Sapphire case

23.

"Shhhhhh"—

The sound of other vehicles speeding behind the armored vehicle has already been heard. Lao Zhang picked up a spare rifle from the side of the vehicle, lowered the window and shot at the rear side. Stray bullets came one after another. There was only a roar, and a bullet hit his left side. Side chest!

"Old Zhang!"

Gu Sheng called out to him, and Jiang Cheng turned his head when he heard the sound. In the meantime, Lao Zhang used the willpower left over from his training in the secret service when he was young to forcefully close the car window, and he almost lost consciousness during the shock of the car.

It was too late, but before Jiang Cheng turned his eyes back to the road ahead, he watched Gu Sheng get up suddenly, climbed up the car seat, and took the sniper rifle that Lao Zhang used just now, without any hesitation. , smashed the rear window glass with the butt of the gun, and shot three consecutive shots to the rear!

"Hey!"

Jiang Cheng blurted out, and the body suddenly drifted!

He can use a gun!

Why would he use a gun? !

Jiang Cheng couldn't see the trace of the chasing car, but only heard the sound of reloading from the back seat. He was surprised that Gu Sheng would suddenly take the gun over, and he was full of doubts, and Lao Zhang just used bursts. However, when Gu Sheng took it, it seemed to switch to a single-shot gun. Just when Jiang Cheng was full of doubts, the gun was thrown back to the front seat. He tried his best to turn his head to look. rise!

"Boom boom boom"...

But it was too late.

Another small-caliber bullet passed through Jiang Cheng's left arm, which was pressing the steering wheel, and penetrated into his right leg, and glass shards were embedded in it, causing severe pain with every bump of the car body.

The armored vehicle lost control, crashed into the small woods by the river, ran over the grass frantically, rushed forward amidst the dense gunfire and explosions, and overturned several mule carts parked on the river bank in succession. Amidst the sound, the sound of tires rubbing against the ground, and the sound of the mighty river, the front half of the car body protruded out of the embankment, hanging on it!

The sky and the earth are filled with the sound of the surging river, and the heavy breathing of the people in the car is like a train running over a sleeper.

Gu Sheng straightened up slowly from under the seat, and the whole car trembled following his movements.

Now the front half of the car hangs out of the cliff, and less than two feet below is the choppy Huaihe River. The engine system of the car is almost completely damaged. Jiang Cheng and Lao Zhang, who has lost consciousness, are sitting in the driver and passenger seats respectively. The car's precarious balance was maintained by the young man in the back seat.

The rear tires of the car, the central axis of the chassis and the cliff form a dangerous lever, and the rear door remains on the ground, which means that as long as Gu Sheng jumps out of the car while opening the door at this time, he can escape alone.

Gu Sheng gently leaned his back against the back of the chair, trembling almost imperceptibly.

He tried his best to stabilize his mood, his Adam's apple rolled up and down with difficulty, and because of clenching his back molars, there was even a slight depression on his thin cheek.

He slowly raised his eyes, and met Jiang Cheng's gaze looking at him in the rearview mirror of the car.

There was an unbearable burning pain on the arm that was shot, and there was stickiness under the thigh.

Jiang Cheng knew from experience that the injury to his right leg was worse than that of his arm, because glass shards cut a large blood vessel, and the deformed carriage stuck his right hand that was pressing on the handbrake, making him unable to perform correct hemostasis operations.Now the blood in his body was draining uncontrollably from his legs.

And he tried his best to hold back the pain. When he saw Gu Sheng's appearance in the rearview mirror, the thought that flashed through his mind was: Oh, he still looks so beautiful...but it's the same as the first time. Why did you become so haggard compared to seeing him?

An indescribable bitterness crawled from his chest down the throat to his throat, making Jiang Cheng's entire mouth gradually bitter.

Oh, Jiang Cheng vaguely remembered that he had actually treated him badly before.

Although he never admitted it, and never refused to think of this possibility, but to this day, when Jiang Cheng saw Gu Sheng in the rearview mirror on the cliff beside the Huai River, the shocking change forced him to Him, let him have to face everything in the past.

To Gu Sheng... He was actually sorry for Gu Sheng.

This kind of cognition is even more painful than bullets tearing muscles, breaking bones, glass shards cutting skin and contusing blood vessels.

Jiang Cheng muttered for a while, feeling that the blood loss in his legs was hindering his thinking, and tried his best to direct his vocal cords to make the sound he wanted.

He looked at Gu Sheng and said in a low voice, "Let's go."

"You're not hurt...? That's great."

"Go quickly, don't wait for them to catch up again."

Gu Sheng looked at him for a while.

