Cheng Lin was pulled by the bearded man at the window and climbed into the second floor window.
As soon as his feet landed on the ground, he had time to look at this man.
The other party is about fifty years old.
However, considering the destructive environment of the wasteland, judging from the voice, this person is probably around thirty.
He was also wearing a standard military uniform, but there were many wounds and blood stains on the clothes.
The whole person's mental outlook also seems to be in poor condition.
His face was shriveled and he looked weak.
"Can you speak Chinese?" Cheng Lin couldn't help but ask.
The bearded man smiled weakly, and then said with a little pride: "I can speak three languages."
After a pause, he explained: "I didn't see your face clearly before, so I used English.
I saw the battle between you and those bats,
I didn’t expect you to be so brave at such a young age,
You can actually fight all the way in from outside the city!"
Cheng Lin smiled awkwardly, thinking that you still didn't see the whole story.
I didn't come in by fighting, I obviously died all the way in...
"How do I call you? Ah, you can call me Galin." The bearded man said again.
"My surname is Zhang... I was ordered to investigate the situation. Well, you are from the outpost? We have been unable to contact you for a long time, so we came here to take a look. Unexpectedly... there are so many bats here."
Cheng Lin pretended to be serious and said.
Considering that "Cheng Lin" has already been made into a sculpture, he didn't dare to tell his real name.
Galin sighed quietly after hearing this, and said with some sadness in his eyes: "We didn't expect that we would be in such a situation. By the way, where are the others? How many of you came? Why did I only see you?"
Cheng Lin coughed dryly and did not answer, but asked: "Can you introduce the current situation first? I think this is more urgent."
Galin nodded and said, "Follow me."
The two of them walked to the first floor first.
Then I saw this brown-haired man lifting up the floor in the corner of the room, revealing a downward staircase.
Jialin walked down and introduced the process to Cheng Lin.
The information he said was similar to what Cheng Lin knew.
It was probably these vampire bats that suddenly arrived and surrounded the entire city.
captured their outpost.
The people in the outpost tried to fight with him several times, but they were all killed one after another.
The few remaining survivors are hiding in the buildings below.
"This underground cellar was originally dug by residents more than ten years ago to escape the war, but now it has become our last refuge."
Galin sighed and added: "The outpost was captured by those bats, you should have seen it,
It's the building under the windmill,
A large amount of goods are also stranded there,
We only rescued the best part of the goods,
We also tried to escape,
But it's impossible to do it, there are too many of them,
We can only keep sending radio signals,
But you know, this damn place has a lot of signal interference,
We lost the outpost's antenna,
If you just use a micro transmitter, you can't transmit the signal very far at all."
"goods?"
Cheng Lin listened silently and suddenly caught a word.
"You don't know? By the way, you are in the investigation team, so it's normal not to know.
A batch of goods was just delivered to the outpost some time ago.
It's a pity that I haven't had time to wait for people from Sahara City to come and pick it up.
That’s what happened with bats.”
"What kind of cargo is it?" Cheng Lin asked curiously.
Jialin said in a low tone: "What else could it be? It's mainly spiritual ore, and a box of potions. By the way, there's also a volume of superpower field maps with a seventh-level sequence."
Cheng Lin's heart suddenly jumped.
Spirit mineral?
He had heard this in class, and it was somewhat similar to spiritual plants. They were substances that were obviously rich in spiritual energy discovered after the spiritual energy was revived.
It is said that this thing can be used as a training resource.
It's a pity that Cheng Lin has never seen it.
He knew the potion, and he had two bottles... Well, although one of them was made by himself using a juicer.
As for the last one, "the superpower field diagram with a sequence reaching level seven", it caught his attention the most.
The word field map reminded him of learnable powers.
Don't know if the two are related.
It's just that Cheng Lin couldn't ask directly. After all, judging from Jialin's tone, this should be a very common term.
If you ask, I'm afraid it will immediately arouse suspicion.
Cheng Lin could only ask about the spirit ore seemingly casually: "How many materials are in this batch?"
"Two trucks."
"How much?!" Cheng Lin was startled.
"Two trucks." Galin gave him a strange look.
So that kind of precious stone is almost as precious as a spiritual plant, and there are two trucks of ore that can easily be sold for hundreds of thousands in the market?
Cheng Lin's breathing tightened slightly.
Then he saw Jialin and said: "But most of them are impurities and the quality is not high, so at the critical moment, we chose to bring out the more valuable ore essence.
Although there is only a small box, their value is much better than those impurity ores."
With that said, the two of them went down the stairs, opened another door, walked along the corridor for dozens of meters, and finally came to a dark and empty basement.
There were almost no furnishings in the basement, just a few old tables.
There are also a few oil barrels and wooden boxes in the corner.
There was a dim oil lamp on the table, illuminating the dark basement.
At the table, there are three people surrounding it.
Two men and one woman.
The men were all wearing military uniforms, while the woman was wearing a large blue skirt and huddled up.
They were all leaning against the wall silently, their faces were haggard, and their spirits seemed to be even worse than Galin's.
I opened my eyes when I heard footsteps.
When they saw Cheng Lin, the two men immediately opened their mouths, managed to cheer up, and showed expressions of surprise.
Jiligulu said a few words, seeming to be asking something.
