This is a living coffin, that's for sure.
Xing Bi and other strongest biochemical bodies in Yuncheng could not find any place in the laboratory that could be destroyed. Even when they banged on the door from outside, the people inside could not hear them.
After controlling Donglin's symbiotes and handing them over to the military, Qiu Shi entered the exhibition hall with Colonel Yu, holding a bottle in his hand.
Xing Bi just came out, and when he saw Qiu Shi's expression, his eyebrows knitted together: "What do you mean by this?"
"My ribs are not broken," Qiu said. "It's really different after being strengthened."
"You have internal bleeding." Xing Bi said.
"So I'm injecting this medicine now," Qiu Shi said, "I didn't say I wouldn't treat it."
"Where is the medical vehicle?" Xing Bi asked.
"Outside." Qiu Shi tilted his head.
Xing Bi took the medicine bottle from his hand.
"Thank you," Qiu Shi said, "I should have taken the stent earlier."
"Lin Sheng," Xing Bi grabbed his arm and pulled him out, saying to Lin Sheng, "Take Colonel Yu in to check the situation."
"Okay." Lin Sheng responded.
"What are you doing?" Qiu Shi struggled for a while, but failed to break free. Xing Bi dragged him all the way back to the entrance of the exhibition hall without even entering the side door leading to the laboratory.
"Go to the hospital." Xing Bi didn't let go.
"It won't hurt to go and have a look!" Qiu Shi said, "Li Feng is in there, maybe he's dying!"
"Don't you hate Li Gouguan?" Xing Bi glanced at him, "Why are you so anxious now?"
"Fuck you." Qiu Shi also looked at him.
"Are you..." Xing Bi said.
"Your ancestors!" said Qiu Shi.
"That's impossible. You are too young. I am almost your ancestor." Xing Bi said.
Qiu Shi laughed when he heard this, but he was still anxious after he finished laughing: "At this critical moment, Li Feng can't get into trouble. You understand this, right, ancestor?"
"Nothing will happen to him," Xing Bi said. "You care so much about him. Don't you know that he won't do anything he's not sure of? He won't go into the lab if he's not sure he'll die in there one day, and he won't close the lab."
Qiu Shi didn't say anything.
Xing Bi turned and looked at him.
"Xing Bi." Qiu Shi laughed.
"What for?" Xing Bi asked.
"You answer it first." said Qiu Shi.
"Don't rob." Xing Bi said.
"Are you fucking jealous?" Qiu Shi said.
"The group call is on." Xing Bi said.
"Fuck you," Qiu Shi was shocked. He quickly touched his earphones and found that they were turned off. "Your ancestors!"
Xing Bi laughed.
Qiu Shi was dragged back to the medical vehicle by Xing Bi and rushed straight to the hospital.
It was the same ward where Qiu Shi had stayed before. When he entered, there were all kinds of instruments for taking pictures and measuring. Then he lay on the bed. There were a bunch of beeping instruments beside the bed.
This time, Qiu Shi's ribs were indeed not broken, but they were cracked, his stomach was kicked and bleeding, and there were some cuts and bleeding here and there. If it were in the past, he would have to lie in bed for at least two or three months, but he didn't even lie in bed for half a month because of his broken ribs.
However, Qiu Shi's recovery speed will be much faster now than before, and the doctor told him to rest for two days.
Qiu Shi knew this doctor. He was Director Wu's laboratory assistant.
Fortunately, Donglin chose to carry out the operation in the middle of the night, otherwise a lot more staff would have to be locked up in the laboratory.
"Take a nap." Xing Bi said.
"How can I sleep?" Qiu Shi stared at the light on the ceiling. "I'm not sleepy at all. Even if I'm sleepy, I can't fall asleep. My mind is like crazy and I don't know what I'm thinking about."
"Just name one," Xing Bi sat down on the bed and looked at him, "Maybe you won't have to think about it if I talk to you for a few minutes."
“Why would anyone want to build a lab that can’t be opened from the inside?” Qiu said. “There’s no need to trap yourself in there to death.”
"That's to prevent biochemical bodies from coming out from inside." Xing Bi said.
Qiu Shi was stunned: "Did I think the opposite?"
"Yeah." Xing Bi said.
