16 years

The news of Shao Qiu's safe return is not a secret.

When Linxing's car came back with Shao Qiu, it happened to be transiting and quarantined at the resettlement center outside the military area.Their convoy stopped at the open space in the center of the shelter, and Shao Qiu got off the car at the end with a thin figure, a gloomy expression, and a scary silence.

Shao Xuefan stared at him for a long time while leaning on the window sill, but he didn't see his gaze on anyone.

He quietly hid behind the crowd, leaning against the half-opened car door and turning the balance lock, as if he had withdrawn from this world, refusing to talk to anyone.

Liu Ruosong's threat still rings in his ears, Shao Xuefan has been worried for so long, he is very afraid that Shao Qiu has really been brutally poisoned in an unknown place.

Seeing Shao Qiu come back now, he couldn't help but feel sad while feeling happy, his mental state improved by more than 01:30.

He happily walked around the room, rubbing his hands nervously.

He wasn't sure if Shao Qiu would like to see him, but Shao Xuefan always felt that when life and death passed by in an instant, Shao Qiu would always have more understanding of life, and he would no longer be as self-willed as before.

The more Shao Xuefan thought about it, the more he felt that this was the case - he and Shao Qiu had been separated for so many years and hadn't seen each other, no amount of resentment could be erased in time.

He has grown up now, Shao Xuefan thought, he should understand me.

Shao Xuefan was not allowed to leave the resettlement camp and enter the military area, but his personal freedom was not completely restricted.Liu Ruosong has been getting more and more busy this year, and gradually forgot about him, and it has been a long time since he took care of the patrol post at the resettlement center.

The empty area in the center of the resettlement center was not far from the apartment building where Shao Xuefan lived. He changed into new decent clothes, wiped his collar nervously, then hung an out sign on the doorknob, and left the apartment building.

The field team from the adjacent province came to Yancheng this time, not only to send Shao Qiu off, but also to exchange information about the military regions of the two places.

The researchers over there made slower progress than Liu Ruosong, but their research direction was different.They have preliminarily analyzed the infection relationship among soil, plants and zombie viruses, and developed a medicine to purify the soil regularly.

This medicine is very useful for bases and military regions that have taken in a large number of survivors, so they also brought a batch of medicine and some related research samples this time, and are going to exchange the B-92 blocker in Liu Ruosong's hand back. .

Several of these samples are dangerous and cannot be directly entered into the military area, they can only wait for someone from the laboratory building to take over.

Large and small boxes were piled up on the square in the center of the shelter to form a hill as high as a person. The captain of the field team was facing the list, and finally counted the number of samples inside.

Shao Qiu was indifferent to these things, he stood outside for a while, he seemed to feel dizzy from the sun, so he frowned, and prepared to go back to the car and hide for a while, waiting for someone to come.

He had just bent down to take out the small kits piled on the back seat and stuffed them into the pile, and was about to turn around when he heard someone behind him calling his name tentatively and cautiously.

"...Xiaoqiu?"

Shao Qiu looked back, only to find that Shao Xuefan was standing in a corner of the square, holding on to a communication pole next to him, and walking up the steps with difficulty.

He was wearing a dark sweater, and the collar of his shirt was folded out from the neckline, but perhaps because he came out too quickly, half of the shirt was tucked into the sweater, and it was usually still exposed.

Shao Qiu's brows twitched suddenly, and his expression immediately became ugly.

He didn't want to say a word, he slammed the car door, ready to go around the pile of things in front of him, and go to the car at the front of the convoy.

"Xiaoqiu! Wait a minute!" Shao Xuefan was in a hurry, and staggered up, wanting to pull his arm: "I just want to see how you are!"

Shao Qiu's footsteps paused slightly, as if he heard some ridiculous words, he turned around and sneered at Shao Xuefan.

"I'm fine." Shao Qiu's voice sounded hoarse and dry as if it had been polished with rough sandpaper: "Much better than you."

I don't know whether it is the reason of the backtracking of the medicine, or the appearance of Shao Xuefan induced Shao Qiu's drug-rational PTSD, and he began to feel the drug reaction of LSD again.His hands and feet were weak, and there were large spots of color spots in front of his eyes, but his thinking was abnormally active, causing his whole state to be a little morbidly hyperactive.

"Why are you here?" Shao Qiu raised his eyebrows high, and smiled sarcastically: "Why, didn't your 'ideal' and 'future' save you from the mouths of zombies, or did you say that you are for the progress of mankind?" Dayi is no longer useful, so it falls here, washing clothes, cooking food and taking care of children."

Shao Xuefan's sore point was that he had nowhere to display his abilities, and he didn't know whether Shao Qiu was his son or what, but he poked at the most embarrassing place when he opened his mouth.

"I'm just here to care about you." Shao Xuefan's face was also ugly, he faltered like a poor old man who is not treated well: "... After all, I am also your father, you don't have to say it so badly when we meet if."

Shao Qiu smiled coldly.

"A-Ning is dead, did you know?" Shao Qiu said suddenly.

Shao Xuefan was stunned for a moment, he seemed to be a little surprised to hear this name from Shao Qiu's mouth, and it took him a moment to think of anything.

"You mean Fang Sining?" Shao Xuefan asked.

"He is your student, and he has spent more time with you than me in this life." Shao Qiu looked at his puzzled expression, and only found it funny: "You don't even care about his death, how can you care about me?"

