third rebirth

Most of the base is embedded in the mountain, without natural light, and the time can only be judged by the clock.

At seven o'clock in the evening, the cold dining room became lively again.Jiang Cancan, You Long's deputy team Lin Zhao, and Mayfly's Eryi, the three of them prepared a luxurious dinner on the spot - each person had a box of individual self-heating assorted fried rice, plus a piece of pork and egg roll.

34 people gathered around three large tables, and the four people from Mayfly were chatting with Jiang Cancan. They may all be nervous and straightforward, and they quickly started a friendly communication mode.

The scientists of the Academy of Engineering didn't know what they were arguing about. Professor Guo held a spoon in one hand and squeezed the draft paper in the other.Professor Chen next to him patted the table, and quickly stuffed the heart-saving pill into his mouth, as if he was going to pass in the next second.

Jia Lan, who was eating fried rice quickly with a stainless steel spoon, was stunned by this gesture. She kicked Jiang Cancan under the table, "Do you understand what they are arguing about? I can understand every word they say , but together, it is completely incomprehensible.”

Jiang Cancan nodded, pointing at Jialan and then at herself, "You, me, scumbags."

Jialan: "..."

Mayfly's man burst into laughter unceremoniously.

Ling Chen sat on Ye Xiao's left, and Ah Jiu sat on his right. After eating a few mouthfuls of pork and egg rolls, he poked in the fried rice with a spoon.

Seeing her, Ah Jiu asked Ye Xiao, "What's wrong?"

Ling Chen reached out and brought Ye Xiao's fried rice in front of him, carefully picked out all the carrots inside into his bowl, and ate it in one bite.

"Okay, let's eat."

Ye Xiao brought back the fried rice, with eyes curled up, obediently eating with a spoon.

Ah Jiu laughed, "I didn't expect Ye Xiao to be so picky."

Ling Chen had no choice but to say, "Well, I gradually stopped eating carrots."

Ah Jiu's eyes also softened, and she stared at Ye Xiao's side face—is it because she knows that some people will indulge unconditionally and help pick out foods she doesn't like, so she learned to picky eaters, right?

Among them, at least one person is different, which is really good.

After the noisy meal, Ling Chen stood up.Rarely, he buttoned every button of his clothes neatly, the belt was tied tightly, and the cold light fell from the top of his head, making his facial features more profound, and his whole person looked as sharp and unstoppable as a sharp sword.

After he got up, the whole dining room slowly fell silent, and the people in Erbu and Youlong straightened their backs subconsciously, with their hands on their knees—the standard military sitting posture.

In the dining room, a needle could be heard.

Ling Chen didn't smile, and said almost solemnly, "Today is August 2064, 8, the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, the Hungry Ghost Festival."

Everyone was startled, and then thought of something.

"It is said that in July and a half, the gate of ghosts opens, and the souls of the dead will return, so I opened another table for them." Ling Chen pointed to the table next to which there were bowls and chopsticks but no one was sitting, with a little relief in his voice , "The only worry is that this is a virtual world, and I don't know if they can find their way back."

After a while of silence, Lin Zhao, You Long's deputy, answered, "It's definitely possible!"

Twenty-one of Mayfly also raised his voice, "Ahe cooks delicious food and has a good sense of direction. With him leading the way, everyone will definitely not get lost!"

All the people present talked about the brothers who died, and those names that were so tightly suppressed in their hearts that they dared not mention it easily were all read out one by one.

"Tianye used to be a scout, so it's impossible to get lost!"

"Brother Long is a complete road idiot. Every time you go out on a mission, you have to keep an eye on people, otherwise, if you blink, you will get lost!"

"Lin Zi's leg was amputated, but Ah Hu and the others will definitely be able to carry him back..."

In the end, the seemingly empty table was really full of people returning from afar.

The next day, before dawn, Ye Xiao woke up first - woken up by Ling Chen.He felt something poking under his waist, and after struggling for a while, he still turned around lightly.

Ling Chen was still in a deep sleep, his eyes were closed, his breathing was calm, and one hand was firmly placed on his waist.Ye Xiao found that when Ling Chen fell asleep, it was very different from usual.There is less carelessness and laziness, and less sharpness and arrogance.Ye Xiao's heartbeat suddenly accelerated, he quietly stretched out his hand, and touched Ling Chen's cold lip line with his fingers.

got caught.

Ling Chen's eyes were still closed, but his aim was good, he grabbed Ye Xiao's finger and put it in his mouth, and bit it lightly.

Ye Xiao whispered, "Brother, you actually pretended to be asleep!"

"Fuck, it's early in the morning, don't call me brother." Ling Chen turned over, pushed Ye Xiao under him, and kissed Ye Xiao's delicate neck, his voice was still hoarse, "Something will happen, do you know?"

Ye Xiao's ears turned red, "Brother—Captain."

