Although he usually doesn't have any serious ideas and some bad ideas, this time Ye Shina's idea really worked wonders.

With the cooperation of the southern border guards of the Weillant Alliance, they quickly completed the screening of the first batch of 43,000 Wilantes who entered the territory of the province of Werante, and identified 152 of them with a "dead dose" of the virus.

Outrageously, two-thirds of these patients are elderly and children.

Their immunity was already relatively weak, and they were tortured by sea water and cold winds before going ashore, and many of them had not yet passed the incubation period of the "death agent", but first suffered from a severe cold.

The 30,000-strong team, which was responsible for forming the quarantine area, moved the patients to separate camps and tents, and informed the patients of the test results when the transfer was completed.

When he learned that he was carrying the "dead" virus, old Bazel's face suddenly appeared with a stunned expression.

"Dead, dead?! How, how is it possible...... I'm in good health, those who sneeze aren't sick, why me?! ”

As he spoke, his stunned expression had gradually turned into panic.

He was not entirely worried about his own safety, but thought of his wife, who had set off with him.

The soldier in an orange hazmat suit sat across from him and nodded with a serious expression.

"According to the research data provided by the consortium, the onset of the dead dose is usually two weeks later. If you don't have symptoms yet, the infection should be remarkable. We hope you will tell us about the areas you pass along the way, as well as the escorts...... Or the number of the unit that escorted you, and any other clues you deem valuable. ”

At this point, he paused for a moment and added in a serious tone.

"We'll do everything we can to save you, so be sure to tell us what you know...... This is important! ”

Feeling the seriousness in his tone, Old Bazel restrained the complicated look on his face.

After calming down and pondering for a long time, he spoke slowly.

"My home is in the city of Avant...... Rongjun Road can be regarded as the core urban area. ”

"Invalids Road?"

The soldier's face had an expression of surprise written on it, and the hand holding the pen hurriedly wrote it in the notebook, without stopping.

Old Bazel also looked at him in surprise.

"Which place do you know?"

The soldier in charge of the record nodded.

"Of course I do...... It should be said that there is no need to know that the people who live on the Invalids Road are all military dependents. ”

Old Bazel said with a complicated expression.

"And the families of the fallen soldiers."

This is one of the traditions inherited by the major legions from the city of Triumph, and it is also a social welfare that has been going on since the time of Marshal Julius.

Military dependents living on Rue des Invalides receive a monthly pension and regular health check-ups are arranged, and medical visits are free of charge.

After all, only by solving the soldiers' worries can they move forward desperately.

Even until a week ago, he was treated as no less favourable than an active centurion.

The soldier then asked.

"Do you remember which unit you left with?"

Old Bazel nodded and continued.

"It was the personal guard of the Commander of Tyre who mobilized us to leave, I don't know about the tens of thousands of people, and their attitude was still very polite...... If nothing else, we should be the first group to arrive at the docks. But it doesn't seem to be the first batch, and by the time we arrived, the ferries were gone, and there were only a dozen or so boats left. ”

Hurriedly jotted down the sentence in his notebook, and the soldier asked again.

"And did they wear chemical suits?"

Old Bazel's eyes fell into a daze, and he remembered carefully for a long time, and finally shook his head and said.

"Like...... No, but I did see a gas mask. Around that time, I heard about the plague, but everyone didn't pay much attention to it, and I didn't pay much attention to it. ”

The soldier in charge of recording exchanged glances with the soldier standing in the doorway.

The latter's expression was a little subtle, and he muttered in a low voice.

"I heard from the people in the Alliance...... The prevalence of the awakened does not seem to be high. ”

"I see......"

The soldier in charge of recording muttered with a complicated expression, and wrote the guess aside as a note.

Whether or not the virus was dropped by Tyre's Commander's personal guard, it must have nothing to do with them.

When this farce is over, they will naturally investigate it according to the map.

After completing the record, the soldier closed the notebook in his hand and looked at the old man in front of him with a serious expression.

"Thank you for your cooperation, if you have any additional clues, please feel free to contact us. Also, as you have a 'dead agent' of the virus, we ask that you stay in quarantine as much as possible and avoid contact with other people. ”

"We will cover all the necessities of your life during the quarantine period, and we will try our best to help you if you need anything, the only thing is that you must not leave here."

Old Bazel smiled sheepishly.

"Hey, what's the trouble to talk about...... I'm causing you trouble, and I'm going to have to let you take care of me. ”

He is a traditional Willant, obedient to the collective, loyal to the collective, and unwilling to cause trouble to the collective.

