under the tower

After another day of running around, when dusk approached, the satellite cloud image showed that there were no traces of aberrant people in a radius of ten kilometers.

Their efficiency was very high, they cleaned up tens of thousands of abnormal people in just two days, and there were rotting corpses full of stomachs everywhere in the mountain.

The ammunition that was originally abundant in the car was basically exhausted.

In the rest of the day, they never encountered the weird monsters before, and everything went very smoothly, and there were no casualties.

After the cleanup, the armored vehicle began to return to the gate of the base, and the signal inside the base could be received about ten kilometers away from the gate of the base. Generally speaking, the base will monitor the outside in real time after dispatching troops to go out to eliminate the aberrants In some cases, a recall order will be issued after the number of deformed people drops to the safety line, but this time they have not received the notice from the base to return to the city, so they can only send an application to inform the base by themselves—the task has been completed, and they must hurry up The city gate let us go back.

After entering the suburban plain area, you can see that many armored vehicles have gathered there, and there are several vehicles parked outside the gate of the base. They beep their horns and ask the base to open the gate.

After about half an hour, the situation got worse and worse, and there was a lot of noise and chaos outside the gate. At this time, the city gate was finally lowered slowly.

On the hillside in the distance, Yan Yi, who was watching everything from a distance, breathed a sigh of relief.

In any case, what he expected was right, the base could not and would not dare to blatantly kill people, it would only use some low-level tricks.

Under such circumstances, they still didn't have the guts to stop so many people outside the city after all, even though their intentions had already been revealed.

The suspension bridge was placed at the bottom, and the armored vehicles blocked in the front filed in one by one.

Yan looked at it for a while, then silently started the car and drove to the base.

has it ended?

The verdant grassland when the vehicle drove over, the land was completely covered by disgusting deformed limbs, exuding an unpleasant stench.

When the alarm is lifted, there will be special scavengers who will recover all the corpses of these deformed people, some of which will be used for research, and some will be converted into energy for reuse to feed endless human beings.

The cycle goes back and forth, just like spring, summer, autumn and winter, the cycle changes.

Ji Xi cast a glance and turned his head.

They were getting closer and closer to the city gate, and there were already nearly a hundred cars lined up in front of them, all of which were waiting for inspection by the testing equipment one by one.

Probably have to wait a long time.

Yan Yi followed the last car in line, moving forward slowly.

The setting sun was gradually setting, and the blood-red sun disappeared at the end of the horizon, but at the last moment when it went out, it showed an incomparably magnificent and spectacular scene.

Ji Xi sat on the back of the chair, feeling a little sleepy, and he was also very hungry, but he thought that he would be able to eat normal food when he returned to the city, so he insisted on not touching the tasteless compressed dry food under the chair.

His head drooped little by little, and finally leaned completely against the car window.

After an unknown amount of time, Ji Xi suddenly jumped up from the chair, his whole body seemed to have a sudden cramp.

The moment he opened his eyes, a strong sense of crisis filled his heart.

The sky was completely dark, only the shadowy headlights of the car shone on Yan Yi's face, Ji Xi asked, "Why haven't you arrived yet?"

Yan Yi pointed to the cars lined up in front: "Hurry up, there are three more."

Ji Xi's heart was beating rapidly, as if it was about to break through his chest.

He subconsciously clicked on the darkened screen next to the driver's seat, and for some reason, switched to the satellite cloud image that was used to detect the deformed person.

At that moment, time stood still.

Ji Xi stared blankly at the small screen.

I saw that the edge of the screen, which was already clean, was densely packed with red dots approaching the center of the pointer at an inhumanly fast speed, accompanied by the roar of a beast like thunder.

"Roar-roar-"

Countless heavy footsteps stepped on the ground, causing the whole earth to tremble crazily.

"Yan Yi!" he shouted, "Go!"

Right in front of them, just as a car passed by, the originally flat suspension bridge suddenly began to rise slowly, blocking their only way into the city!

not good!The base is closing!

Everything happened so fast, Yan Yi yelled into the radio: "Everyone who hasn't entered, please get off the car and go through the artificial passage!"

As soon as the voice fell, the people in the car immediately opened the door, crossed the grid gate that had not yet been closed, and rushed towards the direction of the city.

Ji Xi got out of the car, his feet gave way and almost fell, Yan grabbed him quickly with a quick glance, and led him to the manual detection port of the city gate.

