Qiao Anan guiltily stroked Dahei's head, and it took her a long time to soothe Dahei's wounded heart.
After everyone came in, Qiao An'an saw the Gu family grandfather and grandson, and the Fang family father and son, but she didn't see Qin Chengguo. She asked in confusion, "Where is Qin Chengguo?"
Grandpa Gu explained, "There is a severe shortage of medical staff in the capital, so he was transferred away after the quarantine ended."
This means they've already started working.
Qiao An'an arranged accommodations for everyone and used the wages she had earned over the past few days to prepare a sumptuous welcome feast. Just as the food was almost ready, Li Jianguo and Yan Ling returned.
Everyone sat down around the large table to eat. After Grandpa Gu Bei raised his wine glass, he said to everyone, "Let me raise a glass first to Chen Zhou."
Mentioning the sunken ship brought tears to everyone's eyes.
If the people chasing them hadn't rammed their speedboat into J City, they might have died at sea long ago. They wouldn't be living in the safe zone today, and they certainly wouldn't have been able to develop the anti-zombie virus serum so quickly.
They all raised their glasses: "To the sunken boat."
The meal lasted until very late, with everyone catching up on old times.
Big Black ate until his belly was round.
The next morning, Ya Ya and Xu Ruoyu went to school in the kindergarten's little car, while Gu Bei was taken to school by Chi Xiaoyu and Ye Jing.
Gu Bei and Ye Jing were assigned to the same class. The teacher noticed that they knew each other and put them as deskmates. Gu Bei said to Ye Jing somewhat humbly, "I haven't been to school for a long time, and my grades aren't very good. Please remind me if I encounter anything I don't understand!"
Ye Jing agreed readily.
When Gu Bei was called on to answer a question, he kept giving Ye Jing meaningful glances, but Ye Jing seemed not to notice. On the way home, Gu Bei said to Chi Xiaoyu, who was only one year older than them but had already entered the university's gifted youth program, with a sense of grievance: "Ye Jing promised me that he would remind me if I didn't know something, but when I asked him, he ignored me completely."
Chi Xiaoyu's head ached from Gu Bei's whimpering: "Do you think being last can help you explain the problem?"
Gu Bei looked at Ye Jing in surprise: "Last place?"
Ye Jing rolled her eyes at Gu Bei: "Now that you're here, I'm second to last."
When the three children returned home noisily, the two kids who go to kindergarten had already come back.
Grandpa Gu is a veteran and is quite old, so the relevant department gave him a veteran's allowance. He doesn't need to go to work and stays at home to help take care of Fang Nianqiao and cook. Fang Yuyang is not in a good state. After the relevant department conducted a psychological evaluation on him, they felt that he was not suitable to work for the time being and gave him three months of rest. During this period, he can receive government relief subsidies and see a psychologist for free.
When the food is ready.
Qiao An'an, Li Jianguo, and Yan Ling also came back from get off work.
Qiao An'an bought desserts from a nearby dessert shop for the children to have as a late-night snack, Li Jianguo brought back a case of beer, and Yan Ling bought a roast duck as an extra meal.
Big Black was so tempted by the smell of roast duck that it stuck out its tongue.
Yet it still sat obediently on the ground outside the large round table, waiting. The ingrained good manners of the Chinese rural dog meant that it would never touch any food other than what its owner had thrown on the ground.
Life in the capital is getting better and better.
J City, however, was in complete chaos.
The problem first arose when the radio broadcast announced that a second antigen carrier was still alive.
The public's extreme trust in Dr. Yu began to crack: "Didn't the doctor say that the antigen carrier crashed with the plane? Why are people in Beijing saying that the second antigen carrier is still alive?"
Even at this point, some people still defended the PhD: "We all saw the plane crash. In that situation, it was absolutely impossible for anyone to survive, or perhaps the antigen carrier is different from us normal people and didn't die?"
"Could it be that the news was deliberately leaked by the capital? There is a food shortage in the capital, and they need to boost morale with this kind of news."
"It's very possible that they've captured all three ring roads."
Even though the capital city was saying that the anti-zombie virus vaccine had been fully put into clinical trials and that the vaccination rate in the capital's safe zone had reached 100%, and that the capital's pharmaceutical factories were working overtime to produce vaccines and send them to various safe zones, many people in J City were still skeptical. They trusted Dr. Yu too much.
Until scientists in the capital city repaired the near-Earth satellite.
The phone could access the internet, and people saw that "Tomorrow Will Be Better" had updated her Weibo. She was wearing a white coat and giving survivors an anti-zombie virus vaccine, with the caption: "It's been a year, how is everyone?"
The people of J City who had absolute trust in Dr. Yu began to waver: "Dr. Yu has always claimed that he is the one who will make tomorrow better, so why is this account updated, but it's not Dr. Yu?"
Some people felt that although Dr. Yu had deceived them, he had at least helped them: "If it weren't for Dr. Yu this year, we might have died long ago. We should be grateful to Dr. Yu, shouldn't we?"
This was immediately countered by others: "My husband was prevented from coming in just because of a drunk driving violation. I said I wanted to leave, but they wouldn't let me. They're determined to separate us!!!"
"My mother only had mild asthma, but they wouldn't let us live with them. They insisted on keeping her locked on the second floor. Less than a month after we moved in, my mother died because she didn't receive timely help during an asthma attack!!!"
Previously, because of the filter of the blogger "Tomorrow Will Be Better", everyone automatically ignored many details. Now that the filter has shattered, many details of what Dr. Yu did have been exposed by the public. Soon, some members of the patrol team formed an armed force and occupied the entrances and exits and all floors of the building except for the one where Dr. Yu was located.
Dr. Yu's die-hard supporters were in a panic: "Doctor, they haven't attacked us yet only because they're wary of our advanced weaponry. Once they get support from the capital, they'll definitely attack our building. What should we do then?"
When Dr. Yu received the news that Qiao An'an and her group had entered the capital, he had already prepared for the worst.
He walked to the petri dish he had been studying for a long time. Inside was the dying Shenzhou, which his men had found. At first, Shenzhou showed signs of turning into a zombie. After injecting Shenzhou with the blood of Yaya collected during the physical examination, the signs of turning into a zombie stopped. Later, he mixed Yaya's blood with the zombie virus and developed a reagent that could enhance human functions. After the injection, Shenzhou became stronger, but also became particularly irritable and bloodthirsty.
However, his speed and destructive power far surpass those of zombies.
In order to better control Sunken Boat, who had become a mutant, Dr. Yu also developed a magnetic collar. This collar can control the mutant human by emitting brainwaves, making him obey his commands.
But one mutant is far from enough.
Dr. Yu handed the collar and injection to his loyal followers: "This zombie virus is God cleaning up the garbage on Earth. We shouldn't try to control it. Now someone wants to sabotage this cleanup operation, and I need you to make sacrifices."
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