Chapter VIII
The virus has been effectively controlled within a year, but the infected people due to unknown reasons, although there is no longer the threat of the spread of the virus, but the body functions have not changed back to the physique of ordinary people, two-thirds of the world's rainlechen infected people, they and uninfected ordinary people have a strange situation, daily contact between both sides are not natural, this situation in various countries during the repair of damage lasted only a few days, gradually, in the world, in various cities, some clubs appeared, these clubs are not the same as ordinary clubs, they will have people in military uniforms standing at the door, entry and exit must be detected by a small item in their hands, otherwise they will not be able to enter.
Little by little, the country, which a year ago had been turned into a living hell by a large number of infected people, is repairing like before, the economy is back running normally, people's lives are back on track, everything is over from the initial panic, no one will mention the riots that happened a year ago, everyone is silently talking about it and living their lives.
The bustling bazaar was bustling with people, and the sounds of bargaining flooded the streets, spilling into the wide asphalt roads of the adjacent streets, and the cars speeding by, kicking up a cloud of dust.
"Ahem. In a car parked on the corner of the street, the man inhaled a puff of gasoline, wrinkled his nose and fanned it a few times, not forgetting to complain, "I said that there are pollution-free environmentally friendly cars now, why not buy one." ”
A woman's laughter came from the back seat: "Hehe, whoever told you to park at the corner with the most cars, it's okay if the traffic police don't come to scold you, you deserve to suck a nose of ash." ”
"Alas...... I'll just sigh about life. The man leaned against the car window, watching from afar the noise in the market one after another, two old ladies scolded in the stall for some reason, and several young people around hurriedly went over to persuade the fight, pulling and pulling into a pot of porridge.
The sun was shining, the whole car was warm, and the man squinted his eyes, like a lazy cat basking in the sun.
At this time, a string of bells rang, he pressed the answer button, and the voice of a middle-aged man over there filled the car: "Xiao Li, have you finished your inspection with He Juan?" Hurry up and come back to me, there is news over there." ”
"Ahh He hung up the phone, and the person behind him smiled: "Dare to hang up the phone first, you have the courage to see it." ”
Although He Juan is fast running for three years, she still looks very young, and she also exudes a bit of pure beauty with a half-pill head. Li Chongxu turned the steering wheel and drove away from the street corner, heading in the direction of the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau.
The newly painted paint still has a bit of a bad smell, and the newly repaired large plaques of the Public Security Bureau are erected on both sides of the gate, and the blue and white police/badge brings a sense of majesty. Li Chongxu drove the car into the yard, and the public security bureau built in a hurry had not had time to build an underground garage, only to see that the small courtyard was crowded with all kinds of cars. As soon as he got out of the car, he saw a pair of old leather shoes stepping towards this side under the stone steps covered with moss, and a middle-aged policeman with a weathered face and silver threads in his hair walked over, before Li Chongxu could speak, the old policeman slapped his shoulder with a big hand: "Come, come into the house and drink tea, Lao Liu's own tea is hot." ”
Lao Liu is the landlord of this small courtyard, and the old lady's family has lived here for generations, until the police station is destroyed, and the police are in the eyes of people, and they don't know where to go.
A year ago, it was still a reliable people's police in people's hearts, but after the sharp increase in the number of infected people, in the new pattern of the country, most of them have become the world of infected people, and they have become this group of policemen who are powerless.
Of course, there are also voices of schadenfreude from the uninfected, most of whom have suffered at the hands of the police, in order to survive in the new society and coexist peacefully with mutated humans.
Sitting on the sofa, Xu Ying leaned his neck and stretched his legs, looking tired and paralyzed. Li Chongxu and He Juan sat next to her, Mrs. Liu didn't know any party affiliation, she had lived almost ninety, she had lived enough, and she didn't bother to pay attention to any changes in the outside world, so she still had the impression of "a servant of the people" to the police, and she was respectful when pouring tea, but she couldn't understand why outsiders drove the police around, so she also fought three hundred rounds with those long-tongued women with the momentum of being a Red Guard to protect the "servant of the people" in her heart.
