32 days

How would you describe the waiting period?

It is the disintegration of the lying down body and turning into a floating dust. It is the overpowering of the spirit, in the dark, to feel the color of the universe with thinking.It is to fantasize about a flower sprouting, branching, and spreading its leaves deep in the ground. The rain of fear beats it, and the gentle wind of hope comforts it. The blue buds are dyed with moving emotions and become colorful. bloom...

The turbulent heat wave swept over, and finally heard the roar of the explosion.The endless, trembling voice that directly hits the soul is like standing in the distant present, looking back at the explosion when the universe was born.

After a long time, the tinnitus that seemed to come from the distant stars gradually faded away. Yi Alan felt that his body was heavy, as if he was covered by something heavy. There was complete darkness in front of his eyes, and the lighting on the hood had been damaged. Yes, I can clearly feel the heat, but the breathing is smooth, and the inhaled air has no obvious peculiar smell, which shows that the breathing filter device of the explosion-proof suit is still intact.

Yi Alan continued to wait, maintaining a steady breathing, trying to consume as little oxygen as possible.After the missile explodes, there will be high temperature and flames for a period of time. The flames should be well controlled. After all, the center of the explosion is underground, there is not enough burning material, and there are not many flammable objects on the edge of the building. Even if there is a small fire, it will not be rapid. Spread out.Now it just needs to wait for the high temperature to cool down, until it is cold enough that the explosion-proof suit can withstand it, and then it can act.

It should be almost there.Yi Alan felt that the temperature under the explosion-proof suit was no longer so unbearable, so he moved his body and limbs with difficulty, grabbed the objects in front of him with both hands, and could feel the rolling stones.The fingers of the exoskeleton caught something big, and Yi Alan pushed hard to the side, pushing away what might be a solid wooden table. Although some dust and stones immediately fell and filled the space just now, it still Make him feel much more relaxed.

Yi Alan extravagantly took a deep breath, then continued to slow down his breathing rhythm, and crawled forward. The exoskeleton helped him a lot. The arms and bones with strong weight and grip can forcefully push away the mixed blockage in front of him. The bones of the legs gave him a part of the thrust, allowing him to crawl away from the heavy buried objects, and the bones of the spine protected his torso so that he would not be crushed by the pressure from above.

The higher the temperature was, the hot sweat on Yi Alan's face rolled down, evaporated, and condensed inside the mask, making his whole body wet, but fortunately, he was still within the tolerance range, and that It also means that he is getting closer and closer to his goal.Yi Alan didn't know how long it would take for him to climb to the end, it became difficult to breathe, and his oxygen was almost exhausted.If Joker's calculations are wrong, then he will not be able to climb out before the oxygen is exhausted, and he will suffocate here.

It was just an overly hot summer, and Yi Alan's eyes were so soaked in sweat that she couldn't open her eyes, and she comforted herself in her heart that it was nothing more than that.Climb out quickly, maybe lie comfortably in the air-conditioned room, drink a glass of ice soda, and then tell Zhou Yanan who is sitting opposite him about his fantasy adventures.

The front is blocked, and the exoskeleton cannot be pushed away, and neither the left nor the right can bypass it.On the contrary, Yi Alan felt ecstatic. This thing should be a large wall, indicating that he finally reached the edge.Yi Alan climbed up the wall and continued along the rough surface.

All of a sudden, the right hand suddenly pushed through the void, as if breaking through some kind of enchantment.The left hand is also stuck out, there is nothing there, only free and hot air.Yi Alan was overjoyed, and summoned all his strength to crawl forward, and got out of the curtain-like darkness. The light was swaying freely. Yi Alan could hardly bear such irradiation, so he quickly closed his eyes, and at the same time, tried his best to stick out his upper body, and filter the breathing system into the air. Let it out, breathing in the air that still smells of gunpowder smoke.

After a while, Yi Alan slowly opened his eyes.What appeared in front of him was a charred black pit with a maximum diameter of 60 meters and a depth of nearly 20 meters, with pinches of flames burning dottedly, like a huge carved bowl facing the sky.And now he is at the bottom of the edge of the giant bowl. Turning over, he can see the cloudless blue sky. Although he can only see part of it, Yi Alan knows that the sky is endless and vast. of.

