All the supplies that Qiu Shi requested were delivered before noon. There are two possibilities for Li Feng's cooperation. One is that he wants to show his power as the new deputy team leader, and the other is that this mission is not as simple as Qiu Shi imagined.
Considering that Li Feng appears to be calm and low-key on the surface but is actually ruthless and cruel in secret, the first possibility can basically be ruled out.
"This mission is not easy." Brigade Zhao looked at the supplies in the car.
In addition to some supplies and weapons needed for the mission that will be loaded directly onto the vehicle tomorrow, the winter clothes that Qiu Shi asked for for his brothers and various heating devices he had made are all on this vehicle.
Not to mention hand warmers, foot warmers, fire heaters and the like, he just randomly wrote down twenty heated vests and unexpectedly found them in a box.
He really didn't expect that the Security Bureau would have such a thing.
The life of the inner city's dog officials is really good.
"What is this?" He Jiang took out a vest.
"It can be heated," Zhao Lu said. "Take it and share it. It's perfect for wearing now."
"Brother Shi," He Jiang held the vest and looked at Qiu Shi, "How long will you be gone this time?"
"I don't know yet," Qiu Shi said. "In the past, it took me about four days to drive that broken motorcycle there and back. This time, I have a good car, so I can save a lot of time on the road. Plus, I can park there for a day or two, so it will take about a week."
He Jiang sighed.
"Why are you asking so many questions?" Zhao Lu patted him on the shoulder. "Hurry up and take the things. There are so many. We are going to make a fortune."
In the past, not to mention that Li Feng could give them so many things, they would be happy for a long time even if they could just take new clothes off a corpse, but today He Jiang was obviously in a bad mood.
“I just got back,” he said. “Is it always going to be like this? I’ll come back for a day or two, and then I’ll be gone.”
"How is that possible?" Qiu Shi said, "This matter will eventually pass, and I won't leave when it's over."
He Jiang silently turned around and walked towards the bunker with a pile of vests in his arms. After walking a few steps, he turned back and said, "You are kidding me."
Qiu Shi smiled.
"Brother Shi, you look especially like my dad." said Hu Xiaoling, who had been sorting supplies in the car.
"You were only five when your dad died," Zhao Lu said, "You remember nothing."
"I remember he always told me that it would be fine after a while, it would be fine after a while," Hu Xiaoling said. "Then he died."
"Fuck you," Qiu Shi said helplessly, "Just tell me if you feel uncomfortable if you don't hope for my death once a day."
Hu Xiaoling chuckled twice, dragged a box of things and jumped out of the car: "You are just like my dad."
"Bullshit! I'm only fucking twenty-five years old." Qiu Shi said.
"When I was five years old, my father was only twenty-five or twenty-six years old," said Hu Xiaoling.
"So you are five years old now!" Qiu Shi said.
A group of people took away all the things that Qiu Shi asked for from the corpse collector. Watching the car driving all the way to the tunnel entrance, Qiu Shi, who was squatting on the top of the bunker, suddenly felt a little uncomfortable.
I don’t know if it was influenced by He Jiang, but I felt a little reluctant.
In fact, everyone was in a bad mood today. They were very excited when they were drinking last night. Today, except for a few older ones who were able to maintain superficial calm, the younger ones like Hu Xiaoling and He Jiang had the word "unhappy" written on their faces.
It has been several years since we got this group of people together. Many people came and went before, and finally there are only a dozen of them left. There has been no change over the years.
Everyone abides by the tacit rules, advances and retreats together. People in troubled times are lonely, and any form of combination is fragile, but these dozen people are always tied together.
Qiu Shi thought of his great-grandmother, whose life or death he was unknown, and his deceased brother. The "relatives" and "family" they mentioned had never held any appeal to him, perhaps because he had always had them.
"I won't arrange any more food and drinks today," Qiu Shi said, "or else it will seem like a grand ceremony. I'm afraid they won't remember that I'm leaving again."
"Let's just go through with it today." Zhao Lu said.
"When I leave tomorrow," Qiu Shi looked at Zhao Lu, "I'll just do it quietly."
"Well," Zhao Lu responded, "What if you leave after everyone wakes up?"
"I'll go through the bunker passage." said Qiu Shi.
"What about me?" Zhao Lu asked, "Should I say goodbye in advance?"
