DPM Chapter 56-Noah’s Ark Part 2
Translated by Snowfall77
Ye Fan and Wu Xingyun were moving forward on different trains. Halfway through the train journey, Wu Xingyun heard the news broadcast on the radio—humanity had begun utilizing nuclear weapons to annihilate the mutated monsters.
In City C, where the Saer substance leakage had been the most grave, dozens of nuclear warheads had been dropped.
A chill shivering through his heart, Wu Xingyun asked Lu Shi who was beside him: “Company Commander, you……Did you know anyone in City C?”
Lu Shi shook his head: “Aside from you coming from there, there’s no one. I heard every creature was infected, and mutant animals were rampaging all over the place.”
Another soldier interjected: “At Xi’an, the other day, I heard a man from City C say it was overrun with rats and lizards! When he escaped, the rats were waging war on the lizards, and almost everyone had died. I suppose everything there is dead by now.”
Wu Xingyun didn’t speak anymore, turning his head and looking through the window at the dark scenery galloping by. He thought of the heavily populated city, of the two groups of people had separated at that time, and how of the group that went north, only Ye Fan and Wu Xingyun made it. What of the people who had faced the rats? Were any alive? If they were alive, had they been given fair warning about the nuclear warheads?
Wu Xingyun didn’t know. He could only stare out the window.
The sun was in hiding and a sheet of darkness covered the land, the outline of the Gobi desert barely detectable. According the propaganda, Wu Xingyun knew there wasn’t many mutations here. Partly because it was far enough away from the Saer leaks, partly because there weren’t too many local species. Large-scale mutants were better suited to living in forests. In the desert, life adapted to be poisonous.
The trains sometimes halted. Tracks were damaged. Other times, everyone had to file out and march to the next station, hopping a new train.
Yet despite that, their speed was swift. Five day later, they’d arrived at humanity’s largest, most stable, and final spacecraft launch base.
The task of Wu Xingyun’s team, passed down the night they arrived, was to contribute skilled workers to building of an engineering project.
""More simply put, they would help build ‘Noah’s Ark.’ Mankind’s way of departing the Earth.
Wu Xingyun made preliminary estimate of the amount of troops there, comparing it to the number of soldiers he knew the Federation had ultimately carried away.
He was quite clear on the fact that of the hundreds of thousands of people at the base, at least half would be left behind.
Whenever he thought about this full realization, a strange feeling consumed Wu Xingyun.
From the bottom of his heart, he thought himself wrong, but he wanted to leave with the Federation.
Especially when Wu Xingyun thought about Ye Fan, this idea grew even more intense.
Wu Xingyun had to tell himself almost every day: “It’s history. You can’t change what it is. The only thing you can do is see Mozun on that ship. He’ll kill more people on the battlefield. A hundredfold more than those who will die now.”
Only by repeating was Wu Xingyun able to have a little peace in his heart.
He actually hadn’t seen Ye Fan for days. They belonged to different teams that barely intersected.
But Wu Xingyun heard about Ye Fan nearly every day. For example, one day Ye Fan discovered something dangerous, or tomorrow he’ll eliminate this threatening mutation.
Over time, Ye Fan’s name was becoming a bit famous.
“He’s a ferocious fighter.” That was the evaluation of one of Wu Xingyun’s teammates. “I saw him throttle a mutated rattlesnake with his bare hands.”
“He’s not very accommodating, he always seems to see through people’s thoughts.” This assessment was from a soldier who’d once provoked Ye Fan. “Anyway, ever since xxxx was taught a hard lesson by him, nobody dares stir up trouble with him again.”
Wu Xingyun listened quietly to these observations, sometimes welding steel, sometimes digging trenches.
One day, he helping grind helmets suitable for space combat, when he spotted a lanky shadow coming towards him under the bright lights.
It had been about half a month since they’d been apart, and this was their first time meeting since then.
The figure was taller and wearing a military shirt, two buttons open, revealing strong, tight pectoral muscles.
His skin was clear and his eyes quiet. There was an apparent bloodstain on his cuff, and from head to foot, he exuded a wintery chill.
Before, Wu Xingyun had been with Ye Fan every day. Now, meeting again after a half month separation, Wu Xingyun found that Ye Fan had changed a great deal.
