Chapter 226 Miss Qiao, I'm Sorry
"Cai Jinbao, lead your men to the left. Do you hear me? What are you doing standing there like an idiot? Charge towards the ten o'clock position on the left front! Don't worry, I'll make sure you're all right!"
Qiao Lan fired a gun while shouting through the headset.
The loudspeaker on the fighter plane had excellent sound quality, and her words were clearly transmitted without missing a word.
Her hand was steady as she fired the gun, and her speech was unaffected.
Kneeling on one knee on the bird's back, he exuded a calm and composed demeanor, his slightly narrowed eyes scanning the entire audience sharply.
Although the situation below was so chaotic, she could sense every danger from dozens of meters in the air, and efficiently send bullets over to rescue those who were about to die.
The firearms expertise ability is just so awesome.
"Hurry up, follow me! Mr. Qiao said it's ten o'clock! Everyone, run that way!"
Cai Jinbao grabbed his companion, cried loudly, shouted loudly, and ran towards the ten o'clock direction indicated by Qiao Lan.
I cried because the despair that had been accumulating in my heart finally had a chance to vent.
The screams were the excitement of being rescued, the disbelief of being hit by good luck, and the surprise of having the hope of survival.
Mr. Qiao! Ms. Qiao! Qiao Lan! It was her again! She always gave him hope of life in a timely manner, always.
Before the storm, he rescued them to the Tsui Wah Hotel, miraculously saving them from disaster. In the ruins of the city after the disaster, he miraculously met them again, saving them from the swarms of mutant insects and assigning him a job in logistics management at the large base. And, during those days and nights of brutal fighting, during the zombie siege, when everyone was at their most desperate, he miraculously arrived on a giant bird to save them, shooting each zombie one by one and clearing an escape route for them.
"Mr. Qiao, wuwuwu... Miss Qiao, you are my second parent!! I will listen to you and lead everyone forward!"
Cai Jinbao, the owner of the grain store, still retained a trace of rationality in his collapsed and emotional crying. He heard that Qiao Lan was instructing him to lead the team, not just let him escape by himself.
So he suppressed his extreme fear of zombies, and not only rushed forward himself, but also helped his companions in front, behind, and around him to rush forward.
If someone fell, he would run over to help them. If someone was chased by zombies, he would run over to help fight them off. If someone was injured, he would simply carry them on his back. Even though he was injured himself, he would still limp and carry them, refusing to leave them behind.
Over the past few days, the base had been battling the Temple. Initially, they were nearly annihilated, then Ye Qi saved them and they won a narrow victory. Later, they launched a small-scale counterattack, roaming around the city and fighting. Later, armed zombies appeared, and the base was delayed in escaping because they had to gather their combat teams and rescue the survivors in the city. They were trapped by the zombies and became an isolated island...
This process was so tortuous and unpredictable, no one could be sure of the ultimate outcome. But the only thing the base members knew for sure was that they had to fight tooth and nail, resisting with all their might, or face certain death. Even Cai Jinbao, usually the most slick and self-serving, was forced from logistics to the front lines, becoming one of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers.
At this moment, he was helping his companions to rush forward under the cover of Qiao Lan's firepower. He was inspired by Qiao Lan and it was also due to the inertia of the past few days.
The small building that was knocked down by the zombies was one of the last few bunkers in the base. Those who escaped now were all comrades who had fought side by side with us, and we couldn't leave any of them behind!
"Ten o'clock, quick! Follow me!"
Cai Jinbao roared, carried his companion on his back to a safe place and put him down, then turned around and went back to meet the person who was running slower.
He held a fire axe and whenever he saw someone being harassed by zombies, he would rush up and start hacking at them.
"Ahhhh!! Damn monster, die now!! Ahhhhhh!!"
The zombies scared him, but he chopped them down without hesitation.
"Fool, chop at the neck! Cut from the throat to the third vertebra at the back. That's the easiest way to kill them! If you can't find the bone, just cut off the head! Listen, you can only chop ordinary zombies. If you see mechanically armed zombies, don't fight them, just run. You can't beat them!"
Qiao Lan saw Cai Jinbao hacking at each other randomly from above and couldn't help but give technical guidance.
The loudspeaker amplified her voice extremely well. Not only Cai Jinbao could hear it, but all the escapees below could also hear it. The members of the base in the two nearby bunkers could also hear it faintly.
So gradually, people on the front lines of the battle tried to change their methods and used the method taught by Qiao Lan to cut the zombies' necks, and then they were surprised to find that this beheading method was really effective!
"Gather together and try to stay away from this place. I'm going to drop a bomb!"
Qiao Lan watched Cai Jinbao and some people go back and forth several times, and all the surviving members near the collapsed building were rescued, so she started the next step.