"Let's just..." Qiu Shi thought about it and sighed again, then hugged Zhao Lu, "Take good care of them."
"Don't worry." Zhao Lu said.
"I don't really want to say this because it carries a lot of responsibility," Qiu said, "but you are indeed the only one who is reliable, and they respect you."
"I will seize power when you come back," said Zhao Lu.
"It's up to you, Brother Lu." Qiu Shi smiled.
Originally, he was worried that it would be difficult to leave quietly, but Qiu Shi never expected that the City Defense Bureau would come to pick him up in the middle of the night.
The only people who were still awake were Zhao Lu and Xiao Lei.
"You can't even let me get enough sleep?" Zhao Lu was a little unhappy and glared at the driver.
"We are here on orders as well," the driver said. "It's the higher-ups' arrangement."
"Let's go," Qiu Shi got in the car, "You two go back to sleep."
Xing Bi followed him into the car and sat next to him.
Before Zhao Lu and Xiao Lei, who were standing outside the car, could say anything, the soldiers in the car closed the door and the car started moving.
All I heard was Zhao Lu cursing outside: "Why are you in such a hurry to take them to eat shit?"
Qiu Shi leaned back in his chair, closed his eyes and smiled for a long time.
"Are you sleepy?" Xing Bi asked in his ear.
"I'm not sleepy," Qiu Shi said. "I'm a little excited for some reason. Maybe I'm nervous."
"Yeah, I'm nervous too." Xing Bi said.
Qiu Shi opened his eyes and looked at him: "Are you nervous?"
"Yeah." Xing Bi smiled.
Maybe Xing Bi has always been very strong, and Qiu Shi never thought that he would feel nervous.
But this time it is indeed different. The ten-man action team is an unprecedented number, plus three symbiotes that need to be controlled, and Lin Sheng, his former team member with whom he has a not-so-good relationship.
Fortunately, we don’t have to act in the same team.
The place they were being taken to was not the exhibition hall, nor the large command center next to the woods. Qiu Shi felt the road conditions in the car and estimated that they had reached the northwest corner of the inner city.
When we arrived at the place, it was still the style of Yuncheng. The car turned around several times before stopping.
When I got off the bus, I saw an underground parking lot with several large black military vehicles parked nearby.
This is Colonel Xu’s territory.
They followed the person who came to pick them up through a small tunnel nearby, got on the transport capsule and went down at least two floors before reaching their destination.
A huge underground cave was converted into several small halls. When I walked into one of the small halls, there were already quite a few people inside.
"Come," Li Feng walked over and tilted his head towards them, "Meet the team members."
There are ten human team members, including Qiu Shi, four from the City Defense Bureau, and five soldiers, among whom there is actually a familiar face.
"Zhao Yi?" Qiu Shi asked.
"Yes." Zhao nodded.
"Know him?" Li Feng asked.
"I've met him once." said Qiu Shi.
"Xing Bi will come with me in a while," Li Feng said, "The people from the laboratory are in the cabin over there, go get familiar with the other symbiotes."
"What about the other two teams?" Qiu Shi asked.
"Next door," Li Feng said, "The captains will meet before departure and keep in touch afterwards."
Yuncheng still has some decent elites, whether it's the guards from the City Defense Bureau or Zhao Yi's soldiers, they do look more capable than those you usually come into contact with.
No one said anything. They all knew that in the past they might have encountered a few infected people when they went out, but now they encountered biological organisms that could take the lives of ordinary people at any time.
Qiu Shi sat on the chair and fell asleep in silence after a while.
He was just about to start dreaming when he was woken up by Li Feng. The teammates next to him looked at him with some surprise in their eyes.
"I heard that you went to Donglin before?" Zhao Yi asked.
"Yeah." Qiu Shi sat up straight, looked around, and found that the people from the other two teams had already arrived at their assembly hall.
However, Xing Bi, Lin Sheng and several biochemical bodies they were supposed to control were not there yet.
"Captain, have you ever come into contact with those symbiotes?" asked a member of the City Defense Bureau.
Captain? When did he become captain
"Yeah," Qiu Shi responded, "The combat capability is not much different from that of a normal biochemical body, but when they appear in a team, they can cooperate very well."
"My name is Long Hao, and I'm from the City Defense Bureau's Guard." He stretched out his hand.