Ye Fan walked right up to Wu Xingyun, showing a smile. A very charming smile. “Yun, do you have time tonight?”
Distracted, Wu Xingyun blanked out for a moment before saying: “No, what’s the matter?”
“Luo Ying invited us to dinner,” Ye Fan told the soldier, “She said she’d been busy and hasn’t had time to thank us for saving her last time.”
Looking at the helmet he was working on, Wu Xingyun saw it needed more work. He replied: “Oh. It doesn’t matter. You go, I’m a little busy.” He bowed his head, fiddling with the helmet in his hands.
But Ye Fan’s hand stretched out, seizing the machinery in Wu Xingyun’s hand. Slightly stooping, Ye Fan looked Wu Xingyun in the eye: “Yun……I already asked your leader to give you a leave of absence. Come on, let’s……We haven’t seen each other for a long time.”
Giving Ye Fan a somewhat helpless look, Wu Xingyun thought the other was truly acting shamelessly.
So Wu Xingyun simply nodded. “Alright, I’ll wash my hands.”
Ye Fan followed Wu Xingyun, and they washed their hands side by side. Then, from a pouch, Ye Fan took a golden necklace with a medallion and gave it to Wu Xingyun: “A present for you.”
Creasing his brow, Wu Xingyun asked: “What’s this?”
Ye Fan leaned close to Wu Xingyun’s earlobe and whispered: “Hush! This is a ship ticket.”
Astonished, Wu Xingyun stared at Ye Fan. Ye Fan just smiled and said: “I listened to Luo Ying, I know what they’re planning on doing……It’s only three or four months more, and everyone who stays behind will die.”
Wu Xingyun examined the gold medallion. It was marked with a number, name, department, and contained a microchip.
Seeing his own name, Wu Xingyun couldn’t help being shocked. Finding it all somewhat unbelievable, Wu Xingyun asked Ye Fan: “You……Where did you get this?”
“I was out on a mission and saved my commander’s life,” Ye Fan answered Wu Xingyun, “He asked what I wanted, and I……I said your name. Hmmm, fingerprints……I used your registered fingerprints.”
His brain a little dizzy, Wu Xingyun had previously worried that Ye Fan wouldn’t leave the Earth with him. He hadn’t expected that Ye Fan himself would take the initiative to do so.
Wu Xingyun felt the piled up misgivings from the past few days fade away, and gave a shining smile: “Ye Fan, you decided to come with me? Great! Where’s your pass? Show it to me.”
His expression a little awkward, Ye Fan said: “I didn’t bring it. I’ll show you some other time.”
Suspicious, Wu Xingyun fixed his gaze on Ye Fan, and Ye Fan cracked under its weight: “I don’t have one. My commander said he could only give one spot. It’s useless to renege now, your name is already in the database. It can’t be changed.”
After a moment, Ye Fan continued: “I’ve mutated again recently, I sense many different things. Getting hold of a ship ticket won’t be difficult.”
Wu Xingyun gripped the golden necklace in the palm of his hand, the metal cold and hard to the touch.
An awareness surged from his palm to his heart, turning warm. Originally, Wu Xingyun had intended on relying on his future knowledge reserves. But, as Ye Fan said, it wouldn’t cost Ye Fan much effort to get another ticket. Now Wu Xingyun wouldn’t have to barter his middle school learning of the curvilinear theory formula with a scientist for two tickets.
Recently, Wu Xingyun had locked onto several unwitting scientists as potential targets, though he hadn’t been ready to act yet. He knew the exact time ‘Noah’s Ark’ would take off, and he’d planned on doing the exchange in the last month.
What he hadn’t expected was that Ye Fan would nab a ticket earlier. And that……Ye Fan would consider Wu Xingyun first.
“Ye Fan, thank you,” Wu Xingyun said.
Ye Fan smiled. Hearing Wu Xingyun say ‘thank you’ made it all worthwhile. He asked: “Are you done washing? Come on, let’s go visit Luo Ying. She’s probably been waiting a long time.”
Wu Xingyun went “Mmm,” and followed Ye Fan out, walking side by side towards the scientific and technical staff residential area in the distance.
