16 years

The young man held his bleeding wound and stared at Liu Ruosong steadfastly.

There was puzzlement in his eyes, and there was also some kind of joy that he was tightly controlled by himself, and he was more wary of Liu Ruosong.

"What do you mean?" the other party asked.

"It's not interesting." Liu Ruosong said, "I'm a virus research consultant in the Military Region of A, and I was ordered to investigate this virus—"

"I was not bitten by a zombie." The young man interrupted him in a cold voice: "I was bitten by my dog ​​at home. I went to the hospital to get a rabies vaccine before, and I was almost cured. If you want to study viruses, maybe I am right You are useless."

"I have my reasons." Liu Ruosong said: "Make a deal - I will guarantee the safety of your companion and arrange a relatively safe job for him in the personnel shelter in Yancheng. But correspondingly, you have to enter the relevant personnel If necessary, you will be required to cooperate with virus research.”

The young man pursed his lips tightly and did not speak.

No matter how outrageous what Liu Ruosong said inside and outside his heart, it looked like a scam, but it was attractive enough to young people.After all, he was only a thin line away from death just now, if Liu Ruosong hadn't caught up with him, he might have jumped from the second floor.

What's more, the other party made a request that he couldn't refuse.

The young man's attitude began to loosen, and Liu Ruosong knew that his heart had already begun to waver, and there was only one last straw that would make him believe in himself in a desperate situation.

So Liu Ruosong dialed a message to the person in charge of the evacuation point in front of the young man.

"The young man in the No. [-] lounge before, take him into the car first." Liu Ruosong said: "Give me feedback after getting in the car."

Batches of security checks have already begun at the evacuation point, and it is not difficult to send the evacuated people to the bus and jump in line alone.Liu Ruosong soon received the feedback. He flipped his palm and showed the photo on his mobile phone to the young man.

The unconscious young man reclined on the seat of the first-class car, and Shao Xuefan sat in the two rows of seats behind him.

"Do you believe it?" Liu Ruosong said, "If you believe it, come with me."

"Will you use me for human experiments?" the young man asked.

"I can't rule it out." Liu Ruosong said honestly: "I will try my best to avoid causing you physical and mental harm, but if it is absolutely necessary, I might choose to do so. And I will not tell your companion that you are still alive I will only show you his video data periodically to confirm the current situation."

These words can be called cruel. The young man just felt that someone had dug a bottomless trap in front of him out of thin air. As long as he stepped on it, he might fall to pieces at any time.

He was silent for more than two minutes, and there was a battle between heaven and man in his mind.

Liu Ruosong didn't urge him either. He glanced down at the glass curtain wall and saw that the crowd was moving slowly, so he knew he still had plenty of time.

He was unwilling to give up Fu Yan's "substitute", but Liu Ruosong didn't want to take coercive measures unless necessary.

After a long time, the young man didn't know what he wanted to say, the tension around him relaxed, and he actually smiled.

"Okay." The young man said, "I promise you."

"Don't think about it anymore?" Liu Ruosong said, "Or you can make some other requests, and I will try my best to meet them."

The young man shook his head and said: "No need, in fact, if you promise to protect Xiaoge, I will be satisfied-although I don't know why you must pick me, but if you don't pick me, I will die today .In this way, if I go with you, I will live a little longer."

The young man lowered his head, looked at the blood stains on his palm, smiled self-deprecatingly, and said, "If I'm going to die then, I'll treat it as a stolen time, it's not a loss anyway."

"That's good." Liu Ruosong said, "Come with me—"

"This gentleman." The young man stopped him urgently: "I have one last question."

Liu Ruosong stopped and looked back at him.

"I don't seem to know anything about you." The young man said, "I don't know your purpose either."

"I don't have any purpose." Liu Ruosong said flatly, "If I have to say it, it's to save people."

"I can see it." The young man obviously misunderstood what Liu Ruosong meant, he smiled and said sincerely: "I can see that you are a good person."

I'm not a good person, Liu Ruosong thought to himself: I'm going to use you, who knows nothing, to save my beloved.

In a hardware store near Outer Huancheng Road in S City, Fu Yan stared at the phone in his hand, feeling a little dazed.

Liu Ruosong's communication interface was still on his mobile phone, and the phone he just hung up was on the top of the communication record, which lasted for three minutes and 15 seconds.

Fu Yan didn't feel anything when he was on the phone, but after hanging up, the more he thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong. He always felt that Liu Ruosong's state was quite different from the previous few days, and he didn't look like he was simply frightened by the zombie scene.

He recalled the situation when he separated from Liu Ruosong - he sent the other party and Shao Xuefan safely to the evacuation point, and watched them settle down before leaving.The evacuation point has a solid building, and there are armed forces to deal with emergencies. It stands to reason that there will be no substantial danger.

But Liu Ruosong on the phone was too disturbed.

As if he was squeezed out of a state of extreme fear, he will unnaturally become silent and clingy, and needs to be recharged with a "sense of security".

With Liu Ruosong, this kind of situation rarely happened. Fu Yan only remembered it once, when Liu Ruosong's grandmother passed away.

