coexist in vain

The morning stars are few and far away, and the distant sky is faintly white.The mountain air is cold and dewy.After witnessing the madness of last night, today's forest is so quiet that there is not even a bird's song in the morning.At this time, the warehouse at the foot of the mountain was hidden by the green trees, and the white smoke gradually dissipated, and the coolness and calm in the usual days were restored.

An old black car slowly drove into the forest and stopped in front of the warehouse.

The corpses of mercenaries outside the warehouse door were scattered all over the place, and the smell of blood was so strong that it choked the nose and mouth from a distance of more than ten meters.

The visitor was tall and slender, wearing a simple and loose black sportswear.The baseball cap was buttoned extremely low, and he wore a black mask, with only one pair of eyes exposed, making it difficult to discern his true face.

He got out of the car, stepped over the corpses on the ground, and went straight to the innermost part of the warehouse.

"You came."

Hearing the question, the man in the baseball cap nodded.But his eyes were fixed on Yin Xiangqian who was hugged by that man and covered in blood.

"Don't worry, he's not dead." Ye Chenglin, who was waiting in the warehouse, smiled as brightly as before.

The man nodded again, took two big steps, and opened his arms to gently receive the unconscious Yin Xiangqian into his arms.

"Hurry up. The plane doesn't wait for anyone." Ye Chenglin's voice echoed in the empty warehouse, quite exhausted.

"Thank you."

The man picked Yin Xiangqian up in his arms, thanked him, and drove away without looking back.Ye Chenglin was the only one left, who silently piled up the explosives in the warehouse, and closed the warehouse door with a bang.

In the early morning light, Ye Chenglin ignited the fire that extended outside the library.Then he walked out of the mountain along the path alone in a leisurely manner.Looking back, apart from the bang, there was only the dawn mist created by the gunpowder smoke.

But Ji Chen, who was left alone in the villa, panicked.Seeing that the sun was about to rise, why didn't this group of people come back.He sat in the living room anxiously, feeling a little panicked in his heart.

Finally, around seven o'clock, I looked forward to the sound of footsteps kicking at the door.Ji Chen hurriedly opened the door to meet him, only to find that Ye Chenglin was the only one covered in blood.

"Where are they?" Ji Chen looked around, but still couldn't see the remaining three people.

"Yin Xiangqian was killed. Yu Wenwen and Wu Kunyu are missing." Ye Chenglin entered the room and answered Ji Chen's instant rage with a smile.

"What did you say?!" It seemed unbelievable that Ye Chenglin could still be so calm, smiling unabated, Ji Chen's anger shot straight into his brain, and his voice rose an octave steeply.

"They were all killed? Then how the hell do you have the face to come back?! Ah?! My good team leader!" He stared at Ye Chenglin angrily until his eyes turned red.

He knew it, he knew that the second group would never end well if it fell into the hands of a latecomer.

Ji Chen pushed Ye Chenglin away in front of him, wiped away tears, trembling with anger, turned around and rushed out of the villa.

But he gritted his teeth and rushed to the scene, but he didn't see the smile on the tired Ye Chenglin's face behind him.

"He passed."

With just one sentence, he quickly hung up the phone.

After completing the task, Ye Chenglin seemed to be drained of all his strength, and fell into the coffee-colored sofa, his eyes closed tightly, not knowing what to think.

Ji Chen, who rushed out of the villa, quickly found the location of the task with his excellent memory.He could see the cordon around him from a distance, parked the car in a hidden place without making a sound, avoided the police, and walked around to the other side of the warehouse from the path.

He noticed that the bloodstains on the ground were faintly heading up the mountain, so he followed the bloodstains all the way to a tall tree.The thick trunk was somewhat discolored with a lot of blood stains.When he lowered his head again, the blackened blood on the ground was even more shocking.

Ji Chen, who could no longer bear to continue guessing, suddenly had red eyes.But Ji Chen, who still had a little luck in his heart, did not give up hope completely.He was thinking of the names of his brothers, while praying in his heart that the three of them were safe.

