third rebirth

The car was not driving fast, cold wind was blowing from all directions, Ling Chen pressed against Ye Xiao's lips, panting and asked, "Is it cold?"

Ye Xiao's breathing was also a little short, his upper lip was bitten, "It's not cold, it's very hot."

Ling Chen laughed when he heard it - it turned out that he was not the only one who was hot.

The two of them blew the wind on the roof for a while before re-entering the compartment.

Jiang Mu raised his head when he heard the movement, "Brother Chen, look."

Ling Chen took the [-]D map, flipped through it, and asked, "The last time we entered Area D, after we robbed the fifth group of the Holy Tribunal, you found their destination. Besides the central circle, there are three locations. One of them is It's the biology institute we went to, right?"

Jiang Mu nodded, "Yes, at that time you asked me to mark the remaining two locations. I just flipped through the map and found one of them is on our route." He asked, "Are we going?"

Ling Chen made a quick decision, "Go."

Jiang Cancan clasped his hands together with a "snap" and exaggeratedly said loudly, "Is there any Bodhisattva passing by? My Buddha is merciful! I hope that the place I will go this time will not have insects, insects, or insects!"

He was scared out of the shadows at the biology research institute last time.

Perhaps there was a real fairy passing by. After arriving at the destination, Jiang Cancan happily discovered that the destination turned out to be a small pharmaceutical research institute. The very modern-style building stood high on the desolate cliff, and the painting style was very abrupt.

Ling Chen looked at the nearby terrain and ordered, "Chancan Ye Xiao and I go up together, Jialan and Xiaomu stay behind, and get ready to respond."

As he said that, he first found a piece of his combat uniform for Ye Xiao to put on. The sleeves were too long, and Ling Chen carefully folded them a few times to make the creases even.

"Does Little Maomao like to wear the captain's clothes?"

Ye Xiao zipped it up by himself, "I like it."

"why?"

Ye Xiao stepped on his feet and leaned into Ling Chen's ear to speak, "Because the clothes smell like the captain."

Fuck, Ling Chen found himself being teased severely again, the point is, the person who teased him didn't even know it.He rested his gloved right hand on Ye Xiao's waist, and patted it lightly twice, "Be good, I'll wear it for you from now on."

After several people finished sorting out one after another, Ling Chen took out the silver hook gun from the box, and after pulling the trigger, the three-edged arrowhead attached to the gun head was firmly stuck into the mountain wall with a metal cable.Jiang Cancan took the hook and fastened it to the metal buckle on his waist, put his feet on the mountain wall, and started to climb up.

Ling Chen took out another hook gun, shot the three-edged arrowhead into the rock, and carefully connected the hook line to the metal buckle tied around Ye Xiao's waist.While fastening the buckle, he also reminded, "I'm right under you, don't be afraid, if you are afraid, just look back at me."

After confirming that there was no problem, Ling Chen installed the equipment for himself, and climbed up with Ye Xiao one after the other.

When he reached the top of the mountain, Jiang Cancan was surveying the situation with a gun in his hand. Seeing Ling Chen coming up, he frowned, "Brother Chen, someone arrived before us." He pointed to the steps leading in, "There are footprints, 45 yards, estimated height 1.8" About one meter in length, about 75 in weight, and it hasn’t been long since I went in, so I don’t know how many people there are.”

He has been tormented by Jialan's ghost stories these two days, "This barren mountain is not haunted, is it?"

Ling Chen raised his foot and kicked his calf, "Where did you forget the spirit of materialism?"

Jiang Cancan replied with a smile, "I forgot the back of my head."

Ling Chen didn't want to talk to him, so he arranged, "Cancan go ahead, Ye Xiao is in the middle, I'll stop." After speaking, he turned on the communicator again, "Cancan found footprints at the door, there are people inside, please be careful."

Jiang Mu replied: "Received."

The scale of this pharmaceutical research institute is small, with two connected buildings at right angles and only three stories high. The outer walls are covered with blue and white tiles, which have been eroded by rain for many years, showing a kind of grayish white.

After opening the door and entering, a stuffy smell of chemicals came to the nostrils.The three put on night vision goggles, Jiang Cancan squatted down, took out a detector the size of a thumb, took pictures everywhere, and reported the results in a low voice, "There are four different footprints, and they all went upstairs, Brother Chen, do you want to follow?" ?”

