Thrive in Catastrophe

"I'm leaving. When you suddenly wake up from the explosion, you will be scared."

"……idiot……"

Major General Gordon put his face on the ruins blocking them, and said very seriously: "Tell me, how are you doing now."

"...The bad news is... I don't feel anything from the neck down..." Aiweier's voice was extremely weak, and he lost consciousness due to massive blood loss.

Major General Gordon's brows trembled, "It's okay, talk to me, stay with me, don't fall asleep."

"...the good news is... I don't feel any pain..."

"Ah... yes... wait until they dig you out, do a nerve connection operation or something... or let Xiao Yan inject you with an injection of X-2, maybe you will be fine."

"... Gordon... Do you think we are doing the right thing? Believe in Kathy... Believe in Jane..."

"I never believed in Kathy and Jane Wallis. I only believed in you."

The action speed of the armed forces was quite rapid, and a ton of condensate was sprayed on the monument in the central square. Although the strongest support point was blasted to the point where it was full of gaps, it was finally supported.

The Shire has lost at least a third of the city, and troops are searching for trapped citizens and urgently repairing strongholds.The homeless townspeople crowded into what was left of the central part of the Shire, some silent, some weeping.

The president leaned against the window and let out a sigh.

"We're lucky."

"Your Excellency President?" Admiral Sharif looked at him puzzled.

"Charles is a cage of self-deception. Valentine Sheen shattered this dream and brought us back to reality." The president lowered his eyes and said coldly, "No matter what I suggested, we should take the initiative to hunt down Valentine , but the luxury here has made those politicians lose their ambition to end all unrest, and now their dreams should wake up."

Xiao Yan's aircraft flew towards the bloody setting sun.

There was only silence in the cabin.

Until the last ray of sunlight fell into the night, Lauren finally couldn't help but ask, "Are we the only ones who survived the Shire?"

"Of course not." Xiao Yan replied with certainty.

Xiao Yan secretly calculated that if the particle bomb needed to blow up the dome is really needed, it is impossible for an aircraft to carry it.Valentine does all this for nothing more than to spread fear and despair.Shire is no longer a safe place for people to live. Even if the Sharon virus solves the threat of zombies facing humans, once they leave Shire, they will lose their barrier completely, and Valentine will prove his status as a god even more arrogantly.

The aircraft safely entered the No. [-] base, and Shen Bing waited at the end of the parking passage as usual.It's just that his expression is more dignified, and the wrinkles between his brows seem to crush everything.

Xiao Yan stepped out of the cabin and saluted him straightly, "Colonel Shen Bing!"

"I'm very pleased that you arrived at my base safely."

Today's No. [-] base is the place with the strongest military power besides Shire.

All the research directors also got off the aircraft, and Loch asked directly: "Colonel, has Charles contacted Base No. [-]! What is the current situation!"

Shen Bing turned around and walked towards the main control room, with everyone following behind him.The researchers stationed here and the armed forces are busy and busy, and no one even raises their heads to take a look at these research elites above the rank of major.

They came to a huge hologram on which the Shire was projected.

"The good news is that the dome didn't fall. We just lost one-third of the city and its people. The military is trying its best to repair all the support points and arrange the people's residence." Shen Bing clasped his hands behind his back.

Lauren stared at the mess on the screen with rounded eyes, and couldn't help but growl. Is the loss of one-third of the city also called "good news"?Isn't the price of this "just" tragic enough?

Xiao Yan pushed Lauren behind him.In the past, Xiao Yan might have regarded Shen Bing as a ruthless person like Lauren, but after experiencing so much, Xiao Yan understood Shen Bing better.

There is no benefit in crying and breaking your head in grief over what has happened.On the contrary, only by looking at this matter from the perspective of data can we separate impulsiveness and emotion, and analyze everything that is happening now more rationally.Valentine once tried to destroy the central monument. Once it falls, the remaining two-thirds of Shire will be submerged underground, and the aircraft Xiao Yan is riding on will become the real "Noah's Ark".

"What about the bad news?"

"The military has suffered heavy losses, whether it is the armed forces or the Central Academy of Sciences. During the protection and evacuation of the people by the armed forces, 570 people were killed due to the collapse of the dome, which is the peak in the past 100 years. And the Central Academy of Sciences' Ai Lieutenant General Weir..."