But how is this possible.Ji Chen took a few steps forward, and was suddenly stunned by the ferocious dead wolf in the grass.Suffering a gunshot wound and meeting a pack of wolves again, Ji Chen knows how low his chances of winning are without counting.

He then found many rounds of unaccompanied first-hand bullets around.Pick them up one by one and put them in the palm of your hand.The bullets made of metal have already pierced to the bone, but Ji Chen can still see how his brothers were forced into a desperate situation and how they fought back from such a dense bullet fire.

Until... Ji Chen pushed aside the grass, picked up a bullet casing from the mud and put it in the palm of his hand.Although the bullet was stained with blood, it still couldn't affect his judgment.

It was Browning's special 9mm bullet, Jung Seung Yeol's special bullet.

Ariel has been here?

Ji Chen, who couldn't react for a while, held the blood-stained bullet tightly in his palm.Then the task team in the warehouse must also have their hands.Then the whereabouts of Yu Wen, Yin Xiangqian, and Wu Kunyu are unknown, and Zheng Chenglie must be inseparable.

Ji Chen looked at the dark blood stains all over the floor, and tears welled up in his eyes again.

When he kissed Guan Mao face to face, he believed him; when he stopped the mission privately, he believed him; when he betrayed the second group and switched to the first group, he still believed him.But now everything is in front of us: the warehouse mission failed, the whereabouts of the three family members in the second group are unknown; Zheng Chenglie's bullets are clearly found in the blood everywhere.

"Zheng Chenglie! Zheng Chenglie!!" Ji Chen simply let go of his voice and shouted.

Jung Seung Yeol!Jung Seung Yeol!

"Jung Seung Yeol!!! I know you are nearby! Come out!"

He shouted hoarsely, until he was exhausted, and sat alone in the blood of the wild forest.

"Zheng Chenglie." He was obviously crying, calling his name in a low voice, like a child who was depended on and abandoned, trying to vent all his pain with tears.

"Zheng Chenglie." He cried out physically and mentally exhausted, but still did not give up hope, "Zheng Chenglie... Ariel..."

"I'm here."

His deep voice suddenly sounded in his ears.

Ji Chen suddenly raised his head, forgetting to wipe off the tears on his cheeks.

"Xiaochen."

The person who has been shouted thousands of times finally appeared in front of him like traveling through thousands of mountains and rivers, but Ji Chen pursed his mouth and remained silent.

"Xiao Chen, don't cry." Zheng Chenglie walked over, squatted in front of Ji Chen, and wiped away his tears with the pulp of his index finger.

It's him.

It was him who left and came back.

Ji Chen imprinted Zheng Chenglie's expression in his heart almost greedily.

"Xiaochen, don't cry anymore." Time was running out, Zheng Chenglie unconsciously spoke again.

"They, did you kill them?" Ji Chen, who was still sobbing for a while, spoke intermittently.

"No."

"Then this, how do you explain it." He spread out the bullet casing tightly held in his palm and showed it to the man.

"Why is there your bullet here?"

"Xiaochen." Zheng Chenglie, who was speechless, could only furrow his brows deeply, and supported Ji Chen's shoulders with both hands.

"Let go." Ji Chen, who was holding back her tears, dodged away from Zheng Chenglie, but when she saw the eyes of the other party's gloomy pupils, she felt a sharp pain in her heart, but what followed was more than being betrayed. The pain was tens of thousands of times more tragic.

"I knew it, I knew it was you." Ji Chen smiled wryly, "Do you know Mrs. Heng has been alive all this time?"

Zheng Chenglie looked at his eyes full of pain and nodded silently.

"Zheng Chenglie! Why are you so cruel?!" Ji Chen even became hysterical.

"You obviously saw V and lived in chaos after that, and Yu Wen became inhuman because of guilt. You clearly knew he was not dead, why didn't you tell us!"

