Qiu Shi hit them hard, and Director Wu and his two assistants were all knocked unconscious, but it was obvious that they didn't hit Li Feng as hard as he did.
There is some personal grudge involved here.
After Li Feng pretended to be shocked, he felt like vomiting and dry heaved several times. Tears came to his eyes. If Director Wu didn't know what kind of needle he was going to give him, he would have wanted to stay unconscious for a while.
"Who hit you?" asked Director Wu.
"Qiu Shi." Li Feng gritted his teeth, feeling the back of his neck was sore, swollen and painful.
"You may have a concussion," Director Wu said, "Go inside and I'll check you out..."
"Old Wu," Li Feng looked at him, "have some priorities. We are missing two bio-bodies now, and Mr. Long will be here in an hour!"
Director Wu didn't move or speak, just stared at him.
Li Feng did not avoid it and stared at him.
"Director Li," Director Wu frowned, "are you directing and acting in this yourself?"
Although Director Wu has always been obsessed with various "scientific researches", his brain is not broken. He can protect himself in various fights because he can see things clearly.
Li Feng didn't care whether he could see through it or not. All he wanted was a formal accomplice.
If possible, it is best to be an accomplice with full responsibility.
"Director Wu," Li Feng opened his mouth and couldn't help but dry-heaving twice, "You were the one who unlocked the experimental subject, you activated it, and the person was taken away from your laboratory. Even if I directed and acted it myself, you still have to praise me for my ingenuity? Otherwise, how can you make up for these mistakes?"
"You!" Director Wu stood up suddenly, walked around the room twice, and pointed at his assistant, "Check the surveillance video. The people were brought in by Director Li. If no one brought them in, they wouldn't have been able to leave so smoothly!"
Li Feng didn't stop him. He slowly stood up, sat on a chair beside him, and watched his assistant turn on the surveillance video.
The screen showed that Qiu Shi and his four companions successfully left the laboratory through the back door of the senior staff passage, arrived at the parking lot, and drove away.
All the doors were opened in advance by a man in an exhibition hall uniform. The people who could open these doors were senior managers in the laboratory. Li Feng did not have the authority to use this passage.
Director Wu stared at the surveillance camera, and after a while he turned to look at Li Feng: "Who is this person?"
"Are you asking me?" Li Feng said, "Is this person wearing the uniform of the Security Bureau?"
It was obvious that Director Wu found it hard to accept this result, and he kept looking forward and backward in front of the surveillance camera.
"Director Wu," Li Feng had to remind him, "the most important thing now is to give an explanation to Mr. Long."
"How are you going to explain?" Director Wu turned around and shouted in a low voice.
"Director Wu, I want to help you." Li Feng said.
"Help me?" Director Wu's hands were shaking with anger. "Is it my fault now?"
"What was my fault?" Li Feng asked.
Director Wu looked at him and remained speechless for a long time.
"Do you have any painkillers?" Li Feng touched the back of his head and found a swelling. "It hurts so much."
Director Wu took the medicine, walked up to him, and slammed the medicine heavily on the table next to him: "Li Feng, we have been friends for many years, and you actually cheated me like this."
"Immediately find two test subjects to replace No. 4 and No. 5," Li Feng took the medicine, "When demonstrating to Mr. Long, only No. 6 will be used, and the others will depend on the data."
"Do you know who those two are?" Director Wu leaned on the armrest of Li Feng's chair and came close to him, lowering his voice. "Do you know who those two are?"
"Who?" Li Feng took the water beside him and took the medicine.
"Ji Sui and Xu Jie," Director Wu said, "the two of them, plus Xing Bi and Lin Sheng, are the only one missing from Lu Rang's strongest undercover team."
"Who is missing?" Li Feng asked, "Zheng Ting?"
"Now do you understand how serious this is?" Director Wu said, "Of our four strongest subs, only one and a half partners remain!"
"Liu Wu is indeed not that good." Li Feng said.
"Not only that, he can't control Lin Sheng at all," said Director Wu. "If it wasn't for the urgency of the mission, I would have definitely opposed Colonel Xu's choice of this person."
