Retired for A Hundred Years: Re-Employment for the Apocalypse Bigshot!-Chapter 497 - 492: Alive or Dead, We Must Find Her
When Wu Muzhe arrived, quite a few students had already gathered at Bai Xiaotang’s home.
Yesterday, Anhe Middle School also had a coordinated break, and all the homeroom teachers emphasized that everyone should not go out recently and stay at home for online classes.
The students who had grown closer with Bai Xiaotang suggested gathering to study together, and the meeting place was set at Bai Xiaotang’s home.
Because Bai Yusen had sent many superpower bodyguards to take over Bai Xiaotang’s security and instructed her not to go out recently.
At first, Bai Xiaotang didn’t understand and thought her brother’s controlling nature was acting up again.
It was Lin Yuanyang who specifically sent a message back from Beijing to remind her that something had happened in the capital and that she should not go out recently.
Bai Xiaotang listened to Lin Yuanyang’s advice and stopped insisting on going out.
In the end, everyone’s study location was set at Mingfu Garden.
When Wu Muzhe entered the house, he just happened to hear Hu Lingling’s exaggerated laughter coming from the living room.
"You guys wouldn’t believe it! When I brought the medal home, my mom thought it was chocolate and almost put it in the fridge to freeze it."
"Really? How come you never mentioned this before?"
"My mom just told me yesterday, it cracked me up. I even told her to bite it to check if it’s real gold."
"Did your mom bite it?"
"No, she almost gave me a knock on the head."
...
Wu Muzhe was somewhat impressed by how carefree these girls were.
"Bai Xiaotang, did Lin Yuanyang say when he would be back?" Wu Muzhe asked directly as he walked into the living room.
Bai Xiaotang was stunned for a moment and shook her head, "No. This time Uncle Lin suddenly took him back."
Wu Muzhe looked at her for a moment, then sighed, "You know something happened in the capital, right?"
Before Bai Xiaotang could answer, Hu Lingling curiously asked, "What happened?"
"The Smart Brain in Hua Continent was invaded by an external system and is currently paralyzed. Lin Yuanyang went to the capital probably because of this," Wu Muzhe shared some hearsay.
Everyone was shocked; in their eyes, invading the Smart Brain was a crime.
"No way! Who would dare?"
"I heard it was hackers from the West Continent. They were dissatisfied with their Sixteenth Rank superpower user’s incident here and intentionally organized this large-scale Smart Brain attack. To intimidate, we even launched lethal weapons into international waters..."
"Really?"
Wu Muzhe opened his phone and logged into the international network. 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂
"Recent news from the Outer Continent is all about this, saying we launched hundreds of thermal weapons as a final warning to a certain continent."
"Oh my God, are we going to war?" Hu Lingling asked worriedly.
Wu Muzhe’s expression was tense, "There is no definite news yet, and the alliance hasn’t issued an official statement, but we should be ready for war."
Saying this, Wu Muzhe turned to Bai Xiaotang and said, "Bai Xiaotang, your family is in the capital; if there is any accurate news, please inform us in advance."
Bai Xiaotang nodded solemnly.
At this time, Yao Meng suddenly said, "Hasn’t Instructor Ying not been to school since the competition?"
"Yeah, and Sister Ning too, Xiao Tang, do you know where they went?"
Bai Xiaotang’s expression tightened, and she looked down at her phone’s date.
Sister Ning is a detective in the Security Department and often goes out for work, only returning once in a while. Sometimes Instructor Huang accompanies her, and they can be gone for ten days or half a month, which is normal.
But this time, it seemed a bit long...
Bai Xiaotang had tried to contact the two before, but her messages were like stones sinking into the sea with no response.
She shook her head, "They probably went for work."
"That part-time job for Sister Ning?"
Everyone looked at her in unison, putting a little pressure on Bai Xiaotang, "Sorry, I can’t say. You’ll have to ask Sister Ning directly when she returns."
Wu Muzhe, thinking of Ji Ning’s superpower, vaguely guessed Ji Ning’s part-time job.
Feeling a bit heated inside...
Compared to the tense atmosphere outside, life on the small island seemed much calmer.
Half a month passed by unknowingly.
In the small space, four agents lived a small life with more than thirty children.
These children were much more robust than when they first arrived on the island.
They weren’t hungry and had people to look after them, which made them appear well-behaved and sensible.
The older kids no longer bullied the younger ones and even helped the four agents take care of them.
The three-and-a-half rooms were kept neat by them.
Half a room served as the kitchen, two as dormitories, and there was a room for solving physiological needs, which had a strong odor and was usually kept closed, with a stack of black plastic bags hanging on the doorknob.
The waves outside the small island gradually receded, and the sea washed away most of the pollutants.
An inconspicuous small fishing boat slowly approached the island.
The captain, with a nervous look on his face, sailed the boat, while a few masked people stood behind him.
Not far from him lay several corpses, blood staining half the cockpit red.
Elsewhere, a gentle and refined-looking man held binoculars, gazing ahead.
"Is this your destination?"
The captain, trembling, replied, "Yes, they offered a high price to come here. I didn’t know it would be like this. If I had known, I wouldn’t have taken the job just for the money..."
The man’s lips slightly curled; in his view, besides their boat, there were a few unknown vessels lingering nearby but hesitating to dock.
The small island was still surrounded by thick fog, and the gray and black smoke had not completely dissipated.
The nearer they got to the island, the murkier the seawater became, and the higher the concentration of pollutants outside.
To land, they had to be fully equipped and carefully test the surrounding environment.
The captain was having second thoughts about docking.
He really didn’t want to get closer to the island. He was just an ordinary person, and going there was a death wish, but a man’s voice urging him like a death knell rang in his ear.
"Find a place to dock, we’re going ashore."
The captain fell to his knees with a thud, pleading tearfully for the man to spare him.
He didn’t finish when he suddenly felt a chill on his neck, followed by intense pain crawling into his brain, and then the people in his view turned gray until he lost all consciousness.
The genteel man glanced at the masked man not far away and said coldly, "Deal with them all and dock soon."
"Yes."
Compared to the boats hesitating to dock, the small fishing boat boldly ventured into the dangerous black fog.
The nearer they got to the island, the lower the visibility, and the more hostile the surrounding environment became.
The dozen or so people on the small fishing boat were fully armed, jumping off as soon as the boat docked.
After making a hand signal to split up, the squad leader turned to the man next to him and said, "K, the landslide here is severe. We’ll go in to search for people, and you should wait for us back on the boat."
But the man looked resolutely towards the ruins ahead, "No need, whether alive, I need to see the person; dead, I need to see the body. I must personally bring her out. Even if she’s dead, her body can’t end up in the hands of the Outer Continent People."
The squad leader glanced at him for a moment with helpless hope in his heart.
The place was not just ruins; it had been washed over several times by the sea. Even if the Commander wasn’t dead, she could have been carried away by the ocean.
How could she still be on the island?
K was too obsessed with the Commander.
...
In the dense black fog, a dozen people began searching from the edge of the island with infrared equipment.
The island destroyed by weapons was full of rocky ruins and marine animal corpses.
The nauseating stench was intolerable, but the searchers seemed unfazed, relentless in their pursuit.
The search lasted three days and three nights.
The man with the weakest stamina was having a hard time coping.
Fortunately, they had brought enough medication to keep him going.
Finally, at dusk on the fourth day, one person’s infrared device signaled a beep.
"Beep beep beep..."
That person turned around in disbelief, shouting:
"Captain, we’ve found a living person!"
