In fact, Li Zhen has been watching from the roof for a long time. The building is old and not very tall. In the past, at night, he would go to the roof with Qi Yuanshan to smoke. The two of them sat on the edge of the rooftop, squinting their eyes in the warm night breeze to see this bustling metropolis.

At that time, perhaps Qi Yuanshan was thinking about how to find a place to settle down in this city, while Li Zhen was thinking about when he could return to his old life and be with the people he cared about the most.

Now, in a way, both of them have come true – but not in the way they had hoped.

A lot of people in the building have moved away. Some died in the disaster, some left for the country, and others moved to a better place – because the loved ones who once lived there also died.

He saw Yu Yongqiang, Qi Lingling, and Qi Yuanshan walking out of the door, and he was also very pleased that the former friend was still in good health, although the expression on his face was not pleasant, but at least it was not the kind of numbness that was tortured by a difficult life. As for Qi Lingling...... He felt a little familiar for a while, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it.

In the end, he followed Yu Yongqiang on the roof of the building. Watch him limp around the street and turn into the alley, and then point to the sky and curse.

This scolding startled a flock of sparrows. However, the sparrows flew to the roof of another building and tilted their heads to look at each other for a while, and then realized that the human was not a threat, so they flew back again, with the intention of watching from close quarters.

Seeing that even the sparrow didn't take himself to heart, Yu Yongqiang's anger reached an incomprehensible level. So he grabbed some rubble from the ground. Started scolding and hitting the birds.

However, after throwing three stones in succession, he suddenly saw a man in a black coat appear on the roof of the building on one side. Before he could figure out what the man was trying to do, the other man had taken a step forward and fell straight down from the side of the building.

Yu Yongqiang couldn't help but let out a "hey" and stretched out his hand, as if he could catch the person in this way.

But before he could close his open mouth, the man had fallen to the ground. The thin snow at the landing point was swept away, and the ground trembled slightly, as if someone living upstairs had stomped his foot hard. But the man didn't bend his knees, and the moment he landed, he took a second step and walked towards him.

Yu Yongqiang instinctively glared at the round eyes. Glancing left and right. Thinking about where to run for a while. He'd heard about the ability coming out to mess around in the Dao, but he didn't understand when he offended which god, and all of these things happened today—just the shit that was pasted on his hands just now. At least a shit luck.

But before he could run away, he heard the man say, "I didn't expect you to be really good." ”

The sound was familiar. Yu Yongqiang was stunned, and for the first time he carefully looked at the person's appearance. Then he called, "Oh, I'll go...... Why are you—ahhhh Is that you? ”

Li Zhen walked up to him and reached out to pat him on the shoulder. He smiled and asked, "Are you okay?" ”

"Ah...... Okay, good, pretty good—" Yu Yongqiang replied. Li Zhen's arm is very strong. He stumbled slightly. But after he said this, he regretted it in his heart - should he say that he was miserable, and it would be good to have a petty official?

But Li Zhen shook his head: "I don't think you're very good." ”

His gaze fell on Yongqiang's lame leg. Yu Yongqiang felt his gaze and felt that his legs were a little disobedient.

Fortunately, Li Zhen patted him again: "Tell me, what is going on?" He pulled Yu Yongqiang to sit down—on an empty gasoline drum covered with light snow next to him, "Is there chaos around here?" ”

Yu Yongqiang was a little worried in his heart, he couldn't understand what Li Zhen's "approachable" style meant, and he couldn't figure out what he wanted to ask about the sentence "For example, there is chaos around here". But he still knew that Li Zhen had the point—there was indeed a lot of chaos around here.

Not only is there chaos in the neighborhood, but also in Binh Duong.

The catastrophe disrupted the entire social structure, and there was no difference between high-ranking officials and ordinary people in front of it. The isolation zone will not take a detour just because someone has a title, and the flesh and blood will turn into loess in the face of time.

In the past, many people complained about those government officials, believing that most of them were shameless, immoral, and talentless, taking taxpayers' money to engage in fly and dog business, and making a mess of the whole society. But now more people realize that those guys don't seem to be as bad as they once thought.

