Two Thousand & Thirteen

Chapter 37 Mutation

    "Later, we were in Wuhan one time, in December, and we were going to a university to clear the zombies, the outside the bridge was blown up. The boss parked the car in an underground garage and asked the members to stay and help."

    Neither Liu Yan nor Meng Feng spoke, only Li Yan's voice was in the darkness.

    "I still remember that the night before that day, he climbed onto the boss's bed again and said, Brother Jie, can you kiss me. The boss kicked him off the bed and asked him to climb up to sleep. The next day he was in the team again. The communicator said: Brother Jie, please kiss me. The boss said: Don’t be fucking disgusting, when we come back and I'll beat you to death. At that time, we entered the iron beam at the bottom of the bridge, and the sound of the communicator was not right, rustling, the boss thought it was broken. Then I heard the youth kept calling 'help, help, Brother Jie, come back quickly, I am dying, I want to see you'... The boss scolded him and said, 'Get out, come again, the vaccine can't be given to you, Save it'."

    Liu Yan said: "He's dead?"

    Li Yan said: "Well, we all felt sorry for him, the youth stopped talking after being scolded, we walked for a while, the boss felt something was wrong, asked him if he was okay, he said he was fine. At that time, we happened to be surrounded by a large group of zombies, and we couldn't get out. The two sides of the bridge were full of zombies, and we had to command and dispatch in the car. The youth's voice was shaking all the time, and told us the route, and let us plant bombs separately and then reunite. At that time, I thought it was thanks to him being so calm, otherwise everyone would have died on the bridge."

    "When we came back from the mission, there was a zombie lying in the car door, and the lock on the rear door was broken." Li Yan said: "There are still a person inside, two of them were killed by the youngest. He was lying under the workbench, bleeding to death. He was bitten by zombies in several places, with a gun in his hand, on his neck, on the ground, on a chair...everywhere has blood. From that day on, boss, feels guilty."

    There was a moment of silence.

    Li Yan sighed, and then said in a hoarse voice: "The boss thinks...he killed the youngest, so he was a little mentally ill, with ups and downs. In the first few days, he talked to himself, thinking that the youngest was still alive. Put more canned food on the workbench when we eat, everyone feels bad and worrid about him."

    Meng Feng said: "The past is the past, and people have to look forward."

    Li Yan: "Well, Liu Yan, Brother Wen said that you usually look cold, but you have a warm heart, don't be as knowledgeable as the boss."

    Meng Feng said: "Seventeen years old, still a child, it's a pity..."

    Liu Yan sighed and said: "Don't talk about it, go to sleep. I have to be on duty in the second half of the night, I would rather not have heard this story."

At three o'clock in the morning, Liu Yan heard Lai Jie come in to change shifts, and Meng Feng went out for patrol, his consciousness was a little clear
but because of drowsiness gradually blurred, too lazy to open eyes.

    Lai Jie sat on the lower bunk for a while, and got up to help Li Yan pull up the quilt. The night in the mountains was still a bit cold.

    He pulled out a quilt from under the bed, folded it on Liu Yan's body and covered him, Liu Yan could almost feel Lai Jie standing by the bed, looking at himself on the upper bunk.

    The height of the bed just reached Lai Jie's chest, he stretched out his hand and touched Liu Yan's head.

    Liu Yan was sleeping on his stomach, with his side face pressed against the pillow, his sleeping face was like that of an unworldly child. Lai Jie's palm touched his short hair, which gave him a very comfortable feeling just like the day he was woken up by Zheng Feihu there is a sense of security.  At eight o'clock in the morning, all the members of the Hurricane team got up. Liu Yan touched Lai Jie's head when he got out of bed.