Chapter 432 (2/2)

A few medics ran up and carried the wounded on stretchers to the hospital. Then a few soldiers in protective gear with circular bottles sprayed the entire fleet to disinfect it.

The weary soldiers jumped down from the trucks and hugged each other with their families waiting by the side. As for the people stained with blood, they all chose to take a shower first.

When they arrived at the base, their tense nerves could finally be relieved.

“Let me go make a visit.”

Jiang Chen extinguished the cigarette on the wall as he headed downstairs.

Right now, it was a busy scene in front of the base.

“Quick! Quick! Vomiter’s acid hit him.”

“Poor guy, treat it first before sending him to the medical chamber. Help me out here…”

Stretchers continuously pa.s.sed by him. Due to the limited number of medical chambers, soldiers with less severe injuries had to be transferred to the ward first. Soldiers with serious injuries were treated by doctors on the spot before being sent to the medical chambers for recovery.

Jiang Chen examined the soldier with the bones on his face exposed by the acid. His stomach started doing flips.

[To be able to live like this is definitely his luck…]

He paused for a few seconds before he continued to walk forward.

In the front of the fleet, aside from the Tiger II, he saw w.a.n.g Zhaowu.

Because he sat in the tank, w.a.n.g Zhaowu’s condition was somewhat positive; at least he hadn’t sustained any injuries. But from his dark circles, it was clear he hadn’t closed his eyes for a long time.

He pa.s.sed the rifle in his hand to the soldier beside him and saluted Jiang Chen sharply.

Without engaging in small talk, Jiang Chen pa.s.sed a cigarette to him. Finely made cigarettes had always been the luxury good in short supply on the wasteland. Although he could purchase them with his salary, not everyone could have the honor of their leader pa.s.sing them a cigarette.

w.a.n.g Zhaowu took the cigarette in astonishment. Jiang Chen smiled and used a casual tone to ask him.

“What’s the situation at camp 27?”

“Extremely terrible.” With gloom on his face, w.a.n.g Zhaowu slowly blew out a smoke ring. “Throwers already appeared there, as well as mutant mosquitos. Along the way, we also saw vomiters moving in this direction. Fortunately, a Tiger II was in front of the fleet…”

Throwers were most active in the outskirts of the city, and they rarely entered the rural areas. If Throwers already appeared at camp 27, the mutant flood was beginning to intensify.

After a momentary pause, Jiang Chen asked:

“Did you bring the thing?”

“I did. Do you want me to take you there now?”

“Now,” Jiang Chen said.

w.a.n.g Zhaowu nodded and took Jiang Chen to the center of the fleet.

When they arrived at the location, a few workers were already operating a crane to unload the equipment.

“This is it. The construction robots and deepwater mining equipment. They won’t be useful now by the looks of it.” w.a.n.g Zhaowu stared at the eight ma.s.sive containers with a wry smile.

With the current situation, it would be hard to reach the sea in the first place.

w.a.n.g Zhaowu might be wrong. Jiang Chen smiled mysteriously without answering.

It wasn’t an easy task to transport the deepwater mining equipment from camp 27. All of the equipment weighed 400 tons with each container weighing 50 tons. To transport these containers, w.a.n.g Zhaowu arranged four heavy-duty trucks to be positioned in the middle of the fleet. With the risk of slowing down the retreat, he managed to drag the equipment back,

Jiang Chen looked at the eight containers and nodded, pleased.

Deepwater mining could finally be initiated. The production of virtual reality helmets would require a ma.s.sive amount of molybdenum, and with the current price of molybdenum, importing would significantly increase the cost of the helmet. If Jiang Chen mined the molybdenum himself, he calculated cost savings of at least 50%.

“Thank you.” Jiang Chen patted him on the shoulder.

“No problem. Compared to defending camp 27, this is much easier.” w.a.n.g Zhaowu smiled.

“Go rest for a bit. Remember to come to my office for a meeting in two hours.”

“Yes!”

w.a.n.g Zhaowu saluted and headed to the living area.

After a long journey, he was indeed tired. He just wanted to take a shower and take a nap before the meeting.

After w.a.n.g Zhaowu left, Jiang Chen looked at the soldiers by the side and ordered them to transport the containers to the backyard of the mansion. Then he headed to the community center.