Chapter 207 Madman.
Shu Lan was stunned for a moment, and Shu Maomao clearly saw how the ends of her eyebrows and eyes slowly drooped as she lost her strength.
Saw how the light in her eyes dimmed like a lamp that had gone out.
Strangely, Shu Lan didn't cry. As if she had mentally prepared for this moment countless times, she calmly accepted the fact and asked softly, "Is that so... then... the body?"
"I burned it. He asked for it. And this too."
Shu Maomao stretched out his other hand, and in his palm lay a pair of light green headphones, which matched the one on Shu Lan's ear.
"He told me to take it and I'll use it later."
Shu Lan raised her hand to take off her headphones, took the thing in his hand, and said, "Baby, give me a small box."
Shu Maomao took out the storage box she had used from the warehouse and saw her put both things in it, cover it, then tiptoe to put it on the top shelf of the wardrobe and close the wardrobe door.
She stood there with her back to him, quietly for a while, not knowing what she was thinking.
Shu Maomao took out some paper and hot water and walked over. Before she reached her, Shu Lan turned around, wiped the water droplets from her cheeks with her palms, and forced the corners of her mouth up: "Okay, baby, let's go out for breakfast."
After hiding the box, Shu Lan seemed to have locked Li Yanli and her tears in the past, and never cried in front of Shu Maomao again.
But she would get distracted from time to time, such as while eating, in meetings, or listening to people chatting. It would take several calls before she could hear me.
For a long time, Shu Lan couldn't sleep even with her eyes closed at night. Dark circles gradually appeared under her eyes, and her face always looked haggard.
Lu Qinghe, her best female friend, was the first to notice something was wrong: "Master Maomao, has your mother been in trouble recently? She looks sick to me."
Shu Maomao looked at Shu Lan, who was distracted again, and frowned: "She is not sick. I give her healing medicine every day."
Lu Qinghe shook her head: "Mental illness cannot be cured. First, give her some sleeping pills to help her sleep. I'll try to find a way to enlighten her."
"Yes, thank you."
Lu Qinghe was very surprised: "Wow! You actually took the initiative to say thank you to me! I can brag about this to others for a year."
When Shu Lan heard Shu Maomao's suggestion to take sleeping pills, she realized that her plan to pretend to be strong had failed.
To be honest, she was really sad.
This matter was beyond Shu Lan's emotional endurance. Sometimes she wondered if Li Yanli's previous choice had been right. If she had known nothing about his memories, if the one who died was just a random female zombie...
But she soon felt that she wanted to know him, and even though separation was painful, she wanted more memories with him.
But when Shu Maomao, a tall man, squatted in front of her and stared at her with worried eyes, Shu Lan's heart would soften into a wet place.
Human life may suddenly stop at a certain moment, but time will not.
She and Shu Maomao still have a long way to go, and she can't continue to be immersed in the sadness of the moment, otherwise she would be sorry for what Li Yanli has done for them over the years.
Shu Lan took the sleeping pills and touched Shu Maomao's face: "Okay, I'll take it."
Every time Lu Qinghe asked her to play mahjong, Huo Yu invited her to join him in patrolling the base, and Lao Lu asked her to help officiate his wedding with Sister Wang...
Day after day, year after year, with the silent care of the people around her, Shu Lan's insomnia and distraction gradually improved, and she slowly returned to her original state.
Human wounds will heal, and so will the Blue Planet.
Human beings have never given up using their limited strength to help the blue planet recover from the impact of meteorites.
They researched and produced a large number of artificial rain catalysts, which were taken out by Shu Maomao and launched into the air using rocket launchers and anti-aircraft artillery shells.
As rain falls, it absorbs and washes away dust, pollutants and aerosols in the air, and can be said to be the most effective cleaning agent.
The side effect is that the rain that falls is acid rain, which will corrode existing buildings and soil.
So Shu Maomao needs to go to a farther place to catalyze rainfall, which means that he will leave Shu Lan for a short time.
Shu Maomao was not very willing.
However, in the long, repetitive and boring underground life, the extreme emotions of some individuals are amplified and control their rationality.
Commonly known as crazy.
After these lunatics lose their desire to live, they will do many things that normal people cannot understand.
For example, instead of sleeping at night after the lights are turned off, they knock on other people’s doors and disturb them.
For example, sleeping all day and all night, not eating or drinking, trying to "ascend to heaven."
For example, he doesn't want to live and tries to open the door to let everyone die with him.
The execution ground had to be opened again. It was difficult to bury those killed underground, so they were usually taken to an uninhabited tunnel and cremated on the spot.
Shu Maomao was worried that a madman would come and hurt Shu Lan while he was away.
Shu Lan felt that mentally ill people were a minority after all, only a few among millions of people. Once they showed abnormal behavior, they would be immediately caught by the people around them and would not be able to harm her.
Besides, she is not a fool who would just stand there and let others kill her.
She was more worried about Shu Maomao than herself, and asked him to come back immediately after launching the rain agent and not stay outside for too long.
However, some things cannot be said with certainty. Once, when Shu Maomao was wearing the latest version of protective clothing to go outside to launch artillery shells, Shu Lan was listening to high-level intellectuals discussing whether there were other ways to improve the ground environment besides rainfall.
She listened for a while and felt drowsy, just like in class. She nudged Huo Yu next to her with her elbow and asked quietly, "Do you understand?"
Huo Yu turned to look at her and felt that she looked like his classmate who didn't pay attention in class and loved to make trouble in school.
He whispered back to her: "A little bit."
Shu Lan said, "I can only understand the words they say, which is not my area of expertise. We went to discuss team building elsewhere, and when it comes to fun, I came up with a lot of ideas."
A smile appeared in Huo Yu's eyes and he nodded: "Okay, let's go."
The two walked out of the lab. Shu Lan seemed liberated and began to talk non-stop: "I think so many people are depressed because they can't find the joy in life. We need to create some fun. For example, like we used to organize some competitions to stimulate their enthusiasm for life and give out prizes. I have an idea for a very interesting prize..."
At this moment, a scientist assistant who they often met passed by them. He suddenly turned sideways, pulled out a can opener from his sleeve, and stabbed it into Shu Lan's temples.
“Puff!”
The sound of a sharp weapon piercing into flesh was very subtle. Shu Lan was suddenly pulled away by Huo Yu and staggered back two steps. When she looked carefully, she saw a small metal knife passing through Huo Yu's raised right hand. The man holding the knife was staring at her with eyes full of vicious hatred.
He quickly pulled another knife from his pocket and shouted, "Give me back my brother's life."
Shu Lan decisively drew the gun from her waist, aimed it at the man's heart and shot him. The man froze and was kicked away by Huo Yu. He lay on the ground without a sound.
Shu Lan breathed a sigh of relief and grabbed Huo Yu's wrist: "Are you okay?"
Huo Yu pulled the knife out of his hand with a cold expression and threw it at the man.
This injury was like a tickle to him, and he could recover as before within five minutes thanks to his self-healing ability.
"I'm fine, Commander." Huo Yu lowered his head and looked at her collar: "There's blood on your clothes."
Shu Lan took a look and said calmly, "It's okay, I'll go back and change later. This guy scared me. I don't even know who his brother is or when we met. He's really amazing. He waited this long to come and seek revenge on me."
"Aren't you afraid?"
Shu Lan sneered, "What are you afraid of? There are many people who want to kill me. Even if he succeeds, my son will come back in half an hour and use a backtracking trick on me. Call the guards and cleaners, so as not to scare the academicians who will be out soon."
"good."
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