Two days later.
safe house.
"Look, everyone! The sun is coming out! The sun is coming out!"
Early in the morning, a sudden scream broke the tranquility of the entire safe house.
Yao Yongkang rushed out of his room quickly and kept knocking on every door on both sides of the corridor, as excited as an old child.
On his face, in addition to the uncontrollable smile, there seemed to be a hint of excitement for rebirth.
Light, for many people, originally symbolizes the splendor of life.
Soon, Xu Qing, Lu Zhengming, Ren Feifei, and some of the newly recruited talents rushed out of the room. Everyone's face was full of laughter, and they kept cheering and hugging each other.
"Great! The eternal night is finally over!"
"Finally we don't have to live in the dark anymore!"
Xu Qing said.
"That's right! I can finally see the sun!"
"I'm really glad that everyone is still alive!"
Lu Zhengming was moved to tears.
"I can't remember the last time I saw the sunrise..."
"Is all this true?"
Ren Feifei clenched her fists and muttered to herself.
"We got through it! We really got through it!"
"It was you who saved me..."
"This is all thanks to Feng Shuai..."
Doctor Sun Hui's lips trembled as he looked at everyone in the corridor. He was so emotional that he couldn't hide his excitement. Finally, he couldn't help but look in the direction of Duanmu Feng's room.
Outside the first floor, dozens of Tianlong Guards tightly grasped the hands of their companions and kept nodding their heads. Each one of them was in high spirits and showed a long-lost smile of relief to every brother around them.
In that darkness, they lost many comrades, but they finally survived.
People who have never been on the front line will not know how much energy and will it takes to hold on to a place in the endless darkness.
The two captains, Tang Jun and Wu Jun, stood at the door of the hall, looking at the excited brothers, and smiled at each other.
"It's been three months and we finally have the light again."
Wu Jun's voice was trembling.
"Yes, three months, three months! It seems very long, but it also seems very short!"
"But some people will never see it..."
Tang Jun nodded, suddenly feeling sad, thinking of those who had died fighting to guard the safe house.
"We will always remember them."
"While alive, there is hope!"
"They are heroes!"
Wu Jun reached out and patted Tang Jun on the shoulder and said seriously.
Those who died were not only the old brothers of Tang Jun, but also his comrades.
After hearing Wu Jun's words, Tang Jun nodded heavily, tears flashed in his eyes, and then he once again showed a happy and grateful smile, looking up to the sky.
It seems that the dead brothers are also watching everything happening under the sky in the sky.
Top floor.
Duan Mufeng stood in front of the window with a cigarette in his mouth, silently looking at the horizon and the sun rising slowly, without any waves on his face.
No excitement, no rejoicing.
It was very calm, as if everything in front of me didn't happen at all.
The rising sun symbolizes light and represents hope.
But he knew clearly that everything was far from over. This rising sun was actually the beginning of another round of disaster, and it was not yet time for the whole sky to celebrate.
Compared to the eternal night, the glacier season will be more difficult.
But he knew in his heart that now that the light had returned, it was time to make some preparations for the next apocalypse.
At this moment, there was a knock on the door, quick and crisp, as if there was a hint of indescribable joy.
"Enter."
Duanmu Feng said lightly and did not look back.
"Feng Shuai..."
"Did you see it too? Great, the sun has finally come out!"
Xu Qing stood at the door. As soon as she opened her mouth, she found Duan Mufeng standing silently in front of the window. He hesitated and said excitedly, as if a wanderer had returned home with the most exciting news.
Duan Mufeng didn't say anything, he still stood quietly in front of the window, looking out the window without moving.
There were some things that he couldn't use a few words to wake up these people who were immersed in joy. People who have not experienced the horror of the ice season cannot understand it through imagination.
In the last days, every second is filled with choices of life and death.
Seeing that Duan Mufeng had no response, Xu Qing showed confusion, and dropped her waving arms in embarrassment. She looked at Duan Mufeng in front of the window in confusion, speechless.
At this moment, Tang Jun and Wu Jun appeared behind Xu Qing together.
"Captain Tang, Captain Wu, you are here."
"See? The sun finally came out and we persevered!"
"Everyone is so happy. Yao Yongkang also said that he would have extra food at noon today, just to celebrate."
