End of the World

"Brother Jun, you have to be extra careful!" Everyone knew the danger of Chen Guangjun's mission and gave him warnings.

"Don't worry about me. Instead, don't worry too much about Wu Bin and the others. I believe a miracle will happen!" Chen Guangjun sighed secretly. He wanted to say something, but now was not the time.

Everyone nodded and started to eat. There was no point in just worrying as there was nothing we could do. They all missed the time when they were outside, when they could provide support if their companions were in danger. It was not like now where every minute was torture.

After a while, Fang Xiaoyun returned to the dining table and Xiao Xinxin had already eaten and gone to sleep.

"Xiao Xinxin has fallen asleep, everyone please be quiet!" Fang Xiaoyun made a gesture to silence everyone.

Everyone nodded, and Fang Xiaoyun said, "Xiao Xinxin told me that everyone has been acting strange these past two days, not talking much!"

Everyone looked at each other. Only the little girl in the camp didn't know what was going on. Unfortunately, they couldn't pretend they knew nothing.

"Guangjun came back to say goodbye before the mission!" Fang Xiaoyun looked at Chen Guangjun.

"Yes, I want to go to Longshan Shelter!"

"I heard that Longshan is very dangerous, so be careful!"

Chen Guangjun smiled and said, "Thank you, Doctor Fang, for your concern!"

Fang Xiaoyun rolled his eyes at him, then said to everyone sternly, "One more thing. From tomorrow on, don't go out unless necessary, and it's best not to have contact with outsiders!"

Everyone was stunned, a little confused, and looked at her.

"A group of special patients appeared in the military hospital. Their symptoms were very strange. I asked the emergency doctors, and they had never encountered such patients before. They are currently in the isolation ward!"

"Strange patient?"

"Well, the doctor is still looking for the cause. It may be some new disease or a plague!" Fang Xiaoyun said solemnly. Given the poor sanitary conditions nowadays, this is not impossible.

"Plague!" Everyone was shocked. Every time a plague occurs, a large number of people will die, especially in the current environment.

"Doctor Fang is right, there is a high possibility of a new plague appearing in the shelter!" Chen Guangjun thought of the corpses outside the city wall. The corpses of the zombies that had been eliminated before had not been dealt with at all. This was the best breeding ground for the plague.

"Sister Yun, do you know what the plague is?" He Yuxin asked.

"Virus transmission is not my strong point, I don't know much. The symptoms of the patients in the hospital are similar to smallpox. The patients are covered with red rashes, which will later swell with pus and ulcer. No one has died yet."

"Smallpox? What is smallpox?" Li Xun seemed to have heard of it somewhere.

"Smallpox is a highly contagious disease caused by the smallpox virus, but it has long been eradicated by humans. Historically, more than 90% of the Native Americans were killed by smallpox brought by Europeans!" said He Yuxin, who learned about it when she was studying history and biology in high school.

"It's just some of the symptoms similar to smallpox. Smallpox doesn't pose much of a threat to us right now!" Fang Xiaoyun said, "The hospital is still looking for the cause of the disease. Due to limited conditions, the hospital cannot isolate the virus strain, which means we will be plagued by this disease for a long time!"

"Especially Chen Guangjun, be careful when you go to Longshan to perform the mission. I noticed that some of the patients are survivors who escaped from Longshan!"

"Okay, I'll pay attention!" Chen Guangjun nodded. He had a hunch that the mission in Longshan would be very difficult. Plague and zombies were simply a golden combination.

After dinner, Chen Guangjun found He Yuxin alone. There were some things he could only tell her.

"Brother Jun, do you have anything else to say?" He Yuxin led Chen Guangjun to sit down and then asked.

"I have something to tell you, but it's best not to let anyone else know!" Chen Guangjun's face became serious.

"Why are you so serious?"

"Regarding the troops of Wu Bin and three others, according to what Old Zhu has learned, the new troops were left behind to provide cover, which is why the new troops did not come back!" Chen Guangjun spoke. He was quite shocked when he heard the news. Asking the new troops to provide cover, what a joke. Sure enough, the new troops lived up to expectations and no one came back.

"That means they were abandoned!" He Yuxin was of course aware that leaving the new troops behind to cover their retreat was to protect the main combat force, but as a family member of the new troops, she simply could not accept it.

"Why? Why is there such an order? Are the new troops not human?" He Yuxin covered her mouth and burst into tears.

Chen Guangjun remained silent. There was nothing wrong with the frontline commander doing this, but it was irrational and unacceptable. The difference in treatment was too obvious. The new troops were simply born by a stepmother.

"I understand. Don't worry, I won't tell anyone else!" Chen Guangjun was about to comfort her when He Yuxin stopped crying and walked out of the RV.

Chen Guangjun doesn’t know what impact this will have on her, I hope she can figure it out!

Late at night, He Yuxin climbed onto the roof of the RV and looked at the stars in the sky. The stars were twinkling as if blinking.

After hearing what Chen Guangjun said, she couldn't sleep. When she closed her eyes, she saw the image of Wu Bin. Sometimes she even felt short of breath. She thought that coming to the shelter was a mistake. It was not as peaceful as she had imagined. It might be very dangerous outside. At least she could live and die together with everyone, unlike now, when the east and the west were separated and she was suffering in waiting. Chen Guangjun was going on a mission tomorrow, and she didn't know what would happen.

