"Does this mean that you're injured?" Li Feng pointed to the reading on the instrument.
"Yes," Director Wu's fingers tapped uncontrollably on the table, "but the transmission is now very unstable, and the information fed back is incomplete..."
Li Feng took a thick book next to him and placed it on Director Wu's hand.
Director Wu turned and looked at him.
"Is this injury serious?" Li Feng still looked at the readings and asked the technician sitting in front of the instrument, "Is it enough to determine what the injury is?"
"Not too serious," the technician replied. "With incomplete data, it is most likely a gunshot wound. There are three of them, but no vital organs were injured."
"It's the kind that can repair itself, right?" Li Feng continued to ask.
"Yes." The technician nodded.
The transmission was interrupted after two minutes and the instrument could no longer receive Xing Bi's data.
"Dead?" Li Feng frowned.
"It's broken," the technician said. "It's out of range."
"Now we know approximately what the maximum distance is." After saying this, Li Feng turned around and left the laboratory and entered Director Wu's office.
Director Wu followed in and closed the door: "I don't know whether I should worry about Xing Bi or Qiu Shi now."
"There's no point in worrying," Li Feng sat on the sofa, "For so many years, Yuncheng has been guarded like a prison. It's nothing more than a primitive world full of dangers and no order. If they go out, they will definitely encounter all kinds of things."
"Xing Bi is a rare first-level submersible guard," Director Wu pointed to his head, "I mean his thinking. I have come into contact with many first-level guards over the years. He is so rare. It would be a pity if he were to be lost."
"What about Lin Sheng?" Li Feng asked, "I see you are quite interested in him."
"It's hard to say. They are very capable," said Director Wu. "The second generation is stronger than the first generation as a whole, but Lin Sheng's thinking is more stereotyped than Xing Bi's."
"Say something I can understand." Li Feng said.
"He is not as human as Xing Bi," said Director Wu.
For someone like Director Wu who is obsessed with biochemical bodies themselves, Xing Bi, who is closer to humans, obviously interests him more.
"Why do you insist on asking Xing Bi to protect Qiu Shi?" Director Wu looked at him. "Even if Qiu Shi is immune, he is definitely not the only one. Besides, the inhibitor has already been found. He is not that..."
"He is a benchmark," said Li Feng.
"As a benchmark for what?" Director Wu was a little confused.
"Human beings." Li Feng said.
Director Wu opened his mouth and took a long time to confirm again: "Human?"
"It's difficult for us to judge whether Xing Bi is controllable. According to what you said, he is not a very stereotyped Level 1," Li Feng said, "Whether he is controllable and whether he will abide by his original oath depends on how he views humans. Xing Bi is more emotionally inclined towards humans."
"So Qiu Shi?" Director Wu said, "a corpse collector who grew up outside the city..."
"Yeah." Li Feng nodded.
Director Wu frowned: "You mean to say..."
"You, me, Zhang Qifeng, including Mr. Long, the general," Li Feng said, "from Xing Bi's perspective, we may not meet the standard of 'human beings'."
"What are you talking about!" Director Wu was a little dissatisfied. "What kind of standard is this? Is Qiu Shi the only one who can achieve it?"
"There are definitely more than that, but we definitely can't achieve that," Li Feng smiled, "But among those who can achieve that, if we want to find someone who has immunity, combat capability, and a weak spot that can be threatened by us, there is no one else except Qiu Shi for now."
“… I can never win an argument with you.” Director Wu said.
"We need a symbiotic subject like Lin Sheng, and we also need someone like Xing Bi," Li Feng stood up. "I don't know how to ensure that Lin Sheng is controllable, but as long as there are people like Qiu Shi, Xing Bi will choose to be controllable."
The gunshots did not stop. After one round, there was a second round, and a third round. The surrounding mud and debris were splashed onto people's faces. Qiu Shi felt that he could hardly open his eyes.
Except for the first round that was fired at them, now these people were not aiming at them, but tracing their edges.
They were trapped on the spot, and they still couldn't see anyone on the map in front of them. The people who ambushed them had a range beyond the map.
Now we don’t know who these people are or what they want to do.
However, Qiu Shi knew that a first-level submersible guard was not faster than a bullet, and now he also knew that a first-level submersible guard was not bulletproof.
Xing Bi is not bulletproof, and he has just blocked at least two bullets for him.
