"Pa, pa, pa." As the downpour washed through the trees, drops of it fell into the mud through the gaps between the trees.
One by one, they moved slowly, trying their best to keep their composure.
Ling Jie leaned against a tree trunk. She panicked as she looked at Xiao Man, who was only ten meters away from her. The rain had hit her body before as she hid into the mud along with the blood.
The heavy rain gradually intensified, and the temperature of the entire area dropped by a few degrees Celsius.
Xiao Man slowly sobered up. Her hands and feet were tied, and her entire body couldn"t move at all. She looked around with a blank expression, and was completely devoid of anyone.
"Drip, drip, drip." The rain fell from the contours of her chin onto the ground. A dry patch at the corner of her mouth was split open, and strands of blood seeped out.
The wind was howling, and the air was thick with the smell of blood.
"Rustle, rustle." There were light footsteps moving around. She tried to move her hands and feet, and sure enough, she couldn"t struggle anymore.
Ling Jie was about to rush over to save her, but Zhao Qing, who was behind her, caught her.
Zhao Qing said, "It"s impossible that there will be no ambush."
Ling Jie shook her head, with a serious look on her face, "She"s injured, didn"t you see her legs bleeding?"
"I know, but why is she tied up here alone? Why was there no one watching? Do you think that the other party deliberately allowed her to give us a chance to save her? " Zhao Qing asked again.
Ling Jie became anxious, "Then what do we do? Are we just going to watch as she loses too much blood and dies in battle? "
BOOM! Before the two of them had even finished arguing, a bullet had pierced through Xiao Man"s shoulder.
Xiao Man gritted her teeth, trying her best to not make a sound.
"No." Ling Jie could not hold it in any longer and shouted loudly.
Xiao Man heard the voice and looked at the s.p.a.ce that was concealed within, then shook his head with great effort. "No, don"t come over."
Zhao Qing covered Ling Jie"s mouth, gritting her teeth, "It"s a trap, Ling Jie, this is a trap, calm down."
"Zhao Qing, it"s all because of me. It"s all my fault that I let her pa.s.s. I can"t let her die. You guys cover me, I"ll go save her." Ling Jie pushed Zhao Qing away and crawled forward stubbornly.
Rain struck Xiao Man"s face. She looked at the figure that slowly entered her line of sight with a pale face. Suddenly, a light flashed before her eyes. She roared, "Don"t come over."
BOOM! The bullet hit the ground.
Ling Jie rolled to the right vigilantly, bullets covered the sky and fell down.
"Don"t come over, don"t come over. Go back, go back." Xiao Man violently struggled.
BOOM! Another bullet went through her other shoulder.
"No, no!" Ling Jie was forced back behind the tree. She hit her hands, "They did it on purpose. They must have done it on purpose."
Xiao Man raised his head high into the sky, and the sound of rain falling fell into her eyes. She lowered her head again and shouted with all her might, "Let"s go."
Her angry roar echoed through the forest, drowning out the sound of the rain and the sound of the gunfire.
BOOM! The bullet pierced her waist, causing blood to flow all over the ground.
Xiao Man"s head heavily hit the tree trunk as he opened his mouth to reveal the most heartless of smiles:
"Don"t come over here, don"t come over here, don"t, don"t come over here!"
Xiao Ye heard the gunshot and looked at the mist in the forest. He clenched his teeth and pierced through the thick rainforest.
His clothes were torn and his face was cut open. He couldn"t wait any longer. He definitely couldn"t wait any longer.
A glint flashed across his eyes and he raised his sniper rifle, ready to fire.
"Second Brother, Big Brother"s Telephone." A man walked up behind the man who was observing the situation.
The man picked up the phone. Before he could say anything, he heard the other party swearing without hesitation.
"Get the h.e.l.l back here right now! Who allowed you to shoot at the Chinese, get the h.e.l.l back here immediately!"
"Big Bro — —" The man had already hung up before he could finish his sentence.
"Second brother, what do we do now? Do you still want Little Eight to shoot? "
The man hesitated for a moment. His eyes gradually became sharp. "Shoot, kill her."
BOOM!
BOOM!
Two gunshots sounded at the same time.
The sniper fell straight down from the tree. He had been shot in the head and died on the spot.
"Xiao Man!" Ling Jie lost her composure and pushed Zhao Qing away. Without caring about whether there were other snipers around, she scrambled to Xiao Man"s side.
Xiao Man spat out a mouthful of blood. A bullet pa.s.sed through his heart at the location of his heart, and his blood surged out in an especially warm manner.
Xiao Ye finished off the sniper and hurried back. Looking at Xiao Man who had been released, it was difficult for him to move an inch in that instant.
"What are you trying to say?" Ling Jie grabbed her hand.
Xiao Man pointed at Xiao Ye at the back of the crowd and spat out another mouthful of blood.
Xiao Ye put down the gun in his hand and squatted at the side, "Speak, I"m here."
Xiao Man"s voice was intermittent and somewhat unstable. "Alligators, crocodiles, crocodiles."
"I understand. Don"t say anything, I"ll take you out." Xiao Ye picked her up.
