Extreme germ phobia

Chapter 336 Times Have Changed
Flight deck.

A heavy helicopter took off amidst tremendous noise and carried away the rescued people from Silver Bay.

Ouyang tilted his head back, squinted, and watched the helicopter fly away, feeling very down.

He didn't hide his emotions at all, and Lu Wei didn't hesitate for a moment, immediately moving closer to him: "What's wrong? Why is your face so long?"

Ou Yang vented his frustration: "They've all been rescued, shouldn't we go back with them? Why are they stopping us from going back after just a notification?"

Lu Wei was taken aback, then chuckled: "Hey, I thought it was for something else, you just did this?" He pulled his hand down from his forehead, making a gesture that made his face look particularly long.

Everyone laughed when they saw his strange appearance.

Ouyang didn't find it funny at all, he just felt extremely annoyed: "No, don't you guys feel anything?"

"What do you feel?" Luohan countered. "Isn't this normal?"

“Normal?” Ou Yang suddenly raised his voice. “What’s normal about it?”

Lu Wei gestured for the others to be quiet: "It's normal that you're not used to it, but we've been used to it for a long time."

Before Ouyang could ask any questions, he continued, "That's how soldiers are. They go wherever they're needed, and they have to carry out orders when they come."

"Exactly!" 27-and-a-half chimed in, "Back then, I was on guard duty at the gate, and before it was time to change shifts, they relieved me and told me to pack my bags and report to some place immediately. Then I was like throwing good money after bad, and I never had the chance to go back to my old unit. Luckily, communication is convenient now, otherwise I wouldn't be able to get the money I lent out back!"

“Then you’re in a worse situation than me.” Luo Han chimed in, “I received the letter at noon and kept thinking about when to leave. But it got dark and there was still no news. I thought they weren’t going anywhere. But then the news called me out halfway through. I grabbed my bag and headed straight to the train station. Several years have passed in the blink of an eye.”

“Yes, yes, I’m almost there too.” Everyone else chimed in, each having encountered similar situations to some extent.

Lu Wei shrugged at Ou Yang, as if to say, "See, I was right, wasn't I?"

Ou Yang forced a smile: "I didn't mean anything by it, I just don't understand why you're keeping us here!"

“I had a pretty good idea of ​​that.” Lu Wei pointed to the Silver Bay. “After such a big incident, we can’t just leave it at that by rescuing people, right? We’ll definitely have to make an example of them, send them on a mission to warn others, and make an example of them as well… You can think of any other similar idioms. In short, there’s going to be a good show coming up, understand?”

Upon receiving news of the Silver Bay incident, the authorities immediately dispatched drones to monitor radio communications near the incident site.

Due to the impact of the pandemic, the infrastructure here has been severely damaged. Both wired and wireless communications have long been paralyzed, and the electromagnetic environment is cleaner than ever before. The drones locked onto the enemy's communication frequencies with little effort.

Whether the enemy was completely indifferent or simply didn't care, they continued to use radios brazenly, and the drones collected a large amount of communication information.

Analysis showed that the enemy's communications were focused on both sides of the canal, and no signs of external contact were found, thwarting the higher-ups' attempt to trace the source.

Clearly, there are shrewd individuals within the enemy ranks who understand the dangers of contacting the outside world.

With the support of the Americans, it's impossible that they wouldn't know such basic things.

However, it doesn't matter. The communication itself is also very useful information. After obtaining the data, the higher-ups immediately organized elite forces to conduct in-depth analysis of the communication content, carefully selecting and collecting useful information from a large amount of invalid content.

What you imagine intelligence work to be: venturing deep behind enemy lines, risking your life. The reality of intelligence work: constantly sifting through massive amounts of information from news, newspapers, and social media, searching for valuable fragments, recording and analyzing them to obtain a potentially useful piece of information!
Behind every message lies the hard work and dedication of countless people!

This time was no exception. Based on a few words that the enemy mentioned unintentionally, the authorities determined that the Apostles had a secret base in South America and identified several suspected targets!
The next step is to use other methods to confirm the speculation and find the real target!
In the following days, the warships remained stationed on the canal, with the Chinese side using it as a pivot to control both banks and gradually extend its influence to the surrounding areas.

Rescue teams took turns going deep into both sides of the strait to clear infected individuals and search for survivors.

The area above is divided into north and south banks; after one section is searched, the other is leveled.

The road leading to the canal has also been damaged by drones, making it much harder to get close to the canal and cause trouble.

Ouyang came up with a few ideas. One was to abandon the vehicles and travel light, but doing so would mean lacking heavy weapons and attacking the transport ship with only light weapons.
Stop kidding, are you scratching an itch?

Secondly, the damaged road sections need to be repaired, but such a large-scale operation cannot be ignored by the higher authorities.

Finally, there's the possibility of underwater or aerial strikes, and presumably, the authorities have mature countermeasures in place.

A few days later, a blank area more than two kilometers wide appeared on both the north and south banks, and anyone who wanted to approach the canal would be exposed to their own line of sight!

The rescue team's mission came to an end, and just when Ouyang thought they were about to return to the Hua Tuo, an amphibious assault ship arrived and stopped on the lake not far behind the lock.

The rescue team was then ordered to transfer to the attack ship.

When Ou Yang first stepped onto the amphibious assault ship, he almost thought he was standing on an aircraft carrier!
Aside from being smaller and lacking an angled deck, this thing is pretty much the same size as an aircraft carrier. He secretly guessed that this ship's size should be no smaller than a certain Tia or a certain Rank, and it might even be comparable to a certain Le.

As for other light aircraft carriers, they are not comparable at all and need not even be mentioned.

However, although the amphibious ship's deck is flat, it only houses drones, which is a major drawback!

Shortly after Ou Yang and his men left, the warship, which had been moored alongside the Silver Bay for several days, weighed anchor and set sail.

The amphibious assault ship has officially taken over command, becoming its command center in the region.

For some time afterward, the ship's drones operated day and night, continuously carrying out air strike missions.

Ou Yang complained: "They're always launching air strikes, what's the difference between them and the US military?"

Lu Wei couldn't help but laugh: "We've always been learning by doing, how could we not be like this?"

The smartest approach to a proven tactic is to use it directly. To insist on forging a new path instead of copying it is not courageous, but rather insane!
Ou Yang added, "These days of aerial attacks, what have we been doing?"

“That’s right,” Lu Wei said. “Back then, we had no choice but to fill the gaps with people. But things are different now. We use equipment to solve problems that can be solved with equipment, and artillery fire to solve problems that can be solved with artillery fire. Only in complex situations where other means cannot solve the problem will we use people!”

"Times have changed!" Lu Wei said with a sigh at the end.

Ou Yang paused for a moment, then laughed: "Yes, times have changed!"

(End of this chapter)