Chapter 6969
The research base is not much different from what it was more than a year ago. It is still heavily guarded and everyone comes and goes in a hurry.
The soundproofing in the room was still so poor. Xue Ling had a hard time keeping Wen Jiuze outside and hid in Wen Yi's soundproofed laboratory, preparing to get some information from her that Wen Jiuze was unwilling to tell her.
"Sister Yi, what secrets has Wen Jiuze kept and what has he done in the past year? Can you tell me?"
Wen Yi would not keep a secret from Wen Jiuze, so when Xue Ling asked, he did not hide anything and revealed all his secrets.
"...You come to my laboratory every now and then, asking if there is any new medicine that can restore your sanity... You said you wouldn't make trouble, but what you said is as good as fart." Wen Yi said with a cold face and cursed.
"Later, he asked me to study it and use it for experiments. I refused at first because I was busy with other projects at the time."
"He then went crazy and threatened me to extract the Taisui drug from his body. I said he might die, but he just couldn't listen... I think he had gone crazy."
Xue Ling was silent.
How come you're not surprised at all?
After the end of the world, she finally understood what kind of person Wen Jiuze was.
He is the kind of psychopath who, if he misses her so much, would dig her up and take a look at her even if she is dead and buried.
There are very few things that he cares about, so he is particularly persistent about the things he really cares about.
"In fact, I'm not sure about the new drug you used this time. I'm also surprised that you can wake up. I can only say that this is a lucky accident." Wen Yi said, "But this kind of luck can't be replicated. You have to be mentally prepared, Xue Ling."
Xue Ling understood: "I will try my best to make Wen Jiuze mentally prepared."
After talking for a while, she ended her brief chat with Wen Yi, opened the door and went out, only to find Wen Jiuze talking to General Hao outside.
No wonder he didn't knock on the door when she was in the middle of the conversation, it turned out he was under control.
"The situation in Jeju City is getting worse. The mutant zombies there are generally more ferocious than those in other places. Animal infection was discovered at the end of last year, and the situation is even more serious this year..."
Xue Ling walked over and heard a few words, which seemed to be about a difficult task.
The serious General Hao saw her, stopped talking, and simply concluded: "Anyway, I hope you can reconsider this mission."
Then he showed a relieved expression to Xue Ling: "Xue Ling, I'm glad you can recover."
After asking about her situation, the experienced leader gave her some encouragement. He was very familiar with the process.
Finally, he said, "This year we built a monument to honor our soldiers and their contributions. You are also included in it. You can go and have a look when you have time."
The monument to honor the heroes stands behind the secret base, and next to it are the martyrs' tomb and monument.
The warriors who sacrificed their lives for the future of mankind after the end of the world are buried there. However, a large part of the tombs are just cenotaphs, because every time there are many people whose bodies cannot be brought back.
Xue Ling walked along the clean and tidy brick road and saw her own name on the tall and independent monument.
"Xue Ling and Wen Jiuzhe completed the important rescue mission in Huaxing City in August 3037..."
"Completed by Xue Ling and Wen Jiuze in July 3037..."
"Xue Ling, Wen Jiuzhe..."
Xue Ling saw several of them in a row, then looked up and gave Wen Jiuze beside him a puzzled look.
Wasn't she out of her mind during this time? Why was she still considered to have completed the task and even put in the front?
Looking at other tasks, the captain who is placed at the front is usually the one with the greatest contribution.
Wen Jiuze: "What's the problem? You are indeed on a mission with me."
The plan to build this monument was announced several months ago, and Wen Jiuze was specifically consulted at the time. However, Wen Jiuze had never been interested in such fame and honor.
He responded to Captain Shen Zhang who had asked him about this: "You don't have to carve my name. If you want to carve something, carve Xue Ling's name."
She likes these anyway.
Shen Zhang never came to talk to him about this matter again, and Wen Jiuze only discovered now that Xue Ling's name and his were engraved together at the base.
Xue Ling felt that she had taken the honor that did not belong to her. Her eyes turned and she showed a hesitant look, and Wen Jiuze knew what she was thinking.
"You have made the greatest contribution to these missions," Wen Jiuze told her.
He was doing these missions because of her.
Only if his contribution is great enough, will General Hao, the director of the base, allow him to bother Wen Yi and allow Wen Yi to use those precious new drugs on Xue Ling.
He thought it was just a fair exchange, but he knew that Xue Ling would be moved by it, just as she would be pleased with the name on the monument.
Xue Ling, who has been accepted by the environment around her since childhood, has a sense of belonging and responsibility in her heart, which is unlike him.
Wen Jiuze knew clearly what General Hao meant by asking them to come and see the monument. It was a gentle and tactful persuasion.
Wen Jiuze believed that Xue Ling had also heard the difficult task that General Hao had mentioned to him before.
He was also waiting for Xue Ling to bring it up to him.
But unexpectedly, Xue Ling never mentioned it, as if she didn't hear it.
"Why don't you ask about the mission of Jeju City?" Wen Jiuze took the initiative to ask.
Xue Ling was looking for a belt in the closet. Since she didn't need to lose weight now, she had to buckle her belt tightly. Her original soldier's belt was too big even when buckled all the way in.