When the Isolation Zone arrived, there was a section of the city hall avenue - where almost all the political elite of Binh Duong City were concentrated. At that time, the group was having a meeting on the emergency crisis response bill, and the crisis came to their door, and they were put in the pot.

In fact, there are not many real talents among those people, but more ordinary people with mediocre IQs and mediocre sense of morality. However, compared to the more ordinary people, they have a long period of experience in managing the city and the surrounding area, and experience cannot be learned in a vacuum.

Therefore, the situation in Pingyang was much more chaotic than other places, and a large number of gangs were born that no one was satisfied with except God. Although social order has gradually been restored since then, the large and small groups that flourished for a time have not completely disappeared, even now.

Li Zhen had seen gang fires at least four times along the way, and the police force here seemed to be so small that he hadn't even heard the siren.

The reality was exactly what he thought. Yu Yongqiang patted his knee and sighed: "Who said it wasn't." Brother, that's what I did—"

"But I wasn't so lacking in virtue at that time." However, thinking of the scene when he and Li Zhen met for the first time, Yu Yongqiang couldn't help but shrink his neck, "What, that time doesn't count-it wasn't me who used the knife that time......"

"Have they been here?" Li Zhen asked bluntly.

"Hmm...... Been here. Yu Yongqiang said, "But I used to have some friendship with them, and it didn't matter much for the time being." ”

Li Zhen nodded. Didn't speak again.

Yu Yongqiang sat beside him with some anxiety, and after a while he mustered up the courage to ask, "Are you here...... The distant mountains are still there, but we're going to sell them sooner—"

"Do you still hate me? Your legs? ”

Yu Yongqiang was stunned for a moment, and then quickly shook his head: "Don't dare, don't dare...... No, it won't—I know now that you're doing it for my good......"

"How can it be good if a person's leg is broken." Li Zhen smiled and shook his head. He reached out and pinched Qi Yuanshan's knee, then turned to look at him again, "How about getting it done for you?" ”

Yu Yongqiang's eyes widened, not knowing how to react. Li Zhen said it like a joke, and his expression also looked like a joke. But he felt that the other party was not joking.

Then he saw Li Zhen stand up. He put a finger on his head and asked seriously, "Do you have the courage to die and live?" ”

He hesitated for a few seconds and reacted - not questioning whether Li Zhen could do it, but feeling that his head had become a little numb because of this sudden great news. He didn't even intend to figure out what Li Zhen meant by "death and life". He nodded hurriedly: "Yes, yes, yes - I listen to you!" ”

Li Zhen shook his head: "I mean real life and death - maybe death." ”

The joy on Yu Yongqiang's face froze for a moment. Then his chest fluttered a few times. Close your eyes. Say, "I dare." I believe in you. ”

After saying this, his body trembled slightly, and he fell off the empty barrel limply.

He's really dead. The whole brain is stirred into a pulp. Mixed with cerebrospinal fluid. Blood quickly flowed from his nostrils, and his face still maintained the resolute and resolute expression of the last moment.

Li Zhen crouched down and lifted his eyelids to confirm that he was dead thoroughly. Then he pulled a needle out of his coat pocket. It looked like a diabetic syringe, with only a short needle exposed. There are no text symbols on the outside, just yellow and black colors. If there was a person who had been in the biology laboratory of the Luzon Academy of Sciences standing here at this moment, he would know that the color meant that the contents of the injection, whatever it were, were tests that had great side effects and had not yet been approved for safety.

Li Zhen waited for about a minute before inserting a short needle into Yu Yongqiang's bare neck. There was a slight "click" sound, and the potion was injected into his body.

After about five minutes, the body reacted.

The first to move are the fingers, then the limbs. It was as if a person was being electrocuted incessantly, and the convulsions spread from the limbs to the torso and eventually to the top of the head. The corpse's chest began to rise and fall violently, and a cloud of turbid air erupted from its mouth and nostrils. The eyeballs under the eyelids began to roll rapidly, and then the eyes blinked.

Li Zhen took a step back, leaving him more space.

But the tics came a little shorter than expected. After two minutes, the momentum subsided. This time the rebirth process ended with a large gasp of breath - Yu Yongqiang supported the ground with both hands and sat up.

"How long has it been?!" He asked aloud.

"About ten minutes." Li Zhen said.

