Diamonds

Neither of us could sleep on Friday night.

Zheng Ke stared blankly at the date engraved on the wall. This was the 31st day they came to Africa, a whole month.

Young Master Zheng, who has always been forgiving, knew that he would definitely suffer from insomnia tonight.As soon as he turned around, Xie Qiuqi didn't sleep either.The two people's eyes met, Zheng Ke was quietly holding his hand under the quilt, it was still cold, this is not normal.

"Are you afraid?" Zheng Ke asked Xie Qiuqi for the first time.

Xie Qiuqi didn't say anything.

Zheng Ke smiled: "I always thought that you are very courageous and not afraid of anything. It doesn't matter if you are caught by Zheng Shihua, locked in a container, mining, delivering goods, negotiating...you seem to be fearless. It turns out that you will be afraid too, why didn't I notice it before."

"I'm human too, so of course I'm afraid." Xie Qiuqi said flatly.

Zheng Ke put his own quilt on his quilt, and the two quilts formed a tube.It seems like this, the words he said will not be cold before reaching Xie Qiuqi's bed——

"What would you do if you got out? I mean, free from all these things..."

"I haven't thought about it yet." Xie Qiuqi showed a thoughtful expression.

He really hasn't thought about it yet.He is used to living life step by step. It is obviously his own life, but he is the one who has the least right to speak.

"Is there nothing you want to do? Have you ever wished before?"

"I once thought about saving enough money, buying a boat of my own, and traveling around the world. If I don't have enough money, I can just find a dock to work as a boatman, and save enough money before leaving. Is it worthless?"

"It's very romantic. When I was in college, I wanted to be a professional e-sports player. Do you know what e-sports is?"

"What do you mean?"

"E-sports is just playing games. China has not yet started to develop, and the United States is already very mature. I am still a member of the club."

"Is there any money to be made?"

"There are bonuses. World-class competitions, such as the WCG champion can have 100 million US dollars."

Xie Qiuqi heard for the first time that playing games can make so much money: "Did you go to the competition?"

Zheng Ke shook his head, a little embarrassed: "No. My dad felt that he had lost his ambition and almost stopped my living expenses."

Xie Qiuqi smiled: "When I was young, I watched Jin Yong, and my mother called it spiritual opium."

Zheng Ke has never watched Jin Yong.He went to school in America since high school, he watched Tolkien, Asimov, Dan Brown.At that time, American high school students loved to watch these. Jin Yong was a bit old for him, like the name of a historical figure.

However, Xie Qiuqi was indeed six years older than him. If there was a gap of three years, there would be at least two age gaps between the two of them.Their life experiences are completely different, and their growth environments, social circles, and living habits are also very different. They should be two lives.

"If, I mean if," Zheng Ke made a swallowing motion: "Go back to Macau, bring down Zheng Shihua, and take back the control of the company. Would you like to continue...stay in the Zheng family?" Will you? continue to stay with me?he wants to ask.

Xie Qiuqi asked back, "You want me to stay?"

Zheng Ke nodded vigorously: "I don't worry about anyone else except you."

Xie Qiuqi joked: "Then you have to pay more. The original salary is definitely not enough."

Money is a small matter.Zheng Kehao said angrily: "Be a partner, get dividends, and count the money lying down."

Xie Qiuqi regarded him as a young man with sincerity.Zheng Ke now feels that he is indispensable, just like when the emperor felt that the lack of a brother was equivalent to a severed hand and foot when he fought against the country.When he sat on the dragon chair, he might not still think so.However, it is good to have this sincerity.

Zheng Ke was about to say something, but there were faint footsteps outside.Then the chain slid up.

A new day has finally begun.Xie Qiuqi stood up and said, "Let's go. Take the first level first."

No one spoke on the way to the mine.There are cumulus clouds in the dark sky, a knife is hidden behind the back, and only a sharp point of the moon's edge is exposed, like an executioner wearing a hat.This knife has been hanging above the head for a long time, and when the auspicious time comes, it will fall from the sky, slaughter and drink blood, and kill him to make the world clean.

