Resonance, Collapse, Out-of-The-Sky Telecommunications.

In the evening, before the men rested, it was customary to have one sentry in the open and two in the dark, with a change of men every three hours.

Without waiting for Sun Yan to organize the shifts, Chi Xiaochi said, "From eleven to two o'clock, Lanlan will be on the open post, and me and Lieutenant Gu will be on the concealed post."

Gu Xinzhi, who was in the process of packing up the barbecue grill, gave a start and accelerated the packing action, lapped up all kinds of utensils, and then hurried out quickly.

The team looked at each other.

They couldn't get a pulse on Gu Xinzhi.

Having been acquainted with them for so long, Gu Xinzhi has always stayed away from them, with only one Ding Qiuyun in his eyes and heart.

The team had gotten used to it over time, but they couldn't help but feel a chill down their spine when they heard him say things like killing Neo-humans as if it were nothing.

Gu Xinzhi, however, could not understand the feelings of his teammates.

To be precise, the lack of empathy did not allow him to feel the stagnation of the atmosphere in that moment.

In his opinion, he had only made a feasible suggestion for Ding Qiuyun's reference, and since Ding Qiuyun was not happy, he would just pretend that he had not said anything.

The supermarket is only two floors high, and Ding Qiuyun and Gu Xinzhi are working together from a high point on the roof.

It's a cold night, and Ding Qiuyun wears a long scarf, while his boss lies at his feet, warming his feet, the soft fur pressing against his ankles, a natural heater.

He holds a baked sweet potato and shares it with the owner.

A little for him, a lot for the boss.

The leopard rubbed his ankle like a big cat and purred softly, "Ow."

Chi Xiaochi communicates with it in a gentle voice, as if she really understands it, "Yummy, sweet, isn't it?"

The sweet potatoes are really sweet, and the flesh inside has been roasted so that most of it has turned into a sugary sauce, so Chi Xiaochi eats them with great care, both to prevent burning and spilling.

The boss has no such qualms and swallows the sweet potato while it cools down a bit, spending the rest of the time watching Chi Xiaochi eat it and cleaning it off his runny fingers.

Chi Xiaochi moved her ankle and showed off to 061, "Look, Mr. Six. My automatic water warming bag."

He reached out his hand again and let it lick his tiger's mouth, "...... automatic hand sanitizer."

With that, he shoved his hand in the leopard's fur again, "Automatic dryer."

The ...... words are full of pride in the versatile owner of his house.

061 let out a laugh, cautiously covering Chi Xiaochi's somewhat cool hand, his smiling voice quiet and low in the darkness, "Mmm. That's nice."

Coal bosses and Ding Qiuyun play well together, Gu Xinzhi has long known.

At first, he hated the leopard, but he didn't even dare to show his "disgust" or "jealousy".

Because he couldn't afford to risk losing Ding Qiuyun for a single moment.

Ding Qiuyun spoiled it so much that he could only try to appreciate it himself in order to make himself feel better.

After a long period of self-hypnosis, Gu Xinzhi reluctantly fell in love with the leopard.

At least it can protect Qiuyun and be a shield for Qiuyun.

But you are different, you are Qiuyun's gun, the unique one.

The crowd went to bed.

The open post was set up at the front entrance of the supermarket, branches burning and beeping underneath, and Yan Lanlan sat by the fire taking rough branches to compact and gather stones around it, the silver bells on her wrists making a fine tinkling sound as she did so.

Gu Xinzhi asked Ding Qiuyun softly, "You called me up, what's the matter?"

Ding Qiuyun specially named him to guard the dark post with him, and he guessed that Ding Qiuyun had something to tell him.

As expected, Ding Qiuyun, who was pulling his boss's two front paws to play pairs, turned his back to him and said, "Uh-huh. It's that national-level weapon thing we were talking about earlier."

Gu Xinzhi did not speak again, his expression unchanged, but his fingers tightened the corner of his coat somewhat nervously.

He waited in silence for Ding Qiuyun to cross-examine him.

Ding Qiuyun's tone was still the same coldness he was used to hearing, "At that time, I told you not to go on because I knew what you would say next. Do you hate new humans that much?"

Gu Xinzhi frowned incomprehensibly, "The new humans are not like us. They are another species."

Chi Xiaochi asked directly and rhetorically, "What if one day I get cancer too."