"Impossible......" Yu Yongqiang was stunned, "How is it possible?" I'm putting ...... I've gone through all the things I've done in my life, how can it be ten minutes? ”

Li Zhen nodded thoughtfully and whispered, "Oh...... Then it means that the memory is also replayed in the process of brain reorganization. ”

However, Yu Yongqiang, who was extremely excited, didn't hear this sentence clearly. What he heard was that Li Zhen said to him again: "It's like dreaming." You take a look around. ”

Yu Yongqiang looked at his legs. It was no different in appearance than before, but he could feel the change in essence - that leg was no longer sore and numb, but full of strength. The muscles burned with the force, as if every fiber was urging him to run, jump, and release.

Under Li Zhen's smiling gaze, he stood up. I tried to move a step first, and then I felt the agility and activity that I hadn't felt for a long time.

Yu Yongqiang glanced at Li Zhen with ecstatic eyes, then turned around and kicked the iron bucket beside him with that leg. However, the devastation caused by this kick was far more powerful than he could have imagined - the bucket seemed to turn into papier-mâché, first dented in the contact area, and then flew into the air. The heavy iron creature crossed the wall at breakneck speed, and a second later there was a dull sound at the other end of the wall, and smoke rose from the falling wall over the wall. Tiny pebbles fell.

Yu Yongqiang was taken aback by this accident, and habitually took a diagonal step back. But this time, the newborn's strong, powerful leg supported his torso, and his body only shook.

"This is ......," he glared at Li Zhen.

"You are the first person in this world to use this medicine." Li Zhen shook the empty syringe with two fingers, "Now that you are a capable person, you will be stronger, more sensitive, and more powerful than ordinary people." But you're going to have a lot of trouble lately. Like this one. ”

He pointed to Yu Yongqiang's shoes. The front end of the large-scalped shoes that resembled military boots had been completely cracked, revealing the same torn socks. But the toes inside were not even scratched by the skin, as if they had been cast from steel.

"You have to get used to this force slowly, don't crush someone's palm when shaking hands."

Yu Yongqiang was still a little stunned. But the next moment, he suddenly knelt on the ground and bowed his head: "From today on, my life is yours - what do you want me to do with Yu Yongqiang, I have absolutely nothing to say!" ”

Then he raised his head, and his eyes showed a fierce spirit that he had not seen for a long time: "Brother." Say it. What do you want me to do? ”

Li Zhen looked at him, couldn't help but smile dumbly, and waved his hand: "Don't be like this." What can I ask you to do? It's good for you to stay here – I'm not Froude. ”

Of course, Yu Yongqiang didn't know who Froude was. But he doesn't care about that either. He opened his mouth in surprise: "That ......"

"What are you going to do if you stay here?" Li Zhen dragged him up. "But I won't allow you to gang up like you used to. You have to promise me to be a serious person. ”

Yu Yongqiang still kept his mouth open - until Li Zhen confirmed that his tonsils were not inflamed. He suddenly said, "Oh—I see. ”

"You want me to cover the distant mountains, don't you?" He said. Then he frowned again, "Then why don't you give him a needle?" ”

"He wouldn't like those days." Li Zhen smiled and shook his head. "Actually, on the other hand, as I said, you are the first person in this world to use this potion. This thing is actually not safe, you could have died just now. Good thing you're brave enough - now I know it's not as scary as I thought. ”

Yu Yongqiang pursed his lips and didn't speak.

"Actually, you're not bad at thinking about it - in a sense, you're a test piece for me." Li Zhen stopped smiling. After saying this, he turned around.

Yu Yongqiang was about to ask something more, but a cloud of snow mist suddenly exploded in front of him, and Li Zhen had disappeared.

Yu Yongqiang frowned and looked into the sky, but he didn't see any trace. He felt that Li Zhendu was about to become an immortal.

Then he lowered his head again, looked at his own leg, and took a few steps in the snow. The snow was still falling, and it fell on his face one after another. But now he didn't feel as cold as before, and he felt like he had a fire in his body. Although this flame flickered because of Li Zhen's last words, it ......

Yu Yongqiang raised his head again and furrowed his eyebrows.