Xing Zhifei was pushing a single-wheeled cart, which contained blasting explosives, mainly emulsified oil explosives and nitrous oil explosives. The first one was specially used for underwater blasting, and its main ingredients were ammonium nitrate, sodium nitrate and Sodium perchlorate, because of its low power and certain water resistance, is very suitable for blasting in open-pit water mining areas.However, in order to control costs, it is impossible to buy enough emulsified oil explosives. Low-end nitrate oil explosives are an alternative, with similar effects, except that they are not waterproof.

The soldiers and miners all moved to the safe area in advance.On the wet and foggy river bank, I can't wait to squeeze the air to squeeze out the water.Xie Qiuqi grabbed a handful of red mud from under his feet, and asked a soldier in Portuguese——

"Do you really believe that the soil here is red because the blood of the ancestors stained the soil red?"

It was a new soldier, probably underage.He avoided it impatiently, concentrating on smoking.That smell is not nicotine, Xie Qiuqi can smell it.He smiled, watching the sand and sand leaking from his fingers.

Xing Zhifei and his assistant ran back, holding the detonator in their hands: "Anyone want to play?"

A soldier was eager to try, and Xing Zhifei handed him the detonator.

The countdown begins——

“10、9、8、7、6、5、4、3——2——1——”

The sound of the explosion was like shooting balloons through the bed, which was very boring and unpleasant.Just listening to the sound also knows that the effect will not be good.There was a smell of chemicals and gunpowder smoke in the air, and a yellow mushroom smoke rose from the explosion area. Xie Qiuqi was choked by the particles in the air and coughed twice.

Xing Zhifei got up to look, and came back soon to report——

"Sir, it didn't work. It may be that the dynamite is wet. We may need to conduct another blast."

The elder soldier at the head looked very angry—

"Why are the dynamite wet? They're just bought."

"The weather was very wet, and it may have been because the moisture in the ground was so high that it soaked the explosives. You know, there is only a layer of paper on the outside, which is not waterproof."

"No matter what, you must succeed today! You find a way!"

"Yes, yes, you and other officers should stay in the safe area. To ensure safety, please send a few more people to help me refill the landfill."

The old soldier waved his hand: "You! Everyone who can help, please help. Don't stay here and be lazy, don't think that this is the time for you to rest."

He drove all the miners to the blast site, and some miners stayed behind because of fear.Xing Zhifei took him away after repeated persuasion.

After the explosion, the red mud on the ground turned upside down, and scattered debris can be seen everywhere.Xie Qiuqi dug out a paper package that failed to explode.Zheng Ke stared at him and said, what are you doing, what if it blows up?He shook his head and put it in his arms.

Xing Zhifei confirmed that all the miners had left the safety zone, and gave Xie Qiuqi a look. Another detonator was exposed from his cuff.

That's the dynamite detonator in the safe zone.

Xie Qiuqi remained silent, took a deep breath, took it over and pressed down on the red dot——

There was a second explosion.

The flames instantly blasted the sky completely white.Xie Qiuqi felt the muddy ground under his feet shaking, and he and Zheng Ke raised their bodies and rushed out almost at the same time.The distance from the explosion point to the safety zone was less than 50 meters, passing through the lingering fireworks, he saw the miners running around in fright, thinking that the explosion was beside him, someone was stepped on, and he did not know how many feet were run over him, so he smoothly Pull people up.

The smell of gunpowder smoke became stronger, and the smell that could not dissipate for a long time seemed to come from the dilapidated rental house two months ago, exactly the same as the smell of bullets.Particles kept hitting his face or getting into his eyes, Xie Qiuqi had to squint his eyes, he didn't know what he stepped on halfway, he staggered, he instinctively lowered his head to look, a half-shattered arm rolled beside him .

Zheng Ke's face turned pale with fright, and he looked at the five stiff and bleeding fingers like a ghost, as if this hand would crawl over at any time.

"Let's go!" Xing Zhifei shouted from behind.

Xie Qiuqi shuddered and continued to move forward.Zheng Ke and him led each other. They found a long gun on the ground, which was dropped by a soldier. Xie Qiuqi picked it up and continued to search for more corpses.

