Cong Xia opened his dry eyes and looked at his head. He recognized this. This was the dormitory of Zhanjiang Military Base where they had lived for more than a month. He wanted to sit up, but his body was as heavy as a thousand pounds. His head hurt so much that it seemed to explode. He knew that this was the result of excessive use of energy. He simply lay back on the bed and gasped.

After waking up, memories came like a tide. On the night of their war on the sea, every minute and every second from darkness to dawn was still fresh as if they were engraved in their bone marrow. He also remembered that when they got off the plane and the people from the entire base saluted them, Commander Cao called them "heroes", his inner surging and passion, he remembered that he took out the puppet jade from his pocket and walked towards Cao Zhixian solemnly. When he put the jade piece into Cao Zhixian's palm, he lost consciousness.

Cong Xia felt the energy core. Sure enough, excessive energy consumption cannot be fully recovered in a short while. Before he handed over the puppet jade, he did not realize that he had reached his limit. That night, in order to heal and replenish other people's injuries, he absorbed at least tens of thousands of dead sea beasts and 60 energy-accumulating jade talismans. He was like a large energy transfer station, sucking energy into his body, and then reasonably allocated it to other people's bodies. His repeated machine suddenly lost the reason to persevere at the moment of completing the final task and went on strike with confidence.

Thinking about the scenes that have happened these days, Cong Xia still couldn't get out of that nervous mood.

At this time, the door of the room opened, and Cheng Tianbi walked in with a thermos. Seeing that he was awake, he hurried to the edge of the bed, "Are you awake?"

Cong Xia smiled, "Tianbi, how long have I slept?"

"Three days."

"Oh, my recovery ability is OK, where are you?"

Zhongtianbei put down the thermos, poured him a cup of hot water to dry, then helped him up and leaned against the pillow, "I just woke up, I haven't slept so heavily for a long time, and I almost fell asleep when I lay down."

Cong Xia moved his sore arms, "So, but you have worked much harder than me."

Cheng Tianbi grabbed his arm and rubbed his shoulders, "You are not as relaxed as us."

Cong Xia looked at his firm side face, slowly raised his hand and touched his cheek. Cheng Tianbi looked up at Cong Xia. Cong Xia leaned over, hugged his neck, and sighed, "That night, I felt that we were dead several times, and it was a miracle that we could survive now."

Cheng Tianbi hugged his waist, buried his nose between Cong Xia's neck, took a deep breath of the familiar smell, and felt relieved. He said: "This miracle was also obtained by our blood and sacrifice."

Cong Xia said in a hoarse voice: "The sky wall, the puppet jade... we have really collected it. It's been three and a half years, and we finally got to this day. Sometimes when I think about it, I feel... it's really... it's really not easy."

Cheng Tianbi touched his soft hair and whispered: "Now is the time for our efforts to bear fruit. In a few days, we will put the puppet jade into a complete piece. Even if we can't change anything in the end, we have done our best."

"Yes, we have done our best."

Cheng Tianbi patted his back, "Are you hungry? Do you want to get up and have a meal?"

"I'm not hungry, I have a severe headache. If I don't want to get up, please lie with me for a while." Cong Xia lifted the quilt.

Cheng Tianbi lies in the quilt with him in his arms, "How long do you want to sleep? I'll be with you."

Cong Xia said: "What happened these days?"

"Nothing special. Commander Cao and Professor Cong were organizing the aftermath, and many natural forces evolved people have not yet woken up."

"Do you know...how many people died?"

Cheng Tianbi said in a deep voice: "It's about seven thousand, and more than two thousand mutant people. The remaining are ordinary soldiers, and the communication tower has also been captured by three."

Cong Xia sighed. Except for the large-scale deaths of humans in the early days of the apocalypse, there was almost no task of dying so many people at once. The most important reason was that many subsequent battles were fought between mutated animals and plants. The individuals were strong and the number of people participating in the battle decreased, so the number of deaths naturally was not large. Only this time, it was unparalleledly tragic.

"Deng Xiao and the others are fine?"

"It's okay."

"Where is Mu Fei?"

"You'll know if you look outside the window." Cheng Tianbi waved his hand, and a wind blew open the curtains. Cong Xia turned his head and looked. The window was facing the open space behind the base. A pine tree stood suddenly there, and the branches were filled with snow.

"Why did he take root here?"

"He said he should absorb nutrients from the soil so that he could recover energy. However, he was not well-organized and should be able to j□j at any time."

