"Goodbye, Mom, I'm going to be a goner tonight..."

At the lunch table, Li Tianran glanced sideways at Tang Su, who was humming a song under her breath, and felt a little surprised.

The food on Tang Su's plate hadn't been touched; she didn't seem hungry at all.

"Have you already eaten?" Li Tianran asked.

"I want to lose weight," Tang Su said very seriously, but then couldn't help but hiccup.

Li Tianran turned his attention to Ding Lu, who was next to them and also hadn't touched his chopsticks, and asked, "Are you losing weight too?"

"Full! I'm full!" Ding Lu waved his hands repeatedly, revealing a simple and honest smile. "You guys eat, I'm going to work!"

With that, Ding Lu swayed as he stood up and walked out of the living room, as if he were drunk...

Li Tianran frowned.

What was wrong with these two today? Did they take the wrong medicine?

"Tang Su (mildly poisoned)"

"Ding Lu (moderately poisoned)"

Their data quickly popped up in front of Li Tianran. Looking at these words, and connecting them with the two people's unusual behavior, he seemed to guess what was going on.

...

"I told you, I only let my people leave the shelter to make the arrest after receiving a report. I have concrete evidence!"

Inside the shelter, Chen Si Hai stood before Wang Changlin's corpse, his face pale and sweat beading on his forehead, explaining to Miao Yu.

Chen Si Hai never expected that he would send out such a powerful force to arrest a harmless old man, and still fail!

And most importantly, Wang Changlin had died at the other party's hands!

"You're from the Military Supervisory Office. Nan Changming isn't military personnel. Even if he breaks the law, the garrison should arrest him... Who the hell do you think you are?" Miao Yu looked at Chen Si Hai expressionlessly, and said, one word at a time, "You will take full responsibility for this!"

Chen Si Hai's chest rose and fell violently. His job was supposed to be supervising Miao Yu, but now he was being dressed down by Miao Yu, and he couldn't even utter a word in rebuttal.

If Wang Changlin had really brought back Professor Nan's body, everything would have been fine.

But now Professor Nan had disappeared to who knows where, Wang Changlin was dead, the law enforcement recorder had been hit by an electromagnetic pulse, and all its storage functions were lost. Moreover, the people Wang Changlin took with him seemed to have suffered some kind of shock, and their mental state was extremely unstable; they couldn't even say a complete sentence and seemed dull-witted...

Chen Si Hai really wanted to dismember Wang Changlin's corpse into eight pieces right now.

He had made such a mess out of something that should have been a sure thing!

"Fine! I can take responsibility. I admit there were errors in the procedure for this matter... But Nan Changming stealing resources and killing military supervisory personnel is an undeniable fact. I demand that troops be dispatched immediately to conduct a full-scale search of Nan City, and we must find Nan Changming's whereabouts!" Chen Si Hai gritted his teeth and said.

"Sea beasts have invaded many cities, and they're rampant right now. I won't divert forces protecting the shelter to search for a criminal," Miao Yu said expressionlessly. "If you're interested, you can take the people from your Military Supervisory Office and leave the shelter to conduct your so-called full-scale search."

Chen Si Hai's chest heaved violently. He glared coldly at Miao Yu, then turned and left the morgue.

He only had a hundred people at his disposal. Even if he spread them all out, it would only be a drop in the bucket for the vast ruins of Nan City.

Miao Yu watched Chen Si Hai's back, his expression somewhat grave.

He slowly exhaled.

This matter... was very abnormal.

He had noticed something was wrong as soon as he woke up early that morning under the bed in his temporary residence with several soldiers.

But all the surveillance records showed nothing unusual. Within a certain range, all electronic devices had malfunctioned, and the integrated circuit boards were burned from the inside.

Coupled with the fact that the helicopter chasing Professor Nan had also crashed, Miao Yu could deduce that the other party seemed to possess some kind of weapon that targeted radio waves...

And Professor Nan definitely didn't have that kind of weapon.