"I came out..." Yi Alan murmured, and suddenly burst into tears, he came out alive.He was not trapped in the refuge room, was not crushed to death, suffocated to death, or died of heat, and returned to this vast world with few human beings.

"Thank you, Joker." Yi Alan said, wondering if Joker could see his successful escape through the satellite.Let the tears evaporate in the high temperature of the hot afternoon, and then sniff his nose to restore his mood. Yi Alan inserted the fingers of the exoskeleton into the wall of the pit, pulled his body out of the building completely, and then climbed like a rock. Same, climb up along the pit wall.The fingers of the exoskeleton are as hard and sharp as climbing nails, which can be deeply inserted into the pit wall. The feet are more stable than rock climbing shoes. When you step on the point of strength, you can use your strength to climb up with a little tiptoe.

Like the most seasoned rock climbing expert, Yi Alan quickly climbed up from the pit.He rolled onto the flat ground, collapsed on the ground, slowly unfastened the exoskeleton, took off the explosion-proof suit, and basked in the sun and warm wind with ease, with an expression as comfortable as sleeping on the most suitable piece of soft cloth for camping. on the grass.Obviously next to it is the base ground building that has been destroyed beyond recognition. Large blocks of rocks are dumped and stacked on top of each other. Flames and smoke are still spraying out along the gaps. A spear and a sword.

Yi Alan closed her eyes, feeling exhausted, as if it only took a few seconds to fall into a dream.

In addition to the sticky drowsiness, what came from the dive was the roar of fighter jets.

Yi Alan opened his eyes suddenly again. In the blue sky background from his supine perspective, the smooth and compact Swift 10 flew across his world, as if completing a separation and reunion with his open arms. Empty hugs.

Half of the airport was also destroyed, but Zhou Yanan still parked the fighter jets accurately and left enough redundant runway for takeoff again.His current fighter piloting skills are already comparable to professional pilots.

Yi Alan tried to sit up, watching the vivid and real Zhou Yanan running towards him, his face was not as calm as before, but full of anxiety and worry.Yi Alan thought, everything is worth it.Then, he plunged back and passed out.

When Yi Alan woke up, he found that all his fantasies in the ground had come true: covered with a soft blanket, sleeping in a room with air conditioning and a comfortable temperature, turning his head, he could see pure water and some canned fruits , beef jerky, biscuits and other foods.

"Are you hungry? Have something to eat?" Zhou Yanan sat on the other side of him.

Yi Alan asked: "Where is this?"

"An air defense shelter in Zhongxi City." Zhou Yan'an answered him, "I'm afraid there will be attacks from the base, so even if you faint, I have to take you for a long journey away from there. Fighter planes are also obvious targets in the air. , after landing at the nearest Zhongxi Airport, I drove you here to rest. How do you feel now?"

"It feels pretty good." Yi Alan sat up from the bed, feeling really hungry, and took canned yellow peaches to replenish the sugar, and then he noticed that he had changed into brand new clothes, panicked for a moment, choked a few mouthfuls, "My clothes..."

Zhou Yan'an said, "You're soaked through."

"It's hot." Yi Alan said shyly, lowered her head and took a bite of the big yellow peach to hide her embarrassment.He felt that his body was very fresh and clean now, not like the dirty and uncomfortable state of being sweated and dried up. He realized a possibility, and his temples jumped up suddenly, "Would you still Help me take a shower..."

Zhou Yan'an looked at him calmly: "Yes." He pointed to the bathroom in the corner of the room.

"The facilities of this refuge are really complete." Yi Alan smiled dryly, feeling the heat in his ears, and turned his head quickly to the side facing the food, pretending to be very hungry, and ate a lot of food.

It wasn't until Yi Alan was so full that he couldn't eat anymore that Zhou Yan'an asked, "What happened?"

He didn't ask Yi Alan when he just woke up, because he was worried that Yi Alan would be emotional.He can always take care of other people's emotions, Yi Alan thought so, and briefly talked about the very low frequency radio message received from Joker when he was trapped underground, and his subsequent escape plan.

