heart poison

The wrist was numb, as if the blood had been stopped there.

Liu Zhiqin pressed his index finger tremblingly towards the trigger, and his vision gradually became distorted.The air seemed to be filled with the smell of yellow sand and gunpowder smoke, all the quiet sounds turned into piercing screams, the heart was beating uncontrollably, every inch of skin and every inch of bone in the whole body was in unbearable pain, as if being cut back and forth by a rusty blunt knife... …

He still held the gun in his right hand—the gun was shaking with his arm, and his left hand was drawn back, covering the upper half of his face with force.

The palm is hot, the eye sockets and forehead are also hot, the eyelashes are trembling in the palm, a dizzying force suddenly rushes to the head, like a heavy punch on the face.

He couldn't dodge it, but shook his head in vain.

In his mind, An Ze's originally clear face gradually became blurred, as if sand and dust suddenly rose on the Gobi Desert and fell on the flames of war. An Ze stood in the dust and flames of war, his eyebrows were shrouded, and his facial features could not be seen clearly.

elder brother……

He hissed in his heart, just like when he was a child.

When he was a child, An Ze always walked in front of him, opened the way for him, and blocked all dangers for him, then turned half sideways, stretched out his hand, and said with a smile: "I can't walk anymore? Do you want your brother to hold you or carry you?"

The blood was surging, the chest was filled with the old past, and tender tears were squeezed out of each incident.

"Brother." The Adam's apple rolled, and a dry and deep call came out of his lips. The picture in his mind was projected in reality. An Ze seemed to be standing not far away, smiling, waving his hands easily, and his voice was the same as before— — "Why so slow? Hurry up!"

His footsteps seemed to be drawn by an invisible rope, and he began to move forward slowly.Something warm slipped across his face, and when he wiped it with his hand, it turned out to be tears.

He barely stopped.

"Brother, I'm sorry." The sound of gunfire came from a distance, as well as the unique roar of the armed helicopter. An Ze's expression suddenly became sad, and a pair of always bright eyes showed a dim light, as if rubbed into All the guilt, annoyance and unwillingness.

"You, what did you say?" Liu Zhiqin murmured, the muscles in his neck convulsed in pain, disrupting his breathing rhythm.

"I'm not a good policeman." The desert camouflage on An Ze's body was soaked in blood, his chest, shoulders, legs and feet... were covered in large areas of blood.Liu Zhiqin watched helplessly as he knelt down in front of her, his scarred hands grasping the yellow sand on the ground.

"Brother..." Liu Zhiqin's voice became choked up, as if his internal organs were all sobbing.

"I know, you have been looking for the truth all these years." An Ze lowered his head, half of his face was shrouded in shadow, tears fell, but they were the color of blood.

"Brother!" Liu Zhiqin trembled uncontrollably and subconsciously shook his head.

"It's me." An Ze raised his head suddenly, his eyes were bloodshot, and his face was covered with blood, "That person is me! It's me! It's not someone else who killed me, but myself!"

As he said that, An Ze thumped his chest violently, the voice was dull and hollow, every time it hit the listener's heart.

Liu Zhiqin couldn't move.

"But I can't help it." An Ze lowered his voice and rambled, "I was controlled by that person and became his 'chess piece'. He said, I was his first 'chess piece', yes The best 'chess piece'."

"No!" Liu Zhiqin shook his head frantically, "Impossible!"

An Ze's eyes were full of pity and helplessness, "I killed my brother and comrade-in-arms, I...I can't control myself."

The smell of gunpowder smoke became stronger, and the sound of rockets tearing the air from the gunship almost pierced the eardrums.

——Shakespeare five years ago should have been like this.

"I don't know why it was me, and why I was targeted by him." An Ze said with a wry smile: "There are so many brothers, why did he focus on me? Do you know what a 'chess piece' is?"

Liu Zhiqin shook his head almost mechanically, unable to pronounce any decent syllables.

"I was locked in my own body, watching me kill my brother, but I couldn't do anything." An Ze bent down, his face almost buried in the yellow sand, "I killed them, I don't deserve to be Police, I am not worthy to be your brother..."

Liu Zhiqin's eyes were about to burst, and something in his temple was violently agitating, as if it was about to come out of the flesh and bones.

An Ze stretched out his hands and walked forward with his knees in the yellow sand, his voice wrapped in the wind and sand, "Do you understand? I am the culprit, your brother, the culprit!"

The world suddenly slumped, and amidst the severe dizziness, Liu Zhiqin pressed his chest hard, his heart was racing wildly, and the sense of weightlessness crazily shuttled between his limbs and bones.

The field of vision loses focus, all colors are chaotic, the ears seem to be covered, and the hearing is completely isolated.

The heart seems to have stopped beating, or it is beating at a frequency that the body cannot bear.

piece!piece!piece!

This cold and ironic word circled in his mind.

An Ze's eyes were like an abyss, Liu Zhiqin stared at it helplessly, listening to An Ze repeating over and over - I am a "chess piece".

"Ah!" He couldn't bear it anymore, and shouted hoarsely, but found that he couldn't hear his own voice at all.

An Ze also disappeared into the darkness.

Liu Zhiqin opened his eyes wide, and suddenly remembered An Ze's words - "I'm locked in my own body... I can't do anything".

So is that what it feels like to be locked in your own body?

An Ze, brother, was that how you felt at the time?

"Yes. You finally understand." At some point, An Ze appeared again, standing in front of Liu Zhiqin with gentle eyes, and even stretched out his hand to him, "Now, you are also a 'chess piece', our two brothers people……"

"Boom!" The bullets from the sniper rifle shot through the air, smashing all the illusory images into pieces.

