#766 - Chapter 766: Airship crashes
10 PM.
Fuhai City.
Fuhai Base.
Inside a building on the deck of this ship-like base, constructed from a giant freighter.
On the third floor, the lights were still brightly lit.
Several people were still discussing something in the command room.
"Has Sun Youcai not returned yet?"
A middle-aged man, not too old, with the bearing of a general, frowned and asked his subordinate again.
"Director Jiang, there is still no news of Captain Sun and his team! We asked the personnel we could contact in the surrounding area, and they all said they hadn't heard the sound of a helicopter. It seems they haven't returned to Fuhai City since they left!"
The cadre in charge of security and communication coordination at Fuhai Base replied, sweat beading on his forehead.
He couldn't afford to be nervous.
The person in front of him was none other than Jiang Lihao, the leader of Fuhai Base!
A ruthless man who had built the surprisingly strong Fuhai Base with powerful means!
In this year of the apocalypse, he had directly or indirectly caused the deaths of no less than a thousand survivors!
It would not be an exaggeration to describe him as a枭雄 (xiāo xióng, a ruthless and ambitious leader).
"…"
Jiang Lihao fell silent after hearing his subordinate's words.
Sun Youcai had been by his side since the beginning of the apocalypse, so there was no possibility of him running away.
No one was unaware of the state of the world outside. A coveted base like Fuhai was already a dream scenario beyond the imagination of those outside.
So, if this group of armed forces had not returned, there was only one answer.
Something must have happened.
"Send two helicopters to Fujian Province tomorrow to search! Try to find them!"
"At the same time, release a message to the surrounding survivors to keep an eye out. Whoever has information to report will be heavily rewarded!"
The Sun surname leader quickly made a decision.
He had to arrange for someone to investigate the reason!
Whether Sun Youcai and his team had encountered an accident and died, or if there were other problems, he had to find a result!
As strong as Fuhai Base was, it only had a total of five helicopters, which were found and repaired with great difficulty in this year of the apocalypse.
Other places weren't without them, but most had lost their ability to fly due to acid rain or various accidents.
Moreover, Sun Youcai was one of his earliest confidants, so sending someone to look for him was a way to be fair to his own people.
The matter was quickly settled.
The search for the truth behind Captain Sun's failure to return would begin tomorrow!
The subordinates in the command room left after there were no other matters, leaving Jiang Lihao, the leader of Fuhai Base, sitting there, staring at the pitch-black night sky outside the window.
Without human pollution, the sky was now dotted with stars, and the brilliant Milky Way looked like a long ribbon.
Unknowingly, the apocalypse had been going on for over a year.
Jiang Lihao recalled his past, how he had entered politics as an ordinary person in his youth, and after struggling to reach a certain rank, he was unable to advance further because he had no backing.
Then, he resolutely resigned and went into business, seizing the opportunity of Fuhai City being at the forefront of opening up, and spent more than a decade transforming from a small vendor into a leading wealthy businessman in Fuhai City!
The sweat and opportunities, as well as his own hardships and efforts, were simply difficult to explain to outsiders.
Just as he was planning to take a step further onto a higher stage, looking at higher-level issues from a global perspective, disaster struck.
The company he had painstakingly built became a pile of useless history.
Only a group of subordinates and employees who had followed him helped him survive the mutated night, slowly joining the largest survivor shelter in Fuhai City from a small group of a dozen survivors.
Relying on his own powerful means, he constantly climbed the ladder, gradually using various methods to replace or kill the original managers!
In the end, he became the sole winner of Fuhai Base.
No one was willing to share power with others.
Moreover, in the early days of the apocalypse, only by concentrating all forces could the greatest results be achieved in the fastest time.
That was how the powerful Fuhai Base of today was created.
Having reached this point, after witnessing the magic of zombies, the special nature of mutated zombies, and the emergence of a small number of human evolutionaries, his ambitions grew even greater.
Due to the influence of geomagnetism in this apocalypse, those long-range missiles that could hit dozens or hundreds of kilometers were all scrap metal.
Only a small number of short-range missiles that relied on image aiming and positioning could be used.
Of course, other weapons such as heavy artillery, heavy machine guns, and mortars could still be used.
However, these things required saturation attacks or specific coordinates to maximize their power.
In addition, due to the problem of ammunition production, many weapons might be used up after firing just one shot, which was not suitable for long-term development in the future.
So, he turned his attention to the research of evolutionaries.
Although most of humanity had died, a careful search could still find many survivors outside.
With China's population of 2 billion, even if only 1% remained,
That would still be 20 million people!
Apart from some hiding in remote wilderness areas, more were gathering together to rely on each other for survival.
After Jiang Lihao ruled Fuhai City, he soon discovered the emergence of evolved humans.
Not many, about ten in total.
But those extraordinary abilities still made Leader Jiang, who stood at the top of the apocalypse to some extent, covet them!
Who wouldn't want to become an evolutionary themselves, gain powerful strength, and even extend their life!
So, later on, there was the Fuhai Laboratory, and the emergence of various man-made evolutionaries.
"Although this world has become dangerous, it is, in a way, a paradise for the strong!"
"I really want to uncover more secrets of the evolutionaries!"
He reached out and grabbed, as if to grasp the distant stars, or as if to grasp the illusory power and future.
This was the desire of someone standing at the peak of power!
The camera returns to earlier.
The helicopter that the leader of Fuhai Base had arranged for his subordinates to search for, and his Sun-surname subordinate, had indeed had an accident.
He would never have imagined that this Captain Sun had been tempted by an airship he saw during a mission, and tried to attack it, only to be counterattacked, resulting in the downing of the aircraft and his unknown fate.
Whether the people who came to search from Fuhai Base in the future would be able to discover these things remained to be seen.
At this time, the Green Source combat unit that counterattacked was also in trouble!
Captain Li Bowen was affected by the last missile and fell out of the airship, and Yao Lei followed with the intention of certain death.
The remaining airship, which had been hit by several missiles, was also in danger!!
Those were missiles!
If it had been a regular helicopter that had been hit by one, there would be no need to ask, they could prepare a 0.05 cubic meter box in advance.
Ordinary aircraft simply could not withstand so many missile strikes.
Only airships, which were huge and relied on internal airbags for flight, had a slim chance!
Moreover, Green Source was worried about encountering enemy attacks, so they had installed a lot of aviation-grade lightweight armor on the fuselage!
But these still could not stop the imminent crash of the airship!!
This Green Source No. 1 airship, which had come to Fujian Province to carry out a mission, was about to crash!!
(End of this chapter)
