implication [end times]

It took Li Shuxiu two weeks to meet Li Jing successfully.

Li Jing wears a pair of silver-rimmed glasses, with a thin face and a tall figure.No matter how hot the weather is, he always wears a long-sleeved shirt and trousers, and a pair of black leather shoes.Li Shuxiu noticed that his father had changed his bag at some point. It was a brand new black leather briefcase with exquisite workmanship.

Although Li Jing is the deputy city lord, he never asks the secretary to help him carry the bag.It is said that Li Shuxiu’s mother gave him the brown briefcase for at least 20 years. It is a standard item for him to go out every day, and the edges of the bag have worn out a lot.When Li Shuxiu first remembered, his father in his impression consisted of a shirt, trousers, glasses and a tan briefcase.Therefore, every time Li Shuxiu went to the No. 1 Yulan Road compound when he was a child, he often called everyone he met.

Li Jing, like many ordinary residents of the main city, has an almost worshipful sense of faith towards the city lord.The difference is that ordinary residents may have cultivated a sense of admiration in the long paragraphs of praise texts written about the achievements of the city lord through long-term community education, while Li Jing agrees with the vision and pattern of the city lord from the bottom of his heart.The city lord has always had a sharp eye for knowing people, so he was promoted out of the crowd of flattering and bureaucratic people to become the deputy city lord, and he became his right-hand man along with Commander Feng of the Military Command Department.

Li Jing was appreciated, and he was more than willing to work for the city lord, devoting himself to work and rarely going home.Li Shuxiu's mother passed away early, and he was unable to participate in his son's upbringing. He felt ashamed, so he spoiled the child since he was a child, and raised the child to be out of tune.It was too late when Li Jing realized that the child could not be raised like this.So he made up his mind, tried to straighten this crooked seedling, and resolutely sent Li Shuxiu to work in the hardest place on the front line.

Although Li Shuxiu's son has a lot of shortcomings, he can still pick out one or two advantages by picking and picking in the basket with a magnifying glass.For example, they also believe in the city lord.With such an advantage, Li Jing felt that his education was not a complete failure.

"Is there something you can't talk to me on the phone? Keep it short, I have to go out in half an hour." Li Jing's tone suddenly became severe, "Did you get into some trouble again?"

"It's been a long time since I saw you, and I want to see how you are doing."

Li Jing glanced at him: "Have you changed your sex?"

Li Shuxiu asked without answering, "Why did you change your bag today?"

"It turned out that the one was too old and was thrown away last month."

Li Shuxiu looked at his father, and he suddenly realized that he hadn't seen him in just a few months, and his father was a lot stranger.At first glance, his appearance has not changed, but his demeanor and tone of voice are not quite like his previous father.Less love, more severe, more suspicious, more like the city lord is lecturing.

After hesitating for a long time, Li Shuxiu took out a small glass test tube with a thin layer of red liquid at the bottom.This reagent is familiar to both of them, it is a magic talisman reagent.

Li Shuxiu shrank his neck, and said embarrassedly: "That's it. Now the whole city is going to be tested, and there are not enough manpower. The team said that those who have family members have to take them back for the family to do, and they have to take pictures for future reference. I know You are busy, but there is a rigid rule in the team, if I don’t pay, I will be reported and criticized. Lou Yue is in charge of this matter, and he seems to have gone to test the city lord.”

Li Jing thought about it for a while, and there was such a thing.A few days ago, Lou Yue tested the magic talisman reagent for the city lord, saying that it was a special period, no matter how powerful he was, he had to prove that he was human first.Lou Yue proposed it in public at a high-level security meeting. The meeting was broadcast to all the surviving people in the form of a radio station. The city owner, who has always been moody and angry, turned black at the time, but he still accepted the request for on-the-spot testing.Not only the city lord, but all the participants were tested. Li Jing was not present at the time, so he was missed.

"Just for this, why wait so long?" Li Jing glanced at his watch, grabbed his new briefcase, "I'm going out, give me the reagents."

"I'm here to help you test, and I have to take pictures." Li Shuxiu said, walking over in a hurry.Perhaps because of his haste and carelessness, when he opened the cap, the reagent bottle knocked against the corner of the table, and some broken and sharp edges appeared on the mouth of the bottle.

While talking, Li Jing's communicator suddenly rang.He immediately picked it up and said respectfully, "City Master, I'll go right away."

While talking on the phone, Li Jing extended his hand to Li Shuxiu, beckoning him to hurry up.

Li Shuxiu held Li Jing's hand with his right hand, and poured a few drops of red reagent on the back of Li Jing's hand with his left hand.A few seconds later, the talisman reagent did not change color, and Li Shuxiu took a photo with the camera of the communicator to keep the evidence.

