When Shang Jianyao read Lu Fuxing's letter, Jiang Baimian casually pulled down the documents and materials in his backpack while guarding against accidents.
Among them, some of the paper is obviously yellow, showing signs of becoming dry and brittle, and some of it is relatively well preserved, but it has a faint musty smell.
The former belongs to the documents taken out by Lu Fuxing and others from the Vegetative Rehabilitation Center of Renhui Hospital, and the latter is a suicide note left by the survivors.
These suicide notes do not have envelopes, but they are neatly folded and have the recipient written on the upper side.
In the middle of the pull, Jiang Baimian's eyes swept a familiar name:
"Ding Ling."
She immediately divided half of her attention into her backpack, and a line of text came into her eyes:
"The northern border settlement of Ukraine, Ding Ling collected."
Is this the suicide note left by Ji Qiang? Jiang Baimian didn't know whether to be happy or sigh for a while.
She originally thought that Ding Ling's husband Ji Qiang would most likely die in the Vegetative Rehabilitation Center of Renhui Hospital, because he was just a scientific researcher, neither an awakened person nor a warrior with outstanding strength.
Even if Ji Qiang was lucky, he was not tainted with eccentricity, became silent, and was not forced to enter any room, or the room he entered was not very dangerous.
Unexpectedly, he persisted until the end and left a suicide note.
Jiang Baimian had to lament that he was really a good star at that time, but then he was a good star, and in the end, he was inevitably trapped in Taicheng and infected with "unintentional disease", and only a suicide note proved that he had been here.
With curiosity, Jiang Baimian relied on his own ability and the "comprehensive early warning system" of the military exoskeleton device to sense his surroundings, observe the nearby situation out of the corner of his eye, stretched out his left hand, picked up Ji Qiang's letter, and shook his wrist to shake it off.
This is several pages.
Jiang Baimian quickly browsed:
"Lingling:
"This may be the last time I call you that, I have been infected with 'heartless disease', and my head is slowly becoming groggy.
"Although I have never encountered a 'heartless disease' with early symptoms, a little bit of serious 'heartless disease', but the performance of my colleagues made me sure that this is really a 'heartless disease', when I wrote this letter, three people had already fallen ill and were shot dead by us on the spot.
"The difficulty I originally told you was to stay in the ice field for several months and survey a large area, which could face a snowstorm and a cold season that was several times better than the winter in northern Ukraine.
"In such a season, such a mission, someone will die in the line of duty every time, and this is the main thing I was worried about at first.
"But things changed more than I could have imagined, and it was a weird, bloody, crazy, desperate encounter.
"We found a strange city that we had passed by twice before and had not noticed at all, and we entered a building that didn't seem to belong to this world.
"I can't tell you the specific process, this is subject to confidentiality rules, and second, I don't want you to have nightmares because of this, and I don't want you to be haunted for the rest of your life, wanting to investigate the truth and avenge me.
"What I can tell you is that the culprit of the whole thing has died in that building, in the fierce battle that occurred after the team split, the only thing I am confused about is why he and those people did those things, don't worry, the organization will investigate, we have this ability.
"When I was a child, when I listened to my grandfather and grandmother tell the stories of the early days of the Salvation Army, I didn't really understand why in that era, a loving couple would not be able to hold on after being separated due to war, disaster, or organizational orders.
"Now, I vaguely understand.
"Lingling, let me call you like this again, at the back of this suicide note, I wrote a special application to transfer you back to northern Wubei, as a victim in the line of duty, I have this qualification.
"When you return to northern Wubei, remember to visit my parents, I didn't leave them a suicide note, and I didn't want the organization to notify them, for fear that they would be too old to stand the stimulation. When you visit them, you can slowly lay the groundwork for my sacrifice, and then tell them when they are mentally prepared.
"Lingling, when you go back to northern Wubei, remember to find another partner, you like children so much, when you talk to me about the future, your eyes will light up, I still remember you said you would like me because when we first met, I patiently helped a child fix her toy, I still remember the way you smiled beautifully.
"Lingling, when you are looking for a partner again, you must choose a job in northern Wubei, and you will not be sent abroad, even if he gets fewer bills every month, it doesn't matter much.
