The hospital was a densely populated area before the apocalypse. Although the apocalypse here did not start in the hospital, the two words themselves easily arouse people's various fantasies. If they did not accept a special mission, ordinary teams of superpowers would not easily come to the hospital. Therefore, looking over there from a distance, the zombies were already densely packed and black, giving people goose bumps all over their bodies.
Shao Nan and his team's mission was to obtain medical equipment and medicinal materials, and they did not intend to engage in direct conflict with the zombies unless necessary. After some planning, Shen Qing's team only sent out Tang Wenjie and Qu Weiwei, who were only responsible for controlling the metal cage and vine wall throughout the process, and did not need to kill the zombies.
The military and the government's high-attack psychics are much higher than Shen Yan and Lu Ji, so they are responsible for killing the zombies. Two gold psychics plus one earth and one fire psychic, plus four space psychics responsible for installing equipment, ten people is almost the limit: Tang Wenjie needs to consume a lot of psychic power to control the metal cage, so the smaller the cage, the easier it is, and the stronger the endurance.
"Our team has been using this tactic for several months and is very proficient in it. Sister Weiwei and Wen Jie have worked very well together. I hope that once you enter the hospital, you will try to follow the pace of our two team members and don't rush. It doesn't matter if you are slow. If you run out of energy, you can rest inside. Safety comes first, and you must not rush in."
For Shen Qing and Song Kaiji, as long as there is no shortage of supplies and no pressure to survive, life safety always comes first.
Several people verbally agreed. Hou Weimin looked around and said to the fire-type mutant, "Xiao Li, you stay. I'll follow you."
Hou Weimin is also a superpower, but in his team, his superpower is not the highest, but he has a higher position and more leadership ability. However, the most feared thing for such a temporary team is that they can't get along well and are unwilling to accept each other. They are all young people with full blood. Hou Weimin has seen it all along. Even the officials and military personnel he led have some intentions of showing off, and the situation of forming a group is very serious.
Not to mention the civilian superpower team. Hou Weimin was afraid that they would agree to it verbally, but would have other ideas after entering the hospital, and then cause a conflict and cause some unnecessary losses.
Besides: "There might be some special equipment or medicine in the hospital that cannot be exposed to open flames, so fire-related abilities might not be very convenient."
After he said that, Xiao Li quietly stepped down and gave his position to Hou Weimin. Tang Wenjie and Qu Weiwei had no objection. It didn't matter who they led. It was much easier to have their own leader to manage their subordinates. They just had to focus on being tools.
"There is one more thing," Song Kaiji thought for a moment, and then said to Hou Weimin, "We are not greedy for money and don't want to give up the crystal cores, but if we don't dig out the crystal cores, it may stimulate the emergence of mutant zombies." He described the scene he saw at the gate of Yucai Middle School and the mutant zombie he encountered on the way to Zizhou: "So, it is better to dig out all the crystal cores even if it takes a little more time."
Especially since this is a hospital, no one would come here easily. Leaving zombie corpses and crystal cores inside, who knows what kind of poison would be bred?
After hearing this, Hou Weimin and Shao Nan looked at each other and said, "You also know about mutant zombies?"
Hearing them say this, it seems that the Hongcheng authorities have long been aware that zombies can evolve and mutate, but they just haven't announced it to the public. Song Kaiji nodded: "I only encountered that one. Not only did that zombie mutate, but there was also a mutant vine that would cooperate with the mutant zombie."
Shao Nan and Hou Weimin looked even more solemn. In fact, neither of them had seen a mutant zombie in person, but they were in a position that made it easier for them to get some information. Three months ago, the first mutant zombie was discovered by the official search and rescue team of Hongcheng Base, much earlier than the one Shen Qing and his team encountered. One third of the rescue team died on the spot, and they had to give up killing the mutant zombie and flee back to the base.
