2013

In the early morning of the next day, there was still a light rain, and the sky was bright, and the surroundings became noisy.

Liu Yan yawned, with an expression of displeasure sitting by the cart and eating fried noodles. Lai Jie went to organize the evacuation, and the civilians left with their families and food.

An old woman hugged her pillow and quilt and howled loudly. Lai Jie wanted to let her go, but she refused to leave. Lai Jie was completely devastated.

Meng Feng went up to comfort him, Lai Jie rumpled his messy hair and left frantically.

In the end, the old woman cried so heartbrokenly that she was picked up by Meng Feng, put on the cart, and let others take her away.

"Why is she crying?" Liu Yan said.

Lai Jie let out a sigh of relief: "Where can I get something good, give me something to eat. She said that her wife, son, wife, and grandson are all buried here, and she is the only one left, and she doesn't want to leave."

Liu Yan said, "Let her stay."

Lai Jie: "How can I let her stay? The whole village has left. She won't be able to eat for long with that little food. Zombies are everywhere. Once the Long Night Project starts, no one who stays here will survive."

The old woman leaned against Zhuo Ting, and most of the people in the car were elderly people who could not move. Meng Feng escorted the large army, comforted her in a low voice, took out his wallet, and showed her a photo of himself and his father when he was a child, saying that the children in the shelter .

"That's right." Meng Feng said: "There are a lot of children inside, take the children with you, let's talk to each other..."

Zhuo Ting couldn't help but asked, "Are you still responsible for talking with the old man?"

The old woman thought about it, and her mood calmed down a lot. Holding Meng Feng's photo, she shed tears and muttered. Finally, she held his hand and said something grateful.

Meng Feng said: "Alive, we can come back in the future. When the sickness is no longer here, everyone will go home together."

The old woman nodded with red eyes, leaning against Zhuo Ting's arms, Zhuo Ting stretched out her hand distressedly, and stroked the old man's gray hair.

Liu Yan knew that Meng Feng was brought up by his grandma when he was young, and he had a deep relationship with the old man. The tenderness of a tough guy is the most touching. He stared blankly at Meng Feng, and there was an indescribable feeling in his heart that gradually spread.

Meng Feng felt it with a tacit understanding, and when he raised his head, he smiled at Liu Yan. Liu Yan ate the rest of the fried noodles and clapped his hands.

A group of people passed through the mountainside shrouded in clouds and mist, and entered the depths of the valley.

During the break at noon that day, some people had already started to follow him, so Lai Jie had to slow down his walking speed. When he was crossing a deep valley, the ground trembled and the team began to panic.

Lai Jie returned his hand to signal silence, and Zhuo Yuhang led his men to the front of the team to protect them.

An indomitable giant came from the valley, and there was a loud bang when the footsteps landed, and the Oaks complex appeared again.

Like an ancient giant wandering in the depths of the forest in ancient times, every step is earth-shattering, as if there is no one else around, stepping on streams, trekking between mountains, heading southeast.

"What is that..." Bai Xiaodong saw this thing for the first time, his voice trembling.

"The Oaks Complex," Raige said.

Bai Xiaodong said: "What is... manipulating it?"

Everyone looked up, the giant passed not far in front of them, crossed the road, and some of the glued corpses were scraped out by the trees and fell to the ground.

"Earth." Liu Yan murmured: "Our planet is calling it to clean up all the viruses. If you peel it off, you will see the blue light inside, which is the consciousness of the mother planet."

Lai Jie turned his head and said, "The earth is recycling it?"

Liu Yan nodded and said: "The seventh district told me that the earth is protecting us and fighting against viruses from outside the sky."

The giant walked by and left.

Lai Jie ordered to set off again, walked on the edge of the stream with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and said with a smile: "I always thought that we humans were going to be killed by the earth. Isn't that what science fictions say?"

Liu Yan smiled and said, "We are a part of the earth, how could it kill itself?"

Meng Feng said: "Really, many people don't think that human beings are part of the earth."

