lanterns illuminate rivers and mountains

In an encrypted ward in the underground laboratory.

The medical equipment reflected cold light under the lights, and the walls, sheets and even the floor were all white.Long Jiwei slowly opened his eyes, the eyeballs were bleeding red, looking a little scary on his pale face.

The rot had eroded to the left shoulder and chest, the skin on the shoulder was peeling off, and even the pulsating blood vessels under the muscles could be seen.

The researcher pulled the syringe out of Long Jiwei's right wrist, made a "done" gesture to Shan Diren, walked out of the ward and closed the door.

"You're awake." Shan Diren leaned down and kissed the corner of Long Jiwei's lips lightly.

"..." Long Jiwei's slack eyes slowly focused on the focus, and his eyes moved after a long while, and his voice was so hoarse that he could hardly hear clearly: "...He's here..."

"The monster is coming, but we're leaving."

Shan Diren pointed at his watch, with an intimate attitude as if facing his most beloved lover, and his voice was so gentle that it was chilling: "In two hours, we will take a cruise ship to the high seas, where the sea and sky are the same color, and there is no one inhabited. They will never find us either."

Long Jiwei closed his eyes slightly and said, "He will."

"It won't. The research institute has already shipped a large high-energy ray instrument for back-buffering from the military department, and it will be dealt with as soon as we leave. At that time, no matter what kind of dragon or monster it is, it will only be burned to ashes."

"...Dream." A slight sneer appeared on Long Jiwei's pale face: "I can feel it... anger and anxiety make its fluctuations more obvious, beyond all of your imagination... your people can only Death in vain."

Shan Diren said irritably: "It's just an animal! Humans are the strongest creatures in nature!"

Long Jiwei stopped talking and looked at him with compassion.

Although he could only lie there weakly, and it took all his strength to even move his fingers, but when Shan Diren was stared at by him like this, he had the feeling that he was already at a disadvantage and was condescending and sympathetic.

"You..." Shan Diren was at a loss for words, and said angrily, "Don't even try to seek death! The research institute has already produced a vaccine for this virus infection, and I won't let you just leave like this!"

"I won't leave." Long Jiwei said softly, "I never leave Xuan Lin, even if I die, my soul will always stay by his side."

The venom of jealousy corrodes the heart bit by bit. At that moment, Shan Diren felt that it was not Long Jiwei who was swallowed by the virus lying on the hospital bed, but himself.

"Do you know how long I have been with Xuanlin?"

"..."

"63 years, almost covering the long time of ordinary people from birth to death, we are always together, never separated. Everyone around me is slowly aging, and then gradually dying, only I am alone from the river of time Just like a lost person, he walked slowly in the opposite direction to others."

"Only Xuan Lin is with me." Long Jiwei said softly, "Walking together on the road with no end in sight."

Shan Diren was stunned for a while, then snorted coldly: "If the military finds out the secret of buffering body rays to maintain cell vitality and stop the human body from aging, more people will become like you, and then that monster will be gone. Existence is necessary. Even I can..."

Long Jiwei said: "You can't."

Shan Diren was jealous and embarrassed, and couldn't hold back his face: "Why can't I? Can't you feel my feelings for you?"

Long Jiwei was silent for a while, and said, "You don't like me, you just worship the strong."

Shandi was stunned.

"It's not just you, it's the commonality of your nation... a kind of slavishness that succumbed to the strong. You paid attention to my whereabouts and sent people to Beijing or even north to spy on me because I took you from the claws of the old dragon back then. I rescued you, you think I have power over your entire family and even the research department, so you became interested in me, and then developed into admiration, but you interpreted it as admiration."

"You are the eldest son of the Shandi family. You were raised by many stars and moons. You occupy an important position in this top-secret military project. Everyone looks at your face and makes you feel that you have a strong position and power. This This sense of superiority makes you do the stupid thing of showing off with a zero-level body. When you are squeezed in the corridor by the runaway old dragon, dying from bleeding from your mouth and nose, you realize that the old dragon is a "sample" The power is beyond human imagination, you feel anger, hate, disbelief, great loss, you think you are going to die."

