"I'm infected." Liu Yan leaned wearily against the corner of the wall: "Bring the bandages, keep them away from me... Cassia? Great, you really are alive."

The person who was going to come up to bandage him immediately stopped moving. Meng Jianguo took the bandage and said solemnly: "I'll come, you all sit over there, including the children."

Liu Yan leaned on his side, and Meng Jianguo bandaged his arms and calf with his own hands. The bandages were tightly tied, and the bleeding stopped.

Cassia wiped the blood off Liu Yan's face, Liu Yan reported the mission process intermittently, and Meng Jianguo just listened silently. Finally, Jue Ming said, "Where's my dad?"

Liu Yan said: "On the eleventh floor, I'll be down soon."

The surroundings were quiet, Meng Jianguo said, "You should rest for a while."

Liu Yan was lying on his side, resting on Cassia's thigh, and Cassia was still sitting with Meng Jianguo.

"Will he die?" Cassia asked.

Liu Yan: "Yes."

Meng Jianguo: "I don't know."

Liu Yan: "Do you want anything? It'll be yours when I die, dear. I'll give you a tablet."

Jue Ming said: "I don't want to, can I get an injection?"

Meng Jianguo: "Liu Yan, is your position important in the mission?"

Liu Yan said: "Maybe, I have to follow the last link of the task. Zheng Feihu specially explained to me that there may be unexpected situations in the large console. Only the technician of the central workshop can open the maintenance system. If you let me sleep in advance, this task will not work. I guess it's over."

Meng Jianguo was silent for a moment, and then said: "Then after completing the task, try injecting you with dormant serum. There may be k3... but you need to look for it. After the injection, you will fall asleep directly..."

Liu Yan said, "Will it hurt the brain?"

Meng Jianguo did not answer.

Liu Yan: "I will become a fool, right? Idiot? Lost all memories?"

After a long silence, Meng Jianguo said: "Or let them complete the task as soon as possible and send you to the second area, you can directly inject dormant serum, provided that you have not become a zombie before that."

Liu Yan said: "Oh, I'd rather be a zombie. I feel like being an idiot is better than being a zombie. At least it can save you some food."

Meng Jianguo agreed: "You are very conscious, and I think so too."

Liu Yan: "..."

Cassia stopped talking and touched Liu Yan's head.

Liu Yan lost too much blood and his body temperature was cold. Cassia took off Meng Jianguo's military coat and put it on him.

"Dad." Liu Yan said.

"What?" Meng Jianguo said solemnly.

Liu Yan said: "If Meng Feng didn't come, I would turn into a zombie. You are responsible for killing me with one shot. Cassia won't be able to do it, can you?"

Meng Jianguo Road: "Yes."

"Fenghua, you can interview him casually." Liu Yan whispered: "Don't be too loud, let me sleep for a while."

Xie Fenghua cried softly, with tears in her eyes, and touched Liu Yan's head.

No one here even knew Liu Yan, he was just a stranger to them—a strange stranger who crawled out of the vent.

No one spoke, Liu Yan fell asleep in the tranquility, his dream was dazed and erratic, his soul seemed to have left his body, penetrated the heavy walls, and drifted towards the top of his head involuntarily.

There was a blue light at the top, flickering and dark, as if calling him.

It was a kind of signal, just like the call that was heard in the mountains in Dengfeng, but the two were completely different. Its light made people feel quiet and comfortable, just like the final destination and the heaven between the stars and the sea.

Another signal came from out of nowhere and continued to interfere with his will. Like thousands of whinings of resentment and pain, it was vaguely opposing the blue light. Two strange spiritual forces were pulling each other, as if to tear Liu Yan apart. into pieces.

He was sweating profusely and opened his eyes panting.

"Have you got a fever?" Meng Jianguo's voice was still calm and secure: "Find some water and apply it to his forehead."

The cold cloth was placed on Liu Yan's forehead, and Liu Yan felt better.

"Dad." Liu Yan said.

"Is he Meng Feng?" Someone asked from the other side of the cafeteria.

"No." Meng Jianguo replied, "His name is Liu Yan."

"Then why did he call you 'daddy'?" Yang Yushan asked.

Meng Jianguo explained: "He is also my son."

Everyone was silent. After a long time, Liu Yan said, "Can you answer a few questions for us? It has nothing to do with family matters."

