Shen Shian caught the child under his arm and came across Zhou Jianghai when he walked to the door of the dormitory building. The dark-skinned and thin man named Ma Zhongyi was beside him. His face no longer had the guarded expression  when he entered the base yesterday. Looking at Zhou Jianghai, his eyes were full of trust, and he whispered something while walking.

Seeing Shen Shian, Zhou Jianghai smiled and raised his hand to say hello. “Brother Yun, you are back, I just have something..”

“Brother Yun, don’t go so fast and wait for me…” Liu Fangzhou catched up from behind. When he saw Zhou Jianghai, his eyes lit up and he immediately reached out to greet him. “You are here, doctor! I have been looking for you all day!”

Zhou Jianghai, who was originally going to Shen Shian, changed his face, stopped and hurriedly turned around. “…I just have some things to deal with, Brother Yun, you are busy, I’ll leave first.” He hurriedly moved away and it seemed as if he was fleeing.

Liu Fangzhou sighed with regret, “Ah..”

Shen Shian looked suspiciously between the two, and the child under his arm kicked his leg, struggling to raise his neck to look at him. “An An..”

“Don’t move,” Shen Shian quickly calmed him down and patted him on the buttocks. “Tell me the truth.” It wasn’t clear what was going on yet.

They went back to the dormitory and he put the child down. He ordered him to stand against the wall and asked, “Stand upright and say, from who did you learn to smoke?”

Shen Xun raised his hand and pointed to Liu Fangzhou who had just entered the door. “Him.”

Liu Fangzhou’s face was pale, and his legs were soft under Shen Shian’s stare. He quickly raised his hands and said, “I’m telling the truth! I didn’t! Brother Shen, I don’t even smoke!”

Liu Fangzhou could only tell the truth to him. Shen Shian frowned, and looked coldly at the child’s eyes. “Not only did you learn to smoke, but you also learned to lie?”

This was the first time Shen Xun was treated this way by Shen Shian, and he was a little scared and aggrieved. “I didn’t lie, I asked him ‘How to smoke’, he replied, ‘I don’t know, just light it up with a lighter and suck it,’ Then I learned!” He dares to challenge his relationship with An An, this sin is unforgivable! The dark green eyes were murderous, and it was like he roared the words into Liu Fangzhou with two rows of gleaming cold fangs.

Liu Fangzhou shook like chaff sieving, and he thumped down on the stool.

Shen Shian was furious, “So you are self-taught?”

Self-taught? This sounds like a good word. Shen Xun raised his chest, “En!”

Shen Shian laughed angrily. The frowns on his temple were obvious and he ordered the child to turn around. “Stand up straight, you are not allowed to talk without permission, just reflect on what you did wrong.”

Shen Xun was deflated. He grievously turned and stared at the wall fiercely.

The door of the room was knocked twice, and then Chen Nan turned the handle to push the door in. He carried a huge mountaineering bag on his left and right shoulders, which was packed full. Liu Fangzhou went up and picked up one. “This is the material you and Brother Shen got? It’s so f*cking heavy!”

“Well, it’s all food.” Chen Nan put the bag down and said to Shen Shian, “Captain Luo wanted to double it, but I said I didn’t want it.”

Shen Shian nodded. They are not short on supplies, and it was enough to ensure their needs in the base. If they took too much, it would attract unnecessary attention.

Chen Nan unscrewed a bottle of water and took a few sips. As soon as he turned around, he saw Shen Xun who was thinking deeply while facing the wall. He wanted to laugh, but he resisted in time. “Cough, this is a reflection on his mistake.”

The dog angrily scratched the wall and the gray cement dust plummeted straight down. Shen Shian ignored him, but Liu Fangzhou remembered one thing. “Oh, just when he was at the gate, brother Shen yelled out the real name of brother Xun when he was angry, so are we exposed?”

“I’m afraid it was exposed before then.” Chen Nan smiled bitterly, full of guilt and annoyance. “I accidentally shouted ‘Brother Shen’ when I was collecting supplies, the soldiers have probably guessed that ‘Yun Feiyang’ is a fake name, sorry brother Shen.”

Shen Shian shook his head, “I don’t blame you. At that time, the situation was urgent, and if I were you I would have called out the real name too. Don’t worry, there should be no problem with Captain Luo.” The other party didn’t ask in detail, and his expression was not abnormal. No matter what thoughts rise in his heart, there was no way he would deal directly with him. Even if he did, he could fight about 200 people.

