16 years

Liu Ruosong got a verbal agreement from Zhao Jincheng, and many things were much easier to handle.

The information collection and distribution efficiency of the General Headquarters of the A Military Region was far faster than Liu Ruosong had imagined. He hung up the phone, and in less than 5 minutes, the eyes of other guards looking at him had changed.

If Liu Ruosong had to describe it, it would probably be the difference between looking at "rescue targets" and looking at "superior leaders".

Liu Ruosong pretended not to notice the subtle change in their attitudes. He fiddled with the communicator in his hand for a while, synchronized the communication information to his personal mobile phone, and then returned the things to the guard in front of the VIP hall.

"Thank you." Liu Ruosong said.

The other party was startled, quickly took the things with both hands, and kept saying no.

The sentry probably didn't expect that within ten minutes, the young man in front of him would change from "people who need to ensure safety" to "mysterious person who cooperates with work when necessary". Several glances.

"Well, do you need... help?" the sentry asked hesitantly.

"No need." Liu Ruosong smiled at him politely, and said, "Just take care of Shao Xuefan."

"Aren't you going to see it yourself?" asked the other party.

"No." Liu Ruosong whispered, "I'm afraid I can't help but make mistakes."

He couldn't be in the same room with Shao Xuefan, as long as he looked at each other more, there would always be an urge to kill him quickly.

Liu Ruosong spent so many days and nights of tossing and turning in nightmares in his previous life, now it is hard to believe in his self-control ability, he is afraid that one time he will not be able to convince himself that he will really kill Shao Xuefan with one shot.

"I'll go downstairs first." Liu Ruosong said, "I'll trouble everyone upstairs."

Where the sentry dared to stop him, of course he quickly agreed.

Liu Ruosong smashed the metal USB drive into the inner pocket of his chest, turned his head and walked downstairs.

In the previous few times, he hardly stayed here, most of the time he stayed in the VIP room upstairs, and he didn't dare to leave Shao Xuefan for half a step.

When Liu Ruosong recalled it now, he felt that his protection of Shao Xuefan in his previous life was like a joke.

At that time, he regarded the other party as a life-saving straw. He was afraid of bumping into each other, and he protected him very well along the way, wishing to put all his attention on the other party.

However, who would have thought that after a few years, this kind of concern would become the source of Liu Ruosong's pain - he thought countless times that all the suffering Fu Yan suffered in his previous life was actually because of him.

He rescued Shao Xuefan, protected Shao Xuefan, and gave the other party a way to gain power.

It was I who harmed him, Liu Ruosong thought countless times: I did not choose more carefully.

This kind of thinking has almost become Liu Ruosong's conditioned reflex—as long as this kind of thought pops up in his mind, it means that he will fall into entangled pain and self-blame for a long time to come, and the cycle goes on and on. relief.

Liu Ruosong paused when she went downstairs, and leaned against the handrail next to her as if she lost her strength.

It's over, it's over, Liu Ruosong tried to convince himself: Brother Fu is fine now, he's still alive, but he's not with him, he just walked back to Yancheng by another way.

It's just that this kind of self-comfort failed to convince himself, and Liu Ruosong became even more anxious.

Again and again, he always felt that he might be forced out of some kind of persecution paranoia by the restart. When Fu Yan was not by his side, he would always be overly sensitive.

In addition, the scene where he had just "restarted" and sent Fu Yanjin to the incinerator with his own hands was only 10 minutes ago. As soon as Liu Ruosong closed his eyes, he felt cold sweat all over his body, and his eyes felt dizzy.

He leaned on the armrest for a while, but unfortunately it didn't work. After hesitating for a moment, he took out his phone from his pocket.

In the early days of the end of the world, there were no problems with base stations in various places, and calls and text messages could still be connected.Liu Ruosong's fingertips lingered on Fu Yan's name for a while, and finally clicked on his text message box.

At first, a text message stayed in Fu Yan's direction, it was a concise "safety", immediately below the secret code they agreed on last time.

Liu Ruosong thought about it, and sent him another one.

【02:07】

Three minutes later, Fu Yan sent back a message with a simple question mark.

He hasn't come back yet, Liu Ruosong thought.

This innocuous text message didn't make Liu Ruosong feel better. He bit his lip and hesitated for a while, lingering with his fingertips on Fu Yan's business card, and finally tapped it lightly.

Just this time, Liu Ruosong thought, I know this is not a time for love, but I will only disturb him once.

Fu Yan's call was connected quickly, and the moment his voice came from the opposite side of the receiver, Liu Ruosong's legs gave way and he almost knelt on the stairs.

"Ruosong?" Fu Yan said, "What's wrong?"

"...It's okay." Liu Ruosong leaned on the handrail and walked down a few steps, then sat down on the jogging platform in the middle of the stairs.

This is a remote corner, there is no one up and down, Liu Ruosong leans against the glass railing, a little bit like crying.

Probably because his tone was too low, Fu Yan on the other side of the phone was keenly aware of something, and he didn't speak anymore. After a while, there was a slight sound of brakes on the other side of the phone, and immediately after the car door was closed, the surrounding noise suddenly became louder .

Liu Ruosong was taken aback, and wanted to ask him what's the matter, when he heard Fu Yan open a door with the welcome voice of "Welcome".

"I just entered a hardware store on the side of the street." Fu Yan said, "The place is safe, don't worry. What happened, tell me, don't be afraid-what does that string of numbers mean?"

