Even in winter, the temperature in the small town of Jiangnan is not too low, cloudy, and occasionally a breeze blows on the streets, rolling up the dust on the ground, cars and pedestrians, and the river is endless.

Bai Qi walked out of the coffee shop, he looked up at the sky, it was not a sunny day, and the weather forecast seemed to say that there was rain today. He didn't bring an umbrella.

The dark clouds in the distance seemed to be gradually advancing in this direction, and if it was raining, it didn't seem suitable to wander outside, and he looked at the street in front of him again. Pedestrians come and go, and occasionally a slight cough can be heard, as if it is precisely with the change of weather, people's emotions are generally not very high, passing each other by, and their expressions are blank.

He noticed a blue taxi parked next to the street in the distance. He stood there, his eyes stayed on the blue body of the taxi, the window had already been rolled down, the driver was smoking a cigarette, swallowing clouds and spitting fog, this was a middle-aged man with a mediocre appearance, perhaps because of the perennial running around of this profession, he could already see a few lines in the corner of his eyes, he was wearing a pair of glasses, his white eyesight was relatively good, and he could see the driver's appearance clearly from a distance of about five hundred meters.

The dark clouds were approaching the sky over the city, and Bai Qi could already smell the dull breath in the air before the rain was about to arrive. He frowned and walked over to the blue taxi.

At first, the driver didn't notice a customer walking towards him, and his eyes were focused on a young girl across the corner, who was distracted by her speech and demeanor, and her dress and appearance. It wasn't until he heard the sound of Bai Qi's footsteps from far to near that he came to his senses, and looking at the boy in a black coat who was walking towards him, he couldn't help but think of a classic movie he had seen decades ago, The Matrix.

It's still a kid. He thought to himself.

A smile appeared on his face.

Bai Qi smiled politely back.

"Where's the boy?"

Pull the car door and make it the back seat in the taxi. "Master, just take a walk."

Perhaps he didn't expect such a good business to happen, the driver was stunned for a moment at first, and then he started the car and stepped on the accelerator.

"Okay."

The white right hand supported the chin, and his eyes looked straight ahead. Looking through the rearview mirror, the driver saw that the young man was always smiling politely and seemed to be looking at him all the time.

"Are you in college?"

"Hmm."

The driver nodded. "Oh, it's good to go to college, I didn't do well in high school, and then I dropped out, and now I have to do the drudgery of taxis."

He looked back at Bai Qi. "College students like you will be the pillars of society in the future."

The driver seemed to be a bit chattering, and Bai Qi didn't get tired of it. Taxis follow the ring road and gradually drive to the suburbs. Then the speed slowed down, and the driver looked at Bai Qi in the rearview mirror and pouted.

"It's okay, let's drive a little bit outside." Bai Qi said, looking out the window.

The driver nodded, pressed the accelerator hard, and the taxi sped up sharply and sped off the road.

"It's not easy to drive a taxi." Bai Qi asked.

The driver was stunned. "Huh? Oh, yes. ”

Speaking of this, he couldn't help but sigh again. "How much money you can earn in a month depends on luck, and when it's bad, the money you earn in a day is not enough to feed the whole family."

Bai Qi suddenly put on a curious expression. "How's your family?"

"I have a son, who is almost ten years old, and is still in elementary school, but it is also thanks to the good government policy, and now he is going to school at public expense, if it weren't for this, I would still be really worried about his future."

"It's quite guilty to think about, as a father, I can't give him a more stable future."

Bai Qi nodded thoughtfully. "Oh."

The car drove out of the town and along the road, lined with towering mountain peaks.

There was a dull thunder in the distance, which lasted for a few seconds, and Bai Qi rolled up the window.

The mountain rain is coming, and the wind is full of buildings.

"Your wife, and your children, are they all right?" Bai Qi glanced down at the time.

"Of course it's good," the driver was a little puzzled by Bai Qi's question, "Although life is relatively poor, our family is still very harmonious." ”

"That's not what I'm asking."

The driver was even more puzzled, he looked up at Bai Qi in the rearview mirror, it was still the young man who kept smiling, harmless to humans and animals.

"That's?"

Bai Qi suddenly leaned towards the driver's seat, and he put his face close to the driver.

"Your wife, and that child," the corners of his mouth seemed to slowly curl, "aren't they all dead?" ”

"Didn't you do it?"

The brakes were pressed hard, and the high-speed car made a long mark on the road.

The huge momentum caused the bodies of both people in the car to involuntarily lean forward.

Torrential rain poured down.

"What did you just say?" The driver struggled to squeeze a smile out of his face once more.

Spread his hands in white. "Is there anything else you'd like to say?"

The driver's expression suddenly twisted. "What nonsense are you talking about?" His hands kept pounding on the steering wheel in anger and rage.

"I know, this probably can't be considered your responsibility," Bai Qi thought for a moment and explained, "if from your own point of view. ”

The hand hitting the steering wheel stopped, and the body no longer trembled. The driver's expression returned to calm.

