If he hadn't seen the invading submarine from Li Datou's video before, and knew that he had contacts with some radicals in the outer city, claiming to reveal the "truth", Qiu Shizhen would have thought that this person appearing here might be the two of them. People who are idle in the inner city want to take some pictures of the exotic scenery in the outer city.
But now he appears again at the same time as this little shrimp, at the mission time and at the mission location...
It's very subtle.
Xing Bi reached out and was about to grab Li Datou's clothes and turn him over. Qiu Shi stood up before him, holding Li Datou and Xiao Xiami by their collars in one hand.
"There is nothing unusual about the two civilians. They must have stayed unexpectedly and left them on the roadside." Qiu Shi dragged the two people to the roadside and asked them, especially Li Datou, to keep their faces down. "People from the City Defense Department are here. Take it?"
"Okay." Li Feng responded.
"The mission continues," Qiu Shi clapped his hands and glanced at Xing Bi, "There is no target found three hundred meters ahead."
"Yeah." Xing Bi responded, the corners of his mouth twitching slightly.
Qiu Shi was originally not sure whether Xing Bi, a first-class submarine that was infinitely close to a human being, understood what he meant, but this smile proved that he probably understood.
There must be more than just Li Feng and others listening on the other end. People from the company and the military should be there, and the real-time footage will probably be transmitted back. That's all he can do.
Although he didn't know who Li Datou was and what his use was, as long as Li Datou could move around freely, he knew that Li Feng must have a reason not to let him be exposed. Such a person would never mind if he had more money on his hands. Some weight.
As for what he can exchange for these actions, he is not sure. Maybe he can't exchange for anything, and maybe he will be exposed by Xing Bi, who doesn't understand it at all, but there is always a way out. Even if he messes up, he won't No matter what, he knew that he was the only one who could partner with Xing Bi now.
Qiu Shi was thinking about a lot of things in his mind, but his eyes were still fixed on the topographic map in front of him. Because he had not yet adapted to the state of looking at the road through a bunch of maps, it was a bit awkward to walk on the road full of rocky points. incoherent.
There was only one mission goal, and the second-level biochemical body was not a problem for Xing Bi, but it was not training after all. Qiu Shi was a little nervous, and he kicked the rock tip twice, causing him to jump in pain through his boots.
"What a fucking broken road." He cursed.
"Bring a box out next time." Xing Bi said.
Qiu Shi was about to curse when a bright spot appeared at the top of the map in front of him, heading straight in their direction.
There was no need to report the coordinates. He quickly leaned to the side of the road: "Directly ahead, coming towards us, very fast."
When Xing Bi moved forward, he took out the dagger from his boots. This was a specially approved weapon.
Neither of them can carry weapons in this mission. I don't know who made this insane rule. Maybe it is to make the partner rule of unilaterally suppressing the latent guard less unfair.
The bend of the mountain blocked the view. After Xing Bi turned around, he could no longer see anyone. However, because he was not out of range and his position could not be seen on the terrain map, Qiu Shi had to run and follow him immediately.
As soon as he turned the corner, he saw a dark figure coming face to face with Xing Bi.
Xing Bi seemed to be taking a run-up, and after a few steps he jumped up suddenly. This action was similar to when he killed the third-level biochemical body in previous training. He jumped up, kicked, and hit the ground with a fatal blow.
But when Qiu Shi was surprised, the other party used the same posture as Xing Bi.
Xing Bi and Xing Bi jumped up at the same time, and the two of them collided with a muffled sound in the air. When they landed, they were knocked back two meters at the same time. Xing Bi's boots drew a long trace on the gravel ground.
It would have taken two humans, and the ribs would have been broken on the spot.
When Xing Bi stood up, the biochemical body on the opposite side did not launch a second attack, but reached out to touch his waist.
The opponent has weapons!
This was Qiu Shi's first reaction.
Very fucked up.
At this distance, the opponent could reach him before Xing Bi rushed over even with a water gun.
But the other party didn't touch anything.
The next second Xing Bi raised his hand, holding a gun.
The opponent turned around and rushed towards the cliff next to him. Before he could jump out, Xing Bi had already fired, hitting the opponent in the neck.
Qiu Shi saw a splash of black liquid.
The bright spot representing this biochemical body disappeared.
It took several seconds for Qiu Shi to react. At the moment of the impact in the air, Xing Bi got the gun on the waist of the biochemical body.
"Mission accomplished," he said. "Next time I don't have any weapons, I will take Xing Bi to jump off a cliff. What's the difference between a bare-butt and empty-handed mission and a fucking suicide!"
