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Chapter 17
Even so, he shouldn't have so much combat power under his hands, what method did he use to summon and control those people..."
Fang Lujian slowed down a little when he heard the words, as if he remembered something: "I also feel a little strange."
"What's so strange?" Lu Ze looked at her.
She shook her head: "I can't tell you the details, but when I confronted them just now, I always felt that something was wrong, and maybe I was thinking too much."
Lu Ze's face became serious, he knew that Fang Lulian would not say something unimportant under such circumstances, if she really felt something was wrong, it proved that there must be something in the group of people following Lipsey that they didn't know at the time. Careful attention.
"Go ahead and search, be careful."
Three kilometers away, on the first floor of the city defense command center.
This place looks like an abandoned parking lot, the area is not big, only a handful of cars are parked in the empty area, and there is a thick layer of dust on it without exception.
Zheng Guanqi quickly checked around and found nothing unusual.
When he walked back to Jude, he just found the man fiddled with something in front of the distribution box.
After a while, he raised his head and looked at Zheng Guanqi: "Help me."
Although Zheng Guanqi didn't know what he wanted to do, he walked to the position opposite him, bent down at the diagonally lower corner of the distribution box, and pried it up in the direction Jude pointed.
However, the tentacles did not encounter the resistance he expected. The distribution box was unusually light, and he and Jude turned it to the other side, revealing an entrance on the back wall that could allow one person to enter and exit.
"This is..." Zheng Guanqi was a little surprised.
Jude breathed a sigh of relief: "It seems that my first guess was correct. In addition, there are traces of artificial changes here... I hope our luck in the future will be the same."
As he said that, he bent down to enter the doorway, but Zheng Guanqi stopped him: "Wait a minute."
"What's wrong?" Jude turned back with some doubts.
Zheng Guanqi protected him behind him: "Your hands are inconvenient, let me go first."
Jude paused for a second, looking at his back in front of him, with a somewhat ambiguous smile on his face, and walked in behind him without saying anything.
Inside is a narrow passage, and the widest part can only allow two people to pass side by side. There is no extra light source. Zheng Guanqi turned on the tactical flashlight, adjusted the beam focus to the farthest point, and pointed the gun steadily forward, step by step carefully. to go in.
Judging from the terrain under their feet, they were going all the way down. After walking for about two hundred meters, the first downward concrete staircase appeared in front of them, and the handrails were covered with dust and cobwebs.
Zheng Guanqi turned his head and exchanged a glance with Jude, then walked down sideways.
Their footsteps were very light, and the stairs had a corner every 30 or so steps. According to the normal distance estimation, they had reached at least 30 meters below the ground.
When he reached the fifth corner, Jude suddenly stopped, grabbed Zheng Guanqi from behind and pressed him against a wall, and at the same time turned off the flashlight in his hand: "Someone—"
Zheng Guanqi held his breath involuntarily, Jude put one hand across his chest, and his back was pressed against the man's chest, and for a moment, he felt that the heartbeats of the two were fused together.
The next moment, he could distinguish a rapid breathing sound from the darkness not far below.
Someone...or something is approaching them from below.
Seeing that he was aware of it, Jude took a slight step back and stopped in the middle of the stairs going up.
A few minutes later, the panting sound came to their feet, accompanied by somewhat chaotic footsteps, the visitor seemed to be avoiding something upwards.
Zheng Guanqi slightly raised the muzzle of the gun, and quietly pointed at the corner of the stairs.
Suddenly, a violent struggling sound came from in front of him, Jude should have caught someone.
He turned on the flashlight immediately, and the muzzle of the gun was still aiming steadily in that direction: "Who?"
The bright light enveloped Jude and another somewhat short figure struggling in his arms.
"Miao Miao...?" Zheng Guanqi's eyes widened.
The little girl stopped struggling after hearing the familiar voice, and turned to look in Zheng Guanqi's direction.
Only then did Zheng Guanqi realize that her face was gray with one black line and the other was muddy, with a hint of fear in her eyes, and a palm-sized cipher box in her arms.
"Miao Miao? Why are you here?" After confirming the identity of the person in front of him, Zheng Guanqi lowered his gun and took a step forward.
Miu Miu broke away from Jude's hand, threw herself into Zheng Guanqi's arms, gestured to him a few times, and then looked back, eyes full of eagerness mixed with fear.
"What did she say?" Jude began.
"She said—something is chasing her down below, and she wants us to get out of here as soon as possible." Zheng Guanqi said, the flashlight shined on the direction below the stairs, and turned to Miu Miao: "Who is chasing you? Lipsey and the others?"
Miao Miao shook her head abruptly, and made several gestures.
Zheng Guanqi frowned: "You said Lippsie and the others are not here? Then why did you come here? What are you holding?"
The little girl suddenly tightened the box in her arms, and gestured a few times.
Zheng Guanqi was overjoyed: "You said this is what Professor Ling is looking for?"
Miu Miu nodded.
Zheng Guanqi turned to Jude: "In this case, let's go up first, and send a coordinate to the captain and the others. We can evacuate as soon as we get the things. The people from the joint search team will arrive soon."
Jude didn't answer.
His eyes stayed in the deep darkness below for a moment, then turned to Miu Miao: "What did you see down there? What is chasing you? A living corpse?"
Miao Miao shook her head.
Zheng Guanqi looked at her gestures and translated them to Jude: "She said that there are many glass cabins like large test tubes on the bottom floor, and there are strange things in them. Lipsie's people came once, and she saw those people give up The glass pod was powered on, and heard them say 'not enough time' or something."
Jude's face became serious, and he paused for half a second, then he looked at Zheng Guanqi: "You send her up first, I'll go down and have a look."
