I am weak and friendly

Chapter 392 Do you feel that your life is meaningless?
On the 41st floor of Qihang Building, Shen Hong looked up at the large screen.

The striking red dots have now turned into individual red circles, each covering a prominent area.

Throughout Hailing City, more than forty locations have been successfully invaded, and a fog of war has been deployed, covering areas of varying sizes.

These forty-odd convoys, equipped with thousands of fully armed and highly capable personnel, are located in a bustling urban area. Leaving aside the question of whether the coordination office has sufficient manpower and combat capabilities, engaging in armed conflict with them might result in even greater damage.

But if they are allowed to continue, the consequences will be even more uncontrollable.

Meanwhile, other areas were being breached. Of the 232 red dots, apart from a few that were destroyed or intercepted, the others were growing larger, clearly indicating that they were also gradually breaking through.

Shen Hong had never experienced such a difficult moment.

Every decision is so difficult.

Of course, Shen Hong couldn't just do nothing.

In just a short period of time, he has already made a decision.

From the perspective of minimizing damage, the best approach now is to concentrate superior forces to stop and intercept those teams that have not yet successfully crossed the critical zone.

The critical zone is deserted, so even if a battle takes place there, it will not affect the outside world.

Now that the area has been occupied by the enemy, all they can do is evacuate the crowd and try to keep them away from the breached areas to minimize damage.

The problem is that no location is absolutely safe right now unless they are evacuated from Hailing City.

The human and material resources required for city-level evacuation cannot be organized in a short period of time.

The moment the news gets out, it can cause chaos and panic.

“At times like this, we may have no choice but to trust our citizens and let them try their best to save themselves,” Shen Hong said. “We must release the information.”

"Are you sure?" Li Tieqiang asked. As a veteran police officer who had handled and followed up on many large-scale mass incidents, Li Tieqiang knew that sometimes, losing control could be even more terrifying.

“I’m not sure, but there’s no other way…and I don’t know how to notify them…if there’s any way…” Shen Hong frowned, and just then he heard “that person” say, “They probably already know.”

"What?" Shen Hong was taken aback.

“I mean, people are already doing this, and a lot of people have been mobilized.”

……

In Hailing City, on a street, Lin Jiaqiang was roughly pushed out of the queue by a member of a special operations team.

"What are you doing?" Lin Jiaqiang shouted angrily. He was about to get up and stand back in the group when the special operations team members had already raised their weapons.

Lin Jiaqiang froze.

In Hailing City, most people don't have that kind of sensitivity or fear towards weapons. If men see them, they might even go closer out of curiosity.

But the feeling is completely different when a weapon is pointed at you.

For a moment, Lin Jiaqiang felt a chill run down his spine, his hair stand on end, and his whole body seemed to freeze.

Until someone grabbed him and pulled him out of the line.

"Why are you cutting in line?! You're making us wait in line, you know that?! Stop cutting in line, I've been putting up with you for ages!" Someone grabbed him and pulled him away from the crowd. The special operations team member chased after him with his weapon, but seeing the crowd nearby, he lowered his gun.

Pulled away from the crowd, Lin Jiaqiang turned around and saw Zhao Wenjie, who was pale and had purple lips.

Zhao Wenjie had just pulled him out, and now Zhao Wenjie was trembling with fear.

"Are you out of your mind?!" Zhao Wenjie said.

"I..." Lin Jiaqiang wasn't reckless, he just... hadn't experienced these things before and didn't know how dangerous it really was.

Now that he knows, he only feels a lingering fear.

“Ask your little robot what we should do now?” Zhao Wenjie paused, then said, “How could this happen…”

“I don’t know,” Lin Jiaqiang shook his head, “but now we have to do something, and only we can do something.”

“Jiaqiang, you should leave. If you stay any longer, you might be in danger,” Lorenz said on Lin Jiaqiang’s phone. “Leave now, get out of this city, and don’t come back for now…”

When he heard Lorenz say "leave the city," Lin Jiaqiang felt a little dazed for a moment.

A sense of disorientation arises: "Why does this world feel so unreal? Am I dreaming?"

Is everything I'm experiencing now real?

However, it seems that everything I have experienced these past few days is not real, as if I have entered some kind of abstract, bizarre, magical world.

It all started the night I met Tang.