"Good boy." Ling Chen half-closed his eyes, responded lazily, rubbed the tip of his nose against Ye Xiao's, and coaxed, "Come on, open your mouth and let the captain kiss you."

Ye Xiao opened his mouth.

Ten minutes later, Ye Xiao's lips and the tip of his tongue were numb, and his eyes were watery, "I obviously said to kiss you!"

Like a satiated lion, Ling Chen held his little prey in his arms and coaxed him, "Brother was wrong, it was because he couldn't hold back, and he scratched the skin of our little Mao Mao's lips."

Ye Xiao hummed.

"But there is no way, once we kiss, we will be inseparable. Who told us that our little Maomao is sweeter than toffee."

After hearing this sentence, Ye Xiao buried his head in his arms, and then heard Ling Chen's chuckle.

Noticing that Ling Chen was still poking, Ye Xiao raised his head, "Do you want me to help?" He looked away, "I did some research..."

Ling Chen asked with great interest, "How did you study it?"

Ye Xiao replied honestly, "I studied it on myself, when you fell asleep."

"Fuck," Ling Chen closed his eyes, and the fire in his heart burst out, he hugged the person and kneaded and squeezed, "Then brother's acceptance inspection result?"

Ye Xiao nodded, "Okay."

Ling Chen leaned over and rubbed the corner of Ye Xiao's mouth with his lips. Suddenly, there was a "bang bang" knock on the door, followed by Jiang Cancan's voice, "Brother Chen, there is news from Professor Bai!"

After a pause, Ling Chen sat up and shouted towards the door, "Come right away!" He held Ye Xiao's head and kissed him deeply, "Go, go and have a look."

The room of Jiang Mu and Jiang Cancan was crowded with people again.Jiang Mu pointed to the dialog box that popped up on the screen, "I set up a trigger system before. If there is a message from Professor Bai, the notification will sound. Five minutes ago, the notification sounded."

Ling Chen put his arm around Ye Xiao's shoulder, and put the other hand in his pocket. The looseness of his body had faded away. He stared at the screen, "Open it and see what it is."

After the clicking sound of "click", a few lines of text jumped out.

"Successful breakout, reducing the injury of the old general." At the end of the text are a coordinate and a string of numbers.

Ling Chen explained, "The last string of numbers is my birthday, accurate to the second, Professor Bai probably has no time to think of a password." He simply used his son's birthday to identify himself.

With dark clouds on Jialan's face, he slammed his fist on the wall.

Ling Chen didn't say much, turned around and ordered, "Wu Ziyan and You Long will continue to stay at Mayfly's base, and I will take people to the coordinate point to meet them."

Wu Ziyan knew that it was useless to object, so he responded, "Okay, go early and return early."

Ling Chen nodded, "Protect Professor Guo and the others."

Wu Ziyan made a substandard military salute with his left hand, "Don't worry."

Before the sun rose, Ling Chen and the others got into the car again.Jiang Cancan tidied up his backpack and sighed, "It's really a big debt to Mayfly. If it weren't for them, we would still be wandering in the barren mountains and mountains."

As he spoke, he smiled slightly, "When I just came out, I met that boy Erianyi, and he said that there was another one who couldn't hold on anymore. Professor Zheng also went to see it, and said that it is very rare to be able to hold on till now. Can you find a way to ease the pain."

He straightened up and asked Ling Chen, "We can stop these behaviors, right?"

Ling Chen gave an affirmative answer, "Yes."

"Okay." Jiang Cancan grinned and showed his big white teeth, and started humming again, "I have a little donkey that I never ride..."

District D is separated from District [-] and District [-]. If you don't want to take a detour, you can only cross it.After Ling Chen and his armored vehicles drove into Area D, they waited by a lake according to the coordinates sent by Bai Hengyun.

Jiang Cancan knows how to have fun. He cut off evenly-sized branches with a saber, found a thin thread, and bent out a fishhook. He made three fishing rods with strong hands-on ability. Sit in a row and fish leisurely.

Ling Chen lay on the grass by the lake, broke off grass stems to weave a bird for Ye Xiao.Seeing Ye Xiao smiling at him, his bones were completely loose.

But before Jiang Cancan and the others successfully caught the fish, a group of birds suddenly startled in the distant woods.

Ye Xiao stood up with the straw bird hooked in his hand, "Captain, there is movement over there."

Jialan and the others quickly put away their fishing rods and gathered over. Jiang Cancan held a military binoculars, "Several trees have fallen, so there are mobs spawned again?"

At this time, a deep howling sound came, and Jiang Cancan was wondering what kind of animal it was, when he suddenly noticed a few small dots appeared on the edge of the forest, and looked carefully, "Damn it, it seems to be Professor Bai and the others!"

Ling Chen took the binoculars and confirmed, "It's them, let's go, get in the car!"

On the vast flat ground, the armored vehicle was speeding towards the direction of the woods. Jialan was holding the steering wheel, "Professor Bai and the others, did they encounter a mob? The trees fell, and there was a lot of movement."

