16 years

Fu Yan opened his eyes again.

The moment he vaguely realized that he was still alive, his first reaction was not the joy of the rest of his life, but a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, the appointment was not missed, Fu Yan thought.

Before losing consciousness, Fu Yan was actually not sure if he would do it again - after all, this kind of thing was too unbelievable, he couldn't control it, and there was no rule to follow, whether the gift from heaven would come again generously, He didn't even think about it.

But Fu Yan was afraid that Liu Ruosong would be overwhelmed.

The two of them grew up together, they have been together for so many years, they fit together like the left and right halves of the same soul, suddenly tore him away from Liu Ruosong, Fu Yan felt pain just thinking about it.

Besides, Liu Ruosong had already lost him once.

At that time, Fu Yan was so painful that he was unconscious, and he only wanted to find a thought for Liu Ruosong, so that he would not let him do anything stupid.

As for what happened next, Fu Yan really didn't have the time to think about it.

But I don't know why, this time the reaction was much bigger than the last time. His eyes were dim, and he felt as if he was in a bumpy cabin, floating with the storm, and he was dizzy.

Fu Yan frowned uncomfortably, closed his eyes for a while, and when he opened them again, he could vaguely see the scene in front of him.

His senses seem to be slow, and with the clarity of vision, they slowly come back to him, and he begins to work reluctantly.

The first thing Fu Yan saw was the familiar yet unfamiliar ceiling—this was his army dormitory. There was a little water seepage in the corner of the ceiling. If you look carefully, you can see a shallow watermark from above.

Fu Yan stared blankly at that point, the memory in his mind was like a mass of smashed paste, messily kneaded together, as if covered with a layer of gray film.

Where did I go back, Fu Yan thought blankly.

Obviously, the last time he just returned to the base, he became the "resident population" of the laboratory building before the quarantine period, and he never lived in the dormitory overnight.

The door of the bedroom was wide open, and there was the sound of dripping water outside, as if there was someone else in the room.

Fu Yan was dizzy, but he still remembered the "promise" with Liu Ruosong. As soon as the idea of ​​contacting the other party came to his mind, he felt something under the pillow vibrate and made a light noise.

Fu Yan squinted his eyes and reached in to find out, only to find that it was his private mobile phone.

The battery of his phone is low, and just after the notification sounded, Fu Yan canceled the battery alarm, and as soon as he unlocked the lock screen, the phone automatically jumped out of the text message page, as if it had stayed there before.

Among the numerous operator notification text messages, Liu Ruosong's number box stayed at the top of the text messages, and the latest text message was sent six hours ago, with only a short line.

【2030.09.16】

Fu Yan was taken aback suddenly.

After such a short time, his eyes began to dizzy again, so he simply shook his head and began to quickly scroll up this message.

This message was finally fixed at the top of the text message box, three months ago.

——Liu Ruosong has been back for three months.

From the message box, Fu Yan could see his initial bewilderment. When he first received the message, he asked Liu Ruosong what he meant. Treat it as a text message to check in to report safety, and reply to him every day.

But Fu Yan knew that no matter what he replied at that time, it meant something different to Liu Ruosong.

Liu Ruosong sent him the "password" at [-] o'clock every morning without hesitation, and waited for three full months before waiting for him to come back.

I don't know when I heard the sound of water outside. Fu Yan pressed his temple and was about to get up from the bed when he heard footsteps outside.

Fu Yanshun raised his head according to the voice, and his eyes fell on Liu Ruosong impartially.

Liu Ruosong didn't wear the white coat that Fu Yan was familiar with all his life. He was wearing a neat training uniform with the sleeves rolled up high, holding a small paper bowl in his hand.

His hands were still stained with water, and the water droplets that hadn't been wiped off his wrists dripped onto the floor.

Fu Yan just looked at him, as if he had found a safe place to rest, and his heart sank immediately, returning to a safe place.

"elder brother."

Seeing that he was awake, Liu Ruosong quickly walked a few steps over to hold his shoulder, and carefully placed his palm on his forehead.

"Still dizzy?" Liu Ruosong asked, "Do you feel uncomfortable?"

Fu Yan nodded first, then shook his head. Then, as if he remembered something, he pressed the phone in his hand again, and opened the text message box.

Then, in front of Liu Ruosong, he typed a line into the text message box.

【02: 07】

Liu Ruosong's face was full of doubts at first, but soon his eyes widened. Fu Yan keenly noticed that his fingers holding his shoulder tightened a little.

Fu Yan let go, and the message was sent out along the dialog box, connected to the base's backup base station, and entered Liu Ruosong's communicator.

Liu Ruosong took a very short breath, his eyes fluttered back and forth between the phone and Fu Yan's face helplessly, before he could speak, his throat choked up.

