"Come in." The messenger, after receiving the nod from the leader inside, gave a military salute and said loudly, "Report to the commander, Sergeant Cao Jinbao has something to report!"

"Speak." Ouyang De, who was sitting at the top, said solemnly.

"This time, a new wave of distress signals from our base has been received. The object of inquiry is the satellite communicator of Colonel Ouyang of the military region of G province. Colonel Ouyang happened to be in X City at this time, and they are now coming to the base." messenger Cao Cao Jinbao said happily.

"Really?" Ouyang De's eyes lit up and he couldn't help asking.

"The news is true. It is estimated that Colonel Ouyang will arrive at our base as soon as six o'clock tomorrow morning."

Cao Jinbao responded loudly, and his heart was also very excited. Even though he had never seen Ouyang Su's true face, he had been listening to his legendary deeds in the army. At this time, he heard that he would come to rescue them. Full of excitement, almost beyond words.

"How many troops did Colonel Ouyang bring to rescue us?" Tao Guangcheng, the deputy commander of the base, who was also sitting in the conference room, asked excitedly. He didn't care who came to rescue them, but only cared about whether he and his daughter could be in this game. Survive in the rat tide.

"Uh..." When asked this question, Cao Jinbao looked hesitant, hesitantly, he just didn't know how to speak.

"What are you doing? Hurry up, how many people are there?" Tao Guangcheng ordered with a frown.

Cao Jinbao was so frightened that he trembled all over, as if dying, he closed his eyes and shouted loudly, "Thirty-seven people!"

There was silence for a while...

Everyone looked at each other, but found that the other party's expression was the same as their own, stunned and a little ridiculous.

"You... Are you sure there are thirty-seven people, not 370,000 people?" Tao Guangcheng asked with a confused expression.

"Reporting to the deputy base chief, it is indeed thirty-seven." Since everything has been said, Cao Jinbao is not afraid of anything, and directly replied with a resolute expression.

"It's over! Thirty-seven people, are they here to bring food to the mice out of fear that they won't have enough to eat?" Tao Guangcheng's face was ashen, his chubby body fell on the chair, and he muttered to himself in despair. road.

"Sergeant Cao Jinbao!" Ouyang De frowned and glanced at Tao Guangcheng with a look of disdain, but turned his head and called out to Cao Jinbao.

"Yes!" Cao Jinbao immediately put his legs together and gave a military salute.

"Go to the communication department and send a communication message to Colonel Ouyang so that they don't have to come." Ouyang De stared at Cao Jinbao's eyes with serious eyes and ordered coldly.

"Received, Commander." Cao Jinbao saluted Ouyang De and turned to send a message.

"Commander, why don't you let Colonel Ouyang come over? After all, they came to rescue us, so they pushed it out..." The person who asked to retreat at the beginning raised his dissatisfaction with Ouyang De.

Even if Ouyang Su brought a small number of people, mosquitoes are still meat no matter how small they are. At least they can attract some of the zombie mice's attention for their evacuation.

The man had a small calculation in his heart, but he was frightened by Ouyang De's penetrating eyes and silenced again.

It is now half a year after the end of the world. There is no army in the government's hands. Even if there is a group of recruited escorts, it is not comparable to the strength of the entire army of the military department.

Moreover, the army also recruits people with abilities. In the X City base, powerful people actually prefer to join the military department, so their overall strength is still much higher than that of the government department.

In the apocalypse, the strong are respected, and the military department has been working hard to suppress their government department in recent years. If their government department still holds more than half of the base's materials, they would have been squeezed out of the base by the military department.

Where can he sit in this seat today, on an equal footing with Ouyang De?

"Did they come over to deliver the food?" Ouyang De snorted coldly, took what they said just now, and then ordered: "Notify me, everyone prepares for the battle!"

"Yes!" Ouyang De's henchmen immediately responded in unison, turned around and went to issue a notice, ready to fight.

"This...this...I can't make it! I can't make it!" The man was sweating coldly on his forehead, and when he thought of the dense army of zombie rats outside, his eyes turned black.

He wanted to say something nice to Ouyang De in a soft voice, begging him to send someone to **** them out and escape from the base.

However, Ouyang De stopped paying attention to him, and immediately announced the meeting was dismissed, then turned around and left.

Xie Qi, as the head of the Heng'an mercenary group ranked second in the base's strength, is also a member who can participate in this meeting. After listening to Ouyang De's final decision, he walked out with a worried face.

When he got home, his son Xie Ran and the others were waiting in the living room. When they saw him coming back, they quickly stood up to greet him and wanted to ask him about the meeting.

