escape package

The evacuated convoy traveled all the way along the deserted road.

A dozen or so old men in the truck were chatting enthusiastically, and the newly joined black vests and others blended into them without any sense of disobedience.Surprisingly, the black vest and his four younger brothers seemed to be collectively blind and amnesiac. They didn't mention to anyone the wanted criminal Qu Lin worth one billion Singapore dollars sitting in the car, and they only laughed and called each other brothers and sisters.

Qu Lin sat in the outer corner, wearing a hood to avoid people's eyes and eyes, and said nothing. Luo Xingyi sat next to him, watching the city of Paradise getting farther and farther in the endless retrogression.

After the gorgeous red clouds, the sky gradually darkened.The city landmark "Tower of Science and Technology" still stands tall, faded in the darkness of Sihe, and has become an inconspicuous blurred outline.

A crescent moon hangs in the sky, with an eerie scarlet color, as if the fire burning in the city has burned all the way into the moon, burning this city full of filth and sin to ashes.

This was the last picture of this city that was frozen in Luo Xingyi's mind. Later, he heard the name of Bliss City, it was in the chatting of other people after dinner.They said that fifteen high-energy plasma cannons were fired at the same time, firing high-temperature plasma from fifteen different angles, and the fifteen lines converged into one point, pointing directly at the blue sky.

After a burst of white light that annihilated the world, the city turned into powder, leaving nothing left.

People say that this "three no matter" cancer has finally been cleaned up, and I feel that the air is much fresher, and I feel comfortable...

At this time, amidst the roar of the car, Luo Xingyi suddenly spoke softly, and the sound could hardly be caught in the chaotic noise: "I was awakened by a huge conspiracy, and I was climbing with a few poor clues. I met a lot of people and saw a lot of things in a few days, and now it feels like a dream."

His face was hidden under the dim headlights, and his expression was uncharacteristically dazed and helpless, as if he was dreaming in the breeze, "It's fine if it's a dream, because dreams don't need to be logical, it's normal to have a beginning and no end." Yes. But reality is about logic. My hands are full of mysteries, which means I have to keep going..."

After finishing speaking, there was a long pause.

After sighing inaudibly, Luo Xingyi turned his head to look at Qu Lin, and saw that most of the other's face was hidden under the black hood, shrouded in shadows, only a light-colored thin lip and a beautiful shape were exposed. jaw.

At this time, the lip line of the thin lips was straight, and in a trance, one could read the tight restraint.With a thought in his mind, Luo Xingyi looked straight at Qu Lin with wine-red eyes, and said affirmatively in the form of a question: "You are not untouched at all, are you?"

Qu Lin glanced at him in the dark, leaned slightly closer, and asked in a low voice: "You always worry about this question, because you want to make sure that I am really as you think, a good person?"

Luo Xingyi also looked at him from the corner of his eyes, "Don't be arrogant." He smiled lightly, "What I wanted to say before was interrupted by Bao Hao's phone call, and now I want to come... Qu Lin, can you explain to me?" You clearly knew that Bao Qian and Liu Yu were both infected, but you still acquiesced in their escape until the moment when the disease occurred?"

Qu Lin didn't answer, Luo Xingyi continued: "I, Luo, don't dare to say that I understand you, but at least I'm not blind. I just want to say that we have been born and died. Even if we are not friends, we will not be friends." Enemy. You see, I don’t look like a mind reader, so sometimes you don’t say it, and I really don’t know what you think just from your indifferent face with a commercial expression. Maybe I will misunderstand you and ignore you ..."

"I know you don't like smiling, but since we can form a team and get along with each other, shouldn't we also have a good talk? So, Mr. Lin, please promise me." Luo Xingyi's tone was flat without ups and downs, and he acted like a baby without soul, "Sometimes I also describe some psychological activities, so that I can understand you."

When Luo Xingyi said this, because of the angle, the expression on his face was not very clear, only a black ash on his cheek illuminated by the headlights was particularly eye-catching.

Qu Lin stared at the person in front of him, looking at the black and gray on his face, feeling inexplicable.To be honest, ever since he got to know Luo Xingyi, this person has been trying his best to pretend to be stuck at the highest limit allowed by the conditions, demanding the best treatment anytime and anywhere.But at this time, Luo Xingyi had a wound on his forehead, and blood and dust remained on his face. The word "worry" was light, and he was simply "disgraced".

But I was telling him - I want to know you.

Qu Lin moved his fingers, trying to wipe off the streak of ashes on his face, but in the end he didn't move, and turned his head to look outside the car.

The convoy drove for nearly half an hour after leaving Bliss City, and was about to take a detour to pass the gas station that Qu Lin mentioned.

