The next day, Jian Xing and Lu Zhenghan also joined the excavation brigade. Every day they were not building fortifications in the base, or moving bricks to build walls and expand the base buildings.

It takes almost half a month to do it.

2025, April 7.

The task of Venus is to repair the road connecting the missile launch site and the supply station. After the concrete is poured, it needs manual assistance to level it. Venus is doing this cement work.

Not far away is the Chenxi team who are digging the launch pit.

They are miserable, digging pits and lifting soil every day in the dark.

Busy until four o'clock in the afternoon, Tang Qiu waved from a distance and asked Jian Xing to bring them two bottles of water.

Jian Xing carried a box of water, and went around to Lu Zhenghan's side, asking him to accompany her.

After returning from the mission on the island, no matter what Jian Xing did, she called Lu Zhenghan together, and tried her best to create an incompetent person for her life. If she could rely on Lu Zhenghan for major and minor matters, she would never do it herself.

The method is simple, but very effective in satisfying Lu Zhenghan's desire for control.

The two quickly walked to Tang Qiu's side.

Tang Qiu was digging alone in the pit, and Pei Su, who was in his team, was lying next to him and sleeping with a shovel in his arms.

Jian Xing threw a bottle of water down, squatted by the pit and asked Tang Qiu, "Why didn't you wake up Pei Su?"

Tang Qiu raised his head and poured half of the bottle of water, wiped off the sweat on his forehead with his arm, and said, "Let's forget about him. He doesn't have enough energy, and he talks too much nonsense. It's useless to start complaining after digging for a while."

After drinking the water, Tang Qiu continued to dig, and then said: "And this guy's ears are so good, he always hears noises at night, so he can't sleep well."

Although the construction site is noisy, most of it is the sound of machines. For Pei Su, the sound of machines is more acceptable than human voices.

So he is more than happy to sleep here.

After delivering the water, Jian Xing got up and was about to leave.

Before leaving, he glanced at Pei Su, but unexpectedly saw something else.

Pei Su's ability should be light green under normal circumstances, but now, there is a gray-black layer sandwiched in his green, and Pei Su's brows are tightly frowned, and his face is tilted hard, as if he is having a nightmare.

Jian Xing paused and walked towards Pei Su.

He squatted quietly beside Pei Su, staring at the gray and black floating in Pei Su's light green energy.

He didn't know that his eyes, unknowingly, gradually turned scarlet.

**

Pei Su was having nightmares.

In the dream, he was trapped in the utility room of the chicken farm. This small and dark space was filled with countless shouts.

The screams of the parents when they were killed by monsters, the screams of the women and children in the chicken farm when they were tortured, and countless sharp and distorted questioning voices.

Pei Su huddled in the corner, covering his ears hard.

"Save me, save me, why don't you save me?"

"Garbage, useless things, the person who should die the most, is obviously you."

"Your parents died tragically for you, but they just laugh and laugh with the people in the base every day. Have you ever thought about your dead parents?"

"You should go down with them, you shouldn't live, you should die."

With the sound of these questions, the wall of the utility room suddenly twisted, and faces emerged from the wall, like monsters trapped in the wall. They struggled and twisted in the wall, pushing the wall up. , with a hideous face.

Those faces were screaming, telling Pei Su to die quickly.

Pei Su frowned constantly, and the black ripples on his body shook violently, but at this moment, a red eye suddenly appeared in the dream he was in.

That eye was beautiful and coquettish, its eyes were as scarlet as a blood moon, suspended in mid-air, looking down at Pei Su coldly and indifferently.

Pei Sucheng's eyes widened, all the sounds that filled the surroundings disappeared at this moment, replaced by frozen silence.

Then, he heard an indifferent and calm voice, like the calm whisper of a god.

"Face it," the voice repeated calmly. "Face it."

The twisting range of the wall suddenly intensified, and the black monster broke through the twisted wall, got out of the wall, and rushed towards Pei Su fiercely.

Pei Su struggled to dodge in the small space.

But more and more monsters rushed out of the wall, forming a tight encirclement that surrounded Pei Su.

Countless distorted and illusory voices spit out from every monster's mouth.

There are the voices of the father, the voices of the mother, and the screams of women and children, but each voice is shouting the same sentence.

"Useless things, you should die!"

"Go to hell!"

