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Rise of the Wasteland - Chapter 176

Published at 18th of April 2018 09:05:12 AM


Chapter 176: Chapter 176 - Polarlys

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Chapter 176        Polarlys

If there’s nuclear power, why did I even worry about fuel?!

If there’s nuclear power, the ship can go for years without fuel. What a delight that is!

If there’s nuclear power, I’d rather stay on the sea to get away from the nuclear biochemical weapons. How wonderful is that?!

Zhou Qingfeng immediately stood up when he heard from Rooney that there was a nuclear-powered ship waiting for him. He asked hurriedly, “What’s his name? Where is he? I need to see him now.”

“He said he’s called Allen. But he’s always in hiding and never shows himself in public. He said he has a nuclear-powered ship named, ‘Polarlys’.”

Polarlys? Zhou Qingfeng switched on his armband computer. He started to search about it in the related databases and the results were extremely exciting.

It was a polar expedition ship from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. It was built and used six years ago with a displacement of thirty thousand tons. It was powered by two of the 100-megawatt maintenance-free nuclear power reactor. It would last for thirty years.

As the ship was incredibly advanced, it only needed forty members. Apart from that, as the ship was for polar expedition, it was fully-equipped with living and working facilities.

The maximum capacity of the ship was three-months-worth of resources for three hundred people in the research team. Most importantly, it was efficient when it came to power and large. It was extremely comfortable to live on the ship. It was as if it was the treasure that was purposely made for life in the last phase!

However, Rooney did not know much about Allen, “He said that if Mr. Hugo’s interested, he’ll be in the Blue Tone Bar tonight at eight and you’ll need to carry a Cataclysm Journal with you as a sign. Only you are allowed to go. He will not show if you bring someone with you.”

Butcher was very suspicious about that condition, “Will that be a trap? Knowing that Skull and Bones is trying to kill you.”

Indeed, Zhou Qingfeng was wanted with a high reward by Skull and Bones. It was because the Brotherhood of Steel tried to increase their morale and spread out some of the details from the fight in Manhattan. Also, they emphasized that Zhou Qingfeng was the one who got Skull and Bones into trouble to prevent Zhou Qingfeng’s betrayal.

As a result, Zhou Qingfeng rarely showed himself in public. However, if someone knew him well and was going to bait him, a nuclear power ship was a good choice.

“But, the problem is that Polarlys might really be in New York,” Zhou Qingfeng found out the latest news about Polarlys before the cataclysm and it reported that the ship was stopped somewhere near New York. “I think I’ll need to take this risk. I’ll just bring DogMeat with me.”

Woof…. DogMeat shook its tail and stood beside Zhou Qingfeng.

“Alright then, I’ll cover you outside the bar.” Butcher nodded his head and accepted, “Bring some of the kids with you. They’re familiar with the environment here. They might be helpful.”

The plan was in place and when the sunset, Zhou Qingfeng brought DogMeat with him to the Blue Tone Bar. It was a bar but there was neither alcohol supply nor music. The bar was dead and filled with the smell of sweat. The people in the bar were just those who had nowhere to go. They were just chit-chatting to kill time.

Blue Tone was a bar of the lowest class in the final phase. Occasionally, the owner of the bar would sell cheap and low-quality food. It was the only hope for a lot of people who were struggling to survive.

The power supply had already been cut and the light source depended on the few barrels of diesel. Everyone in the bar was asking about places to get jobs or ways to survive.

Zhou Qingfeng was covered with an old blanket and a mask. His hair was very messy and he looked like a homeless man. He picked a seat in the corner and threw the Cataclysm Journal on the table.

“I’m here,” Zhou Qingfeng covered his wireless radio with his old blanket. “Everything here looks good. It just stinks.”

Butcher replied into the wireless radio, “Same here, the street is dead. Rooney has spread out with his friends. They are watching the movements around the street.”

Time passed slowly and quietly for an hour and it was already nine o’clock. As Zhou Qingfeng started to become impatient, a homeless man who had been sitting in the bar stood up all of a sudden and slowly walked towards Zhou Qingfeng, “Hello! Mr. Hugo.”

“Allen?” Zhou Qingfeng was surprised.

“Yeah,” the homeless man replied with a hoarse voice.

“Did you just sit there and stare at me for an hour?”

“I have no choice because I’m also wanted by Skull and Bones.”

“Why are you wanted by them?”

“Can you first give me some food? I haven’t been eating properly for three days. I feel like I’ll starve to death at any time.”

Zhou Qingfeng took a close look at the dirty face of the homeless man. He looked around fifty with sunken eyes on his face. He must have been starving for many days. Zhou Qingfeng took a bullet out and put it on the table. Allen immediately exchanged the bullet for a small, hard, black bread and a bowl of cold vegetable soup.

Allen tore the bread apart, put them into the vegetable soup, and slowly finished it. As he finished eating, he leaned against the chair and sighed, relaxed, “I never thought that I’ll be so easily satisfied. The fate of life’s weird.”

“Talk about your ship. Our time is precious,” said Zhou Qingfeng.

“Haha….” Allen put his dirty hand out and shook Zhou Qingfeng’s hand. “Let me introduce myself, my name’s Allen Derrick. I’m the chief mate of Polarlys. Mr. Hugo, I hope you can save our crew members.”

According to Allen, Polarlys has been under maintenance in New York for the past six months. After the maintenance, they were going to the south pole for scientific research. Unexpectedly, it was only their second day and the cataclysm emerged. The people and government agents disappeared. Only the private employees remained on the ship, including the vice-captain, Allen Derrick.

As soon as the vice-captain led the terrified crew members back to New York, they found out that New York was already in a mess. They tried to contact the government but they were hijacked by Fernando Rethnor.

“During that time, we stopped at the port of Brooklyn and we didn’t know that the government was gone. We had no idea what we were going to do. At that time, Fernando Rethnor showed up and said that the ship belonged to him now. He renamed the ship, ‘Rachel’.”

Wait…. Rachel? Rachel Connor? Rachel Lawrence? Zhou Qingfeng stopped Allen and asked, “Did you see a pretty and sexy woman beside Fernando? She’s around thirty years old and her name is Rachel.”

“Nope,” Allen shook his head and continued. “Very soon, Fernando Rethnor brought many armed personnel and occupied our ship. They forced us to bring the ship to a deep bay near the Kennedy Airport in Queens.”

“We immediately refused to listen and that devil even killed many of us. As a result, we had no choice but to run away from him. After we escaped, we realized that the world had already collapsed and we can’t survive. In the meantime, Fernando Rethnor is still searching for us.”

“Since you’re starving, why don’t you just submit to Fernando Rethnor?” Zhou Qingfeng was confused.

Allen replied angrily, “Are you willing to submit to the murderer of your son?! When Fernando Rethnor raided the Polarlys, my son, a crew member, tried to stop him. He was the first one to be killed. I’ll never forgive that devil.”

Looking at Allen’s cavernous face, Zhou Qingfeng was not sure to feel sorry for Allen or to feel lucky for himself. At that instant, Butcher’s voice came in from the wireless radio, “Victor, things are not going well. Many men from Skull and Bones are heading towards the bar that you’re in.”





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