Deep Space Knight

people.

He has always been like a restless flame, which has burned others and consumed himself.

However, at this moment, he only felt that his heart was still like water.

Purity, true purity, filled him like the Holy Spirit.

What an incredible feeling.

Only one person can give him this feeling, the only one in the whole world.

Both hands returned to the keys, paused, and played a piece of Debussy's "Children's Paradise".

The light notes are like falling feathers, piling up around the piano like moonlight.

Qi Lian's body was stretched straight, looking at those hands obsessively, his eyes filled with indescribable joy.

Sitting in front of Xue Yuan, he couldn't see Xue Yuan's face, and he didn't dare to move for fear of interrupting the performance.But he believed that if he looked back now, he would see a different Xue Yuan from the past.

One day a long time later, Qi Lian stood under the rose window of the church, looking up at the mottled light.At that time, he suddenly understood what it was that he felt from Xue Yuan that night before.

Perhaps, that could be called divinity.

It often appears in different forms, like the performance of Dionysus, the god of wine, in the world: sometimes it is a tune, sometimes it is a look, sometimes it is silent compassion, and sometimes it is the intoxication and joy of sex | love .

But behind all of these, there is the same source.

When the last note falls, like the magic ends, the piled-up moonlight disappears.

"This song is called "Snow Dance". Do you like it?" Xue Yuan asked.

Qi Lian was stunned for a while, then turned around suddenly, and hugged Xue Yuan tightly, like holding a baby that fell from the sky.He was so happy, but he didn't know a lot of rhetoric, so he had to express it with actions.

Qi Lian put his arms around his neck, and his eyes showed anticipation again: "Well, there are only two of us. I want to kiss."

"You can't be here, others will make fun of you if you see it." Xue Yuan looked back at the half-opened curtains, the lights in the courtyard were like water, flowing all over the floor. "Let's have dinner first and then kiss when we go to sleep, shall we?"

"it is good."

Xue Yuan smiled, and rubbed his head again, "Then wait a moment, I'll go make dinner right away."

The most direct benefit of establishing a good relationship with the people in the cooking camp is that you can get some extra food.

Xue Yuan took home the fresh ingredients left in the kitchen every day, and used the method of processing military rations to make them into reserve food that could be preserved for a long time.This skill is also learned in special tactics units.Survival in extreme environments is an indispensable ability for special combatants.

This little advantage is nothing at the moment.But Xue Yuan could see very clearly that food would become more expensive than gold in a short time, or even have a price without a market.Those who are now full of leisure and leisure will soon be miserable because of lack of food.

After dealing with today's food reserves, Xue Yuan deliberately set aside fresh ingredients for two people, and made a simple but delicious dinner.

Qi Lian obediently sat on the small round stool beside her, watching Xue Yuan's every move, as fascinated as she was when she watched Xue Yuan play the piano just now.He is like a spectator with no distractions, facing the stage tirelessly all day long, but the focus of his sight is always only that one person.

Even Xue Yuan, who was used to being watched by others since he was a child, was a little overwhelmed by such a pure and focused gaze, but he felt a strange sense of satisfaction.

People are self-centered, and everyone wants to be the only and absolute existence in the eyes of others.But who can unreservedly dedicate their concentration to another person, to the point of ecstasy and piousness?

Except for the mentally ill, there are only the most innocent children.

Qi Lian was really the best gift God gave him.The best gift ever, ever.

After rolling the creamy corn soup in the pot, Xue Yuan lifted the lid of the pot and scooped up a spoonful to taste.He drank half a spoonful by himself, and turned to greet Qi Lian: "Come here, have a taste of this."

Qi Lian immediately dragged the small round stool over happily, and carefully held the spoon in his mouth.

Qi Lian was sitting, much shorter than Xue Yuan.The innocent behavior like a small animal carried a special meaning in Xue Yuan's eyes, and also aroused a strange feeling in his heart.

Heart pounding, Xue Yuan withdrew his hand.The spoon left Qi Lian's lips with a thin translucent line.

Qi Lian smacked his mouth, savoring the taste of the soup seriously.When he looked up, he saw Xue Yuan still holding the spoon, with a blank expression on his face.

"What's wrong with you?" Qi Lian had never seen Xue Yuan's expression before, so he couldn't help being a little nervous, and reached out to touch the other's forehead: "Are you uncomfortable?"

