The attendees remained silent.
It wasn't that they didn't know the seriousness of the problem, but rather that they were utterly powerless in the face of such monstrous mutated zombies.
Just as the meeting reached a stalemate, Tang Xin spoke up: "I request to lead the team myself!"
Tang Xin's decision was not approved by the relevant department leaders: "You are the commander-in-chief of the capital's security patrol. Your task is to command your troops. If something happens to you, who will arrange the troops in the future?"
Tang Xin replied, "If this crisis is not resolved, there will be no future. Leader, there's no need to say anything more. I've already made the decision to either succeed or die trying."
After a sigh, the leader of the relevant department grasped Tang Xin's hand: "The safe zone can only place its hopes on you!"
The news that Commander Tang was personally leading the team was quickly broadcast to everyone by the communications department staff.
However, given the previous dozen or so plane crashes, the survivors in the resettlement area were hesitant about the expedition and did not have high hopes.
Tang Rui was very dissatisfied with her sister's decision.
After the meeting ended and they were left alone in the corridor, Tang Rui said unhappily, "You've had direct confrontations with those virus carriers. You should know better than me how terrifying they are. How could you still personally lead a team out?"
Tang Xin knew that her sister said that because she cared about her.
Their parents died at the beginning of the apocalypse, and now the only family they have left in the world are the two sisters. The older sister doesn't want her to take any risks.
But Tang Xin couldn't be a coward. At the beginning of the apocalypse, the army leaders chose to sacrifice themselves to protect these young people. Her parents lost their lives in the cleanup operation.
For the next year, she watched helplessly as her comrades lost their lives one by one.
She always thought it was a natural disaster, but who would have thought that there was human involvement involved.
If she didn't know, fine, but now that she does, she absolutely won't let such a person live in this world: "Someone has to go, right?"
Tang Rui was stunned.
The younger sister spoke in the same tone as her parents before they left for war.
She regretted not having trained with her sister back then; otherwise, even if she couldn't stop her sister now, she could have fought alongside her: "Promise me you'll come back alive."
Tang Xin nodded solemnly and then left.
She had calculated in the conference room that the new export-oriented VN-17 infantry fighting vehicle could carry three crew members and eight soldiers. Apart from the two drivers, an engineer who could decipher J City's security defense system, and herself, it could carry seven more people.
She didn't plan to choose the remaining seven people from the team. She wanted Qiao An'an and her group to participate. Firstly, she needed to keep her subordinates in reserve to carry out the cleanup work after they lured away the virus carriers wearing black collars. Secondly, she found through the battle the day before yesterday that Qiao An'an and her group had a lot of experience in killing zombies. In addition, they had been to J City and were quite familiar with the situation inside J City.
There were no more suitable candidates than them, so she approached Qiao An'an and the others and shared her thoughts: "I'm planning to go to J City to kill the instigator, and I'd like to invite you to join me."
The person who started this whole thing is Dr. Yu.
If he hadn't sent people to hunt down Shen Zhou, Shen Zhou wouldn't have died. Li Jianguo had long wanted to kill Dr. Yu to avenge Shen Zhou, so he agreed without hesitation: "When do we set off?"
Tang Xin: "As long as you are ready, we can set off at any time."
Li Jianguo looked at the others expectantly.
Yan Ling stepped forward and stood beside Li Jianguo. After Yan Han's death, she had no more attachments in this world, which is why she chose to leave the prison to take risks. Only through these adventures did she feel that she was still alive. Even without Tang Xin's invitation, she did not intend to stay in the stifling underground forever.
Everyone else turned their attention to Qiao An'an.
Qiao An'an knew that this operation was extremely dangerous. Tang Xin and her teammates were great, but she couldn't be great. She still had Ya Ya to take care of, and she couldn't put herself in danger for Ya Ya's sake.
So he asked, "Why don't you use your subordinates, but use us?"
Tang Xin spoke frankly: "You should have heard that the food in the air-raid shelter is only enough to feed everyone for half a month. The reason I didn't bring my people is that I wanted them to wait until we lured away those people wearing black collars so that we could carry out a cleanup operation in the safe zone and ensure that the people in the air-raid shelter wouldn't starve to death."
Qiao An'an was puzzled when she heard Tang Xin refer to the people wearing the black collar as "people" instead of "zombies": "You mean, those people are still alive?"
Tang Xin didn't intend to hide anything from Qiao An'an and the others: "Yes, our biologists have discovered that although they were injected with a mutated zombie virus, they did not become zombies, but rather became carriers of the virus. Those black collars are the weapons that Dr. Yu from J City used to control them."
Through the screen projections over the past two days and the commotion in the resettlement area, Qiao An'an and the others realized that the situation was extremely urgent.
Yesterday, Ya Ya fed Da Hei with the food she had saved, which was seen by a survivor in the resettlement area. The survivor not only tried to take Ya Ya's food, but also accused her of feeding the dog when people were starving.
Qiao An'an retorted directly: "We used the food that was allocated to us, what's it to you?"
The survivor originally wanted to beat up Qiao An'an, but stopped himself when he saw the long sword behind her.
After pondering for a moment, Qiao An'an asked, "I heard that besides the resettlement area, the air-raid shelter also has an office area. If we agree to join, can you let our family members into the office area?"
The resettlement area is not peaceful either.
If all the able-bodied people leave, the children left here will definitely have a hard time.
Since she wanted people to risk their lives for her, she needed to address their concerns. Tang Xin directly called her sister, Tang Rui: "We need your help with the expedition. Come quickly."
When Tang Rui heard that it was about the expedition, she dropped what she was doing and rushed over. After arriving, Tang Xin told her that she hoped she could help take care of a few people. Then she saw the elderly man and several children behind Tang Xin. The elderly man was at least eighty years old, and the children ranged in age from thirteen or fourteen to three or four years old. They even had a dog.
She rolled her eyes at her sister: "I'm a researcher, and you expect me to be a babysitter for the elderly and children?"
Grandpa Gu stepped out from the crowd: "Young lady, don't misunderstand. I'm setting off with them. To be precise, it's these children and my dog, Dahei, that you need to take care of."
Ye Jing: "I don't need anyone to take care of me. I can stay with you all."
Gu Bei: "I don't need it either."
Grandpa Gu angrily said to Ye Jing and Gu Bei, "This opportunity was earned for you by your Aunt An'an and all of us with our lives. Shut up and obediently go with this older sister!!!"
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