Chapter 52
Xia Chenxi told Guan Yu to leave with them in the afternoon.
“Xia Chenxi, you don’t think I’m an eyesore anymore?”
Before, he would one hundred percent have thought so.
Now it was different. Nan Yunzhou disliked Guan Yu. Anyone with eyes could see that.
If Guan Yu could disgust Nan Yunzhou, then no matter how much of an eyesore he was, Xia Chenxi could endure it.
Although thinking this way was a little unfair to Guan Yu as his brother, brothers were meant to be sold out.
Little did he know, Xia Chenxi’s thoughts were exactly what Guan Yu wanted. Guan Yu happily agreed.
Ye Xuan saw through Xia Chenxi’s little scheme, but did not expose him.
Nan Yunzhou was indeed a little too clingy to him right now.
After saying goodbye to Xia Chenxi and Guan Yu, Ye Xuan went to his own training field.
Morning was still group training.
Ye Xuan originally planned to go to the central training field in the afternoon to try the combat simulation mode.
But Luo Feng told him there was a temporary mission and asked if he was willing to go.
“A rescue mission. The location is a factory building. There are two trapped people. According to their description, there are two zombies around them.”
The mission was sent to Ye Xuan’s wristband.
Team B Collective Mission
Nature: Emergency mission
Participants: 2 people
Rescue trapped personnel in factory building
Reward: 500 virtual funds, 10 merit points
Accept / Decline
Two zombies. This was within his ability, and he could earn merit points. He was willing to go.
Ye Xuan tapped accept.
“Who’s the other participant?” Ye Xuan asked Luo Feng.
Luo Feng pointed toward the quiet, gloomy boy not far away.
“Chen Cheng. He’ll go with you.”
It was Chen Cheng. Ye Xuan had thought Lu Shao or Tong Wei would go with him.
“Don’t worry. Chen Cheng won’t drag you down. Don’t look at him like he’s always drifting outside reality. On the contrary, he once performed very well on a mission. His ability…”
Luo Feng took a cigarette from his pocket and lit it. The spark flickered on and off. He smiled at Ye Xuan. “I’ll keep you in suspense for now.”
Ye Xuan explained, “There are no cowards in our Team B. I know that very well. What I want to know is, won’t there be a testing staff member accompanying us to test whether the rescued people are ability users?”
When he and Xia Chenxi had been rescued before, Xie Yan had tested them on the spot.
Luo Feng almost choked on his cigarette.
“Ye Xuan, do you think researchers are cabbages? Our whole base only has five researchers. As for special-grade researchers, there’s only Xie Yan.”
Then Luo Feng remembered that Ye Xuan had been rescued from a school.
“I almost forgot. You were rescued from the school. Schools are special. They require large-scale rescue, have many zombies, and count as high-risk missions. That time, more than half of the special combat team members were sent out. Considering how many people were rescued, and that the base couldn’t fit everyone, they had researchers accompany the team to conduct tests. Anyone who wasn’t an ability user was directly hauled to the mine in one truck.”
So that was how it was. But going from the school to a place like the mine was not much different.
Luo Feng’s wristband lit up. He extinguished his cigarette, checked the message, and told Ye Xuan, “The higher-ups approved your mission vehicle. Plate number B341176. It’s on the way here now.”
Ye Xuan thought a driver would bring it over. He did not expect the car to drive itself over.
He watched the car door open in front of him. There was no one inside.
But why did the two front doors open while the back doors did not?
Luo Feng asked, “Which of you can drive?”
Ye Xuan: “?”
“Isn’t this car self-driving?”
“It can drive itself inside the base. Outside the base, without signal coverage, it will drift off-route. Someone has to operate it.”
Unreliable base. Unreliable car.
Ye Xuan hesitated. He had a driver’s license, but he had never driven this kind of heavy modified vehicle. Last time, when he watched the transporter drive, the controls had been slightly different. He was unfamiliar with the operation and might very well drive it into a ditch.
This was a matter of human lives. He could not show off.
“How about…” They switch someone else in for the rescue.
“I can drive. Get in.”
Chen Cheng, who had been silent, suddenly spoke. He walked straight to the driver’s seat, sat down, and closed the door.
Since there was someone who could drive, there was no need to change people. Ye Xuan jogged to the passenger seat, sat down, and closed the door.
Ye Xuan saw that Chen Cheng’s operation was very smooth, as if he was very familiar with this vehicle.
“Have you driven this kind of car before?”
Chen Cheng looked straight ahead. “No. Practice once or twice and you know how.”
Impressive.
Ye Xuan looked at the complicated control panel. There was no way he could learn to drive it after practicing once or twice.
Chen Cheng did not like to talk, and Ye Xuan was not a particularly talkative person either. It was still summer, yet the temperature inside the car was as cold as winter.
Ye Xuan looked out the window. The sky was dark, and a drizzle began to fall. Before long, the drizzle turned into light rain, pattering against the car window.
Chen Cheng turned on the windshield wipers, sweeping away the beads of water blurring the glass. He did not slow down because of the rain.
This kind of weather always made people feel oppressed. Rolling black clouds drifted over from ahead, as if they wanted to devour the city.
The city was already full of wounds and devoid of human life. Even if it were swallowed, only those of them still alive would feel pity for it.
Ye Xuan glanced at the time. It was just past one in the afternoon. Dense clouds blocked out the daylight, and the rain grew heavier, crackling against the car window and leaving crooked trails of water behind.
Chen Cheng had no choice but to slow down.
In this way, not only would the rescue time be prolonged, but the probability of running into speed-type zombies would also increase.
Ordinary zombies and strength-type zombies could be shaken off by speeding up, but speed-type zombies were like sticky plaster. Once entangled with them, they were very difficult to shake off.
Ye Xuan asked Chen Cheng, “How much longer?”
“A little while. It’s just ahead.”
The car suddenly came to an emergency stop. The sharp sound of tires grinding against the road pierced Ye Xuan’s eardrums. If Ye Xuan had not been wearing his seat belt, his face would already have had an intimate encounter with the window.
He had seen Chen Cheng’s driving skills. He would not make a mistake.
Ye Xuan looked ahead. In the area illuminated by the high beams, a huge pit appeared before them. Rainwater struck the edge, splashing up blossoms of blood.
Ye Xuan’s pupils constricted. “This is?”
“A pit smashed out by a strength-type zombie. The blood beside it is fresh. It’s still nearby.”
Chen Cheng operated the car and suddenly reversed, adjusted direction, and drove back.
Ye Xuan did not interrupt him. He only tightened his grip on the seat belt.
A zombie that could smash out a three-meter-wide pit—if they fought it head-on, they definitely would not gain any advantage. Even if their car was modified, it would be hard to withstand that kind of violent beating.
The best option was to take another route.
When it rains, it pours. The radar inside the car rang again. A zombie was approaching them at high speed.
Ye Xuan realized the situation was not optimistic. Judging by that speed, it was obviously a speed-type zombie. Once it latched onto their car and they got dragged into a fight, the commotion might attract the nearby strength-type zombie.
Chen Cheng’s expression also turned ugly.
Ye Xuan made a prompt decision and said to Chen Cheng, “Abandon the car.”
The buildings here were dense. They could use them to hide.
Chen Cheng had the same thought.
A zombie appeared around them. The radar inside the car stopped, and the screen displayed: Target has appeared.
Chen Cheng gripped the car handle and turned his head to look at the zombie outside the window.
“It’s too late.”
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