American comic: From Beijing with Love, starting with a mutant.

Old Zhou is very busy.

Three days after leaving Ankang, while his identity documents for going to Japan were still being reviewed by the intelligence department, Zhou Xingxing first rushed to Guizhou to inspect the Tiankeng Village connection project.

With the addition of the gerbil some time ago, he and the toadman have joined forces to bring the Tiankeng Village project closer to completion.

With the joint assistance of the two, the 860-meter-long karst tunnel has been completely completed.

The lighting inside the cave extends deep into the mountainside, and workers are dismantling the last section of temporary support.

There were zero major water inrush accidents and zero casualties throughout the entire process.

On the day the tunnel was completed, many construction teams from the city and county came to visit and invited the "Toad Man" to join their projects.

Old Mo has become much more diplomatic now, neither agreeing nor refusing outright, indicating that everything depends on the leader's decision.

Lao Sha left the project half a month ago and joined the old urban area renovation project.

His abilities made many leaders envious, and more than a dozen top and second-in-commands of the city personally went to the conference room of Bureau 749 to argue and demand his return.

The toad and the gerbil were also extremely grateful to Old Zhou, wishing they could immediately become his godfather.

If it weren't for Lao Zhou, the two of them would still be scavenging for food in the sewers right now.

After a free meal and drinks, Lao Zhou rushed to the northern construction site of the Qiongzhou Strait Cross-Sea Channel.

As expected, Stephen Chow got another black eye from Polaris.

Therefore, Lao Zhou personally cooked a meal to satisfy her.

As always, Xiao Ruan thoughtfully took out a flavorless ice cream and used it as an ice pack for Lao Zhou.

This moved Stephen Chow, who had been beaten up, and it gave the two of them the idea of ​​earning extra money again.

While strolling around the project site, Stephen Chow also ran into Director Chen, who had previously insisted on taking Polaris with him.

The two did not argue this time. Director Chen was extremely enthusiastic towards Zhou Xingxing and even wanted to become sworn brothers with him.

Old Zhou saw through the other party's little scheme at a glance; he just wanted to keep Polaris here for a while longer.

The joyful atmosphere didn't last long, as Zhou Xingxing received a call from Wang Pangzi.

Director Wang only said four sentences.

A strong earthquake struck southwestern China, affecting twelve townships and leaving several villages without contact.

All available special personnel who can participate in the rescue should assemble immediately.

Old Zhou, who was originally unhappy about being assigned to work in Japan, suddenly stood up and hurriedly notified Polaris and Soft Ice Cream to set off.

With the bureau's special plane arranging for them, the three quickly arrived at their destination.

Rapids, Toadman, Gerbil, Cassidy, Wolverine, Abyss, Prophet, and Spot have arrived one after another.

Even Storm, who hadn't finished her training, and Anton, whose codename was fully charged, came along.

Stephen Chow scanned the queue.

The mayfly is still receiving neural connection therapy.

The oasis is too old and can't withstand long journeys.

Flower buds are not suitable for rubble rescue.

Gegebu and the Moon Boy cannot make public appearances at present.

Bao Bao is afraid of crowds and loud noises; forcing him to come will only plunge him back into his nightmares.

With the addition of Polaris and soft-serve ice cream brought by Stephen Chow, almost all of the mutants he recruited participated.

Director Wang stood on the roof of the command vehicle and spread the disaster situation maps sent by various departments onto the hood.

The red circles cover twelve townships, and the number of villages that have lost contact is still increasing. The golden time for rescue has begun to count down.

"The road team will be handled by Polaris in conjunction with the traffic engineering team, the water team by Rapids and Deep Sea, and the construction team by Spotted, Toadman, Gerald, and Wolverine."

"The medical team receives the soft-serve ice cream, the communications and transport team is led by Mange and Yuyu, and Storm joins the weather reconnaissance team."

The team did not rush into the ruins in a concentrated manner. Each person had different limitations in their abilities, and misusing them would only cause a second collapse.

At this point, he glanced at Stephen Chow.

"You stay at command post and take charge of coordination."

Zhou Xingxing swallowed his rebuttal. The dozen or so abilities were scattered across different areas; someone had to keep an eye on who was exhausted, who needed a replacement, and which group could provide temporary support. At this point, rushing into the rubble to rescue two people was easy; ensuring everyone remained calm was the real challenge. He grabbed the walkie-talkie: "Each group reports every twenty minutes. Follow the instructions of the on-site engineers. No one is allowed to tamper with load-bearing structures without permission. No reckless use of abilities!"

