Chapter 869 - Im Still A Little Better Than Him (1/2)

Regarding the news that the Experimentals were still alive in this world, the Pyro Company did not try to conceal the fact. Instead, they openly told Ji Yi about it and got him to relay the news to Hope Media.

The Pyro Company felt that it was necessary to let everyone know that the culprits that led to the destruction of Stronghold 74 were still alive. Moreover, everyone had to be even more careful because the Experimentals that had appeared this time consisted of those that transformed from the stronger barbarians.

Actually, this news was mainly meant to be shared with the Wang Consortium. After all, only the Pyro Company and the Wang Consortium were fighting the enemy in the North now.

The Wang Consortium had not informed the Pyro Company of the impending war in advance, but the Pyro Company still magnanimously shared their intelligence with them this time. Jiang Xu even singled out such transparency for praise on a new page and condemned the Wang Consortium for their secretive behavior the last time.

However, Ren Xiaosu could not read about what was reported in the newspapers since P5092 had left for the front lines.

Honestly, Ren Xiaosu also felt the Pyro Company had made the right decision this time. Just as he had warned the Pyro Company about the Experimentals, the Pyro Company was also obliged to warn others for the greater good.

After all, compared to the barbarians, the Experimentals were a species that sought to exterminate all of humanity and turn them into gray-skinned monsters. They were even more detestable than the barbarians.

The Trinity Institute, the Qinghe University students, and the Pyro Company’s Supply Corps headed north together. The Pyro Company had finally managed to consolidate all of the undamaged supplies at the forward operating base after much difficulty and found only a quarter of the original supplies to be still usable.

This left all of the Pyro Company’s soldiers looking worried. Because they knew it meant the soldiers at the front lines would probably not get enough to eat their fill!

The soldiers at the Pyro Company’s rear would have to quickly gather all available resources and transport them to the front lines. Otherwise, their campaign might collapse even before the barbarians’ probing attacks were done.

The Pyro Company’s soldiers were indeed strong-willed. But if they could not even fill their stomachs, how would they have the strength to fight?

At this moment, Ren Xiaosu and the others from the Trinity Institute were seated together in a military transport truck. The vehicle traveled the bumpy mountain roads and drove unsteadily towards the North.

With only a dozen or so of them in the truck, they were considered to have been given preferential treatment. At the beginning, everyone thought the Pyro Company had arranged for them to sit in a separate vehicle out of gratitude for treating patients and saving their lives. But when they realized the other doctors and nurses at the medical center were all squeezed into the other vehicles that transported them, the Trinity Institute’s team realized they were the only ones with this privilege.

Then the members of the Trinity Institute remembered that when they left the forward operating base, P31921 had specifically said to Ren Xiaosu, “Commander P5092 is looking forward to meeting you again at the front lines.”

As such, everyone came to a realization. So it turned out this privileged treatment was only given to Ren Xiaosu, and that they were just beneficiaries through their relationship with him.

The Qinghe University students were not so lucky. As a large number of trucks in the forward operating base had been destroyed, they could only wait for the Pyro Company to load up the cargo first before sitting on the supplies when they set off for the North.

The cold wind brushed across the students’ forlorn faces before drifting off into the distance.

Earlier, Ji Yi had looked for P31921 from the forward operating base to try to resolve this arrangement. Ji Yi said very seriously, “These students came here to specially deliver the material assistance. We’ve sent so many supplies and medicine to you all, so how can you treat them like that?”

P31921 answered very calmly, “On behalf of the Pyro Company, I thank you all for your donation of supplies. However, I don’t think this will make much of a difference to our battle plans. Mr. Ji, as you can see, there aren’t enough vehicles.”

P31921 continued, “And I think it’s absolutely right that you all place your hopes on our Pyro Company. If the Pyro Company gets destroyed, who can stop the barbarians dead for Luoyang City? The Kong Consortium? The Kong Consortium has already ceased to exist.

“So if the Pyro Company falls as well, the entire Central Plains will have to face the expeditionary army as they march straight in. The Kong Consortium has already had a wave of refugees who are trying to flee farther south. But if the Pyro Company gets wiped out, it’ll be useless wherever they run to.”

Just as P31921 had said, a large number of Kong Consortium residents and refugees had started fleeing southwards.