Zheng Guanqi objected instinctively: "It's too dangerous for you to be alone!"
A slight smile appeared on Jude's face: "But this is not the content of your mission. Lu Ze brought me because he knew that I was looking for Lipsey, and your mission was to find Ling Qian. Now you have found Ling Qian by the way." After losing this little girl, your mission has been completed, send her up, and then join Lu Ze and the others."
"how about you?"
"Of course I have something to do. After all these years, it's time to settle my account with Lipsey."
Zheng Guanqi choked, he knew what Jude said was the truth, according to the instructions Lu Ze gave them in advance, now his task is to safely send Miu Miao and the things in her hands to the ground to join Lu Ze and the others, and then rush to The people of the joint search team evacuated before cleaning up here, but...
"Let's go, time is tight." Jude pushed him up.
Zheng Guanqi gritted his teeth: "I'll find you after I send Miu Miu to a safe place."
Jude raised his eyebrows with surprise on his face: "It's too dangerous here, there's no need for you to come back."
Zheng Guanqi shook his head stubbornly, he fixedly stared into Jude's eyes: "Before I come back, live."
Jude looked at him for a while, and finally sighed slightly. For the first time, he raised his arms to embrace the person in front of him, and whispered into his ear: "Don't worry, I'm very fateful, not to mention I still have something to say to you. Say. Go."
Zheng Guanqi only felt that the side of the ear he was close to was as hot as a fire. He took a deep look at Jude, took off the tactical flashlight and micro-charger and stuffed them into Jude's arms, then pulled Miu Miao and turned towards the direction where they came down. rush to.
Jude watched their backs disappear into the darkness, the corners of his lips curled up in a helpless arc, he weighed the equipment in his hand, turned and walked deeper underground.
After reaching the ground, Zheng Guanqi sent Lu Ze and the others their location. Five minutes later, they met at the first crossroad southwest of the city defense command center.
After listening to Zheng Guanqi's report and checking the contents of the box that Miao Miao was holding, Lu Ze's eyes fell on the building of the city defense command center not far away, with a hesitant look on his face.
At this moment, the twilight has begun to sink everywhere. According to the original plan, the time for their evacuation should be just right, and Miu Miao also found what Ling Qian wanted, but he couldn't do it and just left Jude on the ground alone, let alone There are still unsolved mysteries on Lipsey's side, and he still feels a little bit uneasy about it.
"Captain, I... I'm applying to leave the team. Jude is down there alone. If he really meets Lipsey and his men, he needs support!" Zheng Guanqi blushed a little, and respected him straight present.
Lu Ze rubbed his ears and made a decision.
He didn't answer Zheng Guanqi, but bent down to look at Miu Miao: "I remember Lin Sai taught you how to drive?"
Miu Miu nodded.
Lu Ze took off the locator around his neck and handed it to the little girl's arms: "Our car is parked at the red dot on the locator. It's not hard to find. After you go out of the city, drive back to Nazar, and put the car in this box. Is it okay to send the biological enzymes to the Institute of Biology for Tang Qing to test?"
Miao Miao looked at him, and moved her eyes to Ling Qian who was beside her, as if guessing what they were going to do, she nodded slowly.
"Good girl." Lu Ze rubbed her head lightly, took off the pistol from his waist and handed it to her: "Will this work?"
Miu Miu nodded.
Lu Ze heaved a sigh of relief: "I hope it won't be necessary, go quickly, before it's dark. By the way, try to walk around the path, don't be too eye-catching."
Miu Miao nodded again and made several gestures to them.
Lu Ze smiled: "Don't worry, we will come back safely and wait for us in Nazar."
Only then did Miao Miao seem to be relieved, she stepped forward and hugged Lu Ze, Ling Qian, Zheng Guanqi, Fang Luxian and Chen Xin one by one, then turned and ran into the alley on the other side.
Lu Ze then turned to Zheng Guanqi and raised his eyebrows lazily: "Why, you are so capable, do you think the two of you can beat the opposing team?"
Zheng Guanqi was at a loss for words.
Lu Ze raised his foot and walked towards the city defense command center. When he passed by Zheng Guanqi's side, he snorted his head: "Let's go, don't be dazed, Jude is now my team member anyway, and he won't lose it." Leave him alone."
At the same time, at a depth of 40 meters underground.
The stairs finally came to an end here, and there was an open space in front of it. A faint blue light radiated from the back of a door in front, making the surrounding darkness more tranquil.
Jude took a breath, checked the weapons on his body again, and walked towards the door step by step.
A few steps away from the door, he heard a strange low humming sound coming from inside, like some large machine running.
He jerked the doorknob, and at the same time raised the muzzle of the slightly charged gun.
The next moment, he froze in place——
In front of me is a circular space of about [-] square meters, with dozens of airtight glass cabins densely packed against the wall, and the blue light is emitted from these glass cabins.The cabins are filled with some kind of transparent liquid. Inside each glass cabin, there is a human-shaped object floating with arms crossed. Several wires are connected to the body leading to the outside of the cabin. The final terminal is a large one in the center of the space. machine.
There was no one in the whole space, Lipsey probably didn't expect someone to find this place so soon.
Jude stepped forward carefully and pressed the display button on the terminal machine.
The huge square screen lighted up slowly, showing a bird's-eye view of the entire room. Next to each glass cabin were a few lines of simple data indicating the vital signs of the objects in the cabin, and there was also a small battery bar-like , all display data at 90%.
Jude frowned for a while, and his eyes fell on a red warning sign in the lower left corner.
As soon as Lu Ze approached the 100-meter radius around the command center, he stopped. The sixth sense of life and death reminded him of the imminent danger countless times.
