bunny in another soap bubble

When Yan Wuxiang and the other helpers finally found him, Lang Ya had already cut the shackles on himself and Tu Zi with the knife that was supposed to kill him.

"..." Seeing the tragic situation at the scene, even Yan Wuxiang was at a loss for words, "...what happened?"

Sitting on a boulder beside him, Lang Ya hugged the numb Tu Zi in his arms with one hand, briefly talked about what happened after he woke up, and deliberately ignored the part where Tu Zi killed No. [-].One was that he was in a coma at the time and didn't know the details of the incident at all; the other was that after Tu Zi cried, he didn't say a word, didn't say anything, Lang Ya didn't want to provoke him anymore.

But since I heard that Lang Ya has been in a coma, who made the corpse next to him, others don't need to ask to know.

Yan Wu stepped forward and turned the corpse upside down, only to find that there was no face on it.

"Hiss...that sucks..."

Hearing this exclamation, Tu Zi was shocked, and flinched back into Lang Ya's arms imperceptibly.

After sighing unconsciously, Yan Wuxiang also took a look at Tu Zi.

The sentries acted swiftly and neatly, while the search and arrest team had received formal training. The two confronted each other more fatally, and it was rare to make it so, so... ugly?pain?Yan Wuxiang couldn't find a precise adjective, but looking at the degree of decay of the corpse, he was not too happy to imagine how Tu Zi, whose hands and feet were bound, struggled to kill this person with one stroke and another.

After smashing all the equipment on the corpse that could send out signals, and taking away weapons, first aid kits and other potentially useful items, Yan Wu finally took off the corpse's thick flight jacket to cover the bloody face.

"We have studied this cave," Yan Wuxiang said while throwing the first-aid kit he just found to a gang member, asking him to put a splint on Lang Ya's suspected broken finger. It is likely to be connected to the outside of the mountain. If you can leave through the underground path, it will save a lot of trouble."

Lang Ya nodded, indicating that he understands the arrangement.

"He..." Yan Wuxiang was of course referring to Tu Zi, "No problem?"

After weighing the person in his arms, Lang Ya nodded again: "I will take care of it."

Before entering the underground cave, Qin Ran had already woken up, and there was no serious problem, so Yan Wuxiang was not in a hurry to force Tu Zi to cheer up, and let the two of them go.

"Wuxiang." Qin Ran, who had been discussing with Blue Bird, walked out of the cave, "It is really difficult to use mental power in this cave, what does Tu Zi have to say?"

Yan Wuxiang shrugged his shoulders and tilted his chin slightly, Qin Ran understood everything.

Seeing Yan Wuxiang's specially covered corpse, and seeing Tu Zi's face buried in Lang Ya's shoulder and motionless, Qin Ran shook his head.

——Why did this little silly Baitian fall over unluckily?

"Forget it." Qin Ran dismissed the idea of ​​calling Tu Zi, "Even if you can't use your mental power, going underground is far safer than the original route. I just compared the water vein map with Lanniao, and the end here should be in the south of the western suburbs. There is an exit near the town. After going out, you have to go a little further, but it is just to prevent tracking."

Yan Wuxiang agreed.

"Get ready, leave in 5 minutes."

With the order from the leader of the gang, the gang members who were resting in the corners of the four corners immediately got up and tidied up.Lang Ya also stood up and put Tu Zi down: "Can you walk by yourself?"

Tu Zi was a little slow to react, turned his face away slightly, and nodded silently.

Noticing that Tu Zi was turning his head to avoid seeing the corpse, and squinting to look at the situation in the cave, Lang Ya sighed and picked Tu Zi up again with one hand.

Seeing the boy who was picked up suddenly, he was still in a daze, without any expression of surprise, Lang Ya knew that his decision was right.

"The road ahead is more difficult." He explained as usual, but Tu Zi still nodded silently, not sure if he listened.

Lang Ya's heart softened, and with the other hand on the splint, he carefully touched the boy's head with the palm of his hand, and then led the people to follow the brigade.

The road to Nanzhen was really rough, and when we walked to the wading area behind, a few guides with relatively ordinary skills had to be led away by sentry companions.But there was no pursuit along the way, perhaps because after a series of collapses that led to the Xintiankeng, the entrance and exit and route of the underground river in Xiumeishan changed, and the military did not know the latest terrain.

