Chapter 45
“The mission of this operation: cooperate with the first and second teams of the Special Operations Corps to rescue the hostages.”
“The hostage’s name is Zhang Quanyong, male, 58 years old, and he was the director of the H City Disease Prevention and Control Center headquarters before the apocalypse.”
“Zhang Quanyong once treated the first patient infected with the zombie virus and has the initial case diagnosis data in his hands.”
“The most important thing is that we recently received a survivor, who was a medical staff member at the scene. She saw with her own eyes that the back of Zhang Quanyong’s hand was scratched by the patient’s nails, but afterwards, Zhang Quanyong did not become infected and turned into a zombie.”
“We have reason to suspect that Zhang Quanyong carries the key clues to the vaccine that suppresses the zombie virus.”
“This operation concerns the hope of all mankind. We cannot afford to make any mistakes. We must not leak secrets to anyone outside the main operation. I hope you will be cautious and make sure to complete the mission!”
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Seeing Wen Xin washing towels beside the camp, Lin Nan slipped over and said, “Squad leader.”
“I just looked around and found that there were a lot of people participating in this operation. Some tents even had people blocking us from approaching. Is this really just a C-level zombie elimination mission?”
As he said this, he became nervous: “Could it be that we are going to deal with the Zombie King?”
By now, the news that zombies will evolve has spread throughout the base, and everyone is terrified.
After all, we have all read apocalyptic novels and watched movies. With a little speculation, we will know that once the zombie monsters begin to evolve, their destructive power and degree of terror will increase exponentially, and they can destroy a city in an instant.
Some people who were waiting for superpowers to appear had already become discouraged and lost hope, such as Lin Nan.
Wen Xin noticed the strange thing that Lin Nan discovered on the way here.
But he has a characteristic, which is that he will not be overly curious about things that are not within his job scope.
Wen Xin said: “Since our mission is to clear out the zombies and prevent members of the emerging sect from coming to attack and cause trouble, then we don’t need to worry about other things.”
Knowing more is not necessarily a good thing.
Lin Nan scratched his head, feeling calmed down by him.
After a while, he couldn’t help asking, “Squad leader, how much do you know about the new sect we’re going to deal with later?”
As for the emerging sects, their instructors had only heard of them but had no specific understanding of them.
Before leaving, the person who issued the mission was afraid that they would violate a taboo, so he gave him some information, which were handwritten manuscripts left by people who had dealings with the sect.
Now that the Internet is paralyzed, letters, handwritten manuscripts and printed texts, which were rarely used, have become popular again.
Wen Xin had memorized the handwritten manuscript and briefly recalled the content.
“The name of this sect is Idealism, and its slogan is ‘Idealism is the best, idealism is supreme’, but it seems that there are different opinions and understandings of what kind of idealism it is within the sect, and there is no consensus.”
“The manuscript mentioned that the formation of this sect was full of mysteries. It seemed that on a certain day and at a certain time period, a large number of people suddenly began to believe in idealism. There was no sign before that.”
“What’s even more bizarre is that as long as other people stay with them long enough, even if they have never heard of their teachings or participated in a preaching activity, they will involuntarily start to shout ‘idealism is the best, idealism is supreme’.”
Lin Nan shuddered: “It sounds extremely weird.”
Wen Xin had the same feeling.
He suspected that this sect used hallucinogens or something like that to control its followers.
Wen Xin said, “Anyway, it won’t hurt to be careful.”
“If you encounter people from Idealism later, persuade them to leave if you can. If you can’t persuade them to leave, then use force to threaten them. Try not to have long-term contact with them.”
While Wen Xin and the other person were discussing privately, others were also muttering about the difficulty of this mission.
After muttering for a while, the slightly taller man glanced at Wen Xin’s face, and his eyes gradually became strange.
“What do you think that boy looks like?”
He smiled in a weird and vulgar way: “I’ve been exposed to the sun in the camp for so many days, but I can’t get tanned. Look at that delicate skin. Wow, it would be great if it was a girl.”
Another thin man nudged him with his elbow: “Keep your voice down and look more focused. Don’t you know he’s Li Yongming’s distant cousin?”
“If he sees you and tells Li Yongming about it, you’ll have a hard time dealing with it.”
Obviously, Li Yongming’s position was several levels higher than theirs, but there was no respect in this person’s tone when he mentioned his name.
The tall man snorted and said, “Come on, in all these days, how many times have you seen Li Yongming come to see him?”
“I don’t think he cares much about this distant cousin.”
A man with a pointed face and monkey cheeks was sitting on the other side. He laughed strangely when he heard this: “There’s nothing wrong with what he said. With Li Yongming’s status, I’m afraid that all the relatives who are not related to him would come out to kowtow to him.”
“But this kid has been raised very delicately. During the training camp, even the chief instructor took good care of him. I’m afraid he has a very important identity.”
After the pointed-mouthed man said this, the other two also figured out something was wrong.
But the tall man felt strange: “If his identity is really not simple, why would he participate in this mission?”
You have to know that this mission is very dangerous.
The hostage Zhang Quanyong is in the hands of the Idealism Sect. The bishop who founded the sect was an ordinary office worker before the end of the world, but he controls tens of thousands of believers who obey his orders.
