Tang Xin ultimately brought Li Jianguo, Yan Ling, Qiao An'an, Grandpa Gu, and Chi Xiaoyu with her.
Ye Jing and Gu Bei dared not utter another word because of Grandpa Gu's words, but they were very dissatisfied with the result of the selection: "Chi Xiaoyu (Sister Xiaoyu) can do it, so why can't we?"
Tang Xin originally wanted to find seven people, and at first she also considered Ye Jing, because that kid was really ruthless when killing zombies.
But then they thought again that this mission might be their last.
She took everyone away. If the worst happened at the air-raid shelter, her sister was powerless, and the remaining children would likely be in grave danger as well.
They've already taken their loved ones away.
At least have some decency.
So she said calmly to Ye Jing and Gu Bei, "Because she is already sixteen, my team does not accept children under the age of fourteen."
Before coming, Tang Xin had thoroughly investigated the information of Qiao An'an and the others. She knew that Gu Bei was thirteen years old this year, and Ye Jing would be fourteen in just over a month.
One sentence left the two children speechless.
Before setting off, Tang Xin not only had Tang Rui bring the children and Dahei to the office area, but also took Qiao An'an and the others to the office area's canteen for a good meal.
The table was laden with meat, fish, chicken, duck, and even a large lobster.
Looking at such a sumptuous meal, and thinking about the compressed biscuits they ate every day, the faces of the people were not very pleasant.
Tang Xin naturally understood why everyone looked so unhappy. After personally pouring drinks for everyone, she said, "Don't misunderstand. This was originally food prepared by the logistics department for the leaders. The leaders said that they would eat whatever the survivors in the resettlement area ate, and asked the logistics department colleagues to leave the food for the soldiers going to war. We ourselves usually eat compressed biscuits."
During dinner, Qiao An'an asked Tang Xin, "The planes you sent out before were all destroyed. How are you planning to get us to J City this time?"
Tang Xin had already considered this issue.
Previously, because the air-raid shelter was surrounded by zombies, she arranged for pilots to use the elevator inside the air-raid shelter to go to the airfield on the top of the building where the air-raid shelter was located, and then fly away in fighter jets, but in the end, it ended in failure.
This time, she planned to have her colleagues fly fighter jets to lure away the zombies in front of the shelter, and then they would fly out in VN-17s: "As long as we can get out while ensuring the safety of the air raid shelter, the zombies outside won't be able to do anything to us."
Qiao An'an, who had no knowledge of tanks, remained noncommittal.
Although Grandpa Gu has been retired from the military for many years, he has always kept up with military developments. When he heard the model of the tank, his eyes immediately lit up: "The VN-17 is made of very strong materials. It can't be penetrated by rockets or armor-piercing rounds. It is the most advanced infantry fighting vehicle in my country so far!"
Seeing how satisfied Grandpa Gu was with the chariot, Qiao An'an felt more confident.
After finishing their meal and resting for a while, they followed Tang Xin to the chariot and found their positions.
The other three people in the car were driver Zhang Tao, heavy-duty gunner Xue Gang, and engineer Wang Xiangyang. Zhang Tao and Xue Gang were two young men of seventeen or eighteen years old, with baby fat still lingering on their faces. They were very outgoing and greeted Qiao An'an and the others very warmly.
Wang Xiangyang is older, and although he is well-maintained, it is clear that he is not young.
He didn't talk much and just sat there by himself.
Zhang Tao drove the tank to the entrance of the air-raid shelter. The front projector of the tank showed the scene outside, sent by the communications department. The air-raid shelter was crowded with zombies. These zombies kept ramming the door of the air-raid shelter. As soon as the door was opened, they would rush in frantically.
Just then, several fighter jets suddenly took off from the top floor of the building above the air-raid shelter and started firing wildly at the zombies blocking the entrance to the residential area.
After determining that enough has been attracted the attention of the zombies.
After confirming that they had attracted enough attention from the zombies, several fighter jets suddenly flew off into the distance. However, the fighter jets did not fly very fast, deliberately giving the zombies a chance to catch up with them. Having learned from their previous failure, the fighter jets remained vigilant towards the people wearing black collars while flying.
Even so, one of the fighter jets was still pulled down by the person wearing the black collar because it was unable to dodge in time.
The loud explosion and flash of light attracted the zombies outside the air-raid shelter.
Tang Xin seized the opportunity and said, "Open the door."
After the heavy air-raid shelter door was opened, Zhang Tao drove the tank out directly. The staff at the control center timed it perfectly and lowered the air-raid shelter door as the tank drove out.
Most of the zombies outside were still chasing the few remaining fighter jets in the sky.
These are all lightweight fighter jets, carrying little fuel and designed for rapid bombing.
Tang Xin was worried that the fighter jets would run out of fuel and crash during a prolonged dogfight, so as the tanks drove out of the air-raid shelter, she ordered: "Take off and go back!"
The remaining fighter jets, already struggling to cope, immediately took to the skies after receiving the order.
A familiar face appeared in the footage transmitted the moment the fighter jet took off, but the footage was too fast, and the person was hidden among the zombies, so it wasn't very clear.
Li Jianguo, however, pointed to the fleeting image and stubbornly asked Qiao An'an, "Did you see that? Was it a sunken ship?"
Qiao An'an couldn't see it very clearly, especially since there were a bunch of zombies on the screen. She wasn't sure: "I didn't see it clearly."
Li Jianguo wanted to confirm again, but the fighter jets had already taken off and the armored vehicles were speeding in the opposite direction from the zombies, making it impossible to confirm. He could only mutter to himself, "It's too similar, it's really too similar."
Yan Ling smacked Li Jianguo on the head: "Didn't you say you saw the sunken boat and the speedboat explode together? The fire was so big that the sunken boat's bones were probably burned to ashes. What kind of resemblance is this?"
After more than a year of the apocalypse, countless people around Li Jianguo have died, and he can no longer even remember the names of many of them.
But he will always remember a few people, one of whom is Li Nana, who shares the same surname as him. She is such a kind person that he can't bring himself to hate her.
The couple were an elderly man and woman who depended on each other for survival in the neighborhood.
Even after all this time, he still can't forget the image of them snuggling together and pulling the pin on a grenade.
The last one is the sunken ship.
Although he didn't completely agree with Shen Zhou's actions, Shen Zhou had saved him three times. He had said that he didn't like owing favors to others and that he had to repay Shen Zhou. But before he could repay him, Shen Zhou had already... After a moment of silence, Li Jianguo said, "But it was at sea at the time. Maybe he jumped into the sea at the same moment as the explosion!"
Yan Ling: "Being riddled with bullets and jumping into the sea will still lead to death. Even if what you saw was a sunken ship, it was a sunken ship turned into zombies!"
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