Chapter 104: New Station

The weather in October was extremely hot. The sun was scorching, and the skin felt like it was about to crack from the heat.

The Il-76 landed at the military airport in Xiang City A, which was converted from a civilian airport. Zhou Liming walked out from inside, looked up at the cloudless sky, and then carried his bag on his back. Walking out all around him were the fifty members of the entire X Squadron; all of them looked with interest at this capital city of Xiang Province.

On the entire military airport, only a dozen or so Fighter Jets were parked on the side. It didn’t feel like a military airport, but rather like a busy transport airport.

Up to a dozen small and medium-sized Transport Aircraft were parked at the airport. On the runway, roaring trucks were constantly transporting various supplies to the Transport Aircraft. Then, with the help of large cranes, the supplies were unloaded and sent into the bellies of the Transport Aircraft via conveyor belts.

Occasionally, one or two giant tractors could be seen hauling large mechanical equipment into view.

Compared to ordinary cars, a tractor like this made ordinary cars look like little people from a dwarf kingdom. Its wheels alone were as high as a floor. Even compared to the Transport Aircraft over ten meters tall next to it, it only seemed slightly smaller. The roar of its engine echoed as it transported heavy mechanical equipment weighing over a hundred tons here.

A large number of personnel served here; the entire airport was full of busy people.

Parked next to the Il-76 were two buses and a military off-road vehicle. A Colonel stood by the military off-road vehicle. As soon as everyone came down, he stepped forward with two soldiers, saluted Lian Ruixue, and said, “Welcome, Lord General. I have come by the order of Commander Lv to welcome you all.”

Lian Ruixue returned a military salute, still looking indifferent, and said, “Thank Commander Lv for me.”

The Colonel nodded, pointed to the two buses behind him, and said, “The vehicles are ready. Commander Lv has also arranged a new station for you. The Commander also instructed that once he finishes the work at hand, he will come to visit you, Lord General.”

“Mhm!” Lian Ruixue responded faintly. She didn’t feel any flattered surprise at a Lieutenant General personally visiting her; everything seemed taken for granted. Of course, Lian Ruixue had her pride. Her rank as a Major General gave her power within the organization that was no less than a Lieutenant General; in fact, many Lieutenant Generals had less actual power than her. Not to mention the influence of the Lian Family, which a mere Lieutenant General could not compare to.

The entire X Squadron only had fifty people, so two buses were enough.

The new station was not very far. The military airport was located to the east of Xiang City A; in fact, it was right on the outer edge of the city. The new station was in Huanghua Town, a few kilometers north of the military airport.

A week ago, the X Squadron had received orders to be deployed to Xiang City A for garrison duty.

It wasn’t just the X Squadron; dozens of other companies composed of Fierce Beast Warriors were also assigned to the cities they were to guard. These cities were the very forefront of the current battle between humans and Fierce Beasts. Vaguely, the current human Frontline was built relying on these cities as support points.

Different from the previous blockade Frontline, this Frontline was the true battlefield Frontline. Over eighty percent of the country’s troops were distributed along this Frontline.

The mission of the X Squadron was simple: to cooperate with local garrison forces to defend the city, and like Special Forces, carry out some tough assault and decapitation missions. Their goal was to eliminate high-level Fierce Beasts on the battlefield to reduce the pressure these high-level Fierce Beasts brought to the main forces.

Another role they played, like now, was having their station arranged next to the military airport to prevent Fierce Beasts from destroying the airport.

“This is the latest plan proposed by the General Staff. In fact, every frontline city still under our control is undergoing an evacuation of resources and supplies,” Lian Ruixue stood on the bus and said in her icy voice. “The benefit brought by technology sharing is the improvement of our existing technological power. Many technologies that were previously impossible to realize have become reality after integrating technological power. The conquest of certain key problems has given dawn to the invention of some more cutting-edge technologies. But while technology is shared, the fall of the coastal areas has caused damage to industry that exceeds our imagination. It is precisely because of this that the General Staff proposed this plan named ‘Ant’.”

The “Ant” plan was to use vast human and material resources to migrate the industrial base of frontline cities currently under human control and rebuild new industrial cities in the rear.

As Lian Ruixue said, when you have the technology but not enough industry to manufacture it, that technology is just a pile of data. To achieve the industrial level needed to realize these technologies, integrating the industrial base on hand became necessary.

The damaged industrial system was mainly concentrated in light industry.

Long ago, the country had considered possible accidents, such as enemy attacks on the coast, so heavy industry was almost entirely established in the inland areas with strategic depth. Because of this, the country’s core industrial power remained, and heavy weapons and equipment could still be manufactured.

