BFET Chapter 56

Evacuate

“Shen Shu?” Lin Zhixu had just spoken when he felt a very obvious gaze fall on him.

He subconsciously looked up and saw a white-haired young man sitting with his knees bent on the inside of the ruins not far away. His face showed obvious signs of mutation, and his eyes, as clear as glass beads, were filled with an inorganic coldness, staring at him intently.

Lin Zhixu unconsciously held his breath, recalling that when he had seen Xie Yi before, this young man seemed to be by Xie Yi’s side.

Xie Yi noticed his gaze and was about to turn around when Zhe Lian, who had left earlier, returned and called out from behind Lin Zhixu, “Team Leader Lin.”

Lin Zhixu instantly regained his senses, turned his head to respond, and then looked back at Xie Yi, saying, “We need to discuss the retreat and need your help. Let’s do it together. Call your companion, Shen Shu.”

After he finished speaking, his gaze crossed Xie Yi and met Shen Shu’s gaze again, giving him a polite nod.

Xie Yi glanced back, “No need, I’ll tell him later.”

Lin Zhixu: “Okay, let’s go then.”

Zhe Lian saw the two of them coming and hurriedly nodded towards Xie Yi, who was following behind. Then, without waiting for Lin Zhixu to ask, he immediately said, “Team Leader Lin, our Xin’nan Security Team currently has thirty-seven remaining combat personnel. Apart from the five who went to assist in arranging the civilians, including me, there are a total of thirty-two people here.”

Lin Zhixu looked at the people behind him, then nodded to him, “Okay, thank you for your hard work.”

“Next, I’ll keep it short.” Amidst the incessant sound of gunfire, Lin Zhixu’s gaze swept over the people present, and then he looked past them at the civilians who were orderly entering the rescue vehicles from the underground shelter. “After all the civilians have entered the rescue vehicles, we will arrange for some people to carry cage nets to attract the Mutated Entity swarm as bait.”

“The cage nets will completely change the vehicle’s mimicry state, creating an effect opposite to the mimicry state.” Lin Zhixu said, “The people carrying the cage nets will be chosen by me and the rescue team, because the mimicry state cannot completely obscure the Mutated Entities, so the security on the rescue vehicle side will not be sufficient. We need your assistance.”

Lin Zhixu looked at Zhe Lian, “Team Leader Zhe Lian.”

“I… I’m not the team leader.” Zhe Lian subconsciously denied, but immediately felt a little embarrassed after saying it, after all, now was not the time to dwell on these things.

Lin Zhixu didn’t mind, he readily changed his words, “Okay, then Zhe Lian, Xin’nan Safety Zone should have dedicated emergency routes, right? How many are there? Have you sent people to scout them before?”

“Yes, there are three.” Zhe Lian nodded quickly, “After the incident, our team leader once arranged for people to investigate. At that time, there were not many Mutated Entities on the south trestle, but now I don’t know the situation.”

“Okay.” Lin Zhixu said, “Tell me the specific locations, I’ll arrange for people to investigate.”

“I’ll go.” Xie Yi suddenly interjected, “Give me a car, I’ll go over now.”

Lin Zhixu looked at him upon hearing this, “Okay, I’ll call someone to go with you.”

Xie Yi was about to say something when a familiar voice came from behind him, “No need, I’ll go with him.”

Xie Yi turned around and saw Shen Shu, who had approached at some point, standing a few steps away, looking at them.

Lin Zhixu was taken aback, looking at the person not far away and then at Xie Yi, “Okay, if you two are okay with it, then you two go.”

After speaking, he looked at Zhe Lian again, “Zhe Lian, please tell Xie Yi the specific locations.”

“Is there anything on the trestle that can be used as a signal to transmit?” Xie Yi received the route map passed over by Zhe Lian.

“There’s a lighthouse over there, you can see it from here.” Zhe Lian turned around and pointed towards the distance.

Xie Yi followed his gaze and indeed faintly saw a lighthouse in the distance. He looked at Lin Zhixu and said, “Okay, I’ll turn on the lighthouse lights when I’ve scouted the situation. Constant light means no problem, you can come over. Flashing means it’s not okay.”

Lin Zhixu: “Okay, the rescue team will be ready in half an hour. We’ll wait for your message, be sure to pay attention to safety.”

Xie Yi nodded.

The violent artillery fire forcibly suppressed the Mutated Entity’s attack. Under the cover of the rescue team, Xie Yi drove with Shen Shu straight towards the south trestle.

Twenty-five minutes later, Xie Yi and Shen Shu arrived at the lighthouse location they had seen at the shelter.

Behind the lighthouse was the trestle that Zhe Lian had mentioned. At this moment, only a few Faceless Ghouls and Mandrakes were living on that trestle.

“Shen Shu.” Xie Yi narrowed his eyes, “You can control these few Faceless Ghouls and Mandrakes all at once, right?”

Shen Shu hummed, answering a question that wasn’t asked, “No wonder when I said I wanted to come with you just now, Captain, you didn’t refuse. So you were waiting for this.”

“Stop talking nonsense.” Xie Yi glanced at him, took out Abyss, “You control them, I’ll go up and take care of them.”

Five minutes later, the Mutated Entities on the trestle were cleared out. Xie Yi took Shen Shu quickly up the lighthouse, found the lighthouse’s backup power supply, and turned on the signal lights.

At this moment, exactly thirty-four minutes had passed since they had departed from the shelter.

One minute after the signal lights came on.

The artillery fire in the direction of the shelter suddenly intensified. Xie Yi saw from the lighthouse that the dense Mutated Entities in the distance began to gradually concentrate and gather in one direction.

“Let’s go, the rescue vehicles are coming, let’s go and meet them.” Xie Yi called Shen Shu to go downstairs, but stopped abruptly at the stairwell, turned his head and looked at him, “I think your ability is quite useful.”

After speaking, he stepped down the stairs. Shen Shu paused in place for a moment and couldn’t help but laugh.

The mighty rescue convoy drove from the distance, followed by a string of tails!

Guns and cannons were constantly erupting from the rescue vehicles and the last armored vehicle, attempting to cut off these tails.

Xie Yi drove quickly, and when he passed the first rescue vehicle, he reached out and pointed to the rear, then rushed to the rear of the rescue convoy.

“It seems that the effect of the cage nets is not as good as imagined.” Xie Yi said, “Otherwise, according to Lin Zhixu’s plan, all the Mutated Entities over there should have followed him.”

Shen Shu oh’d absentmindedly, looked at him and asked abruptly, “Captain, you seem to know him very well. Are you very familiar?”

“…” Xie Yi looked at him inexplicably, “Not familiar, and don’t understand, what kind of nonsense are you thinking about every day?”

Shen Shu raised an eyebrow and was about to speak, when Xie Yi suddenly hit the steering wheel, “Here they come!”

Shen Shu turned his head and saw from the car window that the string of tails originally following the rescue convoy had scattered and rushed up from the side!

At the same time, the few armored vehicles that were originally attempting to cut off the rear of the convoy also dispersed instantly!