"If a biochemical body... doesn't eat or drink, and doesn't have any supplements," Qiu Shi tilted his head, "how long can it live?"
"I haven't tried it, but it takes a long time," Xing Bi said, "but as long as it takes long enough, it will die."
"This thing has probably never been turned off." said Qiu Shi.
"Yes," Xing Bi smiled, "It's just a final safety measure."
"It is indeed a safety measure," Qiu Shi said with a sigh, "In the end, Li Feng used it as a safe house."
"There is some food in the lab, it's neither cold nor hot," Xing Bi said, "It can sustain us for a while. Even if we have to fight or kill him, with Li Feng's brain, as long as he wants to live, he will be the last to die even if everyone starves to death."
"He might be able to cause others to kill each other, leaving more food for himself," said Qiu Shi.
"Yeah." Xing Bi smiled.
"He can get some sleep now," said Qiu Shi.
"Well," Xing Bi held his hand, "You should get some sleep too. You may not be able to sleep later because you have to promote the heroic victory."
Propaganda is indeed necessary, especially at this critical moment. Mr. Long and Li Feng are both missing, and Yuncheng cannot be in chaos.
"The hero has returned, and life is peaceful and prosperous." Minister Liu sat beside Qiu Shi's bed.
Qiu Shi didn’t know how long he had slept. It felt like less than an hour.
"Don't make me speak," he said. "I can't say anything."
"No need," Minister Liu said, "Just take some photos. Someone said that the rest of the second team members are coming back today, so they should take some photos too."
"Half of the second team members died," Qiu Shi frowned, "Don't be too extreme. None of them volunteered to be a hero. They didn't die voluntarily. They just died because they had no other choice."
"Some things can't be helped," Minister Liu said, "We need to let everyone see how terrible the enemy is, but we also need to let people know that we have powerful heroes, and..."
Minister Liu glanced at Xing Bi and said, "We still need some biochemical bodies to cooperate. From now on, we need to make everyone accept the reality of coexisting with biochemical bodies. These biochemical bodies are friends and protectors."
"Let's find some second-level people and line up." Xing Bi said.
"Several team leaders still have to stand in the front," said Minister Liu.
"Yeah." Xing Bi responded.
Minister Liu is Li Feng's man, and he is also the one who is in charge of the overall situation in Yuncheng. Although Qiu Shi was reluctant, he had to cooperate. If Li Feng were here, this kind of thing would have to be done the same way, and he could not refuse.
Qiu Shi must be this hero.
Fortunately, Minister Liu’s propaganda ideas are relatively broad. Qiu Shi can be a hero whether he is standing or lying down. When he is standing, he is the immortal god of war of mankind, and when he is lying down, he is a bloody fighter of mankind.
The publicity process was also very fast. After taking the photos, Qiu Shi felt tired. When he woke up from a nap, it was already midnight. He looked out the window of the hospital corridor and could already see the publicity results outside. A large billboard was replaced with the new promotional photos of the heroes.
Soldiers lined up in neat rows and their majestic generals, biochemical beings with super combat power and their stern-faced captains, as well as the immortal second team of heroes and their heroic captain who was lying on the bed with his eyes closed.
Seeing that Team Two had been reduced from ten humans to five, and their faces changed from raising their guns and shouting to looking serious, Qiu Shi felt an indescribable feeling.
I can’t say that I feel uncomfortable, but I just feel that everything has changed in such a short period of time.
"Why are you up again?" Xing Bi pushed the door and entered the ward.
"Because I got enough sleep," Qiu Shi wanted to stretch his body, but found that his stomach was still a little uncomfortable, so he put it down again and turned to look at Xing Bi, "How is Donglin doing?"
"It's under control. For now, the people coming from Donglin are under Yuncheng's control," Xing Bi said. "Mayor Luo has been taken back to Yuncheng. Minister Liu's secretary just came. You will have to attend an internal meeting later."
"Where?" Qiu Shi asked.
"The military base in Yuncheng." Xing Bi said.
"Was the military base moved from the previous base?" Qiu Shi asked.
Xing Bi smiled: "No, it was built later. There is no living burial coffin."
"Why hasn't the general shown up?" Qiu Shi frowned. "Is the general attending this meeting?"
