The most ruthless person in the apocalypse

Chapter 1031 White's Awakening
"It's just a small matter, sorry to keep you waiting."

Zhang Su shrugged and smiled at Liu Lingping.

"Young boys and girls, that's how it is."

Liu Lingping, who was waiting in the same spot, did not hear Zhang Su and Jiao Yutong's conversation, but she vaguely saw the figure of a girl. Combining this with the boy whose eyes could not hide his joy, she pieced together the beginning and end of the story in her mind.

"As life gradually gets better, everyone yearns for a better life."

Zhang Su spoke meaningfully, walked to the room where White was being held, opened the door, and went inside.

Liu Lingping paused for a moment, she could clearly sense that there was something implied in the other person's words, but she was not quite sure what they were talking about.

"Good evening, Mr. Zhang!"

The door opened, a loud greeting rang out, accompanied by the sound of shoes hitting the floor. White gave Zhang Su a neat military salute, though one hand was handcuffed to a radiator pipe, making the movement slightly awkward.

Unlike the prisoners of war captured before, White and McCree were more like recruits who had not been assessed, so they were not detained and restrained according to the standards for handling prisoners. They were simply handcuffed and then separated into different rooms.

Before this, Zhang Su had specially arranged for hot water to be brought over for them to wash up and change out of the clothes that even beggars would find repulsive...

White's appearance at this moment is completely different from when he was first found. Before, he looked like a homeless guy who had spent half his life on the streets of Chicago, but now he finally looks like a human being.

He had a fairly standard Caucasian face, with a high nose bridge, deep-set eyes, and well-defined facial features—the latter two probably being the result of prolonged starvation…

Lu Leiyang gave White a haircut. His greasy, long hair was too much of a waste of water to wash, so a simple bun looked much more energetic.

"Yes, this sentence doesn't need translation; I can understand it."

Zhang Su walked up, unlocked the handcuffs with the key, and then glanced around, about to grab a chair, but White reacted quickly, skillfully picking up the chair and shoving it behind his back.

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Wow, you're getting the hang of it!

Are you sure these are soldiers from an aircraft carrier?

Zhang Su quickly received an explanation.

"White said that one should be polite to superiors and respectful to the strong..."

Liu Lingping translated White's words with a strange expression.

Zhang Su's understanding of Da Piao Liang was limited to movies and TV dramas. Didn't he usually address his elders by their first names? There were more rules in the army.
He really didn't know that there was a strict hierarchy on the aircraft carrier. Just when it came to dining, from the bottom up, soldiers, non-commissioned officers, and officers had different dining environments, service standards, and even different tableware!
The entertainment options and areas, the dormitory accommodations—everything on an aircraft carrier reveals a hierarchical concept.

"Good evening, White. Sit down and let's talk. I have some questions for you."

Zhang Su gestured for White to sit down, then went straight to the point: "You should have a general understanding of our current situation. Under the existing conditions, what methods are there to bring the aircraft carrier back?"

After Liu Lingping translated for White, a look of confusion appeared on White's face. He scratched his head with a bewildered look in his eyes, clearly finding the problem quite troublesome.

After uttering "uh-huh" and "ah-ah" for a while, White finally managed to say something.

He said that the aircraft carrier was floating steadily at sea, and the two nuclear reactors had definitely stopped working. To get the carrier back on track, experienced engineers would first be needed to restart the reactors, and then at least ten operators with basic experience would be required...

"Yes, yes, yes."

Zhang Su interrupted Liu Lingping's translation, saying, "Forget about the operators, we can't even start the nuclear reactor. Let's not even consider starting the aircraft carrier's propulsion system. Ask him if towing is even possible!"

Zhang Su immediately abandoned the idea of ​​starting the aircraft carrier, as that was simply unrealistic. Starting the nuclear reactor? Regardless of whether the two reactors on the aircraft carrier were stable or not, there would definitely be extremely high risks involved if an amateur were to handle them. Until there was absolute certainty, it was safer for nuclear energy to remain in a cooled state!
After hearing Zhang Su's request, White frowned, realizing that one problem after another was posed...

"Hmm, he requested to discuss it with McCree, Mr. Zhang, what do you think?"

White made a helpless gesture towards Zhang Su.

"Okay, go next door and bring him over."

Zhang Su handed the key to Liu Lingping.

Soon, McCree walked into the room. His head was even more thoroughly shaved than White's, but his scalp wasn't very clean. He must have developed some kind of skin condition from the filth he had endured on the island.

Like White, McCrae first expressed his respect to Zhang Su, and then the two got straight to the point and began to discuss the possibility of towing an aircraft carrier!
The two handsome soldiers spoke frankly, fully aware of their predicament. They were walking on thin ice, and the slightest misstep could lead to misunderstandings. They discussed things word by word, giving Liu Lingping some time to translate and prove that they were not plotting anything.

A few minutes later, the two reached an agreement, gave each other a high five, and came up with a possibility.

"They roughly calculated that they would need four to five tugboats, one as the main vessel and the others as auxiliary vessels, with a combined thrust of 400 tons to complete the towing task."

Liu Lingping found this passage somewhat difficult to translate because it involves several technical terms.

After listening, Zhang Su took a deep breath. Since becoming the leader, he had gotten into the habit of taking deep breaths instead of sighing, because it looked more positive, while sighing was negative...

"If I may ask, is there any way to directly dismantle the nuclear reactor from the aircraft carrier and bring it back to the camp?"

The towing task sounds very complicated. If all else fails, we can settle for second best and remove the most valuable energy source from the aircraft carrier and bring the carrier-based aircraft back. Anyway, no one knows how to fly the big metal lumps, so let's leave them in the strait as a sight to behold.

But when White and the other man heard Zhang Su's question, their faces contorted with a mixture of wanting to laugh and not daring to, and they covered their mouths and scratched their heads.

Why do they look like that? Is there a problem?

Zhang Su asked Liu Lingping.

“Mr. Zhang, um… McCrae said that a reactor includes a lot of supporting equipment and weighs several thousand tons in total.”

Liu Lingping sighed, feeling a little embarrassed for the leader, but then she realized that she didn't know anything about this either, so they were on the same level.

"Haha."

Zhang Su laughed at himself. This question had revealed his ignorance. Reactor, reactor, he naively thought it was just a small pile, but it turned out to involve an entire operating system!

It seems that even settling for second best isn't easy, so let's just go all in.

"Ask them, if there were a port with various cargo ships available, at least ten of them, could they tow the aircraft carrier back?"

Zhang Su quickly received an affirmative answer: if it was an ocean-going freighter, there would definitely be no problem with the thrust, but there was still a problem!
"Mr. Zhang, they said that if we want to tow an aircraft carrier, we must get the consent of the people on board. Otherwise, whether in the air or at sea, we can't do anything unless we deplete all the ammunition in the carrier's defensive weapons."

Zhang Su nodded. He thought the other party was going to talk about the driver's problem. It seemed that boarding the ship was an even bigger challenge!
No one knows what the situation is on that aircraft carrier right now. It's difficult to find out by probing from the outside. There's only one way to get a definite answer: board the aircraft carrier!

"If you had to choose, which method of approaching an aircraft carrier is safer: by air or by sea?"

When faced with this question, White and McCrae answered in unison, "They're the same..."

(End of this chapter)