Jiang Cheng suddenly felt that there were too many indescribable emotions and more unfathomable things gathered in that almost static gaze, so complicated that it was difficult to recognize. His current consciousness made him unable to delve into the deep meaning. The remaining rationality warned him to let Gu Sheng leave quickly, while the dark place in his heart was begging for mercy in a low voice.

"You..." Jiang Cheng bared his teeth.

"Can you put the back of the chair down?" Gu Sheng asked.

Jiang Cheng was taken aback.

Gu Sheng didn't seem to expect any timely and reasonable feedback from him, so he was about to grope forward with his hand.The whole carriage was shaken suddenly, making Jiang Cheng tremble for a moment and came back to his senses in an instant: "Don't! Don't move! I'll try! I'll try!"

Gu Sheng held his breath and leaned a little to the side, staring at Jiang Cheng's movement of clinging to the car seat and slowly lowering it, Jiang Cheng's bloody right leg was also directly exposed in his sight, Jiang Cheng noticed His gaze, trying to gather the little clarity left in his mind, said: "It's okay, it's okay, a little injury..."

He pressed the right hand that had finally been removed from the deformation to the base of his thigh, and nodded to Gu Sheng.

Gu Sheng didn't care about his injury, leaned over and pulled open the left car door, waiting for Jiang Cheng to lean over with his injured leg.

"I'll count to three, two and one to jump out of the car, you can figure it out." Gu Sheng pursed his lips, pressed his right hand on the door on the right side, his chest heaved violently, and heard him shout in a low voice, "Jump!"

The dark car hovering on the bank of the river suddenly shook, lost its balance in an instant, and collided with the cliff twice in a row. The shattered car door flew a few meters away, and fell into the Huaihe River with a bang, splashing the muddy water of the Huaihe River for more than several feet. !

The splash of water and the two figures hit the shore at the same time. Jiang Cheng didn't expect that Gu Sheng would yell and jump, half a beat later, the moment the back of his head was detached from the car, he was knocked hard by the car door, and the last will to survive was squeezed out of his body The last adrenaline in the shot made him temporarily ignore the severe pain caused by it, and grabbed the stone cliff with his uninjured right hand, and threw himself up with the water splash!

Immediately afterwards, he only felt his forehead hit the ground, and the side ribs made a crisp fracture sound. In his blurred and congested vision, a tall and thin figure approached him, and he lost consciousness as soon as his eyes went dark.

In the middle, Jiang Cheng woke up once or twice in a trance, only felt that everything in front of him was shaking, and the familiar touch seemed to be on his side, sometimes approaching and sometimes far away.

Jiang Cheng said hoarsely, "...Gu Sheng?"

The young man beside him responded, "Yes."

Jiang Cheng suddenly felt that he was dreaming, suddenly felt that he had actually fallen off the cliff, suddenly felt that everything in his mind was not real, there was a vast whiteness in front of him, it seemed that there were only him and the young man on the ground.

Jiang Cheng asked again: "Gu Sheng?"

This time no one answered, Jiang Chengwu nodded.

By the way, how is it possible.

He wished I was dead, how could it be him?

Unexplained happiness flowed through Jiang Cheng's unclear consciousness, as if he didn't need to be seen by that person in such a distressed state; and there seemed to be an indistinct, intense and deep depression and sadness like a needle prick, forcing him to breathe hard. Tangled with remorse.

"I'm sorry... Gu Sheng, I'm sorry." He murmured unconsciously.

After a long time, a soft sound came from the depths of the empty consciousness...

"Ah."

When Jiang Cheng woke up, the first thing he saw was Gu Sheng.

Gu Sheng was sitting on a stool, peeling an apple slowly, raised his eyelids and glanced at him, saw that he was awake, got up and walked outside: "Doctor Yang?"

Jiang Cheng raised his head in horror, and was forced to stop by the pain in the back of his head, a man who looked younger than Du Han hurried in, Gu Sheng followed, and leaned against the doorway, biting lazily. That Apple, watching him with a blank face, being tossed around by that crappy doctor surnamed Yang.

Jiang Cheng felt that the sound he made was not his own, so he grinned and asked Gu Sheng for help: "What's going on... Where am I?"

Jiang Cheng heard what happened next from the medical student named Yang Xian.

He was transported here on a mule cart, and only the simplest first aid measures were taken on him. He lost a lot of blood and was in a critical condition. Fortunately, he was in excellent physical condition, and thanks to Dr. Yang's superb medical skills, he finally brought him back from the brink of death. Rescued and returned.

However, the young man who sent him here had an old illness and couldn't bear the intensity of walking in the north wind for more than half an hour. Falling unconscious on a chair, Yang Xian quickly asked someone to take his body temperature, only to find that this person continued to have a low-grade fever.

