LRAB Chapter 030 Choices
Chapter 030 Choices
Inside the cave, Lu Chen and Yu Qi knelt together.
Mud mixed with sweat clung to their cheeks, leaving only their bloodshot eyes visible.
At this moment, those two pairs of eyes were staring blankly at the two huge square boxes stacked one on top of the other in a "人" shape in the pit.
The surface of the box has no text, no patterns—not even any color, just a grayish-yellow color.
It is clearly metal, but it has none of the luster that metal should have.
It looks more like a rough, unpolished plastic sheet.
"There are two!"
Jade's joy was evident in its color.
...
"How come... there are two?"
Lu Chen looked conflicted.
...
If there's only one, then there's nothing to say.
—Quickly pull them out of the hole with a vehicle, then drag them behind the vehicle and escape!
As for whether the hibernation pods contain medical experimental subjects like Lu Chen and Zhao Jie, or elderly tycoons and powerful figures, it all depends on fate.
But now, two have appeared...
"Really...can we only bring one back?"
Lu Chen's hesitant words finally calmed Yu down from her ecstasy.
In an instant, the conflicted look on Lu Chen's face was copied and pasted onto Yu's face.
"Even one of them is very difficult."
"With the hibernation chamber attached, the car's top speed is only 30 kilometers per hour, and the range will be reduced by one-third."
"To get around the sandstorm belt and return to the city via paved roads, the journey would be more than 400 kilometers."
"We'll set off at noon today, and we won't be back at the city gate until tomorrow night at the earliest."
"If we drag two..."
Upon seeing the two hibernation pods, Yu Guang was so excited that he didn't immediately realize what was happening.
After Lu Chen gave him a slight reminder, he immediately made a decision.
"Give it a try!"
"Drag them both out of the hole first!"
"Even if we can't bring them all back to the city at once, we can find a place to hide one of them first!"
With readily available profits, Yu, who originally adhered to the "path of survival," seemed to have become a bit more aggressive.
Lu Chen was quite pleased with this.
With the plan finalized, the two acted immediately without hesitation.
—Lu Chen stayed behind, while Yu drove the pickup truck over.
Align the rear of the vehicle with the opening and secure one end of the chain to the trailer hitch at the rear of the vehicle.
The other end was pulled into the hole, and the two of them worked together to pull the outer hibernation chamber outwards slightly, then secured it with a chain.
Then, Yu drove the car and pulled the hibernation chamber—along with the scorched earth around the cave entrance—out of the cave.
Repeat the process, then pull out the other hibernation chamber as well.
Looking out of the cave entrance at the two hibernation chambers standing side by side, both men's faces were filled with heartfelt joy, as if they had just had a bountiful harvest.
"Is the one on the right a little bigger?"
"Hmm...it seems a bit thicker too?"
...
"Do you remember how big my hibernation pod was?"
"Does it look more like the one on the left or the one on the right?"
Lu Chen hesitated for a moment, which prompted Yu to wave her hand dismissively.
"There was only one at the time, and no reference point, how was I supposed to know its size?"
"Find a place to hide one of them, and then take the other one back."
"They're all ours anyway!"
Upon hearing this, Lu Chen said no more.
But my gaze couldn't help but linger a few more times on the larger, thicker hibernation chamber on the right.
...
"Take this back first."
"I always felt that this one was more... pleasing to the eye."
Lu Chen muttered something to himself, but Yu remained completely unconcerned.
"what ever."
After saying that, Yu quickly climbed onto the roof of the car and picked up the binoculars again to look around.
Lu Chen could only say: This level of safety awareness is beyond question.
After looking around again and again, Yu finally felt at ease and jumped off the bus again.
—Lu Chen, who was moving so fast that he was already under the car, didn't even have time to reach out and help!
Then Yu opened the car door, took out the map, spread it directly on the ground, and squatted down.
After gesturing for a while, he finally looked up at Lu Chen.
"My plan is to first move one of them to a nearby location and hide it."
"Then come back, take the other one with you, and head straight back to the city."
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"The abandoned metal area and the old building ruins are not safe."
"Materials area, safe haven..."
Which do you think is better?
Upon hearing this, Lu Chen did not rush to make a judgment, but decided to find out the situation first.
"The metal zone is unsafe because other people also have metal detectors."
"The situation is similar in the area of building ruins."
"It's a safe haven, but there's practically nothing there..."
"What's going on with the materials section?"
Without a second thought, Yu replied, "There's almost no metal in it, so the detector is useless."
"But other materials have been unearthed."
"For example, synthetic materials like plastics, or discarded electronic components."
Lu Chen frowned: "The things they dug up are very valuable?"
Yu nodded slightly: "A bit higher than metal."
"But without a detector, the exploration is very difficult."
Even I'm not really willing to go.
"Even if others know about that material area, they may not explore it."
"So, the materials area or the safe haven—which do you think is safer?"
His rapid-fire words caused Lu Chen to frown slightly and fall into a long period of deep thought.
Yu Gang added that if the hibernation pod is towed, the pickup truck's top speed is only 30 kilometers per hour.
Moreover, the range will be reduced by one-third, from the original 400-plus kilometers to just over 300 kilometers.
However, the safe harbor is nearly 200 kilometers away.
If we take one hibernation pod from here to a safe harbor and hide it, and then come back to tow away the other hibernation pod, the round trip would be 400 kilometers.
The round trip alone takes 13 hours.
And the car also needs to be charged.
...
It's about 10 a.m. now.
It's only been a little over two hours since dawn, and the pickup truck won't be fully charged until noon.
Even if you set off at noon and travel 200 kilometers at a speed of 30 kilometers per hour to reach the safe haven, it would still take until 7 p.m.
It was 19 PM, and it was almost dark.
The pickup truck's remaining battery power wasn't enough to make a comeback.
Therefore, one can only spend the night in a safe harbor;
By tomorrow morning, once the pickup truck is fully charged, it will drive for another 7 hours to return and pick up the other hibernation pod...
Thinking of this, Lu Chen looked down at the map, at the area marked 'Materials Zone'.
It's closer than a safe haven.
But it was only "a little".
The distance between the two is roughly the same.
"I...have another plan."
After much deliberation, Lu Chen finally raised his head slowly and looked at Yu with slight hesitation.
After Yuwei nodded, he said, "Neither the materials area nor the safe haven will do."
"--It's too far."
"Let's hide a hibernation pod first, then come back—at the earliest tomorrow afternoon."
"We will meet number 3994."
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"Moreover, if you take one hibernation pod to a safe harbor and then come back with another one, you'll leave a trail along the way."
"We might be being followed."
These words made Yu also fall into thought, and Lu Chen finally took a deep breath.
He reached out and gently drew a small circle around the 'hibernation pod area' where the two of them were located on the map.
"Therefore, my opinion is: hide one nearby."
"--It's hidden nearby, within a ten-kilometer radius."
"Then take the other one directly back to the city."
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"It's best if this hidden one hasn't been picked up."
"We can only blame our bad luck for being picked up by someone else."
"Only in this way can we bring back at least one hibernation pod as safely as possible."