He was "rescued," he received attention, he met OIFU, he met Lorenz...

“Let’s go, let’s listen to your little robot,” Zhao Wenjie said. “We’ve already done a lot…”

Lin Jiaqiang turned his head to look at the still crowded street, watching people fleeing and others approaching. In his eyes, the different streams of people seemed to turn into arrows.

For a moment, he felt as if he were looking down at the world from high above, and the crowds of people walking through the streets in front of him had turned into little robots.

Indistinguishable from anything else, it's just a random "particle" moving forward or backward in this chaotic world.

They were just a series of meaningless arrows.

"Wenjie, have you ever felt that your life has been nothing but a mediocre one, just drifting aimlessly forward?"

"Huh?" Zhao Wenjie didn't expect Lin Jiaqiang to say something so "philosophical" at this moment.

“Every day is like that,” Zhao Wenjie said.

"Have you ever been afraid that your life will remain meaningless until you die?"

"Actually, I think being able to have enough to eat is already a great blessing," Zhao Wenjie said.

Lin Jiaqiang smiled. Yes, only those who have truly experienced hunger and been driven to the brink of despair know how rare some simple things, which seem to have always existed, are.

Being able to fill your stomach is already quite an achievement.

"I remember our late-night talks in the dorm, we always discussed a lot of unrealistic things... like suddenly time-traveling or suddenly gaining superpowers..."

“We even discussed this when we were living under the bridge… Sigh, stop dreaming. Even if we time-traveled, we’d still be at the bottom of society. Even if we had superpowers, we’d probably still be weaklings…” Zhao Wenjie said.

When people are at their lowest point, they tend to doubt themselves and lose confidence.

But we will also face reality.

"But you know, I've met Tang."

"He's just a... seemingly ordinary person. He doesn't have four eyes, nor is he particularly smart. It's said that he's also bad at playing games, with only 1300 points on Maike.com."

“He’s just an ordinary person, someone who looks very ordinary,” Lin Jiaqiang said.

Then he said to Zhao Wenjie, "You should hurry up and go. Your mother is waiting for you to earn money for her medical treatment. Hurry up and take the subway; you might still be able to squeeze on..."

"What about you?"

"What else can I do? What more can I do?" Lin Jiaqiang said. "Don't worry, I have my little robot, I'll be fine!"

As he was speaking, Lin Jiaqiang suddenly saw a three- or four-year-old child by the roadside who suddenly swayed and fell to the ground. His mother was startled and quickly hugged him, shaking him desperately: "Baby, baby, what's wrong? Baby, wake up."

"You guys go! Don't stay here! Take the child and get out of here!" Lin Jiaqiang said to her. "Go quickly, get away from these kinds of vehicles, and don't go near places like this."

The mother was completely disoriented and oblivious to what was happening, still anxiously shaking her child.

"Get up!" Lin Jiaqiang grabbed her and said, "Hurry up, hurry up!"

"Come on, I'll take you to the hospital!" Zhao Wenjie said. "My electric scooter is right next to me. Hold the child tight and sit behind me!"

The mother then realized what was happening and hurriedly followed Zhao Wenjie to his vehicle. Zhao Wenjie got on the electric scooter and looked back.

Lin Jiaqiang waved to him.

"Hurry up!" he mouthed to Zhao Wenjie.

Zhao Wenjie sped away.

Lin Jiaqiang watched Zhao Wenjie's figure disappear for a few seconds. He didn't know if they would ever see each other again after they parted ways at this time.

His mind was still filled with a strong sense of absurdity and bizarre unreality.

But he no longer had time to feel sentimental, because he saw more people collapsing on the roadside. He saw anxious parents calling for their children, and elderly people with white hair calling for their spouses.

How did this city suddenly become like this?
is this real?
"What should I do now?" Lin Jiaqiang asked Lorenz.

“You should run away; this is not your war,” Lorenz said.

"What else can we do besides run away?"

"Try to keep as many people away from here as possible, and I will help you find a safe place."

"it is good."

Lin Jiaqiang saw two elderly people walking towards him one after the other, so he quickly went up to them and stopped them.

The two elderly people appeared to have just come out of the supermarket, carrying two bags of eggs.

