Chapter 49: The Story of Zhou Qin and Gou Song I have been pushed to the edge of the cliff,...
Gou Chong closed his eyes, as if nothing mattered to him all of a sudden. He leaned back on the iron chair and said dryly, "They found my family."
Gou Chong is not an orphan. In fact, although most people in the apocalypse are alone, it does not mean that they have no family. They are just separated from their families or captured by zombies.
Before the end of the world, Gou Chong's entire family went on a trip to Province T, including his parents, his aunt's family, and his younger brother and sister. He was the only one who did not go because of work.
It just so happened that the end of the world came at this moment, and all communication facilities collapsed.
Gou Chong lost contact with his family and never got in touch with them again. The two sides lost communication until recently when a delegation from Province T came to attend the auction.
Gou Chong closed his eyes in pain, “I don’t know how they knew me, or maybe it was because the airport security noticed me that day.
Anyway, the day after I was burned by Cruise, someone came to me and let me see my family through video.”
Gou Chong did not see the joy of his family when he said this. Instead, he rubbed his head in pain, "Unfortunately, none of my family members who can support our family have awakened superpowers.
Only my sister has awakened the water-related ability.
But she is still just a child, only twelve years old this year. She has awakened her water ability for three years, but she is still a level one early stage ability user, making no progress at all. She can’t help her family at all, and on the contrary, she has brought disaster upon herself because of this ability.”
"Those beasts, the disgusting things they did to a twelve-year-old girl are far beyond your imagination." Gou Chong's veins bulged. If those people stood in front of them, he would kill them without hesitation.
“Those M and R people are not human beings, they are beasts. They even live-streamed it to me, insulting my mother and my sister, even my brother, a boy, in front of me.
I couldn’t stand it, I really couldn’t stand it, so I agreed to their request.”
The hatred in Gou Chong's eyes gradually faded, leaving only numbness and despair.
"They asked me to contact Han Yaokun, the producer of the space storage props. They thought it was developed by him. I said I was not at a high enough level to get in touch with him. Even if you kill my family immediately, I can't get it. I was forced into a corner and could only spread fake news."
"Later, they found out about nutrients and asked me to work on their core technology. I said I couldn't even get access to space storage items, so how could I get access to nutrients? They asked me to get information out of you."
Gou Chong looked at Zhou Qin. "They know that I saved your life and that we have a good relationship. I scolded you and said that you were just pretending. In fact, you just used me to establish your own personality. You beat and scolded me in private and tortured me like a dog."
"I don't know if those people believed it or not, but they didn't ask me to deal with the nutritional supplements anymore. Instead, they asked me to deal with Commander Gu."
Everyone looked at Gu Jinsheng. They didn't expect that he had something to do with this, and they didn't expect that Country M actually wanted to assassinate him.
Country M is really despicable. Nutrients and Gu Jinsheng are the two pillars of the Jingshi Base, and neither of them can be missing. Country M can't get the nutrients, so it wants to move Gu Jinsheng. If it kills Gu Jinsheng, at least the Jingshi Base will fall into a short-term internal struggle. Country M may also be able to take advantage of the opportunity to send a few spies into the Jingshi Base to get the nutrients and space storage props technology.
Gou Chong smiled bitterly, "Country M really thinks highly of me. How could I possibly plot against Commander Gu? Commander Gu and I are not familiar with each other. If I take the initiative to get close to him, it would be strange if Commander Gu did not suspect me."
“I told them, yes, but the premise is that I can’t guarantee failure or success.”
The M people have finally got such an opportunity, so how could they be willing to be fooled by an ambiguous answer?
"Finally, they asked me to assassinate you. I must succeed and not fail, otherwise my family will be buried with you." Gou Chong suddenly broke down. "If they were willing to give my family a quick death, I would accept it. But they refused, saying that if I failed, they would give my mother, my sister, and my brother away to other men for their whole lives.
As for my father, they will skin him alive and throw him in the pile of zombies, and they told me they will film it for me.”
