Chapter 125： Doomsday Extra Story (3)

In a flash, it was seven years.

In the past seven years, the area covered by mutated herds of beasts and mutated plants has become more and more extensive, and human settlements have been further eroded by disasters. Many resource mining and industrial production that could have been maintained have been interrupted. Collaborate and integrate with each other, gather greater strength, and try to fight for a way out.

Under such drastic changes, the scattered settlements outside the fortress city have completely lost their way of life. The remaining human beings seem to be imprisoned in several extremely crowded cages by this world, waiting for them to fend for themselves.

Until the only survivor of a certain exploration team struggled to escape back to the fortress, and brought a piece of news that excited all the surviving humans—in the deep mountains and old forests where the mutation first broke out, the new life is gradually eliminating the mutation, as if the earth itself The immune system has played a role, and perhaps that kind of new life can also bring a new dawn to mankind.

As a result, the major military forces began to organize their manpower, each dispatching the most elite teams to cross the dangerous area occupied by mutated beasts, go to those deep mountains and old forests, and look for the last chance of survival.

Everyone knows that this mission is a narrow escape, and only the luckiest and strongest few can reach the destination safely and bring back the newborn samples alive.

Mu Fei Baizai checked the supplies carefully, and seeing that there was nothing wrong with it, he packed everything into a bag, finally picked up the soldier's badge on the table, and solemnly put it on his neck.

Qiu Yu was pulling out the washbasin towel and soap from under the bed, when he saw Mu Feibai's movements, he sighed helplessly: "Do you really want to go together?"

"Can it be fake?" Mu Fei said in vain, "I am your personal guard. If you are going, can I stay here?"

"You are still young, you are only eighteen years old." Qiu Yu said, "Stay in the team and you will be promoted to the squadron leader in the future. There is no need to follow me to go through life and death..."

"Why is it unnecessary!" Mu Feibai turned around and stared at Qiu Yu, his breath a little unsteady, "You didn't even say a word to me, but you just made a report that you are going to lead a team to explore some new forest area, and you want to leave me behind! Say I’m young, how much older are you than me? You’re only in your twenties! You can go, why can’t I go? My current combat effectiveness is no worse than yours, and I won’t hold you back!”

This is true.

Mu Feibai trained hard and had a strong learning ability. Over the years, he has fought countless battles with Qiu Yu, big and small, and he has made rapid progress. Everyone in the barracks said that in two years, he, the soldier who was brought up by the Qiu team, might become famous. .

It's just that his personality doesn't seem to have changed. No matter how heroic he is on the battlefield, he's still the same kid who likes to act like a baby by Qiu Yu's side when he's off the battlefield.

However, because of Mu Feibai's habit, as he got older and entered puberty, some people in the military camp began to tease his relationship with Qiu Yu—in this general environment, things between men and men are not uncommon. There were several couples in their barracks, and there were even groups of three or four.

Although the discipline definitely does not allow it, as long as it does not delay the battle opportunity, or is caught on any inappropriate occasion, most of the time, the higher-ups will turn a blind eye.

These jokes inevitably reached Qiu Yu's ears.

Qiu Yu deliberately distanced himself from Mu Feibai, so he sent Mu Feibai out to do two missions by himself. As a result... the second time Mu Feibai was seriously injured and brought back. His wound was inflamed and had a high fever, and he almost lost Life.

When he was in a daze, the child was still holding Qiu Yu's hand, weeping silently, calling "brother" in a low voice, begging Qiu Yu not to leave him.

Qiu Yu's heart softened immediately.

Later, he let Mu Feibai continue to cling to him.

It's just that since then, no older sister or younger girl in the barracks has ever shown love to Qiu Yu.

Qiu Yu couldn't laugh or cry about this - he knew that he and Mu Feibai didn't have that kind of relationship, but he couldn't stand other people's speculations and didn't want to provoke him.

Fortunately, he himself didn't have much desire for that kind of thing. He couldn't bear it anymore, and he could be satisfied by solving it by himself, so he didn't bother to explain it.

Now, Qiu Yu is about to go to the battlefield where he is close to death, so he naturally hopes that Mu Feibai will not follow him, and it is better to stay in a relatively safe fortress city and grow up well.

But Mu Feibai obviously didn't think so.

When Qiu Yu reasoned with him, he pretended not to hear him, and when he reprimanded him, he pretended not to have heard; Qiu Yu tried to convince him, but he stiffened his neck and blushed, and forcibly took several blows from Qiu Yu; His military rank and orders overwhelmed him, so he ran directly to the higher-level officers and knelt down to beg, and finally he actually begged for an order to allow him to join the team.

Facing Shangfeng's order, Qiu Yu was completely helpless.

Seeing that he was leaving tomorrow, he didn't want to waste time arguing with the children anymore. This mission is extremely dangerous. If there is a grievance between each other and the cooperation on the battlefield goes wrong, it may not only be the two of them who lost their lives.

So, Qiu Yu compromised: "Okay, let's go together."

He raised the washbasin in his hand, and said again: "The bathroom will open in five minutes, why don't you hurry up and get ready?"

Nowadays, resources are in short supply, especially clean water, which is distributed regularly and quantitatively according to quotas. In the army, only soldiers who are about to go on missions and soldiers who have just returned have five minutes of public shower time. On weekdays, they can only save some from the drinking water rations, and use it to heat up and wipe their bodies.

