At that time, Fu Yongning had become the manager of the picnic area around the riverside city, and his main task was to deal with the endless stream of reports. And his comrade-in-arms, his friend, Ma Bingshi, is responsible for leading the team to dangerous areas and summarizing important information.

It was a golden period of pioneering, and the picnic area was dangerous, but every day was new.

"Old man, today we found a great plant fiber." Ma Bingshi's excited voice sounded in Fu Yongning's mind, "The strength of this plant fiber can make body armor, and more importantly, it is very, very light, and it is almost the same as not wearing it on the body." ”

"Congratulations." Fu Yongning covered his eyes and put down the pen and paper in his hand, "I still have to get used to the feeling of you talking in my head from time to time." ”

"It's been so many years, haven't you gotten used to it?" Ma Bingshi smiled, "You have suffered a big loss because you are incapable, we have recently encountered a lot of mutated monsters that are not afraid of gun attacks at all. I have to be a transmitter to kill each other mentally. ”

"What about the side effects, what about the number of casualties?" Fu Yongning simply closed his eyes, leaned back in his chair and talked to Ma Bingshi.

"Yes, overuse can cause brain fatigue...... Ma Bingshi's tone began to become low, "Some of our comrades-in-arms and some volunteers should be brain dead when they deal with that monster." This expedition of 1,000 people went out, and more than a dozen of them should have died. ”

"I have to think about how to write the report." Fu Yongning let out a long sigh in his seat.

"This is what we humans always have to face, who knows what this bitch alien threw down." Ma Bingshi scolded with a smile, "It's wartime now, but we're facing alien garbage." ”

"Of course I know that, but I feel a little bit desperate." Fu Yongning opened his eyes and looked at the report handed in every day, "The picnic area is too big, and your expedition team can do too little. I think the dungeon plan would be more appropriate. Didn't the first explorers find a damaged robot, and how to isolate the substance? ”

"You're talking about big projects." Ma Bingshi said, in the picnic area a few kilometers away, staring at the brilliant starry sky across the black tower under construction, "These are the hopes of mankind." But we can't sit still, we can find a little bit from the picnic area, and a little more. Maybe humanity will be able to solve this pollution sooner. ”

"You're right, old horse." When Fu Yongning nodded, the knock on the door made him open his eyes, "Wait a minute, someone is looking for me." ”

"It's Xiao Ren." Ma Bingshi said, "I also connected his thinking. ”

"Director Fu." Ren Jianguo, who is in his thirties, joined the conversation, "The organization has orders to convey. ”

"Say, it's definitely not a good thing." Fu Yongning still stood up and opened the door.

"Contaminated ...... have been found along the coast fish, conventional communication can not establish a connection. Ren Jianguo said quickly, "Judging from the size, it may be a whale, and it has been soaked in the picnic area for too long." At present, it is close to the prevention zone, and after a small artillery attack, the pollution escapes. ”

"So they need someone who has experience in fighting at sea, who has been a fisherman, who knows enough about picnic areas, and who is capable, right?" Fu Yongning nodded, "I know, is the management of Yanjiang City for you?" ”

"Yes, but the choice is yours." Ren Jianguo said.

"I still have to go, my family is in Yanjiang City." Fu Yongning's heart was a lot more relaxed, "I can also do something, instead of staying here all the time." ”

"The sea is more dangerous than the land, and the picnic area is in the middle of the sea in the first place, and our land is just covered by gas." Ma Bingshi's voice was full of seriousness, "And no one in the water knows what will happen." ”

"Old Ma, I grew up by the sea, and I have long understood these things." Fu Yongning opened his mouth to face Ren Jianguo, "When am I going?" ”

"It's better now." Ren Jianguo said, "The convoy is already waiting outside. ”

"Let's go, then." Fu Yongning grabbed the clothes on the back of the chair, "It seems that the situation is a little serious." ”

……

"Old man, you did a good job." Ma Bingshi's ecstatic voice sounded in Ren Jianguo's and Fu Yongning's minds. It's just that Fu Yongning's face was wrapped in thick gauze at this time, and some medical staff were also monitoring his health condition.

