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"Asking us for help, what assistance can we provide!" The officer felt a headache setting in, as something like this was beyond his authority: "We haven’t brought any rescue materials, nor do we have sufficient medical supplies, only our own emergency medicine. Even if we wanted to help, we can’t!"

Chen Xin also nodded on the side, frowning as he said, "We are still over a thousand kilometers away from Lucia’s capital. Not to mention whether we can help or not, crossing over a thousand kilometers of Siberia’s desolate wilderness is no easy task."

However, even as he said this, Chen Xin also looked towards the communicator and asked him, "How far is the Boar Ship from us?"

"The Boar Ship is currently on its return route to the country, about 800 kilometers away from us." The communicator had already recorded their position information through radio location during earlier communications with the Boar Ship.

This radio echo positioning technology was originally applied to ship navigation, and planes also have it equipped.

After the Airbag Ark was manufactured, it was equipped with this system for positioning and navigation, capable of locating both itself and the other party through radio signals.

It was precisely because of this equipment that the Boar Ship could locate them and establish contact while Chen Xin and his team had their radio on.

"Ask the Boar Ship about the specific situation of the Dog Ship and Lucia’s capital, especially the epidemic transmission situation. Even if we plan to help, we need to understand the situation first." Chen Xin instructed the communicator to contact the Boar Ship again while also telling the officer, "Bring the map here, let’s calculate how long it will take to reach Lucia’s capital from here."

"Dr. Chen, we don’t have the capability to assist the Lucians; you’re not planning to go to their capital, are you?" The officer hurriedly tried to stop him upon hearing Chen Xin’s words.

However, Chen Xin shook his head, signaling him to first get the map: "You go get the map first. As for whether to go to Lucia’s capital or not, regardless of going or not, we first need to prepare for both the rescue mission and our return home."

"Alright, I understand." The officer, hearing Chen Xin say this, then took out a map of Lucia that he found in the base.

Looking at the map, Chen Xin furrowed his brows. They were currently at a military base in Siberia, which is the Asian part of Lucia, whereas the capital they needed to reach was in its European part. The straight-line distance between the two already exceeded 4,000 kilometers.

"Too far!" Chen Xin, looking at the measured distance on the map, indeed felt that they could not participate in the rescue.

This over 4,000 kilometers is a straight-line distance, and even if they could head to the central city of Novosibirsk in Lucia from their current location and then follow the highway to Lucia’s capital, it’s almost a straight line on the map, and this highway is still 3,200 kilometers.

"Even if we take a train, it would take roughly a week, provided the railway remains unobstructed." The officer, examining the map, frowned seriously: "According to Dr. Chen, the Mobile Base travels about 30-40 kilometers per hour, so even without considering other conditions, traveling in a straight line to Lucia’s capital would take about two weeks.

If there’s any accident or breakdown along the way, it would take at least a month to possibly reach Lucia’s capital. Rather than spending so much time rushing there, we’d better return home first, and then figure out a way to Lucia’s capital from our home country. This would be more time-efficient."

The officer intentionally mentioned returning home first, thinking that no matter what, ensuring Chen Xin’s return home was the right thing to do.

For a research personnel like Chen Xin, ensuring his safety was the officer’s primary task. Knowing an epidemic had spread in Lucia’s capital made it all the more inadvisable for Chen Xin to venture to the epidemic zone.

Whether Chen Xin would head to Lucia’s capital after returning home was a different matter altogether.

The officer believed that without adequate preparations, the country would not allow Chen Xin to go out as he pleased.

Chen Xin thought of this too, though he didn’t insist on participating in the rescue. After pondering it, he said, "It seems we can’t help, even if we manage to get there, it would be at least half a month later. With this much time, it’s faster for us to return home first and then head to Lucia’s capital by plane or Airbag Ark from our country."

"Yes, even if we wanted to help, we’d need to return home first and replenish supplies to possibly be of assistance." The officer followed Chen Xin’s words, also pointing out a fact: "We lack medical supplies and rescue materials here; even if we managed to get there, we’d be of little help. Plus, our provisions are not very abundant, just enough for our journey home."

"Are our supplies insufficient?" Chen Xin looked at the officer in surprise, slightly taken aback by what he said.

"We originally brought enough supplies, but that was calculated based on us taking round trips by train. Although we had prepared for the contingency of bringing a land cruiser back during our trip and prepared extra supplies, we are still not abundant. After allocating supplies for the two Mobile Bases, what’s left is only enough for our return journey," explained the officer to Chen Xin.

Actually, the supplies they carried were not truly tight to the point where they needed to be used sparingly, as having supplies so strictly rationed would mean disaster in case of any mishap along the way.

However, the officer cleverly exaggerated the situation of the supplies to persuade Chen Xin not to entertain any thoughts of going to Lucia’s capital and to hasten the return home.

Hearing the officer’s explanation, Chen Xin seriously considered it and indeed gave up the idea of aiding Lucia’s capital.

"It seems we can only return home first; as for the rest, we’ll decide after getting specific information from the Boar Ship," ultimately, Chen Xin dismissed the idea of responding to the Boar Ship’s plea for help.

Even though for Chen Xin, he could completely utilize the Soviet-era helicopters found in the base and make some upgrades to fly to the not-so-distant Novosibirsk from this base and then proceed to Lucia’s capital from there.

But that’s Lucia, not his homeland, and Chen Xin had no reason to expend so much effort for another country.