The moon is indeed very big and very bright. The shadows around it seem to have faded and been sprinkled with a layer of white. Combined with the blowing north wind, it looks a bit cold.
The overall color tone of the base is silver-white, which looks calmer in such a situation.
But perhaps because this is the base and Xing Bi's "hometown", it makes people feel that this coldness has a bit of the warmth of memories.
"There used to be a lot of people here, right?" Qiu Shi asked. He didn't have time to feel it carefully before. Now when he walked through the huge and empty square towards the main building, he felt that even the elongated shadows of the two people were inconspicuous.
"Many, more than Yuncheng," Xing Bi said. "There are also many who stayed for a few months and then left. Counting them together, there will be more."
For Qiu Shi, who had not seen many people since leaving Yuncheng, it was quite emotional.
"The time when I see the most people, except when the inner city welcomes heroes back, is when war is going on," Qiu Shi said. "If it hadn't been for coming out this time, I would have thought that humanity would be extinct."
"How is it possible?" Xing Bi smiled, "human beings can survive no matter what."
"Where do you live?" Qiu Shi asked.
"Over there," Xing Bi pointed, "in the northwest corner, that block of buildings, you can't see it from this angle, but you can see it if you go a little further."
"Are we going there?" Qiu Shi looked over there.
"Well, go there first, and then go somewhere else." Xing Bi said.
"Isn't the dormitory the place you want to go to the most?" Qiu Shi realized.
"The dormitory is just a place to rest," Xing Bi said. "There is no trace of ourselves."
"Then why did you say you wanted to go there first?" Qiu Shi said.
"You asked, I think you want to see it," Xing Bi said, "Just go and see it first."
"You don't have to be so thoughtful, you are the tour guide, you make the arrangements," Qiu Shi said with a smile, "I also want to know where you want to go most."
"Forget it, you can't sleep anyway," Xing Bi said, "There are many places to go here, and you can go shopping until dawn."
"Keep shopping?" Qiu Shi was stunned.
"Well, it's rare that there's no one else here right now," Xing Bi said, "It's embarrassing to talk about group love all the time."
"... Shit," Qiu Shi laughed, "Are you embarrassed? Why don't I feel embarrassed for you?"
"I am a biochemical body after all," Xing Bi said, "I am better at pretending."
It was quite a long way. Before, I had to drive to get in, but now it felt okay to walk. Qiu Shi had already arrived in front of the dormitory building without really feeling the length of the journey.
Looking at the dormitory building, you can intuitively feel the scale of the original biochemical body. It was a four-story building. When you stand in front of the building, you can't see your head to both sides.
"Why not build it higher?" Qiu Shi asked as he followed Xing Bi toward the building. "I think the buildings in the city are very tall."
"Because the territory is big enough." Xing Bi said.
"Your answer will make my question look stupid," Qiu Shi said.
"The target is too high and obvious, just like a landmark." Xing Bi turned back and took his hand, "Is this answer okay?"
"Okay." Qiu Shi looked at his hand, "You are very clingy today, partner."
"If you can stick to me a little bit, I don't have to be so sticky." Xing Bi said, "You are like a piece of wood."
"Your ancestor!" Qiu Shi glared at him.
"Go upstairs?" Qiu Shi asked.
"Well, my room is on the fourth floor." Xing Bi said.
The lights on the stairs were still on, and they lit up as they walked upstairs. There was a strange feeling of following the light into the past.
The ground was very clean, with almost no debris except dust. The original battle did not seem to have affected this place.
And only their two footprints were left on the thick dust on the ground.
"Has no one been here before?" Qiu Shi looked at the footprints.
"Well, not many people have entered the base." Xing Bi said.
"Haven't Bai Zhan and the others been near the base all the time? Have they never come in?" Qiu Shi was a little confused.
"They haven't come in," Xing Bi said, "They just guard the outside and don't let anyone get close."
"Why?" Qiu Shi was even more confused.
Xing Bi said nothing.
