shadow ambush

Getting up and starting again, Gu Fangcheng rejected Meng Xi's offer of help, and carried Feng Zhe on his shoulders again.

It's June, the rainy season in Myanmar. It seems that there has just been a heavy rain in the forest, and the ground is muddy. The three of them don't have to worry about stepping on dead branches to make a sound and expose the traces. However, Mengxi's work of dealing with footprints has suddenly doubled. .

Ma Youshan always walked in front of the three of them, silent and did not communicate, even the headset could not catch his slight breathing.

Due to the shady trees in the mountains and the complicated path, Gu Fangcheng and Meng Xi lost their sense of direction when they plunged into the forest on the border of Mengla.It wasn't until an hour later that they came to the ruins that Meng Xi suddenly realized from the beating hands on the watch that they didn't go south to the town after entering the country, but went all the way east and came here.

The ruins in front of me seem to be of a certain age, and the land area is not too small. The ruins and walls add up to a total of nearly a thousand square meters. In some tiny corners, the traces left by the fire can even be seen.

Combining with the environment they were in, Gu Fangcheng put Feng Zhe down on a stable wooden pier, looked at Meng Xi, and walked to Ma Youshan: "This used to be a drug factory?"

In the deep mountains and old forests, there seems to be only one answer for such a large-scale building.

Walking in the ruins with one foot deep and one foot shallow, Ma Youshan whispered to the two students behind him: "We will rest here at night, you go to treat Feng Zhe's wound, pay attention to vigilance." Continue through the ruins.

Gu Fangcheng and Meng Xi watched Ma Youshan's back disappear at the end of the ruins, at the edge of the forest, and they all sighed inwardly.Although they didn't know what happened to Hades, Ma Youshan's reaction was obviously emotional, so they shouldn't disturb him.

"Boss, third brother, are we going to move on tonight, or just stay here?" Feng Zhe sat on the wooden pier boredly, and asked curiously when he saw the two of them returning.After all, they had been walking on the border for a whole day, and now it was close to [-] o'clock in the evening, and his foot injury would definitely become a bigger burden if the sun went down and they moved forward in the dark.

"Don't go, let me treat your foot injury." Meng Xi unloaded the three rucksacks behind him and put them at his feet. They came out this time to pack their luggage according to the standard of light travel. Although there is enough food, the drinking water has arrived It's already exhausted by now.

After Gu Fangcheng saw that Meng Xi started to treat Feng Zhe's foot injury, he looked around and made sure that there was nothing unusual, then he left with the three people's water bottles and went to the surrounding streams to get water.

"Teacher?" Gu Fangcheng walked halfway, and saw Ma Youshan standing not far in front, motionless, not even responding to the sound of his approaching footsteps.

"Teacher, what is this..." Gu Fangcheng leaned forward curiously, but stopped his voice the moment he saw the picture clearly, his stomach began to churn.

What did he see!Around the ruins, why are there so many scenes of bare bones?The bones were intertwined, and the soil seemed to be washed away by the rain, exposing the bones to the air, and the pairs of eyes on the hollow skull seemed to stare at him firmly.

Ma Youshan took a deep breath, suppressed the unsteady emotions in his heart, and said reluctantly: "These corpses are some of the insiders executed by the drug cartel. There is such a burial site near every drug manufacturing factory. This place The burial site was neglected due to the dilapidation of the factory. Coupled with years of rain, it will naturally be seen again."

"These people... are all drug dealers?" Gu Fangcheng couldn't believe it, his eyes trembled, and the number of skeletons he could see was at least twenty. Why did the drug dealers clean the inside like this?

"Xuanlong Group has been standing in the Golden Triangle for nearly ten years. Over the past ten years, countless governments have tried to crack down on its leader Xuanlong, but there is no result. Even drug factories can be taken down. The reason is that they are ruthless enough. , as long as there is the slightest doubt, I will never let it go, I would rather kill by mistake than release by mistake."

"Among these corpses, there are still some innocent people who need to be exterminated because they discovered the existence of the drug manufacturing factory, or were killed in the town and were brought here for burial."

Gu Fangcheng nodded half-understood, but he always felt that this was not the fundamental reason why Ma Youshan brought them here, but Ma Youshan obviously didn't want to share with him.Nodding towards Ma Youshan, Gu Fangcheng left with the water bottle.

By the time he fetched water and returned to the ruins from the stream, Feng Zhe's foot injury had already been treated by Meng Xi.

Feng Zhe sat on a wooden pier by himself, and Gu Fangcheng naturally sat down next to Meng Xi. "Give him special medicine?" Gu Fangcheng asked.

"Well, the swelling should go away tonight. At least it's no problem to walk without weight tomorrow." Meng Xi replied as usual, but he didn't notice the slightest change in Gu Fangcheng's mood.

The horrific scene of bones exposed flashed before his eyes, Gu Fangcheng was holding the kettle in his hand and gradually became dazed, the work that needed to be done was over, and the feelings that Gu Fangcheng had previously suppressed in his heart began to occupy his thoughts wantonly.A dead body means that this is a life that was once alive. Even though they may be of different nationalities, they may have made mistakes, but just burying their bodies in the wilderness and no one cares about them, Gu Fangcheng can feel his heart trembling.