Meng Jianguo said: "Your curiosity is too strong, this is not a good thing."

Liu Yan: "Chao Wendao, it's okay to die in the evening, I don't have any other thoughts."

Meng Jianguo said lightly: "Ask."

Liu Yan: "Fenghua, you ask. My information is not detailed."

Xie Fenghua tucked her knees and sat on Meng Jianguo's left. The discomfort caused by Liu Yan's injury had gradually subsided. She asked at a volume that was just enough for several people to hear, but not too loud: "General Meng, the nineteenth floor. What secrets are there in the biochemical laboratory?"

Meng Jianguo was silent for a moment, and then said: "There is a research sample there, which is the 'nucleus' of the Oaks complex."

The answer was right, Liu Yan no longer doubted, he asked, "Where did the 'nuclear' come from?"

Meng Jianguo shook his head slowly: "There are no research results at present, maybe there has been progress."

Liu Yan thought for a while, his mind was confused, his whole body was cold, his thinking speed was much slower, and after sorting out his thoughts, he asked: "'Nuclear' can gather all the corpses after the second death and become a giant. What is their ultimate purpose? ?"

Meng Jianguo Road: "According to the top-secret information I know, their destination is the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean. After leaving the continental shelf, the pressure of the sea water will reduce their size, and the virus will be limited by the water pressure."

"Mariana... the deepest trench in the world." Liu Yan murmured, "At an altitude of 11,000 meters, where does the sea go?"

Meng Jianguo said: "If they don't lead anywhere, after they enter the trench, they will be crushed into waste by water pressure and will perish completely."

Liu Yan was silent, Xie Fenghua said: "We got a drawing, it is about the analysis of 'nuclear'..."

"Yes." Meng Jianguo said: "The Seventh District reported earlier that they believed that the composition of the 'core' of the Aggregate Oaks complex was called a string, and named it Earth String."

"What is a string?" Xie Fenghua asked.

Meng Jianguo said: "I'm not a physics major, but do you know the unified model?"

Xie Fenghua shook her head blankly. Liu Yan knew a little bit, but he didn't know much about classical physics.

"Scientists believe that the element particles that make up our world are molecules, molecules are decomposed into atoms, and atoms are decomposed into protons, neutrons and electrons, photons, etc..." Meng Jianguo said: "I try to explain it with my understanding. But it doesn't necessarily make you fully understand."

Xie Fenghua nodded, and Meng Jianguo said again: "The particles are re-decomposed and become quantum particles such as quarks. Scientists believe that they can be decomposed again, so as to obtain the most primitive structure in the microscopic world model - string."

"The string hypothesis believes that these gadgets are a kind of closed curve. Try to imagine a two-dimensional circle. When it moves, it becomes a ball. This is the principle of two-dimensional motion to form a three-dimensional space. These closed lines have a certain curvature. , they each form all the particles in our world according to a certain oscillation frequency. According to different frequencies and oscillation modes, they have different energies from each other, forming a variety of quarks."

"And these particles combine again to become the ever-changing world in front of us."

"So what does it have to do with... the giant of the Oaks complex?" Xie Fenghua said.

Meng Jianguo said: "The unified model proposed by superstring theory can explain almost everything we can't see or touch at present, including ideas."

"The seventh area believes that thinking consciousness and brain waves are a set of specific basic strings. In layman's terms, even the 'soul' we often refer to may also be a manifestation of the original strings."

Liu Yan said, "Free consciousness?"

Meng Jianguo said: "Yes, so that blue light, the seventh district thinks it is the free consciousness of the earth itself, which is responsible for releasing the gravitational force, condensing all the waste together and destroying it. There is a hypothesis on the nineteenth floor, which compares the earth to a human being. , and compare this blue light to the white blood cells in the adult body."

"White blood cells are responsible for the body's immunity, engulfing other harmful cells, and then removing them." Meng Jianguo said: "As the current situation has confirmed, it is exactly right."

"Then the difference between you and the seventh district is..." Xie Fenghua said with a frown.

Meng Jianguo Road: "Removal of the virus."

"We killed so many people and finally found the source of the virus outbreak. The original sample with the virus infection was a rotting plesiosaur under the ice cap of Antarctica."

Liu Yan took a breath.

