Chapter 6
Zhao Brigade and a group of people stood on the top of the bunker, looking at the three vehicles driving over in the dust in the distance.
They are all vehicles from the Security Administration. Except for the first one, the next two are warehouse trucks.
It is not surprising that the convoy of the Security Department leaves the city. Although there are natural protective barriers around the outer city, in order to 100% ensure the safety of residents here, the company has set up various fortifications, and the Security Department will regularly maintain them.
In short, people in Yuncheng can starve to death, get sick, or be beaten to death, but they cannot die from outside invasion.
Very principled.
But today's convoy was a little unusual, because it was heading towards their bunker.
Although it is not stated clearly, as a relatively unregulated team of corpse collectors, the price of not being restrained is that they are the first alarm in Cloud City, the first to detect danger, and the first to die.
Except for the protective net when crossing the jungle, the corpse collectors are not under the protection of Cloud City. The bunkers built on the rugged rock slopes away from the outer city are their strongholds, like obvious or hidden tombs. close.
"Is Brother Shi back?" Hu Xiaoling was very excited, "Those cars! Are they bringing Brother Shi back?"
"It's best not to," Brig. Zhao frowned, "It won't do anything good to send him back this time."
"The one who picked up Captain Xiao," Hu Xiaoling immediately changed his mind and looked at Xiao Lei, who was standing next to him with a telescope and staring at him, "I'm here to pick you up, right?"
"I've only been here three days!" Xiao Lei said.
"It's only been three days?" Zhao Lu said, "This is the first time I have such a profound understanding of time."
Behind him, there were people who had just heard the news and rushed over to watch the excitement. They ran and shouted: "Is it from the Security Department? It can't be to send Brother Shi. They can't send Brother Shi back. Is Xiangfa leaving?"
The destination of the convoy was indeed the bunker. The first vehicle stopped at the bottom of the slope. It could not climb the slope, and the two transport vehicles behind began to drive up the rocky slope.
"What are you doing?" Zhao Lu jumped out of the bunker and started the corpse truck next to him.
The people behind them all jumped into the truck bed, and the vehicle went down the slope. When passing by the transport vehicle going up, they ignored it and pointed directly at the parked vehicle below, which was not moving and no one was getting out.
Only Xiao Lei, who didn't get into the car and was running behind, patted the door of the transport truck: "Stop! What's going on? What's inside?"
"Don't you have any brains?" Hu Xiaoling couldn't help but turn around, "Why are you stopping here! Are you stopping and waiting to slide back to the bottom of the slope!"
Zhao Lu's car rushed to the bottom of the slope. The passenger window of the car was lowered. The person inside did not poke his head out, but he could see clearly that it was Li Feng.
"What is the Security Department going to do?" Zhao Lu jumped out of the car and rushed over and patted the car door.
"Don't learn from Qiu Shi and have no respect for city managers." Li Feng said.
"Where are the others?" Zhao Lu asked, "What are you doing here?"
"He was on the first transport truck." Li Feng said.
"What?" Zhao Lu was startled and suddenly looked back at the two transport vehicles that had almost reached the bunker. "What else is in the car?"
"Tell him to contact me when he wakes up," Li Feng said, turning to the driver and saying, "Go back to the headquarters."
"Fuck | Your ancestor!" Zhao Lu jumped up and leaned half of his body into the car, grabbing Li Feng's collar, "What do you mean? What happened to Qiu Shi! You dogs!"
"Let go," Li Feng looked at him, "There are some rules."
"What the hell..." Before Zhao Lu could finish his words, he was dragged out of the car by Hu Xiaoling and several others behind him.
Li Feng's car turned half a circle and headed towards the tunnel.
"What's wrong?" Hu Xiaoling asked.
"Go back to the bunker," Zhao Lu jumped back into the corpse truck, "Brother Shi is in the truck."
Qiu Shi was lying in the largest and deepest bunker, which had always been vacant. Now it had been quickly arranged into Qiu Shi's ward in less than half an hour.
Yes, Qiu Shi was lying on the hospital bed, still in a coma. According to the medical records, his injuries were serious.
And those two transport trucks were loaded with medical equipment and needed medicines, and even the refrigerated cabinets were shipped together.
Except for the two who were on guard in the front bunker and could not leave, everyone stood around Qiu Shi's ward, watching a few people in uniforms but without any institutional signs moving in and out to move things.
In addition to medical supplies, some of the things carried out of the car were supplies for them. Usually, they would not be so happy to provide supplies, let alone take such initiative.
There were four boxes of unknown items, which were large and heavy, and were placed in another bunker. A few uniformed men only said that the boxes had passwords and that Qiu Shi himself needed to open them.
