16 years

It was evening when we returned to Yancheng.

It was an extremely fine weather that day, and the fire clouds in the evening spread over half of the sky, as if looking up you could see a raging flame.

Fu Yan's car was driving at the front of the convoy, and they gradually drove from the other side of the road to the Yancheng Military Region under the afterglow of flames. From a long distance, they saw a person standing at the gate of the military region.

——It was Zhao Jincheng.

After more than half a year, Zhao Jincheng lost a lot of weight, his cheeks were obviously sunken, and his hair was completely white.

The well-fitting military uniform had become a little looser, but because of the tight belt, he still looked upright and decent.

There were no guards and secretaries around him, just standing there alone.

He Tang, who was driving, was startled, and reflexively slowed down, and parked the car 20 meters away from Zhao Jincheng, not daring to approach.

None of the four people in the car said a word, they just opened the door and got out of the car tacitly at the same time.

Fu Yan stood next to the co-pilot, and the motorcade behind him stopped one by one following the movement of the lead car, and there were sparse sounds of car doors.

Fu Yan and the others did not greet Zhao Jincheng, but straightened their clothes, stood at attention, and saluted Zhao Jincheng.

Zhao Jincheng heaved his chest twice, straightened his body, and returned a military salute.

Liu Ruosong was not an active soldier and did not participate in this belated meeting, but he subconsciously turned the action recorder and took a picture of the scene.

The flame-like light poured down, coating everything in the world with a layer of Nirvana-like color.

"Okay." Zhao Jincheng choked up a little as soon as he opened his mouth: "Little bastards, well done!"

He Tang is a girl with strong empathy, her eyes were red, she stood upright and shouted: "Live up to everyone's expectations!"

Zhao Jincheng said hello several times, and walked over tremblingly. Fu Yansong ran a few steps to meet him, and after helping him, he realized that Zhao Jincheng's right leg was limping unnaturally, which looked like he was injured.

"What's going on?" Fu Yan asked, "Number one?"

Zhao Jincheng glanced over Fu Yan's face, and then glanced at the people behind him one by one, and said, "Let's go back first."

Liu Ruosong quickly followed their footsteps, carrying the medicine preservation box.

I haven't seen each other for more than half a year. The military region's security checks are much more efficient than before. They quickly passed the observation period and entered the military region separately.

Liu Ruosong took some of the personnel and drug samples in the rear to the laboratory building, while Fu Yan and the others left with Zhao Jincheng.

After leaving for more than half a year, Fu Yan and the others stayed in that place where nothing shit happened to prepare for the enemy, and Zhao Jincheng and the others were not idle here either.

Over the past few days, most of the survivors have gradually gathered in several fixed areas, but there are still some non-governmental organizations that cannot escape and can only stay in the nearest factory or collective area to keep warm.

But the longer the time, the worse the zombification outside. The zombies will not die out naturally, and the number will almost double.Some abandoned modern devices in the city have been accidentally touched, which has caused several fires and explosions.

Now there are not enough people to solve them, so we can only watch them and wait for them to go out naturally.

Zhao Jincheng even took the disaster relief belt to save people, and was also distracted to rescue some scientific research machines that could not be replicated. He was so busy that he broke them into eight pieces by himself.

"At the most difficult time before, I even studied whether to use weapons and long-range bombing." Zhao Jincheng sighed and said, "It is said that it can destroy a piece of it."

This plan was also put on the agenda in Fu Yan's restarted world line, so he was not surprised.

"Isn't this hurting the enemy by one thousand and stopping the loss by eight hundred?" He Tang said.

"Yes, but there is no other way." Zhao Jincheng said, "Fortunately, news from your side came soon—so this plan was abandoned."

Now that the world's communications are damaged, no one can really guarantee that the bombed area is no man's land.In order to survive, people would do anything. Even in an empty city, there might be groups of people surviving in underground water channels.

No one wants to give up people and lives unless it is absolutely necessary.

"So you did a good job." Zhao Jincheng said, "You saved a lot of people."

Fu Yan's eyelashes trembled slightly, but he didn't speak.

For so many years, he seemed to be running forward just for this simple sentence.

"Then your legs—" He Tang said.

"I was crushed by a stone during the rescue." Zhao Jincheng said.

Zhao Jincheng and them both reported the good news and not the bad news. For the past six months, it has been difficult everywhere, and the military division has sent out a lot of people to help the brother troops.So there was an urgent mission, and even Zhao Jincheng went out with him.

