Rats! Help Them out!

The snow was getting heavier and heavier out there. The temperature had plummeted to below 10 celsius in the afternoon and there were relentless aftershocks. 2 pm, the base was suddenly flooded with zombie rats due to the aftershocks. The vicious rats were everywhere and they bit anyone they saw, many survivors and soldiers were injured. The authorities mustered all superfunction squads and the armies to form up a de-rat force. They split into 10 teams to inspect the worst-hit areas. The whole base was in a mess but no one noticed there were zero rats in Chaoyang Community.

At first, Yun Che thought Heiyu was powerful enough to intimidate zombie beasts, later he realized that it wasn't the case at all, it was the Blood Vine. The underground critters had been eaten up by the Blood Vines after they planted them. Even the ants and pests were all dead, much less the zombie rats. The rats came from the outside were entangled and devoured by the Blood Vines before they could even get close.

Yun Che wasn't trying to be a saint but they and Mo Wenyang were in the same boat. Currently, the three armies were still neck to neck, so they couldn't miss any opportunity from which they might gain more support. Yun Che asked Xing Feng to share the information with Mo Wenyang and let him decide if he wanted to be a saint. What Yun Che could provide was the Blood Vines and the way to set them.

Mo Wenyang reached Chaoyang Community in less than 30 minutes after he got off the phone. He brought 2 space superfunction possessors and one of his deputies with him. Gu Mingxuan tested the Blood Vines with them in person.

"Let's announce the solution. The rats are going crazy out there, the snow and the aftershocks are also causing damage. The death toll in the base is rocketing."

Said Mo Wenyang in a serious tone of voice on Xing Feng's couch. He might be a casual dude but his title was the major general. He was upset because of the appalling death toll.

"You've already known it so we might as well do it your way. Listen, Chaoyang and Peak will be brewing the decoction and cutting down the vines, you gather all the space and wood superfunction possessors in the armies, make sure the entire base is set with the Blood Vines before dark. But before you do it, you'd better broadcast your plan to pacify the public and gain their support."

Yes, they were goal-oriented because this was just the way it was, the anonymous-hero thing couldn't work out in the doomsday.

"OK. Please deliver the decoction to the Superfunction Association when it's ready. I'll inform all the unhurt civilians to gather outside the Association."

Mo Wenyang stood up, nodded at them and left. Yun Che, Xing Feng, Gu Mingxuan walked him to the door. Watching his car carefully slowly move on the snow-covered road, Yun Che sighed, "Being the major general isn't an easy job, he seemed a different person to me just now."

"Wenyang wasn't born flippant. In people's eyes, guys like us were born with silver spoon, but the truth is, we were born with heavy responsibility."

Xing Feng sighed as well with one arm around Yun Che's shoulder. It's God's will that you gain something, you lose something. Xing Feng, too, used to be a passionate young man who was committed to the good of the country and the welfare of the people, but… He would have still been in the army if that thing hadn't happened. He would have been promoted to lieutenant general before the doomsday and wouldn't have met Che.

"You got sentimental, huh?"

Yun Che mocked him after incisively noticed Xing Feng's nuanced emotional change. Xing Feng replied, "Why not?"

"Hehe, all right, call our guys and start working, we'll barbecue tonight. Let's get the job done as quickly as possible."

They broke apart to do their own business. Most fighters in Chaoyang and Peak went to help kill the rats in the nearest section, Section C. Yun Che sent Chenchen and Heiyu into Space earlier. He asked them to collect fruits but in fact, he just made precautions in case bad people would sneak in and do something to Chenchen. In the doomsday, you gotta be careful all the time. Lu's mom, Wang Suhua, Yun Yao, Mr. Chen and Zhan Tianlong were protected by the level-4 Eagle King and Eagle Queen, so they should be fine.

All sections started to broadcast the operational plan from the military, the hopeless civilians saw the silver lining at last. The unhurt or the mildly injured civilians were escorted by the soldiers or superfunction possessors to the Superfunction Association in Section C. Yun Che was already there in person with the first batch of decoction. The wood superfunction possessors drank it and started to plant the Blood Vines around the walls. They needed to prevent all rats from the outside where all the rats came from.

In the heavy snow, the authorities, the soldiers, the superfunction possessors and the civilians worked together to fight against the crisis. Fortunately, wood superfunction was common, so there were quite a number of wood superfunction possessors in the base. Finally, the base was riddled with the Blood Vines after their 3-hour endeavor.

"Hurray!"

The civilians cheered when they witnessed the zombie rats being exterminated by the Blood Vines. They were genuinely happy even it was just a small victory because this meant hope.