"Yuxin, why haven't you slept yet? Why are you up here?" Fang Xiaoyun put her coat on He Yuxin's shoulders. The weather was gradually turning cooler.

"I can not sleep!"

"Did Chen Guangjun say something to you?" Fang Xiaoyun sat next to He Yuxin.

"Hmm!" Thinking of this, He Yuxin suddenly hated the shelter again.

"Wu Bin and the others must be fine. No matter what, we must have confidence in our own people and don't forget how we got here!" Fang Xiaoyun put her hand and gently patted He Yuxin's shoulder.

"I have confidence, but I am more worried in my heart!"

"You just care too much. Just calm down. At times like this, we can only let nature take its course."

"Sister Yun, have you never been in love?" He Yuxin asked after hearing Fang Xiaoyun's words.

"Why are you asking this?" Fang Xiaoyun was caught off guard.

"Because there's no one you care about the most!" He Yuxin looked at her and said.

"Shouldn't the people you care about the most be your parents?"

"My parents passed away when I was very young!" He Yuxin felt a little lost.

"I'm sorry, I didn't know." Fang Xiaoyun apologized. She really didn't know what He Yuxin's past situation was.

"It's okay, I'm used to it!"

"Is he really that worthy of your concern?"

"Sister Yun, you don't understand!" He Yuxin looked at the stars in the sky: "He was very good to me. He saved me at the beginning and gave me a gun to protect myself. We were in danger when we went to the gas station to get gas, but he didn't give up on me in the critical moment!"

"So you became his girlfriend. Yes, someone who is willing to take risks for you and treats you well is worthy of your trust!"

Fang Xiaoyun knew what happened later. She felt that Wu Bin was a reliable and honest person.

"Well, no flowery words, just practical things!" He Yuxin doesn't like people who speak too flowery words, she feels they are very hypocritical.

"Don't worry, they will be fine!"

……

Before dawn in the morning, the Army Aviation take-off and landing field was busy. The troops of the third battalion gathered together, and the company where Chen Guangjun was located was the first batch of troops.

There were no reports of large-scale corpse moth infestations in the Longshan shelter, so the Army Aviation could directly deploy troops to the vicinity of the Longshan combat readiness warehouse.

Soon the first batch of helicopters took off, carrying troops to the west and flying over the zombies.

"Our mission this time is to search for some kind of weapon in the Longshan strategic warehouse, but we don't have exact information about the floor, which means we have to search floor by floor. You know the situation in Longshan, so be careful!"

In the cabin, platoon leader Gong Shusen announced the mission content. The situation was urgent, the shelter would soon have to fight zombies, and they didn't have much time left.

As soon as Gong Shusen finished speaking, the fuselage of the helicopter shook violently, and then gunfire was heard faintly outside. The helicopter group was attacked by a small group of corpse moths. The pilots made emergency evasive maneuvers, and several helicopters were like frightened birds, increasing the distance between them.

The forest vegetation on the Longshan side is denser, so there will be fog in the morning, which seriously affects the flight. Unfortunately, the helicopter that the first row was in fell behind, and after the pilot avoided the corpse moths, he could not find the formation.

"Where are the other planes?" The captain looked around and did not see any other helicopters traveling with him. Unfortunately, their flight radar broke down a few days ago.

"There's no one in front, are you behind us?" the co-pilot replied.

"Uh!" The navigator at the back looked at the flight compass, drew something on the map and said, "We've deviated, about five degrees to the left!"

"Damn it!" said the captain, adjusting the route; now they were falling behind.

More than an hour later, a row of helicopters quickly approached the strategic warehouse. The sun had already risen.

The fog rose, but it had not completely dissipated, and the helicopter could not see the conditions at the landing site.

A yellow light came on in the cabin, and a row of soldiers immediately stood up to check their equipment.

"Go down! Help keep an eye on it!" The captain had no choice but to land even though he couldn't see.

The helicopter slowly descended, and at a height of more than 20 meters above the ground, it could see the situation on the ground. There were still many zombies gathered near the war preparation warehouse, and they were all attracted by the sound of the helicopter.

"Platoon Leader Gong, there are too many zombies on the ground. We can only put you on the top of the warehouse!" the captain shouted into the cabin.

Gong Shusen went to the cab to take a look and did not object: "Okay, why don't you see anyone else?"

"We fell behind when we were hiding from the corpse moths, they should be nearby!"

"Okay, let's descend!" Gong Shusen patted the captain on the shoulder and returned to the cabin.

The helicopter was hovering more than one meter above the top of the warehouse. Given the weight of the Z-9, it was very dangerous to park it on top of the warehouse.

The rear door of the helicopter opened, and a row of soldiers quickly jumped off the plane and stood guard on the spot.

"Alert! There are corpse moths approaching at the eight o'clock position in front of the helicopter!" The soldier who had just landed immediately discovered the attacking insects.

"cover!"

The two squads that had gotten off the plane immediately opened fire on the corpse moths in the distance. Since there were not many of them and they were discovered in time, they were destroyed before they could get close.

The soldiers in the cabin who heard the gunshots quickened their movements and quickly left the plane.

"Good luck to you!" The captain saluted the soldiers, pulled up the helicopter and completed the delivery mission.

Author's side note: It's not well written, the level is just like this