The sky was dark and dark clouds obscured the moon.
To the southeast is the military headquarters.
In the heavy rain, the steel gate was slowly opening with red LED lights flashing.
In front of the gate, there were military vehicles like long snakes parked in an orderly manner. They were teams returning from performing missions in the city.
The thick steel gate didn't open very slowly, but even so, a figure who was supposed to be wearing a handsome black combat uniform, but was now almost in a beggar's outfit opened the door from the tail car and got out.
The thunder and lightning exploding in the sky reflected his gloomy face like the weather.
If it weren't for the centipede-like scar that was twisting, even if this face was stained with smoke and dust, outsiders would still judge it as handsome at a glance.
"Major Qin, what's wrong?"
On the military vehicle in front, a Class A sharp knife captain got out of the car and asked.
Qin Youde patted the tattered cloth beggar clothes on his body, gritted his teeth and said, "It's okay, I'll go in first, and you can organize the equipment and supplies according to the established arrangements. At four o'clock tomorrow morning, no matter whether the rain stops or not, everyone will set off on time. .”
Before waiting for the other party's reply, Qin Youde rushed towards the steel gate, leaping high into the air, splashing a lot of water with every step he took on the ground.
Qin Youde spotted the gap in the gate and jumped into the safe area.
The sudden flash of black shadow brought a spotlight on them, along with various large-caliber weapons behind the city gate, and even three anti-aircraft guns.
"Don't be nervous! It's Major Qin!"
"Don't be nervous! It's Major Qin!"
After the leading commander saw Qin Youde's iconic centipede scar, he quickly raised his hands and shouted around.
Amid the salutes of the shocked soldiers, Qin Youde's figure galloped all the way and soon arrived at the core of the safety zone.
A place surrounded by tall walls.
The surrounding walls have been reinforced by mages from the earth magic side, and anti-invisibility tools purchased from merchants have been installed.
On the tall towers that can be seen everywhere, there are animal soldiers 24 hours a day to guard against the invasion of outsiders.
This is the most heavily guarded place deep in the safe zone. It is also the location of many important buildings, including the Demon Seed Research Institute, the combat command room, etc.
Qin Youde glanced at the crowded entrances and exits, then turned around and came to an unmanned security gate. After verifying his pupil fingerprints and identification by the beastly soldiers on guard behind the door, he entered it. .
"Major, they are all waiting for you in the combat command room." The beast-turned-soldier looked at Qin Youde with a gloomy face and said.
"Thank you, I understand. I'll be there later."
Qin Youde looked at the beast-turned-soldiers carefully. With guilty eyes, he was silent for a long time and then gave a bitter smile, then walked towards the communication room opposite to the combat command room.
Along the way, the people coming and going were all with the rank of major or above. They looked at Qin Youde who was running away in a hurry. They all had doubts on their faces. They didn't know what happened to Major Qin, who was hailed as the next commander.
In the past, after he returned, he would go to various staff rooms to work as soon as possible, and finally go to his small office to handle some matters, and then sleep directly on the small bed in the office. He would set out early the next morning, and the same thing would happen when he came back. Repeat the cycle.
There were female fans of Major Qin who would guard his path every day just to catch a glimpse of his 'beautiful face'.
But today, they are destined to be disappointed.
Qin Youde ran into a communications room that was guarded by a dedicated person.
"Major!" A second lieutenant inside saw Qin Youde pushing the door open and quickly stood up and saluted.
"Well, how are the lines in Beicheng currently?" Qin Youde returned the military salute.
"We can communicate normally now!"
"Okay, you go out first. I have something to communicate with over there." Qin Youde waved his hand to signal the second lieutenant to go out.
After the latter went out and closed the door, Qin Youde quickly walked to the wired phone and dialed the number.
As Basro became more and more distressed about the loss of his people, he wanted to destroy the city quickly, and without giving humans time to develop, he sent a large number of demon species into the city regardless of the cost.
Under the destruction of those "endless streams of cuties" in Qi Lin's eyes, this was the last line between the base camp and Beicheng.
During the long wait, the communication room was so quiet that you could hear a needle drop.
Finally, there was a response on the phone.
"I am Qin Youde!"
"Call your major general to come over and talk!"
Qin Youde's eyes were sharp, he gritted his teeth, and the centipede scars on his face were twisted and crawling.
After another long wait, Qin Youde didn't know what he heard, and angrily yelled at the other end of the phone: "Have you fucking lost your mind???"
"Do you know what you are doing!!!?"
"I wish I had known you were doing this."