"Lingling, it is better to be a peaceful dog than to cause chaos and leave people."
It is better to be a peaceful dog than to cause chaos...... Jiang Baimian exhaled slowly.
At this time, Shang Jianyao also finished reading the letter left by Lu Fuxing.
He raised his right hand covering the metal bone, pressed his palm to his left chest, and solemnly bowed to the corpse in front of him:
"For all mankind!"
After he completed the ceremony, Jiang Baimian spoke:
"Fold the letter, put it back in your backpack later, and hand it over to the 'Salvation Army' when we return."
"What is your letter?" Shang Jianyao nodded and asked curiously.
"Ji Qiang left it, Ding Ling's husband Ji Qiang left it." Jiang Baimian was silent for a second and said.
Shang Jianyao, who valued feelings, immediately stretched out his hand:
"Let me see."
Jiang Baimian handed him Ji Qiang's suicide note, planning to take this opportunity to go through those documents briefly, so as not to encounter accidents and lose information in the future.
At this time, she found that there was a suicide note that was only one page long.
Curious, she shook it off and looked at it:
"Son:
"Your father, I'm going to die!"
After reading only two lines, Jiang Baimian felt that the slightly sad atmosphere was almost broken.
She calmed down and started reading again:
"Fortunately, you are an adult and assigned a job, your father and I don't worry too much about you, as for the target, the organization will introduce it to you.
"Didn't you keep saying that I am old and stubborn, refusing to be accommodating, scolding those high-ranking relatives who resell materials every day, and being marginalized in the unit, why are you still actively participating in the mission of the past few months to do surveys in the most remote places with the worst climate? I'll answer you now.
"When your grandfather was still alive, he often told me a sentence from the old world, saying that if there is a point of light, there will be a point of heat, those people will not study well, those people will be willing to degenerate, use public affairs for personal gain, and refuse to work seriously, it is their business.
"I have to be worthy of the vows I made at the beginning.
"As for you, I never thought that you could still have the ideal of saving all mankind, I just hope that you can be a down-to-earth person, work diligently, not join those people, and not be willing to fall.
"Let those people continue to do it, everyone's eyes are bright, private for a while, public for eternity, you young people will wake up sooner or later and will understand.
"At that time, a better future for mankind will be realized!"
Jiang Baimian folded the letter again and stuffed it back into his backpack.
She picked up the stack of documents and flipped through them gently, fearing damage.
These documents are roughly divided into four categories, namely correspondence, experimental records, orders from superiors, and doctor's notes.
Among them, there are three of the most important ones, and Lu Fuxing made corresponding marks, which greatly saved Jiang Baimian's time:
One is an order to transfer one-third of the patients in the vegetative rehabilitation center to Base 2, signed by the person who issued it is "Eighth Research Institute", dated a week before the destruction of the Old World;
One is an experimental record involving the brain condition and body reactions of multiple patients, which repeatedly mentions the use of a certain stimulus but does not say what stimulus it is;
One is a note from a doctor, and one of his pages reads, "We are about to build the stairs to the forbidden area of the gods, and we can already vaguely see the so-called new world."
Base 2...... Jiang Baimian whispered and stuffed the documents in his hand back into the dark green rucksack.
She turned to Shang Jianyao and said:
"Go down, withdraw from Taicheng and take a closer look."
Shang Jianyao, who had been reading Ji Qiang's suicide note, raised his head, his eyes were red under his helmet goggles, and tears welled up in his eyes.
Jiang Baimian's first reaction was stunned and surprised.
This is not at all like the performance that Shang Jianyao would have.
Then, she vaguely understood the reason:
He should have thought of his father from Ji Qiang's suicide note, thinking about whether he would also leave a few words for his mother and him before he died.
Jiang Baimian sighed and patted Shang Jianyao on the shoulder:
"Put the suicide note away, let's go down.
"The bodies in the surrounding rooms are waiting for the 'Salvation Army' people to collect them."
After such a round of missile strikes, the fake Taicheng should not appear again, and the people of the "Salvation Army" can directly enter the real Taicheng.
Shang saw that Yao's personality changed quickly, and said with a smile:
"Okay."
(End of this chapter)