Chen Xin also sensed something was wrong, grabbed Fang Lujian, and said in a low voice: "Captain, there are snipers."
Before Lu Ze had time to speak, a hoarse sneer came from in front of him: "It seems that I still underestimated the Lu team. I didn't expect you to find this place so soon."
Following this voice, Lipsie's figure slowly came out from the darkness, and the men who followed him before disappeared, but he had an expression on his face, "The game is over."
As soon as he finished speaking, several red dots fell on Lu Ze and everyone in the field.
Sniper, Chen Xin was right.
"I only have one condition, Captain Lu. Look at this time, the joint search team is coming soon. As long as you save my life, I will naturally save Ling Qian's life. If you can't do it, I'm sorry, Please let me be buried here with you.”
Lu Ze didn't speak.
Behind him, Chen Xin seemed to realize something, his eyebrows were slightly frowned, and his body tentatively moved half an inch to the side.
The red dot that originally landed on his chest also moved with his movements, but it was delayed for about a second.
Fang Luxian noticed his movement, and his eyes fell on the red spot on his chest, and then his eyes suddenly lit up as if thinking of something.
Under the cover of the night, she silently landed her fingers on the back of Chen Xin's hand, typing out a string of Morse codes.
"How about it, Captain Lu, how long do you need to consider this condition? Time waits for no one."
Lu Ze smiled: "I didn't even know that I have such a weight with you. It is worth the joint army of Nassar and the Second Alliance to let a criminal who is guilty of treason go for my life."
Lipsey sneered: "Treason? Is that what they told you? The people of the Second Alliance are just a bunch of cowards. If you use something, you want to kill me. As long as you give me a little time, I will not pay attention to all of them. But...according to the current situation, cooperation is the most beneficial for both of us choose."
Lu Ze raised his eyebrows: "Are you so sure that I can negotiate with them?"
Lipsey crossed his arms: "This is what you are capable of. Since it is cooperation, you should always show some sincerity."
The smile on Lu Ze's lips widened a bit: "Sincerity or threat? Or do you think these things you control can really restrain us?"
Before the words fell, the others had already bent over with Ling Qian, and rolled to the other side. Chen Xin and the others behind him also avoided to different directions.
After a short interval of one second, there was the sound of crackling bullets on the field, and the cement debris on the ground splashed, but none of the bullets hurt anyone.
Lipsey's face changed for the first time. He glanced around, as if he was confirming something, but considering Lu Ze's presence, he held back his words.
"It seems that our guess is right. Do you really think that with these things... well, there must be a name, bionic man? Can deal with the entire Second Alliance and even Nazar? You want to use these things as political chips? Rong Let me remind you, regardless of how controllable these things are, for the current Second Allied countries, these have far exceeded their estimated safety line, and for uncertain dangers, there is only one best way— — kill."
The direction of Lu Ze's voice sounded like the southeast, but the bullets chasing past caused only dust and smoke in the open space, and their figures had completely disappeared into the gray of the twilight.
Lipsey's pupils shrank: "When did you find out?"
Lu Ze laughed: "Do you really think you have achieved seamless and perfect control?"
Just as Lippsie was about to speak, the ground under his feet suddenly shook, followed by a low-pitched roar coming from deep underground.
Lippsie's face really sank.
He couldn't care less about talking to Lu Ze and the others, so he turned around and ran towards the interior of the command center.
Here, Lu Ze also guessed that Jude might have done something wrong below, and quickly opened the shared communication channel: "Guanqi and follow me, other people will deal with the above things."
As soon as he finished speaking, Zheng Guanqi had already rushed out of his hiding place and ran into the building.
Before Lu Ze could sigh, he hurriedly said to Ling Qian who was beside him, "Be careful and wait for me to come up."
After speaking, he rushed out in the direction of Zheng Guanqi.
The entire interior of the building had already begun to collapse. Lu Ze avoided the chaotic cement fragments, and saw Zheng Guanqi running into the emergency passage leading to the underground parking lot amidst the dust and smoke.
On the other side, Jude first cut off the nutritional power supply of all the glass cabins, and the original blue light in the entire underground space suddenly went out, replaced by a blood-like red light, accompanied by a low-pitched, whimper-like alarm.
He guessed right, Lipsey set up a self-destruct program on the master control port, and the startup time was 3 minutes.
He started the program without hesitation, and when the countdown lighted up on the screen, he turned around and ran towards the stairway.
When there were 3 or 4 corner platforms away from the top of the stairs, there was a violent vibration from the bottom of his feet, and the walls above his head and around him began to shatter and collapse.
At this moment, he had no choice but to grit his teeth and continue running up.
Because he was worried that the rotten iron railing would fall off the stairs, he didn't dare to get too close to the railing side. When he was running over the last landing, a piece of cement from the top of his slope fell off and hit his left hand. On that side of the shoulder.
He swayed to the right and fell to the ground. There was a sharp pain in the place where he was hit, probably because of a broken bone.
The exit of the passage was just a few hundred meters ahead, and he could vaguely see the outline of the door.
With his good hand propped on the ground, he gritted his teeth and stood up, desperately swallowing the bloody smell surging in his throat, and staggered towards the door.
Zheng Guanqi is still waiting for him.
Zheng Guanqi almost followed Lipsey into the underground garage, unexpectedly, the other party did not go in the direction of the underground entrance, but turned to an unremarkable off-road vehicle in the corner.
He had just opened the door and sat in to start the car. Zheng Guanqi rushed over from the side and slammed into the windshield of the off-road vehicle, trying to force the car to stop.
Lipsey cursed and stepped on the gas pedal.