“I heard they’re disinfecting up ahead, how can you stop us from going? I saw someone faint over there…”

"Yeah, what's wrong with you, kid?" After being stopped by Lin Jiaqiang, the two of them became anxious. "Look, the line is getting longer and longer!"

"Old man, I feel a little unwell..." said the old lady who looked even worse.

"Get out of the way! My wife isn't feeling well..." The old man's voice was stern, but he had already shown signs of discomfort.

Even so, they still had to push aside Lin Jiaqiang and try to get to the back of the group in front.

For a moment, Lin Jiaqiang thought he should just leave.

Some people are not worth his time; he can only persuade those who listen.

But... he remembered the many people who had helped him when he was down on his luck, and he held back.

He wanted to try to persuade her again, but suddenly an idea flashed into his mind.

Wait, Lorenz said that the reason he had no problems was because OIFU protected him.

Although... Lin Jiaqiang didn't know why OIFU protected him.

But in his mind, OIFU was the most powerful program in the world, and he would never doubt what strange and wonderful things OIFU could do.

If this is the effect of OIFU, then why not just have these people install OIFU as well?

Lin Jiaqiang smiled and said, "Grandpa and Grandma, I'm not stopping you from going, but if you're queuing over there, you need to verify your code and install an app!"

The two of them suddenly realized: "Oh, I see!"

We're familiar with this!
"We don't know how to install it, young man. Can you help us install it?"

“Okay, okay, Grandpa and Grandma, don’t worry, I’ll help you put it on, then you can go and line up,” Lin Jiaqiang said.

"Sigh, I told you you misunderstood that young man. These days, young people aren't that bad!"

After installing the OIFU for the two people, Lin Jiaqiang waved goodbye to the two elderly people. Watching their retreating figures, he thought:

When I run out of food again, I'll go to those two and sell them health supplements.

Wait, how did I suddenly become so good at making sarcastic remarks?
"That should work, right?" Lin Jiaqiang said to Lorenz.

The penetration and installation rates of OIFUs are clearly higher among adults, especially young people.

However, the elderly and children have little to do with OIFU.

Now, Lin Jiaqiang has suddenly found a way to help some of these people install OIFU.

"How did you convince them? How could they listen to you so easily?" Lorenz asked, puzzled.

You're just a little robot, of course you wouldn't understand. You don't have collective memory of a certain period of time!

Lin Jiaqiang smiled but remained silent.

“Qiangzi, I’ve discovered you’re a true genius,” Lorenz said.

Hmm, who said I'm a genius?

I'm just a recent college graduate who was once locked in my dorm room for several months!

Lin Jiaqiang thought to himself.

“I’ll tell others about this method right away!” Lorenz said.

"Also, tell them to tell the people who are installing the equipment that very young children should not be disinfected and should stay away from people who are being disinfected."

Lorenz: "???"

……

On the 41st floor of Qihang Building, Shen Hong frowned as he looked at the images on the large screen.

The population exhibits a certain tendency to seek advantage and avoid harm.

He didn't know how this happened, but they did seem to be showing some kind of self-rescue trend, buying themselves time.

but……

As more and more convoys pass through the critical zone, where can they hide?
"We have destroyed the convoy at point 177," Shen Hong received a report from Kong Ruofei, the captain of Special Operations Team Two. "We are currently en route to point 178."

"What about the casualties?" Shen Hong asked.

Kong Ruofei did not answer, but said, "We will hold the 178 point level."

Shen Hong knew he didn't need to ask anymore.

Communication was interrupted, and Shen Hong stood there, looking at the big screen.

“I should go too,” Li Tieqiang said.

Shen Hong nodded silently and said, "I'm not needed here anymore."

They've done everything they could; it's time for them to go to the battlefield.

He turned to leave.

Just then, his cell phone rang.

He hesitated for a moment, but then answered the call.

"Which one?"

"My surname is Chen." The voice on the other end sounded a bit strange to Shen Hong. Both the rhythm and the tone of the voice had a stiff quality to it. "Reinforcements are on their way. Please hold on."

Shen Hong: "???"

"The Coordination Office isn't just Lin Po-xiao's, nor is it just Lin Po-xiao's Coordination Office." The voice on the phone said, "Sorry, we've been integrating other resources these past few days. I'm on my way now."

"I hope you can arrive in time," Shen Hong said, turning and striding away.

(End of this chapter)