stop fighting

Ghost, or Ling Qian, paused for a moment without denying it, and took a step towards the door, half leaning against the wall next to him: "I'm curious about how I was exposed."

Lu Ze smiled, raised his hand and pressed Chen Xin's gun next to him: "Before you said this, I was just speculating."

Ghost raised his eyebrows and thought for a few seconds: "You already knew you would meet me here."

Lu Ze shook his head: "I'm not so predictable, I just put together the clues I have. But compared to this, what I care about right now-" He took a step forward: "It's your position."

Ling Qian looked at him and said nothing.

"In the urban area earlier, you did save us and helped us find Wu Zhuo, but you had other plans for the bombing of the oil depot. Your real purpose is to promote the alliance between Lindsay and Wei and muddy the water here. Saving Wu Zhuo was just a matter of chance. Am I right?"

The corners of Ling Qian's mouth curled up slowly: "Captain Lu, since you are so predictable, can you guess my purpose for doing this?"

Lu Ze's eyes sank: "I don't know what your real purpose is, but I guess your staying here and controlling this research institute to some extent must be related to the virus."

Ling Qian sighed: "Captain Lu, do you still remember that I told you when I sent you away that I don't want us to stand on opposite sides in the future?"

Lu Ze looked at him keenly: "I thought your purpose was to end this disaster as well."

Ling Qian gave a low laugh: "The end? Team Lu, with all due respect, I'm afraid it's not just you and me who can do it."

Lu Ze didn't speak.

Ling Qian straightened up: "Haven't you ever thought about why you didn't take more radical measures and just bombed here with missiles? Since missiles were used to bomb this place, why is the area within a few kilometers of this research institute still so well preserved?" Intact, as if someone deliberately left behind? Also, why were all the special teams you sent out earlier annihilated, not even a single one left alive?"

Chen Xin was startled when he heard the last sentence, and his gaze suddenly turned to Lu Ze.

Although separated by a protective mask, Lu Ze's expression had completely darkened at this moment: "You want to say that there is a problem with the base?"

"Captain—" Chen Xin called him in a low voice, his voice was a little pale.

Lu Ze raised his hand to stop him, and fixed his eyes on Ling Qian: "I only believe in the evidence. What you said may be just a coincidence."

Ling Qian seemed to have expected his answer a long time ago: "Captain Lu, I know you still have reservations about me now, and you won't believe what I say so easily. If you want, I'll take you to meet someone , his explanation will probably be more convincing than mine."

Lu Ze narrowed his eyes: "Who?"

"The only survivor of the previous two teams."

Chen Xin suddenly had an inexplicable premonition——

"—Zheng Guanxing."

Lu Ze's pupils shrank suddenly, and just as he was about to ask something, Xiao Bai at the door suddenly turned his head, and scratched the ground with his front paws a little uneasily.

Ling Qian's complexion changed slightly. He listened intently, and made a quick decision: "Before that, I don't know if Team Lu would like to do me a favor."

Now the person raising eyebrows was replaced by Lu Ze: "Say it."

"I really didn't expect to meet you when I came here tonight. Miu Miao told me that the entrance of a certain building in the Institute has been moved. No matter what the reason is, I don't really want others to come in here. And I just came all the way At that time, I happened to see several people under Jacques in the building of the waste disposal center. Among them was Blanche, who was the only surviving former staff member of the institute in the old city besides me. I have Ask him something."

Lu Ze immediately grasped the point: "Do you want us to catch him for you? Or should I ask what's in that building?"

"It should be an infected body. But according to the degree of pollution over there... It is estimated that the trickiness of that thing is not at the same level as the 'herd' outside."

Lu Ze pondered for a second and immediately made a decision: "Lead the way."

As he spoke, he tilted his head towards Chen Xin.

Chen Xin pursed her lips, and walked out right behind Lu Ze.

The sound was indeed coming from the direction of the waste disposal center.

Just as they walked out of the gate, Ling Qian suddenly stopped and turned around to look Lu Ze and Chen Xin up and down.

Lu Ze was a little confused, so he asked, "What?"

"Lieutenant Lu, if you and your comrades just stepped into that building with the standard of protection, with all due respect, it's probably no different from 'streaking'. Xiaobai and I will go in. You just need to guard the door and keep everything that comes out. Just live."

Lu Ze and Chen Xin looked at each other, and they both saw something indescribable in each other's eyes.

"Chen Xin stay behind, I'll go in with you." Lu Ze said.

"Captain!" Chen Xin's voice was a little anxious.

Lu Ze gave him a warning look, then turned to Ling Qian: "I'll go in with you."

There was some undeniable determination in his tone.