Zhao Jincheng has profound qualifications and sufficient experience, but after all, he is old and has not been on the front line for many years, so his actions are inevitably not as neat as when he was young.

In addition, he insisted on breaking the back, so in the end, in order to save an old lady, the ankle bone was crushed by the collapsed bungalow.

This is not a serious injury, and it is not life-threatening. However, Zhao Jincheng is old and his condition is not good. The risk of surgery is too high, so he can only be treated conservatively.So after the treatment, the broken bones remained in his body, and he still felt pain when he walked around.

"But I'm getting old, and I won't go out to work anymore. It's fine." Zhao Jincheng smiled, patted the shoulders of a few little bastards one by one, and said, "Why are they all frowning? What is this? I haven't lost it." Fate - when the end of the world is over, I will retire early, just right."

Fu Yan and the others surrounded him, their hearts were sour when they heard the words, they didn't say anything, they could only nod along.

They chatted for a while, and there was news that the settlement was over from the laboratory building.Fang Sining was welcomed into the laboratory building, and had already begun to familiarize himself with the work under Liu Ruosong's arrangement.

Shao Xuefan didn't know where he found out about Shao Qiu's situation, and he was clamoring to see someone.

Liu Ruosong didn't want to talk to him at first, but when he heard that he was crying, making trouble and hanged himself, so he thought about it and let go.

Fang Sining hadn't heard the name of his mentor for a long time, and suddenly heard that Shao Xuefan was in Yancheng, and was a little moved, and wanted to meet him in person, but was stopped by Liu Ruosong.

"I suggest you think it over." Liu Ruosong said, "Xiaoqiu hates him so much, and never wants to forgive him in this life."

Liu Ruosong hated Shao Xuefan, and this hatred would never fade because of Fu Yan's improvement. He and Shao Xuefan would never be able to shake hands and make peace in this life, so he would never let Shao Xuefan have any chance to get in touch with core personnel.

Shao Qiu is now Fang Sining's Achilles' heel, he pursed his lips and remained silent for a while, a little hesitant.

But in the end, the guilt towards Shao Qiu still prevailed, so Fang Sining nodded and did not insist anymore.

"I see." Fang Sining backed down and said, "I will stay in the laboratory building in the afternoon to do understanding work."

For the sake of safety, people like Shao Qiu who already have clear symptoms of infection cannot enter the military area.Before they came back, Zhao Jincheng temporarily set up a resettlement area behind the other side of the military area, so that they could recuperate in peace away from the civilian resettlement places.

If Shao Xuefan wanted to see Shao Qiu, he could only go to the resettlement center and could not enter the laboratory building.Fang Sining gave a step by himself and avoided going to see Shao Xuefan.

"No need." Liu Ruosong changed the subject and said, "You can go to Shao Qiu's dormitory to have a look."

Fang Sining didn't react at first, he looked at Liu Ruosong suspiciously, as if he didn't understand what he meant.

"Don't you want to take over to take care of the deputy team in the future?" Liu Ruosong said, "In that case, you can go and pack up some things he can use - if you want to go, I'll call Brother Fu or He Tang to pick you up later. "

Fang Sining's eyes lit up, he didn't expect such preferential treatment, he nodded quickly, indicating that he was willing to go.

As long as he doesn't soften his heart untimely, Liu Ruosong's attitude towards Fang Sining is pretty good.He quickly sent messages to the guard guarding Shao Xuefan and Fu Yan respectively, explaining the incident.

Fu Yan wanted to follow Zhao Jincheng to report to the leader about Eden One, so 10 minutes later, He Tang drove to the lab downstairs.

"Let him take whatever he wants." Liu Ruosong leaned on the driver's door and said, "You can go with him, as long as it is not an illegal item, he can do whatever he wants."

"Understood." Although He Tang didn't know why Liu Ruosong gave Fang Sining the green light, but after getting along for a long time, she rarely raised objections to Liu Ruosong's decision.

"Captain and the others are probably going to be busy until very late." He Tang sent a message by the way: "He said that you don't have to wait for him to eat at night."

"Understood." Liu Ruosong smiled and straightened up, patted on the car window, and said, "Go."

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There are still a few chapters to finish, and there will be a few extra episodes of post-disaster reconstruction XD.