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Old Wei sat in the command post next to the checkpoint, staring at the real-time images on a dozen small monitors in front of him.The staff next to the console were busy connecting to the communication channels and reporting the situation to Director Wei one after another.

"The sleepwalking crowd on Wisteria Road stopped smashing things, and now they are standing at the intersection without moving."

"The bird repellent device was destroyed, and the sparrow broke through the air defense line!"

"Director—Director!" A broken voice broke the tense and oppressive working atmosphere.

Old Wei frowned: "Why panic? Is there any scene that I haven't seen?"

The man pointed to one of the screens: "The sea ghosts seem to want to attack us with shells! They used the abandoned munitions that we didn't have time to withdraw before! The wall is about to collapse!"

"What the hell?" Old Wei's voice almost broke, and he looked closer to the screen, almost screaming out.I saw a group of sea ghosts transporting a cannon carriage towards the city wall.The cannon was already unusable when it was abandoned, but the sea ghost was able to repair it patchwork.What is this outrageous thing?

Old Wei hurriedly dialed Ran Yu's communication number. He waited anxiously for a while, and finally heard the voice on the other end before he was about to be automatically hung up.

"How about your side? Our side is about to lose its hold." Old Wei said.

It wasn't Ran Yu who spoke over there, but Yan Ai: "I'm adjusting the equipment, start right away. There will be electromagnetic interference on the call, so hang up first."

"Hey..." Before Lao Wei finished speaking, the other side had already hung up.

The staff turned to look at Director Wei, and asked for instructions on how to wait for death with his eyes. Old Wei took a deep breath: "Work! Go to work! If you don't want to die, go all out!"

Yan Ai put the communicator aside, and asked Ran Yu who was about to put on the helmet: "Have you figured it out?"

"There is no other way, a protracted war is impossible." Ran Yu said holding his helmet, "It is very smart, and it has been hungry for a long time, and it has been prepared for a long time. After the wall is breached, it will not immediately take all People eat it, but keep a small part of it, keep it for breeding and eat it slowly, just like raising livestock. I don’t want to see that happen.”

"If Lou Yue knew that we were hiding from him together, he might hate me to death."

"Don't be so pessimistic," Ran Yu advised her, "Maybe we'll all be dead before he knows."

"...That's right."

Ran Yu put on his helmet and waited quietly for Yan Ai to check and adjust the equipment.In fact, no one has asked him to do anything since he returned to the city, but he knows what he can do.I don't know when, Ran Yu has already recognized the fact that Ran Qiu repeatedly let him go after he sent out information, not because he loved him and was reluctant to kill him, but because he couldn't kill him, or in other words, couldn't kill him.

Although Ran Qiu has been deliberately hiding some of his own cognitions to prevent Ran Yu from easily finding out, Ran Yu still has a glimpse of his relationship with Ran Qiu from countless details.They are not so much connected as they are in symbiosis.Ran Qiu took him to climb the mountain that day, and without warning on the top of the mountain, Ran Yu had a splitting headache.In fact, if you think about it carefully, it is not exactly a punishment, but a temptation.To test whether he can survive when Ran Yu is about to die.Ran Yu's sense of near-death lasted very short, and Ran Qiu quickly gave up, so the result was obvious.

Ran Qiu's attitude towards humans is just like humans treat other animals, with a kind of arrogance and superiority that cannot be concealed, so he rarely hides anything.Just like humans are not afraid that an ant will kill themselves, so even if they tell an ant a hundred ways to kill themselves, they are not afraid.But when talking about this matter at that time, Ran Qiu bypassed the topic.Ran Yu vaguely knew that there was a way to kill Ran Qiu, and it might not be difficult.

Since the sea ghost is such an incomprehensible whole, perhaps even blowing up and burning all the sea ghosts and sparrows that can be seen will not be able to destroy it, so let's start with something simple, such as Ran Yu, who lives with the sea ghost , there is only one, dead is dead, simple and rude, and one can still be taken.

Ran Yu is not very confident in this guess, and it is impossible for him to choose a time to do some suicide experiments just for a guess.However, the urgent situation at the moment prevented him from thinking about other things.

So in the afternoon when Lou Yue fell asleep, Ran Yu secretly contacted Director Wei and Yan Ai, asking them to help.

Yan Ai has finished debugging the device, pressed the switch, and nervously watched the surrounding screens monitoring Ran Yu's vital signs.The electrodes on the helmet were attached to Ran Yu's head, and he closed his eyes.

In an instant, Ran Yu's senses became extremely sharp.He seems to have returned to the dream he often had before, but the scene of the dream is no longer the sea, but the land and sky.

He saw the towering city wall from the perspective of the sea ghost on the ground, and at the same time saw the people with live ammunition on the wall from the perspective of the fish.High and low, far and near, countless angles put together, as if everything was under his eyes.

Ran Yu felt like a giant looking down on the dilapidated city at this time, and the wind and cloud seemed to be at his disposal, becoming the product of his breathing.The human gathering place with only one ring area in front of him looked like a small building block toy, as if he stretched out his fingers and pushed it lightly, it would be scattered into a pile of ruins.