Liu Yan said: "Then tell me, what is the earth?"

"Mountains, rivers, and the earth." Liu Yan said: "Including all the creatures on this land, it is the earth itself. Maybe human beings will occasionally cause it a little trouble. These are just its own illness."

Lai Jie buried his head in the soil under his feet and asked, "Has the virus been confirmed to come from an alien planet?"

Liu Yan shook his head and said, "It is said that it is another universe farther away than alien planets and higher in dimension than our universe. Qin Hai didn't explain it too clearly, this is just their speculation. They think the virus is conscious and belongs to a A kind of group consciousness... The name of virus consciousness in the seventh area is "group consciousness matrix". It is said that tens of millions of viruses are distributed on the earth, forming a huge brain, and the strings hidden in all virus gene fragments are a whole... just Like an uninvited guest, he confronts the consciousness of the Earth itself..."

Meng Feng was like a duck listening to the scriptures, but Liu Yan glanced at him and patted him on the head.

"My mother said that you can't hit someone with the head, and you will become stupid." Bai Xiaodong said.

Meng Feng: "I was fooled by him."

Liu Yan: "..."

At dusk, they passed another section of the winding mountain road away from the mountain, stopped and stopped the next day, and finally found another signal tower.

Lai Jie asked everyone to rest where they were, and climbed up the signal tower. Liu Yan tried it, but the signal was very noisy.

"Call the high seas base, call the high seas base, this is Liu Yan, the technician of the Hurricane team."

"Call the high seas base...don't tell me what kind of octopus and squid you have encountered again!" Liu Yan said suddenly.

"Yes, yes—" the man's voice said, "Is it the legendary Liu Yan? How is the situation with you? Where's Lai Jie?"

Liu Yan: "We were shot down halfway, and a group of 2,071 survivors were found during the mission. The current location has been marked on the map. We need supplies and apply to send a rescue team to bring them back to the high seas."

"Received by the headquarters, please clean up the surrounding environment and leave an open space. The rescue team will arrive within 48 hours. Are there any other requirements?"

Liu Yan took out the list and reported a lot of supplies to him, but the signal over there was getting weaker and weaker, Liu Yan said: "What's going on?"

The voice in the communicator: "It has been recorded in detail, the solar wind is dislocated, and the magnetic field is disordered..."

There was a rustling sound, the communication was cut off, Liu Yan tried to contact again several times, a signal was sent from there, and Liu Yan hung up after confirming it was safe.

This time the rescue team came very quickly. At dawn the next day, a large force of helicopters arrived and queued up the survivors in the wilderness at the foot of the mountain for quarantine.

A lieutenant colonel got off the helicopter and explained to Lai Jie: "The magnetic field is disturbed, and the strong signal in the middle of the high seas is disturbed. You must speed up the search and rescue process."

Lai Jie said, "Where is the car? Why is there no car?"

Several soldiers unloaded the large and small boxes of supplies from the helicopter, and the lieutenant colonel said: "The organization has no way to provide machinery and equipment. The supplies requested by your technicians were specially approved by Dr. Wei from the Central Workshop and handed over to his favorite students." , including new sonic terrain detectors and improved elf robots…”

Lai Jie screamed: "The problem is that we didn't give the car, and gave us such a large number of axle detonators and iron leaf springs for nothing, so we can use Lego blocks to make flying saucers!"

The lieutenant colonel said: "Be serious! Captain Lai Jie! Overcome difficulties by yourself! This is Major General Zheng Feihu's death order!"

When Lai Jie heard those three words, he shuddered for a moment, shut up consciously, and turned around in a circle, remembering to salute the lieutenant colonel, walking towards Meng Feng with the same hands and feet like a robot.

After the crowd passed the quarantine, Lai Jie had a miserable look on his face. There were a dozen large boxes piled up on the open space. Liu Yan rolled up his sleeves and opened the lids of the boxes one by one, and began to check the supplies he had applied for.

The helicopter propeller started with a roar, Zhao Qing said goodbye to them, and took the plane back to the high seas.