Pei Su covered his ears, but those voices continued to pour into his brain from his ears

"Face it directly, Pei Su." The indifferent voice sounded again, in the overlapping screams, it was extremely clear and firm.

Pei Su still covered his ears, looking at the distorted black monsters in front of him, they kept shouting vicious words full of curses.

Face it - Pei Su thought to himself.

Parents died for him, they died to keep him alive, not—

"It's not to make me fall and die." Pei Su put down his hands covering his ears, and he stared fiercely at the group of monsters in front of him, "Yes, I am a coward, I am a useless man, I have no strength I have no strength, and I have no heart or lungs."

"But that was just the past." Pei Su clenched his fists, feeling a new power being born in his body, which made him firm and full of courage.

"I won't always be like that. I am now an awakened person. I joined the organization. I am now standing on the front line of the war. I have saved so many people on the island. I..."

Pei Su lowered his head, his voice was deep and powerful.

"I will be the pride of my parents, and I will make them not regret giving birth to me."

After finishing speaking, Pei Su raised his head abruptly, staring almost fiercely at the group of things in front of him, and the new power exploded in his body.

"I won't be afraid of you anymore, you guys are only malicious things, I'm sorry!" Pei Su took a step forward, and sternly said to the monster in front of him, "You should die!"

His voice was loud and firm, and with incomparably powerful force, he swept across the small room.

The monster's head exploded in an instant, and the indifferent red eye in the void disappeared in an instant.

Waking up from a nightmare.

Jian Xing closed his eyes for a moment, Pei Su's last sentence was like a sharp knife cutting across his brain, and the intense pain exploded in Jian Xing's brain.

His nose felt hot.

Jian Xing raised his hand to touch it, and his nose bleeds.

Pei Su woke up at this moment. As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw Jian Xing squatting in front of him with a nosebleed.

Jian Xing: "..."

Pei Su: "..."

silence.

Pei Su shrank his legs, a little panicked: "Why are you..."

In the middle of speaking, he suddenly noticed Lu Zhenghan standing next to Jian Xing, so the sentence "Why did you have a nosebleed at me" was abruptly changed to: "Did I beat you when I fell asleep just now? I'm sorry, I didn't mean it." .”

Jian Xing ignored him, turned to look at Lu Zhenghan: "I have a nosebleed, what should I do?"

Lu Zhenghan pulled Jian Xing up and wiped off the blood with his fingertips. Fortunately, Jian Xing didn't bleed much, so Lu Zhenghan could probably guess what Jian Xing was doing just now.

Although he didn't see Pei Su's dream like Jian Xing did, he felt the changes in Pei Su's power.

From thin to strong quickly.

Lu Zhenghan wiped Jian Xing's nosebleed, and wanted him to stop doing such a waste of energy, but he also knew that Jian Xing would not agree. In his heart, his teammates were as important as himself and Lu Zhenghan.

"I won't do such a waste of energy next time." Jian Xing suddenly said.

Lu Zhenghan was stunned for a moment, and then heard Jian Xing say: "Unless they cry and beg me."

Lu Zhenghan paused with his fingertips, and understood what Jian Xing meant.

He is reassuring himself.

Lu Zhenghan's expression relaxed a little, Jian Xing's flattering attitude did coax him, so Lu Zhenghan responded aloud: "Yes."

**

Pei Su's ability after the second awakening is very powerful and easy to use. Take the toothfish as an example. Before, he could only use the sound to shake the toothfish open, but now he can directly use the sound to cut the brain of the toothfish from the inside and kill it directly. it.

The base attaches great importance to Pei Su's second awakening, but Pei Su did not tell the base the truth about his awakening, but said that he completed the second awakening because he had fought against the mutant octopus and accumulated strength. awakened.

This is what Jian Xing gave to Pei Su.

Jian Xing himself didn't mind telling the truth, and was even willing to find ways to help more people complete their second awakening, but he was worried that Lu Zhenghan would mind.

He was going to coax Lu Zhenghan well first, and then make plans after coaxing Lu Zhenghan's condition to stabilize.

After Pei Su completed his second awakening, all the awakened people no longer participated in the digging operations, but were sent by the base to the coast to look for powerful mutated marine creatures and hunt them down.

The base hopes to use this method to stimulate more awakened people to complete the second awakening.

A few days later, at a messy reef by the sea.

