16 years

Chapter 207 "—for tomorrow."

When Fu Yan woke up again, they were already on their way back.

The potion of Eden One was pulled out from his chest and placed safely in the potion preservation box.

The road back was bumpy, and the wheels ran over a raised stone, so the whole body shook, and the metal collided with each other, making a crisp sound.

The scene in front of Fu Yan's eyes shook for a moment, dragging a long phantom.

So he closed his eyes again, and recognized the person around him with his familiar breath. He raised his hand to fish it out, and accurately caught Liu Ruosong's hand.

"Going home." Liu Ruosong seemed to know what he was going to say, and said first: "...Already on the way back, and the progress of the mission has been told to No. [-]. No. [-] said that he was in Yan The city is waiting for us."

This sentence is inexplicably weighty, it is obviously a common word, but when put together, it has a nasty ability.

Fu Yan has no romantic factors, and he can't describe the feeling. He just had a picture in his mind - it was like when they first joined the army, they had a long and exhausting rehearsal for the first time, and they came back in the afterglow of the setting sun. At the base, he saw Zhao Jincheng waiting for them at the door alone.

The golden halo poured down from his epaulettes, and the buildings behind him, the national flag on the square, and the national emblem on the conference building all shone together.

So Fu Yan hooked the corners of his lips sincerely, revealing a little smile.

He took Liu Ruosong's hand and touched it to the side. Before he could speak, Liu Ruosong gave a hum, indicating that he understood, then leaned over, pulled over the storage box containing the medicine, and pushed it to Fu Yan's hand.

Fu Yan opened his eyes and touched the edge of the one-meter-square storage box. He felt the coolness released from inside for a while, and finally did not open the box.

"Why are you like a newborn mother?" Liu Ruosong hugged Fu Yan from the back, couldn't help but put his chin on his shoulder, and said amusedly, "As soon as you open your eyes, touch the fruits of your labor first."

Liu Ruosong didn't know why such an outrageous metaphor suddenly appeared in his mind. The possession of Eden One symbolized that there was a way to solve the end of the zombies. He was also very excited, let alone Fu Yan.

But just now when he watched Fu Yan touch the box, he couldn't stop thinking about it.

Perhaps it was because he knew in his heart that everything was over, so even his mood became active.

Fu Yan paused, and his expression was a little weird.

"I'm just joking." Liu Ruosong immediately sullenly said, "This is a trophy, this is the final result, this is a milestone in human history, touch it twice—"

"I just think it's too easy." Fu Yan said, "It feels unreal."

This time, he just retraced the path he had walked before, everything was easier than he imagined, and he even successfully reached the finish line without encountering too much resistance.

When the long-awaited victory becomes within easy reach, it is easy for people to have a sense of doubt. Either they suspect that the previous sufferings are fake, or they suspect that the current victory is fake.

Fu Yan had a criminal record once, Liu Ruosong did not dare to take it lightly, he held Fu Yan's hand, and surrounded him with an undeniable force.

"It's hard." Liu Ruosong said softly, "You worked so hard, you went through all the thorns on this road, and finally opened the treasure chest on the high platform, it's normal."

"Didn't you say that you were sent by God to hinder Joe Eden?" Liu Ruosong looked at his action recorder while he was resting, and he still remembered every word he said: "So This is the clearance reward that God gave you—you passed his test, so the reward will fall from the sky."

Liu Ruosong's voice was gentle and gentle, as if he was coaxing a child. Fu Yan smiled helplessly. He wanted to say no, but felt that this kind of rejection was too blunt, so he hesitated for a while and didn't think about what to say. Neng hummed, indicating that he knew.

If it was Fu Yan who restarted for the first time, he might be very dissatisfied with the current result.Because he neither caught Joe Eden with his own hands, nor did he finally meet the kid who started all the plots.

What's more, even this research institute was buried deep underground with the earthquake, as if they got nothing during this trip except Eden One.

In the past, Fu Yan might have felt like a thorn in his throat, anticlimactic, but for the current Fu Yan, this is actually the most reassuring ending for him.

Because he didn't have to worry about whether Joe Eden would be "strategically protected" after he was brought back to Yancheng if he was alive, and he didn't have to worry about what conspiracy they would stir up.

It's good to be stable, Fu Yan thought. After more than ten years, his mentality seems to have changed. He is no longer obsessed with smashing conspiracy and finding out the truth. For him, as long as the end of the world can end, the general public can Returning to normal life, what about Joe Eden himself doesn't seem to be that important.