The roars of countless deformed people resounded throughout the plain.

Under the night, the detection point was getting closer and closer, and all the officers who had abandoned their cars frantically poured into the entrance.

Soon, soon.

300 meters... 200 meters...

Ji Xi has never run so fast in his life.

That was literally running for your life.

Running at a speed that unleashes the full potential of life.

Yan Yi held his hand tightly, and the rushing evening wind hit his face, as if a knife was cutting flesh.

The iron gate leading to the last level of the base is in front of you.

Just when they were about to step into the city gate.

A human face flashed by the iron gate.

That's a prosecutor.

The gatekeeper who would find fault with Ji Xi every time he brought someone to inspect the east gate, and was always at odds with them.

Pan Qi.

He looked straight at Ji Xi and Yan Yi, as if he was admiring the funny appearance of them panicking.

Suddenly, a strange and penetrating smile appeared on that snake-browed, mouse-eyed face, like a three-cornered snake with a vicious message.

His hand waved downward.

The action in front of me is like a slow motion replay.

Frame by frame.

All the blood rushed to the top of the head.

Ji Xi watched helplessly, the door was completely closed just before they arrived.

"Boom!!"

The sound of the door closing was so piercing, it was as heavy as a bell.

Behind him, dark deformed people swarmed from the distant hills, devouring the color of the entire turf.

It was an incomparably treacherous scene covered by dark clouds.

The bell of Judgment Day rings in front of you in an incomparably real way.

It was such a "boom -" sound.

Ji Xi's mind went blank.

His mind seemed to have stalled, or was unable to function properly due to burn overload and emotional fluctuations.

On the contrary, Yan Yi's reaction was extremely quick, the moment the door slammed shut, he immediately made a decision.

"boarding!"

Ji Xi was dragged by him, and he almost flew up. They immediately turned around and ran towards the armored vehicle parked at the door.

Facing the deformed person that swept towards the distance like a gray wave.

The man's firm and straight back was facing the strong wind, and his clothes were flying. The scene was fierce and heroic to the extreme.

Ji Xi's only consciousness is that he is constantly stepping and running, his body is like a machine, hot sparks are flying out from the friction of parts, and hot gas is expelled from his lungs.

He threw himself back onto the armored vehicle.

As soon as Yan got into the car, he started the ignition, but didn't start immediately. Han Ming and Peng Yuanzhou followed behind them and got into the car immediately.

At the last second, Lao Chen and the two lieutenant colonels from the equipment department rushed up, and the car door was slammed shut.

Yan Yi stepped on the accelerator, the cannon on the roof was raised, and the bomb opened the way. The armored car rushed straight to face the countless abnormal people rushing forward——

Ji Xi subconsciously covered her face.

It's crazy, it's crazy.

The tumbling flesh and bodies hit the windshield with a heavy muffled sound, the armored vehicle rushed forward recklessly, and the cannon blasted the surroundings into flames.

They actually broke out of the siege and forcibly opened an escape route with artillery!

The car drove through the dense forest, all the way to the farther mountains.

However, those deformed people did not let them go, they kept staring at the rear of the car and chased after them.

Countless ferocious and hungry mouths rushed towards the car body.

At this time, if they stayed outside the city, they were living targets.

Ji Xi held her breath, not daring to look at the situation outside the car.

The whole car was filled with the heavy breathing of everyone.

Only Yan Yi held the steering wheel tightly, and stared calmly ahead.

Ji Xi suddenly understood why he chose to drive by himself.

At this time, no matter how experienced the driver, Lao Chen, or anyone else, could not be so unbelievably calm and completely avoid any operational mistakes.

While driving, the man clicked on the operation screen next to the driver's seat, methodically firing, attacking, aiming with a sniper rifle, and clearing the debris around the car.

It's like a general commanding thousands of troops by one person.

It makes people uncomfortable to want to trust him and depend on him.

The armored vehicle drove for a certain distance at high speed, and the number of deformed people around finally gradually decreased.

Yan Yi found a safe valley and stopped the car.

"Get out of the car." He said softly.

The two lieutenant colonels spontaneously went to find firewood nearby, Han Ming and Peng Yuanzhou arranged the barrier agent, and Lao Chen took a lighter and a box of half-smoked cigarettes.