"What happened to Lieutenant General Ewell?"

Everyone looked at Shen Bing extremely nervously.

"He was trapped in the ruins and lost too much blood. If he was dug out even a second later, he would die in the ruins. Now he is paralyzed at a high position and is undergoing nerve connection surgery."

Xiao Yan let out a breath, he knew that countless researchers must have died in the collapsed passage.

"Xiao Yan, you didn't come here to take refuge, but to figure out what you want to do next."

Shen Bing turned around, her eyes were firm and solemn like never before.

"But you've had a tiring day before that, so I wish you sweet dreams, Major."

Shen Bing didn't have extra time to chat with energy or communicate with other research directors, so he turned around and got into work.Xiao Yan once heard Lieutenant General Ewell mention that the No. 24 base is the only base that can search for clues of Valentine Sheen [-] hours a day. In just a few months, this base has completed the transformation from a research base to a military base.All research directors and special forces from the Shire were assigned to their respective rooms.

This was the first time that Xiao Yan enjoyed the privilege. He got a room of his own. Although it was narrow and didn't even have a desk, at least Xiao Yan had his own bed and space.When the sliding door is closed, the whole world is so quiet that only breathing remains.When he curled up facing the wall, someone finally sat down beside him, and the other person's fingers brushed the hair at the back of his head, and just as his fingers left, Xiao Yan grabbed the other person's wrist.

"Did I disturb you?" Hai Yin's cool voice sounded, but Xiao Yan felt that his thoughts had finally landed from the clouds at an altitude of [-] meters.

"What are you bothering me? Are you in a daze?" Xiao Yan turned around, looked up at the other party's lowered eyebrows with a smile, "Actually, there is a question that I have always wanted to ask you. What is the relationship between you and Shen Bing in Lieutenant General Lei Nuoding's brain?" What happened in the movie? What kind of world did he build to kill you?"

"The never-ending maze, whenever I thought I had returned to reality, but in fact I never broke free from his mind. He was in ambush with great patience, interpreting every fragment of my memory, and bringing all the most important moments of my life to life. Part of the truth reappears, and then destroys what I think is the most important thing. I have watched my mother die in different ways countless times, and then struggled countless times to escape from Reynoldin's thinking and fall into another world he constructed. His thinking is too deep, and it always extends suddenly when I am about to escape the troposphere of his thinking, and I can only fall in the end."

"What happened later? How did you take Shen Bing away?"

"I found Shen Bing and told him that unless we die in Reynolding's mind, this person will not let us go."

Xiao Yan clenched his fingers subconsciously.

"But Shen Bing didn't believe it. He thought I was still indulging in hallucinations, and because I doubted everything, I even became Shire's enemy. I tried to leave Shire, because I knew that Shire was the cage that Reynolden bound me. When I After rushing out of Shire, the aircraft driven by Shen Bing was chasing after me. This is the brilliance of Reynolding. Obviously, Shen Bing and I were the hunters sent into his mind to hunt for clues, but he used Shen Bing to deal with me. I shot down Shen Bing's aircraft and opened Shen Bing's safety cabin. Shen Bing still thought that I had betrayed Shire. He pulled out his gun, and his bullet hit my shoulder blade. The pain was so real that I doubted everything. It’s really just caused by my inability to adapt to reality. But I still believe that I’m still in Reynolden’s thinking, there’s no evidence for all of this, the world constructed by Reynolden is perfect, and my judgment is based on intuition.”

Xiao Yan was stunned, he had no idea that Heine would use such a form to get Shen Bing out of Lei Nuoding's thinking.In other words, the damage to Shen Bing's neurons did not actually come from Lei Nuoding, but Heine beheaded his thinking.

"I'm scary, aren't I. If my instincts are wrong, I'm killing my own friends."

"But at least Shen Bing is gone from Lei Nuoding's mind. If he stays there, Lei Nuo Ding will get more information about Shen Bing and pull him into the abyss. After killing Shen Bing, did you commit suicide?"

"No, I decided to try one last time. Is my thinking faster or Reynolding faster. I flew the aircraft at full speed, without a target, just kept flying upwards, desperate, rushed out of the clouds, the engine collapsed, and I Tell myself it's not true, the engine will go on as long as I want to. As I imagined, I never stop flying, Reynolden didn't catch me, so I left his brain."