"It's a little trick, animals will naturally ask for food, and the picnic area contains energy that every creature craves." Fu Yongning said in his mind, enduring the tingling sensation in the center of his face, "That's why I asked you for the concentrated liquid in the picnic area before, and that's why." ”

"Then you let the plane drop that concentrated liquid, lure the whales all the way to the depths, and then take out the monster." Ma Bingshi looked at the bonfire that flickered red and blue, and then turned green, waving his arms, his face full of joy, "It's a pity that there are still duty tasks here in the picnic area." ”

"We all have different responsibilities." Fu Yongning's hand grasped the sheet weakly, and the noise of the oxygen concentrator became louder, "I have to rest, this battle is a little too tired." ”

"Okay, we'll see you next time along the river." Ma Bingshi said, the voice slowly faded from Fu Yongning's mind, and also disappeared from Ren Jianguo's mind on the side.

Ren Jianguo looked at Fu Yongning lying on the bed, and the blood oozing out, and in his ears were other people discussing the policy about the picnic area, these sounds made it difficult for him to control his emotions.

"Doctor, is he okay?" In order to alleviate this sense of anxiety, Ren Jianguo asked the attending physician who was looking at the X-rays.

"Luckily, although the steel piece was inserted through the front door, it got stuck in the skull and didn't hurt the brain." The attending physician helped his sweaty glasses, "But the steel plate is polluted by the contamination of the picnic area, and the activity of the polluting tetanus bacilli has increased, and the reproduction rate is particularly fast, we have cut his trachea, also assisted by a ventilator, and injected a large amount of tetanus antitoxin, hoping to be able to carry it." ”

"Got it." Ren Jianguo's hands were clenched together, his knuckles turned white from the exertion, he had heard this passage no less than three times, but not far away, the news about the people in the picnic area being forbidden to come back still entered his ears.

"We still have so many soldiers, so many volunteers, so many ordinary people in the picnic area, how can we prevent them from entering in this way?!" A soldier shouted at Yu Lin, who was wearing a white coat.

"Do you have any other options? We underestimated the contagious power of picnic area contamination. As long as it is in a picnic area, at a certain concentration, staying for more than nine months, the pollution of the body is irreversible and cannot be removed. At the same time, this contamination can be transmitted to people who are in good health! ”

"The most frightening thing is that the incubation period of this infection is up to ten years, and possibly even longer." Yu Lin glanced at his amputated legs, clenched his hands into fists, and slammed them the armrests of the wheelchair, "The infected person doesn't know that he has this symptom, but this situation will spread unconsciously and spread to other people." ”

"Do you want the future of humanity to be covered with organs that don't belong to us, do you want all of us to survive in a deformed way, or to fester, or to wriggle on the ground like a mass of rotting flesh?" Yu Lin roared, "I've seen several of my research partners wear hazmat suits and go deeper into the picnic area than I do. And when I went over, there was no one over there...... There were only puddles of flesh on the ground, and there were no signs of life. ”

"Now, while we have this kind of robotics that can help with construction, while the polluted area is still in the sea, while the pollution is not too serious, close all the cities as soon as possible. And then speed up the construction of the protective film that we got in the first place, to isolate and filter the air, so that the people in the city can continue to live. ”

"But what about those who are outside the picnic area?"

"For the time being...... Living in a picnic area, since they were able to adapt to the picnic area, unlike my colleagues who became a puddle of rotten meat, it means that they can survive there. Yu Lin took a deep breath, "Let's first let the healthy people prevent infection, and then cooperate with the people in the picnic area to build shelters around the city, so that the exchange of supplies will be smoother." ”

"With their help, vaccine development can also be faster." Yu Lin said, "This is the best way. ”

“…… I see, I'll report back to you. The soldier sighed, "Maybe there's another way." ”

……

"Director Ren, there were more than 700 deaths and more than 3,200 casualties in this riot." Ren Jianguo looked at the information sent and let out a sigh like Fu Yongning back then.

"Closed cities...... Is it wrong? Ren Jianguo's teeth bit his lip.