Gou Chong burst into tears, "I can't do this. If it was me who had to endure all this torture, I could bear it, but I can't bear that my family has to go through all this because of me."
"So you chose me?" Zhou Qin asked in a cold voice.
Gou Chong looked straight at Zhou Qin, "I will give you a quick death and not let you die in pain."
"When you say "not suffering", do you mean turning into a zombie? Or being eaten alive by zombies?" Zhou Qin asked aggressively.
Gou Chong suddenly stood up from his chair and said emotionally, "Then how do you want me to choose? Tell me, what should I choose?"
Zhou Qin was not infected by Gou Chong's emotions. He looked at Gou Chong with cold eyes. Since they met, Zhou Qin had never looked at Gou Chong with such eyes.
Gou Chong saw his own miserable and mad appearance in Zhou Qin's eyes, and suddenly calmed down.
"Zhou Qin, no matter what reasons I have, I am sorry for you this time. Please kill me. I beg you to put the video of my death on the public channel. After the people from M and R countries in T base see it, please stop torturing my family."
"Do you think it's possible?" Zhou Qin's voice was cold and emotionless. "Given the nature of the people of M and R, do you think it's possible? Don't say you failed. Even if you succeed, do you think they will let your family go?"
"They promised me that if I succeeded, they would release my family. At the very least, they would let them live an ordinary life like ordinary people in T Base. It might be a little difficult, but they would never have to suffer those dirty things again."
"No, they won't." Wan Xueying, who had been silent since entering the room and had not participated in the conversation between the two brothers, suddenly spoke up: "If you succeed, your family's fate will be even worse. They will record the process of torturing your family into a video and then broadcast it to people all over the world."
Ji An answered, his voice as cold as ice, "Because that is the fruit of their victory, it is their glory! They have to show off!"
Gou Chong cried with tears and snot, "But I have been pushed to the edge of the cliff, I have no way to retreat!"
"If you have it, you can tell me!" This was the first time Zhou Qin had any emotional fluctuations since he met Gou Chong, an emotion other than indifference.
"Tell me, I can cooperate with you." Zhou Qin shouted: "They asked you to assassinate me, I can cooperate with you, I will die when you want me to die, and I will die however you want me to die.
It's like if we go out today and replace the people with my confidants, and come back and say that you have successfully assassinated them, will they know?"
"They know, so they asked me to record the video to prevent us from putting on a show!" Gou Chong yelled back.
"So what? Which pre-apocalyptic movie wasn't made up? Can you really tell the real from the fake? Through the electronic screen, can you tell whether it's human blood or some other kind of blood?" Zhou Qin questioned.
"Zhou Qin, the Jingshi base is not a monolithic entity. They have their people, and they are among you. Otherwise, where do you think I got the pinhole camera these days? They provided it to me. They put it in the bathroom of the command center, our base camp, and they asked me to get it myself. This is a threat and a warning to me not to act rashly!"
Gou Chong was really desperate. "I don't know what to do. Zhou Qin, I can't afford to gamble, and I can't afford to lose."
"Just think of our friendship over the years as bullshit, it was all calculated by me, let it go, and then give me a quick death! Life is too painful, I don't care about zombies, I don't care about death, but I can't afford the lives of my family!"
"I'm just a coward, kill me!"
"You're just a coward!" Zhou Qin yelled out of control, "You're so good at dying, but do you know what will happen to your family?"
"So what?" Gou Chong was hopeless. "Like you said, whether I succeed or fail, they won't have an easy life! What else can I do? The only thing I can do is die!"
For Yu Gou Chong, fate at this moment seemed to leave him no room for choice. No matter what he chose, destruction was waiting for him!
Zhou Qin closed his eyes, knowing that the two had nothing more to say, he said: "I will follow the rules and regulations of the base for all your punishments."
Gou Chong actually relaxed his whole body and responded, "Okay." The tone was just like when Zhou Qin asked him every morning which cafeteria he was going to eat.
