After waiting in the small western-style building for two days, Jiang Jingchao still had no news about his family.
At the same time, there was no similar coded content under the missing person notice LED screen in the mission hall, which confirmed that his family did not come to the base.
Otherwise they would have found a way to contact him.
After waiting for another two days, Jiang Jingchao finally decided not to wait at the base any longer. He wanted to go check on his family and school.
However, Jiang Jingchao was afraid that his family might miss their arrival at the safe base during this period, so he went to the mission hall to change the content of the missing person notice.
——Let them see this message and wait for him at Base No. 3.
If Jiang Jingchao couldn't find anyone at home or school, he would return to the base again.
Ruan Ning occasionally went out with everyone to collect information these two days. Although she did not find Chaozi's family, she learned from the gossip why the people from the Dragon and Tiger Squad did not come to visit in the past few days.
They were in trouble outside the base.
On the day of the fight, the members of the Dragon and Tiger Squad had just taken on a mission to collect supplies outside the base.
Originally, according to the mission description, in addition to some ordinary zombies, there were two first-level mutant zombies in the supermarket, one with speed and one with wind. Mutated zombies are generally stronger than the psychics of the same level, but the leader of the Dragon Tiger Team is a second-level wind psychic, and he has many other psychic members under him, and their strength is enough to deal with these two mutant zombies.
The reason why the Dragon Tiger Team took on this mission and went to a supermarket with so many zombies was mainly because of the crystal cores of the two mutant zombies. Especially the wind-type mutant crystal core, the captain of the Dragon Tiger Team was determined to get it.
What no one expected was that the intelligence provided by the base was wrong, and extremely wrong.
First, the wind-type mutant zombie they thought was a level one was not a level one. It had advanced from level one to level two, becoming more difficult to deal with. Second, there were not only two mutant zombies in the supermarket, but also a third one.
Due to a mistake in intelligence, the Dragon Tiger Squad was trapped in the supermarket for three days and three nights. They finally managed to escape from the supermarket and return to the base yesterday. The team suffered heavy losses. It is said that several esper users died in the team, and even the captain, who was a second-level wind esper user, was seriously injured.
They are busy with their own affairs now. Even if they knew about the fight, they probably don't have the time and energy to come and look for them. And it's still hard to say whether the strong psychic brother survived the mission.
When Ruan Ning heard the news, although it seemed a bit immoral to gloat over other people's misfortune at this time, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
It seems that the fight is now settled.
They will leave the base this morning. Even if the strong psychic brother is not dead, he may think of what happened to his brother later and want to settle the score with him. However, all the members of their Dawn Team are no longer in the base, so he can only regret it in secret.
There was one more person in the team, that is, after Su Yunjin, there were not enough seats in the two cars.
Thinking that they would have to pick up Jiang Jingchao's parents and brother anyway, the team simply used the remaining contribution points to buy a modified off-road vehicle at the base. The price was not expensive, and even compared to the prices before the end of the world, it could be said to be very cheap.
But this is normal. In the end times, all kinds of scrapped and unscrapped cars can be seen everywhere on the road. Even outside the base, there are many unwanted cars. Although they may not be as good as the one they bought with contribution points in the base, many of them can still be driven, and even the keys have not been taken off.
It's not that those people don't want a car. A car is always better than walking on foot. It's just that gasoline is too scarce and many people simply can't get gasoline, so so many people give up their cars.
But Ruan Ning's team was different. When they were in City S, they stored an entire tanker truck into the space. Although the gasoline was not so much that it could not be used up, there was still enough gasoline for one more truck.
In fact, there are several cars in Gu Yicheng's space, which were put in when he was collecting supplies before the end of the world. The performance is excellent. However, these cars are brand new from the inside to the outside, and they are too conspicuous when driving on the road, so he didn't take them out.
By dividing the twelve people into three cars, there was much more space on the cars.
Ruan Ning's car still had the same lineup as at the beginning, that is, she, Gu Yicheng, Lin Yang, and Jiang Jingchao. Their car was in the front because Jiang Jingchao was the driver and he was the only one who knew where the school and home were.
The remaining five people including Xue Chen, Xu Chi, Dr. An, and Su Yunjin were divided into two cars.
The first place they went to was the university of Jiang Jingchao's younger brother Jiang Jingyang, which was B University.
B University is one of the best universities in G Province and has two campuses. Jiang Jingyang is a freshman in the Department of Philosophy at B University. All freshmen in the Department of Philosophy are taking classes at the new campus this semester.
During the days at the base, they found a student who was studying at B University and spent contribution points to buy a hand-drawn picture of the new campus of B University from him. He was also a sophomore in the philosophy department. However, the student didn't know what happened to the school. He didn't escape from the school. On the day of the apocalypse, he and his girlfriend were dating nearby and met the rescue team, so they came to Base No. 3.