Qiu Shi shook hands with him.
Are you Mr. Long’s relative
Li Feng should be fully responsible for this operation to the southern town. Colonel Xu did not appear at the team assembly site. The only people Qiu Shi saw at the scene were Li Feng, Zhang Qifeng and Minister Liu.
Compared with Colonel Xu, Li Feng's style was quite simple. He did not repeat a word of what he had said privately when he was looking for team members before. Now he only explained the composition of each team, the mission route and contact information.
Each team consists of ten humans and one main body, namely Xing Bi and Lin Sheng. Among the three symbiotes under control, one is a level one stealth guard and the other two are level two.
It seems that Yuncheng is still very conservative about the activation of the first-level submersible guards.
"The content of this mission is to investigate the specific conditions of the target area, including facilities and personnel, and to draw an accurate safety range for the headquarters to avoid any direct contact and conflict. If there are any emergencies, the captain must promptly report to the headquarters. If there are any updates to the mission content, we will contact you in real time." Li Feng paused for a moment and glanced at the faces of the thirty people. "Thank you, everyone. Stay safe and I'll wait for you to come back."
Li Feng's last sentence consisted of only a dozen simple words, but his tone and eyes were surprisingly sincere.
Qiu Shi looked at him and felt a little emotional. Human beings are indeed very complicated creatures.
The captains of each team met on the spot, adjusted the headphones, and after confirming that there were no problems, the first team got up and left. This team was commanded by Colonel Xu himself. Qiu Shi thought that "personally" meant that she would go together, but she didn't expect that she would be commanded in the command room. Qiu Shi classified these ten people as the dead.
Then the biochemical body that had completed the symbiotic control test walked out from the small house on the side.
When Xing Bi saw Qiu Shi, he curled his lips at him and walked over with three biochemical bodies behind him, one female and two males.
"How is it?" Qiu Shi asked.
"It went smoothly." Xing Bi looked behind him, "It is now out of control."
Qiu Shi could tell that the woman was at level one, and her demeanor was much more agile than the other two.
"Sang Fan." Xing Bi introduced her.
"Welcome." Qiu Shi didn't know what to say to the biochemical being he met for the first time. After all, his first meeting with Xing Bi had no reference value.
The other two secondary biochemical bodies had no names and needed no introduction. Although it was not the first time Qiu Shi had worked with the second level and was very familiar with these, he still gave them names in his mind.
Little left, little right.
Lin Sheng also came out from another small room.
Qiu Shi glanced over there. Lin Sheng was easy to recognize, not because he was the first one walking, but because of his aura, which was similar to Xing Bi's and could distinguish him from other hidden guards of the same level.
However, Lin Sheng looked much colder than Xing Bi. When he passed by Xing Bi, his eyes met with Xing Bi's for a brief moment, but there was no change on his face or in his eyes.
Xing Bi is similar.
It seems that the relationship between these two former colleagues is indeed very ordinary, or perhaps there is not much affection between the undercover guards who exist only to kill.
"Captain of Team Two, can you hear me?" Li Feng's voice came from the headset.
"Yes." Qiu Shi replied.
"Let's go." Li Feng said.
"Let's go," Qiu Shi walked towards the departure channel, "Let's go."
The team members followed him, and when they passed by Li Feng, he glanced at Li Feng.
Li Feng looked at him without saying anything.
As he continued walking forward, Li Feng's voice came out of his headset again: "Our private contact method is still valid. If you have any questions, please contact me immediately."
Qiu Shi didn't say anything and walked into the passage.
There was a camouflaged transport vehicle parked at the other end of the passage. The vehicle was divided into two parts, with seats in the front and various equipment and supplies in the back. Every seat in the vehicle was a shooting position, and there were many shooting holes in other locations on the vehicle.
It looks similar to the hedgehog car in Donglin Town. It is indeed an ally.
Long Hao sat in the driver's seat, Qiu Shi let Zhao Yi sit in the passenger seat, and he and Xing Bi sat in the back.
Although he was the captain, he had never led anyone out on any mission, so he simply let Zhao Yi, who was the captain, sit in the front. When Zhao Yi went to the bunker to assist in defense before, he led a team of 20 to 30 people and was more experienced than him.