"What's the matter?" Meng Xi sat for a while, finally noticed Gu Fangcheng's abnormal mood, and looked sideways at him.

Gu Fangcheng bit his lower lip, shook his head first, and then said in a low voice: "You said... what does death really feel like?" Yang Xiaoyu told them that people have the instinct of life and the instinct of death, and the two coexist at the same time. , People strive to live in order to live, but the last step of their goal is death.

But Yang Xiaoyu never taught them how to react when faced with death.

"What did you see?" Meng Xi stared at Gu Fangcheng's side face, saw that his Adam's apple was trembling so rarely, he stretched out his hand, and pressed it on Gu Fangcheng's intertwined hands. His palms were slightly hot, giving Gu Fangcheng a chill. His hands brought a touch of warmth.

Gu Fangcheng's clenched hands gradually warmed up under the warmth of Meng Xi, and the blood that had been frozen before flowed again. Gu Fangcheng forced a low smile, "It's okay." Since Ma Youshan didn't take them to see it, don't tell Meng Xi about this kind of scene. As long as he alone knows.

Feng Zhe took out three bags of individual rations from the backpack in his hand, and stared at the two people who looked like "deep love" and "you and me" in front of him speechlessly, unable to hand out the rations in his hands.

After all, he is a living person, not a light bulb, can you not show your unparalleled tacit understanding all the time.

Meng Xi didn't force her, she lifted the three jugs from Gu Fangcheng's legs, and thoughtfully disinfected the drinking water that Gu Fangcheng had brought, leaving space for him to digest his emotions alone.

Seeing Meng Xi walking away, Feng Zhe could no longer hold back the grievances along the way, and complained to Gu Fangcheng: "Third brother, you are really going too far!"

Hearing a familiar yet unfamiliar voice, Gu Fangcheng seemed to come back to his senses, only to realize that it was Feng Zhe who was opposite him, "Xiao Zhe? Why are you here... Oh yes, I remembered."

Shocked by the corpse before, he thought in a trance that this time it was just him and Meng Xi walking together as usual.

Feng Zhe was completely heartbroken, he had been recited all the way by Gu Fangcheng, and now he actually said: Why are you here?

"Third brother! Even if you only have the boss in your eyes, you can't just say it so bluntly! My heart is also fleshy, and it will hurt!" Feng Zhe roared, his angry voice echoing in the mountains and fields.

Gu Fangcheng was yelled at by him, and gradually relieved from the previous low mood, he belatedly touched the back of his head and laughed.Seeing Feng Zhe turned his head away to ignore him in anger, Gu Fangcheng, who knew he had made a mistake, simply moved over, took out a piece of chocolate from his pocket, and waved it in front of Feng Zhe's eyes.

"How about it, do you want to eat?"

After walking for a day, coupled with the constant pain from foot injuries, the temptation of a piece of chocolate in the mountains is far greater than the unpalatable individual rations.Feng Zhe swallowed his throat in disbelief, and felt that he couldn't save face. He obviously followed him all the way, but he was ignored even sitting in front of Gu Fangcheng.He couldn't stand this kind of differential treatment.

"You guys? What are you doing?" Meng Xi finished filtering and disinfecting the water in the kettle, and when she came back, she saw Gu Fangcheng hugging Feng Zhe's shoulders flatteringly, saying something flatteringly, and felt very strange.

The chocolate dangled in front of his eyes, and Meng Xi returned to his eyes again. Feng Zhe felt that if he didn't take the chocolate down, Gu Fangcheng might regret it.

At this moment, Meng Xi said: "Take it, you don't bring much chocolate, you still eat his share." Over the years, he can be considered to understand Gu Fangcheng's habits.Always keep some chocolates in their pockets according to the length of their missions.

Before leaving, he accidentally caught a glimpse of Gu Fangcheng counting the number of chocolates in distress. He forgot to replenish after the last mission, and there were not a few left. He and Gu Fangcheng ate a lot during the road.

He reckoned that there were only about three of them left in Gu Fangcheng's pocket.

Before it was too late, Feng Zhe snatched the chocolate from Gu Fangcheng's hand, tore open the package and took a vicious bite.If you don't eat for nothing, who told him that he was fed so much dog food along the way, and he didn't take advantage of it to come back, so he didn't suffer.

Seeing Feng Zhe's mood improved, Gu Fangcheng stood up and rubbed his head lightly twice.It was a normal reaction for Feng Zhe to injure his leg when he was on a mission for the first time. It was a normal reaction for Feng Zhe to magnify his emotions. He was already satisfied with being able to stabilize his emotions with a piece of chocolate.

Meng Xi, who cooperated with Gu Fangcheng innocently, smiled helplessly. It is a good thing to stabilize, otherwise, the emotions in his heart will always be backlogged, which will increase the danger of the three of them in the forest.

Meng Xi reached out and opened three individual rations, placed them between the three of them, and waited for them to heat up.

Gu Fangcheng took a seat next to Meng Xi again, turned his head back suddenly, and looked worriedly at the other end of the ruins.