Later, basically no one on this street gave the police a blank eye.
"How's the patrol?" asked Xu Ying after a while, sitting up.
Li Chongxu took Mrs. Liu's teacup and politely thanked her, Mrs. Liu knew that the police were going to talk about business, and ordinary people couldn't listen to it, so she rubbed her hand on the corner of her pants and retreated with a smile.
Li Chongxu shrugged and said, "It's still the same, there are no citizens who are not on the list wandering outside." ”
Xu Ying stared at the tea, breathed a sigh of relief, and said slowly: "That's good." ”
What they have to do now is check the list of all club members in the city every day to see if any members have left the club without permission. It sounds outrageous, but it's a very serious job for a country.
It all started after the virus was brought under control. In a situation where the majority of infected people are infected, the heads of state do not avoid the situation getting out of control and sign an agreement with the infected people to give them society, so as to spare the ordinary people who have not yet been infected, and the clubs created by the state are distributed to various cities to provide ordinary people with areas where they can live, and under normal circumstances, they cannot go to the outside world without being scanned by the soldiers at the door.
This is the agreement between the infected and the average person.
This is an unfair agreement, Xu Ying and they know it, but there is no other way to curb the threat of infected people to ordinary people.
And their group of police officers belong to the special existence between the infected and the uninfected, and because of the agreement, they are able to survive in the outside society, regularly checking whether there are ordinary people on the club's list who have left without permission.
"A year ago, who would have thought that the whole world would change overnight. Li Chongxu said with emotion.
"Yes, now the people who were originally in the main body of this world want to hide in the hole like rats, and they dare not return to the world that originally belonged to them all day and month. Xu Ying lit a cigarette and slowly exhaled a breath, his eyes were complicated, "The person who created Rainlechen may have a look at this new world changed by him alone......"
The remaining two were silent, their thoughts pulled back to a year ago by Xu Ying's words......
Although he is no longer there, the new world of rainle that he once hoped for was born, and everyone really became a new human being who transcended the past and was reborn.
As he says, as long as the rainlechen code exists in the world for a long time, it will never end.
"However, I still have a little bit of a puzzle that I still have to solve. Li Chongxu frowned slightly, and put down the teacup: "At that time, after developing a new weapon, it could indeed temporarily knock down the infected, but there was no way to really stop the infection from continuing to spread, so what was it that later terminated the source of infection?"
"Didn't it end when Shan Xiongling died?" He Juan interjected.
Li Chongxu scratched his head: "I remember that after the explosion of the TV tower, the infection around the world continued." ”
"Yes, I didn't pay much attention to it, I always thought that the mother of the virus was Shan Xiongling, and as long as he died, it wouldn't spread again, and I thought it was a little delayed in termination. She replied, but she was a little unsure of her words, and turned her gaze to Xu Ying.
"Team Xu, what do you think?"
Xu Ying thought about it, and finally shook her head: "I don't know either." ”
"yes, I didn't really notice that you didn't mention it, it's a little strange to think about it now. So, the source of the virus is not on Shan Xiongling?" He Juan knocked on the melon seeds, tilted his head and thought carefully.
"And the previous organization called 'Ling' suddenly disappeared along with it, but I still don't know who their leader is, and the masked man, I always felt that it was not what he really looked like, when Team Xu was at the scene, did you see what he looked like after he shed his human skin?" Li Chongxu chatted casually, saying something that he might never know the mystery for the rest of his life.
"Do you want to see him take off his human skin?" He Juan, looking at him incredulously, suddenly had a fly on his face, "You will regret it." ”
"Ah, why?" asked Li Chongxu.
...... Because I was just as curious as you was, I followed the search team and took a look at the body after digging it out of the rubble. She didn't reply, trying to get the image out of her mind as she poured her tea.
It hurts me to think about it again. She rolled her eyes at Li Chongxu, who looked inexplicable.
He Juan had just finished rolling her eyes, and she caught a glimpse of Xu Ying being silent, her face was not as relaxed as Fang Cai, and she called out suspiciously: "Team Xu?"
