Chapter 89: Arms Grabbing
The scorching sun shines on the earth. Although it is December, the weather is like midsummer. The air around me is so stuffy that it seems stagnant. Even if I lie in the shade of a tree, I still feel like I am going to evaporate.
Lu Ming finished drinking the fifth bottle of water, fanned his ears with his hands, and raised the telescope to look around.
Not finding any movement, she couldn't help but wail: "It's already the third day, when will they come?"
Gu Chao, who was beside her, stretched out his hand and placed it on her cheek, sending out breezes from his palm, which made Lu Ming feel a little better.
But after a moment, she pressed his big hand down again: "Forget it, let's not waste your supernatural power. You are not a wind element, so it will be hot no matter how you blow."
Gu Chao was disliked, but he was good-tempered and didn't say anything. Instead, he comforted her, "Hold on a little longer, it will probably be over soon."
The two were chatting when suddenly their ears moved. They stopped at the same time and looked into the distance.
“Boom.”
A moment later, four military trucks followed by two light armored vehicles came into their sight.
When several cars drove closer, Lu Ming turned to look at Gu Chao, his eyes sparkling and full of anticipation.
Gu Chao closed his eyes for a moment, then suddenly opened them.
"It's the two in the middle." Despite being of the same size, these two vehicles can carry more cargo than other cargo trucks.
Lu Ming was so happy that he almost jumped up. He had been waiting for so long and finally it happened!
She took out four small disc-shaped black objects from the space and handed them to Gu Chao. The latter took them, threw them into the air, and then raised his hand. The four small objects flew towards the two cars respectively. When they touched the car body, they automatically extended three suction cups and stuck firmly under the truck bed.
Then she took out a tracker modified from a mobile phone and tapped it a few times. Two bright red dots appeared on the map on the screen and kept moving towards the distance.
"Done!" She threw her head back and smiled.
Gu Chao looked at her smug expression and had no doubt that if she had a tail, it would have been flying up to the sky by now.
He chuckled and patted her head, "Come on, we're about to leave too."
-----------------
"Everyone in the team, set up camp right here!"
After a day's journey, it was now getting late and the road conditions were unclear, so we had to set up camp for the night.
Two military tents stood on the grass beside the road, with a bonfire burning next to them. Soldiers got off the car and lined up to receive dinner.
"This is yours."
The door of the rear cargo box of the military truck was lowered, and the two people in the truck reached out to take the dry food, said thank you and started eating.
"Hey, what exactly are these trucks carrying? Not only do they require two platoons to escort them, but they also have to have guards on the trucks overnight. Is that really that strict?"
"I don't know. It's important supplies anyway, so we should be more careful."
The three hours of duty were smooth sailing. When handing over the shift, the two men specifically instructed the next group to keep watch carefully.
One o'clock in the morning.
It's time to change shifts again.
Two people from each supply truck jumped out and saluted each other with their teammates.
However, no one expected that at this moment, a person suddenly appeared silently in the compartment of the second truck in the middle. This person gently lifted the green tarpaulin on the side of the compartment away from the campfire and quickly got out. At the same time, he put the black military supply box whose contents had long been replaced back to its original place, and then walked along the outside of the vehicle, passed by another person, and came to the outside of the third truck, and his figure disappeared on the spot.
The other person returned to the outside of the second truck, quickly tied up the loosened green tarpaulin, and then flashed into the woods beside the road.
After the shift was handed over, the third shift on duty got into the truck and briefly checked the supplies inside, but found nothing unusual.
These two people were Lu Ming and Gu Chao.
Lu Ming looked at his watch in the space, and waited until 5 minutes before the shift was about to end, which was when the soldiers on guard were the most sleepy. He slipped out of the space and got into the truck bed from the place that Gu Chao had unlocked before, leaving the entire outermost wall of supply boxes untouched. Using this row of piled-up boxes as a cover, he put all the other boxes into the space, adjusted the time flow rate to the maximum in the space, opened each box with his mind, took out the ammunition, put the stones that had been prepared long ago, sealed the box, and then left the space to put them back in place.
The third shift handover time has arrived.
Lu Ming did the same thing and quickly got out of the carriage while no one was paying attention to this side of the carriage. Seeing this, Gu Chao, who was waiting outside, quickly tied up the loose green canopy of the carriage.
The two of them flashed into the woods and ran away.
The substitution is now complete.
The next day, the escorting soldiers checked the supplies in each vehicle and continued driving towards their destination.
No one noticed that all the supplies in the two full trucks had been replaced.
The two damn thieves had already returned to the base in a newly acquired Wrangler.
City J is ten days away from City H, the destination the army wants to evacuate. Even if they transport the supplies there, they will find that the things are missing. By that time, the zombie tide will have passed and everything will have been settled. It will not be easy for them to come back to question or investigate.
It was already ten o'clock in the morning when the two returned to the base. Although they had been up all night, they had no time to rest because there were only five days left before the zombie wave.
Everyone gathered in the basement of the villa and began to count the weapons reserves, discuss the city defense plan, arrange personnel deployment, etc., in preparation for the upcoming zombie siege.
After the arms were brought back and counted, part of them were placed in the basement of the villa, part of them were packed into weapon packs and distributed to everyone, and the remaining part was placed in Lu Ming's space. This was also the lesson she learned last time, that they should not rely too much on the space, otherwise if it fails, they will be at a loss.
When the three parties gathered together, they naturally needed to discuss the issue of leadership. The other two parties felt inferior and agreed to lead the Chaoyang team without any objection. Naturally, Gu Chao served as the supreme commander.
After they clearly expressed their intention to bring their men to join the Chaoyang team, Gu Chao revealed Lu Ming's spatial ability to them, and everyone in the team began to drink spring water every day to strengthen their bodies, and took turns to go to the basement of the villa for special ability training or combat practice. After a week of training, almost everyone's strength increased significantly.
Their families also selected 20 people from among them and asked them to learn the most basic first aid methods from Dr. Wen every day in the hope of helping to the best of their ability.
They were very busy here, and the garrison in the base was no less busy, but they were busy evacuating.
Sometimes they would bring some of the soldiers' families with them. When the survivors in the villa and building areas saw this, they felt something was wrong. Although many people believed the official explanation given by the base that they were "supporting other bases and evacuating the overly dense crowd of survivors", there were still some people who smelled something unusual and were sniffing around for news.
To this day, there are only 350,000 people left in the entire base. The superficial calm can still be maintained, but undercurrents have long been surging.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
