Chapter 112 His Departure

"I don't want you to die. Don't die. Stay with me, okay?"

Shi Yan did not answer her question, but talked about other topics. "I still remember the first time I saw you, you were wearing heavy makeup, but your eyes immediately attracted my attention. No matter how heavy the makeup was, it couldn't cover up your twinkling eyes, Xiaoxue. It was as if there were many stars in them. I like looking at the stars, and I like looking at you even more. As long as you are by my side, even if you die, I will die without regrets."

"I won't let you die. Let's go back to the base right away. There should be a way to save you there." She choked and said with trembling hands, "Shi Yan, you have to stay for me! Didn't we agree that you would stay with me..."

Shi Yan forced a smile and reached out his hand to wipe away her tears. He was now in a miserable state with blood all over his body. Seeing that Qin Muxue had just drunk the medicine, the strength he had been struggling to hold on to was finally exhausted.

He raised his right hand and spun the watch on his wrist. "Maybe it's time to leave here..."

"Xiaoxue, you must take good care of yourself when I'm not around." He finally kissed Qin Muxue's forehead devoutly and solemnly, and stroked her soft hair. "I really want to engrave your appearance deeply in my memory. I wanted to hide it from you, but now I can't. I don't belong to this time and space, so I naturally have to return to my own time and space. Don't be sad, maybe we will meet one day."

"You are comforting me, you are just comforting me." She was hurt so badly that she actually already had the answer.

He did not answer, and spat out a few more mouthfuls of blood. Shi Yan finally slowly closed his eyes.

As a bright light rang on the watch, everyone was blinded by the strong flashing light. When they opened their eyes again, they found that Shi Yan had disappeared, leaving only a pool of blood to prove that this person existed.

Manman looked at all this in surprise, "Where did Shi Yan go?"

Qin Muxue sat on the cold ground in disappointment, as if there was a missing piece in her heart. From Shi Yan's words just now, she vaguely understood, "Probably in some parallel universe."

Her mind was blank. After taking the medicine, the poison in her body had been resolved, but she was too emotional just now and now she was too sad. She felt a little dizzy for a moment, and then she felt that she had lost consciousness...

In her dream, Qin Muxue felt that she was in a laboratory. There was a dead body lying on the bed. Because it was covered with a white cloth, she naturally thought it was a corpse.

Occasionally, she could hear crying sounds not far away. "Who is crying?" A cold wind blew, and she felt a little cold, confused, and scared. Whose body was lying on the bed?

She seemed to have the answer in her heart, but she didn't dare to go closer to take a look. Her steps seemed to weigh a thousand pounds. Finally, she walked hesitantly to the bedside and lifted the white cloth with a heavy heart. It was a strange face, not Shi Yan. She breathed a sigh of relief.

It was pitch black around, and suddenly a man walked out. "Shi Yan, is that you?" she asked loudly. Qin Muxue was very familiar with his figure, but the figure turned around and disappeared.

She didn't know how long she had been running in the darkness until she felt exhausted, but she still couldn't catch up with the figure. "Shi Yan, come out, where are you? I forgive you for leaving without saying goodbye. You said you would not leave me!"

His voice seemed to ring in my ears, "Xiaoxue, even without me, you must survive well. I believe in you. You are like the tenacious grass. Sadness is only temporary. You have so many relatives and friends around you. I believe you can make it through it..."

The figure in the shadow gradually disappeared. She felt something pouring into her mouth. She slowly opened her eyes and found that she was lying on a hospital bed. Manman looked at her with a worried look on her face. "Xiaoxue, you finally woke up. Are you okay?"

Qin Muxue looked at the dazzling light in a trance. She hadn't recovered yet. "Am I dreaming?"

"Xiaoxue." Manman held her hand tightly. "It's not a dream. This is real. You have been unconscious for a whole day. Fortunately, you finally woke up. Are you hungry? I'll get you something to eat."

Qin Muxue grabbed her hand and said, "Manman, was everything that happened before real? Wasn't it a dream?"

Knowing that she still couldn't believe what happened before, Manman could only tell her solemnly: "Xiaoxue, those are all true. Shi Yan has disappeared."

After Qin Muxue fell into a coma that day, people from the base quickly rushed over. It was the first time they had seen a creature like the evil spirit, so they prepared to take his body back for research. Their team had also completed the mission this time.