"If the mission wasn't urgent, you wouldn't oppose Colonel Xu," Li Feng said, "Old Wu, if you face yourself, you won't dare to oppose me."
"What if something happens to them?" asked Director Wu.
"These people stood on Xing Bi's side until the end," Li Feng said, "As long as Xing Bi doesn't waver, nothing will happen to them for the time being."
"Why doesn't Xing Bi waver?" Director Wu asked again.
"His partner gave up everything for the sake of others." Li Feng said.
"Qiu Shi is alone, controlling four secret guards," Director Wu nodded, "I don't know if you are optimistic or I am naive."
"Director Wu, we need to clarify a sequence," Li Feng sighed, "The Undercover Guards didn't have partners at the beginning. At that time, they were called "friends", and this period was much longer than the time they had partners."
Director Wu glared at him for a while, then turned abruptly and walked towards the inner door of the laboratory: "I'll go find two replacements first."
Li Feng breathed a sigh of relief, took the cup and drank all the water.
Judging from the time, Qiu Shi and his companions should have changed cars and were on their way back to Xima Town.
However, he was not clear about the plan after returning the team members to Xing Bi. Since the people were kidnapped, he naturally had no idea what they wanted to do.
Can only guess.
The secretary called Mr. Long ten minutes before he arrived to remind him that he would have a video call with Mayor Luo in the afternoon.
"I remember it. I didn't forget it." Li Feng touched his head. "Please ask Director Zhang to confirm the time for me. I may need to take a nap after the meeting this afternoon before going to the City Defense Department."
"Okay," the secretary said, "and your guests have been arranged."
"Okay, I understand." Li Feng said.
The guest was the senior executive wearing the exhibition hall uniform. Director Wu had no time to check who was missing from the museum. When he found out, he would probably come to settle the score with Li Feng.
However, for a place like an exhibition hall with little money and a director who has no human touch, it is not difficult to pull away a few managers.
The people in the car remained silent.
From the time Xing Bi brought the No. 4 and No. 5 submersibles out of the transfer cabin, to the time they escaped from the exhibition hall, and then got in the car until now, Xing Bi has not spoken a word to the two submersibles.
Qiu Shi didn't say anything either. He mainly didn't know what kind of state this was. The secret guards now employed by Yuncheng had basically been subjected to symbiotic experiments by Director Wu and his team, and now they were all symbiotes. He even suspected that the two at the back were controlled by Xing Bi.
However, Xing Bi said that it is difficult to control entities of the same level.
So... Qiu Shi looked back, probably because he was introverted.
I can't find any other explanation.
When the car reached "Dushi", Xing Bi stopped the car.
"Hmm?" Qiu Shi glanced at him.
"A tourist attraction." Xing Bi said.
The two people at the back got out of the car, walked to the front of the car, and looked up at the sky.
"What are you looking at?" Qiu Shi asked.
"Feel it," Xing Bi said, "the real world."
Qiu Shi didn't say anything.
"I thought you wanted to ask why we have to look at the sky to feel the real world." Xing Bi said.
"How does it feel to have made a wrong prediction?" Qiu Shi smiled.
"My partner is really hard to guess." Xing Bi said.
"Bullshit," Qiu Shi said, "I also like looking at the sky. The sky is very big and I can see very far. Things on the ground are always changing, but things in the sky never change. What you saw before and what I see now are the same."
Xing Bi turned his head and looked at him.
"Hmm?" Qiu Shi also looked at him, "Am I wrong? The teaching quality of the refugee school is just like this..."
"You are quite romantic." Xing Bi said.
"Wow," Qiu Shi was stunned. "To be honest, I have only heard this word five times in my life, and it's the sixth time it's been used on me."
Xing Bi laughed.
"Do you want to go over and chat for a while?" Qiu Shi looked at the two people outside the car, "It's been a long time..."
Qiu Shi stopped talking halfway. These words instantly brought him back to that night in Xima Town. He was fine with himself, but he just didn't want to irritate Xing Bi.