Cong Xia said: "After everything is over, let's help them rebuild the tree house. How well they designed it."

Cheng Tianbi hugged him tightly, "Build a few more rooms. When we want to live like that, we will go and stay there."

Cong Xia smiled lightly and said, "Okay." He touched the chin of the green bearded stubble that appeared on Chengtian Wall and kissed him gently.

After the first battle, all the mutants involved in the battle were like eggplants made from frost, and they had not changed their energy for several days. Although their energy was better than human physical strength, they were not as good as humans to recover, especially those who evolved natural forces, and they simply fell into a coma for several days.

After Cong Xia woke up, she fell asleep with Cheng Tianbi again. She didn't wake up again until the evening, washed up and went to the cafeteria for dinner.

As soon as they walked into the cafeteria, the originally lively kitchen suddenly became quiet. Deng Xiao ran towards them yelling, "Brother Cong!"

Deng Xiao rushed over and gave Cong Xia a bear hug, sniffed and said, "Brother Cong, I'm worried about you so much." In recent years, Deng Xiao has grown from a young man to a man, and his size has jumped a few centimeters. He almost knocked Cong Xia down.

Cong Xia smiled and patted his back, "Oh, what a child is."

Deng Xiao looked at him with a smile and cried, "Fortunately you are back. When my mother came back at first, I thought you were..."

"Isn't this good?"

Liu Fengyu also came over and patted Cong Xia on the face, "You guy is so handsome this time."

Cong Xia touched his head and laughed, "Really." He saw Tang Yanqiu behind Liu Fengyu and said carelessly, "Yanqiu, how did you reply?"

Tang Yanqiu smiled and said, "I'm not seriously injured."

Zhuang Yao came over and looked at them with his chest, "Have you all rested?"

Cong Xia waved his arm, "Well, it's much better."

"We plan to observe for a while. If the sea beast tide completely retreats, we will return to Beijing in two days."

"The king squid is dead, and the puppet jade is no longer there. They should have started to retreat, right?"

"It has retreated and has withdrawn dozens of nautical miles. For safety reasons, we still need to observe and observe. Although the two factors that urged them to land do not exist, there is still one problem that has not been solved, that is, low temperatures, low temperatures are still raging in the Antarctic, the glacier area in the Southern Ice Ocean is still expanding, and the migration of marine organisms to the north is still an unstoppable trend. So I want those who want to completely return to the sea unless the entire marine environment is restored to its original state, so everything is back to the puppet jade."

Cong Xia nodded, "We have got the last puppet jade. Have they taken action by those puppet jades that are still in foreign countries?"

"It will be delivered to Beijing at the end of this month."

"That's good."

Deng Xiao said excitedly: "Hurry up and have a meal."

Several people sat down. A table far away from them was a group of people from the Dragon Blood Clan, but none of the four backbones were there. Cong Xia whispered: "How is the situation of the Dragon Blood Clan? The sea dragon appeared. Did they do anything?"

Zhuang Yao shook his head, "The four people from the Dragon Blood Clan have returned to Beijing early. Anyway, the entire Dragon Blood Man test is probably infuriating, especially Colonel Tang. When he saw the sea dragon appear through the fighter camera that day, he was crazy. The sea dragon was almost exactly the same as the one I accidentally caught in the South China Sea oil field more than 20 years ago. Of course, the size cannot be compared."

"The sea dragon is so scary. Fortunately, it didn't attack us, otherwise this trip would have gone without going back."

"As soon as it appeared, Tang Tingzhi asserted that it would not attack you."

"Why?"

Zhuang Yao shrugged, "I have never participated in the Dragon Blood Man experiment. I don't know, but it is obviously Hailong who regards Shen Changze and the others as his kind, after all, blood with similar smells like it flows. Before Colonel Tang left, he told me that Al's "hearing" the call of Hailong's heart, it was calling for his companions. Unfortunately, the Dragon Blood Man is not its real companion, so it left disappointed."

Cheng Tianbi said: "Will they miss such a once-in-a-lifetime research opportunity?"

Zhuang Yao shook his head, "So what if you don't let it go, how do you study it? They will just let them do whatever they want to do and do not delay the serious matters. However, they will also be able to be sensible. If they accidentally lead the sea dragon to the land, how many people will die."

Cong Xia said: "However, the appearance of the sea dragon proves that there are not only two super lives in the world, but also more, and there may be more in the deep sea bottom."