Qu Yanbai and their explanation was that one of their teammates had gone missing during the battle with the evil spirits, and everyone expressed deep regret for this.

Alien creatures like evil spirits play a huge role in scientific research, and their completion of the mission is a great achievement.

During Qin Muxue's coma, Captain Wei also came to see her. "This girl is really amazing, but it's a pity that the boy..." He also felt sorry. The two of them were so powerful, but they were injured like this when facing the evil spirit. It shows that there are always people who are better than you. "There will definitely be a reward after he wakes up."

However, these awards seemed no longer important to Qin Muxue, as the most important person had already been lost.

Since she woke up, Grandma Qu has also come to see her. She has lived for most of her life and has experienced a lot of separations and deaths. Naturally, she knows how sad Qin Muxue is. "Child, I know you are sad, but you have to know that people have to face seven sufferings when they are alive: birth, aging, sickness, death, resentment, separation from loved ones, and failure to obtain what they want. I, your grandma, have lived to such an old age and have really experienced a lot. I don't ask you to take these things lightly, but the living must always learn to accept them. Time will smooth everything out."

Qin Muxue had already experienced a lifetime and understood these principles, but when these things really happened to her, the heart-wrenching feeling was still hard to let go.

"Grandma, I understand what you said. There are still many things around me that are worth cherishing. I will slowly adjust my mood. Don't worry, I will definitely eat the meal and I won't make things difficult for myself." She believed that Shi Yan must be safe and sound in another time and space, and she would wait for him to come back.

Qin Muxue picked up the bowl. Even though she didn't feel hungry at all, she still managed to finish the meal. After all, she would need a lot of food if she used up her mental energy. "Another bowl."

Seeing that she quickly cheered up, Grandma Qu breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Enough, enough. There's plenty. Our Xiaoxue will have as much as she wants to eat." After spending these days together, she had long regarded Qin Muxue as her own granddaughter, and she felt more intimate with her. Seeing her depressed look, Grandma Qu felt bad, but seeing that she could eat and think clearly, she felt relieved.

Qin Muxue looked at Grandma Qu's back as she served the rice, and tears welled up in her eyes. However, she couldn't cry. Even if she wanted to cry, she couldn't cry in front of them. She immediately wiped away her tears and returned to her normal self after finishing her meal.

She couldn't let anyone see her vulnerability. She had to be stronger than ever before. With her hands clenched, Qin Muxue had secretly made up her mind.

When Qu Yanbai and Manman arrived, they saw that Qin Muxue had already eaten several bowls of rice. Only Manman felt that something was wrong with Qin Muxue, "Xiaoxue, are you really okay?"

"I can eat, drink and sleep, nothing else is wrong. Do we still have a mission? What is there to do?" She raised her head with a nonchalant expression on her face.

Looking at Xiaoxue's abnormal behavior, Manman actually knew that her pain had reached its limit, and she could only forget it by doing something.

"You should take a good rest for now. You just got injured and it will take time to recover."

Qu Yanbai hesitated for a while and said, "I have something I want to discuss with you."

"If you have anything to say, just tell me!"

"Captain Wei said that we can be rewarded for our good performance, but... I haven't decided what reward I want yet, so I wanted to ask you."

Qin Muxue was silent for a moment. "Do you still remember some survivors in Dajiang City? If possible, I hope Captain Wei can lend us an experienced pilot. We will bring the survivors of Dajiang City here. We don't have to bring them to the base, but at least we can give them a place to survive."

Qu Yanbai counted the days and said, "I have the same idea, but the asteroid will hit Dajiang City tomorrow. Whether we can make it in time is another matter. There may be acid rain in this area in the next two days. If we want to rescue them, we must set off immediately."

Qin Muxue jumped off the bed and said, "We still have time. Let's go find Captain Wei now."

She had to have something to keep herself busy now so that the pain would be relieved.

I thought Captain Wei still needed to think about it, but he just pondered for a moment and decided to call his superior, "This matter does need to be done, but time is urgent, I must call and confirm with my superior."

Captain Wei made a phone call, and after his negotiations, his superiors finally allowed it. However, they were only willing to give it to two experienced pilots. Airplanes were a scarce material, so they had to find a way themselves.

