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Bells strike, fireworks go off, and it's just in time for the new year.

The director appeared by the fireplace and bowed slightly towards Gu Zhou and Doctor Xiaoye: "Lieutenant Colonel Gu, Doctor Xiaoye, happy new year."

"I have a timed video here, do you want to check it?"

Gu Zhou turned his head slowly, and looked at the director with a blank expression: "What timed video? Who is the publisher?"

The director said: "The video was left by Lieutenant Colonel Kashiwa 43 days ago. It is scheduled to be played in front of you at 12 o'clock on New Year's Eve. Would you like to play it?"

Gu Zhou sat with his knees bent, his right hand firmly pressed his left little finger, a pain from the heavy pressure on the joint went from the sensor of the knuckle to the cerebral cortex along the long nerve pathway, he thought: brother, you really didn’t I thought about coming back to spend the New Year with me.

Doctor Xiaoye took a look at Gu Zhou's expression, and was a little confused whether it would be better to stay here or slip away quietly at this time, but before he could figure out why, Gu Zhou's cold voice came: Play it."

The director disappeared and turned into a familiar room, which was Gu Zhou's bedroom.

Bai Yue sat on the edge of the bed wrapped in a bandage, looked at the camera, put his hands on the edge of the bed, and said casually:

"Chuan'er, let me say a happy new year first, lest the time will not work, I hope you will be healthy and happy in the new year.

"I haven't memorized a few poems. After all, I joined the army when I was an adult. I didn't receive the education like you, but I know that there is a very good sentence, which is called people have sorrows and joys, and the moon has cloudy and sunny cycles. This matter is ancient. It's difficult, so don't be sad, after all, I know that you must have silently written down several strokes in your heart.

"In fact, we should all know that if the outside temperature continues to drop according to the current law, it is very likely that human beings will not be able to survive outside in less than a month. Correspondingly, there are also zombies who are dying together, or in other words, there are zombies in their bodies. Virus.

"Taking advantage of this month's time, I have to work with Miao Miao and the others to recover the lost land and revitalize Huaguo, right? After all, the zombies are immortal, so why should I do my homework? I will come back to accompany you to do scientific research after I have settled the outside affairs. Okay? But my brother's brain is not very bright, and he may not be able to do anything with technical content.

"But I can help you guard this piece of Gobi. I can accompany you through every empty corridor in the institute and wait for you at the door of the laboratory. If you don't want to, I can also leave a light in the room every night. When you come back, I will peel the candy for you, and then supervise you brushing your teeth.

"Okay, I've said so much nonsense, just want to see you, even if I used to see you through the director's eyes and listen to your words, then at the same moment in an unknown place, I would feel It's like meeting you face to face.

"Xiao Chuaner, brother will always love you."

The light and shadow disappeared, and the side of the fireplace became empty again.

Doctor Xiaoye jumped into the quilt, wiped away the tears on his face, and then sneaked a look at Gu Zhou by the window from the gap in the quilt.

Gu Zhou didn't move at all, even his expression didn't change, he just quietly disappeared in the place where Bai Yue disappeared.

After a long time, he said softly: "Don't think I'll forgive you just by recording a video, wait until you come back to see if I will let you in."

After finishing speaking, Gu Zhou's eyes seemed to be red, and then he was quickly suppressed by him, and he murmured as if to cover up: "I'm so stupid, there is only one Ye Jianguo left before you, do you want to be with him?" Get together?"

Doctor Xiaoye was filled with grief and vanished into nothingness, a kind of deep grief and anger of being rejected welled up in his heart.

After arguing for a long time, I am the unfavored fake younger brother of my Brother Bai and Brother Zhou!

After watching the video, Gu Zhou didn't seem to be different, but he seemed to feel that everything was different.

Dr. Xiaoye huddled under the quilt, silently thinking:

After leaving the research institute, I came back with great difficulty, only to find that the teacher who promised to wait for me to come back had left; I finally met Brother Bai, but a piece of information, a box of antibodies, and a temperature drop separated the two of them thousands of miles away, and they agreed to be together We can only spend the New Year on different sides.

Behind these two separations lies the future of mankind and the mission of soldiers.

Therefore, this is a kind of life and death that makes people sad but cannot be sad.

On the night of New Year's Eve, the two finally did not stay in the Bailou overnight.