"Something is wrong...... he muttered to himself, "there's no one over there in Luzon?" Why do you have to look for me? ”

He stopped in his tracks because of this doubt, but after thinking for a while, he started to walk again. Because of this thought just now, another question began to bother him - he felt that Li Zhen must be smarter than himself. I can think of this step, and the other party can't think of it.

One question is fine, but once it becomes two, he can't figure it out. So he frowned and walked to the store, unsure of whether to tell Qi Yuanshan what had just happened.

He hadn't gone far just now, so this time it only took a minute to walk to the door of the morning shop again. It was only when he saw the shadowy people sitting inside through the plastic curtain at the door that he remembered what a great change had happened in his body. Therefore, the two questions in his mind were temporarily put behind him, and he paused to try not to look overjoyed on his face, and then raised his hand to open the curtain.

But no one looked at him. Everyone in the store is looking at the TV hanging on the wall with their necks tilted up. Qi Yuanshan noticed him, but he only glanced at him, and then looked away again.

Yu Yongqiang found that Qi Yuanshan's face was quite ugly. Over the years, he has only seen that look twice.

So as these people looked, he also cast his gaze on the TV screen. It's morning news, and the host is talking. What he heard was the last two sentences—

“…… Most of the people interviewed expressed strong outrage at this anti-human act, and the British authorities refused to respond positively. ”

This was followed by the sound of music at the end of the news section. Yu Yongqiang grinned. asked Qi Yuanshan: "What's wrong?" What do you say? ”

Qi Yuanshan glanced at him with a gloomy face and beckoned to him: "You come in." Then he turned and went into the kitchen.

Yu Yongqiang felt a little inexplicable - because the people who were eating in the store first turned their heads to look at Qi Yuanshan, and then came to see him. That kind of look is extremely complicated, and it seems to contain a trace of hostility and fear-

It's weird. Yu Yongqiang muttered in his heart, and walked towards the kitchen. Some looked at his legs in surprise, but many more turned their faces away.

Yu Yongqiang walked into the kitchen and asked, "What's wrong?" One by one, it looks like their own mother is dead. ”

Qi Yuanshan gasped, sighed, and raised his eyes to look at Yu Yongqiang: "The news just now was about Li Zhen." ”

“…… What's wrong with Li Zhen? ”

The news said that Li Zhen held a summit in Yanjing last month. At the meeting, he said...... Qi Yuanshan frowned. After hesitating for a while, I slowly told the content of the news.

There was no mention of the Old Gods in the news. In its place is a powerful "species". This must be to take care of the mood of the vast majority of people who have just calmed down—if people learn that they have managed to get out of the shadows of the species, only to find out that there is actually an even more powerful one. Then the social order that has just been restored will collapse in the blink of an eye.

The rest of the section is largely the same as what Li Zhen said at the meeting, and even though it is only an overview, it is enough to make people "figure out" what is really going on.

It is said that the person who revealed this information was someone in the British government who "still had a minimum of conscience" - "he" thought that it was necessary for such a thing to be known to everyone still alive in this world, and not to leave the fate of all mankind to so many dozens or one person.

However, this person of conscience deliberately concealed some details. So the news that people learned was. Li Zhen has become the spokesperson of that terrible existence. And he refuses to admit that he is a human being. He conveyed to the heads of 47 countries the wishes of that "species". And it renders that guy extremely horrible. As for what humans should do and how to deal with it — Li Zhen declined to reveal more inside information.

After finishing speaking, Qi Yuanshan asked Yu Yongqiang with a gloomy face: "What do you think?" ”

Yu Yongqiang opened his mouth and frowned, and after a while, he scolded: "Isn't this him, is he sick?" How is it anti-human? He didn't say he was going to help that kind of guy beat us, did he? Are those people scared silly? ”

"That's what you think?" Qi Yuanshan asked, "I thought I was the only one who thought so." But the people out there...... They don't seem to think so. ”

"Then they're stupid." Yu Yongqiang summed it up dryly.

But Qi Yuanshan shook his head: "No...... It's because we know who he is. ”

He lifted a crack in the curtain and looked out. "But they don't know what to do."