Gu Xinzhi froze for a few seconds, then wrinkled his brow deeply and his tone hardened coldly, "You won't."

"'If'."

"There's no such thing as if."

Ding Qiuyun turned a deaf ear to his stubborn retort and said to himself, "Then I will also become a new human, becoming what you call 'another species'."

Since Gu Xinzhi doesn't know what empathy is, he can only take the example of Ding Qiuyun, the only person with whom he can establish an emotional connection, to make it easier for him to understand.

Sure enough, Gu Xinzhi no longer speaks.

He wondered what Ding Qiuyun would be like after becoming a new human, and unexpectedly realized that as long as that person was Ding Qiuyun, it wasn't that hard to accept.

Gu Xinzhi was slightly surprised by this discovery.

Ding Qiuyun seemed to be very good at catching the moments when his defenses were shaken, "When the time comes, you'll kill me because I'm a new human?"

Gu Xinzhi can't stand the words, "No way!"

...... One strike and you're out.

Ding Qiuyun changed his tone again, this time much softer, but every word was oppressive: "Old humans like us, we can't tell if we'll become new humans one day. I might be one of the people you blow up when you fire your cannon."

Gu Xinzhi's heart was pumping.

"But." Ding Qiuyun said, "That offer of yours wasn't so bad."

In Ding Qiuyun's past life, apart from the fact that he ran into Gu Xinzhi, who was a pit bull, he suffered from a shortage of weapons and outdated equipment.

Chi Xiaochi knew all too well what was missing in his heart, so she had always wanted to make it up to him.

Chi Xiaochi initially robbed the armory, and in later years entered a number of military sites and took many weapons, creating an impenetrable ring of fire for his town.

But he was not satisfied.

Both Ding Qiuyun and Chi Xiaochi know only too well that to survive in the post-apocalyptic world, a brief moment of peace traded for consumables can never be called true peace.

As a result, Chi Xiaochi has been eyeing national-level arsenals from a very early stage.

When the disaster struck, those working in the relevant sectors immediately realized that something was wrong and coincidentally destroyed all weapons connections to the network on a physical level, including the internal military network.

This had to be a wise move. With one destruction, all the highly sophisticated weapons have been turned into iron lumps waiting to rust in a parked warehouse.

But they are, after all, extremely important and valuable weapons that must be fought for.

Most of the old humans are only concerned with running for their lives and finding food and water to sustain them, and they also have to watch out for attacks by evolved plants and animals, so they are barely alive. Most of the new humans have families of their own. Some of them do not want to trust the AI anymore and choose to run away; others choose to work for the AI in order to protect their families.

The AI, naturally, wants to grab these weapons and literally strangle the back of the neck skin of humanity's destiny, only to be managed to repel them at every turn by those in charge of guarding the arsenal.

These soldiers had responsibilities on the one hand, and on the other hand, they wanted to guard their weapons and have something solid to lean on, so they naturally bowed to their duties.

Before he met Gu Xinzhi, Chi Xiaochi had been in contact with the men who guarded the arsenal.

All of them were old humans who needed to maintain the most basic of lives, so there were also special supply-gathering teams organized to go out and collect food.

The AI, on the other hand, wanted to cut off their source of supplies, telling them to freeze and starve to death and collapse without a fight, so their supply trucks were often the main target of the neo-humans under the AI's command, and every trip was a real, hard-fought battle.

On one occasion, Chi Xiaochi took a couple of his strongest team members on a nearly half-month-long trek to the nearest military general base.

He crouched by the side of the road and acted as the yellow bird after the cicada and mantis, waiting for the soldiers to help them repel the incoming Neo-humans, collect their weapons, and give some free supplies to the soldiers.

Chi Xiaochi did the same thing at least three times, all for the reason of "passing through", and gained a lot from the new people.

061 had made fun of him, saying that it wasn't enough for him to just give away the snow, he had to touch away two pieces from the charcoal pot.

That being said, the snow is always more impressive than the icing on the cake.

Chi Xiaochi was sure that after these three deliveries, he had already made a positive and trustworthy impression on the commanders of that base.

After so much time had passed, and the Watchers were pretty much consumed within themselves by hunger, cold, battle damage and sickness, it was time to seek the avenue of working with people.

And Chi Xiaochi is waiting for just such an opportunity.