I don't know if it's his delusion, he always feels that the young men in Triumph City in front of him are a little different from the young men in Triumph City in his impression.

They are also subordinate to the collective, but they have a different understanding of the collective.

He can't tell what the difference is, but the two are really different.

Hearing the old man's words, the young man smiled and said.

"When you say this, you will see the outside, we are compatriots, how can we leave you alone. Be sure to tell us something, and don't feel embarrassed or troublesome. ”

With that, he got up and prepared to leave.

However, at this moment, the old man sitting opposite suddenly seemed to remember something, and reached out and grabbed his arm.

Looking at the soldier with an unexpected expression, Old Bazel said with a serious expression.

"By the way, I heard...... What kind of genetic weapon is this dead agent in the Great Desert? ”

The soldier who was grabbed by the arm hesitated and said in an uncertain tone.

"The identity of the attacker is uncertain at this time...... However, available intelligence confirms that the dead agent was indeed artificially designed. ”

This is the news released by the Praetorian Guard.

He wasn't sure if it was appropriate to tell the patients, but the chief didn't forbid them to do so.

Old Bazel nodded, let go of his hand, and after a moment of silence, he suddenly spoke.

"I suddenly remembered...... Two days before departure, I seemed to have done a check-up at the hospital on Guangrong Road, and I had a blood test at that time, and the process that could have been completed in half an hour was delayed for three hours. I thought it was strange at the time, but I didn't take it to heart. ”

"The hospital on Glory Road? Which hospital is it? Do you remember? ”

The soldier was stunned for a moment, and quickly opened the notepad he had just closed, and added this clue.

"There's only one hospital there, and our entire street is where people see each other."

Looking at the soldier who hurriedly took notes, the old man continued in a very soft voice.

"Listen, if you have to, don't be merciful...... I'm willing to take the virus to the grave. ”

The soldier who had hurriedly taken notes stopped and looked up at the old man in astonishment.

Old Bazel grinned, and gave the young man an encouraging look.

"Lao Tzu can live to be 79 years old in the wasteland, and he is already content...... Want to make me a bullet to shoot at the Willant? I'll tell that idiot that there are no doors! ”

He understood it all.

The culprit was that Tyr, and there was no second suspect or murderer at all.

The whole thing was the guy's own conspiracy from start to finish.

How could you never do such a stupid thing? Such a stupid guy can't do the position of corps commander? Oh, that's what children who don't even have their hair all think like.

He knew better than anyone that Tyr was a man who could do great things.

It's just that he really didn't expect that guy didn't get rid of his people in the way in advance because he was planning to make a big deal in Avent City. But from the moment the guy got them away, he was already in the next big game.

But he wouldn't let that guy get his way.

Even if he was just an old man, he would fight in his own way.

The soldier looked at the old man stunned, his expression solemn and respectful.

“…… I understand your feelings, but we will never do that. ”

Old Bazel grinned.

"Won't do that? But that guy in Tyr won't be soft-hearted, I'm worried about you guys, can you win? Don't play it off. ”

The soldier smiled and said comfortingly.

"Don't worry, our archon said that the bottom line is not the same as weakness, that is our shield."

Old Bazel: "Archon? ”

"That's right, with all of us hope, Mr. Pangolin who set foot in the Glory Courtyard."

At this, the soldier's tone carried a touch of heartfelt pride.

"Our consul also said that we would not defeat the beasts by the means of the beasts, and jump into the mud and roll with them, and make everyone stink. We will use the weapons of civilized men, the methods of civilized men, and we will not only tell them not to even think about it, but also completely destroy their spirits, and prove to our compatriots who kneel down and flatter authority that wild dogs will always be wild dogs, and will never be able to defeat two-legged people! ”

Old Bazel looked at the young man in a daze, and saw a familiar shadow in a trance.

That's his grandfather......

Or rather, the warriors who once rallied around Marshal Julius.

They are strong, heroic, loyal, and invincible...... The entire city of Triumph is full of their statues, and their shadows are everywhere.

It was a time long gone, like the era of prosperity for the Willantes.

He was extremely envious of that era, and he lamented more than once that he was born at the wrong time.

Unexpectedly, at the end of his life, that glorious shadow appeared again.

“…… It seems that your consul is indeed a remarkable man. ”

Looking at the old man with a heartfelt emotion, the young man said with a hearty smile.

"That's nature...... When it comes to his experience, I can't finish talking about it for two days and two nights. ”

Listening to the young man's words, old Bazel burst out laughing.