"Holy shit, so what's the matter?" Yu Yongqiang said, "Maybe they can still go to him?" ”

Qi Yuanshan turned to look at Yu Yongqiang, like looking at a fool: "But they can find us." Before you...... There's so much to say. ”

This sentence made Yu Yongqiang stunned in place. He had indeed said too much before. In fact, before that, he had an extremely limited understanding of Li Zhen, and the only thing he had to talk about was that he was broken by the "general". He didn't think it was a shame — especially after Li Zhen had met him. He has always said that he is Li Zhen's "lifelong enemy" - he knows that this is a joke, and others think it is a joke.

But then Qi Yuanshan saved his life, and after a few years, the two became friends. In the days when they lived together in the small bedroom of Zaodianpu, Yu Yongqiang really understood Li Zhen's past. As his name suggests, Qi Yuanshan buries many things deep in his heart and will not confide in him easily. But Yu Yongqiang is not a person who can endure loneliness - so the people around him quickly learned that General Li had lived in this barbecue restaurant for a while before making his fortune.

They already knew what they were doing. And in the current situation, there will be more people who know about it.

Sometimes the human heart is terrifying and unpredictable. Once the anger in people's hearts cannot be vented, another outlet will soon be found. That may not happen, but no one can guarantee it.

Yu Yongqiang was stunned for a while, and then muttered to himself: "Fuck...... Fuck ......."

Then he yelled again, "Fuck! I'm being reused! ”

"Are you crazy?!" Qi Yuanshan shouted, "What are you yelling about?!" ”

"Look at my legs!" Yu Yongqiang hurriedly lowered his voice and kicked his lame leg. He was so excited and nervous that he kicked the gas canister out of a pit under the board, and the gas can slammed against the wall with a dull sound.

Qi Yuanshan was taken aback. But surprise then took its place.

"What's going on? All right? ”

"Yes......" Yu Yongqiang said excitedly. But he only said one word and stopped talking - although Li Zhen didn't tell him to keep the matter secret, he didn't come to see Qi Yuanshan. There may be a lot of meaning in this...... Should this be said?

Yu Yongqiang felt that in his life, his mind had never turned so fast as it did now. It soon occurred to him that if the general really wanted to keep it a secret, then he would have to tell him a word with his foresight. What's more, his leg is not lame...... This can only be concealed from the blind.

Wrong wrong...... Maybe he's just testing me? See if I can keep my mouth shut??

He fell into a deep contemplation, and truly realized that such a thing as "figuring out the will" was indeed not something that ordinary people could afford.

But Qi Yuanshan grabbed his shoulder with his hand and shook him: "What the hell is going on?" You ......"

Then he stopped his movements and asked in surprise: "Li Zhen was here just now?" ”

Then he saw Yu Yongqiang slowly raise his head, the expression on his face was solemn and serious—this was the first time he had seen such an expression on the face of this former gangster leader, and he couldn't help but take a step back.

He heard Yu Yongqiang say in a very deep tone: "Yuanshan, I still have some money there." We're going to have to buy the house on the second floor above. ”

Yu Yongqiang paced in place, and even put his hands behind his back. Then he pointed to the roof: "Open up the two floors again, and I will move with my daughter-in-law." I'll follow you wherever you go, and I'll be your bodyguard — well, that's it. ”

Qi Yuanshan was puzzled by his out-of-the-box thinking: "You...... Say what? What did Li Zhen tell you? ”

Yu Yongqiang looked at him deeply, and patted him on the shoulder with his hand: "Military secrets." ”

Qi Yuanshan replied to him with the same deep eyes and frowned: "Are you sick?" Speak human words! ”

Yu Yongqiang wanted to repay him with another sentence that was stronger, more powerful, and more revealing of his temperament at the moment. But after thinking about it for a long time, I couldn't find such a word in my head. So he had to say, "What, weren't you afraid that someone would come to mess with us just now...... ”

"Li Zhen said that?" Qi Yuanshan asked, "What about others?" Why didn't he tell me? ”

Yu Yongqiang smiled: "He's just worried." He's in a hurry, and he's too late to see you. ”

Qi Yuanshan still looked at him.

Yu Yongqiang had to sigh, spread his hand and tilted his head: "I don't know what to do." ”

"But I know you told me this morning—he did it all for your good."

Qi Yuanshan was silent. After a moment, he shook his head: "Forget it, let's move." (To be continued......)