After Zhou Yan'an finished listening, she was silent for a moment, and said in a low tone, "You are messing around."

It seemed that Zhou Yan'an could feel angry, and Yi Alan couldn't help beating her heart, so she tried to say it in a relaxed tone: "I didn't escape well, and it wasn't very dangerous..."

The next words were frightened by Zhou Yan'an's eyes, and she choked up in her throat, not daring to raise her head.

In fact, Zhou Yan'an's eyes were not scary, and he couldn't even see the obvious rebuke and dissatisfaction.He just stared at Yi Alan very seriously, his deep black eyes were like black icebergs on the sea, smooth, clear and deep, but just like the icebergs’ invisibility, it was the invisible things that made Yi Alan feel Pressure, heart beating wildly.

Yi Alan had difficulty breathing, thinking about it, she was about to cry: "I just don't want to...don't want to stay in that kind of place. Do you know? There are rooms after rooms, but I am the only one, and the top of my head is 100 meters thick. Concrete is an insulation that even satellite signals cannot penetrate..."

Zhou Yanan felt distressed, gently embraced Yi Alan, and patted him on the back comfortingly: "Sorry, I have no position to question your decision. It was because of me that you were involved, otherwise you wouldn't have It is because I have no ability to protect you when you encounter such horrible things as missiles. But no matter what, I just hope that you can live well, and no matter what happens, you must put your life safety first."

After a pause, Zhou Yan'an said carefully, "Actually, if you stay in the refuge room at the base, it won't be harmless, and then you won't have to continue to participate in these things that shouldn't be your responsibility."

Yi Alan didn't understand what he meant: "Do you think it's a burden to take me with you?"

"I'm not," Zhou Yan'an sighed softly, and then asked in a rarely hesitant tone: "Do you want to..."

Yi Alan waited for Zhou Yan'an's words, but he did not continue.

Zhou Yan'an sighed again, and told Yi Alan to lie back on the bed: "You can rest and rest, you won't perform the task today, we'll see the situation tomorrow."

这一次他们要在32日里待上11月31日、11月32日两天，这让周燕安感到为难，显然不能再按照原计划进行了。

Yi Alan kept forgetting the time: "What time is it?"

Zhou Yanan said: "It's six o'clock in the afternoon. Don't move around here. I'll go out and look for fresh food. Meat is hard to preserve, but vegetables are not hard to find. Speaking of which, we didn't have a few serious meals on the 32nd." Meals, especially after starting the task, basically have been eating fast food, although it is not lacking in nutrition, but the taste is not good after all, I just have time tonight..."

He said as he walked out.

Yi Alan turned to look at him: "Will it be dangerous?"

"Probably not." Zhou Yanan closed the door.

In an instant, the silence fell again. Yi Alan was lying on the bed, staring blankly at the ceiling. Suddenly, at a certain moment, the emotional gate went out of control without warning, and tears flowed down uncontrollably, as if to make all the grievances, frights, panics, Despair is vented.

Doesn't he know the danger?Isn't he afraid?In the few minutes waiting for the missile to explode, he actually slept with death; as he climbed the short but extremely long distance, he thought countless times that he might never be able to climb again and found the wrong place. The direction, the weight will collapse on him, the oxygen will be exhausted, he will be buried alive, or Joker made a mistake and lied to him.

All of what he did, the extreme fear he endured, and the shocking gamble that put his life on the line, were all for that reason that he couldn't tell.

Doesn't Zhou Yan'an know?Yi Alan thought angrily, Zhou Yan'an really couldn't understand what he said before the satellite communication was interrupted?Now that such a smart Zhou Yan'an doesn't know how much Yi Alan climbed out of the ghost gate because of him?But he never mentioned it, and acted so innocently, as if he knew nothing.He just turned over that page like this, pretending that it never happened, even helping himself to take a bath and change clothes, he was so open-minded and without any grudges.

Yi Alan couldn't tell whether she was crying for her narrow escape, or for Zhou Yan'an's escape.

However, after crying, Yi Alan felt that what he did just now was too outrageous and embarrassing. What is he sad about?What do you expect?Do you expect Zhou Yan'an to respond to his feelings?

So greedy.