Chapter 94: Departure

From the hotel in New Delhi, they arrived at their military airfield. This time, the India authorities were rarely generous, dispatching six helicopters to send everyone to the airport.

The equipment of each team was all on the Transport Aircraft. After arriving at the airport, it was all gathered onto two Transport Aircraft respectively. Then, under the escort of dozens of Fighter Jets, they began to leave the military airport. New Delhi was not too far from Madhya Pradesh, and they could arrive in two hours.

Now Zhou Liming finally knew why the India authorities had been so decisive in using the Nuclear Strike back then. Madhya Pradesh was indeed too close to here. The terrifying speed of the Fierce Beasts could completely advance to New Delhi within two to three days and sweep across the remaining areas of India.

Fierce Beasts and radiation—these two nouns brought endless pressure to the people on the plane. Although no one showed it, how could the tension in their hearts deceive themselves?

Fortunately, during the two-hour flight, they did not encounter any flying-type Fierce Beasts.

The chosen landing spot was still about sixty kilometers away from the center of the crustal movement. This place was already the limit of the warning line. Going further in would be the Radiation Zone. In fact, the landing spot was just a highway located on a huge flat land. The roads in India were somewhat poor, which caused the Transport Aircraft to shake terribly when landing.

After finally coming to a stop, the people from Russia could not stand it first. They rushed down quickly, cursing in Russian, “Shit, couldn’t you find a better place to land? I’d rather face Fierce Beasts than stay in this damn plane cabin.”

The speed of Russian speech was fast. Anyway, Zhou Liming only heard a string of jabbering sounds and completely did not know what the other party was saying.

With multinational cooperation, the biggest difficulty lay here. Language made communication between both sides very difficult, and sometimes it was hard to understand what the other party really meant.

The entire team consisted of seventy-three people, with experts making up one-third.

The equipment and several armored vehicles on the Transport Aircraft were naturally carried out by the joint efforts of each team, and then placed into the troop compartments of the armored vehicles. Except for one soldier responsible for driving the armored vehicle, the experts all crowded into the cabs of these armored vehicles or the troop compartments filled with equipment and instruments.

Of course, like the soldiers protecting the experts, no one could enjoy this kind of treatment. They could only use their two legs to walk this sixty kilometers.

To enter the Radiation Zone, the most important thing was naturally to guard against radiation. Everyone wore a Radiation Suit, looking like white zongzi. When Zhou Liming put on this Radiation Suit, the series of functions on it made him sigh, but at the same time, he felt it was not very convenient to move around. He always had a feeling of being restrained.

“Oh, God,” a Special Forces Soldier from Europe cursed in the communication channel, “How the hell are we supposed to fight wearing this thing?”

A companion beside him smiled helplessly and said, “Kemu, or you can not wear it to enter the Radiation Zone. I think you would definitely be safe for a week, or perhaps you can try.” He tidied up his own Radiation Suit, confirmed that everything was ready, and walked away with a smile.

Kemu was like a deflated rubber ball. Without a Radiation Suit, entering the Radiation Zone? Damn it, that would be certain death.

In fact, the people who were selected had already been mentally prepared. There were not many people who truly complained. After everyone was fully dressed, considering the time issue, after simply explaining some precautions, Kahn waved his hand and began to lead the way toward the torn sea channel.

“Best pray there are no Fierce Beast attacks, otherwise…”

This was a sentence Qiao Bingsen said when he walked past Zhou Liming. In fact, this was exactly the voice of everyone’s heart. It would be best if Fierce Beasts did not appear until the mission was completed. But this was merely a luxury. Being able to arrive here smoothly all the way was already lucky to the extreme. If Fierce Beasts really appeared, and guns could not deal with them, fighting in Fierce Beast Form would inevitably tear the Radiation Suit apart, and expose one to endless radiation.

Zhou Liming had long thought of this result, and the people selected all knew there would be such a result.

The speed of the team’s advance was not very fast. Wearing this clumsy Radiation Suit, even the strongest Special Forces Soldier would feel tired.

After advancing twenty kilometers, it was already afternoon. Everyone had walked for a full six hours. When resting, everyone could only rely on some nutrient solution prepared in the Radiation Suit to satisfy their hunger and thirst. For the next three to four days, the problem of eating would be solved like this.

This area was a very desolate place. The weeds under the sunlight were very dark yellow, and not a single rural village could be seen.

When setting off again, the speed was much faster. If they could arrive near this new sea channel at night, they could use the night time to investigate all this and collect enough data. More importantly, they could also leave this extremely dangerous region a day earlier.

When approaching twenty kilometers from the center of the nuclear explosion, what came into everyone’s eyes at first were just scattered human corpses. In a few days, the flesh had rotted and deteriorated, emitting bursts of foul stench. On the highway and on both sides, scattered weapons and vehicles could be seen from time to time. In some vehicles, there were also rotting and stinking corpses of soldiers.

Madhya Pradesh was originally a desolate state, mainly consisting of yellow earth and slopes. The grass growing here all carried a natural withered yellow color. Here, it was easy for people to feel a kind of natural loss, as if something was lost. It was somewhat uncomfortable. Especially when you could hardly see a few villages, it was as if you had been abandoned by the world.

Clearly, they were already close to the Frontline established by the India government back then, located at the rear of the Frontline.

Walking forty kilometers in a day would normally be nothing. But now, wearing a Radiation Suit and carrying weapons, even the Special Forces Soldiers who underwent hellish training every day could not withstand it. The sound of panting coming from the communication channel became more and more frequent and louder.

Kahn had no choice but to order a stop to rest.

The radiation reading here was already very high. After exchanging a few words with the experts, it was barely possible to carry out preliminary data collection work.

They moved several testing instruments down, connected all the wires, and then connected more than a dozen special batteries to form a temporary power supply group. The armored vehicles carried generator sets, but this place was empty and open. The sound of the generator working could easily attract unnecessary trouble. Under circumstances where its use could be avoided, they tried their best to avoid it.

Kahn did not dare to be careless. He ordered the people of each team to disperse and set up defensive lines on various small sand dunes, keeping watch over every move in this area.

Perhaps in the entire team, the most relaxed ones were the members of the X Squadron. They were all Fierce Beast Warriors, so this burden was nothing to them. Walking forty kilometers, they just broke a sweat, and that was because the Radiation Suit was airtight and made them hot. The people from the Russia snow leopard team were all dumbfounded when they saw the M134 rapid-fire machine gun Qiao Bingsen was carrying and the bullet chains wrapped around his body. In comparison, the M99 heavy sniper rifle Zhou Liming was holding was nothing.

There was very little communication within the entire team. Zhou Liming’s English was barely at a level where he could understand some. After all, their speech speed and tone were very different from what his school teachers taught. As for German and Russian? They were directly ignored by Zhou Liming.

He held the M99 and stayed on a sand dune covered with small yellow grass, leaning against the sand wall behind him, staring somewhat absently at this desolate land in a foreign country.