"Didn't you tell me that Qiu Shi was taken away for investigation because of the incident at Dayan Tavern?" Xiao Lei called Zhao Lv aside, "Why are you back like this now?"
"How do I know!" Zhao Lu was annoyed.
"They are not using torture, right?" Xiao Lei was very angry and turned around to leave, "I'll contact Director Li..."
"You calm down for a while," Zhao Lu pulled him, "He asked Qiu Shi to contact him when he woke up, but he didn't arrange any tasks for you."
Xiao Lei said no more, walked to the side and sat down on the rock.
Watching Hu Xiaoling and the others open a door hidden in the ground that was disguised as a rock and he always thought it was a rock. Inside was a bunch of power interfaces, which seemed to be connected directly from the inner city.
"I didn't know you had such awesome stuff here," Xiao Lei said.
"This thing has always been there, but it has never been used for so many years." Zhao Lu could hear a little disappointment in his tone for no reason. After all, he was also the captain of the special mission, so he didn't choke him again, "We always thought that this must be destroyed. It won’t be used until the city is over, but I didn’t expect it would be used now.”
Xiao Lei was a little depressed that he, as a staff member sent by the Security Bureau, didn't know anything about the whole process: "Maybe the city is going to be destroyed."
Zhao Lu laughed: "That means I don't have to report to my superiors every day. Otherwise, I will definitely report it to you."
Xiao Lei sighed.
Qiu Shi woke up in the middle of the night. When he opened his eyes, four or five faces blocked his sight.
"What the hell?" He quickly closed his eyes again.
Then he heard Zhao Lu's voice: "If you can talk, you should be fine. You go out first."
After a sound of footsteps, Qiu Shi opened his eyes again, only Zhao Lu was still sitting beside his bed.
He looked at the situation in the room: "It's okay. We've got so many things. Didn't you arrange for two more people to watch the equipment and change my medicine or something?"
"It is said that the equipment can be operated directly from the inner city. There is no wound and there is no need to change the dressing." After Zhao Lu finished speaking, he immediately returned to the topic, "How did you get injured?"
"There are biochemical bodies in big rocks." Qiu Shi said.
"What the hell!" Zhao Lu cursed in a suppressed voice, "I guess it has something to do with this thing! There are so many missing people in the outer city, it can't be all caused by the infected. How can they have such great abilities? !”
"Yes." Qiu Shi responded. Rumors about biochemical bodies near Yuncheng had been circulating for more than a day or two. Zhao Lu's understanding was reasonable and there was no need for him to leak the secret.
"What else have you done?" Zhao Lu traced a circle around the room with his fingers, "Li Feng has arranged so much, as well as supplies. Even if you let the biochemical body kill you, it's not worth so much in his eyes, right?"
Qiu Shi laughed.
"There are a few boxes with passwords over there, they are very heavy," Zhao Lu said. "I think they are weapons. Are the body collectors equipped with weapons?"
"Without me, those biochemical bodies would have run away. Li Feng owes me this." Qiu Shi boasted casually and motioned for him to get out of bed and prepare to sit up.
"Don't," Zhao Lu said, but he immediately adjusted the bed. "I looked at the record. Your bones are broken, so you still have to lie down."
Qiu Shi couldn't help but frown when he thought of this broken bone.
"It's okay. It's getting better. The medical level in the inner city is in another world. It's really nice to experience it." He touched his chest. When he ran out of the hospital, he felt like he was dying of pain. But when he woke up after fainting in the tunnel in the woodland, he could no longer feel the pain.
"Really," Zhao Lu sighed, "This is an experience that you have to pay for with your life."
Qiu Shi said nothing.
That tunnel in the woodland.
After he fainted, he kept dreaming, which was very messy, with biochemical bodies, Xing Bi, and the scene outside the tunnel in the forest.
The forests were dyed black.
It's like experiencing a wildfire.
But all forest trees are complete. Trunks, branches, and leaves are all complete.
When the wind blows, it will still sway gently with the surrounding green forest, and will still make a nice rustling sound with the surrounding green forest.
Close your eyes and feel the soothing breeze.
Open your eyes.
This was a strange scene that Qiu Shi had never seen before.
"It's an infection." Li Feng told him.
Qiu Shi knew very little about these things. At least for his age, the events of that year were too long ago and could only be regarded as half-truths and half-false legends.
He only knew that the infection came from an unknown substance. Some said it came from the devastating meteor shower, and some said it came from the dark space beneath the deep drilling.
No matter where it comes from, the infection is irreversible for humans, and they will slowly die in madness like losing their souls.