"Xiaochen, it's not that I don't want to, but that I can't."

Zheng Chenglie frowned.The scene he least wanted to see happened.

"No. One can't." Ji Chen shook off Zheng Chenglie's hand.The tears in his eyes seemed to lose the brakes, and he couldn't stop no matter what.

"Xiaochen..."

"Why, why are you doing this. Why are you destroying us! Why!"

"Ji Chen!"

Ji Chen, who barely calmed down, looked up at Zheng Chenglie, who was still a head taller than him even though he was squatting down, and suddenly his tears stopped.

He loved him so much and believed in him.Unfortunately, not anymore.

"Let's go, Zheng Chenglie."

Zheng Chenglie's face was gloomy, his hands tightly gripped Ji Chen's shoulders, and his voice became deeper and deeper.His eyes fixed on Ji Chen.

"Ji Chen, say it again."

"I said, you go. I won't trust you anymore."

Ji Chen spoke clearly.Every word is like a sharp dagger, straight into Zheng Chenglie's heart, breaking his pulse and also breaking his love.

They have been through so many storms.In the face of family secularity, during the time of flesh and blood experience, after the betrayal of life and death, they always held each other's hands tightly with tenacious perseverance.

But now.

Zheng Chenglie looked at Ji Chen's resolute eyes for a long time, just when Ji Chen thought he was about to compromise, suddenly there was a rustling voice behind him.

"It's the police."

Zheng Chenglie, who was the first to react, dragged Ji Chen past him and hid in the woods not far away.

A group of blue-clothed detectives went up the mountain. Naturally, they also noticed the blood stains on the beach under the tree. They immediately pulled the cordon, and a group of people waited inside to collect evidence and analyze.

Ji Chen was forced to lie in Zheng Chenglie's arms and held his breath, fearing that if he was not careful, the police would find out.Zheng Chenglie observed with an increasingly serious expression, while thinking about where to go down the mountain to be the least likely to be discovered.

A few more criminal police officers came up with a few police dogs.After sniffing around the blood stains, the police dogs suddenly barked in the direction where Ji Chen and Zheng Chenglie were hiding.This barking caused the investigators to suspend their work.

Too bad, I must have been stained with blood just now, that's why the police dog was so persistent.

Ji Chen couldn't help but panic for a while.Losing his mind, he raised his face to look at Zheng Chenglie - he still couldn't change his habit of relying on him at critical moments.

"You will go down the path to the east in a while, there will be a car over there." Zheng Chenglie stuffed the car keys and the Xingshi DKL into his hands.

"Zheng Chenglie." Ji Chen called him.

"Listen to me." Zheng Chenglie made a quiet gesture, "There are six bullets in the magazine, you plan to use them later."

"Believe me."

Ji Chen avoids his eyes.

"Whether you believe it or not, I will tell you. Yu Wen, Xiang Qian, and Kun Yu are not dead." As expected, Zheng Chenglie saw hope in Ji Chen's dull eyes.

"So Xiaochen, you also have to be strong."

Zheng Chenglie paid attention to the police's actions, and suddenly made a 'run' gesture to Ji Chen.

"Who?! Who's there?"

The slight shaking of the tree trunk inevitably aroused the vigilance of the criminal police.They bowed their waists, raised their guns, and approached step by step.

Zheng Chenglie watched Ji Chen walk out of the range, and also clenched the gun in his hand.

Both sides are in a state of ready to go, until "who else in this wilderness. Maybe some animal" broke the tense atmosphere before the battle.

"Ah, yes. Now who would come to this kind of wilderness. Captain, don't be nervous." A criminal policeman joked with a smile, and then squatted down to take samples.

Seeing the other party's attention being diverted, Zheng Chenglie subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief.It is estimated that Ji Chen has already driven out of the mountain by this time.He glanced at the busy blue clothes, then turned around and quietly left the crime scene.

No one noticed Jin Yuan who was hiding in the woods on the other side, and he gripped his gun tightly.