"Check." Director Zhang said, "Qiu Shi put away his weapon."
Qiu Shi walked over to the body of the biomorphic body, and Xing Bi kept squatting next to him.
"Is there anything unusual?" Qiu Shi asked.
"Symbiote." Xing Bi said.
"Fuck." Qiu Shi stopped immediately, "I'll help with the inspection here."
"You are extremely talented," Xing Bi said, "Come here."
"Whoever said so will be allowed to pass," Qiu Shi said.
"Double inspection is a rule," Li Feng's voice sounded, "Qiu Shi, you will not be infected. This contact is far less than your usual cleaning of infected people."
"Shut up, I." Qiu Shi got angry when he heard this, but he still walked over and stood next to Xing Bi.
"Put away your weapons." Director Zhang emphasized again.
"Symbiote, second-level submarine, confirmed," Xing Bi said, handing the gun in his hand to Qiu Shi, "But..."
"But what?" Director Zhang asked.
"His attempt to escape," Xing Bi said, "is contrary to the principles of the second-level sneak guard."
"Bring it back," Director Wu said, "pay attention to preventing contamination."
Xing Bi half-lifted the second-level submarine guard from the ground, tore off his clothes, and then wrapped the clothes around his neck to prevent the black liquid from continuing to gush out.
"Mark contaminated areas." Xing Bi said.
"...How to mark it?" Qiu Shi was stunned.
"Why don't you let Li Feng draw a circle for you with a pen?" Xing Bi said.
"Is he out of control?" Qiu Shi asked, "Can I give him a gesture to shut up?"
"Look at the interface." Xing Bi reminded him.
Only then did Qiu Shi notice that there were many black spots on the topographic map in front of him, and Director Wu's voice came to his ears: "Just circle the contaminated area with your hands."
Qiu Shi tried to wave his hand in front of his eyes and found that he could control the lines next to the spots. He swiped a few times and circled all the black spots.
The technology in the inner city made Qiu Shi feel the difference between the two worlds again. People in the outer city found it rare to even follow the housekeeper, but his brothers could be so happy after just getting a few boxes of weapons...
When returning to set off, Qiu Shi found that Li Datou and Xiao Xiami were no longer lying on the side of the road. The little butterfly pet in the stone nest had also been taken away, and they were dealt with very quickly.
He returned to the car with the "corpse" of the second-level spy, and felt a little emotional when he saw the "corpse" being put into a sealed box.
Qiu Shi, you are no longer the corpse collector you were before.
Sure enough it wasn't.
You've already fucking started collecting corpses from biochemical bodies.
Several people from the City Defense Department got out of the car, took away the gun in Qiu Shi's hand, and sprayed an unknown mist on him and Xing Bi with an unknown object, which should be for disinfection.
When he finally got into the car, Qiu Shi leaned back in his chair, raised his head and let out a long sigh of relief.
After the task was completed and he relaxed, he felt that he was extremely tired and his ribs were in severe pain as if they had just been hit by Xing Bi.
What's even more depressing is that his partner, an excellent first-level latent guard, is sitting opposite him, with a calm and calm expression on his face, unable to sense his fatigue at all.
"You would think..." Qiu Shi looked at him.
"No." Xing Bi said.
"Fuck | Your ancestor Xing Bi," Qiu Shi was speechless, "You don't have to think about being infinitely close to humans. No human in his right mind chats like this! Do you want to check whether you had a certificate when you left the factory? , I suspect you are missing parts in your brain."
Xing Bi smiled: "You finish."
"Get lost." Qiu Shi closed his eyes.
Maybe it was because he was really tired and his chest ached, or maybe because of such a torment, his mind, not to mention his body, could not rest for a second, so he just wanted to say something to divert his attention.
He closed his eyes and asked again: "Do you feel tired? Or tired."
"Yes." Xing Bi replied.
"Fuck you," Qiu Shi said.
After returning from this mission, Xing Bi still returned to the hood for inspection. He was taken into the room for an interview.
But Li Feng was the only one interviewing him this time.
"How do you feel?" Li Feng asked.
"My ribs are not connected properly," Qiu Shi said, "it hurts."
"I'll send you back to the bunker in a while," Li Feng said. "You'll have a day off, but everything you do in the inner city must be kept strictly confidential."
"One day?" Qiu Shi glared at him, "I can't recover in ten days and a half. Just treat yourself as a human being. Even the biochemical body is more human than you."
"One day," Li Feng said, slowly taking two steps back. "You will enter the lair in one day. There is another thing I want to tell you in advance."
