72. Su He's confession
Su He's sleep was dark and sweet. When I opened my eyes again, I found myself lying back in the bedroom, with an infusion bottle in my hand and a blanket on my body.
The effect of the anesthetic had obviously passed, and there was some pain and fever at the wound site, but it was still within the tolerable range.
The pillow was a little high, and Su He lifted the blanket and looked at his stomach by the way. The incision is completely covered with a white dressing, and a drainage tube is inserted in the middle.
He was about to follow the tube to find the drainage bag, when he caught a glimpse of what seemed to be something unusual by the window. He squinted his eyes and looked closely, only to find that the shelves full of seedling trays were missing.
The flesh in his heart was gone, and Su He was shocked. At this time, the door was pushed open, and it was Du Yunfei who walked in.
Su He hurriedly shouted: "Where's my dish?!" β
Du Yunfei slammed the notebook in his hand on the table.
"If you don't have a good rest, burn all your dishes."
Knowing that eighty percent of the seedling trays were moved by Du Yunfei, Su He settled down and muttered: "A big man, he is actually jealous with a few plates of vegetables, tsk." β
Du Yunfei did not raise the bar with Su He. He reached out to adjust the speed of the infusion, and opened the notebook to record something.
Su He wanted to continue harassing, but as soon as he opened his mouth, a cold thermometer was stuffed in.
"Does your stomach rise?" Du Yunfei asked while recording, "Nod or shake your head." β
Su He thought for a moment and shook his head.
"Do you feel anything near the knife edge?"
Nod.
"Is there any discomfort anywhere else?"
Shake oneβs head.
β¦β¦
The questions were a bit boring, and Su He patiently answered them all. The thermometer was finally removed, and the power on it was normal.
Seeing that Du Yunfei turned around to leave, Su He hurriedly threw out his doubts.
"How long have I been asleep, what time is it, and why is it still daytime outside?"
"You've slept for more than twenty hours, and it's three o'clock in the afternoon."
"More than twenty hours...... Isn't that the day to come to the plane? β
"Your brother and they're gone. Yesterday afternoon, they landed on Thundering Island and managed to free all the hostages. Qinghai has agreed to accept survivors, and now they should be on their way to the airport. β
"Oh, happy ending, that's good."
Su He said that he was happy, but he raised his head to look at the ceiling.
ββ¦β¦ To tell you the truth, this is the most dangerous thing I've ever experienced in my life. If I come a few more times, even I want to hide in Qinghai. β
"Do you want to go to Qinghai?" Du Yunfei helped Su Helean to sit up, and he pulled a chair and sat on the edge of the bed.
"It's just a casual talk."
Su He pursed his lips, and his eyes suddenly brightened again: "But you really impress me." Those shots were so accurate...... If you do surgery, you will have surgery. Tsk, I also said that I have epilepsy, and I am obviously super skilled, okay, even I almost turned black to you to powder. β
This kind of obedient words came out of Su He's mouth, and it can be regarded as a once-in-a-lifetime rarity. But Du Yunfei was not only useless, but silent.
After a while, he suddenly threw out a sentence that Su He's historical data did not reach:
"Actually, I had a seizure."
Su He was also stunned: "...... When? β
"Remember the last shot of the night?"
"Remember, you hit that guy in the right shoulder and warned him to 'shoot if you move again', what's wrong?"
"In that case, there is no need to warn at all, and it is more appropriate to shoot directly. But my left hand was stiff and my fingers were shaking, and I couldn't aim at the man's head. β
"So...... Was it an accident that he hit his right shoulder? Su He was suddenly a little scared.
"It was a coincidence that I hit the right shoulder." Du Yunfei said frankly: "But from that angle and distance, it is not difficult to hit the torso." β
Su He calmed down and asked again: "Then when you operated on me, you couldn't move your left hand?" β
"Moving. Soon after hitting that guy, he was able to move. β
ββ¦β¦ I see. β
Su He was thoughtful, and raised his eyes to look at Du Yunfei from time to time, as if he was quietly brewing something.
Du Yunfei didn't notice Su He's careful thoughts. He was rarely suppressed by negative feelings, and his eyebrows were tightly locked: "I am responsible for the explosion of the oil depot." In other words, your injuries are also my responsibility. β
Su He did not comment on his self-reproach, but reached out from the blanket.
"Give me your left hand."
"What are you doing?"
"So much nonsense, hurry up."
Du Yunfei finally stretched out his hand. Su He grabbed his fingers and slowly rubbed them in his palm, as if he was massaging, but he didn't feel any rules.
After kneading like this for a while, Su He finally stopped, took Du Yunfei's hand and put it on his cheek, and slowly closed his eyes.
"Actually, I had a similar experience exactly 10 years ago. At that time, it was not just one hand, my whole body was stiff like a piece of iron, shaking, cold sweat and breathless. Someone tried to help me, but I grabbed him and fell to the ground, rubbing a piece of skin off my knee, but I couldn't even feel the pain. β
Speaking of this, he smiled bitterly: "That day they sued me that the plane my parents were on fell down. β
Du Yunfei's palm twitched and gently stroked Su He's cheek.
Su He shook his head.
"I don't say this to gain any bullshit sympathy, but just to show that it is difficult for people to control themselves in extreme conditions. Although I don't know if you're really epileptic or if it's the same as I was back then. But I know that you were in front of me when the explosion occurred, and that was enough. β
With that, he opened his eyes and looked at the person in front of him with a bright and transparent gaze.
"Du Yunfei, you are mentally prepared. In this life, I will eat you. β
With Su He's declaration, Du Yunfei's expression gradually softened.
Instead of the lack of words, he leaned forward directly, stretched out his hands to imprison Su He between himself and the bedside railing, and offered a warm and affectionate kiss that seemed to have never been there.
