Chapter 17
Although he didn't understand why the leopard orc was suddenly so scared, for Yi Yan, who was now alone in the fortress, the fear of others was also a form of protection for himself.
Zhuge Xiao watched the images on the surveillance screen anxiously until Yi Yan left the main street and successfully found an empty corner to report to them that he was safe. Only then did he completely relax.
"That's great," he said sincerely, "Although the infiltration process was so freaking exhausting, at least the result is good, and Brother Yi wasn't injured. Don't you agree, Gu Liang?"
Although Zhuge Xiao is usually noisy, he is actually very considerate of other people's emotions and has a high emotional intelligence, otherwise he would not be jokingly called a socialite by Yan Beichen.
When Zhuge Xiao noticed that Gu Liangyi reacted strangely to the nickname he had given him, he immediately changed his words and never called him that again. Instead, he just called him by his surname like everyone else.
But this time, he got no answer.
"Gu Liang?"
Zhuge Xiao lowered his head in confusion, but the scene he saw instantly made him panic.
Gu Liangyi sat hunched in his seat, his breathing was extremely heavy and difficult, one hand was tightly clutching the cloth on his chest, his face was pale, his lips were purple, the hair on his forehead was completely soaked with cold sweat, and his whole body was staggering.
"Gu Liang, Gu Liang, what's wrong with you? Are you okay?"
Yan Beichen also noticed that something was wrong with Gu Liangyi. He lowered his head to check, but was shocked to find that even Gu Liangyi's pupils were beginning to dilate.
He took a breath and said, "Old Three, go find the school doctor!"
Zhuge Xiao immediately jumped up from his seat, turned around and ran out of the dormitory door.
But before he could run out of the door, Gu Liangyi completely lost consciousness, his body tilted, and he fell to the ground. Fortunately, Yan Beichen quickly caught him.
"...Gu Liang!"
Inside the Earth Command Center, Lu Lang stared at the pitch-black screen, suddenly pulled away his seat, rushed to the window and looked up at the sky.
The vortex is still there, but the image inside has disappeared.
"Go ask the school what's going on," he turned around and ordered sternly, "Did someone poison the school? Have Zong Qinyuan immediately seal off all of Gu Liangyi's dormitories! Check if there's anything wrong with the water source!"
In fact, after discovering that Gu Liangyi's personality was not the overly radical type, Lu Lang wrote a proposal to Zong Qinyuan a long time ago.
At that time, even the Earth Command had not been established.
In his proposal, he mentioned that due to Gu Liangyi's importance, he must be isolated and placed in a one-person-one-dorm plan.
Even when he is moving around the campus, he is always accompanied by at least two bodyguards to prevent thugs from attacking him at any time.
Lu Lang was very clear that his plan was somewhat inhumane to Gu Liangyi.
But in the face of crises for the country and all mankind, his personal safety always comes first.
However, Zong Qinyuan did not accept Lu Lang's suggestion in the end, and was very persistent in his opposition, so Lu Lang had to take a step back. After comprehensively examining Gu Liangyi's three roommates, he temporarily acquiesced to Zong Qinyuan's approach.
During the inspection, Yi Yan's presence played a very important role.
Just as Instructor Jiao said, although Gu Liangyi himself was not aware of it, he was indeed Gu Liangyi's personal bodyguard, and he was the kind who blocked bullets for Gu Liangyi at critical moments.
He was not the only candidate. When joining the special action team, in addition to the physical fitness assessment, each member wrote a suicide note at the request of Instructor Jiao.
This is also the reason why students in the school forum jokingly call the Special Action Group the emperor Gu Liangyi's bodyguards.
An unwritten rule within the special action group is:
Members are required to protect Gu Liangyi at all times and at all costs.
If they are injured or cannot be resurrected after their death, their families on Earth will receive a generous pension from the United Nations. This fund comes from membership fees from more than 100 countries around the world, ensuring that they can spend their lives without worries.
Because of his father's special status, Yi Yan specifically told Instructor Jiao before joining the special operations team, saying that he had thought about becoming a police officer like his father and inheriting his father's sealed police number, but in the end he came to Mo University to study for other reasons.
This young man not only has a sense of justice that surpasses his peers, he is also calm and collected in the face of difficulties and has very good physical fitness. Not long after joining the special operations team, Instructor Jiao was pleasantly surprised to find that he has considerable talent in sniping.
With all these prerequisites added together, and with Zong Qinyuan's guarantee as a bargaining chip, Gu Liangyi finally had the relatively normal campus life he has now.
If it weren't for Yi Yan, Lu Lang wouldn't know how to explain to leaders of various countries.
Before sending Yi Yan out this time, the instructors in the two teams were specifically told to try their best to protect this rare sniper talent. If the whole school could not find a second person who could hit the ultra-long-distance steel plate target with a high probability after a short period of training, Lu Lang would never agree to let him join the advance team.
Every minute of waiting for the live broadcast to be restored is extremely difficult, because there is no way for us on Earth to know what exactly happened in the other world, and the communication between the two sides has always been one-way.
Lu Lang sat in his seat with his arms folded and a sullen face, various conspiracy theories flashing through his mind.
He recalled the reply Zong Qinyuan gave him through the camera of Vortex Live when he was traveling with Gu Liangyi after he rejected his proposal:
"I believe in the character of our teachers and students. There will be no traitors to humanity in my school."
