"You really don't believe in my medical skills!" Lin Qingqing found a chair and sat down.
In fact, she didn't trust her own medical skills, but the inhibitor had shown a 50% effectiveness in treating mild cases in clinical trials at that small base in Jiangbei.
Li Baifu's skin was only stained with zombie blood, not bitten. The virus was still on the surface and hadn't entered the bloodstream so quickly. Logically, even zombie transformation wouldn't be this fast.
"I'm just afraid what might happen..." Li Baifu supported himself on the table with both hands and slowly sat down.
No one is not afraid of death.
He would be afraid too.
When the zombies' blood splashed all over his face just now, he could hardly hold back his bladder.
"My soldiers were just training with me before the apocalypse. Before, they didn't even have a chance to see blood. But over the past year, they've killed countless zombies. The number of casualties has already exceeded half."
"They are all people worthy of respect." Lin Qingqing said sincerely.
She still remembered that when she had just returned, it was the troops sent by Li Baifu to clear the roads, giving more survivors the opportunity to escape to Liancheng alive.
Li Baifu was inevitably a bureaucrat sometimes, but when faced with major issues of right and wrong, he still remembered his identity.
"Yes..." Li Baifu sighed, "They are all young soldiers! They have relatives and friends at home. Many of them didn't have the chance to go back and see them. I don't know if there are any alive at home. It hurts so much..."
Li Baifu pointed to his heart, tears streaming from his tiger eyes.
"Alright, you can't die, so don't leave any last words."
Seeing that the other party was only busy complaining and not entertaining her, Lin Qingqing took tea leaves from her own space to make tea. The noodles she had eaten before were a bit salty.
Li Baifu felt embarrassed by her relaxed look, and he grabbed a tissue to wipe away his tears.
Lin Qingqing gave him a cup of tea and took a look at his eyelids. There were some red bloodshot eyes, but it was not necessarily the zombie virus.
Lin Qingqing asked: "You haven't slept these days?"
"I didn't sleep well." Li Baifu shook his head. How could he sleep? Relocation was such a big thing, and he had to personally carry out all the preparatory work.
Li Baifu said hoarsely, "There are some opposing voices, but I have made up my mind. If we continue to endure in Liancheng, none of these soldiers will survive."
"We are all born by our parents. We can't leave them with no way to retreat just because they are soldiers." Li Baifu thought of the officers and soldiers of the army being cursed by the survivors in the past few days, and his eyes were cold.
In order to defend Liancheng, countless soldiers sacrificed their young lives.
"I've thought about it. If the survivors are willing to leave, let's go together. If they don't want to leave, it's up to them! I, Li Baifu, will bear the infamy of abandoning the city and fleeing alone!"
Although Li Baifu's voice was a little hoarse, his words were still powerful.
He couldn't let everyone be buried here and be cursed after their death.
Lin Qingqing hummed, "Those who achieve great things don't care about trivial matters. They should give up what they should give up, such as conscience."
Li Baifu: "...Why do I feel like you are cursing someone?"
He expressed the words that were buried deep in his heart but he had no one to confide in, and he felt much more relaxed.
"How could that be?" Lin Qingqing drank the tea and felt her mouth tasted bland. She grabbed some sunflower seeds and peanuts and shared the peanuts with Lao Li.
"I've always felt I had no conscience..." She began to crack melon seeds, unashamed. According to the textbooks, people like her should be dragged out and shot a hundred times.
"When you're in a certain position, every decision you make affects the lives of many people. You're not a god, and you can't protect everyone. So you can only protect the people you want to protect first."
The general had said this to her before, and even now, she still felt it made sense. Her abilities were limited, so she could only protect those she wanted to protect first.
The two chatted for a while and decided on the approximate time of evacuation. Li Baifu still needed to finalize the number of people.
Lin Qingqing suddenly asked, "Have you contacted the capital?"
"I have." Li Baifu would not hide anything from her now. "I spoke alone with Base Commander Wu Yihao. He said he personally supports my decision and will try to get a few helicopters to escort us."
"Didn't he tell you about the inhibitor? I had someone take a sample to the capital."
"Not really! Let me call and ask again?" Li Baifu asked Lin Qingqing for her opinion.
"No, he might have been delayed on the way, or his clinical performance was not good." Lin Qingqing shook her head and looked at her wrist to see that an hour had passed.
She took out a syringe and drew a tube of blood from Li Baifu. "I'll go back and test it. There shouldn't be any problem."