Zhou Qin didn't say anything else. He walked out the door step by step with his crutches. Just as he was about to walk out the door, Gou Chong, who had been staring at Zhou Qin's back as he walked with difficulty, suddenly asked like an old friend, "Is there any hope for it to get better? Is there any way for the healing psychics in our base to cure it?"
Zhou Qin didn't answer, just paused and continued walking out.
Ji An turned around and said coldly, "It's impossible. Fang Rurong said that maybe a level 7 healing power user might be able to find a way, but so far, none of the known healing power users have reached level 7. And that's just Fang Rurong's guess. No one knows if the level 7 healing power is that powerful."
Gou Chong was silent for a moment, then said, "I'm sorry, Zhou Qin, I'm sorry for you. On the day of my execution, you must come to see me, even if it's just to see my retribution."
Zhou Qin finally replied, and he said ruthlessly: "I won't go. I'm afraid you will think that I went there specially to see you off. There is no such thing between us anymore."
Gou Chong's tears, which had finally stopped, suddenly burst out again, but this time he said nothing.
After several people walked out of the interrogation room, Gu Jinsheng asked, "What are you going to do?"
Zhou Qin turned his eyes away, not wanting Gu Jinsheng to see his red eyes and the wetness that he was about to hold back.
"It's just business." But even so, Zhou Qin's hoarse voice betrayed him.
"Okay." Gu Jinsheng agreed immediately, "Publicly abolish the supernatural power and throw it into the pile of zombies."
Zhou Qin nodded, said nothing, and limped forward with his cane. After walking a few steps, he stopped and asked in a hoarse voice: "Boss, I know you have contacted several spies from the T base some time ago. Can you ask them to rescue his family?"
Gu Jinsheng didn't say yes or no, but asked, "Do you know that if that happens, the spy I contacted with great difficulty will be useless."
"I know." Zhou Qin turned his back to Gu Jinsheng and said, "Boss, I am willing to give up the position of deputy commander voluntarily. Anyway, it is impossible for me to continue to be the deputy commander with a lame leg. After I go down, you can arrange whoever you want to arrange. I promise that my people will not have any objections."
This means that Zhou Qin is willing to use the position of deputy commander to exchange for Gou Chong's family. Even if Zhou Qin didn't want to be the deputy commander, he could recommend a successor, and because he was injured and was injured during a mission outside the base, he would almost certainly use the person he recommended.
Now Zhou Qin is willing to give up this right in order to save Gou Chong's family.
"You have made great contributions to the base. Besides, no one has stipulated that a lame person cannot be the deputy commander, so you don't have to step down." Gu Jinsheng promised: "I will try to arrange for someone to rescue Gou Chong's parents as soon as possible. Whether it will succeed or not, I can't guarantee it to you."
"Just do your best." Zhou Qin continued to limp on his crutches. "But, Boss, I mean it when I say I'm stepping down. You can arrange a candidate as soon as possible."
"The Beijing base would never do such a thing as abandoning the donkey after it has done its work, and the same goes for me, Gu Jinsheng." Gu Jinsheng said calmly.
Several people walked out of the interrogation room. The red sun was high outside, no different from usual, but the air seemed filled with something called solemnity.
Gou Chong’s punishment was not delayed for too long. Zhou Qin made the decision and the punishment came down on the same day.
According to the rules of the Jingshi base, the superpowers must be destroyed first, and then thrown into the pile of zombies.
Gu Jinsheng had no intention of hiding this scandal, and broadcast it live on the public channel for the whole country to see, including some people in T Province.
The execution was at dusk. Gou Chong was pressed onto the execution platform. He did not resist and cooperated very well. Only when he put on the energy-killing helmet did he raise his head and turn his body to look at the building where Gu Jinsheng and the others were.
Gou Chong looked very seriously, as if he wanted to distinguish the familiar figure among the heads, but the executioner did not give him that much time. He roughly twisted his head and put the helmet on Gou Chong's head.
Gou Chong almost immediately lost consciousness and rolled his eyes.
The executor spat in a low voice and cursed, "You ungrateful bastard, you deserve it! Commander Zhou treated you so well."
Gou Chong, who was firmly bound to the iron chair, could no longer hear the executor's scolding.