It was a zombie that was completely metalized. Ordinary superpowers and bullets could not penetrate its body at all. Finally, the authorities mobilized all high-level fire-type superpower users to burn it together, and finally it was burned and melted into a pool of black water.
The mutant zombie that Shen Qing and his friends encountered should also be of the gold type, at least the crystal core sucked away by Qu Weiwei was of the gold type. However, the skin was not metalized, but rubberized, and was also difficult to break. I wonder if it was the predecessor of metalization.
It seems that zombie mutation also has stages.
Hou Weimin sighed: "Thank you, we understand and will be careful."
Before leaving, Shen Qing pulled Tang Wenjie and Qu Weiwei aside and secretly told them: "It would be best if they cooperate with your action. We originally wanted to have a good relationship with the official and military people so that we can get in touch with the seeds. But if someone in there loses his mind and insists on having his own way... your safety is the most important thing."
He handed Tang Wenjie and Qu Weiwei a backpack each, which contained some food and half a backpack of crystal cores. If an accident happened, with Tang Wenjie and Qu Weiwei's abilities, they would have no problem hiding and saving their lives. These food, water and crystal cores would be enough for them to sustain for two to three days if they were to be saved, and they would be able to crawl out even if they had to.
The two took it, took off their coats, put on their backpacks, and then put on their coats: "Boss, don't worry, we will come back safely. In a few days, we will bring Sister Bingbing and Lele to go shopping together."
Qu Weiwei half-jokingly said, "I see that this team is very envious of our metal cages. Maybe they will pester us to learn it when they return to the base. Once this tactic becomes popular, the speed of the base's recovery of the city will be greatly accelerated. By then, someone might come to snatch these small commodities from us. We must be one step ahead."
Tang Wenjie and Qu Weiwei led a group of people slowly towards the hospital, while Shao Nan led the rest of the people and retreated to the roof of a six-story residential building not far away with Shen Qing and others.
This residential building may have been used as their base before, there are no zombies nearby or inside the building, and the entrance to the building has been sealed by earth-related supernatural powers. At this time, climbing to the top of the building, they can use a telescope to observe the situation in the hospital ahead.
It was Shen Qing's first time to be on the roof of a modern residential building. He pointed at the solar water heater and asked Song Kaiji curiously. Song Kaiji briefly explained the role of solar energy to him, and Shen Qing's eyes widened: "Can it heat water without electricity? And can it charge mobile phones?"
Song Kaiji nodded: "My roommate bought a solar cell phone charger, and I played with it, but it charged very slowly."
Shen Qing's face was full of desire. He wanted everything now.
On the other side, Xiao Li came to Shao Nan and complained unhappily: "Captain Hou is too biased. This time in the hospital, except for the four space ability users, the three who fought were all their official people. They will definitely take all the credit on them when they go back. They say that fire ability is dangerous, but is his lightning ability safe?"
Shao Nan put down the telescope, frowned and glanced at Shen Qing and others not far away, then lowered his voice and said: "Don't talk nonsense, there are outsiders. What will happen if the news gets out?" After a pause, he said: "This operation was originally led by the government. Our military is just a brother unit to help. Naturally, Captain Hou and his men will be the main ones."
Xiao Li scratched his hair in annoyance: "But the two who died two days ago were both our brothers! They got the benefits first, and we stayed behind when there was danger... It's not that we can't stay behind, it's just that I'm not happy about it!"
Shao Nan wanted to say something, but when he looked up, he saw Song Kaiji walking towards them. He gently kicked Xiao Li with his foot, asking him to move aside, and smiled at Song Kaiji, "Excuse me for making fun of you."
"What are you laughing at? We cooked some food, please come over and have a taste." Song Kaiji said with a smile.
He doesn't care about any conflicts between the two teams, but if their conflicts can become a breakthrough to improve their relationship, Song Kaiji doesn't mind taking advantage of it.
