What is your purpose?
The sky was dark and rain was pouring down.
A black pickup truck was driving in the rainy night with ice particles falling.
The ice particles hit the car body and made a rustling sound.
Lou Tiannan closed his eyes and leaned back on the seat in the carriage. The heat emanating from his body made him frown and feel restless. Song Yan, Zhu Liang and others tacitly gave Lou Tiannan some space and no one disturbed him.
The survivors who had just experienced a life-and-death experience were huddled in the back of the car, not daring to make a sound.
Xiya was held by Song Yan and sat in the back seat.
"Lin Bai, you're a pretty good driver! And you're an accurate shooter too!" Zhou Yu, who was in the passenger seat, praised him and subtly inquired, "What did you do before? Were you in the army?"
"Never been there." Lin Bai stared at the road ahead, turning the steering wheel slightly from time to time.
"Never been there?" Zhou Yu was dumbfounded. "Then how could you..."
Lin Bai said casually: "My partner taught me."
Lou Tiannan's eyelids twitched in the back seat.
"Partner?!" Zhou Yu was stunned. Turning to see Xiya, he suddenly realized, "Ah, so this little girl is your daughter?"
Xiya paused, then heard Lin Bai say, "Yes."
Xiya subconsciously tightened her grip on the doll, her heart pounding.
No one noticed Xiya's abnormality.
Zhou Yu listened carefully and asked, "Then your partner..."
Lin Bai had already thought of an excuse, and he said, "My partner is currently serving in the Federation Army. After the apocalypse, I lost contact with him, and I'm looking for him."
"He's a family member of a soldier! He's a comrade of ours!" Zhou Yu was very surprised. He asked with interest, "What's his name? Which unit is he in? We're also in the federal army. Maybe we know each other!"
Lou Tiannan raised his eyelids lazily and glanced at Lin Bai in the rearview mirror. He intuitively thought that she was lying.
There were many confidential personnel in the federal army who could drive military vehicles and use guns, grenades, and knives. There were also many officers who were married, had Beta partners, and had children of six or seven years old. However, he had never seen this woman's face in the information he had seen.
"East District Military Defense Department. I cannot disclose the specific name and position." Lin Bai said.
Very good, liar!
After Lin Bai finished speaking, Lou Tiannan made his final conclusion.
Song Yan, who was sitting in the back seat, heard this and said with a hint of meaning, "Our captain is also at the East First District Military Defense Headquarters. Perhaps your partner knows our captain."
"Really?" Lin Bai said calmly, "He and your captain shouldn't have any intersection."
Hearing Lin Bai's firm words, Lou Tiannan's eyes flashed with suspicion.
He was sure that he had never seen Lin Bai in the military dependents' information of District 1, but Lin Bai's attitude...it seemed that he shouldn't have seen her partner either.
Countless possibilities flashed through his mind, and when he looked at Lin Bai again, he couldn't help but think of a place.
621 Pharmacognosy Research Institute.
A biopharmaceutical research institute that is registered in East District 1 but is not under the jurisdiction of District 1. All the information of the researchers there is important confidential.
He had been in once, but even entering the outer office required dozens of identity checks, not to mention the interior.
Could her partner be someone from Unit 621?
No one knew what Lou Tiannan was thinking. Zhou Yu felt that what Lin Bai said was nothing but a fairy tale. "How could there be no intersection? Our Lou team is in the military defense department--"
"Zhou Yu."
Lou Tiannan closed his eyes and interrupted Zhou Yu.
At the same time as Lou Tiannan's voice, there was also the sound of Lin Bai pulling the handbrake.
"Is this the place?"
Zhou Yu looked up and realized that he had arrived at the temporary base without knowing when.
"Yes!" Zhou Yu responded while leaning out of the window and waving.
The gate of the base slowly opened.
After the car drives in, there is another door inside.
"You're back!" A four-man team, armed with weapons and thermometers, came out from behind the iron gate and greeted them, "Get out of the car first."
"We need to get off the bus and be checked to make sure there are no infected people." Zhu Liang explained to the uneasy crowd.
Everyone got out of the car, including Lou Tiannan.
They first checked Zhu Liang and four others, and then carefully took the temperature of the seven survivors they brought back.
Various data show that before the teeth, pupils, and nails of the infected person show a zombie reaction, the first thing to change is the body temperature, which usually rises sharply in a short period of time. After reaching the zero point, the body will undergo zombie mutation.
"Doesn't he need to be examined?" someone asked curiously, pointing at Lou Tiannan standing aside.
"He will go directly to the isolation room." Zhu Liang said.
Lin Bai was slightly surprised.
But Zhu Liang did not explain further after he finished speaking.
"35.1℃, the body temperature is low." said the person who took Lin Bai's temperature.
"My body temperature has always been low." Lin Bai said.
Having said that, this temperature is indeed abnormal.
"What's wrong?" Zhou Yu walked towards Lin Bai.
The inspection team told them about Lin Bai's condition. After a brief discussion, they said to Lin Bai, "You need to stay here for fifteen minutes. We'll test you again after fifteen minutes."
"Okay." Lin Bai had no objection.
People with normal body temperature entered the second door, and Lou Tiannan also went to the isolation room.
After having her temperature taken, Xiya timidly held the doll and refused to go in, wanting to wait for Lin Bai to come with her.
There were only Xiya and Lin Bai between the two doors.
Seeing that there was no one around, Xiya stood beside Lin Bai and pulled her clothes.