Zheng Guanqi was almost thrown out. He grabbed the protective bar on the left side of the front of the car with one hand and was dragged a few meters away. Finally, he regained his balance and flipped on the hood of the car, and pulled the trigger of the micro-punch.
The off-road glass is not bulletproof, so Lipsey had to step on the brakes abruptly.
Zheng Guanqi was thrown out by the huge inertia, and fell on a concrete pillar in front of Lu Ze who followed.
Seeing that the load-bearing pillar was about to fall, Lu Ze had quick eyesight and quick hands, dragging Zheng Guanqi and dodging towards the entrance.
With a loud bang, and when the smoke and dust in front of them settled down, the two of them realized that the pillar was blocking the entrance evenly, and the cement fragments blocked the front tightly.
Seeing that Zheng Guanqi turned his head and was about to continue going inside, Lu Ze hugged his waist tightly and shouted sharply: "Zheng Guanqi!"
Zheng Guanqi's eyes were red: "Jude is still inside!"
"It's already collapsed inside, it's useless for you to go in!"
Zheng Guanqi clenched his teeth tightly.
Lu Ze didn't dare to let go at all, and just dragged and dragged the person out.
They just exited the gate with their front feet, and the whole building collapsed in front of them a second later.
It had been in disrepair for a long time, and with the explosion underground, even the gods of Daluo could not recover.
Chen Xin was the first to see them, and hurried over to take the two of them a few meters away. During this time, Lu Ze's hand was tightly wrapped around Zheng Guanqi's waist, fearing that if he let go, he would rush in again.
Until the rumble of the ground and the vibration of the soles of the feet stopped, and the choking smell of dust and smoke filled the air, Lu Ze let go of Zheng Guanqi slightly while coughing.
As soon as he let go of his hand, Zheng Guanqi fell to the ground, his knee hit the concrete floor with a dull "boom".
He bent over and leaned forward, and after a long time, a hoarse cry erupted from his throat.
underground garage.
Half of the load-bearing column that fell fell on Lipsey's car. He opened the car door and jumped off at the critical moment, avoiding the fate of being smashed into meat sauce.
However, before he could breathe a sigh of relief, a gust of wind hit him from behind, and before he realized something, a cold dagger had already pierced into his heart from his back.
"It's really cheap for you to die like this." Jude's cold voice came from his ear: "My brothers have been waiting for this day for so many years, you go down and explain to them what should be explained and what should be done." It’s okay, let’s be clear.”
Lu Ze and the others withdrew from Doka before the joint search team arrived.
Fang Luxian's previous guess was correct. Her subtle discomfort came from the rigidity and uniformity of the opponent's actions. If she was a normal human being, she would not give this feeling to others.And the time difference between Chen Xin's sniping point shifting on the person confirmed her guess. This is exactly what she told Chen Xin and then Lu Ze with the Morse code - the opponent's subordinates are not normal humans, nor are they living corpses. , It is speculated that it is some kind of experimental body with human body functions.
The 6 corpses they cleaned up from the surroundings later also confirmed this. Judging from the biological signs, these "people" should be infected bodies, but they did not become living corpses.Lipsey didn't know what experiments he had done on them, turning these infected bodies into "tools" without ideology, capable of operating weapons, and would not actively attack without the owner's instructions.
From this perspective, it is also understandable why he was included in the kill list of the Second Alliance.After all, in such a special period, no one wants to easily come into contact with virus variants beyond the controllable range, and no one can afford the price of a war.Lippsie, on the other hand, is ambitious.
After Lu Ze returned to Nazar, he made a report to Wei Junting alone, and everyone else kept silent about what happened in Doka that night.
The biological enzyme that Miao Miao brought back was indeed what Ling Qian and Tang Qing were looking for.A week later, a perfect serum targeting the virus in Ling Qian's body was bred, which was considered to be the last stone in Lu Ze's heart.
Only Zheng Guanqi.
No one knew what kind of hope and despair he was enduring in his heart. Lu Ze didn't dare to ask, Fang Luxian and Chen Xin couldn't bear to ask. In the end, Ling Qian took him away with a bottle of wine after training one day.
When Lu Ze finally found them, Zheng Guanqi was already unconscious. Even with his eyes closed, there were deep wrinkles between his brows and tears streaming down his face.
After Nassar's Alliance of the Infected and the Treaty Port of the Second Allied countries opened up, he volunteered to go out to work for two months. When he came back, he was darker and thinner, but also a little more indescribably calm.
The price of growth has always been painful.
After the virus test in Ling Qian's body was completely normal, Tang Qing also started to prepare to leave Nazar.Although Ling Qian was reluctant, he knew he couldn't keep it.
The night before her departure, Lu Ze and Ling Qian hosted a banquet for her. Ling Qian insisted on letting her take Xiao Bai on the road, saying that it would make her feel at ease, but Tang Qing couldn't help it, so she had to agree.
When it was almost dawn, Lu Ze drove Ling Qian to the city gate.
Looking at the blue sky in the east, Tang Qing took a breath, closed her eyes, and showed a relieved smile on her face.
She turned her head to look at Lu Ze and Ling Qian: "There is finally nothing I can't let go of now. I never imagined that it feels good to start again."
Ling Qian's nose was a little sour: "Senior Sister..."
Tang Qing smiled and scratched his nose: "I will come back to see you, take care."
After saying this, she led Xiaobaitou and walked towards the outside of the city gate without looking back.
Under the gradually brightening sky, the white wolf looked back at Ling Qian and Lu Ze with some reluctance, whimpered in his throat, turned his head, and curled his tail around Tang Qing's ankle.
Lopsided.