Jiang Cancan jumped down from the roof of the car with a binoculars, "Look clearly, it's a bison! It's huge, about a dozen of them, and the black horns are turned out. It looks very difficult to mess with! Professor Bai and the others are fighting back, but the off-track in D area The rate is too scary, the first time they come in, they can't get it right."

Ling Chen sat in the co-pilot and instructed Jiang Cancan to reload the bomb. Half a minute later, his right hand wearing a camouflage glove held the black joystick, pulled it down, and a bomb was ejected with a "boom".The off-track was quickly calculated, and the next five bombs were not wasted, all of which were accurately dropped on the bison.

The bison was attacked, its fierceness was aroused, and it ran faster.Jialan also accelerated, and couldn't help but ask, "Damn it, those bison with such a big pair of horns are running so fast?"

Jiang Cancan held on to the bomb-loading device, "Brother, Master Can, I'm about to be thrown up!"

Jialan stepped on the accelerator, glanced at the rearview mirror, "Hold it!"

Jialan's driving skills have been honed in the fire, and it has withstood the test. Several times, the car body shook so much that Jiang Cancan thought it was going to roll over, but he stabilized it.Soon, the armored vehicle they were in brushed past Bai Hengyun and their convoy, heading straight for the herd of bison.

Jiang Cancan took a few glances, "It's even scarier when you look up close. Is this a buffalo? An elephant! How big is a buffalo?"

Ling Chen commanded, "Drive to the right!"

Jia Lan understood Ling Chen's plan, and turned the steering wheel violently, the tires and the ground made a rubbing sound, and sparks flew up.After a sharp turn at high speed, the armored vehicle rushed to the right, and then a beautiful tail flick stopped the vehicle.

As soon as it came to a complete stop, the direction of the vehicle's muzzle had been adjusted. "Boom—boom—" there were several consecutive vibrating sounds, and the buffalo lost most of them immediately.

At this time, Ye Xiao, who had been watching from the side, sharpened his eyes, and nimbly climbed onto the roof of the car with a knife in his hand.

Jiang Cancan hadn't reacted yet, "Why did the kid go?"

Ling Chen explained, "There is a smaller one that rushed towards the side of the carriage."

Ye Xiao stood on the roof of the car, the wind was so strong that it made his clothes rattle.After moving his ankle twice, he bit the bandage with his teeth and tightened it, holding the handle of the knife with his right hand.

When the distance was close enough that the bison's eyes could be seen clearly, Ye Xiao didn't run up, and took off directly on the spot, as if stepping on the wind, the tip of the knife pierced the bison's right eye. With a sound of "呲", the blade of the knife with a cold light sank from the eye sockets. Ye Xiao turned his wrist, pressed the handle of the knife, and spun half a circle in mid-air, and finally landed firmly on the back of the bison. Hold the handle and spin it hard!

With a scream of "Moo--", the buffalo wanted to throw Ye Xiao off like crazy, but Ye Xiao was extremely stable, still holding on to the handle of the knife and not letting go.

After a few long calls, the bison knelt down on its forelegs and disappeared after a while.

Ye Xiao pulled out the long knife before the buffalo disappeared, then jumped up with his strength, and landed smoothly like a peregrine falcon.

At this time, Ling Chen had also cleared the buffalo herd, and the air was full of the smell of gunpowder.As soon as Ye Xiao put away the knife, Ling Chen jumped out of the car, and the armored car that Bai Hengyun was in also slowly drove over.

The car door opened, Bai Hengyun and Ling Dingnan got down, both of them were covered with blood.

Bai Hengyun nodded towards Ling Chen, quickly looked at Jia Lan behind him, and said gently, "The old general is in the car."

Jialan let out a "hmm" and strode towards the rear compartment.

Yang Xiao and Zhang Yi, the captains of the Second Reserve Team, got off from the car behind them. Both of them were injured, but they were in good spirits. They ran in front of Ling Chen in a few steps, and almost hugged Ling Chen's thigh and howled, " Command! We thought we would never see your heroic figure again!"

Ling Chen scolded with a smile, "Goofy, why are you so virtuous!"

Zhang Yi replied with a smile, "I learned from Master Can!"

The pot came from the sky, Jiang Cancan looked confused, "Damn it, do you want to fight?"

The crowd burst into laughter.

Next to him, Bai Hengyun looked at Ye Xiao, the wrinkles at the end of his eyes were tender, "We, Ye Xiao, are even stronger. We just blocked the attack of the bison with our long knife."

Ye Xiao's ears were hot, he hesitated for a few seconds, boldly stepped forward, hugged Bai Hengyun cautiously, and said softly, "It's good that you're fine."

Bai Hengyun was a little surprised by this hug, but soon laughed again. She patted Ye Xiao's thin back, "Well, mom is relieved to see that you are also safe."