"Let them all move away," Li Feng trotted downstairs from the office and got into the car that was waiting at the door. "Don't let him see the guards, especially don't point guns at him."
"Don't care at all?" The captain on the other side hesitated. "Their car is full of infected people's blood, and they just came from..."
"Back off!" Li Feng raised his voice, "Don't force me to find Director Zhang and scold you in person!"
"Got it, Director Li," the person on the other end said, "I'll ask them to withdraw right away."
"I will handle this matter myself," Li Feng said, "If anyone finds out, I will make trouble for you."
"I understand, Director Li." The other side replied.
"What a bunch of idiots. If a fight breaks out, this city will be lost for nothing," Li Feng cursed angrily, and then contacted the patrol team, "Send a team to drive to the vicinity of nest number three to check the situation. Any abnormalities will be considered. Do not touch anything and do not get out of the car. I'll send the coordinates right away."
The driver rushed all the way to the back of the city. From time to time, he could see construction vehicles passing by outside the window, as well as fully armed patrol soldiers. First, he had to clear out all the crazy refugees in the outer city, and then recruit more people to the inner city. Repairs here and there would require more people, plus the original vacancies...
Li Feng was a little overwhelmed.
However, the most worrying thing at the moment is that Qiu Shi returned to Yuncheng, but Xing Bi lost contact just fifteen minutes away from Yuncheng by car.
Qiu Shi was in the fertilizer pool. Li Feng would not be surprised if Deng Yeye brought him there. Before this girl was connected with Donglin Town, she and her radical group had always been committed to spying on the various "dark secrets" of Yuncheng.
Li Feng was not sure for what purpose he brought Qiu Shi to the fertilizer pool. It was most likely to let Qiu Shi see the true face of Yuncheng, stop working for these black-hearted officials, and go find the real Peach Blossom Land.
The existence of the fertilizer pool is not a particularly deep secret. Everyone who has access to the source of materials knows it. Productivity and means of production are limited, so every bit saved counts. What's more, this thing was built by the Security Bureau, so the direct culprit is Director Li.
Li Feng's car took a shortcut through the gap that was damaged by the explosion and drove to the fertilizer pool.
A black vehicle that looked very similar to the Yuncheng military transport vehicle was parked in the open space next to the fertilizer pool. The vehicle was covered in the black blood of the infected, and there were even limbs and a severed head hanging on the roof.
Qiu Shi and Hu Xiaoling sat in the car and did not get out.
"Stop the car at the side of the mountain and wait for me." Li Feng got out of the car and told the driver.
"OK."
"Li Feng is here." Hu Xiaoling turned around and saw that it was Li Feng who was walking over. He said to Qiu Shi who was staring blankly ahead, "He came alone, Brother Shi."
"Well, don't get out of the car." Qiu Shi opened the car door.
"I took the immune medicine." Hu Xiaoling said, "I think the blood on the car body is okay."
"Stay in the car." Qiu Shi said, then got out and closed the door.
He didn't want Hu Xiaoling to hear any conversation between him and Li Feng, nor did he want Hu Xiaoling to run over to the fertilizer pool to take a look when he had nothing to do.
Li Feng covered his nose and walked to the front of the car. When he saw the bandage on his chest, he frowned: "Your injury is more serious than I thought. Why don't you two get in my car and go find Director Wu..."
"No," Qiu Shi replied simply, "There are still equipment in the bunker. If you are a real person, send some useful medicine."
Li Feng sighed: "That's no problem, but your injury needs to be treated."
"Is there any news about Xing Bi?" Qiu Shi asked, "Has his information been fed back to the laboratory? The current distance is within range anyway, right?"
"No," Li Feng answered honestly, "Director Wu speculated that he has completed the symbiotic process and now has the ability of a main body, so the body signal may be blocked and we cannot receive it."
"Is this shielding active or passive?" Qiu Shi asked.
Sometimes Li Feng couldn't help but admire Qiu Shi's sensitivity.
"Both are possible," Li Feng said, "but we can't tell whether it's active or passive."
