Yuan Yike choked up and recounted everything intermittently.
After hearing this, Zhou You looked at He Zhongyou again, his mood became more complicated and painful.
He was not suffering because he had lost a comrade who could turn his back to the other person, but he was deeply regretting the other person's fate.
As a veteran, He Zhongyou's back has been bent by the pressure of life over the years, and he is trapped in the trivial matters of life and the burden of supporting his family, unable to escape.
But the tenacity and bravery in his bones were just hidden and never disappeared.
His spirit of sacrifice is even more exemplary.
In the face of crisis, his choice is touching.
But even such an amazing person was still not favored by fate. Before his death, he was only allowed to stand at the mouth of the well and take a look at the world beyond the limit, and then cruelly extinguished his life.
Although he felt equally uncomfortable, Zhou You still patted Yuan Yike on the shoulder, "I don't blame you. Over-limit awakening is inherently accidental. Aren't others not awakening either?"
Zhou You's enlightenment could not help Yuan Yike immediately get out of his depression and self-blame.
However, she still forced herself to cheer up, said thank you to Li Xiaoling who had already bandaged her, and then immediately went to help treat the injuries of other seriously injured and lightly injured people.
Looking at her slightly curved back, Zhou You sighed again, walked out of the door of the power distribution room, and looked outside.
At this time, the ground was still piled with rat corpses, and the air was filled with a strong smell of blood.
Many construction workers are cleaning up the mess.
Some people have suggested that the meat of rats could be collected as a meat reserve.
But the proposal was rejected.
Zhou You believes that humans have not yet fallen to the point of needing to eat rat meat.
Moreover, the potential bacteria and viruses in mice pose a great threat to the human body.
For example, the famous plague in history.
Although there is no theoretical possibility of contracting the plague after being cooked and eaten, people always feel uneasy.
Zhou You closed his eyes and began to review the encounter in his mind.
He has given up looking for the Rat King.
What he wanted to figure out now was how the Rat King conveyed his orders to his subordinates.
The mobile phones held by the rear combatants were not only used for lighting, but also took video records of the entire battle.
Now everyone is collecting these videos on Zhou You's mobile phone, and then Zhou You will forward all the videos to Huayin through WeChat, and professional researchers at the national laboratory in the capital will conduct in-depth analysis.
Of course, Zhou You still wants to figure out the reason for himself.
After all, remote assistance technicians can only see the video, and their actual perception may not be as profound as that of people on site.
The fact that the Rat King used sound waves to convey orders can be ruled out. After all, under the impact of Devialet, Zhou You believed that even a rat would not be able to distinguish the voice of a single individual.
What's more, the Devialet speakers with full power failed to interfere with the Rat King at all.
So what could it be?
According to past human studies on mice, mice have ultraviolet vision that humans do not have and can see ultraviolet rays.
Zhou You thought to himself, could it be that the advantage brought by ultraviolet vision to the mouse allowed the Rat King to quickly issue orders?
But this is not very reasonable. After all, if the Rat King wants to use visuals to convey information, he must show something unique.
Even if the Rat King wants to hide himself, he must arrange for another messenger rat to be the scapegoat.
But there is no such special mouse.
Zhou You shrugged his nose again, trying to distinguish the so-called pheromones, but he obviously failed. The human nose does not have this ability.
Maybe pheromones?
Zhou You then recalled the scene when he first met another rat king at Lin Yao's house.
He clearly remembered that the rat king used two methods to give instructions, either by chirping, which is similar to human sonic language, and the other should be pheromones.
However, the pheromone transmission method of mice will be affected by the diffusion movement of molecules. No matter how fast the diffusion speed of the odor is, as long as it conforms to this principle, the mice that make dynamic responses should form a ring with the mouse king as the center.
diffusion.
But this was not the case this time.
The mice near the stairs basically received the same instruction at the same time, and there was no delayed response caused by the diffusion speed of the pheromone.
Could it be brain waves?
But this is too incredible.
Or perhaps, the Rat King has a unique vocal structure, and the rats have also evolved new hearing abilities.
Can the Rat King release infrasound waves or ultrasonic waves that humans cannot hear and will not be interfered by other noises?
After all, the frequency response range of Devialet speakers is set according to the range that human hearing can distinguish, so it may not interfere with ultrasonic and infrasound waves.
This possibility is indeed possible and cannot be ruled out, but Zhou You does not intend to limit his thinking to this judgment.
Or is it that mice, like some migratory birds, have evolved organs in their bodies that can sense magnetic fields, and then use biological radio to transmit messages?
Gradually, the more I thought about it, the more confused I became.
He really couldn't come to any conclusion.
In desperation, he simply shook his head and threw all the complicated thoughts out of his mind.
Forget it, let’s leave it to other scientific researchers to figure it out.
It's useless for me to worry about it here. Sooner or later, I will figure it out one day.
This matter cannot be rushed.
Just when Zhou You had just gathered his thoughts, he saw his eldest uncle walking over with a depressed look on his face.