"I won't give you the beast-turned-soldiers no matter what!"
Qin Youde's roar stopped temporarily, and he didn't know what was said on the other end of the phone. His face became more and more angry: "You fart!"
"I shouldn't have disobeyed the commander's order and sent you beast-turned-soldiers!"
"Those soldiers gave up everything and just wanted to fight for a better tomorrow for mankind! You."
"Fuck you!"
"You are drinking poison to quench your thirst!"
"Aha??!!"
"Okay! Well said!"
"Become involved in the situation and take advantage of the situation to build momentum, so that you can turn the situation around. If you are not in a good position, you can use it."
“You don’t have to pay back the things you borrowed, right???”
"What's going on in your head???"
"Plan things with the Way, and accomplish things with virtue! You"
"Don't tell me that! This is not just about Nanzhili, you are gambling with all mankind! I tell you! You are back from the brink and you are still coming."
Qin Youde's words stopped abruptly.
Because the call was hung up over there.
Qin Youde's face was calm and his eyes were gloomy.
The hand holding the phone couldn't stop shaking, and the ugly centipede scar on his face was constantly distorting.
Click!
The phone was broken into two pieces by him and fell to the ground with a thud.
"call"
Qin Youde took a deep breath, turned around and prepared to go to the combat command room, where many people were waiting for him.
Suddenly, the door was knocked open.
A wet birdman burst in.
It's a human bird.
"Uncle Wang, you."
Qin Youde frowned and was interrupted before he finished speaking: "Youyi! Youyi will not die!"
"Yiyi has been found!"
Qin Youde was stunned, and the twisted centipede on his face slowly stopped. His gloomy eyes finally softened and he smiled and said: "Take him to my office and tell him to have a good sleep. I will come to him later. "
After Qin Youde finished speaking, he walked out of the door and prepared to go to the combat command room.
At this time, Renque looked at Qin Youde's hurried back and said, "Youyi may know the news about the skeleton man!"
Qin Youde's legs that stepped out of the threshold hovered motionless in the air.
For about two seconds, Qin Youde's face remained as usual, but his hands were firmly clenched into fists. He strode away: "Bring him to the combat command room!"
Since the overpredicted commander needed medical equipment to survive, the combat command room was built on the ground and did not go deep underground.
The huge room was filled with generals and school officers with various expressions.
Looking around, it seems that only Qin Youde, who is calm and waiting for something, has the lowest rank.
In the center of the room is a huge simulated sand table of Nanzhili. Various miniature buildings above are lifelike, and small flags of various colors are scattered on the sand table.
Outside the sand table, a circle of generals sat around the sand table.
Behind the generals, there were two rows of school officers.
After the school officer, there are walls covered with maps of various colors.
On one side is a map recording the tracks of the death squads who went deep into the fog several times.
On one side are the current demon occupation points and foreign elimination points in South Zhili, as well as the distribution range of the strongholds of civilian survivors.
On one side is the movement track of the skeleton.
The last side is the world map.
Countless orders radiate from here every day, and each order affects the fate of countless people.
The heavy door opened silently.
Qin Youyi, who looked downcast and was wearing a beggar's uniform like Qin Youde, walked in.
The eyes of everyone in the room were all focused on Qin Youyi, and some people's eyes wandered back and forth between Qin Youyi and Qin Youde.
If you are an ordinary person, you may feel nervous when you see so many generals looking at you.
But Qin Youyi, who grew up in a courtyard, is naturally not afraid of this.
Qin Youyi looked up by himself, and his eyes were attracted by the map titled [Skeleton Man].
He didn't know how important this conference room was, but he knew that on the way here, there was a sentry every three steps and a post every five steps. From time to time, canned people could be seen patrolling and vigilantly.
In addition, so many generals gathered, it seems that this conference room is very important.
Such an important place has your footprints hanging on it
Qin Youyi, who was staring at the skeleton map in a daze, suddenly thought of something.
The map of the Skeleton Man is very large, with many lines, and time nodes are marked under each line of different colors.
It's like some kind of statistical chart.
Qin Youyi saw a line that was at the forefront of time.
That line.
He has seen it!
When he was first on Mount Shu, beside the smelly mountain of corpses, Qi Lin was holding instant noodles, listening to the song, and writing and drawing on a piece of paper.
The dense lines are also marked with the words [A 1, B 2, C 3] and so on.
Later, Qi Lin carefully folded the piece of paper and put it in his arms.
Qin Youyi still vaguely remembered that in order to lighten the atmosphere, he said something like people say that words are like people.