Xing Bi pulled back a portion of the rope that had been tied around Qiu Shi's legs and used it as a lasso to pull down the two biological bodies closest to them and put them behind him.
"Where are you injured?" Qiu Shi asked.
Xing Bi didn't say anything. He reached out and touched his waist, frowning slightly. When Qiu Shi was about to speak, he lightly ejected a bullet.
Amid the dense gunfire, the sound of the bullet hitting a small stone was small but clear.
"There are two more behind," Xing Bi looked at him, "They are not very deep and can repair themselves, but the bullets must be removed."
"Fuck." Qiu Shi gritted his teeth and cursed. Without time to hesitate, he reached out and touched Xing Bi's back.
No need to look for it, the fingertips soon touched the bullet hole.
"Can you block out the pain?" Qiu Shi asked.
"Yeah." Xing Bi responded.
Then why didn't you block it
Qiu Shi could tell from Xing Bi's slightly furrowed brows that he could feel the pain, but he didn't have time to dwell on this issue.
On the map, you can see more than a dozen small bright spots lined up in a row coming from the other side of the mountain. The speed is very fast, definitely not the speed of running down the mountain.
They didn't have any tools at the moment, so Qiu Shi tried his best to quickly poke his finger into the wound on Xing Bi's back and pulled out the bullet, one at a time.
He looked back and found that these people were actually flying from the air, like a dozen giant bats.
"This is so bizarre." He gritted his teeth and quickly pulled the second bullet out of the wound.
"Mark this location," Xing Bi said, "These weapons and equipment are not available to ordinary vagrants. They may have found the former weapons warehouse."
In this situation, Xing Bi actually thought of marking Yuncheng as a possible weapons depot. Qiu Shi felt a bit indescribable.
The gunfire stopped and a dozen men with guns surrounded them.
"Hold on tight, put down your gun, and raise your hands above your head." A man behind him spoke.
"We were just passing by and wanted to cross the river." Qiu Shi threw away the gun and raised his hands together with Xing Bi.
"Cross the river?" The man slowly moved to their right. "What for?"
"Go to Donglin. I heard it's safer there." Qiu Shi turned his head to look at him. His thick black eyebrows could be seen in the light reflected from the water.
The man with thick eyebrows was silent for two seconds and then suddenly laughed.
The whole group of people laughed.
Qiu Shi suddenly felt a sharp pain in his arm. He retracted his hand and saw a knife wound on his arm that was bleeding. "Your ancestors!"
"This is a human!" a boy shouted with a childish voice.
"I got the right one!" the man with thick eyebrows roared.
"A human being, with a biochemical being," a woman spoke up, "and they have to go to Donglin."
"What's wrong with going to Donglin?" Qiu Shi asked.
"Land of betrayal!" the boy spat.
Qiu Shi glanced at Xing Bi, and Xing Bi was also looking at him.
A place of betrayal
This word, which sounded a bit confusing, seemed to be vaguely hinting to them why Donglin and Yuncheng had lost contact.
"Betrayed what?" Qiu Shi asked, "Who betrayed whom?"
"You are a traitor!" The boy suddenly rushed in front of Qiu Shi and swung the thing in his hand towards his face.
Qiu Shi leaned back to avoid the attack and saw clearly that it was a long knife bent into a hook shape.
With a hook and a pull, the child had a clear goal: to chop off his head.
Qiu Shi could see hatred in his eyes. This was different from the children he occasionally saw in the outer city. There was more despair and numbness in the eyes of the refugees.
He didn't know which of these two looks was more frightening.
The hook knife was not retracted after it missed the target.
After passing by Qiu Shi's eyes, it was grabbed by Xing Bi's hand next to him.
Before the boy could react, Xing Bi grabbed the knife and pulled it towards his side. The boy, holding the handle tightly, staggered two steps and was brought in front of him.
Xing Bi stood up at the same time and pushed the knife forward.
Qiu Shi felt a little suffocated at this moment, and his mind went blank as if struck by lightning.
Don't kill this child.
But this kid just tried to kill me.
There are not many children left in this world.
But he was full of hatred and wanted to kill people.
The boy was not dead, the blade stopped at the boy's neck.
Xing Bi had already moved behind him, grabbing his hair with one hand and holding a knife with the other, with the curved blade firmly against his throat.
Qiu Shi didn't wait, he jumped up, picked up the gun on the ground, stood beside Xing Bi, and pointed the gun at the person behind Xing Bi.
