#66 - Chapter 66 Dongguan Base (Part 3)
Chen Ge made a decision in his heart.
He silently walked back to his spot.
The space was cramped. Almost a full turn and he could sit down, picking up the bowl of slightly cool congee. Under his cousin's equally disdainful gaze, he took small sips.
The bowl of congee eased his rumbling stomach.
It wasn't full, but he no longer felt the previous agonizing hunger.
He continued to silently and carefully lick the water stains off the bowl until not a single drop of congee remained, then put the bowl away.
Then, he took out their shared luggage and slowly separated his belongings, storing them separately.
With a blank expression, he said to his cousin:
"Gangzi, my care for you ends here. From now on, we'll live our own lives. You don't need to think about giving me good things, just take care of yourself. Don't come looking for me if anything happens in the future, and I won't need your help either. Let's part ways amicably."
After speaking, he drew a line on the ground in the middle of the tent, seemingly intending it as a boundary.
"The last thing I can leave you is half of this tent. This tent was exchanged for with my own car, so logically it belongs to me. Considering our brotherly relationship, let's squeeze together until we find another place to live."
"Pfft~"
His cousin chuckled disdainfully.
He seemed surprised that his cousin, whom he considered incapable, would make such a move.
However, he didn't panic in the slightest.
He looked at his cousin with a sneer, saying:
"Alright, since you want to separate, I have no objections. Besides, I, as the younger brother, will be more generous. You can have this tent."
After speaking, he picked up his share of the luggage that Chen Ge had separated. There weren't any important items, just a few clothes and some small things.
He walked towards the entrance, glancing back at his cousin, grinning as he said:
"Brother, I'm going to get rich. When I become wealthy, I definitely won't forget you."
Chen Ge remained noncommittal.
He took one last look at his cousin's departing figure, waved his hand, and the relationship between the two brothers was officially severed.
Even if his cousin really became successful, he didn't plan to go back and curry favor with him.
He had his own pride and way of life.
Moreover, he knew his cousin's character. He was good at saying pretty words, but when it came to actually doing things, it was a different story.
He had already decided to find the shelter people tonight.
He wanted to join the night watch team.
Going outside was too dangerous, but helping with the night defense should be manageable.
At least he rarely heard of people dying on the night watch.
The two brothers reaching this point was actually foreseeable, because their personalities were completely incompatible; one was a dreamer, and the other was a pragmatist.
Chen Ge thought that it was better to separate sooner rather than later, at least it hadn't reached the point where they were at each other's throats.
Lying in the tent, looking at the space that had become his own again, a sense of peace filled his heart.
Breaking up with his cousin was like a heavy weight being lifted from his chest.
And so, with the congee in his stomach, he took a nap.
He didn't know how much time had passed.
Half-asleep, Chen Ge seemed to hear a whooshing sound near his ear, mixed with the shouts of many people nearby.
He suddenly woke up and sat up!
Listening to the familiar whooshing sound, he realized it was the sound of a helicopter!
Without bothering to sleep any longer, he got up and rushed out of the tent, seeing that many people outside were already looking up at the sky.
Sure enough, there was a helicopter circling!
What's going on!?
Chen Ge was a little confused.
Wasn't this the apocalypse? How could there still be a helicopter?
Could it be the shelter's aircraft?
That's not right, he hadn't seen it before?
Could it be that the shelter found a helicopter today and just brought it back?
That would be great!
This meant that the Dongguan City Shelter's strength had greatly increased, and everyone's lives should be better in the future!
Or perhaps this was an aircraft from other official organizations, which had begun to recover lost territories, wanting to drop supplies or come down to contact the shelter? That wouldn't be bad either!
If it was true, he had to keep a close eye on it, otherwise it would be too late to grab anything!
Many people had the same questions and ideas as Chen Ge, and the people around him were discussing loudly, but no one knew the answer, they could only keep their eyes fixed on the helicopter above.
Just as everyone was wondering what was going on.
The helicopter actually turned its head and flew in one direction.
In the blink of an eye, it had disappeared from sight, and even the sound was gone.
What the heck??
Question marks appeared on everyone's heads, unsure of what had just happened.
The helicopter flew over their heads for a while and then left?