"Follow." Ling Chen always liked to take the initiative in his own hands, he raised his chin, "Let's go."

The whole building was very quiet. The three of them followed their footprints all the way to the second floor. On both sides of the corridor were glass-enclosed laboratories. Various instruments inside were covered with dust, and no one had used them for a long time.

Jiang Cancan didn't dare to speak out, and sent a message on the team channel, "I'm not used to it, I thought I would be attacked by experimental animals when I came up." He also typed an example, "For example, the little White rats, mutated rabbits or something."

Ling Chen didn't look at the communicator himself, so he held Ye Xiao's wrist nervously, glanced at the news on the team's channel, and quickly muted Jiang Cancan.

Before Jiang Cancan asked what was wrong with him, Ling Chen actually wanted to treat him so cruelly, a "bang" gunshot came with an obvious echo.

Ling Chen raised his eyes and looked deep into the corridor, "Gunshots, small-caliber pistols."

Jiang Cancan's eyes widened, he covered his mouth, and beeped angrily, "No way, the group of people who came in first really met the experimental animals?"

The three of them continued to move forward until they reached the corner, and the sound of confused footsteps gradually approached. Ling Chen made a gesture, stopped in place, raised his gun and pointed steadily at the corner.

But when the person who made the footsteps appeared in front of them, both sides were stunned for a moment.

Ling Chen narrowed his eyes, "Mayfly?"

Fuck, someone who came to rob me again?

Mayfly's people didn't expect that there would be someone else in this pharmaceutical research institute, and held up their guns vigilantly. After recognizing the person, Ah Jiu put down the gun in his hand first, and locked his eyes on Ye Xiao, "We didn't malicious."

Ye Xiao nodded, "I believe in you."

Jiang Cancan took a step back subconsciously, and the hairs on his arms stood on end--grass, brother Chen's aura is too frightening, the old man's overwhelming jealousy!

Immediately afterwards, Ye Xiao said the second half of the sentence, "The five of you combined can't beat me."

Ling Chen's condensed expression melted away, he looked at Ah Jiu, and asked, "Is there something chasing behind?"

Ah Jiu looked away from Ye Xiao, "No, the experimental equipment here is old, and the chemical gas has leaked, and it will explode soon."

Jiang Cancan grasped the key words, "Damn it! Why don't you run!"

After a few people ran not far away, there was a loud "boom", and the whole building shook.The air waves were mixed with a pungent smell, rushing straight towards it with heat, the glass and ceiling splashed with a few "bangs", and the fire light illuminated the surroundings.

Jialan's voice sounded through the communicator, "The third floor exploded! Do you need support?"

Ling Chen replied, "I don't need it for now."

A group of people walked fast all the way, and they slowed down only when they got down to the second floor.Mayfly's man turned on the flashlight, and Ah Jiu looked at Ye Xiao first, with a somewhat complicated expression, "I didn't expect to meet you here."

Ye Xiao asked suspiciously, "Didn't you say last time that you came in because of a small task, and you will go out after the task is completed?"

Ah Jiu's eyes were dark, "Sorry, I didn't tell you the truth."

Ye Xiao's expression remained unchanged, he just looked at Ah Jiu inquiringly, "Are you sick?"

Seeing that he was not unhappy, Ah Jiu breathed a sigh of relief, "Well, I'm sick."

For a while, the atmosphere fell silent.Ling Chen naturally held Ye Xiao's hand, "Chat somewhere else?"

Ah Jiu's eyes froze for a moment on the hands they were clasping, and she replied, "Okay."

After leaving the gate of the Pharmaceutical Research Institute, Ye Xiao followed Ah Jiu to the edge of the cliff.Under the natural light, Ah Jiu's illness became more obvious.He didn't seem to have rested well, his eyes were black and blue, and he was much thinner than before.

Ye Xiao asked him, "What's wrong with you?"

Ah Jiu raised his hand, "Don't be scared." After speaking, he rolled up his sleeves.

Ye Xiao's eyelids twitched, and he lost his voice, "How could it be—"

On the forearm of Ah Jiu's left hand, a piece of hard armor the size of a palm grew out, and the rest of the skin remained intact, and the blood vessels had turned a strange bright red.