Fu Yan took one arm, and subconsciously wanted to get up and hug him, but when they got up together, the world was spinning for a while, Liu Ruosong quickly grabbed his shoulders and hugged him, and sat back on the bed by himself as a personal cushion for Fu Yan.

With such an interruption, Liu Ruosong has recovered from his gaffe.

For the past three months, he has been thinking about Fu Yan's appearance when he came back almost every day, and he has already typed up thousands of drafts in his heart.

"Don't move." Liu Ruosong said: "You were on a mission yesterday, and you fell off the scaffolding to save a little boy. You may have a slight concussion."

Fu Yan frowned suspiciously.

Liu Ruosong himself has experience, knowing that after the "restart" if there is a gap between memory and experience, there will be a period of interruption, so he picked out a small tomato from a paper bowl and fed it to Fu Yan, and then covered his eyes with his hand .

"Listen to me." Liu Ruosong said, "You are in the base now. Before the apocalypse broke out, you came back and resumed your duties. You have been performing rescue missions for the past two months. Yesterday you were searching for survivors in the suburbs of Yancheng. In order to save him from falling upstairs, fortunately, the fall was not serious. I gave you a week of sick leave on the [-]st, and I can stay with you at home this week—by the way, I am now a field member of your team."

Liu Ruosong said while holding his hand and touching the "combat" label on the chest of his training uniform, and said with a smile, "You signed it yourself."

Fu Yan hummed, the tomato juice was rich, sweet and sour, his headache eased a little, and he began to sort out his memory following Liu Ruosong's words.

"The apocalypse this time is about the same as the last time, and it also started in S City." Liu Ruosong said, "The only difference is that you didn't go to Pengcheng this time, and you were on your way back to Yancheng when the accident happened."

Liu Ruosong clarified the current situation in a few words, then paused, and said, "There is good news and bad news, which one do you want to hear?"

"Bad news." Fu Yan said.

"Shao Qiu is missing." Liu Ruosong picked out the main point concisely: "He was ordered to pick up Fang Sining, but the two of them met, but they both disappeared before returning home. It has been almost fifty days now."

Fu Yan suddenly turned around, "looked" in his direction, and said in shock, "Missing?"

"...Don't be so violent." Liu Ruosong helplessly put down his hand covering his eyes, and said, "You also know that Fang Sining is in Pengcheng, in this part of the country, and it doesn't take a whole operation to pick him up alone. team, so I ordered Shao Qiu to go by myself on the first day. I thought at the time, you were yourself last time, so you should have nothing to do, so you didn't intervene. But for some reason, Shao Qiu lost contact with Fang Sining two days after meeting, and even The positioning chip also stopped working, and the second team followed his last location to find him, and found that the place where he disappeared was an abandoned building waiting to be demolished."

"He is taking Fang Sining with him, so it is impossible to take the high-risk route." Fu Yan felt dizzy with his eyes open, and could only lean back against the head of the bed again, and said in a low voice: "If he temporarily settles down in the demolition building, he will definitely make preparations in advance to prevent zombies from entering the door." The measures...whether they have memory or not, he still has this quality."

"The second team also thought so, so they searched around the scene." Liu Ruosong said: "Then they found regular ruts and footprints, emergency supplies dropped by the deputy team in the demolition building, and messy signs of fighting. So the second team suspects that the deputy team was taken away."

"And according to the news from the second team, they hadn't completely left Pengcheng at that time, and they landed near the outskirts of Pengcheng." Liu Ruosong said, "This is actually very strange. Holy shit, it stands to reason that the deputy team wouldn't delay in the local area, but I don't know why they haven't left the boundary of Pengcheng after walking for two days."

Fu Yan looked sideways at Liu Ruosong.

Liu Ruosong understood that he had the same guess as himself.

"Shao Qiu's individual combat ability is not weak. Our team has also undergone drug resistance training. It is difficult for ordinary people to subdue him in a short time if we fight alone." Fu Yan said: "If you see Shao Xuefan in the small building last time Judging from the level of the two people who arrived, at least three people are needed to capture Shao Qiu alive. If he stayed in Pengcheng for two days and did not leave, I can only think of one guess—he has been carrying Fang Sining is hiding in Tibet."

"Being chased or something?" Liu Ruosong said.

"I don't know. He may have been exposed at the time, or he may not have been exposed - I am inclined to the latter, otherwise he would not have left the urban area." Fu Yan said: "He probably only revealed his whereabouts after he left the urban area. Check the path of Shao Qiu's positioning chip, and you will probably have the answer."

"However, in the previous life, Fang Sining was obviously not involved, so why did he kidnap a student of him in this life?" Fu Yan said, "...and took Shao Qiu away with him?"

"This is another good news." Liu Ruosong paused and said, "...Brother, Shao Xuefan is still alive this time."