"I understand." Qiu Shi's voice was a little hoarse.
"I didn't know much about Xing Bi before," Li Feng said, "but the information I have access to shows that he was the one with the most outstanding enhanced abilities among the second-generation submersible guards, and he is also very clear about his abilities."
Qiu Shi looked at him.
"He won't die." Li Feng said.
"Are you afraid that I will lose control of my emotions?" Qiu Shi asked.
"After all, you've beaten me more than once," Li Feng said, "It's always a good idea to take precautions in advance."
"I saw a pool of minced human flesh and it didn't get out of control," said Qiu Shi.
Li Feng covered his nose and looked over there: "Did you go over there and take a look?"
"Have you never been to see it?" Qiu Shi asked.
"No." Li Feng replied.
"Where are they from? Those... people." Qiu Shi looked at him.
"People die every day, don't they?" Li Feng said. "People die in the outer city and in the inner city."
"What have you accomplished?" Qiu Shi asked.
Li Feng sighed softly: "Fertilizer, feed..."
Qiu Shi was stunned, looking at him, his face showing a shocking expression that was hard to describe.
"Do you want to vomit?" Li Feng said.
"I can't spit it out." Qiu Shi closed his eyes. "I've heard about the hole where we dumped the bodies. It's very deep. I always thought... there was some device underneath that could destroy the bodies."
"It's very deep," Li Feng said. "It used to be an exploration hole. The bodies were sorted down there, and the infected and ordinary humans were distinguished, and then they were teleported to..."
Qiu Shi frowned.
"Anything else you want to ask?" Li Feng didn't say anything else. "Deng Yeye brought you here because I hope you will keep asking."
Qiu Shi was silent for a while, then turned and walked towards the car: "I don't want to know more."
"Take my car," Li Feng said. "I'll take you back to the bunker. I'll have someone take this car out of the city after it's been cleaned."
Qiu Shi looked back at him and said, "Send Xiaoling back. He still needs disinfection and his wound needs to be treated. I'll follow you."
Li Feng tilted his head.
"I want to know the news about Xing Bi first." said Qiu Shi.
"Okay." Li Feng agreed.
The patrol team sent out by Li Feng started from the wall of nest No. 1. Qiu Shi stood outside the gap, facing the entire forest that had turned yellow.
It was snowing in Yuncheng, but many leaves in the jungle had not fallen. The snowflakes accumulated on the green leaves, making them particularly conspicuous.
Qiu Shi was seriously injured, so Director Wu sent two medical assistants, who were staying in the huge empty command room at the back and did not dare to come over.
Even though the fungus is no longer present in Lair No. 1, it is still a forbidden area. Especially after being attacked by the symbiote, the area outside the inner city has become a terrifying dark place where demons may emerge at any time.
There were footsteps behind him, and Li Feng walked over and stood behind him.
"You'd better go in," Qiu Shi said. "If something comes, I can't protect you."
"Maybe I can protect you." Li Feng smiled.
Qiu Shi turned his head and looked at Li Feng without saying anything.
"Go check the wound," Li Feng said, "I'll wait here."
"How is Hu Xiaoling?" Qiu Shi asked.
"Both gunshot wounds are penetrating wounds, so it's not a big problem," Li Feng said. "We'll check the blood to see if it's infected. We'll get it done as soon as possible. Brigade Zhao is waiting at the tunnel entrance."
"Yeah." Qiu Shi responded, "I still have to get the car back."
"The patrol team will bring it back." said Li Feng.
"Do you think this team can come back?" Qiu Shi said.
"There is news now," Li Feng said, "At least you are not in danger yet... How did you get that wound? It was a knife wound at such a close distance."
Qiu Shi hesitated for a moment: "My brother, they said he is my biological brother."
Li Feng turned his head, a little surprised: "Your biological brother? You have family?"
"That's what I said," Qiu Shi said, "and I'm not the only one who is immune."
Li Feng was silent for a while, and said in a low voice: "Don't tell anyone about this for now."
"Why," Qiu Shi said, "If I'm not the only one, won't I be safe?"
