from my heart [last days]

The car turned a corner and was about to leave the living area, but the figures of Yu Lei and others had disappeared in the rearview mirror.

Zhou An asked: "Who are those three people? Why did you kidnap Academician Xie?"

"I still want to ask you." Xie Congxin relaxed and leaned on the back of the seat, preemptively questioning, "They pretended to be the third team of the Ministry of State Security and said they would pick me up back to Beijing. Why did they know that the National Academy of Sciences sent you to pick me up? The leak of internal intelligence really came later than the fake one, and it has posed a great threat to my life, is this how your Ministry of State Security handles things?"

Not only did he know that they were the third team, but he even knew that they would come from Sichuan Province. If Yu Lei and the others had been more prepared, he would not be able to judge for a while, and he might have been tied up on the way to Zhengcheng by now.

The car was quiet for a few seconds.

A few seconds later, Pei Ze said, "A meteorite fell in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, Sichuan Province was hit by a magnitude [-] earthquake, and a high-speed landslide occurred. We took a detour."

Xie Congxin squinted at his and Zhou An's expressions. Zhou An lost his smile, and Pei Ze also looked a little heavy. Obviously, these were not the only reasons, so he didn't ask any more questions.

Pei Ze asked, "Are they pretending to be the third team?"

"Yes," Xie Congxin tapped on the glass window with the back of his uninjured finger, "I think the National Academy of Sciences didn't know which team you would send when it entrusted you with the task, so the leaking link should come from within your national security department." .”

Zhou An put a waterproof bandage on his wound, "The key is who wants to kidnap you and why. Assuming it is someone from our national security, if academician Xie is tied up, what good will it do him?"

Xie Congxin said: "Then I have to ask him. You don't know why the National Academy of Sciences took me back?"

Pei Ze: "We are only responsible for escorting Academician Xie back to Beijing, and have not received other instructions."

"An order directly issued by Minister Kun?"

"Yes, Minister Kun ordered directly."

After Zhou An finished bandaging him, Xie Congxin withdrew his hand, rubbed the bandage on his fingertips, combined the information he got from Yu Lei and others with what Pei Ze and others said, and at the same time looked at Zhou An and Pei Ze's faces from the corner of his eye , made a reservation of trust in this team.

"Go back and check yourself," Xie Congxin said, "How did Minister Kun contact you?"

"We received a call in Sichuan Province." Pei Ze took out his mobile phone. "The signal is very unstable, and we can't connect now."

Xie Congxin took the phone and turned it on, but there was no service.

If there is no signal in a heavy city, it may be that the signal base station in the area was damaged in the earthquake and cannot work.But even in Sichuan Province, which is hundreds of kilometers away, there is only one explanation.

Xie Congxin threw the phone back to Pei Ze, "The meteorite may have its own magnetic field, which affects the signal transmission."

At this time, Cheng Yin, who was driving in front, said, "Captain, there is a university supermarket ahead, do you want to go in and replenish supplies?"

After receiving the order, they came from Sichuan Province non-stop, trekking all the way, without stopping for a second, the food in the car had already been exhausted, let alone the capital, it was a question of whether they could persist until they left the city.

Pei Ze turned around, knelt on the seat with one knee, and observed the situation ahead from the gap between the driver's seat and the co-pilot.

There aren't many zombies wandering around, so it's safe, Pei Ze said: "Stop at the three-way intersection, Zhou An protects Academician Xie, guards outside the Yinshang Gate, Peng Peng follows me in to carry things."

Several students hovered at the entrance of the supermarket.

As soon as Cheng Yinshang stopped the car, Pei Ze and Peng He opened the door at the same time. They were blown out of the car like the wind, and the guns were not fired. One knife at a time, and within 30 seconds, the supermarket entrance was swept clean.

The roller shutter door of the supermarket was locked for some reason. Pei Ze took out a piece of iron with a special shape, half-thick and not thin, from his breast pocket, dug through the keyhole twice, and opened the door easily.

"Captain Pei's skills are good," Xie Congxin stood aside and commented, "I won't be unemployed after I retire from the army."

Pei Ze gave him a faint glance with his darker pupils, and Xie Congxin raised his head just in time to notice that there was a very small scar under the corner of Pei Ze's right eye.

Like an old wound, caused by a sharp object, if it is half an inch higher, the eyes may have been useless.

Pei Ze didn't respond to his slightly boring joke, and entered the supermarket one after the other with Peng He holding a saber.

But I don't want to just take a step in, and there will be a gust of wind blowing down my head!

Pei Ze reacted quickly, and immediately dodged sideways. The smelly mop cloth brushed past his shoulders. He turned around, and his arm caught the neck of the person behind him. If he exerted a little more force, he could directly snap the neck bone.

Peng He immediately drew his gun and shouted, "Zombies?!"

"It's not a zombie!" The man shouted loudly, "It's a living person! It's a living person!"

"..."

are the surviving students.

There are more than [-] resident students in Campus B of Chongcheng University, more than half of them left because of the National Day holiday, and half of the remaining thousands left the school that night after the earthquake.

It has been eight days since the meteorite fell, natural infection plus secondary infection, there are not many living people left in the school, at least Xie Congxin didn't see a single one in the teaching area.

