#667 - Chapter 667 Parental Love
Li Cai ultimately agreed to her mother's suggestion.
Filled with reluctance, she walked out of the ward.
Leaving the final moments to the couple.
They had already told Li Cai everything they needed to, and the rest of her life was hers to live.
"Old man, sleep if you're tired. I know you are."
After their daughter left, Huang Cailan reached out with her only mobile arm to stroke her husband's face.
Thin, pale, weak, and the faint flush of color brought about by the last injection was rapidly fading.
Li Hongwen's time was near.
Even the most skilled doctor would be powerless to save him.
Hearing his wife's voice, he struggled to open his eyelids and glanced at her.
He saw the wife who had shared his life for so many years.
Long, long ago.
He remembered pursuing this beautiful junior from university.
Then, they walked hand in hand into the halls of marriage, raised their daughter, started a business together through hardship, and reunited after the apocalypse to build a shelter for everyone.
As his wife said, he was indeed tired these past few years.
As a responsible man, he was constantly trying to find ways to improve the lives of his loved ones and those who followed him.
He believed he had done a decent job.
But ultimately, some regrets could not be completely erased.
So be it.
No one can leave without regrets.
Li Hongwen could feel the life force slowly draining from his body, and an indescribable darkness was approaching him.
That must be death.
He used all his strength to reach out his hand towards his wife, gently touching her face.
"Cai... Cailan... I'm so glad to be with you..."
Before he could finish his sentence, his last bit of strength gave out, and his arm fell.
His eyelids closed heavily again.
Li Hongwen's life as an individual was about to end.
"呜...I know... I know everything... I heard what you wanted to say! Me too! I'm so glad I met you in this life!"
Huang Cailan's eyes welled up with tears, and she sobbed softly.
Li Hongwen's fading consciousness stirred, and the corners of his mouth slightly turned up, leaving with a trace of satisfaction.
Dead.
The life of this man, respected in peacetime, who never shorted his employees' pay, strived to create happiness for his family, and after the apocalypse, worked hard to save many like-minded survivors as the leader of the Coal Mine Shelter, had come to an end.
Huang Cailan sniffled, quickly suppressing her soft sobs.
Her crying was not entirely out of pain, but also relief.
She saw the last smile on her husband's face.
At the same time.
She could already feel her own end approaching.
She was about to follow her husband.
He would not be alone on his journey.
"Cai, forgive Mom and Dad. You'll have to walk the road ahead by yourself."
"I hope you can meet some partners you can rely on, and help Mom and Dad see the day this world returns to peace and safety!"
Huang Cailan looked towards the door of the ward, as if seeing the figure leaning against the door, crying softly.
The couple did not choose to let their daughter watch them die.
So be it.
Her own life was also coming to an end.
The effects of the medicine were rapidly dissipating, the temporary boost of vitality was about to end, and a deeper sense of fatigue was constantly attacking her. Huang Cailan knew she would soon follow in her husband's footsteps.
In the very end.
She clenched the only device prepared for them in this ward.
A device that, once activated, would cut off the spinal nerves behind their bodies in about 2 minutes, completely cutting off their breath and the possibility of turning into zombies.
It was a special device created by Green Source Base based on the fact that humans would turn into zombies after death, placed in hospitals to deal with the dead.
Pa.
The switch was activated.
Huang Cailan's life also entered its final countdown.
Or rather, it didn't even need that long.
After completing the countdown, she placed her arm on her husband's cold hand, and the two seemed to be holding hands lightly while sleeping.
Unconsciously.
Huang Cailan's consciousness dissipated, and the heartbeat curve on the monitor next to her became a straight line.
The number two person of the Coal Mine Shelter quietly left, holding her husband's hand.
Their death information was quickly reported to the management office of the Green Source Branch Hospital, and medical staff would come to deal with it soon.
Di.
Time's up.
The cutting device was activated, and the equipment attached to their backs interrupted the central nervous system according to the set program.
Li Cai, standing outside the ward, saw the medical staff walking over and guessed what had happened inside.
She could only helplessly slide down the wall, hugging her knees and burying her head in tears.
From this moment on.
She had become an orphan in the apocalypse, no longer accompanied by her parents, and needed to face this cruel world on her own.
Qin Jin, who had returned to the leader's office, received the news of Li Hongwen and his wife's death from below, and did not do much other than sigh.
Let the relevant personnel assist Li Cai in handling the aftermath of the two.
Back to the main topic of base development.
After openly eliminating the New Hope Base, which suddenly emerged to target them, Green Source's development would inevitably return to the fast track.
Any survivors outside who weren't blind would not dare to provoke Green Source during this time.
And those forces who once sent people to join the crusade team, Qin Jin would not forget them.
They were all on the list, waiting for combat troops to be dispatched to "visit" these daring people.
No matter what their reasons were, since they had done such a thing, they had to admit it!
There was no possibility of reconciliation between the two sides.
Green Source did not accept their reconciliation.
War!
Since they wanted to step on Green Source's corpse to strengthen themselves and live more comfortably in this apocalypse, then don't blame Green Source for trampling on their homes in return!
"Prepare to have people visit these forces!"
"Since they've reached out, don't think they can shrink back!"
Qin Jin's eyes flashed with a hint of coldness as he stared at the sky outside the window that was about to enter the night, as if he saw shelters and bases once again falling into a scene of devastation!
No reconciliation accepted!
Then just bomb these forces flat with bombs and weapons.
He didn't believe that these people would have radar or air defense systems to resist high-altitude bombing.
After confirming the locations of these people, directly choose to drop bombs at night!
Let them all concentrate in their homes and enjoy the baptism of anger from Green Source!
Even running away to escape would be a luxury!
Since they thought Green Source was evil?
Then let it be so.
To be worthy of the name.
(End of this chapter)