"Oh. Xu Ying came back from his contemplation and looked at the two of them: "It's okay, I suddenly remembered the old thing." ”
Both of them understood that a year ago, for them who had experienced the Rainle incident firsthand, it was a memory that they might not be able to forget in their lifetimes. The two of them looked at each other, intending to stop the conversation that was in progress.
Xu Ying rummaged through the bag he was carrying, took out a newspaper, and pointed to a news item on it, which was the location of the headline, which was marked with eye-catching red letters: "A skyscraper in the British capital suddenly exploded in the daytime, and the number of casualties is not counted."
"This ...... This was a year ago. After Li Chongxu saw the date, he said that he knew about the tragedy, but he did not go into detail, and now what does it mean that Team Xu has turned it over?
"At that time, I contacted the central government through the director of the bureau because of some kind of intuition, hoping to transfer the details of the bombing at that time, and I got unexpected information. As he spoke, he took out a USB flash drive in his bag, opened the notebook he was carrying with him and inserted the disk, and the two immediately went up to look at it.
Drag the progress bar and pull it down, and there was a familiar face on the death list that appeared on the screen, Li Chongxu and He Juan were startled and almost slipped off the sofa.
It was a young face with immature face, a photo of him when he registered information on the Internet before his death, with green facial features and a young man wearing a red scarf.
Li Chongxu felt goosebumps in his body and blurted out: "How could he be in London, England? And this kid was obviously ...... in the basement of the mall at that time."
"Ah, yes...... No way. He Juan was also a little incoherent.
"I don't know the specifics. Xu Ying's facial lines tightened, "I've been thinking about this question all year long, and there has always been a point that doesn't match, and just now after you mentioned that sentence, I had a bold guess......"
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"Hey, Team Xu?" Xu Wei's slightly surprised voice came from the phone.
"Bai Mingming went to England?" he went straight in.
There was silence for two seconds before he spoke again: "You know everything?"
Xu Ying let out a long sigh: "Is that really the case?" ”
The other end of the phone said in a low voice, "...... Perhaps this is the best salvation for him. ”
Xu Ying's eyes were red, he wiped his face, and then continued: "Dr. Kitahara, how is he? Is it still like that?"
There was a wry smile: "There's no way, if it's me, I would have to be depressed for a long time...... At least, the kid chose to stay with him in the end, and that was enough. ”
Xu Ying put down her phone and stood silently, her chest aching violently, and a sour feeling gushed from the tip of her nose.
yes, that's enough. It's all over.
It's over.
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In a rural area full of fields, several children on the field chased each other with wooden guns, and from time to time they held wooden guns to aim at each other, making "click" sounds in their mouths, and frolicked all the way along the dirt from afar.
In the bushes not far from the neighborhood, a young man in a hoodie was propping up a tree, holding his mobile phone in the other hand and saying inside: "Team Xu, why haven't you replied to me for half a day, didn't you say that you would see the target and give you the location as soon as possible?"
He snorted and muttered in a low voice, "Why is there no movement?" and he kept urging me to keep an eye on it just now...... I'm going to be disconnected at this point?"
A few children scrambled through a field of dirt, and the older child in the lead turned around and stuck out his tongue at the children behind him: "Haha, you can't catch up with me!" he sneered as he ran backwards, and suddenly his back slammed into a man, and he hurriedly turned back and pushed a few steps away, his bright eyes looking at the stranger curiously.
The stranger was a thin man, a low-pressed cap that covered most of his face, and his long, inky hair was gently raised by the wind on his pale cheeks. The eldest child was stunned, he had never seen anyone outside the village, the wooden gun in his hand was subconsciously hidden behind his back, embarrassed to wipe his nose with his fingers, and asked boldly: "You, who are you looking for in our village?"
The man seemed stunned for a moment, pausing for a few seconds before speaking: "I heard that there is a flower called Marlene, do you know where it is?" His voice was cold and devoid of any emotion.
The child blinked and repeated in confusion.
"Marlene?"
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