Xie Qi just sighed helplessly, and said a little tiredly: "Get ready to fight."

Then he waved his hand weakly, ignored others, and was about to walk into his own house, but was stopped by Xie Ran.

"Dad..." Xie Ran carefully called out to stop his father. Since his sister disappeared, his stepmother's spirit was often on the verge of collapse, and the relationship between him and his father had become very sensitive.

However, his mother and the family members on her side actually jumped out to stir up the storm with ugly faces, which made his already unstable home even more chaotic, and the stepmother was also stimulated and became even more ill. a bit.

Although the things he experienced during this period made him see clearly what the relatives of his grandfather's family were like, the relationship between their father and son had been down to freezing point, and even almost broke down completely.

In the end, it was he who directly and ruthlessly dealt with the people on his mother's side, so that the relationship between their father and son was not completely broken, but now the relationship between father and son is not much better than that of strangers.

Xie Qi paused in his footsteps, still didn't say a word to him, and opened the door in his room. Zhang's mother, who was taking care of Zhan Jiajie, also walked out silently when he saw him coming back.

The people outside only heard Xie Qi's room door slammed shut with a bang, and the room was silent again.

Facing his father's indifference, Xie Ran looked disappointed. He greeted the others and turned to leave. Shao Bin immediately followed Xie Ran and followed him.

Jiang Xu reluctantly counseled her shoulders, this is someone's family business, and she is not easy to intervene as an outsider, so she can only greet the Shi family and brothers to go out to prepare for the battle.

Zhang's mother stayed at home to cook and waited for them to come back for dinner later.

She sighed in her heart that a home that used to be good had turned into the crumbling look it is now. Every day, it was only during dinner that everyone could get together, but it was no longer possible for everyone to gather together.

Thinking of Xie Yun, whose whereabouts are still unknown, with no bones left, she couldn't help but burst into tears.

Even if they can't find Xie Yun's body yet, they can still comfort themselves that Xie Yun may not be dead, but in that situation, no one would think that she is still alive, and the idea of ​​self-comfort is only to increase the sympathy of others.

But that's her young lady~ She has seen the older lady since she was a child~ She is regarded as the child of her own daughter! Does she feel better when the whole person is gone?

Unable to control her mood for a while, Zhang's mother couldn't help hiding in the kitchen to secretly wipe her tears.

But in Xie Qi's room, it was depressed.

As soon as Xie Qi entered the house of himself and his wife, it became dark in front of him.

All the curtains in the room were drawn tightly, no light was turned on, no light could penetrate, and it was eerily silent.

If it weren't for the blur, and a bulging figure could still be seen on the bed, Xie Qi almost thought that there was no one else in this room except him, but he knew very well that there was someone there of.

There is a person he loves the most, but not the person who loves him the most.

That ruthless person only had his own daughter in his heart, and was immersed in the world of her and her daughter, unwilling to wake up.

She refused to wake up and take a good look at her poor husband.

After losing her daughter, she didn't know that her husband was suffering as much as she was, she didn't know the despair her husband who was still conscious was alone, and she didn't know what her husband's haggard face looked like.

At this moment, Xie Qi was almost jealous of the person whom his wife deeply loved, even if that person was also his doted daughter.

The loss of a common child is a huge, unimaginably huge blow for a couple, and this blow can almost destroy one or more families.

As a man in his fifties before the end of the world, Xie Qi was usually well-maintained, with a handsome face, black hair, and a strong body. When he was middle-aged, he was not as prosperous as other middle-aged men, and he was originally calm. Elegant temperament, like a personable Confucian businessman.

But now Xie Qi's hair is all gray, his body is thin, his face is wrinkled, his face is full of vicissitudes and fatigue, the back that was straight before is still straight now, but there is a faint trace of bending.

He dragged his tired body, walked slowly to the bed, stretched out his hand and slowly hugged the slender figure curled up above, buried his head in the neck of the man inside, and closed his eyes to rest.

"We... we'll never see Xiao Yun again, will we?" a weak female voice asked softly from the quilt.

Xie Qi's body froze. This is usually a prelude to his wife's illness. He thought that his wife was about to fall into his fantasy again, so he quickly got up and was thinking about how to comfort her, but he heard her continue to say slowly: "The rat tide is coming, and we... can't live to see Xiaoyun come to us, right?"

Zhan Jiajie's voice had a faint hoarseness in her voice, and her tone was very calm, which was completely different from the way she used to start screaming frantically every time she thought of her daughter.

At this moment, Xie Qi's body is even harder than before, such orderly and logical words actually came out of his wife's mouth again!

Zhan Jiajie is... regaining her sanity! ! !