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As early as when Lao Wang and his group entered the secret passage outside the city, Xiang Anxiang, who was waiting at the entrance, had tested them for the magic talisman reagent.The owner of the supermarket has already set up two tables in the store, inviting Lao Wang and his group to eat hot pot.

Recently, the situation is chaotic, many shops are closed, few restaurants are open on the street, and this supermarket is closed to the public.This store has a good location and sufficient storage. The owner of the store made some connections and changed himself to be a supplier of the military and police department to avoid the goods from being dumped.Since the fall of the Second Ring Road, everyone has been in danger. The owner, Lao Guo, is in his 60s. His wife passed away a few years ago. Last month, his two sons who were city defense soldiers died fighting sea ghosts, and he was the only one left to guard the place. this shop.He is not the only old man who has lost his independence nearby. He intends to find someone to relieve his loneliness, but everyone has tragedies, and people will ignore him after hearing too much.

Recently, he always sorts out the goods in and out of the warehouse, and he is very lonely.Now a group of out-of-towners with bold temperament came down, and the deputy captain of the inspection team followed to check out. He was so happy that he opened the supermarket as a late-night hot pot restaurant.

Lao Wang and his gang escaped from the danger, and their spirits were still high. They dragged the shopkeeper and Xiang An to eat hot pot and drink together.There is only one bottle of wine, which is a rare commodity that the shopkeeper found only after rummaging through boxes and cabinets.Lao Wang asked for a few more small cups, and each cup was filled with a little wine, and the bottle of wine was bottomed out.Lao Wang lifted up the extra glasses of wine and spilled them on the ground.

Everyone was silent for a while, and the owner understood what had happened from the atmosphere, and bowed his head in silence.The spicy soup in the hot pot was boiling, and only a few people sitting on the table raised their wine glasses to celebrate their new life in a lively atmosphere.The shop owner said that they are all small people living in the last days, and I am afraid that the new life will not be easy.

Lao Wang said: "Since we can live for a few more days, let's be happy these days. At least the city is better than outside the city. There are no people everywhere outside the city. At least people live together here, so it's so safe."

The shopkeeper curled his lips: "A place with a lot of people is not safe! Hey, tell me about your life outside the city. Have you ever seen a sea ghost?"

Lao Wang swallowed a small glass of wine in one gulp: "I've seen it before, we killed it all the way."

The shop owner was very interested, and was about to continue listening to this legendary experience, but Xiang An Xiang suddenly came over and said that the city defense army wanted to order a batch of food and daily necessities.The shop owner had no choice but to ask the clerk to stay and look at the shop, said sorry, and took someone to tally and deliver the goods.

Xiang Anxiang sat back at the table, took up the conversation at the right time, and asked: "It's not easy for you, there are so many monsters outside the city, Ran Yu should be watched closely. I heard that you used to be Ran Yu's colleagues? "

A big brother who was drunk slapped his thigh: "That's not true! Our trip is really inseparable from luck and strength. Ran Yu worked with us several times when he was in the post office. It really makes sense for him to go to the city. The ability and learning ability are so scary that we have to obey. Some of us saw smoke coming from the chimney of Ran Yu’s house when we went out to find food before, and we knew there were people inside, but there was a circle of mutated beasts around the gate of the yard, so we didn’t dare to go to see it. Who would have thought There is still a rescue mission tonight, and he is the one who saved it."

The elder brother picked up some more chopsticks and added: "By the way, brother, are you and that captain Lou the leader of Ran Yu in the city? Your order is too strange. Take the elder brother and not the younger brother. He also said that his younger brother is a sea ghost, don't I think he is a cute kid?"

Xiang An Nang's heart skipped a beat: "You guys ran into that younger brother head-on? How did you escape?"

"That's right, after we dealt with the mutated monsters around the yard, Ran Yu and his younger brother came out to check on the situation. I told Ran Yu that someone in the city sent us to pick him up. I don't know what happened, but they rushed over from afar There was a wave of monsters, and the sparrows also attacked us. Originally, we all planned to retreat first after failing the mission, but the younger brother suddenly squatted down and hugged his head and screamed for pain, and the mutant beasts also stopped attacking. We were all stunned, Ran Yu Just rush out of the yard and let us go quickly."

"We have come all the way, and we have never seen so many varieties of mutated monsters. There are also black fish in the sky and black sea ghosts on the ground chasing us. It's so fucking spectacular. It's really close to death." The man said with a long sigh.

Old Wang: "Sigh, don't we go to the city now?"

Everyone said yes, yes... They raised their heads and drank the wine in the glass, and swallowed the words that followed into their stomachs along with the wine.

Xiang An An made an excuse to go to the bathroom, and reported the information he got to Captain Lou.

When Lou Yue received the news, he had just arrived at Yihuan Hospital with Ran Yu.After finishing the call, he turned to look at Ran Yu in the passenger seat: "So he really won't eavesdrop now?"

Ran Yu nodded: "Yes, I don't know when it started, I can feel his control over me is weakening, I can drive him away when I don't want to be annoyed, but occasionally it will fail. Could it be you Is the magnetic field that you just said changing?"

"It shouldn't have anything to do with that, maybe you have become better."

"I was already very good." Ran Yu said.

"You're right." Lou Yue smiled and parked the car in the basement.

They got out of the car and walked into the elevator of the hospital building side by side, without speaking for a while.

So many things happened this night.Shi Xun's death, collective sleepwalking, Ran Yu's return to the city... The living people are experiencing drastic changes all the time, and they cannot stop for any moment of grief or shock, they must move forward.

