“Wait!” Someone shouted: “There’s a person! Someone on the mountain!
“
Several flashlights simultaneously swept towards him, the strong light causing Sinan to instinctively cover his eyes, losing his balance and slipping.
He had truly reached the end of his strength, rolling down the mountain path in the dark, hitting countless sharp stones. Exhaustion and intense pain blurred his consciousness. The last image before falling into darkness was the village engulfed in flames, with several soldiers rushing over and helping him up from the ground.
“In the mountains, quickly go…” Sinan, his face covered in blood, grabbed a soldier and gasped: “The crashed plane’s valley… antibodies…”
The soldier shouted: “He’s injured! Colonel!”
“Call the medics!” Tang Hao, holding a weapon, charged towards the firelight, shooting down several zombies dragging their feet, and yelled without turning back: “Quickly, quick, swift action, move!”
“Go to the mountains… antibodies…”
The noise drowned out Sinan’s voice, and the surrounding figures became increasingly blurry.
He struggled to stay conscious, but his eyelids grew heavier, finally falling into a long darkness.
·
The emergency room door burst open with a bang, and the doctor’s voice changed pitch: “Colonel Zhou! Where is Colonel Zhou?!”
Everyone’s face turned pale. Zhou Rong suddenly looked up, seeing the doctor’s ashen expression: “Quickly, Dr. Ning is calling you to come immediately!
In an instant, Zhou Rong’s blood ran cold, his ears buzzing, unable to hear what else the doctor was saying. He rushed into the emergency room, seeing Ning Yu stand up from beside the operating table, his expression stern behind gold-rimmed glasses, simply saying four words:
“He’s waiting for you.”
Zhou Rong’s mind went blank. Trembling, he half-knelt beside Sinan.
“Freezer…”
Sinan’s low, hoarse voice sounded. Zhou Rong choked: “Huh?”
“Freezer in the valley…” Sinan paused, gathering strength to speak: “In… the crashed plane’s… valley…”
Zhou Rong: “?!”
“Great! I knew I heard it right!” Ning Yu suddenly exhaled in relief, looking pleased: “Listen, he’s saying the antibody sample fell into the valley of the crashed plane, right?”
Zhou Rong: “…”
Sinan gently pulled Zhou Rong’s index finger, a slight smile at the corner of his mouth, then closed his eyes and relaxed into sleep.
“Hey! Sinan!” Zhou Rong hadn’t even had time to roar when the well-trained medical staff swarmed in, pushing him away from the operating table.
Ning Yu stood at the emergency room door, arms crossed, looking Zhou Rong up and down: “What happened, Colonel Zhou? Seen a ghost?”
“…You didn’t call me to hear his last words?!”
“What last words?” Ning Yu looked confused: “Just a concussion.”
Sinan recovered his memory and wanted to tell you something. What are you thinking?”
Zhou Rong, still in shock, felt weak in the legs, a sudden surge of indignation rising from his heart.
“Hahaha—” Ning Yu finally understood what happened, laughed three times to the sky, then turned serious: “Watched too many Korean dramas, Colonel? Thinking this is a blue life and death romance?”
Three days later, the neurologist’s examination results were confirmed.
After the crash, Sinan was infected with the zombie virus and then fell down the slope. High fever and head trauma caused temporary memory loss. After meeting the 118th Sixth Squadron, his memories began to piece together like a puzzle, with the final and most crucial piece emerging after being hit hard on the back of the head by an A-country female Alpha.
The superiors quickly found Colonel Tang Hao, and combining the Ninth Rescue Battalion’s route, they confirmed the location where Sinan was found – a mountain village at the intersection of H Province and T City.
If Sinan hadn’t been delirious with fever at the time, or if the soldiers had understood what he said before fainting, and if Tang Hao had immediately searched the mountain area, they might have found the antibodies at the beginning of the disaster, and countless tragedies would have developed differently.
It was too late now, but fortunately, the result was not irretrievable.
The cafeteria was bustling at noon. Sinan, carrying an overflowing meal tray, squeezed out from the crowd and sat at an empty four-person table in the corner, staring dissatisfied at the sweet and sour pork in his bowl.
Three pieces.
Military meal discipline was strict – three pieces of meat per person, no more.
However, being an Omega had its advantages – although the server’s expression was serious, his hand miraculously scooped out three particularly large pieces, slightly alleviating Sinan’s bitterness and indignation of “I risked my life to deliver vaccines, and I can’t even get enough pork ribs.”
“Ahem!”
Sinan looked up to see Colonel Tang Hao standing opposite with a bowl, symbolically pointing to an empty seat: “Is this seat taken?”
“Ahem!” Sinan looked up to see Colonel Tang Hao standing opposite with a bowl, symbolically pointing to an empty seat: “Is this seat taken?”
“Yes.”
Tang Hao was helpless, turning to the side of the square table, and before he could pull out the chair, he heard Sinan coldly say: “Chun Cao.”
Tang Hao was unconvinced and turned to another side, Sinan said: “Ding Shi.”
This was simply a one-person show, and Tang Hao simply stood by the table and didn’t sit down: “I want to find you…”
“Guo Weixiang,” Sinan said.
Tang Hao: “…”
“The position you’re standing in is Guo Weixiang’s.”
Tang Hao’s expression was wonderful, and after a long time, he twitched the corner of his mouth and said: “Young Master Guo’s status in your team is really low…”
Some people like to save their favorite food for last, Si Nan was obviously the opposite type. Tang Hao watched him patiently gnaw the bones clean and suddenly had a flash of inspiration, scooping up his own ribs and handing them to him: “Want more?”
Si Nan: “?”
“I hate pork ribs,” Tang Hao said sincerely, “especially hate them.”
So Si Nan pulled all of Tang Hao’s untouched sweet and sour pork ribs towards himself. Although he showed no emotion, it was obviously visible from his overall aura that he was extremely delighted:
“Now you can stand and talk.”
Tang Hao finally breathed a sigh of relief.
“The military has initially confirmed your landing location after the crash, but the entire mountain valley is very large. Just relying on the blood-stained clothes hanging on the tree cannot precisely locate it. So the superiors plan to send a thirty-person search team, with me as the team leader, to thoroughly search the entire mountain area including nearby water systems.”
Tang Hao swallowed and said: “Including all members of the original 118th Battalion’s 6th Squadron… except Zhou Rong.”
Si Nan narrowed his eyes: “What does this mean, Yan Hao and the others are now under your command?
The search team’s composition is only temporary, and future arrangements are not yet settled. But if everything goes smoothly, they have a high likelihood of being assigned to the Ninth Rescue Brigade.
Tang Hao stared at Si Nan. From a high angle, he couldn’t see the Omega’s expression, only his dark and smooth hair, and the snow-white index finger tapping rhythmically on the edge of the lunch box.
Tang Hao suddenly recalled what Rommel had told the military about how this mixed-race young instructor had brutally killed several Alphas in the cafeteria, and a sense of absurdity suddenly arose.
“I understand,” he suddenly heard the Omega say in a low voice, “I wish you a safe return.”
Tang Hao had expected a more intense reaction, at least some form of disagreement. He had even prepared a well-reasoned and composed speech in anticipation of a strong protest.