And when Qu Lin calculated that he was going to be the closest to the gas station in a straight line, he directly pulled Luo Xingyi and jumped out of the car, ignoring the astonishment of the explosion behind him, and flew out like lightning, into the woods beside the road.

Across this wild, wild grove is the gas station.Luo Xingyi felt that he might be old, and he dared to dance on the grave before, but now he felt a little out of breath after jumping in the car and running for two steps, so he asked Qu Lin to pick up the car, and he rested for a while.

This gas station is still in use, and upon hearing the news, there are quite a lot of people running away from Paradise City, and quite a few people came here to refuel on the way, and the lights were brightly lit, making it extremely lively.The fugitives gathered together to call for friends, as if they didn't care about the fact that Paradise City would be razed to the ground at dawn tomorrow.

Luo Xingyi walked around the gas station, and found that there was a convenience store open inside. He reached out to touch the money in his jacket pocket—after changing his clothes, the jacket he was wearing now belonged to Qu Lin, and the wallet was naturally Qu Lin's too. - Immediately, he cheerfully went into the convenience store to buy, buy, and buy.

But this convenience store opened in the remote suburbs can't sell good things, and with so many people in the gas station thinking about stockpiling supplies, there is really nothing useful left for Luo Xingyi.He wandered around the convenience store and managed to snatch two bottles of mineral water and two lollipops by smashing and looting. He didn't have to choose the flavor, but he could only get the last strawberry flavor, but he was wronged. .

Thinking back to the end of the world when the zombies just broke out, it didn't fall to the point of fighting over two strawberry-flavored lollipops. The more Luo Xingyi thought about it, the more angry he became: I trained hard and struggled for so many years just to grab two lollipops. A lollipop!

The mood was so sad and indignant that the first thing Luo Xingyi did after getting into the modified military armored vehicle that Qu Lin had brought was not to observe the mighty and domineering body, or to wash his hands and touch it with a sense of future technology. Instead, he took out a strawberry lollipop and stuffed it into Qu Lin’s mouth: “Brother, you must eat this lollipop that I snatched out with my life. The supermarket has suffered this kind of crime when it grabs discounted eggs from the aunts!"

Qu Lin pushed Tang away in disgust, "...why are you going to grab the eggs?"

"Don't ask so many questions, you feed me!"

Has Qu Lin eaten?No, Qu Linning, who hated strawberry flavor, was unyielding, and successfully stopped Luo Xingyi with the phrase "take it again and get out of the car."Secretly heaving a sigh of relief, he turned the steering wheel and drove out of the gas station.

There was a traffic jam on the way out, Luo Xingyi held two lollipops in his mouth, one on the left and one on the right, his cheeks were bulging, and he sat on the passenger seat with his arms crossed and waited for the car in front to leave.

Relying on the fact that no one knows him now anyway, the car window was almost completely open, and after waiting for a long time, he changed his position, leaning on the window sill, licking candy in boredom.

When the vehicles blocked in front finally started to move, Qu Lin put the gear back into gear and started the armored vehicle.The flowing wind poured in, carrying the coolness and moisture unique to the night, blowing away the sweetness of the strawberries that filled the car.

The traffic on this road is like weaving, the horns are yelling and cursing, and the lights of the cars are shining into a river of light, flowing towards the distance beyond the sight under the night.

Luo Xingyi looked at the night scene of the convoy where everyone fled to the future, and suddenly found it really interesting.

He took out the candy in his mouth and said to Qu Lin, "Have you read the novel "Underground Railway"?"

Luo Xingyi only remembered that after asking the question, the zombie virus pulled the world into eternal night many years ago, and the civilization was broken. What kind of novels are there? Qu Lin probably never had the chance to read them.

"It's not a famous book in the world. It's about plantation slavery. I suddenly thought it was appropriate, so I remembered it."

Anyway, the road was boring, so after thinking about it, Luo Xingyi stared at the rushing golden river in the dark night, and slowly recited the fragments in it with deep impression.

"'Her fingers danced over the valleys and rivers and mountains as if it were the outline of a new country conceived in the body of the old one. When you run, you can look out and see America for what it really is... She believed The slave's instinctive choices lead her—anywhere, anywhere, but not where you escaped.'”

"'...she's come this far on that instinct. She'll either reach the finish line or... sleep on the tracks.'"

Putting an end to the last word, Luo Xingyi smiled softly, his eyes wandering outside the car window, without focus, as if going through the traffic to a distant place.He said: "To be honest, if I hadn't experienced so many things that ruined my mood before, I was actually very much looking forward to the future. It feels like I am going for the light and hope."

What the future holds, who knows?