Gu Zhou led Dr. Xiaoye slowly back to the basement of the research institute amidst the director's sirens, and then slowly returned to the room, washed and slept.

A new day, a new year, everything will go on as usual.

Day after day, year after year.

During this year, Gu Zhou would receive timed videos recorded by Bai Yue every holiday. The people in the videos always looked like they were wrapped in bandages, as if time had stopped forever on him. But in the long river of time, only Gu Zhou and Xiaoye were left in the daytime, being carried forward together.

At night, only Gu Zhou himself was left feeling powerless and pale in the passing time.

At the end of the video, Bai Yue said less and less, no longer rambling about something, but simply wishing them both a happy holiday, reminding Gu Zhou to eat on time, and telling them to take care of each other, and then nothing other.

On the calendar in Gu Zhou’s bedroom, every holiday was bolded with red pen. Gradually, he felt that the date and week had become meaningless. The correct way of counting time should be how many days until the next holiday.

This state has continued for a year.

There are still ten days until New Year's Day.

Gu Zhou crossed out the numbers on the calendar with a pen, then stared at the red January 1 in a daze.

There are still five days until New Year's Day.

One more day.

Lying in the darkness, Gu Zhou suddenly thought that not far away, his teacher had the same trouble sleeping.

New Year.

Bai Yue's figure appeared as expected. This time, he was no longer sitting on the bed wrapped in bandages, but sitting in a wheelchair, wearing a thick down jacket for going out, looking for the camera while wearing gloves.

This is what Bai Yue was wearing before leaving the research institute.

Gu Zhou's brows furrowed imperceptibly.

In the video, Bai Yue put on his gloves, smiled wryly, and said, "Chuan'er, I really don't want you to see this video, but if you see it, it means that a year has passed, and I don't know what I am doing now." But as long as I know that you will be fine in the research institute, then I will be satisfied.

"If there is still a day when the ice and snow thaw, as long as human footprints can appear on the surface again, then I must print the first footprint on it. The place where the toes are facing is you, and the place where the eyes are looking is you. The place is also you.

"This, I hope you can firmly believe, because I will firmly believe in this belief until the end of my life."

After Bai Yue said this, he suddenly fell silent.

Gu Zhou clenched his fists by his sides, and tasted a trace of blood in his mouth.

Sure enough, Bai Yue was silent for a moment, and then continued: "Since we have reached this point, brother has one last request, Xiao Chuaner, can you try to forget brother? I can't promise anything, so I hope you can be peaceful." An'an, live happily ever after, after all, in another nine years, you still have a teacher, right?

"If I can't come back, I hope you can tell him with a smile without any scruples, you have met a very good boy, and you are very good friends——

"——also a former lover."

wow-

A white porcelain cup was smashed at the foot of the bed, and the sweet and greasy honey grapefruit tea inside spilled out, leaving a ring of water stains on the floor.

Gu Zhou stared at the pile of glass shards with red eyes, and then wanted to throw another cup of the same style on the bedside.

Raise your hands above your head, and then freeze all at once.

Gu Zhou retracted his hand a little stiffly, then stared at the cup for a while, then carefully put it back on the bedside.

He leaned against the wall and squatted down slowly, and then murmured: "You are dreaming! Isn't it just low temperature? Isn't it just a year? Isn't it just to clean up the zombies? I don't believe you can do anything..."

"If you really don't come back at that time, I will tell my teacher that I met a person who not only took me to climb trees and over walls when I was young, but also abandoned me when I grew up. It's a little more disgusting..."

……

The room was terribly quiet all night, as if nothing had happened, and the owner just slept peacefully in it.

The next day, Gu Zhou appeared in the activity room as usual, celebrated the festival with Dr. Xiaoye as usual, ate hot pot and watched movies as usual, and even cooked a bowl of white fungus and wolfberry soup himself, saying that it was for Dr. Xiaoye's body.

But since that day, Gu Zhou's house has never left a calendar.

On New Year's Eve, there was no director who suddenly appeared and asked with a smile if they wanted to play a timed video.

The long river of time rolls forward.

But our memory keeps going backwards.

Day after day, year after year.

Until one day, Gu Zhou finally discovered the breakthrough point of the parasitic virus, he discovered a crucial inert gene.

This is a small gene of only a few hundred base pairs, hidden deep in the shifting RNA chain, compiled into a small protein, which grows on the edge of the parasitic virus' shell.