Powerful marine mutant creatures are not easy to find. The ones that are easy to find are large numbers of small fish that are not too smart. Like toothfish, their individual strength is not strong, and they can't exercise much.

Venus and Chenxi formed a team and searched the seaside for two days, and finally discovered a strange huge thing with consciousness. It was three meters long and looked like a starfish, but it also had the shape of a jellyfish Slender tentacles.

Now that thing is sinking on the bottom of the sea, and it doesn't usually move. Only when a fish passes by above it, it will suddenly spring up its tentacles and instantly swallow the fish into its stomach.

Several people stood on the reef to discuss, and finally decided to send two people into the sea first, to test the attack power of the starfish, and deal with it by themselves if they can win, and find a way to lure it ashore if they can't.

It was He Jinxiao and Wan Xia who went into the sea.

The rest stood on the reef waiting for news.

Jian Xing unleashes her consciousness, follows He Jinxiao and the others' heartbeat trajectory, and prepares to watch the real-time live broadcast.

Lu Zhenghan stood beside Jian Xing, his eyes were downcast, his expression was unusually indifferent, he felt very bored.

Whether it's the so-called safe and stable base, or these teammates trusted by Jian Xing, he all finds it very intrusive. Every day is more than the day before, and he hopes that all these things and people will disappear.

The salty sea breeze was blowing, blowing Lu Zhenghan's forehead hair, the summer sun was just right, the sky was blue, and the waves on the sea surface were rolling with golden light.

Lu Zhenghan was blowing the sea breeze, and suddenly remembered the day before the outbreak of the virus, he rode a bicycle and drove Jian Xing through the woods and the colorful sunshine.

He wanted to go back, to the manor.

Lu Zhenghan turned his head to look at Jian Xing.

Jian Xing was looking at the sea, Lu Zhenghan could feel the consciousness emanating from him, he must be paying attention to other people with his consciousness.

Lu Zhenghan hated this very much.

"What's wrong?" Jian Xing quickly noticed Lu Zhenghan's gaze, he withdrew his consciousness and looked at Lu Zhenghan.

"It's okay." Lu Zhenghan turned his head to look at the sea.

Jian Xing thought for a while and said, "I'm curious whether these marine creatures can really help us complete the second awakening, so I want to stay here to see the results."

Pei Su's second awakening was indeed the last step in a dream, but when he was fighting the octopus before, Pei Su did have a short burst in the process.

And the light blue energy on He Jinxiao's body also came from the mutated octopus.

So Jian Xing wants to determine how much influence these marine creatures have on the second awakening.

Lu Zhenghan curled up the fingers of his left hand and pressed his palm. When Jian Xing said this, he also became curious.

His current strength is also due to that mutated octopus.

If it is possible to obtain power directly from these mutated animals, it will save a lot of trouble, and there is no need to worry that Jian Xing will hate him.

The two of them didn't speak next, and they used their consciousness to pay attention to the water.

He Jinxiao and Wan Xia are wearing diving equipment, and they have arrived near the mutated starfish.

Jian Xing's current consciousness world is colorful, as if he is watching with his own eyes.

The starfish was lying on the bottom of the sea, its body was full of mouths with only fangs, and its translucent white tentacles were spread in the sand. When the fish passed by, those tentacles reacted violently, rolling the fish towards the starfish, and the starfish One of the mouths on the body opens quickly and swallows the fish.

He Jinxiao tried to cut off a tentacle with a dagger, but as soon as the blade touched it, Starfish suddenly went berserk and rushed towards He Jinxiao.

Under its body, there was a huge mouth hidden. The horn-shaped body turned back, and the long fangs stretched out, biting He Jinxiao's arm.

The bright red blood immediately spread, dyeing a large area of ​​sea water red.

Jian Xing's conscious world was suddenly covered with a layer of pink. He closed his eyes for a moment, and a group of messy and disorderly images suddenly appeared in front of him.

It was still the concrete barn I had seen before. The monster with tentacles on its neck and back was lying in the middle of the barn, biting a woman.

Excited and distorted shouts came from all around.

Jian Xing's eyes hurt a little, he closed his eyelids tightly, and the picture in his mind suddenly changed, NFDJ Jian Xing suddenly saw Lu Mingzhen.

He stood at a certain high place, smiling, behind him was a large green field, inlaid with white sheds and a huge white pillar.