The car drove out through an underground tunnel in the parking lot. The tunnel was very long and there were some abandoned tracks underground, which seemed to have been used to transport ore in the past.
There are many underground tunnels in Yuncheng, all of which are transportation tunnels and dry underground waterways, but it is the first time for Qiu Shi to walk such a long distance.
When the car drove out from the other end, it had reached the No. 3 checkpoint outside the inner city. After turning a corner at the foot of a mountain, we saw the outer city.
The outer city looks better in winter, as the snow covers the dilapidated wooden houses on the mountain walls, making it look a lot tidier.
But these were also the hardest days in the outer city. After passing through the outer city tunnel, Qiu Shi saw the rocky wasteland that he was most familiar with. There was no grass growing on the ground, and the rock blades were everywhere. When the cold wind blew, it could pierce through people, but Qiu Shi could still feel the warmth.
He looked from the lookout toward the bunker and saw a flash so tiny that it was almost imperceptible that it lit up in the middle of the bunker, disappeared in an instant, then lit up again and disappeared.
"Long Hao," Qiu Shi called forward, "Flash your lights twice."
"Hmm? Okay." Long Hao flashed his light twice, "Is it ready?"
"Okay," Qiu Shi said, "Thank you."
Those two flashes were definitely made by Brigade Zhao. When the car of the team in front came out, they probably also made a signal, just to confirm whether Qiu Shi was in the car and which car he was in.
This kind of meaningless thing is what people like them are capable of doing.
"Saying goodbye?" Xing Bi asked in a low voice.
"No," Qiu Shi smiled, "I just wanted to see which car I was on."
Xing Bi smiled and said nothing.
"I told you," Qiu Shi said, "we are usually very boring."
"It's quite interesting." Xing Bi said.
Further ahead of the car was the checkpoint that blocked the refugees. The makeshift sheds were covered with snow, and two of them had collapsed.
A fleet of cars has already driven out.
When they saw their car, the refugees rushed out of the shed, shouting something at the top of their lungs, and it was obvious that they were very excited.
The guard at the checkpoint fired two shots into the air but couldn't stop the group of people from rushing towards the car.
"Speed up," Zhao Yi turned around and said to Long Hao, "If one of them climbs up, it will be troublesome."
The car accelerated suddenly, and the wheels kicked up a cloud of snow on the ground. The car roared out of the checkpoint before the crowd broke through the guards' blockade.
The refugees were in chaos in the snow and fog. Each face was different, but the expressions and eyes on their faces were similar, with confusion and despair in their anger.
Qiu Shi sighed softly, retracted his gaze, looked ahead, and opened the map.
The map is marked very carefully this time. In addition to the different colors, it distinguishes between humans and biochemical team members. Next to each small dot is each person's name. Only the two small dots of secondary biochemical bodies do not have names next to them.
Qiu Shi remembered what he did last time when he marked the contaminated area on the map, so he tried to rummage around on the map in front of him, found the location for notes to his teammates, and marked the two secondary biochemical bodies as Xiao Zuo and Xiao You.
It's not like he has deep feelings for biotics... Of course, he still has deep feelings for some of them. He thinks it may be because he has never experienced the stage where the biotic was "born for humans". Even if it is a second-level biotic, he is not used to having two nameless tools in the team.
"Would you like to give it a name?" Xing Bi asked in a low voice.
"You are sharp again," Qiu Shi said, "How did you find this out?"
"Didn't you write 'left and right'?" Xing Bi said, "It's about the same level as A, B, and C last time."
Qiu Shi laughed.
The wasteland south of Dahei Mountain is a flat land between a circle of jungle and mountains. It is not small in area. There are no trees, no hillside rocks, and no water. Three mountains can be seen in the distance at a glance.
This kind of terrain is relatively safe, and there is no place for both the enemy and us to hide.
"Are those three mountains in front?" asked a team member in front. His name was Lu Yu as shown on the map.
"Is that so?" another person answered. His name was Zheng Yu.
When these two names from more than 20 years ago are put together, plus Li Gouguan, and compared with the name of the biochemical body from more than a hundred years ago, it can be seen that not only is the teaching quality of the refugee school in the outer city not very good, but the teaching quality in the inner city is actually not much higher.
"Not accurate," Qiu Shi said, "They are three small mountain ridges running from north to south, with two weathered valleys in the middle. They are not long. We will take the right one to Xima Town in a while."
