Chapter 88: Frozen Zone Insect Swarm (Twenty-four)
At the edge of the frozen zone, the cold wind was howling.
Xie Mian parked the SUV on an open snowy field, the wheels squeaking as they rolled over the snow. He turned off the engine and turned to look at Lin Heng in the driver's seat.
"Brother, get out of the car."
Xie Mian's voice was as cold as ever, but the ending tone rose slightly.
Lin Heng had his legs on the steering wheel, his red windbreaker spread out on the seat like a burning flame.
He had earphones in his ears, and after hearing his brother's words, he took one off with a smile: "Little Rabbit, are you going to cook for me?"
"Cooking hot pot."
Xie Mian answered briefly, opened the trunk and started to move things out.
Lin Heng stretched and slowly got out of the car. He walked over to Xie Mian and helped him get out the portable gas stove and pots with expert skill. Before the apocalypse, he had often taken Xie Mian out, and they had already formed a tacit understanding.
When Xie Mian took out a few packages of sealed food from his backpack, the goose egg fell out of his pocket and bounced twice on the snow.
"Shifang!" Xie Mian raised his voice and quickly bent down to pick it up.
The eggshell with gray lines almost blends into the snow.
E Shifang felt Xie Mian's hand approaching him and dodged it proudly, then jumped twice in protest. This guy had been chatting with Lin Heng in the car the whole time and didn't even bother to care about him. Ugh, he was angry!
"Hahaha!" Lin Heng couldn't help but burst out laughing, "Goudan is jealous today."
Xie Mian pursed his lips, finally catching the restless goose egg. He tapped the eggshell lightly with his fingers: "Stop it."
The shell of the goose egg quietly turned red, the temperature rose, and it calmed down in Xie Mian's palm.
Xie Mian raised the corner of his mouth almost imperceptibly, and put the goose egg into his chest pocket, leaving only half of the dome exposed.
"Goudan has changed a lot recently." Lin Heng said as he set up the pot, "Is he about to hatch?"
Xie Mian shook his head: "I don't know."
He paused, his voice lowered a bit, "I hope he can change back."
Lin Heng rubbed Xie Mian's hair and said nothing.
The hot pot quickly began to boil, the red oil bubbling in the pot, emitting an enticing aroma. Xie Mian put the ingredients in one by one with smooth movements. Lin Heng pulled two cans of beer from the car, opened one, and handed it to Xie Mian.
"I don't want to drink it." Xie Mian refused, staring intently at the noodles in the pot.
"Just one bite." Lin Heng insisted, "to warm you up."
Xie Mian glanced at his brother, took a sip of the beer, and immediately frowned. Lin Heng's eyes curved into crescents as he smiled, his red windbreaker particularly eye-catching in the snow.
At this moment, Xie Mian was accidentally splashed with boiling water while scooping up noodles, and a drop of hot water fell on the back of his hand.
"Hiss—" He took a light breath.
Almost at the same time, the goose egg in the pocket began to shake violently.
"E Shifang, what's wrong?"
Xie Mian took out the goose Shifang, and the goose Shifang followed Xie Mian's hand and jumped onto his shoulder, gently sticking to the burned part.
Lin Heng laughed so hard he fell backwards. "He's so anxious! Goudan must be wishing he could grow wings and fly up to see if you're okay!"
When Edan heard what Lin Heng said, he immediately turned to him and jumped heavily on his shoulder to express his protest.
There are two protests: one is that he is a goose egg, not a dog egg; two is that it is his duty to care about his wife, and you, as the brother-in-law, are just standing by and watching the joke, right?
After jumping, Goose Shifang rolled back to Xie Mian's face and carefully touched the burned part of his body.
A smile finally appeared on Xie Mian's cold face.
He tapped the top of his goose egg with his fingertips. "I'm fine."
The goose Shifang calmed down, but still clung to Xie Mian's face and refused to leave. Xie Mian had no choice but to hold the goose egg in one hand and continue eating the hot pot with the other.
Lin Heng watched this scene, a gentle look flashing in his eyes. He deliberately picked up a piece of meat and waved it in front of the goose egg:
"Dog Egg, do you want to eat? It's a pity you can't eat it now~"
Goose Shifang jumped up angrily, almost jumping out of Xie Mian's arms. Xie Mian quickly restrained it and gave his brother a reproachful look: "Don't tease him."
"Okay, okay," Lin Heng raised his hands in surrender. "But seriously, can Shifang see now? He used to only hear, but now he seems to be responding to visual stimuli."