As the wind blew across the wilderness, Lai Jie closed the helicopter doors one by one. Zhuo Ting walked towards Meng Feng and said, "Meng Feng."

Meng Feng: "?"

Zhuo Ting handed over a small flower and said, "Thank you for saving us and giving it to you. Please come back alive."

Meng Feng nodded, glanced at Liu Yan in the distance out of the corner of his eye, took the flowers, and said, "I also wish you a safe journey."

Zhuo Ting turned around and boarded the plane, and the last helicopter took off.

Meng Feng walked towards Liu Yan, Liu Yan was sitting on a pile of boxes, Meng Feng took out the flowers from Zhuo Ting, dangling them hypnotically in front of Liu Yan.

Meng Feng: "Hey, see, someone likes me."

Liu Yan: "Oh."

Meng Feng: "You don't want to express any opinions?"

Liu Yan raised his head and glanced at Meng Feng, then shifted his gaze to the flower again, Meng Feng became terrified, and obediently handed it over.

Liu Yan took the flowers.

Meng Feng: "..."

Liu Yan: "Help me put this spring on... the strength is too weak."

Like an obedient bear, Meng Feng squatted in front of Liu Yan and helped him install a small metal frisbee.

Liu Yan pinned the flower in Meng Feng's breast pocket, and said: "Very good, someone likes it, she will give the hero a flower, and I will present the hero with an award." As he spoke, he held the back of his head and kissed him intently.

Lai Jie took off his gloves, let out a long breath, brought Zhuo Yuhang over, and said, "Everyone gather."

"Zhuo Yuhang asked to join us, do you have any opinions?" Lai Jie said.

Liu Yan said casually: "That's right, I said why didn't he get on the plane."

As soon as Lai Jie heard it, Liu Yan told him that the rescue team had already left, but Zhuo Yuhang was still here, of course it was Lai Jie's idea.

"If you disagree, you can send him back at the next signal tower." Raijie said, "Vote now."

Meng Feng said: "Why did you stay? Because of your sister?"

"There is a part of the reason." Zhuo Yuhang looked like a leader of a gang of beggars, with disheveled hair and a messy beard. He said, "Captain Lai Jie promised me to give me a chance to make amends and hide my sister's affairs. Report it, and finally settle it."

Lai Jie said: "An expedient policy, do you have any opinions? We need people, and the headquarters has only left us less than six months. Bai Xiaodong, what do you think?"

Bai Xiaodong said: "I... don't know, let's see them."

Liu Yan said indifferently: "I don't care."

Meng Feng was very straightforward: "Yes, as long as you don't hold back."

Zhuo Yuhang said coldly: "No, I will prove myself."

Lai Jie handed Zhuo Yuhang a piece of paper, opened the box, and said without raising his head, "Swear."

Zhuo Yuhang took a deep breath and swore an oath to the paper.

Lai Jie took out the vaccine and injected it into Zhuo Yuhang. The vaccine on Bai Xiaodong's body was brought from the United Front Work Department, and the box from the Nuhai team was sent to the rescue team. The one that Lai Jie entrusted Cha Longxi to keep for safekeeping was just a fake vaccine box.

The Hurricanes have one last team left.

"Okay, now you are the last member of the Hurricane team, welcome to join us." Lai Jie hugged Zhuo Yuhang who was sweating profusely and fell down, and put him aside for him to rest.

Everyone shared lunch, and after eating, Lai Jie couldn't take the can away, so he put up a sign on the ground and wrote a few words: "There is food here" in case there is no search and rescue, and the unlucky ghost who left the order Appearance can also fill the stomach.

When Zhuo Yuhang woke up, Lai Jiefang said: "Each person has a few boxes. We don't want canned food and biscuits. Take everything you can take with you."

Several people divided the supplies boxes, Meng Feng carried one on his shoulder and one under his arm, and the rest of them carried one each and walked onto the road.

Zhuo Yuhang was tall, with staggering steps, and looked at Liu Yan with some doubts.