Shao Nan twitched his nose a few times. Song Kaiji and the others were too much. After Shen Qing visited various types of solar water heaters, he actually asked the earth-type supernatural in the team to build a stove, and then got a big pot from somewhere and started cooking on the spot. If zombies had no sense of smell, the fragrance would have attracted zombies within a ten-mile radius.
The people in their team also turned their heads to look over there frequently.
The soldiers in the base would not starve. But they were here for a mission, not an outing, so the food and drinks they brought were mainly for convenience, and they had been eating compressed military rations for several days. Moreover, the four space ability users who carried most of the food were all in the hospital, so they could not even eat the most ordinary boxed lunches for the time being.
Shao Nan repeatedly refused, adhering to the principle of not taking anything from the masses. But Song Kaiji still invited him warmly: "We have gained a lot from this mission, and we would like to borrow some momentum when we return to the base. It will be much safer to go with you. This meal is our reward."
"You have that cage, it's very safe." Shao Nan said embarrassedly.
"It's safe, but it's tiring and the pace is slow. We still don't have enough people in the team and can't hold up."
Finally, Shao Nan found four cans of luncheon meat and two cans of braised pork in brown sauce in his backpack and gave them to Song Kaiji, and they were considered as members of the gang. Song Kaiji opened the cans in front of everyone and poured them into the pot, making the aroma even stronger.
Shen Qing took out another pile of bowls: these bowls were just collected from the small commodity wholesale market. They were made of thin glaze and fine porcelain, with exquisite patterns painted on the outside and gold edges. They were extremely exquisite. Shen Qing didn't plan to keep them for himself. In the future, when he opened his own shop in the county, he would sell them to rich people. They would definitely be popular!
It’s a good time to take it out and use it now.
Cabbage, frozen tofu, and potato vermicelli are cooked in it, with a lot of thinly sliced pork belly, oil residue, and sliced starch sausage. Now canned luncheon meat and canned braised pork are added to it. One spoonful of it divides the meat and vegetables into half. How many people have not eaten such a good meal since the end of the world!
Each person was given a large bowl of vegetables, which they could eat on their own or with the coarse grain pancakes distributed by the base. Soaked in the sticky vegetable soup, the coarse grain pancakes that were originally irritating to the throat tasted extremely delicious!
After the meal, everyone felt closer to Shen Qing and the others, and occasionally chatted with them. Shao Nan looked at the white rice in their bowls and became even more curious: the food supply in the base is tight now, and rice is not grown much, so only high-level officials can eat it. Even middle-level leaders like him know this. Most people eat coarse grain pancakes, and cornmeal pancakes are good enough for the more refined ones. How did Shen Qing and the others get so much rice?
Song Kaiji was waiting for them to ask, and he went through so much trouble, building a stove and inviting them to dinner, just to arouse their curiosity. Hearing this, he pretended to be innocent and said, "We planted it ourselves. We have a wood-type supernatural being. We can dig a basket of soil and plant it in the yard."
Hearing this, Shao Nan became even more curious: "Where did you get the grain seeds?"
If it's just food, it's possible that we can find supplies before the end of the world, but seeds have been monopolized by the Rainbow City Base for a long time?
"The purpose of our trip this time is to collect grain seeds." Song Kaiji and Shen Qing looked at each other and smiled a little: the fish has taken the bait.
"The previous seeds were given to us by a beautiful woman. She has left Hongcheng Base and went north to find her relatives. We heard that the yield of several vegetables in Hongcheng Base has increased recently and the seed reserves have been stable. They were developed by hybridizing the original seeds of Hongcheng Base with the seeds of that beautiful woman." Song Kaiji first separated Qu Weiwei and fabricated a beautiful woman who had gone far away.
Chen Jiaqian learned this information by reading the memories of senior officials in the Institute's Ministry of Agriculture. The military only knew that the institute had developed high-yield and stable vegetable varieties, and that grain varieties would soon be developed, but they knew nothing about what was going on behind the scenes.
However, an official team member frowned upon hearing this and said, "Aren't the vegetable seeds from the institute created by them through researching mutant plants? What does this have to do with some beautiful woman?"