The southeastern region was not as severely damaged as City G and City Z, but there were still a large number of zombies surrounding it.
These zombies are as fierce as wolves and tigers, but they will not attack the base camp of Idealism. They will actively bypass it if it gets close.
If the theory of supernatural evolution had not been overturned, everyone else would have suspected whether the bishop of Idealism had some inhuman abilities.
Under this premise, if Wen Xin really had some background and identity, why didn’t he avoid it? It couldn’t be that he was short of life.
The question raised by the tall man really made the pointed-mouthed man a little confused.
“What’s wrong?” the thin man asked, “I see you seem to care about that boy a lot. Are you thinking about him?”
“Wow.”
The man with the pointed mouth wanted to sneer to express his disdain, but when he inadvertently glanced at Wen Xin’s face, he paused and swallowed back his laughter.
He twitched his lips, his tone was particularly dark: “I was just wondering, isn’t the person in charge of the base now surnamed Wen?”
The tall man: “What’s wrong with the last name Wen…last name Wen, last name Wen?”
They shuddered: “You mean he might be–”
“Shh!” The sharp-mouthed man interrupted them so as not to alarm others. “I’m just guessing. I have no evidence.”
“But what does that matter?”
He changed the subject and his eyes were as sinister as a poisonous snake spitting out red letters.
“When the situation becomes chaotic, we will find a chance to knock him out and take him away.”
“If he wasn’t Wen Jinfeng’s brother, and he was killed and sold, no one would notice this. Even if Li Yongming wanted to investigate later, he wouldn’t be able to trace it back to us.”
“If he is…”
The sharp-mouthed man’s tone became increasingly gloomy: “Then this contribution is much greater than preventing City A from rescuing Zhang Quanyong.”
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The departure time was just a few minutes, and Wen Xin was emphasizing the precautions of the action to the team members below.
He suddenly felt uncomfortable, as if someone was staring at him.
Looking up, I saw three people standing not far away.
One of the taller men made eye contact with him and gave him a friendly smile: “Captain Wen, do you have enough ammunition? Do you want to cooperate with our team later?”
Hearing about the cooperation, Wen Xin’s team members quickly pulled his sleeve and whispered, “Captain, look at his combat uniform, he is from the second team.”
In this operation, the First Detachment served as the commander-in-chief, followed by the Second Detachment.
A food delivery team like them is unskilled in carrying out their mission, has little say, and is not allocated much ammunition.
The team members looked at the tall man’s bulging equipment bag with envy and drooled.
Wen Xin also saw the emblem on the tall man’s combat uniform.
Considering that the team members’ lives and safety would be greatly guaranteed if they followed the detachment, he was somewhat tempted.
Until he saw the other two people beside the tall man.
The two men took off their uniform combat uniforms and put on tactical vests.
When ordinary people see them, they will subconsciously think that they are members of the same team.
Except Wen Xin.
Perhaps because he had memorized too many faces, he became a little obsessed. When he was assembling the team before going out this time, he subconsciously paid attention to the appearance of other people.
Coincidentally, Wen Xin remembered the faces of these two people and their positions at the time.
The thin man is a member of the first team, while the pointed-mouthed man is a member of a brigade under the second team. He is standing at the front of the team and should be the captain.
Three people can’t form a team.
They are all about to go on a mission, why are they gathered together?
Wen Xin felt something was a little strange. After hesitating for two seconds, he shook his head apologetically and said, “No need. Our route of action should be different from yours. We can’t work together as a team.”
The tall man persisted: “It doesn’t matter. Anyway, your mission is to cooperate with our detachment to clear out the zombies. It doesn’t matter which way you go.”
There is nothing wrong with this statement in theory.
But once the action has begun, everyone has to do their job, so how can they be so casual?
Before Wen Xin could respond, the man said, “It was Chief Li who asked us to come out and look after you this time. Don’t hesitate, let’s go together, it’s okay!”
It was these words that immediately cooled Wen Xin’s hesitant heart.
This time the mission was issued urgently, and he set off with the main force almost as soon as he got the information and manuscript.
There was no time to tell Li Yongming in advance that he was going to be on a mission.
Suddenly, Wen Xin’s face tensed up, and he refused firmly, “Sorry.”
Without saying much, he made a gesture to Lin Nan and the others, and left quickly with his team members.
The three people stayed where they were and followed Wen Xin a few steps in the direction he left, their eyes full of hostility.
“This kid is quite alert. I think he seems to have discovered something. Tsk.”
“What should we do next?”
“It’s okay. These teams will cover and clear out the zombies before the detachment breaks out. They will eventually meet up with us, and it won’t be too late to take action then.”
The sharp-mouthed man looked away grimly: “Go back to the team first, don’t let others notice anything unusual.”
Even though he was far away from the three people with bad intentions, Wen Xin still felt cold in his heart.
What is the reason why they are targeting me?
Lin Nan saw that his face was not right: “What’s wrong?”
Wen Xin said, “It’s okay.”
Looking at the zombies rushing towards him at the street entrance in front of him with their fangs and claws bared, he let out a breath and loaded his gun quickly and efficiently.
The young man stood up straight, his eyes became sharp: “Okay, let’s do it.”