The birds outside the house were inaudible, the wind blew the leaves, and the distant waves were all gone. The past is no longer remembered, how the future is insignificant, only this moment.
Considering that Su He's injury had not healed, Du Yunfei did not extend this moment indefinitely. And when he returned to the chair next to the bed, Su He licked his lips and smiled evilly.
"I seem to remember...... Someone once said that as soon as I came back, he would admit the mistake he made when he went on a blind date. β
Du Yunfei retorted: "I'm talking about returning safely, not lying on a stretcher waiting for me to disembowel." β
"You just said it was your fault, are you a goldfish, and your memory is only seven seconds?"
"You give me some ......"
Seeing that Du Yunfei was about to offer silence again**, Su He pursed his lips to express helplessness.
"Alas, it's harder for you to say two nice words than to kill you. Forget it, come over and let me kiss it again, it's cheap for you. β
Du Yunfei sneered, and actually leaned forward again. But at this moment, there was a voice outside the villa.
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The hostages and several thugs on Thundering Island were sent to the airport to join forces with the soldiers sent by the Qinghai resettlement site, and by the way, they also received the materials delivered by the meeting -- the three-person team led by Duan Whale was happy and refreshed.
Du Yunfei went downstairs to inform them that Su He had woken up, and several people immediately rushed up in one breath. came with him, as well as Haichen, who could only walk on crutches for the time being.
Because his leg injury had not healed, on the night of the decisive battle, Haichen was arranged to lead Duan Xingze to temporarily hide in the Poseidon Cave. The night that followed made him both annoyed and grateful, and a little regretful.
But no one complained about his absence. On the contrary, the firearms seized from the thugs were all collected into his hands, and he did it seriously and responsibly when it should be scrapped and maintained.
All the adults on the island gathered, and everyone brought chairs from their own rooms, and held an impromptu meeting in front of Su He's hospital bed.
As soon as he sat down, Duan Whale explained the key points bluntly: "There is going to be a big problem over there in Qinghai." β
The big problems on the earth are always related to human beings, and the problems in Qinghai are no exception -- they are about to have a food shortage.
Strictly speaking, there will be at least one to two years before a real food shortage occurs, but this only means that the national reserves, which are staple foods, are still sufficient. As for food other than staple foods, there is a lot of canned food, but fresh meat and bulk vegetables have a limited reserve life. Not to mention that after the power outage, the storage depots everywhere have long lost their low-temperature freezing function, almost no different from garbage heaps.
As for agriculture and animal husbandry, which is the old business of the Chinese, in order to defend against the invasion of Dianbai, the resettlement of Qinghai and Xinjiang was established in the saline-alkali zone. The soil here is not suitable for most vegetable cultivation, and even drinking water sources are relatively difficult.
To add insult to injury, this year's weather is abnormal, and the winter may be extremely cold. It is also greatly detrimental to the growth of plants.
At present, there are about 250,000 people in the resettlement sites in Qinghai. The supplies rescued from various places are still sufficient. But in the long run, it is not the way to go.
"Listen to what they mean, saline-alkali land is not conducive to development, and if there is an opportunity, people still have to gradually move eastward."
After talking about the foreshadowing above, Duan Whale finally threw out the key point.
"Therefore, Qinghai is very concerned about us left-behind groups and hopes to maintain regular communication with us to understand the situation in the southeast coastal area. So, they gave us a good one. β
Su He hates others selling Guan Zi the most: "What good things? Hurry up. β
"It's a digital radio station."
It was Lin Youqing's kindness: "Duan Whale used to assemble an analog radio station, and the sound emitted by the guΓ² radio station was directly converted into an electrical signal for transmission. Digital radio, on the other hand, converts sound into two digital signals, 0 and 1, according to a specific algorithm. The voice quality of such stations is often clearer than that of analog stations, but more importantly, only a specific receiver can receive the content from the transmitter of the corresponding algorithm. To put it simply, it's your call, and others sound like a bunch of noise. β
"In other words, the content of our future calls will not be heard by the 'listener'?" Su He has already realized its value.
Duan Whale added: "The Penglai broadcast on the analog radio station still has to continue. Digital radio is just a way for us to communicate privately, remember to keep it private. β
Su He nodded in understanding, and Du Yunfei beside him began to ask.
"What specific requirements does Qinghai have for us?"
"There are not many requirements, as long as our drones regularly patrol the surrounding area, observe and report the activities of Dianbai and zombies, and cooperate with some experiments...... Oh yes, at the moment some of our satellite bases are safe for the time being. So in the years when the satellites were still working normally, Qinghai would also provide us with satellite monitoring of the nearby area on a regular basis to help us determine whether there was human activity on the surrounding islands. β
"They want to find an opportunity to move people over?"
"There are such considerations, but the idea is not yet mature. Foguang Island is too small and not an important transportation hub, so in their eyes, it is more like a piece of chicken ribs. β
"It's good to be chicken, I don't want them to come."
Hearing that someone thought Foguang Island was not good, Su He was immediately unconvinced: "This is a botanical garden, not a military base. There are so many bare and hairless islands,
"They didn't say they were going to cut down trees and build buildings." Lu Rulan hurriedly appeased, "It is said that as far north as Bohai Bay, south to the South China Sea, there are more than a dozen outpost survival points like ours. Several of them are still large archipelagos, which can accommodate many people, and are also convenient for stockpiling supplies and expanding into the land. We, indeed, are the smallest. β
"What's wrong with being small, although our sparrows are small, they have all kinds of organs. There is water, electricity, oil and food, what's not good? β
"No oil." Du Yunfei corrected Su He, "It's all blown up." β
"It's okay." Su He had already thought of a countermeasure, "Isn't it just oil?" Come, I will make it for you. β