“Urgent situation? Did an accident occur when you were collecting supplies? I heard the soldiers saying something dangerous, but I don’t understand anything without a head and a tail. Hurry and tell me!” Liu Fangzhou moved his stool and even the dog spirit standing at the corner of the wall raised his ears.

So Chen Nan repeated the whole search operation from beginning to end. When it came to the large-scale collapse of the surface and buildings, Liu Fangzhou screamed in his heart and said, “What the hell?! So thrilling!”

Chen Nan nodded, still feeling palpitated. “The ground collapsed too fast, and the zombies were in every direction. If there were no brother Shen and Captain Luo, they wouldn’t be able to run out in time and the five trucks would have fallen into the pit.” There were only two ends for them: either being killed by zombies or buried alive by cement blocks.

Shen Xun turned his head anxiously, “An An, are you hurt?”

“Turn your head back, and you are not allowed to speak.” Shen Shian paused after speaking, and softened his voice by two points. “I was not injured.”

After listening to Chen Nan’s description, Liu Fangzhou was shocked with cold sweat. At the end, they were fortunate. “Fortunately, the materials were already loaded on the car when the buildings fell, and the five big trucks reached the base. Will there be a time the food runs out?”

Shen Shian shook his head, a little dignified. “Not as optimistic as you think.” The unfinished subway line ran through half of Qujiang City. The most conservative estimate was that the area affected by the subsidence would not be less than the total area of ​​the urban area. One quarter. The biggest problem for the base was not only the collapse of roads and buildings but the resulting road damage and the number of zombies that have gathered. I am afraid that for quite a long time, the search operation could not be carried out normally. Without additional sources of material, how long can the five trucks alone support?

But these are not the only issues that the garrisons have to worry about now. Shen Shian looked at Liu Fangzhou, “I asked you to inquire about the news, how is the inquiry going?”

Liu Fangzhou immediately nodded, “I heard a lot! First of all, almost all the survivors in this base were rescued from the Qujiang City by the garrison. Only a very small part escaped from other places, or just like us. The relationship between the survivors and the garrison seems to be very stiff, about half a month ago, there was a riot at the base——the survivors called it an uprising, probably because they felt that their work was getting less and less paid, they were hungry every day and couldn’t eat enough, so they robbed food in the cafeteria and injured two soldiers.”

No wonder they saw a soldier in the cafeteria holding a gun to deter yesterday. Shen Shian asked, “The result?”

“The dozen or so people who took the lead in the troubles were kicked out, the doctor came forward to heal the soldier’s wounds, and the two sides reached a settlement.” Liu Fangzhou said and he was somewhat indignant. “No matter how I look at it, the soldiers took the risk to save them, they gave them a place to live and arrange work for them to ensure that they won’t starve to death. Why are they so ungrateful? What’s going on? What Chen Nan said was right. If they think they haven’t had enough food, then go out and search for some, nobody would prevent you. They have the courage to hit the soldiers, but they don’t have the courage to fight zombies!”

Chen Nan was blocked by Zhou Jianghai’s remarks last night, and at this time he reacted. “The old, weak women, and children can’t kill zombies, but what about the more than 3,000 survivors? Are all of them old, weak women, and children? They are afraid of death and want to live safely, but isn’t other people’s life not life?” As soon as he remembered that everyone was almost dead when they were collecting materials today, he became more and more angry. “The survivors in this base are too bad, it’s ridiculous.”

After the other two finished venting, he continued to ask Liu Fangzhou, “Is there any other news?”

“There is, there is about that note.” Liu Fangzhou leaned over and lowered his voice, “I haven’t found out who put the note, but there are rumors among the survivors at the base that soldiers will take the evolvers to do experiments. It is said that there were two people other than the doctor who had an ability in the base, but the two people were inexplicably missing when collecting materials, and a few days later someone saw the soldiers sneaking two body bags back, and they contained the bodies of the two evolvers. The body was full of knife wounds or something, and was particularly scary.”

Shen Shian silently asked the two, “Do you think it is true or false?”

“I think it’s fake!” Chen Nan said immediately. He now has a much better opinion and trust in the garrison than the survivors. “Captain Luo, they can’t do this kind of thing.”