Qiu Shi felt that losing his soul was too nihilistic. Those infected seemed more like being controlled by something. Sometimes they wandered, sometimes they attacked, and sometimes they gathered together, as if they had a purpose, but they couldn't see the purpose.
It's just that they won't give these infected people any chance to further show their status. Killing them in time is the routine practice and the safest option.
The infected trees were something Qiu Shi had never seen before.
They cannot move and have no ability to attack... They should be less of a threat than infected people who can wander around. Why is it a crisis?
"This is the lair." Li Feng said briefly.
Qiu Shi only felt suffocated.
"There are four such infected black forests," Li Feng said. "The area you see is not the largest, but it is the closest to Yuncheng."
Qiu Shi took the telescope handed to him by Li Feng and looked down.
In order to prevent the Black Forest from continuing to expand towards Yuncheng, a long protective wall has been built below.
"Currently we have no ability to destroy the infected forest," Li Feng said. "We can only try our best to prevent infected people or animals from entering Cloud City."
From this height, you can't hear the sounds below. You can only see the machinery and small workers going back and forth. Amidst the pleasant sound of wind in your ears, you can see the small and helpless busy scene below.
"The workers recently brought in from outer cities must be here," Qiu Shi asked, "Will they be infected?"
"Yes," Li Feng said, "With this working distance, it is basically impossible to avoid infection."
Qiu Shi understood why when recruiting people to work in the inner city, they would look for singles and pay such high wages, and why they never saw the people who came back come back.
"Why are you bringing me to see these?" Qiu Shi asked, "What does it have to do with the recently invaded biochemical bodies?"
"Biological bodies are not infected," the man who had been silent until now said, "some biochemical bodies are symbiotic with them."
"What does it have to do with me?" Qiu Shi frowned and turned around, "Send me back to the bunker."
"It really doesn't matter now," Li Feng said. "It will matter when your body recovers."
Qiu Shi turned around and looked at him: "What if I don't want to have this relationship?"
"Okay, the car will take you directly to the dungeon in a while," Li Feng said, "You won't leave there for the rest of the days."
"Fuck | Your ancestor Li Feng, kill me now," Qiu Shi said. "If you let me leave here alive, I will go find Li Datou to break the news."
"You won't tell anyone," Li Feng said, "otherwise it wouldn't be you."
Qiu Shi felt a blockage in his heart and felt a little dizzy. He must have been so angry at that time.
After knowing Li Feng for many years, the contact between them was actually just a private transaction of maps for supplies or good things found on dead refugees. He didn't know why Li Feng could be so sure.
What makes me so angry is that he really won't tell anyone.
He has no special feelings for this city. He was not born here, and he doesn’t even spend much time in the outer city. His world is the mountains on the wasteland outside the city, the dense forest that cannot be entered in the distance, and the mountains under his feet. The ground is always uneven...
But he knows many living people and has seen many dead people. He knows that there is countless darkness and injustice under the beautiful appearance of this place, but this place is also the only place for many people, and it is also the eyes of countless people who are still on the run. The only hope.
Once this crisis is discovered, it won't take long before infections and biochemicals appear, and chaos will destroy this sanctuary.
"Are you feeling better? Li Feng asked you to wake up and contact him. In addition, Hu Xiaoling and the others took stock of the supplies." Brig. Zhao went out and returned to the "ward". "This is really a generous move. You won't have to beg for food for a long time." .”
"You still have to ask for the food you need, and you can't even get a bite of it at a cheaper price," Qiu Shi said. "These are not included in the daily routine."
"Those lock boxes," Zhao Lu looked at him, "do you want to open them?"
"It'll open in a moment," Qiu Shi said.
"I'll have someone drag him over later," Zhao Lu said.
"I can just go there," Qiu Shi thought for a while, "Have you been there after the accident in Dayan?"
Zhao Lu didn't say anything. He went out to take a look, closed the door, and went to the bedside and whispered: "Xiao Ling and I went to collect the bodies..."
"Do you know the whereabouts of the old man?" Qiu Shi asked immediately.
"No," Zhao Lu said, "was he there when you went?"
"He was caught by the biochemical body." Qiu Shi frowned, "But he was still alive at the time."
"Isn't it strange?" Zhao Lu said, "Isn't it a bit strange? The old man is disabled. When I collected the bodies of the following people, I looked at the wounds. It was just a blow. The bones in the chest or head were all broken, a little bit. Without hesitation, why didn’t they just kill the old man?”
This analysis is indeed a bit strange. Qiu Shi looked at Zhao Lu. This man's brain occasionally had flashes of inspiration. He hoped that Zhao Lu could continue to have another flash of inspiration.