Ye Xiao is no stranger to this kind of situation. The so-called failed experiments he has seen in the Silver Blade Base before have similar scales all over the body, or there will be extra bones piercing blood and flesh.

Ye Xiao's palms felt cold, "You already knew? So when we met last time, you said that if I wanted to find you, I had to do it as soon as possible, otherwise you might die someday."

Ah Jiu nodded, "Yes." He smiled a little indifferently, "I already have a rejection reaction, and I shouldn't be able to live for long."

Ye Xiao gritted his teeth, and asked after a while, "What about them?"

Knowing that he was asking about other people who had escaped from Silver Blade before, Ah Jiu looked down the cliff, not knowing where his eyes fell, "Everyone is the same, that's why we are called Mayflies, Mayflies who live and die forever."

He withdrew his gaze, "Ye Xiao, it's strange, isn't it? In Silver Blade, you and I, and they, were unending enemies, but when we go outside, we become partners who can be handed over to our backs."

"Ah."

"Of the 56 of us at that time, 42 of us succeeded in the experiment. Later, Silver Blade was destroyed, and there were 36 of us who founded Mayfly with me. Three years have passed, and there are still [-] of us left." His smile was finally stained. A bit bitter, "I was the first to succeed, and I should be the first to die."

He was only in his twenties, but when it came to death, it was very ordinary.

Seeing Ye Xiao clenched the scabbard tightly, Ah Jiu's eyes softened, "Our life was over when we entered the silver blade, and in the next few years, we're just surviving. Everyone takes it lightly, and we have no relatives. , no friends, death is no big deal. Fortunately, you are different from us."

Ye Xiao tightly grasped the scabbard, staring at him, "What's in this pharmaceutical research institute?"

"The news I bought before said that there are medicines for the treatment of rejection."

"Is the news true?"

"It should be true, but the contents inside have been transferred."

The two fell silent again.

Ah Jiu glanced at Ling Chen who was standing far away, and asked Ye Xiao, "Do you have someone you like?"

Ye Xiao nodded, "Well, there is someone I like." He hesitated, "Actually, I don't really understand what liking is, but I know, I want to be with him."

Ah Jiu looked complicated.In Silver Blade, Ye Xiao was the youngest among them, but also the most powerful.Even after their experiment was successful, they still couldn't beat it.

The name "Night Owl" used to be everyone's nightmare, and if they met it, it meant that they would definitely lose.

Ah Jiu remembered very clearly that at that time Ye Xiao was not tall, very thin, very withdrawn, walked alone, and rarely spoke.He is very defensive and doesn't trust anyone.He was the only one in Silver Blade who could talk to Ye Xiao a little bit. Of course, it was limited to such insignificant pleasantries as "Did you win?"

But now Ye Xiao was almost a completely different person.

Ah Jiu looked into Ye Xiaoqing's lingling eyes in a daze, various words swirled around her mouth, and the last thing she asked was, "How is he treating you?"

A little smile appeared in Ye Xiao's eyes, "He is very kind to me. I didn't know how to use chopsticks before, he taught me. I don't know how to laugh, and he taught me. He taught me to write my name, taught me how to use chopsticks. Holding a gun also taught me to cherish my life."

Ah Jiu smiled, "That's good." He remembered the cold and unpopular young man with a long knife in the past, and closed his eyes, "Don't worry, the ants are still alive, we will try our best to survive and live longer."

"Well, I will try my best to live."

During the nine years in Silver Blade, he thought about candy, dreaming that one day he could go out and taste the sweetness in his memory again, and finally survived desperately.During the three years of being imprisoned in the holy order, every time he was about to give up, he would think of Ling Chen over and over again, thinking that he would definitely go to him after he had promised.

If you agree, you must do it, even if the other party has forgotten it.

Before leaving, Ye Xiao seemed to remember something, he drew out his long knife, and wrote his name on the stone, "My name is Ye Xiao now, Ye Zi's, and Yuan Xiao's Xiao are my names before I came to Silver Blade."

With the long knife back in its sheath, Ye Xiao said softly, "Goodbye."

Ah Jiu nodded, "Well, goodbye."

Turning around, Ye Xiao walked towards Ling Chen.Seeing Ling Chen open his arms towards him, Ye Xiao couldn't help but quicken his pace.

——It's not that I can't bear darkness and killing, if I have never met you.