The author has something to say:
This story is finished here~ Qixi Fanwai can be regarded as a continuation of this story, after all, everyone is reunited~
Next, I might want to tell the story of Leo and Edward, group~
Fang Lujian slowed down a little when he heard the words, as if he remembered something: "I also feel a little strange."
"What's so strange?" Lu Ze looked at her.
She shook her head: "I can't tell you the details, but when I confronted them just now, I always felt that something was wrong, and maybe I was thinking too much."
Lu Ze's face became serious, he knew that Fang Lulian would not say something unimportant under such circumstances, if she really felt something was wrong, it proved that there must be something in the group of people following Lipsey that they didn't know at the time. Careful attention.
"Go ahead and search, be careful."
Three kilometers away, on the first floor of the city defense command center.
This place looks like an abandoned parking lot, the area is not big, only a handful of cars are parked in the empty area, and there is a thick layer of dust on it without exception.
Zheng Guanqi quickly checked around and found nothing unusual.
When he walked back to Jude, he just found the man fiddled with something in front of the distribution box.
After a while, he raised his head and looked at Zheng Guanqi: "Help me."
Although Zheng Guanqi didn't know what he wanted to do, he walked to the position opposite him, bent down at the diagonally lower corner of the distribution box, and pried it up in the direction Jude pointed.
However, the tentacles did not encounter the resistance he expected. The distribution box was unusually light, and he and Jude turned it to the other side, revealing an entrance on the back wall that could allow one person to enter and exit.
"This is..." Zheng Guanqi was a little surprised.
Jude breathed a sigh of relief: "It seems that my first guess was correct. In addition, there are traces of artificial changes here... I hope our luck in the future will be the same."
As he said that, he bent down to enter the doorway, but Zheng Guanqi stopped him: "Wait a minute."
"What's wrong?" Jude turned back with some doubts.
Zheng Guanqi protected him behind him: "Your hands are inconvenient, let me go first."
Jude paused for a second, looking at his back in front of him, with a somewhat ambiguous smile on his face, and walked in behind him without saying anything.
Inside is a narrow passage, and the widest part can only allow two people to pass side by side. There is no extra light source. Zheng Guanqi turned on the tactical flashlight, adjusted the beam focus to the farthest point, and pointed the gun steadily forward, step by step carefully. to go in.
Judging from the terrain under their feet, they were going all the way down. After walking for about two hundred meters, the first downward concrete staircase appeared in front of them, and the handrails were covered with dust and cobwebs.
Zheng Guanqi turned his head and exchanged a glance with Jude, then walked down sideways.
Their footsteps were very light, and the stairs had a corner every 30 or so steps. According to the normal distance estimation, they had reached at least 30 meters below the ground.
When he reached the fifth corner, Jude suddenly stopped, grabbed Zheng Guanqi from behind and pressed him against a wall, and at the same time turned off the flashlight in his hand: "Someone—"
Zheng Guanqi held his breath involuntarily, Jude put one hand across his chest, and his back was pressed against the man's chest, and for a moment, he felt that the heartbeats of the two were fused together.
The next moment, he could distinguish a rapid breathing sound from the darkness not far below.
Someone...or something is approaching them from below.
Seeing that he was aware of it, Jude took a slight step back and stopped in the middle of the stairs going up.
A few minutes later, the panting sound came to their feet, accompanied by somewhat chaotic footsteps, the visitor seemed to be avoiding something upwards.
Zheng Guanqi slightly raised the muzzle of the gun, and quietly pointed at the corner of the stairs.
Suddenly, a violent struggling sound came from in front of him, Jude should have caught someone.
He turned on the flashlight immediately, and the muzzle of the gun was still aiming steadily in that direction: "Who?"
The bright light enveloped Jude and another somewhat short figure struggling in his arms.
"Miao Miao...?" Zheng Guanqi's eyes widened.
The little girl stopped struggling after hearing the familiar voice, and turned to look in Zheng Guanqi's direction.
Only then did Zheng Guanqi realize that her face was gray with one black line and the other was muddy, with a hint of fear in her eyes, and a palm-sized cipher box in her arms.
"Miao Miao? Why are you here?" After confirming the identity of the person in front of him, Zheng Guanqi lowered his gun and took a step forward.
Miu Miu broke away from Jude's hand, threw herself into Zheng Guanqi's arms, gestured to him a few times, and then looked back, eyes full of eagerness mixed with fear.
"What did she say?" Jude began.
"She said—something is chasing her down below, and she wants us to get out of here as soon as possible." Zheng Guanqi said, the flashlight shined on the direction below the stairs, and turned to Miu Miao: "Who is chasing you? Lipsey and the others?"
Miao Miao shook her head abruptly, and made several gestures.
Zheng Guanqi frowned: "You said Lippsie and the others are not here? Then why did you come here? What are you holding?"
The little girl suddenly tightened the box in her arms, and gestured a few times.
Zheng Guanqi was overjoyed: "You said this is what Professor Ling is looking for?"
Miu Miu nodded.
Zheng Guanqi turned to Jude: "In this case, let's go up first, and send a coordinate to the captain and the others. We can evacuate as soon as we get the things. The people from the joint search team will arrive soon."
Jude didn't answer.
His eyes stayed in the deep darkness below for a moment, then turned to Miu Miao: "What did you see down there? What is chasing you? A living corpse?"
Miao Miao shook her head.
Zheng Guanqi looked at her gestures and translated them to Jude: "She said that there are many glass cabins like large test tubes on the bottom floor, and there are strange things in them. Lipsie's people came once, and she saw those people give up The glass pod was powered on, and heard them say 'not enough time' or something."
Jude's face became serious, and he paused for half a second, then he looked at Zheng Guanqi: "You send her up first, I'll go down and have a look."
Zheng Guanqi objected instinctively: "It's too dangerous for you to be alone!"
