On how to avoid being cannon fodder

"Evening news on September 2023, 9. Defense Minister Mu Wei alone tracked down the traces of the chaotic party absconding outside and cleaned it up the next day. None of the 31 members of the chaotic gang escaped."

"Evening news on February 2024, 2. Defense Minister Mu Wei jointly developed a new type of surveillance equipment 'Hummingbird'. Compared with traditional surveillance cameras, this device is superior in monitoring picture clarity, production costs, and energy consumption. With substantial improvements, a large-scale replacement promotion will be carried out next month."

"Morning news on August 2024, 8. In the month since the replacement of the new monitoring device 'Hummingbird' was completed, a large number of absconding criminals have been arrested..."

"Evening news for November 2025, 11. Crime has dropped dramatically in recent years..."

“2025年12月9日早间新闻。12月9日05:28,东沵市麒麟铝场发生特大火灾，并伴随有大量爆炸,目前已确定有39人死亡，21人重伤……”

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"Mu Wei, do you really not think about continuing to be the Minister of Defense?" Huo Kun sighed.

Ji Wenyuan held the phone to his ear with one hand, and took out the key with the other hand to open the door.The expression on his face was very calm: "No, I still want to be a pianist."

Huo Kun sighed on the other end of the phone: "Didn't you study engineering? It's good to work in a research institute, why would you want to be a pianist?"

Ji Wenyuan was unmoved: "There are so many reasons." The level of alien beasts in this world is too low, so he has no desire to do anything at all.If it weren't for the years just after the end of the world, when everyone was busy with restorative construction, and there was no time to develop the entertainment industry, he would not have taken the job of Minister of Defense in the first place.

"Okay, okay. Tomorrow you are going to visit those employees who were injured in the fire, and I will send a car to pick you up." Huo Kun said helplessly.

Ji Wenyuan hung up the phone, and his eyes fell on an oil painting hanging in the center of the living room wall.

It was an oil painting he painted last year, and there were two people in the painting—he and Han Yanghao.On the screen, they were walking side by side under the sun. Han Yanghao took off his pair of black-rimmed plain glasses and smiled brightly and recklessly.

Ji Wenyuan's eyes were on Han Yanghao's smile in the painting, his face paused for a few seconds, and then he moved away quickly.

"The employees of the Kylin Aluminum Factory are basically assigned to this area, please come in." The director of the hospital led Ji Wenyuan into the room.

When the students in the ward saw someone coming in, they all cast their eyes.When they saw Ji Wenyuan's recognizable face, they immediately became excited. If they hadn't been tied up like mummies, they would have rushed forward to ask for autographs.

That's Mu Wei, the strongest person in the world!Even if he doesn't mention his status as the Minister of Defense who is very bluffing at first sight, just looking at his face and figure, he can instantly kill a lot of celebrities.

Ji Wenyuan has long been familiar with this kind of visitation work.Although this kind of work is theoretically not under the control of the Minister of Defense, who asked him to hang up a idle job?As a result, more than half of these reputational matters were piled on his head.

As usual, he said politely one by one, and after dealing with the group of wounded who wanted to take pictures together, Ji Wenyuan followed the dean out of the ward.

The dean led the way, led him to another ward, and said with a smile: "This ward is the one with the most serious injuries. When we first saw him, we thought he couldn't make it through. He To be alive is simply the greatest miracle!"

The dean opened the door lightly, probed in and took a look, and found that the people inside were still awake, so he opened the door and let Ji Wenyuan in.

There was only one person in this ward, and that person was lying on the bed watching TV, his whole body was covered with gauze, only a pair of eyes were exposed.Hearing the movement, the man turned his eyes to look at them.

The dean walked in first, smiled and said to him: "Lin Hao, Minister Mu of the Ministry of National Defense has come to see you."

Lin Hao's eyes fell on Ji Wenyuan.

Ji Wenyuan was also looking at him, and the eyes of the two happened to meet.

After staring at each other for two full seconds, a smile appeared on Ji Wenyuan's face: "Lin Hao? That's a good name."

The person on the hospital bed blinked but did not speak.

The dean quickly explained: "His vocal cords are a little injured, and he can't speak for the time being."

Ji Wenyuan smiled and took out a dark blue pistol.Its gun body is engraved with a gorgeous sun pattern, which looks delicate and mysterious.

He put the gun on the bedside table, and said in a gentle voice, "If you survive a catastrophe, you will be blessed. This gun I made with my own hands is for you. I hope you like it."

The dean was a little embarrassed, he wanted to stop it but because Ji Wenyuan didn't dare to send it off, he hesitated to speak beside him.

