16 years

"Okay." Liu Ruosong on the other side of the phone smiled and said softly, "Then...see you later?"

"See you later." Fu Yan said.

After the phone was completely quiet, Fu Yan hung up the phone.The last two percent of the battery in his phone was exhausted during this call, the screen flickered like a flashback, and then went out completely, temporarily turning into a "brick".

Fu Yan put down the phone, took a long breath, and then turned his gaze back to his eyes.

He was now in a small building waiting to be demolished, leaning against a corner of a triangle on the second floor away from the doors and windows, with his left hand hanging by his side, blood dripping from the tightly cuffed cuff.

Something must have cracked, Fu Yan thought.

During the entire call, he didn't move his arm.

When Shao Qiu and the others called to synchronize the mission status with him, he was on the national highway.The national highway near here is the main road to the south of S province. At that time, many private cars that fled out of the city overnight were blocked. Some of these private cars mutated midway, and some of them had accidents. Wandering in corners.

There were too many cars on the road, and the sight was blocked. In addition, when Shao Qiu reported the situation of the mission, he also mentioned the situation of Liu Ruosong. The opponent bumped into each other.

The zombie was knocked to pieces by him, but unfortunately the car he picked up on the road didn't have an airbag for some reason, and Fu Yan himself was hit badly.

However, there were a lot of zombies nearby, and before he had time to retreat, the rear car was attacked by two zombies that jumped out.

After these things mutated, they were extremely powerful, and the rear of Fu Yan's car slid out a long arc.Without much hesitation, he grabbed the things around him, turned to grab the window frame, and flipped out of the window.

He was injured when the plane crashed before, and although he has been raised for a long time, it is still a bit of a hidden danger.After the violent impact, the left arm couldn't hold back, and it is still numb.

In addition, the entire front of the car was smashed, so Fu Yan simply gave up the means of transportation, and instead found a rough house with no roof nearby, temporarily settled down, rested and waited for the news ahead.

Fortunately, Fu Yan set off earlier than Liu Ruosong and Shao Qiu. He has been on the road for nearly a day and a night, and he is now very close to Pengcheng. If he can find the second car, it will be three or four hours later. arrive.

Coincidentally, Fu Yan originally planned to temporarily stop and consider the situation before entering the city. Although there was a little accident, the overall situation was still within his control.

He rested against the wall for a while, then stood up again, walked upstairs and downstairs, checked the locked doors and windows, and checked the escape route on the second floor before returning to the previous corner Ri sat down and took off his coat.

Fu Yan checked his arm and found that there was nothing serious. There was neither fracture nor dislocation. It was just a loss of force caused by an emergency strain. He would recover consciousness in about two hours.

Fu Yan was more or less relieved that he would not delay the itinerary due to physical reasons. He spread the coat on the ground, then carefully checked the fabric, and finally propped it on his knees, tearing off the inner lining of the entire coat, so as not to follow the zombies When met, dirty blood seeps in.

The material of his clothes is a bit like a mountaineering jacket. It is very thick and has several layers of lining. The innermost and outermost two layers are tarpaulins. Fu Yan rolled it up and tied it to the cracked wounds on his left arm. superior.

The last half bottle of water in Fu Yan's pocket also fulfilled its mission during this process, leaving only a fragile empty bottle.

Fu Yan screwed on the bottle cap, stood it upright by his side, and then leaned against the wall, thinking about his next move.

I don't know if the "Shaoqiu's team" gave Fang Sining a sense of trust. Without seeing Fu Yan himself, Fang Sining called half an hour ago and informed Fu Yan of the core document.

"If you say that my teacher died of murder, then I can only imagine this." At that time, Fang Sining said on the phone: "That is the only secret in the teacher's hands."

"The only one?" Fu Yan said, "Can you be sure?"

"I can." Fang Sining said: "You may not know that there is a set of procedures for the operation of scientific research. No matter how capable my teacher is, as long as he conducts scientific research, he cannot be responsible for all the work alone. There must be core research. Teams do."

"I am a member of the teacher's core research team." Fang Sining said: "I have handled all the scientific research projects of the teacher, and those things are nothing special. I can tell you clearly that the teacher has only been researching a data link all this time, and To this end, some biomedical responses were made. These research projects are quite satisfactory, and they are the research basis of some kind of compound repair and regeneration medicine, nothing special. There are too many people in the circle who are researching these things, and they will not cause death."

