Chapter 10 (2/2)
”Why not?”
Mark then tossed him a backpack.
”What's this?”
”Bomb.”
”Ha?”
Before he could react, Xiao Yan was dragged out from his room.
In the pa.s.sageway was Reeve fully equipped, leaning against the wall waiting. She gave Xiao Yan an a.s.suring smile and mouthed ”Don't worry”.
Beside Reeve was Maya, twirling some sort of string like object in his hands. Xiao Yan once saw it in the repair workshop. It has a diameter that was only a few micrometers long, but is able to slice through metals like cutting through clays. However, it is not an easy task to control this string. One needs to be highly skilled in combat to utilise it or they themselves would be hurt by the weapon instead.
Meanwhile, Maya winked at Xiao Yan with a smirk and mouthed ”Sweetheart, did you miss me”.
A sudden chill ran down his back, and Xiao Yan quickly turned away from Maya.
Another six Special Force soldiers were standing by the pa.s.sageway, some wiping their knives, some arranging their equipment. It seems that the whole small unit of Special Task Forces was being sent out, this is not going to be easy.
Crisp sound of footsteps approached as Heine Burton walked past Xiao Yan, the resolution in his lowered brows and the strong aura he emits caused Xiao Yan to stagger a few steps backward. The scenes of the dream last night flashed across his mind, and Xiao Yan quickly averted his eyes to Reeve for fear Heine noticed anything from him.
”If Heine found out about the dream you had, you're dead meat! And a horrifying death even!” Xiao Yan told himself.
”Let's go.”
The Special Force soldiers walked as if they are on wings, whereas Xiao Yan with a backpack in hands, almost had to run in order for him to follow up. Before they reach the aircraft, Xiao Yan was already sweating buckets.
Based on the military ranks, Maya was supposed to be walking right behind Heine, but instead, he was strolling closely by Xiao Yan's side.
”Sweetie, I'll carry you along,” Maya stretched his arm towards Xiao Yan's waist.
”No thank you! The bomb will go off!” Xiao Yan dodged sideways but Maya still continued approaching him.
”Mark, he's too slow,” Heine said without looking back, but Mark understood what he meant.
Mark turned back from the front line, carried Xiao Yan on his shoulder, and with just a few quick steps, he was back to the front.
”Hey! If he needs to be carried, I should be the one carrying!” Maya chased from behind.
”Hey, Boss! This fella's gonna get down from the aircraft as well?”
Xiao Yan prayed silently, ”Please say no…”
A city two hundred years ago had the highest population density, as well as the area that is infected worst. And now, two over three of the zombies across the world are gathered in the urban areas.
”Of course.”
Heine's words were as though tons of bricks falling onto Xiao Yan's heart.
”I'm going to die this time! Seriously!”
Xiao Yan was tossed into the aircraft, and they left the base through the flight pa.s.sage and soared towards the blazing sun.
”Hey! Xiao Yan! Trust me, this is going to be a real interesting trip,” Reeve sat face-to-face with Xiao Yan, whereas Maya was appointed to stay in the c.o.c.kpit, thus losing the chance to hara.s.s Xiao Yan.
”The so-called 'interesting' to Special Task Forces usually means 'dangerous' to me,” he muttered to himself.
At that moment, Xiao Yan had calmed himself down and had got things cleared up.
”Hey, why do I need to trail along with you guys?” Xiao Yan asked with a lowered voice.
”Because there's only you!” Mark stretched his arm and placed it on Xiao Yan's shoulder, nearly crus.h.i.+ng him.
”What do you mean 'there's only you'? I'm just a student! Reserve soldier! Do you understand?! Dragging me here will only be a burden!”
Mark shrugged, ”'Cause all those fellas that were on the same plane with you died, and all those technical soldiers think that we will abandon them on the field, and Lieutenant Colonel Raven said he's worried to have his subordinates to tag along, so……”
”So what?”
”So you're the only choice! You're amazing you know! Not only can you unlock the vault door, but also remove the raw uranium storage device! I bet detonating bomb won’t be a problem for you!”
”De-de-detonating bomb……”
Usually, cold weapons are used to deal with zombies as they would be strengthened instead, by absorbing the heat. However, the Tides members are humans, explosives would be a useful tactic to deal with them.
”Why can't we just fire a missile at them?”
”'Cause they've got a hostage with them.”
”Then rescue the hostage before firing the missile!” Xiao Yan began to think how ludicrous these people's tactical planning is!
Mark's face darkened, and after two seconds, he suddenly burst into laughter, ”Rookie, you're so adorable! I even had a bet with Reeve saying whether you're stupid enough to believe we brought you along just to set up a bomb! There's no need for technical soldier to do that, we can do it ourselves!”
A vein popped up on Xiao Yan's temple, ”Then what do you guys need me for?”
”The Tides had used the 200-year-old facilities to build a mini base, and they had formed an internal network within their base by shutting down all wireless signal. Most of our technical soldiers are used to handling data with the terminal system, on the contrary, those ancient techniques are old of their hands. Summing from your performance back at the nuclear power plant, Colonel believes that you're much competent for this mission than those technical soldiers that are overly dependent on terminals. How should I put…. It seems that you're quite an expert in those antique stuff?” Reeve explained.
Both Reeve and Mark pointed towards the c.o.c.kpit.
There was only one Colonel in there—— Heine Burton.
”You think Colonel hates you, don't you?” Reeve asked with a smile.
Written by Jiao Tang Dong Gua
Translated by Winly 風夜林
~~~ Coming up next: Chapter 11 Ocean ~~~
Note: How was the chapter guys……? Tell me about it at the comment below! And there’s something I have to tell you guys about. Actually, this some part of this chapter is censored in the actual published version as well as the version in the official Chinese online novel website JJWC. The kissing and touching changed into hugging and stuff like that. But for this translated chapter, I uploaded the uncensored one here. There will be more to come in future chapters obviously, but if any of you guys think it’s not appropriate to post these content, let me know, I’ll translate both censored and uncensored version attending to different needs. Maybe I’ll add a note somewhere to notify readers chapters that are R18? Do tell me what you think. Thank you =)
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