abyss rose

From the moment she returned to the base, Chai Yuening had been by Chu Ci's side all the time, running around to go through the identity procedures for her and send her back to her residence.

After finishing everything and getting on the train back to the sixth district, she realized that she didn't have time to eat all day.

When the train arrives at the station, the electronic watch at the station shows the current time, 22:31.

为了节能，基地会在每天晚上23:30到第二天早上5:30之间，断掉十个外城区的居民用电，因此街边大店小店多会在10:30左右关门。

For the time being, the bright street remains, and there is no food to buy.

Of course, even if there is still, she doesn't have a penny on her.

Chai Yuening quickened her pace, wanting to go home before the power went out and cook something to fill her stomach.

As we walked, the small speakers that could be seen everywhere on the ceiling by the side of the road, as usual, played a bedtime broadcast that Chai Yuening was about to memorize.

"It is 23 o'clock at night, and there is still half an hour before the power is turned off. Please arrange the power consumption time reasonably."

"Early to bed and early to rise is good for your health."

"May you tonight embrace sweet dreams."

With the end of the gentle female voice, a soothing piano sounded.

Chai Yuening finally returned to the downstairs of her house.

She took out the room card in the elevator in advance, and was estimating that it would save time to go home and eat at this time, when she saw a pink thermos in a plastic bag at the door of the house.

Chai Yuening opened the door, leaned over to pick up the bag, and caught sight of a small piece of letter paper.

"Sister Yuening, Du Xia gave me the watch, thank you for taking it back for me. In the thermos is my stewed vegetable and mushroom soup, with some ham that Lao Xiang secretly hid in it. I brought it over in the afternoon. It should be warm before nine o'clock, if it is cold, it must be heated for a few minutes."

Chai Yuening folded the letter paper, closed the door, and carried the thermos into the kitchen.

The night at the base is quiet, except for the air vents of every household that operate at any time, there are generally not many other sounds.

Eat well, drink well, sleep well all night, and wake up with a brand new day.

Early in the morning, Chai Yuening washed the thermos tank clean and went to the team base.

Before seven o'clock in the morning, there was already light in the team base.

The shutter door was half open, and Chai Yuening bent over and walked in.

Beside the small square table on the right, a girl wearing glasses is sitting on a wheelchair, holding a pen in one hand and poking a calculator in the other, calculating the team's expenses very seriously.

Chai Yuening went straight to the girl, and seeing that the old watch that was completely stopped was already worn on the girl's wrist, she couldn't help smiling knowingly, and put the thermos on the small square table.

"I went home late last night. The electricity was almost cut off. I was worried about what to eat. Thank you."

"It's time for me to say thank you, thank you for bringing back my mother's belongings for me... For so many years, I thought I would never see it again."

"What are you talking about? I just can't bear the sight of bastards threatening people with things they picked up." Chai Yuening said, just as she was about to do other things, she heard a whisper from the person beside her.

"Next time you go out, you must call everyone, don't be alone again." Liandong said, "It's more important than anything else to live well."

Chai Yuening smiled after hearing this: "There will be no next time, I promise you."

At this point, she suddenly thought of something, turned her head and leaned over to look at the ledger on the table, and asked, "By the way, Lendong, did you sell the batch of carapaces that you took to the black market last time?"

"Boss You gave me half of the money just the day before yesterday." Liandong raised his eyes and said seriously, "What are you talking about... Luo Kun has been looking for things recently, and the goods are very difficult to sell."

"Half is fine, give me my share first." Chai Yuening said, as if afraid of being asked more questions, she immediately changed the subject, "Next time you see Youlan, you can tell her that Luo Kun is dead, and will not Go to her place and make trouble."

"Yeah!" Liandong nodded, "As for the money, I just got it, so I have to deposit it first."

"No hurry, you figure it out." Chai Yuening said, turned around and walked to the rolling shutter door, pushed it upwards, and opened it wide.

