bookcurios Chapter 252: Good Physique
Chapter 252: Good Physique
Two days had passed when Qin Yuchen woke up. He had brought back a map, so Suzhou South sent several teams to look for supplies.
This time Sun Pan and Xiao Lu led the team.
Suzhou Nan stayed at the base to look after Qin Yuchen.
When he pulled out the needle and opened the ward door, Suzhou Nan and Lao Liujing were sitting on the public chairs outside the door.
Hearing the noise, they both turned around and looked at him.
Then everyone was delighted. Suzhou Nan immediately stood up and wanted to hold Qin Yuchen's hand to test his temperature:
"You should have woken us up straight away, why did you get out of bed by yourself? Are you feeling unwell somewhere else?"
Qin Yuchen ignored them and went to the kitchen to find himself a glass of water.
"Let your uncle check to see if the fever has gone down." The two followed him into the kitchen and forced him into the small space.
One holds hands and takes pulse, while the other strokes the head.
Qin Yuchen let them do whatever they wanted with an expressionless face.
"Or you can say that he has a good physique."
Lao Liu made the final summary.
Qin Yuchen's fever was severe, but it was successfully relieved with two fever-reducing injections and an infusion.
They had no intention of asking about Meng Luocheng's news, but Qin Yuchen took the initiative to bring it up.
He ignored their concerns and inquiries and spoke quickly:
"Meng Luocheng died in this mission."
"..."
"..."
One sentence successfully made the two of them speechless.
"That's strange. How could I have missed the pulse?"
The hand on Qin Yuchen's pulse was trembling visibly.
Old Liu calmed himself down and said self-deprecatingly.
He tried to use this self-deprecating joke to cover up what Qin Yuchen said, but obviously failed.
The person standing next to him was even slower than him. His usually serious face went blank in an instant, and the hand he was using to test the temperature didn't seem to be placed in the right place.
Old Liu wanted to speak to ease the atmosphere, but his choked voice betrayed him. He had no choice but to remain silent and slam the door and leave.
Qin Yuchen is the calmest among the three.
He stood in the corner surrounded by them, watching Lao Liu go out, and then watching Suzhou Nan's hand find its landing point.
The grip on his shoulder made Qin Yuchen frown in pain, and Suzhou Nan repeated incoherently about Meng Luocheng's location.
Tan Yuchen kept silent.
The two of them were in a stalemate, and Qin Yuchen had always been good at pretending someone didn't exist.
Suzhou Nan knew this clearly, so he glared and cursed loudly, but in the end he fell silent and sat down on the ground dejectedly.
To be honest, Qin Yuchen and his base have always been very lucky, because after the base was established, people living here rarely see death.
Even if the team on the mission could not find any supplies or energy, they would return with the same number of people they went out with, and there was no news of anyone dying during the mission.
Everyone is looking for a solution to the end of the world while living happily.
The slogan "God's blessing" gradually turned into "Who is better than us?", and the death of Meng Luocheng and several other teammates was the beginning.
Before they had time to properly mourn Meng Luocheng and his group, news of a merger arrived at the base from thousands of miles away.
This group of people are dressed gorgeously, have high aspirations, and look down on others with disdain.
They brought photos of energy-rich products and a few mismatched supplies, and touted the benefits of the merger.
Some are shaken, some are hateful.
Very normal.
Once again, the boss who came out of the disloyalty and killed people turned his knife again on the people who instigated the disloyalty.
Qin Yuchen's words "Kill him" drew attention back to the base.
He is strong enough and immortal, and he plays a role in stabilizing the hearts of this group of people.
His three older brothers helped to stabilize his mind.
When he was 22 years old, his other two brothers who were stable and at ease went out on a mission. One of them disappeared, and the other drove the car out of the city with the supplies.
Qin Yuchen stood on the top of the city wall and watched the car crash head-on into the railing without any skill.
The driver's door was flung open and a man struggled out of the car and rolled to the ground.
The man was covered in blood, half of his face was rotten, and he didn't look like a living person at all. However, he was still able to get up from the ground in a twisted posture and try to get to the car.
That was Suzhou South. He lost consciousness, but relied on instinct to return here.
Qin Yuchen looked at him calmly for a while, then tightened his grip on the crossbow and shot an arrow through Suzhou Nan's eyebrows.
After the body fell, Qin Yuchen threw the crossbow in his hand to the crying person next to him, and calmly arranged what needed to be done next:
"Arrows recovered, vehicles disinfected, supplies counted, personnel..."
He paused for a moment, then walked away without looking back. "Let's find a house nearby to stay."
Qin Yuchen returned to the small Western-style building and went straight back to the bedroom without staying in the empty living room.
The moment he opened the door, his legs went weak and he fell straight to the ground.
……
The days ahead were long and difficult.
Qin Yuchen slept on the ground for a night and a day. When he woke up, he thought it was daytime, but when he looked at the time, he realized that it was actually eight or nine o'clock in the evening.
The sun, which should have set long ago, was still hanging high overhead, and the layers of heat waves seemed to be still at noon.
Qin Yuchen got up from the ground, walked to the window as usual, and looked at the street outside.
The street, which is always bustling, is now silent. Even the old lady who loves to sit at the entrance of the alley is not there. There is only a small bench quietly placed there.
Qin Yuchen didn't want to dwell on the reason, even though it was an obvious answer. He just stood there, under the scorching sun, completely emptying himself.
Everyone knows what the changes in the sun indicate, but we still have to live well.
From that year on, frequent heavy rains no longer appeared on this land. What was more unbearable than hunger was the continuous drought and high temperature.
Even zombies who have no sense of pain died from the heat, let alone living people.
Twenty-three-year-old Qin Yuchen seemed to be thinking of giving in.
He and a team had been to a distant base.
The base was also surrounded by high walls. They stood on the periphery and watched people eating each other.
In the center, there are lights and feasting that even the walls cannot block.
The idea of giving in was extinguished. From then on, he had to kill zombies and deal with those who came to ask for a merger.
Just like that, the base in the distance realized something, and he became a thorn in the hearts of this group of people.
Unity in the base is very rare. I don't know what benefits that group of people gave him, or whether that person has always hated him, so that he could readily cooperate with that group of people to carry out the idea of killing and silencing him.
He had never revealed any flaws and had always been an important member of the base, always considering the base. However, when Qin Yuchen was 25 years old, he pointed his gun at his own people.
It was still a hot day. Qin Yuchen and Xiao Lu each led a team of people to a new place to look for supplies.
After spending two long months, the two teams finally gathered at the designated place.