Lin Bai lowered his head and saw Xiya mumbling, "I will practice my ability well. I can also have a big flame... I will become very powerful..."
Can you please not leave me?
Xiya looked at her with hope in her eyes. Maybe it was Lin Bai who saved her, or maybe it was because she had seen Lin Bai's abilities, and she hoped to stay by Lin Bai's side.
Lin Bai lowered his eyes and looked at her for a while, then squatted down and looked at her and said, "Do you still trust others?"
Xiya stared at her in a daze. Before she could wrap her mind around it, she was patted on the head and Lin Bai's voice rang in her ears: "Become stronger soon."
Xiya suddenly became excited. She nodded vigorously and promised Lin Bai: "I, I will definitely become stronger!"
Lin Bai now has a better choice, but she doesn't mind having an extra backup.
Because the best option doesn't seem to be at the mercy of others.
Fifteen minutes later, Zhu Liang took the person who took her temperature at the beginning to take her temperature again, and the thermometer showed it was still 35.1 degrees.
After checking that there were no abnormalities in the pupils, teeth and nails, they let Lin Bai and Xiya enter the temporary base.
The base is very simple, with several large bunk beds, each room accommodating a dozen people. They are all simple beds on the floor, and there is also a small canteen. Behind the canteen are two vegetable growing machine boxes, which are very simple machines with constant temperature equipment, and inside are potatoes of various sizes.
Just in time for lunch at the base.
Potato soup with baked potatoes.
Very simple, monotonous and boring.
But now is the end of the world where people eat each other, so everyone eats with relish.
While eating, Lin Bai took a quick look. Including those standing guard outside, there were about seventy people in the base. About twenty of them were federal soldiers, and the rest were survivors rescued by them. There were less than a hundred people in this temporary base.
She sat at the dining table, stirring the potatoes in the soup bowl with a spoon. She glanced up and saw Zhou Yu passing by with a plate of food. She grabbed him and said, "Isn't your captain going to eat?"
Seeing that it was Lin Bai, Zhou Yu simply took the plate and joined her at the table. While eating, he said, "Eat it and send it to him later. No one dares to go there right now."
"Why?"
Zhou Yu thought about it and felt that this was something that could not be discussed, so he said to Lin Bai, "Our captain has very strong superpowers. Every time he uses his superpowers, there is a period of fluctuation. During this period, his pheromones will expand and his superpower particles will disperse. The temperature around him will be extremely high, and most people can't withstand it."
Lin Bai frowned and reprimanded him: "Are you not going to send food to your captain just because of this little temperature?"
A mouthful of potato choked Zhou Yu's throat, and he swallowed it after taking a sip of soup. He felt wronged. "It's not that I won't send it, it's that I'll send it later. If I go now, I'll be in a hurry to take a sauna! Besides, Captain Lou himself said he would send it later."
"This won't do. Superpowers consume a lot of energy, and being hungry for a long time is harmful to the body. I'll go and bring him food!" Lin Bai said sternly. He did what he said and walked towards the isolation room with his untouched plate.
"Hey? Lin Bai! Lin Bai!" Zhou Yu called out twice, but failed to call Lin Bai back.
Song Yan, who was sitting two tables away, had just finished her meal. She glanced at him and asked curiously, "What's your name? What happened to Lin Bai?"
"She is going to deliver food to the building team." Zhou Yu said.
Song Yan was surprised, "She went to deliver food?"
"She said she was worried about the building team, so she went to deliver the meal." Zhou Yu took another bite of the potato.
Song Yan glanced at Xiya who was looking at Lin Bai's back and guessed: "She has a child, maybe she wants Captain Lou to take better care of her." There were many survivors like this before, and in order to get more care from them, they would try to please them openly or secretly.
Xiya lowered her head silently and muttered in a voice that only she could hear: "No!"
When she saw Lin Bai bring his plate to Lou Tiannan, she thought for a moment and secretly hid the baked potatoes on the plate in the doll's belly.
Lou Tiannan was the only one in the isolation room. Perhaps because people were confident in Lou Tiannan's self-control, the door of the isolation room was not locked.
Lin Bai pushed the door open and went in.
The high temperature instantly enveloped Lin Bai. As Zhou Yu said, the temperature in the isolation room was indeed very high.
57 degrees. Lin Bai estimated silently.
Lou Tiannan was sitting on a chair with his hands on his shoulders, dozing off. His facial lines were hard and clear, and his face was expressionless, making his already unkind features look even more stern.
He wore only a black vest on his upper body, his head, neck, and body covered in a thin layer of sweat, the vest already soaking through. His tanned muscles were clearly defined, and even when he casually hugged his shoulders, the bulges of muscle in his arms were visible.
Lou Tiannan didn't open his eyes when he heard the door open. Lin Bai put the plate in front of him and quietly found a stool to sit down. This temperature was too comfortable for her.
"Aren't you leaving yet?" Lou Tiannan said.
Lin Bai did not answer Lou Tiannan's question, but asked him instead: "Are you feeling uncomfortable?"
Hearing Lin Bai's voice, Lou Tiannan suddenly opened his eyes: "Why is it you?"
Lin Bai said: "I happened to be free, so I'll give it to you."
Lou Tiannan didn't believe Lin Bai's words. There was something indescribable strange about this woman from the moment he first saw her.
"What is your purpose?" Lou Tiannan stared at her with an unconcealed scrutiny in his eyes.
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