third rebirth

Maybe because of what Ling Chen said, after Ye Xiao curled up and fell asleep, he began to dream in a daze.

The dream was not beautiful at all, there was blood everywhere, some of his own, but more of Ling Chen's.

He saw Zhanshui and the scabbard thrown aside casually, he knelt on the ground, and tightly covered the bullet hole in Ling Chen's chest with his hands, his five fingers were convulsed, but there was still a steady stream of blood flowing from between his fingers. Spilled out, taking away all of Ling Chen's vitality.

Ling Chen raised his hand to touch his face, wanted to say something to him, or smile at him?Ye Xiao didn't know either.Because it seemed like just a blink of an eye and he lost him.

Ye Xiao felt so cold, he struggled to recall, this seemed to be the first time he was reborn.When he found Ling Chen, Cancan, Jiang Mu, and Jia Lan were all dead. Ling Chen was walking alone on the road to the center of Area D, with three metal nameplates tied to his wrists.

At that time, Ling Chen was always very silent and didn't like to talk, his back looked like a lone wolf in the desert.Ye Xiao remembered very clearly that he stumbled after Ling Chen for three days, and then accidentally sprained his ankle.Ling Chen stopped, helped him heal his foot injury, and walked with his back on his back.

He lay on Ling Chen's back and couldn't help but quietly shed two tears.Ling Chen asked him, "It's dangerous to follow me. I brought in three people, and all three are gone. I took over the second department from the previous commander-in-chief, and now I'm the only one left in the second department. In this way, You still want to follow me?"

Ye Xiao replied while sobbing, "Yes, I will follow you."

At that time Ling Chen seemed to be smiling, and said, "Okay, Brother Chen will protect you from now on."

In the end, he did protect him and protect him with his life.

Ye Xiao woke up from the dream, his eyes were a little sore, he was afraid of waking up Ling Chen next to him, so he raised his hand and rubbed it carefully.

Ling Chen didn't fall asleep because of Jiang Cancan's discovery of the nameplate. He noticed the movement next to him and asked in a low voice, "Are you awake?"

Ye Xiao turned his head, it was too dark, and he could only see the outline of Ling Chen.With a nasal sound, he also replied in a low voice, "Well, I was dreaming, and it was very cold in the dream."

Ling Chen stretched out his hand and shook Ye Xiao's hand, "It's so cold?" His hand still felt a little wet - what kind of dream was this, and it made people cry.

Ling Chen: "Is it really cold?"

Ye Xiao nodded, "Well, it's cold."

Hearing the rustling of his clothes, Ling Chen moved a little to the position where Ye Xiao was lying, then stretched out his hand and hugged him with a knife, with a smile in his voice, "This way it won't be cold." After finishing speaking He also asked, "Why are you so thin? It's worse than the long knife you're holding."

Ye Xiao was a little dazed, and answered after a few seconds, "I'm not skinny, I'm muscular."

Wrapped in the familiar body temperature, his eye sockets began to flood again, his ears were pressed against Ling Chen's chest, his waist was wrapped around his waist, and beside his ears was Ling Chen's clear heartbeat.Ye Xiao moved his fingers, and finally grabbed Ling Chen's clothes carefully.

Ling Chen raised his hand, shook off the jacket of the combat uniform, and covered the two of them, intentionally or unintentionally, rubbed his chin against the top of Ye Xiao's head, "Okay, go to sleep, with me in your arms, it's not cold, and I can't do anything." nightmare."

Ye Xiao buried her head in Ling Chen's arms, and nodded.

At dawn the next day, the biological clock that has been cultivated all year round made Ling Chen open his eyes - facing Jiang's shining eyes.

Considering the person in his arms, he didn't move, and asked in a hoarse voice, "What are you looking at?"

Jiang Cancan had an expression of "what the hell are you asking me to see?", pointing to Ling Chen's arms, his head covered by a black combat uniform jacket, only showing Ye Xiao, who was protruding from the top of his furry head, mouthing exaggeratedly , "Is there a situation?"

Ling Chen was about to let Jiang Cancan go, when he felt the person in his arms move.

Ye Xiao arched his head like a small animal, poked his head out from under his large coat, his eyes were sleepy, he smiled at Ling Chen with half-opened eyes, then clenched his hands into fists and rubbed his eyes, staring dazedly.

Jiang Cancan laughed even more, stood up and ran out excitedly, ready to share gossip with her lovely brother.

Ling Chen watched him jump out of the carriage, without saying anything, turned to look at Ye Xiao who was still wrapped in his coat.The coat was pure black, wide and big, it was draped over Ye Xiao's shoulders, making him appear smaller.Ye Xiao's skin was already fair, so it looked even whiter, because he slept on Ling Chen's chest, and there were obvious pressure marks on his fair side face.