"I..." Xue Yuan opened his mouth, feeling a sense of ignorance in his heart.

that seems to be...

He didn't dare to continue thinking about it.

The feeling for Qi Lian can no longer be covered up with simple "care" self-deception.

Although a certain lingering sense of dislocation still exists in this relationship, he needs Qi Lian's love—unconditional, absolutely loyal, and deep love, which is only given to one person in his life.

He longs for such love, like a drowning man longing for a vine to cling to.But he also knew that it was an almost impossible love.Can't meet, let alone ask for.

But he did.Right at this very moment, this person.

Xue Yuan threw away the spoon, picked up Qi Lian's face, and without thinking about it, lowered his head and pressed his lips.

With unprecedented enthusiasm and patience, slowly and violently, he seized every inch of space between Qi Lian's lips and tongue.

This kiss was different from any other before.Qi Lian seemed to hesitate for a moment at first, but quickly accepted it, catering to the opponent's movements, and gave a soft and detailed response.

It wasn't until the air in his lungs was squeezed to the limit that Xue Yuan let go of the opponent's face.

Then he noticed that Qi Lian's lips had been gnawed with a shallow wound by his teeth.

"Sorry..." Xue Yuan tried his best to calm his breath, and gently stroked the wound with his fingertips, "Did it hurt you?"

"It doesn't hurt." Qi Lian didn't even breathe, just blinked his eyes and tried to find words, paused and said, "I like it."

Whenever he wanted to express strong feelings, he would run out of words and turn back into a babbling child.

Xue Yuan didn't know how to react, so he could only hold his head in his arms.

"You were a little different just now." Qi Lian buried his head on Xue Yuan's heaving chest, and said in an uncertain tone.

"I'm sorry, I... thought of something strange." Xue Yuan rubbed his soft hair, suddenly feeling guilty for his thoughtful thoughts just now.

"I'm sorry, it's my fault...it won't be like this in the future." Xue Yuan's voice trembled unnaturally, as if comforting Qi Lian, but also as if telling himself, "in the future...it won't happen."

"..." Qi Lian was silent in his arms for a long while, then whispered: "I like it."

The Xue Yuan just now was different from usual, but he also likes it.

When Xue Yuan's teeth pressed against the corners of his lips, he felt a little pain, but he was also very happy - he felt that his whole body was wrapped in rose-colored cotton candy, which made him fly up like bubbles until he reached the sky. heaven.

If there is a heaven, it must be full of roses.The air also smells of roses. When you open your mouth, the rose-colored sunshine dances on the tip of your tongue.

But he didn't understand why Xue Yuan looked worried as if he had done something wrong.

Could it be that the two of them feel differently about what happened just now?

He was puzzled, but didn't dare to ask in detail.

After dinner, the two of them took a bath together, Qi Lian put on a white shirt and sat on the bed in the bedroom.

"It's so soft!" Qi Lian slept on such a spacious and comfortable bed for the first time since he was born, and it was Xue Yuan's before, and he was so excited that he didn't know what to do.

His body still exuded the warm water vapor from the bathroom, and there was a slight blush of carmine at the corners of his eyes.

Black hair, dark green pupils, originally a dull color.However, it is unbelievably gorgeous against this reddish color.

Xue Yuan looked at him and felt that he was about to be bewitched today.

What's more terrible is that there is actually a word that came to mind indiscriminately-Xiao Biesheng is newly married.

……Nonsence! !

Xue Yuan collected his mind, went to bed and sat beside Qi Lian.

Looking closely under the light, Qi Lian's neck still has a circle of faint strangulation marks.

Xue Yuan ruthlessly greeted Ye Baizang three times in his heart, carefully rubbing the imprint with his fingertips: "How have you been spending the past few nights?"

"I just stayed in the yard overnight. They seemed to be afraid of me. No one talked to me or approached me."

"Did he use that on you again?" Xue Yuan stretched out his hand, and lightly pressed Qi Lian's back through his shirt, "That's right, that thing that will make you fall asleep?"

"No. I do what you taught me every day." Qi Lian lay down on his side with a groan, curled up his hands and feet, and lost his eyes, "That's it."

For so many days, Ye Baizang never gave Qi Lian anything to eat.Xue Yuan secretly taught Qi Lian to pretend to be weak so as not to be suspected.Qi Lian is very talented in acting, and he can master it as soon as he learns it.

