stop fighting

"Captain, Wu Zhuo is awake!" Fang Lujian's excited voice came from behind the two of them.

Lu Ze and Chen Xin looked at each other, turned around and grabbed the door handle and entered the rear compartment.

Wu Zhuo's face was still pale, Zheng Guanqi half supported him behind him, his eyes lit up after seeing Lu Ze, struggling to sit up: "Captain, I—"

Lu Ze held him down, and said to Chen Xin who was behind him, "Chen Xin, take the deer to see if there is another way to go down the mountain."

Chen Xin nodded, Zheng Guanqi carefully helped Wu Zhuo to lie down halfway, and followed him out.There was only one Fanglu title left, and when he walked to the door, he turned around, looking a little hesitant to speak.

Lu Ze raised his eyes and glanced at her: "What?"

Fang Luxian seemed to want to say something, but in the end he just shook his head, looked around Wu Zhuo with some doubts, and jumped out of the car door.

The three of them knew that Lu Ze had deliberately dismissed them, and the atmosphere was extremely silent along the way.

After walking out for a while, Fang Lulian spoke first with some hesitation: "Chen Xin, Wu Zhuo...is he infected?"

Chen Xin didn't look at her: "Why do you ask that?"

"Before departure, the base has repeatedly emphasized the pollution level of the old city. Wu Zhuo's injuries..."

"What if he gets infected? What are you going to do?" Chen Xin's voice was unusually sharp.

Fang Lujian kicked a stone next to his feet irritably: "I didn't mean that, I was just worried about him. What's more, with the alert level of the satellite city of the base, Wu Zhuo—"

"Whether Wu Zhuo is infected or not, the captain will not leave him alone, and neither will I." Chen Xin suddenly turned his head to look at Fang Luxian.

Fang Luxian was irritated by his tone: "I said I didn't mean that, Wu Zhuo is also my teammate, and I can't leave him alone! It's just that we should always plan for the worst situation. The captain said earlier that the old city There are also some surviving infected people, he said 'infected people', which means that these people are different from the living corpses we have encountered before, but they have not and failed to return to the base? If there is a choice, who Willing to stay in the polluted core radiation zone?"

Seeing that the atmosphere between the two was becoming more and more tense, Zheng Guanqi on the side said haha: "Sister Xiaolu, you don't have to worry too much. It's not yet a conclusion. If Angkor is lucky and is not infected, then we don't have to. Thinking so much."

Fang Lulian glanced at him and said nothing.

Chen Xin also turned around and continued to walk forward.The moment he looked away, a flash of pain flashed across his eyes.

inside the carriage.

Lu Ze's eyes fell on Wu Zhuo's lap, but his eyes were not focused, and he said after a while: "How do you feel?"

A weak smile appeared on Wu Zhuo's face: "It's not bad to be honest. I didn't expect to see everyone again before I left. It's worth thinking about it."

Lu Ze's eyes suddenly burst into anger: "It's worth it?! Do you really think it's worth it?! Wu Zhuo, what did you think when you rushed out? Have you thought about your relatives and friends at the base? Have you thought about it? Us? Have you thought about what you will do in the future?"

Wu Zhuo himself felt wronged, scratched his head and said in a low voice, "I'm sorry, Captain, I... I don't know what happened at the time, and it was too late when I realized it..."

After a few seconds of silence, Lu Ze pointed at his neck: "What's going on there?"

Wu Zhuo subconsciously touched the wound, hesitantly said: "You have already seen... This should be the day I was bitten by them. I took advantage of their not paying attention and tried to beat Senior Colonel Tang. After taking antibiotics, I didn’t feel any special after that. When I woke up today, I felt that the pain from other wounds on my body was not so obvious.”

Lu Ze seemed to have suddenly remembered something, without saying a word, lifted the hem of Wu Zhuo's T-shirt, and carefully removed a layer of bandages on his chest.

After seeing clearly the skin under the wound on his chest, Lu Ze's pupils suddenly constricted - just as he had guessed before, a layer of black and blue had already appeared on the heart.

Wu Zhuo was still a little unclear at first, so after his eyes followed Lu Ze's and fell on his chest, he was stunned for a second, and the hand hanging by his side trembled slightly.

After a long while, he let out a sigh of relief: "Sure enough, I still can't escape. Captain, let's discuss with you. If I really want to become a living corpse, you should give me a good time before that. I don't want... ...to become that kind of monster that is neither human nor ghost."

Lu Ze looked away and didn't answer. After a long silence, he suddenly got up and got out of the car.

Chen Xin and the others came back not long after they left, and saw the back door of the armored vehicle open from a long distance away, and Lu Ze was leaning on the side of the vehicle wall, holding a cigarette in his hand, with his head bowed halfway.

After hearing the movement, he raised his head and raised his chin towards Chen Xin: "Come with me."

His eyes were so sharp that it was shocking, he turned and walked towards the woods at the foot of the mountain on the other side.

Chen Xin thumped for no reason, and walked behind him in silence.

As soon as he reached a place where the others could not see, Lu Ze turned around without warning, and grabbed Chen Xin's arm with his hand. Chen Xin instinctively turned away from the left side and raised his right arm to block it. After making two moves, Lu Ze seized a gap and twisted his left arm. Without further movement, his eyes were fixed on his face.