The establishment and consolidation of the town really consumes and occupies too much of his efforts, he also did not want to reveal his intentions too early, so he has been hidden, I did not expect Gu Xinzhi to hit the nail on the head, and he thought of the same thing.

But that's not surprising.

When Ding Qiuyun first fell in love with Gu Xinzhi, it wasn't because he was once in love with him and had the same intentions.

It is only that Ding Qiuyun was too gullible to realize the unbridgeable gap between him and Gu Xinzhi.

Gu Xinzhi froze for a long time before he realized what the person in front of him meant: "You ...... think I am right?"

"The first half of the sentence is still human." Ding Qiuyun shrugged, "The second half, I can tell by my heels that you can't spit out any ivory."

Gu Xinzhi pursed his lips and smiled.

There was an extremely deadly sense of cool juvenility about him, and his smile even carried a hint of innocence that called to one's heart, only Ding Qiuyun did not set his eyes on him, taking out the small wine jug from his bosom, unscrewing the lid, and taking a sip of the wine to warm up his body.

Ding Qiuyun said plainly, "I do have important people to protect, and I cannot expose them to danger. But I know clearly that the thing that can truly guard peace is not kindness, not human kindness, but fear. So I want weapons, overwhelming force, everything. We do not initiate massacres, but we must be the strongest."

Gu Xinzhi stared steadily at Ding Qiuyun, not saying a word, his gaze was full of infatuation.

Although he could not understand what kind of grand ambition it was, since it was Ding Qiuyun's wish, it must be important.

He naturally volunteered, "Leave this to me, will you?"

Ding Qiuyun looked at him, "Tell me more. I'll think about it."

The atmosphere between the two was rare and harmonious, one smoked, the other drank, and although they remained silent, there was no argument or confrontation, which filled Gu Xinzhi with joy and made him secretly look at Ding Qiuyun.

Ding Qiuyun seemed to notice the presence of his gaze and tilted his head to look at him, while Gu Xinzhi quickly averted his eyes and nervously stroked the threads on his sleeves, his face unchanged and his heart beating wildly.

He wanted to say something to Ding Qiuyun, but he was afraid that he would say something wrong and ruin such a good atmosphere.

After a long time, he mustered up enough courage and said, "Team Ding, go to sleep."

Ding Qiuyun took a deep breath of the cold air of the late night, and his tone had returned to a nonchalant, flirtatious accent, "Lieutenant Gu, we're a secret sentry. There's no such thing as a sentry sleeping."

Gu Xinzhi likes Ding Qiuyun to call him that: "Team Ding--"

Before the words fell, the black panther that had been peacefully coiled at Ding Qiuyun's feet abruptly lit up its half-squinted gray-blue eyes, let out a dull low growl, and ran straight away from Ding Qiuyun's side, down the stairs, and disappeared in a few seconds.

At the same time, 061 sunk his voice and spoke, "Xiaochi, there's a situation."

With two years of independent combat experience, the already sharp Gu Xinzhi's reflexes were no different from a wild animal's, and he immediately rolled over and showed his head from cover when his boss gave the warning, and with just one glance, his face suddenly changed--

A dozen fluorescent green moving points of light surrounded the campfire in silence and speed.

...... hyenas.

Packs of hyenas.

What's worse, Yan Lanlan, who was the open sentry, probably too warm from the fire, plus thinking that there were still two reliable secret sentries that he could rely on, even fell asleep with his head hanging down.

Chi Xiaochi also saw this scene, his spirit instantly tightened, reaching out to touch the gun at the same time has calculated several possibilities, between the flashes of lightning, the heart even more cold a few points.

Those hyenas should be hungry, or they wouldn't have chosen a place with a panther inhabiting it to risk hunting.

They were already too close to Yan Lanlan, and there was no guarantee that a ricochet would not injure him if he fired, and even less guarantee that they would not, at the sound of the gunshot, launch a rapid attack that would quickly slit Yan Lanlan's throat.

The unity of a hyena acting as a team should never be underestimated.

What's worse, these hyenas, evoke memories of Ding Qiuyun's extremely bad behavior in the brain.

...... A bloodstained hand, wearing a silver bell, reached out in desperation from the hyena's tearing, as if to grasp something, but failed to grasp anything.

The extreme tension instantly triggered a severe migraine, Chi Xiaochi gritted his teeth and pointed the open safety downward: "Mr. Six, help me aim ......"

