16 years

He Feng was found near the disappearing trace.

He was casually thrown on the side of the road, wearing only a thin short-sleeved T-shirt, with dried blood scabs all over his body, unconscious, and lost two circles of weight.

Shao Qiu led a team on the front line to search for the traces of Joe Aiden. Fortunately, he was so lucky that he walked inexplicably on an uninhabited mountain path, and then he picked up He Feng.

Otherwise, according to the current outside temperature, leaving He Feng to spend the night in the wild, I'm afraid he will die.

The mountain path where He Feng was found was originally not within their scope of investigation—according to Feng Lei and Shao Qiu's guess, Joe Aiden evacuated all the way, he should find the nearest place to transfer to a helicopter or plane, and stay away from right and wrong as soon as possible .

In addition, the evacuation traces detected by the pursuit team before were the ruts of large vehicles, so Shao Qiu almost gave up those rough paths and rural villages and towns at the beginning. He compared the direction where Joe Eden left, and finally turned his gaze to It was placed on a seaside pier hundreds of kilometers away from the border, and it was speculated that he might leave by ferry from here.

So he and Feng Lei divided into two groups. Feng Lei was responsible for blocking the domestic evacuation point that Fu Yan had guessed, while Shao Qiu searched for the neighboring country's wharf based on the pursuit clues.

But the trace of Joe Eden disappeared halfway, and the pace of the pursuing troops was forced to slow down.

Centering on the last place where the clues disappeared, they radiated ten kilometers around, but they couldn't find any place for Tibetans. They wanted to go to the pier according to the previous guess, but Shao Qiu didn't know what to think of. Had to stay another day.

He pulled out all the maps in the day's drive around the coordinate point, and spent half an hour scanning it, and finally found a mountain 120 kilometers northeast of the coordinate center point.

The mountain is only 300 meters above sea level, which looks like a dirt slope to Shaoqiu.He didn't know what kind of demon was possessed, so he insisted on going over there to have a look.

"The driving distance over there is exactly opposite to ours." The squad leader of the pursuit team persuaded him earnestly: "It's too far away, and it takes a lot of time to go back and forth. We are already behind Joe Eden, so if we don't hurry up, they will They all escaped from the open sea."

"No——" Shao Qiu was holding a bottle of mineral water. He stared at the map on the front hood of the car and pinched the bridge of his nose wearily: "I know this sounds mysterious, but I... I just had a dream Meet my comrades."

Fu Yan collapsed, He Feng disappeared, Shao Qiu's pressure increased day by day, coupled with nightly nightmares, he hadn't slept for almost three days.

Just managed to squint in the car for 10 minutes, and had a bunch of messy dreams.

In the dream, He Tang came towards him angrily. The little girl was wearing a pure black T-shirt. She looked sharp and sharp. She kicked him with her hips on her hips and complained, "Why are you moving so slowly! My brother Still waiting for you!"

Shao Qiu was in a cloud of mist in his dream, he could tell that he was dreaming for a while, but couldn't tell the difference for a while, subconsciously retorted: "Then tell me where he is."

"You still ask me, don't you think about it?" He Tang nodded at him like iron and steel: "Where did you run from, and where did you go to find him?"

Shao Qiu was stunned suddenly, a rugged and steep mountain road appeared in his mind like a projection.

He was suddenly startled, and suddenly woke up in a dream, vaguely aware of some sense of disobedience, and habitually took a step forward to pull He Tang, so that she could speak more clearly.

"Wait a minute, you two—"

He Tang's figure suddenly disappeared into the mist, she looked at Shao Qiu through a thick layer of gray, Shao Qiu found that he couldn't see her face clearly.

"What does your brother mean?" Shao Qiu asked, "Then you—"

He wanted to say what about you, but before he finished speaking, he suddenly woke up from his dream.

Outside the car window, people from the pursuit team knocked on his window and told him that he was ready to gather and set off to pursue the next coordinate point at any time.

The scene in the dream was vivid, and Shao Qiu broke out in a cold sweat instantly.

He is a materialist, but having this kind of dream at this time is too mysterious, and he can't comfort himself with the words "thinking about it every day and dreaming about it at night".

"My comrade-in-arms told me in a dream..." Shao Qiu paused, then said with difficulty, "I want to go here to find Peregrine Falcon."

People in country C always have some taboos about feudal customs in their bones. Shao Qiu's words, whether it's a coincidence or not, are enough to make people's hearts thump.

The pursuit team was silent for a moment, and finally said they would ask Feng Lei for instructions.

Shao Qiu didn't refuse, he connected Feng Lei's communication, and simply told the other party about his bizarre dream, waiting for the other party to make a final decision.

Feng Lei was silent for two seconds on the other end of the call, and finally said: "You can try, but to ensure the time limit, you can only search there for a maximum of three hours. If you can't find it, you have to go back."