Polaris was relocated to the entrance of Yingxiu Town.

The collapsed steel bridge blocked the only passage, and dozens of ambulances were parked on the mountain road. She raised her hands, and the steel bars in the bridge detached from the rubble one by one.

The control skills honed through training on 10,000-ton immersed tunnel sections were applied here, allowing the steel beams to slowly move away, close to the ground.

Soft-serve ice cream stands guard at the temporary medical point.

Instead of ice cream cones, ice packs were piled up around the wounded soldiers' bedsides, and insulin and plasma were placed in the temporary cold storage area she maintained.

At the same time, she is also making ice cream with various effects for people to eat to restore their strength.

The task assigned to Jiliu was on a tributary of the Minjiang River.

Rocks blocked the river channel, and the floodwaters had already overflowed into the downstream resettlement area. He swung a water jet to send the floodwaters into the newly dug diversion channel.

The stream avoided the tents and the wounded, running along the earthen slopes on both sides towards the low-lying area.

Firefighters only need to follow behind to reinforce the gap, and the work that originally required more than a dozen water pumps is reduced to a few minutes.

Qianyuan stood beside the broken road.

After touching the water with bare feet, they closed their eyes. The location of the underground seepage and cavities traveled back along the soles of their feet, allowing the construction team to avoid two sections of roadbed that were about to collapse.

The third feedback prompted him to raise his hand and stop the excavator.

The regular water ripples beneath the mud layer were blocked by something. After digging it open, the rescue team found seven villagers who had been sheltered by the culvert.

The toad-man remained on the collapsed exterior wall of the health center.

His tongue slipped through the gap, wrapped around the wounded man's waist, and helped the engineers drag him out little by little.

As the broken bricks fell from above, the tongue transformed into a safety rope.

Gerbils are responsible for creating lateral lifelines.

After the geological team provided the angle, he drilled into the soil next to the collapsed building, leaving a hole with walls smooth enough to lay support slabs.

The passage, which would normally take two hours to clear, was opened in just over ten minutes, and the first stretcher was placed inside.

When he crawled out, his face was covered in mud. He only had time to drink a couple of mouthfuls of water before moving on to the next location.

The spots followed the structural engineer on his street inspection tour.

He observed the load-bearing columns and floor slabs only through the safety line, and no expanding crack could escape his sight.

Less than three minutes after the three rescue teams withdrew according to his markings, an aftershock caused a load-bearing wall to collapse into the original work area.

Wolverine is the most violent.

Once a location is identified, the adamantium alloy steel claws are used to tear apart any objects blocking the way, while rescuers behind them rush forward to save the person.

The prophet remained at the command post.

In her eyes, the crowd was connected by countless lines, and the connection between the rescuers and the trapped people became the most direct direction of the search.

The constant use of her abilities was taking a toll on her small body. As blood dripped from her nose onto her clothes, she refused Zhou Xingxing's offer to take her back to the medical point and instead took out her walkie-talkie to continue communicating with the rescue team.

Anton stood guard next to the mobile base station, where radio waves were continuously amplified, allowing intermittent communication to be reconnected to the command platform.

What usually gives Stephen Chow the most headaches—his obsessive-compulsive disorder about finances—has now become his most reliable safeguard.

This kid remembers exactly which team hasn't responded for how long, and which channel is experiencing interference.

Edith, a carefree young woman, was assigned to short-distance transport.

She held the hands of the seriously injured and medical staff, moving them back and forth between the ruins and the makeshift surgical area.

Each landing point was marked in advance, and the ground was covered with a conspicuous yellow positioning cloth to prevent her from veering off course when she was fatigued.

The high-calorie foods on the table were disappearing faster than the medicine. Every time she came back, she would stuff chocolate into her mouth and swallow it without stopping, her hand already grabbing the next stretcher.

Storm did not create rain.

The loosened mountains in the disaster area could not withstand more water, so she rose into the low sky, sending the dust and sultry air trapped in the valleys to the uninhabited mountainous areas, creating a stable weather window for the rescue teams.

By analyzing wind field changes, airflow, smoke, and temperature differences, the airflow direction can be corrected to help determine the situation in certain areas and deliver clean air to the rescue teams that are continuously working.

At this point, there was no longer a distinction between ordinary people and mutants; everyone was working towards the same goal.