After coming out of a small ravine to the north of Nanzhen in the western suburbs, Bluebird sent a spirit body to inform Boss and Xiaotao that they spent the night in the abandoned house on the side of the mountain, and the next day they took two cars from their companions and mixed together in the early morning. Back to the base camp of Beizhen in the traffic flow of the market.

Back in the bunker, Lang Ya really started to worry.

——One day and one night, Tu Zi didn't say a word.

There is no problem sleeping, walking, eating and drinking, but like a wooden doll, it has no expression, no energy, and kicks and moves.The same is true for Tu Zi at the moment, sitting on the edge of the bed stupidly, not lying down to rest, not playing with the phone, just sitting like that.

Pushing back his hair, Lang Ya squatted and knelt in front of Tu Zi, talking to him with his eyes level.

"Tu Zi."

Tu Zi still sat there blankly, without any reaction.

"Tu Zi... Tu Zi!"

As if awakened suddenly, Tu Zi blinked and looked at Lang Ya blankly.

"We have to talk to Qin Ran about the earthquake." Looking into Tu Zi's eyes, Lang Ya only hoped that Tu Zi would listen.

Hearing this, Tu Zi's lips parted slightly, as if he wanted to say something, but couldn't remember what to say.

Lang Ya was a little frustrated, he tousled his hair again, and said: "I can't explain it alone, after all, this is what you discovered, can you tell it with me?...Tu Zi?"

After being dazed for a long time, Tu Zi finally lowered his eyes and nodded.

"Tu Zi." But Lang Ya wanted more than this, "Tu Zi, you have to speak." He couldn't hear Tu Zi's voice, and he reached out to hold Tu Zi's chin again, "Look at me, Tu Zi, look at me Me, answer first, okay? Tu Zi?"

With his chin supported, Tu Zi faced Lang Ya, muttered several times, and finally answered.

"……Um."

This was not the most ideal reaction in Lang Ya's mind, but at least there was a voice, Lang Ya let go of Tu Zi's face, and led him to find Qin Ran.

Since the matter of the casualties was dealt with, the returning guild leader and cadres have been meeting in the central hall of the bunker. When Lang Ya and Tu Zi walked near the corridor entering the hall, they heard fierce arguments.

"We can't sit still!" This is the voice of the blue bird.

"Then should we die shouting slogans?" This was ridiculed by Xin Yilin.

"In the past few months, many companions have died." This is what Tu Xingyao said, and it is difficult to judge which side he is on.

"If we continue not to resist, we will all die in vain! And there will be more in the future!"

"Oh, heh, it turns out that we are called non-resistance. I'm so stupid that I didn't realize that this is the concentration camp of the search and arrest team."

"Passive resistance is not enough. How long can we hide by running away? Hiding our identities and living like a herd of rats... No, worse, we are just livestock waiting to be slaughtered. The longer we are in the pen to be slaughtered, the more we will be killed." There is no capital to resist."

The blue bird tongue battled the crowd, one against a hundred, his voice became hoarse, and there was a desire beyond words in his trembling tone.

"Guild leader, deputy gang leader, while we still have the ability, we must resist. We should resist, eradicate the search team, and give ourselves and future 'infected' a hope of survival."

Qin Ran, who had been sitting in the center listening to the debate with his head bowed, suddenly raised his head to look at the blue bird, without any expression on his face.

"What ability?" He asked, "How to resist?"

"The search for and killing of infected persons was issued by leader Tong Mou himself. The two chairmen, Tong Lue and Tong Quan, firmly supported it, and the entire party of the Renewal Party has implemented the order for many years. Now the Renewal Party not only governs our country, but also controls all neighboring countries. The political situation of the five neighboring countries. In fact, more than [-]% of the countries with a stable political structure in the world, the rehabilitated party is one of the three major parties in the country. Not to mention the countries without a stable political structure, the rehabilitated party directly colludes with the local Armed organizations in the U.S. — money, weapons, resources... Basically they own those organizations. Fighter planes, tanks, bombs, guns, millions of troops.”

"Tell me, what do we have to resist?"

"We..." Blue Bird opened his mouth wide, unable to speak, and the whole hall froze for a moment.

Standing beside him frowning, Yan Wuxiang gently massaged the back of Qin Ran's neck to break the silence.

"Come in."

