16 years

In the resettlement area, Liu Ruosong was sitting in the living room, fiddling with the firearm in his hand.

In peaceful times, ordinary people rarely saw precision firearms. Rao Ruosong had been an outdoor photographer for so many years. Apart from shooting targets with Fu Yan, he only touched a few shotguns.

But after the apocalypse, many prohibitions are infinitely relaxed in the face of security. Fu Yan is afraid that he will not be able to protect himself in the apocalypse, so he will always teach him many things. Today, Liu Ruosong can independently disassemble and assemble a whole set of guns .

Liu Ruosong fastened the rifling, then carefully wiped each part with a soft cloth, and finally pushed the bullets into the magazine one by one.

I don't know if it was a coincidence or what, but just after he finished this set of actions, someone knocked on the door from outside.

The next second, the door was violently knocked open, Shao Xuefan stumbled and fell in, staggered a few steps, barely holding onto the wall.

His face was full of panic, his shoes were worn backwards, his face was ashamed, and his eyes were red.

When Shao Xuefan raised his eyes and saw Liu Ruosong, his expression suddenly changed a few times.It's just that he probably had more important things to do in his heart, so before he could say anything, he turned his head and plunged into the bedroom on the other side.

Liu Ruosong didn't move, he put the magazine back into the gun, waved at the guard at the door, and signaled him to leave first.

The guard nodded slightly, and was about to help close the door, but before he could move, he heard a shrill roar from inside the room.

The voice was hoarse and painful, like an old wolf that had lost its cubs. The guard trembled and subconsciously closed the door tightly.

Liu Ruosong raised his eyebrows with interest, pulled out the magazine and pushed it back in, turned his head and glanced at the direction of the bedroom.

I didn't expect Shao Xue to be a double-standard and shameless mortal, and he still has some sincerity towards Shao Qiu, Liu Ruosong thought.

Liu Ruosong couldn't figure out where his emotions came from. If he cared about Shao Qiu, he wouldn't abandon him for so many years, but if he didn't care, in the past few restarts, he really did it for Shao Qiu. Conceded many times.

And today—

As a comrade in arms, Liu Ruosong has always been able to distinguish Shao Qiu from Shao Xuefan.If he had a choice, Liu Ruosong would not punish Shao Xuefan by sacrificing Shao Qiu, but he didn't know if it was because of his bad nature. When the situation was forced to develop to the present situation, Liu Ruosong was actually thinking carefully when he saw Shao Xuefan's pain. There was a secret pleasure in it.

It was a kind of tit for tat feeling, so many years ago, he couldn't cry outside the laboratory building.Those rotten, foul-smelling pains fermented into thick malice, and at this moment they finally got the joy of release.

Shao Qiu is innocent, but Shao Xuefan is Liu Ruosong's enemy.

Liu Ruosong put the gun back into the holster, Shi Shiran stood up, walked to the door of the bedroom, and leaned against the door frame.

Shao Xuefan lay beside the bed, weeping to his heart's content, but Shao Qiu didn't make a fuss about it, he even closed his eyes, as if he didn't bother to look at him.

"Does it hurt?" Liu Ruosong said without thinking, "I thought you didn't know it hurts."

Shao Xuefan still remembers what Liu Ruosong once said to him. He didn't want to believe in strange powers and gods, but when he dreamed back at midnight, there was always a voice telling him that everything should not be what it is now.

"... If you want to take revenge on me, you should come at me." Shao Xuefan roared, "You attack Xiaoqiu, are you human!"

Liu Ruosong looked at him quietly.

It's funny to say, when Shao Xuefan covered the sky with one hand, he stood in front of Liu Ruosong, like an insurmountable gap, even if Liu Ruosong tried his best, he couldn't cross it, and could only experience the helpless pain in front of him.

But to Liu Ruosong now, he is not even an ant.

He can manipulate his life and emotions so easily that even revenge becomes tasteless.

"You are not important enough to make me give up my conscience." Liu Ruosong said, "But I can give you a chance."

"I hate you, so compared to the deputy team, I prefer to see you in pain." Liu Ruosong said plainly: "So, why not replace the deputy team with your life."

"You can do whatever you want!" Shao Xuefan's chest heaved violently, he was emotional, and he was holding Shao Qiu's hand tightly, as if he had been dazzled by anger: "Take it if you want! Anyway, I can't live with my old arms and legs. A few days!"

Liu Ruosong raised his eyebrows in surprise.

Bloodline is really a strange thing, Liu Ruosong thought, Shao Xuefan thinks very highly of himself, he treats everyone in the world as a human being except himself, but he is willing to give Shao Qiu more attention, sincerely treat him as "one of his own" ".

"Okay." Liu Ruosong said lightly: "I will give you an injection of zombie virus, use you to reproduce the current situation of the deputy team, and then take you to the laboratory building, and conduct clinical trials of drugs on you from then on—anyway, you The gene is similar to that of the deputy team, so it must be more targeted than other experimental subjects."

Shao Xuefan paused.

