Zhong Ziang: “No one.”
Only after answering did he react, who the h*ll was this guy? Why did he answer him?
But there was just something about the man’s aura that made people inexplicably wary. Once he asked, action preceded thought, and the words slipped right out.
Usually, this kind of situation only happened when he was facing his old uncle at home, so why this time…
Strange!
Whether intentional or not, the man walked over and stopped beside Jiang Fuyue, looking at Zhong Ziang on the bed receiving an IV: “How’s the recovery?”
“Already completely healed! Fit as a fiddle! When can I leave this d*mn… uh place.”
“That’s not up to me. The doctor has to give the okay.”
Zhong Ziang instantly wilted: “……” If you don’t decide, why even ask?
The man shot him a glance, d*mn! That feeling of being dominated again…
He subconsciously shrank his neck.
“Why isn’t there a label on the IV bottle?” Jiang Fuyue turned and asked X.
“This batch of medication was shipped directly after leaving the factory.”
You can do it like that?
“Which company produced it…” Jiang Fuyue examined the bottle, muttering softly.
Dr. X: “Cough… Hanqing.”
Jiang Fuyue: “……” Oh, her boyfriend’s family company, then no need to nitpick.
That afternoon, after Zhong Ziang finished his last IV drip, he left the clinic in tears of joy.
“Thank heavens, if I lay there any longer I’d be useless…”
Yici said coolly, “Who told you to get heatstroke.”
Zhong Ziang: “…From now on, whoever mentions the words ‘heatstroke’ to me, I’m fighting them!”
“Oh, heatstroke heatstroke heatstroke… why aren’t you mad?”
“D*mn! Are you asking for a beating?”
“Try it? Let’s see who beats who.”
Zhong Ziang: “……” So pissed!
“Where’s Jiang Fuyue? Why didn’t she come?”
Yici shot back, “Why should she come? To hear you say ‘a night of missing you’ one more time?”
“……” D*mn it!
At this moment, Jiang Fuyue was in the lounge.
“You told me to come find you.” She looked at the masked man in front of her, enunciating each word.
Yesterday when he stopped her, he agreed to help run things through the process. Jiang Fuyue came today to ask about the result.
“Mm.” The man nodded, not denying it.
“When can we go?”
“The day after tomorrow.”
When Jiang Fuyue left, she was still a little dazed, just like that, it was settled?
Just two days. She could wait.
First, she sorted and categorized the samples already collected, stored them properly, then went outside to help at the vaccination site.
In the evening, Yici brought Zhong Ziang back, and the three of them ate dinner together.
They called it dinner, but in reality it was just three steamed buns plus a bottle of mineral water, harder to swallow than the boxed meals they’d had on the road over.
Conditions at the vaccination site were rudimentary; they couldn’t light a fire. Even if they could, everyone was exhausted day in and day out, who would still have the energy to cook?
Jiang Fuyue forced herself to swallow two buns, washed down with half a bottle of mineral water. The feeling of fullness was intense.
“There’s one bun left, who wants it?”
Yici had just said “I, ” when he watched helplessly as Zhong Ziang snatched the bun from Jiang Fuyue’s hand with his mouth.
Yes, snatched.
Head stretched over, straight to mouth.
At the end he even chuckled foolishly twice: “Hehe… yours seems more fragrant.”
Yici: “……”
Jiang Fuyue: “……” Aren’t they the same buns?
Not far away, Xie Dingyuan was holding a compressed biscuit. With a crack, it shattered.
The mineral water bottle in his other hand also inexplicably deformed.
Zhong. Zi. Ang!
He ground his teeth silently, after returning to the country…
“Achoo, ” Zhong Ziang shrank his neck. “Don’t you guys feel like it’s a bit chilly?”
Yici: “No.”
Jiang Fuyue shook her head. With this weather, this temperature, cold?
Zhong Ziang: “?” Then why did he feel a cold draft creeping up his back?
……
Seven o’clock, the sun set, and the temperature dropped sharply.
Moonlight spilled over the desolate land.
“Doctor, everything is ready.”
Xie Dingyuan gave a light “Mm,” checked the protective measures once more, and after confirming there were no issues, stepped out of the lounge. “Set off!”
“Yes.”
Jiang Fuyue was still in the cold storage with two medical staff counting vaccines when she suddenly heard engine noises outside. By the time she went out, all she could see was a cloud of yellow sand kicked up and the backs of several vehicles driving away.
What was going on?
Who was leaving so late?
And…
With so many soldiers.
Zhong Ziang and Yici also heard the commotion and ran out.
“Is there an operation? How come I didn’t know?”
