Warm Water Spirits

The dazzling red warning lights flickered in the depths of the rainforest.

The street lights along the way were extinguished due to external forces, and looking around, except for the cold red light in the center of the field of vision, there was darkness everywhere.Half a day of violent storms swept through, and the extremely humid rain was difficult to dissipate overnight, accumulating into thick moisture, rain and fog lingered, layer upon layer of barriers, and visibility was very low.

The red light is where the explosion occurred in the afternoon.

Jiang Yunqi mixed in the crowd, standing at the blocked intersection, the dim light reflected on his face, his blue eyes were calm and condensed, but his eye sockets were slightly red.

Two fluorescent yellow warning belts were pulled up in front of him, and not far behind, the police officers temporarily sent by the town to maintain order leaned on the police car and looked around lazily, not paying much attention to the townspeople running back and forth to watch the excitement. There was a vague voice from the explosion point ahead.

Jiang Yunqi was in it, as if he was in a vacuum bottle, the night was chaotic, everything was far and near by his ears, the only clear thing was his own breathing.

After roughly identifying the direction, Jiang Yunqi found that the explosion site was very close to the Xiaoqu River.

From what Song Xueying said earlier, he knew that Pei Zhe had gone to the explosion site, but now the road leading to the explosion site has been closed, if he wants to find someone...

Jiang Yunqi turned his head, and the headlights of the police car split two beams of snowy light in the dark and hazy night, all the way deep, immersed in the depths of the jungle on one side.

In fact, there is another way.

It takes less time to directly lead to the small canal, but it is a winding and dense forest road. If you don't have enough experience and reserves, you will easily get lost and you won't be able to get out after walking for a day.

But he has gone through countless times.

The entire Suihu region had been vividly displayed in his mind when he faced the bloody red light.

When Jiang Yunqi closes his eyes, he can see all the turning points along the way—the past nine years seem to have no effect at this time. Jiang Yunqi steps on the land of Suihu, as if he is holding a poker card in the palm of his hand.

Ever since witnessing Ao Tsai's death with his own eyes, all the memories surfaced with the bang of the Suihu explosion. Jiang Yunqi felt that since then, he has been holding an invisible poker card in his palm.

It brings hallucinations, it brings fear, it brings everything in the abyss.

However, at this moment, Jiang Yunqi suddenly rejoiced that he had stayed in the abyss long enough that he could figure out the abyss with his eyes closed.

Jiang Yunqi looked at the gloomy red light, took a deep breath, turned around and ran into the dark night without the slightest hesitation.

The half-person-high brambles and shrubs, the canopy covering the sky and the sun, and the cold moonlight floating like ghosts behind the clouds, passing through the heavy rain and fog, were finally shredded and scattered by the cross-covered branches and leaves, leaving only a gloomy and cloudy scene .

With the hot summer approaching in August, the continuous torrential rain makes the temperature a bit low.The chirping of mosquitoes is extremely rampant.Jiang Yunqi ran all the way, these cries followed behind him, inseparable, as if they had been following him all the time, like a nightmare in the deepest memory, entangled.

It was Jiang Yunqi's route to reach the Xiaoqu River first, and then go around to the explosion site to find Pei Zhe, but he didn't know that the old barracks were deployed in the Xiaoqu River.

So, when he ran to the small canal out of breath, he found that the place was orderly and brightly lit through the lush and lush bushes.In my memory, there are broken walls and ruins, gasoline coke all over the ground, standard dark green barracks are densely garrisoned, patrolling sergeants are armed with guns, and military boots step on the wet branches and leaves, making neat and regular clicks.

Deja Vu.

In front of the side, dozens of military off-road vehicles with powerful and bright headlights were all lined up in front of the row of barracks, and they were solemnly organized.

Jiang Yunqi saw Pei Zhe at a glance.

Wearing a military overcoat, he is tall, with his back facing the headlights of the car, and the dazzling white light rests on his shoulders, which cannot be shaken at all.

The ecstasy flooded his mind for a moment, and Jiang Yunqi opened his mouth to call someone.

