16 years

What happened after that, Shao Qiu couldn't remember clearly.

He was in a daze, walking in the ravine like a walking corpse for more than a week. On the way, he encountered two long-distance trucks that collided on the winding dirt road. There is a bottle of water in the bag.

"Fortunately, he wasn't stupid." Zhao Jincheng breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "He also knows how to find some supplies for himself, or else he would probably die on the way, how wronged."

"Lieutenant Colonel Shao's training quality is not bad." The brother troops who escorted Shao Qiu back from the C Department military region smiled and said: "He also avoided those roads that might be infested with zombies along the way, and came down from the mountains. After entering the county It is also walking on the obstacle course, and I guess it is because of this that he did not bump into the group of powerful zombies head-on."

After the C Department military region found Shao Qiu, it immediately sent a feedback to Zhao Jincheng, and then dispatched a small team to escort him back to Yancheng.

Shao Qiu woke up completely in the middle of the night the next day, but he kept silent and refused to say a word except to thank him.

Shao Xuefan was very excited about Shao Qiu's "recovery". He was an old man in his 70s, and he had come all the way from the military area that day, wanting to go out to meet Shao Qiu's car.

It's a pity that Shao Qiu was cold and disgusted with him, and refused to see him. No matter how much Ren Zhao Jincheng persuaded him, he refused to let go. The car drove directly into the inner courtyard of the military area. Fu Yan and He Feng went to pick him up and sent him back to the dormitory.

Shao Xuefan still didn't give up, and went to the dormitory area to meet his son in person that evening. Unfortunately, he only got a smashed water glass, so he had to give up and left regretfully.

The old man walked out of the gate of the dormitory building with heavy steps. His shoulders were bent, his hair was gray, and he looked like a dejected old father. Anyone who looked at him would feel a little bit unbearable.

——But there are also people who have a "hard heart" and don't think he is so pitiful.

"Brother, don't you think he's a bit strange." Liu Ruosong lay on the window sill and watched Shao Xuefan's back. The window in front of him was opened halfway, and the cold wind from the north swept in, blowing a coat on Fu Yan's arm. Blow up and down.

Fu Yan stood tall and straight, as straight as a telegraph pole. He only glanced at Shao Xuefan and then looked away. He carefully unfolded the coat in his hand, shook it, put it on Liu Ruosong, and adjusted the neckline for him , Fold the long sleeves of the jacket and tuck it into the belt, so as not to be carried down by the wind.

After completing this whole set of movements, he seemed to be emptying himself a bit, and hummed suspiciously.

While talking, Shao Xuefan had already walked a long way. A military jeep was parked far away from the dormitory area. Shao Xuefan was clearly heading in that direction. He was also refreshed, as if the three souls and seven souls that had disappeared had returned to his body.

A young man stood by the car, seeing him approaching, he simply saluted him, and then opened the car door.

Shao Xuefan nodded slightly at him, got into the back seat of the car, the car turned on the lights in the night, turned a corner along the square, and went straight outside.

"The direction of the laboratory building." Fu Yan said, "Is he going to start work?"

"Looks like it." Liu Ruosong gave a low laugh, turned Fu Yan with his elbow, and said in a low voice: "See, that's the one who will take Joe—the deputy team just came back, and he came to knock him down." He walked through the door once and left, and the state of 'out of his mind' lasted less than 5 minutes, which seems less natural than the current state of the industry elite."

Fu Yan blinked, and looked sideways at Liu Ruosong.

"What?" Fu Yan asked.

"I can't say anything. Maybe the deputy team gave me a preconceived impression. In short, I always feel that something is wrong." Liu Ruosong watched the headlights go away, then straightened up, turned around, leaned against the window, and looked at it with folded arms. Xiang Fuyan: "How should I put it... I always feel that a person who is purely worried about his son should not be in Shao Xuefan's state."

Fu Yanyan smoothed Liu Ruosong's forehead hair that was blown by the wind, and said casually: "Shao Xuefan is cold, and Shao Qiu himself said it."

"It's not the same." Liu Ruosong shook his head, rubbed Fu Yan's hand in his palm, tilted his head and thought for a while, and chose a concise and clear statement: "You have never been family members, I don't know how family members should What is the state. Anyway, if it were me, I would not be in the mood to 'fulfill the promise' now."

"The matter of rescuing the deputy team and conducting virus research is not a request, but a transaction, which shows that Shao Xuefan actually doesn't have that much sense of belonging and identification with us." Liu Ruosong said: "In this case , the deputy team escaped from death, but his first reaction was to think of something serious, he is indeed a little 'reasonable'."

Fu Yan realized Liu Ruosong's meaning - the car assigned to Shao Xuefan drove directly to the bottom of the dormitory building, obviously Shao Xuefan had said hello in advance.

He hasn't come to see his son yet, yet he has already arranged such trivial matters.

