"By the way, where are you going?" Qi Shutong asked curiously.
"I don't know either." Ye Han said, "There is someone directing the convoy, so we just follow."
Qi Shutong's disappointment was palpable: "I also want to ask where we are going. I need to be mentally prepared."
"What?" Ye Han was slightly startled, "Didn't he tell you where to evacuate?"
"We are only notified to prepare to evacuate. The notice did not say where we will go." Qi Shutong replied, "We don't want it in Jingjiang, we don't want it in Linyi, and we don't want it in Fuyun. What do you mean by this? And there's more, so
A big country with so many armies, so many planes and cannons, how come it can’t take down a few bugs?”
Ye Han sighed: "There is no way, who let the insects live underground? I finally controlled the giant ants, but another boxer ant popped up, alas..."
Qi Shutong also sighed: "If we continue to withdraw like this, when will it end? Withdrawing back and forth, until in the end there will be nothing left except people."
"If we don't evacuate, there won't even be any people left." Ye Han turned to look at the people receiving food, "Do you know how many people there are in the province?"
"Thirty million, maybe?"
Ye Han pursed his lips and lowered his voice: "There are only 17-8 million left now."
"Ah?" Qi Shutong was shocked, "How is that possible?"
"Nothing is impossible. More than 10 million people have died, disappeared and lost contact. Tell me, what can we do if we don't withdraw?"
Qi Shutong also lowered his voice: "Where did you hear this?"
"Where else could it be? A report from above!" Ye Han said.
The sudden burst of tears blurred Qi Shutong's vision, and the tears fell out of her eyes one after another like broken beads.
"What's wrong?" Ye Han was confused for a while. Why did he start crying while talking?
Qi Shutong suddenly hugged Ye Han, buried her head in Ye Han's chest and cried loudly. Ye Han, who was unprepared, was at a loss.
Ye Han had seen many similar scenes in movies and TV shows, and every time he would get angry for those hesitant men, but today it was his turn to encounter the same situation, and he could not help but hesitate.
Qi Shutong hugged her tighter and tighter. Ye Han's arms hesitated again and again, and finally landed on Qi Shutong's back, holding her tightly in his arms.
On the off-road vehicle not far away, several heads crowded the windows. Everyone looked curiously at the man and woman who were "embracing each other affectionately". You and I guessed the relationship between the two people word by word.
When ordinary people queuing up to receive food saw this scene, they pointed with curiosity.
Ye Han prides himself on being thick-skinned, but when faced with dozens or hundreds of people watching, his blood boiled up as thick as a city wall, and he was so embarrassed that he didn't know where to look.
Fortunately, Qi Shutong's emotions came and went quickly, but she stopped crying after a while, gently pushed Ye Han away, wiped her eyes that were swollen from crying, and took a deep breath: "I'm fine.
Already."
Ye Han nodded and said nothing. He and Qi Shutong were not familiar enough to talk about everything.
However, Qi Shutong couldn't hold back her words. She sighed and said, "My hometown is in Bainan, and I have lost contact with my family for more than a week..." Before she could finish her words, her voice became choked up again.
Ye Han suddenly felt sad and reluctantly advised: "Good people have their own destiny..."
Qi Shutong shook her head: "Stop comforting me. If my family was fine, they would have contacted me long ago."
Ye Han was immediately speechless.
Bainan is located in the north of Jingjiang and east of Linyi. It is closer to the ant-occupied area than Linyi. The time to give up Bainan was earlier than the time to give up Linyi. If Qi Shutong's family was fine, they should have contacted her long ago.
Qi Shutong's tears flowed down again. Ye Han felt that she needed a warm embrace at this time, and he should take the initiative.
So Ye Han stepped forward, stretched out his arm and put it on Qi Shutong's shoulder, and was about to hug her into his arms, but Qi Shutong twisted her shoulder and pulled away Ye Han's arm: "I'm fine, really, I'm fine."
She raised her head and silently shed a few tears, but quickly regained control of her emotions, wiped the tears off her face, and showed a very forced smile.
Ye Han wisely took a step back and advised: "You don't have to be like this. If you want to cry, just cry."
Qi Shutong twitched hard: "I won't cry anymore, they don't want me to do this."
Ye Han was speechless and didn't know what else to say.
"I'm sorry." Qi Shutong suddenly said inexplicably.
Ye Han shook his head: "I'm sorry, I can't help."
"There are more than 10 million people, how many can you help?"
Ye Han was silent.
The two of them didn't have a deep friendship to begin with. They were just acquaintances at most, and now they had all they could say. They were speechless for a while.
Didi——
The sound of a horn sounded not far away, and Ye Han turned around subconsciously.
"Company Commander Ye——" A long and drawn-out shout came from the distance, but it was Xiao Yuan waving to Ye Han.
Ye Han's gaze extended into the distance, and it turned out that the motorcade was already ready to go.
Ye Han was slightly disappointed: "I'm leaving."
Qi Shutong also saw the waving soldier, nodded and said, "I'll see you off."
"No need." Ye Han twitched the corner of his mouth, shook his head in refusal, turned around and took two steps, then suddenly stopped and turned around and said, "Take care!"
"Take care." Qi Shutong smiled, and the pear blossoms were filled with rain.
Ye Han waved his hand and strode away.
Qi Shutong put away her smile, sighed quietly, and watched Ye Han get into the off-road vehicle.
Back in the car, Xiao Yuan looked gossipy: "Company commander, who is that beautiful woman? Is she sister-in-law?"
Ye Han forced a smile: "No."
"Why are you so embarrassed, company commander?" Xiao Yuan boldly teased, "I won't introduce him to everyone either!"
"It's really not that." Ye Han said, "It's just a former colleague."
Ye Han's expression was wrong, and the soldiers did not dare to ask any more questions. They just winked and were full of doubts about Ye Han's answer.
The two of them were hugging each other just now, but when they got back to the car, they were filled with worries. No one would believe Ye Han's words.
Ye Han didn't explain, and sat there quietly thinking about his thoughts.
His relationship with Qi Shutong was very simple, but his encounter with Qi Shutong reminded him of many people, including Professor Qin, Bai Xiaoting, Zhou Yun with a broken leg, Xiao Jing who was missing...
To this day, Ye Han can only contact a few of them, and the vast majority of them have disappeared. No matter whether they were in harmony with each other at the beginning, looking back now, there is only a touch of melancholy and sadness in his heart.
Ye Han is not a sentimental person, but the insect plague is getting worse and worse. After today, it is very likely that we will never see each other again in our lifetime. How can we not make people feel touched?