Li Jingzheng lowered his voice and reported to the city lord: "The first formal experiment can start tonight, and all the conditions are ripe now..."

Just as he was talking, Li Jing suddenly felt his index finger prick. He looked at Li Shuxiu, who shook the broken empty glass bottle at him, and said, "I'm sorry, I didn't hold it steady. I'll go find it. band Aid."

Li Jing waved his hand to say no, and took a tissue to wipe the back of his hand clean.There was a small cut on the side of his index finger, and a bead of blood coagulated. While talking on the phone, he wiped the blood bead with a tissue and went out.

Li Shuxiu sent Li Jing out the door, and after closing the door, he took a few deep breaths, trying to calm down his fast heartbeat.He opened his right hand, and there was a blood collection needle on the heart of his right hand.

Although fingertip blood has a small amount and contains impurities such as tissue fluid, it is more difficult to extract and make memory reagents, and it will cause more harm to the injected person, but this is already the best choice at the moment.

Li Shuxiu stood at the window, watching Li Jing's car leave.He froze at the window for a while, hearing the sound of the engine starting, he remembered the wailing of countless people on the day the Second Ring fell, and the children who were escorted out of the ventilation duct by the lives of their parents. At that time, the engine of the last armored vehicle nearby The starter was urging, but he still waited and saved the last child.He also remembered that when the armored car was speeding across the wilderness, it was his teammates who risked their lives to lure away the sea ghosts.It is said that Captain Ding almost died in that rescue mission.

Li Shuxiu gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, gave up the last struggle, went out to a checkpoint, and handed the collected fingertip blood to Shi Xun as agreed.

The management system of the scientific research institute is strict, and there are many eyes and ears, and Shi Xun's department is on the blackout list—because it is impossible to determine what the city lord is doing behind the scenes, the sea ghost research that Shi Xun is in charge of has not made any substantial progress on the surface. Most of the power resources of the scientific research institute are inclined to the Department of Physical Chemistry, aiming to crack the sea magnetic field as soon as possible, and use shells to clean up many sea ghosts outside the ring.

Fortunately, the experiment of making memory reagents did not require high hardware, and the most important machine was rushed into the military laboratory next to the first ring checkpoint under the arrangement of Lou Yue.Therefore, Shi Xun and Li Shuxiu agreed to hand over at the military laboratory.

With Yuan Qiong's previous experience, this time Shi Xun and Lou Yue agreed to make the reagent first, and reserved a ward at the Yihuan Hospital, and started the injection when they arrived at the hospital to reduce the risk.

After Shi Xun injected the reagent, his body had a severe rejection reaction.Not only convulsions and coma, but also a large rash on the skin, and even a cardiac arrest on the way to the emergency room.

Lou Yue and Xiang An Ning looked at their watches from time to time in the waiting area. Before the door of the emergency room was opened, Yan Ai appeared first.

"What's wrong with Shi Xun? Why didn't anyone tell me before?" Yan Ai seemed to be running all the way, still panting when he stood still, "And when I came over, there were many people outside, saying it was a large-scale sleepwalking, and Old Wei came out to take care of it." Traffic is over, why are you here?"

When Shi Xun first entered the emergency room, Lou Yue notified Yan Ai.At this time, there was no one else, and there was no need to continue to hide, Lou Yue simply told Yan Ai the cause and effect.

Yan Ai was silent for a long time, and said, "Understood."

The door of the emergency room finally opened, and the doctor came out, sighing: "We can't treat this patient, we can only try to stabilize her. She regained consciousness temporarily, but the condition is very bad. She was very emotional and insisted on Talking to you, you should disinfect and go in to see her... Be mentally prepared."

Lou Yue and Yan Ai walked in after disinfection, and saw the dying Shi Xun with many tubes inserted into his body.

The first time she saw Shi Xun, Yan Ai's tears fell.Lou Yue said in a low voice, sorry.Yan Ai didn't speak, but walked quickly to the hospital bed.

Shi Xun's eyes were originally half-opened, but when she saw them coming, she opened them with difficulty, moved her fingers, and signaled them to come closer.

Before the two had time to speak, Shi Xun preemptively said as if he was afraid that there would be too much to say: "Go find Ran Yu, and take Ran Yu to the secret laboratory on the third basement floor of the museum!"

After saying this, Shi Xun heaved a sigh of relief, estimated his physical condition, and tried to speak briefly as soon as he could, without giving the other two a chance to speak.Even though Shi Xun's head was dizzy like a pot of paste, her chest felt like a huge stone was pressed when she spoke, and her throat and lungs seemed to be burning when she breathed, she still tried her best to sort out her thoughts and give important conclusions first. and request, and finally explain the reason, in case you suddenly lose consciousness and affect the integrity of the information.