Ling Qian looked helpless, but he didn't say much. After thinking for two seconds, he bent down and patted the white wolf at his feet: "Xiaobai, stay outside with Chen Xin for a while."

Xiao Bai blinked, tilted his head to look at Lu Ze, and hummed in a low voice.

Ling Qian simply turned his head towards the entrance of the red brick building: "Let's go."

At some point, the iron door that had been tightly closed had been opened to allow one person to pass through. Lu Ze and Ling Qian did not move the door, and slipped in sideways through the gap one after the other.

When Lu Ze entered the building, he realized that it was not as dark as he had imagined. The emergency power supplies on both sides of the corridor were still alive, and they were precariously emitting a pale, pale light, which looked particularly eerie.

"You don't believe me so much, Captain Lu." Ling Qian's voice came from the front unhurriedly.

Lu Ze was stunned for a second, his eyes flashed: "No. I just think it's not safe for you to bring Xiaobai in alone."

"Then you don't believe in Xiaobai?" Ling Qian's voice was slightly playful.

Lu Ze didn't know why he suddenly remembered the scene in the abandoned zoo in the suburbs a few days ago, the expression on his face was blank for a moment, and he said dryly: "...No."

Ling Qian smiled softly, which was especially obvious in the empty corridor.

Lu Ze: "..."

"Lieutenant Lu, you have also seen the sign outside this building. I don't need to emphasize the level of pollution. Since you insist on coming in with me, the following must be done: First, don't touch anything inside. No matter if it's a discarded pipe or a laboratory vessel; second, don't open the valve at the end of the corridor; third, leave as soon as you find the person we're looking for, there should be some other things inside, and I don't really want to meet them face to face." Ling Qian's voice became serious.

Lu Ze replied "received" habitually.

The two walked several hundred meters forward along the corridor in silence.

There is an emergency power supply every 200 meters. Although the light source is dim and unstable, it allows them to see the surrounding environment clearly.

Near the wall on their right was a narrow track on which several closed carts parked sporadically.On the wall near the ceiling are several pipes running side by side, extending into the dimness ahead.

On the left side of the two are separate compartments. Through the glass windows, you can see the biological experiment equipment inside. After the waste samples are sent here, they will undergo a biological treatment before being sent to the destruction workshop.

"That guy named Blanche, you set up that trap to find him, right?" Lu Ze broke the silence in a low voice.

Ling Qian didn't deny it: "You can say that. Jacques and I were a little unhappy before, I couldn't go to his territory to find someone, and I don't know why, I always feel that this Blanche is avoiding me."

"Didn't Jacques make such a big fuss tonight, and they're still here?"

Ling Qian was silent for a while: "This matter...it's a long story. To put it simply, I guess they may want to find the rotten corpse."

Lu Ze frowned: "Rotten corpse?"

"Yes. The people under Jacques did not use inhibitors, which means that they are infected bodies. Although they have human consciousness, they cannot overcome the instinct of being a 'herd' after being infected. If they want to survive, they must... ...To some extent, it is the same as those out-and-out 'herds', living on carrion. But the old city is only so big, and the number of herds is limited, not to mention that Jacques is still doing his The so-called 'game' of survival of the fittest." There was a bit of disgust in Ling Qian's tone.

Lu Ze's heart sank slowly, and after a moment of silence, he asked, "What about the inhibitor?"

This time Ling Qian was silent for a long time, and he hesitated when he spoke again: "Inhibitor... I discovered it by accident. Although it is only short-term, it can maintain a little bit of human nature after all, so you don't have to chew on those things like a wild beast." Rotten stuff. It's just...not very useful in the end."

Lu Ze suddenly remembered the corpses he saw in Old Wei's camp during the operation at the oil depot, those strange purple-black hearts and tiny cuts on the skin.

"At the oil depot earlier, you should have seen the corpses of the people under Old Wei, right? If you checked, you would find that inhibitors are not omnipotent." Ling Qian seemed to have guessed what he was thinking.

"I see. I guess your inhibitor is just a way to fight fire with fire, and in the end their hearts and blood can't bear the burden."

"That's right." Ling Qian's voice was tired for the first time: "This is the best I can do so far."

Lu Ze suddenly stopped without warning.

Ling Qian turned around inexplicably: "What's wrong?"

"Professor Ling, I think to a certain extent our purpose is the same. I don't know what your purpose of staying here is, and I don't want to delve into what you are doubting. I think the most important thing right now is to terminate This catastrophe is spreading, and until then, whatever is said doesn't mean much."

After a while, Ling Qian said with some inexplicable meaning: "Captain Lu, so you are an idealist."

Lu Ze shook his head and met his eyes straightly: "I'm not, and I'm not that great, I'm just doing what I think is right. I believe you are the same."