342 Reunion

◎The Bobcats invite you to join the Cheetah Team◎

Ravens.

It was just raining at first, then a sandstorm started, and then these two were fighting in the sky, and now it's raining mud in their area.

The Raven Team temporarily built a shed, with cars flying back and forth, a bunch of people going in and out, and a powerful beam going underground. They even applied to the headquarters for a temporary base station. There was no signal tower nearby, and this was specially approved.

After the base station was arranged, everyone knew what level of mission this was. Bobcat was an eyewitness. They set off north that day and were still talking about the Homecoming Train below.

That night they were attacked by mutant birds. If it was a simple physical attack, they would not have been beaten so badly. Along with the mental pollution, the clouds suddenly became like a maze, and their convoy was broken up.

The car Bobcat was in was following a car. The car in front had disappeared, and no matter how they called out, there was no response.

Experienced investigators went on alert, saying they were encountering a mysterious trap in the sky.

They were preparing for battle, but the plan was still finalized when they suddenly heard a "pop" sound and a soft, cold creature fell on the roof of their car. They could only see a tentacle wriggling past the window.

Under normal circumstances, you should turn off the lights, observe first, and don't act rashly. You have done all the steps above. Just after turning off the lights, I don't know who couldn't help but fired a bullet.

It was chaos afterward, and Bobcat couldn't even remember the memory.

The car spun and completely deviated from its route. The car that Bobcat and his friends were in was the luckiest. The car first fell into the dense forest and then into a deep pit.

Bobcat climbed out of the rubble. The car had fallen apart. He had received investigator training and should not look for his teammates at this time. The first principle was to analyze the environment and then investigate the information.

The weapons were lost during the forced landing, and the Bobcat had four broken ribs. His entire body was covered in ice so he could only move.

At this moment, he heard someone calling out. After a moment's hesitation, he decided to go check it out, thinking it might be a teammate. The Bobcats had received off-site training and passed the exam, but their temporary training wasn't as arduous as that of a regular investigator.

As for Bobcat, he would choose his teammates if given a hundred chances to choose, because someone had already taught him before this investigation and training.

Cheng Mofei said: "Life is more important than the goal, teammates are more important."

Bobcat was lucky to have met Xu Meng and Cheng Mofei when he was very young. This is what the entire Cheetah team does, always putting family first.

The mountain cat followed the sound, walking farther and farther away. He forgot how long he had been walking. The man's cries for help became weaker and weaker. By then, people could actually realize that something was wrong and it was definitely a trap.

But people are no longer able to make their own judgments in extreme situations. The bobcat's legs were still moving forward until his body became numb and his cries for help suddenly disappeared.

It was like something that was directly cut off by someone, an abnormal disappearance. The mountain cat even felt relieved at that moment, as if a stone hanging in his heart fell down, even if it was a trap.

He stood quietly in the forest, surrounded by corpses, Bobcat took a deep breath and prepared to do his job as an investigator, recording.

He turned on the recorder and the camera on his shoulder, ready to record at any time, but at this moment someone pulled his trouser leg.

The mountain cat was already in a state of stress, and the ice all over its body melted into a sharp sword. The ice sword did not fall, and was kept a palm-sized distance away from the man.

That was his teammate Li Feng, a veteran investigator. He was covered in mud and blood, with nothing below his thighs and teeth marks along the edges. What had happened to him?

Bobcat immediately realized that he was actually a teammate. He wanted to help Li Feng up, but instead he was grabbed by the collar and faced with a bloody face. Li Feng lowered his voice and said, "Call headquarters!"

The mountain cat glanced at the cave entrance, and Li Feng immediately grabbed the back of the mountain cat's neck to stop him from looking. "Don't look around. Find the signal tower and call headquarters over. Do you hear me? Go call for support!"

Li Feng is considered to be Bobcat's superior. Bobcat has not received training since childhood and is still in the internship period. Li Feng is there to give him scores, and Bobcat cannot refuse his orders.

Lynx received a new order and walked for two hours to find the nearest base station. He reported his location and information, but when he returned, Li Feng was already dead.

The body was stuck in the mud, and the internal organs were damaged in the belly, but it was still a little warm. It must have persisted for an hour after the bobcat left.

Li Feng was probably very lonely when he died. He had been fighting against his own desire to survive. He wanted to find someone to send him off but couldn't find anyone. What was he thinking at the last moment? Was he waiting for support?

The mountain cat sat next to Li Feng's body and listened to Li Feng's words. It turned its back to the cave and did not look back.

There must be some strange creature in there. The mountain cat can hear the hissing sound. Before he went out of the wall, he thought that with more effort, he could explore outside the wall and humans could solve the pollution sooner.

But he was naive and felt that he was insignificant compared to the world outside the wall.

Later, a flying car arrived, a awning was set up, and a professional scientific expedition team entered. Li Feng's body was collected and sent to the laboratory.

