The next morning, while it was still dark, Chi Xia and Han Junche set off.
Chi Xia guessed that Li Han must not have slept well last night, so she asked Qin Zhao and Liu Daniu to ride in the same car with her and Han Junche, and had Wang Dalong and Lin Yi drive and sit in the passenger seat, leaving the back seat for Li Han to catch up on his sleep.
Chi Xia wouldn't usually make such detailed arrangements. Lin Yi, being a shrewd person, immediately sensed something was amiss. He raised an eyebrow at Li Han: "Something's up."
Li Han didn't deny it, but lay down on the back seat in a good mood and said with a smile, "You'll know when we get back this time."
Lin Yi understood instantly: "It's not easy for an iron tree to bloom."
Wang Dalong looked completely bewildered: "What iron tree? What kind of flower does it bloom?"
Lin Yi gave him a disdainful look: "Stop hanging out with Liu Daniu, it'll lower your IQ."
Liu Daniu, who came to see him off, looked bewildered: "What the heck, are you dragging me into this again?"
Hearing this, everyone laughed. Qin Zhao patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile, "It's okay, you'll get used to it after carrying the burden a lot."
Amidst laughter and chatter, the group drove out of the base.
Li Han looked up and glanced back, but didn't see Zhang Xin. However, his heart was still full of sweetness as he looked forward to returning from this mission.
The roads near the Starfire Alliance base were repaired by Qiu Qin's team of non-superpowered individuals and were very easy to walk on. However, once outside the base's boundaries, the roads became bumpy and uneven.
The car was bumping violently. As Han Junche drove, he said, "Let's go to a few large pharmaceutical companies first to collect what we need, and then we'll go to the Nine Lives Base to talk to them about the alliance."
"It's not difficult for pharmaceutical companies to find supplies," Qin Zhao said. "The difficulty lies in negotiating an alliance with Nine Lives. After our base was built, we took a lot of their people. It's good enough if they don't hate us, let alone consider an alliance."
"We still have to give it a try," Han Junche said. "Now that the satellite is gradually waking up, we not only need to unite with the Nine Lives, but also with all the bases, to strive to restore order as soon as possible and end the apocalypse."
To end the apocalypse, since a vaccine is impossible to produce, the only option is to eliminate the zombies.
Han Junche glanced at the silent Qin Zhao in the rearview mirror and sighed: "Those ordinary zombies have lost their ability to think. Once the inhibitor is developed, it can at least help those advanced zombies who still have their own will."
Qin Zhao was silent for a while before saying, "I need to go back to H City at the end of next summer. There are still six months left. I hope that the inhibitor can be developed before then."
"You're going back?" Chi Xia turned to look at him. "Do you have people in H City?"
Qin Zhao looked up at Chi Xia, his eyes flashing: "Yes, there are twenty-four advanced mutated zombies with superpowers in H City. I transferred them from nearby cities. Before we met you, we were practically each other's only support. To you, they are zombies, but to me, they are all people, and family."
Sensing the melancholy in his voice, Chi Xia comforted him, "It's alright. A-Che's blood can suppress the virus. If we develop the inhibitor as soon as possible, they can also become one of us."
Qin Zhao avoided her gentle gaze, turned to look out the window, and said softly, "I hope so."
The topic was somewhat heavy, and no one in the car spoke for a moment.
Han Junche still carried Xue Changjun's wind-type ability core with him. Thinking of the scene before Xue Changjun's death, his heart became heavy.
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