"Let him go!" a woman shouted, her voice trembling, holding a gun.
"Get out of the way." Xing Bi said.
"Don't let us!" the boy shouted, his voice cracking. "Kill them!"
The people in the circle did not move.
Xing Bi tilted his head and pulled his hand back slightly, and blood began to seep from the boy's neck.
"It doesn't hurt!" the boy immediately shouted, "Don't let me!"
Thick eyebrows moved, and several people followed him to make a gap.
Xing Bi and Qiu Shi withdrew from their encirclement through the gap.
At this moment, the boy suddenly stretched his neck and rushed towards the blade.
扌.
Qiu Shi only had time to curse half a word in his heart.
Xing Bi reacted quickly. The knife in his hand moved forward along with the child and left his neck, but this action was followed by a small silver ball thrown forward as he raised his hand.
A strong white light burst out from the small ball in the air, and the entire field of vision was bright white in an instant, accompanied by a sharp tinnitus.
Qiu Shi stood there with a gun in his hand. The simultaneous loss of vision and hearing made him feel a little dizzy.
When I counted to fifteen silently in my mind, the tinnitus subsided and some blurry shadows appeared in front of my eyes.
The boy knelt less than two meters in front of him, covering his ears.
Further ahead were a dozen people who had already fallen to the ground, and Xing Bi who was bending over to pick up their weapons.
All dead
Qiu Shi walked over quickly.
"Knock them out," Xing Bi whispered, "Take their clothes, we need them."
"Yeah." Qiu Shi immediately squatted down, picked a man who looked similar to himself, and began to take off the bat suit he was wearing outside.
After the boy recovered, he saw people lying on the ground, and rushed towards the gun closest to him, roaring and crying.
Xing Bi kicked the gun away.
The boy turned around and hugged his legs, biting his thigh.
Xing Bi frowned and kicked him away again.
The boy rolled twice on the ground, picked up his curved hook knife, roared and rushed towards Xing Bi again, but was kicked away by Xing Bi in the chest.
"The bullets have been unloaded," Xing Bi said, "leave the weapons to them."
Qiu Shi quickly took off two sets of clothes, unloaded all the bullets from the weapons on the ground, and took off the ammunition from those people and threw them into the river together.
He knew that Xing Bi had no intention of killing these people and that the weapons would be left behind, but in order to prevent the kid from using the gun to fire another round at them when they left, the bullets had to be disposed of.
The boy almost frantically pounced on Xing Bi again and again, but was kicked and pushed away by Xing Bi again and again.
"Let's go." Qiu Shi said after he finished dealing with it.
The boy rushed in front of Xing Bi for the umpteenth time. This time, Xing Bi did not block him casually. Instead, he kicked his calf. The boy fell to the ground, hugging his leg with a painful expression on his face.
"Don't die," Xing Bi said, "It's meaningless."
"I will definitely kill you!" The boy stared at him.
Xing Bi didn't say anything, turned around and walked forward with Qiu Shi.
"I'll impale you on those logs!" the boy yelled after them.
Qiu Shi stopped.
He looked back at the boy, turned around and walked to the wooden pillar with the bio-body stuck in it by the river, and kicked it hard. One of the pillars made a cracking sound. He kicked it again and the pillar broke.
"Traitor!" the boy shouted.
"Qiu Shi," Xing Bi called out to Qiu Shi, who was about to continue kicking down the pillar, "Let's go."
On the map in front of me, those small bright spots slowly left the detectable range, and no one caught up with them.
Qiu Shi walked silently along the river bank with Xing Bi.
The night wind blew across the water, bringing a chill.
Qiu Shi felt a little calmer, and turned to look at Xing Bi: "How is your injury? Is it affecting you?"
"It's OK," Xing Bi said, "It will be fine in two days."
Qiu Shi looked at his hands. There were traces of dried black and blood on his fingertips. "Is that blood?"
"Well, sort of," Xing Bi said, "but not like humans, very rarely."
"Does it hurt?" Qiu Shi asked.
"It hurts." Xing Bi said.
It was at this time that Qiu Shi asked, "Why?"
"No reason," Xing Bi said, "I just want to feel it."
"Feel the pain?" Qiu Shi said.
"Yeah." Xing Bi nodded.
"Is it necessary to evolve myself into such a perverted state?" Qiu Shi said.