"Remember the C point of the latest version of the Raid system? There is a commercial building on Wisteria Road. From the basement, there is a secret passage leading to the outside of the city, which can avoid sea ghosts and sparrows on the ground and in the sky. .”

Shi Xun tried to catch a few breaths, and there was a bellows-like wheezing sound that asthmatics often experience from his chest. Yan Ai wanted the doctor to come in to check the situation, but Shi Xun stopped him with his eyes.

Shi Xun continued: "Because the case of disappearance in the city is investigated very strictly, that secret road was used by Gong Xiao's men to go outside the city to arrest people for experiments or regularly pay tribute to sea ghosts. The experiment is the same as we guessed before, imitating the sea ghosts. Ghost, let everyone become a whole with the city lord as the head. The sea magnet is one of the contents of the transaction between the city lord and the sea ghost, but the conflict between the two parties has become more and more intense in recent years, and the cooperation has broken down."

"The anti-magnetic field generating device in the Leitu system is not only to maintain the stability of the magnetic field in the city, but also a special magnetic field made to imitate the magnetic field of the sea. The laboratory under the museum is the main control room of the Leitu system, where you can use an imitation sea ghost to connect The sensor helmet of the mechanism converts various personal wills into electromagnetic signals, and then expands countless times through each station, covering a range of up to hundreds of kilometers. It’s like those mecha movies in the prosperous period of mankind, except that the main control of the city is not Mechs, but all humans."

After Shi Xun finished speaking a few words, he was going to rest for a while. In this gap, Lou Yue said: "In his view, other people may be a tool that needs to be integrated, so that it can be used smoothly. He really can make it. thing."

Shi Xun nodded slightly: "The principle of people being controlled is similar to that of the previous puppet virus, but in order to enhance the synchronization efficiency and scope, Li Jing and the others edited the puppet virus several times, and spread it to the streets through sprinklers every day. Lane. People who inhale that kind of virus will lose control of their body when the city lord sends out an order signal, which is equivalent to their own body being completely requisitioned. Although the outdoor air flow is strong, it still affects many people. In addition, this kind of The virus has been modified many times, but its effectiveness is not strong, and it can be overcome if the will is strong enough. So Li Jing and others have been working hard to make up for this shortcoming."

"Also, people's mental defenses are more likely to be broken during sleep, and then they are taken over. The city lord will conduct the first large-scale experiment tonight."

As he spoke, Shi Xun's eyes could hardly be opened, and his throat was also dry and painful.She raised her finger, pointed at Lou Yue and said, "I've said almost everything I need to say, go find Ran Yu quickly. I want to have a few words with Xiaoai alone."

"Okay," Lou Yue looked at Shi Xun, saluted and thanked Shi Xun solemnly, "Take care."

Shi Xun snorted and waved his fingers: "I didn't see you passing by like this, leave quickly, I want a world for two people." She spoke lightly and cheerfully, but her weak sick appearance and hoarse voice still made her worse Totally betrayed.

After Lou Yue left, Yan Ai looked at Shi Xun silently, his eyes getting redder and redder.

"Great, it's almost finished." Shi Xun smiled at Yan Ai, "It's nice to have some time to be alone with you before I die."

"You think of me." Yan Ai stared into Shi Xun's eyes, and after saying this, her heart throbbed.

"Well, you are my favorite person. Do you still remember when we were studying in the community school 20 years ago?" Shi Xun said, "The school held a relay race, and you beat me every time."

Of course Yan Ai remembered.Every time Shi Xun finished his part and handed the baton to her, his eyes lit up surprisingly, as if two clusters of small flames were burning.

Shi Xun, who was lying on the hospital bed in front of him, didn't seem to know how he was hurt before he died, and he didn't even remember all the trivial frictions during the emotional burnout period.The memories she recovered were all of Yan Ai's best appearance.

"You have been the best in everything you have done since you were a child. Every time I hand over the baton to you, I feel very at ease." Shi Xun's body was so weak that he spoke intermittently, and his slightly sunken eyes were shining with the last light before his life was burnt out, " Because I believe that as long as you get the baton, no matter how much you fall behind, we will definitely turn defeat into victory."

Yan Ai held Shi Xun's hand: "Well, we will definitely."

"Xiao Ai, I'll leave it to you next."

Shi Xun slowly closed his eyes, his face was peaceful, as if he had fallen asleep.Her hand slipped from Yan Ai's.

In this way, they completed the last relay.