"I'm not sure," Xing Bi said. "You'll know when you get there. A car will come to pick you up in an hour."
"You're not going?" Qiu Shi was about to take off his hospital gown, but when he heard this, he immediately stopped and turned his head to look at him.
"Go." Xing Bi said.
"Yeah." Qiu Shi took off his shirt and looked down at his stomach. The large bruises from before had faded a lot now.
"Are you afraid to go alone?" Xing Bi asked, leaning against the wall behind him.
"I have nothing to fear, but if you don't go," Qiu Shi said, "there will be no biochemical bodies participating in this meeting. We can't just let biochemical bodies go during wars and come back to sing praises on billboards. Biochemical bodies must appear at this important meeting that determines the future of Yuncheng. Not only must they appear, but they must also make a presence."
Xing Bi laughed, and after a while he said, "You have changed, Qiu Shi."
"What else can we do?" Qiu Shi picked up the clothes that Minister Liu sent him, looked at them, and sighed.
When Xing Bi was about to speak, he turned around and said, "I have changed, and then what?"
"What then?" Xing Bi asked.
"There is usually more to this kind of sentiment. How did you go to school?" Qiu Shi said, "You have changed. You are no longer the person I like..."
"I don't think the school teaches this," Xing Bi said, "are you reading some old novels at the old man's place?"
“Fuck,” Qiu Shi laughed. “I haven’t seen it. I can barely recognize a few words. I just think it should be followed by something like this.”
"You've changed, Qiu Shi," Xing Bi moved closer to him, looking at him face to face, and then moved closer, rubbing his lips gently against the corner of his mouth, "but no matter what you become, it's all good, and it's exactly what I like."
The tiny air currents brought by Xing Bi's breathing swept across his face, and the slight vibrations felt on his skin when he spoke against his lips were like the gentle caress of a feather, soft and comfortable.
Qiu Shi tilted his head, kissed him, and put his hand behind Xing Bi.
Xing Bi's hand also rested on his back, and his warm palm moved down along his spine and stopped at his waist.
Qiu Shi's hand also touched it. Xing Bi had changed into their biochemical uniform. The material was a bit hard and felt extremely bad. He moved his hand down, wanting to touch inside along the hem of the clothes, and then he remembered that their uniform was a one-piece one.
Just from searching back and forth like this, Xing Bilian even stopped kissing, as if waiting for him to finish touching her before continuing.
"Fuck." He pushed Xing Bi away, unzipped his clothes, pulled his shirt apart, and yanked it down, reaching out his hands to hug him again.
"This outfit won't do," Xing Bi said, "You have to be shirtless to kiss in such cold weather."
Qiu Shi couldn't help laughing.
“Shh…” Xing Bi moved closer, pulled him forward with his hand, and kissed him.
The machine behind me suddenly sounded an alarm.
Then I heard footsteps coming towards me from outside the ward.
Qiu Shi quickly let go of Xing Bi, grabbed the clothes beside him and put them on. When the nurse pushed the door open, he bent over and just put on one sleeve. He saw from the corner of his eye that Xing Bi had already put on his clothes and zipped them up. He was standing at the window with his back to the door, looking out. The biochemical body was indeed fast...
"What's wrong?" Qiu Shi asked the nurse.
"Captain Qiu," the nurse looked at the instrument, "your heart rate is alarming. Are you feeling uncomfortable?"
“…No,” Qiu Shi said, “I’m just changing clothes and going out soon.”
"Your body still needs to rest now. Don't do any strenuous activities," the nurse said, quickly scanning the injured area with something metal. "No abnormalities were found. It's probably because the movements you made when getting up and putting on clothes were too large."
"Oh." Qiu Shi responded.
After the nurse left, he lowered his head and pulled off a small heart rate sensor attached to his chest: "Fuck, that's it."
Xing Bi smiled and stretched out his hand to pinch his wrist: "It's beating pretty fast."
"That's right," Qiu Shi said, "After all, I can't be like you. It's okay for you not to jump."
"Are you not convinced?" Xing Bi said.
"Can you please act a little more like a human friend?" Qiu Shi sighed and quickly changed his pants and got dressed. "You are gloating over other people's misfortune." The military car was waiting on time in the parking area of the hospital that was not open to the public. Qiu Shi and Xing Bi got in the car and saw Minister Liu sitting in it.