Qin Muxue has quite a few planes in her space. What she lacks now is pilots. "I have a way to get planes. This place is only 20 kilometers away from the airport in Baihu City. We can take off from there. We just need people."

"Compared to you, I am really ashamed of myself. I thought the reward you wanted would be related to yourself, but I didn't expect it to be to go to Dajiang City to save people..." Captain Wei shook his head. He really underestimated them. He patted Qu Yanbai on the shoulder and said, "You didn't disappoint me at all. The military spirit is still there. But I am ashamed of myself. I didn't think of this at the first time, and I even asked you to bring it up."

The base in Baihu City has already given them a great surprise, and Captain Wei is also a reasonable officer. He at least gave his family and friends a place to stay.

"However, pilots also need weather conditions to take off. If the weather conditions are not met, there is nothing we can do..." Captain Wei continued.

Everyone can understand this. After all, no one wants to sacrifice their life in vain.

According to the testing by meteorological experts, today should be the most suitable day. It is estimated that the asteroid will fall in Dajiang City tomorrow night, followed by seven consecutive days of acid rain.

Without further ado, Qin Muxue immediately took the two pilots to Baihu Airport. After asking Qu Yanbai to send them aside, he took out the two planes with relatively complete functions from the space.

When they saw the two intact planes again, the two pilots were still a little surprised. However, this is an airport, and it is normal to have planes. After inspection, the planes did not have any problems, and the gasoline was enough to support the flight to Dajiang City. However, the two pilots still had some concerns about the long-distance flight. After frequent consultation, they decided to fly one plane, so that even if one of them was too tired, the other could take over. If they drove two planes, the risk would be too great.

After several hours of flying, this time the plane landed safely at the airport of the Dajiang City Shelter. The survivors were a little surprised as to why another plane came.

After Qin Muxue jumped off the plane, she said to the remaining survivors: "I am here to pick you up from the Baihu City base, but there are only 60 seats on the plane, which means that I can only save 60 people. We can't stay here for too long. You can consider who will leave with us."

In fact, there are only a few survivors. The temperature here has dropped sharply and the shelter has been destroyed. The only ones left are some people with relatively strong physical fitness.

Among them were soldiers who had previously given up their places to women and children. Moreover, the soldiers had better physical fitness and were more numerous than the survivors.

A frail old man stood up and said, "I'm old, and I'm lucky to be alive today. I'm willing to leave the chance of life to young people. I've lived enough." After saying that, he shook his head and walked aside.

His own children and grandchildren had died in the previous flood disaster. For him, there was nothing in the world worth clinging to. He was exhausted from struggling to survive until now. He was the only old man who had survived in the shelter, where there were relatively few old people to begin with.

Some soldiers said: "We are the people's soldiers, and we are here to protect the people's safety. We are willing to give up the opportunity to leave!"

This time, even Qin Muxue felt conflicted. She was used to seeing those hypocritical humans, but now she saw the shining points of humans, which meant that humans could still be saved.

She could also fly a plane, and there was a plane in her space, so could she take the rest of the people away? Once this thought came up, Qin Muxue was frightened by her own courage, but she was willing to give it a try.

"Qu Yanbai, you stay here and calm them down. I have something else to do. Come over right away."

Looking at Qin Muxue's back gradually disappearing in the snow, he was in a trance for a moment.

Qin Muxue drove the snowmobile in the snow and soon came to a familiar place, where Qiqi lived. This was her real purpose of coming here, to save Qiqi's family.

Qiqi and her mother didn't know that a disaster was about to strike. Relying on the giant turtle, they could barely survive for the time being. Qiqi was a little surprised at Qin Muxue's arrival, "Big sister, why are you here? Are you here alone?" She looked behind her and found no one.

"Wu You didn't come. I came here alone." She didn't have time to explain all this, so she could only make it short: "This place is about to be destroyed by an asteroid. I need you to pack up and leave here with me immediately."

Qiqi didn't have time to react, but thinking about the recent abnormal situation in the sky, she felt a little uneasy and immediately discussed it with her mother.

The two agreed to Qin Muxue's suggestion and simply prepared some luggage. "Whatever you want to take away, I can help you take it away."

"Sister, I want to take everything here away, is that okay?"

Qin Muxue replied calmly: "Okay."

Then the house in front of her disappeared without a trace. Qiqi widened her eyes in disbelief.