In the next second, Pei Zhe with a stern face made a quick gesture to a group of garrison soldiers. The leader immediately turned sideways and led his troops to the place indicated by Pei Zhe.

Suddenly, reality and hallucination intertwined, like lightning piercing—Jiang Yunqi froze in place, his whole body was cold.

After discussing the route with the driver behind Pei Zhe, Qian Yun turned around and found Pei Zhe: "All the clues about the construction of the barracks were recorded, and the car will be loaded in an hour. Instead of taking the main road, the person who sent Song Qi back will report back It is said that a small section of the main road has also collapsed, and the electric wires are all blown up, so it is difficult to walk. Just go the way you came, the locals know it, we will go with them."

Pei Zhe stared at the dark bushes in the distance, and suddenly felt a strange feeling in his heart. Hearing this, he nodded and said nothing.

With a heavy expression on his face, Qian Yun followed Pei Zhe to look forward, and said in a low voice, "The two people who jumped out of the car are still being caught. It's too big here, we can't do it without a guide."

In the past few years of withdrawing from Suihu, although there have been occasional patrols and inspections, it is not easy to gain a deep understanding of the whereabouts of each trail.

Pei Zhe knew that he would have a tough battle when he went back this time, so he reminded: "The construction of the barracks is just a small project in the finishing work of the year. There are many documents and various people involved. Be careful."

Qian Yun nodded with a cautious tone: "I know."

After a while, the light rain started ticking again, falling on the metal roof, and the sound was a bit loud.

Qian Yun looked up and saw that the canopy was dense, the clouds were thick and gloomy, and there was no light above his head.

"I really didn't expect you to arrive there. I didn't want to bother you at first... That fellow Song Qigui, in the end, I'll let you go."

Pei Zhe didn't say anything, still staring at the dark bush not far away.

"...Can you go back and drink some cold medicine? It was raining too much when you came here, and the roads are not good. There are many turns here and there, if you are not careful...Song Qigui really is." Qian Yun respected Pei Zhe very much. Shi Wuzi said with a bit of self-blame.

Pei Zhe didn't know if he heard it, so he raised his hand to dial the phone.

Qian Yun saw: "The distance is too far, the signal is not good, it is difficult to—"

Pei Zhe suppressed the restlessness in his heart, turned to Qian Yun and said, "I'll go back first."

Qian Yun was stunned: "No, you can't——Officer Pei, it was still dark when you came here, and you could see the road clearly. It's dark now, and it's probably going to rain heavily. It's not safe to go back now, come with us -"

Suddenly, the phone rang, and Pei Zhe picked it up immediately.

The turbulent electric current pierced and pierced, and Pei Che's face changed instantly after he had only spoken half a sentence, from his shoulder blades to his spine froze as if he had been shocked by an electric shock.

Immediately afterwards, the other end of the phone said something, Pei Che didn't speak, his chest heaved violently a few times, as if something suddenly hit his heart, the jaw line was tense to the extreme, and the back of the hand holding the phone was bruised. raised, his fingers stiffened, and his breathing suddenly sank.

Seeing Pei Zhe like this for the first time, Qian Yun was too frightened to say a word.

Soon, Pei Zhe closed his eyes and picked up the phone, his expression extremely depressed.

Everything around is as usual, but the atmosphere is terrifying and cold.

Qian Yun stared at Pei Zhe and opened his eyes. Just as he was about to speak, Pei Zhe raised his eyes with bloodshot eyes, and said word by word, "Leave a team of people for me, I want to find—"

"Click."

The sound of the rain has a rhythm, and the small movements mixed in it, like small animals rushing in a panic, are not eye-catching.

Pei Zhe raised his hand and made a silent gesture very quickly.

Qian Yun didn't dare to move at all.

