Chapter 212: The End of the Road
When the soldiers heard that Captain Qi had a solution, they were overjoyed. After all, they had to finish testing the usability of the boat before modifying the others being built.
If the car engine worked, they could get more and make every boat an engine-driven one.
It wouldn’t be completely reliant on the engine as their oars will still be used, but it will make moving forward easier and faster. Getting swept away by the small waves appearing in the water won’t be easy.
Also, they were soldiers, not stupid people, they understood that their discharge might cause some people unrest and action against them might be taken while in the water.
They didn’t want to be in completely passive positions.
Qi Long called a small group leader from the other battalions and one of his man from his squad and had them go to retrieve two gallons of gasoline from the vehicle they had hidden before.
He had not wanted to expose it as it might be used against them as stealing military property and cause a stain in their military record before discharge. Even though such a record might not tter much in the future, it was still better to leave with a clean record.
Even though there was a risk of exposure at this time, as long as their discharge was processed before anyone found out, it would have no effect on them.
He wasn’t worried so much about himself, but his brothers were a different case.
The two soldiers entrusted with retrieving the gasoline left as usual as if going in search of materials to construct boats and came back an hour later with the two gallons of gasoline.
When asked, they claimed to have salvaged it from the trunk of a car a little further from their normal search area.