"Don't hide," Qiu Shi said, "No one is stopping me here. I guarantee that your death will not be painful at all."
"The company and the general have come to an agreement." Li Feng covered his nose with his hand, "In addition to you and Xing Bi, we will also bring three second-level hidden guards with us when we enter the lair, for a total of four hidden guards."
"Herding sheep?" Qiu Shi couldn't accept it. "It's already hard enough for me just to provide information to Xing Bi. My eyes are almost going blind. You want me to help four people? I remember I'm quite precious. Eat some." Am I the only one who can clean up infected people with vitamins?”
"Those three don't need help, they have set tasks." Li Feng said.
"What mission?" Qiu Shi asked immediately. He now knew that these missions were no joke. He had to dig out all relevant information from the mouth of Li Feng, a dog official.
"Assist in cleaning up biochemical bodies and attract firepower when necessary." Li Feng said.
"...Death Squad." Qiu Shi said, remembering what Xing Bi had said before that in principle, the second-level hidden guards would not allow escape.
"That's okay to understand." Li Feng said.
"You can call it whatever you want, you don't have to say it so tactfully," Qiu Shi said, "It's just to die. You feel at ease when you do it, but you feel embarrassed to say it out."
"I should be allowed to install a control system," Li Feng said, "to shut you up at the critical moment."
"Is there such a thing?" Qiu Shi suddenly became alert.
"No," Li Feng said, "If there really were, this world would be biochemical."
"Maybe that's better." Qiu Shi said.
Li Feng glanced at him: "Qiu Shi, be careful what you say here."
"I know, I will be careful when I talk to you in the future." Qiu Shi said and looked around the room again, "Are you the only one asking questions after this official mission is over?"
"I can't take care of you anymore. I'm all with Xing Bi. I'll tell you in detail when I get the chance," Li Feng waved his hand, "I'll send you back to rest. Pay attention to your safety."
Sitting in Li Feng's car and walking out of the inner city gate, Qiu Cai asked again: "Do you have anything to tell me about Li Datou?"
Li Feng sighed: "Li Datou's surname is Zhang, and his name is Zhang Sihai."
Qiu Shi was silent for a while, then turned around and laughed: "When I asked the City Defense Department to take people away today, why didn't the Director of the City Defense Department say anything?"
"I can't see him anymore," Li Feng said. "If you meet that girl with him again, don't mention it. Your mission is highly confidential."
"Yeah." Qiu Shi responded.
The outer city is still as crowded and dilapidated as ever, full of hope and despair at the same time. Some people have indifferent faces, while others are full of laughter. For Qiu Shi, there is more real excitement here than in the inner city.
There is a tunnel ahead, and after exiting the tunnel, it is his world.
When he passed the Dayan Tavern, he glanced out the window. Everything was the same as before, the word "Dayan" was still there, but there was a new boss, a new waiter, and the tavern was still full of new and old customers.
"The new boss is a friend of the original boss. You should have seen him," Li Feng said, "that big bearded guy."
"I'm impressed," Qiu Shi said.
"It will all pass." Li Feng said.
Qiu Shi said nothing.
"In another ten years, no one may know what happened here. First they will become hearsay, then they will become legends, and finally they will all disappear," Li Feng said. "That's how human beings are."
Li Feng's car stopped after exiting the tunnel, and Qiu Shi got out of the car.
Before his feet even touched the ground, he heard Hu Xiaoling's angry roar: "Brother Shi!"
A group of people jumped out from behind the rocks at the entrance of the tunnel, and Li Feng's car quickly turned around and drove away.
"You're running fast!" Hu Xiaoling pointed at the butt of the car, "Otherwise the car would have overturned for you today!"
"Are you crazy?" Qiu Shi looked at Zhao Lu standing in front of him.
Zhao Lu said nothing and opened his arms.
"Get out." Qiu Shi said.
"Hurry up!" Zhao Lu said, "I thought you were dead."
"What the hell," Qiu Shi went over and hugged Zhao Lu, "It's only been a day, you guys can't wait here all the time."
"Not that loyal," Zhao Lu said, "Li Feng informed us."
"When we heard about it, we found out that it was sent back not long after we went there," Hu Xiaoling said. "They must have killed them! Send the body back again! Otherwise, do you think anything else could be done so quickly?" ! He must be dead!"
"...very good at thinking." Qiu Shi said.
After getting into the car that collected the bodies and driving down the slope, his intuition told him that the surrounding environment was a little different, but upon closer inspection, there was nothing wrong.