"Haha! I can't pretend I haven't heard of it...... When it's all over, I'll give you a drink and we'll talk. ”

He suddenly became a little curious.

Legends about that archon......

……

The shadow of the "death agent" loomed over the province of Wilante, but fear did not overwhelm the people who lived on the land.

All the refugees remained quietly in the quarantine area, under the management of the Willant Union border guards, receiving rations and undergoing health checks in an orderly manner.

With the assistance of the Alliance and the Academy's researchers, the nascent Willant Alliance successfully withstood the onslaught of Southern Legion refugees, and built and consolidated twenty quarantine areas under this continuous onslaught.

The whole process is not easy.

After all, it was not only refugees who were washed ashore by the waves, but also the bodies of the dead.

The survivors living in quarantine have to endure not only the lack and shortage of supplies, but also other epidemics and plagues caused by inadequate sanitation in addition to the "dead dose".

Not only that, but the Willant Alliance also had to face agents of the Southern Legion.

Not only do they spread panic and incite survivors to storm checkpoints, but they also try to physically break through the lockdown of the quarantine zone.

Fortunately, this is in the wasteland, and there is a large wasteland between the quarantine area and Triumph City, and the population flow between the small settlements scattered in the wasteland is not very close.

Although there were several accidents during this period, due to the timely remediation, the border guards of the Willant Alliance finally managed to control the virus and did not allow the "dead agent" to spread to Triumph City.

And the Willantes who stayed in the quarantine area were also quite cooperative.

The solidarity they showed in the face of difficulties even infected the aliens who had fled from the province of Batoya.

And just like that, all of them worked together to create a miracle that was almost impossible to succeed -

That is, in an almost unprepared situation, with an iron will and the belief of not abandoning or giving up, he withstood the "cross-sea assault" launched by the Southern Army with the flesh and blood of civilians with an average of 50,000 people per day.

The Southern Legion at this moment is like a mad beast that has entered the last hysterical madness.

At the same time, as Triumph City gained a foothold in the first round of the "death dose", the situation of the crisis began to gradually develop in favor of the Willant Alliance.

Under the mediation of the Battlefield Atmosphere Group itself, the civilian clique and the Praetorian Guard, the United States in the New World, as well as the Eastern and Northern Empires, also realized the seriousness of the situation.

Warships of the new Union State are advancing towards the whirlpool sea.

On the other hand, the Eastern Empire and the Northern Empire sent food, medicine, clothing, and tents that were urgently needed by the Willant Alliance by railroad from south to north.

Although the legion has disbanded, the Willantes have not forgotten their homeland.

They are still as united as before, if not more united than before.

In this way, half a month passed, and in a blink of an eye, it was early October.

In the past half a month, the Southern Army has launched nearly 800,000 elderly and weak women and children to the north, and a total of 12,707 patients have been diagnosed with "dead doses", and none of them have successfully crossed the border!

At present, the antidote to the dead dose is still under development, and although there is no reliable vaccine for the time being, an inhibitor that can relieve symptoms has been successfully developed.

According to the opinion of the Alliance Biological Research Institute, the bell is still the bell tie, and if you want to get a vaccine as soon as possible, the best way is to get the virus research and development materials in the hands of the Southern Legion.

A military operation against the city of Avent has been discussed in the army staff of the Alliance.

But at this moment, Ye Shi, who is in the quarantine area, doesn't know what is going on outside, and if he does, he probably doesn't care.

Due to the previous "slight tricks" and Jiang Xuezhou's "nonsense" everywhere to exaggerate his credits, he has now been regarded as a virology boss by the border guards of the Willant Alliance.

A group of big-nosed officers hung around behind his ass all day, asking him for lessons on epidemic prevention work.

I enjoy this feeling of being regarded as a big guy very much, and Ye Shi also cocked his nose to the sky, and he was addicted to the stars and the moon.

Looking at the dense "valuable experience" written in a whole notebook, the official of the logistics department turned into a bitter melon with his whole face, and said bitterly.

"By the standard you said...... We're going to spend an astronomical amount of money. ”

Ye Shi heard the words and spread his hands and said happily.

"I just have to make up my mind, and you can go to the consul for the money."

It's impossible to get him to pay, and it's not even a good idea to ask him to ask the alliance for money, it's not bad if you don't take their money.

But then again, managers who have always been picky are quite kind when it comes to matters where human lives are at stake.

The testing reagents that Jiang Xuezhou helped transport were all made by the Institute of Biology, but they confiscated a penny from Triumph City, and they didn't even mention the money.

