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Qin Ran finally raised her head and looked at Shen Wang.

Her eyes shone excessively bright in the dim light, as if they were filled with water.

There was reluctance and attachment in it, but no questioning.

She didn't ask where you were going, what you were going to do, who you were going with, or how long you were going to stay.

She just looked at him quietly, like a docile cat.

Shen Wang suddenly felt a pang of tenderness in his heart.

"Aren't you going to ask me what I'm doing here?"

Qin Ran shook her head, a forced but genuine smile appearing on her lips.

"If you're willing to tell me, you will naturally do so. If you're not going to tell me, there must be a reason why you're not."

She paused, her voice as soft as a dream: "I just need to know that you'll come back."

Shen Wang didn't say anything, but simply hugged her a little tighter.

The two of them leaned against each other quietly, listening to each other's breathing.

The glow of the wall lamp enveloped them, like a small, secluded nest.

After a while, Qin Ran stirred and sat up from his arms, propping herself up on her arms.

The blanket slipped down, but she didn't care. She just stared at him with a sticky, sugary look in her eyes.

"Junior."

"Um?"

She bit her lip, and the thin blush on her face deepened.

Then she leaned closer and whispered something in his ear, her voice soft and sweet, with a hint of coquettishness at the end.

Shen Wang's ears suddenly felt hot.

He looked down at her, and Qin Ran didn't look away. She just tilted her head up, her eyes sparkling with shyness, expectation, and a little bit of smug mischief.

"Senior, didn't you just say it wouldn't work?"

Qin Ran didn't answer, but buried her face in his shoulder, her voice muffled and slightly nasal: "That's different..."

She didn't say what was different.

But Shen Wang understood.

He smiled and sighed, then reached out and turned the wall lamp up a little brighter.

"Then come on."

Qin Ran hummed in response, her voice barely audible, like a mosquito's buzz.

……

The next morning, when Shen Wang woke up, the person next to him was empty.

There was a note on the bedside table, the handwriting neat and beautiful, clearly Qin Ran's:

"Junior, the porridge is in the pot, drink it while it's hot. Be careful when you go out, I'll be waiting for you to come back. —Senior Sister"

Shen Wang looked at the note for a while, smiled, folded it up, and put it in the drawer.

He got up, washed up, drank a bowl of porridge, and changed his clothes.

If possible, Shen Wang would like to rest here for a few more days.

Although they were surrounded by followers and enjoyed great prestige there, it was still not as convenient as modern life.

The lack of internet access is the biggest problem.

But he has already spent more than two days here, while it has been more than half a month there.

I should go back and take a look.

I wonder if, more than half a month has passed, Brigade Commander Li Yunlong and his men have managed to take Taiyuan in one fell swoop.

"System, time travel."

Shen Wang said in a low voice.

The light in front of me suddenly distorted, followed by a dizzying sensation.

……

1941, outside the city of Zhicheng.

Shen Wang arrived, bringing a large amount of supplies.

I brought back everything I got from the previous ten-diamond gacha pulls, except for the shipyard, the two Lingwu Emperors, and the airport supply pack.

This time there wasn't much stuff; it mainly consisted of chemical defense supplies and an armored brigade.

As for Fifth Master Qiang and Sixth Master Hong, Shen Wang planned to have them fly directly to Zhicheng Airport.

He'll go into town later and say hello, making sure Gao Zilong and his men don't mistake his plane for a Japanese soldier and shoot it down.

However, as soon as Shen Wang appeared outside Zhicheng, he suddenly realized that something was wrong!

Shen Wang frowned and looked towards Zhicheng in the distance.

In broad daylight, the city gates were tightly closed!

Shen Wang's heart sank.

He touched the walkie-talkie at his waist and turned on the channel.

"Flying Tigers, Flying Tigers, this is Shen Wang, please respond."

The walkie-talkie crackled for a few seconds, then a voice came through, filled with surprise and a touch of urgency: "Commander? Commander! You've finally arrived!"

He was the duty officer of the Flying Tigers Regiment. His voice was a little hoarse, as if he hadn't slept well for several days.

"What happened in the city?" Shen Wang asked directly.

There was a pause on the other end.

"Commander... plague!"

Shen Wang's hand tightened.

"The plague was released by the Japanese! It broke out simultaneously in more than a dozen places, including Zhicheng, Quancheng, Hexian, and Huxian. We've already lost quite a few people here."

Shen Wang stood there, silent for several seconds.

The wind blew from the direction of the city, making the sweet, rotten smell even stronger.

He finally understood what that smelled like. It wasn't something rotten; it was someone having a fever, coughing up blood, slowly, bit by bit, wasting away.

"I'm outside the city with a batch of supplies, including chemical protective equipment and medicine."

"You must come out of the city and fetch me immediately!"

"Yes, Commander! We'll be there shortly!"

Soon, a group of people poured out of the city gate.

Upon receiving the news, the Flying Tigers and Zhao Gang, who remained to govern the city, went out of the city together to welcome Shen Wang.

"What's going on?"

Without exchanging pleasantries or wasting time, Shen Wang looked directly at Zhao Gang.

Zhao Gang took a deep breath, and his expression changed.

"Mr. Shen, southeastern Shanxi... is completely rotten."

"Zhicheng, Quancheng, Hexian, Huxian, Licheng, Pingshun... more than a dozen places were all affected overnight, with both plague and cholera."

"A large number of civilians died, and the military also suffered heavy casualties."

"In Guangzhi City, the number of cases has exceeded one thousand, and nearly one hundred have died. The situation is even more serious in Quancheng. The brigade commander is leading his men to hold on, but soldiers are falling ill every day."

Shen Wang's fist slowly clenched.

Zhao Gang continued, "Now the entire southeastern Shanxi has become an epidemic area. Every county has patients, and every village has deaths. There are not enough doctors, not enough medicine, and everything is in short supply."

He gave a bitter smile, a smile that looked worse than a grimace.

"Mr. Shen, we can't even gather enough men to stand guard."

Shen Wang remained silent.

He stood there, looking in the direction of Zhicheng.

The city gate was still the same city gate, but the entire city seemed to have had its spine removed, lying there limply, even its breathing weak and feeble.

He recalled the last time he left, when there was a constant stream of carriages and horses at the city gate, and people lined up to send military rations into the city. Children rode on the walls to watch the excitement, and their laughter could be heard for miles.

How long has it been?

"Damn Japanese devils."

Shen Wang squeezed out these words through gritted teeth.

Zhao Gang looked at him but didn't say anything.

To be honest, he had never seen Shen Wang with this expression before.

Even after being assassinated by Gangcun's men, Mr. Shen was still laughing and joking afterward.

This time, however, Mr. Shen was truly enraged!

Shen Wang took a deep breath.

I forcefully suppressed the surging emotions and my mind started racing.

A stroke of luck amidst misfortune!

It's still in the early stages of the illness.

Zhao Gang said that according to the course of the plague, most patients are still in the stage of high fever and swollen lymph nodes.

This means that if the medication is started now, it's still not too late.

Most people can be saved.

There was one stroke of luck.

He won the chemical defense kit!