This sentence was naturally addressed to the two people who were just outside the door.

Lang Ya brought Tu Zi into the door, looked around, and decided to temporarily forget what he had just heard, and get straight to the point.

"The abnormal symptoms of several of our Type A infected patients... Tu Zi found a possible reason."

Qin Ran sat up straight.

"What is it?" Although it wasn't a big deal, these symptoms in Yan Wuxiang's body persisted, and even aggravated slightly. Qin Ran always felt like a ticking time bomb was tied to his heart.

Lang Ya swallowed, "There may be an earthquake."

"…………what?"

"Tu Zi can explain." Lang Ya patted Tu Zi on the shoulder.

Tu Zi twisted his hands, licked his lips, and said, "That's called the 'filtered information mapping phenomenon'..." Stammering, Tu Zi slowly expressed his analysis and speculation, "...so , given that city A is, uh, close to the earthquake zone, plus Lang Ya's, Lang Ya's spiritual body's reaction, I think it's probably a precursor to an earthquake... um."

Yan Wuxiang pondered: "If it is really an earthquake, how big will it be? How long will it take?"

"This..." Tu Zi glanced at Lang Ya, a little uneasy, "It's hard to judge, because we don't have too many control groups to compare with." He spoke more and more smoothly, "It seems that only you, Lang Ya , Ms. Tu and Huang Chen, that is, only high-level or above sentries have symptoms. This may mean that the time from the earthquake is still far away, or it may mean that we are far away from the epicenter... As I said before, we are not in different locations sentinel as a control group, it is impossible to judge."

Signaling her understanding, Yan Wuxiang turned her head and told Xin Yilin, "Arrange all the A-types in the gang to be checked, and ask them to report their physical condition regularly."

Xin Yilin took the order.

"There is a group of villas over there in the garden area." Qin Ran proposed.

Yan Wuxiang also remembered, "Make some arrangements and prepare to move to the garden area."

Huang Chen chased Xin Yilin away.

In addition to these, there are still many things to consider in the face of possible natural disasters. Qin Ran and Blue Bird temporarily put aside the previous debate and focused on how to deal with it.

Lang Ya waited for a while and couldn't help interrupting them.

"Second leader, we have to warn the nearby residents."

Qin Ran stopped flipping through the account books, stared at Lang Ya, and then shook his head.

Lang Ya's eyes widened, "If they are unprepared, there will be a lot of casualties!"

"But how do you convince them?"

"Spreading leaflets, sending people to influence their thinking, and pretending to be a fortune teller..." Lang Ya has no detailed plan for the time being, "The solution can be discussed in the long run, but you can't just do nothing, right?"

Qin Ran was unmoved, "Once you do those things, it will immediately attract the attention of the search and arrest team, and we will expose our whereabouts."

"But--"

"Ordinary people don't know the abilities of infected people, but the search and arrest team is very clear. They have been paying attention to the activities of suspected infected people, and they will rush to investigate. Fortune-telling stalls and the like are simply the favorite clues of the search and arrest team. "From personal experience, Blue Bird knows this best.

"Then think of another way." Lang Ya insisted, "You can't stand by just because there is a risk."

"Is there a risk? Yes, there is a risk, a risk of risking my life to block it!" Qin Ran suddenly closed the account book, "How many companions have we lost in the past few months? We only lost four more brothers a day ago! What's wrong with standing idly by? When we were hunted down by the search and arrest team, did those people help? Don't you know how many infected people fall into the hands of the search and arrest team every year because of reports from "enthusiastic people"? Obviously you have also suffered from this Sin, and said to warn them, do you have neurological problems or obsessive-compulsive disorder to save lives!"

After finishing speaking, Qin Ran slammed the account book towards Lang Ya, and the anger of losing his brother in the past few days reached a boiling point after the argument just now.

"They won't be grateful to us, and once we find any clues, we will be reported and hunted down without hesitation." After smashing the thing, Qin Ran calmed down a lot, "In fact, there may not be an earthquake Right?" He squinted at Tu Zi.

"Your reason is 'filtered information mapping', that is to say, in your world, there is no record of major earthquakes in city A in this era. The crustal movement should not be affected by the historical process, so in fact, you are not sure , isn’t it?” Seeing Tu Zi’s reaction, Qin Ran knew he was right, “Of course your reasoning is very convincing, but for a possibility, it’s easy for dozens of us to move to a nest and live here It is impossible to move away casually, let alone the tens of thousands of people in City A."