In an instant, the smell of yellow sand and gunpowder smoke disappeared, the Gobi Desert covered by the flames of war and dark clouds disappeared, the scream of rockets disappeared, and the "chess piece" An Zeye...

Disappeared.

Liu Zhiqin came back to his senses in a daze, and his eyes gradually became focused.

Still in the dilapidated technical school classroom, the siren of the police car outside the window was louder than the sound, and Lian Feng was lying on the ground, with blood gushing out from the knee of his right leg.

Pupils contracted, and Liu Zhiqin slowly raised his gun-holding hand to support his scorching temple.

"Tsk, almost." Lian Feng laughed regretfully in a pool of blood, "You could have become a more powerful 'chess piece' than your brother."

As soon as the words fell, another shot came, and the bullet pierced Lian Feng's wrist with incomparable precision.

Liu Zhiqin rolled his eyes and looked out the window.

The feeling of emptiness in the body gradually disappeared, and the pupils slowly gathered.

On the hovering helicopter, holding a sniper rifle is...

Lian Feng struggled in severe pain, his expression became more and more distorted and weird.With blood all over his body, he crawled forward in an extremely strange posture.

"Bang!" The third shot, the bullet hit the elbow, spattering a spray of blood.

"Fuck you!"

The extremely familiar voice stimulated Liu Zhiqin's nerves, pulling back his wandering consciousness almost instantly.

The mind finally regained its clarity after a long period of anxiety.

Liu Zhiqin exhausted all his strength and took a long breath.

??

The footsteps were hurried, and there were many people, but one of them was Hua Chong——Liu Zhiqin easily recognized it.

The armed police dragged Lian Feng out of the pool of blood. Because of the excessive blood loss and the unbearable pain, his face was pale and he almost lost consciousness.

But he was still muttering, "'chess pieces', all are 'chess pieces'..."

Liu Zhiqin pursed her lips tightly.

Hua Chong was the last to break into the classroom, holding a sniper rifle in one hand, and squeezed Lian Feng's chin with the other, almost breaking his bones, "No one will be your 'chess piece' again. An Ze was never yours 'piece'!"

Liu Zhiqin's chest throbbed, his eyes stopped.

Lian Feng was dragged away, leaving only a bloodstain on the dusty ground.

Hua Chong turned around and looked at Liu Zhiqin, his pupils were filled with monstrous fire.

He approached step by step, still holding the sniper rifle in his hand, while the other hand stretched out, clasped Liu Zhiqin's shoulder, and pressed hard against himself.

Chests collided, and the breath was filled with each other's heat.

Liu Zhiqin slowly closed his eyes, and hugged Hua Chong with increasing strength until he felt Hua Chong's breath tightening.

"You're going to strangle me." Hua Chong said softly, "I just came from Zhousheng, I haven't used a sniper rifle for a long time, my hands are shaking from nervousness, you...you are still strangling me, not letting me breathe. "

Liu Zhiqin still imprisoned him tightly, bowed his back slightly, buried his face on his shoulder, and breathed greedily.

The chaos returned to calm, and all the movements of the outside world seemed to be blocked by an invisible barrier.

Hua Chong patted Liu Zhiqin's back lightly, letting him hold him, feeling his heartbeat and his inadvertent trembling.

Time seems to have passed for a long time, and it seems that not too long has passed.

Hua Chong's voice was full of fatigue and fear, "I kept calling your name on the communicator just now, but you didn't respond at all."

Liu Zhiqin's arms froze slightly, "Really?"

"Yeah." Hua Chong said: "I called you many times, and you patronize Lianfeng. I even suspect that I have lost my attraction to you."

"I..." Liu Zhiqin subconsciously tightened his arms.

"Why are you listening to his nonsense?" Hua Chong said, "How could An Ze be his 'pawn'?"

Liu Zhiqin was silent for a moment, raised his head, looked into Hua Chong's eyes, parted his lips slightly, but did not speak.

His eyes were too dark, Hua Chong lost his reaction for a moment.

After a long time, he said, "My brother..."

"Your brother was an excellent special police officer until he died, which is enough to make you and me proud." Hua Chong's tone was firm, almost decisive.

Liu Zhiqin's chest rose and fell, his eyes gradually became soft, and after a while, he turned his face away, and his fingers hurriedly wiped from the corners of his eyes.

"You don't have to believe your brother, because when his accident happened, you haven't seen each other for two years—two years is enough to make a person completely unrecognizable." Hua Chong seemed calm, but his eyes were filled with intense heartache, "If I were you, I would also be bewitched by Lian Feng, thinking that An Ze is really his 'pawn'."

"But you have to trust my judgment. I am his teammate! I am in Shacheng, a teammate who has been with him day and night!" Hua Chong tried hard to make his voice not sound so trembling, holding Liu Zhiqin's face with one hand , "You missed two years of his anti-terrorism career, but I didn't. Until his last expedition, I still high-fived him! Hug him! Make an appointment with him to return safely! I know what kind of brother you regard as your target He is absolutely impossible to be Lian Feng's 'chess piece'!"

Liu Zhiqin raised his face halfway, his Adam's apple twitched up and down.

Hua Chong's eyes were also hot, and he said firmly: "He is not a 'chess piece', An Ze is not a 'chess piece'. Remember, your elder brother An Ze is still our comrade-in-arms until he dies!"

Liu Zhiqin's knuckles turned white, and he tried his best to control his surging emotions.

Hua Chong grabbed his hand and slowly put it to his heart, his voice became surprisingly gentle, "Brother Xiaoliu, do you believe me?"

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As I wrote it, I wrote it to the end. The next chapter is the end, and it will be over tomorrow. I will ask for another wave of starfish, thank you everyone!