Sixth District United Front Work Department, 14th floor, teaching and public facilities floor.
Zhang Min took Caesar's hand and went to the preparatory class - the entrance exam was held in August, and school started in September. Many children of military personnel are here, including civilians.
According to Zhang Min's identity, he should not enter the sixth district. However, Wu Shuangshuang brought them here, and Meng Jianguo also issued a note. Called away, but also have the opportunity to go home to visit his son every day.
At the same time, Zhang Min also filled out an application for a Chinese medicine clinic, and was willing to open a small clinic in the sixth district without any remuneration, as long as the state guaranteed food and lodging for him and Cassia Ming.
These two applications are still in the queue, but because of the first document, Jueming got a chance to go to school, of course it is just a chance.
Each floor of the underground refuge camp can accommodate millions of people, and the space is very spacious. The place where Zhang Min and Cassia live is the thirteenth floor, just like Liu Yan.
He brought Cassia to class every day, so he waited in a public cafeteria outside the school, and picked him up for lunch at noon.
After lunch, Zhang Min sat on a bench in the park, and Caesar lay on his lap to sleep for a while. He continued to attend classes in the afternoon, and went out to eat and go home in the evening.
One day Zhang Min came out to buy a cup of coffee, sat in the cafeteria, and flipped through the free newspapers—a thick stack, which could be taken back to make a panda nest.
Zhang Min promised Jueming that after the entrance exam, no matter if he failed, he could adopt a white chow without an owner, dye the eye sockets black, and raise it in the dormitory.
He casually flipped through the newspaper, and the headline read: The United Front Command has made initial progress, and more than 100 million people have been rescued across the country.
Flipping through it casually, the sub-page is political and ideological education, and I can vaguely see the dissatisfaction with the scientific research center in the seventh district.
International News Page: About 90% of the world has fallen.
Africa, Latin America countries migrate towards Antarctica
Residents in Africa left the Cape of Good Hope and evacuated towards Antarctica. A cruise ship full of viruses broke out on the way, and lost communication when it arrived at the Ross Ice Shelf. Half a month later, it entered the Queens Islands with the ocean current.
The zombie virus has polluted the continent of Antarctica. Fortunately, the temperature is cold, and it is spreading extremely slowly towards East Antarctica, Vinson Heights.
Three days after the United States threatened to make a breakthrough in vaccine research and development, a mutant virus infection broke out in a laboratory in Alaska.
In the Alaska laboratory, all scientific researchers died...
India may have inhumane virus experiments, which has been strongly criticized by the European Union
Kim Jong-nam landed at a North Pacific rescue center carrying a large number of nuclear warheads, sparking disputes with Japan
Today's Oaks virus, or the remnants of Unit 731 during the war of aggression against China
General Zweig, the executioner of mankind, a supporter of Nazi thought...
Zhang Min turned a page, and after the subpage was a column the size of a tofu block. It is all narrated by people who escaped in the catastrophe, telling about the unbearable days. At the end, it reminds all the survivors of the refuge to cherish today and encourages people's confidence in the future.
The entertainment section is about the escape stories of a group of down-and-out stars, with the headline:
Tang Yixiao returned safely, tens of thousands of fans burst into tears
Zhang Min: "..."
Life in foreign countries is in dire straits, but life in our country is very good-the spirit of the news network, there is nothing to look at, it is over.
There was a woman on the opposite side who had been watching Zhang Min suspiciously. Zhang Min turned the newspaper from the back to the front again and stopped on one page.
It was a small forum on a remote forum.
According to the abstract of the Seventh District Academic Journal, the root cause of the virus outbreak may be a self-cleaning of the earth's environment.
(A military scientific research expert’s commentary is attached under the column, and the wording is fierce, refuting the theories of the Seventh District one by one)
Seeing that the column writer and editor was Xie Fenghua, Zhang Min couldn't help smiling, that little girl found a good job.
There was a sound from the TV wall on one side of the cafeteria.
Hostess: "Major General Meng, you may have to face a lot of troublesome questions today, so you have to be mentally prepared."
A man's voice: "Every time you say that, what time is it not?"
The hostess smiled and said: "The natural environment team of the seventh district and the ancient culture survey pointed out that the source of the virus brought by this ocean current may have existed in the Cambrian ice age 950 million years ago. What do you think of this issue?" .”
Male Voice: "We've had numerous reports from District 7."
