under the tower

By the afternoon of this day, Ji Xi was so hungry that he was completely exhausted, and Yan left him with the last bit of food and water. Even so, they hadn't eaten for almost a day.

He felt very cold, the kind of chill coming from his bones, as if his life was dissipating irresistibly, but at the same time, he seemed to be seriously ill, his body was unbearably heavy, and his brain was like a mass of melted molten lava. Desperately resisting the invasion of the cold.

Ji Xi fell to the ground uncomfortably, hugging herself tightly, but couldn't stop the uncontrollable spasm of body muscles.

Yan Yi's physique is better than his, he just simply became cold, but his consciousness is still clear, he hugged Ji Xi, trying to keep him warm.

However to no avail.

The roots of Ji Xi's teeth were trembling, and there was a "clucking" sound, as if he was about to become a deformed person who could only eat people.

Yanyi closed her eyes and hugged him tightly.

That look was really ugly, Ji Xi held him tightly with both hands, and squeezed out a few words with trembling teeth: "I... ok, cough... I feel bad..."

The extreme cold and the extreme heat gathered together, as if it was about to explode on the body.

Yanliu was sweating, put his hands on his protruding ribs, and comforted him weakly: "Hey...you won't feel uncomfortable after a while."

Ji Xi is still trying to maintain his consciousness, but his eyelids are getting heavier and heavier, as if he is hanging on a weight of iron.

He also wanted to hold on a little longer, to talk to Yanyi more.

But it was too difficult, really too difficult.

The unstoppable sleepiness finally swept over him, and at a certain moment, Ji Xi finally fell into the boundless darkness unwillingly.

Yan Yi has always maintained the posture of hugging him, motionless, they are like two overlapping stone statues, standing in the wind and sand of nature.

Ji Xi opened her eyes in horror in the dark, sweat dripping all over her body.

He seemed to have had a nightmare from which he could not wake up, his soul went out of his body, and he fell again.

The heart was beating violently.

His brain fell into a brief blank in the confusion, and he couldn't distinguish between dreams and reality for a while.

Is it a dream?

what happened?

Is he still alive, or has he died?

Ji Xi tried hard to move his limbs, and a huge soreness immediately invaded his whole body.

Only then did he realize that he was still lying in that remote and narrow cave, with the uneven rocks under his body, which made his whole body numb.

Yan Yi was lying beside him, with one arm around him, quietly and motionless.

Ji Xi immediately crawled over and rested her head on his chest.

thump...thump...

The heart was still beating peacefully and steadily.

The deformed person has no heartbeat, which proves that he is still alive.

Great, they're all still alive.

Ji Xi pushed Yanyi carefully, the man's hand hanging on the side moved slightly, and then slowly opened his eyes.

"Yan Yi." He lay on the ground and called softly, "Are you okay?"

The man sat up slowly, supported his forehead, and said hoarsely: "...I... am still awake?"

He asked this sentence in complete disbelief.

This is so unbelievable that it can only be described as a supernatural event.

Ji Xi took out a lighter from his pants pocket and lit it several times before igniting the wet firewood on the ground.

The faint firelight reflected the faces of the two people facing each other.

They stared blankly at each other.

Their faces were covered with ashes and dust, like two beggars in ragged clothes, with slightly blue and white sunken cheeks.

Ji Xi opened his hand in a daze, and he saw that the wound on his hand that was drenched by the blood of those monsters had stopped decaying, and some of the gray dead skin had been rubbed off, and the blood had coagulated into scabs. Pale to transparent in color, as usual.

The next moment he grabbed Yan Yi's wounded hand, the tiny crack on the man's fingertips had also closed, his skin color was normal, and the tentacles were still slightly warm.

"This……"

How can it be?

How long have they been asleep?Haven't been infected yet?

"Yanyi..." Ji Xi murmured in a tone as if awakening from a dream, "What time is it?"

Yan Yi was obviously also immersed in the huge shock, and it took him a few seconds to recover. The electronic instrument in his hand was still powered on, and a series of numbers flashed on it:

5.504:37

"..."

They came to this cave on the night of the [-]nd. At this time, more than two days had passed since they were injured.

Ji Xi and Yan Yi froze in place at the same time.

Then, ecstasy and excitement swept through the whole body, the churning blood rushed to the top of the head, and a violent heat surged from the heart.

It is an iron rule to be infected with the mutant virus within 48 hours, without exception.

They survived for two days and haven't mutated. Does that mean...they weren't actually infected? !

Ji Xi didn't know how to describe his mood at the moment.

That was really... filled with endless excitement, he almost jumped up with his body that was about to fall apart.

Survival after catastrophe, turn around, this is really a great joy that can only be experienced by those who have gone through life and death once.

They are still alive and have not become deformed people!It's just... really good.

Ji Xi laughed until his eyes were red, he hugged Yan Yi tightly, embracing this lost and regained person.

They were shaking all over.

God.

Thank you for the miracle, thank you for life, thank you for everything.

Ji Xi's stomach made a "gurgling" sound, which echoed clearly and audibly in the cave.

The two who had been hugging each other for an unknown amount of time laughed at the same time.

Ji Xi blushed slightly, and said with some embarrassment: "I'm hungry."

They hadn't eaten for days.

"Yeah." Yan Yi let go of him with a smile, patted the dirt on his clothes, "Clean up, I'll take you out to find something to eat."

"It's not yet dawn." Ji Xi said timidly, "Will it be unsafe?"