Meng Jianguo Road: "This is everything I know. It is said that the plesiosaur has been frozen in the Antarctic glacier as early as the ice age, and the virus in it does not know where it came from..."

Cassia said: "Will it be brought by aliens?"

Meng Jianguo Road: "Maybe there is a possibility that on a certain day in ancient times, an asteroid hit the earth with a virus, causing a large-scale ecological extinction. After entering the Ice Age, everything ended temporarily, and the infected samples were frozen under the ice. In human history, the greenhouse effect caused the ice to melt, the plesiosaur began to rot, the virus began to spread with the ocean currents, and the coastal cities of all countries became the concentrated outbreaks of the first wave of zombies."

Xie Fenghua said: "That is to say, if we do nothing, these zombies will be cleaned up by the immune system of the earth itself, right?"

Meng Jianguo said: "Some people do think so, but I don't think so. This is the difference of opinion between the military and the scientific research center."

"First of all, if the earth string itself has ideas, why not communicate directly with people?" Meng Jianguo said: "The blue halo you saw on the nineteenth floor, the recorded drawings, is the analysis of the fluctuations of the string, so far I have no clue. "

"Secondly, the virus has begun to evolve." Meng Jianguo said: "They no longer follow the most primitive eating instinct, and gradually evolve into individuals with simple thinking ability. Except for your hurricane team, other search and rescue team The battle report passed back pointed out that In an organization with 100,000 individuals as a unit, there will be a mutation, and one or more zombies will have the ability to communicate and become the leader of all zombies... Liu Yan, you understand the consequences."

Liu Yan's previous fear was also due to this, and trembled: "Not only that, they also shifted their target to animals."

"Yes." Meng Jianguo said: "The evolution of this virus is out of control, and animals are gradually infected. If we don't take a thorough bombing, maybe even plants will be infected... Then... The result is conceivable. Know."

Xie Fenghua said: "My last question, the Alaska Research Institute in the United States was destroyed, the Russian underground research base in Siberia was besieged by zombies, and now it is China's high seas, and the United Front Work Department has been captured by this deep-sea animal... General Meng, you should know that I think What are you asking?"

Meng Jianguo was silent for a long time, and then said: "I'm sorry Miss Xie, this research project does not allow me to intervene, it is not necessarily the summoning effect of the earth string on zombie creatures, and as far as I know, the Alaska laboratory is using mice. Doing virus experiments without cleaning up, and eventually being captured by hordes of zombie mice."

Liu Yan was alert: "You mean... those zombie octopuses were summoned by the blue light on the nineteenth floor?"

Xie Fenghua said: "Does the central spire still have a sample of Earth string research?"

"Yes." Meng Jianguo said: "Maybe the director of the seventh district special team can answer your question."

Xie Fenghua: "Why is the octopus infected with the virus?"

Meng Jianguo: "It's not clear yet. Maybe a large number of Oaks complexes entered the trench and were partially eaten by octopuses, or maybe... Forget it, this is not something you should know."

Xie Fenghua said softly: "The biochemical laboratory in the sixth district discharges the experimental waste into the trench, right? General Meng?"

Liu Yan's eyes widened, Meng Jianguo said indifferently: "I'm only responsible for three things: appearing on TV and being scolded, supervising the search and rescue process in the mainland, and promoting the implementation of the Long Night Plan. The rest are all out of my control, and I can't control it if I want to. intervene."

"I know it's not up to you." Xie Fenghua said: "But it is your responsibility to remind them."

Meng Jianguo said coldly: "Miss, you think things are too simple, how do you know that I haven't reminded Admiral Zhou? He has enough information that he thinks is credible and will not be used by others. opinion."

Xie Fenghua said sympathetically, "In other words, you have been... overridden."

Meng Jianguo: "I believe you won't write this on your report, because Admiral Zhou will come to trouble you soon after seeing the report."

Xie Fenghua teased: "I really want to write like this, because at that time, you will be inexplicable and become a group with me. Maybe he will think that you instructed me to write like this."

Liu Yan couldn't help laughing, secretly saying that Xie Fenghua was too cunning.

Meng Jianguo: "..."

Xie Fenghua said: "Well... let me think about it, how can I not trouble the handsome and charming General Meng, and help him..."

