third rebirth

There were clouds in the sky, and the glare of the sun was completely blocked.Ling Chen's long legs in camouflage trousers were spread apart, and his high-top military boots were tied at the bottom of his trousers. He sat casually on a moss-covered stone.

With a grass in his mouth, he waited patiently for Jiang Mu to read the document he had passed—the information about Ye Xiao.

It took 5 minutes to read it carefully, Jiang Mu's expression didn't change significantly, and he didn't speak.

The corner of Ling Chen's mouth curled up into a lazy smile, "Do you know why I lost my mind at that time?" He bent down and broke a few grass stalks from the ground, pinched off the heads and tails, and removed the excess leaves, moving his fingers nimbly Get up, and speak flatly,

"I lived in an orphanage until I was six years old, and my parents were unknown. When I was six years old, I passed the genetic screening and was sent to the training base by the Silver Blade organization. The experience during the period is unknown. He was 15 years old, and I just brought someone to take the Silver Blade. After the blade disappeared, he was brought into the holy order, and his experience during the period is also unknown. In June of this year, he suddenly appeared in the fourth district, and then entered the D district alone. A few days later, when we faced the skeleton wolf, he shot saved us."

"It's like someone specially sent by the Holy Inquisition to come towards us with a clear goal and preparation, right?" Ling Chen's fingers stopped, and he was silent for a few seconds, unable to tell what emotion he was in, " But I still want to believe him."

In Ling Chen's dictionary, the word "trust" is rarely found.

The reason why he was appointed to take over as the commander-in-chief of the Second Department at the age of 19 was because when he followed the former commander Liang Ling on a mission, there were traitors inside and they were sold out.

At that time, the second department dispatched a total of 27 people. When they returned, there were only eleven left.During that time, every night when he closed his eyes, Liang Ling, covered in blood, would appear in front of his eyes, clutching his hand tightly, and using his last strength to give an order—take your Comrades, your brothers, your subordinates rush out, don't look back!Don't look back!

He did it and didn't look back.

The tragic lesson made him understand that the trust you put in will often be rewarded with a sharp knife.

"During his time at Silver Blade and Sacred Judgment, his experience was unknown, so we can't make a conclusion prematurely." Jiang Mu looked at the small straw lantern gradually taking shape in Ling Chen's hands, and didn't say anything more, just repeated it in front of Ling Chen. The sentence sent to Ling Chen by the research institute, "You know how much he values ​​you."

It took a few seconds for Ling Chen to respond, "Yes."

So he chose to believe in himself and him for the time being.

Jiang Cancan and Ye Xiao haven't finished chatting about their days here.

"...Xiaomu and I both graduated from the First Military Academy, excellent graduates! I am from the individual combat department, and he is from the information technology department. When we were about to graduate, didn't the second department come to select candidates, and Xiaomu and I were selected Got it. I have to sigh, Brother Chen still has a good eye for seeing people!"

He sighed faintly, "The only thing I didn't expect was that I, a handsome young man with a bright future, was forced to become a cross talk actor after entering the second part!"

Ye Xiao was amused, he propped his chin with one hand, nodded his head twice, his half-dry hair swayed with the movement.

Ling Chen walked over and brushed Ye Xiao's hair casually. When someone raised his face to look over, he handed over the newly made little lantern in his hand, "It's for you."

Ye Xiao, who was sitting on the ground with his knees hugged and quietly listening to Jiang Cancan's words, his eyes lit up instantly, he reached out and took the little lantern, and held it in his hand like a baby, as if he was so surprised that he couldn't speak clearly, "Yes... yes Give me……"

"Shhh, be good, it's for you." Ling Chen put his hands back into his pockets, standing loosely, without any aggressiveness, and asked casually, "What are you talking about?"

Jiang Cancan replied enthusiastically, "Brother Chen, that pretty girl you met three years ago! Single for 27 years, the only memory with pink bubbles!"

Ling Chen looked at Ye Xiao subconsciously, and found that he was playing with a straw lantern with his eyelashes downcast, unable to distinguish his expression.Feeling a little guilty for no reason, and irritated, Ling Chen frowned, and said in a bad tone, "What little girl? Forgot."

Ye Xiao's hand holding the little lantern stopped, and the position of his heart suddenly felt uncomfortable.

Already forgot.

After lunch, the four of them casually sat on the grass for a meeting while it was still dark.Ling Chen was turning over the saber in his hand to exercise the dexterity of his fingers, Jiang Cancan was wiping the barrel of the K57 with a rag, Ye Xiao was holding a small straw lantern in a daze, only Jiang Mu had a serious expression and sitting posture.