But he didn't think there was a one-in-a-thousand chance that he not only saw a living person, but also an acquaintance.

"Academician Xie!" Shen Wen rushed up excitedly and held his hand, "You are still alive!"

Xie Congxin: "..."

To be honest, the last person he wants to see right now is Shen Wen.

What was even more unexpected was that Shen Wen was not the only acquaintance, Xie Yiming was also there, he squeezed up from behind the students, his eyes were shining when he saw Xie Congxin, "Academician Xie! You..."

The hurried steps and slightly opened arms seemed to want to give Xie Congxin a happy reunion hug, but Pei Ze stepped forward and stood between him and Xie Congxin, Xie Yiming had to stop.

Pei Ze's eyes were cold, he lowered his head and asked Xie Congxin, "Know you?"

"I know," Xie Congxin nodded, "Student."

If it wasn't for the wrong occasion, Xie Congxin would probably express his gratitude to Pei Ze and ask him to find a way to stop Shen Wen as well.

However, Captain Pei's vigilance towards women was obviously much lower. She let Shen Wen firmly hold Xie Congxin's hand, happy and surprised, and said with a touch of emotion: "Academician Xie, you are really fine!"

Xie Congxin: "...I'm fine, the National Academy of Sciences sent someone to pick me up."

Shen Wen nodded with tears in her eyes, "I thought you already..."

Thinking that he was infected and turned into a walking dead, Xie Congxin had to interrupt her: "I'm fine. How about you? Why are you here? Why didn't you go to the city?"

If Shen Wen calmed down, or if Pei Ze and the others got to know him better, they would be able to quickly hear the unusualness of this series of questions——

Xie Congxin is not a talkative person, and he hates such occasions the most. Normally, he would not answer Shen Wen a word.

But Shen Wen was excited that Xie Congxin was still alive, so she didn't hear his intention to change the subject on purpose, and replied following his words: "After we separated, I met Xie Yiming outside the playground...it was too chaotic, everyone was going outside the school Squeezed, I can't go to the cafeteria, so I can only follow him to hide here first, and then I met other people."

Including Shen Wen and Xie Yiming, there are a total of fourteen students in the supermarket, four from the School of Biology, seven from the School of Information, and the rest are from the Department of Architecture, five girls and nine boys.

When Xie Yiming and Shen Wen arrived here, four students from the School of Information were already there. They did not go to the playground the night after the earthquake, but stayed on the big lawn between the dormitory buildings in the living area, which was relatively close to the supermarket. close.

According to them, the situation in the living area is also very tragic. Even from the description, the proportion of natural infection is much higher than that in the playground.

There were no aftershocks after the earthquake. Many students relaxed their vigilance and returned to the dormitory building before dawn. Some came out again with computers and money. After the virus broke out, it never came out again.

"The air in the corridor is blocked," Xie Congxin said. "If the first batch of viruses were transmitted through the air, the probability of infection in the corridor will indeed be much higher than outside."

"I still feel like I'm dreaming," Shen Wen whispered, "Xie Yiming and I met our former classmates on the way here..."

Needless to say, since that classmate did not appear here, it means that he is either dead, or he might as well be dead.

Cheng Yinshang parked his jeep in the truck garage at the back door of the supermarket and closed the rolling doors on all sides. After the students learned that Pei Ze and others were soldiers, they were very enthusiastic and took the initiative to bring out water and food for them to eat.

The shelves of the supermarket were removed and formed into a circle with a diameter of more than two meters. The circle was covered with small foam floor mats. Water and food were piled in the center. Everyone sat on the ground. The students took out electric kettles to boil water. Cook instant noodles for them.

After traveling all the way, he ate all the compressed dry food. Peng He carried the braised beef noodles with two sticks of ham and a marinated egg and burst into tears.

Xie Congxin has never been sensitive to junk food, but in extraordinary times, he is very resourceful. He even ate beef jerky for a week, and his gums were on fire. Now that he can have instant noodles, he is not picky, so he ordered a bowl of lighter seafood noodles.

He sat next to Shen Wen, and Shen Wen moved closer to him, and asked in a voice that no one else could hear: "Academician Xie, how is your injury?"

She was quite smart, now that she thought about it, she knew to ask him privately, Xie Congxin said: "It's okay, the wound is not deep, it has already been covered."

Shen Wen misunderstood what he meant and thought it was because the wound was shallow so there was no infection. She immediately breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "That's great, we're really seeing each other again."

Xie Congxin rolled the noodles with a plastic fork in a slow manner. The instant noodles tasted a bit cold and gorgeous when he ate them, and Peng He's piercing sound of sucking the noodles set off an inexplicable but not abrupt elegance, "This matter Don't mention it to others, lest they think too much."

Shen Wen paused, "When I met Xie Yiming, he asked about you, and I told him..."

Xie Congxin looked up at Xie Yiming who was whispering something to the students, and Shen Wen apologized, "I'm sorry."

"It's okay." Xie Congxin took a sip of the soup with a strong flavor, "Don't tell Pei Ze and them."

He cut the wound with glass, but Zhou An, as the team doctor, didn't see it. As long as Shen Wen and Xie Yiming didn't tell, no one would know that he was bitten but not infected.

This matter must be kept secret before returning to the capital. He doesn't trust anyone except Su Shiqing.