Song Kaiji said innocently, "I don't know. I just heard it from that beautiful lady. She is heading north and will not come back unless something unexpected happens. We have some friendship with her, so she gave us some seeds and told us the address where she found the seeds. We are going to look for them this time. We have several wood-type mutants, so we will be able to grow food at home in the future."
After he finished speaking, he looked at Shao Nan eagerly, looking forward to what Shao Nan would think.
Shao Nan: “…………”
Shao Nan pressed his temple and said, "Wait a minute, I'm a little messy, let me sort it out."
So the stable vegetable varieties of the institute were not developed by themselves, but were developed by hybridizing with other seeds? Then what about the grain varieties that the military is looking forward to? If there is no other hybridization, can it still be successfully born?
Have these seeds been found by Shen Qing and his team? Are they in Song Kaiji's hands?
He looked at Shen Qing and Song Kaiji hesitantly: "Can you show me the seeds you found?"
Shen Qing generously took out a bag of rapeseed seeds wrapped in oil paper, which contained about two hundred seeds, and showed it to Shao Nan.
Shao Nan stared at the seeds in his hand in confusion, not knowing whether he should believe it or not.
Shen Qing and his team discussed for a long time before choosing Shao Nan instead of Hou Weimin. Compared with the two, Hou Weimin was older, more mature, and more cunning. Shen Qing watched coldly. Hou Weimin probably realized that his team had something to ask of them, so he was so enthusiastic, helping them get into the hospital and teaching them the secrets of the metal cage.
Hou Weimin watched the whole process coldly, very leisurely, like an old fox waiting for the fish to take the bait. He accepted all the enthusiastic flattery of Shen Qing and Song Kaiji, just waiting for the moment when they could no longer hold back and told him what they wanted.
But Shen Qing doesn't like being a fisherman. He also wants to be a fisherman.
Shao Nan seemed much more innocent. He was just happy that the task could be completed as soon as possible, and his gratitude to them was genuine.
Song Kaiji had pointed out what needed to be pointed out, and the rest depended on Shao Nan to figure it out by himself. He was simple, so it didn't matter if he couldn't figure it out, because there was a team of military personnel following him, and there would always be smart people who could help him.
Similarly, there are also some smart people among those who stay under the official control.
After more than three hours, several people quietly came downstairs. Shen Qing looked down and saw a car slowly driving away from where they temporarily camped.
Shao Nan looked at Song Kaiji again, and his smile was a little forced: "I wonder if there is any room in your car? I have something urgent to ask them to go back to the base to report. If possible, let me squeeze in."
Song Kaiji smiled: "I'm very happy to do so."
Compared with the government, the military's control over the base is slightly weaker, and they can't intervene in many things. For example, the collection of entry fees for refugees into the city, which has been argued with the government for a long time but has not been changed. Now the entry fee has been reduced, which is entirely the government's own pace. At present, the Hongcheng base is still dominated by the government and the military is auxiliary. A large part of the reason is that the government controls three farms and monopolizes seeds, holding the lifeline of everyone in Hongcheng.
However, Shen Qing and his men did not intend to take advantage of anyone's power to bully others. They had financial resources and were not bad in strength. They just wanted to make those who were plotting against them hesitate. In this way, the power of the military, even Shao Nan's personal power, would be enough.
Once the news reaches the military high-level officials, they will find out that the newly developed vegetable seeds are indeed not developed by the institute itself, as Song Kaiji said, but need to be hybridized with seeds from the outside world. And these seeds are in the hands of Shen Qing and Song Kaiji. Then, can the lifeblood of Hongcheng Base be transferred to the hands of the military through Shen Qing and Song Kaiji?
After all, with the seeds and the military having no shortage of wood-type supernaturals, they can start their own business and open their own farm! With food and clothing solved, whoever has the stronger fist will be the boss, right?