If Jiang Jingyang is still in B University, the three places where he is most likely to be are the supermarket, the cafeteria, and the dormitory. Because food is essential for survival. In college, there are probably only these places where there is enough food and where you can hide.
Jiang Jingyang was lucky that he was taking classes at the new campus of B University. The new campus was in the suburbs, and many facilities around it had just been built. There were very few residents in that area. Unlike the old campus, which was surrounded by prosperous areas and a large shopping mall, it was very lively and the flow of people there was particularly large even on normal days.
Jiang Jingyang was unlucky because he was taking classes at the new campus. More than half of the majors at B University moved to the new campus this semester, and now there are many more students in the new campus than in the old campus. Once the apocalypse broke out, even if only a quarter of the students turned into zombies in this month, that number was enough to make people's scalps numb.
The first half of the journey to the new campus of B University was smooth, probably because there were often people passing by on their way to and from the base. Only occasionally a few zombies jumped over from the side and hit the car windows, but they were dealt with in a short while. The journey was smoother than they had imagined.
But in the second half of the journey, when their car was passing an old residential building, they suddenly heard a series of explosions, each one louder than the last.
"What's going on?"
Everyone heard the loud noise.
"Look over there!" Lin Yang, who was sitting in the passenger seat, pointed to a place not far from where he was sitting.
In the car, they could clearly see that only a few hundred meters away from them, there were several older buildings that collapsed with a loud bang, raising a large amount of dust.
Half an hour ago.
In the narrow alleys of residential buildings.
The large group of soldiers who had just rescued Dr. Chen, a virus researcher who had been trapped in a laboratory for a month, ran and shot backwards. The situation was urgent and they had no time to aim. They aimed their guns at the back and fired randomly. Fortunately, the alley was narrow and the zombies were all crowded together. With the concentrated firepower, most of the bullets hit the zombies. The zombies fell one after another.
The roar of the zombies behind them attracted other zombies around. Before they ran far, the team was blocked by another group of zombies in front.
In the middle of the team, under the command of the middle-aged man in military uniform who was the leader, part of the team's firepower was concentrated in the front, where the zombies appeared.
Someone in the team ahead was not paying attention and was dragged into the zombie group by the zombies. The people next to him reacted and wanted to save him. They shot at the zombies, but it was useless. After the man was dragged into the zombie group, he soon lost his voice. In less than half a minute, his body was reduced to a bloody skeleton.
There was also a soldier who was attacked by the zombies from the side and had his internal organs dug out. He realized he couldn't survive, so he threw away his gun, held a grenade in his hand, and stumbled into the group of zombies.
A grenade was thrown, and the explosion brought up a large amount of blood mist and broken limbs flying everywhere, and the surrounding walls were instantly dyed red.
For the huge horde of zombies, the fall of a dozen zombies is just a drop in the bucket. As zombies continue to pour into the alley, it is they, the humans, who have their strength and weapons exhausted.
Although grenades are powerful, they dare not use them casually. The buildings here are quite old, and with so many zombies rushing in at once, they are afraid that after a few explosions, the whole place will collapse. By then, they may not be eaten by zombies, but they will all be buried here.
"Fuck! We have such bad luck today!! I don't know where so many zombies come from in such a remote place!! We haven't seen a group of zombies of this scale when we were in the city." A man in a sniper jacket at the back of the team wiped the blood splattered on his face and couldn't help but curse.
"Yeah, Boss, have you noticed that these zombies seem to have identified us? We came from Shangyuan Street and have been running for almost half an hour, but we still haven't gotten rid of them."
They had been killing zombies while running since half an hour ago, and now the number of zombies seemed to be increasing. It was not as if there were only a few hundred zombies, but probably thousands of them.
"Could it be that all the zombies from B University's new campus have come here?!" someone said.
This large force was not composed entirely of military personnel. There were also people from several base teams who came together to participate in the rescue mission for the sake of contribution, as well as ordinary people who had just been rescued from the urban area.
The military was responsible for dealing with the zombies that kept pouring in from the front row, and several teams were responsible for protecting the ordinary people on the other side.
The man who said this had once joined the team that had participated in the rescue mission to B University. B University has tens of thousands of students, and there are many internationally renowned professors there, just like Dr. Chen, who they rescued from the city this time. He is a visiting professor at B University.
Therefore, after the situation inside Base No. 3 was stabilized, the higher-ups immediately assembled a large force to go to University B, with the mission of rescuing as many students and teachers as possible from the school.
That was about ten days ago. A rescue team of two or three hundred people went from the base to the new campus of B University. The team was equipped with powerful thermal weapons. The scale of the rescue was much larger than this time. This time there were only about a hundred people. The old campus was located in the city center, the distance was far, and there was a shortage of manpower, so the plan that time was to go to the new campus.
