Chapter 28 (2/2)

“Gulp… Gulp…” After a few gulps of water, the wounded man came to his senses.

“Where am I?” the wounded man asked.

“A rainforest on Alpha, about 100 kilometers away from Coales Valley,” Qin Hao replied.

“Who are you? Why I’ve never seen you before?” The wounded man was obviously not hurt in the head, so he remembered very well that there was no Qin Hao on board when he boarded the transport ship.

“I’m with the 106th Mechanized Infantry Division,” Qin Hao said.

“The 106th? Didn’t they already evacuated from High Ground Z3?” The wounded man was pretty well-informed, as Lucia, who was on the same ship, did not know anything about High Ground Z3.

“Oh, I was left behind…” Qin Hao smiled awkwardly.

“Left behind? Impossible! James said he was the last to evacuate. Wait! Are you that Qin Hao?!” The wounded man suddenly stared and asked.

“Yeah, he’s Qin Hao. Do you know him?” Before Qin Hao could open his mouth, Lucia answered for him.

“You actually survived?” The wounded man’s eyes grew even wider.

“Ugh…” Qin Hao did not know how to answer this, so he was supposed to be dead or something?

“Uh… I did not mean that…” The wounded man also noticed Qin Hao’s displeasure, and so he explained. “I heard from James that you were facing tens of thousands of Insectoids alone, and they even nuked the place. It’s really hard to imagine how did you survive all that.”

“What? The fleet threw a nuke at you?” Lucia said was dumbstruck. While she had thought Qin Hao was very strong before, no one would be able to face a nuclear bomb!”

“I was lucky. When the bomb was dropped, I had already run out of the explosion epicenter, and there was a pond near me, so I escaped the shock wave by hiding underwater.” Qin Hao explained.

“I have to say, the Goddess of Luck sure is watching over you. Of course, you are a capable person yourself, or else it would have been impossible to leave High Ground Z3 alive!” The wounded man lamented. While Qin Hao had just briefly explained it, was breaking out from an encirclement of tens of thousands of giant beetles an easy thing to do?

“I haven’t asked, how do I address you?” Qin Hao asked.

“I’m Pang Meng, a research of the front-line command lab,” the wounded man replied.

“Shouldn’t researchers like you stay on the battleships? Why are you in the frontline?” Qin Hao asked with some puzzlement. These researchers had no combat ability at all, isn’t coming to the frontline as good as walking into death’s embrace itself?

“One of my research has reached a critical stage, so I needed to collect some important data.” Pang Meng did not say it in detail, after all, it was confidential. A footslogger like Qin Hao had no right to know, and even if he was Pang Meng’s savior.

“Oh!” Qin Hao did not ask further. He too knew his place, and knowing too much would not do him favors anyway.

“Sir, how’re your injuries?” Lucia, on the side, asked. While Pang Meng was not in uniform, these researchers were all highly ranked.

“Shouldn’t be a problem. In a day or two, I should be able to move on my own,” Pang Meng said. Although he had several broken ribs, after Lucia injected the cell activation catalyst, the recovery of his ribs was quite fast.