Of this group of people, only six were left.

The initial exploration of the strange creatures underground did not yield any results, but later they received news that someone had found evidence of the theory of contamination unification outside the north wall.

The new captain had a serious expression on his face. After reading the documents, he surveyed again. Bobcat did not know the core information. He guessed that there was also evidence under the cave for the unified theory of pollution sources. They really found a corner of underground pollutants, and some experts were calculating the possibility of walking underground.

People were walking around outside the tent. Bobcat was injured, but no one cared about him. The mud slid down the outer wall of the tent, and his deputy's brain suddenly flashed.

Old Zhao sent a contact number, "Zhu Ning's contact information."

Shanmao's hand trembled, and he felt a little unresponsive. It was Zhu Ning. He quickly submitted the application, then shut down his secondary brain and buried his face in his knees. His heart pounded wildly, a pounding heartbeat that reminded him he was still alive.

Li Feng’s death, strange creatures, and extremely bad weather all disappeared, and the only thing left with him was the sound of his heartbeat.

Boom, boom, boom——

Ding—the application has been approved.

The heartbeat gradually became lighter, and other sounds returned. Bobcat then realized that his palms were sweaty. How embarrassing.

Zhu Ning's message consisted of just two words: [Mountain Cat?]

He hesitated in the typing box, deleted and typed again, then deleted it again. He remembered that at the grave post forum, Xu Meng asked him to get information about Zhu Ning. He always thought about it for a long time but couldn't get it right. Xu Meng wondered why he couldn't deal with a newcomer.

Zhu Ning was much more natural than him, and sent the second sentence: [How are you and the others?]

Things suddenly became simple, all he had to do was report, so he told the Cheetah Team about their latest situation like a soldier reporting to his superiors, saying that Xie Jiazu was working in the funeral industry and Daju was traveling.

He talked a lot, and in the process, the ice and snow melted and his body became much warmer, as if he was suddenly pulled into the real world.

Shanmao felt that this was not intuitive enough and asked: [Do you want to join the group? ]

It might be one in the morning inside the wall now. Xie Jiazu must not have slept yet. He guards the cemetery day and night, so there must be someone alive in the group.

Zhu Ning was holding a bowl of beef noodles. The kitchen stove was broken and it took two hours to repair it before Zhu Ning could eat. He just found a place to sit down. The "canteen" of the supply station was very stylish. The ceiling was transparent and he could see the flying fishing line when he looked up.

At night, the flying fish emitted a blue-purple light, and the area was also bright at night. She chatted with the mountain cat and recalled the time when she was on the tomb post forum.

[The Bobcats invite you to join the Cheetah Team]

Zhu Ning chuckled. Who changed the name? She had joined the Cheetah Team group before, but she didn't use that account anymore. She looked through the group members and found that her previous account was still on the list. They didn't even delete her.

Flipping down, Xu Meng's account was not deleted. His avatar was gray with a small tail next to it. It was probably a nameplate made by Daju - the best captain in the universe.

Zhu Ning was stunned by this sentence, and hadn't thought of an opening remark yet.

Big Orange: [Oh my god! Caracal! You're back!]

Xie Jiazu: [Wow! Shanmao, you're actually online. You're not sleeping in the middle of the night. What are you doing, Daju?]

Daju: [I just finished a concert and I'm so excited I could go play sledding.]

Why go hunting cattle? Zhu Ning didn’t understand. The group was lively and there was no awkwardness at all. She changed her nickname to Caracal.

Zhu Ning edited his first message after joining the group: [Sorry, something happened to me before, and my secondary account is gone. I don't necessarily use this account often. But don't worry, I've memorized the group number. I'll join it myself next time I change my account.]

Xie Jiazu: [Got it, I understand. Shanmao is always like this. We have a lot of zombie accounts in the group.]

Daju: [You're a celebrity, it's normal for you to be busy. I understand. I've saved your pictures here. Wait a minute...]

The next second, Daju sent a photo, which was a screenshot of Zhu Ning’s social media, the one where he was standing under area 103 with the text hello world.

Zhu Ning suddenly felt embarrassed. It was okay to show it to strangers, but it did seem a bit like a second-year syndrome to show it to acquaintances.

Zhu Ning wasn't quite sure what they were thinking, so he asked, "Are you a demon or a true god?"

Big Orange: [Cat Pie! Cats save the world!]

Bobcat: [+1]

Xie Jiazu: [+1]

Zhu Ning felt warm in his heart. Every time he contacted Huo Wenxi, it was about work, and every time he communicated with Lu Yuan, it was to share news.

She had never had such a pure and relaxed relationship with anyone. Thanks to the signal tower, the inside and outside of the wall seemed to be temporarily connected. They were scattered all over the place, sharing the same world and gathering on the Internet.

