Chapter 15: It's up to you
There was a stalemate between the two sides for a long time, and finally, the female officer gritted her teeth, "Okay, you can keep your weapons and food." β
After speaking, she walked towards the front carriage with a frustrated personality, and glared at An Li fiercely as she left.
An Li sat down and sighed for her hateful physique.
Shu Meng leaned over and asked in a low voice, "Why are you so tough, what if those soldiers come hard?" β
An Li looked at her sideways, and also lowered her voice, "You carefully observe this team. β
"Huh?"
"Didn't you find out? This team is a very naΓ―ve team. β
"Naive?" Shu Meng was puzzled.
Anli explained, "Well, yes, naΓ―ve. All the survivors here, including even a few officers, don't seem to feel the oppression of the end times, their thinking is still stuck in the end times, everyone still has rules engraved in their bones, and the military bullies the weak? This kind of thing, they can't do it for the time being. They talk about the rules, so we can fight for ourselves within the rules. β
Yue Wen also heard their conversation in front of him, obviously thinking about it with An Li, he poked his head over and said in a low voice, "Everyone is very weak now, and when you meet a team that is barely reasonable, you can secretly rejoice yourself." β
"Oh." Shu Meng nodded as if she didn't understand, and then asked worriedly, "But that female soldier just now seemed to have a lot of opinions about us, offended her, what should she do if she finds something for us." β
An Li leaned back on the seat and said lightly, "Just stay up to the Jiangcheng base." β
With that, she closed her eyes.
Shu Meng wanted to say something, but looked at her tired appearance and stopped saying anything.
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An Li felt like she was in a white mist.
There seemed to be something in the white mist.
Like the shadows of people, many of them, hidden in the white mist, surrounded her.
"Stand ahead, kid." At this moment, an old voice sounded from the front.
An Li was stunned, and her body walked over uncontrollably.
It was a strange feeling, as if she were just a wisp of geism, inhabiting an unknown body.
The white mist gradually dispersed, and the scene in front of me gradually became clearer.
She realized that she was standing in front of a stone platform made of white jade.
On the opposite side of the stone platform, there was an old man holding a tray, and the tray was covered with a red cloth, and the scene was as if she had traveled through time and space to the hall where the ancient dignitaries and nobles presented gifts.
However, the old man was wearing a long coat and trousers, which was a real modern costume.
She couldn't see the old man's face clearly, it was a white mist, she couldn't see the opening and closing of the other person's lips, she could only hear a voice coming from the white mist, "Come forward, children, this is your reward." β
Only then did she realize that there was a person standing beside her.
To her right, tall, long, and wearing a T-shirt and trousers, he just stood quietly, but he seemed to feel the explosive power dormant beneath his body.
An Li's first reaction was that this was a very dangerous person.
So she took a step back.
But her body was out of her control, and she was still standing still.
It was a man, a tall man, and when she looked up, the man's face was also a white mist.
There were many people around, men and women, dressed differently, but without exception, Anli couldn't see their faces clearly.
At this moment, her body turned her head and faced the stone platform.
She saw the old man pull off the red cloth from the tray in front of the man.
A lifelike butterfly cufflink is revealed.
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"Hey, wake up, Anli, Anli?"
An Li felt that someone was calling her, patting her arm, and when she opened her eyes, she was facing Shu Meng's baby fat cute face.
"What's the matter?" She asked.
"Hey, you haven't woken up for a long time, and you've been muttering something, are you dreaming?" Shu Meng asked.
An Li felt as if something had flashed in her mind, but when she looked for it carefully, it disappeared again.
She shook her head, "I don't know, I forgot." β
Shu Meng was not surprised, "It's normal, it's all like this, I forgot it when I woke up, I called you up because S is big." β
Shu Meng's expression became serious.
"S big?"
"Well, because we told them that there were survivors in the supermarket in S Big, so the convoy came. But ......"
An Li chuckled in her heart.
Shu Meng pursed her lips, "But there is no one in the supermarket anymore." β
"What about people." An Li asked calmly, looking out the window.
After that, there was no need for Shu Meng to answer, and she understood.
From their point of view, they can just see the supermarket at the school gate.
The glass door of the supermarket had been shattered to slag, and inside, there were no other living people except for a few soldiers who were inspecting.
And in the open space outside the supermarket, among the zombies that the soldiers had just killed, they saw a few familiar clothes, which they had only seen for a long time.