He suddenly wanted to do it.He stretched out his "finger", and as soon as he clasped it on the city wall, he felt a slight tingling pain from his fingertips, just like the sharp thorns of cocklebur rubbing against his callused palm, which did not hinder it in the slightest.Ran Yu felt that something was wrong. He carefully looked at the source of the sting, and found that there were many people the size of sesame seeds on the building block toys shooting arrows at him.

Ran Yu woke up suddenly, by the way, his purpose was not to destroy this place, but to save it.He struggled to coordinate his huge body to stop those parts that were still mechanically bombarding the high wall with shells.Then what he has to do is some delicate tasks that test more flexibility and coordination, like manipulating the ten toes of the original body to embroider, and it is even hundreds of times more difficult.He needs to use countless end limbs to find out all the sea magnets in the second and third rings, hand them over to the sky from the limbs on the ground, and then throw them to the sesame seeds on the city walls.

During this process, there was a force in his body that kept clamoring for opposition. Ran Yu could not resist before, but now he can easily suppress the opposition and continue to do what he is doing.

Perhaps practice makes perfect, after a few trips, Ran Yu adapted well to his new huge body.He basically found all the sea magnets in his impression.

Sea Ghost and Sparrow stopped attacking and started throwing stones into the city.

When the frontline team members first came to report the news to Old Wei, Old Wei's first reaction was that it was impossible, but he quickly remembered what Ran Yu said.So while meditating in his heart, "Evil door, evil door, true evil door, how can this really work", he quickly led people to collect the air-dropped sea magnets, threw them into the pre-dug pit, and used super high temperature to demagnetize them .

Immediately afterwards, Old Wei ordered to open fire on the black sea ghosts and sparrows outside the city.Due to the sudden drop in the strength of the sea magnetic field, the thermal weapons regained their due effectiveness.

The sparrow fish in the sky were blasted into bloody sprays, and the sea ghosts on the ground were flying with flesh and blood amidst the dense explosions.

Ran Yu could clearly feel the pain from the "skin" intensify, from the slight scratching of the cocklebur's thorns to a sharp blade, and then it seemed to be chopped into the flesh by an axe, and the bones began to shatter...the pain Suddenly, it was so strong that it made his heart tremble, his eyes went dark, and he lost his giant-like vision.

The picture that reappeared in Ran Yu's mind was a sea, and he was standing on a small island in the sea.The area of ​​the small island is only a dozen square meters, and it is very low, and the sea water will wash up to the feet.Beside him is Ran Qiu.Ran Qiu was sitting on the shore, kicking his feet in the sea water.

Ran Qiu looked at the sea and said: "Actually, as long as you don't fight against me, you can get everything your city lord wants. You are all human, why don't you want what he wants?"

"Probably because everyone is different."

"You are a species, why are you different?"

Ran Yu couldn't answer this question, so he had no choice but to remain silent.

Ran Qiu said again: "I was injured and have to rest for a long time. Now you are happy."

Ran Yu walked around behind Ran Qiu, pulled out a dagger from his waist, and pressed it against the other's throat.

Ran Qiu said: "You should already know that killing me is equivalent to killing yourself."

"I know, but I'm not used to wiping my own neck, so let's do it this way." Ran Yu said.

The sea ghosts outside the city cannot be killed, but the one that can appear in his consciousness must be the overall sea ghost that can control the overall situation.

Ran Qiu still looked at Hai: "You are really good at me? Anyway, I have been your younger brother for a long time, and I have been with you for a long time than those you met in the city. Although you don't say it, you still treat me very well. Indifferent, but I know you take me as your family. Since your parents died, you have been lonely for too long, and the time when I was your younger brother is a very precious memory for you."

"But you are not human, and you can eat people."

"But you are not afraid of me. I am your younger brother. In fact, you have always felt that way, but you have been lying to yourself and trying to hate me with others. If you don't have them, you don't actually hate me. If you are unhappy in the future, I will It’s okay not to eat people you know, okay?”

Ran Yu didn't speak.

"Maybe you can continue to be my elder brother in the future. I think it's very good. I've never experienced it before..."

Before Ran Qiu finished speaking, his throat was cut.Ran Yu didn't control his strength well, and the blood gushed out, staining a small piece of sea water red.

"I'm sorry." Ran Qiu heard Ran Yu say softly.

Ran Qiu turned his head with difficulty, and saw a teardrop slid down Ran Yu's cheek, just like the pearl he found and hid for a long time at the bottom of the sea.

He reached out and pulled off Ran Yu's collar, but he didn't see the pearl he sent out not long ago.In a moment, he knew that Ran Yu had taken down the pearl and cut it open.

Ran Qiu suddenly smiled and grabbed Ran Yu's collar. He could no longer speak with his throat, so the voice rang directly in Ran Yu's mind: "Stay with me in the end, brother."

As he spoke, Ran Qiu tugged hard.For some reason, Ran Yu couldn't escape this force, and was dragged and fell into the sea.

