Chapter 558 Team 5S Departs
On the day of departure.
When Yun Zhao woke up in the morning, he groggily sat up in bed.
The hangover left her feeling dizzy and slightly throbbing.
Yun Zhao squinted, hugged his pillow, and lay back down on the bed, muttering, "I won't drink anymore."
It tastes awful and you have to suffer for it.
Xie Tu chuckled softly and stuffed the dried mangoes Bai Yu had brought into her backpack.
He paced back and forth in the room, packing her backpack. "Hang in there a little longer, you can catch up on your sleep after we get on the bus."
"Isn't it necessary to hold a pre-war deployment meeting?"
"It's been cancelled this time."
Yun Zhao was still a little sleepy and stared blankly at the news. "Why?"
"It involves the political level."
Xie Tu: "Minister Duan cannot directly give combat instructions to the other S-class personnel."
They belong to different bases.
If Minister Duan really does this, sooner or later a rift will develop between the four major bases.
"Later, the logistics departments at each base will send detailed data directly to each person's communicator, and we can set off immediately."
Yun Zhao responded with an "Oh".
She remembered that she was the team leader, and despite feeling unwell, she got out of bed and went to the bathroom to get ready.
"Aunt Zhao and He Xiang came this morning."
Xie Tu opened the wardrobe and took out his clean combat uniform. He talked to her across the living room, "Aunt Zhao made a bag of dried steamed buns, and He Xiang brought a bunch of things for us to take on the road."
Yun Zhao nodded while brushing his teeth.
“Last night, after you fell asleep, I went to the Academy of Sciences,” Xie Tu said.
Yun Zhao paused for a moment, spat out the foam from her mouth, and walked out of the bathroom. "Any results?"
Xie Tu stood in the living room with his back to her, his voice unusually calm, "The test report shows that those two things do not belong to any material known on Earth."
The atmosphere suddenly fell silent.
Yun Zhao walked over and saw the report on the table.
It was all technical jargon. That palm-sized crystal was twice as dense as lead, yet as light as aluminum. Most strangely, its atomic nuclear structure showed…
Yun Zhao couldn't understand it.
What does it mean to not belong to Earth?
"Could it be something that originated in the contaminated area?" Yun Zhao pressed.
The contaminated zone is bizarre and wonderful; the gatekeeper can create other items at will.
Just because they haven't seen it doesn't mean it didn't exist in the old days.
Xie Tu gave her a deep look and said, "The Academy of Sciences has used a quantum molecular instrument to test it and found that the inside of the crystal can be opened, and there are weak energy fluctuations inside, but at present we cannot penetrate its outer layer for analysis, and we have not yet found a way to open it."
Can it be opened?
Yun Zhao's expression was clearly off.
The crystal was perfectly sealed and felt weightless in my hand. Could there be something inside?
There were also badges with intricate geometric patterns along the edges and a symbol in the center that she couldn't understand, like some kind of writing or totem.
Is the item truly from Yun Jue? Or... what exactly is he involved in?
He came from above the sky.
Is it possible that it belongs to Him?
Xie Tu had already packed his things and came over to push her into the room to change clothes. "Don't think too much about it. I've taken the things out. Let's take them into the contaminated area and see if we can open them."
Yun Zhao had no choice but to pause his thoughts and go into his room to change into his combat uniform.
The two shouldered their backpacks and went to meet up with the others.
The hallway was quiet.
Most of the people in town have been in the fields lately, and I haven't run into anyone when I went out.
When we boarded the armored vehicles and assembled...
Seeing the other three people arrive in their own cars, Yun Zhao's chaotic thoughts vanished instantly.
She forgot to mention it yesterday.
Or rather, no one expected that each member of the team would drive their own car.
Fu Heng opened the car window, revealing herself in her combat uniform, carrying a Gatling gun. "You can ride in my car; the supplies I prepared yesterday are all in there."
Xie Tu rolled down the car window and said, "The supplies provided by the base are with me."