The light from outside came in, she raised her hands above her head, closed her eyes, and stretched a lot.

It was as if what greeted us was the morning light on the ground, not the street lights of the base.

In the end, she took off the wooden sign "accepting commission" outside the rolling shutter door, and casually threw it in the corner of the modified garage.

Liandong glanced back: "Have you stopped accepting missions recently?"

Chai Yuening said "hmm": "Take a rest for a while, what's the matter, wait until the signal tower is recovered."

In the base, ordinary mercenary teams take over the work of civilians, or go out to collect supplies and sell them.

The elite mercenary team is different. Most of the time they accept military commissions, and they can also get a certain degree of military support during missions.

Although the rewards for such tasks are more abundant, the risk is also much higher.

The ground is too dangerous recently, not to mention that the signal tower has not been recovered, and the communicator can still be used occasionally in the base, and there is no signal at all outside the base.

If something really happened, there was no way to ask the military for help.

Lian Dong is right, to live well is more important than anything else.

"I'm leaving first." Chai Yuening walked to the door, turned around and said with a smile, "Everyone will come later, please tell me that you don't have to be on call anytime recently, you can go wherever you want to play."

"Ah."

With Liandong's response, Chai Yuening left the team base.

Xu Shi had just gone through a life-and-death test, when she suddenly wanted to give everyone a little vacation.

But what she didn't expect was that this kind of leisurely life, in addition to regular exercise every day, only needs to eat, drink, and listen to the radio, before half a month passed, someone came to trouble her.

Everything starts from the afternoon of the No. 13-day holiday.

In the small base allocation room, Chai Yuening was lying on a second-hand wooden rocking chair bought cheaply from the black market, like a retired old man, listening to the base broadcast with his eyes closed.

"The recent spring rains have not stopped, and the area of ​​the black vines on the ground has continued to expand. The fog brought by the black vines has allowed the beasts to move freely around the base. The signal tower recovery plan has repeatedly been blocked, and the recovery time is expected to be delayed by a week."

"The establishment and improvement of the virtual ecological zone in the main city has always been one of the most important plans of the base."

"With the optimization of the environment of the simulated ecological zone, the number of various crops harvested at the base this year has increased compared with previous years. The head of the logistics department said that when the technology is stable, the base will expand the simulated ecological zone, and strive to make it possible within ten years. Urban residents can also participate in animal husbandry and farming, realizing the road to collective prosperity through food diversification at the base.”

"Under the vigorous research of Dr. Ge Heguang, the base infection detector has been upgraded again, with higher calculation accuracy, faster detection speed, and less error probability."

"The doctor said that the base should not only detect the infection, but also research and refine a drug that can prevent the mutation of the infection in the near future. Here, the doctor hopes that the military can provide more ground ecological samples to the research department..."

"Zizi-"

With a burst of electrical interference, the communicator call signal sounded.

Chai Yuening stretched her arms, and touched the communicator on the radio that had been left on the radio for half a month.

"Captain..." Lonicera's voice came from the communicator, "Are you free now?"

"what happened?"

"If you are free, come to the detention center in the seventh district."

"Ok?"

"Lu Qi, he... is inside..."

"..."

Liandong said that Lu Qi got into a fight with others, and now he was arrested by the security personnel of District [-].

This kind of situation is not considered a crime, and usually they will be released after ten and a half months of detention, but Lu Qisheng was afraid that his brother-in-law would find out, so he cried and wanted to go out early.

Those who were locked up in the detention center were either released when the time came, or their family members paid a fine and signed a guarantee to be released.

Lonicera and the magistrate have been quarreling for a long time. The good guy took all the money, but he refused to let him go. He asked his family to come and sign a guarantee.

"Captain, Lao Xiang and I have spoken out loud. They just don't want to sell our face. He said... To make an exception, you have to sign the letter of guarantee, saying that you are familiar with the military. If the other party makes trouble on purpose, It will be easier to solve."