"Am I pretending to be like that?" The green pupils focused their eyes again, flashing mischievously.

"Like." Xue Yuan couldn't help laughing.It's a pity not to be an actor with such good material.

"Aren't you afraid to be alone all night?"

"I'm not afraid. I've always thought that I'll see you at dawn. When you're not around, I read books. They told me to read, saying that I should study. I read a lot of books." Qi Lian's words suddenly became more Get up, "I like "The Little Prince" best. You are a rose. You are also a fox. The little prince loves roses. He also loves foxes."

"...Don't confess your love even if you don't agree with me!!"

Xue Yuan simply didn't know what to do with him, he could be so schemingly seductive.

"It's written in the book." Qi Lian argued, and continued to say the sentences in the book, "Well...my favorite passage is this: the fox in the past was no different from thousands of other foxes. But He is domesticated, and he is unique in the world."

His pupils revealed a faint golden color under the light, Xue Yuan looked in and saw his own small shadow reflected in the golden color, like an illusion surrounded by holy light.

"I know. I've seen that story too. I remember that line from the fox."

Xue Yuan spoke slowly, lowered his body and hugged Qi Lian tightly, and put his lips next to his ear: "Please... tame me."

His eyes suddenly glanced at the mirror beside the bed.Through the open front of the bathrobe, Xue Yuan saw the scar on his body.In the light it was ugly and glaring, like a mouth twisted and mocking.

The trace of emotion that had just brewed in Xue Yuan's heart suddenly disappeared without a trace, replaced by a burst of self-loathing.

This scar seems to be a cursed evil spirit, always jumping out to remind him: his world has been derailed from the past, and he will go further and further on the unknown road in the future.

He looked like another person in the mirror.Completely different from the little golden shadow in Qi Lian's pupils, another self.

He asked that self: What will you do in the future?

to snatch.

to gain.

to cheat.

to plot.

He failed to meet Qi Lian in a simpler era and a purer age.Is this luck, or misfortune?

Xue Yuan stood up abruptly, tied up the belt of his bathrobe, and swept away all the ambiguous atmosphere.

"It's getting late, go to bed. You have to get up early tomorrow."

Qi Lian felt a little confused by his sudden change, her lips moved slightly, and finally turned around obediently.

☆、Chapter 36

The assault knife was inserted|inserted into the gap of the obstacle, and the wrist exerted force to pry open a slit.The unsupported rubble began to slide to the sides, slowly revealing an exit through which the body could pass.

Qi Han inserted the assault knife back into the straps of his thighs, and crawled out of the rubble.

The sudden light made him narrow his eyes slightly, he curled up and rolled nimbly, half squatted down behind a hidden spot, quickly adjusted to a fighting posture, and scouted the surrounding situation as quickly as possible.

It is daylight now on the ground.Judging from the slanting shadow of the sun, it was close to noon.

The convoy encountered a torrent on the way back.The water pouring down from the artificial lake suddenly leaked into the tunnel, washing the entire team deeper underground.

All the equipment is lost, and no one can be contacted.He narrowly escaped death and returned to the ground alone. I don't know how long it has been since he set off.

A sharp fragment was stuck between the tendons on the side of the thigh, Qi Han pulled it out casually, but inadvertently touched the knife in the leggings.

... "When we go back, can you give me this 'Mad Dog'? I want to keep it."

A pair of cat's eyes suddenly appeared in his mind, and Qi Han's heart tightened suddenly.

He...is he okay now?

Could it be that you have been anxiously waiting?

Qi Han has always been an extremely calm person.

During an extravehicular operation, the connecting valve of his spacesuit failed, not only did a large amount of oxygen leak out, but he almost disintegrated in the vacuum.

Even in such a situation, he did not panic, and instantly judged the best path, relying on the boost force of the leaked oxygen to reach the nearest space station in the shortest time.

Later, the instructor wrote in his psychological evaluation report with confusion:

"There's one thing about him that I don't understand - he doesn't seem to have a concept of 'self'. He can face his situation with a detached attitude, even though he knows very well that this situation may lead to death.

"It is not so much that the psychological quality is so strong that it is incredible, it is better to say that the congenital lack of CFR, physiologically, I will not feel anxiety and panic at all."

However, for some reason, once he encountered something related to the man with cat eyes, it was as if a claw protruded out of his chest.It's mild enough to scratch an itch, and severe enough to scratch the heart and lungs.

