Fire to the Abyss

At 23:[-] p.m., the auditorium of Chengzhou Cultural Center.

Liu Yaowen was about to give a speech on the simple open-air stage, when a bullet flew from nowhere and hit the water glass in front of him. The water glass burst in response, and the water splashed and wet the speech in his hand. Liu Yaowen Dazed for a moment, the security personnel closest to him immediately rushed forward, protected his head, and pulled him away.

"The person who shot was inside the venue, and the team outside the venue came to support immediately!" It was too late to deploy security work after receiving the news. There were hundreds of people in the open-air venue, as well as reporters from major media, and it was impossible to go one by one. Troubleshoot.The surroundings of the auditorium have a wide field of vision, and there is also the famous sniper Three among the puppet masters. The police focused on the sniper and checked all the places suitable for sniping. Liu Yaowen, you can be sure that the red dot of the sight did not appear on his water glass from the beginning to the end.

As soon as Xia Yan spoke, it was as if a taboo switch had been pressed. Gunshots rang out one after another from all directions, and the peaceful venue erupted in an instant. sheep.

A "wolf" hides in the dark and peeps quietly. He has a pair of earphones hanging on his left and right ears respectively. The left ear is filled with rough rock music, and the right ear is filled with screams that can shatter the eardrum. This is his original creation. Appreciation method, rock and roll must be accompanied by the scream of "sheep".While chewing gum, he slowly set up the gun-the front is just the appetizer, and the next is the main action.

"Wolf" set up his gun, took off his earphones, spit out the chewing gum, and looked for the "sheep" he wanted to hunt among the sheep. "Wolf" likes to enjoy the fun of hunting, and hits a stationary target without any sense of accomplishment. He likes to add a fatal blow when "sheep" is frightened and flees.Although he was clearly instructed by his superiors to ensure safety, he couldn’t help but feel excited when he came to the scene—the center stage was low-lying, surrounded by barbed wire, and looked like a rough sheepfold from a high place— Simply the perfect hunting ground.

The security personnel around Liu Yaowen were scattered by the panic-stricken crowd. Only two people guarded him one after the other. A policeman was separated from him by two people. Considering Liu Yaowen's moving speed, distance and wind direction, "Wolf He held his breath and adjusted the angle, then pulled the trigger with confidence.

The bullet accurately rushed towards Liu Yaowen's temple. "Wolf" smiled and waited for the scene of "sheep"'s brains splashing. Unexpectedly, Liu Yaowen was pushed forward by someone, and he leaned forward suddenly, and the bullet sank into it. The back of an old man. "Wolf" remembered the instructions from his superiors to ensure safety. The guns in the hands of several accomplices in the cultural square were loaded with rubber bullets. The gun continued to aim, but several policemen quickly surrounded him, blocking Liu Yaowen out of sight. Later, a group of policemen came in the direction of "Wolf".

"Wolf" cursed in a low voice, quickly put the gun into a big guitar bag, put on earphones and went downstairs as if nothing had happened.

It was too late when Xia Yan saw the red dot on Liu Yaowen's head, he just yelled "get down", before he finished yelling "get down", he saw the old man behind Liu Yaowen push him forward , shot himself.Several colleagues quickly surrounded him, Xia Yan turned the old man over and saw that it was Old Zhao from the duty room.

Xia Yan hugged Lao Zhao in a hurry: "Call an ambulance, hurry——Old Zhao, didn't you ask for leave for something at home? What are you doing here?"

Old Zhao first desperately turned his head to look at Liu Yaowen, who was still in shock. Seeing his good arms and legs, he breathed a sigh of relief, thinking, finally he lived up to Lu Yuan's entrustment, and protected Liu Yaowen from Three.

"It's Xia Yan." Lao Zhao's body twitched twice, his eyes rolled slightly to look at him, and then he said slowly, "I knew that such a suitable place for sniping, he would definitely choose to snipe, cough cough— —”

Lao Zhao once heard his son say that Three is an extremely conceited sniper, he kills not to complete the task, but to enjoy the process of sniping, and he especially prefers to snipe moving targets.When Xia Yan said that the shooter was inside the venue, Lao Zhao felt strange, how could a sniper choose to fight at close range?It wasn't until the police discovered that the rioters were holding rubber bullets in their guns that Lao Zhao realized that the assassination was just about to begin, so he followed Liu Yaowen all the time, and pushed him as soon as he saw red spots on his body.

"Who told you to talk? Be honest and wait for the ambulance to come!" Xia Yan's voice was so hoarse that he couldn't find out the amount of information in Lao Zhao's words. He just wanted him to shut up quickly and leave the rest All the strength left to breathe.

Unexpectedly, Old Zhao just refused to be obedient. He gently tugged at Xia Yan's sleeve, and said in a weak tone: "Xia Yan, I still have something to tell you...I have to tell you..."

Fortunately, it was Xia Yan who met at this moment, otherwise this secret might have been hidden for a lifetime.

Xia Yan put his ears close together, only to hear Old Zhao say in a broken voice: "Don't blame that child Lu Yuan...I killed your father..."

