16 years

"...Why did you tell me this?" Shao Qiu was silent for a long time, and asked hoarsely.

"A few days ago you had a fever and talked nonsense, and kept asking me why I didn't want you." Fang Sining said, "You asked me why I chose him, why I gave up on you for such a person."

Shao Qiu: "..."

"I'm sorry." Fang Sining said again: "I didn't think about choosing one or the other. I just... just didn't expect it to be this serious. I admit that I made a mistake before. I didn't consider your feelings. I only cared about myself at the time. I didn't realize that the happier I was, the sadder you would be."

After so many years, Shao Qiu almost forgot what he was hating, he just put Shao Xuefan and Fang Sining in the same box, treated them with the same eyes, and responded with the same resentment.

But until just now, he suddenly discovered one thing.The first thing he suffered was not because of Fang Sining's praise and admiration for Shao Xuefan, he just didn't understand why Fang Sining would give up for no reason and choose the person he hated.

This incomprehension has evolved into more complex emotions in the long process, unwillingness, anger, regret of being betrayed, and doubts about himself... The better Shao Qiu is, the more resentment will be born from this incomprehension.

Shao Xuefan is undoubtedly a top person in the industry, and Shao Qiu also knows that he is a cold-blooded scientific researcher, and he will do his best for the students who are around him. Therefore, Fang Sining goes to him with such a goal, and he will easily be fooled by his "generosity." "I was moved and regarded him as a guiding light.

The more harmonious their teachers and students are, the more rotten the wound in Shao Qiu's heart. As time goes on, Fang Sining has long been regarded by Shao Qiu as another "Shao Xuefan".

And now Fang Sining has stated his reason - in this reason, Shao Xuefan is not Fang Sining's target, but because he happened to meet a certain "condition" that became the final result.

Shao Qiu doesn't know if this is self-deception or not, but Fang Sining's "chasing ideals" and "chasing Shao Xuefan" are completely different things in his mind.

He suddenly felt a little funny.

Fang Sining obviously just gave him an explanation that cannot be regarded as a "reason", but he was easily swayed, as if he had been stubbornly waiting for "I didn't want to choose him" all these years.

With such a premise, it seems that the "teacher-student friendship" between Fang Sining and Shao Xuefan is not so important.

"Xiao Qiu, I admit that I am a cowardly person." Fang Sining's voice was very low, his eyes drifted blankly, and he did not dare to look at Shao Qiu, which made him look a little pitiful: "I am naive, and I am not enough. Maturity, I didn’t expect such serious consequences before, and later I found out that you were sad, and I didn’t have the courage to bear it. Later, you cut off contact with me, and I didn’t dare to take the initiative to find you...I’m afraid of facing your resentment. "

"Why did you say it now?" Shao Qiu asked forcefully.

He stared closely at Fang Sining's eyes, his eyes were as sharp as knives, like a weak wolf, maintaining his remaining dignity, once he found that the person in front of him was lying, he would immediately bite off his neck.

"I'm afraid I won't have a chance if I don't say it." Fang Sining gritted his teeth: "Xiao Qiu, you have to find a way to escape."

"What?" Shao Qiu was taken aback, as if he didn't know why the topic suddenly changed to this.

"You can't stay here anymore, they're not safe." Fang Sining bent down and leaned closer to his ear, and whispered, "I've been helping them with work for the past few days, and I'll think of a way when you get better in a few days. Can you make some noise to lure them away, so you can take the opportunity—”

Before he finished speaking, Shao Qiu grabbed his wrist.

"Don't mess around." Shao Qiu's voice seemed to be squeezed out from between his teeth: "You don't have professional knowledge and basic accomplishments, and you are looking for death if you mess around."

"but--"

"No but." Shao Qiu interrupted him rudely. None of them knew whether there was a monitoring device in the confinement room, so the voice was almost a whisper. Shao Qiu pulled Fang Sining back with all his strength, and Fang Sining fluttered dizzily On him, I heard Shao Qiu whispering in his ear: "If you want to escape, go together. You have to listen to my command and tell me the news outside, otherwise you will die, and I won't be able to escape—then you If it’s useless, they will deal with me to death, maybe they will torture me and ask me about the internal intelligence of the military region.”

Fang Sining was originally a researcher, so he didn't know anything about rescue. The only "plan" was pieced together from artistic processing works such as film and television novels.

"What did they ask you to do?" Shao Qiu asked.

"Do virus research." Fang Sining said: "They seem to be developing specific medicines, but it's strange. They only let me do theoretical research, and they don't give me the experimental conditions for zombie viruses at all—it seems that they only want pharmaceutical ideas and B- The application formula of 92 is the same."