Qi Han shook his head, temporarily pressed those cat eyes to the depths of his consciousness, and stood up from behind the cover.

This place was originally a commercial street.On the only remaining wall of the movie theater, a huge poster of the new movie is still hanging upright. It is a romance movie: two men stand on the street in the night and kiss deeply, each holding a gun in his hand.

Qi Han's gaze swept across the poster screen smoothly, and then moved back quickly - not at the poster, but at the subway exit in front of the cinema.

A squad of light infantry had just emerged from there, in the uniform of a Phoenix midshipman, and was on the move.

Qi Han has excellent eyesight, and from such a long distance, he can recognize at a glance that several of them are newcomers who are in the same period as Sheng Rui, and they are also in the same shelter.

Where are they going in such a hurry?

Looking one by one, Sheng Rui was nowhere to be seen.Dozens of bad thoughts flashed through Qi Han's mind, and his heart sank suddenly.With a vertical movement, he stepped on half of the low wall, and rushed to the vicinity of the team like lightning.

"Amoretfides! (Love and Loyalty)" Qi Han whispered Phoenix's password.

The young non-commissioned officer Juno who led the team was startled, and blurted out: "Gloriosusetliber! (Glory and freedom)"

Seeing the person's face clearly, Juno was overjoyed immediately: "Captain Qi Han!"

Qi Han looked haggard, even a little embarrassed.The combat uniform was ragged, and his face was full of tiredness. It looked like he had driven a long way.But his eyes are still bright and clear, like a group of demonic phosphorous fire.

Juno's beating heart suddenly became much more stable.Not only him, but the team behind him also showed a look of relief.

Qi Han is this kind of person: You can't think of his existence at ordinary times, but in danger, he will be the one you most want to follow.

Juno briefly explained the battle plan to Qi Han: "...In short, we need to rush to the entrance of the next subway station as soon as possible, and sneak attack on the troops from behind."

Qi Han nodded, didn't say anything more, and took the lead to walk in the forefront of the team.

Several gunshots erupted in the alleyway in the distance, and then fell silent again.

The battle between the phoenix and the scorpion has now risen to the level of "warship VS battleship". There are only local areas and sporadic street fighting on the ground.

As time dragged on, most of the power armor of the scorpion had exhausted its energy, turning into a pile of scrap metal that could not move.The armored infantry had to abandon their armor and fight in the form of light infantry.

In this case, Phoenix should have counterattacked on a large scale and brought back the situation in one fell swoop.However, since entering the state of war until now, the defenders of the entire Phoenix [-] have actually been in a semi-paralyzed state.

Although the technical officers tried their best to ensure the coordination of the tactical data link, the overall situation was still poorly directed and the scheduling was chaotic.

The strongest combat power is scattered in various places, relying on a single force to fight against the group army group, which has never been effectively organized at all.

——To put it bluntly, most of Phoenix's officers are just civilians who have learned to fight and can legally carry weapons. They are far from the real "soldiers" in the Earth Age.

It was expected that such a situation would occur.When Qi Han was studying in the military academy, as soon as he came to military theory class, half of the class skipped class, and the other half just wanted to find a place to sleep.

How can war happen in space?Where is the enemy, the distant galaxy Proxima?

In a world where war is impossible, military affairs are nothing more than dragon-slaying skills, so what is the use of learning them?

However, when the war really came, people suddenly realized that the greatest enemy of human beings will always be human beings themselves.

Biologist Lorenz has a famous saying: Whether we learn from pigeons or wolves, the fate of mankind depends on the answer to this question.

Silently reading the motto on the title page of the non-commissioned officer's handbook, Xue Yu heard the submachine gun in his hand firing furiously.

The muzzle of the gun swallowed flames and emitted faint smoke.

This is an abandoned dispatch station, and the steel rails extend in all directions like a spider web.There are a lot of carriages and steel piled up in the middle of the road, which are roadblocks under the cloth of the raven.

"Bang!"

The subway roared and crashed into it, smashing the latter into a pile of crumpled iron sheets like paper.

Xue Yu felt the carriage under his feet jump up suddenly, and his body lost weight for a moment.

At that moment, he thought that the train was about to derail and capsize, and reflexively wanted to grab something to stabilize his body, but the gun almost flew out of his hand because of it.

But the car stabilized again.The snout-shaped bump on the front of the car was sunk deeply, pushing forward against more and more obstacles, and the scream of iron scraping against the rail pierced eardrums and bone marrow.

