from my heart [last days]

Several people ate noodles, Cheng Yinshang helped the girls clean up the trash, Zhou An took out a bottle of iced black tea from the pile of drinks and handed it to Pei Ze, and asked Xie Yiming, "What are you going to do next? You have been hiding in the supermarket ?"

Xie Yiming shook his head: "No, we are going back to the city."

Zhou An showed a look of surprise. The food in the supermarket is abundant and the space is small. As long as the doors and windows are closed, it will be easy to defend and difficult to attack, which will allow them to live for a long time.

Xie Yiming understood his gaze, and said solemnly: "We are all locals, and our parents are all in the city, so we must go back."

In addition, everyone feels that there should not be many survivors in the school, and the strength of the living people in the urban area should be greater. Maybe the government has already developed a countermeasure.

They don't know whether the heavy city government has a policy to deal with it, but the capital government is still in chaos.Of course Zhou An wouldn't tell them this, he just smiled and asked, "When are you leaving?"

Xie Yiming asked without answering, "What about you? Are you going to the city too?"

Zhou Andao: "No, we want to send Academician Xie back to Beijing. It is faster to leave directly on the national highway here."

Xie Yiming looked at Xie Congxin sitting in the corner with Shen Wen from the corner of his eye, "If only a few of us were able to go to the city, we would have gone there long ago. It won't be eight days and we can't go out if we hide here."

Zhou An: "Why? Is there any difficulty?"

Xie Yiming: "Well, we don't have transportation. Shen Wen's car is parked at the entrance of the cafeteria. Even if I get it back, there is only one car. It can't seat so many people."

Holding the second bowl of noodles, Peng He interjected: "What's so difficult about it? Isn't it over if you pry two cars outside?"

Xie Yiming: "But there are only two people who can drive..."

Peng He licked the noodles, and said carelessly: "It's easy to drive! Doesn't the automatic transmission only need the accelerator and brakes? There is probably no one on the road now, just drive blindly!"

People spoke rough words, Xie Yiming looked at the others in the third team, Zhou An just smiled and said nothing, Pei Ze finished the bottle of iced black tea in one gulp.

Xie Yiming turned his head to look at the other students behind him.Everyone has been quietly paying attention to this side. Now that the topic has reached a critical point, everyone turned their attention, and a boy nodded to him.

Xie Yiming turned around and smiled: "Everyone, everyone knows that people don't talk dark words, so I won't beat around the bush. Even if we can find a car, we can learn to drive in a short time. It is nearly 15 kilometers to the city, and there may be encounters on the road. We can't imagine the situation we're going to, so we haven't made up our minds to set off."

He is a smart guy, or these students are smart people, but too young.

Xie Yiming paused and said, "We hope you can send us to the city."

Zhou An looked at Pei Ze, who was holding the plastic bottle of iced black tea in his hand, with a pale face and no expression.

For an instant, everyone fell into an awkward silence. In this instant, Xie Congxin said, "I don't agree."

Not only Xie Yiming, but even Shen Wen looked back at him in surprise.

After eating the instant noodles, I felt nauseated, and I drank half a bottle of sugar-free green tea before I managed to suppress it. Xie Congxin said: "First of all, the situation in the urban area is unknown. If you can survive here, I don't recommend you leave. If the city | If there is a response plan and the situation in the urban area has been brought under control, then they will definitely send a search and rescue team to the suburbs to rescue survivors, and the university town will be the key search and rescue target area.”

"But when will that wait?" Xie Yiming tried to retort, "We are really worried..."

"Secondly," Xie Congxin interrupted him directly, his tone was a little cold because he was not feeling well, "I must return to Beijing immediately."

"..."

"Fifteen kilometers, not [-] kilometers!" Behind Xie Yiming, a boy from the architecture department couldn't help but stood up, his voice was a little sharp, "Can't we delay it all afternoon?"

Xie Congxin said indifferently: "You also said that you can't imagine the possible situations you may encounter on the road, so how can you estimate how long it will take? I don't take such a risk."

"Academician Xie, why do you..." Shen Wen tugged on his sleeve.

"What about me?" Xie Congxin pulled back his sleeves and smiled coldly at her, "Surprised?"

"No..." Shen Wenna.

After the outbreak of the virus, Xie Congxin's care for her made her feel that although Xie Congxin seemed unkind, he was actually a gentle person, and he would not take the initiative to help anyone, but he would not ignore others' requests for help.

"We can exchange supplies with you," Xie Yiming said in a deep voice. "Are you looking for food and water here? If you are willing to send us to the city, you can take what is here."

Xie Congxin laughed and said, "So if we don't give it away, we can't take anything? The owner of the supermarket seems to be named Xie?"

Xie Yiming choked, and a girl behind him murmured weakly: "Didn't the soldiers say that they don't want to take needles from ordinary people? You soldiers, you don't need to save them, why do you still want to grab things from ordinary people?"

"That's right!" The other boys also stood up, as if they were not a group of people who greeted them enthusiastically just now, looking at Pei Ze and the others as if they were looking at a group of robbers, "We came here first! It's from this school." Students, if there is an accident in the school, it is only natural to take the school supplies! Why do you come from outside?"

"..."

Indeed, taking without asking is stealing, but if you have to ask why, this group of students may not be more qualified than them.

Xie Congxin said: "No reason, we won't take anything, and we won't send you to the city."

