“We’re leaving tomorrow morning, why bring him here? He’s so stupid he can’t even cook a packet of instant noodles properly. He might starve to death in the villa.”
Sun Tiantian gave Sun Zhe a scathing critique.
Her younger brother is fine, he's just a bit slow-witted.
Lu Sheng handed the scarf to Sun Tiantian and said seriously, "It's precisely because we're leaving tomorrow that we're bringing Sun Zhe over."
“The research institute must have spies within the military as well. We’ll leave the base with the Desert Eagle team tomorrow, and the research institute will react soon.”
Sun Zhe was alone in the base and had no special abilities, making him the easiest hostage to control.
She won't leave her weaknesses for others to exploit at will.
"Understood……"
After Lu Sheng's reminder, Sun Tiantian finally realized what was going on. The group quickly drove to Nightfall Bar and dragged Sun Zhe, who was still in bed, into the car.
After spending the night making preparations, Lu Sheng and his group met up with the Desert Eagle team at the base entrance early the next morning.
In addition to the original five members of the Desert Eagle team, the military team has three more members.
There was Jiang Qichen, Wu Hainan, and a tall, beautiful woman.
Lu Sheng now has an extra burden, Sun Zhe.
For this operation, the military prepared a modified military truck. Several people got into the truck, and Jiang Qichen introduced the two new members to Lu Sheng's team.
"Wu Hainan, fire-type ability; Sun Di, olfactory ability."
The two men waved to the tofu pudding team in a friendly manner.
"How do we find Chief Engineer Han?" Once in the car, Lu Sheng had no time for pleasantries and asked directly.
Jiang Qichen turned his gaze to Sun Di, "Sun Di's olfactory ability has been developed to the third level. He can determine the current location of Chief Engineer Han by smelling the personal items that Chief Engineer Han has touched alone."
As he spoke, Jiang Qichen gave Li Song a wink, "Did you find the item?"
"Found it! Found it!" Li Song hurriedly pulled out a tied black plastic bag and handed it to Sun Di. "Xiao Di, take a sniff."
Sun Di's polite smile twisted the moment he opened the plastic bag.
"Li Song! Why did you take an unwashed sock?!" she yelled in despair.
A sock that hadn't been washed for who knows how many days was covered in a thick layer of dust; when Sun Di took it out, it was practically steaming.
Li Song frowned in distress. "Xiao Yun sneaked into the research institute to search, but Chief Engineer Han's room was emptied. They only found this one sock under the bed."
"Sun Di".
Jiang Qichen looked displeased, and the atmosphere inside the military truck immediately plummeted to freezing point.
"Alright, alright, stop bullying the little girl." Wu Hainan stepped in to smooth things over, whispering a few words in Sun Di's ear.
Sun Di then sullenly sniffed his socks and said in a low voice, "About 1,500 kilometers to the northwest."
With the human-shaped drug-sniffing dog Sun Di, the military truck sped northwest, driving from the city into the remote suburbs where few people ventured, and the road conditions changed from smooth highways to bumpy dirt roads.
The car bumped along the way, and the people on board all looked unwell, feeling like their stomachs were about to churn.
Finally, just as dusk was falling, we parked the pickup truck next to a ranger's cabin at the foot of the mountain.
The longer the delay, the greater the danger for Chief Engineer Han and Han Rui.
To save time, the two teams agreed to rest for an hour and have dinner at the foot of the mountain before continuing their trek through the night to make up for lost time.
Li Song and his team prepared a lot of individual combat rations, and each person was also equipped with a bottle of electrolyte water.
Xiao Lin came over and brought Lu Sheng and the others several bags of individual combat rations, and also prepared canned fruit for Lu Sheng and Sun Tiantian.
"You can keep it for yourselves; we've prepared our own food."
Lu Sheng thanked him lightly, took out several boxes of Haidilao self-heating hot pot from his bag, and then took out a box of fresh and crisp Jaboticaba fruit.
If these individual combat rations are made from genetically modified crops grown at the base, it would be counterproductive to consume them.
After adding water, the self-heating hot pot quickly started bubbling and steaming.
The rich aroma of butter broth wafted out with the steam, drawing the attention of the Desert Eagle team as they looked longingly towards Lu Sheng and his group.
With Jiang Qichen and Wu Hainan in charge, the group didn't dare to say much and could only eat silently while enjoying the aroma.
Sun Di was the most unlucky one.
After awakening her superpower, her sense of smell was thousands of times stronger than that of an ordinary person. While others might find the smell of chili peppers simply fragrant, she only took two breaths before her nasal cavity became swollen from the irritation.
Finally, having no other choice, Sun Di could only crumple up two tissues into balls and stuff them into his nostrils to force himself to eat dinner.
After the meal, neither team spoke again, and they sat on the ground silently to recover their strength.
"Lu Sheng!"
As the break was about to end, Zhuangzhuang suddenly jumped up from the ground and restlessly circled around Lu Sheng's feet, meowing.
"There are about a dozen or so objects with an index of 30 approaching us! They're moving very fast!"
Lu Sheng opened her eyes and grabbed Sun Zhe from the ground. "Xiao Zhe, get in the car first and lock the doors."
Knowing that staying there would only cause trouble, Sun Zhe immediately turned and ran towards the military truck.
"What's wrong?" Wu Hainan asked upon seeing this.
Lu Sheng frowned. "Something is approaching."
As soon as she finished speaking, a rustling sound came from above the forest ranger's hut.
It sounded like tires running over a green belt, or like the sound of a paper shredder.
The Desert Eagle squad dared not be negligent and immediately got up to prepare for battle.
They had just formed their ranks when the rustling sound was already close at hand. The next second, two milky-white, translucent tentacles suddenly emerged from the forest.
"It's... a snail...?"
Sun Di said with a strange expression, "It's the fishy smell of snail slime..."
Before she could finish speaking, her two milky-white tentacles suddenly began to tremble restlessly. Accompanied by the sound of grass and trees collapsing, more than a dozen enormous mutated snails charged wildly out of the forest.
These snails are entirely milky white, with their shells evolving to be multicolored. Their bodies are so large that they resemble small tanks, and with each crawl, they crush a patch of grass and trees.
"This thing looks pretty delicious. I wonder how many plates of baked snails one can make."
Wu Hainan stared at the giant snail's plump and juicy meat and swallowed.
Baked snails were his favorite food before the apocalypse; he ate them at least once a week.
Pfft!
Before Wu Hainan could even make a move, the giant snail suddenly spat out a puddle of slime at him.
He couldn't dodge in time, and a tiny bit of the down jacket's hem got on it, instantly burning a large hole in it.
"Snail mucus is corrosive, so be careful."
Lu Sheng shouted a reminder and quickly led Sun Tiantian and the others to a position outside the snail's firing range.
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