Chapter 232 Return to Base (23)
As the car stopped, Brother Zhang, who had been unconscious since coming down the mountain, finally woke up. The military doctor sighed and said, "You woke up at the perfect time."
Brother Zhang was completely bewildered. When he got out of the car and stepped outside, he discovered a familiar yet different place. He asked, "We all escaped safely, didn't we? Lan Jin and the others are back, right? Is the mission accomplished? We've come this far. Can't we just drive another day and get back to base? Are you packing up?"
The military doctor was speechless. "We just parked the car and are setting up camp. Don't talk. Listen to me first."
The military doctor quickly brought Brother Zhang back to the car and told him what happened yesterday. Only then did he realize that they had actually driven away all night and had just stopped to rest, and everyone was injured.
More importantly, if not everyone had seen what the military doctor described, Brother Zhang would never have believed the nonsense that those green plants growing in the soil could actually come out of the soil to chase and attack them.
"In other words, the lake was already cleared, but while doing so, some green plants emerged from the soil and attacked us as we were leaving. Lan Jin and the others finally ran down the mountain and electrocuted the plants, saving you. That's why you all sustained injuries of varying degrees."
The military doctor nodded and said, "Yes, ordinary wooden cannons are too weak and useless against them. I fought tooth and nail to save my own life. Those plants can only be harmed by supernatural powers unless they have high-damage weapons, and no one has them. It's a good thing Lan Jin arrived early. You don't know how she almost lost her breath from running yesterday. After she came back, she sat next to you and breathed in oxygen for a long time before she recovered a little."
After hearing this, Brother Zhang quickly asked, "Where are they? Why can't I see them?"
"Asleep. It was so dangerous yesterday that no one dared to sleep in the first half of the night. The four of them each guarded the back of a car. Seeing that everything was fine all night, they dared to go to bed at dawn. We just parked the car and are setting up camp now. We need to rest today. It's not that we can't bear it physically, but we are worried..."
Even if this team does not have special powers, everyone has undergone hellish training before, and they have completed extremely difficult tasks. The process must have been very difficult, but there is always a difference between that kind of hardship and this kind of hardship.
The conditions are there now, so why push people so hard? It's not impossible to rest for a while, drink some hot soup, eat something good, and then continue moving forward.
Zhang Ge understood all of this, and he was never that harsh on his teammates. So, he said, "There should be some chicken left. Cook it all and eat it. We can rest, but we won't leave it overnight. After we finish eating, take a short break and then go back to base. It's always safer there."
The military doctor naturally didn't object. These matters were originally the responsibility of Brother Zhang. "Okay, you make the arrangements. It's still early, so the two shifts can take turns resting and leave quickly after noon."
After seeing that Brother Zhang's injuries were no longer serious, the military doctor stopped paying attention to him. To be honest, in the sudden attack last night, many people in the team were injured more seriously than him, and now he was still busy changing their bandages and was very busy.
After a round of inspection, Brother Zhang told the team members about this decision.
The team members naturally had no objections. Compared to the outside world, the base naturally felt safer.
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Lunch was still curry, but the remaining dozens of chickens were all put into the curry, and the taste was incomparable to the previous curries.
The fragrance drifted from far away and successfully lured out the four people who were tired and resting.
Lan Jin got out of the car, and the other three got out a little later. The four of them came to the big pot and just stared at the fragrant curry cooking in the pot.
Seeing that it was the four of them, the cooking team member didn't chase them away. Instead, he asked, "The curry chicken rice will be ready soon. Do you want to eat now? I'll serve you some first."
The four of them were not polite and immediately nodded and said, "Eat, eat now."
"Yeah, I'm so hungry."
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Soon, the four of them were holding a generous bowl of curry chicken rice.
The four of them had just found a corner to sit down and were about to eat when Brother Zhang walked over to them. Seeing that they were already eating, he asked, "Are you awake now? Are you feeling well?"
Lao Gao smiled and said, "You should be more concerned about your own health. We are actually fine. We are just sleepy. Plus, we were hungry all day and all night yesterday, so we are really hungry."
Lao Gao wasn't exaggerating. Yesterday, they only had one full meal during the day, and at noon, they managed to nibble on a piece of compressed biscuit. This wasn't enough for people like them who have big appetites, not to mention the intense amount of activity they'd been doing during that time. So, whether it was the compressed biscuit or breakfast, eating them was like not eating at all, and then they had to stay up all night...
Aren’t the four of them very hungry?
But in fact, it is not just the four of them, in fact, everyone in the team is like this. At most, they have reduced the amount of "activity", but they are still hungry. At this moment, it is not only them who eat a lot, almost everyone eats a lot.
What's more, there was not enough rice at the end, so they cooked a lot of noodles and added curry. Almost everyone had eaten their fill, and the events of last night disappeared with the meal.
After the meal, they took a rest until noon, when they set out again on the road back to the base.
This journey was much safer than the trip there, and even on the way back, we didn't see any mutant animals. It was so smooth that almost everyone found it very unusual.
Lao Gao kept looking out the window, but he didn't see a single shadow. He immediately said to them, "This journey has been so peaceful. It feels unreal, as if there's danger waiting for us."
Ling Jiang laughed and said, "What's the point of a crisis? You just haven't recovered from what happened before. Isn't it safe? It was this safe when we first came to the base. Why didn't you say it wasn't real then?"
Lao Gao was speechless: "Could it be the same then as now?"
I hadn't seen this fantasy world at that time, but what Ling Jiang said made sense. It couldn't be that there were dangers everywhere. The area around the base should be relatively safe.
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The sky outside was getting darker and darker, and when it was past 11 o'clock in the evening, their car finally arrived at the gate of the base.
Speaking of the base, Lan Jin really missed the base's heating. "I'll definitely be able to have a good sleep tonight with the heating on when I get back. I won't have breakfast tomorrow. I want to sleep until I wake up naturally."
(End of this chapter)
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