"Whoosh whoosh whoosh..."
The small hot air blower worked diligently, making the entire cave warm and cozy. The hot air from the small bone blew on his face, and his frozen hands and feet slowly regained feeling. Zhou Siyu moved his wrists and turned his head to look at the people chatting together not far away.
"Captain, there are too few biological samples here. Should we go further in and take a look?"
A person in a white protective suit craned their neck to look into the dark little hole, then looked at Zhou Siyu leaning against the edge of the hole, and winked at another person in a blue protective suit.
"Let's forget about it. It's dark and cold inside, and it's an undeveloped area. What if there's danger..."
The man in the blue protective suit feigned hesitation, looking thoughtfully at the man who made the suggestion.
"We researchers, what's a big deal if we sacrifice for academic research and scientific progress? Don't you think so, Lao Lu?"
"Yes, yes, yes."
The bearded man, called Old Lu, chuckled and secretly sent a message to Zhou Siyu, "Looks like those bastards are up to no good again. Be careful."
Upon seeing the message, Zhou Siyu simply smiled and gave Lao Lu a grateful look in return.
The scene of Yu Wei vomiting blood and collapsing to the ground during her childhood was still vivid in Zhou Siyu's mind. She didn't dare to close her eyes at all, telling herself again and again that it was a hallucination, that Yu Wei was fine, and that he was still alive and well.
Looking at the time, it seems to be the time when he was trapped in a cave during a field expedition at the Oran Biological Laboratory.
Thinking that he would see Yu Wei soon, he felt a little bit of anticipation.
Sure enough, after a pretentious discussion, the group of people nearby unanimously decided to let the youngest, Zhou Siyu, go first.
The reason is simple: young people have better reaction speed and physical strength than them. But they seem to have forgotten that they are only thirty years old, strong and healthy, while Zhou Siyu just celebrated her sixteenth birthday last week and had just differentiated a few days ago, so she is very weak.
As he remembered, he was trapped alone in a narrow cave where he could only curl up. The entrance to the cave was completely sealed off, and he only had one piece of chocolate left on him.
It's obvious who was behind this.
Or perhaps, the tremors that caused the mine collapse were all orchestrated by them. No one wanted a prodigy to emerge alive and take their place.
One day, two days, three days...
After an unknown amount of time, Zhou Siyu vaguely heard voices coming from outside the sealed cave entrance.
"Captain! Captain, there's someone here! Someone's alive, still breathing!"
A cool, clear voice came through the radio, as crisp as fine aged wine: "Report your location immediately."
"535, 7726".
"receive."
The sound of the rope hitting the stone carried far. Although he was exhausted, Zhou Siyu was still very excited.
He knew that Yu Wei was sliding down the rope, and that his backpack might contain glucose, water, food, and perhaps... a piece of candy.
"Take the person out first."
Yu Wei quickly checked the researchers' conditions and sent those who could still move away one by one. He strapped the only seriously injured one to his body. Just as he was about to leave, the person behind him spoke up: "There...there's someone else...not yet..."
Even through the stones, Zhou Siyu could clearly hear that it was Old Lu's voice.
His heart pounded with excitement. He wanted to shout it out, to let Yu Wei know he was still there, but he was so thirsty, his throat was burning, and he couldn't say anything. He could only cry out in his heart again and again: "Help me, please help me..."
Unfortunately, Yu Wei couldn't hear his thoughts and protected Lao Lu as they left the cave.
The world fell silent again. As Zhou Siyu listened to the sounds outside the mine, his excited heart gradually turned cold.
"This is the last one."
"Hmm, have you checked everything?"
"Almost there. I've checked twice, but I still can't find this Zhou Siyu..."
“He didn’t participate in this operation.” The research team leader coughed a few times, lying without changing his expression: “He was just a figurehead; he didn’t actually participate in this operation.”
"Yeah?"
Yu Wei hesitated for a moment, then dialed Lin Ling's contact number, but no one answered.
"Uncle Lin is probably in the lab. Yu Wei, the geological survey team reported that aftershocks are coming soon, and there is a high possibility of flash floods. Let's evacuate first."
"But... that person just said there were other people."
"Ahem, you mean Old Lu, right?" The research institute captain glanced at the unconscious man being carried away and smiled, saying, "He's probably confused; he's been talking nonsense since yesterday."
"Captain, let's retreat. Maybe you're just too tired and are hallucinating."
"Um?"
Yu Wei fell into deep thought, and Zhou Siyu's cold heart warmed again. He would not give up on him, he definitely wouldn't.
Unexpectedly, Yu Wei's words plunged him into an icy abyss: "Evacuate according to the established route."
He left, he abandoned him, he will never be his only unwavering choice...
Forget it, let me just fall asleep like this, and pretend that everything in the past was just a dream...
Zhou Siyu was not dead. When he opened his eyes, he found himself floating in mid-air, with his own... corpse beneath his feet?
He couldn't believe his eyes. He rubbed them again and again, but nothing had changed.
He saw his body lying in a coffin, with a white circular dome above him, and the hall filled with people dressed in black formal attire.
Is he dead?
That was his only thought. He saw Yu Wei holding a white rose and placing it beside him, tears welling in her eyes as she slowly closed the coffin lid.
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