His face seems to have suddenly aged several years. This middle-aged man has an inconspicuous beer belly, thinning hair, and is wearing a dirty undershirt.

Ji Xi and Yan Yi also got out of the car, Lao Chen made a gesture of passing a cigarette, Yan Yi just waved his hand.

"You..." he considered his words, "under such circumstances...you have endured too much."

Yan Yi shook his head, with no expression on his face: "It should."

Old Chen forced a smile, and said in a bitter tone, "My daughter is still waiting for me at the base. Just now, I really thought that I would never see her again in this life."

"At that moment, I wasn't really scared. All I thought about was...I'm gone, she's only ten years old, and her mother is long gone. She's so young, what should she do alone..."

"Our family is not rich, and there is not much savings left. It is impossible for the base to recruit a little girl like her to work. Am I going to let her kill deformed people all day long?"

At the end, Lao Chen's voice was trembling.

Ji Xi's hands hanging behind his back trembled.

"You will be reunited with her." Yan Yi said.

"Thank you." Lao Chen let out a puff of smoke ring wearily, and said, "Really...thank you."

Yan Yi patted his shoulder.

Everyone sat around the fire and ate dry food.

Their food reserves were running out, and if they wanted to spend the night in the wild, they had to go hunting.

Therefore, everyone cherished this meal very much.

The valley is quiet, the sky is full of stars, and the bright moon is in the sky.

Ji Xi and Yanyi sat outside, Lao Chen squatted beside the bushes and smoked a cigarette while sighing, and the remaining four gathered around the campfire, talking one after another.

They had just experienced a near-death escape, and everyone was terrified, but the atmosphere was not as solemn as before.

Peng Yuanzhou checked the engine including the fuel tank and confirmed that it was safe.

Everyone went back to the car one after another and went to sleep. There were too many people and it was uncomfortable to squeeze together, but they still vacated the driver's seat and the co-pilot's seat.

In the end, only Yan Yi and Ji Xi were left sitting outside.

Ji Xi was wrapped in Yanyi's military jacket, and their backs were facing the car door, which was a blind spot.

"I always feel..." Ji Xi leaned into the warm embrace of the man, and said softly, "...It's like dreaming."

There was a deep sense of uneasiness in his words.

Yan Yi hugged him very restrainedly: "Well, it's just a dream. When you wake up, you will find yourself lying on the bed in the base. Everything will pass."

Ji Xi looked at him motionlessly with his eyes open: "Yan Yi." He said in a declarative tone, "You don't seem to be afraid of anything, even when the deformed person is about to pounce on you. I think you seem to be different from before. It's the same."

Yan Yi said in a calm tone: "Everyone is afraid of death." He said, "Of course I am also afraid."

Ji Xi looked at him with slightly puzzled and confused eyes: "Do you know that when I was young, I jumped from upstairs once."

He remembered that he had never told Yan Yi about this matter, and at this moment, he suddenly wanted to.

Yan paused, looking at him with complicated eyes.

"A tower several thousand meters high, in today's words, it should be 'suicide'." Ji Xi said calmly, as if telling someone else's story, "Actually, I don't remember much, but I recalled the mood at that time , I should just feel that life is meaningless and boring, and suddenly I have an urge to leave."

"At that time, I was actually dead, but I was saved again, is it ridiculous?" Ji Xi said, "For many people, just being alive is already very hard and difficult, and then they send people every day Look at me, serve me carefully, just worried that I can't think about it and seek death."

"They tried desperately to keep me alive, as if keeping me alive was extremely difficult."

Ji Xi said in a tranced tone: "I think about it now, but I also feel that the past is just a dream."

He stared at Yan Yi with deep eyes, and the starry sky reflected it: "After I came to Beicheng, I began to feel more and more afraid and apprehensive. I was afraid of my own death, afraid of accidents, and felt incomparably afraid of natural and man-made disasters that did not happen. Even physical trembling, you say, why is this happening?"

His expression looked very confused, as if it was really a question sentence, but he actually already had an ignorant answer in his heart, but he didn't know how to describe it exactly.

—Because I am most afraid of losing you.

Yan Yi just touched his hair disheveled by the wind. After a while, he stared at the boundless and gorgeous starry sky in the dark blue night in the distance: "Because courage always exists together with fear."

He said.

"...you've just grown up and become braver."