Chapter 176 A Coward
Hou Tian was shaking all over and wanted to cry, but he couldn't. He just kept shaking, and his teeth were chattering uncontrollably, clacking against each other.
"Idiot, you're supposed to be a top student, how could you be so stupid? You blew yourself up..."
"He said it hurts. It must hurt a lot, for sure."
"Stop talking!" Qiao Lan interrupted.
He wanted to shut Hou Tian up sternly, but his voice was weak as he yelled at him.
How painful would that person's head be after being blown away from the stomach? She didn't know, nor did she want to imagine.
But what can we do?
The dead are dead, and the living must live.
"Stop talking. Save your energy and conserve your strength. We're almost there. When we get back, we can send you to the base's medical center to treat your external injuries. You'll have to take care of your internal injuries on your own. It's not conducive to your recovery if you keep wallowing in grief." Qiao Lan quickened his pace and his tone became tougher.
Hou Tian’s nagging made her feel even worse, so she quickly suppressed her surging emotions and faced reality.
"...Okay, I understand. Thank you for reminding me." Hou Tian was silent for a moment after hearing this, and suddenly took a deep breath, his tone firm.
This rapid change of mood caught Qiao Lan off guard. She thought she had to remind him a few more times, but he managed to sort out his emotions by himself?
"Hey, are you okay?"
"It's okay, I'll listen to you and stop talking."
The person behind me suddenly shut up and the world became quiet.
The chatter was unpleasant, and the silence seemed unpleasant too. Qiao Lan accelerated.
After patrolling around the road and confirming that there were no pursuers or stalkers, they returned to the campsite.
Hou Tian didn't say anything else along the way.
After getting out of the car, he finally spoke again.
"I want to heal my wounds quickly and get revenge!" he said.
Qiao Lan collected the car: "Your third brother wouldn't let you. He told you to hide and survive."
Hou Tian said, "He just didn't want me to die in vain. But if he had been the one to survive alone, he wouldn't have lived in humiliation. We're not that kind of people. I know I need to live for them, but I know how to live. Living in humiliation is not a way of life that we brothers agree on."
He spoke slowly, seriously and firmly.
Qiao Lan looked at him.
Understand.
They are all people who would rather die than surrender.
Those who would rather die than surrender will not live in humiliation.
Otherwise they wouldn't die.
If they had accepted that woman's invitation and agreed to join the church, they would all be alive now.
But none of them chose that path.
Hou Tian looked at Qiao Lan solemnly and said, "Thank you for saving me and taking me in. Without your help, I would definitely not be alive today, and I would have no chance of revenge. Also, thank you for letting me say goodbye to my brothers, and before that, thank you for helping me jump out of the house when the explosion happened..."
"No, you were the one who grabbed my trouser leg and flew out. Thank you for your strong will to survive and for holding on tightly."
"No, I held onto you to survive, but I also want to thank you for not abandoning me and not shooting me." Hou Tian's wrinkled face was full of sincerity. "Also, thank you for giving us bicycles and loudspeakers. Those things really helped a lot."
But later they were broken and lost, and could not be returned to Qiao Lan.
He had witnessed Qiao Lan's spatial ability and understood that those things were not found by Qiao Lan behind the ruins of the building, but originally belonged to her.
"Oh, forget it. I told you to talk less and conserve your energy, but why are you talking nonstop again?" Qiao Lan waved his hands repeatedly, not wanting to accept the thanks.
She didn't like the other party being so serious.
As they were talking, the two of them had already reached the camping site.
"My lord, you're back!" The old chef who was on duty stood up and greeted Qiao Lan.
"Uncle Geng, good morning."
"My lord, you've worked hard all night!"
“Not bitter, not bitter.”
"My lord, it seems you've been in battle? Are you injured? Are you okay?"
"All right, all right."
Facing the old hero's innocent and enthusiastic eyes, Qiao Lan smiled and laughed, but she felt secretly guilty.
——How can I, who am used to living a life of mediocrity and watching others in need without helping them, be qualified to receive your respect and gratitude?
Whether it's Uncle Geng or Hou Tian, they are both tough guys with iron willpower... She doesn't dare to compare herself to them, and she can't compare to them.
When they encounter the enemy, they dare to fight head-on, not afraid of death or injury. What about her?
She is afraid of everything.
She is a coward, and she has a clear understanding of herself.
It's dawn.
They had originally planned to continue patrolling today, but because of the conflict with Zhang Baigujing at night, Qiao Lan and his companions ate something early and returned to the safe house early.
Zhang Baigujing actually had a giant mechanical bird as backup, something Qiao Lan didn't understand. Besides the mechanical bird, she also didn't know what other strange tricks the enemy had. So Qiao Lan was skeptical about whether this safe house was still safe.
"We must be prepared to fight and evacuate at any time."
After returning, she announced it to her friends.
"Okay." Everyone understood the current situation.
The strange base in the north of the city has become the enemy, and a big war might be necessary.
The chef and his son, Xiao Li, Xiao Tang, Fu Xingyuan, and the newcomer Hou Tian all supported Qiao Lan's decision.
"However, we can't just sit there and wait to be attacked passively." Qiao Lan said, "We'd better take the initiative to attack before the enemy attacks us."
The safe house, which took a lot of effort to renovate and maintain, is a warm and comfortable place to live. Although you can give up at any time to save your life, it is better not to give up if you can.
Being chased by the enemy? If you give up this house today and that house tomorrow, what will be left in the end? Can you still live a stable life?
The best defense is offense.
The enemy is very powerful, and it would be best not to become their enemy, but the battle has already started and the situation is like this, so what else can we do?
Do it!
"Yes, do it now!"
Wen Jiaojiao pounded the table with a fist, her eyes shining.
It was the second night, in the conference room of the Crimson Dawn base.
Ye Qi and several base administrators, Captain Xiao and his two assistants, Qiao Lan, and Wen Jiaojiao, several groups of people gathered together for a meeting.
This kind of meeting was not the boring, lengthy and uninteresting meetings that many organizations had before the end of the world, but a highly efficient combat meeting. Everyone was busy, so just two minutes into the meeting, it was made clear that the theme of the meeting was to fight a battle with the North City Goddess gang.
It’s not that they have nothing better to do than to provoke, but the situation has come to this point, and judging from various factors, they are bound to fight.
Qiao Lan and Zhang Baigujing have already fought, and the enemy has suffered heavy casualties. Judging from their style of behavior, they will definitely retaliate and wipe out Qiao Lan.
As for Wen Jiaojiao, this sister is even more fierce. If you don’t contact her, you wouldn’t know that she has been going out for training since it snowed, and she encountered three groups of the Goddess’ gang on the way.
She killed eight of the first group who came to her to rob the food stored in the kitchen of a ruined restaurant.
The second group invited her to join the sect, but they started fighting after a disagreement, and she killed eleven more of them.
The third wave...
The third group of people did nothing, but she saw them from a distance. She knew they were from the Goddess's gang and were definitely not good people, so she went up and wiped them out without saying a word.
At Ye Qi's base, the snow stopped in the past two days, and the team that went out for training went out again. They found that there were many more small groups of God Mothers in the city, and they had several conflicts of varying sizes with each other, resulting in casualties on both sides.
In the same city, there was friction between two large bases, and the other party looked a bit like an evil church. How could they not fight?
It depends on when to fight, how to fight, and what to do after the fight.
"I propose," Captain Xiao stood up. "We don't need too many people. Just a few of our best, with a few backups, to launch a surprise attack and wipe out their base in the north of the city!"
Wen Jiaojiao snapped her fingers: "Second."
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