"The first point is about the research institute. Judging from the information derived at the end, this research institute has already mastered relatively basic gene fusion technology. As for whether the follow-up research will continue to advance after the institute was abandoned, it is temporarily impossible to judge. I can only say that if the follow-up research continues, the experimental products that survived will be very dangerous."

Ling Chen said "Yes", "Send a report to the command center and ask them to send someone to investigate."

"Yes." Jiang Mu's tone did not change, and he began to say the second point, "I suspected from the beginning that this institute was not simply engaged in biological gene research, and this suspicion was confirmed in a document in the main processor. After cracking After reading the confidential documents, I found that the core research direction of this laboratory is to improve individual combat capabilities, and the object of this document is the Silver Blade organization. So I suspect that this research institute is owned by the Silver Blade."

Ling Chen raised his eyes and looked over, "Improve individual combat capabilities? Do you mean the mantis people?"

Jiang Mu: "Yes."

Jiang Cancan couldn't help but swear, "It's been a long time since Master Can! If you keep doing this, the world is really going to end! Even though it's almost over now!"

Jiang Mu didn't answer his words, and continued to analyze, "Before being destroyed by Brother Chen, the Silver Blade was the second largest organization after the Holy Order. On the surface, it was engaged in mercenary business and assassination business, and intervened in gene fusion experiments. Logically there is no problem."

Ye Xiao kept his head down, not knowing what he was thinking of, his hand holding the small straw lantern was trembling.

Ling Chen glanced over his fingertips, and said to Jiang Mu, "Well, when submitting the report, add this content as well." In other words, the discussion on this issue ends here first.

He also ordered, "Xiaomu draws out the route map to the fourth coordinate point. Rest well tonight and get some sleep. We will set off early tomorrow morning. Is there any problem? If there is no problem, we will leave."

The sky was getting dark gradually, Ling Chen finished counting the food and ammunition, jumped out of the rear compartment neatly, landed and looked around, but saw no one, he frowned, kicked Jiang Cancan's calf with his foot, " What about people?"

Jiang Cancan was picking up stones and pulling Jiangmu to play backgammon. His level was poor and he was extremely attentive, and he replied without raising his eyes, "Ask the kid? I saw him walking in the direction of four o'clock just now. He shouldn't have walked very far. He It seems that he is in a bad mood, as someone who has experienced it, I suggest not to disturb him, adolescent children will always have unspeakable melancholy."

Ling Chen thought of the nine-year-old generation gap, "tsk", backed up to the car and picked up a portable outdoor light, and then walked unsteadily in the direction pointed by Jiang Cancan.

Ye Xiao was sitting on a thick branch of an old tree, holding a long knife in one hand and a small lantern in the other, dazed.Hearing the movement, he lowered his head and looked at Ling Chen standing under the tree in surprise, "You...why are you here?"

"Come to coax you." Ling Chen quickly climbed up the tree.

Ye Xiao's hand holding the scabbard loosened and then tightened, but he quietly moved out, letting Ling Chen sit next to him.

Ling Chen stretched out his arms and hung the field lights on the branch of the tree, and the small area where they were located lit up.He sat with his back against the tree trunk, with one leg bent and knees stepping on the branch, the other leg hanging down casually, looking at Ye Xiao with a smile in his eyes.

"Did it hurt you when you set up the gun in the underground laboratory, so you were unhappy? Do what you say, fight back, and never fight back."

Ye Xiao shook his head hastily, and murmured, "No, it doesn't hurt, and I'm not unhappy, I really like... fighting side by side with you."

"Coincidentally, I like it too." Ling Chen quietly looked at his reddened ears, still smiling, "What's the matter? Who made our Ye Xiao unhappy?"

"No." Ye Xiao didn't dare to look at Ling Chen, and lowered his eyes to stare at his own toes.Thinking of what Ling Chen said, "What little girl? Forgot", a little bit of grievance popped up in my heart.He wanted to hold back this emotion, but he couldn't control it, and his eyes were red.

Can you not forget.

Ling Chen kept staring at his expression, and when Ye Xiao's eyes turned red, he noticed it, and his usual steady state of mind collapsed, "Fuck, this is..."

"I didn't cry." Ye Xiao lowered his head, a little ashamed in his heart, he didn't want Ling Chen to find out that his eyes were red.