A slight smile appeared on Jude's face: "But this is not the content of your mission. Lu Ze brought me because he knew that I was looking for Lipsey, and your mission was to find Ling Qian. Now you have found Ling Qian by the way." After losing this little girl, your mission has been completed, send her up, and then join Lu Ze and the others."
"how about you?"
"Of course I have something to do. After all these years, it's time to settle my account with Lipsey."
Zheng Guanqi choked, he knew what Jude said was the truth, according to the instructions Lu Ze gave them in advance, now his task is to safely send Miu Miao and the things in her hands to the ground to join Lu Ze and the others, and then rush to The people of the joint search team evacuated before cleaning up here, but...
"Let's go, time is tight." Jude pushed him up.
Zheng Guanqi gritted his teeth: "I'll find you after I send Miu Miu to a safe place."
Jude raised his eyebrows with surprise on his face: "It's too dangerous here, there's no need for you to come back."
Zheng Guanqi shook his head stubbornly, he fixedly stared into Jude's eyes: "Before I come back, live."
Jude looked at him for a while, and finally sighed slightly. For the first time, he raised his arms to embrace the person in front of him, and whispered into his ear: "Don't worry, I'm very fateful, not to mention I still have something to say to you. Say. Go."
Zheng Guanqi only felt that the side of the ear he was close to was as hot as a fire. He took a deep look at Jude, took off the tactical flashlight and micro-charger and stuffed them into Jude's arms, then pulled Miu Miao and turned towards the direction where they came down. rush to.
Jude watched their backs disappear into the darkness, the corners of his lips curled up in a helpless arc, he weighed the equipment in his hand, turned and walked deeper underground.
After reaching the ground, Zheng Guanqi sent Lu Ze and the others their location. Five minutes later, they met at the first crossroad southwest of the city defense command center.
After listening to Zheng Guanqi's report and checking the contents of the box that Miao Miao was holding, Lu Ze's eyes fell on the building of the city defense command center not far away, with a hesitant look on his face.
At this moment, the twilight has begun to sink everywhere. According to the original plan, the time for their evacuation should be just right, and Miu Miao also found what Ling Qian wanted, but he couldn't do it and just left Jude on the ground alone, let alone There are still unsolved mysteries on Lipsey's side, and he still feels a little bit uneasy about it.
"Captain, I... I'm applying to leave the team. Jude is down there alone. If he really meets Lipsey and his men, he needs support!" Zheng Guanqi blushed a little, and respected him straight present.
Lu Ze rubbed his ears and made a decision.
He didn't answer Zheng Guanqi, but bent down to look at Miu Miao: "I remember Lin Sai taught you how to drive?"
Miu Miu nodded.
Lu Ze took off the locator around his neck and handed it to the little girl's arms: "Our car is parked at the red dot on the locator. It's not hard to find. After you go out of the city, drive back to Nazar, and put the car in this box. Is it okay to send the biological enzymes to the Institute of Biology for Tang Qing to test?"
Miao Miao looked at him, and moved her eyes to Ling Qian who was beside her, as if guessing what they were going to do, she nodded slowly.
"Good girl." Lu Ze rubbed her head lightly, took off the pistol from his waist and handed it to her: "Will this work?"
Miu Miu nodded.
Lu Ze heaved a sigh of relief: "I hope it won't be necessary, go quickly, before it's dark. By the way, try to walk around the path, don't be too eye-catching."
Miu Miao nodded again and made several gestures to them.
Lu Ze smiled: "Don't worry, we will come back safely and wait for us in Nazar."
Only then did Miao Miao seem to be relieved, she stepped forward and hugged Lu Ze, Ling Qian, Zheng Guanqi, Fang Luxian and Chen Xin one by one, then turned and ran into the alley on the other side.
Lu Ze then turned to Zheng Guanqi and raised his eyebrows lazily: "Why, you are so capable, do you think the two of you can beat the opposing team?"
Zheng Guanqi was at a loss for words.
Lu Ze raised his foot and walked towards the city defense command center. When he passed by Zheng Guanqi's side, he snorted his head: "Let's go, don't be dazed, Jude is now my team member anyway, and he won't lose it." Leave him alone."
At the same time, at a depth of 40 meters underground.
The stairs finally came to an end here, and there was an open space in front of it. A faint blue light radiated from the back of a door in front, making the surrounding darkness more tranquil.
Jude took a breath, checked the weapons on his body again, and walked towards the door step by step.
A few steps away from the door, he heard a strange low humming sound coming from inside, like some large machine running.
He jerked the doorknob, and at the same time raised the muzzle of the slightly charged gun.
The next moment, he froze in place——
In front of me is a circular space of about [-] square meters, with dozens of airtight glass cabins densely packed against the wall, and the blue light is emitted from these glass cabins.The cabins are filled with some kind of transparent liquid. Inside each glass cabin, there is a human-shaped object floating with arms crossed. Several wires are connected to the body leading to the outside of the cabin. The final terminal is a large one in the center of the space. machine.
There was no one in the whole space, Lipsey probably didn't expect someone to find this place so soon.
Jude stepped forward carefully and pressed the display button on the terminal machine.
The huge square screen lighted up slowly, showing a bird's-eye view of the entire room. Next to each glass cabin were a few lines of simple data indicating the vital signs of the objects in the cabin, and there was also a small battery bar-like , all display data at 90%.
Jude frowned for a while, and his eyes fell on a red warning sign in the lower left corner.
As soon as Lu Ze approached the 100-meter radius around the command center, he stopped. The sixth sense of life and death reminded him of the imminent danger countless times.
Chen Xin also sensed something was wrong, grabbed Fang Lujian, and said in a low voice: "Captain, there are snipers."