Qiu Shi was silent for a while, then looked outside the corridor at the traces of past glory and prosperity that he could only imagine, and sighed softly: "I understand."
Xing Bi took him to the fourth floor and walked slowly along the corridor.
The door to the room was closed, and it didn't look like there was any emergency, just like leaving the dormitory for the most ordinary time.
Looking in from the window, you can see that all the rooms have the same structure and furnishings.
Table, chairs, wardrobe, bed.
There is a small sign on the door of the room with the name and number.
Qiu Shi looked all the way around and saw familiar names, Lin Sheng, Ji Sui, a few doors past, Xu Jie, and two rooms further away, Zheng Ting.
"Where's yours?" Qiu Shi asked.
"The last room." Xing Bi slowly walked back over there.
Qiu Shi looked at the footprints on the ground. Almost all of his footprints fell in the middle of Xing Bi's footprints, as if Xing Bi had calculated his path.
"What are you doing?" Qiu Shi stood in front of his footprints and looked down.
Xing Bi came back, stood on his own footprints, and faced him face to face.
"Leave an unsolved mystery for those who come in in the future." Xing Bi said.
"What the hell is unsolved?" Qiu Shi looked at him, "Isn't this just one person walking backwards and the other person walking forwards..."
"Why do you want to go like this?" Xing Bi asked.
"Because there is a biochemical body, he is sick." Qiu Shi said.
Xing Bi smiled and said nothing.
Qiu Shi didn't say anything, stretched out his hand and tugged on his collar, pulled him over and kissed him.
"The case has been solved," Xing Bi said, "It turns out this is how they left."
"...fuck." Qiu Shi laughed.
"Do you want to recreate this human tourist?" Xing Bi asked.
"This biochemical tour guide, I find that you old antiques just like to beat around the bush and say..." Before Qiu Shi could finish his words, Xing Bi came over and kissed him on the mouth.
Although it felt a bit sudden, he originally wanted to see the house plate with Xing Bi's name and number on it, and then try to see if he could cut out the plate and bring it back to Yuncheng as a souvenir or something...
But even though it was so sudden, his arm had already been raised before he could react, and he hugged Xing Bi.
It was probably at this moment that Qiu Shi understood Xing Bishuo's frustration of falling in love in a group.
Perhaps it was the difficulty of the mission itself, coupled with the continuous situation since the beginning, Qiu Shi was nervous every day. As long as Xing Bi was by his side, he could talk, sit next to him, and rest his head on his legs. He didn't think about anything else besides getting some sleep.
Until this moment, when I touched Xing Bi's moist lips, hugged his body, and stroked the skin on his back, my hands, which were a little cold due to the cold wind, felt the warmth, and they were instantly burned through. My palms and my breath were hot.
When someone comes in in the future and sees this series of footprints extending from the corridor to Xing Bi's room, I don't know if they can determine how this chaos, which is either advancing or retreating, going forward or backward, light or heavy, is caused.
Xing Bi.
B31-007.
Xing Bi leaned against the door, his wrist gently sliding over the door lock. The lock opened with a click. He kicked back and the door opened.
There was no stale smell in the room as Qiu Shi had imagined, and there was even a faint smell of something comforting. I didn't know if it was coming from Xing Bi or from this room.
Qiu Shi pushed Xing Bi into the room and closed the door.
"This is your room." He looked around and saw the same simple furnishings, but he didn't know if it was because this room was more airtight and there wasn't as much dust as in the open corridor.
"Yeah." Xing Bi leaned on the table and nodded.
"While we were in this room..." Qiu Shi looked at him, "What did you do?"
This is Xing Bi's room. When he was not an ancestor, he lived here. In that distant time, in that world that he could hardly imagine, one day, at a certain time, would Xing Bi Also leaning against the table like this...
"Rest." Xing Bi took off his coat.
Only then did Qiu Shi notice that the temperature inside the room was much higher than outside, and it was very warm.
"...How to rest." Qiu Shi stared at his body. Xing Bi was wearing a tight-fitting compression garment under his jacket. He was wearing it normally, but now he looked uncomfortable.