“Just an hour ago,” Brig. Zhao leaned close to his ear, “four big black cars pulled people out, and Xiaoling led people to follow them quietly. They set up defenses on the outside, and their people were all around the bunker. "
"Really?" Qiu Shi remembered what Li Feng said about staying safe.
"Did something happen?" Zhao Lu asked, "There are rumors in the outer city that the biochemical body has entered the inner city."
"That's not the case." Qiu Shi said.
Zhao Brigade reacted quickly enough at the critical moment. He looked at him and pondered for a while and nodded: "I understand. No wonder so many additional troops were suddenly sent to the periphery."
"Pay attention to safety." Qiu Shi said.
"Yeah." Zhao Lu nodded.
Qiu Shi took out two bottles of medicine from his pocket and gave them to him: "Strong ones."
"Now the soldiers are responsible for cleaning up the infected people." Brig. Zhao took the medicine.
"Be careful." Qiu Shi said.
"Okay." Zhao Lu put the medicine away.
Qiu Shi felt very uncomfortable. The crisis was there, but there was only so much he could do for these brothers.
Everything in the bunker was the same, even Xiao Lei, who was waiting at his door, remained the same.
"What are you doing here?" Qiu Shi saw that he was a little helpless, so he avoided him and entered the bunker. Should Li Feng get rid of this person?
"Tell you about work." Xiao Lei followed in.
"Get out." Qiu Shi said.
"I'm relieved to see that you're fine. Everyone is worried about you." Xiao Lei put a form on the table next to him. "Here are some things that happened while you were away. I recorded them by time." Down."
"What the hell?" Qiu Shi was so shocked that his eyes narrowed. He picked up the form and glanced at it. The recorded time on it was accurate to the minute, and the content was as detailed as "a soldier passed the bunker twice and looked inside."
"Are you illiterate?" Xiao Lei asked.
"Are you asking me normally or scolding me?" Qiu Shi asked.
"Ask normally." Xiao Lei said.
"I'm literate," Qiu Shi said, "Thank you, Captain Xiao."
After Xiao Lei left the bunker, no one came in again. This group of people knew that he needed to be alone when he was alone, and they should not come in to ask for beatings.
However, Qiu Shi didn't stay alone for too long. He only had one day. His next mission was to go to the lair. He was really not sure whether he could come back.
He walked out of the bunker and Zhao Lu squatted under a dead bush at the door.
"Let's go," he tilted his head towards Zhao Lu, "go to the corpse cave. The old man's things are still there."
"Here." Zhao Lu stood up and followed him.
"Is there anyone else there?" Qiu Shi asked.
"No, those people on patrol are not willing to get close," Zhao Brigade said. "There are so many corpses inside. It's unlucky."
There was a lot of ashes next to the corpse cave, and Qiu Shi paused.
"It's from Boss Dayan," Zhao Lu said, "I promised him."
"Is it clean?" Qiu Shi looked at it and saw that there was only ashes.
"Where," Zhao Lu said, "the remaining bones were thrown into the cave. His wife is still in the cave. They are reunited."
"...Okay." Qiu Shi laughed.
The old man's suitcase is well hidden. This is where they hide their things. It's a camouflaged hole that most people can't find even if they roll around in it.
Zhao Lu took out the suitcase and opened it.
"This box is pretty good," he said. "I have never seen anyone carrying a box among the refugees who came here."
Sure enough, at first glance, the box was full of rags, a pile of bottle caps, a few metal boxes, all empty when opened, some glass beads, and some old pictures that Qiu Shi had collected for him.
Qiu Shi took out a small black box. He knew this thing. He would use it when playing games on that ancient mobile phone. It could randomly connect to some ancient and erratic signals.
Underneath was a bag, and what was poured out was a pile of paper, and a box. He had seen this box before, and the old man kept the map fragments.
He first opened the box and looked at it. Inside was a map that was almost half-assembled. It was the railway map that the old man mentioned. There were no place names, no road names, just black dots.
A dot in the upper left corner is circled, and a piece is missing below.
"What is this?" Zhao Lu asked.
"I don't know." Qiu Shi looked at the map and couldn't understand it at all.
"Another city?" Zhao Lu said.
"Maybe." Qiu Shi could see a railway line marked with a black pen. It seemed to lead to the circled position, but there was a piece missing at the starting point and a piece in the middle.
"Is it a treasure map?" Zhao Lu picked up the map and looked at it upside down, then turned it over and looked at the back, "Huh?"
On the back of the map, there are some circles with question marks written next to them, but next to one of the question marks, there is a small word "Qiu".
