Inferior by Nature

Ran Qingzhuang fumbled with his fingertips to get the key of the handcuffs from his back pocket. After he quickly untied it, he quickly walked towards the camera, unplugged the power, and turned around to come to me.

"Unfortunately, the live broadcast was forced to be interrupted." Jin Chenyu seemed to have expected it, and said in a relaxed tone, "Then for the next minute and a half, let's have a prize quiz? See if the bomb explodes or not?"

Ran Qingzhuang squatted in front of me, observing the detonator in front of me. When he saw that the time on the timer was running out, his usually calm face also showed a little anxiety.

"Where's the EOD man?" He wears a transparent earphone in his right ear, and the slender air duct extends along the back of his neck into his clothes, which should be used for intercom to communicate with his colleagues outside.

"Hmm!" I signaled Ran Qingzhuang to tear off the tape on my mouth for me.

"This kind of bomb is very stable, don't be afraid, nothing will happen..." He raised his hand and tore off the tape for me.

In fact, at such a critical moment, with the surge of adrenaline, people don't feel any panic.So I still had the strength to calmly persuade him to leave me alone.

"It's too late. The bomb will stop after cutting two threads. You can't win the bet. Let's go!"

Ran Qingzhuang didn't answer me, he lowered his head and concentrated on studying the lead wire connected to my timer. He didn't know what was said in the earphone, but he unplugged it with an ugly face, and didn't continue to listen.

"Did they ask you to leave quickly?" The time was so short, and the EOD fighters were powerless, Ran Qingzhuang's stay here was nothing more than death in vain.

"I won't go." He carefully arranged the leads, expressing his determination concisely.

It was only at this moment that I really realized Jin Chenyu's vicious intentions—to put it bluntly, he planned all this for the last 2 minutes.

He could kill us more easily, of course, but how could he be more satisfied than tormenting us like this?

He wants us to watch each other die, nothing can be done, no one can save us, our hearts are weeping, and our hearts are broken.

Big beads of sweat slipped down my temples, and with 1 minute left, the adrenaline was a little bit off, and I started to worry: "Listen to me, listen to me... I have a brain tumor, my brain tumor I have a tumor, it’s terminally ill, it can’t be cured, and I’m going to die soon.” I confessed my physical condition without any concealment anymore, “You don’t need to save me, I’m going to die anyway, please, go!"

Jin Chenyu applauded my wonderful speech. He seemed to think that I made it up to lie to Ran Qingzhuang, and praised me for speaking out and thinking, successfully making this live broadcast with only voices not too boring.

It's a matter of life and death on my side, and there is a prize quiz on his side.It doesn't matter if I die today or not, as long as I die and he doesn't die, then even if I'm a ghost, I won't let him go.

Ran Qingzhuang was startled when he heard the words, and looked up at me.I don't know what he saw in my eyes, but he suddenly smiled at me.

At this moment, this life-threatening moment, I can't understand why he smiles at all, but he smiles, and he smiles very beautifully.It seemed as if he had finally solved his doubts for many days, he was relieved, his brows were relaxed, and his expression was no longer tense.

"Is this what you're hiding from me?"

He didn't suspect that I lied to him at all, maybe in his heart, I don't have the ability to lie to him at this moment, or maybe he can already easily distinguish my truth from lies.

The palms were pressed against the side of my face, and the thumbs rubbed the skin.When the body temperature of each other blended together, the adrenaline completely lost its effect, and the psychological defense collapsed quickly and easily.Unable to maintain my composure any longer, I begged him tremblingly.

"Please..." I was raving nonsense, momentarily distraught, and momentarily gnashing my teeth, "Please go! I don't like you at all, I feel guilty and sympathetic towards you! Don't be too affectionate It's gone... go, get out! I don't want to die with you, get out!!"

I tried my best to drive Ran Qingzhuang away, but the effect was not very good.

"I said, I won't leave you behind." He wiped away the overflowing tears for me, and said softly.

Today he was awarded the honor and got the glory he deserved. In the future, his life should be smooth sailing without any wind and rain.

He was awarded an honor today, but he is going to die with me in this remote small building, to die with me... who wouldn't live for long.

The hydrangeas and roses in the yard, I'm afraid I won't see them bloom next year, if I knew it earlier, I wouldn't let him plant it so hard, it was a waste of so much effort.

If I had known...if I had known...I would have kissed him more yesterday, so that he wouldn't be angry with me, and we wouldn't be reconciled until we were dying.

I should have given him a big hug when he went out, I didn't even have time to say congratulations.I also wanted to touch his medal, but now it seems that it has become a luxury.

With ten seconds left in the countdown, Jinchenyu has already begun to revel.

"The touching romantic drama is coming to an end, let's quietly enjoy this wonderful ending song!" Counting from ten to the bottom, he burst out the numbers one by one excitedly.

"Gamble." Ran Qingzhuang chose a yellow wire connected to the timer, wrapped it around his fingertips, and looked up at me.

In the last few seconds, we just stared at each other intently, and neither of us spoke, as if only in this way can we imprint each other's appearance in our minds, so that we will never forget it in the next life.

With a strong tug, Ran Qingzhuang disconnected the lead wire.

The end of my eyes trembled, and the corners of my mouth were straightened.

