Chapter 74
Faced with Song Xun’s searching, yet knowing, gaze, Song Ye closed her eyes and instinctively changed the subject. “How did you end up in Jingbei City?”
“I moved.”
Song Xun said it lightly, but Song Ye turned to look at her. This wasn’t home, after all. Although there was no one in the room, she couldn’t be sure if there was any surveillance.
But she didn’t explain much, just met Song Ye’s gaze naturally. “Before I moved, I sent you the address on your phone. Didn’t you see it?”
Song Ye’s identity was indeed special. After all, she was a top special forces soldier in the special forces, and the captain of the Fierce Tooth Strike Team. She was often out on secret missions.
So, under normal circumstances, it was always Song Ye who contacted her. Song Xun could rarely reach her.
She had sent a text message to her phone before she came, without much explanation, just the address of her new home in Jingbei City.
But from the looks of it, Song Ye clearly hadn’t seen the message.
“When did you send it to me?”
“Around the beginning of July, one a day.”
From the time Chang Fei had found the house and started renovating, she had started sending messages, one a day, until the day the signal was completely lost.
Song Ye thought for a moment. “I was on a mission outside then. It took a long time to get back. The day I got back, after handing over the mission, I hadn’t even had a chance to go back to the dorms when we were hit by a double tornado. It destroyed the base’s dormitory building.”
Their unit was usually secretly training at a mountain base in Qingze City, a long way from Jingbei City.
The double tornado was not just one, and it had ravaged that mountain, causing heavy casualties.
It was fortunate that Song Ye was outside. Those in the dormitory building had no chance to escape and were immediately crushed to death.
Her phone was locked in a cabinet. After a long time, it had automatically shut down. It had met its end without ever seeing its owner again.
“Why did you suddenly decide to move?”
“My wife is here.”
Song Xun held up Ji Tang’s hand again and wiggled it, winking at her. Song Ye quickly understood her meaning and didn’t say any more.
She had just woken up and was still weak, especially after all the exertion. The two sisters talked for a while and then she got tired.
But even with her eyes almost closed, Song Ye still tried to stay awake. She turned her head to look at the other bed, at the person lying motionless on their back.
So you’re not hiding it now?
Song Xun propped her chin on her hand and didn’t say anything to dissuade her from looking, or to tell her to rest. Instead, she found the scene quite interesting.
“How is she?”
Song Xun smiled. “I thought you wouldn’t ask about her.”
Song Ye didn’t say anything.
Ji Tang looked from one to the other, at Song Ye’s unblinking gaze and the very obvious expression on the person next to her. She paused, and it seemed she understood something.
Her hand, held by Song Xun, instinctively tightened, and she looked over in disbelief.
It can’t be what I’m thinking, can it?
But Song Ye is an Alpha, and this He Qing is clearly also an Alpha.
With Ji Tang’s pull, Song Xun understood. She squeezed her hand, their fingers intertwined.
Ji Tang came back to her senses and lowered her head.
“Don’t worry.”
Seeing her sister so tired she couldn’t keep her eyes open, Song Xun didn’t tease her anymore and told her the truth. “Her injuries are the most serious among you all. But her condition is not bad for now, so don’t worry too much.”
“It’s my fault she’s like this.”
She looked at He Qing for a long time, until she couldn’t stay awake any longer and closed her eyes. But hearing her words, Song Xun’s gossip-loving heart was thoroughly piqued.
But Song Ye was already asleep, so she clearly couldn’t answer her.
Shi Tou brought Chang Wan over to take over the shift. As Ji Tang was leaving, she couldn’t help but ask Song Xun, “Your sister, and that He Qing…”
Song Xun glanced at Shi Tou, who had already gone out the door, and quickly leaned over and gave her a peck on the cheek. Ji Tang’s lips were cool. The heating here couldn’t match the temperature at home.
“Don’t worry about it.”