"But it's hard to say." Liu Ruosong shook his head, and said, "There are tens of thousands of people in the world with different temperaments. Maybe this kind of cutting-edge person in the field cannot be deduced by common sense."

"However, if he officially starts virus research, he should have more power to speak in the laboratory building than you." Fu Yan said: "...Based on his qualifications, he may have a lot of power to speak in the entire military region."

"As he pleases." Liu Ruosong said nonchalantly, "I also hope that he will develop a special medicine tomorrow to end this apocalypse and save you—"

Liu Ruosong was confused for a moment, and said: "When the time comes, no matter whether he is a perverted researcher or a savior, I will definitely be the first on stage to send him flowers, thanking him for his great contributions to mankind."

Fu Yan was amused by him, curled his lips and squeezed his hand.

"As for the right to speak, he can take whatever he wants. I'm not interested in fighting for power." Liu Ruosong glanced at Fu Yan pointingly, and said in a low voice, "Anyway, he's going to study him, which has nothing to do with us."

"I know." Fu Yan understood what he meant: "I promised you that I won't say it this time."

Liu Ruosong hummed, moved a little closer, and kissed Fu Yan on tiptoe.

"Understood." Liu Ruosong said vaguely, "You always keep your word."

Fu Yan kissed him briefly in the night, gaining three seconds of peace in the midst of danger.

When they parted, Fu Yan touched the corner of Liu Ruosong's lips and said, "I'm going to see Shao Qiu, are you going?"

"Go." After restarting this time, Liu Ruosong was very attached to him: "I'll be with you."

As the principal and deputy team, the dormitories of Fu Yan and Shao Qiu are not far away, there are only two rooms in between. When Fu Yan went to knock on the door, Shao Qiu probably recognized him as Shao Xuefan, and slammed the door silently I got a cup.

The sound of ceramic shattering was like thunder, Liu Ruosong hissed like a toothache, and subconsciously pulled Fu Yan back half a step, as if the thing could fly out of the door and hit him.

"Shao Qiu, it's me." Fu Yan said.

The hostility inside the door quickly disappeared, and Shao Qiu's slightly hoarse voice sounded from inside: "Captain, the door is unlocked."

Liu Ruosong raised his eyebrows in surprise, pressed down on the doorknob, and saw that the dormitory door opened a small crack, revealing the dark room behind.

Good guy, Liu Ruosong and Fu Yan looked at each other, then glanced out of the window very quickly, and gave Fu Yan a complicated look of "Shao Xuefan didn't even push the door".

Fu Yan was also obviously speechless about this, he shook his head, took over Liu Ruosong's position, and entered the room first stepping across the debris on the floor.

Shao Qiu was lying on the sofa, when he saw Fu Yan coming in, he staggered to get up, Fu Yan gave him a stop gesture, signaling him to go at his own pace, and then sat on the single seat next to him.

Liu Ruosong looked around, weighed his position, and didn't compete with the patient for the sofa, but sat quietly on the armrest next to Fu Yan.

Fu Yan is not good at being a confidant brother. Shao Qiu was fine when he was lively before, but now when he is depressed, the atmosphere in the room becomes a bit dull.The two of them were silent for a while, the air was so quiet that even Liu Ruosong felt uncomfortable, before Shao Qiu could open his mouth to ease the atmosphere, he opened his mouth.

"Captain." Shao Qiu said, "I have a report."

"Say." Fu Yan said.

"In D City, Province N, there is a stronghold for those people." Shao Qiu said: "There are a large number of original virus strains stored in the stronghold, which is the core item for virus research."

Shao Qiu was imprisoned for almost a year. He didn't know how the situation outside had developed, so he could only try his best to tell Fu Yan the information he could remember clearly.

"...That group of people has raised a group of mercenaries. From the perspective of quality and weapons and equipment, they don't look like Ye Luzi." Shao Qiu finally said, "It looks like the retired special forces from country A."

"The things in City D are very important." Shao Qiu said: "As far as I know, those people are also researching specific medicines, but even they themselves have to wait for the 'samples' from City D to arrive before proceeding to the next step of research. I overheard it, it seems that what is sent there is the 'valuable original plant' rather than the 'semi-artificial transformed product'."

The news that Shao Qiu brought back coincided with Fu Yan's guess. After pondering for a while, he told Shao Qiu about his previous guess and the current progress of the investigation.

"Yes... Indeed, they have a 'boss'." Shao Qiu whispered: "The boss even went to the stronghold once."

With a thought in mind, Fu Yan asked, "What is he going to do?"

"Go and get a medicine called B-92." Shao Qiu said: "...It seems that the 'sample' that was not used up before was recovered."

"Recycling?" Liu Ruosong was taken aback, and interjected: "So, if the original plants sent by City D are not used up within a certain period of time, do they need to be recycled?"

"It should be like this. I don't know the specific situation. I have been locked in a confinement room." Shao Qiu said: "About the situation outside..."

His voice stopped abruptly like stress, and it took two or three seconds to find his own voice: "... I heard from a trusted friend."