Half an hour ago, my eldest uncle was high-spirited and full of fighting spirit, but now he was as listless as an eggplant beaten by frost.
At this time, my eldest uncle's hands were still stained with blood. Further inside, He Zhongyou's body had also been put into a zip-keeping bag.
My eldest uncle just helped collect the remains of He Zhongyou.
He walked up to Zhou You and sighed heavily, "I'm sorry, Zhou You, I... I just thought about it casually at the time, so I had to encourage Qianyun to arrange for someone to accompany me down to see the situation. If I didn't mention it,
If we wouldn't have come down, no one would have died. Four people! Just because of my sudden thought, four people died. How can I deal with their family members?"
As he spoke, my eldest uncle's voice began to choke, and tears burst from his eyes.
"Uncle, I don't blame you for this matter. Really, you don't have to blame yourself. This is not a tragedy caused by your personal mistakes. Inspecting and accepting the sealing condition of the house is work in the first place, and it is definitely a risky job.
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"No one wants a sudden situation to occur, but the significance of inspection and acceptance is to find risks that may cause disasters in advance. I can even say that it is fortunate that this happened today."
"If we wait a few more days and more ordinary people live in the club building, and if the rats launch such a raid late at night while we are sleeping, I don't need to tell you how many people will die. "
"There is no point in self-blame now. All we have to do and can do is to make the sacrifices of the victims more meaningful."
Zhou You's words were not only comforting his uncle, but also comforting himself.
After listening to what he said, my eldest uncle did feel a little better.
While the two were talking, the lights in the basement came on again.
It was the staff who rode a drone into the ceiling and found the severed lighting wires and reconnected them.
There was light in the room again, and people's mood also became a little brighter.
Zhou You took a deep breath and said to his uncle as well as himself: "It makes me sad when I don't have time, so get busy."
"good."
Almost immediately after the lights came on, Luo Xun started to feel hot.
Everyone immediately used drones to send her outside.
At this time, Dr. Lin Ziying had not completed the treatment, but Dr. Ma and Luo Xun's father, Dr. Luo, had already arrived.
Dr. Luo was running all the way to the basement, preparing to join in the on-site treatment of the injured, while Dr. Ma was already waiting in the treatment room on the dashboard of Zhouyou's hybrid off-road vehicle.
Luo Xun's physical condition is much better than Jiang Zhou's. Although there is no possibility of any problem in theory, for the sake of safety, it is reassuring to have Dr. Ma, the most skilled medical practitioner in the Zhou family team, in charge.
At this time, Zhou You thought about it for a while and decided to start revenge.
Since the Rat King chose to abandon the young rats and run away overnight, Zhou You naturally had no reason to be merciful.
We must kill all the remaining baby rats in Yulong Community, leaving no one behind.
Five minutes later, Zhou You reorganized and set off with a team of more than 20 combatants who were still physically fit and more than 40 former engineering personnel who had performed well in previous battles.
The action team uses two iron-clad children's toy all-terrain off-road vehicles as its main equipment, and a flatbed pulled by an electric balance vehicle as its "aircraft carrier". The aircraft carrier is equipped with multiple human armors such as cat cages and hamster cages.
This kind of equipment is used to guard against stray cats and dogs that may still be left in the community, not to guard against mice.
Two drones were also mobilized, following the large troops in mid-air to provide warning.
At this time, everyone's long-range weapons were urgently supplied, and they had ammunition again.
A full hour and a half later, the action team finally cleared away dozens of rat nests found in the community.
Zhou You did not choose to leave a mouse alive.
He did not consider the possibility of trying to develop the intelligence of these mice and establish some kind of friendship with them.
This is theoretically possible, but I'm not interested in traveling around.
Raising mice is different from raising cats.
Once the cat is successfully tamed, it will immediately increase the Zhou family's combat effectiveness.
But raising rats is purely scientific research. To a certain extent, it may also be considered diplomatic work.
But with the current relationship between humans and rats, it is impossible for Zhou You to take the "surrendered" rats out to fight.
On the one hand, he can't trust rats, and on the other hand, he still hasn't understood how the rat king controls the rats, so the "surrendered" rats may betray him again at any time.
Therefore, the diplomatic business of studying the possibility of coexistence of humans and mice should be left to those real scientific researchers and diplomats. As a soldier, all I want to do now is to draw my sword.
By the time Zhou You returned to Zhou's villa, it was already twelve o'clock at night.
The construction work on the club building is still going on and it is even busier than during the day.
The work of material transporters has all stopped, and now the busy work over there is remedial work.
The tragedy caused by plastic valves in ventilation ducts has already happened once, and the same mistake cannot be repeated. Therefore, Jiang Qianyun decided to lead people to rush to work overnight and eliminate all similar hidden dangers in the club building.
At this time, a not-so-grand funeral was being held in the courtyard of the Zhou family villa.
The four victims, including He Zhongyou, were put into their own coffins.
By this time the coffin had been placed in the pit.
There was no mourning or music, and there was no line-up to pay tribute. Only family members silently gathered around the pit.
There is a spoon next to everyone.