Put away your gun, control the Big Bird fighter, take off, and lay eggs!
There were several muffled sounds.
Several special high-intensity incendiary bombs were thrown at the group of zombies near the small building.
The bullet port is behind the bird, and it looks like a big bird laying eggs.
Burning bird eggs exploded in the zombie swarm, scattering like lotus petals. The flames rippled like water, spreading in circles and engulfing the zombies with bared fangs and claws.
"Amitabha, may you ascend to paradise soon."
Qiao Lan muttered.
She didn't believe in ghosts or gods, but she felt a pity for these zombies. Surviving the apocalypse was already difficult enough for normal people and animals, and now they were transformed into zombies. The walking dead were being used without a second thought, becoming cannon fodder on the battlefield. Qiao Lan thought that if she became a zombie after death, she would rather be reduced to ash than become a living dead.
I hope the flames can help them get rid of their suffering. If there is an afterlife, I hope they can go back to the time before the end of the world. That is the age of bliss.
"This area has been cleared. Cai Jinbao, lead your men to the southeast to support the people in the bunker over there!"
Qiao Lan shouted out the instructions for the next course of action.
"Okay, Mr. Qiao!"
"Long live Miss Qiao!"
"Thank you, Miss Qiao!"
This time, not only Cai Jinbao responded actively, but his comrades around him also burst into excited cheers, waved excitedly at the giant bird in the sky, and then gathered all their strength and rushed towards the shelter indicated by Qiao Lan.
"Miss Qiao is such a good person! So kind! To be honest, if it were me, I might not be willing to come back!"
"Yes! The base treated her so badly back then. So many people drove her away. It's obvious that she's not to blame at all."
"I didn't chase her away, but other people in the base did, and I felt embarrassed."
"I... I was involved. I was one of the people who chased her away... But I don't know what happened. I was so angry at the time that I was determined to chase her away. Now that I think about it, I was so stupid!"
"Is he under mind control, like the group that wanted to surrender and negotiate peace that day?"
"I don't know! Maybe I was controlled! Or maybe not, anyway... I'm sorry for her!"
"Stop talking nonsense and kill the zombies!"
Cai Jinbao and his group, as well as the people in the shelter who were being supported, talked a lot during the battle. They felt extremely grateful and guilty for Qiao Lan's return to their aid.
However, talking did not delay the battle. After the two groups met, under the cover of the artillery fire from the big bird in the sky, they followed Qiao Lan's new instructions again, fighting the surrounding zombies while running towards their comrades in another bunker.
In this way, waves of scattered base fighters were gradually gathered together, the team became stronger and stronger, and they became more and more adept at fighting against the zombie hordes.
In less than an hour, Qiao Lan, with the power of himself and a bird, gathered all the surviving soldiers in the entire base together!
The ground was littered with fallen zombies, piled up layer upon layer, and the stench was overwhelming.
"Qiao Lan! Qiao Lan! Qiao Lan!"
The soldiers shouted her name and stared up in the smoke and fire.
"Stop shouting, save your energy."
The bird circled low, and Qiao Lan's lazy voice came over the loudspeaker. Tired from shooting for a long time, she switched the plane to autopilot, letting the bird fly on its own. She sat in the cockpit, fished out a steaming hot box lunch and a glass of iced Coke, and ate her Kung Pao Chicken and rice with it.
"Is Old Song still alive? Where's Team Xiao? Are they all there?"
Turning on the communicator, she tuned into the base's high-level public frequency band and talked while eating and smacking her lips.
"Rest and regroup immediately. A team will be arriving to support you shortly. Prepare to break out to the outskirts of the city. There's a Blackwater Town over there. Set up camp there temporarily. You'll decide what to do next based on the situation. I'll be your help until then."
There was a moment of silence in the public frequency band.
Qiao Lan gulped down a mouthful of iced cola and rinsed his mouth. "Why, are they all dead? Then I'll let Cai Jinbao lead the team. Don't accuse me of promoting personal relationships."
Quiet.
Three seconds.
Old Song's hoarse voice finally rang out.
"Thank you, Miss Qiao."
These five simple words carry a lot of weight.
Qiao Lan understood why it was so heavy. With a scoff and a roll of her eyes, she said, "No need to thank me. I'm not here just to save you. I'm busy fighting zombies. You're an eyesore, so I'll send you away first."
"You don't mean to kill us by sending us away, do you? Hahaha!" Captain Xiao made an inappropriate joke and laughed so hard that he coughed. His injuries were too severe.
"Uncle Xiao, if you keep laughing like that, you'll cough yourself away and I won't have to see you off."
“Haha…cough cough cough…ah, haha, no more coughing…cough cough cough!”
"Ms. Qiao, which team will come to pick us up? How will they do that? How should we cooperate?" asked Old Song.