Fu Yan didn't ask him what Shao Xuefan was researching. Anyway, even if Fang Sining explained these professional issues to him, what he could really understand was limited. Instead of wasting time here, let Fang Sining figure out the doubts by himself.

"So if I have to say that the teacher has any secrets, I can only think of the core document." Fang Sining said: "For things like biological research, a project can range from a few years to a lifetime. But the teacher's document is very strange. Judging from his attitude, it was a semi-finished product, but for some reason, he did not continue to study it, but sealed the document and did not use it again."

"Then what he studied, has it succeeded?" Fu Yan said, "I'm asking about what you know."

"...No." Fang Sining sighed, and said: "It's hard to say the standard of success or not. We have achieved some good results, and the progress of small projects has been progressing smoothly, but I don't know why, the teacher always feels that the experiment is not enough. Progress. The specific research direction is controlled by the teacher himself, and we don't know how far it will go, so according to his attitude, it is considered unsuccessful."

"Understood." Fu Yan said, "Go on."

"The teacher's secret file is stored in one of his private hard drives." Fang Sining said: "The file is not connected to the Internet, and it has been encrypted separately. I have a spare copy of the secret key, but the file is not in my Here——I’m just helping the teacher save things like this.”

Fang Sining paused, and then said: "I think the reason why the teacher only gave me the secret key is maybe just to keep a guarantee, not really want me to see such a thing."

So Shao Xuefan had already thought that something might happen to him one day, Fu Yan thought, so he left the last clue to his closest student.

"According to what you said, that is a research document, so if you find that document, can you fully decode the information in it." Fu Yan asked.

"Yes." Fang Sining said, "I am the teacher's closest student, and my professional knowledge is consistent with his."

"Very good." Fu Yan said: "Five hours later, I will go downstairs to the Pengcheng International Conference Center. During this period, don't run around."

There are still four hours before the time limit for Fu Yan and Fang Sining's appointment, Fu Yan's phone is out of battery, so he can only rely on his almost strict biological clock to estimate the time.

When he was on the phone with Shao Qiu before, he also asked about the current situation outside.The Yancheng headquarters knew much more information than them. Fu Yan chose the safest way to travel, but the time limit was also the slowest. As the day and night passed, the situation outside had turned upside down.

The public transportation took away the virus in the shortest time, and until Shao Qiu was contacted, corresponding mutants had appeared all over the country.

The government is short of manpower, and they can't even try to control it like in City S. The speed of mutation is soaring, people are running for their lives, and the whole city is in chaos.

Judging from the lessons learned from S City, Peng City is probably not much better.

Fu Yan didn't think he could get out of the crowd of zombies with a pocket knife, but fortunately, the Pengcheng Conference Center was near the ring road in the outer suburbs, so he could avoid the crowded city center and take a detour past.

In just a few minutes, Fu Yan drew a map in his mind and planned his route into the city in an instant.

Fu Yan roughly designed several plans in his mind, then took a short rest for 10 minutes, got up and walked downstairs.

Fortunately, it is the early days of the end of the world, and there are available means of transportation everywhere in the streets. Although Fu Yan is inconvenient in one arm, he still easily found a spare car within half an hour.

Although the spare car's fuel level is dangerous, it's better than nothing.

Fang Sining is a scientific researcher, he has no self-protection ability in the apocalypse, Fu Yan previously asked him to hide in a closed space, counting the time, it is likely that water and food have been cut off for a long time now.

Before the apocalypse, Fang Sining replaced Shao Xuefan to hold academic conferences. At that time, there were at least 500 people in the conference center including the conference participants, staff and their secretarial students.

Fu Yan walked around the entire urban area on a coastal road, and when he stopped at the entrance of the International Conference Center, he found that the doors and windows of the building were closed, and it was pitch black inside, with no one in sight.

To be honest, if we must rank all the mission environments according to the harsh conditions, the building with the locked door in front of us must be the first choice for the doomsday rescue team "unwilling to enter".

——Because there are either most of the ordinary people who hid at the beginning, or a bunch of zombies with nowhere to go.

According to Fu Yan's personal experience, the latter situation accounted for more than [-]%.

The International Conference Center is a compound building with a total of twelve floors, the first to sixth floors are office floors, and the sixth floor and above are hotels.

Fang Sining had mentioned his hiding place when he called earlier. He hid in a public suite on the eighth floor, 8032, at the end of the corridor that turned right when the elevator opened.

——Closed large buildings, densely populated, high-rise closed space.

Fu Yan's eyes darkened, and he walked towards the gate.