She buried herself in the pile of ugly clothes that she had no memory of, looking for a suitable belt, and took the time to answer Wen Jiuze: "If you don't want to do it, then don't do it."
"You've done enough."
When General Hao mentioned this, Wen Jiuze did not respond. From what he heard, it seemed that this was not the first time he had refused this mission.
Wen Yi actually told her about the mission in Jeju City, and from what she said, it seemed that she also hoped that she could persuade Wen Jiuze.
But Xue Ling looked at Wen Jiuze's sunken cheeks and the dark red scars visible outside his clothes, and she was unwilling to persuade him.
It shouldn't be like that. That is not Wen Jiuze's responsibility. We can't subconsciously take it for granted that all the most difficult tasks should be assigned to him just because he is injured and won't die.
He would be worn out like her.
He should have been able to refuse.
"They said the situation in Jeju City is very serious. I thought you would start to worry about them after hearing that." Wen Jiuze was a little surprised that Xue Ling's sense of responsibility suddenly disappeared.
Xue Ling faced the closet, looking busily for something. After a moment, she heard a message on her tablet: "I'm most worried about you right now."
If she had said it in her original voice, it would have sounded muffled, but the sound coming from the tablet made it sound a little cold.
Xue Ling then added: "You should have a good rest first."
Every time she made a decision for Wen Jiuze, the results were not good.
She originally hoped that he could have an easier time in the base, be accepted by others, and communicate with others besides her.
And yet he can still live like this.
But if you think about it carefully, it's not surprising, because he lived like this when he was still a human for three years after the end of the world.
"You've been rummaging in the closet for a long time, are you making a nest?" Wen Jiuze asked.
"Come sit down and talk." He patted the table.
Xue Ling sat directly on the pile of ugly clothes in the closet, folded her arms and faced Wen Jiuze.
He even sat over to chat with me, using the tone of a great master.
Wen Jiuze looked at her. "You don't want to come over?" "Okay, I'll sit over there and talk."
He dragged a chair and sat in front of the closet, with his legs on the closet door, facing Xue Ling at a close distance.
He stepped on the closet and Xue Ling stepped on his foot.
"It's not that I can't accept the mission from Jeju City. I refused it before for other reasons." Wen Jiuze guessed that she might still hope to help in her heart.
He was reluctant to take on this mission before because of the zombies in Jeju City that were mutating, and animals infected with the mutated zombie virus appeared that would attack humans and zombies indiscriminately.
Xue Ling had lost her mind and was unable to protect herself. It was very dangerous to go there, so he refused several times.
Moreover, the base there is not an official base, but is controlled by a group of wealthy people who control resources and military force and have been "granted titles and fiefdoms".
They would not have strict control like the Beizheng Base. How chaotic a place without rules could be. No one knows this better than Wen Jiuze, who has traveled alone to more than a hundred bases of all sizes in the apocalypse.
He didn't want to take Xue Ling to such a dangerous place, and he would not let her leave his side.
No matter what General Hao and Wen Yi were thinking, Wen Jiuze didn't care, but he couldn't help but care about Xue Ling's thoughts.
If she really wanted him to go... he could go.
She knew how to threaten him and get him to agree, but she didn't use her power this time.
Wen Jiuze took the initiative to bring up the matter of Jeju City, but she didn't continue.
Wen Jiuze suspected that Wen Yi's inferior medicine had damaged Xue Ling's brain and caused her to lose certain functions.
He had wanted to say this a long time ago. What kind of outstanding young scientist is Wen Yi? The zombie virus drug has not been completely successful for such a long time, and Xue Ling can't cure it either. Yet, she still won an award at the annual meeting.
When Xue Ling started to criticize Wen Yi because of some personal grudge, she took his hand.
Wen Jiuze leaned forward and watched her bury her face in his hands - there was only a palm-sized face left, and he could just cover it with his hands.
If your cheeks are thin, your eyes will look particularly big, so big that they are a little scary.
It was a bit like a blogger Xue Ling had seen before, who turned up the face-slimming effects too much. The comment from Wen Jiuze at the time was: "Are all these fans here to see him pretend to be an alien?"
He said at the time that eyes that big were ugly. Now that I think about it, I was too confident when I was twenty years old.
Xue Ling looks quite pleasing like this.
"Okay, I agree to take on this mission." Wen Jiuze regarded her behavior of burying her face as a sign of coquettishness.
Xue Ling raised her two bright eyes, flashing with doubt.
What does he mean by "there's really no other way"? How could she ask him to agree?
"No! Who wants you to go!" Xue Ling shook off his hand and defended herself with the tablet.
"You held my hand so pitifully just now, weren't you trying to get me to agree?"
"..."Don't make me feel that I care about you too much, okay?
Wen Jiuze responded: "You really don't want me to go? Oh, I see, you feel sorry for me again?"
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Xue Ling took a deep breath with her mind, pretending not to hear the barking of dogs, and wrote: "In the limited time I have, I want to be with you and not consider anything else."
Wen Jiuze stopped talking nonsense. He looked at Xue Ling and asked after a while, "Really? Then we can leave here, too?"
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