"I don't understand how the virus works, but looking at their situation, it feels like they are holding 'ammunition' in their hands, and they just need a 'gun' to load it." Shao Qiu didn't know what B-92 was, so he listened to it casually. ear, and then asked: "Apart from this, is there anything else?"

Fang Sining frowned and thought for a while, then suddenly remembered something, and said eagerly: "By the way, I heard them mention a 'backup point'."

"……what?"

"They said it was a place to store petri dishes." Fang Sining said, "They spoke in a small language. They probably thought I couldn't understand, so they didn't have to carry me behind their backs. I remembered when you said it just now. They are As I said, when the work here is over, you can evacuate with the petri dish. When you get a new wave of 'output' from the petri dish, you can just experiment with the effect."

"I heard from them that the petri dish is in D City, Province N." Fang Sining said, "They said that the boss has already gone to inspect it, and will leave the country from there later, so the action here must be quick."

The more Shao Qiu listened, the more confused he became. He frowned and asked in doubt, "What boss?"

"The boss behind this abandoned pharmaceutical factory is also the sponsor of the research and development of the zombie virus. I remember they called him..." Fang Sining thought about it for a moment, then hesitated: "Call him—"

"Joe Eden." Shao Xuefan said, "Sometimes, he prefers his collaborators to call him Adam."

Fu Yan folded his hands and quickly passed the name in his mind.

He was quite sure that in the last two apocalyptic times, he had never heard of this name once, and even in all the missions he had performed, there was no trace of this person.

This is very unusual. The special flight team is different from the ordinary air force cruise team. They have carried out many special missions, and have traveled many times at home and abroad. Impressed.

Even Fu Yan himself couldn't believe that the mastermind who was able to make such a big deal out of the apocalyptic virus was an unknown junior.

But he didn't interrupt Shao Xuefan at the beginning—as Liu Ruosong said, since the last time he met Shao Xuefan, this clever virus expert spent a week weighing the pros and cons, eliminating his own suspicions, and finally found He came up with a set of explanations and invited Fu Yan over, intending to reveal a little "insider information" to him.

"I've never heard of this person." Fu Yan shook his head and said as kindly as possible: "Who is he?"

"He is of mixed blood and started as an arms dealer. Strictly speaking, they are a family business." Shao Xuefan said: "It was his father who first discovered R-01—his father wanted to use R-01 for biological research. I studied pharmaceutical research, and I was developing abroad at that time, and I also received relevant invitations for cooperation, but because of disagreement with each other, I did not have deeper contact."

Fu Yan sneered in his heart.

He said in his heart that Shao Xuefan really used the four characters of "enduring humiliation and stealing life" to the extreme. His backbone and self-confidence seemed to stay in his professional field. Once he left that environment, he became a fearful old man. , It's the same now, both inside and outside the words are picking themselves out.

"Invitation for cooperation?" Fu Yan said, "So, their research institute is privately owned and employs an employment system?"

"Yes, they hire relevant researchers with high salaries from all over the world. These people bring their own teams, sign contracts under centralized management, accept assigned tasks, and conduct research in a general direction according to the task content." Shao Xuefan said: "But top talents There is a cooperation system with them, although it is employment, but there is no distinction between superiors and subordinates. As long as the general direction is followed by their requirements, the other parts have a high degree of freedom.”

"I don't know much about their family. I only know that they are a family with a lot of money." Shao Xuefan said: "In addition to arms, they are also involved in some black fields, including the sale of some illegal drugs - of course, there are many countries abroad, This is legal."

Fu Yan nodded, motioning for him to continue.

"But after Joe came to power, things seemed to be wrong." Shao Xuefan said: "Before, his father would occasionally come to me to consult some professional issues, so I had heard a little bit about R-01. But since Joe took over the research After entering the office, their research has been transferred from semi-public to high-level secret. I learned some inside information by chance, but I only vaguely heard that they had started clinical trials of the virus."

"R-01 can't act on the human body. I also know this. I was very puzzled at the time, why this research could suddenly enter the clinic. I found out later that they found a petri dish for the virus to transfer." Shao Xuefan said.

The word "petri dish" finally touched the string in Fu Yan's heart. He looked at Shao Xuefan's expression calmly, and asked as naturally as possible: "What petri dish?"

"It's a woman." Shao Xuefan said, "It's Joe's sister."

He actually didn't tell the truth in his previous life, Fu Yan thought, in the video file at that time, he only mentioned the petri dish, but he didn't say anything about it.