From a distance, Jiang Yunqi watched Pei Zhe with a serious face walking towards him step by step, his pupils constricted instantly, and the fear overflowing from the bottom of his heart rushed towards Tianling Gai, Jiang Yunqi couldn't help breathing hard, as if not Breathing like this would suffocate him in a bottomless pit of fear—

However, Pei Zhe is getting closer and closer——

The blue eyes were almost still, and the next second his breathing stopped suddenly, Jiang Yunqi turned around and ran out as if dying!

"Yun Qi—!"

In that split second, the running figure was all too familiar!

Jiang Yunqi stumbled and ran, Pei Zhe yelled until he was trembling all over, Jiang Yunqi closed his eyes, and ran forward with all his strength.

Without hesitation, Pei Zhe chased after him.

Qian Yun just stood there, completely unaware of what happened.Pei Zhe disappeared so quickly that he couldn't react at all.

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and Jiang Yunqi began to cough.

His lungs were burning, and there was a tearing pain in his throat. Jiang Yunqi coughed while running, his eyes were foggy, and the physiological tears brought by the pain made him unable to see the road clearly.

I don't know how long it has passed, Jiang Yunqi's nasal cavity is filled with the mottled smell of damp soil and leaves and moss, accompanied by a seemingly non-existent, getting closer and closer burnt smell.

He actually ran to the place where the explosion happened this afternoon.

The dazzling scarlet warning lights flickered in the central pothole, and there was no one around. In other words, people had just left, and there were long tire tracks on the muddy ground, extending all the way forward.

Jiang Yunqi slowed down, swallowed hard, carefully inspected the surrounding movement, and found that there was no sound at all except his own breathing and the sound of heavy pouring rain.

His whole body was soaked, wrapped in thin summer clothes, scratched by branches all the way, messy, his palms were scratched, and his knees were dirty.

Walking aimlessly and cautiously for half a circle, Jiang Yunqi stood alone, breathing hard with his mouth open, the rain washed down his head, and he had to close his eyes.

For a long time, his mind was dizzy, he seemed to know where he was, and he didn't seem to know.

Jiang Yunqi looked down at the palm of his hand, it was empty, but in the blink of an eye, he seemed to see an ace of spades.

Suddenly, whether it was an illusion or not, Jiang Yunqi heard the sound of the gun bolt twitching.

One click, another click.

Jiang Yunqi took a few steps back, trying to find out the voice, but the place where the red light couldn't reach was the bottomless rainforest, which was eerie and eerie.

Suddenly, something was kicked under his feet, the sound was not very loud, but Jiang Yunqi was extremely frightened, so he turned around and looked down immediately in fright.

It's an old model rifle.

For the remaining guns from the explosion, the butts and handles had been melted and bent, and the barrels were intact, most of which were soaked in muddy water.

Jiang Yunqi stared at it for a while, panting and bent over to pick it up——

The moment his fingers touched the cold gun body, Jiang Yunqi seemed to sense something, and looked up in shock——

The man was standing not far away, with a cold and gloomy face, locking him firmly, blood dripping down his body, and holding a gun in his hand, the regular sound of the bolt twitching just now, Just from there.

Behind that person, there are fireworks soaring into the sky and piles of corpses.

The scorching smell of the disgusting sticky blood mixed with gunpowder all hit him, Jiang Yunqi stared blankly, his mind buzzed, and he couldn't think of anything anymore.

He couldn't tell the hallucinations apart at all.

Facing the horrifying mountain of corpses and sea of ​​blood, Jiang Yunqi retreated step by step until there was no way to retreat. He squatted down and curled himself into a ball, trembling with fear, without saying a word.

Pei Zhe stood not far away, staring at Jiang Yunqi, who was so fragile that he was about to collapse, his heart ached.

He followed Jiang Yunqi all the way without approaching.When Jiang Yunqi chose to escape, Pei Che knew that something must have stimulated Jiang Yunqi's nerves at that time, making him unable to distinguish reality.

Except for the initial exertion, Jiang Yunqi didn't run fast afterwards, and almost stumbled in the second half, but he was too scared, Pei Zhe guarded him, but didn't dare to touch him rashly.

Jiang Yunqi is like a string stretched to the extreme, which may break at any time and never get back together again.