Ji Xi thought to himself, they managed to escape from the claws of the distortion virus, so they can't capsize in the gutter at this time.

Yan Yi pointed to the entrance of the cave and said, "It's already dawn."

Ji Xi turned her head, only to find that there was a faint beam of light coming from the entrance of the cave, reflecting the dust dancing in the air in the cave.

"Okay." He grabbed Yanyi's hand, a weak but pure smile bloomed on his bloodless face.

Yan Yi used to go on missions in the wild for a long time and knew the mountains like the back of his hand. They soon hunted a hare. Yan Yi skewered it with a thin wooden branch and roasted it on the fire.

A strong fragrance wafts through the air.

This is the most primitive way of eating, they don't have seasoning, and the taste of the meat probably won't be very good, but Ji Xi has already stared at the charred meat and can't wait.

"Little glutton." Yan Yi said with a smile, and tore off a piece of perfectly cooked leg meat, Ji Xi grabbed it in one bite, like a starving little animal, not caring about his image at all.

He swears that this is really the best delicacy he has ever eaten.

"Be careful it's hot." Yan Yi warned.When he said this, Ji Xi had already swallowed the whole piece of meat with a "gudong", and his face was filled with an expression of incomparable happiness.

Yan Yi bent down and licked his oily little mouth.

"Delicious." He said.

With their stomachs full, they set off on their way.

The mountain they are in at this time is about tens of kilometers away from the base, and they may encounter abnormal people who appear at any time, so they must be very careful and vigilant. They have no weapons, and they have to look for food and drinking water everywhere, so they can move quickly. very slow.

Yan Yi and Ji Xi's senses are very keen, as soon as they find trouble, they quickly find a place to hide, and try their best to avoid confrontation with the abnormal person.

Fortunately, they did not encounter the monster that was much larger than the deformed man and moved extremely fast.

The shape of that thing was no different from ordinary deformed people except for its size, and the wounds it caused were exactly the same as the infected wounds they had seen in the past. Ji Xi couldn't understand why they were not infected by the virus.

Maybe this is indeed a new mutant species—could it be that the attack power and speed of that thing have become stronger, but the infection power has become weaker?

Ji Xi decided to temporarily put this question behind her.

After all, they are not from the scientific research institute, no matter how hard they think, there is no way to get an answer.

After running around for several days, Ji Xi's body was extremely dirty, but he didn't care about it at all. The joy of the rest of his life after the catastrophe made him immersed in happiness, and even the harsh conditions in the wild were not worth mentioning.

But Yan Yi still found a pool of spring water and scrubbed his body briefly.

They stopped and walked, wandering in the wilderness, and near the base, they found a high mountain and watched it for a long time.

A week has passed, and there are still corpses of mutants outside the base, but there are no signs of the activities of the previously spectacular number of mutants.

The base has successfully cleared up this wave of attack by mutants and reopened the entrance checkpoint.

The wound on Ji Xi's body is also almost healed, the blood scab has fallen off, and pink granulation has grown inside.

"Let's go." They glanced at each other.

It would be a lie to say that they are not nervous. After all, they have been injured once, and no one can say whether there will be any residual substances in their bodies that can still be detected by the detection equipment at the gate of the city.

But what should be faced is always to be faced. In the current situation, it is definitely unrealistic to live in the wild for a long time. They have to rely on the protection of the base to do what they want to do well.

They walked into the city gate hand in hand. The smart assistant had been lost in the chaos, and their identities could not be verified, so they needed to be reissued.

Ji Xi looked around, there were two strange military officers on duty at the city gate today, and Pan Qi was not there.

He secretly clenched his fists and clenched his teeth.

Ji Xi took a deep breath and walked steadily to the testing equipment. An officer drew a tube of blood from his arm and put it into a centrifuge.

The sound of the machine working sounded.

A long minute passed.

Subsequently, the green indicator light lights up, indicating that the passage is allowed.

Ji Xi let out a long sigh of relief, Yan Yi behind him curled his lips without any trace.

They successfully entered the city and got a replacement smart assistant.

The warm sunlight from the base shines on the face, coating the outline with a layer of golden light.

Like a new born.

As soon as Ji Xi and Yan returned to their apartment in Wanshen District, the first thing they had to do was to take a shower and then have a good sleep.

They squeezed skin to skin on a single bed, and soon fell into a deep sleep.

They slept for a whole day and night, and ordered a hearty dinner from the automatic delivery machine, and finally felt completely alive.

At this time, the smart assistants of the two of them were already full of various messages, Yan Yi was even worse, almost kept calling, and the notification sound on the panel was like a bell, ringing continuously.

Ji Xi lay on the bed anxiously replying to the news, while Yan Yi was answering voice calls in the bathroom.

He knew that Bai Qihuan was going crazy.

"I'm fine." After connecting, he said first, "Just returned to the base."

"I'm stupid, boss, you really, do I know how many times I've had a heart attack these days!!" Bai Qihuan said in a voice almost roaring, the colonel, who always prided himself on being decent and elegant, couldn't even control his swearing. Repeated incoherently, "It really scared me to death, scared me to death."

Yan Yi smiled indistinctly, but his words were as cold and ruthless as usual: "Let the treatment center prescribe you some anti-shock medicine."

"Day, Yan Yi, are you still human! Do you have a conscience?" Bai Qihuan cursed, "You know I really almost activated the emergency plan."