Ji Wenyuan knew what he was struggling with.In the last days, a large number of firearms flowed into the people. After the end of the last days, because of the threat of alien beasts, the government could not ban the use of firearms.But now with the improvement of the system and the birth of a large number of supernatural experts, the supervision of thermal weapons has become more and more strict.

Like the gun Ji Wenyuan sent out, it doesn't look like ordinary goods, and it is probably within the scope of control.

"It doesn't matter, I believe he will take good care of this gun." Ji Wenyuan looked at Lin Hao with a smile.

……

late at night.

Lin Hao on the hospital bed suddenly opened his eyes.His originally black pupils suddenly emitted a silver light, and his body, judged by the doctors to be seriously injured and unable to move, sat up.The monitoring equipment in the ward seemed to be malfunctioning, and no abnormalities were detected.

He raised his hand to pick up the pistol on the bedside table and put it in front of his eyes. His gaze fell on the sun pattern and he stared at it for a long time.

"Like it?"

Lin Hao was startled and looked up.

On the windowsill, a handsome man in a black windbreaker looked at him with a smile.

Lin Hao's eyes flickered, but he didn't speak.

Ji Wenyuan jumped off the window sill, stared into Lin Hao's eyes, and approached slowly.The smile on his face gradually deepened, and the depths of his dark pupils gradually became dark blue, making him look even more mysterious and charming.

"Do you like it?" He asked again, putting his hands on both sides of Lin Hao's head, his lips close to his ears covered by gauze, and lowering his voice: "Yang Hao."

Lin Hao's pupils shrank sharply.

"How...how did you recognize it?" He was silent for a while, then asked slowly.

Ji Wenyuan chuckled in his ear: "Because I remember your eyes."

Han Yanghao retorted dissatisfied: "You are talking nonsense! How does Lin Hao's eyes look like mine?"

Ji Wenyuan put a gentle kiss on his eyes: "But your eyes have not changed. And - your soul fluctuations are exactly the same as before."

Han Yanghao was silent for a while, lowered his eyelids and said anxiously: "I robbed someone else's body, do you think I'm scary? Actually, no, this person is basically dead, I..."

"No need to explain, I know." Ji Wenyuan interrupted him with a smile, got up and sat on the edge of the bed.

Han Yanghao could see that there was only joy in his eyes, not the ecstasy of finding something lost, nor the disgust and fear that one should have when seeing a monster who would take away another's body.

More like the joy of reunion after a long absence.

Ji Wenyuan's eyes instantly soothed Han Yanghao's uneasy heart, allowing him to calm down again.

"Did you already know?" Han Yanghao couldn't help asking.

Ji Wenyuan explained softly: "I didn't know at first, but when I think about it later, I became a little suspicious. You are a psychic superpower, and your soul strength must be very good. Even if a person like you is dead, the mental fluctuations should be Being able to keep it in your body for at least a day will not dissipate completely, but when I rushed there, I couldn't detect your mental fluctuations. This is not in line with common sense, so I guess your soul did not dissipate, but left dead body."

Han Yanghao looked up at him, looked at his eyes without a trace of disgust, and suddenly felt that his chest was blocked by joy, making him unable to breathe.

In the past two years, he has been wandering around like a wandering spirit, unable to touch anything, only the method of hypnosis can still be used.But these weren't what bothered him the most.

What made him feel the most unacceptable was the eternal separation from his lover.He couldn't touch Ji Wenyuan, looked at Ji Wenyuan's face close at hand, felt sorry for himself, and felt particularly uncomfortable when he stared at the portrait he drew for himself with a heavy expression every day when he went home.

It's a torture.

After working hard for a long time, he finally mastered the power of the "ghost" and realized the method of returning the soul from the corpse.

When he learned that Ji Wenyuan was coming to visit the injured employee, he rushed here almost immediately, chose this dying person who had no relatives or friends to possess him, and then used his own strength to quietly to repair his body.

He was almost counting the seconds waiting for the moment to reunite with Ji Wenyuan.

It doesn't matter if his lover doesn't recognize him.

It doesn't matter if they can't be lovers anymore.

As long as Ji Wenyuan can set his eyes on him again, it will be fine.

But what a surprise the reality gave him!

Ji Wenyuan gently pressed his forehead against Han Yanghao's forehead through the gauze, and said softly, "I'm very happy, very happy. You are also an awakener, which is really great."

Han Yanghao was a little surprised, and asked: "Awakened? What is that?"

Ji Wenyuan smiled and said: "Don't worry, I will explain it to you slowly in the future, and I will tell you everything. But what I have to tell you first is——My name is Ji Wenyuan."

"Ji Wenyuan? Is that your real name? Are you an awakened one too?"

"Well, when we leave this world, I'll take you to a place for vacation."

"You can only go there after you die, isn't it hell?"

"Of course not, there is another world, my hometown - the Norman Empire. I believe you will like it there."