Chapter 150: Give up, new life, start from scratch.

He tried his best, and his hand could only move an inch or two.

He asked in a whisper, "I can't see you. Yun Qiu , are you there?"

Qiuyun Ding leaned over to look at him, but saw the youth he had taken as a comrade long ago.

The first time they met, they were in the recruits' quarters.

In the dormitory, Qiuyun Ding was the last to arrive. When he entered the dormitory, Xinzhi Gu was sitting on the only empty bunk, smoking, and when he saw him enter, he stood up and moved to the adjacent bunk.

Qiuyun Ding noticed that he had left his cigarette case on the bed and leaned down to pick it up.

Xinzhi Gu also noticed it, but moved a little slower than Qiuyun Ding, and his finger accidentally touched the back of Qiuyun Ding's hand.

He frowned, and immediately drew his hand back.

Qiuyun Ding picked up the cigarette case and looked at it: "Bad cigarettes hurt the lungs."

Xinzhi Gu tilted his head slightly, without saying a word.

If it was Qiuyun Ding in the future, he would have understood that Xinzhi Gu's body language means "none of your business".

But Qiuyun Ding didn't know anything at that time, he tossed the half-empty cigarette case back to Xinzhi Gu, saying, "Smoke mine later."

The two new recruits bought cigarettes from the captain secretly, and were punished by the battalion instructor for standing upside down on the side of the road during the march.

The queue that came and went murmured about the two of them head down and up.

Qiuyun Ding was not embarrassed at all and whispered to Xinzhi Gu: "We did it too unobtrusively this time."

Xinzhi Gu : "Yeah."

Qiuyun Ding touched Xinzhi Gu's with his foot: "Hey."

Xinzhi Gu : "Hmm?"

Qiuyun Ding said, "Don't be sad, when I become the captain, we can smoke as much as we want."

Xinzhi Gu looked at him sideways, for a long time, before nodding slightly: "Yes."

It was a long time before Xinzhi Gu realized that Qiuyun Ding did not smoke.

It was also much later that Qiuyun Ding learned that the half-pack of bad cigarettes that he had returned to him had never been touched by Xinzhi Gu, and was stored in his private storage room, where he treasured it.

--they both took so long to realize that they had fallen in love with each other at first sight.

Qiuyun Ding's hand rests on Xinzhi Gu's left wrist, trembling slightly.

Xinzhi Gu's right hand, which had lost its blood, was approaching the only source of heat on his body minute by minute, and his fingertips were trembling badly.

He had been having realistic and horrible dreams for so many years, Xinzhi Gu was afraid, and he didn't want this to be his dream too.

Xinzhi Gu's chest sounded hopeful, and his chest, which had three broken ribs, rose and fell violently: " Yun Qiu ......"

Three inches from his hand, Qiuyun Ding moved, but in a way that even Xiaochi Chi could not have predicted -

Qiuyun Ding, who had almost zero control over his body, burst out of nowhere, staggered Xinzhi Gu's hand, leaned down, wrapped his head around him, and covered Xinzhi Gu's eyes with one hand!

He also closed his eyes tightly, tilted his head and let out a hoarse cry of sorrow, tears fell and two drops of water fell in Xinzhi Gu's shoulder.

Xiaochi Chi closes his eyes, and three seconds later, he reopens them.

The remorse value on the display, which had been kept at 99, jumped to 100.

...... End of assignment.

Xinzhi Gu didn't know what this hug meant, exactly.

But he was suddenly reassured.

This 12 hours of painful suffering, in exchange for this hug, he felt it was worth it.

He lay on his back in Qiuyun Ding's arms, feeling the sensation of his warm palm lightly pressed against his eyes, feeling caught in the middle of a dungeon of slumber, surrounded by warm soil that wrapped around him and gradually calmed his restless, restless heart for several years.

But he still refused to die, after a short period of peace of mind, is a stronger desire to live -.

He coughed lowly and called in a dumb voice: " Yun Qiu . ...... Yun Qiu , I don't want to die, help me--"

However, Xinzhi Gu did not have time to finish his wish.