"What's wrong?" Xing Bi looked at him, "Are you in trouble?"
"I'm afraid you have." Qiu Shi said, "I'm fine. I'll have to say hello to him next time I see him. It's been so long, I miss him so much."
Xing Bi laughed.
The two people outside the car looked over at them.
"Come on, partner," Xing Bi opened the car door, "Let's get to know each other briefly."
Qiu Shi followed him out of the car.
"Qiu Shi." Xing Bi walked over and pointed at Qiu Shi, then at the two people, "Ji Sui, Xu Jie."
Qiu Shi was silent.
It's really very simple.
"Partner?" Ji Sui asked.
"Yes." Xing Bi said.
Qiu Shi discovered that these biochemical bodies were indeed randomly selected from the optimal range. They were all about the same size, and although they looked different, they were all pleasing to the eye.
"We don't have a partner right now," Xu Jie said, "Is that okay?"
Comparing these words with the way they looked up at the sky, Qiu Shi suddenly felt uncomfortable.
"No need." Xing Bi said.
"We rescued all the people," Qiu Shi said, "Why would we care about our partners? Your partners won't be locked in a hibernation capsule and stare blankly."
Xing Bi glanced at him.
Qiu Shi suddenly realized that what he said was full of "betrayal".
Ji Sui and Xu Jie didn't say anything, they seemed to be thinking.
“It’s just a return to the original state,” Qiu said. “Initially, you were friends of mankind, not tools that were required to be 100% controllable.”
Ji Sui looked at Qiu Shi.
"What's wrong?" Qiu Shi asked.
"You are not completely human." Xu Jie said.
"Yeah." Qiu Shi responded.
"Why?" Xu Jie asked.
"Me." Xing Bi said.
Ji Sui and Xu Jie were obviously stunned for a moment.
"Because I don't want to drag down my friend," said Qiu Shi.
"Let's visit the scenic spots," Xing Bi said as he walked to the side of the stone and touched the spot he had touched before, "and then we'll set off. We have other plans tonight."
Ji Sui and Xu Jie walked over and touched that place, very naturally, as if they had no doubts at all.
Is this really the habit of old-fashioned people
Ji Sui picked up a small stone and placed it on top of the big rock.
"What?" Qiu Shi was stunned.
"Good luck." Xing Bi said.
“…Are there so many ways to pray for good luck?” Qiu Shi said, “I thought it was just touching a stone.”
Ji Sui smiled.
"Let's go." Xing Bi said.
There's nothing wrong with wishing for good luck in this situation.
Li Feng hasn't contacted him yet, and it seems that he intends to perfectly execute the plan of "Qiu Shi did this and I have no idea about it", so what to do next will be decided by him and Xing Bi... No, it will be decided by Xing Bi.
After all, Qiu Shi had no idea how to deal with the nest. It was Xing Bi who asked for the team members in the beginning. Qiu Shi also didn't know what to do with the two people who were rescued.
But he didn't care. Don't think too far ahead. People may not live to see what they have thought about. Just do the current things first. When it was getting dark, they entered the area of Xima Town and stopped the car at the intersection of Xiniu Village.
"Wait for us here, and set off after dark." Xing Bi said.
Ji Sui and Xu Jie opened the car door and got out without saying a word.
"Is this okay?" Qiu Shi asked.
"No problem." Xing Bi said.
When Qiu Shi looked out the window, he found that he could no longer see the two of them. He opened the map and confirmed that they were already behind the slope over there.
"They..." Qiu Shi asked, "Are their memories also locked like yours?"
"Well, they may not have locked the part about my teacher," Xing Bi drove on, "but we will know it eventually."
"What do you mean?" Qiu Shi asked immediately.
"Fungi are like a whole," Xing Bi said. "Fungi in the same nest can sense each other, and the symbiotic host also uses this to control, so there will be information transmission between symbionts."
"I see," Qiu Shi said, "You guys were experimenting with the fungi from Nest No. 1, right?"
"Yeah." Xing Bi nodded.