"No, as long as you are a minority, as long as you are useful, you will not be safe," Li Feng said, "You will become bait, a weight, or a medicine. Because you are no longer unique, you can be experimented on at will. After all, you will still be there after you die."
Qiu Shi frowned: "Can I trust someone who uses corpses as feed?"
"You've been eating canned meat and canned vegetables for so many years," Li Feng said, "all using these fertilizers and feeds. Are you going to die? Without them, you will die. Everyone will die."
Qiu Shi didn't say anything. What Li Feng asked seemed to be a cruel and unsolvable question.
And now he still needs to keep this secret.
"Have you found the car?" Li Feng suddenly asked from the side. It should be someone from the patrol team who contacted him.
Qiu Shi immediately looked deep into the jungle and opened the map. Although he could not see anything, he still stared at it, expecting the small bright spot belonging to Xing Bi to appear.
If it were in the past, he would definitely return to the jungle without hesitation to find Xing Bi. He would not even consider whether he was dead or alive, just like he was going to find Hu Xiaoling. But now he suppressed his anxiety.
The reason he can still stand here alive is because of Xing Bi, and only if he continues to live and stay by Li Feng's side can he truly help Xing Bi in the first place.
You have matured a lot, Qiu Shi.
"How many?" Li Feng asked, "Don't touch them. Can you tell which direction they left from? Divide into two groups and follow them."
Qiu Shi turned his head abruptly and mouthed "Don't follow". The patrol team were just ordinary humans, and anyone who ran into them would be dead.
But Li Feng just glanced at him and did not take back the order: "The range is one kilometer east of the No. 3 nest. If you don't find it, return. If you find any traces, don't fight, return immediately. You just need to determine Xing Bi's situation as much as possible."
After the call ended, Qiu Shi lowered his voice and said, "This is a suicide mission. Yuncheng still has biochemical bodies. If we send a biochemical body over, at least it can come back."
"Lin Sheng?" Li Feng said, "Xing Bi hasn't come back for such a long time, which means he is not easy to deal with. He has run into problems. I can't send another level one submersible guard over, not to mention he doesn't have a partner yet. At this time, their lives are much more important than those ordinary humans in the patrol team."
Deciding life or death is so simple; it only requires a simple judgment of importance.
So small that it makes people despair.
Qiu Shi didn't say anything. Although he felt very powerless, he had nothing to refute. He had been out and seen the outside world, the situation in Donglin Town, and the capabilities of the Symbiote Legion.
When the cold wind blew past his collar, he suddenly felt his hands and feet go cold.
"I'll go take care of the wound." said Qiu Shi.
If Xing Bi's whereabouts were really discovered, and if something unexpected really happened, he might be the only hope to control Xing Bi, and he needed to keep himself in the best condition.
The silence in the headphones made Li Feng a little anxious. He had been suppressing the news that Xing Bi had not returned and had not reported it to his superiors. Even Qiu Shi's medical treatment was done secretly by having Director Wu send someone to do it.
He needed to confirm Xing Bi's condition as soon as possible, whether he was dead or alive, controllable or uncontrollable, which would affect the way the working group responded to the crisis in Yuncheng. In Li Feng's view, once they were given the signal that "the biochemical body or symbiont is unstable", Yuncheng would be doomed.
Faced with biochemical entities that possess the same weapons and intelligence, and whose functions are several times greater than those of humans, humans have little chance of survival.
"Report..." The captain's voice came from the headset, accompanied by noise, "Xing Bi was found... Xing Bi was found!"
"What's going on?" Li Feng asked immediately.
"The symbiote has been killed, and the main body..." The captain's voice was tense, "But Xing Bi intends to attack us! We are evacuating... We are..."
There was a loud noise coming from the other side, it sounded like a car overturned, there was a crash, the sound of metal squeezing when the car body was deformed, and screams.
Li Feng's heart sank suddenly: "Captain?"
Qiu Shi ran out, having changed his clothes and rearranged his equipment. He stood beside him and asked, "What's wrong?"
