16 years

In the large office on the first floor of the laboratory building, Liu Ruosong directed his assistant to stack the arranged documents on the table.

Several thick experimental records were bound into a book. Liu Ruosong flipped through the boxes one by one, arranged them according to time, and handed them to a guard beside him.

"This is all the experimental records so far." Liu Ruosong turned to look at the person by the door: "After the handover is completed, please sign the information form."

Shao Xuefan didn't open those heavy documents, he stared at Liu Ruosong's movements with clear eyes, and gestured to the desk beside him with his eyes.

——Two minutes ago, Liu Ruosong put an encrypted storage disk into it in front of him.

"What's in it?" Shao Xuefan asked, "Why don't you make it public together?"

The storage disk contained the research data of Liu Ruosong's private plot, and there was a record of Fu Yan's blood sample in it, and Liu Ruosong would never let him see it.

"It's nothing." Liu Ruosong leaned on the table without bones, folded his arms and shrugged his shoulders, like a young man who was not stingy: "I brought my husband and I's love record from home with great difficulty——Teacher Shao , you don’t even want to see this, do you?”

As Liu Ruosong said, he also winked at him artificially, his expression delicately reached a balance between "sorry" and "can't help showing off".

Shao Xuefan: "..."

The old scientist was so angry at this shameless young man, he murmured "indecent" a few times in his heart, and his blood pressure almost went up by an octave.

"Forget it." Shao Xuefan took a deep breath, and couldn't help preaching: "You have talent, if you can do scientific research well, you may not be able to stand out. Now that human beings are at stake, you still have the mind to fall in love."

"Isn't it because of you?" Liu Ruosong smiled with his eyes bent, but the smile didn't reach the bottom of his eyes: "I'm relieved to have you as the leader. As for me, I'm a little educated. It doesn't matter if there is me or not in the laboratory building. Learn more from you."

This is not a very high-level flattery, but Shao Xuefan is obviously very useful.

Liu Ruosong has traveled far and wide, and has seen more people and sophistication—a person like Shao Xuefan is a shrewd but cowardly old man when he is outside, but once he puts on work clothes and gives him the right to return to the field he is familiar with, then He will be "reborn" immediately, his self-confidence will multiply, and he will look like a local emperor.

Obviously, "scientific research" brought Shao Xuefan not only a sense of satisfaction,

But there's nothing wrong with that, Liu Ruosong thought, if he had Shao Xuefan's unyielding status in a certain field, he would also be inflated.

Liu Ruosong quickly packed his things, threw his personal belongings into the drawer and locked it, and then pushed the chair into the table hole.

Shao Xuefan watched him complete the whole set of movements, and for some reason, stopped Liu Ruosong before he went out.

"Your previous research ideas are very good and special, and you have the ability to lead the team alone." Shao Xuefan said, "Why did you just give me the leadership?"

"I don't have big ambitions, and I'm very clear about my own weight." Liu Ruosong is willing to praise him a few words, but it becomes boring if the number of times is too many.He stopped and said with a smile: "If you can develop an antidote to the virus, it will be a blessing for all mankind-since it is all about saving people, it is meaningless to fight for power, let alone you know more about zombie viruses than I do. Naturally, I have to let Xian."

He hid the needle in the cotton, Shao Xuefan obviously heard it.

"What do you know?" Shao Xuefan waved his hand, turned his head and stared at him coldly: "Human progress and risk coexist."

Shao Xuefan is thin, because he is old, the skin on his face is a little loose, and his eyelids are drooping downwards with two triangular eyes, making him look a bit treacherous for no reason.

Liu Ruosong and him looked at each other quietly for a while, and finally burst into a sincere and humble smile.

"You're right." Liu Ruosong said.

Liu Ruosong agrees with Shao Xuefan's point of view.They do genetic engineering more or less with the mentality of "changing human beings" and "genetic evolution". Shao Xuefan can become a leader in the industry, and this mentality will only be worse than others.

But recognition is recognition, understanding is understanding, Liu Ruosong's own behavior style is not in tune with this "advanced theory".

And he didn't know if it was because of Shao Qiu, he had a bad impression of Shao Xuefan preconceived—in short, every time he saw Shao Xuefan, he would feel a little apprehensive about him, as if something bad happened to him. same happens.

So like a slippery loach, he lowered his posture again, and said modestly: "I have been taught, I will think about it carefully...but I still have something to do, so let's not bother."

After Liu Ruosong finished speaking, he slightly bowed and saluted Shao Xuefan, then turned and left.

Shao Xuefan watched the moody young man leave the office area without bothering him, and signaled his assistant to bring up the experimental records and follow him.

"These records are sealed first, and starting tomorrow, blood samples will be collected throughout the military region." Shao Xuefan instructed his assistants: "Every age group must prepare enough virus samples by the way."