His hand fell from his left arm and fell to his side, his forehead resting on Qiuyun Ding's bosom, and he did not make a sound.

Xiaochi Chi put the man down, lifted his hand, wiped away the tears flowing from Qiuyun Ding's eyes, restrained the great grief that came from the depths of his body, and stood up, just in time to meet Lanlan Yan, who came at the sound of his voice.

He inclined his head, "Find a place and bury him."

Lanlan Yan's tears, which were in his eyes, burst out and he opened his mouth, saying only the word "valley", and then squatted down, sobbing uncontrollably.

Xiaochi Chi walked out of the resting place and leaned against the doorway, looking into the gray, endless sky.

...... outside, who had died because of Xinzhi Gu, are weeping for him.

To them, Xinzhi Gu is their vice squad, despite his inexplicable intrusion into their lives and his aloof, withdrawn and uncaring nature.

...... has been with them for over a year and has never known what it means to back down or be afraid of the vice squad.

Everyone thought of him as an invincible god, so no one expected that Xinzhi Gu would be the first and only person to die in Qiuyun Ding's squad.

Xiaochi Chi gave himself two minutes to get out of the emotional impact of the original owner's tumble, and then pulled Bin Sun to the main base table.

He doesn't have much time left to stay here, so he must seize every second: "Position and fire."

Bin Sun sobbed and huffed, while taking off his glasses to wipe his tears and asked, "Positioning ...... launch, what?"

Xiaochi Chi leaned over and wrote a coordinate value on a handy pad and tapped it in front of Bin Sun's eyes, "The total base station for the AI."

Bin Sun's mind is still spinning: "This is ......"

Xiaochi Chi said, "Blow me up."

Bin Sun : "......"

The impact of this news is too strong, Bin Sun such poor mental capacity, directly dumbfounded: "Ding team, how do you get this ......"

Xiaochi Chi lied, "This is the information that Vice Team Gu got, cherish it."

Once he heard that, Bin Sun finally got up some spirit, but just after he put his hand on the console, he came back to his senses: "No, no, Team Ding, only the internal external defense system can be activated here. Any data changes, those AIs can observe, if the network, they caught a gap, from the signal source to invade in one fell swoop, then it will be completely finished-"

Xiaochi Chi leans down and feeds a high-precision hard disk redeemed from the warehouse into the mainframe.

Only after the dense stream of data light wove a dense protective net, he said with certainty, "Don't worry, I have arrangements."

What is carried inside the hard disk is the result of more than three years of 061.

If it were not for the extreme oppression felt by the crowd of AI's, 061 would not have been positioned as an S-class threat by the still active AI's.

But apparently, the AI's still underestimated the threat of 061.

In the past few years, he has gone through many attacks, chasing, still not a moment to stop, repeatedly deduce, repair, and finally completed a perfect set of defense procedures, and in the many tracking feedback information to filter out effective information, reverse the launch of the main system dormant base station.

Everything for this moment.

Only by destroying the AI's main system will Xiaochi Chi be able to leave with confidence.

Humanity's battles may continue, but humanity doesn't need any additional referees.

......

After realizing that the arsenal had been breached, the AIs also began a 24-hour observation of the arsenal.

But in reality, they are not very worried.

Those who used to guard the warehouse did not dare to use the weapons easily because they knew too well the fear of artificial intelligence, and would rather let the weapons freeze than risk another minute.

This group of old humans, I'm afraid, will be no exception.

Sure enough, three days passed, the direction of the weapons depot was extremely quiet, and the new humans, who had been killed and abandoned, were once again surrounded by locusts, licking their wounds while planning to wait for an opportunity to launch the next attack.

In their eyes, this group of old humans who took advantage of the opportunity to pick up the treasure trove, but did not have enough strength to squander, is really pathetic and ridiculous.

The weapons inventory of these old humans may not even be as plentiful as that of their predecessors.

So what if you get a highly sophisticated weapon, it's just another trapped beast.

However, as the crowds and AIs on the periphery settled down at ease, the old humans, moved.