The buildings were designed to prevent the invasion of mutated life, and were already the prototype of Federation architecture. The canopy and feet were all steel, spotlights on either side of a channel shining down, pulling the two people’s shadows long.
Lowering his head, several times Wu Xingyun watched the shadow of Ye Fan’s hand stretch towards his own. Seeming as if Ye Fan wanted to hold hands, yet didn’t dare.
Wu Xingyun halted his footsteps. A lot of soldiers were passing through, along with some engineers and technicians.
Slightly bowing his head, Ye Fan faced Wu Xingyun, asking: “What’s wrong with you? Why did you suddenly stop?”
Raising his head slightly, Wu Xingyun took in this man before himself.
In less than a year, Ye Fan had transformed completely.
Wu Xingyun inexplicably recalled the first time they’d met.
Mozun had ostentatiously arrived on the horizon, while Wu Xingyun had been nervously picking out his dowry team.
Mozun had said that he’d once had a lover, one he’d never forget.
The lover had died in an earlier time, and had looked just like Wu Xingyun.
Putting his hand in his pants pocket, Wu Xingyun felt the metal therein warming his palm. He asked abruptly: “Ye Fan, are you……Are you in love with me?”
For his own safety, Ye Fan immediately denied: “No……No, how is that possible? Don’t think like that, I didn’t have any other meaning. It’s just, you’ve saved me, several times. I don’t have anything to repay you with, so……Don’t misunderstand me!”
“Hmm.” Wu Xingyun turned around silently.
Of course. Mozun had lived over two thousand years. From Wu Xingyun marrying Mozun to this moment, when it was all said and done, they’d only interacted less than two years.
For an ordinary person, those hours may be a relatively long time.
But for the Mozun Wu Xingyun had met two years ago, it was just spindrift in an endless river.
Wu Xingyun started walking again. Ye Fan quietly followed behind the soldier, no longer attempting a handhold.
Although their bodies were separated by a certain distance, their shadows overlapped and merged together on the ground. Ye Fan watched this and smiled.
This feeling was truly fine! Happy!
DPM Chapter 56-Noah’s Ark Part 2
Translated by Snowfall77
Ye Fan and Wu Xingyun were moving forward on different trains. Halfway through the train journey, Wu Xingyun heard the news broadcast on the radio—humanity had begun utilizing nuclear weapons to annihilate the mutated monsters.
In City C, where the Saer substance leakage had been the most grave, dozens of nuclear warheads had been dropped.
A chill shivering through his heart, Wu Xingyun asked Lu Shi who was beside him: “Company Commander, you……Did you know anyone in City C?”
Lu Shi shook his head: “Aside from you coming from there, there’s no one. I heard every creature was infected, and mutant animals were rampaging all over the place.”
Another soldier interjected: “At Xi’an, the other day, I heard a man from City C say it was overrun with rats and lizards! When he escaped, the rats were waging war on the lizards, and almost everyone had died. I suppose everything there is dead by now.”
Wu Xingyun didn’t speak anymore, turning his head and looking through the window at the dark scenery galloping by. He thought of the heavily populated city, of the two groups of people had separated at that time, and how of the group that went north, only Ye Fan and Wu Xingyun made it. What of the people who had faced the rats? Were any alive? If they were alive, had they been given fair warning about the nuclear warheads?
Wu Xingyun didn’t know. He could only stare out the window.
The sun was in hiding and a sheet of darkness covered the land, the outline of the Gobi desert barely detectable. According the propaganda, Wu Xingyun knew there wasn’t many mutations here. Partly because it was far enough away from the Saer leaks, partly because there weren’t too many local species. Large-scale mutants were better suited to living in forests. In the desert, life adapted to be poisonous.
The trains sometimes halted. Tracks were damaged. Other times, everyone had to file out and march to the next station, hopping a new train.
Yet despite that, their speed was swift. Five day later, they’d arrived at humanity’s largest, most stable, and final spacecraft launch base.
The task of Wu Xingyun’s team, passed down the night they arrived, was to contribute skilled workers to building of an engineering project.
""More simply put, they would help build ‘Noah’s Ark.’ Mankind’s way of departing the Earth.