In Gu Liangyi's opinion, this was probably just a casual sigh made by Principal Zong.
But in fact, behind the scenes, Zong Qinyuan's responsibilities were far greater than he imagined.
The analysis report on President Zong Qinyuan by the Strategy Bureau was much more detailed than that of Gu Liangyi.
After all, he lived many more years longer than Gu Liangyi. From his life experience, school experience and articles he wrote, Lu Lang clearly realized that Principal Zong was a rare idealist in contemporary times.
Zong Qinyuan was able to walk all the way from a deep mountain village with less than a hundred households, half of which had no water or electricity, to a big city, get into university, graduate with a doctorate, and become the youngest president in the history of the country's leading 985 industrial university. I'm afraid the experiences he had in his life are enough to be made into an inspirational movie.
Lu Lang actually doesn't hate people like Zong Qinyuan.
On the contrary, he admired the other party for being over 40 years old but still full of passion and courage to take responsibility.
But each of them has their own responsibilities. For him, a mistake in intelligence would lead to the deaths of countless soldiers on the front line during the war, so Lu Lang never pinned his hopes on vague beliefs.
What he wants is a realistic guarantee, a concrete plan that is foolproof and can handle all emergencies!
"Write another letter to Zong Qinyuan and send it to the school," Lu Lang knocked on the table, as if he had made up his mind. "I said last time that we will only give him one chance. After we find out the reason why Gu Liangyi fainted this time, if it was caused intentionally by someone else, we will immediately move Gu Liangyi out of the dormitory and protect him alone. There is no room for negotiation."
There is one thing he didn't say, which is that Zong Qinyuan's position as the principal is actually not stable at the school.
Since the establishment of the Earth Command, many people from other countries have always had opinions about it, believing that Zong Qinyuan, as the principal, makes too many decisions on his own, when the entire Earth is behind him!
If Zong Qinyuan makes a wrong decision, the entire human civilization will be buried with them in twenty years!
During this period, they have been putting pressure on Hua Guo and Lu Lang, saying that they want to remove Zong Qinyuan from his position and choose a relatively conservative and safe older person among the school leaders to replace him.
Gu Liangyi's coma was a godsend for the opposition.
So again, although they disagree on some issues, Lu Lang does not hate people like Zong Qinyuan.
"Gu Liangyi, you better be okay..."
Lu Lang shook his head and sighed in his heart.
This time, he was not only thinking about the safety of all mankind, but also about the principal, whom he had never really met and who had been insisting on practicing his own ideas since the mutation occurred.
'Otherwise, your principal Zong will be in trouble.'
*
Zong Qinyuan calmly read the letter that Lu Lang wrote to him.
"Okay, I know the details," he folded the envelope and put it in his pocket, then sat down beside Gu Liangyi's bed and looked up at the school doctor as if nothing had happened, "So what happened to classmate Gu Liangyi?"
"this……"
At first the school doctor was sweating with anxiety, but after she checked Gu Liangyi's body thoroughly, she was a little dumbfounded: "Principal, I don't think there is anything wrong with him."
"What?" Zong Qinyuan frowned, obviously not believing it. "Nothing is wrong. Why would he suddenly faint?"
"To be honest, Principal, I'm not too sure about this either," the school doctor said with a wry smile. "From the descriptions of the two students who sent him here, I think it looks a bit like a myocardial infarction. But how old is Gu Liangyi? And his heart and blood vessels are both very healthy. There's no problem at all."
"But his roommate said that he seemed to have a lot of pain in his chest," Zong Qinyuan said, "and his lips were a little purple."
The school doctor was silent for a while, then suddenly asked, "Principal, doesn't this sound a bit like the situation of the team member who was sent in for examination three minutes later?"
Zong Qinyuan widened his eyes.
"You mean..."
The school doctor nodded slowly with a heavy expression.
Zong Qinyuan didn't know what to say for a moment. He had not been so anxious since he read Lu Lang's letter just now, but now he seemed quite restless.
Seeing this, the school doctor hurriedly comforted him, "Principal, this is just my guess. You don't have to take it too seriously."
"No," Zong Qinyuan smiled bitterly and shook his head, "I'm afraid you are right."
Today, the advance team that Yi Yan was in encountered many accidents, but fortunately no one was injured in the end, and the goal of the advance team was temporarily achieved.
However, another team that went to explore the forest was not as lucky as them.
Not only did they run into the indigenous people living in the forest head-on, but three members also suffered lung injuries of varying degrees due to inhaling the toxic spores emitted by the "mushrooms".
One of them was so seriously injured that he failed to avoid the traps set by local residents for hunting, and his chest was pierced by a huge wooden spike that was automatically fired from a distant mechanism.
But at the moment when he completely stopped breathing, more than a dozen team members around him witnessed his body turning into a point of light and disappearing on the spot, leaving only a huge tree thorn covered in blood deeply embedded in the tree trunk that was as thick as two people could hug.
Almost at the same time, vital signs were detected at the resurrection point on campus.
The team member was rushed to the school hospital for examination, and the results showed that he was in very good health and there was nothing wrong with his lungs. It could be said that he had completely recovered to his pre-departure condition.
"I originally thought that being able to be resurrected was at least a good thing," Zong Qinyuan lowered his head, crossed his hands tightly and murmured, "But if all the injuries suffered by the resurrected person before death are felt by Gu Liangyi..."
"——Then isn't the candidate for this civilization representative a living sacrifice?"
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