What he said seemed to be in English, but it didn't seem to be English. Cheng Lin couldn't quite understand it.
Jialin responded a few words, then looked at Cheng Lin and asked expectantly:
"This is probably the situation. We are all concerned about the rescue issue.
What about the rest of you? When can you come over?
We have run out of ammunition and food, to be precise,
We have had no food and no water for five days."
After a pause, he added: "If you come later, I'm afraid you won't be able to see us."
Facing these expectant eyes, Cheng Lin fell silent.
He didn't speak.
The air in the basement became stagnant.
Several people seemed to have a premonition of something, and the expressions on their faces slowly froze, but the glimmer of light in their eyes stubbornly refused to dissipate.
Finally, Cheng Lin replied: "We are just a reconnaissance team. When we came here, we were attacked by vampire bats.
I am the only one who survived and came here.
nobody else……
so……"
At this point, he saw Galin's body visibly trembled, and his bearded face, which was too old compared to his age, suddenly showed an "unsurprising" look.
He seemed to have already made a guess in his mind, and Cheng Lin's words only confirmed it.
It was obvious that Galin's companions could not understand Chinese, but they also sensed something was wrong in the atmosphere.
And at the same time, he looked at Galin with burning eyes.
A few seconds later, I heard Galin spit out a few words.
The two men who barely stood up suddenly turned pale, and the last trace of hope in their eyes disappeared.
Almost collapsed.
They had been without food and water for several days. Although Cheng Lin did not know whether these people were practitioners, but even if they were all practitioners, they must be of a low level and would not be able to achieve fasting.
It can be seen that Jialin should be the most powerful among them, but even Jialin can already be clearly seen as weak.
He has been holding on.
An atmosphere of despair brews in the air.
This place is too far away from Sahara City. Even if the real reconnaissance team arrives here, it will immediately return to report the news.
By the time Sahara's team arrives, Galin and the others will probably be unable to hold on any longer.
Perhaps the reason they were still holding on was because they had the hope of being rescued.
But now, this expectation is gone.
…
"If you can still hold on... I mean, can that kind of bat be eaten? If so..."
Cheng Lin said hesitantly.
Jialin shook his head in despair and said in a weak tone: "No, their body fluids cannot be absorbed."
"That……"
Cheng Lin didn't know what to say.
Suddenly, I saw the weak woman in the corner say a few words in an unusually weak tone.
Then, several men were seen looking at Cheng Lin.
"What are you going to do?"
Cheng Lin said a little warily.
Then to his surprise, all three men suddenly showed pleading looks.
Just listen to Galin saying: "Dear sir, we have a request. Since you can break through their blockade and enter here, can you take people out?"
Cheng Lin shook his head.
Pointing to the tattered clothes on his body: "I'm not as strong as you think. The most I can do is go out by myself. It's really impossible to bring the four of you with me.
It’s not that I don’t want to, it’s just that I really can’t do it.”
"No, no, no, I think you misunderstood." Galin's tone was very humble.
"We don't want you to take us out with you,
In fact, I am afraid that even if you are willing to open the way, we will not be able to keep up with you.
What we mean is...if adults can't do it, can children do it?"
"Child?" Cheng Lin was startled.
Then he saw the woman huddled in the corner standing up tremblingly.
When he came to him, he lifted his hands forward from his robe.
She actually held a swaddle in her arms.
It was a baby, wrapped in swaddling clothes, small, thin, eyes closed, almost as if dead.
Only by looking carefully can you see that the baby's small chest is still rising and falling slightly.
The woman was huddled there before, and in the darkness, Cheng Lin didn't even notice that there was a baby here!
Jialin said bitterly: "These are the wife and children of a brother in our outpost. Just before the arrival of the vampire bats, they came here to visit relatives.
As a result, he was forced to stay,
The child's father died in the battle to protect us,
Several of us can no longer wait for rescue.
There is no hope anymore. In fact, if it were not for the children, we might have perished together with those bats.
Dear Sir, I see your bravery,
I think you can't take it away as an adult, but as a child... is it possible?
You see, she is so small, no bigger than a satchel,
It should not affect your actions very much,
Of course, we won’t let your help go in vain.”
With that said, Galin walked to the corner and dragged out a large box from there, about the size of an ordinary suitcase.
He dragged it to Cheng Lin and said seriously: "This is the essence of the ore and other materials we rescued.
Even though the quantity may not seem much, you should know the value of essence ores, which far exceeds those of impurities.
Moreover, there is also a volume of superpower field maps up to level seven!
As long as you agree to our request, these are yours,
We are the only ones left at the Shajiao City outpost.
After we die, no one will know what happened here,
You can completely keep this box of supplies as your own, and even the military won't be able to find anything!
If it is not convenient to carry,
You can hide it somewhere in town,
Then find a chance to come and pick it up!
This box is made of special metal, which can isolate spiritual energy fluctuations.
It won't be discovered!"
After saying that, Cheng Lin saw these three men staring at him with sad eyes.
The woman, whose breasts were shriveled and apparently without any trace of milk, held the baby with her trembling arms and murmured weak words of request.
At this moment, information appeared in Cheng Lin's mind:
[Congratulations on completing the sixth mission]
[Mission (End): Accept the commission from Jialin and others, carry the baby out of Shajiao City, then the mission ends, and this deduction will end]