Ling Chen didn't speak, just sat lazily against the wall of the carriage, seeing Ye Xiao's hand rubbing his eyes suddenly stopped, then opened his mouth slightly, his ears were red, his neck was also red, and his body was sitting stiffly in place. They didn't dare to move, and they didn't dare to look up at Ling Chen.

A chuckle escaped from Ling Chen's throat, teasing him, "Yo, are you ashamed?"

Ye Xiao's hand holding the long knife trembled, but he didn't answer.

Ling Chen raised his eyebrows, "On your body." He paused intentionally, and waited for Ye Xiao to subconsciously look up at him before saying the second part, "You're still wearing my coat."

Ye Xiao's face turned red, he hurriedly took the coat into his hand, quickly folded it neatly, and handed it over with both hands, "...the coat."

Ling Chen laughed, but didn't answer, and stretched out his hand to brush Ye Xiao's sleepy hair, "Why are you so—" As if he didn't think of an adjective, he smiled again, stopped his voice, stood up and walked out, " Pack up and go out for breakfast."

Ye Xiao lowered his head, and waited for Ling Chen to get out of the carriage, then raised his hand to touch the hair that Ling Chen had rubbed before.

After eating breakfast together, the four of them stood at the place where Jiang Cancan had picked up the metal nameplate.On the ground, weeds grow on the instep, and the roots of the grass are moist fine sand.

"It's right here. It's close to the stream. When it rains, the stream floods up. This place will be washed away. You can't see footprints or anything." Jiang Cancan has no expression on his always smiling face, his masseter muscles are tense, obviously biting gums.

Ling Chen looked at the location pointed out by Jiang Cancan, "There are no corpses, and now we can't be sure whether the three people in Youlong were killed by someone, or whether they encountered the mobs that spawned and failed to win."

This is the tenth day since they entered Area D, but they have very little information about Area D.They know that because of the disordered data flow in Zone D, many things like monitor lizards and skeleton wolves will be spawned, but will these things only appear in their locations and attack them, or do they only need to enter the D zone? People in the district have a high chance of encountering them.

Ye Xiao had been quietly standing next to Ling Chen with the knife in his arms. He suddenly stepped forward, knelt down, and reached out to the root of a weed to dig it out.A few seconds later, Ye Xiao raised his muddy hand and showed Ling Chen what he took out, "There's a bullet casing over there."

Ling Chen handed the bullet casings to Jiang Mu, and Jiang Mu looked at it and confirmed, "The standard bullets issued inside Youlong."

Jiang Cancan put the K57 in his hand back into the gun bag, squatted down and began to rummage in the sand.Not long after, eight bullet casings and nine metal nameplates were handed to Ling Chen.

Staring at the nameplate, several people fell silent.

Jiang Mu took the bullet case and looked carefully, "In addition to the previous one, the two bullets belonged to Youlong, and the six bullets belonged to the Holy Order—"

Hearing Jiang Mu say the word "Sacred Judgment", Jiang Cancan was like an angry leopard, his eyes were bloodshot, "I'm ignoring his ancestors next door! I knew it was the hands of the **** Sacred Judgment. As soon as we entered the D area, they followed Enter!"

When Jiang Cancan finished howling, Jiang Mu finished the remaining half sentence, "Nine nameplates, six bullets."

Jiang Cancan also came to his senses, "I saw nine nameplates, which means that nine people died in Youlong, why only six bullets from the holy order? I'm sure I've searched here." As he spoke, he started to hope, "Would you Could it be that... there are three still alive? Just got caught or escaped, and the nameplate was thrown here."

"This possibility is not ruled out." Ling Chen nodded.Another speculation popped up in his mind - it is also possible that among the nine members of You Long, one shot and killed two of his teammates, and finally left with the Holy Tribunal.

As for whether this person is a traitor or forced, it is still uncertain.

Jiang Mu also had similar thoughts in his heart, but he didn't say it out, he just put the bullet casings in his bag.

Ling Chen twirled his fingers, and told Jiang Mu, "Send an application to the top, asking for approval, and when we meet with the people of the holy order, we can kill them on the spot."

Jiang Mu nodded and looked down at the communicator.Ling Chen turned his head to look at Ye Xiao, "Come with me."

Seeing Ye Xiao follow Ling Chen into the carriage like a tail, Jiang Cancan rested his chin on Jiang Mu's shoulder like a boneless man, stared at the place where the nameplate was turned out for a while, then rubbed his face vigorously a few times, his voice was not energetic , "Xiaomu, what do you think brother Chen will say to the children?"

Jiang Mu pretended that he didn't have such a heavy head on his shoulders, and still stood upright.He didn't answer Jiang Cancan's question, but instead asked, "Who do you think Ye Xiao is?"

"Ye Xiao?" Jiang Cancan replied without much thought, "Young, good at martial arts, not very sophisticated, I guess I was detained to practice swords all day long since I was a child. The military region will definitely not recruit children of a certain age, so [-]% of them are He was recruited by the mercenary regiment and trained since childhood."

