The Plane War Begins from Wandering Earth

Chapter 68. Meeting an old friend in a foreign land

Waters near Libreville, Gabon.

This is the location of the base of the space elevator in the Resident Evil plane.

Like the source plane, the United Government has planned a super-large ground base in Libreville that will include docks, airports, hotels, restaurants, medical facilities and other facilities.

There are also many joint government military facilities responsible for guarding, including military seaports and permanent ground military bases.

Mike Grady and other indigenous African companions were taken to Libreville Airport in an old World War II military transport plane.

They were stunned by the scenes outside the window before they even got off the plane.

The endless flat runway is filled with all kinds of aircraft taking off and landing, or taxiing on the runway.

They range from large military transport planes that can fit main battle tanks and armored vehicles to propeller planes that can only carry three to five people.

Hundreds and thousands of them appeared at the same time at this airport which seemed to have been built only a short time ago.

Mike Grady swore he had never seen so many planes in his life.

Charles de Gaulle Airport, known as the largest airport in Europe, is probably not even one-tenth the size of this airport in Africa.

Gabon? Libreville?
These place names seem strange and exist outside of human civilization.

In the distance in the air, there are avant-garde, sci-fi military fighter jets hovering and taking off and landing.

This super-large airport in Libreville appears to be a dual-use military and civilian airport.

In just a minute or two, Mike Grady witnessed the takeoff and landing of more than a dozen fighter planes whose names he could not even recognize.

Just as dozens of indigenous people in the cabin were still immersed in surprise at the large number of planes in the airport, a warning from the Libreville Airport Tower sounded in the cabin at an inopportune time.

[Aircraft No. 36 on runway D10356, please disembark and leave as soon as possible. You only have ten minutes, so don't take up runway resources! ]

As the tower's warning sounded in the cabin, two Predator drones appeared, one on the left and one on the right, at the nose of this large "military-to-civilian" passenger plane.

The appearance of the Predator drone immediately caused panic among the many natives in the cabin.

They recalled the encirclement and suppression battles they had witnessed between these large drones and indigenous armed gangs and the Umbrella Forces.

The scene was a one-sided massacre.

Fortunately, the two Predator drones had green status indicator lights on their fuselages.

After calming himself down, the pilot in the cockpit no longer cared whether these Predator drones were controlled by real people or AI.

While signaling to the Predator drone that was staring at the cockpit that he was leaving immediately, he quickly ordered everyone in the cabin to get off the plane.

Mike was hurriedly carried off the plane by the crowd. Before he could stand firmly, an open truck stopped in front of them.

After climbing onto the carriage, Mike discovered that the truck might have been loaded with some kind of construction materials not long ago.

The construction dust choked him and made him cough continuously. Half an hour later, the speeding truck finally brought everyone to their destination, the Libreville Freight Terminal.

"Everyone, come down and line up to register. Finish early and eat early. After 12:30, you won't be able to eat the nutritional cream."

The person in charge of receiving these indigenous people was a middle-aged man wearing UEG United Government work clothes and with a cold attitude.

Mike was tortured by the construction dust in the truck. After getting off the truck for a while, he found that the person in charge of receiving them looked familiar.

"Professor Harvey?!"

It turned out to be his supervisor during his master's studies at Imperial College London.

"Mike? Oh my God, it's you, poor little Mike!"

Harvey quickly recognized Mike as an acquaintance.

After experiencing a global biochemical crisis caused by the T virus, the two survived through hardships and miraculously met again on the African continent thousands of kilometers away from Europe.

The joy of meeting an old friend in a foreign land diluted Mike Grady's uneasiness about the unknown life.

The two hugged each other tightly until Mike coughed violently, and Harvey let him go. "It's an old problem, I can't die..."

Mike looked at the other person's concerned eyes and quickly said that he was fine.

"You are the only Imperial College alumnus I have met in such a long time.

I wonder what has become of those old acquaintances of mine now.”

After hearing this, Mike shook his head somewhat sadly.

"Except for you, everyone I knew is gone.

Either they died in the zombie crisis, or they were tortured to death by the inhumane surviving gangs of 'predators'.

Looking back, I really don’t know how I managed to get through it.

By the way, Professor Harvey, how did you come here and join the UEG coalition government? "

Mike looked at Professor Harvey's work clothes with the United Government logo on them and asked in confusion.

"It's a long story."

Harvey instructed the on-site staff to continue to supervise the registration task of the indigenous people.

Then he led Mike towards the dock area which was still under construction.

Mike noticed that the staff on site seemed to be strictly divided into different levels.

Those wearing work clothes with the UEG United Government logo are managers, who are responsible for giving orders to the workers wearing blue-gray work clothes without logos.

As for those who, like himself, were still wearing the uniform gray and white clothes of the agricultural production team, they should be the ones with the lowest status in this area.

“Before the virus broke out, I was attending a college conference in North America.

After the T virus broke out, I was arranged to take refuge in a refugee camp.

Then the guard troops in the refugee camp mutinied.

I don’t know exactly what happened, but not long after, the entire refugee camp was taken over by the UEG coalition government’s forces.

I was lucky enough to be one of the first refugees accepted by the United Nations government.

Later, because of my qualifications as a tenured professor at Imperial College, I was assigned here to be responsible for the construction of the A2 dock area.

Besides, strictly speaking, I am not a member of the UEG coalition government.

There are more than 50,000 construction workers and engineers in the entire dock area, but no more than 20 of them are actually employed by the joint government.

Come on, I'll take you to see my immediate superior, Director Liu, who is the general manager of the A-Zone dock appointed by the coalition government."

Not long after, Mike, led by Harvey, arrived at a dock dormitory area surrounded by containers.

There are 24-hour armed patrols of the area by Predator drones.

There is also a second-line coalition government force on the ground responsible for patrolling.

Harvey showed the QR code on his work badge and was allowed to enter only after it was scanned by the machine.

"Manager Liu, this is my schoolmate from Imperial College, a PhD in mechanical and electrical engineering.

His professional ability is definitely sufficient, I want to transfer him to my team as my assistant..."

Liu Yang, who was originally working at his desk checking construction documents, looked up at the two of them but didn't take them seriously.

"Since you guarantee it, then fine.

Old Harvey, you know my principles. As long as the quality and speed of the project can be guaranteed, I will provide you with the best conditions possible within my authority..."

Liu Yang, who managed thousands of people, didn't even bother to ask about the resettlement of a mere indigenous person.

(End of this chapter)