Doomsday America.

Chapter 282 The Saved Astronauts

"Ah, Adriana, it's you! Old Bert and ZT have both told me your story, a very interesting one, you're so cool!" Hearing Adriana's words, Charlie took the radiation protection suit and shouted at Adriana.

He was so excited that his feelings were indescribable. Not to mention that the first rescuer he saw after landing was a beautiful woman, even if the first rescuer he saw was a monkey, he would be willing to give that monkey a big kiss on the butt!

And Adriana.

Looking at the extremely excited Charlie, she paused for a moment, then shook her head unhappily.

"Really? They've all been talking about me? It's definitely not anything nice. I'll remember those bastards!"

At this point, Adriana gestured to Charlie to close the door, and said...

"As for now, you'd better get your partner dressed and try to minimize contact with us until then."

"We just flew over an area full of nuclear radiation. Although I haven't read many books so I don't know much, the boss and the other smart people said that we must have radioactive dust on us!" "Hmm, I know, beautiful lady, but ordinary radioactive dust is not a problem. This amount of radiation is probably not even as good as a T-shirt~" Charlie looked up at Adriana and shouted with a smile, then hurriedly threw the radiation protection suit into the return capsule.

As the radiation protection suit landed, Charlie laughed and said to the men inside.

"Guys, I'm counting on you to dress poor Richard, but be careful of his wounds, of course!"

"As for me, hahaha, I can't wait to see the sunlight on Earth!"

"My God, we've been floating in the sky for so long, I don't even think we'll ever have a chance to get back to the ground."

"But we survived! Damn God, look closely, we survived! Hahahaha!!!"

Amidst laughter, Charlie eagerly pushed the door open completely and then struggled to climb out of the return capsule.

Unfortunately, despite his best efforts, ...

The spacesuit was too heavy, and the life support system on his back was too much of a strain, so even with all his might, he could only manage to get half his body out. Seeing this, Adriana frowned, then softly asked Charlie:

"Hey, you awesome astronauts, are you sure that guy who's not wearing a radiation suit won't run into too much trouble?"

"Trouble? What trouble could be more troublesome than the air on Earth teeming with zombie fungus? And the moment I opened the door, no matter how careful we were, Richard had already touched everything he could reach!"

"Believe me, we were prepared for death long before we returned, and everyone was!"

"Let's leave everything else to that damn God. Since he took away 99.99% of humanity but left us behind, if he ever misses one of us lucky ones, then we'll give him this damn life, all of it, hahahaha!!!"

Amidst laughter, Charlie excitedly extended his left hand to Adriana.

After a brief silence, Adriana glanced admiringly at Charlie's handsome face, then grasped his wrists, which were heavily wrapped in his spacesuit, with both hands. With considerable effort, Adriana pulled Charlie out of the reentry capsule. Charlie leaned against her, excitedly looking up at the sky.

On the helicopter, Lao Feng leaned out of the pilot's seat and waved to Charlie.

"Welcome back to Earth!!!"

Old Feng mustered all his strength to shout at Charlie, finally managing to get his voice through the noise of the helicopter rotors and reach Charlie's ears. Charlie looked away from the sun that had brought tears to his eyes, his vision blurred with tears, and looked at Old Feng, saying in a slightly choked voice.

"Thank you... thank you so much... ha... I'm such a coward, crying inside a spacesuit isn't a good thing, I even have trouble wiping my eyes..." "God, what did I just do? I actually insulted you by accident! But as great as you are, you must understand my rudeness, right?" "I never thought I'd actually come back like this, I..."

"Hey, that's enough, buddy!"

Just as Charlie finished speaking, Adriana slapped his helmet, making him stumble and fall. Adriana then continued speaking.

"You looked like a strong hero just a moment ago, but in the blink of an eye you turned into a crying, whiny woman!"

"Don't make me look down on you, astronaut. You need to be tougher, like a fucking man!"

"And you're handsome, aren't you? If we have the chance, we can sit down and have a good chat. I'm looking forward to your story, and I hope I'm worthy of your expectations, you idiot." "As for now, can you get on the plane by yourself? If not... uh, then I'm afraid I'll have to send a distress signal to my boss, because I can't get you on the plane by myself!" As she said this, Adriana turned her head and frowned as she looked at the rope ladder below the helicopter.

The rope ladder wasn't actually that difficult to climb, but it might be a different story once she put on her spacesuit. She wasn't sure if she could pull Charlie and the others up.

And Charlie…

After being reminded by Adriana, he quickly nodded, then shook his head to wipe the tears from his face.

Then, Charlie stretched his arms and legs, tentatively took two steps forward, and grabbed the rope ladder in front of him.

I'll give it a try...

He muttered something to himself, lacking confidence, and then tried to climb the rope ladder on his own.

but……

Well, after a brief effort, he immediately shook his head, announced his surrender, and said.

"No, I can't climb up. You'll probably have to lower the helicopter a lot further, preferably down to the return capsule, before we'll have even a tiny chance of climbing up!" Charlie said helplessly, patting his spacesuit.