Qiao Lan thought for a moment and said, "Oh, no need to cooperate. Just block the zombies when they come and run away."
So simple?
Lao Song led the combat team leaders to quickly count the number of people, treat the wounded, equip weapons and supplies, reorganize the team... and make a series of preparations for breaking out.
After dinner, Qiao Lan controlled the big bird to fly around and patrol. When he saw a large group of zombies, he dropped bombs to clear the base.
When bursts of beast roars came from the southeast and two mutant tits rushed towards the big bird fighter like arrows, Qiao Lan was cheered up and turned on the aerial loudspeaker again.
"The support has arrived, prepare to break out, follow those two birds!"
The Black Cloud Beasts are coming!
Qiao Lan controlled the fighter plane to soar into the sky, flew across the herd, and dropped two incendiary bombs, clearing out the two largest groups of zombies near the herd as a welcome gesture to the herd.
"roar--"
Black Cloud ran in the team, and his low and distant roar echoed throughout the block.
A combat group composed of various mutant beasts, large and small, swept in like a flood. Under the cover of Qiao Lan's artillery fire, they soon reunited with the surviving soldiers in the base.
The dense yet orderly group of mutant beasts surprised everyone in the base.
Most people have never seen such a shocking scene.
A few people, who had previously been part of the city's combat squads, had witnessed the spectacle of a large-scale beast herd attacking the temple. They had never imagined that this group of powerful mutant beasts would actually obey Qiao Lan's commands!
"Ah, haha, they're not my men, they're our allies. We have to treat them with respect. Don't get into conflict with them when you break out, okay?"
Qiao Lan instructed the soldiers at the base.
So the soldiers and some of the survivors rescued in the city, in extreme shock and excitement, followed the path cleared by the herd and rushed out of the city.
The breakout process went quite smoothly.
The base soldiers who finally escaped from the arduous and brutal battle, and the survivors who gathered in the city, supported and encouraged each other and marched towards Blackwater Town outside the city.
As for the herd of beasts led by Heiyun, part of them stayed outside the city to provide support, while the part that entered the city cooperated with Qiao Lan in the air and underground to encircle and suppress the zombies.
Protecting the base and breaking out is just a side job, the main thing is to kill the zombies!
Because at this moment, the number of creatures infected and transformed into zombies in the city is not too large, so there is still hope of killing them in time. If we wait a few more days, the city will be full of infected people and mutant beasts. By then, even with the help of the Big Bird fighter, it will be difficult to eliminate them, and the city will be completely destroyed!
Before there were no fighter planes and birds, the Black Cloud Beast Group did not bother with the armed zombies, but now the situation is different. As long as Qiao Lan holds off the armed zombies, they will swarm up and fight against the ordinary zombies!
"Brother Hei, come on, shoulder to shoulder!"
Qiao Lan saw dozens of armed zombies running fast on a street, so he rushed over with a big bird.
Dadada...
The fighter plane rained down bullets, and the huge force of the ammunition knocked the group of armed zombies to the ground.
However, they were not so easy to kill. Except for a few that were shot in the head, the rest quickly stood up.
Qiao Lan didn't expect bullets to kill them. The main purpose of shooting bullets was to make them gather together and fall over.
Bang! A incendiary bomb went off, boom!
A raging fire broke out instantly.
Qiao Lan knew it was not enough, so he threw another bomb.
A huge explosion!
She controlled the big bird to fly into the air, and the impact of the strong explosion on the ground made the bird's body shake twice.
This level of combustion and explosion reduced the group of armed zombies to smithereens. Amidst billowing smoke, shattered zombie bodies and mechanical skeleton fragments littered the ground.
In the rear, a group of mutant grasshoppers under the command of Boss Heiyun jumped into the thick smoke, quickly searching for zombie crystal cores.
The giant fangs they mutated into could cut into a zombie's brain and extract the crystal core. Only when the crystal core was dug out would the zombie be completely finished.
The work of digging out crystal cores was beyond the reach of most people, as the flames and smoke at the explosion site were so thick that ordinary people or animals would either be burned or choked. However, these grasshoppers were not afraid of smoke, and their hard shells made them temporarily immune to flames, so as long as they didn't get burned all the time, they would be fine.
Qiao Lan was bombing in the front, and Grasshopper was digging out the crystal core from the back, and they cooperated very well.
Before long, they had cleared out the armed zombies on several streets.
"Boss, we'll each have half of the zombie crystal core!"
Qiao Lan smiled and circled the big bird in the air.
…
Inside the temple base, underground space.
In the corner of the screen in the small room, the small bright spots representing the armed zombies quickly went out one after another in a short period of time.
The woman sitting in front of the screen frowned.
"What happened outside?" She turned to look at the old messenger, "Go, have your people check what's going on."
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