Zhang Min looked up and almost had the illusion that it was Meng Feng who was sitting in the interview room.
Their faces were a bit similar, and their auras were so similar that they couldn't be more similar. Zhang Min immediately knew who it was.
Meng Jianguo gestured and said in a steady and calm voice, "These reports are stacked on my desk, reaching the ceiling."
The audience laughed.
"The reasons for each hypothesis are completely different. Astronomers believe that it is the experimental waste thrown by aliens on the earth; archaeologists believe that it is the root cause of the disappearance of the Maya; biologists believe that it is the cause of natural evolution, theology The family... don't ask me, I don't know how they got into the seventh district, they think it was Pandora's box that leaked."
This passage caused laughter in the cafeteria. Meng Jianguo was over forty years old, but he was a handsome military officer, friendly and heroic, and a very charismatic general.
At this time, he is the most appropriate person to be the face of the military.
Meng Jianguo added: "There are even more outrageous things. I remember a geneticist pointed out that this virus will eventually promote the evolution of the entire population for humans, making humans a brand new species and opening a new era for the earth. . The implication is that it is clearly intended to inject us with the virus."
The audience laughed again, and the hostess laughed and said, "Then what does Major General Meng think? Which report is most appropriate to the current situation?"
"Compared to what the military thinks." Meng Jianguo said: "I hope that the Seventh District will unify their internal conflicts before submitting their proposals. I don't want every time the door of Hongqiao opens, it will come out like this." Big stack of... science fiction-like material."
The hostess smiled and said, "What plan will Major General Meng adopt in the near future? I heard that the search and rescue troops have encountered many troubles that they have never faced before?"
Meng Jianguo thought for a while, and replied: "Everything is progressing, the situation is under the control of the military, please wait and see."
"Zhang Min?" The woman seated opposite trembled.
Zhang Min has always been attracted by the show, but at the moment when someone called out his name, he turned his head eagerly.
"Sister-in-law?" Zhang Min couldn't believe it.
"You're still alive... Zhang Min?!" The woman stood up and said, "Why are you here! Who sent you here?!"
That woman was Wang Bo's wife, Xiao Li. Zhang Min stood up, and the woman cried and hugged him. Zhang Min patted her on the shoulder as a gesture of peace, found a table and sat down, and went to buy her a cup of coffee. .
With red eyes, Xiao Li choked up and said, "Where are your elder brother and Shanshan?"
Zhang Min: "Let me... let's talk about you first, you alone? Sister-in-law, I thought you were dead, why are you here?"
Xiao Li said: "That day when I quarreled with Lao Wang and went back to my mother's house, I said that there was an outbreak of rabies outside. I didn't know the actual situation, and I couldn't reach Lao Wang by phone, so I followed my friend and boarded the evacuation car."
Zhang Min comforted: "That's good, Brother Wang..."
"Is he dead?" Xiao Li asked tremblingly with tears in her eyes, "Where's Shanshan?"
Zhang Min told the story of meeting Wang Bo for the first time, skipped the process of getting sick, and finally sighed.
"I fled with a few friends." Zhang Min said truthfully, "I was finally taken here by the military in April."
Xiao Li looked at the coffee sadly and said nothing.
Zhang Min said, "Your friend is a soldier?"
Xiao Li said: "He is the brigade commander of the East China Military Region."
Zhang Min understood immediately, he sighed and nodded without saying anything.
"The previous story has changed." Zhang Min pondered for a while, and then said: "Live well, sister-in-law."
"Are you waiting for Jueming to finish class?" Xiao Li asked again, wiping away her tears.
Zhang Min smiled and nodded, "What about you?"
Xiao Li said: "My friend's daughter is preparing for the exam. Today, I will help him... pick him up and drop him off."
Before the words finished, someone behind Xiao Li came over and said, "Xiao Li."
Xiao Li hurriedly got up and asked, "Why are you here?"
The person who came was a middle-aged military officer who was nearly forty years old, and he looked very elegant. Xiao Li hurriedly introduced, but Zhang Min didn't hear clearly for a while, and got up to shake hands with him.
"Hello, Colonel Yang."
Xiao Li introduced: "This is my good friend, Wang Bo's younger brother, Zhang Min."
The two sides exchanged a few pleasantries, and Officer Yang asked, "Is your son studying there?"
Zhang Min laughed and said, "It's called Zhang Jueming, he's an adopted son, uh... let me see."