At dawn on the third day, when the allied forces of the New Humanity were once again gathered in the tent for a meeting, a strange, odd sound was suddenly heard resounding through the valley.

Clunk.

Immediately after that, there were several consecutive strange sounds.

Clunk, clunk, clunk.

The launch pad of the ...... arsenal was surprisingly activated.

And once opened is four, facing four directions.

The new human leaders were horrified, thinking that the old humans were mad, realizing that there was no escape and planning to die together.

I do not know who shouted "run", the four will be completely chaotic.

The camp was in chaos, everyone was asking what was going on, and everyone was talking about what they had heard.

Between word of mouth, the more evil the news spread, most people choose to flee outward, after all, once all the things in this arsenal detonated, they will all be burned to ashes, without exception.

Therefore, no one is listening to the vocal instructions that the AI is giving them anymore.

The artificial intelligences lost control of their slaves, and in their rage, some of them began to frantically attack the re-networked weapon systems, while others sent frantic signals to the targets of the missiles, pleading with the main system to move quickly.

However, the attacking AIs are desperate to find that a net of heaven and earth has completely blocked them out.

And the AI that sent the signal was equally desperate to find out too late.

The old humans at the base had been planning for a long time, and the moment they were connected to the network, the missiles had completed a series of operations such as aiming, positioning, and confirming the launch.

Within seconds, the four base stations fired their missiles simultaneously, three in a row, to ensure that even the underground base stations were bombarded to the point of no return.

The roar shook the sky and the fire meandered.

Like a meteor, the missile disappeared into the sky, hissing and bursting and scattering light where the crowd could not see.

The AIs watched as the place they were meant to vault over was reduced to pieces and their jaws split.

The plan they had constructed was ruined at the hands of a group of old humans whom they despised the most and who should have died at the time of the disaster?

Xiaochi Chi These twelve missiles sent three signals to all displaced people:

Please see us.

Please fear us.

Please lean on us.

In the afternoon of that day, three teams of new humans came outside the base with a hundred pounds of meat, all guns-arms, and raised white flags to signal their surrender.

Xiaochi Chi did not turn them away and arranged for them to stay in the outer perimeter while instructing Yan Sun to check the food and guns they brought in for problems, while he said he was tired and needed to go back to his room to rest.

In the past three days, Xiaochi Chi stayed up for three nights with all the people, climbing up and down to maintain the weapon frame, making sure all the data was correct.

Yan Sun was concerned about Qiuyun Ding's health, but Qiuyun Ding himself did not want to rest, so he could only scratch his ears in anxiety, and now that he had offered to rest, he was so relieved that he opened his mouth and called out, " Lan Lan! Take the Ding team back to the room!"

Xiaochi Chi practically threw himself on the bed, and the coal boss jumped on the bed right after him, getting down noiselessly on his side.

It was time to leave when everything was finished.

Xiaochi Chi had a fever of one and a half days during the whole three days of labor, and even if he fainted now, it would not arouse suspicion.

The coal boss licked his burning, floppy ears, obviously anxious.

061 was also urging, " Chi Xiao , go now, you are burning badly."

Xiaochi Chi rolled over and wrapped his arms around the coal owner's neck.

This is his last remaining love and attachment in this world.

He whispered to 061, "Give me a minute."

Said Xiaochi Chi put his mouth to Panther's ear and whispered, "Boss, I will sleep for a while, don't be afraid, when I open my eyes again, I may ...... not be me, but he will also be good to you, you can stay here if you want, and leave if you want. It's cold here, live well."

He hugged the coal boss's paw and gently pressed it to his face and gave him another kiss.

However, the paws are not like the usual, fluffy, soft paw pads, but rather like a man's hand, with long, slender knuckles and a cool, comfortable feeling against the face.

The hand also gently pinched his face, like some kind of gentle scolding and prodding.

...... Xiaochi Chi thought he must be burning out of his mind.

He closed his eyes hard: "Teacher Six, teleport."

The task is completed, the data is reviewed without errors, and the transmission begins.

The young man, whose animal ears had not yet disappeared, lay beneath Xiaochi Chi, took him by the waist, held the man who was about to fall into a deep sleep face to face, and whispered to him: "Wait, I'll be right there."

