Yuqiongyin

Rong Yunqi turned his head and looked at Ji Chenning beside him. She was wearing a black dress, a very ordinary style, which was rarely seen in the apocalypse.

She wore a black hat on her head, and her short hair had grown a little longer and fell softly on her shoulders. She held a bunch of white flowers and stood quietly in front of the newest martyrs' monuments in the cemetery. The warm yellow light from the top of the Sky Eye Base fell on her.

She was staring at something silently. Although he couldn't see her eyes, Rong Yunjie knew her inner struggle and helplessness.

"What are you thinking about?"

Ji Chenning came back to her senses from her memories, squatted down and placed the flowers in front of the martyrs' monument. She looked calm and said, "Sometimes I wonder what's the point of guarding this base. I've been through life and death many times but no one understands me. Even if I sacrificed myself and became a hero, I'm dead and I won't come back."

She stood up and turned to look at the sad families of the martyrs, "For them, the ones who really stayed behind are the most miserable."

"They are aware of the dangers of every mission, and perhaps they have said their final goodbyes before this. What are you defending and what is the meaning of protecting the base? I think you need to figure it out yourself."

Ji Chenning was silent for a moment, then nodded, "I know."

"Shen Ning!"

Jin Zi, who had just stepped into the Martyrs' Cemetery, ran to Ji Chenning in a panic, "Did you know about the news that was just released? Why, why didn't you tell me?"

Jinzi's eyes were red, and he held Ji Chenning's shoulders tightly with both hands, feeling a little excited.

"I just received the news from Su Ze yesterday at noon, and I don't know how to tell you." Ji Chenning tilted his head slightly, unable to bear to see the tear marks on Jin Zi's face.

Jinzi let go of his hand somewhat dejectedly and looked at the row of martyrs' monuments. Mu Qing's name was engraved in neat cursive script on the tombstones.

The two living people now meet again through a cold tombstone.

It's unbelievable.

Her throat choked, and she raised her hand tremblingly, touching the name on the tombstone.

“Chen Ning, tell me, if I smoke here, will Mu Qing scold me again…” Jin Zi mumbled with a cigarette in his mouth, and his hand that lit the cigarette was trembling slightly.

“Squeak, snap, snap.”

After several attempts to light the fire, Jin Zi squatted down weakly and buried his head deeply, biting his lip and cursing: "Mu Qing, you bastard... You didn't even let me smoke after you left..."

Ji Chenning stood beside her silently and put his hat on her head. "Go ahead and cry. You don't have to hold it in."

Jinzi held the cigarette tightly and burst into tears.

Her Mu Qing will never come back.

*

After sending the exhausted and unconscious Jin Zi back, Ji Chenning and Rong Yunqiu walked in the underground city of the Sky Eye Base.

"Jinzi looks fine. He just dealt with so many zombies and was mentally traumatized. He needs to rest more now. You don't need to worry too much."

Seeing that Ji Chenning remained silent, Rong Yunluo couldn't help but comfort her.

"I know that Jin Zi will recover. Yin Zi and Yin He have been imprisoned by Ye Xuan, and the monitoring device on me has been removed. However, you have not told me the side effects of the S-021 potion."

Rong Yunqiu was stunned for a moment, then he realized that he had been worrying for nothing.

“The S-021 drug is addictive, and secondly, it will accelerate the process of zombie transformation of semi-infected people. Yinzi did not emphasize this point in his previous report.

The S-021 drug and the T-031 drug developed by Professor Fu have mutually exclusive effects, which disrupts the original balance in the host's body and weakens the effectiveness of the antibodies produced in the host's body, thus accelerating the process of half-infected people turning into zombies."