His consciousness became confused. Sometimes he seemed to remember Zhou Qin, and sometimes he seemed to have forgotten him. It seemed that the past few decades of his life had left nothing behind, just a blank.
Gou Chong struggled and twitched, foaming at the mouth, but the pain only lasted for a minute before everything was over.
Gou Chong, who took off his helmet, was unconscious and only twitched from time to time.
Someone walked up and dragged him away, put him in a car, and threw him into a pile of zombies...
Gou Chong never waited for Zhou Qin until his death, but he would never know that at the moment he was taken away by the car, Zhou Qin, who had been hiding in the corner and watching everything silently, could no longer bear it and walked out from the corner.
He roared and burst into tears, crying uncontrollably, until his crutches could no longer support his body. He fell to the ground, curled up like a shrimp, hugged himself tightly with his arms, and continued to cry.
Ji An walked to Zhou Qin's side, squatted down, and hugged Zhou Qin who was crying bitterly.
Zhou Qin curled up in Ji An's arms like an injured child who went home to complain to his parents.
"Why did this happen? How did things between us develop into this!" Zhou Qin didn't know if he was asking himself, Gou Chong, or no one else. "At that time, he rushed into the zombie group to save me. At that time, neither of us had awakened our special powers, but the leader of that zombie group was a level 2 zombie."
Zhou Qin grabbed Ji An's clothes tightly, his face was covered with tears and snot. He was clearly looking at Ji An's face, but it seemed as if he was looking at another person through Ji An's face.
“For us who hadn’t awakened our special powers at that time, a level 2 zombie king was like the god of death holding a sickle and taking lives.
Sure enough, we were both bitten by zombies, but we still escaped. "
Zhou Qin was talking about the past. It was something that happened seven years ago, but he remembered it vividly, as if it happened just yesterday.
"He didn't blame me. He didn't say a word of resentment towards me. He even joked with me that even if we become zombies, we'll still have company." Zhou Qin's voice seemed to overlap with the brilliant person who grinned at him despite being bitten by a zombie that day. "Even if we have to become zombies, we won't be the younger brothers of that zombie king. We'll follow other zombie kings and be the younger brothers of powerful zombie kings. Then we'll bring our new boss back to seek revenge on him."
At that moment, Zhou Qin suddenly felt that being a zombie was not as scary as he had imagined.
While waiting to be transformed into a zombie, Gou Chong took out all the supplies that the two of them had worked so hard to protect from being snatched away by others, and told Zhou Qin to eat them quickly.
Eat all the food now while you can still taste it. Even if you die, you want to die full. After all, the two of them used to eat carefully and refused to drink even a sip of water. Now they can finally eat until they are full before they die. This is also a kind of happiness.
However, the two of them began to eat voraciously. As Zhou Qin ate, the food in his mouth lost its taste. Later, it tasted like chewing wax and he couldn't swallow a single bite. At the same time, he began to transform into a zombie.
Zhou Qin turned into a zombie before Gou Chong. Gou Chong did not stay away from him, but lay head to head with him and just stayed with him.
After a night, Gou Chong turned into a zombie, but his transformation came late and went away quickly. Not long after the high fever passed, Gou Chong awakened his superpowers. He successfully survived and became a superpower person. He will not turn into a zombie again!
At this time, Zhou Qin's zombie transformation had become very serious, with almost 70% of his body transformed into zombies, and it was still continuing. He began to lose consciousness and could not control his behavior. He tried to attack Gou Chong and bite him several times.
At this time, the most correct and most friendly thing for Gou Chong to do is to leave Zhou Qin and go away alone.
However, Gou Chong did not do so. He blocked Zhou Qin's mouth with some rags, tied a rope around his waist and the other end around Zhou Qin's waist, and started a life of hiding with Zhou Qin.
They had to avoid other human companions who were hunting zombies, as well as other zombies. Gou Chong also had to guard against the sudden attack of Zhou Qin, who was transforming into a zombie.