Xiao Yan pressed his forehead against Heine's chest, and the man beside him suddenly hugged him tightly, so hard that he couldn't continue breathing.

"Xiao Yan, in fact, I often doubt it."

"Do you suspect that you are still in Reynolden's brain?"

"Yes, I suspect that you are the most beautiful bait he constructed for me, trapping me in this world, unable to extricate myself."

"Perhaps this is the only thing that Reynolden can't build. He can create all kinds of me, but he can't create how you feel about me. He doesn't know what I have to do to make you look at me, Only then can you care about me and make you lose all bottom lines."

"So Xiao Yan, when facing Valentine Sheen, you have to be more patient than Reynolden."

Xiao Yan's shoulders trembled, and he whispered, "Do you know that I plan to face Valentine?"

"Because you never escape."

The corners of Xiao Yan's lips curled up, kissing He Yin's chin, and slowly moved to the crack between his lips. The moment his tongue tip slightly penetrated, He Yin pressed against his body suddenly, as if trying to exhaust all the strength in his body. The kiss was so hard that Xiao Yan had to raise his head to bear it, otherwise his jaw would be crushed by the opponent.

At this time, Xiao Yan's communicator popped up a communication prompt.

A playful and lazy voice sounded, waking Xiao Yan up instantly.

"Ha, this is really a rare special effect in a hundred years."

The man on the holographic screen propped his chin and squinted his eyes halfway, with a sultry look under his eyelids, not to mention his excessively fair skin and the mole under the corner of his eye.

"Jane Wallis——" Xiao Yan was still pressed on the bed by Heine, but he barely turned his head to the side and stared at the hologram in front of him with wide eyes.

Heine stood up suddenly and pulled Xiao Yan up.

"How did you connect to my communicator!"

Among all researchers' communicators, Xiao Yan's security level is the highest.

"Of course it's the contact code Gordon gave." Jane showed a tangled and heartbroken expression, and pressed her chest hard, "Xiao Yan, that time you threw me away and left only groups of zombies, you know I What kind of heartache? And now you are with another man, you are the only one in this world who hurt me countless times!"

It's really more boring than the lines in the movie, as expected of Jane's style.

Xiao Yan snorted coldly, raised his eyebrows, "I believe that Major General Gordon gave you my contact code, not to make you talk nonsense, or I can just turn off the communicator."

After knowing the true identities of Jane and Casey, Xiao Yan's feelings towards them became complicated.He knew deep down that Jane Wallis might not be trustworthy, but he was really trying to get relief from Valentine.When the goals are aligned, this man will be the most powerful support.

"Okay, okay! You are becoming more and more impatient, and you are still cuter than before."

At that moment, Jane's eyes met Heine's, and she instantly became cold.Even though the two were not really face to face, Xiao Yan could still feel the killing intent between them.Hai Yin's blue eyes were as cold as frost, and the air was so oppressive that it was difficult to breathe. Xiao Yan hadn't seen Hai Yin like this for a long time.

"I know what you want to say, but we won't be used by you." Heine spoke first.

"Use? One of your brains has an intervention speed of [-] trillion megabytes, and the other is a special soldier who is known as a legend of the special mission force. What can I do?" Jane leaned back in her chair, restraining all the jokes, "I don't want to Nonsense, and no time for nonsense. Valentin Sheehan would particle-bomb the Shire and take Claire, just to force me to show up. I was afraid Claire would be tortured, but she's dead."

"How did she die?" Xiao Yan knew that everyone who followed Jane and left the tide to resist was his family, including Claire.

"She got her legs cut off, put her on a flying machine, pulled out some guy's gun on the way, and blew her head off."

Jane's expression was the same as when Sharon was killed in battle, he was not so sad that he couldn't help himself, all he showed was sadness.

"So, do you want revenge?" Heine looked at Jane with a scrutiny.

"Yes, I want revenge. If I don't shoot again, you should know who Valentine Sheen's next target is. The falling of the Shire's dome is not only a threat to Shire, but also to me. He is Warn me, no matter where Xiao Yan goes, any base, the most elite special task force, he doesn't need to invade, just particle bombs, he can destroy everything."

"It sounds like Valentine Sheen was too eager to make your appearance."