"Don't look at him like that, okay?" Meng Feng said, "He doesn't need to carry boxes because I carried two."

Liu Yan: "You can put one down and see if the captain dares to let the technician carry things."

Meng Feng said impatiently: "It's not the right time for you to dismantle the stage."

Lai Jie gestured for Zhuo Yuhang to come over, and whispered: "You have to find a way to get close to him, otherwise your life will be very difficult."

Zhuo Yuhang: "He's just an unreasonable student...how can I..."

Liu Yan laughed, took the initiative to carry a lighter suitcase, put his hands in his trouser pockets, lagged a little behind, and said to Bai Xiaodong: "Can you throw a frisbee? I designed a weapon, you should like it."

Bai Xiaodong: "Yes, I liked playing when I was in college."

Liu Yan: "This is my newly invented weapon. There is a detonator inside. When it is thrown out, the centrifugal force will make the lead wire rest on the detonator. It will explode after three seconds and shoot out 120 thin iron pieces. The shotgun can clear the detonator. Dropped a lot of zombies. I made twenty of them for you, you have to use them carefully, they are very powerful and dangerous, throw them out and be careful not to accidentally injure your teammates, and at the same time remember to lie down."

Zhuo Yuhang: "..."

Reiji: "Understood?"

Zhuo Yuhang nodded with lingering fear.

After a long journey, they finally walked out of the mountains and entered the highway after three days. After another day of walking, they found a bus next to the gas station.

Liu Yan was exhausted, Lai Jie and Meng Feng threw the supplies into the car, Bai Xiaodong asked blankly, "Do you have the car keys?"

Meng Feng dragged down the body of the driver whose neck had been bitten off. Lai Jie checked the gas station and successfully refueled the bus. Liu Yan pulled out two wires and touched them casually, and the truck started.

Bai Xiaodong's eyes were full of admiration.

Meng Feng sat in the driver's seat, turned on the radio, and inside was his father's search and rescue statement, he turned it off casually, flipped through a CD and stuffed it in.

Everyone got on the bus, Lai Jie drove, and Lisa Ono's voice sounded, and the members of the Hurricane team were exhausted and found the back seats to lie down, and the bus drove onto the expressway and set off.

June 10, 2013.

National Highway 205, the road is not easy to walk, there are abandoned cars everywhere, and it is still a day away from Jinan Airport. Lai Jie opened up the additional mission, which was to search for all refugees and "a biologist who escaped from the United States" in the Daxing'anling area of Heilongjiang Province.

This biologist has unknown gender, unknown age, and unknown characteristics. He is looking for a needle in a haystack. I even doubt how Zheng Feihu got the news of this person.

It is said that the United States set up an emergency research center in Alaska, which was captured by zombies this year, and some people escaped. Almost all the insiders died, leaving the last technical team, carrying very precious research materials all the way through the Bering Strait and into the Greater Khingan Mountains.

During this period, they sent a radio distress signal to China. At that time, another search and rescue team received the signal, which involved some rules of international humanitarian relief organizations. The scientists did not clarify their identities, and they were only asking for help as civilians. At that time, the captain of the Orion team encountered extremely difficult troubles, weighed the pros and cons, and finally gave up on them temporarily, leaving the next batch of search and rescue teams in charge of the Inner Mongolia area to rescue people.

We are going to search the Mohe area. When the virus broke out in the three northeastern provinces, hundreds of thousands of civilians fled to the border. They spent a very long winter here. Mohe is almost the northernmost place in China, and it is also the refuge with the largest number of surviving people. We have to bring all the Chinese back and leave all the old Maozi there—this is what Lai Jie said.

In the end, he vetoed his point of view, and changed his words to say that it is better to follow the orders of the army. All living people will be taken back to the high seas, and international humanitarian rescue will be treated equally.

I don't know why Lai Jie let an inexplicable person join the Hurricane team, that guy is like a beggar gang elder, looking at me with hostile eyes, maybe because his sister likes Meng Feng. Reiji is just...