Xiao Man"s hand drooped down, and his vision became hazy. She smiled, and it was a very brilliant smile. "I … I am … quite honorable."
Xiao Ye walked very steadily and his blood flowed along his hand, wetting the ground. "Those who can enter the battlefield are all honorable."
"Sir, I … I haven"t written a will. Can I have a message?"
"Do you want to tell my big brother?"
Xiao Man shook his head. "I want to tell Xiao Jing that even though she has failed me, I still hope for her happiness. I"ll marry her in the next life. "
The sound gradually disappeared and the rain continued to fall into the forest. Xiao Ye suddenly stopped.
Behind him, all the female soldiers stopped.
Holding the weapon in his hand, everyone lined up and saluted.
The rain seemed to have stopped at that moment, but everyone"s faces were still wet.
The helicopter hovered in the air before slowly descending.
Pei Zi Yun led all the members of the Iron Eagle Army and entered the black forest in an orderly manner. The smell of blood mixed with the smell of gunpowder a.s.saulted his nostrils.
"Vice team, someone"s coming." Cheng Chen pointed at the silhouettes that were gradually becoming clearer in the rain. After confirming that it was one of his own, he rushed forward.
Xiao Ye put Xiao Man on the rock. She had already closed her eyes, and her blood had stopped gus.h.i.+ng.
For a moment, the only sound in the entire s.p.a.ce was the sound of the raindrops penetrating the forest.
"Purge." Mr. Pei raised his hands high in the air and swung them down.
"The people have already retreated." Xiao Ye said in a m.u.f.fled voice. He looked up at Pei Qi and said, "Southern Crocodile."
The rain was getting heavier. When it hit his face, it was like a knife sc.r.a.ping. It was so painful that it caused people to feel cold.
Black cars drove into the Iron-Eagle Battle Team one by one. During the night, it rained heavily, causing people"s bones to turn cold.
Shen Chengfeng held up an umbrella for Xiao Jing and watched her uncover Xiao Man"s corpse. He watched as she put on the Red Eagle Group emblem that she just gave and then watched as she placed the special team emblem representing glory on her chest.
Xiao Jing gently wiped off the dust on her face. She was clearly very clean, but she still stubbornly wiped it twice. "It doesn"t matter if you want to be my aunt or my sister-in-law. Why do you have no backbone? How come you don"t have the courage to tell them what your purpose is? "
Within the coffin, the woman calmly closed her eyes. Due to the loss of her blood, her body became very light.
Xiao Jing stood in front of the car with her head held high and her chest puffed up. All of the members of the special task force stood behind her. The cold rain drenched everyone"s clothes. They gave a proper military salute as they watched their comrades-in-arms leave.
He then looked at the reluctant company.
Wear this s.h.i.+ny helmet again.
My beloved epaulettes are left on the morning of my departure,
There were tears flowing in his heart.
Sweat and youth dyed the river green,
The strong and hot-blooded energy condensed into a monolith.
Treading on the autumn wind today, travelling far with the wind.
I"ll remember who I did it for.
For who!
Beneath the high wall, a man was sitting on the ground in a dejected manner. Rain continued to flow down from the puddles on the ground and unceasingly flow down from his body.
Xiao Ming stood in front of Xiao Ye with his umbrella over his head, "Go back, why are you sitting here?"
"Big Bro, I can save her, but I just need to be a bit faster and finish that sniper quickly, then she won"t die." Xiao Ye blamed himself with both hands holding his head.
Xiao Ming crouched down and took his hand, "This is not your fault. Do you understand?"
"Big brother, I"m too conceited."
"Like I said, it"s not your fault. Every mission is like this. We don"t have the power to predict. If we face such a choice, you should be clear that we have to give up on saving our comrades."
Xiao Ye"s head hit the wall heavily, "I know I should give up, but I can"t."
"Stand up. You disappoint me. We are soldiers, not losers. Stand up."
Xiao Ye held on to the wall and slowly stood up. His hands were clenched into fists.
"They are all newbies. I don"t know how to choose in that situation, and I can"t wait to risk my life to save my teammates. But Xiao Ye, you know very well that there is only one choice."
"Big brother, I cannot do it. Even if I only have one last breath left, I must bring them back alive."
"The more you care, the more he"ll use an even crueler method to kill her. He could have just killed her with one shot, but he forced her to take seven shots. Every shot is stuck in a fatal place, and every shot is stuck in the bone."
"Big brother!"
"The enemy will not be merciful because of our pleas, nor will they be moved by our advances. What they want is for all of you to charge at them one by one and then let her watch as her innocent comrades died in vain. Xiao Ye, war is cruel, human nature is ugly. The only thing we can do is eliminate all of them, do you understand? "
Xiao Ye stood up straight and gritted his teeth, "Yes, Big Brother."
"I have already sent people to observe the situation in the Black Forest 24 hours a day. If there is any movement, I will let them know the anger of the soldiers of the Flower Country."
"Yes, big brother."
Xiao Ming took out his handkerchief and wrapped it around Xiao Ye"s hand twice. "Go bandage it well. Our hand is for holding guns, not for hitting the wall. Go on."