At that time Liu Ruosong was still half a teenager, and he had a deep relationship with his grandparents, which almost broke down right then.

But he didn't cry or make trouble. He didn't shed a single tear in the mourning hall. He just grabbed Fu Yan's sleeve silently and dragged him wherever he went, preventing him from leaving.

Fu Yan stayed with him until three o'clock in the morning, only to hear the sleepy Liu Ruosong talking in his sleep.

"Don't go," he said, "I'm afraid."

Now that Liu Ruosong has grown up, he is not as emotionally revealing as he was when he was a child, so Fu Yan didn't realize anything at first, and now he belatedly matches his state with what he was back then.

The more Fu Yan thought about it, the more something went wrong, but he couldn't figure out what happened in the high-speed rail station in City S to make Liu Ruosong become like this.

He was worried, hesitated for a while, and wanted to call back to ask about the situation, but the other party was busy and no one answered.

Fu Yan frowned, feeling a little bad.

He weighed in place for a while, and when he was hesitating whether to go back and check the situation, Liu Ruosong's call had already called him back.

"Hello, brother." The background sound from Liu Ruosong's side was very noisy, and there were noisy human voices in the distance, mixed with radio broadcasts, and the sound was very loud.

"Are you outdoors?" Fu Yan asked.

"Yes." Liu Ruosong put one hand in his pocket, looked behind him, looked at the dark crowd, and said calmly, "Get in the car and evacuate."

Fu Yan felt that sense of weirdness became stronger.

——Liu Ruosong's state was so wrong before, but within less than half an hour, he recovered by himself.

"Did something happen at the evacuation point?" Fu Yan didn't know how to insinuate, so he could only ask directly.

"No." Liu Ruosong was slightly stunned. Holding his mobile phone, he bent down to enter the heavily guarded No. [-] compartment, then waved at the other guard posts and security personnel, and walked forward along the aisle: "What's wrong?"

"I'm afraid something will happen to you." Fu Yan said, "I'm worried about your condition."

Liu Ruosong walked to the junction of the two carriages. In order to ensure safety, the connecting door between the first carriage and the rear carriage was locked. Liu Ruosong leaned against the wall and lowered his head to fiddle with the door lock of the bathroom.

He was surprised by Fu Yan's keenness—through a communication device with a mediocre signal, Fu Yan could still hear the clues from a few short sentences under the cover he tried his best, which obviously caught him off guard.

But Liu Ruosong thought about it again, and felt that if it was Fu Yan, there seemed to be nothing strange.

"...No." Liu Ruosong tried his best to look relaxed: "I found that Shao Xuefan's situation is not right. He seems to be related to virus research, so I am a little nervous."

"What's the relationship?" Fu Yan immediately became nervous: "Are you together?"

"I've already separated from him." Liu Ruosong said quickly, "He's in the rear compartment and is being secretly controlled - I've already reported the situation to No. [-], and I'll be careful in the future. The specific situation is very complicated, wait for your return I’ll tell you face to face when we leave Yancheng.”

"Okay." Fu Yan said, "But what about you?"

His voice was very soft, but there was an unquestionable taste: "Wakamatsu, what do you want to tell me."

The first evacuation high-speed rail reached the load limit, and the door not far away was slowly closed. Liu Ruosong only felt a slight sway under his feet, and the vehicle began to move forward steadily.

Liu Ruosong turned his head and looked at the scenery outside the carriage slowly receding, and suddenly remembered the thrilling tragedy of the first evacuation train overturned on the way.

That time Liu Ruosong lost half his life on the way, if he hadn't met a noble person, he might have died before the restart.

Having brushed shoulders with death, he should have been terrified of the similar and unknown journey, but at this moment, he was in a stable mood, with normal emotions, and he didn't feel any fear at all.

Liu Ruosong thought about it, and felt that it should be because he already knew the reason for the result.

——Since the last time, he has consciously mentioned the omission of the security check to the person in charge in advance, so last time, he successfully avoided this possibility, and the train arrived at the destination safely, and nothing happened.

So it's the same this time, Liu Ruosong thought.

As long as there are enough safe substitutes and his rights, even if Fu Yan is found to have a special gene, no one will give up a "powerless" ordinary person and run to attack an air force colonel.

Liu Ruosong knew that his idea was very selfish. After all, all people are created equal, and no one's life is more valuable than another's—but he really couldn't be a high-spirited moral model, he didn't want to care about others, he only cared about himself.

He even had an extreme idea - anyway, Fu Yan had died for these people enough times, it's nothing for them to sacrifice once.

Liu Ruosong didn't think about it that much at first, but for some reason, when Fu Yan asked him, he became inexplicably guilty.

He felt ashamed for a moment, as if he had become a despicable person, and he couldn't hide from Fu Yan's eyes.

"...Brother." Liu Ruosong was silent for a long time, and whispered, "If I become a bad person, you still—"

He wanted to say, will you still love me, but he felt that this sentence was too hypocritical, so he failed to say it.