"It's all right, I accidentally pressed the wrong button and synchronized the notepad time." Liu Ruosong forced a smile, but he also felt that the smile was too perfunctory, so he lowered his head and rubbed the tiles at his feet with his fingertips Gap: "Actually—I just regret it. I shouldn't have let you go back by yourself. You should have been waiting for the evacuation at the high-speed rail station with me."

Fu Yan didn't become suspicious, just thought he was frightened, and quickly said: "It's okay, didn't I tell you, I'm going to the Shencheng Research Institute on the way to get a small equipment there, so I can't Evacuate with you."

Fu Yan paused for a while, maybe he also found that this dry rhetoric was not enough to comfort Liu Ruosong, so he hurriedly added a few words: "Don't worry, I have experience in dealing with emergencies, so I guarantee that nothing will happen."

Liu Ruosong grazed across the cracks of the bricks with his fingers, and hummed softly.

He knew that according to the timeline, the current Fu Yanbie said it was the third time, and he hadn't even experienced the second restart. He only had the memory of the first time in his mind, and his experience in dealing with zombies was still "experienced". Degree.

For a moment, Liu Ruosong wanted to tell Fu Yan everything - including what happened the second time, and what happened the third time.

But Liu Ruosong didn't dare.

Just like the last time he didn't dare to show his cards to Fu Yan in advance, he didn't know what the consequences would be if he broke the "rules" hastily, and he didn't know whether this would make Fu Yan, the "third time", never come back.

The last time was okay, but this time, Liu Ruosong finally truly experienced Fu Yan's feelings when he restarted for the first time—the kind of anguish and pain that could not be explained by his relatives, just like a heavy boulder, It weighed heavily and darkly on his heart.

Liu Ruosong felt distressed just thinking about it, and wondered how Fu Yan accepted this matter so freely.

"Understood." Liu Ruosong knew that it was time to hang up the phone at this time, but he couldn't convince himself at all, he hesitated for a moment, and asked, "... how long will it take you to go back?"

After Liu Ruosong said this, he wanted to frown.But Fu Yan didn't feel that he was torturing people. Instead, he calculated seriously and said, "About four days... Six days at the latest. If there are other situations in between, I will find a way to tell you."

The exact time finally gave Liu Ruosong some comfort, giving him hope in the endless waiting.He hummed again, and his heartbeat gradually returned to normal.

"It's okay." Liu Ruosong said, "Brother, you have to take care of yourself."

"I know." Fu Yan said, "Call me if you're afraid. I'll try my best to ensure that I don't turn off my phone along the way."

"Okay." Liu Ruosong said.

Fu Yan is obviously Liu Ruosong's good medicine - no matter what the situation is, as long as the other party is good, Liu Ruosong can still be the normal person before.

Liu Ruosong stared at the darkened screen. After a long time, he felt the temperature of his limbs gradually warming up, so he stood up, stretched his arms and legs, and walked downstairs.

The evacuation point had begun to close, and a large number of people poured into the waiting hall. Among the crowds, Liu Ruosong's ears were filled with noisy voices with different accents.

Some were crying, some were cursing, some were in a panic contacting their families, and some were terrified and angrily destroying everything that could be destroyed.

Liu Ruosong passed through the crowd indifferently. He had already experienced too much, and he was already numb to this kind of disaster.

He wanted to go to the other side of the waiting hall to get a drink of water, but halfway there, he suddenly heard a burst of sharp curses erupting from the crowd not far away.

The person who cursed was a man with a sharp tone, speaking with a local accent of S city, scolding was ugly.

Liu Ruosong listened, and found that the other party was scolding a young man who "would like to die but would harm others".

Liu Ruosong vaguely remembered that the same thing happened during the first restart. A young man was found with a wound on his body, and he was kicked out from the evacuation point indiscriminately.

Liu Ruosong frowned slightly, his first reaction was that he didn't want to deal with this matter - the law does not blame the crowd, it would be difficult for him to contend with a group of sensitive crowd by himself, maybe he would even get involved.

But then, he remembered the puddle of blood on the ground at that time, and felt that he couldn't move any further.

He thought about it for two seconds, and finally turned around with lowered eyes and walked towards the direction of the noisy crowd.

There was already a circle of people around the place, and when Liu Ruosong approached, the people's emotions were already quite agitated, and they almost made a move.

A bottle of boiling water was sprinkled on the artificially vacated area. Two young men of similar ages fell to the ground. One of the young men was pale with his sleeves rolled up. On his arm was a dog that hadn't fully healed. The bite marks were exposed, and because of the pulling, a little blood oozes out.

Another younger boy put his arms around him and was eagerly explaining to the people around him, but unfortunately no one believed him.

Liu Ruosong stood in the crowd and looked at the two of them, his eyes inadvertently fell on the young man's left hand - there was a delicate silver ring with a very special shape.

Liu Ruosong glanced at him, and then his pupils shrank suddenly, as if enlightened, he suddenly remembered something.

——He has seen this person before, Liu Ruosong thought.

Liu Ruosong was like being struck by electricity, his whole body was shocked suddenly, and he fixed his eyes on the young man's face.

In the first restart, Liu Ruosong had met each other.He fell into the tide of zombies and was devoured until only one left hand remained.

At that time, Liu Ruosong didn't have such a keen sense of the zombie virus, but now he finally remembered a detail that he had overlooked.

The zombie virus only infects and spreads, and does not feed on human beings. If you bite someone, you will stop talking—but the other party is gnawed clean by the zombies, with bones covered in bones.

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Do you still remember the foreshadowing of youth? Not long after the opening of the first restart, the chapter "Falling" XD