Xing Bi laughed.
Qiu Shi looked at him and sighed.
"Let's block it now," Qiu Shi said, "I'm on my way. My back and waist are injured. It hurts to walk."
Xing Bi looked at him.
"Why are you looking at me?" Qiu Shi said, "Do you want me to get a box to load it for you, and then drag you up the mountain so you can feel it again."
"You hold a grudge like that." Xing Bi said.
"I remember them all," said Qiu Shi.
After walking a while, Xing Bi stopped.
"The river is narrowest here," he said.
"We're going to fly over here, right?" Qiu Shi looked at the clothes in his hand, then looked around. "We can't even see a single plank of the ship. Are we really going to fly over there?"
"There should be biochemical organisms entering Donglin," Xing Bi looked down at the river and pointed at a small section of metal pillar sticking out of the mud. "The dock has been demolished."
"To prevent people from the other side from coming over?" Qiu Shi went over to take a look. If you look closely, you can see traces of metal pressure and rubbing on the stones on the river beach. There should indeed have been something like a dock.
It seemed that it was impossible to find a boat to cross the river. Qiu Shi looked up and then turned to look towards the mountain.
"Let's go up the mountain." Xing Bi walked towards the mountain.
"Can this dress fly over?" Qiu Shi said, looking back at the river as he walked. "Just now, those people flew over the mountain and landed in front of us."
"In theory, yes," Xing Bi said, "as long as it's high enough."
"This mountain is only slightly higher than the tunnel entrance in the outer city," Qiu Shi said, "and this side is lower than the other side just now."
"Your visual ability is quite lacking among humans," said Xing Bi.
Qiu Shi laughed.
"If you don't fly, you can only swim." Xing Bi said.
"Don't provoke me." Qiu Shi said.
"Or we can chop some wood and make a raft," said Xing Bi.
Qiu Shi sighed: "Fly, fly."
This mountain range is indeed not high, especially the section where the river is narrow, but it is still much higher than the entrance of the outer city tunnel. It took them a long time to climb to the top of the mountain.
We were lucky that there were not many trees on the top of the mountain and it was very windy today.
They found a very steep cliff, and if they jumped down from there they would be able to fly.
After reducing the contents of the backpack as much as possible and securing it, they both put on the bat suit.
Qiu Shi is not afraid of heights, but people who can't swim still feel a little scared when they see the water in the distance.
"If I fall into the water, can you get me out?" Qiu Shi asked.
"Yes." Xing Bi said.
"Okay," Qiu Shi gritted his teeth, "Who jumps first?"
"You first." Xing Bi put on the headphones, "Headphones."
Qiu Shi glanced at him and put on his headphones as well: "Are you scared?"
"Right now," Xing Bi said, "the wind is just right."
Qiu Shi gritted his teeth, rushed forward, stepped on the edge of the cliff and leaped into the air.
Then it began to fall downwards.
"Fuck!" he yelled and quickly spread his arms and legs.
The wind immediately filled his clothes and he felt an upward force.
"Lift it up." Xing Bi's voice came from the headphones amid the strong wind.
Qiu Shi controlled himself and kept his body parallel to the ground. His eyes and ears were filled with the messy wind. He could hardly tell up from down. When he felt the treetops below were about to hit him in the face, he finally started to move forward.
"Xing Bi!" he shouted.
"Here." Xing Bi's voice sounded, and then a dark shadow passed over him, "Follow me."
"This is fucking..." Qiu Shi said uncontrollably.
Is it possible to keep up with this just if you want to
Soon they were out of the mountains, over the rocky beach, and then the muddy beach by the river...
When he saw rippling waves below, Qiu Shi couldn't help but close his eyes.
The feeling of flying in the air is very comfortable. The wind blows past my ears, and I can even hear different tones in the whistling sound.
There is no limit above and no limit below.
The whole world was briefly quiet.
"Qiu Shi." Xing Bi's voice came from the headset.
"Hmm?" Qiu Shi responded.
"It's impossible." Xing Bi said.
"What?" Qiu Shi looked at the water below in shock.
"Find a good angle." Xing Bi said.
"What fucking angle are you looking for?" Qiu Shi asked.
"The angle of entry into the water." Xing Bi said.
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The swimming class has started. Can Qiu Shi learn it? ﹁_﹁.
To be continued tomorrow⊙▽⊙.