Xue Yu regained his composure, and only then did he see clearly the black soldiers on both sides of the rail.

They don't have armored exoskeletons, but they still give people a steel-like coercion, as if they are steel themselves.Their faces could not be seen clearly under the high-speed movement, but their eyes were empty.

Xue Yu shuddered, thinking of those "ghost soldiers" he had seen in the movie: no self-awareness, no feelings, no life and death, the only thing he could do was keep killing, killing, killing.

Are they really human?

What the hell am I fighting against?

There was a "pop" sound, and the surrounding area was suddenly empty.

Xue Yu turned his head and realized that the gunman lying on his left side was gone.

Then there was another "plop", and another person also fell from the roof of the car.Xue Yu looked down the car in horror, only to see a hand flashing between the rails, and then the car body bumped violently again.

Only then did he realize that the strange-sounding "plopping" sound was the sound of bullets piercing into flesh and blood.

...they died.

...they are dead! !

The fear seeping from the bottom of my heart turned into indescribable anger.Xue Yu only felt that the trigger of the submachine gun had sunk deeply into the knuckles of his fingers.

Like a bullet traveling through the dirt, the speed of the subway is getting slower and slower.There seems to be no end to the barricades ahead, and the seemingly endless numbers of soldiers on the move.

Xue Yu gradually developed hallucinations: he was floating on the sea before the tsunami, surrounded by huge purple-black waves, slowly churning and rising from the bottom of the sea.The sky and the earth are invisible, and the purple-black huge waves are about to swallow everything.

A voice suddenly came out of the earphones: "The second column is in position, waiting for instructions!"

"Change the attack echelon." Sheng Rui's voice sounded from the earphones and beside him at the same time.Giving the order, he slid out the magazine and refilled it.

Xue Yu suddenly woke up from the hallucination.The muzzle of the gun in his hand had already misfired, so he hurriedly took out another magazine and hurriedly replaced it.

"Are you okay?" Sheng Rui asked, not looking at him, but staring in a certain direction.

"...It's...not bad..." Xue Yu's voice was dry, and his mouth was sour and bitter.

The speed of the subway is already very slow now, as if it is slowing down and sliding when it is about to arrive at the station.

It is said that in moments of extreme danger, the human brain perceives infinite detail in a split second.

Xue Yu could clearly see the expressionless soldiers on both sides of the rail.Their faces and movements were like slow motion in a movie, slowly pulling past his eyes.Even the bullets fired from their muzzles seem to be spinning and flying at a speed that can be caught by the naked eye.

Xue Yu suddenly felt strongly ominous.His intuition told him that there was a fatal detail hidden in this set of weird slow-motion shots.His eyes searched, and finally fell on a direction - the direction that Sheng Rui had been staring at.

A dark object appeared there.

That is impressive...it is a mortar|strike|cannon!

Two gunners crouched on either side, reloading.

Xue Yu's pupils dilated for a moment, and then shrank suddenly.He seemed to have seen the scene that was about to happen next: the mortar bomb hit the subway, the train rushed into the air, exploded, and scattered.

At this time, there was a gunshot next to him, and then a second shot.

The bodies of the two gunners were pushed back by the powerful stopping force of the bullets, and the blood that appeared at the first sight was annihilated in the ensuing flames.

It was only when Xue Yuan recalled afterwards that he noticed that the gunshots he heard were obviously staggered.

At that time, Sheng Rui actually shot in bursts.

Charge|Front|gun has two gears of continuous fire and single shot. When it is single shot, it can be used as a sniper|sniper|gun. When it is fired in bursts, the muzzle will float, and the accuracy is very low.

I have to admit that some people in this world have inexplicable talents for certain skills.

Sheng Rui has never received formal shooting training, and only touched a pistol before that.But at that critical juncture, he relied entirely on instinct to snipe | the opponent's two gunners in one fell swoop.

Later, when Sheng Rui became the admiral of the Phoenix Fleet, people gave him a nickname: Sick Cat.

Cats are such soft and harmless looking creatures that people often forget the fact that:

Cats are actually born killers.

☆、Chapter 37

The scenery on both sides of the subway retreated more and more slowly, and finally stopped completely.

"It can't be done." Rhodes said in the headset, "There are too many obstacles in the front of the car, and it can't be moved. Are you going to retreat into the car? Should I open the door?"