"Take off your clothes," Xing Bi said, moving his hands to his belt, taking off the walkie-talkie and gun holster, "take off your pants..."
"Fuck | Your ancestors need to show some respect." Qiu Shi looked at him, turned around and opened the wardrobe behind him.
Although they have a lot of specific thoughts about Xing Bi, this is the base. They have just defeated the symbiote, and their people are resting. They will set off at dawn, and there may not be anyone around here who is not as needed as humans. The biochemical body of sleep is walking...
There are several sets of clothes hanging neatly in the closet. You don't need to touch them. You can tell with your eyes that the quality is very good. There are casual clothes, uniforms, and a black suit.
"Holy shit, you actually have clothes in here? Such nice clothes." Qiu Shi looked at Xing Bi's clothes and took a moment to be shocked when Xing Bi was thinking about not having any clothes on.
"Well," Xing Bi's voice came close to the back of his neck, "I didn't take him away."
The voice was deep and grainy, like a soft scarf with a rough texture wrapped around his neck, and then gently pulled away.
"You..." Qiu Shi turned his head and found that the ancestor had taken off his shirt at some point. What he saw at this glance was Xing Bi's clear shoulders.
"I don't have any requirements for clothes now."
"Is it suitable here?" Qiu Shiwen asked, but he took off his clothes without any hesitation.
"If you have any special hobbies," Xing Bi lowered his head and kissed his left shoulder, slowly kissing to the back of his neck, and then to his right shoulder, and his voice slowly passed from the back of his head, like an electric current passing through, " I can also open the rooms of Lin Sheng and the others, you choose one."
"I'm a serious person." Qiu Shi tilted his head back.
"Maybe I'm not." Xing Bi said, sliding his hands from his waist to his lower abdomen.
"I see," Qiu Shi heard the ding of the metal buckle of his belt, "If there is only one crooked thing left in this world, it's you..."
As his pants slid down, the holster hit the metal plate of the cabinet.
when!
"What the hell!" Qiu Shi's heartbeat, which was already about to take off, was aroused by the movement and jumped directly to his forehead.
Xing Bi said nothing, grabbed his shoulder and pushed him forward.
Qiu Shi was pushed into the cabinet and threw himself on Xing Bi's clothes. The handle was quite heavy. If he hadn't reacted quickly and supported the cabinet wall, he could have hit his head directly on the cabinet.
"What the hell..." He turned around and wanted to curse, but there were Xing Bi's clothes on both sides.
I don't know if it's because he's too sensitive, but the clothes on his face and shoulders have a strange touch.
Xing Bi's kiss fell on the middle of his shoulder blades, all the way down.
Qiu Shi sighed softly and closed his eyes.
The moonlight spread on the corridor, illuminating the footprints of the two confused people, and then filtered into the house along the window, illuminating the breathing of the two confused people. The wind blew through the window, and the moonlight seemed to bring a slight tremor. Qiu Shi fell on the bed, breathing heavily.
"You Hui," Xing Bi bent down to support the bed, "Get up."
"I'm not as particular as you," Qiu Shi closed his eyes and put his arms on his forehead, "There is no dust in the closet. I'm done with it and I'll lie down on the bed for a while. Do you have any other opinions?"
"I'll give you a kiss later." Xing Bi traced his fingers across his chest.
"Just kiss the front," Qiu Shi said, "I'm not lying on the bed."
Xing Bi smiled: "Tired?"
"You're not tired," Qiu Shi opened his eyes and looked at him, reached out and touched his face, then lowered his voice, "You said..."
"No one else," Xing Bi said, "no one heard me, and you didn't make much noise."
"Fuck." Qiu Shi closed his eyes again.
Xing Bi straightened up with a smile, took the clothes next to him, shook them, and started to put them on.
"Aren't the clothes in the closet quite clean?" Qiu Shi sat up. "I just didn't smell dust. Why don't you change them into clean ones?"