The reason why impulse is impulsive is that emotion will take over the whole body in an instant.At that moment just now, Shao Xuefan was really willing to exchange himself for Shao Qiu, but in Liu Ruosong's few words, his survival instinct regained control of his reason, and he subconsciously felt fear of this "deal".

"Are you willing?" Liu Ruosong asked.

"I--"

Shao Xuefan's hands and feet were cold, and he was speechless for a while.He is really suffering, and wants to give everything in exchange for Shao Qiu's health, but it is obvious that for him, this "everything" has a certain scope.

At least not including his freedom and life.

The young man in front of him couldn't believe what he said, Shao Xuefan tried to convince himself from another angle: he had a grudge against him, even if he died, he might not necessarily save Xiaoqiu.

This kind of rational "calmness" made Shao Xuefan feel better, and the pain of being desperate for help subsided a little. His subconscious mind almost immediately avoided risks, and pushed all the responsibilities to Liu Ruosong.

He is a liar, Shao Xuefan thought.

Liu Ruosong saw the answer from his hesitation, he suddenly found it funny, and didn't understand why he had to ask more - Shao Xuefan was like this, he was always willing to be generous to others under conditions, but once it involved When it comes to himself, there is no sympathy, no righteousness, only self-preservation.

"Forget it." Liu Ruosong sighed lightly, and said, "I don't want to have any more nightmares, so let's give each other a good time."

As Liu Ruosong said, he pulled out the gun from the holster, slowly released the safety, and lightly pulled the trigger.

Shao Xuefan's pupils shrank suddenly, and subconsciously got up from the ground.

In any case, survival is always a human instinct, and few people can be calm in the face of highly lethal thermal weapons.

He subconsciously ran out along the balcony door on the other side of the bedroom—people always burst out with great potential when they are dying, and Shao Xuefan is no exception. out.

Liu Ruosong took a few steps over the railing and flipped out. As soon as he raised his hand, someone grabbed his wrist.

He froze for a moment, turned his head to look, only to realize that Fu Yan had followed him at some point.

Liu Ruosong didn't know when he came, nor did he know how much he had heard, but even though he was sure that Fu Yan would not blame him because of Shao Xuefan, he still instinctively felt a little uncomfortable.

"You want me to let him go?" Liu Ruosong whispered.

Fu Yan didn't speak, his fingers climbed a little forward along Liu Ruosong's wrist, held his hand and squeezed the trigger tightly.

Almost at the moment when he shot, Shao Xuefan tripped over a hard rock buried in the soil, and the bullet fired by Fu Yan fell through the air and slammed into a tree not far away. .But Shao Xuefan didn't know where he fell, he struggled a few times on the ground and stopped moving.

"No." Fu Yan said, "My marksmanship is better than yours."

The recoil of the firearm was so strong that half of Liu Ruosong's body was numb. Looking at the back of Shao Xuefan who fell to the ground, he was a little dazed.

He was silent for a while, then walked forward slowly, bent down to check Shao Xuefan's situation.

Fu Yan wasn't with him, he stood there looking at Liu Ruosong's back, and there was still a little burn mark on his hand from the gunshot.

Liu Ruosong is not a character who can shoot and kill. Fu Yan knows that even after staying in the last days for so many years, he has never pointed his gun at the same kind.

Fu Yan knew Liu Ruosong's knot in his heart, and Shao Xuefan was not only his enemy, but also the source of his nightmare.If Shao Xuefan doesn't die for a day, Liu Ruosong will always live in the situation of repeating the same mistakes.

Even if they have the medicine and Eden One, this nightmare will not disappear.

If Fu Yan chooses by himself, he doesn't care whether Shao Xuefan is alive or not, but Liu Ruosong minds, Fu Yan can't let him go.

What's more, Fu Yan himself doesn't think there's anything wrong with this. Putting Liu Ruosong's Shao Xuefan's personal enmity aside, Shao Xuefan researched R-01, concealed information in the face of major disasters, and conducted biochemical experiments. He used so many human samples, pile after pile. It's all sin.

Fu Yan doesn't understand the necessity of human evolution, and doesn't care whether his research is infinitely forward-looking. In Fu Yan's mind, the fact that he indirectly killed many people is enough for him to die once.

But erasing a fresh life with his own hands is far more than a simple pleasure. Liu Ruosong has never killed anyone. If possible, Fu Yan does not want Liu Ruosong to do it himself.

It's just that Fu Yan himself didn't expect that Shao Xuefan's exit would become so dramatic, even ironic and childish.

"He died of a sudden heart attack." Liu Ruosong said suddenly, "He was emotional and frightened—he should have died of fright."

It was difficult for Liu Ruosong to describe his current mood.

He had wanted to see this scene countless times, wanted to see Shao Xuefan die in front of his eyes, to make up for the pain he had personally sent Fu Yan to the finish line.

But the moment Fu Yan really shot, he suddenly felt that it was not worth it.

Fortunately, Fu Yan's shot missed, so Shao Xuefan did not die in Fu Yan's hands, but died of his own fault.

"That's pretty good." Liu Ruosong stood up shaking, and licked the corners of his lips at Fu Yan: "Don't get your hands dirty."