Chapter 738: Chapter 738: Group Captain Tang Appears
In every region, research on food improvement was given the highest priority. Perhaps ordinary people were unable to understand more, but the leaders of the major underground towns were clearer than anyone else.
This winter, on the surface above, there had already been three rounds of extinction-level âsweepâ operations.
Now, on the surface, not to mention food, maybe there wasnât even grass left, let alone living organisms.
The surface had already become unsuitable for human habitation.
Yet, underground, people were still being kept in the dark, oblivious to all of this. Many still harbored fantasies that one day, after the dangers on the surface were eliminated, everyone could return to their once home to live.
In reality, that possibility no longer existed.
Therefore, whether it was a large city or a small town, all were engaged in vigorous research on food improvement, especially in the soilless cultivation of vegetables and grains, which everyone was researching frantically.
The world seemed to have suddenly changed into something else entirely.
A layer of soil separated the above from the below, creating two completely different worlds.
Above was cold, desolate, and lifeless; below, however, in the dark and narrow space, the tenacity and perseverance of humanity shone through.
Regardless, survival always came first.
And to be able to survive meant adding a glimmer of hope for the future.
It seemed everyone was gradually adapting to the new way of life.
From the initial anxiety and tension, even hostility, to the orderly present.
After his hair had turned completely white, Qu Guoâan finally received a bit of news about Tang Zelin.
Although, the message had been passed around so much that its authenticity was hard to discern.
But any bit of news about an old friend was still joyous to him.
Inside the group headquarter, after hanging up the internal communication phone, Qu Guoâan paced back and forth in the room with a look of happiness on his face.
Now, the new first battalion commander Ji Dong, who had been promoted after the original commander was transferred to a higher department, brought some bad news that knocked on the group headquarterâs door.
Qu Guoâan said, âCome in!â
Ji Dong entered, saluted first, and then stated his purpose.
âPolitical Commissar, the group captainâs message has been cut off.â
âCut off?!â
The hope that had just risen in Qu Guoâan was extinguished by his subordinateâs words.
âPolitical Commissar, it wonât do. Iâll lead a team to W province to retrieve them.â
âW province is too far from us. Without a request to the superiors and an order to pass, how can you go there to retrieve them?â Qu Guoâan refused without even thinking about it.
Ji Dong said, âThe last message from the group captain was in W province. Besides that, we have no other option. We canât just wait for the two of them to come back on their own, can we? Itâs too dangerous.â
Ji Dongâs concerns were obvious, and the sharp-witted Qu Guoâan could think of them just by rolling his eyes.
But the idea of traveling a thousand miles to retrieve someone when the message might not even be true made Qu Guoâan hesitate.
He too wanted to see Tang Zelin as soon as possible, but so far, all the messages he had received were vague, like âseems like,â âperhaps,â âmaybe,â without a single accurate message.
Qu Guoâan was still not at ease.
What made him uneasy wasnât just the inaccuracy of the news about Tang Zelin and Su Shu.
Another reason was that he had been pondering all winter and couldnât quite understand how Tang Zelin and Su Shu had managed to disappear in Underground City C right under everyoneâs eyes.
He had many theories. Could it be that the superiors assigned Tang to carry out some special mission, which couldnât be left in a normal way? Or, did they really encounter some bizarre kidnapping incident? And so on.