"The wardrobe is dust-proof and moisture-proof."
"...You are still considerate." Qiu Shi said.
Xing Bi smiled, took his clothes and threw them next to him.
"Actually, there's no dust on the bed," Qiu Shi patted the mattress, "Your house looks like it's sealed."
"It can be sealed," Xing Bi said. "It can be completely airtight when necessary."
"What do you mean?" Qiu Shi looked at him, "Do you still have this need?"
Xing Bi said nothing, lowered his head and hung up the gun and walkie-talkie again.
Qiu Shi realized that the second-generation biochemical body was already strictly controllable. Although he could not imagine the details, he could guess that this "complete airtightness" was probably some kind of killing or control method.
"Where are you going now?" He stood up and put on his clothes and asked, "Go to the place you want to go to the most?"
"Yeah." Xing Bi nodded.
Qiu Shi got ready, went over to hug him, kissed him hard on the tip of his nose, and opened the door: "Let's go."
The moment he went out, he could feel the temperature drop suddenly. The cold wind swept through the corridor and penetrated through the collar. Qiu Shi shrank his neck.
Xing Bi put his hand on his neck, and his palm suddenly made him feel warm.
"Are you cold?" Qiu Shi asked.
"Cold." Xing Bi said.
"Can't you guys not be cold?" Qiu Shi said.
"I'm going to be cold now." Xing Bi said.
Qiu Shi looked at him.
"Yeah." Xing Bi responded.
"Uh-huh, uh-huh." Qiu Shi's hands were no longer as warm as before, but they were still fine. He raised his hands and covered Xing Bi's neck.
"...Human beings are still not good enough." Xing Bi smiled.
"I can't compare to you high-end goods." Qiu Shi tutted and retracted his hand. The temperature of Xing Bi's neck was higher than his hand, so he covered it as if to warm his hand.
Xing Bi held his hand and pulled him forward.
"You won't be able to walk if you don't hold me now, right?" Qiu Shi said.
"Then you're not..." Xing Bi said.
"Let go." Qiu Shi said.
Xing Bi let go of his hand.
Qiu Shi went over and took his hand: "That's enough."
"Scared me." Xing Bi said.
"As expected, the biochemical body is still not good," Qiu Shi said. "We can't tell at all."
"Isn't that just now..." Xing Bi said, "I'm afraid you'll feel unhappy."
"No," Qiu Shi said, "Tit for retaliation is fair."
"That's not how tit for tat works." Xing Bi said.
"Just tell me if that's what I mean!" Qiu Shi said.
"...No." Xing Bi said.
"It is now," Qiu Shi said.
"It's better not to take those books back," Xing Bi laughed, "Just follow what Teacher Qiu taught."
"I still have to return it," Qiu Shi said. "When I go out for 'adventures', what I like to find most are books. But I don't like books that are full of words. I like books with paintings, photos, pictures, and scenery. Ah, people, animals.”
"I like it too." Xing Bi said.
"But it's too hard to find. Paper is too fragile. Usually the ones you can find are plastic ones, and the paintings on them aren't pretty enough." Qiu Shi sighed.
"The kind that usually involves looking at pictures to read," Xing Bi said, "Children aged three to five use that to learn to read..."
"Shut up," Qiu Shi smiled, "I was just called uneducated by Li Rui today."
"That's not entirely true," Xing Bi said. "Sometimes you speak quite literately, but your expression is a little rough."
"It's still a little bit, don't be so careful with your words." Qiu Shi glanced at him.
"Anyway, I like it," Xing Bi lowered his head and rubbed his hands, "That's it."
"What's okay?" Qiu Shi asked.
"The temperature is OK." Xing Bi said.
"What the hell is the temperature..." Qiu Shi said halfway before he realized, "Fuck, is this all you do?"
"Hurry up, it will get cold again soon." Xing Bi said.
Qiu Shi put his hand on his neck. This time, the temperature of his hand was finally higher than that of Xing Bi's neck.
"Are you comfortable?" Qiu Shi asked.