Before Lu Ze had time to speak, a hoarse sneer came from in front of him: "It seems that I still underestimated the Lu team. I didn't expect you to find this place so soon."
Following this voice, Lipsie's figure slowly came out from the darkness, and the men who followed him before disappeared, but he had an expression on his face, "The game is over."
As soon as he finished speaking, several red dots fell on Lu Ze and everyone in the field.
Sniper, Chen Xin was right.
"I only have one condition, Captain Lu. Look at this time, the joint search team is coming soon. As long as you save my life, I will naturally save Ling Qian's life. If you can't do it, I'm sorry, Please let me be buried here with you.”
Lu Ze didn't speak.
Behind him, Chen Xin seemed to realize something, his eyebrows were slightly frowned, and his body tentatively moved half an inch to the side.
The red dot that originally landed on his chest also moved with his movements, but it was delayed for about a second.
Fang Luxian noticed his movement, and his eyes fell on the red spot on his chest, and then his eyes suddenly lit up as if thinking of something.
Under the cover of the night, she silently landed her fingers on the back of Chen Xin's hand, typing out a string of Morse codes.
"How about it, Captain Lu, how long do you need to consider this condition? Time waits for no one."
Lu Ze smiled: "I didn't even know that I have such a weight with you. It is worth the joint army of Nassar and the Second Alliance to let a criminal who is guilty of treason go for my life."
Lipsey sneered: "Treason? Is that what they told you? The people of the Second Alliance are just a bunch of cowards. If you use something, you want to kill me. As long as you give me a little time, I will not pay attention to all of them. But...according to the current situation, cooperation is the most beneficial for both of us choose."
Lu Ze raised his eyebrows: "Are you so sure that I can negotiate with them?"
Lipsey crossed his arms: "This is what you are capable of. Since it is cooperation, you should always show some sincerity."
The smile on Lu Ze's lips widened a bit: "Sincerity or threat? Or do you think these things you control can really restrain us?"
Before the words fell, the others had already bent over with Ling Qian, and rolled to the other side. Chen Xin and the others behind him also avoided to different directions.
After a short interval of one second, there was the sound of crackling bullets on the field, and the cement debris on the ground splashed, but none of the bullets hurt anyone.
Lipsey's face changed for the first time. He glanced around, as if he was confirming something, but considering Lu Ze's presence, he held back his words.
"It seems that our guess is right. Do you really think that with these things... well, there must be a name, bionic man? Can deal with the entire Second Alliance and even Nazar? You want to use these things as political chips? Rong Let me remind you, regardless of how controllable these things are, for the current Second Allied countries, these have far exceeded their estimated safety line, and for uncertain dangers, there is only one best way— — kill."
The direction of Lu Ze's voice sounded like the southeast, but the bullets chasing past caused only dust and smoke in the open space, and their figures had completely disappeared into the gray of the twilight.
Lipsey's pupils shrank: "When did you find out?"
Lu Ze laughed: "Do you really think you have achieved seamless and perfect control?"
Just as Lippsie was about to speak, the ground under his feet suddenly shook, followed by a low-pitched roar coming from deep underground.
Lippsie's face really sank.
He couldn't care less about talking to Lu Ze and the others, so he turned around and ran towards the interior of the command center.
Here, Lu Ze also guessed that Jude might have done something wrong below, and quickly opened the shared communication channel: "Guanqi and follow me, other people will deal with the above things."
As soon as he finished speaking, Zheng Guanqi had already rushed out of his hiding place and ran into the building.
Before Lu Ze could sigh, he hurriedly said to Ling Qian who was beside him, "Be careful and wait for me to come up."
After speaking, he rushed out in the direction of Zheng Guanqi.
The entire interior of the building had already begun to collapse. Lu Ze avoided the chaotic cement fragments, and saw Zheng Guanqi running into the emergency passage leading to the underground parking lot amidst the dust and smoke.
On the other side, Jude first cut off the nutritional power supply of all the glass cabins, and the original blue light in the entire underground space suddenly went out, replaced by a blood-like red light, accompanied by a low-pitched, whimper-like alarm.
He guessed right, Lipsey set up a self-destruct program on the master control port, and the startup time was 3 minutes.
He started the program without hesitation, and when the countdown lighted up on the screen, he turned around and ran towards the stairway.
When there were 3 or 4 corner platforms away from the top of the stairs, there was a violent vibration from the bottom of his feet, and the walls above his head and around him began to shatter and collapse.
At this moment, he had no choice but to grit his teeth and continue running up.
Because he was worried that the rotten iron railing would fall off the stairs, he didn't dare to get too close to the railing side. When he was running over the last landing, a piece of cement from the top of his slope fell off and hit his left hand. On that side of the shoulder.
He swayed to the right and fell to the ground. There was a sharp pain in the place where he was hit, probably because of a broken bone.
The exit of the passage was just a few hundred meters ahead, and he could vaguely see the outline of the door.
With his good hand propped on the ground, he gritted his teeth and stood up, desperately swallowing the bloody smell surging in his throat, and staggered towards the door.
Zheng Guanqi is still waiting for him.
Zheng Guanqi almost followed Lipsey into the underground garage, unexpectedly, the other party did not go in the direction of the underground entrance, but turned to an unremarkable off-road vehicle in the corner.
He had just opened the door and sat in to start the car. Zheng Guanqi rushed over from the side and slammed into the windshield of the off-road vehicle, trying to force the car to stop.
Lipsey cursed and stepped on the gas pedal.
Zheng Guanqi was almost thrown out. He grabbed the protective bar on the left side of the front of the car with one hand and was dragged a few meters away. Finally, he regained his balance and flipped on the hood of the car, and pulled the trigger of the micro-punch.
