"Try to recuperate for a week and wait for your body to absorb the extravasated blood." The doctor closed the report and said, "Don't use your eyes during this period.

The patient's immune system is very strong, so there won't be any problems. "

Zhou Rong thanked the doctor, held Sinan's hand, and led him out of the infirmary.

The next afternoon, the aircraft carrier finally docked. What appeared in front of everyone was a group of giant artificial islands in the vast South China Sea.

Dozens of islands of various sizes surrounded the main island, which covered an area of 8,000 square kilometers. Originally, it was the result of land reclamation projects over the past 20 years. Now, it was the national strategic command center, and also the largest shelter in the apocalypse.

Following the design concept of the B Military Region's underground shelter, the main island was also divided into four areas: management, communication, energy production, defense equipment, and residential and commercial areas.

Every day, the warships shuttled between the mainland and the islands, bringing back survivors from the smoke-filled land.

The 118 units lost their garrison after the disbandment, but Lieutenant General Zheng Xie took over the follow-up of the special forces and took special care of Zhou Rong and the others. He arranged for them to live in the two-person dormitory building in the military region of the main island.

The warm wind swept across the sea, bringing with it the pleasant smell of early spring. The green treetops beside the dormitory swayed slightly, making a rustling sound under the sunlight.

Zhou Rong stood in front of the dormitory corridor, looking at the clean streets and green belts.

Dark green military vehicles shuttled back and forth, and the blue sea in the distance made waves. The wind blew his short hair and collar. Everything was so peaceful and orderly.

It was as if the bloody escape that lasted for half a year was not real, and the near-death battle a few days ago suddenly became a distant memory.

Lieutenant General Zheng Xie completed the task given by the boss very quickly. On the same day, the promotion documents for Zhou Rong and the others came out.

Zhou Rong was promoted two ranks, Yan Hao, Chun Cao, Ding Shi, and Guo Weixiang were promoted one rank each, and the 17 comrades of the 6th Squadron were promoted two ranks as compensation.

Lieutenant General Zheng Xie personally came to ask for Zhang Yingjie's ashes to be buried in the military's temporary cemetery.

In fact, the environment of the cemetery was good and there were very few ashes. After all, most of the dead soldiers did not even leave their bodies behind. Most of them were glorious tombstones with the names of the martyrs engraved on them. However, Zhou Rong declined without even thinking about it.

"I promised Yingjie that I would go to the northeast to find his wife and child. When the time comes, I'll give the ashes to his family."

Lieutenant General Zheng Xie did not insist. "Although it's against the rules, you can make the decision."

There was an obvious bruise at the corner of the old lieutenant general's wrinkled eye. Zhou Rong couldn't help but look at it several times. Zheng Xie raised his hand to touch it and asked, "Is it obvious?"

"You are …"

"I fell," the lieutenant general said gently. "I'm old now. I have to admit that I'm old."

Zhou Rong's mouth was half open, and he nodded his head in admiration. He thought to himself, "Old man, you had to look at the mirror for a long time to find the right angle to make your eye look like this. Your wrestling skills are superb."

During lunch break, Yan Hao finally explained to Zhou Rong, "He was beaten by Ning Yu this morning."

Zhou Rong said, "Ah?!"

The six of them were divided into three dormitories. Zhou Rong and Sinan stayed in one room, Yan Hao and Chun Cao stayed in another room, and Ding Shi and Guo Weixiang stayed in another room.

Guo Weixiang had not recovered from his sadness, so Zhou Rong asked Ding Shi to come to his dormitory after lunch to give Guo Weixiang some space alone. However, Ding Shi found that he was going to go blind after staying in the captain's room for less than ten minutes. He cried and went to the next room to drag Yan Hao and Chun Cao over, saying that even if he wanted to go blind, he couldn't be the only one who was blind.

The new organization hadn't been announced yet, so no one knew which army they would be training with. They could only sit in a circle in the dormitory and play cards.

Yan Hao played a pair of three and said, "Yes, I went to the General Staff Department this morning and they were all talking about it next door."

Chun Cao asked, "Is Ning crazy?"

"Old General Zheng went to the Biochemistry Research Institute early in the morning and told the person in charge that when the military built the base in the South China Sea, they realized the importance of Doctor Ning and organized several groups of people to search for him. They always thought that he was dead.

Doctor Ning listened quietly and suddenly said, "General, I have a question."

Why was it that when we sent several distress signals to the coastal area last year, the military ignored them, but when the special forces of 118 sent out their location coordinates, the military helicopters immediately came over?

