from the research institute that he could buy and carry with him.

The minimum survival guarantee is that you don’t have to worry until the weapons and resources are used up.

Of course, he has been in the official ability team for such a long time, so he must have some skills. At the critical moment, he can burst out.