Ji Tang nodded, understanding. “Alright, I understand.”
She was just curious and shocked. She wouldn’t meddle, and she couldn’t.
In the following days, Song Ye was awake for longer and longer periods, and her energy was also getting better. The military finally came to visit again, and there were quite a few of them.
Many were familiar faces from TV. They asked to speak with Song Ye alone, so Song Xun took Chang Wan and left.
This was not something they should hear.
But she thought, they’re probably talking about the… data on human evolution that Song Ye was supposed to bring to Jingbei City.
But she had been taking care of her for so long and hadn’t found anything on her.
Where did she hide it?
She was quite curious.
At the same time, the other 4 people also woke up one after another, but their condition was clearly not as good as Song Ye’s.
By the 6th day after Song Ye had woken up, only one person had not survived the critical period. Although Song Ye didn’t say anything, Song Xun knew she was very sad.
With everyone else awake, it was no longer appropriate for Ji Tang, an Omega, to stay overnight. She clearly understood this and stopped coming at night.
She would just take turns with Chang Wan during the day.
On the 15th day after Song Ye had woken up, she could already get out of bed and move around a little. Her recovery rate amazed Guan He and the other doctors. Although the frostbite on her body hadn’t completely healed, this was already an absolute medical miracle.
But admiration was admiration. They clearly didn’t think much of it, just assuming that Song Ye’s physical constitution was strong.
In reality, her physical constitution was one aspect, but the healing power of the spiritual water was another.
But other than Song Ye, once the others had woken up, Song Xun had stopped giving them the water. It wasn’t that she was stingy, but that it was too easy to expose herself.
The day after she could get out of bed, Song Ye went to the military department.
Song Xun had wanted to go with her, but Song Ye wouldn’t let her. Even if she went, she wouldn’t be able to get inside. It would just be freezing outside. What was the point?
She insisted, and Song Xun didn’t refuse. She just asked her, “Sis, are you really going to retire?”
“Yes.”
Song Ye put on her clothes, layer by layer, then her hat and scarf and gloves.
Song Xun stood behind her.
She knew her sister liked the army. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have enlisted back then, and she wouldn’t have achieved what she had today. It was definitely inseparable from her talent and hard work.
In her past life, it couldn’t be helped, but this time was different.
If Song Ye liked it, Song Xun wouldn’t force her to do anything, although she did want her to retire.
“Sis, do you want to think about it?”
“No need. There’s nothing to think about.”
Song Ye’s tone was firm. “Don’t think nonsense. Your reason is only one aspect.”
Song Xun raised an eyebrow. “What do you mean by that?”
“Just what I said. Don’t be so narcissistic. Can’t your sister be a free spirit who loves freedom?”
Song Xun scoffed, but in the end, she didn’t say any more.
Watching Song Ye leave, Song Xun went back and sat on the edge of the bed. The large ward had central heating on, and the stove was also burning, warming the entire room.
And unlike Song Ye, who could already get out of bed, the other 4 who had woken up clearly couldn’t do that yet. Although they had regained consciousness, they could only make simple movements, like turning over.
Sitting up was still a luxury.
If they wanted to get out of bed, they would have to rest for a few more months.
Chang Wan was boiling ginger water on the stove. When the water boiled, she poured a warm cup and came over, drinking it as she looked at Song Xun.
“Big Sis, when are we going back?”
Logically, since Song Ye was awake, they could go home as soon as she finished her retirement procedures. The base hospital, no matter what, was not as good as home.
And with Chang Wan and Ji Tang both going back and forth, it was fine during the day, but Song Xun hadn’t been back for almost a month.
They say it’s easy to go from rags to riches, but hard to go from riches to rags. But that didn’t apply to Song Xun. Alright, she was actually quite good at enduring. After all, with people awake, they couldn’t just eat white rice every day. Who could stand that?
But Song Xun ate instant noodles, biscuits, and steamed buns with gusto.