"As for the giant turtle, just bear with it for a while." Qin Muxue put it into the space breeding area, "Don't worry, it won't be hurt."

There was no time to explain in detail. Because of their great trust in Qin Muxue, they hurriedly followed her snowmobile and left.

After arriving at the shelter, Qin Muxue counted the number of people. There were more than seventy people in total. One large plane plus the private plane she was flying was enough.

This was all she could do. These were all the people who could be mustered in this area. Some had been buried under the snow, died in the severe cold, or even starved to death. This was because they had received rewards for their contributions.

She couldn't save that person, but at least she could save some people within her ability.

The passenger plane took off first, and Qin Muxue arranged for several soldiers to take her private plane. They were a little surprised at first, but soon remembered that she was a person with special powers.

They couldn't help but respect this psychic in their hearts. They thought they had been abandoned, but now he gave them hope of survival.

"I don't know how to thank you."

"You have made a lot of contributions, and this shouldn't be the end." Qin Muxue explained calmly.

"If you have any problems in the future, we will help you without hesitation!"

Although they had heard of the power of this psychic, perhaps she would never need their reward in her lifetime.

But Qin Muxue showed her first smile since Shi Yan left, "Okay, you must help me if I have any problems in the future."

"Of course!"

After driving for most of the day, they returned safely to the airport in Baihu City. The requirements for entering the base were quite strict, so Qin Muxue could only explain the rules of the base to them, "If you want to stay in the base, you must have skills and you must work. This is different from the previous shelter. Whether you can enter the base depends on your own efforts. This is all I can do to help you."

The remaining soldiers were incorporated into the base. There was a shortage of manpower here, and as long as they passed the physical examination and tests, they could stay in the base.

Ordinary people who cannot enter the base can also stay in other areas of Baihu City. Although life will be harder, at least there is hope of survival.

Because Qiqi had a giant turtle, she was also arranged to live in the base as an exception and had her own apartment.

It seemed that everyone had a happy ending. After finishing all this, a day and a night had passed. Because of the non-stop journey, Qin Muxue found that she had no time to reminisce or feel sad.

But now that she has some free time, she feels that Shi Yan's shadow is all in her mind. She came to Shi Yan's apartment. This was obviously his new home, but he disappeared before she had lived there for two nights.

They expressed their feelings, but within just a few days, everything had changed.

Qin Muxue lay sadly on the bed where he used to sleep. She seemed to see Shi Yan's cold smile and the words he said to her in her ear before he disappeared. She must take good care of herself when he is not around.

"Asshole, why did you make me watch you leave twice? I regretted it enough in my last life, why do you have to make me regret it again now?"

Qin Muxue felt empty inside. It turned out that only by keeping herself busy could she stop thinking about Shi Yan.

The emotions she had been holding back during the day finally came out, and her tears soaked the quilt. "You must come back... I will wait for you."

The next day, the entire base felt a violent shaking. It seemed that the asteroid fell in Dajiang City as expected. A once prosperous city disappeared in ruins and was completely destroyed.

It takes hundreds, thousands or even tens of thousands of years for human civilization to be built, but it can be destroyed in an instant... It's really sad.

As the shaking ended, acid rain began to fall from the sky. Because the base had already taken precautions, not much damage was caused. It seemed that the parrot that could predict the future still had some skills.

Qin Muxue thought that since the parrot could predict the future, maybe she could find an opportunity to ask some questions, but Su Yuqin told her that this parrot could only predict some natural disasters.

During this period of acid rain, Qin Muxue was unable to go out and had to stay inside the base. She tried to stay in the greenhouse at the base and assist the growers there in growing crops.

She planted the vegetable seeds in the space outside and found that although the growth speed could not be controlled as freely in the space, it was much faster than ordinary vegetable seeds, had a high survival rate, and was relatively cold-resistant.

Seeing how busy she was, Manman stopped disturbing her. After all, everyone needs time to recover. Even she felt sad about Shi Yan's departure, let alone Xiaoxue?

The seven days of acid rain passed quickly. The base was unusually busy that day. It was said that people from the upper echelons were coming to inspect. But to Qin Muxue, it was all irrelevant. She only cared about when she could go out on the mission. She urgently needed to stop thinking about other things by being busy at work.

Captain Wei found her and said, "Xiao Qin, someone wants to see you."