Chapter 36 Rescue
After breakfast, the four of them prepared to go out and kill the aliens again.
When leaving the house, Qiao Yu got out of the car to take a look at the locust tree in the green belt at the entrance.
These days, Qiao Yu has been paying attention to the height of these trees. She remembered that in her previous life, the time when plants mutated was later than the time when humans and animals mutated, but it should be about a month after the end of the world.
Jiang Zhan followed behind Qiao Yu, watching her grimly measure the circumference of the outermost tree with her hands. When she was done, he took her hand in his and gently kneaded it, silently soothing her.
"Sister Qiao, what's wrong? Is there something wrong?" Zhenzhen asked softly from a distance.
Qiao Yu motioned for everyone to get in the car, and after the car started, he slowly said, "Let's get ready in the next few days. We have to leave here before Sunday."
The tree's girth and height had changed significantly; it was definitely not growing at a normal rate. In other words, the plant's mutation had already begun. The Yunmingshan Villa District boasted a vast green area, and the mountain's vegetation coverage was the highest in S City. This meant that within two weeks at most, the area would be completely covered in a variety of giant, mutated plants.
In his previous life, Qiao Yu entered the survivor base a year and a half after the apocalypse. At that time, the common crystal cores were those of the second-order alien species, yellow crystal cores. The white crystal cores of the first-order alien species were already worthless, with 50 white crystal cores required to exchange for one yellow crystal core. Therefore, Qiao Yu was unsure how much room a first-order alien crystal core could rent in the early days of the apocalypse.
But Qiao Yu calculated carefully and found that they had stored nearly 5,000 crystal cores. Although the road to the survivor base was full of dangers, their abilities were constantly improving, and they would definitely be able to obtain more crystal cores by then. So after arriving at the base, even if the first-level crystal cores were worthless, they would have a large quantity, so their lives should not be too bad.
But today Qiao Yu obviously made some mistakes.
Before the four of them reached the mountainside, Jiang Zhan's expression suddenly changed, "Cheng Sinian, turn around and retreat!"
Cheng Sinian reacted quickly, knowing that Jiang Zhan must have noticed something. Without saying anything, he turned the steering wheel sharply, stepped on the accelerator, and quickly evacuated the area.
Qiao Yu's face darkened when he saw this. "Is that a lot?"
Jiang Zhan nodded, "Two cars, eleven living people, and at least five or six hundred alien species behind them."
Cheng Sinian's face turned pale when he heard this. "Eleven living people, and five or six hundred alien species? That's not right. The gate has just been broken, and there are only a few people left at the foot of the mountain? Besides, these people have cars, so why would they run to the top of the mountain instead of running out of the villa area? If they are trapped at the top of the mountain, won't they still die?"
Luo Zhenzhen clutched her seatbelt and hesitantly whispered, "Maybe they saw us killing aliens a few days ago, so they subconsciously think we can save them."
"Fuck!" Cheng Sinian pressed his tongue against his cheek and slammed the steering wheel hard.
Qiao Yu remained silent. Cheng Sinian had a point. A few days ago, the number of aliens blocking the gate was no more than two or three hundred per day. Now that the gate had been breached, the foot of the mountain was the first to be hit. Even if there were living people leading them to the top, the number wouldn't be so large. Did everyone at the foot of the mountain die overnight?
This is absolutely impossible. The houses in the Yunmingshan Villa District are not so fragile.
Just when Qiao Yu was puzzled, Jiang Zhan suddenly said in a deep voice: "There may be no living people in the West District."
It was like an epiphany.
Qiao Yu had spent a long time in the apocalypse in her previous life, and had become accustomed to the mindset that "the aliens in the apocalypse would kill the aliens." Therefore, she had always believed that the West District gate was made of the same material as the East District gate, and with the help of the aliens, it should last about the same amount of time as the East District.
But she forgot that this was the early days of the apocalypse. If there were no aliens in the West District, or if the aliens were just hiding and doing nothing, then the gate to the West District would have been broken down long ago. Then the aliens that had previously entered the West District, plus the newly infected aliens...
Qiao Yu made a prompt decision, "We can't wait until Sunday. Si Nian, Zhen Zhen, go back and pack your things. We'll leave tomorrow."
"Yeah." The two nodded in unison.
Several people hurried back to the villa, closed the door and prepared to go back to their rooms to pack their luggage.
But at this moment Qiao Yu suddenly stopped and said, "Wait."
Jiang Zhan held Qiao Yu in his arms and looked at her questioningly. Cheng Sinian and Luo Zhenzhen also stopped and turned to look at Qiao Yu.
Qiao Yu had a complicated expression, as if she was thinking about something. Before Qiao Yu could speak, Jiang Zhan asked softly, "Ayu wants to save them?"
"...The one who knows me best is A-Zhan." Qiao Yu raised an eyebrow. "If I'm not mistaken, there should be someone special among them, right?"
"Even without them, we can still leave." Jiang Zhan's answer was a bit irrelevant, but Qiao Yu understood.
——As expected, there is something different.
"But I want to know the current situation of the aliens." Qiao Yu hugged Jiang Zhan's arm and shook it gently. She looked like a little kitten when she was acting coquettish. If she had a tail, it would have shaken out a shadow by now.
Jiang Zhan never liked to meddle in other people's business, but he couldn't stand Qiao Yu's coquettishness. So he immediately surrendered, "Okay, I'll listen to Ayu."
Cheng Sinian and Luo Zhenzhen naturally had no objections to the two men's decision. However, Cheng Sinian was deeply disgusted by their disregard for others' lives, regardless of time or place, and their display of affection. He rolled his eyes and urged, "Alright, alright, I know you two are on the same page. Now that you've decided to save them, open the door quickly. If you delay any longer, we'll have rescued two more truckloads of aliens!"
"Hmph!" Qiao Yu raised his chin slightly and glanced at Cheng Sinian, indicating that he didn't want to pay attention to his sour grapes mentality.
Jiang Zhan took Qiao Yu and walked to the door of the main house, then took out a submachine gun from the space and handed it to Cheng Sinian, "I'll go open the door, you just stand here and wait, if they make any unusual movements, just take action." Although the four of them had superpowers, people in the early days of the apocalypse did not know much about superpowers, and in terms of deterrent effect, they were far less than the munitions that humans had long feared.
Cheng Sinian took the gun, his eyebrows unconsciously raised. Although he had undergone shooting training with Jiang Zhan since he was a child, the rifles they used were training rifles with little lethality. He had never expected to touch a real weapon today, and it was a submachine gun right off the bat. Cheng Sinian pulled the safety and calmly fired two shots into the open space in the courtyard, testing the feel of the gun. Then, with a rare serious expression, he raised the gun and pointed it directly towards the gate.
The sound of cars outside the gate gradually approached, mixed with the sounds of alien creatures crawling and the anxious and desperate cries of the people inside the car: "Help! Open the door! Help—"
At the last moment before the car hit the gate, the gate was finally opened. After Jiang Zhan let the two cars in, he quickly closed the gate again, isolating the alien species that were pouring in from afar like a tide outside the steel gate.
A white car, a black car. The wheels rubbed against the ground urgently, making a sharp braking sound, but the people in the cars fell silent as if their throats were strangled.
After the car stopped, three men got out of the white car first.
One was tall and thin, one was short and thin, and the other was a middle-aged man of medium height and slightly fat.
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