"Then... there are no secrets anymore," Qiu Shi said. "We can all know each other's little secrets to some extent."
"You have to be willing to do that," Xing Bi said. "As long as it's a secret, you will be on guard subconsciously."
"Well," Qiu Shi leaned back in his chair and raised his arms to rest his head, "Have you been together for a long time? How many of you are in the group?"
"We have always been carrying out missions together." Xing Bi said.
"Why do I feel like this?" Qiu Shi turned his head to look at him, "You guys don't have that kind of... You guys haven't seen each other for a long time, right?"
"Introvert." Xing Bi said.
“Fuck,” Qiu Shi laughed, “Are you an introvert?”
"We have emotions and can feel emotions, but not all of them will express them the same way humans do," Xing Bi said, "especially when we don't need to face humans, or... when we face humans we don't like."
"I understand." Qiu Shi said.
For example, Liu Wu.
When Xing Bi and Lin Sheng stood in front of him, they were two standard biochemical bodies, not at all similar to humans.
"Why didn't you tell me that Xing Bi had been found?" Liu Wu looked at Lin Sheng.
"The mission did not require me to proactively inform my partner." Lin Sheng said.
"How do you set up tasks?" Liu Wu was speechless and looked at Qiu Shi. "Is your task set up this way? Does it need to be so detailed?"
It is indeed quite detailed, especially during the first collaboration. It can be seen that the tasks set for Liu Wu and Lin Sheng were not done by Director Wu and Li Feng, but by Colonel Xu.
Colonel Xu, who has his own stereotyped understanding of biochemical bodies, believes that Lin Sheng should be a soldier who can perfectly handle events with his own thinking and consciousness, and can obey orders 100%, even when there are no set conditions.
Qiu Shi did not answer Liu Wu.
"What about the mission tonight you mentioned?" Liu Wu raised his hand, as if preparing to contact the headquarters. "Have you reported to the higher-ups about finding Xing Bi?"
"Liu Wu, you are now a non-member of the second team," Qiu Shi looked at him, ready to draw his knife and poke his hand at any time, "Who do you want to report to, bypassing the captain?"
"Deputy Team Leader Li is the one who issued the order directly," Liu Wu said, "Now that I have doubts about you, I will naturally report to him."
Qiu Shi frowned: "Li Feng is meeting Mr. Long."
"Then it's Colonel Xu." Liu Wu was firm.
When Liu Wu pointed to his wrist to answer the call, Qiu Shi punched Liu Wu in the face.
Liu Wu is indeed a soldier, and a soldier chosen by Colonel Xu to be Lin Sheng's partner. His physical fitness and reaction are still very good.
The strengthened Qiu Shi's punch was very fast and he had no way of avoiding it, but even though he was hit hard on the nose and fell to the ground, he did not faint.
When he was struggling to sit up from the ground, Qiu Shi came over and hit him hard on the chin with his knee.
Liu Wu leaned back and fell to the ground motionless.
Lin Sheng did not stop it, maybe because he knew it was not fatal.
But he kept looking at Qiu Shi, with some doubt in his eyes.
"If your brain can't solve the problem," Qiu Shi looked at him, "solve it with your hands."
Lin Sheng smiled.
"Zhao Yi," Qiu Shi opened the team channel, "Please bring two people up."
"Is he dead?" Zhao Yi looked at Liu Wu lying on the ground.
"Don't be so happy, he's not dead," Qiu Shi said, "Carry him away and let Sang Fan control him. Make sure he can't move or make a sound... Especially this hand..."
Qiu Shi kicked Liu Wu's left hand: "You must not move at all until I come back."
Zhao Yi paused, glanced at his left hand, and then nodded: "I understand."
"Have a hard time tonight, don't rest for now," Qiu Shi said, "Pay attention and contact me immediately if anything happens."
"Will anything happen?" Zhao Yi said.
"Not necessarily." Qiu Shi did not tell Zhao Yi in detail. The people from the second team must not be involved in this matter. If there are any consequences, given Li Feng's behavior, even if he wants to save people, he will most likely not save the ordinary members of the second team.