The safe point is nothing short of a corpse pit, dead men piled like rubbish in the clearing, blood seeping into the dirt where the diamonds are buried.Some soldiers had half their faces blown off, and some hugged their blown stomachs, and their intestines fell out of their hands. Xie Qiuqi even saw an eyeball that fell out, looking at him with round pupils. .He held his gun and dared not move, wanting to see if there were any surviving soldiers.

Zheng Ke couldn't bear it and vomited out on the spot. No matter how much he saw in the world, he was scared to death by the tragic scene.No one thought that Xing Zhifei buried so many explosives—he modified the composition of the explosives without permission, and combined the cost of three explosives into one—it could be regarded as revenge for the scar on his head.

Suddenly a gun barrel rushed out of the thick fog on the side, and the soldier yelled furiously: "You bloody bastards—"

Xie Qiuqi grabbed Zheng Ke and shouted, "Get down!"

Continuous bullets swished past Zheng Ke's elbow, and Xie Qiuqi knocked the butt of the gun on the soldier's knee with his backhand. The man knelt on the ground in pain, and the gun fell from his hand.Before he breathed a sigh of relief, who would have thought that another one would rush up behind him, holding a gun and starting shooting indiscriminately, scaring Zheng Ke out of his wits, and crawling to the ground with his head in his arms.

Xie Qiuqi threw the bomb that he had just carried on his body towards the muzzle of the gun. The gunpowder of the bullet immediately hit the explosive, and with a bang, the soldier's head flew out of his neck on the spot.A huge blood flower exploded on the neck, the artery was blown off, and the blood gushed out. When the headless corpse fell to the ground with a muffled sound, the red pulp was still sizzling outside.

The smell of blood has risen beyond the table.

Zheng Ke crawled a certain distance only to find that Xie Qiuqi was gone, and he shouted in panic.Unexpectedly, the sound gave away his position, and Negligence stretched out a hand from behind to grab his shoulder.He yelled in fright, avoided grabbing the arm and threw him over the shoulder on the spot.This is what he learned in the field team before, but he didn't expect it to come in handy.

The soldier was already wounded, but he didn't expect him to work hard.A dog gnawed on the mud, Zheng Ke was afraid that he would get up again, so he kicked violently towards his stomach. The soldier grabbed his feet and pulled him down. The two of them rolled into a ball, and Zheng Ke also suffered a lot. With his fist, he used all his teeth. He bit the soldier's face and tore off a piece of flesh. The soldier covered his face and screamed in pain, revealing one side of his neck.

Zheng Ke saw the timing and hit his neck with a knife, and he passed out completely.

The young master beat someone for the first time, and a sense of accomplishment and excitement gradually rose in his chest.He looked at his trembling fist, the knuckles were cracking, he was no longer afraid now, he wished he could rush to the enemy and kill again.

Before the excitement subsided, a hard object hit the back of his head.His blood turned cold, and he knew it was the muzzle of a gun, so he regretted not picking up a gun just now.

The soldier with the gun was younger than he was, and trembled more than he was.The child may not even know a few words, and he jumped out word by word in Portuguese: "You, you don't move, I, I shoot."

Zheng Ke probably heard something, he was also nervous, and raised his hands to pretend to surrender.At this moment, he turned his head quickly, looking around for the weapons he could find.The boy scout probably hadn't killed anyone before, so he didn't dare to shoot, and threatened him while calling his companions around.

Zheng Ke was afraid that he would attract more people, so he led him to talk: "How old are you? You are not yet an adult, put the gun down, I know you will not kill people, you are not the kind of person who does this kind of thing at all. You are a good boy .”

How could the child listen to him: "Shut up!"

"Hey, listen," Zheng Ke turned his head away, betting that this kid would not kill someone: "I know you are afraid, I understand, but I want to tell you that killing people will only make you more afraid. You will always be afraid, and being an executioner is really scary."

