Chapter 223 Farewell
In order to avoid being attacked by plants from outside, Youxi moved to the safer 14th floor, and she also expanded the protective net outside the building again, forming an inner and outer double layer.
The sky was full of scattered branches and leaves. The plants from outside had already sensed her presence. While resisting her comfort, they were looking for her position and planned to attack directly.
There was no external aid that fell from the sky, and there was no miracle of all the plants being tamed and comforted. There was only fighting, defense, resistance, and defense again...
This plant melee lasted from midnight until before dawn. Several times, she thought she had to go down and use fire attacks herself, but every time, the plants in the building spontaneously grew new defensive vines.
When the sky began to brighten, the surrounding plants finally retreated slowly. Their outbreak period was completely over, and everything became peaceful again.
After Youxi used the intercom to inform Zhuo Yun and Lu Yichen that the alarm was lifted, she teleported back to the Star House, took a simple shower, and threw herself into the big bed.
She slept until almost noon, and felt refreshed when she woke up. Her head, which had been so painful that it exploded, had completely recovered. She sensed the outside world and could feel the calmness and gentleness of the plants. Her passive affinity with plants returned again.
And this time, she could receive more information from the outside world through the plants.
After she got up and washed up, she ate a bowl of beef rice noodles cooked by her mother, and took out the intercom to contact Zhuo Yun and Lu Yichen.
Twenty minutes later, both teams came to the rooftop and saw the familiar silver RV parked on a relatively flat open space near the edge of the building.
The window of the RV compartment was open, and the aroma of coffee was floating in the air. While drinking coffee, Youxi pointed to the small table with freshly ground coffee in disposable paper cups and candy bars and milk on the side, allowing them to add according to their taste.
Next to the milk, there was a plate with soft white bread on it, which they were also allowed to take freely and eat with coffee.
All the survivors did not sleep all night, especially the people in Zhuo Yun and Lu Yichen's two teams, who organized and arranged the patrol evacuation. After dawn, they could not rest well in the noisy environment, and they all looked tired.
At this moment, the aroma of coffee was like a shot of cardiotonic for them, making them all come alive. They went over with joy to get coffee and bread.
Youxi called them up this time to discuss the transfer. The plant frenzy had passed, and the plants in the building no longer needed her to regularly input supernatural powers to comfort them, so she planned to go out for a while.
"You-are going out alone?"
"Yes." Youxi nodded, "I think the situation outside is similar now, and it's bad everywhere. Instead of waiting for the right rescuers to find us, we might as well take the initiative to find rescue."
The most important thing was that she was afraid that if she waited any longer, the situation would change again. The plant frenzy had passed, and without the plants' demand for "nutrients", the mutant animals might become active again.
"I may be away for two or three days, and the Star House will be closed temporarily. I will leave some supplies, and you don't have to deliver them every day. You can give them when the situation permits."
Zhuo Yun, Shen Qiu and Lu Yichen were all looking forward to it but also worried. They asked each other if they needed to go out with them. After all, it was too dangerous to act alone in such an apocalypse.
The people in their team had experience in dealing with plants and animals in normal conditions, so they could be considered as help to some extent.
"No, you are too slow and will slow me down." She refused directly.
The other party:...
Ugh, I was rejected by the boss...
The boss has spoken, so the others also gave up the idea of going with him.
Shen Qiu looked at the other party. From the first time they met until now, the other party has always been wearing a mask. Except for the eyes, lips and jaw, she could not see other parts of the other party.
From the beginning to the end, she didn't know what the other person looked like or how old he was.
Now that the crisis is over, she suddenly felt a different kind of melancholy in her heart.
That day, when everyone else finished their coffee and ate bread and went downstairs one after another, Shen Qiu stayed and walked a few steps to her: "Sister, if we can be successfully rescued this time and go to the official shelter, will you follow us?" You
Xi, who was collecting the plates, looked up. The girl's plain face was filled with a hint of expectation, but this expectation was extremely cautious.
You Xi didn't want to lie to her, so she shook her head at her.
Shen Qiu smiled at her. In fact, she already knew the answer before asking this question.
Since the other party has such a detached shelter, it is naturally impossible for them to be with ordinary survivors. She can easily imagine that if it were not for them, she might not even have a reason to leave the shelter.
When they were rescued, it was also the time for her to part ways with them.
When she realized this fact, the melancholy in her heart began to spread involuntarily.
She looked at the other party and spoke again in a cautious tone: "Then... before I leave, can you show me your face? I, I understand, I understand, I promise not to tell anything about you to a third person..."
You Xi was silent for a long time, but avoided this question when she spoke: "Take care of yourself and try to live."
Shen Qiu blinked, and the RV in front of him and the people in the RV disappeared instantly.
She turned around, looked at the kitchen door behind her, and sighed softly - the other party came out from there on the night she came to make a wish. Although she can't see her now, she knows she is still here.
Maybe, even if they, the survivors, go to the official shelter, the other party will still be near them, and appear to save them when they are in danger again.