Next, they would use a spoon as a shovel and shovelful after shovelful of soil into the hole.
The rest of the Zhou family were standing not far from the pit, watching silently.
Zhou Lingsheng, as Zhou You's father and the representative of the Zhou family, stood in the direction of the pit.
It seems that Zhou Lingsheng should be the host of this simple funeral.
In fact, there are actually people in the funeral industry within the Zhou family.
But now times have changed, and the cumbersome funeral rites in the past are no longer suitable and have withdrawn from the stage of history. Funeral industry personnel have now transformed into workers on manual production lines.
Zhou Lingsheng saw Zhou You's battery car parked in the courtyard from a distance, and after nodding to Zhou You in the distance, he began to speak briefly.
The former principal, now the head of the Zhou family, did not say anything particularly grand. He only emphasized that this was the first personal sacrifice that the Zhou family had suffered since the organizational structure was formed.
Of course, this is very sad and makes people feel lost and sentimental, but it also allows the living to immediately learn to re-recognize the world.
In the whole thing, no one did anything wrong, everyone made impeccable decisions based on circumstances, and no one should be blamed.
But in the end, someone still died, proving that the situation of mankind is still not good and is still very dangerous.
Of course, in addition to self-criticism, Zhou Lingsheng also made a clear promise that every victim would be posthumously named a martyr.
The family members of the victims will receive martyred treatment, and will also receive special care in terms of housing, distribution of food and living materials, children's education and work arrangements, etc.
Zhou Lingsheng's arrangements were very appropriate, leaving no room for gossip.
Seeing this, Zhou Yu was finally able to go back and have a good sleep.
This night, a total of three people slept in Zhouyou's study.
Himself, Luo Xun, Jiang Qianyun.
The reason why Luo Xun and Jiang Qianyun appear here is that Zhou You originally planned to let these three people, including himself, serve as cat knights.
The three houses built by An Xin for humans and cats to coexist are all in Zhou You's study. It's natural for them to live there.
Yuan Yike didn't come.
In fact, Zhou You asked her.
The idea of traveling around at that time was actually very simple.
He has already established a relationship with Yuan Yike, so she is already his girlfriend and he must respect her.
So she should be allowed to come over for nominal supervision.
But Yuan Yike refused.
She didn't say much, except that she was tired and needed a good rest.
Throughout tonight's battle, Yuan Yike was the battle commander of the trapped personnel.
When Zhou You summarized the review, she felt that Yuan Yike's performance was impeccable and that she had done the best she could.
No one blamed her, but Yuan Yike herself was obviously very worried about the four dead personnel and was in a very low mood.
Moreover, she seemed to have misunderstood the reason why Zhou You asked her to go there.
At another time, she would have been more proactive, but at least tonight, she was not in the mood.
Shen Ling still slept in her workshop tonight.
Shen Ling spent the whole day today with that set of Iron Man movable models, completely turning her back on what was going on outside the window, and only focused on building a small Gundam.
This night passed uneventfully, without any disturbance.
Zhou You woke up when a fluffy touch pressed against his nose.
As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw a big guy like a big Tibetan mastiff crawling into his arms, his nose raised as if he was looking for something.
It's hungry.
This little milk cat, which has not yet opened its eyes, is indeed half the size of a human at this time.
After Zhou You hesitated for a moment, he immediately got up, walked to the side and pulled out a small jar containing goat milk powder, and began to mix goat milk for the little cat.
In the other two cat cages not far away, Jiang Qianyun, Luo Xun and the other two cats were still sleeping.
But Zhou You knew that neither of them actually slept well.
Cats have completely different biological clocks from humans, and they rarely sleep for more than three hours in a row, always intermittently.
Once the kitten wakes up, it will be eager to find food.
Therefore, including the tour, the three people in the room slept intermittently.
However, although it was difficult to sleep this time, the results were obvious.
As the night passed, Zhou You could clearly feel that the black and white cow cat had developed a strong sense of dependence on him.
He wasn't that clear about Jiang Qianyun and Luo Xun's situation, but thinking about it, it wasn't too bad.
About half an hour passed. Zhou You and the other two people each finished feeding the cats one after another. Then An Xin, who was wrapped in plastic wrap, came in and took over, gathering all three cats into a large cat cage.
While eating on a small stool on the floor in the dining hall, Zhou You read the research report Huayin sent him on WeChat.
As expected, the National Laboratory could not summarize anything useful from the combat video.
However, Huayin also told Zhou You that there are currently hundreds of scientific research units across the country studying the dynamics of mice.
So far, humans have still not been able to figure out how the evolved rats achieve unified command.
"This is not because our scientific researchers are incompetent, but because the mice started to show this state only yesterday. This is a new change and a new phenomenon. If we want to understand it, it will take time. Don't worry. Well, there will be results sooner or later, and I will notify you as soon as I have any news."
The voice note sent by Huayin showed that she was quite confident.
But Zhou You wasn't sure if she was faking it. After all, Zhou You himself didn't feel at ease because the mouse evolved too fast.
So far, all human actions seem to be just chasing after the mouse, very passively.