Zhuang Yao said: "No one has ever said that there are only two of them in the world, but we only encountered two of them at that time."

Cong Xia frowned, "But tell me that the devil pine and the king squid are like fateful enemies arranged by the ancient gods."

Zhuang Yao raised an eyebrow, "I didn't tell you that you analyzed it yourself. I just followed your ideas to help you continue."

Cong Xia widened his eyes, "Wait, Zhuang Yao, you won't be..."

Zhuang Yao said with a look of helplessness, "Yes, I fooled you a little, otherwise you could overcome your guilt towards Mu Fei and write down that letter of help that is full of affection?"

Cong Xia slapped the table and said angrily: "Zhuang Yao!"

Everyone in the cafeteria turned their heads to look at them.

Cong Xia was so angry that he wanted to turn the table up. He lowered his voice and gritted his teeth and said, "Zhuang Yao, you really deserve a fucking beating. You lied to me again, you..."

Zhuang Yao said: "I can't be considered as lying to you. Many things you thought of that day make sense. Moreover, if the devil pine cannot come, it will not escape the fate of death sooner or later. This is also a fact. I just wrote it a little exaggerated. The most important thing is that the omissions of the ancient gods are also real. At least the sea dragon, an existence that is more irresistible than the king squid and the devil pine, has a close connection with humans. This is definitely something that the ancient gods would not have thought of."

Cong Xia sucked the rice in a suffocation. He had been fooled by Zhuang Yao more than once and was so choked by the other party's reasonable and well-founded evidence.

Zhuang Yao said: "However, the appearance of the sea dragon also made us rethink the criteria for evaluating biological activities by Cambrian consciousness. The deepest part of the Manila Trench is only more than 5,000 meters, so what about the Mariana Trench, which is more than twice as deep as it? What is the concept of 10,000 meters? Ten kilometers, even if you fall down, it will take a long time to fall. Who can say that there will be no creature that is even larger than the sea dragon? The ecological environment at the deepest part of the sea should be very stable. After all, not everything can survive in it. Those who can survive have undergone billions of years of natural selection. Since ancient times, undersea creatures and land biospheres have

There is almost no intersection, or it can only be connected by crossing countless food chains. These two biospheres with almost no intersection should also be implemented in Cambrian consciousness. In other words, these two circles without intersection, Cambrian consciousness will not be measured by a scale. When it evaluates organisms, it is based on the impact of organisms on the earth's biosphere. The most obvious species that affects the natural environment is humans. No matter how powerful the undersea creatures are, they can only live on the seabed due to their size, air pressure, temperature, etc., so in comparison, humans are more destructive."

Cong Xia nodded, "This explanation is reasonable. Then, will the undersea creatures be on the Cambrian consciousness's list of death exemptions?"

"If they had been living at the bottom of the sea. But now, because of the emergence of the king squid and the sea dragon, they have directly connected with the land creatures and even tried to land, which is likely to cause a great disaster to the ocean."

"But now the king squid is dead."

Zhuang Yao said: "But it summoned the sea dragon. Moreover, the puppet jade has created so many large sea beasts. The marine ecological environment has changed. We don't know which direction it will develop in the future."

Liu Fengyu shrugged, "We can't even take care of ourselves, so how can we have the kung fu to keep in the sea?"

"No, the fate of marine creatures is very important to us. Maybe they can pull all the attraction of Cambrian consciousness over and be scapegoats for us."

Cong Xia said in surprise: "Really?"

"I don't know, I'll talk about everything when I go back to Beijing. The combination of puppet jade will definitely give us some inspiration."

After dinner, the few people wrapped their coats tightly and walked into the snow. It was late autumn, and the temperature dropped to more than minus 30 degrees Celsius, and the snow in the base had already exceeded their ankles.

Cong Xia said: "Where is Abu, I feel like I haven't watched it for a long time, I'm so weird."

"It's eating happily." Deng Xiao shouted at the top of his throat, "Abu!"

A "meow" came from the backyard of the base, which was considered to be agreeing to them.

Deng Xiao smiled and said, "I definitely don't want to eat. I'm in the backyard, let's go and take a look."

"It just so happens that I'm going to see Mu Fei and the others too."

Several people walked back and walked around the dormitory building. A pine tree more than 200 meters tall first came into view. Abu lay under the pine tree, gnawing at a fish that he had pulled from somewhere.
To be continued...