Now that the rats had been dealt with, the authorities could take care of the rest. Peak and Chaoyang had the barbecue as planned on the third floor. Because of the snow, the glass roof of the sunlight room was covered with a thick layer of snow. The temperature out there dropped to below zero. Yun Che also got a lot of wild fruits for the guys. Meat on the skewers and fruits from Yun Che's Space, life couldn't get any better.

"Boss, the data from the capital city."

In a corner, Xing Feng was eating and playing games on a pad with Yun Che on the couch. Gu Mingxuan went to check the fax earlier, when he came back, he sent his captain something. And judging from the look on his face, it couldn't be good news.

"Every base across the country that I could get hold of is stricken with natural disasters. As Che said, earthquakes, floods, debris flows, tsunamis are happening at the same time. It is reported that the Coastal Base is on the line. They are not only threatened by tsunamis but also mutant marine creatures and all kinds of zombies and zombie beasts. It's the worst-hit place. The Capital Base is considering sending specialists and offering relief supplies to them. They also called the Southwest Authorities, trying to get some help from us as well."

Before the doomsday, the coastal regions were the richest regions across the country, but now they were the worst survival areas. It was said that many coastal armies were living in a worse life than that of some of the top inland superfunction squads.

"The Coastal Base?"

Yun Che broke loose of Xing Feng's arms all of a sudden. If he remembered it correctly, in the previous life, Coastal Base was the first to announce their independence from the state. As one of the richest bases, the Coastal Base was never short of supplies and food. For some reason, the marine animals mutated, but wasn't zombified. The Coastal Base lived off the ocean and they got all the clothes from the factories. They suffered the least from the doomsday.

But if what Gu Mingxuan said was real, why did they make the independence announcement since the Capital Base would do everything they could to aid them? What happened most likely was the relief plan fell through and the Coastal Base made it through the crisis on their own, hence, the independence announcement.

"What's wrong?"

Every time Yun Che put on a face like this, Xing Feng and Gu Mingxuan would get concerned. Past experience taught them that Yun Che must know something, so they'd better ask right away because they knew Yun Che, he was that type of person who enjoyed hindsight.

"Nothing. Only transport planes can reach the Coastal Base, right?"

Yun Che shook his head and then looked up at Gu Mingxuan. An idea was taking shape in his head.

"Yes. The Capital Base's current decision is to send the people and supplies there on a transport plane as soon as the snow is over. Since there's no response from other bases yet, no one knows if the plan will be carried out."

All the other bases were in hot water as well, maybe they could send some people but definitely no supplies.

"Ha, the Capital Base has made a stupid plan. Everybody wants to keep the food to themselves in the doomsday. Plus, it's a nationwide disaster, who knows what horrible things will happen next? I guarantee you no base will agree to the relief plan and even if they did, the transport plane wouldn't be able to fly around like before. After the snow, all the mutant flying creatures and zombie beasts level up as well, the sky is their domain, the plane is just a big chunk of metal to them. People on the plane might get themselves killed before the aircraft reaches the destination."

It wasn't an exaggeration. Although Yun Che used to live as an underclass, he had heard the news about plane crashes after being attacked by flying mutant beasts or zombie beats, right after the snow…"

"Well…"

Gu and Xing thought of the flying creatures, too, now that Xing Feng mentioned them. They both sighed silently. No land transportation, no planes, the communication between bases would be harder and harder over time. But to be fair, the Capital Base Authorities weren't really stupid, they just did what they had to do.

"Do you have a plan?"

Xing Feng suddenly looked at him inquisitively. Yun Che's reaction was unusual when he heard the Coastal Base, he should have more than mockery to offer.

"Why can't I hide anything from you?"

Yun Che chuckled. Xing Feng wasn't a mind-reader, but he seemed to manage to read Yun Che's mind all the time. Luckily, they were lovers, Yun Che would kill this dude if he was a stranger.

"So?"

"So I decide to visit the Coastal Base when the snow is over."

Yun Che straightforward announced his plan. Xing Feng and Gu Mingxuan were confused. "Didn't he just say that those vicious flying creatures will dominate the airline?" Although Yun Che got the Eagle King, Eagle Queen and Heiyu, those flying zombies and mutant beasts were no joke. Even Yun Cheng couldn't do much about the zombie beasts. How would he go to the Coastal Base thousand miles away from here? By car? That was way too long and the point was…

"Why do you want to visit the Coastal Base?"

The point was, why? Gu Mingxuan looked at Yun Che with an expression on the face that said "relief purposes? No way!" because Yun Che would never be so kind.

"Relief purposes, of course! They're in trouble, we gotta help them out! This is what we Chinese do, right?"

There he said it and Gu Mingxuan just couldn't believe it. "If he means what he says, I'll rip my head off and pee in it!" He swore in heart. People said Heiyu was cheeky, guess what, his master could definitely top him!