"Yeah." Xing Bi responded.
"Is it childish?" Qiu Shi asked, "This ancestor."
"It's okay," Xing Bi said, "I never had the opportunity to be naive and experience it before."
Qiu Shi didn't say anything, and gently squeezed his neck with his hand: "Compared to you, I'm really a rough guy."
"No," Xing Bi said, "You are a keen person."
"Are you swearing?" Qiu Shi asked, "You are very sensitive."
Xing Bi smiled for a long time before looking at him: "I've never come into contact with someone like you before."
"Look at the clothes in your closet," Qiu Shi sighed, "They are indeed high-class people. I feel like there are probably no people like me in that world... Do you collect the corpses?"
"There are funeral parlors and crematoriums," Xing Bi said, "but there is no job of collecting corpses from the streets."
"The world back then was the Peach Blossom Land," Qiu Shi said, "Yun City doesn't count."
"Do you know Peach Blossom Spring? That's why it's called Peach Blossom Spring." Xing Bi asked.
"I don't know, places with many peach blossoms must be beautiful. There are no fungi and no wars, so they can bloom with so many peach blossoms," Qiu Shi said, "That's what I thought, isn't it?"
"You can think of it that way." Xing Bi hugged his shoulders.
"What was that supposed to be?" Qiu Shi asked.
"It doesn't matter," Xing Bi said. "There are people you care about and things you want to keep. That's the Peach Blossom Spring. Where there is hope, there is the Peach Blossom Spring."
After coming out of the dormitory building, Xing Bi took him all the way to the depths of the building complex. Qiu Shi discovered that there were actually many places that they had not searched because there was no information and equipment. Most of them were various activity venues. When I saw the shopping mall, there were even a lot of goods on the shelves. Not only clothes, but also daily necessities that looked like quilts, but I didn't know how well they were stored.
"Holy shit," Qiu Shi was a little shocked, "If you take these back to the outer city, they will be at a level where they can be killed and cheated."
"Take all of this with you when you go back." Xing Bi waved his hand.
After passing through this shopping mall, a high-rise building appeared in front of them. The reason why it is called a high-rise building is that compared to other buildings, this building that seems to have about eight floors deserves the title of high-rise building here.
Xing Bi raised his head and looked up.
When Qiu Shi looked up, he suddenly felt a little dazed. This place looked very similar to the tall building that last appeared in the memory that Li Feng showed him.
He paused and didn't dare to ask.
"It's not here," Xing Bi whispered in his ear, "it's the building further south with the apron on it. That building was bombed the next day."
"...Oh." Qiu Shi put his arms around Xing Bi's waist and retracted his arms forcefully.
"It's okay," Xing Bi ticked his face, "It's already passed. It's been a long time."
"Are we going up?" Qiu Shi asked.
"Yes." Xing Bi nodded.
The elevator didn't work, so you had to take the stairs. This was the first time Qiu Shi went up to such a high building by the stairs. The stairs were very wide, more than twice as wide as those in Yuncheng. It was indeed a very large place.
It’s a wonderful feeling to keep going up, turning, and up again.
On the last floor, there were two closed doors with no locks, but when Xing Bi pushed them open, he could feel that the doors were quite thick.
It feels like there's something dangerous behind the door.
"Fire door," Xing Bi said, "don't be so nervous."
"Oh." Qiu Shi followed him and walked out of the opened door.
Outside is a hall with a glass roof, and there are many tables and chairs neatly placed. When you look up, you can see the night sky without any obstruction.
"What is this place?" Qiu Shi asked.
"A restaurant, always here during base gatherings," Xing Bi pulled him towards the end of the restaurant, "but we don't often attend."
"Is this the place you want to come to the most?" Qiu Shi couldn't understand.
"That's it." Xing Bi pointed forward.
There is a glass partition at the other end of the restaurant. It is quite large, and there is a... big basket in it.
"What is that?" Qiu Shi didn't understand for a long time.
"Hot air balloon." Xing Bi said.
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