Is it because in the eyes of the military, the lives of the special forces are more precious than ours? "

Unit 118 was the blue team in every military exercise, so they had a blood feud with the elite ground forces of several major military regions. It could be said that they were absolutely irreconcilable.

However, Yan Hao was an exception — after all, he had a good face, and people with good faces were more approachable.

Therefore, Yan Hao could go out and visit people as he pleased, and he usually had more sources of gossip than others.

"The person in charge of the Biochemistry Research Institute was next to them, and his face turned green immediately."

Yan Hao described it very vividly, "General Zheng's entourage also turned green. The atmosphere was abnormally quiet, and the scene was extremely awkward."

Zhou Rong raised a pair of sixes, and didn't comment on Ning Yu's question, "What did the general say?"

"General Zheng said, 'Do you know how many people are sending distress signals all over the country? Do you know how many soldiers the rescue team has sacrificed?

As far as the military knows, your survivor base has supplies and weapons that can support the survival of tens of thousands of people. How can the military rescue you? '"

Zheng Xie was telling the truth — without knowing Ning Yu's identity, the military's search and rescue force obviously had to be used on the edge of the blade.

There were more survivors struggling on the line of life and death that needed to be rescued. In contrast, Chen Yajing's base was already considered a paradise in the apocalypse.

"Later, as we were talking, Ning Yu suddenly broke down for some reason. She went up and punched General Zheng so hard that he almost bled …" Yan Hao suppressed everyone with a pair of Q's. Ding Shi unexpectedly threw out a pair of A's, and he was a little stunned. "Huh?!"

Ding Shi stunned everyone with a pair of Aces. After careful consideration for a long time, he shyly threw out a Spades three.

Everyone was speechless.

Ding Shi didn't know how to play cards. He often came up with a king bomb, and then his hand was full of scattered cards that couldn't be played. Later on, before playing cards, people had to fight to be Ding Shi's next player.

Chun Cao looked numbly at Zhou Rong who followed Ding Shi and threw out scattered cards one by one, and asked, "What happened later? Was Ning Yu taught a lesson?"

Yan Hao also looked numbly at Zhou Rong's cards getting fewer and fewer, and said, "Of course not.

Maybe he had to write a self-criticism letter, or maybe the Biochemistry Research Institute wrote it for him. "

"Is he so powerful now?"

Zhou Rong put down his last Pai Jiu, smiled and said, "The higher-ups have gathered all the manpower to study his new zombie virus. Combining it with our comrade Xiao Si's serum, it may be the fastest way to make a vaccine.

So Dr. Ning is very arrogant now. If he goes to complain that Yan Hao once pointed a gun at his crotch, our team's belle may have to … "

Yan Hao said coldly, "Punish me as you wish. It doesn't matter."

"… She'll be sent to marry Dr. Ning by the organization. May you be together for a hundred years."

Yan Hao threw down his cards and rolled up his sleeves. Zhou Rong hurriedly hid behind Sinan, and Yan Hao could only turn back, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.

"Old Zheng is right," Chun Cao said curiously, "When did Dr. Ning become so crazy that he even beat up a general?"

"Who knows?" Zhou Rong smiled and threw down his last card, "King bomb!

Pay up, pay up. "

What made Ning Yu collapse wasn't that the military didn't rescue him in time, but that some things were completely irreparable before the military arrived.

However, Zhou Rong didn't say anything. He stared at the three defeated opponents with a mocking expression.

The other three had no choice but to beat up Ding Shi with tears streaming down their faces, and at the same time, they each took out ten yuan.

Zhou Rong put it away and stuffed it into Sinan's hand, "Hide the money for your snacks. I'll buy you a cream cake later."

Sinan sat quietly on the floor and "watched" them play cards. He crossed his legs and rested his chin on one hand. It seemed that he was about to fall asleep.

Zhou Rong observed him for a while and seemed to think that he was really asleep. He carefully took out three ten yuan notes, rolled them up, and unbuttoned Sinan's white shirt collar.

Unexpectedly, before he could shove the money into Sinan's chest, his hand was suddenly grabbed by Sinan, who then leaned close and kissed his wrist.

The room was quiet.

After a while, Ding Shi said sadly, "I told you that my eyes were going blind, but you didn't believe me."

Yan Hao hugged his knees and squatted on the ground, with his back to everyone. Grassy squatted beside him and said earnestly, "Look, now you suddenly think that marrying Ning Yu is a good choice, right?"

Sinan stood up, took two apples from the fruit plate on the table, and said briefly, "I'll go next door and check."

Guo Weixiang's house was next door. It was only two steps away from the door and left.