The off-road glass is not bulletproof, so Lipsey had to step on the brakes abruptly.
Zheng Guanqi was thrown out by the huge inertia, and fell on a concrete pillar in front of Lu Ze who followed.
Seeing that the load-bearing pillar was about to fall, Lu Ze had quick eyesight and quick hands, dragging Zheng Guanqi and dodging towards the entrance.
With a loud bang, and when the smoke and dust in front of them settled down, the two of them realized that the pillar was blocking the entrance evenly, and the cement fragments blocked the front tightly.
Seeing that Zheng Guanqi turned his head and was about to continue going inside, Lu Ze hugged his waist tightly and shouted sharply: "Zheng Guanqi!"
Zheng Guanqi's eyes were red: "Jude is still inside!"
"It's already collapsed inside, it's useless for you to go in!"
Zheng Guanqi clenched his teeth tightly.
Lu Ze didn't dare to let go at all, and just dragged and dragged the person out.
They just exited the gate with their front feet, and the whole building collapsed in front of them a second later.
It had been in disrepair for a long time, and with the explosion underground, even the gods of Daluo could not recover.
Chen Xin was the first to see them, and hurried over to take the two of them a few meters away. During this time, Lu Ze's hand was tightly wrapped around Zheng Guanqi's waist, fearing that if he let go, he would rush in again.
Until the rumble of the ground and the vibration of the soles of the feet stopped, and the choking smell of dust and smoke filled the air, Lu Ze let go of Zheng Guanqi slightly while coughing.
As soon as he let go of his hand, Zheng Guanqi fell to the ground, his knee hit the concrete floor with a dull "boom".
He bent over and leaned forward, and after a long time, a hoarse cry erupted from his throat.
underground garage.
Half of the load-bearing column that fell fell on Lipsey's car. He opened the car door and jumped off at the critical moment, avoiding the fate of being smashed into meat sauce.
However, before he could breathe a sigh of relief, a gust of wind hit him from behind, and before he realized something, a cold dagger had already pierced into his heart from his back.
"It's really cheap for you to die like this." Jude's cold voice came from his ear: "My brothers have been waiting for this day for so many years, you go down and explain to them what should be explained and what should be done." It’s okay, let’s be clear.”
Lu Ze and the others withdrew from Doka before the joint search team arrived.
Fang Luxian's previous guess was correct. Her subtle discomfort came from the rigidity and uniformity of the opponent's actions. If she was a normal human being, she would not give this feeling to others.And the time difference between Chen Xin's sniping point shifting on the person confirmed her guess. This is exactly what she told Chen Xin and then Lu Ze with the Morse code - the opponent's subordinates are not normal humans, nor are they living corpses. , It is speculated that it is some kind of experimental body with human body functions.
The 6 corpses they cleaned up from the surroundings later also confirmed this. Judging from the biological signs, these "people" should be infected bodies, but they did not become living corpses.Lipsey didn't know what experiments he had done on them, turning these infected bodies into "tools" without ideology, capable of operating weapons, and would not actively attack without the owner's instructions.
From this perspective, it is also understandable why he was included in the kill list of the Second Alliance.After all, in such a special period, no one wants to easily come into contact with virus variants beyond the controllable range, and no one can afford the price of a war.Lippsie, on the other hand, is ambitious.
After Lu Ze returned to Nazar, he made a report to Wei Junting alone, and everyone else kept silent about what happened in Doka that night.
The biological enzyme that Miao Miao brought back was indeed what Ling Qian and Tang Qing were looking for.A week later, a perfect serum targeting the virus in Ling Qian's body was bred, which was considered to be the last stone in Lu Ze's heart.
Only Zheng Guanqi.
No one knew what kind of hope and despair he was enduring in his heart. Lu Ze didn't dare to ask, Fang Luxian and Chen Xin couldn't bear to ask. In the end, Ling Qian took him away with a bottle of wine after training one day.
When Lu Ze finally found them, Zheng Guanqi was already unconscious. Even with his eyes closed, there were deep wrinkles between his brows and tears streaming down his face.
After Nassar's Alliance of the Infected and the Treaty Port of the Second Allied countries opened up, he volunteered to go out to work for two months. When he came back, he was darker and thinner, but also a little more indescribably calm.
The price of growth has always been painful.
After the virus test in Ling Qian's body was completely normal, Tang Qing also started to prepare to leave Nazar.Although Ling Qian was reluctant, he knew he couldn't keep it.
The night before her departure, Lu Ze and Ling Qian hosted a banquet for her. Ling Qian insisted on letting her take Xiao Bai on the road, saying that it would make her feel at ease, but Tang Qing couldn't help it, so she had to agree.
When it was almost dawn, Lu Ze drove Ling Qian to the city gate.
Looking at the blue sky in the east, Tang Qing took a breath, closed her eyes, and showed a relieved smile on her face.
She turned her head to look at Lu Ze and Ling Qian: "There is finally nothing I can't let go of now. I never imagined that it feels good to start again."
Ling Qian's nose was a little sour: "Senior Sister..."
Tang Qing smiled and scratched his nose: "I will come back to see you, take care."
After saying this, she led Xiaobaitou and walked towards the outside of the city gate without looking back.
Under the gradually brightening sky, the white wolf looked back at Ling Qian and Lu Ze with some reluctance, whimpered in his throat, turned his head, and curled his tail around Tang Qing's ankle.
Lopsided.
The author has something to say:
This story is finished here~ Qixi Fanwai can be regarded as a continuation of this story, after all, everyone is reunited~
Next, I might want to tell the story of Leo and Edward, group~
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