"Colonel Yu is already waiting for us," Minister Liu said, "We'll start as soon as we get there."
"Yeah." Qiu Shi responded.
"Things are going relatively smoothly with Donglin," Minister Liu said. "Now I just want to see if I can dig out some useful information from Mayor Luo, but..."
"Can't you find out the answer by asking?" Xing Bi asked.
"Yes, very tough," Minister Liu said, "but he wants to meet Qiu Shi, maybe Qiu Shi can make some breakthroughs."
"Can he open the laboratory door?" Qiu Shi asked.
“… There’s no way he could know that.” Minister Liu said.
"Then don't waste time on him," Qiu Shi said. "Just lock him up."
"Qu Shen is looking up information right now," Minister Liu smiled, "He wants to see if he can find relevant records. If he hasn't found any yet, he can waste some time on Mayor Luo first."
Qiu Shi didn't have a good impression of Mayor Luo, a smiling tiger who could see through hypocrisy, a smiling tiger who together with his grandmother wanted to brainwash him.
In comparison, he would rather get along with a sincere fox like Li Feng.
The atmosphere in the military base of Yuncheng is completely different from that in the inner city where people are celebrating victory and praying for heroes. The troops are armed and ready for battle. When you drive into the jurisdiction, you feel like there are people watching you from behind the scopes.
Entering a mountain building deep in the base, and then entering a small room, Qiu Shi heard the voice of Mayor Luo inside: "What we want is fundamentally different from what Yuncheng wants..."
"You want to die," Qiu Shi said, "I will send you off in a moment."
"Nice to meet you again, Qiu Shi." Mayor Luo turned around and looked at him and smiled.
Qiu Shi didn't say anything and sat on the chair opposite him.
Mayor Luo had a shackle on his foot, which was connected to the leg of a chair, and the chair was fixed to the ground.
Qiu Shi discovered that this was probably an interrogation room.
Minister Liu and Xing Bi did not come in, they should be next door.
"If you want to see Qiu Shi," Colonel Yu said, "we've invited him for you. You have ten minutes."
Colonel Yu said this and walked out of the interrogation room and closed the door.
"You do have more leadership qualities than Qiu Yu." Mayor Luo looked at Qiu Shi.
"Don't speak ill of the dead," Qiu Shi said, "Without you, he wouldn't have lived in pain for more than 20 years, and he wouldn't have died."
"He just wanted a wider world, a freer world," Mayor Luo said, "but this era doesn't allow it."
"What about you?" Qiu Shi asked, "What do you want?"
"Don't submit to anyone," Mayor Luo said, "including Yuncheng. The outside world is so big, but Yuncheng can only see a little bit of it. Since we have chosen to cooperate, we should look further ahead..."
"Just tell them that you're going to cooperate with the symbiote to dominate the world." Qiu Shi interrupted him.
"You only see the symbiote," Mayor Luo whispered, "You can't see what's behind the symbiote."
"It's the leader of the symbiote." said Qiu Shi.
Mayor Luo laughed: "It was the glorious era, it was the eyes that had seen for hundreds of years..."
This sounded very sick, but Qiu Shi still suppressed his annoyance and asked, "Whose eyes?"
"You may not understand it now, but you may understand it in the future," Mayor Luo said, "and you will regret it one day..."
Qiu Shi realized that this man would not say anything useful and just wanted to waste some time. He stood up, went over, pressed Mayor Luo's head against the table in front of him, and knocked it.
After a bang, Mayor Luo fell silent.
"Write the poems of your ancestors." He walked out of the interrogation room.
In the small conference room next door, Colonel Yu and his colleagues did not have any complaints about Qiu Shi's rude behavior. They probably all knew that although Mayor Luo was hypocritical, he was indeed tough.
"There are only a few of us attending this meeting," Minister Liu said, "The fact that Li Feng and Mr. Long are trapped is currently being kept strictly confidential. For now, I will be the first to handle all matters that require Mr. Long to appear."
"The establishment of defense lines and garrisons in the surrounding area will also continue to move forward," Colonel Yu said. "According to Li Feng's previous plan, we can't get anything out of Donglin now. Establishing contact with the laboratory is the most troublesome thing at the moment."