Old Zhao could clearly feel the loss of life. He knew that Xia Yan would never know these words unless he said them. He had to finish speaking before he died, so he tried his best to grasp the key words and speak as fast as he could. : "I accidentally fell for the trick of the puppet master. In order not to let me be exposed, your father pushed himself up, but it turned out that the person who came from the other party was Xiao Yuan... Xiao Yuan, that child is a 'nail' raised by your father himself. , How could it be possible to fight against the teacher? Lao Xia just... just held Xiao Yuan's hand and shot himself..."

Rather than being careless, it is better to say that he is eager for revenge.

It was the third year of his son's death. In the past three years, he hadn't had a good night's sleep. When he closed his eyes, there were all kinds of memories about his son. his dad.In the blink of an eye, 30 or [-] years have passed, and the details of getting along with each other are still vivid in my memory, but I will never see that gentle child in this life.

Lao Zhao's son is called Zhao Ruixin, Rui is his mother's nickname, and Xin is the heart of a sweetheart, and he is the first "nail".It was Lao Zhao who personally sent him to go undercover, but after three years, he didn't even get his body back.After the death of his son, Lao Zhao's wife suffered a severe mental breakdown and left.Old Zhao couldn't let go of it all the time. For three years, he kept collecting various information about Eleven, and finally got his whereabouts.Old Zhao didn't even think about it, he followed the clues and chased after him alone.

It was an abandoned subway station, and Lao Zhao received news that Eleven would trade with someone here.Abandoned stations are usually occupied by various street parties, with dim lighting, large swaths of graffiti on the walls, and the smell of smoke and old paint in the air.The little gangsters entrenched here may have been cleared away by someone, and it looked a little empty.Old Zhao cautiously approached all the way, making sure that there were only five people on the other side.

Old Zhao was a little far away, and he couldn't see people clearly. Just as he wanted to get closer to identify people, he accidentally kicked a stone near his feet, and the stone hit the rusty metal frame with a crisp sound.Immediately afterwards, Lao Zhao was pushed into the abandoned elevator shaft with both hands.

"Old Xia! Why are you here?" Old Zhao stared dumbfounded at Xia Zhaoan who suddenly appeared.

"Shh, don't make a sound here, I saw you looking a little strange, so I followed. They thought there was only one person sneaking in," Xia Zhaoan said as he closed the elevator door, "Leave it to me."

The last thing Lao Zhao saw was that reassuring smile.

Immediately afterwards, there was the sound of fighting and gunshots, and then Lao Zhao heard Lu Yuan's voice among the crowd.Old Zhao felt something exploded in his mind, from top to bottom, shaking him numb for a while, and he realized that he had caused a catastrophe——Lu Yuan managed to gain a foothold in the puppet master If the heel is exposed at this juncture, the painstaking efforts that started with his son will all be wasted, and another young man's life will have to be taken, and his own mistakes have already exposed Xia Zhaoan, so there will be a premise of keeping Lu Yuan Next, is there a way to make Xia Zhaoan get out?

The answer is obviously no.

Later, through the gap in the elevator door, Lao Zhao saw Lu Yuan holding Xia Zhaoan against a bunker with a gun. A man behind him urged, "Hurry up, the former leader won't let go?"

"How is that possible?" Although Lu Yuan's voice sounded calm, from Lao Zhao's perspective, he could just see his hand holding the gun trembling slightly.

"Oh, is that so?" The man deliberately dragged out the end of the sound very long, pulling out a sound of suspicion.

"Bah, I don't have a bastard like you!" Xia Zhaoan shouted suddenly, pushed and pulled Lu Yuan, grabbed Lu Yuan's hand holding the gun, pressed the muzzle of the gun to his chest, and then clenched the gun with both hands. The violently trembling right hand said something to him in a very slight voice, and then pulled the trigger.

Seen from behind, it looked like a failed attempt to snatch the gun with his life on the line.

With Lao Zhao's distance, he couldn't hear what Xia Zhaoan said at the end, but he still read that sentence through his lips - "I will leave my son to you".

Old Zhao bit the back of his hand until the blood came out so he didn't let himself make a sound. He hid in the dark elevator shaft, breathing the stale air mixed with the smell of engine oil, and wept silently as he listened to the people outside setting up the scene.

Since then, Old Zhao has erased all his files. He has changed from a secret participant of the "Nail" Project to the gatekeeper of the Chengzhou Detachment. In addition to guarding the gate, he occasionally watches Xia Yan and Lu Yuan.

"Don't blame Xiaoyuan, Xia Yan, don't blame Xiaoyuan..." Until the ambulance arrived, Lao Zhao was still chanting these few words.

Old Zhao knew in his heart that Lu Yuan had always blamed Xia Zhaoan's death on himself, and he was so focused on killing Xia Yan that he would rather die than explain a word, but why didn't Old Zhao feel guilty?Especially seeing that Lu Yuan struggled in the quagmire of sin, drugs and forbidden love all these years alone, he couldn't bear to spend the rest of Lu Yuan's life in Xia Yan's hatred, even though he might have no descendants. Half life.

Xia Yan watched the ambulance leave all the time, only after realizing that he tasted the bloody taste in his mouth, it turned out that he had bitten the skin of his mouth unknowingly.

"I don't blame him," Xia Yan said looking at the back of the ambulance speeding away, "how can I bear to blame him."