He glanced at his watch, school was almost over, Officer Yang got up, Xiao Li wiped away her tears, and whispered, "Why are you here?"
Officer Yang Jun said: "I have nothing to do, I came back early, what's the matter? Are you uncomfortable?"
Xiao Li nodded, choked up and said, "Old Wang and Shanshan..."
Officer Yang sighed and patted her head. The two of them quieted down again. Zhang Min waited at the school gate. After a while, Officer Yang’s daughter came out. people.
The girl was about the same age as Cassia Ming, and was listening to music with headphones on. She glanced sideways at Zhang Min, then looked suspiciously at Xiao Li, and said nothing.
Zhang Min took the initiative to say hello, but stood when he didn't get a response.
Officer Yang began to train his daughter, Zhang Min was busy smoothing things over, and waited for a long time, Xiao Li planned to go out with Zhang Min for a walk in the afternoon, but now it seemed that he had to give up.
Seeing that Officer Yang's daughter was particularly impatient, Zhang Min said wittily, "You guys go to eat first, I'll wait for Cassia here."
Officer Yang smiled and said, "No, no, let's go together, it's agreed. Your son's name is Jueming?"
Xiao Li looked uneasy. The girl vaguely heard the name, took off the earphones, looked at Zhang Min suspiciously, and asked, "Are you Cassia's father?!"
Zhang Min smiled politely: "Yes, he is in the same class as you? Does he get along well with his classmates?"
The girl said, "He should see a doctor, I mean it."
Zhang Min: "..."
Officer Yang immediately reprimanded: "Yang Yushan! How can you talk like that!"
Zhang Min hurriedly said: "It's okay, kid, don't scold her. Tell uncle, what's wrong with Cassia?"
Yang Yushan said: "He talks... very strangely, not like a normal person. The teacher asked him to sit in the last row, but he was like a ghost, not talking. He didn't stand up when asked questions. Everyone dictated, and he sat down. Standing still, I almost got into a fight with someone last time."
"Didn't there be a fight?" Zhang Min said, "Jae Ming never fights with others."
Officer Yang comforted: "It's normal for children to fight, it's nothing. It's fine to fight and fight."
Zhang Min felt a little sad and sighed.
Officer Yang's cell phone rang. It was a communicator specially customized by the military. He answered the call with a solemn expression and said, "Yes, yes."
Officer Yang answered the phone and said, "Well, I have an urgent task to carry out. Yu Shan, you and Auntie will go to dinner later, and Uncle Zhang Min, Dad will be back tonight."
"Hey! Old man!" Yang Yushan said displeased.
Officer Yang ignored his daughter and ran to drive as if he had something very important to do.
Two seconds later, the announcement for the entire district of the sixth district sounded.
"Please return all personnel to the team to concentrate, temporarily deploy troops, and the salvage team and armor team will be ready before 12 o'clock."
"It's okay." Zhang Min was keenly aware of something.
Xiao Li said: "It's okay, they often do this... Yushan? Yushan!"
Yang Yushan put her hands in her trouser pockets and walked along the road. Xiao Li chased after her and said, "Don't go! Your father is going back to report. You have to listen to Auntie, Yushan!"
Zhang Min waited at the school gate for a while, and finally Jue Ming came out, followed by a male teacher.
"Are you the parent of classmate Zhang Jueming?" the male teacher asked, took out a paper and raised it.
Zhang Min nodded, knowing that Cassia Ming was in trouble again.
Zhang Min took a test paper with good grades, but he didn't quite believe it.
However, when the teacher tactfully suspected that Juming was cheating, Zhang Min immediately replied: "Didn't you arrange him to sit in the last row? There are no classmates on the left and right, how can he cheat?"
The male teacher had nothing to say, he asked Jueming to stay and asked him to solve the last few questions of the test paper again, but Juming didn't bother him at all.
The male teacher thought: If you can’t do it, it’s cheating, you can’t leave, call your parents.
Zhang Min was not an officer, so of course he didn't have a phone, and Jue Ming didn't say anything, just stood in the office, looking distracted.
The male teacher trained Cassia for nearly half an hour, but Cassia did not speak or move, as if he was facing a wooden stake, and the teacher wanted to eat, so in the end he had no choice but to send him out.
"Even the colonel's daughter is in class with me, and she will be criticized for the same mistakes, Mr. Zhang." The male teacher said.