Zhou Rong stood up to send him off, but Sinan waved his hand to stop him. He took a bite of the apple, turned around, and went out.

"Who is it?" Guo Weixiang's voice came from the door, forcing himself to be calm.

Sinan didn't say anything. He bent down and put the other apple in front of Guo Weixiang's door.

"Who is it?"

Sinan held the wall and walked to the stairs at the end of the long corridor.

After a while, Guo Weixiang finally pulled himself together and opened the door, but there was no one outside, not even a shadow.

He glanced down and saw an apple by his feet. Baffled, he picked it up.

Sinan went downstairs and took the first step out of the corridor. He felt the warm and comfortable sunshine on his body.

He opened his hands, and the wind passed through his neck, arms, and waist, bringing with it the unique smell of the ocean.

He faced the sunshine, exhaled a long breath, and pulled off the gauze that had covered his eyes for several days.

The sunlight was so bright that he closed his eyes subconsciously, and then he suddenly opened them.

In front of him was an empty playground. There was no one around during the afternoon training. Under the shade of a tree not far away, several men in plain clothes were watching him closely. They probably didn't expect that he would suddenly pull off the blindfold, so they couldn't dodge in time and were hit by him.

Sinan raised the corner of his mouth at them. His smile was somewhat provocative, and then he walked out with the apple in his mouth.

The men in plain clothes looked at each other. One of them ran upstairs to inform Zhou Rong and the others, while the others followed him from a distance.

In fact, Sinan just wanted to walk around.

He and Zhou Rong both knew that they didn't have intracranial blood clots to the point where they needed to be bedridden. There might be some pressure on the optic nerve, but there was no need to be blindfolded 24/7.

Sensory deprivation was just a gentle and euphemistic method to make him more dependent on the base when he couldn't see anything.

It wasn't a big deal, but everyone said to "cooperate". Sinan had cooperated for nearly a week, and finally, he wasn't so cooperative anymore.

The base was a temporary artificial island, but it was well-planned. The white dormitory buildings were located in the military living area, and soldiers were running and training on the playground in the distance.

The men in plain clothes saw Sinan walking leisurely in front of them. He was wearing a white shirt and casual trousers, and he had one hand in his pocket. He walked at a moderate pace. When he passed by the cafeteria, he seemed a little thirsty, so he turned around and walked in.

The Secret Service's mission was to not let this person wander around, but they couldn't make him feel disgusted or even vigilant. They couldn't just stand by and watch him get into trouble.

Therefore, after a few quick glances, one of the men in plain clothes brought some money and followed him into the cafeteria.

However, as soon as he entered, the man in plain clothes was stunned.

The window selling food had long been closed, and the cafeteria was empty. There was only a piece of blindfold hanging from a vending machine in the corner.

Sinan was gone.

"Inform the research institute!"

"Search there!"

"Find him, quick!"

…

A moment later, Sinan came out from behind the vending machine, patted the dust off his body, and walked out of the cafeteria with a smirk on his face like a high school student who had succeeded in his prank.

When there was a knock on the window, Ning Yu was staring intently at the microscope. After a while, he suddenly looked up and saw Sinan standing outside.

Ning Yu was shocked. He pushed away the documents on his desk and quickly opened the door. "I've been looking for you like crazy!

Why are you here? "

The military research institute's laboratory was heavily guarded, and the guards at the door were all armed with assault rifles. God knew how Sinan had managed to sneak in without anyone noticing.

The shoulders and back of his white shirt were smeared with dust. He asked casually, "Is there a trash can?"

Ning Yu was furious. "Get out!

This is the laboratory!

Come in after patting the dust off! "

Sinan stuffed the apple core into Ning Yu's hand and stood in the corridor patting the dust off.

"# ¥o (* (…)" Ning Yu felt goosebumps all over his body. "You're disgusting!

Give it to me with your saliva!

# ¥… "

"You can take it for DNA analysis," Sinan said with a smile. "Anyway, you ask someone to draw my blood every two or three days."

Ning Yu had no choice but to throw the apple core away and wash his hands with soap angrily.

"Did anyone come to tell you that I was missing?" Sinan asked as he sat on the only high stool in front of the laboratory table.

Ning Yu said angrily over the sound of running water, "The Secret Service sent people to look for you twice. It was as if the house was on fire.

Zhou Rong said you were probably bored and wanted to take a walk, but those plainclothes officers didn't listen. Lieutenant Colonel Tang will hang himself soon … "

Sinan said, "Go ahead.

He scolded Zhou Rong for being a hooligan. "

Ning Yu was speechless.