Bai Qi looked at the driver quietly, didn't make any moves, he just sat in the back seat of the car, waiting quietly.

The driver's eyes suddenly opened, and he turned his head suddenly, and the speed was so fast that the laryngeal bones made a "bang" sound. The pupils turned a rich dark gray.

"You know everything, then I can't let you go." A strange laugh sounded, and the driver's right hand suddenly grabbed towards Bai Qi, and the power rushed straight to his face with a gust of wind.

Bai raised his hand and gently caught the blow.

"It's a lot of power." He commented, gently squeezing the driver's punch away.

The driver obviously didn't expect Bai Qi to be able to take his blow so easily. The left hand quickly adjusts the angle, and it is another head-on blow. Bai Qi frowned, he kicked the car door and jumped out of the car.

There was a sound of metal cracking in the car, and the force of this blow was several times greater than the force of the first blow, and it actually directly penetrated the body and hit the position of the car engine, and Bai Qi saw that the driver's hand was directly embedded in the car.

The driver pulled his hand out and jumped out of the car as well. The left hand was already a blur of flesh and blood, but Bai Qi could notice that the driver's hand was recovering at an alarming speed, and the torn flesh was growing rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

He put his hand to his mouth and stuck out his tongue to lick the blood away. "You must have been sent by the government, a policeman? It was found so quickly. ”

Bai Qi retracted his smile, the distance between the driver and him was about ten meters, the strength of the infected was too strong, and it seemed that there was not much chance of winning with simple fighting skills and strength. Bai Qi secretly regretted that he didn't bring anything with him when he came out.

Fortunately, the driver didn't think about running away in the first place, and he seemed to have made up his mind to eat this young man who didn't seem to be very strong in this almost barren mountain range.

He accelerated towards Bai Qi, and in two steps he crossed in front of Bai Qi, and his whip leg swept over, and Bai Qi raised his right hand to block. It was a bit difficult to block this time, and his body unconsciously took a few steps back in the direction where the whip leg came. The driver began to look a little excited, and he patted his head lightly with his right hand.

"With them, with them, like them." The driver repeated these words.

There was a look of disgust in Bai Qi's eyes. "It turns out that some of the infected people are also mentally abnormal."

"Is it because you're abnormal, or is that thing in your body abnormal?" He added.

Let's put it off for a little longer. He thought so. The driver rushed to him again.

A gunshot rang out, from far to near. The driver's body stopped, his body trembled, and then he fell hard.

In the center of the back of the head, a bloody hole opened by a bullet appeared. Bai Qi let out a long breath and looked in the direction where the gunshots rang out. The roar of the Jeep engine can be faintly heard.

On the farthest stretch of sight, a black dot sped up to Bai Qi at a great speed, the car door opened, and a man in a pale yellow cotton jacket stepped down.

He took off his black glasses, and his pale blue pupils appeared in front of Bai Qi's eyes, and with his nonchalant smile, Bai Qi pursed his lips.

"These are sunglasses?" Bai Qi suddenly noticed the pair of glasses in the man's hand.

The man nodded. "yes. How's that, Captain, doesn't that make me look particularly high? ”

The white eyelids couldn't help twitching a few times. "Qiu Ziang, you are really, you are not afraid that I will die in your hands."

Qiu Ziang's expression suddenly became serious. "Why, Captain, it seems that you still haven't given me enough trust."

"But Captain, you don't seem to have very strong melee skills."

"So you just saw that?"

Qiu Ziang nodded. "yes, I see."

He thought about it, and then immediately changed his words. "I can't count all of them as having seen them, but I have seen a little bit."

Bai Qi patted his head again with his hand, very helpless.

"It's true that the ability to fight in close quarters combat isn't very good," he nodded, "after all, I've always relied on that thing." ”

The rain hit the two people's bodies drop by drop, and it didn't seem to have any intention of abating, the rain mixed with the blood and brains flowing out of the driver's skull, spreading on the ground under him, Bai Qi could vaguely see that there was a faint black gas on the body of the dead body slowly rising and drifting.

"Why did you come to me alone?" Bai Qi said, turned and walked to the jeep parked on the side of the road, almost soaking wet, Qiu Ziang followed.

"The director's order," Qiu Ziang followed Bai to get up, then opened the car door and sat in the passenger seat, "said that it was found in the East China Sea, but he didn't explain to me what he found, just let me come over and recall you quickly." ”

"Donghai," Bai Qi was stunned, "Isn't that just a place not far from me, just let the war zone coordinate and cooperate with our actions, is it possible that we still have to take a detour and go back to Beiping directly?" ”

Qiu Ziang smiled awkwardly. "Sort of, that's what the director told me."

"Well, we were also called out of the situation on vacation, saying that the situation was more urgent."

"What about the other members? It's already in Beiping. ”

"It's all informed, and it's all on the way now."

"Oh." Bai Qi wiped the water stains off the driver's seat, and the newly opened door caused the rain to splash into the car.

The jeep whipped up dust.