"How can it be the same." Shao Xuefan was eager to prove something: "You are my son, we two—"

"I'm your son!" Shao Qiu seemed to be poked into a sore foot, and his emotions suddenly became agitated: "You know this now! What did you do more than [-] years ago! What were you thinking when you left me? ?”

This question sounded like an ancient bell, and Shao Xuefan faltered, holding on to the communication pole beside him precariously.

The commotion here caught the attention of the field team. Several young team members looked here twice, but were quickly dragged back by the captain, who told them not to mind their own business.

They knew that they were not familiar with Shao Qiu, so they were too embarrassed to listen to his secrets, so they purposely hid in the distance.

"I..." Shao Xuefan said, "I am for the future of mankind. Xiaoqiu, you have no idea how big the outside world is. Humans will always make progress, otherwise they will be wiped out by nature after a long time—"

"Shao Xuefan." Shao Qiu interrupted him coldly: "Don't show your father's profile here, in your eyes, my sister and I are your burdens."

"I've never thought about it that way." Shao Xuefan said, "I have to—"

Shao Qiu sneered again.

"I'm no different from her." Shao Qiu said, "It's just your experimental tool."

"How can you two be the same?" Shao Xuefan felt that he was going crazy, he seemed to never be able to understand Shao Qiu's brain circuit, so he could only explain palely: "She was dead at that time, but you didn't—"

"Shao Xuefan, you don't need to explain here. Whether it's me or my little sister, no one cares about your apology." Shao Qiu interrupted him suddenly, his voice was so hoarse that he almost roared: "You just have some feelings , and won’t have the guts to appear in front of me again!”

His complexion is very bad, and he is also very thin. The protruding carpal joints can be clearly seen on the wrists exposed outside the sleeves.

His face was very pale, but because of his emotional agitation, his face was stained with a little blush, making him look a little sickly and fragile.

He felt worthless for Fang Sining, and also for himself, and even his sister who died long ago.

Shao Qiu's body, which had been consumed by potions and nutrient solutions for more than a year, could not withstand such a big emotional ups and downs. His pathological state became more and more serious, his left hand trembled uncontrollably, and his body broke out in layers of cold sweat.

For a moment, he couldn't tell where he was, who he was talking to, and why he was so sad.

Shao Xuefan's lips trembled violently, his heart ached, he didn't understand why he and Shao Qiu always had such big differences.

After death, there is a pile of carbon-based elements, how can it be compared with a living person.No matter how crazy he was, it was impossible for him to treat his own son as a guinea pig.

"You can't confuse logic like this." Shao Xuefan said: "This is basically two codes—"

He desperately wanted Shao Qiu to understand the difference between the two, but before he finished speaking, he was suddenly interrupted by a shout.

"Shao Xuefan!"

The crowd was parted from both sides, and Fu Yan strode over, his face somber that he could wring out water.

Liu Ruosong trotted beside him, nimbly bypassed a large pile of sample boxes, and stretched out his hand arrogantly and firmly to stop him.

"What are you doing here?" Liu Ruosong sneered, "You haven't been imprisoned enough, have you?"

Shao Xuefan's impression of Liu Ruosong was still the same as the last meeting, he was a little scared of this mysterious young man in his heart, subconsciously took a step back, and didn't dare to speak.

Fu Yan was not good at entanglement with old people who were messing around. Frowning, he held Shao Qiu's back from behind, and then reached out to touch the back of his neck, sweating coldly.

"Shao Qiu?" Fu Yan patted his face and called him in a low voice.

"……team leader?"

Shao Qiu opened his eyes wide in a daze, trying to make out Fu Yan's face from the mottled patches of color.Just now, he was flaunting his might and arguing evenly with Shao Xuefan, but when he suddenly saw Fu Yan, he suddenly felt that he was choking on his words, leaving only bitterness and pain.

"Fang Sining is dead." He said upside down, "I failed to protect him well."

"I know, I know, don't think about it." Fu Yan said as he bent down, put his arms on his shoulders, and simply carried the dangling Shao Qiu on his back.

Shao Qiu's spirit was exhausted by the violent rage just now, he quietly shed two lines of tears, tilted his head, and passed out on Fu Yan's back.

"Captain." Before he fell into a coma, Shao Qiu complained vaguely to him: "...they all...abandoned me."

Fu Yan sighed inwardly, feeling uncomfortable too.

"Ruosong." Fu Yan called him: "Don't tell him, let's go."

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Regarding the father-son relationship, if you look at it objectively (not to mention what Shao Xuefan did to Brother Fu), only for Shao Qiu, Shao Xuefan has his own logic. He personally thinks that his sister’s situation is different from Xiao Qiu’s. "Research" and "killing living relatives for research" are two different things, he can't do it, so he can't understand why Xiaoqiu wants to confuse the two (of course, this is because of his own emotional indifference), and he doesn't believe his good intentions.This is the core conflict between the two of them, it cannot be resolved at all, and it will not be resolved in the future XD.As for Xiaoqiu, he started from the emotional point of view.Regarding his attitude towards Shao Xuefan, Xiao Liu had a chat with Brother Fu in the first restart. In fact, the reason why Xiao Qiu was so stressed about Shao Xuefan was because he had always expected him (although Xiao Qiu himself did not admit it), That's why he was backstabbed so badly by this expectation later on.And here is a foreshadowing XD, you can take a small note.