Xiao Ye walked through the alley. When he walked out, he saw a figure standing in the corridor, motionless.
With her back facing Xiao Ye, Xiao Jing expressionlessly looked at the door in front of her.
"Creak!" With the sound of an old wooden door, she pushed it open and entered.
The room was rather dark. She turned on the light and saw that there were a few books neatly arranged on the small table. There was a small lamp and two or three pens were scattered beside the lamp.
Xiao Ye went into the house with her.
Xiao Jing looked at the person behind her. She sat down on a chair and opened a drawer. "You haven"t gone back yet?"
"You"re the one who should go back." Xiao Ye went up to stop her from opening the drawer, "Stop looking, let"s go back."
"Special teams have a rule that states that every mission requires one to write a will. Let me look around and see if this incompetent fellow will also obediently leave a will."
"Don"t bother looking for her. She is here for the a.s.sessment, not for the mission. She doesn"t have a will." Xiao Ye was still dripping with water. He turned his head, "Sister Four, are you sad?"
"I don"t know. I just know that it"s like my heart is buried by a mountain." In the end, Xiao Jing still opened the drawer. She looked at the scattered items inside and finally found an envelope under a small notebook.
The envelope was also dripping with volcanic mud. There were two words written on it that were especially eye-catching: A will.
Xiao Jing laughed bitterly at herself. "She knows the rules."
Seeing her tear open the envelope, Xiao Ye said, "Stop looking."
"Based on my understanding of her, her will is only one sentence." Xiao Jing stubbornly opened the envelope.
"..." Xiao Ye wanted to cry but had no tears.
Hahaha, hahaha, hahahahaha.
Xiao Jing read the words one by one. "She even belched at the end."
"What an unpleasant laugh." Xiao Ye sat on a stool at the side and felt an indescribable sense of powerlessness from head to toe.
"Yeah, it"s awful." Xiao Jing"s hands trembled as she stuffed the letter into the envelope.
The night wind was blowing harder, blowing against the windows.
"Dong, dong, dong." The sound of hurried footsteps came from the corridor. The next moment, the tightly shut door was pushed open from the outside.
He pushed open the door and entered with an anxious expression, "I"ve just received news, is he really dead?"
Old Qi was sitting on a chair, his face solemn. The empty window was still open, and a gust of cold wind was blowing in. The entire room was filled with an indescribable chill.
Elder Xun was at a loss as he walked around the room twice and said to himself, "How could this be? Impossible? Is the Shen family making up false news? "
Old Qi pinched the bridge of his nose. "He has already been sent to the cemetery. He will enter the tomb at seven in the morning."
"I just wanted to extinguish their prestige and suppress their conceit. I never thought that things would turn out like this."
"Now, you should think about how to deal with the Shen family"s questioning. If something like this happened, they definitely wouldn"t let it go."
Elder Xun sat back on his chair, "At that time, I did not expect that the outcome would be like this. At first, I thought that although the Black Forest was very dangerous, but these people are already well-trained elite troops.
"Whatever you say now is something that will be said later." "If this matter was deliberately used by someone, combined with the close relations.h.i.+p between us from before, it would definitely turn into you deliberately oppressing Xiao Jing, causing an elite under your direct leaders.h.i.+p to die in vain. This is something that needs to be dealt with."
"Of course I know the seriousness of the situation, but let me give up my face and have a chat with them. If I can"t do it, even if the special forces" elites fall into trouble during the training, they can"t blame their superior for not being able to do it." Elder Xun crossed his legs. It was obvious that he did not plan to lower his face to say some words of apology.
"Of course I know about your pride, but do you think that this matter will be resolved easily by Shen Chengfeng?"
Xun Lao was at a loss for words. The tense atmosphere between them two days ago was already enough. If they were to add fuel to the fire now, it was likely that their bodies would be burned.
"The person you are bullying right now is his wife, and your choice of location is problematic as well. The Black Forest is already blacklisted for the special team a.s.sessment. Unless there is no other choice, no leader will personally approve the a.s.sessment at that location."
"I"ve already said that the female soldiers are lacking in stamina. If it was another special team that entered the Black Forest, how could they have perished in battle?"
Old Qi was silent as he stared unblinkingly at the man in front of him who was still unwilling to lower his head.
Elder Xun stood up with a swoosh, he raised his head with a haughty expression, "If Shen Chengfeng still knows the military rules, he would not question the decision of my officer."
After watching him leave, the look in Old Qi"s eyes darkened. The three of them had been in the military for a long time, controlling and supporting each other. They had formed an unspeakable hidden wave, but one day, one of the scales began to tilt.
As he left the office, his hands bent unnaturally, he hurried down the stairs.
The driver handed him his coat. "Sir, will you go back to the house?"
Elder Xun got into the car tiredly. "Let"s go back."
"Knock, knock, knock." The door was knocked again.
He had his back facing the person as he spoke. "I want you to do something. This thing must be done without leaving a trace!"
In other words —
Why did I have to see my own death on my day of great joy? My heart felt a bit heavy now. I need you to vote to comfort me.