"Wait a moment, I'll call the infirmary and ask them to draw a tube of blood from that kid." Li Baifu said as he picked up the landline and started making a call.
He held the microphone and hummed and ahed, his face showing an increasingly exaggerated expression of joy.
Li Baifu hung up the phone and said excitedly, "Did you know? That soldier, the same soldier just now, has awakened his second superpower. The doctor on duty said he's currently stable and only needs to stay in the infirmary for one night for observation."
"Well, he has superpowers and antibodies in his body. When you are better this time, I will help you get a superpower. However, this is top secret." Lin Qingqing said teasingly.
She had wanted to save flower crystals, so she only gave Li Baifu a small space to deal with.
Now this middle-aged man seems to be pretty good. He is Li Shenghua's father. He is going thousands of miles to the west. In order to prevent accidents, it is better to give him a little cheat.
After Lin Qingqing finished speaking, she went back to the space to do a blood test, leaving Li Baifu disheveled in the wind.
If someone else said this, Li Baifu would definitely be dismissive.
But this is what Lin Qingqing said!
He no longer knew what words to use to express his feelings to this mysterious girl.
She has too many secrets, so as long as she doesn't harm herself, it's fine.
Li Baifu was never a stupid person, nor was he a rude person.
At this moment, he was only glad that when he first met Lin Qingqing, he did not look down on her just because she did not show her abilities.
On the contrary, when he learned that she had escorted two soldiers back, he showed her extra courtesy.
…
Li Baifu's blood test report was done by Teacher Jiang, and all indicators were normal.
Lin Qingqing went into the space, wandered around for a while, and then came out.
After she told Li Baifu the good news, she planned to leave. "Go and investigate what happened today. I suspect someone in the special isolation hospital doesn't want you to evacuate, and is specifically targeting your actions."
"Well, that's very possible." Li Baifu nodded. He didn't tell Lin Qingqing that he had already ordered an investigation into the matter.
"I'll go back to the villa first. Ji Yu and Ji Xiao are my key protected persons. You send a group of people to guard them. There are some things I can't explain. You will understand later." Lin Qingqing said seriously.
"Okay. I understand. I'll find the right people later." Li Baifu stood up and replied, "Yanjiao Base just revoked your wanted warrant through a radio broadcast. They also awarded you the rank of Major General. Do you want to accept it?"
"Oh?" Lin Qingqing raised her eyebrows. "What's the name?"
"...No reason was given." Li Baifu was a little embarrassed.
Lin Qingqing sneered, "Then I won't accept it."
She suspected that the inhibitor was effective, but the country did not want to give such a great credit to an unstable person like her.
So just give it a false name to get rid of it.
Does it sound good?
Anyway, she doesn't have to pay a single soldier, nor does she have to pay a dime. She is not Lu Geng, so she doesn't want these things.
After bidding farewell to Li Baifu, Lin Qingqing drove to Ji Yu's villa.
Ji Yu was busy modifying his weapons, and Lin Qingqing hadn't noticed him even after walking around. She didn't bother Ji Yu. If Ji Yu succeeded in modifying his weapons, it would mean that ordinary people could also use firearms to kill mutant zombies, greatly increasing the survival rate of mankind.
Others welded a closed compartment onto a large truck and loaded the bulky items into it. They also modified several pedal tricycles and attached them to the back of the trucks, just in case the larger trucks ran out of road, they could still use the smaller ones.
Everyone is busy making dry food at this moment.
Lin Qingqing gathered everyone together, mixed the space petals into the eight-treasure porridge, and placed them in a row on the table.
"Is everyone almost ready these days?" Lin Qingqing looked at everyone. She knew most of them, with only a few unfamiliar faces.
"Everything is ready." The fat man took the lead and replied, then asked, "Boss, when do we leave? Will we be back?"
"We'll be leaving in three to five days and won't be back for a while. Bring two extra pairs of shoes and socks and be prepared for hiking."
Lin Qingqing's words made several people back off. They murmured nervously, "Didn't they say we could drive? Why do we have to walk?"
"I don't know. I heard it's snowing everywhere else and it's freezing cold. Will we die on the road..."
Someone mustered up the courage and asked hesitantly, "Boss, is it okay if we don't leave?"
"Sure, no need to force it." Lin Qingqing smiled good-naturedly, "It's dangerous to go out, everyone knows that. I can't guarantee everyone's safety. Anyone who wants to leave now can ask Boss Wang for five kilograms of rice, and you can also take your personal belongings with you."