However, after they arrived at the new campus of B University, they had just entered the campus for a short distance and did not even see a few students before they were forced to retreat.
The originally spacious and beautiful university campus was now full of zombies. The number of infected students at B University was much greater than they had imagined. According to conservative estimates, at least half, or several thousand students, died there.
"Impossible! Base B is at least ten kilometers away from here. It's impossible for the people in the base to not notice such a large group of zombies running over here." Someone retorted.
No matter how this group of zombies came, the most important thing now is how to escape from their encirclement.
Soon, the long battle left everyone without the energy to talk, and everyone was focused on escaping.
People's physical strength is limited, especially when they are nervous, it is easy to consume physical strength. After half an hour of escape, some people in the team have already started to pant. Later on, they may not be able to keep up with the main force.
"Tell them to use explosives." The middle-aged man leading the team watched living people one after another being dragged into the group of zombies due to exhaustion or slow reaction. He finally made up his mind and issued such an order.
The reason they fled into the alley was not only because the terrain here was narrow, but also because they could concentrate their firepower on the zombies.
If necessary, they could blow the place up and bury the zombies following them under the rubble.
However, this plan would require sacrifices. Those who went to install the explosives and those who stayed behind to cover the retreat were destined to be in danger. As long as the majority of the troops had a chance of escaping, they would not easily launch this plan.
The adjutant quickly arranged the people who would carry out the plan. There were ten people in total, some went to place the explosives, and some stayed behind to cover the retreat. Each of them volunteered, and they all knew the danger of the plan.
"I will take good care of your family members."
The middle-aged man looked at the ten people who volunteered to sacrifice themselves, and a sense of powerlessness surged from the bottom of his heart. Many of these ten people were veterans who had followed him for many years. As the chief officer, since he had brought the people out of the base, he had the responsibility to bring them back, so he did not issue the order to blow them up at the beginning. But now more and more zombies are pouring into the alley. If they are not blown up, none of the more than 100 people may be able to leave here.
Only by giving up some people can we save more people.
As a team leader, the middle-aged man knows what is the wisest choice.
The majority of the troops slowly pushed back, and those ten people appeared at the front of the team. All the explosives and grenades in the team were reserved for them, and the team behind them would cover them while they installed the explosives. After the installation was completed, the rest of the people would quickly leave the place that was about to explode.
Only ten of them were left.
Watching the main force begin to retreat towards the alley exit, without the fierce firepower, the zombies were getting closer and closer to them. In order to buy time for the main force, none of the ten people retreated, and each of them was trying their best to resist the zombies.
Two minutes later, they began to retreat after they estimated that everyone else was far away from the explosion point and would not be buried by the rubble of the explosion.
"You guys go quickly, I'll take care of the rest." A young soldier, whose right arm was broken in half and only the upper half was left, shouted at the others.
In just a few minutes, three people had died trying to hold off the zombies, and several others were seriously injured.
The young soldier who was speaking was one of the seriously injured ones. His arm had been gnawed off by the zombies. Even if he escaped, he might not survive. So it was better to let him give the others a chance to survive.
"Hurry up! If we don't leave, we'll all die here!!"
There were too many zombies in the alley, and even a large army couldn't stop them, let alone just a few of them. Plus, the place was going to explode soon, so they had to leave quickly to survive.
As the other six people supported each other and left, there was a hint of pain on their faces.
Several zombies pounced on the soldier who stayed behind, stopping him from retreating. He turned his head and looked at the backs of his leaving teammates without making a sound, holding a grenade tightly in his hand.
His vision began to blur, and he could no longer hold on until he saw everyone else reach the other end of the alley. He used his last bit of strength to pull the ring, and suddenly there was an explosion and flames shot up into the sky.
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After seeing the explosion, Ruan Ning and his group not only did not drive away from the dangerous place immediately, but instead found a place to stop and sent a few people out of the car to check the situation.
To be able to blow up several buildings like this, even if they are decades-old residential buildings, the amount of gunpowder required is not small.
Only people in the military can come up with so much gunpowder.
The level of danger that would cause the military to risk their lives to blow up the house must have been unusual.
However, this was not the main reason why Gu Yichen stayed. When he was at Base No. 3, he heard that a large force carrying various thermal weapons had gone to the city to rescue Dr. Chen, who was doing virus research, and they had not returned yet.
The drug that can purify polluted water resources in the future was researched and developed by Dr. Chen about half a year after the outbreak of the apocalypse.
In other words, this person is very important.
If the people over there are the large force that is going to rescue Dr. Chen and bring him back to the base, then Dr. Chen must not be allowed to die here.