Before seeing the details clearly, the picture was interrupted at this moment.

Jian Xing's consciousness world returned to normal, he opened his eyes, and the scenes on the sea and under the sea were reflected in his brain at the same time.

The mutated starfish was killed by He Jinxiao and Wan Xia.

Both of them were painted, and the blood quickly scattered in the sea water, attracting a large number of toothfish.

Pei Su jumped into the sea to meet He Jinxiao and Wan Xia.

Jian Xing looked at it for a while, then withdrew her consciousness.

"Lu Zhenghan." He grabbed Lu Zhenghan's arm, "I just..."

Lu Zhenghan turned his head to look at Jian Xing: "What's wrong?"

Jian Xing reorganized the language and said, "I have occasionally seen some strange pictures recently, and just now, I saw your father."

Lu Zhenghan's eyes flickered for a moment, and then he said without much concern, "Yes."

Jian Xing himself went on to say: "I suspect that he has now developed some kind of vaccine or a new type of virus that can fuse the genes of alien viruses and marine mutated organisms together, and then cause people to mutate."

That's why Jian Xing saw a strange creature with tentacles on its neck and back.

But those pictures just flashed quickly in Jian Xing's mind, he didn't see any more details, and he didn't know exactly where Lu Mingzhen was and what he was doing now.

Lu Zhenghan guessed Jian Xing's current plan in an instant.

"Are you going to find him?"

Lu Mingzhen is also a dangerous person, and Jian Xing always likes to protect ordinary people, so he will definitely deal with Lu Mingzhen.

They are about to perform those boring tasks again, Lu Zhenghan thought, this is really, extremely annoying to him.

"Look at you." Jian Xing hooked Lu Zhenghan's arm, looking at the sparkling sea, "He is your father, if you want to find him, we will go, if you don't want to see him, then don't. "

Lu Zhenghan was silent for a while facing the sea, and then stated calmly: "I know you want to find him."

It's not that he didn't notice Jian Xing's attitude of deliberately following him and coaxing him. Of course he was very happy at first, but after a long time, he felt something was wrong.

If this topic continues, the atmosphere will be uncomfortable, Jian Xing changed the subject and said, "Do you want to go back to the manor to have a look?"

Lu Zhenghan was stunned unexpectedly.

Jian Xing looked at the sea and said, "I don't know if the things we planted have germinated. Anyway, there is still time now, we can go back and have a look."

He leaned on Lu Zhenghan's arm, and said in a light tone: "Let's go back, I will ask for leave from the base in these two days."

Lu Zhenghan grabbed Jian Xing's hand holding him, squeezed Jian Xing's fingers, and said, "Okay."

During the conversation between the two, He Jinxiao and the others had already surfaced, and the rest of the people surrounded them. While treating the injuries of the two, they asked them how they were feeling and whether they had made a breakthrough.

He Jinxiao and Wan Xia looked at each other, but didn't speak.

They didn't feel like their power was getting stronger, maybe this starfish didn't mutate enough.

"Jane Xing!" Tang Qiu shouted from a distance, "Come and have a look."

On the day Pei Su woke up for the second time, Tang Qiu was also nearby. He vaguely guessed the truth, but Jian Xing didn't tell the truth, so he didn't ask much.

Only then did Jian Xing and Lu Zhenghan walk over.

The energy position on He Jinxiao's body is still light blue, but it's a little bit thicker than before, while Wan Xia's body is no different.

"How?" Tang Qiu asked anxiously, "Will this method work?"

The aliens will come in more than a month, and the number and level of awakened people have not changed much, so everyone is very anxious.

"It should be useful." Jian Xing said, "But the mutation level of this starfish is too low, maybe..."

He Jinxiao then said: "Maybe we need a more dangerous and urgent environment, as well as a more ferocious and highly mutated creature, to trigger a second awakening."

Jian Xing nodded: "Yes."

However, this approach is also risky.

Jian Xing and Lu Zhenghan almost failed to come back last time.

He Jinxiao was sitting on a rock, and Cheng Ersan was kneeling beside him, wrapping gauze around his bloody arm.

The wound on his arm was deep, and as soon as the gauze was wrapped on it, a layer of bright red blood flowed out.

"Then keep looking." He Jinxiao frowned when Cheng Ersan tied the gauze, "The sea is so big, we will always find it."