"I……"

"However, at this moment, I saved you." Long Jiwei ignored Shan Diren's interruption, and continued: "You think I can control the old dragon, and you subconsciously think that my power can fill your gap. The loss in front of the old dragon, you regard me as a life-saving straw and an object to emulate, and feel that only if I stand by your side, you are the real winner."

Shan Dijin retorted fiercely: "I don't think so!"

"So when you saw the relationship between me and the old dragon, you felt jealous or even hated, because I was not on your side. I shouldn't have saved you back then, and made you have the illusion that I was good to you-now do you understand? ? Why did I emphasize to you again and again that if it wasn't for you, if it were an ordinary Japanese, I wouldn't just stand by and watch."

Shan Diren stared at Long Jiwei closely, and it took a long time to force out a few words from between his teeth: "——Could it be that you have never liked me at all?!"

His expression looked too frightening, Long Jiwei opened his mouth, finally sighed, and said, "No, I'm... old."

The exhaustion after the vicissitudes of life is beyond the comprehension of Shan Diren, who was raised and raised by others.

Shan Diren didn't even bother to hide his gloominess, he got up and strode out of the room, slamming the door heavily.

The director of research was waiting in the corridor, and greeted him as soon as he met: "Mr. Shandi, there is bad news."

"how?"

"The rescue team sent by the Nine Special Operations Group has already landed, and it seems that there is intelligence that they have already touched our position."

"That bunch of waste materials," Shan Diren sneered, "There have been a few batches before, haven't they all been dealt with?"

"This time is different. It is said that all the elites are dispatched, and there is a heavyweight among them..."

"Prepare to inform the pier to board the ship," Shan Diren interrupted impatiently, "As long as we go out to sea, we will be safe, and people can't blatantly chase them to the sea, right?"

The research director nodded, and went down to order people to prepare to board the ship.The Shandi family has a close relationship with the right wing of the military. Most of the funds for the entire project are funded by Shandi, so although he is the director, he really has no say in front of Shandiren.

"I'm going to the pier soon. You take a few people to the ward to sit down and prepare. Bring the oxygen cylinder and everything." The research director returned to the office, and while calling the guards to let them drive, he turned his head and told his new arrival Female assistant: "I remember that there is an equivalent tester. Although the main control source is not aggressive, but... who knows."

The assistant said softly: "Yes."

This female assistant was transferred not long ago. Originally, the director of research would not have such trust in the newcomer, but she is very winky, she does things properly, and is the best at trying to figure out what the boss wants. Sometimes before he can say what he is thinking, she has already I complied and did so, so I won the director's attention in a very short period of time.

What is commendable is that although this assistant is a charming, quiet and docile beauty, she occasionally expresses opinions and speaks quite beautifully.

The director of research likes this type the most. Since getting along day and night during this period, he has some ambiguous thoughts about her, so he trusts her even more.

After Shan Diren left, Long Jiwei did not fall asleep, but lay quietly on the bed with his eyes open.The female assistant led the two researchers into the ward, and greeted them in Japanese with a smile: "You finally woke up, and everyone is very worried. Do you want to eat something before boarding the ship?"

Long Jiwei lowered his eyes, rightly refusing.

The assistant didn't take it seriously, and said to the two researchers: "The director said that the ship will set off right away, and you two should pack up the things in the ward. When you get into the car later, you will accompany Director Long Jiu to sit in the first car." up, can you?"

The researchers looked at each other, and one of them wondered, "It's just the two of us? When we came here, the escorts were equipped with guns..."

The assistant said with a smile: "Mr. Shandi is here, so there is nothing to worry about. Besides, it is only seven kilometers away, and it will be there in 10 minutes."

The researcher finally nodded in agreement, and began to tidy up the various testing instruments in the ward.

Long Jiwei squinted his eyes in an unnoticeable manner. Are there really only two people?

Either Shandi Ren's confidence was inflated to ensure safety, or something went wrong.

He raised his eyes and glanced at the female assistant. She was slender, wearing a pink floral skirt, a white coat, and a pair of gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of her nose. It hangs down on the white and slender neck, looking quiet and elegant and harmless to humans and animals.