Secrets are sometimes safest only if they are buried underground forever.

He was really struggling.

The afterglow outside the window fell, and Fu Yan squinted his eyes, looking at the scenery outside—they had already approached the coastline again, and a large area of ​​glaciers came into view. A certain sense of fatigue.

He seems to be a traveler who has been walking for an unknown number of years in his long life, until now he knocked on the door of his house.

"How are He Tang and the others?" Fu Yan asked in a low voice.

They escaped too quickly, Fu Yan didn't bother to take a closer look at their situation, so he could only ask Liu Ruosong now.

"He Tang is fine, but two brothers were lost in their team. It's not that they didn't escape, but they were gone after the breakup." Liu Ruosong sighed, and said, "Besides, they encountered too many hordes of zombies. Although the rest of the people found the main control room quickly, they were more or less unsuccessful—a few brothers’ medicines failed, and they had zombified reactions, but they were not too serious and did not affect normal Life. He Tang is also infected, but he has no physical symptoms, and he should be able to metabolize it by himself. But now He Feng is very nervous about her, and the car won't let her go."

When Liu Ruosong said this, he smiled lightly, and turned his head to gesture out of the car window.

Fu Yan took the opportunity to look back, only to find that on Liu Ruosong's side, there was another car driving almost side by side with them.

He Tang was sitting on the back seat, with her hands folded and her face pressed against the glass, she was frowning, she looked so bored that her facial features were squeezed flat, she looked like a female ghost crawling out of a horror movie.

The car was driving at the same level as Fu Yan and the others, and the distance was also close. He Tang had maintained this posture for a long time, and he was looking forward to when the other party would see her so that he could "interact" with her.

It's a pity that Liu Ruosong had been blocking her sight all the time, until Fu Yan changed his posture, and their eyes suddenly collided in half space.

Immediately afterwards, He Tang's eyes lit up, as if the people in the enemy-occupied area saw the People's Liberation Army, they immediately jumped three feet high and hit their foreheads on the roof of the car.

She shrank her neck in pain, waved her hands at Fu Yan, and tried to say something with her mouth.

Fu Yan identified it and found that what she said was "Take me to your car".

It's a pity that Major Sparrowhawk's "conspiracy" failed. He Feng seemed to have clairvoyant eyes. He knew what she was doing when he faced a figure from behind.

"What are you doing!" He Tang protested, "The neck is pulled crooked! It will be so cold when I get out of the car."

"Sit well." He Feng said, "If you are sitting or not, what do you look like?"

"I'm an adult now, Comrade He Feng!" Major He didn't remember to eat or fight, and returned safely from the life-and-death mission. !"

What she meant was to ask He Feng to take care of her like a child, but He Feng raised his eyebrows leisurely, and actually continued to talk.

"Why did you tell me that before?" He Feng said, "I don't remember?"

"What did I say?" He Tang wondered, "I've said a lot."

"You said, if something happens to you, let me put you at home to raise you." He Feng said.

"Then I'm fine now." He Tang waved his hand and said, "Of course it will be void."

"Who said it's invalid." He Feng grabbed her by the neck and pressed her obediently on the seat.He lowered his eyebrows and said solemnly: "Your blood sample test failed - so I decided to be your guardian for life."

He Tang was dumbfounded, he didn't expect the old man to be so savage and unreasonable, he suddenly became unhappy, and vowed to defend his personal freedom to the death.

She seemed to have forgotten the captain outside the window for a short time, and rushed over without saying a word, making a fuss with He Feng.

Fu Yan watched outside for a long time, and finally couldn't hold back his skills, and burst out laughing.

But after laughing, the smile on his face suddenly faded a bit.Because he suddenly remembered that the last journey was actually not that easy.

Because they eventually lost their comrades in arms.

In previous times, Fu Yan had lost many comrades in arms. Some of them could get another chance because of his comeback, but some of them failed to get out of the predetermined ending.

Fu Yan is unfortunate. He is an ordinary person who was chosen by the world as the savior for no reason. He has to bear the responsibility of the whole world on his shoulders. This responsibility is as heavy as a mountain, and it is enough to make people breathless.

But he is very lucky, because he has the opportunity to come again and again.And for many people, their lives can't be repeated.

It was hard for Fu Yan to tell who was more painful between the two, so he simply leaned on Liu Ruosong and said in a low voice, "—for tomorrow."

Liu Ruosong put his hand on the lid of the freezer and said, "For tomorrow."

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After that is the post-disaster reconstruction!