After sending away the officials of the logistics department, not long after Ye Shi walked out of the tent, he saw Xue Zhou, who had just returned from Dawn City.

When the reagents ran out before, her scientific research ship flew to Dawning City again and airlifted a batch back.

I have to say that the anti-gravity vehicle is really a good thing, it is said that if it weren't for the fact that there is too much orbital garbage outside, it can even drive directly to the moon with one foot of throttle.

It's a shame that this treasure is in the hands of the academy.

Just when Ye Shi was thinking about some rude things, Jiang Xuezhou happened to see him and called out from afar.

"Hey."

Seeing this guy's unkind appearance, Ye Shi yawned and said helplessly.

"What's wrong with you?"

"What, what's the matter! Do I have a lot of things? ”

Very dissatisfied with this guy's impatient tone, Jiang Xuezhou's eyebrows instantly rose.

But it was only a moment's work, and the two eyebrows quickly softened again.

After squirming and pinching for a while, she coughed pretending to be reserved, and then changed to a tone of small talk, and a sentence popped out of her mouth.

"That...... Why don't you explain. ”

Ye Shi was stunned, confused by this sentence that did not match the preface.

"What's the explanation? What to explain? ”

"It was last month...... When I first came," Jiang Xuezhou looked to the side and muttered in a low voice, "Why don't you explain to Yutong, our ...... It's not flirting. ”

…… Yes?

Ye Shi's whole person was stunned for a moment, like a groundhog on the grassland.

It took a long time for him to hold back a sentence from his open mouth.

"Are you a child? What's the explanation for this? ”

And this was all half a month ago, right?!

Jiang Xuezhou also seemed to realize that it seemed a bit clueless to suddenly mention this matter, and immediately buried his head with a red face.

"Yes, yes...... What's there to explain this, there's no need to explain it at all, haha. ”

It's embarrassing......

My face is so hot.

Looking at the dumbfounded Ye Shi, she felt that the soles of her shoes were about to be pierced by her thumbs......

……

Triumph City.

The council chamber of the House of Glory.

After the mobilization meeting, the battlefield atmosphere group dismissed the officials at the conference table, looked at the commander of the Razor Corps who was sitting on the side, and said.

"You said you wanted the beast to see my courage, but is my courage still satisfying you?"

The old man in the golden armor smiled faintly, nodded pertinently, and said.

"So-so, it's a little more tender than Marshal Julius, but it's barely passable with me."

The battlefield guy made a helpless expression, but the corners of his mouth still curled up a little smug smile.

can make an old monster who has lived for 172 years give a "reluctant" evaluation, and it seems that he at least has the qualifications of a middle-aged person.

Looking at Mr. Archon, Rezer thought for a moment and continued.

"Actually, what makes me happier than your courage is that you used the word 'compatriot' in convincing me."

The battlefield atmosphere group was stunned, and couldn't help but show a crying and laughing expression on their faces.

Is that all?

"I have a lot of friends who are Willant, and even if I'm not a Willant, it's hard not to think about them."

"Even if it's a betrayal of the Alliance?" Captain Razor said this in a playful tone, looking at him with interest.

The Battlefield Atmosphere Team shook its head slowly and said in a casual tone.

"I never thought I betrayed the Alliance, in fact I sat here because I fulfilled my promise."

Razor looked at him intently.

"Promises?"

The Battlefield Atmosphere Team nodded, their eyes sinking into memory, remembering a long, long time ago.

"When we left the shelter, we all took an oath under the banner of the People's Federation, and we vowed to rebuild our home...... And that's what we've been doing. When we go to a place, we don't destroy the local order, but we work with them to find possibilities for the future. ”

"Haha!"

Razor let out a hearty laugh and gently patted the armrest of the chair that he had crushed earlier, and said in a teasing tone.

"It sounds like a disaster relief agency."

The Battlefield Atmosphere Group smiled faintly and said humbly.

"We're a disaster relief agency, isn't that what the blue gopher does?"

"Hahahaha!"

The old man's laughter was even more cheerful, and the smile between his eyebrows was much more relieved.

He was really relieved that he had finally waited for this day.

The Battlefield Atmosphere Team couldn't read his feelings, but they were unexpectedly able to empathize with him.

If one day, I live in a new era, looking back on the ups and downs I have experienced along the way, I think I should laugh as much as this old man.

Casting an approving glance at the young archon, Rezer let out a heartfelt appreciation.

"Regardless, you can treat the Willantes as your compatriots, not as tools to accomplish your mission......"

"I'm relieved."

(End of chapter)