"Understood." Chai Yuening responded, sighed, put on her coat, and hurried towards the seventh district.

The seven districts of the base are the most chaotic among the ten outer districts.

The black market that people often say is on the two streets north of the seventh district. The Luo Kun who died half a month ago was the former local snake in this area.

The black market is mixed with fish and dragons, and there are all kinds of buying and selling. There are fights every two days, and the magistrate only dares to turn a blind eye.

But turning a blind eye and closing one eye doesn't mean that it doesn't matter at all.

In the outer city of the base, everyone knows that the highest security officer in District [-] is a good official who "understands reason and acts on facts" - honest people make mistakes, and they will be arrested if they should be arrested.

District Seven, inside the detention center.

Chai Yuening sat on the bench in the corridor, with displeasure written all over her face.

Lu Qi, who had just been fished out, stood in front of her with a bruised nose and a swollen face, with scratch marks on his arms.

With his hands behind his back, his eyes wandered, obviously a little embarrassed.

"Dare to fight with others, but dare not let your family know?"

"..."

"Who will do it first?"

"I……"

"Why did you do it? Who did you hit?"

"I beat Luo Kun's dog!" Lu Qi's eyes were full of dissatisfaction, "I'm not wrong, they said that you killed Luo Kun! They also said that two days before departure, you got into a fight with Luo Kun for something. After a dispute, Luo Kun asked you to help with the matter, but in the end a carload of brothers died, but you came back safely... They said you were a murderer!"

Chai Yuening took a deep breath, the words of reproach that came to her lips suddenly couldn't go up or down.

She was silent for a long time, then patted Lu Qi's shoulder.

"Let them talk, so what if they say a few words?"

"But……"

"They only dare to talk and shake their fists against the same kind in the urban area, and do some bullying things." Chai Yuening said, "Do you want to be like them?"

"I……"

"Let's go, let's go back." Chai Yuening said, standing up.

She walked behind Lonicera, pushed the wheelchair and walked a few steps towards the gate of the detention center.

Looking back, he saw Lu Qi still standing where he was, hesitant to speak, so he couldn't help but stop.

He asked, "What else?"

"Well, captain... I was inside and saw a familiar face."

"Ok?"

"How about...can you do me a favor and fish them out together?"

"You think our team has a lot of money, don't you?"

Chai Yuening rolled her eyes, she is not a kind person who spreads love everywhere.

Those who have committed crimes, can she still catch one of them?

……

10 minute later.

Ban Xiangming: "Captain Chai, this little girl is amazing. She was 'sent' in by Boss You. If you're like this, I can't explain it to Boss You."

Chai Yuening: "I know Youlan well, if she comes to ask, you can let her find me."

"I'm relieved to have Captain Chai's words." Ban Xiangming responded, and winked at the adjutant beside him with a smile, "Take Captain Chai there later."

"Thank you." Chai Yuening put down the pen, and pushed the second letter of guarantee passed today to the magistrate Ban Xiangming across the desk.

Ban Xiangming: "Captain Chai is really a kind person."

Chai Yuening: "..."

Chai Yuening got up and walked out of Ban Xiangming's office, and followed Ban Xiangming's little adjutant all the way to the door of the group detention room.

The moment the door opened, she subconsciously looked in and around.

But before she found anything, she felt a burst of almost scorching eyes, looking from a certain direction in the detention room.

She hurriedly looked in that direction.

I saw a thin figure curled up in the corner.

The light in the detention room was too dim, and she couldn't see her face clearly, but she immediately recognized the pair of eyes that were cloudy but extremely beautiful.

"Chu Ci, come out, someone has signed a guarantee for you."

The moment he heard these words, his cloudy eyes seemed to light up.

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The author has something to say:

Question: What kind of experience is it to find a wife in the detention center?

Ms. Chai Yuening, who did not want to be named, said: Thank you for the invitation, this wife is a bit expensive, and it costs money every time we meet.