However, before 061 could make a reply, the person beside him silently braced himself on the edge of the rooftop with one hand and leapt down!

The falling air rushed back into Chi Xiaochi's face, causing him to freeze, his finger to freeze on the trigger, and his body to shake uncontrollably.

061: "...... Xiaochi?"

The hyenas' sneak attack plan is completely shattered by a Gu Xinzhi who falls from the sky.

Gu Xinzhi had no intention of making a sound of intimidation, and silently drew the dagger at his waist, lifting his wrist and nailing the head of a hyena straight through!

The ear-piercing sound of air-breaking and the spattering of blood and flesh made Yan Lanlan wake up, and in her daze, she saw a light green fluorescent light in front of her eyes, and the alarm bells rang loudly in her heart. Without much doubt or hesitation, she immediately copied two sticks from the nearby fire, waving them around with the intention of driving them away, and quickly judging which way to choose to break out of the enclosure.

Unwilling to let go of their prey, two of the hyenas took advantage of Yan Lanlan turning halfway over his shoulder to leap up from different directions and bite at Yan Lanlan's throat and arms!

One of them had just jumped when a cold shot from the second floor blew its head off.

But he could no longer stop the other one.

It lit up its snow-white, drool-dripping fangs and took a vicious bite at her little arm!

That bite, however, landed on an iron pipe.

At the same time as the numbing sound of teeth breaking, Gu Xinzhi swung the steel pipe in his hand and made a beautiful half-circle in mid-air, slamming the hyena's body to the ground.

Because of the excessive force, the steel pipe broke in half from it.

Gu Xinzhi, quick as a flash, grabbed the half of the steel pipe that was about to go flying across the room, pulled a flower in his hand, turned the broken tip downward, poked the pipe into the upturned belly of the iguana, and with one hand pinched the neck of the iguana, cut it downward, and directly opened its mouth.

Blood splattered the corner of his lips.

Two more shots were fired upstairs, killing one and wounding another, while the ghastly howl of the dying hyena, which had been gutted moments before, succeeded in frightening the few surviving hyenas into flight.

Gu Xinzhi stood up, wiped the blood from the corners of his lips with the back of his hand, twisted the bloodstained iron pipe with his shirt, and, without bothering about Yan Lanlan, who was dumbfounded by the afterthought, looked up at the top floor.

Ding Qiuyun is no longer there.

The sound of gunshots woke up the team, who had been sleeping peacefully in the supermarket, and as they rushed out of the supermarket, Yan Lanlan stood at a loss for words, carrying the still-burning branch.

Ding Qiuyun walked out of the supermarket with his sniper rifle inverted, "Yan Lanlan, let me ask you, what's an open post?"

Yan Lanlan blanches, "I ......"

Ding Qiuyun threw the gun into her arms and shouted, "Who let you sleep? Don't you want to die?

Yan Lanlan had just experienced a line between life and death, his back was sweating furiously, and then when he was agitated by the cold wind, goosebumps rose one after another, "Team Ding, I'm sorry ......"

"Sorry for what? Who are you sorry for?" Ding Qiuyun kicked the fire and sent sparks flying, "What you're sorry for is yourself!"

Yan Lanlan is frightened by the furious Ding Qiuyun, but he knows that he has made too many mistakes, so he can only bow his head and be lectured.

Sun Yan and the others had never seen Ding Qiuyun get so angry, so they all came up to make amends: "Team Ding, Team Ding, calm down."

"Lanlan, she's too young to know better, don't be angry."

"Lanlan, get over here and put in a good word for Team Ding."

Gu Xinzhi was a bit distressed by Ding Qiuyun and took the initiative to come over to him, "Qiuyun ......"

Without saying a word, Ding Qiuyun shook his hand and slapped him.

Gu Xinzhi was directly struck dumb and raised his eyes to look at Ding Qiuyun in surprise.

"See what? It's you who are fighting!" He heard a slight tremor in Ding Qiuyun's voice, "Why are you jumping down? Do you want to die? Are you too young? Do you think you're capable?"

With that, he pushed away the crowd that was blocking him and turned around to return to the supermarket, taking a few steps up the stairs and locking the door on the roof straight away.

Everyone could see that Ding Qiuyun was angry.

Who's going to sleep after this mess.

Yan Lanlan, who didn't cry when she was attacked by the hyenas, now cried in terror, sobbing and tapping on the door to the roof of the building to apologize for her mistake, begging and pleading, but to no avail.