From Ling Chen's point of view, Ye Xiao's fair chin almost touched his chest.He tried to recall his state of mind when he tried to recall his state of mind. He seemed to have inexhaustible energy every day. He also liked to save face and put on a show. He was severely punished by the veterans of the second department. His self-esteem was broken and his heart was broken, so he would quietly go to the shooting range to practice shooting all night. .

So for reference, Ye Xiao probably doesn't want to let himself find out that his eyes are red, this involves a man's face.

So Ling Chen emphasized, "I didn't see anything." He simply changed the subject, "Do you have any favorite animals?"

"Ah?" Ye Xiao was dumbfounded by the question, but as long as it was asked by Ling Chen, he would answer it very seriously, "I don't like anything in particular, and I like all the ones that aren't fierce."

What is the answer?The corner of Ling Chen's mouth curled into a smile, he looked around, took out his saber, stretched out his hand and cut off a tree branch as thick as a thumb, took it into his hand, quickly removed the bark, and cut it into a small piece.

Ye Xiao's attention was attracted, he subconsciously shook his dangling feet, and asked curiously, "What are you doing?"

Ling Chen: "Coax you."

Ye Xiao didn't know how to answer, so he just watched quietly.The lighting lamp was hung on the tree trunk, and the warm yellow light fell down, making Ling Chen's facial features trapped in interlaced light and shadow.His eye sockets are a bit deep, his nose is straight from the root of the mountain, and the hard and sharp jaw line is softened by the light, which easily fascinates him.

Ling Chen knew that Ye Xiao was looking at him, he thought to himself, just look at it, look at it as you like, I am generous.But after being stared at by this gaze for less than a minute, Ling Chen found that his psychological quality was not as good as expected.He stopped the movement of his hands, raised his head to meet Ye Xiao's gaze, and smiled unseriously, "Your captain has sugar on his face?"

Ye Xiao: "Huh? No...no."

Ling Chen narrowed his eyes slightly, and his smile was a bit sinister, "Then, have you seen enough?"

Ye Xiao seemed to be bewitched, opened his mouth, and said what was in his heart, "...No."

"Fuck," Ling Chen started to chuckle, the laughter in his throat was deep and magnetic, he stretched his brows, and looked at the person in front of him with redder ears, "Well, it's approved, you continue to read."

After a few more minutes, Ling Chen handed Ye Xiao the little thing carved with a saber in his hand, "Look, do you like it?"

Ye Xiao stared at the little wooden rabbit in Ling Chen's hand without blinking. It was very simple, with two eyes and one mouth, and only a pair of long ears that could tell it was indeed a rabbit.

Ling Chen raised his arm patiently, holding the rabbit in his palm for him to see, "Little rabbit is not fierce, usually obedient, but it will bite when it is in a hurry, it is very similar to you." Seeing that Ye Xiao didn't move, he said ,"hand."

Ye Xiao moved word by word, spread out his palm obediently, and asked Ling Chen to put the little rabbit on it.He stared at the thing in his hand, and he liked it so much that he didn't know what to say.

Ling Chen leaned back against the tree trunk and asked him, "Do you like it?"

Ye Xiao nodded, "I like it!"

Ling Chen asked again, "Are you happy?"

Ye Xiao: "Happy."

Ling Chen laughed, "It's not difficult for us Ye Xiao to coax."

Ye Xiao held the rabbit in his hand, and replied in a low voice, "Yes."

Ling Chen was silent for a moment, then cursed secretly in his heart—this cute little figure has an attack power comparable to that of a heavy sniper!

He looked away a little, "With me here, it can be more difficult to coax."

After finishing speaking, Ling Chen felt that the words he said were weird, so he changed the subject forcibly again, "It's getting dark, I see you were yawning just now, are you sleepy?"

Ye Xiao nodded, "I'm sleepy, I'm so tired today."

Ling Chen: "Sleep when you're sleepy, or sleep in a tree tonight, if you don't go back and squeeze with Xiaomu and the others, I'll wake you up tomorrow to watch the sunrise."

The sleepy mountains rushed over like a tsunami, Ye Xiao nodded, unable to open his eyes.Ling Chen took him over and patted him on the back, "Okay, go to sleep, you will see the sunrise when you open your eyes tomorrow. I will watch and won't let you fall."

Ye Xiao couldn't hold it anymore, leaned his head against Ling Chen's shoulder, and fell asleep after a while.

The wind in the forest was a bit chilly, Ling Chen took off his coat, wrapped it around Ye Xiao, and closed his eyes.