16 years

The special operations team, the post-apocalyptic rescue team transferred from the special flight team, including the captain Fu Yan, has a total of six members.

Until Fu Yan was besieged in the Twin Towers in his previous life, there were only two of them left - three of them died in the line of duty and one was missing.

After Fu Yan died in the Twin Towers, Lieutenant Colonel Shaoqiu was the only one left in the team.

Yao Tu was the first to leave the team - he did a good job in logistics, but he had only been in the team for a short period of time. He didn't go through devil training like a few veterans, and he lacked a bit of actual combat experience. He himself had a long gash cut on his neck by the opponent's sharp nails.

The second time was Qu Ziming, who was not wronged more than Yao Tu. He didn't die in a zombie raid, but in a mechanical explosion.

At that time, they were going to perform a search and rescue mission, and the "rescue target" was a high-precision instrument in an abandoned laboratory.There was an accident when they were moving the equipment, because a zombie broke into the central control room accidentally, which accidentally triggered the advanced alarm system in the laboratory, so Qu Ziming turned his head in order to let Fu Yan and others retreat smoothly, regardless of Fu Yan's objection. Just plunged into the alarm zone.

Fu Yan later wanted to go back to save him, but unfortunately he didn't have time. The explosion affected the entire core area, and a large hole four meters in diameter was blown into the ceiling of the upper and lower floors.When he and He Feng dragged Qu Ziming out, half of the other party's legs were gone.

As for He Feng——

If losing a comrade-in-arms is an unavoidable pain in the last days, then He Feng is probably the epitome of countless ordinary people in the last days.

In the spring of the third year after the end of the world, they carried out a remote mission. In order to save He Tang, He Feng was unfortunately bitten by a zombie on the wrist and infected.

At that time, they had already developed a consensus of "leaving the team automatically after infection", and the atmosphere in the team was so heavy that it seemed that water could be squeezed out. Only He Feng didn't seem to have the feeling of "I'm going to die soon", sitting there with a smile on his face. In the corner, he only looked at He Tang quietly.

He is usually not very serious, and he can sell three burdens with one sentence, only that one time he was very quiet and didn't say anything.

He Tang didn't look at him all the time, she lowered her eyes, declined Fu Yan's help, knelt on the ground by herself, sorted out the supplies bit by bit, and picked out the one to be distributed to He Feng.

Food, water, and the necessary amount of ammunition.

She didn't pack the medicine, but just thought about it and stuffed an extra pistol into the bag.

He Feng has been looking at her very gently - if you count carefully, He Feng actually looks better than He Tang.His eyebrows and eyes are somewhat similar to He Tang's, but his outline is deeper. He looks exquisite but not feminine. The corners of his eyes are slightly curved. When he smiles at He Tang, there is always a hint of indulgence in his eyes.

He Tang packed things very slowly, but no matter how slow those things were, she had a head. She carefully put those things in the backpack bit by bit, and finally pulled the zipper on it with trembling hands. It took more than 30 minutes to pull it. Seconds, still a fraction short.

"It's okay." He Feng finally said, "Tangtang is the bravest."

He Tang's hand stopped, and she opened her mouth, as if she wanted to say something, but in the end she lowered her head without saying a word, without looking at He Feng again.

At that time, He Tang's short hair was a little longer, and before she had time to cut it, the thin forehead hair covered her eyebrows and eyes. Only when she lowered her head, Fu Yan saw a little red mark in her eyes.

"Our Major He Tang is the bravest little girl." He Feng said patiently and warmly with a kind of coaxing children: "I have been sleeping by myself since I was six years old, right?"

"That's because I know you are outside the door." He Tang couldn't help retorting.

"Yes." He Feng finally smiled, leaning against the wall with ease, and said softly, "Tangtang can still stay outside the door as a brother in the future."

At that time, Shao Qiu couldn't bear to turn his face away, Fu Yan could see clearly, his knuckles were turning white while holding the gun, and the root of his teeth were clenched tightly, it seemed that he wished for a nuclear bomb to blow over, the long-term pain together was better than the short-term pain.

But Shao Qiu can escape, but Fu Yan can't - and neither can He Tang.

No matter how far the goal is, there will always be an end. Time changes and the world changes. The suddenly changing world engulfs people like a torrent, and time rolls forward every second.

She still had to face the end and separation in the end, the steel zipper made a converging sound, He Tang wiped his eyes with the back of his dusty hand, rolled up the belt with one hand, and walked towards He Feng.

He Feng thought she was thinking about it, and smiled at her gratifiedly, and opened his arms, looking like he wanted to hug her.

He Tang knelt down in front of him on one knee, stared at him quietly for a while, and swiftly inserted an emergency anesthesia shot into the side of his neck.

The acute anesthetic took effect very quickly, before He Feng could say a word, he closed his eyes and fell down limply.He Tang caught his hanging hands and hugged him briefly.

Immediately afterwards, Fu Yan saw her push He Feng's forehead hair, and kissed his forehead very lightly.

"Captain." He Tang said, "I'm sorry."