Probably aware of the scrutinizing gaze, she smiled slightly at Long Jiwei.

Long Jiwei remained silent and lowered his eyelashes again.

There were indeed only two people on the escorting road, and there was a driver specially prepared by the research institute sitting in the front row.Originally, Shandiren was there, but when the car was driving fast, the director suddenly had an important question to confirm. Others couldn't make up his mind, so Shandiren had to change the car and negotiate with the director himself.

After a while, the female assistant came and sat in their car, saying that the director had sent them over to observe Long Jiwei's physical condition.

At this time, it was too late to verify the situation, because it was time to drive.The convoy of four jeeps started slowly and soon drove onto the highway leading to the pier.

There were no cars on the road leading to the port in the middle of the night, and the three jeepneys at the back were full of guards from the research institute, with countless pairs of eyes vigilantly observing the situation on the front and rear roads, not letting a single fly go.

When I was about to get off the expressway, the person in the last car suddenly shouted: "No! Someone is following!"

Shan Diren was sitting in the third car, and when he heard the voice on the car communicator, his eyelids twitched, and he grabbed the binoculars to look back.I saw three Land Rover off-road vehicles following far away from the exit of the expressway, all without license plates!

"The situation has changed, the visitor is not kind!" Shan Diren slammed down the binoculars, grabbed the microphone and shouted: "The people behind stop the pursuers, if they approach, they will shoot and snipe!"

The people who accompanied Long Jiwei in the first car naturally also heard it, and their expressions changed at the same time.The female assistant stood up suddenly, bent over to the front seat and picked up the microphone: "Mr. Mountain! What should we do, speed up?"

"Speed ​​up! Drive to the pier, don't stop!"

The female assistant put down the microphone, turned off the vehicle communicator, and suddenly turned around and took out the gun that had already been equipped with a silencer, aiming at the two researchers with two slaps!

The two of them didn't expect her to make a move at all, they didn't even have time to turn around, and fell down in the rear compartment with a plop at the same time!

The driver's face changed wildly, and before he turned his head, he was shot in the back of the head, "Don't move, keep driving, don't talk."

Blood spread under the stretcher. Long Jiwei stared at the female assistant and asked in Chinese, "Are you..."

The female assistant smiled and remained silent.

The night outside the car window is dark, and the distant wilderness flickers with dim lights, like tiny stars reflected on the sea at night.There were gunshots not far away, which quickly became frequent, then became sparse again, and became intense again when they approached the pier.

The female assistant turned on the communicator and asked, "The situation has changed, do you still want to board the ship?"

Shan Diren was probably directing the sniping, and after a while he said sharply: "Contact the crew immediately, and abandon the car and board the ship as soon as you arrive at the pier!"

The driver wanted to call for help, but before he opened his mouth, he felt a bullet hit the back of his head, which scared him so much that he didn't dare to speak.

The car drove quite fast in just a few minutes. When the car stopped at the pier, before the driver had time to say anything, there was a light snap, and the female assistant pulled the trigger expressionlessly.

Blood spattered her hands, she wiped the white coat indifferently, opened the back door of the car, bent down and lifted Long Jiwei on her shoulders.

Unexpectedly, this woman was so strong that she dragged Long Jiwei to the boat without any difficulty.The night wind blew past their ears, and they saw that a small cruise ship on the pier had already landed at the boarding port, and two men in uniforms of the research institute were standing at the end of the passage, one on the left and the other on the right.

From the abandoned car to the boarding port, Long Jiwei's heart beat so fast before in a short distance of tens of meters.

He has already recognized them, those two people are the staff of the National Security Bureau who put on the uniform of the Japanese research institute!

At the same time, he could also feel that Xuanlin's shock waves were coming from the three Land Rover cars behind them!

The cars of the research institute stopped one after another, and the snipers suppressed the opponent's firepower while covering Yamaji Ren and the others to get off the car.Shan Diren is not a fool, he is astute as hell, when he sees that there are no pre-arranged subordinates on the pier, he immediately knows that something is wrong, and when he sees the female assistant dragging Long Jiwei to the boarding port, he immediately shouts in conditioned reflex: "—stop for me! Don't get on board!"

