The post-apocalyptic world has a space full of supplies.

Chapter 170 Lin Yun Recovers

"I knew I wasn't mistaken, it must be you!" Zhong Qiang rushed to Lu Yuan and Yang Xiao as soon as he entered. After confirming that neither of them was missing an arm or a leg, he finally breathed a sigh of relief. "What's going on with you two? Everyone in the base is saying that Yang Xiao defected and kidnapped Lu Yuan. What exactly happened?"

"What did you say? What do you mean Yang Xiao defected? Defected to where?" Ji Lang knew nothing about Yang Xiao and Lu Yuan. He had wanted to ask them why they were here, but Lin Yun's unexpected situation stopped him.

"Huh?" Zhong Qiang was completely baffled by the question and was stunned.

"What did he say? Why did you defect?" Seeing Zhong Qiang's bewildered expression, Ji Lang grabbed Yang Xiao and asked. You have to understand how serious it is to be identified as a defector by a national base in this post-apocalyptic world.

"It's nothing." Yang Xiao was quite calm about Zhong Qiang's so-called defection and kidnapping. After all, he did not leave the South China Base through normal channels, and Lu Yuan did leave the base because of him.

"Explain yourself clearly." Unlike Yang Xiao, who tried to dodge the question and get away with it, Ji Lang was extremely serious.

"It's not something that can be explained in a short time, and you should come and see Captain Lin..." Yang Xiao continued to ramble on, and even took Ji Lang's hand, which was quite rare for him.

"It's hard to explain in a short time, so let's take some more time." Ji Lang was not affected by Yang Xiao's sweet talk at all and still looked at him very seriously.

"Actually, the thing is..." Lu Yuan couldn't stand it any longer and briefly explained why they had left the South China base and ended up here. Of course, the claims that Yang Xiao was a defector and that he had kidnapped Lu Yuan were completely unfounded to them.

"Project Starsea?" Ji Lang quickly gleaned the key phrase from Lu Yuan's description.

"What exactly is this plan? Why are you being..." Zhong Qiang didn't know how to say it. It wasn't exactly being expelled from the base; they left on their own.

"It's really hard to explain. That night, I just went to Lu Xiaoyuan to vent." Yang Xiao himself didn't understand how they had touched a taboo at the base. After all, strictly speaking, he and Lu Yuan only knew the name of this so-called "Star Sea Project".

"Speaking of which, Brother Zhong, what brings you here? How many people are there?" Lu Yuan looked at Zhong Qiang. Logically speaking, after what happened to him and Yang Xiao, and with Captain Ji and Captain Lin still not back at the base, Gu Nanfeng and the others shouldn't have allowed their people to leave the base. Moreover, who did he come with, and how many people were there in total? Is it really okay for him to come up here with Ji Lang like this?

“I came here with the mission team. They said we were going to the Beijing Research Institute to retrieve a lost document.” Mentioning the mission team, Zhong Qiang suddenly deflated like a punctured balloon. “We had just landed on the roof of this building when they abandoned me.”

“It looks like they don’t intend to take you back.” Yang Xiao’s comment from the side made the other three people fall into deep thought.

“Brother Gu told me that Commander Zhang told him that you took our yacht by yourself. At the time, Brother Zhong, Brother Gu, and I were all together. Then Brother Zhong and I were about to go to the lab to find Wei Cheng and the others when I was taken away. Could it be that they thought Brother Zhong also knew something, so they took Brother Zhong along to cover up the crime?” Lu Yuan recounted their situation, which made Zhong Qiang suddenly realize what was going on.

“I was thinking of leaving the base first and then looking for you guys. How come I didn’t think of that?” Zhong Qiang scratched his head. When he came out, he was single-mindedly focused on finding Lu Yuan and Yang Xiao. He was so single-minded that he never even thought about how he would find them in the vast snowstorm in this apocalyptic world. Lu Yuan also had a space with various means of transportation.

"We really have to thank heaven and earth for being able to meet you!" Yang Xiao looked at the stubborn Zhong Qiang, suddenly put his hands together, and bowed several times in all directions in the room. Sometimes you really can't help but be a little superstitious.

"So you're the only one left in this building now?" Lu Yuan asked.

“I think so. We arrived around three or four in the afternoon. I saw your and Yang Xiao’s helicopter then,” Zhong Qiang recalled. “Then I landed in this building with the team. They didn’t wait for me and went straight downstairs. When I chased after them, they were already gone. Later, I searched almost the entire building but couldn’t find them.”

"Did you see Liu Jia and Wang Sanhai?" Ji Lang asked.

"No." Zhong Qiang thought for a moment, then shook his head.

"Cough cough!" Just as Ji Lang was about to ask further questions, they heard a faint cough.

Lu Yuan and Yang Xiao immediately turned to look at the medical machine, while Ji Lang walked over before them. Only Zhong Qiang, who knew nothing, stood there dumbfounded like a fool.

"How are you feeling?" Ji Lang and the other two stood around the medical machine, which startled Lin Yun, who had just woken up inside.

"I...this is..." Lin Yun felt as if his throat was being burned by fire as soon as he opened his mouth, but apart from that, he did not feel any pain that he should have felt in his body. He raised his hands and looked at them carefully, but he did not see the wounds he remembered. He then spoke with difficulty, "I'm not, shouldn't I have turned into a zombie?"

"What?" Zhong Qiang, who was behind him, was shocked when he heard about the zombie transformation. He immediately rushed to the white sphere in the middle of the room, but after carefully looking Lin Yun over from top to bottom, he found nothing unusual.

"Team Leader Lin, have some water first." Noticing that Lin Yun's throat was dry, Lu Yuan quickly took out a thermos from his spatial storage.

"Yes, yes, drink some water first, then get up and eat something to replenish your energy." Yang Xiao said, trying to help Lin Yun out of the medical machine.

"What, what is this thing? It can even cure zombies?" Zhong Qiang had no idea what it was. He thought Lin Yun had turned into a zombie and had been rescued by Lu Yuan and the others. He circled the circular machine several times but still couldn't figure it out.

"This is Lu Xiaoyuan's high-tech, future product—the medical machine!" Yang Xiao helped Lin Yun out of the medical machine while earnestly introducing it to Zhong Qiang. "But this machine cannot cure zombies. We don't actually know why Team Leader Lin was able to stop his mutation and return to normal."

"The data reporting system has been collected, but it's not a professional medical machine system, so it can't analyze the data for now. We can only archive it first, and then let Brother Gu and Brother Hao take a look later." After Lu Yuan finished speaking, he put the medical machine back into his space.

Now that they were five familiar friends, they didn't hold back anymore. Lin Yun had just recovered, and his stomach was rumbling. Ji Lang originally wanted to talk to Lu Yuan and the others about the "Star Sea Project," but considering Lin Yun, they decided to fill their stomachs first.