Then Daju sent a bunch of photos and videos, and Zhu Ning read them patiently. During this period, Daju traveled to many areas, took photos holding a pancake that looked like a face, bungee jumped from a high tower, and took a short video while skiing.

Xie Jiazu also shared that the job of a vigil keeper was different from what Zhu Ning imagined. There were no supernatural events. Xie Jiazu was busy catching people every day, perverts who stole corpses, anchors who came to the cemetery to broadcast live, and people who were doing team building in the cemetery, shaking red wine glasses, and crawling twistedly.

"I really don't understand young people!" Xie Jiazu cried out, "Why do you come to the cemetery to do that? Is it exciting?"

Daju: [Everyone's stressed out and going crazy, that's normal. I also want to crawl in the dark of a cemetery.]

[Sister, please forgive me. I still want to live a few more years.]

Zhu Ning's smile never faded. Daju: [Hey, caracal, what are you doing?]

Zhu Ning: [Traveling outside the wall.]

She didn't say that she was going to take revenge, she would just do it quietly and then surprise everyone.

Daju didn't ask much, probably thinking Zhu Ning had some mission he didn't want to share: [Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, you're a demon, after all. The places you visit are different from us mortals.]

Big Orange suddenly said: "By the way, will Caracal come back next year for Qingming Festival? Let's visit the captain's grave together."

Zhu Ning stared at the line of words in a daze. She thought everyone was deliberately avoiding it and didn't want to mention it.

Daju: [We found a cemetery, but Xie Jiazu insisted on finding a wealthy person's feng shui site, saying they could plant a tree next year. All three of our pensions have been drained.]

Xie Jiazu: [No, do you know how much connections I had to spend to buy this? Do you think tombs are easy to buy now?]

Bobcat: [It's okay, spend it as you like.]

Daju: [Wow, what a domineering statement.]

Zhu Ning asked: [What is in the tomb?]

Daju: [In the cenotaph, I buried the captain's old guitar and a particularly cool leather jacket.]

[By the way, I've never seen a caracal before. I'll find one for you. Xie Jiazu is so unreliable. He said he planted a tree next to his grave. I thought to myself, if you can plant one, then plant it. But what's the point of planting a lemon tree?]

Zhu Ning received a video. As soon as he opened it, he saw a tombstone engraved with "Xu Meng's Tomb". These four words were a bit dazzling, and Zhu Ning subconsciously wanted to avoid it. However, the weather was good when the video was taken that day, the sun was shining, the light was bright, the whole tone was warm, and the cuckoo's call could be heard in the background.

Behind Xu Meng's tombstone stands a very short tree, not even as tall as a person. It can't provide shelter from wind and rain, and there are green lemons on it.

It looked so peaceful, with the wind rustling through the leaves. Next to the grave stood a pink record, which was from Xu Meng's favorite band.

Big Orange: [Lemon Tree, are you being ridiculous, Xie Jiazu?]

Xie Jiazu: [I really didn't know when I bought it... I was wrong. It's not good to chop it off. I might as well just leave it like this.]

Daju: [Forget it, on the day of the tomb-sweeping ceremony, we should pick some and make lemonade with it. Don’t waste it.]

Zhu Ning: [……]

Daju: [We bought six adjacent cemetery plots at once, one for each of us. We'll put up a sign saying, 'Cheetah's Home.']

This matter was brought up by Xie Jiazu. Daju suspected that Xie Jiazu went to work in the cemetery in order to get a backdoor, but they really liked it.

[When you die, lie down in a neat row, Caracal. I've reserved a spot for you next to the captain. It's a great spot.]

Zhu Ning was stunned for a moment. At first he thought Daju was joking, but he actually received the photo. To the left of Xu Meng was Cheng Mofei's tomb, and to the right was Zhu Ning's. But the others were not dead, so there were no tombstones, just an empty space.

There are really rows of them, as if everyone is sleeping in a big bunk bed. Zhu Ningren is not here, they have even bought a grave and are indifferent to life and death.

Zhu Ning has no home, but she has her own cemetery and is also Xu Meng's neighbor, with the captain on the left and Daju on the right.

Xie Jiazu: [I'll help you guard it.]

Daju: [We've got it all planned out. We found a videotape of the captain playing guitar when she was younger. I've never seen it before, but we want to watch it together when we visit her grave. Then, we'll open a bottle of wine and buy a big strawberry cake. We'll try to make the grave a lively one, with a rock and roll vibe. The captain doesn't like dull, lifeless things.]

[Now that the caracal has returned, we'll finish sweeping the graves and each of us will touch the captain's spores.]

Xie Jiazu: [What are you touching? To keep safe?]

Daju: [Yes, touch the captain to keep him safe.]

Zhu Ning's eyes were getting hotter and hotter. The beef noodles were too hot and it hurt her eyes. She looked up at the flying fishing line and took a deep breath.

Zhu Ning: [I will definitely go back next year during the Qingming Festival. Please wait for me.]

I bring back good news.

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