He saw the kid's face, a boy, so thin that it came up to his chin, and the gun looked stronger.The boy held the gun with great difficulty, half of his arm almost hugging the barrel of the gun, obviously because the gun was too heavy and his wrist was sore and weak after holding it for a long time.

Zheng Ke sighed in his heart, what a crime this is.He put his hand on the barrel of the gun and slowly pushed the barrel down. When he remembered this scene afterwards, he was afraid that if the child was a little unstable, or the gun misfired, his hand would be useless.

"You go." Zheng Ke said to him: "Never come back, and don't get caught again."

The child dropped the gun, showed a slumped expression, and ran into the woods.

Zheng Ke picked up his gun, which was still full.He was about to leave when someone called his name behind him.

Xing Zhifei led a few old miners and just finished dealing with a few soldiers: "We cleaned up the area behind, and there is no one left."

Zheng Ke was still looking for Xie Qiuqi: "Where is Qiuqi? Have you seen him?"

The smoke dissipated a bit.The skyline cracked a line of mica white, the sun was about to rise, and before sunrise the war had to be over.

Xie Qiuqi still had one person to deal with. His hands were so sticky that he couldn't hold the gun, and it was covered in blood.He simply dropped the gun and hooked his hands at the soldier: "There is not much time, let's finish the battle quickly."

The soldier only had a dagger in his hand, and he rushed towards him and stabbed him with his hand raised.The speed was not enough, Xie Qiuqi turned his head to dodge, clasped his wrist and twisted it, the wrist bone dislocated directly, the soldier didn't even have time to scream, he clasped his head and twisted it forcefully, his neck was twisted abruptly.When he fell to the ground, his mouth was still open, and a bloody handprint of Xie Qiuqi was printed on half of his face.

Xie Qiuqi coldly kicked the corpse away, as if it was just a rag to wipe his hands.He looked up and saw Zheng Ke and Xing Zhifei approaching.

"I don't know what's going on with Aola." Xie Qiuqi looked up at the air-raid shelter.

They were too excited to kill just now, with explosions and gunshots, they didn't have time to pay attention to the air-raid shelter.At this time, the mine ground became quiet, and only faintly heard gunshots and shouts near the air-raid shelter.The momentum is noisy, and I am afraid it is also a fierce battle.

Xing Zhifei counted the number of people, sixteen soldiers and five miners died.Including Xie Qiuqi and Zheng Ke, less than ten people remained.They picked up all the guns they could and headed for the dugout in rags.

Ola cooperated very tacitly and just finished cleaning.There are not many soldiers left in the air-raid shelter, so it is not too difficult for them.The woman who delivered the food was still boiling water when she died.They carried all the corpses into the yard, and cheers washed away the mountains and forests.

Ola was there in person and was very pleased with the result.She shook hands with Xie Qiuqi: "Thank you."

Xie Qiuqi said: "Our task has been completed, I hope you can complete the things you promised me as promised."

Ola was in a great mood: "Don't worry, I, Ola Mwaku, am not a dishonest person."

"Next, we need to send people to garrison here, laying an ambush in advance, and wait for the shepherd dog to come back to give him the final blow. It is best to catch him alive, so that we can have an extra chip in our hands to contain the 'commander'. "

"If you need help, you can take full command of my people."

Xing Zhifei is the happiest person.He clapped his hands and sang: "We should celebrate and celebrate! I'll go to the kitchen to see what to eat!"

He went and scavenged all the food in the kitchen and distributed it to the miners.Zheng Ke still felt unreal with baked potatoes in his hand, as if this victory came too soon.

Ola and his men were responsible for counting the weapons. They also found a lot of brand new ammunition, guns and cold weapons in the air-raid shelter.

At this time, the mobile phone rang, and it was Ola's brother calling——

"Sister! Suddenly the police came and surrounded the factory, and all the goods were confiscated! Think of a way quickly, and many masters have been arrested!"

Ola's face darkened.

Xie Qiuqi realized something was wrong: "What's wrong?"

Ola answered him with a grim look: "We've been tricked."

The author says:

The two started chatting about life and ideals 233333 The ex is usually used for assists, so don’t worry too much~