Wu Xingyun made preliminary estimate of the amount of troops there, comparing it to the number of soldiers he knew the Federation had ultimately carried away.
He was quite clear on the fact that of the hundreds of thousands of people at the base, at least half would be left behind.
Whenever he thought about this full realization, a strange feeling consumed Wu Xingyun.
From the bottom of his heart, he thought himself wrong, but he wanted to leave with the Federation.
Especially when Wu Xingyun thought about Ye Fan, this idea grew even more intense.
Wu Xingyun had to tell himself almost every day: “It’s history. You can’t change what it is. The only thing you can do is see Mozun on that ship. He’ll kill more people on the battlefield. A hundredfold more than those who will die now.”
Only by repeating was Wu Xingyun able to have a little peace in his heart.
He actually hadn’t seen Ye Fan for days. They belonged to different teams that barely intersected.
But Wu Xingyun heard about Ye Fan nearly every day. For example, one day Ye Fan discovered something dangerous, or tomorrow he’ll eliminate this threatening mutation.
Over time, Ye Fan’s name was becoming a bit famous.
“He’s a ferocious fighter.” That was the evaluation of one of Wu Xingyun’s teammates. “I saw him throttle a mutated rattlesnake with his bare hands.”
“He’s not very accommodating, he always seems to see through people’s thoughts.” This assessment was from a soldier who’d once provoked Ye Fan. “Anyway, ever since xxxx was taught a hard lesson by him, nobody dares stir up trouble with him again.”
Wu Xingyun listened quietly to these observations, sometimes welding steel, sometimes digging trenches.
One day, he helping grind helmets suitable for space combat, when he spotted a lanky shadow coming towards him under the bright lights.
It had been about half a month since they’d been apart, and this was their first time meeting since then.
The figure was taller and wearing a military shirt, two buttons open, revealing strong, tight pectoral muscles.
His skin was clear and his eyes quiet. There was an apparent bloodstain on his cuff, and from head to foot, he exuded a wintery chill.
Before, Wu Xingyun had been with Ye Fan every day. Now, meeting again after a half month separation, Wu Xingyun found that Ye Fan had changed a great deal.
Ye Fan walked right up to Wu Xingyun, showing a smile. A very charming smile. “Yun, do you have time tonight?”
Distracted, Wu Xingyun blanked out for a moment before saying: “No, what’s the matter?”
“Luo Ying invited us to dinner,” Ye Fan told the soldier, “She said she’d been busy and hasn’t had time to thank us for saving her last time.”
Looking at the helmet he was working on, Wu Xingyun saw it needed more work. He replied: “Oh. It doesn’t matter. You go, I’m a little busy.” He bowed his head, fiddling with the helmet in his hands.
But Ye Fan’s hand stretched out, seizing the machinery in Wu Xingyun’s hand. Slightly stooping, Ye Fan looked Wu Xingyun in the eye: “Yun……I already asked your leader to give you a leave of absence. Come on, let’s……We haven’t seen each other for a long time.”
Giving Ye Fan a somewhat helpless look, Wu Xingyun thought the other was truly acting shamelessly.
So Wu Xingyun simply nodded. “Alright, I’ll wash my hands.”
Ye Fan followed Wu Xingyun, and they washed their hands side by side. Then, from a pouch, Ye Fan took a golden necklace with a medallion and gave it to Wu Xingyun: “A present for you.”
Creasing his brow, Wu Xingyun asked: “What’s this?”
Ye Fan leaned close to Wu Xingyun’s earlobe and whispered: “Hush! This is a ship ticket.”
Astonished, Wu Xingyun stared at Ye Fan. Ye Fan just smiled and said: “I listened to Luo Ying, I know what they’re planning on doing……It’s only three or four months more, and everyone who stays behind will die.”
Wu Xingyun examined the gold medallion. It was marked with a number, name, department, and contained a microchip.
Seeing his own name, Wu Xingyun couldn’t help being shocked. Finding it all somewhat unbelievable, Wu Xingyun asked Ye Fan: “You……Where did you get this?”
“I was out on a mission and saved my commander’s life,” Ye Fan answered Wu Xingyun, “He asked what I wanted, and I……I said your name. Hmmm, fingerprints……I used your registered fingerprints.”