A large number of mysteries remain unsolved, and perhaps the shocking conspiracy has only glimpsed the tip of the iceberg.

For Luo Xingyi, the "future" is an unpredictable unknown, just like the last second he felt that Chu Tian was tall and vast, and he felt like a hero finally broke the stereotypes and left his comfortable environment to show his talents.

——In the next second, he was dragged down into the whirling abyss by a burst of intense discomfort.

Seeing that Luo Xingyi suddenly stopped talking, Qu Lin held the candy without moving for a long time, and even lost the strength in his hands after three seconds and did not hold the candy, causing it to fall to his feet. He quickly asked him: "What are you doing?" gone?"

Luo Xingyi waved his hand, recovering from the brief dizziness, "I'm a little dizzy, it's okay."

Qu Lin looked at him suspiciously, seeing that his face was paler than usual, he slowed down a bit, and said, "You have something to tell me."

"OKOK." Luo Xingyi replied casually, and the phone that had been in his pocket suddenly vibrated.

Because Wang Shu would not look for him for no reason, Luo Xingyi stopped his unimportant conversation, made a gesture of waiting and took out the phone.Qu Lin didn't have the habit of inquiring about private affairs, so he focused on driving while looking straight ahead, waiting for him to check his phone.

After swiping open the screen to unlock it, Luo Xingyi discovered that Wang Shu had tried to call him dozens of times in the past few hours, but he was too busy running for his life to notice any of them.

Luo Xingyi and Wang Shu had an agreement before: Wang Shu must never reveal the true identity of its AI in front of people.And Wang Shu also carried out this order very strictly. Even though his anxious tone wanted to jump out of the screen and be directly displayed on Luo Xingyi's retina, he didn't make a sound halfway to attract others' attention.

Luo Xingyi looked at the layers of information and densely packed text on the screen, and thought to himself, what happened to Wang Shu, a completely electronic AI, to be in such a hurry?Feeling his nerves twitching twice, he hurriedly flipped through them side by side.

【Mr. Luo, I think Mr. Qu's worry is necessary. You shouldn't underestimate the 'sunset'. 】

【Mr. Luo, should you check immediately if you are infected? 】

[Mr. Luo, I called you, why didn't you answer? 】

【Mr. Luo, please check your physical condition immediately!You should know that the 'sunset' virus has undergone a second mutation in 2021. Whether there are new mutations in these 24 years is still unknown to us. Maybe the antibodies in your body are not strong enough to resist. 】

After experiencing two inexplicable dizziness warnings, Luo Xingyi didn't dare not take it at ease anymore.He had been praising himself for having antibodies and being fearless before. Now, after Wang Shu reminded him, he finally remembered that this time is not the other time. Humans will make antibodies and viruses will naturally evolve...

This kind of arms race has been a traditional project in nature since ancient times.Luo Xingyi's heart sank, as if he had fallen into an empty abyss, and he didn't even make a sound.

[Mr. Luo, fluke is not advisable, please don't ignore your health! 】

……

There are more than 20 messages sent by Wang Shu. In addition to the emotional words in the front, there is also a long speech explaining the danger of the "sunset" virus from biology to pathology.

Luo Xingyi flipped through the past ten lines at a glance, and his fingertips became colder and colder as he turned over.

In September 2021, the "sunset" virus mutated twice, and the first generation of human antibodies was declared invalid.

In 2022, the second-generation antibody vaccine against new conditions will be successfully produced.

In 2031, the second-generation antibody vaccine will be declared invalid.

2040... A purified vaccine that completely resists the "sunset" virus is being developed...

It is now 2046. In the race between human cells and pathogens, human beings have not completely hit the "sunset". There are new antibody drugs, but... not here.

Maybe it's too late.

Luo Xingyi raised his hand and touched the thin scar on his forehead, took a deep breath in secret, paused for a while with his slightly stiff fingers, and then typed on the phone and said to Wang Shu: "Got it, life and death are important." Life."

Although high technology allows Wangshu, an AI, to have a human-like personality and appearance, it is not human after all.Under layers of warm concern, there is a cold and precise judgment: [Mr. Luo, your heart rate is normal and you have not been exercising violently, but your body temperature has risen by 1.3 degrees Celsius compared to before, and you are already in a low-grade fever state. 】

[Preliminary judgment, it may be an early sign of infection with 'Sunset'. 】

It was beyond his own expectations. After Luo Xingyi saw Wang Shu's judgment, he didn't feel any panic or reluctance, and it wasn't even out of negative emotions. He almost laughed out loud.

Because fate can play with people's hearts like this, when you think you are going to escape from birth, it suddenly grabs your throat and says: think about it, it doesn't matter whether you can ascend to heaven or not, maybe you won't live until then at all?