As soon as I entered Zheng Youcai's house, I smelled a burnt smell after the fire. "What kind of smell is this? What has been burned here?" I immediately covered my nose and turned my head to ask Lu Li. "Obviously, someone came a step ahead of us. Looking at the burned and wet ashes on the ground, Lu Li frowned slightly. "The small amount of water that has been sprinkled on the ground has not dried yet, so people should not be walking for long. ”

"But, who cares about this matter but us? Also, what is this burning? It can't be that Zheng Youcai's two sons have come back!" I said to Lu Li as I casually pulled the pile of ashes with the unburned branches in the stove. "Besides, this man is not from the village at first glance. If so, who will leave a good stove unused, and burn things on the ground, and make the floor dusty. "After pulling for a long time, I didn't find anything, I threw away the branch in my hand, patted the dust on my hand, and stood up.

"No, the burn is too thorough, and after being splashed with water, you can't see anything. ”

"It's really weird. Zheng Youcai is dead, if he wants to destroy anything like evidence, he should do it before Li Nan and the others come for the first time. Wouldn't it be easy for things to be discovered earlier?" Lu Li also fell into deep thought. Looking at him like this, thinking of his previous actions, I can't help but feel teased. "Oh~ It turns out that our Mr. Lu also has things that he can't control!"

Who knows, this person actually replied seriously: "There are many things in this world that cannot be controlled by manpower. I'm just a normal person, there are things that I can't control, isn't it normal?"

"However, this matter is not included. So, don't make a fuss. ”

I was instantly silenced.

Unable to tease me, I had to hang my head and continue to search the house for clues. "What if, the purpose of his burning is not to burn something?" Lu Li's voice came.

"Uh...... What do you mean by that?"

Literally. If it was really some organization or someone arranged the evidence of destruction, there would never be such an obvious flaw for us to discover so easily. Lu Li continued, "Only possible, burning things is not his purpose, getting our attention is." ”

Hearing Lu Li say this, I suddenly understood. The farmer's stove is at the door of the house, and if there is any abnormality, you can see it at a glance. There is such an obvious mistake of common sense here, if it is not that the person who did it is stupid, it means that the person who did it is trying for us to discover him.

"It's getting more and more interesting. ”

Hearing this, I inexplicably felt the cold hairs on my back stand up. "Therefore, this pandemic is not a natural disaster, but a man-made disaster. I muttered.

"If that's the case, then won't this matter rise to the level of national security?" I quickly turned around and asked Lu Li eagerly.

"Miss Chu, what has been done in Qingang that has not risen to the level of national security?" Lu Li asked rhetorically.

"So, you already knew all this?"

"The same cannot be said. Everything was speculation before, but now it can be almost determined. Lu Li was thoughtful.

"However, if this is the case, then Miss Chu, you, I'm afraid you have been exposed. Lu Li's brows suddenly furrowed.

"Why?" I blurted out after listening to what Lu Li said.

"The people who cause this chaos must be friends and foes. Don't hide it from Miss Chu, before Miss Chu joins Qingang, although country C can handle similar things, it will definitely not be handled so quickly. Let me ask Miss Chu, how long did it take Miss Chu to develop a vaccine against this unfamiliar and complex virus?"

"Three days. I replied. "You know that, too. ”

"However, does Miss Chu know? If you look at the normal speed of vaccine development at home and even internationally, it will take at least a week to do this well. Lu Li's eyes were facing me, and he said slowly, "It was successfully developed in three days, and few people in the world can do it, and Miss Chu Youyi Chu is one of them." There is only one possibility for country C to develop a vaccine by leaps and bounds in such a short period of time. ”

That is, Miss Chu, who disappeared from the international scientific research community overnight, joined Qingang and participated in research and development. ”

My face suddenly appeared, "If this is the case, then this enemy is probably not small." But if that's the case, why did they let you and me find out where they we......re?

Before I finished speaking, I was interrupted by Lu Li: "Isn't Miss Chu worried about her safety at all?"

Looking at Lu Li's frowning, I sighed in my heart. With a smile, I looked into Lu Li's eyes and said word by word: "Lu Li, do you know? I was actually a person who cherished my life before. I'll tell you a secret, I chose viral immunology because of my maternal grandmother. She was a member of the medical team sent by Country C to assist Africa, and I had never met her in person. She stayed in Africa for 20 years. It was twenty years, and the middle country called her back to China many times, but she refused. She said that there is not much more in country C, but the people in Africa really need her. She has also really saved many, many poor and displaced civilians in Africa. My mother said that when my grandmother left, she had told her that she would definitely come back. However, she did not return. ”

Because, just when she was finally ready to return home, the place where she was stationed, there was an outbreak of EBOV. And she never came back. I looked at Lu Li quietly and said slowly. When my grandfather and mother heard the news, they were devastated, but they were helpless. This incident has become a lingering knot in their hearts for so many years. ”

"So, Lu Li, although I regret my life, I study viral immunology and keep contacting and researching viruses, not because of how cool this thing is, but because I don't want to repeat the path taken by my grandfather and mother, but because I want to protect the people I love and want to protect. I'm sorry for my life, but for the sake of these people, I'm going to do whatever it takes. Now, country C is involved in this crisis, which means that they are involved in this crisis, and I cannot and will not stand idly by no matter what. ”

After I finished saying this in one breath, I didn't feel that my eyes were a little moist, I wiped it with my hand, and teased Lu Li with a smile: "Is Mr. Lu worried about my safety?" Seeing that he frowned again, I hurriedly said: "Okay, okay, okay, I have said so much here, and everything that should be explained has been explained, now Mr. Lu can listen to me finish speaking." Seeing that Lu Li was silent, I continued to say to myself: "Could it be that this person who wants to attract our attention and the person who is secretly plotting all this are not the same people?"

Hearing my words, Lu Li nodded, "This matter, let's pay attention to it first." ”

We searched carefully in Zheng Youcai's house a few times, and turned over the corners and courtyards, but there were still no debris. Seeing that it was getting late, Lu Li and I decided to go back first.

On the way to the agreed place at the entrance of the village, it was already evening. When the evening breeze rises, the crops planted on both sides of the country road sway in the wind, and the leaves rustle, making the village seem extraordinarily peaceful. Looking at the sunset, my heart suddenly felt melancholy. "I said I wanted to protect the people I wanted to protect, but Qiao Xun, I couldn't protect you. I thought to myself.

"What are you thinking?" Suddenly, Lu Li, who had been silent, spoke. Seeing him like this, the gloom in my heart dissipated, and I blurted out: "Of course I'm thinking about you! I didn't expect that Mr. Lu, who usually doesn't like to talk and is alone, still knows how to care for his colleagues." ”

Seeing that I was trying to tease, Lu Li only replied with two words: "Lied." ”

"Alas, Mr. Lu, I found that you always like to jump outward with two or two words when you speak. The way you look is the most unpleasant to the girl's family!, that is, I can stand it like this, and if it were someone else, I would have ignored you a long time ago!" I continued with a playful smile.

"It's the first time I've seen a girl like you. Lu Li replied calmly.

"Hehe, don't worry, don't worry, it's also a person in the rivers and lakes who can't help himself! Believe me, you will get used to it after seeing it a few times. I sneered. It is estimated that I am making such a fuss, and the last bit of care that Lu Li has for me is almost gone, and I will accept it when I see it. Tan Yi once criticized me for this: "Youyi, you said you, is it so difficult for people to care?"

Well, I have to say, it's really hard.