The guard beside him held a one-meter-high paper material, stood up with difficulty, and said yes.

When Liu Ruosong pushed open the door of the dormitory, all members of the action team had already arrived inside.

The coffee table in the living room was moved to make an open space. Several people from the action team sat in a circle, and a few documents were thrown on the open space in the middle.

He Tang was the closest to the door, and was the first to hear Liu Ruosong's footsteps coming back. He immediately waved his hand and greeted him.

"Brother Liu, get off work early today."

"Your captain told me to come back." Liu Ruosong smiled with his eyes bent, and first glanced at Fu Yan, signaling that he was back, then took out a palm-sized waterproof bag from the pocket of his white coat, and held it in the air. Throwing it into He Tang's arms: "The last one, there will be no more."

He Tang cheered, tore open the waterproof bag, and divided the juicy tomatoes inside one by one.

"What?" He Tang puffed his cheeks and looked at Liu Ruosong: "Have you raised the tomato seedlings to death?"

"In the future, the laboratory building is not up to me, and it's not good for private use." Liu Ruosong took off his work clothes and hung them on the hanger, and asked from outside, "Where did you discuss it?"

He Feng automatically gave him a place, and Liu Ruosong sat next to Fu Yan habitually, stretched his arms around his shoulders, and helped him pinch his tense shoulders and neck.

"The petri dish project has made new progress." Fu Yan said: "Shao Qiu reported the new news to No. [-]. They reconsidered the importance of the petri dish, asked Shao Xuefan's opinion, and finally decided that it was worth the risk. This risk."

No wonder Shao Xuefan went so late, Liu Ruosong thought, so he had already gone to a meeting with the higher-ups.

As an "insider", he naturally knows the habits of R-01 better than anyone else. He said that the original strain of the petri dish is a necessary condition for research, which is more effective than Fu Yan and the others.

"But according to my opinion, I personally still don't want you to go." Fu Yan changed the subject, picked up what Liu Ruosong said before entering the door, and said to Shao Qiu: "Your time back is too short, let alone your mental state. , I haven't even adjusted my body yet."

"I know what you mean, captain." Shao Qiu said, "I know it myself."

"But Xiaoqiu, LSD may have retrograde symptoms, and you know it yourself." He Feng continued: "Even if you metabolize the drug later, there may be a drug reaction when it will appear-this is a timing. Bomb, if you bring a bomb to the battlefield, you are irresponsible to yourself."

Shao Qiu pursed his lips, as if he knew he was in the wrong, so he didn't say anything because he was not afraid of boiling water.

He Tang looked at Shao Qiu and then at his brother, and felt that it was wrong to help anyone, so he stuffed a small tomato into his mouth again, preventing himself from expressing his opinions.

Liu Ruosong didn't speak either, he didn't know anything about this kind of arrangement, so he just listened quietly to Fu Yan's arrangement.

"Shao Qiu." Fu Yan said in a deep voice, "I know you're unhappy, but you have to know that Fang Sining saved you just to hope for your well-being."

After he came back this time, his whole temperament changed drastically. Most of the original high-spirited young officer temperament was wiped out, and replaced by a sense of depression that was almost paranoid.

Fu Yan didn't want him to go with him to carry out the task. Apart from worrying about his body, he had other worries——Shao ​​Qiu's self-harming taste was too strong now. take things too hard.

"I know, Captain." Shao Qiu smiled bitterly: "Don't worry, I have no other intentions."

He lowered his head and said in a low voice after a while: "I just...just want to avenge him."

Shao Qiu understands that people cannot be resurrected after death.

A person is nothing but a handful of dirt, no matter how painful the living person is, it is useless even if he cuts himself into pieces, it is meaningless—the past is always past, and his regrets will always remain in the past that has ended , cannot be retroactively changed.

"Captain...I couldn't collect his body at that time." Shao Qiu's voice was hoarse: "Even because of a drug reaction, I couldn't even see his face clearly, and even his last words were only remembered later."

Fu Yan fell silent.

Shao Qiu knew that Fu Yan's own attitude would not change, but he would not force himself to stay. If he was firm enough, he would still sign the application.

"I can't do anything else." Shao Qiu finally said, "I can only avenge him—maybe he doesn't care about it, but this is the only way I can comfort myself."

He spoke so sincerely and pitifully, Fu Yan restarted the two sides, he knew best how it feels to lose his comrade-in-arms, he couldn't say no to refuse, he could only raise his hand silently, and patted Shao Qiu's shoulder.

"If you have any adverse reactions, I will stop at any time and assign you to the logistics team." Fu Yan said, "Can you accept it?"

Shao Qiu nodded fiercely and said, "Yes."