Lai Jie glanced sneakily at Liu Yan's diary.

"Hey, Liu Yan." Lai Jie finally couldn't help but said: "You finally started to smear me in the diary, I am very honored, but I want to explain..."

Liu Yan closed the diary, and said coldly: "I found that in this team, except for the newcomers, everyone has the entertainment mentality of peeping at my diary. Should I take some measures, such as a flash bomb or something? May you always remember this lesson..."

"Listen." Lai Jie was extremely sincere, and whispered: "I asked him many times what he used to do, and he only told me that he was his own prisoner... he didn't say anything else."

Liu Yan looked at Lai Jie and said in a low voice: "Do you think he can be trusted? He used to be with Zha Longxi."

Lai Jie said: "He didn't kill the members of the Nuhai team. On the contrary, I questioned other people in detail and gave many people a complete statement. Knowing that Zhuo Yuhang was to protect the members of the Nuhai team, he and Cha Longxi There was a big fight, and finally lost the leadership position and was locked up."

"Regarding this, I can guarantee that I will never be deceived. My best grades in k3 were negotiating and identifying lies. Please trust me, Liu Yan."

Liu Yan said helplessly: "But he..."

Lai Jie: "He said that his sister is in our hands, and he offered me to write a letter and give it to the people in the high seas. If he dares to do anything to us, he can kill his sister at any time to avenge us. Zhuo Ting is the only family member left in this world, it is impossible to make fun of her life. Besides, I am on guard, don't be afraid."

Liu Yan thought for a while, he witnessed Zhuo Yuhang's anxiety when he went to rescue his sister immediately after he was released from prison, so it should be credible. Since Lai Jie is on guard, it should be fine.

Liu Yan suddenly understood something, and asked in a low voice: "He said that he once killed his brother-in-law, is it true?"

Lai Jie nodded and said, "Yes, that's why he didn't dare to face his sister. Zhuo Ting has always hated him. It doesn't make sense for him to go to the high seas. He can only choose to stay."

Liu Yan nodded.

Lai Jie rubbed the tip of his nose: "Also, the vaccine... will expire on June 15."

Liu Yan: "..."

Lai Jie shrugged: "Don't tell anyone... I... I knew it earlier, it should be given to the youngest, or to you, but you have already been injected... So... Well, that's it."

Liu Yan painted the last line casually, and Lai Jie sat on the other side, watching the scenery passing by outside the window.

In less than a year, in just ten months, nature has gently regained all the territories occupied by humans. Thousands of creepers are so green that they cover almost all buildings, and birds bring seeds , they took root and thrived in all possible places.

Knee-deep weeds covered the runway of the airport, and many zombies escaped, and no one knew where they went. Only a small group of zombies were still scratching Tang Yixiao's posters and advertising boxes at the airport.

The Hurricane team found the base car left in the airport hall a month ago, Meng Feng cleaned up the zombies around, and Lai Jie and Bai Xiaodong went to search for all the aviation gasoline.

Liu Yan carried the supplies into the car, inspected all the equipment on the car one by one, and found that they were all in good condition, and his heart was full of joy.

Liu Yan was very satisfied, the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, and from the corner of his eyes, he suddenly caught a glimpse of Zhuo Yuhang looking at him from behind the car, so he suppressed his smile and looked at him sideways.

Zhuo Yuhang pretended to be nonchalant, crossed his arms, and smoked with his back against the wall.

"What did you do before?" Liu Yan asked.

"A stinky tofu seller." Zhuo Yuhang said, "I know you look down on me."

Liu Yan: "..."

Zhuo Yuhang: "What do you want to know?"

Liu Yan: "You are too suspicious, I just want to design a weapon for you that you are more comfortable with. Are you familiar with iron sticks? Or clips? Or how about a multi-functional frying spoon with a meteor hammer?"

Zhuo Yuhang said coldly: "No need."

Liu Yan threw him a small knife, and Zhuo Yuhang lifted his finger, holding it firmly like a swift cheetah.