Meng Jianguo said lightly: "No need, I understand General Zhou, as long as he thinks he is right, and resolutely goes to the end, don't change the plan temporarily after listening to the opinions of the seventh district, otherwise you don't need to write anything. , I'll get rid of him first."

Xie Fenghua: "But can he be responsible for the whole country alone?"

Meng Jianguo asked back: "The greater the power, the greater the responsibility. He has the final say. Who is responsible if he is not responsible?"

Xie Fenghua was a little surprised and said with a smile: "I think now that you are indeed very attractive, General Meng. I'd better not say anything for the time being."

Meng Jianguo said politely, "Thank you, you are the same. A gentle and considerate girl is the most attractive. Would you like to enjoy lunch after going out?"

Xie Fenghua said lightly: "I already have a boyfriend, General Meng."

Liu Yan smiled and closed his eyes, Xie Fenghua thought about the news that Meng Jianguo had previously revealed with a thoughtful smile, and several people fell into a long silence.

Two hours later, there was a slight muffled sound outside.

Meng Jianguo went to open the door. Under his feet, Lai Jie led his team to the tenth floor.

Meng Feng was the first to climb up. Liu Yan was very tired. Almost fifteen hours had passed since he entered the ruins at the bottom of the sea. He didn't even know that Meng Feng was here.

Meng Feng stood trembling and took off the military coat that covered Liu Yan.

Liu Yan woke up.

The blood oozing from the bandages on his shoulders was dry, dark black, pale and sweating profusely.

Liu Yan's first sentence when he met Meng Feng was:

"I'm infected, Meng Feng."

Meng Feng knelt down and stroked Liu Yan's hair.

Meng Feng: "Liu Yan."

Liu Yan said: "You can hold on for a while, let's go... Let's continue the mission, I can't do without the next mission. Be strong, Meng Feng, let's go to the end together... Then give me an injection and let me sleep... No I know you will remember if you don’t…”

Meng Feng hugged Liu Yan and started crying three seconds later, like a lonely and helpless child.

He held Liu Yan in front of him and buried him in pain on his shoulders, crying in despair and pain, like a dying beast.

Meng Jianguo's heroic eyebrows raised, and with a shush, he made a look at Zheng Qi.

Zheng Qi: "??"

Meng Jianguo made a mouth shape of "tell him", his body blocked the eyes of others, he pointed to Liu Yan, Zheng Qi suddenly realized.

"Is your name Liu Yan? You have no chance of being infected." Zheng Qi in the corner said, "My dad vaccinated you."

Meng Feng stopped crying.

Liu Yan: "???"

Meng Feng: "..."

Meng Jianguo nodded slightly, ignored the couple hugging each other, packed up the gun and got up.

Zheng Qi said: "That's right, it's you. Uncle Hu said that you saved his life before and wanted to repay you. He wholesaled a lot of vaccines from Uncle Meng, and handed a copy to my dad and asked him to give it to you. Give you an injection, because you are Uncle Meng's..."

When Xie Fenghua heard the gossip, her eyes lit up in an instant, and she reached out to touch the recorder.

Meng Jianguo said immediately; "Zheng Qi, why are you running the train with your mouth full again, just tell him that he has been vaccinated!"

Zheng Qi didn't stop for a while, he went too far, and immediately covered his mouth after being scolded.

"I heard it all." Xie Fenghua smiled with a playful smile in his eyes: "General Meng, how many vaccines did you sell out?"

Meng Jianguo said coldly: "Miss, it was specially approved by the military, and it has nothing to do with me."

"But you also signed the list, didn't you?" Xie Fenghua put the recorder in her bag and didn't plan to interview any more, but she couldn't help but teased with a smile: "Hu Jue should have come to talk to you in person, right? What did he promise? You just sold him the vaccine?"

Meng Jianguo said politely: "Miss Xie, if you ask again, I won't invite you to lunch, maybe you will lose your job."

Xie Fenghua smiled speechlessly.

Meng Feng hugged Liu Yan, raised his head and asked blankly, "What do you mean? Zheng Qi, did your father vaccinate Liu Yan?"

Liu Yan was also very at a loss, but when he remembered that Zheng Feihu came to see him off before the trip that day, he suddenly became enlightened.

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"I understand..." Liu Yan said, "It was... Brother Hu asked Zheng Feihu to inject me."

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