Fu Yan pursed her lips, already guessing her next words in her heart.

"I can't survive." He Tang said.

Major He Tang, one of the top female pilots, has never shed tears or surrendered once in the army for many years. Only that time, she carried He Feng who was a whole head taller than her on her back, and stood up unsteadily from the ground. He lowered his head, not daring to look directly into Fu Yan's eyes.

It wasn't until he came back from the gate of the ghost gate and saw He Tang again in a supermarket in Lincheng where there were broken limbs and arms everywhere, that Fu Yan realized that he had never forgotten the last sentence He Tang told him in his previous life. talk.

"Sorry, I'm not a brave little girl," she said.

In the endless despair of the last days, what is the meaning of living may be an unanswerable matter.

Long-term pain or short-term pain is difficult to choose, just like survival or liberation, it is a dead question with no answer.

Those with relatives and friends may be for the expectations and desires of others; while those who are alone may be simply because of survival instinct.

Everyone who is struggling with "seeing tomorrow" has a thread hanging in his heart. This thread is precarious, but it can pull them and prevent them from falling into the bottomless abyss.

Perhaps He Tang has already been worn to the limit in the long apocalypse, and there is only the last straw left, or it may be that He Feng took away her only "thread". In short, she took He Feng and left the small building in the dark , never appeared again.

But Fu Yan knew that in this long eternal night, He Tang would not be an exception, nor would he be the last.

Everything in the "previous life" is vivid in his mind. For Fu Yan, seeing these vivid comrades in arms made him feel more touched than "saving the world", so much so that his chest heaved violently for a moment, and he almost couldn't hold it down. mood.

Liu Ruosong keenly sensed something, raised his head from his embrace, and looked at him worriedly.

Fu Yan's eyes happened to turn back to him, and they met him briefly.

I am the luckiest one on the cliff, Fu Yan thought.

Compared with He Tang, He Feng, brothers and sisters, and ordinary people struggling to survive in the last days, he is lucky enough. He has equipment, ammunition, and survival qualities that ordinary people cannot achieve.

What's more, he has no worries - Liu Ruosong stays safely in the base, so no matter where he goes, he will always have a place to go back to.

Fu Yan suddenly thought, perhaps it was because of this that the "do it all over again" happened to him.

He is much luckier than others and deserves more responsibility.

In order not to let the younger sister lose her older brother, and the parents lose their children—do it all over again, and many things will be different from before. If it cannot be changed, it will be meaningless to do it all over again.

"Thank you, Ruosong." Fu Yan said suddenly.

"Thank me for what?" Liu Ruosong was at a loss.

Thank you for making me the luckiest one, Fu Yan thought.

"Thank you for coming all the way to find me." Fu Yan said with a smile.

"Hey——" He Tang took a breath of air exaggeratedly, rubbed his arms, ran up to Fu Yan and shook his arms, pretending to have a toothache: "Captain, during the mission, don't mess around with the non-staff. How are the personnel? Look at the zombies that are filling the room over there, and look at us who are covering you—my brother’s magazine is about to be empty.”

"You think highly of him." Shao Qiu exploded two zombies in the air, and hid behind the shelf, muttering: "Is he called 'teasing'?

Liu Ruosong also felt angry and funny, thinking that it was only natural for me to come to you, if you hadn't asked me to send blood samples, I wouldn't have separated from you at all.

He looked at Fu Yan helplessly, and while reaching out to touch his forehead, he joked, "Brother, do you have a fever? Why are you still talking nonsense, I'm not—"

Liu Ruosong originally wanted to tease him for his sudden politeness, but he didn't expect to touch it, but found that Fu Yan's temperature was really abnormal.

It's summer now, and Fu Yan is wearing a lot of clothes. Liu Ruosong hugged him twice, but he just didn't notice.

At first, he thought that Fu Yan was wearing too much clothes to catch a cold, but when he touched it carefully, he felt something was wrong.He has a high temperature, but there is a thin layer of cold sweat on his forehead, which does not seem to be a symptom of a cold.

Liu Ruosong's face darkened suddenly, He Tang was startled by him, and asked what's wrong.

"Have you brought any medicine?" Liu Ruosong said, "Antibiotics!"

"Bring...bring it!" He Tang turned his head to look at Fu Yan in embarrassment: "Captain?"

"Slightly injured." Fu Yan admitted very neatly.

Liu Ruosong frowned tightly, but it was not safe here, so Fu Yan just squeezed his hand to comfort him, and then greeted Shao Qiu and the others.

Shao Qiu and He Feng turned their heads at the same time, and Fu Yanchong made a gesture of "retreat for a while" to them, then pulled Liu Ruosong back a few steps, and turned to walk to the frozen area.

The cold chain warehouse was originally equipped with electronically controlled door locks, but the electronic door locks lose their effectiveness after a power failure, and can only be opened and closed from the inside.It was already unsafe for Fu Yan to come out to pick them up, so he didn't let Fang Sining and the others stay in the door, and now he could only use the old method of crawling in through the ceiling keel.