Until this moment, in this room where big people gathered, when I saw those lines again, and the words surrounded by circles on them, with annotations next to them: the place where the XX demon species appeared, the data analysis of the time of death
Qin Youyi realized one thing belatedly: those tangled lines were not simple!
"It turns out you have always had a plan in mind."
"What exactly are you"
"Why"
When Qin Youyi's heart was filled with waves, he looked at the map blankly and sighed in his heart.
Everyone in the conference room kept observing his various movements and expressions.
Qin Youde saw his brother's unconsciously clenched hand and smiled slightly in his heart.
He took two steps forward and walked up to Qin Youyi and asked directly: "The situation is a bit tense. There will be big changes in South Zhili in the near future. I am about to carry out a mission and I need the help of the skeleton."
Qin Youyi looked at Qin Youde silently and said nothing.
Qin Youde asked again: "Do you know the skeleton man?"
Qin Youyi's eyes flashed with loneliness, he slowly lowered his head and shook his head: "I don't know him."
"You really don't know him?" Qin Youde's hand on Qin Youyi's shoulder shook slightly.
"elder brother"
"I really don't know the Skrulls."
Qin Youyi's drooping face looked extremely lonely, and a low voice came from his mouth.
From the time he met Renque, until he entered the safe zone and met those enthusiastic officers, and now he meets Qin Youde.
Everyone asked him the same question: Do you know the Skeleton Man?
Qin Youyi didn't care about the inquiries from others. What he cared about was Uncle Wang, who had watched him grow up, and his brother Qin Youde.
"Okay, you go and have a rest first." Qin Youde did not force it. He was worried at the moment and just smiled and patted Qin Youyi on the shoulder: "Have a good rest. I will find you later."
When Qin Youyi followed the guards out of the conference room, he heard the voices of the big shots behind him:
"If we can find the Skeleton Man, we are willing to devote all our resources to cultivating him and them!"
"If he is willing to join the military and is a candidate for the God-making Project, we can also consider him!"
"The current disaster is not even an appetizer! You can't go far alone! With the information we have, we believe that when he knows, he will definitely join us!"
"We can also reveal all the important rewards such as the God Creation Plan, the Supervisor Plan, as well as post-sequence modules, secret realms, sequences, etc.!!!"
The sound behind him was so loud.
Qin Youyi, who was so big that he hung his head and stared at his toes, seemed so small under the many impassioned voices.
Qin Youyi just walked out of the conference room with his head hanging, without saying a word.
Unknowingly, he walked through the steel corridor and walked outside the building complex amidst everyone's whispers.
The heavy rain was still falling and the sky was gloomy.
"I'll sit here for a while."
Qin Youyi said something to the guard leading the way, and then sat on the steps.
I don’t know whether it was raining too much or the drainage pipes were clogged. Water accumulated under the steps and was even calf-deep.
A slender branch drifted with the water, Qin Youyi stretched out his hand and grabbed it.
Holding the branch tightly, he recited an obscure incantation, and a blazing fireball appeared instantly. Like a child, he used the fireball to burn the top of the branch into charcoal.
Then he used it as a pen and drew unknown circles on the steps.
Qin Youyi didn't know what the military wanted to do with Qi Lin, but he knew that Qi Lin seemed to have a certain grudge against the military, otherwise he wouldn't have refused to contact the military. He had seen many skeletons attack soldiers who came to talk to Qi Lin. The skeletons blocked the road and ignored the words of those who wanted to see Qi Lin.
He didn't know if Qi Lin would have a conflict with the military.
I don’t even know if what those big guys said in the end was a temptation, an inducement, or something else.
After all, since he was a child, he had heard too many words about people who were trying to make a big deal, but in the end they broke their promises 'for the sake of the overall situation'.
Qin Youyi is now in a state of confusion and has a myriad of thoughts.
But even so, he still remembered one thing: he didn't know Qi Lin.
It's not that he didn't know Qi Lin out of anger due to a conflict of ideas with him.
But he didn't want to ruin what Qi Lin had been doing because of his own factors.
Although he once told Qi Lin that he had never met her in person, he always remembered how Qi Lin treated him. It was sincere and frank, and it was what he had longed for since he was a child.
The sound of treading water kept coming to my ears, and a thin and hurried officer came from the distant rainstorm.
Holding various documents in their arms, they rushed into the huge steel building behind Qin Youyi. The documents were tightly wrapped in their arms by their military uniforms. For some reason, they did not have umbrellas.
The hurried pace is like being late for one second, and countless people will die for it.