With Li Feng's previous order, Qiu Shi asked for both new models of cars.
He and Xing Bi were in one car, and Lin Sheng was in another.
The cars drove out of Xima Town one after another. When they approached Xiniu Village, Lin Sheng's voice came from the headset: "Xing Bi."
"They are in front." Xing Bi said.
"They weren't sent by Yuncheng, were they?" Lin Sheng asked.
"Not exactly," Xing Bi said, "to the outside world, it can be understood as being stolen."
"Yeah." Lin Sheng responded.
Qiu Shi opened the map and soon saw two small bright spots. However, because they were the people who were captured, their names were not shown on the map, so Qiu Shi added them manually.
After the team gathered, Qiu Shi gave the headphones he brought with him to Ji Sui and Xu Jie. The few of them divided their weapons and then got in the car.
Xing Bi, Qiu Shi and Ji Sui were in one car, while Lin Sheng and Xu Jie were in another car.
Without any extra words, the two cars began to move northwest in the darkness.
It can be clearly seen on the snow that more infected people are still appearing, and the number has increased compared to before. It seems that the infected people in the nest will soon gather to a scale comparable to that of that night.
With a clear destination and a car, they quickly approached the nest this time.
The two cars stopped about 500 meters away from the nest. Lin Sheng and Xu Jie got out of the car. Xing Bi glanced at Qiu Shi and said, "You drive this car. This one will rush in. The other one will be used for evacuation."
"Yes," Qiu Shi responded, "There are four seats. Are there two people holding each other?"
"I'm on the top." Xing Bi got out of the car and jumped onto the roof.
After Lin Sheng and Xu Jie got in the car, Qiu Shi said, "Let's drive."
"I won't be thrown off." Xing Bi said.
Qiu Shi let out a click of his tongue and stepped on the accelerator.
The wheels kicked up a cloud of snow and rushed out suddenly.
Soon, the nest appeared at the top of the map. As the car got closer, the black area on the map gradually expanded, slowly occupying half of the map.
"Don't stop the car." Xing Bi said.
"Yeah." Qiu Shi held the steering wheel and rushed towards the increasingly dense crowd of infected people in front of him.
A flash of light streaked forward from the roof of the car, exploding a fire in the pile of infected people ahead.
At the same time, the three doors of the passenger seat and the back seat opened at the same time. Lin Sheng and the others leaned out of the car, and there were several flashes of light.
The flames lined up in a row ahead suddenly became as bright as day.
Qiu Shi drove his car into a field full of broken bodies. The woods were sparse and the black branches at the edge were blown to pieces. In the firelight, one could see a black mist twisting and turning due to the air waves.
After the car rushed into the trees, the map in front of Qiu Shi was completely filled with black. The bright spots of the infected that had disappeared in the explosion were refilling from all directions. This time, they were no longer heading forward, but began to surround them.
"Some entities have begun to take control," said Qiu Shi.
"Follow me." Xing Bi jumped down from the roof of the car.
Several people in the car also opened the door and jumped out.
On the map, you can see their four bright spots pushing forward in a fan shape, clearing out the approaching infected people and then quickly returning to the vicinity of the car at the same time.
Qiu Shi stared at the map and maintained a steady speed.
This was the first time he saw biochemical bodies fighting in coordination, with such precise synchronization that they seemed as if they were one person.
After two rounds of cleaning, the infected in front no longer rushed towards them, but began to gather in the middle.
"They are gathering in the middle," Qiu reported the coordinates, "and the car can't go forward any further."
Lin Sheng threw a grenade forward, which exploded in the air. At the same time that the infected people nearby were knocked down by the flying shrapnel, Qiu Shi saw the infected people gathered densely in front of him like a mountain of flesh.
"Damn it." He cursed, stopped the car and quickly picked up the gun.
The infected people who made up the meat mountain turned their heads at the same time and opened their mouths.
"Xing Bi—"
"I'm going to kill your ancestors—" Qiu Shi couldn't help but yelled.
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To be continued tomorrow⊙▽⊙.