Doomsday run (12): Start the journey

Of course, Cheng Huaiqian was just thinking about it. After all, they were preparing to participate in the “search” operation organized by the research base. If the research base became chaotic first, the operation might not be successful.

So the three of them just sat and watched the rescue teams from various bases get busy. The research base gave everyone a day to consider whether they wanted to join the mission.

The rescue team members originally regarded this as a joke, but surprisingly, the rescue captains had a completely different attitude, and they were trying to persuade their team members to participate in the mission of the research base.

At this point, everyone had understood what had happened. It turned out that their own base knew about it, and the captains also knew about it. In the end, only the lower-level team members who were completely unaware of the situation were kept in the dark and taken to the research base.

The final registration deadline given by the research base was before dinner. Those who were willing to participate in the search could continue to stay in the base, while those who were unwilling to participate must leave the base, borrow their parking lot for one night, and leave at dawn the next day.

Dong Zi spent the whole day looking for Xia Ruize and the other two, and finally caught up with them in the dormitory in the afternoon.

“Are you guys going to join?” Dong Zi asked straight to the point, and to show his sincerity he took the initiative to say, “I’m going to stay anyway. This is clearly an extended mission. Such clear and definite extended missions are hard to come by and we can’t miss them. The brave ones will die of their courage, and the timid ones will starve to death. Do you want to fight together?”

After listening to the researcher’s speech, Dong Zi realized that the search mission was an extended mission, and the trialers could freely choose whether to participate.

If they participate, they may encounter more dangers. If they don’t participate, they could get a lot of physical value improvement by hunting zombies on a daily basis.

After careful consideration, Dong Zi decided to stay and participate. Although the difficulty of the mission had increased visibly, it was rare to encounter such an extended mission that did not require much effort to develop and was placed directly in front of him. He had experienced more than a dozen mission worlds and had only encountered it three times.

So Dong Zi approached Xia Ruize and the other two again, trying hard to get them to stay together so that they could take care of each other. He had witnessed Xia Ruize’s fighting ability with his own eyes, and he knew he was a helper worth recruiting.

“We’ll stay too.”

Xia Ruize smiled, watching Dong Zi breathe a sigh of relief, and then complained:

“That’s right. A horse can’t get fat without extra feed. If we don’t complete the extended mission, we have no future. Not on my team. Hey, in this world, it’s a disgusting environment no matter where you stay. What’s the difference?

Okay, I feel relieved after hearing your approval. If we are assigned to the same team, please take care of each other.”

Dong Zi was rejected last time, so he didn’t think about forcing his way into the three-person team this time. But as fellow trialers, it was only right for them to take care of each other as long as it didn’t affect themselves, right?

After getting a positive answer, Dong Zi left happily.

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian sat side by side in a corner discussing arrangements, while Gao Hexuan was trying his best to find relevant information about the research base’s last search mission and made some preparations in advance. The three of them formed their own little world and were very leisurely.

But this dormitory area was actually in chaos. Some were swearing, some were banging the table and shouting, and some were trying to persuade people earnestly. In short, the whole day was in chaos, and until the end, the lists submitted by the captains kept changing.

The research base received a list of personnel willing to participate in the search mission. Of the more than 600 rescue personnel sent by various bases, only a little more than 200 remained.

The guards escorted everyone who wanted to leave out of the base and back to the original parking lot, and the dormitory area suddenly became empty.

Those who stayed had a more sumptuous dinner, and the atmosphere was much quieter and silent than the previous few days. After all, many people were semi-forced to stay, either tempted by the rewards given by the captain, or threatened by the handles the captain had. In short, people like Xia Ruize’s group, and Dong Zi, who were willing to stay voluntarily, were only a minority.

Many people felt dreadful and hopeless at the thought of having to travel tens of thousands of kilometers across the continent to look for some virus data. Even eating delicious food could not completely soothe their wounded hearts.

The research base was quite excited, after all they had been preparing for this for a long time. After dinner they brought everyone to the auditorium to divide into groups.

More than 200 people would be divided into two groups and take different routes. Each group would have more than 100 people, divided into ten vehicles, with twelve people in each vehicle. The captain of each fleet and the team leaders of each vehicle will be the guards of the research base. The rescue personnel from other bases, regardless of their previous identities, would be ordinary members in the search mission.

The next step was to arrange the personnel for each vehicle. The research base did not forcibly separate people who were already familiar with each other. Instead, it adopted the personal opinions of the team members.

The teammates in Xia Ruize’s car were all familiar faces. In addition to Cheng Huaiqian and Gao Hexuan, there were Dong Zi, Qin Feng, the fire-type girl Bai Mengru and her two teammates who had been in the same car before, and Cui Wenyang, the captain of the previous team.

When undertaking a new mission with familiar teammates, they could always calm down a little.

After being divided into groups, Xia Ruize and others also met their new team leader, Liu Jie from the research base. Liu Jie looked younger than most people. When he introduced himself with a smile, he showed two small fangs. He had clear eyes and a bright smile, and seemed very easy to get along with.

In addition to the grouping, the base also explained the route map in detail to ensure that every team member was clear about their plan and to ensure that even if there was only one car left, they could continue to move towards the goal.

It was late at night and everyone went back to their dormitories to rest. At dawn the next day, as the people in the parking lot left, the research base, which had been bustling for a short time, became much quieter. The newly recruited team members were busy all day preparing supplies for the trip.

From trucks to weapons to logistical supplies, all were provided by the research base. It must be said that the research base’s supplies were abundant and high-quality. The safety and functionality of the trucks alone far exceed those of the original base.

Not to mention the weapons, which had been greatly improved in terms of power and convenience, which made the team members who load the supplies by hand feel more confident.

In addition, military training was arranged in the morning and evening in an effort to allow these soldiers from various bases to integrate as quickly as possible.

After two days of preparation, the convoy finally drove out of the cave.

It was not until just before the trip that everyone knew that there would be researchers accompanying them. Each vehicle was assigned to one researcher, and the team members were responsible for protecting the researchers’ safety.

As compensation for everyone, each team member received a life bottle developed by the research base.

Xia Ruize and the other two were very happy. The bottles in the research base were much larger than those in the future base and could store more life energy.

They had been staying in the base these days, and had to sneak out through a small door on the side of the base late at night every day, collecting enough life energy in a hurry and then rushing back overnight. It was really hard work. They had always wanted more life bottles, and now their wish had come true. Looking at the young male researcher who was assigned to their car, they naturally had no dissatisfaction.

The vehicle Xia Ruize was in was the second vehicle in the second convoy, with the lead vehicle being the guards of the research base leading the way.

The convoy left the research base and embarked on a long journey to find the mission.

For a whole day, the team members tested their new weapons on the zombies on the road. As expected, they were very useful, with stable shooting and great power, which could easily resolve the threat.

In order to save time, the team did not stop to rest at night. They only changed drivers and left a few team members on duty. The others lay on hammocks in the carriage and took advantage of the swaying of the vehicle to rest.

Fortunately, they had life energy in my hands, so they could sleep deeply even if they didn’t want to.

The strong warriors were still able to hold on, but the weak researchers were tortured to the point of being pale. However, they gritted their teeth and held on, refusing to let the convoy slow down.

In the arduous journey of traveling day and night and constantly breaking out of the siege of zombies, the only thing that could make people feel comforted was probably the three meals a day. In order to reward the hard-working soldiers, the logistics department tried its best to make every meal rich and delicious.

As they headed north and left the border, they encountered fewer enemies because the area they passed through was also an uninhabited desert before the disaster, but now it had simply become an even more uninhabited desert.