Zhou Jinru rubbed his hands together and shivered from the cold. This was the second time he took Li Nan's car. The first time he entered the city from the outer ring road, but the second time he escaped from death, again in the most incredible way. I glance at my rationality from time to time, maybe because I am trying to break through the bottom line, but there is no reply for a long time.
There were more than twenty people in the car, and several seriously injured people were lying on stretchers in the aisle of the carriage. Mostima sat next to Zhou Jinru, resting his head on his shoulder, and he was not awake yet.
Snake Butcher Box solemnly put the whistle into his clothes, and then smiled stupidly at Zhou Jinru, making him extremely embarrassed.
His headache eased a lot. He turned to look at Broca and apologized: "That kick..."
Broca interrupted him with a cold face: "I understand, the situation is urgent."
Zhou Jinru was blocked and didn't know what to say for a while.
He paused and then added: "Be gentle next time, it's very painful."
"..."
Li Nan, who was driving, coughed heavily, interrupting the awkward atmosphere that was developing in a strange direction, and looked at Zhou Jinru's face through the rearview mirror, still full of gloom.
"Let's talk?"
Zhou Jinru suddenly woke up from his thoughts and nodded: "Okay, what should we talk about?"
"Perhaps you have forgotten that we met in Rhode Island more than a year ago."
Li Nan's first words made Zhou Jinru fried on the outside and tender on the inside. Since he had just traveled to the world of Terra, he still didn't understand what happened in the past and did not dare to respond directly.
Li Nan didn't care about Zhou Jinru's cautious performance and continued: "At that time, I took my wife to Rhode Island to see a doctor, and I happened to see you leading a team out. We only met once, so I didn't meet you for the first time. I can remember.”
"Sorry, I have no memory."
Zhou Jinru knew that these were just polite words, and the main text came next.
"Aguang, we are the same kind of people."
The few words Li Nan spoke softly hit Zhou Jinru's heart like bullets. He opened his eyes wide and looked at the middle-aged man who was driving. His heart was beating wildly. It was obviously that the temperature was extremely low. In the carriage, cold sweat broke out on his forehead.
"I was born and raised in Yan Kingdom, but my career and marriage were in Longmen. However, when I was thirty-four years old, I unexpectedly learned that I had lung cancer. If it weren't for this, I wouldn't be alive today."
Li Nan took out an old-fashioned mobile phone and placed it in Zhou Jinru's original world. It was the kind that could be bought in the market for a hundred yuan.
Zhou Jinru gradually calmed down, and he realized that he had thought wrongly. Li Nan was not a time traveler. What he said meant something else. The drama of fellow villagers meeting fellow villagers was considered bankrupt.
"It's a pity that it can't cure my lung cancer. In order to survive, I can only drive between life and death every day. I can't even leave Longmen."
Li Nan turned his head slightly and glanced at the snake slaughter box sitting behind Zhou Jinru, with a gentle smile on his lips: "Suddenly one day when I was getting off work early in the morning, I saw Turtle sleeping in front of the fast food restaurant where I worked. I was looking for someone, but couldn’t find her anywhere. I ran out of money and got lost, with nowhere to go, so I took her with me.”
Zhou Jinru was ashamed: "It's all my fault. It's my fault that I suddenly left because of something and didn't leave any message."
Li Nan's tone became much more serious: "She is a good child. If my wife was still here, the child should be as old as her. Since you are the person in charge of Rhode Island, you should shoulder the corresponding responsibilities. Although she is still here, She lived with me for a while, but I have to return to Rhode Island eventually, not only her, but also..."
When he said this, he seemed to remember something and sighed deeply.
"I only hope that you can light their way forward in the future. This world is full of malice towards the infected, and there is a limit to what I can do. The fire bearer will eventually come to an end, and only the lighthouse can stay bright."
Weird metaphor.
Zhou Jinru could only nod along. As a father, I entrusted my daughter to you. Of course, you must respond to everything you say. Otherwise, Li Nan's Hongdou would only learn spear skills that look similar in form but not in spirit, and poke him seven or eight holes. Shouldn't be a problem.
He hurriedly asked: "I have an operator named Hongdou, your kung fu is very similar..."
"Her spear skills were learned from me, and I approved her promotion."
Zhou Jinru: "..."
Damn it!
You also said that you are not a time traveler, why can you...
He held back a mouthful of ancient strength and didn't know how to spit it out.
Wait, promotion?
"Can you promote others?"
Zhou Jinru immediately grasped the key to the problem. He had never been able to figure out what promotion was. He originally thought that the promotion ceremony could only be carried out with the approval of people with officially recognized status. But now there is Li Nan who drives a bus, and his world view has collapsed. .
"My promotion has not been approved by anyone. No, I was prompted before my promotion whether I wanted to become an elite. Did I put a medal on myself?"
Li Nan stared at Zhou Jinru for a long time without saying anything, and finally choked out a sentence: "You don't know anything?"
Zhou Jinru shook his head.
"My situation is special. Although I can promote others, the restrictions are very high. Only those who learn from me can do it. I can't compare with you. As long as the members who join you in Rhode Island are of sufficient level, you can promote them. , as for the principle, I can’t explain it.”
…
At six o'clock in the morning, Longmen outer ring.
A dozen police cars and ambulances with flashing lights were parked on the side of the road, and more than a hundred Guardsmen officers surrounded the empty parking lot. They seemed to be waiting for something.
Their beloved Commander Xingxiong stood at the front despite the cold wind. None of his superiors complained, and of course his subordinates could not talk too much. Although there were frequent rumors of "lower than superior" between Commander Xing and Director Chen in the Guards Bureau, given that The two always went out together and never had a fierce fight, so this was also regarded as a misunderstanding of the love between the director and his subordinates.
In the eyes of Longmen police officers, bickering cannot be regarded as a conflict.
Finally, just before dawn, in the light mist, a bus with lights drove out from the end of the road. It drove into the parking lot in the lane flanked by the police officers of the Guard Bureau, its wheels stopped steadily. At that moment, the first ray of morning light pierced the clouds and fell on the earth. The dead dragon gate suddenly became a little alive.
The wait is finally here.
The car door opened, and a livid-faced man stepped out of the car shakily. His feet were even a little weak when they stepped on the concrete floor.
The sun rose a little early today, but no one took this matter to heart. The medical staff had already rushed up with a portable ambulance cot, and carried out the wounded to start medical treatment.
Xing Xiong strode up and saluted: "Senior Superintendent Xing Xiong of the Longmen Guard Bureau is reporting to you!"
"Save people first."
Zhou Jinru breathed in the fresh air, and felt as if he had been in another world overnight.
He saw an old man wearing a light-colored coat staring at him outside the police isolation zone.
