Witnessing the destruction of the Tongcheng base and the convoy heading north, Lu Yan was mentally shaken and finally fell asleep due to the strength of the medicine.
During this period, Qin Zhen, who was sitting in the passenger seat, couldn't help but look back at him.
Qi Yang held the steering wheel, looked at the road ahead, and asked:
"What's wrong?"
Qin Zhen's body visibly stiffened for a moment, then he lowered his head, hiding the expression on his face, and replied in a low voice:
"fine."
Qi Yang took a deep breath:
"Do you have any cigarettes? Give me one?"
Qin Zhen was stunned and did not answer for a while. Qi Yang rolled his eyes:
"Don't think that I don't know that I didn't take a good rest when I was sick, but I secretly hid the cigarette under the quilt. I must have it with me, right?"
Qin Zhen took a deep breath, with only the vicissitudes of life left on his originally resolute face. He rubbed his hands, took out a cigarette from his pocket, and handed it back.
Ren Yu didn't dare to say anything and quickly lit it silently. Qin Zhen handed the cigarette to Qi Yang.
Finally, after thinking about it, he took another one out of his pocket, handed it back, lit it, stuffed it into his mouth, took a deep breath, and then spit it out, filling the carriage with smoke.
"I can't do it without sucking," his voice was hoarse and he said with a wry smile:
"If you don't smoke this cigarette, you can't help but think about those things in your mind, and then people will go crazy."
Qi Yang turned his head and glanced at him, then raised his cigarette and took a deep breath:
"Lu Yan can't wake up now and needs to see a psychiatrist."
Qin Zhen's hand that flicked the cigarette ashes paused for a moment, unable to react, and looked at Qi Yang in surprise:
"What?"
Qi Yang looked at the front of the steering wheel intently and took another puff of cigarette:
"Human mental illness is not limited to the sequelae of war. Even you can't bear the death of Xiao Yan, let alone Lu Yan? Although you have accumulated it because of the deaths of your comrades one by one, those two people are equivalent to Lu Yan's wives With my father, it’s quite exciting..."
"That was his last relative. They were all gone in one afternoon. Even Lu Yan couldn't bear it."
After Qi Yang said this, he didn't say anything. When he mentioned Lieutenant General Lu and Mu Tang, he also looked sad and didn't want to say anything.
He didn't hear Qin Zhen respond to him for a long time. When he turned around, he found that Qin Zhen was in a daze.
The cigarette was almost burning on his fingers even though he hadn't smoked it yet. He didn't even react, he was still there motionless.
Qi Yang twitched the corner of his mouth, freed his hand and patted his shoulder fiercely:
"Hey!!"
Qin Zhen was startled, and the cigarette in his hand fell under the car seat. He was so frightened that he stepped on it twice and stopped after it was extinguished.
Qi Yangqiang tried his best to tease him:
"What are you thinking about? Are you still in a daze?"
Qin Zhen shook his head with a smile:
"Nothing, nothing..."
As he spoke, he stared blankly out the window at the scenery along the way that was quickly flashing back. Qi Yang saw that he didn't want to speak, so he stopped saying anything.
In the back seat of the car, Lin Wanwan buried her face in the crook of Ren Yu's neck, her shoulders twitching.
When she first learned that Mu Tang was gone, she immediately went to the battlefield. She didn't have time to be sad, but now that she remembered it, she burst into tears.
The tears haven't stopped since I got in the car, and I didn't dare to cry.
The clothes on Ren Yu's shoulders were all wet.
Ren Yu gently patted Lin Wanwan's shoulder and kept comforting her, his eyes turning red from holding back. In fact, he also wanted to cry, but Lin Wanwan was already crying. If he cried again, there would be no one to comfort her.
After thinking for a while, he decided to change the topic and asked Qi Yang in a low voice:
"Captain Qi, the artillery fire in the army is obviously so lethal. Even country M has chosen city bombing. Why would you rather fall in the end than use those things? You have to wait until now to use them."
Qi Yang glanced at him through the rearview mirror in the car, and after a while he answered:
“It’s not that I don’t use it, it’s that I can’t use it.”
Ren Yu didn't react:
"What's the meaning?"
"You know that Country M uses urban bombing, but you don't know what kind of situation they will face after the bombing."
"They chose city bombing at the beginning of the end of the world, but there were still many civilians left in the bombing area. After the bombing, they were also buried in the bombing."
"These survivors also have family and friends. Do they want their loved ones to die like this?"
Ren Yu quickly reacted:
"So, they rioted?"
"Yes, some of these people are just ordinary civilians, and some are in high positions. For a time, the whole country is panicked. There are zombies everywhere. Everyone is afraid that their place will become the next bombing point."
"But some people even want to make war profits and hide in troubled waters to fish in troubled waters. In the end, it is not zombies that lead to the destruction of their entire country, but people's selfish motives!!"
Qi Yang paused here, hesitated for a moment, and then continued:
"Besides, there is another reason, diplomatic issues."
Ren Yu couldn't understand why solving domestic crises had anything to do with diplomatic issues.
Qi Yang continued:
"A big technological country like ours has nuclear weapons, and every move it makes is under the attention of the world. Once large weapons are used, even if the target is domestic, some people will suspect that it has ulterior motives, whether it is just to cover up the camouflage of nuclear bombs."
"In addition, bombing will kill civilians, and it will be criticized by the United Nations just for humanitarian reasons. It is not the least difficult to activate those thermal weapons."
"However, it has already reached this point. There are zombies everywhere, why should we care about what the outside world thinks?" Ren Yu really couldn't understand these reasons.
Qi Yang smiled bitterly and shook his head:
"This is the bad nature of human beings. Except for your own people, no one will care about what kind of crisis you are facing. They will only care about what they see. As long as they can achieve their own goals, they don't care what price you pay."
"And there's something more important."
"What?"
"Large explosions do great harm to the surrounding environment and ecology. The radiation and harmful substances from some weapons will turn the explosion area into a wasteland, and no more life will be born within a few years."
"But the world is not just for humans, it is also natural. If you want to control zombies, you must not just bomb one place. Large-scale bombing will only lead to the destruction of life."
Qi Yang smiled bitterly and said:
"We always have to leave a breathing space for the world."
Facing the threat of zombies, the country is subject to various constraints and hesitations in its choices.
"We thought we had enough time, but unfortunately we overlooked one of the most important conditions."
Ren Yu asked curiously:
"What conditions?"
"Population, we are a country with a large population, and the population density is much higher than other countries. Once a source of infection appears, the infection rate will be several times that of other countries. The time left for us to hesitate is actually much less than we expected."
Ren Yu suddenly realized:
"So even if we wanted to bomb, it was already too late, right?"
"That's right."
While talking, a makeshift camp appeared in front of the car. A convoy surrounded the camp and soldiers patrolled with guns in hand.
Qi Yang stepped on the brakes in front of the camp, turned around and said:
"arrive."