In contrast, the United States suffered heavy losses in their heavy industry, with only a few heavy industrial cities surviving.

Wasn’t this technology sharing also because the United States knew their heavy industry losses were severe that they had to share even at a disadvantage, to obtain some compensatory conditions from other countries? If one really said they were unselfish, one would probably be overestimating the Americans. If it weren’t for the moment of national subjugation, they would never be so unselfish.

The real beneficiary might just be the mainland, as the technological level almost stepped onto a new level.

Huanghua Town was not small. Sandwiched between a highway and an intersecting road beside it, a large roundabout divided into three streets that ran through the entire Small Town. The buildings were all built along the sides of the streets. Perhaps the biggest features were the Fengzitan Industrial Park and the Business College established on the edge of the Small Town.

Actually, there were originally residents in Huanghua Town who hadn’t fled, but as it was the station for the X Squadron, naturally all idle people had to be moved away.

For the X Squadron, with their small number of personnel, the station didn’t need to be complex; as long as there were places to live, it was enough. The place Lian Ruixue chose was the government residential complex next to the commercial street. The environment and greenery here were very good; green trees filled the entire complex. Most importantly, since it was a government complex, the previous living conditions were naturally the highest in the town, with all sorts of electrical appliances available.

The electricity supply in Xiang City A had not been cancelled, but was limited to daytime use; it would be cut off at night, mainly for fear that the lights would attract Fierce Beasts.

Getting off the bus, Lian Ruixue clapped her hands and said, “Alright, this will be our new home from now on. There are many rooms. You can choose to live alone or share a room, and then tell me the building number and room number you are in.”

The special nature of the X Squadron meant that the standard army rules didn’t really apply, so Lian Ruixue simply gave everyone enough freedom.

Who among those able to enter the X Squadron wasn’t an elite among soldiers before? They had spent countless energy and used diligence to become steel warriors. From enlisting until now, what they lived in were military barracks and crude shelters. Even when they joined the X Squadron, the rooms at that time were specially provided for soldiers; comfort and such were simply out of the question.

The change in identity made them understand that they were actually different from ordinary soldiers.

Who doesn’t yearn to enjoy material life? So the freedom given by Lian Ruixue actually made everyone cheer. Then, after being dismissed, they started looking for houses suitable for themselves.

The house Zhou Liming found must have had an owner who was well-off materially. With a space of 170 square meters, the interior was decorated luxuriously; almost every electrical appliance one could name could be seen here. He didn’t know if there were better ones in the complex, but everything here was already enough to fill his heart with joy, and he decided on this place without hesitation.

Throwing his backpack aside, he sat down on the leather sofa, sinking most of his body into it.

Looking at the decorations full of modern atmosphere, what Zhou Liming thought of more was his little nest in the Orphanage: an iron bunk bed, a small wardrobe, and then a set of old desks; apart from these, it was empty. Although there were only three things, they filled the entire room. Compared to here, it was like the difference between heaven and hell.

“I wonder how the Dean and the others are doing. Are they okay? It must be very hard, right?” Zhou Liming murmured to himself in a daze.

He suddenly thought of An Xiaowei. Before his eyes appeared the scene of her taking off her clothes in front of him at the Public Security Bureau. Then his mind was full of the scenes that almost made his nose bleed back then, as if her magnificent chest was constantly swaying before his eyes. Then Zhou Liming thought of Lian Ruixue, her cold but smooth and tender lips, and her soft twin peaks…

“Slap!” Zhou Liming suddenly slapped himself and scolded, “Damn it, Zhou Liming, what the hell are you thinking?”

Turning on the TV, he found he could actually still watch it, although there were only three channels: Entertainment, Military, and News.

Living alone in such a large apartment was indeed very fresh at first and gave a sense of privacy. Zhou Liming stood up from the sofa and began to check the rooms one by one. Everything here remained intact. When they fled, they didn’t even take their clothes. Only a few cabinets were left open, with some things scattered messily; those likely contained valuables, and the mess was caused by taking them in a hurry.

What made Zhou Liming awkward was that in this apartment, there were two rooms belonging to women.

Of course, this wasn’t the awkward point. The point was that the wardrobes were full of various women’s nightgowns and underwear that felt silky smooth to the touch. Zhou Liming even saw a considerable number of erotic lingerie, colorful and dazzling. His eyes went straight, and his mind pictured countless women wearing erotic lingerie doing seductive poses, and he couldn’t help but instantly have a rush of blood below…