Hearing this, Jiang Cheng was quite moved and very ashamed, secretly thinking that after this past, he must confess Gu Sheng as a Buddha, and he must not be wronged any more.

Yang Xian also mentioned that the place where he is staying now is a small clinic opened by his own family. He studied medicine at home. His parents started to learn Western medicine, and he followed suit. Later, he went to medical school.Gu Sheng was exhausted at the time, and he had just arrived at the intersection of Linhuai and Chang County, when he was discovered by a group of folks and quickly called for help.

According to him, at that time, a group of young students organized a philosophical seminar in Changxian County, calling on people to get in touch with new literature and art and new ideas. The masses carry out popular education and strive to get more people's support...

Jiang Cheng cast a contemptuous look at this skinny monkey-like young man, and said, "Aren't you a medical student? Why do you meddle in this?"

"Isn't that! Everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the world!" Yang Xian stopped his gestures of impassioned speech and frowned.

"Oh," Jiang Cheng sarcastically said, "'Gu Yanwu, who protects the world, is worthless and responsible'. Why don't you say this is an old idea now?"

"Hey? You," Yang Xian jumped up, "this sentence has been changed! You have to adapt to the times!"

Jiang Cheng sneered, and wanted to tease the young man again, when he heard someone coughing lightly outside the door, Yang Xian turned his head to look, Gu Sheng leaned against the door frame, and raised his chin to him: "...you and What is he talking about? Mama Li is looking for you in a hurry, go quickly."

Yang Xian wanted to refute when he heard it, but when he heard the second half of the sentence, he quickly got up from the stool, asked where he was, and ran out.

Gu Sheng sat down on the stool Yang Xian was sitting on just now, took an apple from the bedside and began to peel it.

Now he peels an apple for himself every day, and often gives half of it to Jiang Cheng, which moves Jiang Cheng to tears.If this kind of blessing can last, Jiang Cheng can't wait to have his arm broken for another ten days and half a month.Then Jiang Cheng felt heartbroken for his temporary disability, and felt that it was unforgivable for Gu Sheng to serve him, and he had to get well quickly.

Jiang Cheng took a sip of water to stabilize his mood, and asked him: "Why don't you go by yourself?"

Gu Sheng looked up at him, and said, "Repay your favor."

Jiang Cheng let out a "tsk", and became dishonest again, stretching out his good right hand to rub his face: "Hey, it's too inhuman to say that, it's not a shameful thing to say that you can't bear it." ..."

Gu Sheng's face turned cold all of a sudden, and the smooth blade of the knife pressed against Jiang Cheng's wrist with a cool feeling: "You move again, believe it or not, I will cut off your right hand?"

His tone is calm, but it makes people intuitively believe that he will do what he says.

Jiang Cheng glanced upwards, because he was relying on others now, so he had no choice but to give up: "Okay, okay... I thought I was going to die, oh, you don't know, when I heard you say that, I felt like suddenly ...It's like the pie fell from the sky and I lost my head, I thought I was crazy..."

"I don't want to owe you," Gu Sheng wiped the knife surface on the handkerchief twice, cut off half of the apple and gave it to Jiang Cheng, looking up at him calmly.

Jiang Cheng was stunned for a moment: "You don't owe me anything...?"

He thought about it for a long time, and only remembered that he had treated Gu Sheng all kinds of times, left and right felt that he was not human, only he owed him, not Gu Sheng owed himself.Although according to Jiang Cheng's idea, Gu Sheng owed him a favor, but it didn't sound like a big deal, so he couldn't figure out what Gu Sheng was referring to.

If you don't think it through, you can't figure it out, anyway, Gu Sheng is quite satisfied with Jiang Cheng's attitude towards him now, Jiang Cheng is very open-minded.Then he asked again: "Hey, how did you get involved with this group of students? Then Yang Xian stared blankly, not being honest, pretending that I couldn't see where this was? Is there a secret radio station down there?"

Gu Sheng packed up his things and was about to leave, but he stopped when he heard this.

Jiang Cheng smiled behind him: "Collude with revolutionaries and donate to illegal newspapers without permission. Do you think I don't know what you are doing behind my back?"

Gu Sheng turned around silently.

Jiang Cheng met his gaze, sighed, and the expression on his face was soft as if he was lonely for a while: "...don't always avoid me like this, as if I'm some snake, scorpion, tiger, and leopard that can eat you. You just Can't you try trusting me once?"

Gu Sheng turned his face sideways, drooping his eyelashes quickly, and shook his head unconsciously.