This small protein can tightly bind to the surface of human cells, and then inject its own genetic material into the cells to complete parasitism and infection.

The reason why it is called an inert gene is because this gene is not only important, but also has never mutated in countless experiments.

This is the natural antibody target.

As a result, those loves between children were briefly left behind, and Gu Zhou and Dr. Xiaoye began various attempts, hoping to find a receptor that matched that key protein.

The roar of the machine running all night and all night, the incandescent lamps in the laboratory were worn out several times, and the glass doors opened and closed...

In this second new year, a new year without Bai Yue regularly appearing, time has finally quietly reached the end of the year.

For more than half a year, Gu Zhou and Dr. Xiaoye lost a lot of weight, and finally got the preliminary antibody late at night.

Judging from the experimental results, the antibody protein and the protein compiled by the inert gene can fit perfectly, that is to say, this parasite-like virus has lost the ability to bind to human cells.

Moreover, they finally no longer need to use human embryonic cells as the carrier of antibodies.

Everything is going in the right direction.

Except for the fact that satellite communication is still blocked, there is still no one in the desert.

It was the third time that Gu Zhou and Xiaoye sat face to face in an empty restaurant, eating hot pot, drinking red wine, making jokes they had been making for more than two years, and talking about old-fashioned things from a few years ago. joke.

The two glasses collided, and the deep red wine rippled.

Gu Zhou smiled and said, "Congratulations."

Doctor Xiaoye: "Fortheworld."

"For the human."

"Andforus."

……

After drinking for three rounds, Gu Zhou propped his forehead, a little dizzy.

Doctor Xiaoye was half lying on the chair, and said dizzily, "Brother Zhou, I don't want to move anymore, let's just watch the Spring Festival Gala here."

Saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new, happy new year.

The host wore a fiery red dress and said with a smile:

"Day and night, year after year, we will see each other."

The light and shadow faded away amidst the receding hustle and bustle. Several warm yellow floor lamps were lit in the dining room. In the dim light, Gu Zhou rubbed Dr. Xiaoye's head and said, "Xiaoye, do you know? Although we Antibodies have been developed, but we have never defeated this strange creature, or virus, on the contrary, the virus actually let us go."

"The earth has let us go."

"If there is no such severe cold to create a sterile environment outside, to seal up all the viruses, to freeze to death the parasitic viruses without hosts, to freeze all the zombies, and to put the viruses into a deep sleep, then even if we have antibodies, this battle will make human beings There will be no end to the heavy loss campaign.

"Limited drinking water, food pollution, and zombies that may suddenly jump out from any corner, these will become the biggest challenges for human survival in the future.

"If I am not a firm atheist, then I will definitely think that this is God's will. Humans plunder the earth, encroach on the resources that other creatures should have, and use the lives of other species to develop their own civilization. This azure planet was completely destroyed, and in the end, it finally tasted the consequences.

"So I even wonder if we are mayflies living on the earth. The earth has its own consciousness and protection mechanism. When she feels that we have caused unbalanced damage to her body, she is like a human being who is sick and takes medicine. , released other things in her body to offset the harm humans did to her.

"In fact, every kind of life has the right to live. We exhaust all the power of human civilization, and all people sacrifice their lives. Isn't it just for the reproduction of a race and the continuation of civilization?

"Then when we are chasing and killing other creatures, have you ever thought that they may also die one day and hope that the race will continue? The only difference is whether they succeed or not.

"But look, how fair the earth is."

All the cruel sins we have committed against other races come back on us.

The author has something to say:

This article is coming to an end (but it’s not over yet!!! This article will definitely be HE!!! I’ll post candy!!!)

The author suddenly wants to be long-winded

The whole article was written on a whim during the epidemic. After seeing too many retrograde firefighters and angels in white, I had Dr. Xiaoye, the team leader, Zhao Tiantian, Luo Changhe, Feng Biao, Ge Tu, Cheng Zhi and Cheng Yuan. , in the book, they are for such a vigorous battle and retrograde warriors.

So even if the author is very confused, he still wants to finish writing this article.

I hope that in the real society, there is no need for people to go retrograde. Each of us cherishes the hard-won peace around us and loves the great home of the earth, because sometimes it is not too late to make up for it. Some people are in disasters. Losing a loved one, some people are forced to say goodbye in a disaster, and life and death are often accompanied by it.

Finally, I also hope that each of us has enough courage when we need to go retrograde.