“Going out on a mission this late?”
“You’re asking me? Who should I ask?”
Although Jiang Fuyue was puzzled, she didn’t think too much about it, returned to the cold storage, and continued counting.
The remaining vaccines were only enough for two more days.
More and more local Duhe residents heard there were vaccines here. Regardless of which country they came from, whether they worked or not, how high the risk was, they all came to get vaccinated.
Every morning before six, a long queue would already form outside.
During this time, aside from necessary meals and bathroom breaks, the medical staff barely rested.
“What’s going on outside? Such a big commotion,” a nurse asked.
Jiang Fuyue: “When I went out, the vehicles had already driven off. I didn’t see clearly.”
“Were they off-road vehicles or trucks?”
“Off-road.”
“Oh, then it should be Dr. X and his group.”
Jiang Fuyue raised an eyebrow. “At this hour, where are they going?”
“That I’m not sure. Earlier I saw Dr. X gathering people to count numbers, must’ve been dozens. I thought there’d be some action tomorrow, didn’t expect them to head out tonight…”
After finishing up, Jiang Fuyue returned to her room. Next door was quiet, just like usual.
He always seemed very quiet, never disturbing her.
But these temporarily built prefabricated rooms, when you turn over in bed at night, the neighbor can hear the noise. How did he manage to make no sound at all when he was there?
And his habit of buttoning his collar all the way to the last button, she didn’t know why, but Jiang Fuyue always associated it with Xie Dingyuan the first thing.
Clearly Zhong Ziang’s and Yici’s camouflage uniforms were also buttoned all the way up, yet she felt nothing at all.
……
Early the next morning, Jiang Fuyue woke up at six, got dressed, fetched water, and washed up.
When she came back carrying the basin and towel, she suddenly paused, thought for a moment, then walked next door and raised her hand to knock.
Knock knock knock,
“Dr. X? Are you there? This is Jiang Fuyue.”
No response.
She knocked again, still no movement.
A trace of doubt flashed through Jiang Fuyue’s eyes, but she didn’t do anything further.
Then she put on protective gear and went out to help at the vaccination site.
At first, she was just distributing vaccines. Later, seeing there really weren’t enough people, she learned injections from a nurse and within minutes was directly administering shots herself.
“As expected of a high-IQ research bigshot, picks things up fast.”
“I can testify that Dr. Li isn’t just flattering you, absolutely from the heart, because I think so too.”
Whether it was her professional technique or the decisiveness of her needle work, Jiang Fuyue performed far too much like a veteran to be a novice.
At noon, they ate in shifts.
Jiang Fuyue took her bun and mineral water back to her room. Since manpower had been temporarily reallocated, she wasn’t needed at the front in the afternoon.
Passing by next door, Jiang Fuyue couldn’t help stopping.
Two seconds later, she decided to try once more.
Knock knock knock,
The sound of knocking rang out.
As expected, still no response.
This time she didn’t turn to leave, but directly pushed open the door.
Sure enough, it was empty inside.
Jiang Fuyue went to the lounge again, still no sign of X.
She stopped a soldier. “Where’s Dr. X? I need to see him about something.”
“The doctor isn’t here. Come back tomorrow.”
“Tomorrow?”
“Mm. When the doctor left, he said he wouldn’t be back until tomorrow.”
“What did he go do?”
The soldier scratched his head, looking troubled. “This… I’m not too sure either.”
Jiang Fuyue fell into thought.
That night, she lay on the simple, narrow wooden bed. Next door was silent.
Before falling asleep, Jiang Fuyue was still thinking, tomorrow she, Zhong Ziang, and Yici would be heading to the resettlement camps. Should she wait for X to come back and inform him, or just go directly?
However, when the next day actually arrived, there was no need to agonize over it at all, because,
“He’s back?” Jiang Fuyue was stunned.
At seven in the morning, she was just about to set off when a guard suddenly came over and said Dr. X had asked her to go to the lounge.
When Jiang Fuyue arrived, she saw a group of soldiers drinking water and resting under a grass shed, covered in dust and grime they couldn’t hide at all.
She casually found one of them. “You just got back?”
“Yeah.”
“Where did you go?”
“Brinto and Swaga, and the border firefight line of Qikebi. You’re a doctor?” He saw Jiang Fuyue in a white coat. “Why are you asking?”
Jiang Fuyue froze.
Brinto, Swaga, and Qikebi, these were exactly the three places she, Zhong Ziang, and Yici were preparing to go next, because that was where the three largest resettlement camps in the Duhe region were!
So what did X go there for?
Everyone should’ve guessed what 99 went to do, right?
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