"It wasn't intuitive enough on the map before," Lu Yu turned around and said, "Captain, have you been there before?"
"Well," Qiu Shi said, "I've been there a few times, but that was half a year ago. I don't know what the situation is now."
"I hope it remains the same." Zheng Yu said.
"When you went there by yourself," Xing Bi looked outside, "did you also take this road?"
"No," Qiu Shi moved closer to him and pointed to the low mountain to the west that could be seen from the lookout. "It's closer to go along the mountain from the bunker than this way, but it's definitely not safe to go now, and large vehicles can't go there either."
"Yeah." Xing Bi looked over there.
"There used to be small animals there, not many, but they did exist," Qiu said. "I saw a rabbit."
"Is it cute?" Xing Bi asked.
"I didn't see it clearly, it was gray," Qiu Shi said. "I was so scared that my car almost flipped over. I didn't have time to see if it was cute or not."
Xing Bi laughed, then turned his head and looked at him: "Let me teach you another nursery rhyme. You don't have to sing it, and it won't be out of tune."
Qiu Shi sighed: "What do you mean? I wasn't out of tune, I just didn't remember the tune."
"Okay," Xing Bi said, "I'll teach you another nursery rhyme. You don't need to remember the tune."
Qiu Shi smiled and sighed: "Okay."
"Little white rabbit, so white..." Xing Bi said in a low voice.
"It's gray," said Qiu Shi.
"The old-timers assume it is white," said Xing Bi. "It is a little white rabbit, very white, with two ears standing up. It likes to eat radishes and vegetables. It jumps around and is so cute."
Qiu Shi laughed after hearing this: "How silly."
"The kids are just reciting it for fun." Xing Bi smiled.
“… I haven’t even met a few children.” said Qiu Shi.
Xing Bi said nothing.
"Little white rabbit, so white, with two ears standing up, loves to eat radishes and vegetables, and jumps around so cutely." Qiu Shi repeated, "Is that right?"
"Yes, it sounds better than singing." Xing Bi said.
"Where did you learn this nursery rhyme?" Qiu Shi asked.
"I don't remember, this... almost everyone among our ancestors knows it." Xing Bi said.
"Really?" Qiu Shi knocked on the back of Sang Fan's chair in front of him.
Sang Fan turned his head.
"Do you know?" Qiu Shi asked.
"I know." said Sang Fan.
"Can you hear it?" Qiu Shi said.
"Yes." said Sang Fan.
“…Oh.” Qiu Shi glanced at Xing Bi.
Xing Bi smiled and didn't seem to mind being heard by his peers reciting nursery rhymes.
The little white rabbit was quite brainwashing. For about the next half hour, the little white rabbit kept jumping around in Qiu Shi's mind. He felt like the top of his head was about to jump off.
Fortunately, there was a valley ahead and he needed to be on guard as he passed through. As his attention shifted, he finally got rid of the little white rabbit.
"There will be falling rocks, please be careful." Qiu Shi opened the team's call.
"Got it." Long Hao said.
"Pay attention to both sides. There are many places where people can hide on the mountain," Qiu Shi instructed again, "get through as quickly as possible."
"Got it." Long Hao replied, and then the speed of the car increased immediately.
The team members sitting in the front raised their weapons at the same time.
Qiu Shi stared at the map in front of him. This valley was not very long, less than 800 meters in total. From the perspective of terrain, it was a good place for an ambush. Fortunately, the rock walls were very steep and were all weathered rocks. The Tibetans could barely get through, and heavy weapons were not effective.
The car sped through the valley, and Qiu Shi's eyes never left the map during the bumpy ride.
When he saw four bright spots on the right, he felt like cursing.
This guy has only been out for less than two hours!
"Four on the hill to the right."
Xing Bi spoke almost at the same time as him: "There are people on the mountain."
avoid confict.
"Go, go, go." Qiu Shi said in a series.
The mountain on the right side in front suddenly moved.
"Was it a landslide?" Qiu Shi wondered if there was something wrong with his eyes.
When I jumped up and rushed to the cab to confirm again, the map in front of me indicated that the mountain on the right side ahead had landslided.
"Landslide," Xing Bi said, "man-made."
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To be continued tomorrow⊙▽⊙.