Xu Qing temporarily put aside her confusion and doubts, turned around and looked at Tang Jun and Wu Jun and said, the smile on her lips could not be suppressed again.
"Okay, I'll make arrangements later, as long as everyone is happy."
Wu Jun smiled hesitantly and said slowly, but the smile seemed to be forced out, lacking a little sincerity.
"Okay, I'll inform everyone, and you can talk about it."
Xu Qing smiled and nodded, immediately turned around and left, not forgetting to glance at Duan Mufeng, who was still motionless, before leaving.
As Xu Qing left, the obvious smile at the corner of Wu Jun's mouth gradually disappeared, and was replaced by a solemn expression.
"Let's go."
Tang Jun reminded him softly and walked straight into the room.
Wu Jun nodded, followed in, and closed the door.
"Feng Shuai, what should we do next?"
Tang Jun slowly came to stand a few steps behind Duan Mufeng and asked slowly, with a more solemn look on his face than Wu Jun.
After hearing Tang Jun's words, Wu Jun also became serious and looked at Duan Mufeng without blinking.
The two of them knew best about the upcoming glacier season, but they only had a partial understanding and could only rely on their imagination, because Duanmu Feng did not explain it too much to anyone.
The so-called suffering, people who have not experienced it cannot empathize with it from the words.
Only by experiencing it personally can you know how to survive hardships.
"From today on, you will be responsible for leading people to strengthen the defense fortifications around the entire high-tech zone. The current fortifications are still too crude. I hope that in the future, neither mutants, mutant beasts, nor any other human forces can easily break through. Defense of the High-tech Zone.”
After a long time, Duan Mufeng finally turned around, looked at Tang Jun, and said extremely seriously.
"Understood! I'll take people there right away!"
"There are still a lot of useful building materials in the underground warehouse, and now they can finally be put to use!"
Tang Jun nodded heavily and said decisively.
"Feng Shuai, what about me?"
Wu Jun looked at Duan Mufeng and asked seriously.
They all want to be Feng Shuai's right-hand man, and do their best for Feng Shuai, for the safe house, and for those who finally survived, although they are still immersed in unrealistic joy.
"Your task is to select some people from all the survivors in the high-tech zone to form an engineering team and engineering fleet for future use."
"Before the engineering team is fully formed, if the Tang Army needs support, you should first bring people to help him build defenses."
Duan Mufeng looked at Wu Jun and said in a deep voice.
"yes!"
After Wu Jun heard this, he loudly agreed without hesitation, without any hesitation, although he did not know what the real intention behind this task was.
However, Feng Shuai's decision is always the right one in his heart.
"Okay, that's all for now, let's execute it first."
Duanmu Feng pressed the long-burned cigarette butt into the ashtray and waved his hand.
"Feng Shuai, do you need to tell everyone about the dangers of the glacier season? You should have heard it. They are celebrating now. Everyone is very excited and seems to have forgotten that they are still in the apocalypse."
Wu Jun hesitated for a moment and said slowly.
"It's useless. If you haven't seen Death with your own eyes, you won't understand how terrible death is."
"Sooner or later, they will realize it for themselves. Besides, there are so many people in the High-tech Zone, and I can't explain it to everyone."
"Even if it is explained, they may not believe it."
Duanmu Feng shook his head and said lightly.
After hearing Duanmu Feng's answer, Wu Jun moved his lips but stopped talking.
He was worried that those outside would be in danger when the glacier season really arrived, although even he himself didn't know what would happen.
But after thinking about it, I felt that Feng Shuai was right. Even he only believed in Feng Shuai and was not really so sure that Glacier Season would be more terrifying than Yong Ye.
"Then the noon celebration will still go on?"
Wu Jun hesitated and asked one more question.
"Just look at the arrangements. After three months of repression, it might be time for them to let go."
"But you can't relax. Tell everyone in Tianlong Guard that you can't let down your guard for a moment!"
Duanmu Feng paused and said in a deep voice.
"yes!"
Wu Jun agreed, turned around and glanced at Tang Jun, and the two quickly turned and left together.
Duan Mufeng slowly sat on the sofa, wiped the scimitar in his hand, and frowned slightly.
With the arrival of the ice season, a group of people are destined to die, but he has nothing to do, because only death can make everyone realize what kind of situation they are in...