Of course, there were also some pot-bellied officers walking slowly, with either handsome men or tall women holding umbrellas for them.
Most of them are officers from the logistics side, and many of them are drawn from the joint military-civilian defense brigade.
The higher-ups know that some of them are good and bad, but they can't help it.
Some people died too many.
too early.
There are rows of chairs on the steps. Some people who have come to do things or have finished doing things are sitting on the chairs and chatting leisurely like afternoon tea.
"What's going on with that man over there? Judging from his clothes, he shouldn't be in military uniform. Why is he here?"
"Perhaps he just came off the battlefield and was mentally exhausted, so his brain is not normal."
"Keep your voice down, no matter who it is, don't get yourself into trouble."
A crowd soon gathered near the row of chairs. They looked around and saw a figure in beggar's clothes sitting on the steps, with all kinds of flesh, blood and dust attached to the clothes on his back.
The beggar was holding a burnt branch and drawing unknown circle symbols on the steps.
This is Qin Youyi's way of passing time since childhood.
He didn't like the preferences of most children in the compound, nor did he like Qin Youde's preference of staying in a room and studying hard.
So most of the time, he is alone.
The soldiers standing guard and the officers coming and going all noticed Qin Youyi.
They couldn't understand why a man dressed in filthy clothes was here.
They didn't mean to look down on others because they were poorly dressed. They were just confused. Behind them was the combat command room. Why would there be such a person squatting here in such a heavy place?
If your status is important, you should discuss important matters with senior generals in the combat command room.
If identity is not important and there are no white men coming and going here, how can we be here?
Soon, Qin Youyi's identity became a new topic of conversation for those who were taking a break from their busy schedules.
"Shh, keep your voice down!" An officer who knew the inside story said mysteriously to the people gathered around to listen to the gossip: "This man is the younger brother of Major Qin Youde and the commander's aunt and nephew!"
"Ouch!"
"I see!"
"hiss!"
"Didn't you say he died long ago?"
"No wonder!"
When Qin Youyi's identity was revealed, everyone's eyes ranged from confusion to caution to curiosity.
Instantly it turned into warmth, respect, and friendship.
There was even a fat-bellied senior logistics officer who, regardless of his status and the contemptuous looks from his colleagues behind him, quickly ran to Qin Youyi to ask for his welfare.
They seemed to have forgotten that they had kept a distance from such a beggar before.
But no matter how warm and eloquent this senior officer was, Qin Youyi never heard of him and kept silently drawing his own circles.
The senior officer didn't say anything, he just kept to himself, expressed his name, where he worked, and if he needed help, he left.
After he left, some people came to befriend him regardless of their status.
What's more, he took out a pen and paper and wrote down his name and position, stuffed it into the pocket of Qin Youyi, who seemed to be crazy, and then left to do what he came here to do.
But Qin Youyi has never heard of it, and he only thinks about one thing in his mind:
From the moment I met the human sparrow, to the way back to the safe zone, and then to the safe zone, I came here, in the combat command room.
Everyone is talking about, do you know the Skeleton Man?
He might be lying!
What's your level?
Your skills?
He is the younger brother of Major Qin Youde!
He is the commander's nephew!
Ah! He is the second generation of the military!
"Why."
"Why has no one told me, have you eaten enough these past few months? Are the monsters outside scaring you? Don't be afraid when you go home. What do you want to eat at night?"
"When I first met that person on Shu Mountain, he was busy planning for the future and didn't ask me anything. The first thing he asked me was not about my abilities or my identity, but..."
"Give me a bucket of instant noodles."
"Although he later said it was interest, he never asked me any questions about my family background, nor did he take advantage of my lucky talent."
Qin Youyi stood up slowly with a lot of thoughts in his mind and looked around at the various figures giving him similar looks from young to old.
He remembered his father's words: Cultivate your body and mind, be always quiet, and get confused when things happen, and you will never make any progress. Only by being able to control yourself can you achieve success.
There is also what another brother said to him: The weak talk about feelings, the strong talk about value.
Many truths that he had heard since he was a child and always thought were bullshit came one after another.
In just this moment, his mood seemed to change drastically.
Qin Youyi threw the branch in his hand and looked into the fog of the world under the heavy rain in the distance.
“If you understand the past, you can’t admonish it, but if you know what’s coming, you can pursue it.”
"I seem to know where I went wrong"
"Haha, the worst is to screw up, and you won't die anyway, so death is just the right thing!"
“In the end, you can only get the utopia you want by yourself.”
"How to get it?"
"fighting!"
"fighting!!"
“Til death do us part!!!”