There must have been someone else present.

Miao Yu also wanted to find out the truth, but the difficulty was simply too great. Almost all the clues had been cut off.

"Yu Cheng... Before Professor Nan left the shelter, he went to see Yu Cheng." Miao Yu's eyes narrowed. This information had been given to him by a patrolling soldier in the shelter.

Yu Cheng and Professor Nan had never had any contact. Why would Professor Nan suddenly run to see him?

"The fact that two unrelated people suddenly had contact means there must be a thread connecting them... Professor Nan was looking for information about those two bullets. He must have discovered something, and Yu Cheng must know something about what he discovered too!" Miao Yu's brain was working very fast, and he had almost completely deduced the truth of the situation.

"Yes, it's Yu Cheng!" Miao Yu seized on the detail, thought up a set of interrogation tactics, and wanted to question Yu Cheng.

But just at that moment, his footsteps suddenly stopped.

Because Yu Cheng had already walked in.

His expression was grave, and he said in a deep voice, "Commander Miao, something's happened!"

...

In District D, which was under construction in the Nan City shelter, a sinkhole with a diameter of more than ten meters had appeared on the ground. Heavy equipment had collapsed into it, and many workers had been crushed by the collapsed rubble and rocks, their bones broken and tendons fractured, lying at the bottom of the pit, desperately wailing.

"The construction schedule is too tight, and there was a mistake in the work of the personnel responsible for detecting underground conditions..." Yu Cheng was wearing work clothes, and stood shoulder to shoulder with Miao Yu at the accident site, braving the cold wind as he said, "Moreover, the Ling River has been restless recently. Some mutated sea beasts have jumped out of it and attacked the shelter, causing a lot of trouble for our work!"

"In addition, the temperature has been too low recently, and many people have gotten sick and can't get timely treatment... People are dying in the shelter every day."

A large number of personnel were conducting emergency rescue operations.

On stretchers, workers and military police alike were covered in blood, looking miserable.

Listening to Yu Cheng's words, Miao Yu opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but couldn't say a word.

This situation was already pretty good. During the time the sea beasts had been quiet, the shelter had almost been completed. If the sea beasts had constantly harassed them during the initial construction process, with the military police fighting while repairing the shelter, they probably wouldn't have even finished a third of it by now.

Yu Cheng took off his coat and jumped into the sinkhole, easily moving the boulders that ordinary people could hardly budge, covering himself in mud.

Miao Yu watched this scene, his eyes flickering.

He had really wanted to ask Yu Cheng what Professor Nan had told him last night.

But now, seeing the scene before him, a strange feeling suddenly welled up in Miao Yu's heart.

Wasn't the fate of all mankind just like the scene before him?

Humanity was mired in the mud, unable to extricate itself, wailing and crying for help!

Although the higher-ups were actively researching how to remove the deadly toxins from the radiated water sources, if this research couldn't be completed within a month, a large number of people around the world would die because they couldn't get enough fresh water.

In at most three months, ninety-nine percent of the world's population would die.

Even if there was a huge conspiracy hidden behind Professor Nan's matter, soon after, the stored fresh water would be used up, and humanity would initiate a nuclear strike, and everything would be reduced to ashes...

The conspiracy would be meaningless, and the shelter... would also be meaningless.

Miao Yu looked up at the magnificent walls of the shelter, and a strong sense of fatigue and negativity welled up in his heart.

He knew that it was very inappropriate for such emotions to appear in a soldier like himself.

But looking at the unknown and confusing future, anyone would have a misanthropic mood, even him.

Soldiers were also people, and they would also be confused and unable to find their way.

In this situation where humanity was living from hand to mouth and didn't know when it would be wiped out, was it really that important to spend a lot of energy and fight wits and courage with people, and to explore the truth of something that couldn't reverse humanity's fate?

Miao Yu didn't know the answer, and no one could answer his question.

He jumped into the sinkhole and began to rescue people with Yu Cheng...