Countdown to zero.

The expected explosion didn't happen, the timer beeped softly, flashed twice, and stopped at the dazzling four "0".

"Oh? It turned out to be the right choice." Jin Chenyu's voice became gloomy, with deep displeasure at being interrupted.

It may be that I have made enough preparations to die, and put the expectations at the lowest level. I suddenly realized that this is one of the three choices. I am not ecstatic, but I just can’t believe it.

Right?No... dead?

However, before I was happy, Jin Chenyu poured a bucket of ice water: "Don't think that you can rest easy when you stop the timer. You still need to choose another detonator line. This time, the time will be longer." few."

Just after he finished speaking, the numbers on the display screen had a new change, and the countdown began again with a jump of ten seconds.

As soon as one crisis was resolved, another crisis ushered in.It's not less time, it's time without thinking.From great joy to great sorrow, repeatedly sawing your nerves back and forth, stimulating your emotions, causing you to completely collapse, and you can no longer find the will to survive.This is Jinchenyu's method.

But he obviously misjudged the ability of me and Ran Qingzhuang to resist blows.He has been undercover for many years, and he has long put life and death aside, and I am terminally ill, and I have fully accepted my fate of dying anytime, anywhere.

So when the counter started counting down again, neither Ran Qingzhuang nor I were defeated.

"What color do you like?" Ran Qingzhuang stared at another set of three-color leads, and let me choose this time.

The reminder given by Jin Chenyu flashed in his mind. He said that the detonator lead wires of the two groups are of different colors, but would he be so kind as to give me an accurate reminder?He is a person who can disregard the life and death of his relatives. When he takes revenge, he will pay me back for the rescue of his relatives?

In the blink of an eye, I made my own judgment.

"Yellow!" I bet he was ironic.

Ran Qingzhuang didn't hesitate, and when he heard me call out the word "yellow", he broke the corresponding lead wire.At the same time, there was a sound of something being overturned in the earphone, followed by crazy destruction.

"Don't think it's over!" Jin Chenyu panted quickly, and said harshly, "Don't think about it for the rest of your life! As long as I live, I will never let you go!" The call ended immediately.

His wrath has spoken, and our bet has won again.

The display screen was completely extinguished, Ran Qingzhuang confirmed that it would not explode, put on the catheter earphones, and reported the situation inside.

"Let the EOD man in."

After 2 minutes, the EOD man wearing heavy equipment pushed open the door and walked in slowly.

The other party asked Ran Qingzhuang to leave first, saying that he needed to see if there was any risk of subsequent detonation, and then remove the bomb from me.

Ran Qingzhuang shook his head and told him to just dismantle it.

The EOD hand had no choice but to say no more, and started his own work instead.

After checking the bomb device on my body and confirming that the fuses of the detonators had all been torn off, he took out the tool and carefully cut the tape off bit by bit.After "peeling" off the bomb completely, he picked it up carefully like a piece of clothing.

Ran Qingzhuang had already been waiting by the side, holding on to the explosion-proof canister, and the bomber put the bomb into it, and then screwed on the lid tightly.

"Safety."

When the bomber said these two words, I felt my body go limp in the chair, and I was about to slide down uncontrollably.

Ran Qingzhuang held up one of my arms, and almost dragged me out of the room quickly.

The blazing summer sun enveloped my whole body, and I squinted my eyes, feeling extremely warm.

"You stay here for a while." Ran Qingzhuang sent me to the ambulance, pressed the back of my head, quickly pressed a kiss on my forehead, turned and left in a hurry.

I was mostly bruised, but not serious. After a simple disinfection and bandage in the ambulance, I added some water. From a distance, I saw Ran Qingzhuang standing in front of a black command car with the door open. , then got up and went to find him.

"...I closed the website entrance later, and didn't allow more people to enter the live broadcast room. If someone downloads the video, it will only download a Trojan horse." Yan Shuang sat in the car, typing on the keyboard continuously, fingers flying.

"Can you find out where he is?" Ran Qingzhuang asked.

"He chose the live broadcast on the dark web because it is not easy to be found out. With multiple encryption technologies, even I can only roughly confirm that he has not left Chonghai."

Holding the mineral water bottle in my hand, I approached the two of them.

"Jinchenyu...I, I might know where he is."

For a moment, Ran Qingzhuang and Yan Shuang looked at me at the same time.

"You know?" Ran Qingzhuang asked unexpectedly.

I nodded: "Near the Chonghai cargo terminal, I heard the sound of the big bell opposite the cargo terminal."

The big clock has a history of [-] years. It is a landmark building in Chonghai. It is a classic check-in place for tourists.

When I was in college, every Christmas South String would take me to count down to the clock.After graduation, he and Fang Luosu lived together and stopped calling me, but I couldn't change this habit for a while, and I still went every year, so I was already very familiar with its bell.

"Are you sure where he is based on the sound of a bell?" Yan Shuang searched and turned the screen to me, "Chonghai doesn't have many alarm clocks, but there are 23."

I nodded my ears and explained to her: "The sound of each bell is different, just like the sound of each cello has its own characteristics."

I can't guarantee anything else, but I still have confidence in the sound.

Frost Realization: "A Musician's Hearing."