In such a difficult and dangerous situation, when Zhou Qin was almost 100% hopeless, Gou Chong still took him along all the way.
I don’t know if it was because there was always someone accompanying and taking care of him, whispering in Zhou Qin’s ear all day long, disturbing Zhou Qin’s nerves and making him unwilling to forget the fact that he was a human being. Zhou Qin miraculously recovered at the last moment and successfully awakened his supernatural powers.
He still remembers that when he woke up, Gou Chong was digging the roots of some unknown grass in the ground with his back to him, and he was tied to a tree not far from Gou Chong.
Gou Chong kept talking to him as he dug up grass roots, as if he could understand what he said, "If I had known I could survive, I wouldn't have destroyed everything that day. Now there's nothing to eat. Oh, it's bad luck. The grass roots we found today are all this kind. This kind of grass roots is the worst to eat, especially bitter. The grass roots with round leaves are okay, not so bitter, but harder to chew."
"You're so narrow-minded that you're afraid of being taken advantage of, so you ruin the food." Zhou Qin replied, removing the rag ball stuffed in his mouth.
"Yes, it turns out that people should not be too stingy, they should be generous, otherwise..." Gou Chong was talking when he suddenly realized something was wrong. Just now, it seemed that someone interrupted him. The voice sounded so familiar, it seemed to be Zhou Qin.
Gou Chong turned his head suddenly and saw Zhou Qin, who had turned back into a human and was trying to untie the ropes tied around him.
"Old Zhou, Old Zhou, you made it, you made it!" As Gou Chong spoke, his face was covered with tears without him realizing it. He didn't bother to wipe them off and ran over to hug Zhou Qin who was about to untie the rope.
"That's great, Lao Zhou. I thought you wouldn't make it. I'm ready to wander around the world with a zombie companion for the rest of my life." It turned out that from the beginning to the end, Gou Chong never thought that Zhou Qin could survive, but planned to take him with him wherever he went even if the other party turned into a zombie.
"I will never turn into something as ugly as a zombie. I still haven't found a wife in my life, and I still need to find one." Zhou Qin said, tears streaming down his face. "Did you use your brain to exchange for a superpower crystal core? You actually want to walk around with a zombie?"
Gou Chong grinned foolishly, "I've fantasized about it. Don't you think it's cool? Wandering around with a zombie, how cool!"
The memory faded, and returning to reality, there was only the cold ground and cruel betrayal. The person who told him that he would take him with him even if he turned into a zombie was no longer there.
Zhou Qin finally fainted from crying.
The people from Country M and Country R at T Base who saw this scene on the public channel were so angry that they smashed the TV with stools.
"Damn, useless bastard!" DeWitt roared, "Didn't he say that he had a good relationship with the deputy commander of the Jing City base? How did he fail?"
The R countryman lowered his head and said respectfully, "That person said that the deputy commander of the Jing City base was a hypocritical guy. He said one thing on the surface and did another behind the scenes. In fact, he didn't trust him and was just using him for show. Now looking at the results, what that person said is very likely true."
"Damn it! Hypocritical Xia people." The veins on DeWitt's neck bulged. "Kill him. Kill all the family members of this useless guy. I want them to die miserably!"
"Yes, I'll arrange it right away!" The R countryman immediately responded and walked out tremblingly to make arrangements.
DeWitt's eyes were vicious, "Jingshi Base, Xia Country, one day our M Country's cavalry will set foot on that land again!"
At the same time, the Los Angeles base also saw it. Du Ruanlan sneered, "It's the work of Country M and Country R again, these two rats hiding in the ditch."
Owen also said: "After Cruz's tragic death, here comes another ignorant DeWitt. The American people still love to commit suicide as always."
Jiang Fuzhong said angrily: "It's already this late, and these guys don't want to unite and overcome the current sadness, but are thinking about banditry."
Cong Xun from the North Base also guessed the truth and started cursing.
Han Zhiwei from the South Base sighed, "A tall tree attracts the wind, and the first bird to stick its head out gets shot! I'm afraid the Beijing Base will never have a peaceful life in the future!"
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