His brain a little dizzy, Wu Xingyun had previously worried that Ye Fan wouldn’t leave the Earth with him. He hadn’t expected that Ye Fan himself would take the initiative to do so.
Wu Xingyun felt the piled up misgivings from the past few days fade away, and gave a shining smile: “Ye Fan, you decided to come with me? Great! Where’s your pass? Show it to me.”
His expression a little awkward, Ye Fan said: “I didn’t bring it. I’ll show you some other time.”
Suspicious, Wu Xingyun fixed his gaze on Ye Fan, and Ye Fan cracked under its weight: “I don’t have one. My commander said he could only give one spot. It’s useless to renege now, your name is already in the database. It can’t be changed.”
After a moment, Ye Fan continued: “I’ve mutated again recently, I sense many different things. Getting hold of a ship ticket won’t be difficult.”
Wu Xingyun gripped the golden necklace in the palm of his hand, the metal cold and hard to the touch.
An awareness surged from his palm to his heart, turning warm. Originally, Wu Xingyun had intended on relying on his future knowledge reserves. But, as Ye Fan said, it wouldn’t cost Ye Fan much effort to get another ticket. Now Wu Xingyun wouldn’t have to barter his middle school learning of the curvilinear theory formula with a scientist for two tickets.
Recently, Wu Xingyun had locked onto several unwitting scientists as potential targets, though he hadn’t been ready to act yet. He knew the exact time ‘Noah’s Ark’ would take off, and he’d planned on doing the exchange in the last month.
What he hadn’t expected was that Ye Fan would nab a ticket earlier. And that……Ye Fan would consider Wu Xingyun first.
“Ye Fan, thank you,” Wu Xingyun said.
Ye Fan smiled. Hearing Wu Xingyun say ‘thank you’ made it all worthwhile. He asked: “Are you done washing? Come on, let’s go visit Luo Ying. She’s probably been waiting a long time.”
Wu Xingyun went “Mmm,” and followed Ye Fan out, walking side by side towards the scientific and technical staff residential area in the distance.
The buildings were designed to prevent the invasion of mutated life, and were already the prototype of Federation architecture. The canopy and feet were all steel, spotlights on either side of a channel shining down, pulling the two people’s shadows long.
Lowering his head, several times Wu Xingyun watched the shadow of Ye Fan’s hand stretch towards his own. Seeming as if Ye Fan wanted to hold hands, yet didn’t dare.
Wu Xingyun halted his footsteps. A lot of soldiers were passing through, along with some engineers and technicians.
Slightly bowing his head, Ye Fan faced Wu Xingyun, asking: “What’s wrong with you? Why did you suddenly stop?”
Raising his head slightly, Wu Xingyun took in this man before himself.
In less than a year, Ye Fan had transformed completely.
Wu Xingyun inexplicably recalled the first time they’d met.
Mozun had ostentatiously arrived on the horizon, while Wu Xingyun had been nervously picking out his dowry team.
Mozun had said that he’d once had a lover, one he’d never forget.
The lover had died in an earlier time, and had looked just like Wu Xingyun.
Putting his hand in his pants pocket, Wu Xingyun felt the metal therein warming his palm. He asked abruptly: “Ye Fan, are you……Are you in love with me?”
For his own safety, Ye Fan immediately denied: “No……No, how is that possible? Don’t think like that, I didn’t have any other meaning. It’s just, you’ve saved me, several times. I don’t have anything to repay you with, so……Don’t misunderstand me!”
“Hmm.” Wu Xingyun turned around silently.
Of course. Mozun had lived over two thousand years. From Wu Xingyun marrying Mozun to this moment, when it was all said and done, they’d only interacted less than two years.
For an ordinary person, those hours may be a relatively long time.
But for the Mozun Wu Xingyun had met two years ago, it was just spindrift in an endless river.
Wu Xingyun started walking again. Ye Fan quietly followed behind the soldier, no longer attempting a handhold.
Although their bodies were separated by a certain distance, their shadows overlapped and merged together on the ground. Ye Fan watched this and smiled.
This feeling was truly fine! Happy!