"All the staff related to the laboratory have been controlled to ensure that no secrets are leaked," Minister Liu said, "but these people cannot possibly know..."
"Does the general know?" Qiu Shi asked, "Why hasn't the general made any statement so far?"
Minister Liu said nothing and glanced at Colonel Yu.
"I want to talk to the general," said Qiu Shi.
"I'm afraid now is not the right time," said Colonel Yu.
"Does the general exist?" Xing Bi asked.
Minister Liu looked at him and asked, "Why do you ask this suddenly?"
"When I arrived in Yuncheng," Xing Bi said, "this place was still a mine. Since then, I haven't seen the general. I didn't see the general when I cleaned up the biochemical body. I didn't see the general when I chopped off Lu Rang's head. I didn't see the general when I asked to seal my memory..."
Xing Bi looked at Minister Liu and Colonel Yu: "No one has ever seen the general in person, no matter which generation."
"Who is Lu Rang?" Qiu Shi asked.
"The headless statue on the hill at the city gate," Xing Bi said, "a generation of hidden guards, the commander of the biochemical bodies, and one of the founders of Yuncheng."
"No one knows where the general is," Minister Liu said, "I mean... in person."
"Can we talk on the phone?" Qiu Shi asked.
"Okay." Colonel Yu said.
"Didn't you just say that now is not the right time?" Qiu Shi narrowed his eyes.
Colonel Yu did not answer, but just glanced at Xing Bi.
Qiu Shi understood the meaning of this look. Xing Bi's words almost made it clear that the general did not exist. There was no point in hiding it at this time.
The general's call was quickly connected and projected onto the wall next to him.
Although it was already time to rest at night, the general did not seem to have any intention of sleeping and his clothes were dressed neatly.
"General," Minister Liu said, "I have something to report to you. Mr. Long and Li Feng are both trapped in the laboratory."
"Trapped?" The general looked in the direction of Minister Liu.
"People from Donglin have infiltrated the inner city, intending to kidnap or assassinate Li Feng and Mr. Long," Minister Liu said. "Li Feng has shut down the laboratory."
The general was silent.
"The lab is inaccessible now, and the connection is down," Qiu said. "Do you know how to open it?"
"That's the base's laboratory, and it has the highest level of protection," the general said, "Once the lock is opened, it cannot be opened."
"Even if the danger is over, we can't open it?" Qiu Shi said, "Isn't there a corresponding highest level of protection without the corresponding highest level of authority being lifted?"
The general said nothing, seemingly lost in thought.
Several people waited quietly, but the general did not move, and the scene seemed to be frozen.
"General," Colonel Yu began, "what do you have..."
"Once the lock is opened, it cannot be opened..." said the general, "It requires a secret order to remove it, but..."
The general's communications were suddenly interrupted.
"Please connect again," Minister Liu said, "but what?"
The call was connected again and the general was still sitting at his desk.
"General, you just mentioned that the lifting of the order requires a secret order," Minister Liu continued the previous topic, "What is the secret order? Where is it?"
This time the general did not remain silent for a long time, but answered quickly: "Amnesia."
These four words were completely different from the general's usual speaking style. Qiu Shi frowned, almost certain that the general was not a real person.
"Can you contact Li Feng?" Xing Bi asked, "Can your call be connected directly to the laboratory?"
"No," the general said, "The communication signal cannot enter the laboratory under the locked state. It requires... a gap... the original..."
The picture seemed to be distorted as if there was interference, and the general's voice became intermittent, and then the call was interrupted again.
When Colonel Yu continued to contact the general, he found that no one answered the call.
"Has this situation ever happened before?" Xing Bi asked.
"General, don't you answer the phone?" Colonel Yu said, "Yes, but it's not always available. Most calls are scheduled by Mr. Long."
"Go to the laboratory." Qiu Shi suddenly stood up.
"What's wrong?" Minister Liu also stood up.
"There must be a way to contact them," Qiu Shi said, "Have you asked all the people related to the laboratory?"
"I've asked." Minister Liu said.
"Where are the two people in the biochemical warehouse?" Xing Bi said.
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To be continued tomorrow⊙▽⊙.
My relatives are finally leaving on the 9th. I will feel better if they can hold on for two more days???.