Li Feng connected Qiu Shi’s headphones and motioned for him to listen.
As Qiu Shi put on his headphones, he heard gunshots, chaotic screams and gunshots, and finally the captain's heavy breathing: "I'm the only one left..."
"Has he caught up with us?" Li Feng asked, "Are you injured?"
"They probably didn't catch up with me," the captain said with fear in his voice, "I can't see... My legs are not injured, I can run..."
"Return to Gap No. 1 immediately," Li Feng said, "I'm right here."
"Xing Bi is out of control, Director Li," the captain shouted in fear as he ran, "We need reinforcements!"
Every word that came out of the headphones was like a sledgehammer, hitting Qiu Shi's head again and again, making him feel dazed.
How could it get out of control? Why would killing a subject get out of control
"Director Li, we need reinforcements..." the captain's voice kept repeating.
On the map in front of Qiu Shi, he could see a small bright spot moving towards them. It was the captain, but apart from him, no one else could be seen on the map.
"He's back," Qiu Shi immediately ran forward, "I'll go get him back."
"I'll call for reinforcements right away," said Li Feng.
When Qiu Shi heard this, he paused, turned around and wanted to say something, but found that Li Feng had followed him from behind.
In the two seconds of his pause, Li Feng even passed him and rushed to the front.
"Li Feng, Director Li." Qiu Shi wanted to fight for it. "If reinforcements come and Xing Bi cannot be controlled, there will be greater trouble and greater losses."
Li Feng didn't say anything. Qiu Shi could only run forward in the direction where the captain was coming. He wanted to seize the time to find out about Xing Bi's situation.
The captain staggered out from the depths of the jungle covered in blood.
Qiu Shi rushed over and held him up: "What happened to Xing Bi? Why did he lose control?"
"He..." The captain panted and looked behind him with a confused look in his eyes, "Director Li."
Just as Qiu Shi was about to turn around, he heard a muffled gunshot behind him.
A bullet hit the captain between his eyebrows.
The captain suddenly raised his head, and his whole body lost support, with all the weight falling on Qiu Shi's arms.
Qiu Shi was caught off guard and failed to hold on to the captain, who slipped and fell to the ground, motionless, with blood flowing from his brow and his eyes still wide open.
"Director Li?" Qiu Shi turned around and looked at Li Feng in shock.
"Wipe the blood off your face..." Li Feng had just run in a hurry and now he was panting a little with a frown on his face. "Go find Xing Bi, restrain him and bring him back."
Qiu Shi was speechless for a moment.
"The patrol team encountered the symbiote and all were killed," Li Feng looked at him, "Xing Bi killed the symbiote, but he was also damaged and needs to be sent to the laboratory for examination. Do you understand?"
“… I understand.” Qiu Shi’s voice was hoarse when he spoke.
"Some things," Li Feng said, "once you make a choice, you can no longer hesitate. All the choices afterwards are nothing more than whether to deny the initial choice."
Qiu Shi didn't say anything, turned around and ran in the direction the captain came out.
Xing Bi's highlight has not yet shown on the map, but Qiu Shi has a hunch that Xing Bi has not left and is nearby.
He clicked on his earphones and ran towards where they had encountered the symbiote before.
He asked a medical assistant to treat the wound on his chest. Now he had no pain or discomfort at all, except for a little breathlessness. He felt that he could run ten kilometers without stopping.
After running for a while, he saw Hu Xiaoling's "property". The car was no longer at the place where Xing Bi had parked the car. It seemed that someone wanted to drive the car to Yuncheng.
Qiu Shi checked the car to see if he could find anything...
Under the driver's seat, he saw a familiar object, the small silver stick that he had given to Xing Bi, which had run out of battery after only a short while of listening, and the earphones with a wire were still plugged into it.
Qiu Shi's hands were shaking badly. He picked up the small stick, checked it, and found no damage on the surface. He put it in his pocket.
"Xing Bi!" Qiu Shi shouted into the jungle, "Come out!"
no respond.
Qiu Shi started the car, turned it around and drove forward.