A few moments later, he spoke again to no one in particular: "Listen, I'm giving you the stuff, how you choose, it's still up to you."

In a short time, only one person was left in the bed.

The man struggled to open his eyes and coughed lowly twice, his voice muffled by the excessive body heat, but he put his best foot forward and raised his voice: " Lan Lan ......"

Lanlan Yan jingled in, silver handbells ringing crisply around her wrist, "Hey hey hey, here it is."

...... is there.

She's there, everyone is.

Qiuyun Ding pulled up the corners of his mouth, a silent smile, and then closed his eyes and fell into a dark, sweet sleep at ease.

When he regained consciousness, Xiaochi Chi was already lying in the furnished room with an ice pack on his forehead.

He felt quite comfortable and curled up under the covers without moving or talking.

When he was resting, 061 quietly took care of him, and when he woke up, he did not rush to ask him how he felt, but only patiently decomposed and vaporized the water droplets oozing from the ice pack, so that they would not flow onto the pillow and make him sleep uncomfortably.

Xiaochi Chi reviewed his performance for a long time and let out a small sigh.

It was then that 061 spoke up, "You did a good job. Don't blame yourself."

Xiaochi Chi rested his hand on his forehead: "This quarter's performance is not good." He should have given Qiuyun Ding more options than the either/or question of death or life.

061 lightly laughed: "It's okay, your performance is not working, there is still me."

Xiaochi Chi keenly perceived the implication contained in his words, "...... six teachers?"

061 explained gently, "Here's the thing, I gave Qiuyun Ding something ......"

......

Three years later.

Qiuyun Ding has built a city centered on a weapons depot.

Radiating away from the weapons depot, the city covers an area stretching over a thousand kilometers, and the outermost cities, which have even bordered the original town.

Some of the residents chose to stay in their town, while a group of people, including Ding's father and mother, Wanwan He, and Jing's mother and son, moved with Qiuyun Ding to the heart of the area within the arms depot.

The reason for such rapid construction is the influx of old and new humans who have heard the news and are eager for shelter, and the assistance of artificial intelligence.

Those who have no hope of artificial intelligence, part of them are still resisting, resisting the human scale of attack, another part has no will to fight, simply choose to submit to humans again, in order to protect the base station will not be destroyed.

Of course, Qiuyun Ding won't let them get their hands on important systems anymore, especially the arsenal.

That 061-written system runs day and night, maintaining the long-term stability of the entire arsenal.

Previously, the arsenal in this post-apocalyptic world is a showpiece, no ambition will not easily touch, ambitious people will see it as a delicious cake, just want to grab it in hand, as a bargaining chip, but also do not really want to use it.

But when it really can be put into use, it becomes the most reassuring reliance in the whole post-apocalyptic world.

As more and more people entered their cities, a sense of morality that had been destroyed revived as crowds gathered again, and simple legal norms began to be rebuilt.

Qiuyun Ding did not take power, only the management of the central city, other towns to build their own, their own livelihood, but because he holds the master key to the arsenal, his words are still full of weight.

The only goal he has set for the congregation is development.

Because they were busy with development, they had no time for infighting, planting, hunting, selling, and all kinds of goods circulated in each city, with occasional friction and overall prosperity.

Qiuyun Ding looked at all this and felt at ease.

And for Lanlan Yan, there has been a bit of joy in town lately.

Wenqing Shu came to the central city, this time to deliver medicine and to find Lanlan Yan.

Lanlan Yan held Wenqing Shu's hand as he toured the city, rambling on about the new sewing store here and the new meat bun store there.

Wenqing Shu says very little, but looks Lanlan Yan in the eye and nods gently every time she speaks.

As they walked, the two came to a street level.

Lanlan Yan's eyes occasionally darted around and he saw a familiar figure in front of a machine store.

As her eyes lit up, the little guide dog turned its head.

Lanlan Yan said with surprise, "It's you?"

The little guide dog looked at her for a long time and did not move until he heard her voice, then he took the initiative to step up and said gently, "It's you, Miss Gas Station."