He said nothing about the mortal danger that might be encountered in the matter.

Jian Xing didn't say much.

The next step is to repair. On the way, He Jinxiao took the lead, discussed together for a while, and decided to use a helicopter to search the sea starting tomorrow.

The big guys are hiding in the deep sea.

In fact, Jian Xing really wanted to go to see and see with everyone, but it was obviously more important to coax Lu Zhenghan, so he took advantage of the situation and said that he would ask for leave and go back to his hometown with Lu Zhenghan.

The few people were very surprised. Although Jian Xing is the vice captain, he is also the backbone of the team. When everyone encounters difficulties and things they don't understand, they will subconsciously ask him. Now that Jian Xing is going to ask for leave, everyone is a little confused for a while.

But several people glanced at Lu Zhenghan together, and then fell silent.

He Jinxiao contacted the base and sent three helicopters, two for Qixing and Chenxi, and the other to take Jianxing and Lu Zhenghan back to the base.

The base initially refused to approve Jian Xing's request for leave.

The city has been abandoned, and now no one knows what dangers there will be in the city, so let Jian Xing and Lu Zhenghan go out, what if they don't come back?

Jian Xing and the station chief of the base negotiated the conditions for almost half an hour, and finally let the station chief relax, and approved Jian Xing for three days of vacation and a helicopter.

Coming out of the station master's office, Jian Xing quickly went downstairs to find Lu Zhenghan.

He went alone to ask for leave, Lu Zhenghan's aura was a bit dangerous, Venus and the Chenxi team were half of us, so don't worry, but Jian Xing was afraid that other people in the base would be afraid of Lu Zhenghan.

Lu Zhenghan didn't have a good impression of the base, if he was still suspected by the base, it would make Lu Zhenghan hate this place even more.

He left the office building and walked towards Lu Zhenghan who was waiting at the door.

Lu Zhenghan has been listening to the conversation between the station master and Jian Xing with his consciousness, knowing the whole process, the moment Jian Xing came out of the building, he turned around and waited for Jian Xing to come over.

"Guess the base has approved it?" Jian Xing walked briskly, trying to show off.

Lu Zhenghan observed Jian Xing's expression, and gave the answer that Jian Xing hoped he would cooperate. He asked in a somewhat disappointed tone: "No?"

Jian Xing stopped in front of Lu Zhenghan, raised three fingers, he raised his lips and smiled, the afterglow of the setting sun fell into Jian Xing's eyes, a kind of translucent brightness.

"It was approved for three days." Jian Xing looked around and lowered his voice, "But we can stay for a few more days, anyway, the sky is high and the emperor is far away, so no one cares."

Lu Zhenghan's brows and eyes relaxed a bit: "Yes."

The two walked side by side to the dormitory, discussing what to bring along the way.

The distance is far away, and the situation in the city is unknown. They don't know what the situation of the manor is now, and whether the food inside has been stolen, so they need to bring some supplies and weapons.

The two talked and walked across the base playground.

At this time, two helicopters suddenly flew over from afar. Jian Xing looked up and subconsciously released his consciousness.

He saw the people in the helicopter.

It was the Bailong team who had already left the base. They brought the Sun Wu who was supposed to be at the headquarters base, and a strange monster with tentacles locked in a cage.

The author has something to say:

Let me talk about the ending. When I made the outline before starting the article, I drew three parts, before the virus outbreak, after the outbreak, and fighting aliens. Now it’s time to fight aliens, so I said it’s about to end. , Day six, and more than ten days, the total number of updated words is about 30 to [-], and the full text is expected to be about [-], so it doesn't mean to end it unfinished.

I didn't expect everyone to be so shocked. From the very beginning, I never thought about writing a 70 million long article QAQ, but I did delete a lot of saved manuscripts in this book, and it probably has 40 to [-] words ( If you add that I am also the one who wrote [-] words (no). A few days ago, because I felt that the writing was not very good, I deleted all the saved manuscripts. Now there are only [-] saved manuscripts (guilty), but daily updates I can still do it! In the end, I shamelessly hope that everyone will not get fat, and stay with me until the end. After the end, I will seamlessly open the new mad dog (it should be possible, probably) QAQ

This time I’m too old to talk, I’m a little embarrassed, leave a comment and send a small red envelope, by the way, I wish you all a happy weekend in advance~

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