Hearing Qiu Yu's words, Mu Feibai hurriedly packed the washbasin towels, and smiled at Qiu Yu again: "I ran out of soap before, can you lend me brother's?"

Qiu Yu was annoyed: "Can I still use it for you?"

Mu Feibai said happily: "My brother is so kind to me!"

In fact, in the past few years, every time he went out with Qiu Yu, he could take a bath with Qiu Yu before and after. It stands to reason that he should have gotten used to looking at Qiu Yu's body...but he could see it but not touch it. Not to mention eating, Mu Feibai can only wait and look forward to the task, even if it's an eye addiction.

It's just hateful, the showers of the expedition and the triumphant return are all together, with more than a dozen people in the squad and dozens of people in the squadron, the atmosphere is not good at all.

Whenever this time comes, Mu Feibai misses the living conditions of the Star Alliance very much - the independent bathroom is simply the best virtue in the world!

The next day, the elite team headed by Qiu Yu was ready to go.

The sixteen people in the team are all experienced soldiers, and the worst one is the captain who can lead the team independently. Qiu Yu has even taken over as the team leader, which shows that this task is very dangerous and very difficult. We had to form such a team of extremely sharp sharp knives to go.

In today's human settlements, not only water resources are in short supply, power energy is even more scarce. In the early years, Qiu Yu had the opportunity to drive a car to the battlefield, but now, gasoline is no longer affordable for ordinary troops.

Therefore, their sixteen-member sharp knife team can only rely on their own legs to go to a certain place in the north where the mutation and erosion originated. Along the way, there must be no shortage of mutated beasts.

Fortunately, the team is full of elites who have survived many battles, and no one will hold back.

Everyone experienced several fierce battles along the way, but they didn't love to fight. They seized the opportunity and quickly fled towards the destination, trying to save their combat power until the completion of the exploration and the return journey.

However, even so, when the team reached the center of the mountain forest with extremely high concentration of mutation and erosion, there were only ten of the sixteen people left.

Qiu Yu and Mu Feibai helped each other wrap up their wounds, and before they even had time to sit down and take a bite of food, the team was once again besieged by mutant beasts.

The closer to the core area of ​​the mountain forest, the more frenzied the mutant beasts are. This phenomenon is known to everyone in the wasteland of the last days. This time the siege by the beast horde came very fiercely, and the few surviving fighters had no choice but to use up the ammunition originally planned to be reserved for the return trip.

However, even though they fought back vigorously and retreated while fighting, they were eventually forced away from the center of the forest by the berserk mutant beasts.

After escaping from the herd again, Qiu Yu stood on a high ground, squinting his eyes at the luxuriant and dense purple-brown forest under the cliff in the morning light.

"Those herds are not right." He said in a deep voice, "They are preventing us from approaching the central area. There must be something there."

There was a moment of silence.

One of the wounded said, "Captain, do you want to continue exploring?"

Right now, the proportion of wounded in their team is already too high. If they continue to rush towards the central area, many unnecessary sacrifices will definitely occur. Although the task they were given was to detect as much as possible the changes in the central area of ​​mutation erosion and bring back samples...but there was no such thing as "no failure" in the order.

After all, what the above are looking for is a ray of hope for human beings, and this process can be done step by step, and they are not really required to take their lives to fill out a path.

Of course Qiu Yu understood this.

He turned around and came back, took out his notebook, and made some more notes on it. Then he closed the book and handed it to the soldier who asked the question just now.

"Are all the survey records left by Lao Guo and the others with you?" Qiu Yu asked.

"Yes." The man replied, "Don't worry, everything is well preserved."

Qiu Yu nodded, looked around again, and pointed out three people.

"All of you, continue to explore with me in a while." He said calmly, "The rest of the people, with the survey records, return with all their strength, and make sure to bring the information that has been surveyed back to the fortress."

The person selected by Qiu Yu was not only slightly injured, but also the best fighter in the team who was good at individual combat and had first-class mobility.

Mu Feibai was naturally among them.

"There is no time to rest." Qiu Yu said, "Come on a quick march during the day, straight into the central area of ​​the forest, no matter whether we can break through the herd of beasts and reach the so-called newborn core, when the sky gets dark, we will return directly. During the process, My orders must be strictly followed."

"Yes!" The team members answered immediately.

Qiu Yu looked at Mu Feibai: "Do you understand?"

Mu Feibai nodded solemnly: "Understood."

Qiu Yu was silent for a moment, then asked again: "Do you really understand?"

Before Mu Feibai could open his mouth, he continued: "My orders must be strictly followed. If I let you move forward, then no matter what happens, you must continue to move forward. If I tell you to abandon me, then even if I am not completely dead, you You must also abandon me without any regrets. Among us, at least one person must live to bring back what he saw with his own eyes. Mu Feibai, do you really understand?"

Mu Feibai froze on the spot.

In a moment, his eye sockets turned red, his lips trembled slightly, but he couldn't speak.

In the past seven years, he fought so many battles with Qiu Yu, but Qiu Yu never said such a thing.

Mu Feibai finally understood that this time was different—Qiu Yu had no idea about this exploration.

The cruelest side of this world finally showed itself in front of Mu Feibai ferociously.