"What do you mean you won't take anything?" The boy with the loudest voice pointed to the seafood noodle bowl in front of him and said, "I've eaten all the noodles, and you still want to repay the debt?!"

Hearing this, Peng He put down the third bowl of beef noodles in his hands, and Cheng Yinshang looked at Pei Ze in embarrassment.

After half a second of silence, Xie Congxin got up straight, walked to the cashier in front of everyone's eyes, pressed something, opened the drawer of the cashier with a beep, took out his wallet and took out a stack of red banknotes. I didn't count them all, and put them all in the drawer.

"It's always enough to buy a few bowls of noodles," Kacha pushed the drawer back, the corners of his mouth were still curled up, but his indifference had already been revealed, "The money and the goods are cleared."

The boy was stunned for a while before he realized it, and shouted: "What's the use of money?! This is the end of the world!"

"It's not for you," Xie Congxin looked at him sarcastically, "What are you in a hurry for?"

"..."

"Let's go after eating," he looked at Pei Ze, "I'm in a hurry."

Everyone didn't get up immediately.

Both Cheng Yinshang and Peng He looked at Pei Ze in embarrassment.

Seeing that Xie Congxin could not direct Pei Ze and the others, things seemed to be turning around. The boy turned to Pei Ze and said, "You are soldiers. If you don't protect the people at a time like this, what's the use of the country supporting you? Are we fourteen people less important than him?" ?”

This is even more ridiculous, Xie Congxin said: "There are countless 'fourteen people' in this world, should we save them all the way?"

"Thank you, Teacher!" The boy raised his voice, and the sharp voice was even harsher, "You are a teacher, can you ignore the life and death of the students?!"

"Yes," Xie Congxin smiled, "I can."

"..."

The boy looked at him in disbelief.

There was a silent confrontation between eyes, and the decision of the outcome was in Pei Ze's hands.

Pei Ze threw the hot iced tea bottle into the garbage bag, raised his eyelids, and met Xie Congxin's eyes.

Xie Congxin is undoubtedly a smart person.

Mingming's age is not much different from the students, but when faced with difficulties, his calmness and wisdom far surpassed that of anyone present. Pei Ze asked himself if he was himself, he might not be able to do better than him.

But because of this, he judges the world with his own high standards, and his requirements for others are too harsh. Many things can be done with his ability, but ordinary people can't.

These students of his age were just ordinary people.

After a few seconds, Pei Ze, who had been silent all this time, finally said, "Academician Xie, we have accepted the task of sending you back to the National Academy of Sciences, but there is no specified time in the task."

Xie Congxin raised his eyebrows slightly, Pei Ze continued: "It won't take too long, I assure you."

After saying this sentence, Pei Ze's attitude became obvious, Xie Congxin sneered and said, "What guarantee do you give me?"

The four eyes met, and there was another tense silence among the people.

Peng He didn't dare to show his anger, Cheng Yinshang looked back and forth between the two of them, worried, Zhou An sighed helplessly.

The students even raised their hearts to their throats, fearing that Pei Ze would give in under Xie Congxin's strength.

"Three hours," Pei Ze met Xie Congxin's sarcastic gaze, "From now on, we will send them to the city and leave the heavy city."

Three hours, fifteen kilometers, the time seems to be not tight, but the most indispensable thing in this world is accidents.

Xie Congxin: "What if you can't do it?"

Pei Ze asked calmly, "What does Academician Xie want?"

Xie Congxin narrowed his eyes slightly, scanning the people sitting there.The gratitude and anticipation expressed by the students looking at Pei Ze was in stark contrast to the disgust when they looked at him. However, there was no superfluous expression on Pei Ze's sharp-eyed face, as if he hadn't noticed it at all.

——If you can’t do it, go back and apply for discharge from the army.

However, the words did not come out of his mouth, Xie Congxin looked away, and finally dropped two words:

"never mind."

Pei Ze and Peng He went to find a car near the cafeteria, and the boys helped Zhou An and Cheng Yinshang carry water and convenient food into the car.

Shen Wen followed Xie Congxin in the daily necessities area, watching him pick out some small, seemingly insignificant things, and hesitated to speak.

"Ask whatever you want." Xie Congxin obviously didn't look at her.

"Why do you..." Shen Wen hesitated, paused, and shook her head again, "It's nothing, Academician Xie must have his own reasons."

Xie Congxin's hands were in the air, and he turned to look at her with deep meaning in his eyes. Shen Wen smiled at him.

Maybe it was because Xie Congxin left a deep impression on her at the beginning, even after what happened just now, she still had a kind of blind trust in Xie Congxin from the bottom of her heart.

I believe that Xie Congxin is not an indifferent person, and I also believe that what he does and says must have his reasons.

Xie Congxin turned his head back, took down a multi-color ballpoint pen, and threw it into the plastic bag in his hand.

There are already a lot of things in there, but there is no food, just some stationery and daily necessities.Shen Wen thought he wouldn't say anything, but Xie Congxin suddenly lowered her voice and said, "I must go back as soon as possible, only I can make anti-virus drugs."

Shen Wen's eyes widened in surprise, Xie Congxin took a roll of washi tape from the shelf, and played with it in his hand, the drooping eyebrows looked a bit... Shen Wen couldn't express it, the only word that came to mind was loneliness .

Do geniuses feel lonely too?

Yes, geniuses are human too.

"I didn't take anyone lightly."

He turned and walked among the narrow shelves of the supermarket, his voice was so soft that he could hardly hear him, "But I can't pay attention to everyone."