Chapter 78 May you still have people to keep in touch with even in the apocalypse.
The assassins had been mostly dealt with, and Zhao Bohan carried Yu Shuang to the two cars.
Su Qingran climbed into the car and searched around, and sure enough, she found a small first-aid kit!
Portable oxygen, puncture tubes, painkillers, adrenaline—everything she needed was there! Overjoyed, she grabbed her suitcase and immediately began emergency treatment for Tang Long's gunshot wound.
As Zhao Bohan and his group rushed over, the last assassin, seeing that all was lost, tried to run, but Zhuang Xiao had already aimed at his head.
Qi An said, "Leave them alive!"
Zhuang Xiao switched from shooting the man in the head to shooting him in the leg, and dragged the young man, who looked to be only in his early twenties, back.
"What if there's something like hidden drugs?" Qi An asked.
Zhuang Xiao tore off a piece of the man's clothes and stuffed it into his mouth, then used strips of cloth to tightly bind his hands.
"No matter what happens, he won't die. He'll just be a test subject for the rest of his life!" Zhuang Xiao said viciously.
The young man's face showed despair, followed by ferocity, which accelerated his own transformation!
The tall man on the ranch stared at the vital signs of the last person on the tablet, thinking to himself, "He's about to die! Or he'll mutate!"
Don't get caught and tortured into confessing, or you'll drag the ranch into this mess!
But Qi An was right next to this person, and with one purification, the young man's screams lessened considerably!
Moreover, she had already seen through this person's past.
This man's name is Liu Hui. He graduated from middle school and got into the security team through family connections. His position is low-level, and he only handles petty theft cases in low-end residential areas and small commercial streets.
However, the people he came into contact with were a mixed bag, which ironically created opportunities for him to accept bribes and connect with scoundrels and people involved in shady dealings.
Liu Hui's boss did just that, and Liu Hui followed suit, assisting him from the side. In just two years, his wallet became bulging.
However, Liu Hui was young and loved to show off. He flaunted his nice clothes and cell phone without any regard for others, which attracted an investigation. He was also embroiled in a dirty affair involving jealousy that led to the deaths of several people. He was pushed out by his superior to be a scapegoat.
Faced with the choice between becoming an experimental subject or spending half his life as a laborer digging for insect oil, he chose to fake his death to cancel his registration and enter the "New Source" ranch, becoming a "dead man" who helped the ranch with illegal work in order to earn a little bit of freedom to live.
Qi An murmured the name "Xinyuan Ranch" between his lips.
Su Qingran finished her first aid, but Tang Long's face was ashen, and he was in a semi-comatose state.
"We're heading back to base right away!" Su Qingran said.
Emergency treatment can only prolong life; no one's condition can be delayed!
Zhao Bohan looked at Qi An.
At this moment, the most critical issue is Qi An. Yu Shuang and Tang Long are seriously injured, and they will be unable to control their mutations due to their survival instinct, just like Professor Guan did.
He hasn't officially become a purification master yet, so he can't guarantee the pollution levels of the two people and the people in the two cars!
A fact was laid bare before him: their team couldn't do without Qi An.
She was both their strength lock and their lucky star and lifeline.
Perhaps Liu Hui personally approached Qi An to try and poach her because she had seen through this.
She can be any team's trump card; it's just that their Wind Riding Team 2 was lucky!
He looked at Qi An, and Qi An looked at him. Every second of this standoff was consuming the lives of Yu Shuang and Tang Long, and the lives of all of them.
Qi An lowered his eyes: "Let's go, I'll go back with you."
A myriad of emotions welled up in Zhao Bohan's heart. After a long while, he said in a hoarse voice, "Okay... thank you, Xiao Qi."
Qi An got into the car and took Yu Shuang's hand.
Yu Shuang was indeed undergoing a transformation. Her entire back was covered with horrific burn wounds oozing pus, and dense granulation tissue was wriggling within them, a sight that would send chills down anyone's spine!
Despite the excruciating pain that he couldn't even pinpoint, Qi An cleansed Yu Shuang's body.
Zhao Bohan glanced at it and then started the vehicle.
He had complete faith in Qi An's purification abilities, but the crisis did not simply disappear.
He wasn't wearing a seatbelt, and he couldn't even lean against the seat back because his back was also covered in blood and gore, and he was afraid that if he leaned against it, his back would stick to the dirty seat cover.
Qi An was also seriously injured and looked somewhat dazed.
It takes four hours to drive back to the base from here. Can they make it that far?
Even if they manage to hold out, will the enemy find out about their injuries? Will they send another group of assassins to intercept them?
The possibility of this is extremely high!
"Is our tablet still there?" Qi An opened his eyes two minutes later and asked Zhao Bohan.
“Yes, it can still be opened,” Zhao Bohan said, knowing what Qi An was asking. “But I suspect that the command is not in Wei Fengduo’s hands, but in Wu Zirui’s.”
Our cries for help will only make the situation worse.
This is similar to the dilemma Yang Yuning faced at the time—before soldiers went out on missions, their personal communication devices would be inspected and Starlink would be blocked.
They can only communicate with their superiors through military channels!
Yu Shuang has a personal cell phone, but it's a second-hand one. Zhao Bohan just took it out to look at it, and it was already damaged by the shock.
"We have two options: one is to hold on and prepare for the next wave of impact; the other is to turn around and go to the Central Plains No. 2 Base, which is about 200 kilometers away from here."
"We are soldiers from other regions, injured during a mission. We should be able to enter the Central Plains Base No. 2 for treatment." Zhao Bohan didn't just point out the problem; he offered a solution.
However, both of these plans are not very feasible. Su Qingran said, "The captain's situation is a bit dangerous... Will we encounter the Fallen Insects if we go to Central Plains No. 2? How long will it take for us to enter the unfamiliar base, prove our identities, and get through customs?"
Her voice was almost desperate; she was always pessimistic and was already recalling their disastrous last collaboration with Team 1.
They lost almost half their men that time!
Qi An, however, found a new cell phone in his pocket.
Xiang Shiyang's phone, bought with her money, is a brand new model, sturdy like a small hand grenade, and can even withstand the impact of a bomb.
The phone, protected by her and Yu Shuang's bodies, could still be turned on. The screen displayed the following message:
"May you have someone to stay in touch with even in the end times." The message still appeared slowly and gently.
With the Starlink network connected normally, Qi An thought of three people he could contact.
Teacher Tang.
Chen Yuezhou.
Zhao Bohan's older brother, Zhao Bowen.
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