Compared to the last time she saw the little guide dog, it was cleaned up and its injured paw was surprisingly properly bandaged up, so it seemed to have been well taken care of.

Lanlan Yan crouched down: "You found your master?"

The little guide dog shook his head gently: "I was brought in by another lady. She seems to need me badly. I have to get this young lady home safely before I can get to my young lady."

Lanlan Yan wanted to say something else, but was momentarily dumbfounded.

Because she noticed that the little guide dog's left eye was broken, and the light in the right eye was dimmed, probably with only a glimmer of vision.

Slightly uncomfortable, she offered, "Do you need me to ......"

But she soon heard a slightly anxious teenage voice: "Er Ao! Where are you?"

From the mechanical store came out a young girl wearing a square red trench coat, looking at her dress and the traces of corpse spots extending from her wrists, it was obvious that she was a new human.

The little guide dog turned back to me: "Sorry, I ......"

The young lady picked up the little guide dog without any reason and went into the mechanical store.

Lanlan Yan thought about it, but followed, followed by Wenqing Shu.

The little guide dog was picked up by the owner of the mechanical store, still struggling politely: "Miss, I'm sorry, this is too much trouble ......"

The young girl interrupted it: "No talking, let you go and you go."

The little guide dog sighed and politely said "thank you".

After sending the mechanical dog inside, the girl greeted Lanlan Yan as if she was relieved, "Hello. Do you know Er Ao?"

Lanlan Yan responded, "Well, I've met twice."

The young lady smiled: "It mentioned to me that during his wandering journey, he met a lot of people, both good and bad. You should be very good to it, otherwise it wouldn't be so close to you."

Lanlan Yan rubbed the back of his head with some embarrassment: "No, it and I just met in passing ......"

Wenqing Shu, however, sensed something in her attitude: "Excuse me, you are?"

"Sorry, I forgot to introduce myself." The young girl said, "My name is Jingyuan Xu and I am Er Ao's friend."

For the next hour, Jingyuan Xu told them about her life after leaving her little guide dog Er Ao.

Since she was born with a tumor in her brain and blinded by the pressure of the tumor, her parents bought Er Ao to keep her company.

After the disaster, her parents only had time to take her away, but forgot about Er Ao.

Later, her father and mother died one after another in the escape, she also lost control of the drug, the tumor deteriorated into brain cancer, the disease died and then came back to life again, after which she has been following a new human team hunting.

Later, on a hunting trip, she found Er Ao in a hyena's den, which was about to be damaged.

Er Ao broke down so badly that the vision system was close to being obsolete and the cognitive system had some malfunctions.

It has forgotten its name and its memory is somewhat upside down. In its impression, the young lady is always eight years old, and it can recognize Lanlan Yan, whom it met in the wandering, by her voice, but not Jingyuan Xu, who is about to be 15 years old.

Jingyuan Xu could not prove to it that he was Jingyuan Xu, so he did not explain much to it, picked it up and went to Qiuyun Ding's city together with the team.

She had heard that the technology in Central City was the most advanced, so she brought Er Ao here to seek a "cure".

Jingyuan Xu said, "The boss inspected it and said it was not too badly damaged and could be repaired."

After hearing this story, Lanlan Yan's heart warmed up and she simply waited with Jingyuan Xu.

An hour later, the owner brought out Er Ao, a small guide dog.

Er Ao's eyes have been replaced with new parts, but Er Ao still needs to reorganize and debug the data itself, and once it is brought back to rest for two days, its original function will be fully restored.

Jingyuan Xu said thank you to the owner several times and reached out to pick up the little guide dog.

Er Ao is a rather independent AI, so it was a bit confusing to be carried around like this.

It stirred its legs gently and courteously requested, "Miss, I can walk by myself."

Jingyuan Xu flatly refused: "No."

...... It has been going alone for too long.

This time, she's going to hold it together.

Lanlan Yan watched Jingyuan Xu step out of the store.

Her long red trench coat was lifted by the wind, and inside was wrapped a small guide dog that did not yet know it had found its owner.