"Logically, I should be able to, since I'm wearing an intravehicular activity suit, not a spacewalk suit."

"Our spacewalking suits generally weigh over 100 kilograms. Those are things that can only be worn and used in space." "But although the intravehicular activity suit is much lighter, we attach the life support system to the spacesuit. This system weighs more than 50 kilograms. Besides, I haven't eaten much these past two days and I've drunk a lot of alcohol. I'm a little dizzy and have some muscle weakness."

"Anyway, could you give me a handy lift? Don't worry about bumping my butt, I don't mind~"

After making a joke, Charlie raised his right hand again and mustered all his strength to climb up the rope ladder.

Behind him, Adriana paused for a moment, then quickly used her hands and even her shoulders to support Charlie's buttocks, lifting the guy as high as possible. As she lifted him, Adriana yelled:

"Maybe I'm just interested in your ass, but heh heh, your ass is way worse than the boss's. My boss has a really sexy ass; whether he's riding a horse or walking in jeans, just looking at his ass makes me all wet!"

"Wow, really? But that's normal, after all, it's Gavin's butt. I thought it was sexy when I saw it on TV too~" Charlie replied with a laugh, then climbed up two more steps, but after only two steps, he had to stop and rest for a moment. Seeing this, Adriana didn't urge him, but just tried her best to support Charlie.

Just as Adriana and Charlie were struggling to climb upwards, a scream suddenly came from inside the cabin.

"Aaaaaaaahhhhh!!!"

Along with the screams came Naoya Kobayashi's Japanese-accented English.

"Morphine, give him one vial of morphine!"

"The morphine is here!"

"Aaaaaah!"

"Bear with it, buddy. Your injuries are all superficial. You have to bear it. I need to put you in your radiation protection suit!"

"No... Ahhh, kill me, please... kill me!"

"Don't be foolish, you're the most important experimental subject, you have to live!"

"No! Oh my god, this dress is so tight! My back feels like it's disappeared! I... ahhh!"

"Hold on, it's in! Fasten the safety buckle!"

"No... Ahhhhhh..."

"Mazefak, Richard has fainted!"

"Don't stop! While he's still under the special anesthetic effect, quickly and completely insert him!"

"This is too cruel, I'm practically a devil, hahaha~"

"Stop laughing, you jerk... Phew... I'm exhausted!"

"Well done, put the helmet on him. Good heavens, wait, how are we going to get him out of here?"

"this……

"Oh, this..."

"If we pull him forcefully, his wound will probably reopen completely!"

"I don't know, maybe we could tie his feet with ropes, hang him upside down and pull him out, leaving someone in the return capsule to control his shoulders and avoid hitting his wound!" "Let's give it a try!"

"Charlie runs really fast, and he's such a lazy bum!"

"No time for words, the radiation protection suits are on, let's try them on, quick, get the ropes!"

"The rope is here!"

On the return capsule, listening to the chaotic noises inside, Adriana shook her head with a wry smile.

It's really not good that my plane and Lao Feng's plane spotted the astronauts. After all, I'm only one person and can't really help the astronauts much. If it were Sean and Edward's plane, they would each have two passengers, and stronger men at that, who could be much more helpful. As for me...

Just as Adriana was thinking this, another Black Hawk helicopter glided through the clouds on the horizon, heading straight for them. Charlie, who was resting on the rope ladder, happened to see the approaching helicopter and asked Adriana a question.

"Wait, Adriana, there's a plane approaching over there. Is that one of yours?"

As Charlie questioned Adriana, Gavin's voice came through Adriana's walkie-talkie.

Gavin said, sounding slightly excited.

"This is Gavin, von, Adriana. I think I've spotted the return capsule. Are you and the astronauts over there?"

"That's right, boss, it's us! You've arrived just in time; the astronauts need help!"

Adriana immediately turned on the walkie-talkie and yelled at Gavin.

About two minutes later, Sean hovered his helicopter next to Old Feng's helicopter.

Gavin and Eugene quickly got off the helicopter and stood on the return capsule.

Even after two minutes, Charlie was still hanging on the rope ladder, his height having increased by only eight steps compared to two minutes ago. Seeing this, Gavin, while steadying himself on the return capsule, looked up at Charlie and said...

"Hey buddy, who are you? Are you Charlie?"

"That's right, Gavin, it's me, your fan!"

Charlie, panting, waved to Gavin.

After waving in response, Gavin turned his attention to the return capsule and asked softly.

"Why are you the only one who came out? Where are the others? Are they still inside the return capsule?"

As he spoke, Gavin approached the door of the return capsule without waiting for Charlie's reply and peered inside.

At this moment, the astronauts were struggling to bind Richard tightly.

Seeing this, Gavin patted the entrance to the return capsule and said.

"Guys, it's Gavin. May I come in?"

"Gavin!"

"Mr. Gavin!"

"The future boss!"

"Gavin!"

In an instant, the astronauts responded one after another, and Gavin simply climbed up the ladder and into the return capsule.

He was rather tall, so he ducked slightly, making way for Richard, and looked at the unconscious Richard, saying, "He's... passed out?"

