From Apocalypse Boss to Farmer: My Vegetables Make Me Stronger!-Chapter 200 - 191: Everyone Wants to Eat Soft Rice

Chapter 200: Chapter 191: Everyone Wants to Eat Soft Rice

In the distance, Qi Xiang and Wei Heng also felt the earth tremble.

"What’s going on?" Qi Xiang asked, peering curiously out the car window.

But they were too far away. All she could see was a distant cloud of dust that blotted out the sky...

Wei Heng, however, leaned forward to look at the front row. Li Shen had already disabled the privacy mode on his personal terminal. They were all on the same side, and besides, it wasn’t like the footage needed to be kept secret...

Seeing this, Qi Xiang copied Wei Heng and leaned forward to see the Light Screen’s display.

She was in luck. Just then, she saw He Yue waking up, his face pale and beaded with sweat from the pain. Yet, he still instinctively reached down to check on his masculine dignity...

Qi Xiang watched with great relish.

Wei Heng desperately wanted to cover her eyes. "...Don’t you find that hard to look at?" ’What kind of hobbies does this woman have?!’

"What’s so hard to look at?" Qi Xiang pointed at the screen ahead and said righteously, "It’s a tragedy. How could that be hard to look at? Have you no compassion?"

’Who’s the one that lacks compassion?’ Wei Heng thought. ’How about you wipe that gloating look from your eyes before you say that!’

Qi Xiang gave him an elegant eye-roll.

"Aren’t we going back to check?" she asked. Although the researchers had already been moved to their pickup truck when they set out that morning, she remembered the Guard Team’s armored vehicle was still loaded with supplies and Energy Blocks.

They couldn’t let it go to waste.

Just then, Ye Junhan’s cool voice crackled over the radio again. "Stop the car. Zhou Qian, take a team and go check it out."

Qi Xiang was eager to go, but it was clear their vehicle wasn’t part of the group turning back.

She pouted, then heard Gu Xi say, "Leave one alive."

’Are they truly sentient, or are they being controlled by drugs?’ Gu Xi wanted to study these Pangolin mutants.

’Or perhaps an even stranger method of control? Insects? Xenomorphs? Unknown parasites?’

In any case, she was quite interested.

Ye Junhan glanced up at her, then pressed the talk button on his radio. "Yang Liu, you’ll provide support."

"Yes, Captain!"

Yang Liu dispatched several more drones, which began circling Zhou Qian’s pickup truck.

"I really don’t want to save those bullying scumbags," Yang Liu muttered, complaining under his breath as he operated the controls. "Now we have to waste more tranquilizer darts..." The darts effective against mutated monsters weren’t ordinary ones, and their Special Service Team didn’t have many.

Over the past few years, the people from the base’s Guard Team had caused no end of trouble for the Special Service Team behind their backs. The animosity between the two ran deep; they just hadn’t openly turned on each other yet. 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

"Of course those scumbags aren’t worth saving, but we have to give Miss Gu face."

From the passenger seat beside him, Liu Hao glanced at the radio, confirmed it was off, then clicked his tongue and shook his head. "Well, what do you know. I never thought I’d see the day that old iron tree bloomed..."

’Still, that girl is the real deal. The captain has good taste.’

"Don’t get your hopes up too soon," Yang Liu said, gossiping with his teammate while controlling the drones.

"Miss Gu hasn’t said anything yet. To be honest, our captain’s face is pretty handsome, but whether he can successfully become Miss Gu’s kept man and feed the whole team... that’s hard to say."

You have to understand, Miss Gu was the toast of the entire army right now. Their captain was cold, a man of few words, and his face was about the only thing he had going for him.

"True." Liu Hao stroked his chin, thinking about the batch of dried sweet potatoes the logistics department had just allocated a few days ago... rumor had it that Miss Gu had grown them herself.

That taste... Liu Hao licked his lips and made up his mind. "I think, for the sake of our future meals, we have to help the captain out."

"How do we help?" Yang Liu asked casually, busy maneuvering the drones to deal with the distant Pangolins.

Liu Hao thought for a moment, then slapped the steering wheel. "I heard from the married guys over in the logistics department that if you want to get a wife, you have to cultivate something called... ’manly virtue’?"

