#706 - Chapter 706: Old Xu on Patrol
Guangyuan City.
Longmen County.
Near Shenzhen, at the junction of the two cities, two off-road vehicles were traveling on a certain road.
They were combat team members from Lvyuan performing missions in the surrounding area!
"Old Xu, the robbers have been caught. Are we going back to the base now? Or should we continue patrolling the area?"
In one of the off-road vehicles, a slightly older core combat team member asked Xu Zhiquan, who was driving.
The latter glanced at him and casually replied.
"Let's drive around for a while longer. It's not even noon yet, and it's still quite chaotic around here. I won't feel comfortable until we clear out those survivors trying to break into Guangyuan City and commit crimes."
"Alright, then let's do as you say and drive a bit further," the older team member in the passenger seat said indifferently.
They were members of Lvyuan's combat team.
And highly envied core members!
In the entire Lvyuan, which level of personnel was the most enviable?
Undoubtedly, it was the Level 5 personnel.
Next were the core personnel residing in the main base.
These were all people who could eat their fill.
Everyone knew that the benefits for ordinary core personnel were slightly worse than those for Level 5 personnel who had made outstanding contributions, lacking as many special privileges and benefits, but they were still not to be underestimated.
Because they were all backed by the core management of the base.
It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that they were the most trusted people of Lvyuan's leader.
These two off-road vehicles were out on a mission today to clear the area around the headquarters.
Survivors from outside Lvyuan, or Lvyuan personnel with ranks, often went out to search for food and supplies to supplement their families. Also, survivors living on the outskirts of Lvyuan who received work assigned by the base would get paid.
These people were like walking sweet potatoes in the eyes of some vicious survivors outside.
As long as they robbed and killed them, there was a high probability of seizing the supplies on them.
Even though Lvyuan's reputation had become so well-known recently, it still couldn't stop some survivors who were extremely hungry or frighteningly daring from taking action.
Perhaps in the minds of many of these survivors, Lvyuan only had a few thousand people and couldn't possibly manage such a large area. As long as they were quick enough, they could escape Lvyuan's pursuit after robbing and running away.
But they underestimated Lvyuan's determination.
For those who dared to do so, Qin Jin was willing to let the combat team waste a considerable amount of resources to kill all those who offended the base!
So, there were occasional missions for the combat team to clear the surrounding area.
After obtaining clear information, those free combat team members would drive vehicles or even helicopters to hunt down these survivors.
It was simply outrageous.
"Speaking of which, Old Xu, your wife is about to give birth, right? Are you still willing to run around everywhere?"
Chatting voices sounded in the off-road vehicle that had completed its mission and was preparing to continue wandering around Mentang Town, acting as a patrol and deterrent.
Both men in the car were core members of the main base.
However, Xu Zhiquan was older and slightly stronger, which was why he got the position of team leader.
During their spare time on missions, they would chat and joke around to pass the time.
And since they had been together for quite some time, they were very familiar with each other, and naturally knew something about each other's family situations.
"It's alright. The doctor said my wife's due date is still a week away during the prenatal checkup, so she shouldn't be giving birth so soon," Old Xu said with a gentler expression when talking about his wife's impending childbirth.
Time flies so fast.
I didn't expect that it's been a year since the apocalypse, and I'm about to become a father again.
This wasn't his first child.
In peaceful times, he had an eight or nine-year-old son back in his hometown who was studying with his parents, but after the Night of Mutation, everything was gone.
Only his wife, who had come with him to attend the opening ceremony that night, had survived with him until now.
During the subsequent search for relatives, they both used their quota to have the base's helicopter look for their son.
Unfortunately.
Their son was gone.
After being depressed for a while, the couple cheered up and decided to have another child.
Although he was almost forty and his wife was thirty-eight or thirty-nine, it didn't stop them from actually getting pregnant.
He still remembered when he was on patrol during the cold disaster and chatted with Little Wang about this, but that day they encountered a Charger, and it became Little Wang's death anniversary.
Unknowingly, time passed so quickly.
"You're really carefree. Your wife should be the first to give birth in our base, and possibly the first life born in the apocalypse in the entire Hua country!"
The team member in the passenger seat joked with him.
Who said it wasn't?
The environment and conditions of the apocalypse were so harsh that they couldn't support the survival of normal pregnant women.
Even if someone was pregnant before the Night of Mutation, with such great turmoil in the later stages and the complete loss of medical care, pregnant women had no other options but to give birth on their own.
Even if they were born, they needed milk or rice soup to feed them. Without sufficient food, postpartum women couldn't produce enough milk.
The result was self-evident.
This apocalypse could hardly support the arrival of new life.
Except for Lvyuan.
When Qin Jin decided to develop the base greatly last year, he calculated the mountain of supplies piled up in his base.
Supporting the arrival of new life wasn't difficult.
Therefore, the newly established Life Department, headed by Zhao Ling, had been monitoring the pregnant women in the base.
Not only did they provide free prenatal check-up services, but they also provided some basic nutritional supplements for a fee.
All core members were free, and other personnel could use them first and repay them slowly later through work and completing tasks.
As a result, many couples in the base began their baby-making plans.
The nights in the apocalypse were boring.
Even if some people had points to exchange for them, games and movies, no matter how fun, would get boring after a while.
Some activities were more attractive.
The car continued to drive on the road, and unknowingly, they arrived at the edge of Fenghe County.
Some survivors who came out to look for supplies and food, upon seeing these cars and the logos sprayed on them, would exclaim that the people from Lvyuan had appeared again.
It was thanks to these Lvyuan personnel patrolling around irregularly that many villains outside didn't dare to come here to commit crimes, and the survivors living here didn't dare to mess around.
Beep beep beep—!!
Just as they were driving, the single-soldier base station placed in the car suddenly sounded an alert!
This device was a good thing recently developed by the base headquarters, allowing the transmission distance to reach dozens of kilometers!
It allowed these team members who came out on missions to stay in touch at all times.
He casually answered, and a message that shocked the team members in the car came from inside!
"Old Xu! Your wife is going into labor!!! Come back quickly!!!"
"The headquarters has dispatched a helicopter! Report your location immediately! The helicopter will come and pick you up!!"
!!!
Xu Zhiquan's eyes widened, shocked to receive the news that he was about to become a father again!
It's earlier than the due date!!
(End of chapter)