Jiang Mu chuckled, "Fine, you three fight it out. I don't want to drive. Isn't it better to lie down and rest?"
Xie Tu looked over and said, "There's only one bed in the armored vehicle. Do you think there's a bed for you?"
Don't say he didn't get a share.
When Yun Zhao was sleeping in the car, he wouldn't even let Jiang Mu and Xia Mingang stay in the back.
Xia Mingang glanced at his car, which was clearly a level below his own; it was simply not worthy of his status.
Why do all three of them have the same car?
Wouldn't Grandpa have prepared one for him in advance?
Jiang Mu tapped his finger on the car window. "Then let's drive two cars. I'll sleep in mine, and you can sleep in yours."
Fu Heng said coldly, "Who do you expect to be your driver, you lazybones?"
Jiang Mu turned his head and looked at Xia Mingang with a deep gaze.
Xia Mingang finally snapped, "You want me to be your driver? Are you sleepwalking?"
Yun Zhao felt utterly overwhelmed.
They haven't even left the base yet, how come they're arguing over such a small thing?
"We'll drive two cars, and each person will take turns driving for a day," Captain Yun concluded definitively.
Fu Mu was clearly well-prepared; there were so many supplies that one vehicle couldn't possibly hold them all.
Two cars fit perfectly.
Arguing on the street can help people separate and calm down.
Finally, Fu Mu tossed the car to Jiang Mu and got into Xie Tu's car.
You can catch up on sleep with Yun Zhao.
Jiang Mu figured the first day would be much easier than later, since there were no monsters on the road, so he didn't refuse and simply let Xia Mingang drive himself.
The special passage door remained open for half a day.
The two armored vehicles finally got on the road and slowly drove away from the base along the route.
The sentry on duty stared at the other two cars abandoned in the middle of the road and helplessly notified the members of Dawn Base and Hope Base to come and drive the cars away.
...
As soon as he left the base, Yun Zhao fell asleep immediately.
Fu Yan put down the folding bed on the other side and put them together to form a bed.
She straightened up, raised an eyebrow at Xie Tu who was driving, then swiftly pulled down the partition on the front seat and lay down with Yun Zhao to catch up on sleep.
The roads were very safe a few days ago.
The scorching sun baked the earth, and under such high temperatures, the tree bark cracked and curled, like the wrinkled skin of an old man.
Occasionally, you can see a few mutated thorn bushes along the way, their branches covered with sharp thorns, blooming with blood-red flowers, swaying gently in the heat, and emitting a nauseating stench.
The wheels rolled over the tracks, raising clouds of dust with a pungent smell.
There were no birdsong, no insect chirping.
The roar of the off-road vehicle's engine and the sound of its wheels rolling over the sand and gravel echoed across this wasteland.
"The temperature is 42 degrees Celsius today, and it's only May." Today, Fu Qi is the one driving.
"It seems hotter this year than last year."
After resting, Yun Zhao was in good spirits and was holding a bag of dried mangoes, studying the latest data sent by the calculation team.
Compared to No. 4, the monitoring personnel at each base are more concerned about the movements of No. 6.
Especially after the start of summer.
The sixth contaminated zone suddenly quieted down and stopped spreading southwest.
The slowly creeping gray fog would even occasionally shrink back, revealing what it had been swallowed up.
The color of the land inside the gray fog was different from that outside.
Yun Zhao handed Xie Tu two pieces of dried mango: "Is it because there is too little vegetation? Looking at the satellite map, many places have already become desertified."
"It's not just a vegetation issue."
Xie Tu took the dried mango and said, "After the sun reappeared, the atmosphere hadn't fully recovered, and the ultraviolet radiation intensity was much higher than in the old era, plus the dust accumulated during the eternal night..."
"Humans are more adaptable to their environment than we think."
Fu Yan held the steering wheel with one hand and adjusted the sun visor with the other. "Sometimes I wonder, what is the point of the contaminated zone?"
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