amaotonovel Chapter 128 As long as there is a chance, there is hope for life (1)
Chapter 128 As long as there is a chance, there is hope for life (1)
one day ago.
Just as Ji Lang and Qin Yuan left with their team, Team Leader Liu and several researchers from the institute were invited to the headquarters office of the South China base. Under the arrangement of the elderly commander-in-chief, Team Leader Liu and his research groups from three other bases in other countries held a satellite video conference that lasted for more than three hours.
During the meeting, they exchanged information about the function of the crystals inside the zombies and the general absorption methods. They also distributed the seeds and eggs provided by Lu Yuan. After the meeting, the South China Base will arrange for fighter jets to deliver the supplies to other bases. It is hoped that these supplies can be cultivated in different bases and that this can initially solve the basic survival problems of the survivors in China.
After the meeting concluded, the South China Base issued an emergency return signal to all previously dispatched action teams. Apart from Ji Lang and Qin Yuan's special mission team, which had just departed, the other teams' ships appeared within the radar monitoring range of the South China Base within two hours.
Compared to the previous gains of Ji Lang's team, the other action teams sent out by the South China Base this time fared much worse. Some encountered powerful hordes of zombies and lost most of their teammates, while others went through great hardships to find only a small amount of supplies, including a pitifully small amount of food that was not even enough to fill the stomachs of their team members.
Nevertheless, everyone who returned to the base this time saw hope for survival. Their base now had seeds, and even eggs. It's said that these were provided by a space-age ability user whom Ji Lang's team had found.
Nie Jiyang and Ji Lang had a good relationship when they were in the army. After arriving at the South China Base, they were both assigned to the base's special operations team and each was in charge of a small squad to carry out some relatively dangerous missions.
Just a few days ago, he and Ji Lang went on a mission together. They were assigned to the main island of H Province, while Ji Lang went to the port city of G Province. Unexpectedly, Ji Lang's team picked up Professor Gu's son and his friend. Not only were they all superhumans, but one of them was even a space-type superhuman.
Of course, he learned all this information from the other teams that had returned earlier while he was eating. After receiving the emergency return signal, all the outbound teams had to follow the unified arrangements of the command. Strong team leaders like Nie Jiyang had to report to the research institute as soon as possible. His team had just arrived at the base and was starving, so he and his teammates ate a quick meal in the canteen before heading towards the research institute.
"Xiao Nie, you just got back?" As soon as Nie Jiyang entered the research institute, he saw a long queue. The person who greeted him was Zhang Hua, the leader of their special operations team. More than an hour ago, their team landed on the island, and all the members of the special operations team returned to the base. So, as the leader, Zhang Hua, although he was already over forty years old, also came to the research institute as required by the command.
"Yes, I just got here and grabbed something to eat before rushing over." Nie Jiyang wiped the rice grains from the corner of his mouth. He was not usually a shy person who was reluctant to deal with leaders. Compared to Ji Lang, who was short-tongued, he was much more adept at social interaction and could get along well with both leaders and teammates.
"You still don't know what we asked you to do here, do you?" Zhang Hua patted Ji Lang on the shoulder, looking at the long line in front of him. Because of the special reason that the South China Base is located on a small island, the research institute is not large, and it is impossible to expand it temporarily. Therefore, Team Leader Liu only requisitioned a few offices for researching new agriculture and urgently arranged for doctors from the military hospital to conduct basic physical examinations for these soldiers.
"This is quite a large operation. What's going on?" Nie Jiyang peeked ahead. Although the South China Base now has far fewer people than his former unit, there are still several hundred squad leaders and regimental commanders like them.
"Actually, the physical examinations started yesterday afternoon. The engineering department and the research institute have all finished, otherwise there would be even more people today." In fact, after Ji Lang successfully absorbed the crystal, before going to the headquarters for a meeting, Team Leader Liu arranged for most of the young and strong researchers in the research institute and the engineering department to have physical examinations.
In fact, during the three-hour-plus exchange meeting, in addition to sharing the function of crystals and distributing seeds, the four bases also exchanged information on crystal acquisition. Apart from the South China base located on the island, the other three bases all had considerable crystal reserves. However, before they had a chance to find "guinea pigs" to experiment on, Ji Lang became the first test subject.
With the coordination of the commanders-in-chief of the three bases, the South China Base obtained more than one hundred crystals from them. However, although they obtained so many crystals, the quality was not high; most were level one, less than ten were level two, and there were none at all level three.
Although Team Leader Liu repeatedly advocated for it at the meeting, the South China base's geographical location was too safe, and other bases didn't have many level-three or higher crystals. After much deliberation, Team Leader Liu didn't insist any further, since bases in inland areas did indeed need stronger ability users more.
"Commander Zhang, can we really purify our powers too?" Standing in front of Zhang Hua was an equipment maintenance worker who hadn't come for his physical exam the day before because he was on duty. He knew more about Ji Lang's situation than anyone else around him. Hearing Zhang Hua and Nie Jiyang talking about it, he chimed in, "I heard that Captain Ji absorbed that crystal and his powers are stronger than those of Captain Lin and Captain Qin who came before."
"What? Ji Lang has superpowers? That's ridiculous." Nie Jiyang's mission this time was on H Province's main island. The South China Base originally planned to use H Province as its base, so the troops initially conducted a large-scale cleanup of H Province's main island, leaving it completely free of zombies. Their team was going to find the last survivors and bring back as many supplies as possible from H Province's main island. Therefore, Nie Jiyang had no idea about superpowers.
“It’s not just nonsense…” Zhang Hua was about to speak when the equipment maintenance worker in front of him interrupted angrily, “Our Captain Ji’s ability is completely useless to the base and only adds to the burden.”
The maintenance worker said this entirely because Ji Lang, who had just gained superpowers, had accidentally frozen a signal receiver in the base. The maintenance worker was also working overtime to repair the receiver, which was why he was only able to queue up for his physical examination today. While he was complaining about Ji Lang, his eyes sparkled with envy for Ji Lang's luck.
"No side effects?" After listening to the maintenance worker, Nie Jiyang finally understood the function of the crystal and where it came from. It was something that appeared after a zombie was killed. Just thinking about it made him feel unsafe.
"This is a high-stakes gamble for humanity in the face of life and death." Zhang Hua saw Nie Jiyang's worry, smiled and patted him on the shoulder, "Not everyone has a chance. You have to get through this first hurdle."
Soon, the first group finished their physical examinations, and the six or seven people at the front of the line entered the examination room. Zhang Hua and his group moved forward a short distance as well. They had already stopped talking about the topic, but after a few minutes of silence, Nie Jiyang heard Zhang Hua's voice again. He said:
"As long as there is a chance, there is hope for survival."