Liu Fangzhou’s analysis was more organized, “This rumor sounds frightening. In fact, there are a lot of loopholes: If I were in the garrison, let’s say we really experimented with the evolvers. We would dissect them out of the base to see what is different from others and bring them back to the base. There are so many zombies in the urban area, where can they dissect them without being noticed? As for seeing stab wounds on the corpse, it’s even more ridiculous. Not only did they brought back the bodies but they didn’t cover the bodies? No matter how I see it, it’s an obvious lie.”

To pile errors on top of errors. Shen Shian rolled these four characters(it’s 4 characters in chinese) at the tip of his tongue several times. Without that note, he might indeed believe that the whole thing was a misunderstanding that spread more and more wrong from beginning to end. However, when the newcomers were specifically in the isolation zone, when they knew nothing about the base and were most attentive, it was probably not a “misunderstanding”. They would feel the mistrust between the survivors and the garrison.

He tapped his finger on the table twice, and then stood up. “Chen Nan hasn’t eaten yet. Let’s eat something and rest for a while.”

Chen Nan immediately asked, “What about you, brother Shen?”

Shen Shian held the dog under his arm again. “I’ll educate the child.”

Putting the child down on the top floor platform, Shen Shian sat on a cement brick and stared at him. “Speak, why do you smoke?”

When he saw Shen Xun smoking a cigarette outside his mouth at the beginning, Shen Shian was indeed very angry, and he almost couldn’t help but want to make him kneel on his knee. However, the Shen family tutor never advocated the use of corporal punishment to educate children. This method was the simplest, most rude and stupid. It not only wouldn’t solve any problems, but also easily left children with psychological shadows.

What’s more, Shen Xun was different from other children. He had become a human in less than half a year. He was already good enough for a “baby” under half a year old, and he can’t be blamed for the requirements of ordinary children.

Thinking of this, Shen Shian looked at his eyes and asked again softly, “Tell me, why smoke?”

Since he became a human, this was the first time he was taught by Shen Shian, and he felt really wronged. He was the most sensitive to Shen Shian’s emotions, but at this time he noticed the softening of his voice, and immediately stuck in his arms. “I saw someone biting this and asked them what it was, and they said it is something real men smoke, children can’t touch. An An, I’m not a child.”

He is already three hundred years old, those stupid humans!

Shen Shian couldn’t help but want to laugh, “So you smoke to prove that you are a man?”

“En.” The little milky voice sounded softly in his ear.

Shen Shian raised his hand to hug him and looked down at his eyes. “Then I never smoke, do you think I am not a man?”

“No!” The dog said loudly, “An An is a man! A particularly powerful man!”

“So you see, smoking does not prove anything.” Shen Shian hugged him in his lap, “Smoking is bad for your health, your body will be hurt a little every time you smoke a cigarette. I don’t want to, and I will never stop you from smoking, but you are too young to understand what these injuries mean, so I have a responsibility to protect you from harm before you fully understand. When you fully understand, if you feel like smoking and are willing to bear those injuries, it is your freedom to smoke or not.”

“Then when will I understand?”

“…When I say you understand.”

“Oh.” The dog responded obediently. He raised his hand around Shen Shian’s neck and leaned in to take a hard breath, “An An, I won’t make you angry in the future.”

“Really?”

“A man among men, a promise must be kept!”

Fine. Shen Shian smiled in his eyes and kissed the ‘man’ on his forehead, “Good.”

Hehe. The man rubbed against him like a koala, softly voiced coquettishly, “Kiss my face too.”

The next day, Shen Shian and Chen Nan followed the search team to the city again. The collapse has completely stopped, but the damage caused was more serious than he had imagined. Large buildings collapsed into ruins, countless zombies gathered, and the road leading directly from the base to the city was blocked. Even after being able to detour from the outer ring road, after such a disaster, how much materials were left?

The increasingly severe survival situation put a huge rock on everyone’s mind. “F*ck,” someone cursed, “Unfortunately, we only cleared the mall yesterday, and there are still more than half of the supermarkets that have no time to be collected.”

Luo Wei looked dignified, he looked back and forth several times with his binoculars, and jumped off the truck roof after adjusting his expression. “Okay, don’t rush to be frustrated. Maybe the zombies are all brought to one place, and it will be easier to search elsewhere. We would search slowly. It was a hard day yesterday, and today we have a half day off for everyone, so go back and rest!”

Everyone returned the same way, and the truck entered the base gate and stopped on the square. Shen Shian jumped down from the car. Niu Quan, who was in charge of the canteen today, ran to him and shouted, “Mr. Yun! Your child is arguing with people in the cafeteria!”