Lu Yan had been out for almost two hours, and the sky outside had darkened.
Although everyone was exhausted, in order to avoid hypothermia due to hypothermia after falling asleep, everyone still worked hard and did not dare to close their eyes.
Midway through, Qiao Yue suddenly let out a low voice, instantly attracting everyone's attention.
It turned out that the surviving soldier started to have a low fever at some point.
Qin Zhen lowered his face and silently held the pistol on his waist. The soft sound of the pistol being loaded was particularly obvious in the quiet and cold room.
Before anyone had time to react, Qin Zhen had already pointed his gun at the surviving soldier's forehead.
Qiao Yue quickly stood in front of the surviving soldiers, her face full of shock and her voice full of surprise:
"what you do?"
Qin Zhen's face was filled with deathly silence, and his eyes were like a pool of stagnant water, dull and dull:
"A low-grade fever is a precursor to zombie transformation."
His voice didn't have any ups and downs, as if he was just stating something, so calm that it was shocking.
Qiao Yue met those eyes and felt speechless for a moment. She didn't know what to say.
He was so cold, so cold that no one could recognize him as the commander who just a few hours ago was shattered by the sacrifice of his comrades.
"No, I have injected him with an inactivating agent. The possibility of infection is very slim..."
Qiao Yue shook her head vigorously and stretched out her hand to try to get Qin Zhen to put down the gun.
Unexpectedly, this action seemed to stimulate him more. Qin Zhen's muscles all stiffened instantly, and he became excited for a moment. He stretched out his hand to push Qiao Yue away.
The expressions of the two soldiers beside him changed, and they quickly stepped forward to hold him:
"Captain, he hasn't turned into a zombie yet..."
"There are many wounds on his body, it may just be ordinary inflammation and infection..."
At this moment, one of the soldiers inadvertently retreated to the side of the surviving soldier during the push.
Qin Zhen's face turned ugly for a moment. He pulled him over and blocked him behind him like a guard. The pistol in his other hand finally fell out of his hand in the pushing and fell to the ground.
Qin Zhen bent down to go somewhere, but Qiao Yue didn't give him this chance and quickly kicked the pistol aside.
Mu Tang was a little overwhelmed by the series of sudden changes in front of her. She watched Qiao Yue glare at Qin Zhen fiercely and said breathlessly:
"I originally thought you were a person who values other people's lives, but I didn't expect that you don't distinguish between right and wrong. He hasn't started to become a zombie yet, so you are so scared that you want to kill him in advance. Why, only the lives of people in your base matter, not others. Yeah?!!"
She didn't seem to be relieved after saying this, her chest heaving up and down. Looking at Qin Zhen's unmoved face and his hand that wanted to take other guns, she finally couldn't help but squeezed out two words from between her teeth. :
"coward!!"
As soon as she finished speaking, a soldier next to Qin Zhen stood up straight, looked at Qiao Yue dissatisfied, and said with a sharp voice:
"Dr. Qiao, watch your words!! Do you know how many people we sacrificed to come here to find you?!"
He pointed angrily at Yan Mingxu's body, which was lying quietly and soundlessly beside him:
"You stand in front of him, can you blurt out such words without any psychological burden?!"
Qiao Yue glanced at Yan Mingxu, then withdrew her gaze and looked at Qin Zhen with her chin raised:
"That's not a reason for you to kill people casually!!"
"You..." The soldier stared and was about to speak when Qin Zhen's dark voice came from behind:
"enough."
Everyone turned their attention to Qin Zhen. Qin Zhen raised his eyes, met Qiao Yue's mocking eyes without hesitation, and whispered:
"You are right, I am indeed a coward."
Qin Zhen's originally straight back looked a little stooped at this time, as if it was difficult to even speak:
"But I must take Xiao Yan, my soldiers, and bring the three of them back to the base. For this purpose, I am willing to pay any price."
Qin Zhen's eyes were like sharp knives at this time. Although it was Qiao Yue who was stabbed, it was Mu Tang who was actually pierced by the barrel.
In a daze, Qin Zhen's voice seemed to come from a distant place, but it was deafening, hitting Mu Tang's mind word by word:
"No matter who turns into a zombie, they are my enemies. I will never show mercy, absolutely not!!"
He gritted his teeth when he said this, and his bloodshot eyes burst out with unforgettable hatred.
Mu Tang suddenly felt a little breathless and felt cold all over. She doesn't know why, but she desperately wants Lu Yan by her side now.
Scared, really scared, not because Qin Zhen would kill him, but because his compatriots were the executioners who killed them.
Not all zombies are like her. Her kind have invisibly deprived these people of their flesh and bones.
No matter how much she tried to ignore it, this was an indisputable fact.
As for herself who has lost her memory, what was she like before she lost her memory? Is she just like an ordinary zombie, taking away the lives of their important people amidst the cries of others?
Mu Tang couldn't blame Qin Zhen at all.
Xiao Yan is not only a comrade-in-arms to Qin Zhen, but also like a source of support.
Lu Yan once said before that Qin Zhen had watched his comrades die in front of him before the end of the world, and such scenes became even more common after the end of the world.
Qin Zhen's initial team followed him before the end of the world, and he watched helplessly as they fell one after another in front of him.
But he had no way to stop, and he absolutely couldn't collapse. He kept the pain of losing his comrades in his heart, and he always condemned himself deep in his heart.
As the only surviving seedling, Yan Mingxu was the last straw in Qin Town's floating river. Every time Qin Town saw Yan Mingxu, he would feel like he was breathing a breath of air in the swamp where he was about to drown.
Lieutenant General Lu once vaguely mentioned to Lu Yan that Qin Zhen's war trauma was actually very serious, but unfortunately, Qin Zhen could no longer recover like those soldiers with war trauma in the past.
He was unwilling to leave everything around him, so he could only stick to his post day after day.
Lu Yan kept these heavy things in his heart, and finally told Mu Tang uncontrollably one night.
For Qin Zhen like this, for the deep-seated hatred in Qin Zhen's eyes, and the undisguised hostility and murderous intention towards the zombies, Mu Tang didn't know what attitude he should take in return.
Mu Tang glanced at Yan Mingxu again, struggling in his heart.
Maybe, maybe...
The few people who were in a stalemate suddenly felt pain like needle pricks in their brains for a moment, and then they all became drowsy, and their eyelids became heavier and heavier.
Mu Tang stood behind the mud and watched them fall to the ground one after another, and finally fell asleep. She pursed her lips and squatted down next to Yan Mingxu.
She pulled out the saber from her waist, made a bloody opening with her fingertips, and pushed out the thick blood. She struggled for a moment in her eyes, and finally raised her hand to Yan Mingxu's mouth tremblingly.
Even if Qin Zhen hates zombies so much, if Xiao Yan can stay rational, he should be able to accept it, right?
However, just when the thick blood was about to drip into Yan Mingxu's lips, someone suddenly held her wrist!