"No, it's not the time yet." Sheng Rui turned the submachine gun back to the continuous firing position again, "Everyone stay at your shooting position and fire all the bullets."

There are only half of the people on the roof of the carriage left, and the ammunition is almost exhausted.

There is an unspoken but obvious cruel fact: these people on the roof of the carriage, including Sheng Rui himself, are expendable.

Relying on such a small number of people to attack head-on, originally there was no chance of winning.Their role is only to delay time, to divert the enemy's attention, and to allow the real main force of the assault, the second column, to have time to detour and attack the enemy's flank.

When ordinary people assume the role of commander in chief for the first time, they often have a subconscious wish: to let all their subordinates escape from the battle unscathed and safe.

It's a good wish, but it's just a wish.

Sheng Rui was very clear from the very beginning: it is impossible to fight without death.From the moment the battle plan is drawn up, the victim is born.Just like playing chess, sometimes you have to send food.It is impossible to win without giving up some pieces.

On both sides of the steel rails are heavily armed soldiers, looking like a dense mass of darkness.Without the cover of the high speed of the train, the people on the roof became fixed targets, unable to lift their heads under the weight of bullets.

Xue Yu desperately buried his head behind a metal ridge, and the bullets rattled on the car door under him.He felt that his eyes were full of liquid, as if his eye sockets were going to burst, and he didn't know whether it was sweat or tears.

"Shoot! Don't stop!" Someone yelled hoarsely beside him, but no one could tell whose voice it was.Xue Yu didn't move at all, the hand holding the gun was sweaty and slippery, unable to gather any strength.Chong | Front | The gun was dangling on the edge of the carriage, and was about to fall below.

I'm dying.I'm dying.I'm dying.

The only thought left in my mind was circling over and over again.

Will my brother see my name on the death list?Will he be sad?

The soul seemed to have left the body and went to the future. He saw Xue Yuan standing in front of his tombstone, weeping at his picture.

For a moment, he felt a strange sense of satisfaction.

——If you can make my brother cry for me, it's not bad to die.

But the thought only lasted for a second before it disappeared in a flash.Xue Yu suddenly saw a stump protruding from the rail, which was the corpse of an unknown person.

He was suddenly woken up by a bucket of ice water.

The so-called dead are those who fell onto the rails.And the train of the living never stops, leaving them farther and farther away.

So what if my brother would cry for him?His life is over, and his brother will soon forget him, and go further afield with the train of the living.

A slight tingling pain suddenly came from between the ulna and radius of the forearm.He was shot.

I don't want to die.I don't want to fall below.

——I don't want to die! ! !

Xue Yu grabbed the gun that was about to slip, and fired wildly in the direction of the bullets coming from the opposite side.

His gunshots immediately merged into the surrounding gunshots one after another.At this moment, everyone is as crazy as him.

The rear of the Dianzhu army suddenly became chaotic.The second assault column pierced into their ribs like two sharp knives.

For a while, the Dianzhu army couldn't figure out how many people there were on the other side. Worried that they would be surrounded, they hurriedly dispersed their troops to cover their flanks, and the formation was in chaos.

Suddenly, all the doors of the tightly closed subway cars were opened at the same time, and there were many gun barrels, and the reserve team hiding in the cars began to shoot in unison.

Taking advantage of the suppression of the firepower of the Mianjun army, Sheng Rui issued a retreat order, and all the people on the roof retreated into the compartment.

At this time, the third column responsible for stabbing the knife from the back emerged.

The third column has the smallest number of people, but it is the most experienced and elite force among the candidate non-commissioned officers.As soon as they entered the attack radius, they rushed straight to the heavy weapon depot of the Miao army, and took it down with lightning speed.

"The captain of the third column, Juno, reports to the commander!" Juno's voice came from the earphones, "We have occupied the heavy weapon depot, should we immediately attack the Mianzhu headquarters, and ask for instructions!"

"Got it. Start attacking. The second column will provide containment. You don't need to ask for instructions anymore, you can judge for yourself." Sheng Rui leaned against the wall of the carriage, listening to the voices of people outside.His work was done, and the rest was left to luck.

Luck was on his side.

Less than 5 minutes had passed from the time the subway rushed into the front line of the Miao army to the end of the battle.

This is a quick battle, but in everyone's senses, these 5 minutes are infinitely stretched, as long as a battle of the century; at the same time, they are infinitely compressed, as short as lightning.