Seeing Jiang Mu finally turned his head to look at him, Jiang Cancan yelled unconvinced, "Master Can, I also have a brain, okay? How can I not see this!"

Jiang Mu did not express any opinion on the argument that he "has grown a brain".

Jiang Cancan leaned his head back again, "Looks like a cute kid, but I don't know what he is doing in Zone D. And I don't understand why he is so clingy to Brother Chen! It's not Master Can, I diss Brother Chen, just Brother Chen's aura is cultivated with swords and fire, and even if children don't cry, they will hide away, right? Just Ye Xiao followed, like Brother Chen's little tail."

Jiang Mu looked at the armored vehicle parked not far away, didn't speak, and continued to fiddle with the communicator with his head down.

in the carriage.

Ling Chen stepped into the car with long legs, his military boots stepped on the steel plate of the armored car, his voice was a bit dull.He took off his coat casually and threw it aside, only wearing a black racerback vest, turned over a can of milk, opened it, added sugar into it, shook it well, and handed it to Ye Xiao.

Ye Xiao sat across from her holding sweet milk, looking up at Ling Chen with Bai Shengsheng's small face, "Are you going to whisper to me?"

Ling Chen was amused, and smiled with the corners of his mouth up, "Yes, yes." Seeing that Ye Xiao had only taken two sips of milk, his mouth was covered with froth, he beckoned, "Sit down."

When Ye Xiao sat next to him, Ling Chen held Ye Xiao's chin and carefully wiped off the circle of milk foam.

After wiping, Ling Chen stared at Ye Xiao's black and white eyes, and asked, "Can I trust you?"

Ye Xiao swallowed the sweet milk in his mouth, and replied seriously, "Yes, I will not betray you."

Ling Chen looked at him for a while, neither believing nor disbelieving, "You said before that if you have any questions, let me ask you in person."

Ye Xiao nodded.

Ling Chen: "Before I ask you a question, let me introduce myself first."

Ye Xiao subconsciously sat up straight, and heard Ling Chen say, "My name is Ling Chen, the commander-in-chief of the Second Operations Headquarters of the Ministry of Security, on active duty. I brought a total of three people to Area D, Cancan, Xiaomu, and One of the subordinates is called Jialan, but he got separated when he came in."

Although Ye Xiao knew all this, he still listened carefully.

"I brought the team in this time to collect as much relevant information as possible in Area D. The plan is to walk all the way to the center of Area D after entering from the northeast corner. While walking, at the coordinate points drawn in advance by the command center Buried data detectors to monitor the changes in the data flow in the D area, analyze the cause of the disorder, and finally control and straighten out the disordered data flow in the D area."

Ye Xiao asked: "Is there a coordinate point in that forest before that, so you went in?"

Ling Chen: "Yes, there is indeed a coordinate point in that forest. But the trees inside are too dense to drive in, so we can only use walking, which will cause a lot of delay. There are still eight coordinate points left, we Get ready to speed up and leave Area D when you're done."

Ye Xiao nodded to show that he understood, "But why did you tell me this?"

Ling Chen didn't answer, "The second department I belong to has a grudge against the mercenary regiment called Holy Tribunal. If we encounter it, we will never die. The Youlong special operations team was sent in by the command center to support us, but as you can see, nine of them Personally, he was intercepted and killed by the Holy Order team as soon as he came in. This shows that there are many people who came in from the Holy Order this time, and they are all elites. If we encounter it, it will only be a fierce battle."

Ye Xiao suddenly understood the purpose of Ling Chen's words, "You want me to go?"

"Yes." Ling Chen nodded, "I just received the news that when the people of the Holy Order came in, they were not prepared to let you go first. I thought it would be good to protect you for two more days, and wait for the people of the Holy Order to be dealt with." Now, let you do your own work."

"Have you changed your mind now?"

"Ah."

"Because you found that it is more dangerous for me to follow you than to be alone?"

"Correct."

Ye Xiao suddenly laughed, with joy in his eyes, "You're worried about me."

Ling Chen felt helpless, what the hell was he looking for?He admitted, "Well, I worry."

Whether it was the rampant youth, or after he took over the position of the commander-in-chief of the second department very suddenly, Ling Chen has never had any extra leisure time - he has too many things to think about, and there are too many things waiting for him to do.

But these two days, every night in the dead of night, Ling Chen listened to the sound of Ye Xiao's sleeping breathing, thinking, such a young child loves sweets, sweet milk, even medicines that are coated with sugar.In order to pretend to be cool, he would tie bandages on his wrists, his eyes would be bright when talking to him, his ears would be red, and he would always burrow into his arms because of the cold.

He didn't want him to die like this.

Ling Chen's voice softened in a rare way, "So, Ye Xiao, you finish the tasks you have to do as soon as possible, and then leave Area D, understand?"