"Yes, Gavin, our medical equipment and Richard's injuries make the radiation protection suits quite difficult to fit him into. Richard suffered a lot trying to get him into the suits..." Kobayashi Shinya replied regretfully to Gavin.

Upon hearing this, Gavin turned to look at Kobayashi, his gaze lingering for a moment on Kobayashi's gentle face.

Gavin then nodded slightly.

"Thank you for your hard work. You must be Kobayashi-kun?"

"Hi, it is indeed me, Lord Gavin!"

Kobayashi quickly dragged his tired spacesuit and bowed solemnly to Gavin at a ninety-degree angle.

Upon seeing this, the astronauts, who had originally wanted to get closer to Gavin, froze.

They were so taken aback by Kobayashi's serious attitude that they didn't know how to face Gavin. Were they supposed to swear allegiance to Gavin, the former star and now head of the Texas Survival Camp, like knights? And Gavin...

After seeing Xiaolin perform a deep bow, he remained silent for a moment, then whispered to Xiaolin.

"Look up at me! What we need to do now is evacuate as quickly as possible. We don't have time to go through all that formalities!"

Gavin greatly appreciated Kobayashi's attitude. With such a more obedient astronaut, Gavin no longer needed to worry about these elites from space being unruly. Hearing Gavin's words, Kobayashi solemnly straightened up and responded.

"Hi!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Xiaolin was the first to walk towards the escalator.

but……

Seeing Kobayashi's unsteady steps and weak movements, Gavin gently shook his head, then grabbed Kobayashi's arm.

"Don't struggle!"

After leaving a message, he immediately picked up Xiaolin with one hand and carried him out of the return capsule.

Xiaolin felt a weight on his arm, his vision changed, and then he found himself outside.

He stared in utter shock at Gavin, who seemed to handle the task with effortless ease, and couldn't help but shout out.

"The Piggy General! The Piggy General!"

He was speaking Japanese, which Gavin couldn't understand, so Gavin patted him on the shoulder and said...

"Kobayashi-kun, wait here and help the others bring Richard out!"

"Liao Kai!"

Kobayashi nodded solemnly, then stood guard outside the return capsule as if he were going to war.

Gavin then crawled into the return capsule and quickly pulled everyone else out one by one.

Until Richard was dragged and placed on the return capsule.

This continued until the last astronaut also left the return capsule.

The small return capsule was suddenly packed with people...

Seeing this, Gavin glanced at Charlie, who was struggling to climb, and said with a wry smile.

"Damn it, thank goodness I brought the plane, otherwise, with just you guys, it probably wouldn't have been an hour before you got on!" With that, Gavin stopped being polite, picked up the astronaut, strode up the escalator, and tossed Big Ivan onto his plane first. Then, he busied himself, effortlessly getting all his men onto the plane like a Hercules.

Such power truly astounded a group of ignorant astronauts.

That is, until Richard was also gently put on the plane by him.

Gavin sat on the plane, looking at the five astronauts in his cabin.

That's right, Charlie was chatting with Adriana on Old Feng's plane.

Gavin let out a long sigh and then spoke into the walkie-talkie.

"The astronauts have safely boarded the aircraft. Everyone, assemble in New Orleans, then locate a spot to refuel the helicopter!"

The Black Hawk helicopter's normal range is only a little over 600 kilometers.

The distance from Livingston Lake to New Orleans alone is over 500 kilometers.

Of course, in order to make it easier to use helicopters in the apocalypse, Sean and his team chose Black Hawk helicopters equipped with auxiliary fuel tanks. Their normal range is about 850 kilometers, and their maximum range without passengers exceeds 950 kilometers.

Even with additional fuel tanks, this thing couldn't possibly pull the astronauts from New Orleans back to Dallas in one trip. After all, New Orleans is much farther from Dallas, nearly 670 kilometers away.

Therefore, within the next hour, Gavin must lead five helicopters to a safe area in the wilderness to conduct a temporary inspection and refuel the helicopters! Fuel is not a concern, as the helicopters already have their own fuel; the only issue now is location!

So, as the helicopter sped toward New Orleans, Gavin began to recall the map in his mind.

Even before their operation began, they had prepared more than one resupply location for landing, choosing various national parks where the terrain was sparsely populated and zombie activity was guaranteed to be low. The current problem was which of these temporary resupply points to choose.

Gavin's mind raced for a moment.

Just moments later, Gavin had a plan.

Meanwhile, the helicopter had already crossed the vast Lake Pontchartrain and arrived over New Orleans.

Only at this moment did the astronauts finally see the scene of the apocalypse in real time!

At this moment, the astronauts were all lying blankly on the edge of the helicopter, staring in astonishment through the porthole at the city of New Orleans below, which had clearly been ravaged by explosions and fires more than once! They couldn't even make out the few black radiation zombies moving on the ground with their naked eyes.

But the devastated, post-apocalyptic landscape of the city alone was enough to shock them.

They had imagined what the end of the world would be like more than once before.

Besides, they had hoped more than once that the apocalypse was just a joke Gavin was playing on them.

but now……

They will never think that way again.

Because they have already seen the end of the world!