The sea beat merrily on the spray, engulfing them.The light red liquid was quickly diluted, the light above the head gradually disappeared, the temperature of the skin surface was quickly deprived, the water bubbles were floating on the ground, and the fish were swimming in panic, and they slowly sank into the dark and cold seabed.

Sea ghosts and fish without mind control are like arthropods with their heads removed. They only have the simplest and basic nerve reflexes, and there is no possibility of actively attacking humans.

A week later, under the repeated cleaning of the bombs, the remaining incapacitated sea ghosts and pike fish on the second and third ring roads were cleaned up, and the comprehensive disinfection work was carried out smoothly at the same time.

Two weeks later, various temporary meetings were held and a special action group was formed, and the post-disaster reconstruction work officially started.

A month later, Lou Yue was unanimously approved and elected as the new city lord.

Two months later, Ran Yu still didn't wake up.

Ran Yu was lying in the intensive care unit of Yihuan Hospital, relying on a ventilator and densely packed tubes to support his life.

In the middle of the night two months ago, mankind turned the corner, and Ran Yu didn't wake up after lying on the bed in the underground laboratory of the museum.

After the new city lord took office, even if he had endless work to do every day, he would still accumulate all his free time and come to the hospital to visit patients who couldn't wake up.Every night, he would either take a nap in the office and continue working all night, or he would come to the hospital and stay overnight in Ran Yu's ward.

Lou Yue sometimes asked Ran Yu what he had experienced at that time.

Yan Ai told Lou Yue that it was a real war without gunpowder, which belonged only to Ran Yu, and no one else could participate, assist, or even imagine.Maybe it's like a dream.Just as the stabbing of the heart in the dream may be an early warning of real heart pain reflected in the dream. At that time, he and Ran Qiu competed for control, and his brain would show many concrete scenes. Although she could not know the specific experience in Ran Yu's mind at that time What kind of battles have been fought, but the surveillance data has shown the intensity of those battles.

She also said that Ran Yu's current condition is close to brain death, it is irreversible, and there is almost no possibility of waking up.Ran Yu is now in a deep coma, without spontaneous breathing, and his brainstem reflexes are extremely weak, sometimes absent.It was because of this weak reflex that the doctor could not issue a formal brain death certificate for him, and it was precisely because of this that Lou Yue believed that Ran Yu would wake up, and came to visit him every day, hoping that the other party could see him at first sight when he woke up.

Yan Ai persuaded Lou Yue to sleep normally many times. He can't always have morning and night upside down, and he can't take time during the day to sleep for a while. Sudden death first.

"I don't want to sleep at night. Although the sleep during the day is short and fragmented, it is solid." Lou Yue said.

Just as Yan Ai wanted to give him popular science about the serious harm of sleep to his body, he heard Lou Yue say again:

"I'm afraid that when I wake up at night, he will be gone again."

Yan Ai stopped talking, just sighed.

When Yan Ai left, he looked back. Lou Yue, who was unwilling to leave in the ward, was like a child abandoned by adults in an amusement park. As long as he obediently waits where he is, someone will definitely come to pick him up.

Ran Yu didn't know how long he sank in the sea.The oppressive feeling in his lungs made him uncomfortable all the time. After the feeling of suffocation lasted for a long time, he suddenly found that the force that was pulling him down disappeared.

Ran Qiu disappeared.

So, Ran Qiu let him go in the end?

Unknown to Ran Yu, he tried kicking his legs to swim upstream. After swimming for a long time, he finally surfaced and took a deep breath.

Ran Yu struggled to open his eyes, and saw a hazy and faint light outside the curtains. He didn't know if it was a lamp, moonlight, or morning light.

He found himself on a ventilator with many tubes.He felt uncomfortable all over and wanted to move.As soon as he moved his hands, he realized that his hands were held in a pair of warm and powerful hands.

"You're awake." Lou Yue's voice rang in his ears.

"What time is it?" Ran Yu struggled to speak, his throat was dry and sore.He turned his head hard and finally saw Lou Yue.

Despite the dim light in the room, Ran Yu could still see that Lou Yue's dark circles were heavy, and his whole body was as tired as a dry and dehydrated flower petal.

Lou Yue kept staring at Ran Yu from the time he woke up to the time he spoke, as if he wanted to record his every subtle movement into a disc with his eyes, so that he could play it in memory at any time in the future.

"Why don't you go to sleep?" Ran Yu asked.

"Waiting for dawn."

"Oh, is it daylight?"

Lou Yue looked into Ran Yu's eyes and said, "Well, it's dawn."

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The author has something to say:

dbq is coming late!It's late but I want to say Merry Christmas! ~

This is the end of the story, and there will be an episode later, explaining the reconstruction of the main city, the follow-up of each character, and letting the protagonist focus on falling in love (.) Try to get it done next Monday and Tuesday, and next Wednesday at the latest.

Thanks to the little angels for their reading companionship, tolerance, encouragement and support during this period of time, I love you!Crazy stickers! =3=