Chapter 10: The Deceased
"Are you really Xiao Yu?" Just as Lin Yu was about to take the lead, a voice of surprise and surprise suddenly came from the crowd.
I saw a man in a police uniform with a long sword behind his back, who looked a little nondescript and squeezed out of the crowd.
"Fang Yan, do you know him?" The man in the trench coat asked after seeing the person coming.
"Well, his name is Lin Yu, he was my playmate when I was in the orphanage, and he was an administrator of the Imperial Capital Library before the Great Change." Different from the coldness of the man in the trench coat, Fang Yan is not only handsome, but also has a gentle voice, which makes people feel like a spring breeze.
"Since you are Fang Yan's friend, then let Li Hui go, and this matter can be blamed in the past." Strange to say, the man in the trench coat seemed to care about Fang Yan's opinion, and the golden red flame that had just risen disappeared in a blink of an eye.
"Shall I go into the city, then?" After seeing the person clearly, Lin Yu threw the stunned Li Hui in front of Fang Yan and said coldly.
"Give you six hours to catch up, and bring him to the conference room after six hours." The man in the trench coat did not answer Lin Yu's words, but turned to Fang Yan and said.
"Yes, Zhang Junshou." Fang Yanli was marching and saluting.
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"Xiao Yu, you actually got out of the safe zone after the big mutation?" On a street full of random merchants on both sides, Lin Yu and Fang Yan walked one after the other, and Ah Da behind them attracted the attention of everyone along the way.
If people hadn't noticed Fang Yan beside Lin Yu, I'm afraid they would have raised the alarm long ago,
In today's post-apocalyptic era, everyone has changed their perception of the world to a greater or lesser extent, so Ah Da's appearance in the city will not make people too frightened.
"Since it's a big change, how can there be any safety zone." Lin Yu replied while looking at the various materials in front of the stall merchants.
Fang Yan was one of the few friends of Lin Yu, who was once withdrawn in the eyes of others. He and Lin Yu grew up in an orphanage, but his and Lin Yu's lives were two completely different paths.
Fang Yan has been smart and lively since he was a child, and he is deeply loved by the teachers and children in the orphanage.
After growing up, Fang Yan was not only handsome and extraordinary, but also had top-notch academic performance, and became someone else's child in the eyes of everyone.
During the college entrance examination, Fang Yan was admitted to the police academy with advantageous results, and after graduation, he became an officer of the Imperial Capital Police Department.
The huge gap in identity did not make Lin Yu's relationship with Fang Yan estranged, and he and Fang Yan had always maintained close contact, and it was not until Fang Yan joined a mysterious police organization in the imperial capital that the two rarely saw each other again.
What Lin Yu didn't expect was that their reunion would be in such a bloody way after the big change.
"Xiao Yu, are you still blaming me for not saying goodbye at the beginning?" Looking at the absent-minded Lin Yu, Fang Yan asked.
"Fang Yan, everyone has the right to choose their own life, but some people have fewer opportunities to choose, while some people have more opportunities to choose, so I have never blamed you for your choice." After Lin Yu saw that there was nothing he wanted on the stall, he turned back to Fang Yan and said.
"The relationship between me and you has never changed."
"I'll just say, we're brothers for life." After hearing Lin Yu's answer, Fang Yan breathed a long sigh of relief, and then punched Lin Yu in the chest.
"Is there a snack bar around here?" After walking around this once the most prosperous street in the imperial capital, but now it is in tatters, Lin Yu suddenly asked.
"Snack bar? It's unknown whether they will survive now, and there is no such place. Even Fang Yan, who had always been sunny, became a little lonely.
"Then let's go to your house, it's still early anyway." At the beginning, the man in the trench coat gave them six hours to catch up, but now it was only two hours, so of course Lin Yu had to find a place to stay first.
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After the Great Mutation, almost all the houses were destroyed, and Fang Yan's home seemed to be no exception. Today, his home has been rebuilt from the ruins of the past, so there is only simple furniture in the room.
"Does that mean that all the explosives are in the hands of the military?" Lin Yu, who was sitting on a bench, asked.
"Today's guns and ammunition are much more precious than before the Great Mutation, after all, for most of these monsters that appear now, modern guns are still a great threat." Fang Yan nodded.
"That's going to be a tough one." Lin Yu's face was bitter. The main purpose of his return to the imperial capital was to get some high explosives, because in that dense forest, he knew a secret, and only by relying on powerful weapons could he reveal the answer to that matter.
"Actually, it's not that there is no other way, it's just ......" Seeing his friend's face lost, Fang Yan wanted to speak and stopped.
"Just what?" Looking at Fang Yan's appearance, Lin Yu hurriedly asked.
Fang Yan took a deep breath, as if he had made an important decision in his heart. "Three days later, when I stop working shifts, I will secretly go out of the city with you to hunt some monsters, and use their energy crystal nuclei to exchange with the military for what you want."
"Are you enough to look at these energy crystal nuclei?" Looking at Fang Yan with a embarrassed face, Lin Yu took out the yellow-brown bag brought out of the dense forest, and under the tilt, the energy crystal nuclei of the velocrats and scavengers inside poured out with a "whoosh".
"How can you possibly have so many energy crystal nuclei?" Fang Yan looked shocked.
Looking at Fang Yan's expression, Lin Yu knew that as he expected, in this apocalypse, coins were already like waste paper, and the hard currency traded had become those energy crystal nuclei that could allow people to evolve and gain strength.
People are back in the days of barter.
"People who get it by hunting those monsters, of course." Lin Yu said nonchalantly.
"But there are a little too many of these energy crystal nuclei in your hands." Fang Yan whispered, "Even our military hasn't hunted so many low-level monsters. ”
"So from the beginning, I wasn't going to stay in the so-called security community." Lin Yu said with a serious expression: "These monsters evolve faster than us, and now we can still rely on modern weapons to deal with them, but one day they will evolve into real monsters." ”
"Xiao Yu, you have finally changed back to the real you." Looking at his best friend in front of him, Fang Yan suddenly said.
As a playmate from childhood to adulthood, Fang Yan knew Lin Yu too well. Lin Yu, who has a withdrawn personality in the eyes of everyone, actually has a heart that is more arrogant than anyone else.
It's just that the arrogant Lin Yu has to bow to reality and compromise with life. Fang Yan wanted to help Lin Yu countless times, but he refused.
Now Lin Yu, who is uncompromising even in the military forces, is the real Lin Yu in Fang Yan's eyes.
"I just made my own choice." Seeing that Fang Yan was about to cry, Lin Yu couldn't laugh.