“…… In the face of such a catastrophe, I cannot comment. The soldier in charge of the report said, took out a letter from his pocket, and Ren Jianguo caught a glimpse of the words written on it in the dim light.

"Resignation Application ......"

"Yes, even though it's a robot that controls the machine gun now, I don't want to be in this ...... The place stained with the blood of my comrades continues to work. The soldier bowed his head, "I hope you will approve it." ”

"I see......"

……

"Old horse, you can't come here again." Fu Yongning and Ren Jianguo stood on top of the black tower that was built, shouting at the black crowd through the screen, "But the official will not give up on you, you are stationed outside this area, and we will regularly provide you with supplies and medicines." ”

"Old man, it's okay to deceive others with your words." After Ma Bingshi shouted on the radio, it clearly appeared in the minds of the two of them, "Build a black tower along the river city, and then cover that ...... What a protective layer, right. I don't know how much manpower and material resources have been spent, and there are people who can process it, and where will we have our share in the compensation money. ”

"Xiao Ren, now the director of the underground bureau of Yanjiang City is you, and I also believe that you will definitely find a way to send us supplies, but how long will this last? I'm a soldier, but I also know that it takes at least a year to develop a drug, right? ”

"In the past year, those of us who have made so many contributions to the city along the river and to the world are living in a picnic area full of dangers?" Ma Bingshi's tone was calm, "I can understand it too. Because I'm in the picnic area, I've seen too many of those...... The scene of ordinary people, after breathing too much air in the picnic area, blowing up like a balloon. ”

"The picnic area, it seems beautiful to appear in this world, but it is actually a disaster." Ma Bingshi continued, while Fu Yongning and Ren Jianguo both sat silently in their chairs, looking at the blurry surveillance camera footage, "You let us into the city, and then the whole city will be infected." But if you don't let us into the city, you won't be able to leave us to fend for ourselves, right? ”

"Old horse, let's ......" Fu Yongning raised his head and looked at the low ceiling, the wound on the front door began to itch and hurt like a hallucination.

"I see." Ma Bingshi smiled bitterly in the minds of the two of them, "You are just following orders...... Then I'll take these people with me, the picnic area is so big, we should still be able to find a place to live. ”

"General Ma, we should develop a vaccine in the next few years." Ren Jianguo said.

"I take your word for it, but I don't believe in the timing." Ma Bingshi stood up in the surveillance camera, and the crowd behind him also looked up at him.

"Goodbye, someday." Ma Bingshi dragged his tired body and integrated into the huge team.

The black crowd was also led by him to the depths of the unknown picnic area.

After the torrent crossed, there were only a few hundred people, looking at the black tower with expectant eyes.

“…… In accordance with the policy, food and medicine are distributed. Ren Jianguo relaxed for a moment in his heart, but this relaxation soon brought him a sense of guilt. He was relieved that he didn't have to bear the lives of thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people, and he was relieved that he only had a few hundred people left in front of him.

Fu Yongning, who was sitting on the side, also sighed, propped up his body, and left the room.

"Picnic area...... The picnic area ......" Only Ren Jianguo was left in the room, looking at those compatriots, with worried eyes, and cautiously walked into the divided area.

……

"Director Ren, there are a lot fewer people who come to harass this time."

"Director Ren, under the deterrence of artillery, no one is attacking Yanjiang City anymore."

"Director Ren...... This time, because there were too many people in the picnic area, many of our expatriate team betrayed. ”

"...... Director Ren"

Ren Jianguo rubbed his swelling temples, and his ears were full of the reports of those young people.

In their world, in their perceptions, the picnic area is full of evil, full of betrayal.

But in his continuous memory, there were many compatriots in the picnic area, and it was only because of their mistakes that these compatriots became extreme, violent, and full of hatred in their hearts, and wanted to crush the exploration team they sent out at all costs.

The exploration team is also full of young people, and this conflict is also intensifying.

"Director Ren...... Only one person was left alive in Yanjiang City this time. ”

When Ren Jianguo heard the news, he silently closed his eyes.