Sheng Rui felt that he only blinked his eyes once, and when he opened them again, Juno's face hung above his field of vision: "We won. An infantry company of Mianjiu was wiped out by us!"

"...they only have one company??" Xue Yu interrupted in disbelief.In his feeling, the opponent's strength is as large as an integrated division, no, as many as an army group.

"Of course." Juno looked at him in astonishment, "Didn't you hear the previous reconnaissance report? If there are too many of them, we wouldn't dare to take action easily."

Xue Yu opened his mouth dumbly, unable to feel the joy of victory.In such a fierce battle, so many comrades died, it turned out that the enemy only had one company, and it took only 5 minutes.

"Clear the roadblock, let's move on." Sheng Rui's voice was exhausted and weak.

He was shot in the thigh and was restrained tightly with a strip of cloth.There was not much bleeding, and the major arteries should not have been injured.The bullet passed through, and if the wound was not infected, it would not be life-threatening.

Although the combat time is short, the spirit has been highly concentrated, and the result is a migraine attack.Large and small rotating light spots appeared in front of Sheng Rui's eyes, and the field of vision outside the light spots kept dimming.

In a trance, a person sat down beside him, and untied the cloth strips on his legs to check the wound.

Sheng Rui held back his headache and opened his eyes, and saw a bright "Mad Dog" assault knife cutting open his clothes.The hand holding the knife has slender fingers with hard and prominent knuckles.

That is……

Sheng Rui's heart skipped a beat, so fast that it made him want to vomit.He couldn't help but grab that hand, stabilized his mind, and then slowly looked up along the other's arm.

Then he met a pair of dark green eyes.

Sheng Rui was dizzy for a while.

All the suppressed emotions surged up, and he lay on Qi Han's shoulder and retched.

"……vomit!!"

Qi Han supported his back and made a rare joke: "Am I so disgusting?"

Sheng Rui vomited a few more times, and took a breath: "Yes. I just want a knife from you, and you scare me like this. It's terrible. I won't dare to ask you for anything in the future."

Qi Han didn't answer, and let Sheng Rui lean on his shoulder.He was originally a person who didn't like to explain, and there was always a wonderful tacit understanding between him and Sheng Rui: as long as he saw each other, there was no need to ask and say a lot of things.

The subway started slowly again.

The others moved away, leaving a little space for the two of them to be alone.

Sheng Rui meekly watched Qi Han treat his wound.His ability to endure pain was astonishing, and he didn't say a word.

Qi Han leaned over, bit the gauze with his teeth, and his long eyelashes lightly rubbed against Sheng Rui's skin, giving him a very peaceful feeling.

The lights were dim, the air mixed with the smell of sweat and blood permeated the compartment, and there was also gunpowder smoke from the muzzle of the gun.

Everything that happened just now is still vivid in my mind.Blood, fire, and death.

No matter how you look at it, this is not a good time for confession.

But Sheng Rui didn't want to care so much.No one understands better than he: not every "later" will come.

"Come here." Sheng Rui tugged at Qi Han's sleeve, "Talk to you."

Qi Han put his ear to his lips and heard him say: "I..."

The sound of the wind in the tunnel obscured the sound of the words behind.

But maybe, those pronunciations were not covered up by the wind, but blocked by something else.

In this dark corner of the carriage, no third person saw who kissed whom first.Not to mention no third person will know what kind of mood these two people are having at this moment.

It was a very light kiss, like a feather brushing over the lips, the vague touch was not even as vivid as the breaths exhaled by each other.

But it was a real kiss—like the couple on the movie poster.

The first person to turn his head away was Qi Han.Unfortunately, the train picked up speed just at this time, Qi Han's body rushed forward uncontrollably, and his mouth hit Sheng Rui's teeth.

Cracking your teeth while kissing is a shame, especially if it's your first kiss.Qi Han was very embarrassed for a while, neither advancing nor retreating, his arms were propped on the wall of the carriage, he was frozen there at a loss what to do.

"Oh shit!" Sheng Rui covered his mouth and cried out in pain, "This time it doesn't count, next time we will do it all over again."

"........."

Sheng Rui's hand dexterously touched Qi Han's thigh, and when he pulled it back, he held the "mad dog" assault knife between his fingers, and handed over the knife that Qi Han had given him earlier with the other hand.