"Go and shave your beard, cut your hair, take a shower, there is a natural lake behind the airport lounge." Liu Yan said.

"Captain asked me to protect you." Zhuo Yuhang said casually.

Liu Yan: "I think you need more protection."

Zhuo Yuhang shrugged, turned and left.

Liu Yan turned on all the detection machines, and the rest returned to the team and got on the bus. After another twenty minutes of waiting, a man came over.

Everyone: "..."

The man had short hair, clean cheeks, a tall and sexy nose, thick eyebrows and big eyes, hard lips, slightly thin cheeks, fair skin, only a field jacket on his upper body, and a fit chest.

He was well-proportioned and strong, and he bent down into the compartment, only to find that several people were looking at him.

Zhuo Yuhang's voice: "What?"

"It's nothing." Several people immediately pretended not to be surprised at all, and went to work separately.

June 11, 2013.

We retrieved the base car, the supplies were almost filling up the car, and we had to use up some of the bombs as soon as possible, five people squeezed into one car, Meng Feng and Zhuo Yuhang were both big men, Zhuo Yuhang was close to 1.9 meters. Bai Xiaodong and Lai Jie are not short either. Just sitting with so many people feels oppressive...

In the middle of writing, Liu Yan glanced at him suddenly, except for Zhuo Yuhang who was driving in the front seat, the other three were watching him write his diary.

Meng Feng was sitting on the left side of the bunk, looking sideways, Lai Jie was stretching his neck to peek at the bunk on the opposite side, and Bai Xiaodong poked his head out from the upper bunk above his head to look down.

Liu Yan showed a short stick with his backhand, closed his eyes, and pressed the switch.

The white light of the flash bomb flashed, and everyone screamed in unison.

dusk:

Lai Jie: "Listen... Liu Yan, forget about your diary, let's go first... Yes, what kind of smell is this, it smells so good!"

Zhuo Yuhang had no expression on his face, bowed and fried a plate of peanuts on the electric stove on the workbench, shepherd's purse fish soup was boiled on the alcohol stove behind him, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar were placed on the top shelf of the mechanical parts rack, and an iron box was filled with stewed vegetables. rice.

It's still Thai fragrant rice scavenged from the mall.

One serving of fried luncheon meat, shredded beef mixed with cucumbers, fried peanuts with salt, shepherd's purse and fish soup—four vegetables and one soup.

Everyone had dinner with tears streaming down their faces.

"Drink some wine, and I'll be responsible for driving at night." Zhuo Yuhang unscrewed a bottle of Erguotou. In summer, the days were long and the nights were short. The members of the Hurricane team stopped by the roadside, and each found a place to sit. There were dishes on the cardboard boxes, and the meal was served.

Lai Jie said: "Brother Zhuo and Bai Xiaodong are officially welcome to join the Hurricanes."

Guozhen poured Erguotou into a small paper cup for tasting, and several people clinked glasses, Zhuo Yuhang said: "I am the oldest here, how old is Brother Yu, and I am thirty-three this year. Brother Zhuo will do."

"Now that you've joined the Hurricane Team, everyone will come and go in the water, in the fire and in the fire, as long as there is a need, the elder brother will not frown, and if you don't do well, please tell me Just say it. If there is a mistake, I will definitely correct it and do it.”

"Welcome... welcome!" Bai Xiaodong said.

Bai Xiaodong hadn't tasted the cruel days of biscuit-digging cans, but Liu Yan, Meng Feng and Lai Jie all had tears in their eyes, and they had long since cast away their previous dissatisfaction with Zhuo Yuhang.

After drinking, Lai Jie let out a sigh of satisfaction: "Let's talk about yourself, brother Zhuo, what did you do before?"

Zhuo Yuhang took a piece of luncheon meat, put it in Liu Yan's bowl, and said casually:

"I'm ashamed to say that brother was not a good person in the past. He was a killer. Even Ting'er doesn't know about it. Don't tell her."

Everyone: "..."