abyss rose

Facing Chai Yuening's dislike, Youlan snorted lightly: "Even if I am mutated, I will never forget to collect debts from you."

As she spoke, she lay back on the bed again, sighing with emotion: "My poor days are coming to an end..."

In the end, there was a long silence.

The small room was quiet again.

The laughter just now seemed to be just a momentary illusion.

Chai Yuening didn't know how she fell asleep, but she didn't sleep peacefully all night.

The strange nightmare made her wake up from sleep, and she opened her eyes several times, accompanied by an unexplained trance.

It wasn't until the city's morning broadcast sounded like every morning in the past that she really settled down and fell asleep on the cold hard floor.

But this sleep, after all, did not sleep for too long.

When she woke up again, Chai Yuening walked lightly outside the house, turned on the overhead light in the living room, glanced at her pocket watch, and found that the time was only 08:30 in the morning.

She stood at the door and stretched, and quietly opened the door to go out.

Just when he was about to turn around and close the door, he found Chu Ci standing at the door of the bedroom at some point, his long silver hair was a little messy, and a pair of eyes that were obviously not awake were looking at her mistyly.

"I'm going to do some shopping." Chai Yuening asked softly, "Do you want to go together?"

Chu Ci nodded, and followed up lightly.

The flamboyant military armored vehicle drove towards the trading market in the Ninth District.

Chai Yuening has no money on her body, but she has things in the car that can be exchanged for some money. Although she will probably lose [-]% if she buys it, she needs to buy some household items for Youlan before leaving the Ninth District.

Youlan helped her a lot, she couldn't let Youlan not even get a decent place to live.

Chai Yuening picked some things that were relatively easy to sell in the trading market, and asked door to door, and finally got enough money to buy some pots and pans, bed sheets and bedding for daily use.

Just as she and Chu Ci were dragging two big bags alone, and were rushing to the car with great difficulty, a familiar voice came from behind her, which made her ecstatic.

"Captain!" Lu Qifei rushed over, excited and incoherent, "Captain, you are fine! We have been unable to contact you, and we are worried that something happened to you... Great, you and Chu Ci, you are all fine! "

"You are here, where are Liandong and Lao Xiang?" Chai Yuening asked quickly, "Are you all alright?"

"It's okay, we're all fine!" Lu Qi said, "After the accident in the tenth district, we moved here with the military, and no one was injured!"

Chai Yuening's heart has been hanging for several days, and at this moment she finally got a little relaxation.

"Great, great..." When she reached this point, she couldn't help asking, "Where's Du Xia?"

This time, however, only silence responded to her.

After a short silence, Lu Qi shook his head: "There is no news..."

District [-] was the first urban area to fall, and everything happened most suddenly. The people there didn't even have time to evacuate elsewhere, and the surrounding urban areas also fell one after another.

Chai Yuening took a deep breath and said with a smile: "She will be fine... Where do you all live now? I want to see Liandong and Lao Xiang."

Lu Qi: "We live in H9!"

Chai Yuening couldn't help being taken aback: "We are at H12."

After a brief silence, both of them sighed and smiled.

None of them could have imagined that everyone who had been separated for several days could live so close.

After discussion, Chai Yuening decided to move to H9, and temporarily lived with Lonicera for the past two days.

Now there are only Districts [-] and [-] in the outer city that have not been occupied, and it is unknown which of the occupied urban areas have raised the wall. In this case, if you want to drive to District [-] for search and rescue, you need to explore the route repeatedly. It is inferior to entering the level [-] risk area on the ground.

In the past few days, Chai Yuening has seen too many deaths, and she can no longer take her teammates to take risks, but she can't tolerate not doing anything.

She thought that she should get in touch with the military in the main city and make a contribution as much as possible to recover the fallen city.

But before that, she had to settle down with Youlan.

Soon, with the help of Lao Xiang and Lu Qi, all the newly purchased daily necessities in the car were carried upstairs.

The moment the door opened, Youlan ran out of the bedroom with red eyes.

She leaned against the door of the bedroom, looking at the familiar faces outside the house, disregarding the slightest image of the past, and cried out with a "wow".

Facing the sudden cry, Lao Xiang and Lu Qi moved all the things in their hands into the door in a daze, and the back door stood on the left and right at the door like gods, and started the confrontation mode.

Chai Yuening: "Are you having a convulsion?"

"When I woke up, you all disappeared. I thought I was left behind by you..." Youlan said, picking up the wet handkerchief in his hand, and wiped away tears, "I have nothing now. , you really abandoned me, how can I live."

"You have hands and feet, and you can speak well. Unless a strange beast comes, you really won't die." Chai Yuening said, pointing to the daily necessities on the ground, "I went shopping, so I can't let you sleep on the bed tonight, right?"

"Captain Chai!" Youlan opened his arms and trot forward two steps, as if he wanted to give Chai Yuening a big hug, but from the corner of his eyes, he noticed a flash of displeasure in Chu Ci's eyes, and said halfway like a butterfly retracting its wings Stopped the car.

She sniffed, stretched out her hand as if nothing had happened, opened one of the big black bags, took a look, and muttered softly, "What did you buy..."

Before the words finished, Chai Yuening handed over a stack of tickets wrapped in plastic bags.

Youlan: "This is..."

Chai Yuening: "You live here first, and you can buy what you need. The money is not too much, but if you use it compactly, it should be enough for you for a while."