Chen Xin was stunned for a second, then seemed to have realized something, a wry smile appeared on his face, he let go of his hand and gave up resistance, allowing Lu Ze to fish up his sleeve, revealing the part that was wrapped around the gunshot wound bandage.

Lu Ze could see something from the expression on his face, his jaw was tense, but the movements of his hands didn't stop.

Because of the fight just now, a touch of blood oozes from the surface of the bandage.After it was completely untied, Lu Ze realized that the wound, which was only the size of a fingernail, seemed to have been gouged out of the surface of the flesh, a hideous bloody mess, and a few strands of extremely thin black strands like spider silk spread out from the wound.

"You..." Lu Ze realized that his voice was hoarse when he opened his mouth.

On the contrary, Chen Xin showed a relieved smile on his face: "It seems that Colonel Tang's antibiotics can only delay the spread of the virus."

"Why didn't you say...?" The veins on the back of Lu Ze's hands almost burst out.

Chen Xin sighed: "At first, I thought nothing was wrong. When I checked and changed the dressing last night, I found that the surrounding skin had begun to rot and turn black. I thought that as long as the carrion was cut off, everything would be fine. Now it seems that it still doesn't work."

While talking, he withdrew his hand and rewrapped the bandage round and round.

There was a moment of silence in the woods.

"Captain, Wu Zhuo...it should be the same situation, right?"

Lu Ze closed his eyes and didn't answer. The scene of them at the base the night before departure appeared in his mind——

At that time, he had just had dinner, and he still had a ballistic test of a newly developed weapon in hand, waiting for the results, so he returned to the office.

The technical department had already put the report on his desk, and he had just opened a page when there was a knock on the door.

"Come in." He raised his head as he spoke.

It was a petite woman who entered the door, wearing a military green uniform, with two bars and four stars on the shoulder straps.

"Colonel Tang," he put down the report in surprise, stepped forward and stretched out his hand: "I heard from the general earlier, you want us to see if there is any news about your talented junior brother in the old city?"

There was some joke in his tone.

Tang Qing smiled faintly: "Captain Lu. Yes, but I'm here at this time because I have other things to talk to you about."

Lu Ze pointed to the sofa on the other side: "Sit."

"Your team will set off early tomorrow morning. I guess the headquarters should have given each of you an antibiotic?" Tang Qing cut to the chase.

Lu Ze raised his eyebrows: "Is there a problem with antibiotics?"

Tang Qing looked at him for a while, then smiled: "Team Lu, I won't play around with you. The batch of antibiotics you got is the strains of the fourth phase of the experiment. The previous ones were different."

"What do you mean?"

"To put it simply, it is based on a previous experiment I conducted at the Army Biological Laboratory. Its interference nucleic acid tissue was directly taken from a sample in that experiment, but because I was not in the old city when the virus broke out , unable to fully replicate the DNA sequence of the original mother, and now the most promising breakthrough among all the experiments I have at hand is this one. And it is a fake."

Lu Ze narrowed his eyes: "You mean..."

"If you can really enter the laboratory of the Institute of Biology, please find the mother parent." Tang Qing said and took out a small USB flash drive, "This USB flash drive contains a program of my own, As long as it is connected to the computer of the Institute of Biology, it will automatically retrieve, copy and save what I want."

Lu Ze didn't answer, but leaned back on the sofa, still with a smile on his face: "Colonel Tang, I'm afraid this is beyond the scope of my mission."

Tang Qing's expression remained unchanged, as if she had expected this answer a long time ago.She put the USB flash drive on the table and put her hands on her knees: "Captain Lu, this is just a personal request of mine. I won't be surprised if you don't accept it. But I want to remind you that before deciding and Before acting, it is best to distinguish who is a human and who is a ghost."

silence.

Tang Qing didn't say anything more, she stood up and was about to leave.

As soon as she walked to the door, Lu Ze's voice came from behind: "Senior Colonel, if I get infected, what will your antibiotics do?"

Tang Qing turned her head back: "Because of the lack of virus samples, we have not conducted any experiments on live bodies so far. All the results are just conclusions drawn from computer simulation tests."

"Will I become a living corpse?"

Tang Qing looked at him for a while: "Sooner or later." After a pause, she added: "Believe it or not, Captain Lu, if anyone in your line of work is infected, this antibiotic will not save you. Your only solution The medicine is still in the Institute of Biology."

"One more question, Colonel."

Tang Qing held the doorknob with one hand: "Say it."

"Your junior brother, Ling Qian, if he is really in the old city and still alive, is he a human or a ghost?"

Tang Qing thought for a while, and there was hesitation in her tone for the first time: "I think you can trust him."

Lu Ze picked up the USB flash drive on the table, with a half-smile on his face: "If the thing you are looking for has already been taken away first, and he is unwilling to cooperate, what should I do?"

Tang Qing stared at him for a few seconds, smiled, and turned her head: "I believe in Ling Qian, but now is not the time to speak based on emotion. If necessary, you can make whatever decision you think is reasonable."

……

The USB flash drive was lying quietly in the dark pocket of his left thigh at this moment.

Lu Ze's eyes turned to the direction they came from, his eyes narrowed slightly, and there was an indescribable firmness and a hint of anticipation in his expression.

old city.