Will she?
I think so, she hopes so.
Shen Qiu turned around, walked over the rubble and rubble on the ground, and slowly walked towards the stairwell.
At this time, she didn't know that today's meeting would be the last time she and the other party would see each other.
Parting comes unexpectedly, leaving people unprepared.
**
That night, the dense "green sea" that was separated from the building by a distance slowly made a small opening, and the all-glass low-altitude suspended vehicle rose from the ground, and under the cover of the night, it flew rapidly towards the south above the tall treetops.
On the morning of the third day, Shen Qiu was awakened by the sound of a propeller.
In the sea of plants with no one around, any sound from industrial machinery was a thrill to the survivors.
She opened her eyes suddenly, and in the two or three seconds of calming down, she confirmed the authenticity of the sound, and immediately woke up Zhuo Yun beside her. At the same time, she quickly got up, wrapped herself in a coat, and rushed to the stairwell.
There were already other people in the stairwell. They were panting because they heard the sound of the propellers turning, but they didn't dare to slow down.
This sound was different from the previous fighter plane flying over. The flying altitude seemed to be very low. It should be a helicopter. As long as they rushed to the top of the building within the sight range of the helicopter, they would be able to let the people on it see them.
They ran up to the top of the 25th floor from the dozen floors where they lived in one breath. They were panting so hard that they couldn't even speak. They immediately started to look up in the sky. When they saw the military green fuselage, they immediately shouted excitedly.
They shouted and waved their hands vigorously, fearing that the people on the helicopter could not see them below.
But in fact, the survivors were completely worried.
Not to mention that this helicopter came just for these survivors, just the building standing intact in the vast sea of green plants with all the buildings destroyed is eye-catching enough.
They just didn't expect that there would be survivors in the depths where mutant plants are rampant.
This building is really like an isolated island, isolated in the depths of the ocean of plants, but this isolated island has saved many lives.
The whole rescue process took a long time, because they didn't expect that all the data they had obtained before were real, so only one helicopter came - in fact, they were just following orders to confirm whether there were really any survivors here.
The entire land of Huaguo was overwhelmed by plants and was devastated. Many shelters survived this wave of plant craze only because of the fire suppression of the troops.
Those well-equipped official shelters were in such a state. They never thought that there would be so many survivors in a deserted city without official protection.
Most helicopters were on missions, and it took a long time to mobilize the rescue helicopters. By the evening of that day, the last wave of waiting survivors finally got on the helicopter.
Shen Qiu was among this group of people. Until the moment she got on the helicopter, her eyes were still outside the cabin, constantly looking for a figure that might never appear.
Everyone thought she was selfless. Not only did she not follow the official instructions to evacuate the elderly, the sick, the disabled, women, and children first, she even gave way again and again, leaving herself in the last wave of waiting teams.
The last wave of survivors had to wait for an especially long time. Many of them were restless and walked back and forth on the rooftop, unwilling to sit down and rest for a while.
Only she was quietly leaning against the door of the abandoned kitchen, wondering what she was thinking.
Did she provide the rescue information this time?
Where is she now? Is she safe?
Did she return home successfully?
Or is she still in the dense forest full of dangers?
…
It was an evening with a gorgeous sunset. As the helicopter took off, the building that had sheltered them for more than a month gradually became smaller in sight. Compared with the surrounding green plants, it seemed incomparably small.
She saw the afterglow at the end of the sea of green plants, the brilliant red, the warm orange, the boundless light blue, and the rosy clouds all over the sky.
It was beautiful. It
was really beautiful.
The companions in the cabin held each other's hands tightly again. This time, there was no fear on everyone's face, and everyone was smiling.
Someone turned around inadvertently, his eyes swept across Shen Qiu's face, and he whispered: "Shen Qiu, what's wrong with you, why are you crying?"
Shen Qiu turned around blankly, and then he realized that his vision had already blurred.
Zhuo Yun, who was sitting next to her, seemed to know what she was thinking. He reached out and stroked her head: "No matter where she is, we know that she must be safe."
"Yeah." She nodded, her voice weak but firm.
Even if we never see each other again, she must be safe.
The large manned helicopter gradually flew away and became a small dot in the distant sky.
At dusk, at the top of the "isolated island" in the green ocean, a slender and tall figure stood at the edge of the building.
You Xi raised her hand, gently took off the mask on her face, and watched the other person leave. The wind brushed
her cheeks, a refreshing breeze, with the fragrance of grass and trees and the breath of freedom, emptiness and loneliness.
So many farewells, again and again.
Some people, once separated, are forever.
At this moment, she suddenly thought of her friends in another world and another time and space.
Those thoughts that were deliberately suppressed surged up at this moment.
Are they safe? Are they still continuing their endless missions?
When and by what method can these struggles of life and death end?
[When I, or someone else, replaces the system tower.]
Xing Min's voice rang out, and at this moment when she was suddenly confused, it clearly gave the goal.
But You Xi found the key point in this sentence: "When you - or someone else?"
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