Unexpectedly, the female assistant not only did not stop, but ran even faster, almost dragging Long Jiwei forward.

Shan Diren raised his hand and shot without hesitation!His marksmanship was so accurate that Long Jiwei could only feel the bullet whizzing past his body, and blood splashed from the female assistant's waist in an instant!

The female assistant staggered for a moment, and wanted to run but fell to the ground.

All this happened in an instant, Shan Diren wanted to shoot a second shot, but the two National Security Bureau agents ran down from the boat while drawing their guns.At the same time, the two Land Rover behind them screeched with screeching brakes, the snipers of the Kuisawa family poured out their firepower fiercely, while Xuanlin, Ye Zhen and Kurosawa drove the car out of the circle of firepower and headed straight to the boarding house. The port hit.

In those few minutes, every second seemed to be on the line of life and death!

"Mom!" Before the car stopped, Ye Zhen's cry sounded so shrill.

The two Chinese agents pretending to be Japanese moved a little faster, and their voices were trembling: "Director Long Jiu! Colonel! —— Colonel was shot!! Call the first aid!!"

Xuanlin dashed up to pick up Long Jiwei, only to see that the skin of his left arm had been completely corroded, and the infection had spread to half of the left side of his body, gradually spreading to the heart and waist.

He had never seen Long Jiwei look so embarrassed, pale and weak, unable to stand up, as if he was only holding a breath in his throat, just waiting for him to come.

Long Jiwei smiled slightly at Xuan Lin, closed his eyes, turned to Ye Zhen again, and said in a low voice, "Student Ye Shisan... who is your mother?"

Ye Zhen burst into tears like money, Xuan Lin shook his hands, lowered his head and kissed Long Jiwei's eyebrows, and said, "I'm late."

Long Jiwei just looked at him and smiled, but didn't speak.

Xuan Lin seemed to be unable to restrain his choking, he put his head on Long Jiwei's forehead, faced each other for a few seconds, and suddenly opened his mouth.

A ball of shimmering light smaller than a fingernail flew out of his mouth, Ye Zhen and Kurosawa were stunned!

Looking closely, I saw that the twilight was a glowing bug, circled twice in mid-air, and landed on the elbow of Long Jiwei's festering left arm.Xuanlin pressed it down, and it was probably very reluctant to go in. It took a while before it burrowed into the skin tissue, and suddenly disappeared.

Ye Zhen was dumbfounded: "This... what is this?"

Kurosawa said: "Gu worm... It's also the first time I've seen this with my own eyes."

Xuanlin hugged Long Jiwei horizontally, and said in a deep voice, "We're going to board the boat now, let's go!"

Ye Zhen obviously couldn't react in this regard: "Why? Isn't that a Japanese ship?"

"It has been taken over by the agents of the Ninth Office, and the woman just now belongs to them." Heise could see clearly than Ye Zhen, fearing that he would be hit by a stray bullet, he pushed him in as soon as he ran to the boarding port. Then he fell beside Long Jiwei: "Stay here and don't move! Don't poke your head out! Mr. Xuanlin and I will go down and deal with the Shandi family!"

Xuan Lin said coldly: "Don't sail the boat yet, I'll be back soon."

The people in the Ninth Office were very afraid of him, and nodded immediately upon hearing this.

Xuanlin and Kurosawa rushed out of the boarding port with a few people, but how could Ye Zhen let Shan Diren go?As soon as the person who can control him walks away, his side will immediately get up and go down.

However, at this moment, out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of something unusual.

——I saw that the woman who was shot and carried onto the boat before was put on a stretcher for emergency treatment because there was no time to make arrangements.Those agents cut open her blouse with a knife, and found a bandage to hold down the bleeding hole on her waist...

Huh?flat?

The "female assistant" couldn't help moaning anymore, maybe it was because of the severe pain that she couldn't hide it, but her voice became deep and hoarse.The complexions of the agents changed, and while holding the anesthesia needle, they said anxiously: "Colonel! Hold on! We'll just dig the bullets, and it'll be over soon!"

……

This person turned out to be a man——! !

"..." Ye Zhen stood there for a while, the corners of his mouth twitching silently.