She doubled back with tears in her eyes and ate another chestnut from one of the men, crying even harder.

Sun Bin went to coax her, while Uncle Luo neatly packed up the iguana dog meat, intending to store it for food rations, and Sun Yan fiddled with the fire, saying to Gu Xinzhi, "Lieutenant Gu, Team Ding is just being angry with you, so don't take it personally."

Gu Xinzhi is silent.

Thinking of Ding Qiuyun just now, with his nervous and worried expression on his face, Gu Xinzhi felt very much like a good mood, so he didn't mind such a small thing.

On the top floor, isolated from the crowd, Chi Xiaochi leaned against the parapet, burying his face between his knees, his hand trembling slightly from the blow he had just given Gu Xinzhi.

061 called him softly, "Xiaochi?"

Chi Xiaochi smoothed out her hair, "Sorry, got into it too much."

061 said, "Well, I know."

He guessed what Chi Xiaochi associated with.

Chi Xiaochi had a more severe reaction to a similar scenario in an orphanage in the previous world.

...... He can't stand the idea of "people falling off buildings".

061 also knew that Chi Xiaochi's anger at Yan Lanlan was real.

But his anger at Gu Xinzhi was completely intentional.

He knew that Gu Xinzhi would misunderstand the meaning behind the slap and think that "Ding Qiuyun" cared for him, and would even be happy to do so.

So he simply took advantage of it.

Because Chi Xiaochi knew all too well that the only person he was serving was Ding Qiuyun.

Because of Gu Xinzhi's character, Chi Xiaochi, before leaving, gave Ding Qiuyun a Gu Xinzhi who was devoted to him, just to be sure.

To put it simply and roughly, even if the first thing Ding Qiuyun did after getting his body back was to kill him, then Chi Xiaochi had to make sure that the Gu Xinzhi at that time was willing to give his back to Ding Qiuyun with full trust.

The slap, however, was also an outlet for his emotions.

When he saw Gu Xinzhi jump off the building, he was really scared.

Chi Xiaochi was in a cold sweat from a panic-induced migraine.

He wrapped his coat and scarf tightly around him and whispered, "Mr. Six."

061: "Well, I am."

He squeezed a vague, soft laugh from his throat, "It's a good thing Lou can't see me like this right now."

The fact that Gu Xinzhi had just jumped off the building reminded Chi Xiaochi of the last time he had faced a similar event.

The Chi Xiaochi who cried, panicked, and pleaded on her knees for Lou Ying not to die, not to leave her behind, has become what she is now, able to take even instantaneous attacks of emotion and use them to take advantage of others, to scheme against them.

Chi Xiaochi was rarely so dominated by self-loathing, and while his hands were trembling, an athletic black shadow leapt silently from the roof of the next room in front of Chi Xiaochi.

Meanwhile, 061 says, "No. I think ...... he'd like it."

Sneaky, smart, and full of crooked ideas, Chi Xiaochi, he really likes.

Taking advantage of Chi Xiaochi's slight daze, two warm front paws rested on Chi Xiaochi's knees.

Chi Xiaochi looks up and realizes that his boss has cleaned himself up.

And the corpses of the hyenas that had just failed to sneak up on them and fled away were lined up and placed on the next roof to be frozen and air-dried.

The panther's warm forehead brushed against his, tame and soft.

And 061's clean and warm voice rang in his ears at the right time, "Okay. It's okay. Don't think so much, just hug it more if you're afraid."

In a trance, Chi Xiaochi felt as if the boss was saying "OK" to him.

He wordlessly embraced his boss, burying his face above his fur at his shoulder, thinking, Let yourself go for a moment, just a moment.

He crouched quietly, and shed no tears, but simply emptied himself fully into the warm animal body, leaning against it so that he could relax his long-worn spirit.

Panther let him lean back as well, quietly being his support.

At that moment, a tingling sensation similar to the passage of a small electric current passed through the ring finger of Chi Xiaochi's right hand, which was clasped around the Panther's waist.

Immediately after, a hint of a voice signal came from within the ring, "Mr. Chi? ...... Mr. Ik? You're in--"

It was only a moment before the signal connected, and by the time Chi Xiaochi came back to her senses, the sound and the tingling in her fingertips had disappeared together.

...... What is this? An illusion?