Youlan: "You, you... still want to go?"

Chai Yuening: "The base is like this, we mercenaries who are used to going through life and death, can't we just do nothing?"

Youlan was silent for a moment, didn't say anything more, just stepped back and quietly watched Chai Yuening beckoning everyone to help put the purchased things in the house.

After a lot of tossing, the empty little house finally looked like home.

Old Xiang: "Boss You, see you later."

Lu Qi: "Let's go."

"See you later." Youlan smiled and waved to everyone.

Chu Ci put the room card in the palm of Youlan's hand, and then went downstairs with everyone.

Counting from the day when all the chaos started, the team members had been separated for less than five days. When everyone sat together again, each of them stared at each other with big eyes, and everyone seemed to have the four characters "like a world away" written on their faces. .

The extremely light vegetarian hot pot was the first meal everyone ate together after the reunion, and everyone was very satisfied.

The moment Chai Yuening put down the bowl and chopsticks, she let out a long and heavy sigh.

Her eyes swept over everyone one by one, and then she asked seemingly casually, "Do you have any plans for the future?"

Silence, in the silence, Chu Ci looked at Chai Yuening seriously, and the other three looked at me and I looked at you, and no one said a word for a long time.

Chai Yuening looked at Lao Xiang.

Lao Xiang scratched his head: "I can do anything, go anywhere, do anything."

Lu Qi raised his hand: "Didn't Boss You give us a nice car? Let's drive to find Du Xia?"

Liandong: "If you want to die."

Lu Qi: "... Then, why wait like this?"

"First of all, the car was borrowed from us, and if it is damaged, we will have to pay for it." Chai Yuening said, "Secondly, it is impossible for us to pass through the urban area where the separation wall is raised. Without a clear route, we have to keep trial and error in the dangerous zone. ...The base should have disclosed how high the mutation rate of being injured by those strange beasts is, right?"

"The military and the security station shot many people at the gate of the city." Lonicera whispered, unconsciously stroking the armrest of the wheelchair with her fingertips.

"Let's find the military to cooperate." Chai Yuening said, looking up at Lu Qi, "The main city's military."

Lu Qi: "..."

Chai Yuening said in a deep voice: "If the communicator is still there, call your brother-in-law."

Lu Qi: "..."

After a while of silence, Lu Qi took off the communicator from his waist and threw it to Chai Yuening: "I won't talk to him."

"Let's talk." Chai Yuening said, just when she lowered her head, she saw two unanswered messages from "..".

Chai Yuening clicked on the message, and a not-so-familiar voice came from the communicator.

"Lu Qi, have you left the sixth district? If you are still alive, no matter which district you are in, immediately contact the city defense center and ask them to send you back to the main city!"

"Lu Qi! Please reply!"

Lao Xiang glanced at Lu Qi: "It's really worrying."

Lu Qi rolled his eyes: "Am I going to die or am I going to be taken care of by him?"

Chai Yuening stood up, walked to the corner of the room, and responded to the unnamed channel: "Major General Xue, Lu Qi is fine. I am Chai Yuening, the captain of the No.13 mercenary team. Fight for the base and hope to get instructions from the military if need be."

After the electric frequency was sent out, there was a period of silent waiting.

Not long after, a new message came.

Xue Zhou: "The base needs everyone who has combat experience with alien beasts. Captain Chai, it is an honor for the military to have your assistance."

Chai Yuening: "We are temporarily staying in District [-], can we do something for the base?"

Xue Zhou: "Please move the whole team to the main city within three days."

The major general's voice was as calm as in memory.

But for some reason, Chai Yuening always felt that these seemingly calm instructions contained indescribable depression.

For a moment, she had a bad premonition in her heart.

She unconsciously lowered her voice and said seriously, "Please tell me the reason!"

Silence seemed to sweep over her at that moment.

Every pair of eyes behind her was silently staring at the direction she was standing in.

After ten seconds of silence, there was finally another echo from the other end of the communicator.

Xue Zhou: "Up to three days, all troops will withdraw from the outer city and retreat to the main city."

Chai Yuening's voice couldn't help trembling: "What about District [-] and District [-]?"

Xue Zhou: "The base will use appropriate reasons to transfer high-quality population to the main city without causing panic among the masses."

——Even if all the outer cities fell, the main city would definitely be able to withstand the attacks of alien beasts.

——But, how many people can the main city accommodate?Under the limited number of places, which part of the people will be abandoned?

Youlan's voice seemed to echo in Chai Yuening's ears.

She opened her mouth in a daze, but found that she couldn't speak at all.

On the other end of the communicator, the major general's voice was calm and exhausted.

"All of this happened too suddenly, and the military suffered heavy losses, making it impossible to regain the outer city."

"Luckily among misfortunes, each outer city has a self-destruct system set up at the beginning of its establishment, and the activation switch is in the main city."

"Captain Chai, the base is prepared for the worst, unless..."

"Unless what?"

"Unless... the base can recover the ground signal tower and seek support from the floating city."

In the dead silence, Chu Ci lowered his eyelashes, quietly looking at his toes, and his thoughts drifted into the distance.

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The author has something to say:

Hope this is not coming.

Let me, Kangkang, who is so cute still call little Hei Teng Zhu Ci, no, it’s not good, I have to change it, Chu [chǔ] Ci.