The two men looked at each other for a moment, then Ning Yu asked seriously, "Isn't Captain Zhou the same?"

Anxious shouts came from downstairs in the laboratory again. It seemed that the Secret Service had begun the third round of search.

But Sinan turned a deaf ear, and Ning Yu didn't say anything either. He casually took the documents from the table and began to flip through them.

The South Sea Military Research Institute was responsible for researching viruses and developing vaccines. All of Ning Yu's work was of the utmost importance, and his efficiency was on the same level as that of a national leader.

However, Ning Yu didn't stop Sinan from reading his work notes. He just leaned against the laboratory table and slowly wiped his hands with a disinfectant towel. After a while, Sinan asked in surprise, "All the simulation experiments failed?"

"Yes."

Ning Yu said, "After using the serum, the antigen was quickly swallowed up, but the immune system collapsed. In the real world, even the infected would die.

I tried to start by changing the genetic chain of the virus, but it didn't work … "

Ning Yu carefully put on his gloves and said, "Other experts in the base think that Zhou Rong's cure was probably a coincidence, but I think it was because the serum antibody has a requirement on the genetic level of the infected."

Sinan, "?"

Genetic level?

Ning Yu leaned back against the laboratory table, raised his eyebrows and asked, "If I say that 'people are born with different social classes', do you agree?"

Sinan, "Yes."

Ning Yu, "…"

Ning Yu didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "Cooperate!"

"I already agree," Sinan said lightly. "I've always felt that my genes are nobler than ALPHA. What are you trying to say?"

Ning Yu's argument, which was full of quotations from the classics, was forced back. He had no place to use his peerless eloquence. After a long while, he helplessly shook his index finger. "Universal values don't agree with this point of view.

Whether it's from the perspective of law, religion, or the broad moral system, people are born equal. No one in the biomedical field will admit that this is not the case, and that there are differences in genetic level. "

"Genetics determines a person's nature, and environment determines a person's nurture.

Some people are born smarter, stronger, and have more artistic or sports talent. Genetic level can't predict the lower limit of a person's development, but it limits the upper limit of a person's survival in a life-and-death battle with the zombie virus. "

"In other words," Ning Yu said, "only people with excellent genes are more likely to defeat the virus and survive after being injected with the serum antibody."

Sinan closed the notebook and said, "This is just your inference."

Sinan didn't show any obvious emotions when facing anyone other than Zhou Rong, but Ning Yu still felt a trace of dissatisfaction from his flat tone.

"I thought you weren't a supporter of equality," Ning Yu teased.

Sinan didn't refute. He just said flatly, "But everyone has the right to live, Doctor Ning."

Ning Yu suddenly fell silent, and his eyes flickered slightly behind his glasses.

"Yes."

After a long time, Ning Yu finally spoke again. She paused for a moment before continuing, "But if this hypothesis is proven to be true, then an anti-virus vaccine will become impossible. We can't just develop a virus to increase everyone's genetic level before we talk about it again.

Also, the soldiers on the frontline will all be injected with the serum, and those who are still alive will be sent to save people, and those who are dead will be buried. "

Sinan gently threw the notebook back on the table and landed on the ground from the high stool. He said, "There will always be a way."

"There is no way." Ning Yu said coldly, "I'm not God. Human intelligence is limited.

I think everyone should just eat and drink on the island and wait for death. "

Sinan turned the doorknob and paused.

"Don't say that, Doctor Ning."

He said calmly, "Otherwise, I'll have to shoot you down to pay for the 95 experimental subjects. Do you think you'll still have a chance to eat and drink?"

Ning Yu was speechless.

Sinan walked out slowly. Ning Yu's forehead suddenly twitched. He suddenly thought of something and chased after him. "Hey!"

Sinan waved his hand without looking back, meaning that he didn't need to see him out.

"Yesterday, the military sent news that the rescue team rescued three people from A Country in Changsha and sent them back to the base!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Sinan finally stopped.

"Zheng Xie is going to meet them today," Ning Yu said softly, "These people may be your old acquaintances, so I'm just reminding you."

He closed the door of the laboratory with a click.

Sinan froze for a moment. The sound of people in the distance was getting closer and closer. The Secret Service personnel were so anxious that they wanted to release the police dogs.

The subtle hints in Ning Yu's words were like countless thin needles. He frowned slightly and the fine lines between his eyebrows deepened.

Suddenly, he grabbed the railing and jumped down, landing lightly and silently like a cheetah. He reached the end of the three flights of stairs in an instant. The armed police with assault rifles were standing guard at the gate. In just half a second, Sinan had already left the military research institute.