After returning, Lanlan Yan told Qiuyun Ding, who was watering the flowers, about the happy event from beginning to end.

Qiuyun Ding put down the kettle, fished out the small silver jug from his pocket and took a sip of wine: " Er Ao is the reason you must have a dog."

Lanlan Yan laughed twice.

Indeed, after meeting Er Ao twice, Lanlan Yan has always wanted to have a dog.

The other day for her birthday, Qiuyun Ding carried a little unaltered, coffee-colored puppy from somewhere, and tied a bow around the puppy's neck.

The puppy was very well behaved and extraordinarily clingy, hugging Lanlan Yan and not letting go of his paws.

You know, getting a live dog in the post-apocalyptic world is more complicated than getting a tiger.

After the boss ran away, no one dared to mention the matter of raising animals in front of Qiuyun Ding, until they saw him send Lanlan Yan puppies, everyone relaxed a lot.

After a few jokes, Lanlan Yan coughed twice, resumed his straight face, and said, "Team Ding, Er Ao can find its owner, and Vice Team Gu will definitely come back too. Everyone is working hard and will definitely bring him back."

Qiuyun Ding smiled faintly and did not say anything.

Three years ago, when his benefactor left him, the system 061 that took the form of a black panther and stood by his benefactor's side told him that he had left two extra options for him.

For the AI, he said, biological data was too difficult to manipulate, and only after Xinzhi Gu's death was 061 able to hack into his weakening brainwaves and preserve all of Xinzhi Gu's memories, which were stored in a memory crystal.

If Qiuyun Ding wants Xinzhi Gu to come back to life, then let him come back to life.

If he doesn't want to, then so be it.

Qiuyun Ding held the crystal, hesitated for a long time, and finally turned the choice back to the players, asking them if they wanted to do it themselves.

He did not expect the team to act more excited than he did after learning that Xinzhi Gu had been saved.

Without waiting for him to mobilize, everyone acted.

Xinzhi Gu and the photo they left together in the supermarket became the key prop for the recovery of Xinzhi Gu.

During the three years, they introduced the humanoid technology, Bin Sun took charge of the system, Yan Sun searched for the right materials, Lanlan Yan did the 3D restoration of the face and form himself, and Uncle Luo ran around for transportation to collect the rarest nano-materials.

Everyone was busy, working in unison toward a single goal.

When Qiuyun Ding saw this, he was stunned for a long time, but finally figured it out and still found it funny and ironic.

...... is ultimately the only one who has been resurrected, and he is the only one who remembers those things.

Now, everyone wants Xinzhi Gu to come back to life and they want to have the somewhat annoying, cool and tough Gu vice squad.

It's just that, it's just that.

Now that everyone has died once and started from scratch, there is nothing he can say.

Lanlan Yan stayed with Xinzhi Gu for a while, then suddenly received a text message and didn't even say hello to Qiuyun Ding. Then he ran away happily.

Qiuyun Ding took a sip of wine and thought helplessly that he was probably going to accompany Wenqing Shu again.

Having a daughter-in-law and forgetting the captain is really balding.

He put the small silver pot back into his arms, picked up the small kettle and slowly watered the plum blossoms.

In the eternal winter, white plums bloom brilliantly with an intoxicatingly subtle fragrance.

Not long after, Qiuyun Ding heard footsteps coming from behind him.

He heard the footsteps sound familiar, but for a moment he could not think of who they belonged to, but only people from the base could enter this plum forest, so he did not turn around and continued watering: "What is it?"

The visitor did not answer, but put a slightly trembling hand on his shoulder.

Qiuyun Ding's movement was a pause, and the water bottle in his hand was tilted at an angle, with drops of water falling down and spilling on the backs of their feet.

The visitor opened his arms to take the person in front of him into his arms, but then cautiously retracted when he was about to touch him.

Eventually, he slipped something into Qiuyun Ding's pocket.

Qiuyun Ding, stunned for a moment, reached out to touch: "This is ......"

"...... my controller."

There was infinite joy and suppressed longing in his voice: "Ding team ...... after, please control your vice captain. Is it okay?"