Lang Ya squatted down, picked up the ledger that fell to his feet, gritted his teeth, still unwilling.

"...At least they can prepare some supplies in advance." After finishing speaking, he looked at Tu Zi, but Tu Zi wrung his fingers and bit his lip without saying a word.

Lang Ya suddenly lost his strength.

Bending down to take back the account book from him, Qin Ran tapped Lang Ya's shoulder with the book: "It's time to grow up, Maria, you have a companion by your side."

After leaving the hall, Lang Ya was thinking all day.

——Is what he did and what he insisted on all these years wrong?

In the past, someone risked his life to save himself who had nothing to do with him, so was that superfluous?

From that day on, whenever he saw someone in need of help, he would think of himself who was saved at that time; no matter how many times the saved person betrayed him, when he saw someone in need again, the same thought would still appear in his mind. The picture, the same long fiery red hair, the same pair of slender but powerful hands.

Lying on the bed, covering his eyes with his arms, Lang Ya laughed at himself.

Maybe he just has obsessive-compulsive disorder, maybe he just can't forget the hope he once got from others when he was desperate... Although the result of being nosy is not necessarily good, as long as one more person can get hope, he feels it is worth it.

——No, he "hopes" that what he does is worthwhile, what he wants that person to do, is worthwhile.

He has always been alone, until today, he realized that he was so eager to be recognized by others.He hoped that there would be someone like him who felt that it was worthwhile to help, but more and more he found that it was like a luxury.The fact is that even the people he helps don't necessarily feel that what he does is worthwhile.

"..."

Lang Ya let out a long breath and sat up from the bed.

—Even so, he still had to do it.

He couldn't implicate the brothers of the Returning Gang, and he didn't want to force Tu Zi, so he went alone, ran a little farther, and then started spreading the news. As long as he didn't come back, he wouldn't be traced back to this area suddenly.

After leaving a note, Lang Ya simply packed his bags and set off.

According to his observation, the places of Returning Gang are always guarded against entry and exit. It should be easy to slip away in the middle of the night without disturbing others. There are several skylights in the west wing are ideal exits.

Quickly calculating the route in his mind, Lang Ya ran to the west wing in three steps and two steps.

"--Well!"

Approaching the corner of the skylight, Lang Ya heard a muffled cry and the sound of something falling.

Under the moonlight shining through the circular skylight, there was Tu Zi, who was carrying a big backpack and fell to the ground like a gourd rolling on the ground.

"Uh……"

Seeing Lang Ya who suddenly appeared, Tu Zi patted his buttocks and stood up straight, with an embarrassment of being caught.

Noticing the dust on Tu Zi's palms and back, where he was standing, and the marks on the ground, Lang Ya was stunned.

"—you want to go out."

Lang Ya's voice was very soft, as thin as a mosquito, but the bunker was very quiet late at night, Tu Zi still heard it.

"Earthquake...you have to warn others." He explained, "I am a guide, and I can sneak this news into their heads. I am not affected by the shock wave. I have been guarded at the rear and center of the team. I don’t know me, and the few who have come into contact with me are all..." At this point, he paused: "They are all... dead." His voice suddenly became weaker, and then became louder: "In short, I just need to go far away. If you don’t spread the news any more, you won’t be afraid that the search and arrest team will—ah!”

Tu Zi yelped and then closed his mouth, because Lang Ya suddenly hugged him.

"You are a weak chicken guide, you can't even climb up the skylight, how far can you go?" Lang Ya's voice full of laughter rang behind his ears.

"This……"

"Take it." Lang Ya handed his backpack to Tu Zi.

"Ah?" Tu Zi took the bag blankly.

"How can I carry you up with this on my back?" Lang Ya raised his eyebrows, his eyes softened, "Come." He squatted down with his back turned, and he asked Tu Zi to climb on his back, "Let's go together."

"……Oh."

Tu Zi obediently asked Lang Ya to carry himself on his back, silently giggling.

With one more person on his back, Lang Ya still easily climbed to the bottom of the round tube of the skylight, which is a bit too high for ordinary people, with the same expression on his face as Tu Zi.

——It’s great that someone thinks the same as you.