After waiting for a while, nothing happened, and many people couldn't help but go back to their tents to stay.
Lying down consumed less energy, and it was quite cold outside now.
Chen Ge also waited for a while, and when he saw that nothing was happening, he went back to the tent to rest.
This matter was only pressed in everyone's hearts, and did not affect everyone's lives.
However, inside the shelter's management, it was a scene of chaos, alarming all the higher-ups.
They all thought that the organization had recovered and that rescue had arrived!
But their happiness didn't last long, and their hopes were dashed.
However, they didn't give up, and immediately sent people out to investigate, to see which force this helicopter belonged to, what they were doing here, and what their purpose was.
The people who received the task were dumbfounded, how were they supposed to investigate this?
They couldn't fly, these higher-ups really only cared about the results, regardless of the difficulties of those doing the work!
With no other choice, the shelter also sent some people to drive along the direction the plane left, to see if they could find any clues.
Of course, the results couldn't be chased very far, and they could only return empty-handed before dark. Some people were also sent out inside the shelter to ask some survivors, to see if anyone knew anything.
But listening to the plausible survivors, seeming to know something, but giving answers that didn't make sense.
It made the people working have a splitting headache, and in the end, they didn't know how to explain to the higher-ups.
The final result was not mentioned, this event was just an interlude in the Dongguan City Shelter, their lives still went on like this.
Not much changed.
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Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh——
In the sky far away from the Dongguan City Shelter, a helicopter was flying.
Several men on the plane were talking loudly about something.
Zooming in, it was actually Qin Jin and his group!
Yes.
It was them who passed by the Dongguan City Shelter just now.
After searching several destinations in a row, they had not obtained good results.
Those targets that had records of helicopters, either went to places where the location was wrong, not like a place to park a helicopter, or went to find a landing pad with an H logo, but couldn't see half a helicopter at all.
There was also a place where they did find a helicopter, but it had already fallen to the ground and crashed, and they didn't know what had happened before.
They had searched five places in a row!
Relying on the helicopter's fast speed, they had flown over all the targets in Yangcheng to take a look, and all they got was a goose egg.
Qin Jin suspected that their luck had been used up when they found the helicopter training ground.
Otherwise, why would they be so unlucky to find five places and come back empty-handed!?
Alas.
It seemed that finding a plane was really not easy. Fortunately, they had a great harvest at the beginning, otherwise, if they had to drive to find these places one by one, it would take them many days just for these few places in Yangcheng.
You must know that two of them were still in the city. After they flew there, they triggered a considerable wave of zombies, with as many as tens of thousands of zombies clawing and gnashing their teeth, making everyone's scalp tingle.
The height of the stacked corpses was as high as ten meters. They were flying at an altitude of 50 meters and were constantly moving. Even so, they could feel a shock, as if the zombies' claws were about to reach their eyes.
They were so scared that they fled in a hurry.
Now it was already past 3 pm, and they hadn't found anything after running to so many places. Even Qin Jin felt a burst of discouragement.
As a result, when they went to a target in Dongguan City, they discovered a human survivor base!
It was Qin Jin who had sharp eyes and discovered it. At that time, he was leaning against the window looking at the scenery, when he suddenly found that a lot of people were walking around in an area below, and some people seemed to be on guard on the buildings.
Immediately, he asked Sun Xiaolong to stop the plane above that place and observe for a while.
He didn't think that this kind of place would have anti-aircraft missiles.
After watching for a while, he roughly understood the situation of this base, and he was not interested in continuing to watch, and ordered Sun Xiaolong to continue to the next destination.
His evaluation of this base was: it will be finished sooner or later.
Those dense tents, people walking around everywhere, only a few guards on the buildings had guns, but there was only a circle of walls less than five meters.
It was really a miracle that they were able to survive until now.
A slightly larger wave would wipe them out.
He didn't bother to care about these, there were too many and too common bases like this in the apocalypse.
The surviving people would always find ways to gather, and then be overwhelmed by difficulties.
Gather again, over and over again.
In the end, what was left was the strongest, the slickest, and the hardest-lived survivors.
He used to be this type.
It's just that in this life, I hope to live more freely.
(End of this chapter)