Chang Wan admired her for that.
The plan had been good. Once Song Ye had recovered enough, they could go home. But in reality, with He Qing not awake and not out of the danger zone, Song Ye wouldn’t leave.
After all, even if this place wasn’t great, it was still the base hospital, the best place at the moment.
From time to time, she would sit by her bed and hold her hand, her eyes unblinking. And seeing this, the other 4 team members were clearly not surprised. Even a fool like Chang Wan could see something was wrong.
“Big Sis, what do you think Sister Song Ye means?”
“Who knows…”
Song Xun was evasive.
It was someone else’s business. She had never been one to talk much about it.
Song Ye’s retirement seemed to be going smoothly. But she didn’t know what had been said at the military department. She had gone in the morning after the rounds and hadn’t come back until 3 PM.
Although she could get out of bed and had more energy, her body was still weak. When she came back and took off her scarf, Song Xun saw how pale her face was.
A little after 4 PM, the male Alpha captain she hadn’t seen in a long time came over. It was then that Song Xun learned his name was Li Qianjin.
He was the current captain of the base’s patrol team.
Li Qianjin didn’t say much. After talking with Song Ye for a while, he took out a points card and handed it to her.
It was a points card established by the base, and the base had already stored a reward of seventy thousand points in it, which was a lot.
But as he was leaving, Li Qianjin inconspicuously glanced at He Qing on the bed. It was a very small movement, and if Song Xun’s attention hadn’t been on him, she might not have seen it.
The glance was not malicious, but rather quite complicated.
Song Xun didn’t understand, but she didn’t ask much.
The food provided by the base was just millet porridge and steamed buns. To take care of the patients, at least they were using fine grain.
With points, and curious about the business district, Song Ye and Song Xun went out for a trip and found that the business district had changed quite a bit.
There wasn’t much grain left for the business district to supply the base. It was the extreme cold season now. During the flood, they could still salvage supplies from the water, but in the extreme cold, they couldn’t just keep chipping away at the ice until they reached the bottom.
No one knew when the ice would melt, and what kind of world it would be after it did. But it was likely that after this extreme cold, the supplies that hadn’t been salvaged from underwater would be completely unusable.
Grain was scarce, and prices were rising.
But the price of mutated animal meat had dropped, and by quite a bit.
After all, there were more mutated animals now, and with more people hunting them, the price of the meat naturally had to drop. This was normal.
Although Song Xun knew that such a large base couldn’t possibly not have some grain stored up, they couldn’t just release it.
He Qing woke up on the 20th day after Song Ye had woken up.
When she woke up, there was no sound. Song Xun and Song Ye were eating instant noodles. Only the two of them could eat it. The other 4 team members, although they looked on with longing, could only eat the millet porridge and steamed buns provided by the base hospital.
This food was precious now, but it wasn’t as fragrant as instant noodles. Wasn’t that just teasing them?
But despite their complaints, Song Ye, their former captain, was quite indifferent. She even deliberately waved a cup of instant noodles in front of them.
It made the few of them whimper.
Song Xun laughed. She thought her sister was childish, and quite bad.
Proudly holding her instant noodles, she had just turned around and was about to look at He Qing when she saw the person on the bed blink and then slowly open her eyes.
Clatter—
The instant noodles in her hand fell.
Song Xun, who had been eating happily, was startled. The 4 teammates were also startled. It wasn’t until Song Ye rushed over and grabbed He Qing’s moving hand that they reacted.
He Qing, who had just opened her eyes, was clearly not yet awake. Her eyes were empty and bewildered. Her sister was even more excited, her tears falling, as if she were about to go silly.
Song Xun put down her half-eaten instant noodles and quickly went out to call for someone.
Three doctors came over, but not Guan He. She was off today.
After an examination, they confirmed that He Qing’s vital signs were basically stable. Waking up meant she was basically out of the danger zone.
This was a good thing.
