Chapter 156: Rescue Mission 1

Time passed, and in the blink of an eye, it was the fifth of June.

The fifth of June was Qin Wu’s birthday.

On this day, the two invited team Legends and several friends for hotpot and warm wine.

At the same time, they did a one-day half-price sale for all things in their shops.

In this way, Qin Wu aged a year, and their people accompanied Mo Chenxuan to celebrate with her.

After the birthday, the two began inspecting the territory.

They checked the buildings, roads, utility systems, the stadium,…

Everything was built according to the plan, and the two were mostly satisfied.

However, they made some adjustments here and there whenever they encountered a problem.

In addition to inspecting the territory, Mo Chenxuan and Qin Wu went through the list of approved residents.

The list had seventeen thousand people, two thousand of whom were children and the elderly.

Most importantly, excluding the two thousand, all the listed people were matched with a job.

Although more than half were not territory employees, everyone at least had a way of supporting themselves and contributing to the territory.

“We struck ninety-three people from the previous list. I don’t know if this list is okay…” Qin Wu wondered and began checking the list.

When Uncle Zhang first presented the list of approved residents, Qin Wu saw the information of an infamous cannibal from her previous life.

This prompted her and Mo Chenxuan to carefully check the information and blacklist famous bad characters from their previous life.

Fortunately, the current list was okay, and neither Mo Chenxuan nor Qin Wu saw the information of an undesirable person.

“Everything is almost done, but there is still one thing we haven’t completed.” Qin Wu said with a thoughtful expression.

“The list of chiefs and their deputies.” Mo Chenxuan said, and Qin Wu nodded.

“We have until the seventh of July to submit the list to the base.” Mo Chenxuan said.

Three weeks ago, the two received a letter from the base.

From the letter, they learned that each territory was required to have a unique emblem.

This emblem would be etched on the territory seal, leaders’ badges, and drawn on the territory flag.

Other than the emblem design, the territories were also asked to submit a list of appointed leaders.

When the time came, the base planned to post the emblem designs and list of leaders on a noticeboard so that ordinary survivors would know what was what.

“Speaking of July, summer is almost here. Chenxuan, it’s time to rescue those researchers.” Qin Wu reminded with a solemn expression.

After thinking about it and discussing it for a long time, the two decided to rescue the researchers in the second half of June.

On one hand, the territory development would be almost done, and the two would have some free time. On the other hand, the second half of June was the warmest time in the apocalypse winter, hence travelling would be more convenient, especially for the researchers.

That said, warmer weather meant that some zombies would have already woken from their hibernation.

However, this was a risk Qin Wu and Mo Chenxuan were willing to take since they had no better options.

“Let’s leave in two days.” Mo Chenxuan said and quickly continued.

“Although it will only be the tenth in two days, we are used to working in the snow, and it won’t be too big a problem to travel to the research base.”

“If we clear the zombies along the way, we will arrive at the base in five to seven days.”

Qin Wu nodded when she heard the explanation.

“If we arrive by the fifteenth, we will have fifteen days to escort the researchers back to our territory.” She said, and Mo Chenxuan continued.

“That’s the plan.” He said.

“How many people will we bring along?”

“Team Legends, Team Eve, and two thousand soldiers. Team Flow and the remaining soldiers will be left to guard the territory.”

Two days passed in the blink of an eye.

On this day, Mo Chenxuan and Qin Wu led more than two thousand people and left the base.

Once on the correct path, the two stopped and faced the army.

“Our goal is important, but our success window is very short. We need to be quick and efficient. Does everyone understand?” Qin Wu asked.

“We understand.” The army answered, and Qin Wu nodded.

“Boss, you haven’t told us what we are going to do.” Lin Rongrong reminded.

“We are on a rescue mission.” Qin Wu said and quickly continued.

“The target is a team of researchers. If we successfully rescue them, our territory will no longer need to rely on the base or other factions to get crystal weapons.”

Qin Wu knew she was getting ahead of herself.

After all, they had yet to save the researchers, let alone secure their agreement to research crystal weapons.

However, everyone had seen the power of crystal weapons and hearing that they would have more in the future was a great motivation.

Reminiscent of when they were cleaning up the zombies in the territory, the group moved fast.

The scouts walked ahead to check the lay of the land, combat types cleaned up the nearby zombies, and everyone else walked while clearing a path.

This way, the researchers would have an easier time when walking to the base.

At night, Qin Wu would remove vehicles from her space, and everyone would rest there until morning.

When morning came, Qin Wu would collect the vehicles, and the group would continue walking.

Time passed, and six days later, they arrived in front of an office building.

The building was two storeys and looked like it had seen better days.

However, Xu Anying had foreseen that the hidden base entrance was in the basement of this unassuming building.

“Anying, Hongying, Yanyan, come with us to enter the building.” Qin Wu instructed, and the three immediately stepped up.

Soon after, five people entered the building and went down to the basement.

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