"Respect the old and love the young?" Zhao Lu said.
"If I were a fucking old man, even if I were to die now, I would crawl out of the hole like a corpse and give you a slap in the face." Qiu Shi said.
"That's right!" Zhao Lu shouted softly, "There's another weird thing. Let me ask you, you went to the second floor, right? What was the second floor like at that time?"
Qiu Shi frowned and thought for a long time: "It feels the same as usual, nothing has changed."
"There was a packed suitcase when we went there. Why did the old man pack a suitcase when he had nothing to do?" Zhao Lu said, "I opened it and looked at it. It was a box full of rags."
"Where did you put it?" Qiu Shi asked.
"I brought it back," Zhao Lu said, "I put it next to the corpse cave where we hid things. I don't know if there will be any trouble if I put it here."
Qiu Shi patted him on the shoulder: "You still have a brain."
"More or less." Zhao Lu nodded.
Li Feng rushed to the exhibition hall and entered the heavy weapons depot after being searched three times. There were already several people in the laboratory. In addition to Director Zhang and Director Wu plus a member of the experimental team, there were three more people.
Mr. Long and the General's people represent the company and the military side.
Just wait for him.
The control of Xing Bi has been completed. Before officially executing the task, people from several parties must first verify the "results".
"Everyone is here," Director Zhang cleared his throat and retreated to Li Feng, "We can start now, Director Wu."
"Because this plan has been prepared for a long time, everyone already knows the details, and both successful and failed projects have been recorded." Director Wu walked into the middle of the laboratory, "I won't introduce it again. Today I will mainly do a The display of personality and thinking will give everyone an intuitive understanding of Xing Bi."
"What do you mean?" someone from the company asked.
"It's just language exchange," Director Wu said. "We have never actually come into contact with the Submersible. Today I can let you experience it."
Li Feng always felt that these words sounded a bit awkward, especially when he looked at Xing Bishi standing in the glass cover.
Xing Bi's state is no longer the same.
Not because he was wearing the uniform of the City Defense Department, nor because he was standing.
Compared with the "thoughtless, tool brought back to Qiu Shi" who was forcibly controlled before, he seemed to have been relieved of some kind of shackles. Li Feng didn't know how to describe this sudden increase in the strong oppression. Feel.
"It's time to start." Director Wu turned on a switch on the console.
Xing Bi's drooped eyes slowly raised and scanned the faces of the people outside one by one.
"He can see us now," Director Wu said, "and can hear the voices from the other side of the hood. Say hello to everyone, Xing Bi."
"Good afternoon." Xing Bi said, slightly raising the right corner of his mouth.
It's still a slightly hoarse voice, it's still a few gentle and simple words, it's still a strong sense of oppression.
But Li Feng finally found a change that he could clearly feel.
Xing Bi's previously emotionless eyes suddenly showed Daofeng, and his seemingly casual glance seemed to bring a chill.
Li Feng felt that the hairs on his arms were covered with goosebumps.
"Introduce yourself." After a short silence, someone said.
"It's all in the information," Xing Bi said.
"Then how about you read it like this?" the man said.
Li Feng knew that these questions had a purpose, but they sounded a bit imbecile.
"Not very good," Xing Bi looked at him, "You can read it in your refrigerator."
The man smiled.
"Do you think there is any difference between you and a robot?" someone asked again.
"Ask something meaningful," Xing Bi said, but still answered his question, "If I am no different from a robot, why am I standing here."
Several people communicated quietly with Director Wu. Director Wu explained to them the state of mind represented by these words while explaining to them the reasons for the changes in various monitoring values.
"Are you different from humans?" Li Feng suddenly asked.
The people next to him were all stunned, and then they all turned to look over. Director Zhang frowned, his eyes full of the desire to kill him.
Li Feng's question was against the rules. He only had to attend today's "results presentation" and stand by to listen, but he still asked the question at the risk of being punished.
If today's answer cannot satisfy the company and the military, it will need to be "adjusted" and then "communicated" again. There is no time. He must ask Mr. Long and the general the answers they want accurately and quickly.
Xing Bi did not answer immediately. He slowly walked forward to the edge of the cover, rested his elbows on the cover, and his body was no longer standing straight, he was very relaxed.
“Humans are disposable,” he said. “I can reuse them.”
Everyone in the room was silent.
"What kind of relationship do you think you have with humans?" Li Feng asked again.
"I am," Xing Bi spoke slowly and clearly, "a friend who was born for mankind and will never betray."
When he heard this sentence coming from Xing Bi's mouth, Li Feng had the illusion of traveling through time and space.
This is the initial oath of the biochemical body.
I was born for mankind, a friend who will never betray.