All Shen Qing and Song Kaiji needed to do at this time was to wait. Wait for the military to find out the results themselves, and wait for them to come to them.
Many people understood this. The military had already reported back to Hongcheng, and the remaining officials were as anxious as ants on a hot pot. But Hou Weimin and his team did not come out of the hospital until the moon was at its highest point in the sky, and eight hours had passed before they saw the familiar metal cage through the telescope, moving out of the hospital gate little by little.
Looking at the familiar metal cage and the vines flying out of the cage from time to time, Shen Qing and Song Kaiji both breathed a sigh of relief: Qu Weiwei and Tang Wenjie came out safely.
"Let's go, hurry up and get them!" The most anxious were the remaining members of the official team. Shao Nan didn't want to embarrass them in this matter, so he immediately led the team downstairs. After more than half an hour of fierce fighting, they finally got out of the dense encirclement of zombies.
"I really want to thank you all this time! Without your help, we don't know how long this mission would have been delayed and how many brothers would have been injured!" Hou Weimin was really happy at this moment. With the help of Tang Wenjie and Qu Weiwei, they exceeded the target and filled the space of the four space ability users. In addition to the equipment and medicines mentioned in the task list, they also got a lot of good things. The mission was done extremely well!
"This tactic is really useful. When we get back to the base, if we have time, I hope this little brother named Tang can spare some time to teach us. This method can save many lives if used flexibly." Hou Weimin no longer pretended to be an old fox at this time, and said sincerely: "Of course, if there is anything I can help with, just ask. As long as Brother Tang is willing to teach, I will do my best!"
Shen Qing sneered in his heart. So Xiao Tang had to teach them before they would help. If Xiao Tang didn't teach them, he wouldn't help them? They risked such a big risk to go to the hospital to complete the task for them, but there was no substantial reward. Just a few words of thanks and it was written off?
Officials are so smart!
However, before Hou Weimin could wait for a reply from Shen Qing and others, he was pulled aside by his men.
Song Kaiji patted Tang Wenjie on the shoulder, then looked at Qu Weiwei with concern: "How is it? Is everything going well? Are you injured?"
Both shook their heads. Qu Weiwei sneered and said, "It was a bit troublesome at the beginning, so we followed our original pace, killing for an hour and resting for half an hour, digging crystal cores, absorbing crystal cores, eating... In the end, some people really couldn't stand it, thinking that we were too timid, walking too slowly and resting too long, wasting time."
"Fortunately, the leader surnamed Hou went with us and suppressed the protesters. No matter how dissatisfied these people were, they only complained a few words in front of their leader. We didn't talk to them at all. Anyway, the cage was in Xiao Tang's hands. As long as we didn't move, the zombies couldn't get in, and they couldn't escape either. They had to listen to us. I don't know why they said those words to annoy others. It made him look bad."
The two of them have now trained their mentality. Arguing with these people over trivial matters will only affect their mood. They just treat these people with bad brains as if they don't exist, and do what they should do, and never let these external words affect their own rhythm.
Using tactics properly is much better than relying on high-level abilities to charge recklessly. Those who drown are all good swimmers, so why not use your brain?
However, after they collected the items from the two floors in an orderly manner, the gossipers also shut up. After that, they cooperated with their actions honestly and were really convinced by them.
"But it sounds to me like that Hou is planning to take our technology for free. When I was a tutor before, I was paid twenty dollars an hour. Now we are being taught such advanced technology, and he doesn't even give us any benefits?" Qu Weiwei pouted in dissatisfaction. He is a high-ranking official, but he is still so stingy and shrewd!
"He probably thinks we need help from them." Shen Qing glanced at Hou Weimin and saw that his expression changed several times as his subordinates reported to him, and it was visibly getting worse. "That's not wrong. If we only met him, we might really ask him for something. But now we are lucky to meet him and Shao Nan at the same time..."
Shen Qing's eyes gleamed with a gleam of light: "It's hard to say who is asking for help?"
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