Yan Ai and the doctor notified Shan Qun's relatives and started to arrange funeral affairs.This is the second time Yan Ai has experienced Shi Xun's death, and she is not qualified to sign the death confirmation every time.What made her even more desperate this time was that she didn't know how to deal with single-group parents.Yan Ai knew that Shan Qun and Shi Xun had already merged to a great extent in personality, but she was not sure whether the decision to sacrifice herself could be regarded as Shan Qun's will.

Although according to Shi Xun's behavior, she would not morally kidnap others to sacrifice together, or harm others without their permission, but Yan Ai still felt bad at a certain point.

After Lou Yue and Ran Yu arrived, they bid farewell to Shan Qun's body, and were invited by the doctor to wait in Yan Ai's temporary office.Not long after they sat down, Lou Yue received a call from Chief Wei.

After the crowds on Wisteria Road cleared up, it was almost dawn.Director Wei and others were allowed to take people to clean up the streets and restore order.Director Wei asked Lao Feng with an anxious and confused expression, what was going on.

Old Feng said meaningfully: "Where are there so many problems, they are all for the future of the main city."

Director Wei used his lifelong acting skills accumulated in the officialdom, and put on an expression of ignorance and trying to save face: "Minister Feng, do you think this is inappropriate? I am the chief of the security department in charge of security work. There are sea ghosts outside the city and there are strange things inside. Of course I need to know what's going on so that I can shoulder the responsibility. , I am afraid that in less than half a month, the first ring has not been breached by sea ghosts, and it was destroyed by our own people first, and let the sea ghosts outside take advantage of it for nothing, what do you call this?"

Speaking of the last sentence of excitement, Director Wei clapped his hands and stomped his feet.

Minister Feng groped for a while, then patted Director Wei on the shoulder, and said with a smile, "Old Wei, what are you trying to do to me?"

Director Wei's face changed: "Minister Feng, where are you going? Am I worried?"

"The last person who said he was worried and secretly hindered the plan of the city lord seemed to be Lao Li. I don't know if you still have an impression?"

Many years ago, when the city lord planned to implement the new system, Director Wei's colleague Lao Li dared not resist the city lord on the surface, but secretly did a lot of things to obstruct it.Everyone would shudder in the summer when thinking about what happened to Lao Li after he was discovered by the city lord.

Director Wei was in a hurry: "Minister Feng, although you are my leader, you can't slander my loyalty at will! Can I be the same as an ignorant person like Lao Li?...Wait, you said that this is the city lord. about?"

"Forget it, it's okay to say a few words to you anyway. This is indeed the city lord's business, and it won't take half a month, at most a week, and all your worries will be gone." Minister Feng said, "It's hard to be loyal to you." Geng Geng is for the city and the people, don't worry, we are all standing together, we will not distinguish between you and me in the future."

Director Wei breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good, that's good, you're flattering me too much."

If he hadn't heard Lou Yue talk about the possible plans of the city lord in advance, maybe he really thought that the words "no distinction between you and me" were flattering himself.But now, he can only bear back the fear and chill in his heart, and make a deal with old Feng Xu.

After finally sending Lao Feng away, Director Wei stopped in front of a corpse that hadn't had time to cover it with a white cloth when he followed his subordinates to inspect the casualties.He hurriedly called the forensic doctor and asked, "Where was this found and when did he die?"

The forensic doctor replied after another examination: "It was found in a nearby alley where garbage was piled up. The time of death was three to four hours ago. The cause of death was multiple organ failure."

Director Wei went to a place where no one was around, and called Lou Yue to tell Lou Yue what he had learned from Lao Feng.

"It is confirmed that it is the plan of the city lord. According to Lao Feng, it will be successful in about a week. By then, we will all be walking dead without our own will." The people who are there can’t get in there. Lao Feng’s men have guarded the place tightly since last month. And they still have that strange virus in their hands. It can be done, not to mention that they are still improving. If we really want to fight head-on, our chances of winning are not high. We still have to keep our tails between our legs and act in secret."

"Okay, got it. I'm here with Yan Ai, and I'll discuss it with her later."

Old Wei smacked his lips, took a breath, and said, "Captain Lou, there is one more thing. I was cleaning up the scene just now and found that Professor Yuan Qiong had passed away near here. I informed Yihuan Hospital to send the body first."

There was silence on the other end of the phone for a while, and Lou Yue's voice came: "Understood."

There was a knock on Yan Ai's office door.Lou Yue hung up the phone and went to open the door, only to find that outside the door was Yuan Qiong's attending doctor.

The doctor bowed to Lou Yue, and said apologetically, "You should have received the news, please forgive me. The patient once asked me to help him find a pen and paper when he occasionally became conscious, saying that he would write a suicide note for him I handed it over to you after his death. He was not in good condition all the time, and his hands were shaking badly, but he still didn’t ask someone to write it for him. He wrote it in two parts.”

The doctor handed Lou Yue an envelope.

Lou Yue said, thank you.

He opened the envelope and took out the letter paper inside.It is said to be a suicide note, but in fact there are only two words with crooked lines written on it: "Sorry".

Lou Yue was stunned.

The doctor said: "Please turn it over, there should be something on the back."

Lou Yue turned the letter paper over, and the handwriting on the back shook even more.It took him a while before he realized that it wasn't the words that were shaking, but his hands holding the letter paper were shaking.

On the back it reads: "You are a good boy"