Jane smiled helplessly, and glanced at Xiao Yan, "Use your smart brain to think about why."

"Valentin's so-called 'immortality' is nothing more than replacing decaying organs, but there is one organ in the human body that can never be replaced, and that is the brain. And every time the brain is moved into a new body, it will cause damage to the neurons, Unless Valentine's brain is nearly [-]% connected to the neurons of the new body. However, even if a new individual is cultivated using the exact same DNA, the complexity of the neurons cannot be exactly the same as his. The reason is the same as "all It is difficult to find two identical leaves in the world. And Jane, you are the one closest to his neurons among the many individuals bred by his own DNA."

"Yes, so I plan to use me as a bait to trap Valentine. And you are hunters. Heine Burton, you know very well that only Xiao Yan can match Valentine's thinking speed among all people, you It is impossible to cherish him forever in the palm of your hand like a fragile piece of china. Cooperate or wait for Valentine to come to you, the choice is yours."

After finishing speaking, the communication was interrupted, and it was so neat that Xiao Yan couldn't imagine it.

The sea breeze blew past, and Jane stretched out her hand to cover the sunlight that was almost vertical to the ground. Occasionally, seabirds flew across the sky, and the sound of singing made the world extremely empty.

Kathy came to Jane and sat down, hugging her knees.

"I thought you would talk to Xiao Yan for a long, long time."

"The only common topic between me and him is Valentine Sheen. How long do you think we need to talk?" Jane's lips curled up helplessly, "How is your father?"

"Which father are you referring to? The father who made me, or the genetic father?"

Jane stretched her arms and rubbed the back of Casey's neck, "He almost died."

"Yeah, I almost died." Casey looked up and sighed helplessly, "I haven't had time to ask him, in his mind, am I just a copy of Alex, or at least a little bit special?" meaning."

"You shouldn't have left the Shire with that question."

"Neither should you use yourself as bait to hunt Valentine. Nothing is more valuable than your own life. Should you fail, Valentine will take all of you."

"Cathy, we are different from Xiao Yan and Hai Yin. They know they are from Shire, but we don't know where we come from. It's like floating in the boundless ocean, and we don't expect to find a small island, as long as It is enough to have a reef that is enough to rest for a while. But when we close our eyes and enjoy a moment of peace, we forget that even this reef belongs to the sea... we have nothing."

"We own each other. You are for us. You don't want what happened to Claire to happen to me, Jerry, or any family. And Xiao Yan, you know that as long as Valentine is alive, he will definitely take Xiao Yan brain."

"So this time, we must succeed." Jane narrowed her eyes, staring directly at the sky with cold eyes.

That night, Xiao Yan told Shen Bing and other research supervisors about Jane's invitation.As he expected, most people strongly opposed it. Jane Wallis had already become notorious for betraying Shire, and almost no one believed that he really wanted to cooperate with Shire.They talked a lot, Xiao Yan turned to look at Reitz and Loch who remained silent.

"What do you think?"

"Now it's not what we think, but what do you need us to do for you?" Loch, who had always seldom made a speech, was shocked.

"Major Loch! What are you talking about? Are you going to watch Major Xiao Yan die!"

"That's Valentine Sheen! He can destroy Shire overnight, how many of us are here! How can we deal with him!"

"So, when we thought we were safe and huddled in the Shire, what now? No matter where we go or what kind of life we ​​want to live, we can be easily destroyed by that guy! So, count me in— Tell me what I can do for you!"

Reitz's gaze was very serious. This major, who had been lazy and defaulted on many research projects, had an unshakable look in his eyes. "

"Well, this is an operation that has not been approved by the military at all, so whoever thinks that it is impossible to cooperate with Jane Wallis to trap Valentine Sheen, you can leave this room .”

Xiao Yan looked in Heine's direction, and Wen En who was beside Heine raised his hand and shook, "Oh my God, what are you watching us do! Major General Gordon's order is for us to protect you, so no matter what you want What we do, our job is to protect you, not stop you."

Mark rubbed the back of his head, grinned and said, "Probably because I'm not as smart as the majors and lieutenant colonels of the Central Academy of Sciences, so I don't understand, Valentine has been trying to kill us, why can't we kill us the other way around?" Him? So Xiao Yan, you said you wanted to trap that bastard Valentine, I just think you are a man! I support you!"