"Teacher." Zhang Min interrupted him rudely: "Although I was only a lieutenant when I served in the army, my children's education has nothing to do with my military rank. Cheating, don't you know it at all?"
The male teacher had no choice but to shut up resentfully. It is true that the podium is a bit higher. After being a teacher for so many years, how could it be possible that he didn't know what was going on in the examination room? In addition to the cameras installed in the classroom, Cassia really did not cheat with a cheat sheet.
But no one believes it at all, and the responsibility is not entirely on him.
Ten minutes later, Zhang Min took the paper.
"Baby." Zhang Min said, "Why didn't you make it clear?"
Caesar Ming was walking on the road with a bag on his shoulders, Zhang Min turned around and walked backwards, walking in front of him, Caesar Ming said: "He doesn't believe me, so I won't show him."
"If you have something to say, you have to say it." Zhang Min said, "Baby, Dad has said it many times..."
Jue Ming: "Oh, where's the promised panda?"
Zhang Min said: "I'll talk about pandas later, you can't keep silent, you know? If you change schools, you can't be like before..."
While walking back, Zhang Min stumbled on the railing, fell backwards shockingly, knocked over a trash can, and fell to the ground in a panic amidst a loud noise.
Cassia: "..."
Zhang Min lay in a pile of bottles and jars, and made a gesture: "Be proactive, become enthusiastic, and communicate with teachers and classmates."
Cassia: "Hahahaha—"
Zhang Min: "Just like now."
Zhang Min had no choice but to get up, set up the trash can, picked up the trash with Caesar Ming, stuffed it back, held Cassia Ming's hand and said, "Forget it, let's go eat, and visit the animal center this afternoon."
The father and son had lunch, Zhang Min stood at the intersection and waited for the bus, while Jue Ming brought a pack of fried shrimp, and stood behind a huge glass wall while eating, looking at the sea water outside.
The angelfish swam past, kissed her mouth, and suddenly turned around and left.
"The car is coming, give me a shrimp." Zhang Min said, "Get in the car, baby."
There was almost no room left in the car. Zhang Min sat down first, then let Jue Ming sit on his lap, went to the nearest elevator on the 14th floor, took the elevator to the 12th floor to apply for an animal adoption, and then went to the ground to take a boat to the third district to pick up animals. dog.
It will probably take an afternoon to finish it all.
Halfway through the journey, the car stopped.
All the lights on the fourteenth floor were turned off, and screams and exclamations erupted in the car.
Green lights are on throughout the sixth arrondissement.
"Alert, the energy supply is temporarily withdrawn to support the spire in the seventh central area. The process may take one to two hours. All elevators are out of service. Please wait patiently."
There was dim green light everywhere, and the car was noisy. When Zhang Min got out of the car, there was a glimmer of light cast by the sea outside the huge glass wall that pierced the sky.
Jue Ming: "The panda is gone again."
Zhang Min: "Yes, just wait for the call. The tower in the middle may do some research."
Cassia Ming's eyes reflected a huge, gray tentacles across the entire glass wall, curled up in the sea water.
After finishing the fried shrimp, Jue Ming turned the paper bag upside down and shook it, saying, "Octopus."
Zhang Min took out a cigarette and lowered his head to light it, without raising his head, he said, "Oh, octopus, I only eat it at noon."
"It's huge." Jueming said, "Look."
The suction cups of the four huge octopus tentacles, which are 60 meters long, have begun to rot, and the cotton-like soft tissues are floating in the sea water. There are also many hideously deformed human heads embedded in the tentacles.
When Zhang Min looked up, the giant octopus that had rotted all over was gone.
"How big is it?" Zhang Min said casually without seeing anything.
Cassia: "It's huge."
Zhang Min smiled and said, "How big is it?"
Jueming said: "It is very big, just like the boat outside."
Zhang Min said with a smile: "That's an aircraft carrier, not such a big octopus."
Caesar said: "Yes, look, there is another one, two. It should be aliens, and the octopus is here."
Zhang Min: "..."
A dozen or so giant octopuses of hundreds of meters separated in the sea water, looking at the people inside the glass wall with their jet-black eyes, and then one left and swam to the high sea surface, while the other raised its tentacles and slapped it on the glass wall , with a loud bang.
A ten-meter-long shattered crack appeared on the glass wall.
There was an explosion in the hall, and everyone screamed crazily.