Shao Qiu agreed.

In fact, he himself didn't have much expectation for that dream, but they had been struggling for almost three days at that time, and it was very easy for a "target" to appear, so he could only treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor, try it.

So even Shao Qiu himself didn't expect that he could actually find He Feng's trace - he didn't even use Feng Lei's "three hours" deadline, and only spent 10 minutes to find him on the side of the road.

From the moment he saw He Feng, Shao Qiu's heart sank for the most part.

With the appearance of He Feng, that inexplicable but real dream was cast with an ominous color out of thin air, so that when Shao Qiu went to recall the scene in the dream, he felt that He Tang's face was a little gray and fuzzy.

At that time, He Feng was unconscious, Shao Qiu moved him to his car, and found the military doctor accompanying him to give him emergency treatment, and then scattered his hands like casting a net for fish, trying to find He Tang nearby.

It's a pity that after a few hours, they found nothing, as if He Feng fell from the sky out of thin air, and there were no other traces.

An ominous premonition gradually rose in Shao Qiu's heart, and this premonition intensified in his heart, and finally reached its peak when He Feng opened his eyes.

Colonel Peregrine Falcon's eyes were empty. He opened his eyes and stared at the roof of the car, with a line of tears in the corners of his eyes without warning.

"He Feng." Shao Qiu almost threw himself at his side, and didn't bother to ask him how he was doing the past few days. He grabbed his shoulder and shook, and said eagerly: "Where is He Tang, have you seen her! We I can't find her, were you together before?"

He Feng seemed to recognize his voice, his eyes rolled blankly, and his eyes fell on Shao Qiu's face.

Immediately afterwards, a crack suddenly appeared in his empty and dull mask. He Feng closed his eyes in pain, turned his body sideways and curled up tightly, breathing intermittently, as if he was suffering from severe pain.

Shao Qiu had never seen him like this.

When he joined the team, Peregrine Falcon was already Fu Yan's deputy.He has a different temperament from Fu Yan's decent wooden temper. He Feng has a brisk disposition on weekdays, and he can get involved in anything fun, and often covers them in front of Fu Yan. His biggest hobby is to tease He Tang.

He has a good temperament and is open-minded. He has always been clean, easy-going and relaxed in front of them, and he has never been so embarrassed.

"Brother He Feng—" Shao Qiu only felt as if a piece of lead was blocked in his throat, he hesitantly stretched out his hand to hold He Feng's shoulder, and forced out a few words from his throat with almost difficulty: "Tangtang she--"

"She's dead." He Feng said.

He squeezed his eyes shut in pain, but tears still oozed from under his eyelids, making the leather seat slick.

He cried undisguisedly, but silently, as if he had gathered together tears that he had never shed in his life, and he didn't want any adult dignity.

Shao Qiu was momentarily speechless.

"I promised my parents to take good care of her, but I didn't do it." He Feng muttered to himself, "I'm not a good brother."

He Feng didn't seem to know what to do, he reached out and grabbed the cloth around his heart, and held it firmly in his palm.

Looking at his expression, Shao Qiu felt his heart skip a beat, as if he was not grabbing his clothes, but trying to take out his heart and crush it.

"...I killed her." He Feng said, "I killed her with my own hands."

Shao Qiu was taken aback suddenly.

He looked at He Feng's hand almost instantly, but saw a long scar on the palm of his right hand, which ran across the entire palm. A long one.

He Feng's actions involved this wound, and there was a slow and sharp pain transmitted from the nerves back to his brain, just like when he scratched himself.

As soon as he closed his eyes, he still saw He Tang's appearance when he died.

The young officer looked at him tenderly and sadly, without struggling or resentment, but finally stretched out his hand to He Feng with difficulty, wiping away some of his tears.

He Feng's mind was blank at the time, he could feel that someone behind him was tearing him apart, but He Tang held his wrist tightly, so he didn't let go.

Shao Qiu was like a bolt from the blue, he guessed that He Tang might encounter an accident, but he never expected to get such an answer.

It took him a while to find his language system with difficulty.

"how……"

"The female soldier committed suicide after being captured. Why do you say?" He Feng asked back, but he didn't expect Shao Qiu to answer.He raised his arms over his eyes and took a hard breath.His voice is already hoarse, and he has to pause for two seconds before he can continue every sentence: "Joe Eden lost Irene—that's his sister's petri dish, so I originally wanted to use Tangtang instead."

"What do you mean?" Shao Qiu was stunned: "Isn't the petri dish a person with a special physique?"

"No." He Feng finally opened his eyes. He was haggard and thin, and the whites of his eyes were covered with bloodshot eyes, but his eyes were quite bright, with an inexplicable sense of disobedience: "I shouldn't be alive, but the reason why I am still alive today I'm talking to you because I still have something to say."