"This..." The man still wanted everyone to stay together, so he looked at everyone.
In the end, few people responded to his gaze, as if they had never said they didn't want to leave before.
"You have to make a decision now: stay in Liancheng or go west." Boss Wang was a little angry, feeling like all his cooking had been wasted. Someone was actually trying to escape at the last minute.
What made Boss Wang even angrier was that the person who had just spoken was his former neighbor, the owner of a small supermarket. It was his kindness that had allowed Ji Yu to recruit the person into the team.
A man in his fifties spoke cautiously, "I... don't want to leave. I'm old, and if I go, I can't come back."
"Then I won't leave. My child is still young and the road is too dangerous..."
"It's okay. Those who don't want to go can leave now." Lin Qingqing instructed Old Wang, "Count the number of people. For those who don't want to go west, give each person five kilograms of rice."
"Yes." Boss Wang agreed with a dark face and asked his son Wang Xiaoshuai to run errands to get plastic bags and electronic scales.
"Boss, can I think about it again? You guys won't leave for several days anyway..." The supermarket owner changed his mind again.
He saw that those who wanted to stay were all old, weak and sick!
Moreover, it’s only five kilograms of rice, which can only last for a month at most. It’s too little.
"No." Lin Qingqing stopped smiling and her eyes turned cold. "Do you think this is a hotel? You can leave now, Old Wang."
"Here." Boss Wang responded quickly.
"Give him some rice and tell him to pack up and get out." Lin Qingqing said unhappily.
"Yes." Boss Wang shouted.
"Ji Xiao, take note. Everyone going west will receive a can of Eight Treasure Porridge. Keep it with you and give it to them before they leave. Fatty and Old Wang will handle those who don't want to leave the base."
"Yes!" Fatty, Old Wang and Ji Xiao all shouted in unison.
"Also, the base will send a team of people to guard Ji Yu later. Please receive them."
"yes!"
Lin Qingqing stood up and walked out, and behind her she could hear their loud voices of agreement.
Perhaps sensing that Lin Qingqing was angry, the fat man's voice sounded like a roar coming out of his throat.
Lin Qingqing was not angry, she just didn't want to waste time on these people.
She was quite glad that she hadn't distributed all the flower petal eight-treasure porridge at the beginning, otherwise it would have been given away to a few unrelated people.
Those who wanted to stay in Liancheng felt that they had made a profit when they saw that their companions who left with the main group only had a can of eight-treasure porridge, while they had five kilograms of rice left.
Lin Qingqing drove to find Lu Xin again, gave him a few cans of grass juice, and asked him to equip all his confidants with new skins.
Lu Xin has communication equipment here, so Lin Qingqing called Zhao Yifan and told him to disappear.
You can go to the Black Dragon Club to meet up with Liu Qiang.
Zhao Yifan stammered, "I... I think I'm fine now. Anyway, the commander doesn't have to kill zombies himself..."
Inspector Chen's fire ability is at the fourth level, while his transformation ability is only at the third level. Their abilities are also different. If he takes action, he will be exposed soon.
Fortunately, most people still prefer to use guns, and as a commander, you don't need to do it yourself.
Zhao Yifan and Lin Qingqing explained that he was forced to go back to work some time ago, and after one battle, he really felt that he was able to do it again.
Anyway, you just need to give orders, no need to roll up your sleeves and fight the zombies.
Lin Qingqing was silent for a moment, "Then you should be careful and advance faster. After all, the city gate needs to face zombies every day."
"Yes. I collected some O-series crystal cores. If I take one a day, I can level up even if I die."
On the other end of the phone, Lin Qingqing heard Zhao Yifan's gnashing teeth and couldn't help but laugh: "Alright! If you don't have enough crystal cores, you can also go to Liu Qiang and the others. In short, safety first."
"Okay." Zhao Yifan agreed.
The two chatted for a while, and Lin Qingqing asked him to tell Liu Qiang that she was safe in Liancheng now, but would leave for the west immediately.
Zhao Yifan readily agreed, and Lin Qingqing hung up the phone.
Since it was Zhao Yifan's own choice, Lin Qingqing didn't want to interfere. Besides, who knows what will happen in the future? Heroes always emerge in troubled times.
It's not impossible for the security guard to become the head of an army. After all, Zhao Yifan is not inferior to Chen Bahao in terms of IQ and EQ.
Maybe one day in the future, Zhao Yifan will become a real army commander!
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