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, covering the sky and covering the sky, and Jiang Yunqi, who was squatting in place, seemed to be dead.

The chick has lost its wings and is dying.

Pei Zhe walked towards Jiang Yunqi.

Another voice came - Jiang Yunqi didn't have much strength to look up, he could only shrink himself tighter.

Fear completely took over his body.

It seemed that all the fear and exhaustion that he endured in Suihu in those years, nine years later, in this dark and endless rainy night, all came to him, devoured him, tortured him, and made him unable to live anymore.

"Yun Qi."

Suddenly, someone called him.

Jiang Yunqi's shoulders shook, but he didn't look up.

Pei Zhe squatted down and reached out to touch Jiang Yunqi——

The moment Jiang Yunqi touched it with his fingertips, Jiang Yunqi was shocked. He raised his hand without hesitation and held the gun to Pei Zhe's shoulder!

The blue eyes that stared at Pei Che were like a cluster of dying fireworks, chilling to the bone, empty and lifeless.

Pei Zhe didn't move, he smiled at Jiang Yunqi, and stroked the back of Jiang Yunqi's almost cold neck and cheek with his outstretched hand: "How about going back with Brother Pei?"

Jiang Yunqi looked at him without blinking. After a while, he turned to look at that person.Every move is like a mechanical reaction.

Pei Zhe followed Jiang Yunqi's gaze to the depths of the rainforest, suppressed the ups and downs of his heart, closed his eyes for a few seconds, and then lowered his voice: "Don't be afraid, Yunqi."

Jiang Yunqi, as if he hadn't heard of it, watched Pei Zhe take a few steps back and stood up, aiming his gun at Pei Zhe exactly, without moving.

Pei Zhe didn't seem to care at all, he continued to approach Jiang Yunqi.

They got closer and closer, and finally the two of them were separated by a gun, while Pei Zhe was still approaching.

Lan Mou only reacted at this time, Jiang Yunqi couldn't understand the man who appeared in front of him, he was puzzled, but more of it was fear and bewilderment.

Jiang Yunqi turned his head to look at the hallucination again, he was comparing the aggressiveness of these two people——

At this time, Jiang Yunqi could no longer recognize Pei Zhe.

When Pei Zhe found out, he bowed his head and panted deeply. Accepting this fact was more painful than cutting out his heart. Pei Zhe reached out his hand again to caress Jiang Yunqi's cheek. His hands were trembling, but his coaxing tone was as usual. Zhe stared into Jiang Yunqi's eyes and said to him, "Can Yunqi and Brother Pei go back?"

Both of them were drenched, but Pei Zhe's palm was astonishingly hot, and the heat was transmitted to Jiang Yunqi, who trembled slightly.

Jiang Yunqi held the gun tightly and held it hard.

He didn't know what to hold on to, the gun seemed to give him a sense of security.

That's what he told himself during the countless days and nights in Suihu.Hold the gun in your hand and obey all orders so that you can live and be safe.

However, Jiang Yunqi found it was useless, he was still afraid, and the man who came from the mountain of corpses and the sea of ​​blood also raised his gun at him——

Jiang Yunqi seemed to have forgotten about Pei Zhe, he stared at that person, subconsciously said: "Don't...don't..."

Pei Zhe reached out to hug him, but Jiang Yunqi broke free!

Like a trapped animal, Jiang Yunqi stared back and forth at Pei Che and the man who was approaching with a gun, like a frightened bird, exhausting his last effort.

That person is still approaching.

Jiang Yunqi broke down and finally burst into tears. He kept stepping back and murmured, "Don't...don't...don't..."

"……don't want--!"

Jiang Yunqi closed his eyes and shouted hoarsely!

at the same time!

Jiang Yunqi collapsed to the extreme, he didn't know what to do and what not to do, he held the gun unconsciously, at the last second when the string broke, he directly shot at that person!

"—Boom!"

Pei Zhe almost lost his heartbeat, he rushed towards Jiang Yunqi directly!

"Yun Qi!"