"Qiu Shi," Li Feng's voice came from the headset, "I sent you the coordinates of where the team met Xing Bi."
"Yes," Qiu Shi saw a flash on the map, and a coordinate point was highlighted, "Got it."
"Don't hesitate when controlling him," Li Feng said, "Controlling him is the only way to save him."
"Got it." After saying that, Qiu Shi stepped on the accelerator to the bottom and drove towards that coordinate at full speed. He could hardly feel the potholes on the ground at this moment.
After driving for a while, they had entered the detectable range of the target coordinates. Xing Bi was still not visible on the map, but the patrol team that had been killed before and their overturned car were seen.
Qiu Shi stopped the car and went over to check.
The corpse looked tragically dead.
There were no gunshot wounds, all the fatal injuries were huge penetrations in the chest, which reminded Qiu Shi of the biochemical body that was pierced by Xing Bi's punch.
There were a few rustling sounds in the earphones, like some noise.
"Li Feng?" he asked.
"Have you found it?" Li Feng asked, with obvious interference noise in his voice.
"We found the car and... the bodies of the team members," Qiu Shi said, "There was interference..."
He could no longer hear what Li Feng said on the other end. After a burst of noise, the connection with Li Feng was cut off.
Qiu Shi looked around and had a feeling that this was not an ordinary interference.
"Xing Bi?" he called out.
"Qiu Shi." Xing Bi's voice came from the headphones.
"Where are you?" Qiu Shi stood up straight and stared at the map in front of him.
On the map, Xing Bi's small bright spot suddenly appeared less than thirty meters away from him.
Left front.
"I'm coming!" Qiu Shi immediately ran over there, "Are you injured?"
"No." Xing Bi said.
The distance was less than thirty meters, and Qiu Shi soon arrived there. He saw Xing Bi sitting under a tree.
Although Qiu Shi deliberately avoided the coldness in Xing Bi's tone when he heard his voice, when he met Xing Bi face to face, his cold and oppressive aura could not avoid enveloping Qiu Shi.
Although Xing Bi looked like he was sitting casually, with one leg stretched out comfortably and the other bent, the arm he rested on his knee was still shocking, covered in blood that had not yet dried.
There were several corpses beside Xing Bi. Judging from their attire, they were the symbiotes that had attacked before. One of them had an entire black face, and was probably the main body that Xing Bi wanted to kill.
"I found this," Qiu Shi took out the small stick for listening to music from his pocket, "Do you want it?"
Xing Bi looked at him without saying anything.
Qiu Shi didn't say anything and put the stick back into his pocket.
"Yes." Xing Bi said.
Qiu Shi's heart trembled, and he suppressed his emotions: "I am going to control you now and take you back to the laboratory."
Xing Bi still looked at him.
"Except you and me, Li Feng, no one else knows what happened here," said Qiu Shi.
Xing Bi remained silent, but did not react to Qiu Shi's words about controlling him. In Qiu Shi's opinion, Xing Bi did not seem to be out of control.
He clenched his fist and pressed his wrist lightly.
Xing Bi seemed to have his support suddenly taken away. He leaned his head against the tree trunk, and his arms slid from his knees to his sides.
"Xing Bi." Qiu Shi walked over to him and squatted.
The oppressive feeling of being unable to approach him did not disappear with the successful control, but Qiu Shi still reached out and patted him on the face: "I will take you back now. Without the box, you are much heavier than an ordinary person. I can't carry you. I can only drag you over."
"Drive the car over here." Xing Bi said.
“…Yes.” Qiu Shi was stunned.
Just four simple words, and still with a cold tone, but one could tell at a glance that these were words Xing Bi would say, and he suddenly felt a bit indescribable.
"I'll go drive." Qiu Shi stood up.
"I killed them all." Xing Bi said.
Qiu Shi turned around and took a step, then stopped: "The patrol team was accidentally attacked by another symbiote..."
"I was the one who cleaned out all the biochemical bodies in the entire Cloud City," Xing Bi said.
Qiu Shi was stunned.
"I killed them all on behalf of their friends," said Xing Bi.
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