Xie Mian looked down at the goose egg in his arms, thinking: "Hmm, I should be able to see it now."
"E Shifang, what is this?"
He held up a finger.
Goose Shifang shook the eggshell helplessly to express one.
On the other side, the base.
The outer wall of the cafeteria was washed away, and black wireworms rushed towards the street like a tide.
People screamed and fled in all directions, but they could not escape the pursuit of the wireworms.
But in just a few minutes, the cold white streets covered with snow and ice turned black and red.
The black ones are bugs, and the red ones are blood.
"Minister, we can't hold on any longer. Let's retreat!"
The deputy minister pleaded softly in the conference room. In addition to the heads of various departments, there were also some chaebols from the base.
These chaebols were among the first to arrive at the base, each with their own captive insect followers. They provided considerable financial and material support during the initial construction of the base.
“How many helicopters can be used now?”
The wireworms have already reached the base's main gate, and outside the base is a frozen zone, where tens of thousands of wireworms are trapped. Traveling overland is no longer feasible, so the only option now is to cross via the air.
"Twenty more."
The deputy minister said nervously, his lips trembling.
There are at least hundreds of thousands of people and twenty planes in the base now... Fu Linchuan closed his eyes tightly.
"Walk!"
"Notify Fu Ze to retreat to Xuanwu Base!"
The people at the base didn't know that the meeting room was empty. They shouted desperately, roared loudly, and ran, but in the end, their faces were filled with fear and despair.
Civilian areas, military units, hospitals, commercial areas and even places where insect-inhabited people live have been invaded by a tide of wireworms.
The wireworms twisted and grew wildly. Some of them even evolved into huge monsters and entangled an entire building because they ate too many people.
There was a huge vibration on the ground, and Fu Ze's face turned fierce.
His clothes were stuck together with black and red blood, and he couldn't tell whether it was his own blood or the blood of the iron wire worm.
A sharp claw shot out, squeezing the explosive stone again. The black iron wire worm exploded in the air, splashing disgusting slime.
The insect energy is almost exhausted, but the insect tide still continues to surge out from under the ice, like a black wave of death.
"Sir! All three areas of the base have fallen!" A soldier came running to report with blood all over his face.
Fu Ze gritted his teeth and looked towards the military area. The gunfire there had become sparse. The distress signal light on the roof of the hospital had also gone out.
"Damn it!"
He punched away several wireworms that tried to crawl up his legs, then turned to his confidant and shouted, "Have you contacted the minister?"
The confidant was about to answer when the communicator suddenly rang.
Minister Fu Linchuan's icy voice echoed: "All surviving insect-fellows must gather in the central square immediately and prepare to evacuate. I repeat, evacuate immediately."
Fu Ze couldn't believe his ears: "There are so many civilians——"
"This is an order, Fu Ze." Fu Linchuan interrupted him, "The base can no longer be defended."
The communication was cut off, and Fu Ze stood there with a gloomy face and his fists clenched so hard that they made a creaking sound.
Screams were heard all around him as the wireworms frantically devoured all living things. Finally, he cursed fiercely and rushed towards the central square with his confidants.
When they arrived, several helicopters had already started up, their propellers stirring up strong winds.
Fu Linchuan and other senior executives were rushing to board the plane. When they saw Fu Ze, they just nodded coldly.
Fu Ze boarded the last plane with a gloomy face. Just as the cabin door was about to close, a small figure suddenly rushed over.
"Take me away! Please!"
It was a little boy, no more than ten years old, with a face covered in dirt and eyes full of fear. Fu Ze recognized him.
——Little Wolf, the homeless child that Lin Heng often took care of.
Thinking of Lin Heng, the cruel look on Fu Ze's face subsided a little. He stretched out his hand as if possessed by a ghost: "Come up quickly!"
Xiaolang grabbed Fu Ze's hand and climbed onto the helicopter.
The hatch closed and the helicopter flew higher and higher in the wind and snow.
Fu Ze saw through the window that the entire base had turned into a black ocean.
"Ah Heng..."
Several helicopters flew across the clouds and headed west.
Fu Ze closed his eyes tiredly and did not notice the faint fire and bright red figure in the snow below.
"Brother, rock-paper-scissors, whoever loses gets to wash the pot!"
"How dare you bully an old man? Let me tell you this: whoever is smaller washes the pot. Goudan is the smallest here, and it's still an egg, so Goudan should wash the pot!"
E Shifang: No, I didn’t eat it, so I just washed it? Also, do you cook eggs in an iron pot?
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