Apparently, it’s a tradition that’s been preserved since before the apocalypse?

Liu Hao didn’t get it.

So he turned to Yang Liu and asked, "What the hell is this ’manly virtue’ stuff anyway?"

The corner of Yang Liu’s mouth twitched. "...You’re asking me?" ’If I knew, would I still be single?’

’Right,’ Liu Hao thought. ’Wrong person to ask.’

’Looks like we’ll have to hold a meeting later to figure this out properly. But we should definitely make use of Mr. Wei...’

But soon, their attention was drawn back to the members of the Guard Team wailing on the ground.

It was brutal. Absolutely brutal.

A group of them lay in the dust, missing arms and legs. The only two who were still whole were being run ragged by a pack of Pangolins, unable to defend themselves properly. It was a truly pathetic sight.

Yang Liu stayed in the vehicle to continue operating the drones, while Liu Hao led a group to charge the Pangolins.

As the team’s only medic, Tuan Fugui grabbed his medical kit, hopped out of the pickup’s back seat, and walked straight to He Yue. He crouched down, looked at his mangled thigh, and said with a face full of pity, "Tsk... I’ve got to say, Mr. He, this is pretty damn tragic."

He Yue was already delirious with pain, drenched in sweat, his face having a faint, dark pallor. The Pangolins’ scales were clearly coated in poison.

Upon seeing Tuan Fugui now, he opened his mouth to say something but was in too much pain to speak. His eyes, however, burned with a sinister and extreme rage.

"What is it you want to say, Mr. He?" Tuan Fugui opened his medical kit and began treating the wound, his voice dripping with sympathy. "Are you trying to accuse our Special Service Team of deliberately withholding intelligence and leaving you to die? Or are you already thinking about how you’ll get revenge on us when you’re back at the base?

Mr. He, let me give you a piece of advice. If you have the energy for that, you’d be better off thinking about what you’re going to do from now on."

’What an idiot. How pitiful.’

Comrade Fugui treated He Yue’s wound with a sorrowful expression, then stood up and walked over to a nearby Guard Team member who had his entire lower body mangled off. The man was lying there, breathing out more than in. "You... SIGH."

’This one’s probably not going to make it.’

’So, you see, Mr. He is actually quite lucky. Compared to his life, what’s a little masculine dignity?’

At that moment, with Yang Liu’s assistance, Liu Hao had managed to restrain one of the Pangolins. But when he saw it was about to self-destruct its Crystal Core, he immediately turned tail and ran, shouting, "I’m taking this thing back! I’ll leave the rest to you guys!"

Yang Liu nodded. With the help of several other comrades-in-arms, he quickly finished off the other Pangolins and moved all the wounded to one side.

After collecting the Crystal Cores from the Pangolins, he finally got out of the vehicle and asked the two Earth Ability users, "What are your plans now?"

The two men had just managed to dig their armored vehicle out of the ground. They were disheveled and covered in dirt. They looked at each other, and one of them gave a bitter smile. "Well... we’ll follow Mr. Ye’s lead."

They weren’t stupid. What was supposed to be a support mission had turned into a surprise monster attack... In their current state, wounded and disabled, staying out in the wilderness was a death sentence.

Right now, their only hope for survival was to stick with the Special Service Team.

"That’s right, we’ll follow Mr. Ye’s lead!" the other Earth Ability user quickly added. He had already made up his mind: once they followed the Special Service Team to the next safe camp to resupply, he was shedding this skin!

With his Earth Ability, he could go wherever he wanted. The sky would be high, and the emperor far away. He could easily farm a few acres of land and support himself.

As for the wealth and splendor of the Central Base... they, as cannon-fodder pawns, probably wouldn’t live long enough to enjoy it.

"But it looks like your Mr. He has other ideas," Tuan Fugui said from the side. He pointed to Mr. He, who was struggling to turn his head, his face dark and savage as he stared in their direction, and offered the two men some sincere advice:

"Why don’t you two go discuss it with him?"

The two men instinctively glanced over at He Yue and immediately shivered in fright.