Several people fell silent.
There is a hint of fear in addition to being depressed.
It is unimaginable that in less than a day, all the supermarkets that were previously temporary havens have fallen.
If they hadn't left there decisively, I'm afraid they would have been able to find their clothes in the pile of zombies now.
"That supermarket just experienced a zombie wave not long ago, and there are no survivors in it." The female officer said as she got into the car.
Her gaze lingered on the few people for a moment, and then she turned to the little white face sitting on the other side.
The little white face was also frightened by the scene at hand.
The female officer walked over and comforted him a few words, her tone soft. Little White looked up and smiled shyly at her.
The female officer rubbed his hair.
The convoy soon set off again.
They can't stay in one place, what they have to do is search and rescue the survivors of the whole city.
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Soon, it was dusk.
The convoy found an empty square to repair, and the carriage became lively.
The soldiers came with food and water to distribute them one by one.
However, as soon as they were placed in Anli's place, the female officer came from behind.
"A few of them are not willing to hand over their own food, so the supplies allocated above are not your share, a few of them have no opinion, right?"
An Li glanced at her, "No." With that, she took out bread from her bag and nibbled on it, and opened a carton of milk.
Female officer: "......"
Dinner time is still very lively, although the end of the world is coming, the overall atmosphere is very low, but there is some popularity during the meal.
As soon as everyone had eaten, the middle-aged officer they had seen before came over with some soldiers.
He gathered everyone together and began to speak.
An Li didn't listen to the first few words, but she noticed it later.
The leader is summoning the Adepts of this team.
It's no secret that many people have awakened in three days.
It's about one-third, and most of them are power, speed, defense, and so on, which are very common abilities, like the strength of the supermarket owner.
An ability like Yue Wen, which can transform matter into metal, is already quite special.
ββ¦β¦ Ladies and gentlemen, according to the plan, we will probably arrive at the Jiangcheng base tomorrow afternoon, along the way, the number of survivors is increasing, and our soldiers have also sacrificed some, and in the next time, if we rely on our army alone to protect you, I am afraid that it will not be enough. β
"Many of you here are fortunate enough to awaken their abilities, which are rare combat power. We hope that all of you Adepts will join our army and set up a temporary escort team to protect this team in case of danger. To make sure that we, all of us, arrive safely at the base......"
The chief gave an impassioned speech above, and the people sitting below whispered, and some people's hearts were stirred by him, and some people were dismissive.
Before Anli finished drinking the milk, he heard someone below stand up and shout.
"No, you said you would protect us, we are just ordinary people, and we can't deal with those monsters at all."
The middle-aged officer's face did not change, "I didn't let ordinary people join, I'm talking about the supernatural." β
"Why, those monsters are so terrible, why should we come out to protect others for nothing." There are still people who are not convinced.
They stood up and argued, feeling very unfair, why should they deal with those monsters, while the rest of the ordinary people hid behind them and enjoyed comfort?
The middle-aged officer's face turned cold, and he asked in a low voice: "Then why should the soldiers under my command protect you from eating and drinking for nothing?" β
I thought that a rhetorical question would stop the other party, but unexpectedly, a straightforward answer suddenly popped up:
"Because you're soldiers!"
As soon as this answer came out, some people immediately chimed in.
"That's right, isn't it to protect us ordinary people when you are a soldier?"
So for granted.
"We pay so many taxes to the state every year to support you, isn't it just for this kind of time?"
So righteous.
"Isn't that your calling?"
The middle-aged officers were all confused by this louder answer.
"Chief."
The soldiers behind him whispered to him.
But the tone of the exit is so angry.
Every soldier, no matter what the reason for enlisting in the army, more or less, has a sense of heroism in it.
When disasters hit the sky, they threw their heads and spilled their blood to protect their families and defend the country, thinking that even if they were not heroic men who stood up to the sky, at least, they should be thanked by the people they guarded.
But what did they hear?
The people they protect are ungrateful for their efforts, and these people have the confidence to feel that even if the soldiers sacrifice their lives for them, they deserve it.
But even if they are soldiers, who is not raised by their parents?
Not everyone thinks like this. But such people do exist, just these people in front of them, and there are not a few white-eyed wolves.
All the soldiers were angry, but because of the green-skinned uniforms, they forcibly endured their anger, and in the end, they still had to continue to protect them?