16 years

Irene's beautiful eyes widened a little blankly, her nostrils moved slightly, and she slowly turned her face to the side, looking at Joe Eden in confusion.

She couldn't understand the current situation at all, and Joe Eden didn't intend to explain to her. He looked at Irene with great interest for a while, and took out the usual bright blue injection from his trench coat.

The liquid in that tube of injection was more viscous than ordinary liquid medicine, and it shone with an ominous halo under the pale light. Joe Eden put on his gloves slowly, tore off the sterile packaging outside the injection, and took it out from inside. Here comes the injection.

Irene's eyes swayed from side to side slowly following his movements, and the bright blue medicine swayed in the needle tube, leaving a little watery light in the plastic inner shell.

Joe Eden flicked the needle tube with his knuckles to expel the air inside, and gently brushed the long hair from the side of Irene's neck.

"Treasure it." Joe Eden said: "Without silver fish, the main raw material of the blocking agent would have no cultivation environment, and it would just slowly wither and die."

As Joe Eden said, he held the needle with his backhand and plunged the needle into Irene's side neck forcefully.Irene's pupils suddenly dilated for a moment, and her whole body trembled violently.

"This may be your last blocker, Irene." Joe Eden slowly pushed the medicine into her body, then pulled out the needle tube, and gently rubbed her bloody needle wound: " ...hope you enjoy it."

Irene's teeth chattered and made a startling gurgling sound, and her expression became distorted and painful, but the gray-white film in her eyes faded a little, revealing the beautiful dark green outline behind her.

Joe Eden casually threw the empty needle on the ground far away, and was about to say something when the communicator on his body suddenly rang.

He briefly hesitated between the two options, and finally rubbed Irene's hair reassuringly, and clicked on the new message.

"Boss, they are almost here."

"What a pity." Joe Eden stared at the line on the communicator and muttered to himself: "Unfamiliar commander, I have to go first."

While speaking, Irene's blocker had been absorbed, and she calmed down again, but her lower lip was accidentally scratched by the tip of her teeth during the trembling just now, leaving dark thick blood behind.

Joe Eden pressed her wound with a glove, then gracefully knelt down and hugged her briefly.

The blocker brought a bit of clarity to Irene, and her hoarse throat rolled up and down for a moment, forcing broken sentences out of it.

"...Jo," Erin said, "can't—"

Before she finished speaking, Joe Eden pressed her throat lightly.

His thumb was lodged in Irene's fragile throat cartilage, and it only took a little force to break her neck.

"Well, baby, you're tired," said Joe Eden. "I assure you, it'll be over soon."

As Joe Eden said, he embraced Irene in this posture, and then touched her back with his hands, his fingertips went down the spine step by step, and finally stayed on the fingerprint lock at the end of the restraint.

"May the glory of heaven shine upon you and me," said Joe Eden.

As he spoke, the fingerprint lock under his hand dinged softly, and the hard buckle of the straitjacket automatically opened and slipped off Irene's body.

The straitjacket fell out of a big opening by gravity, revealing the sickly bruised and white body underneath.

Joe Eden stood up, put his fingers together, and tapped Irene's forehead lightly.

"I'll ask someone to take you to Research Institute No. [-]." Joe Eden said pointedly: "...they are coming."

After passing Yuguan, you officially entered the area outside the customs.

As He Feng guessed before, He Laosan is not an exception. Joe Eden is obviously rich and powerful, and he casts his net everywhere, as if he has his eyes everywhere.

As a patron, he is very careless. He can sponsor a crazy drug dealer across the three countries, and he can sponsor a sneaky gangster. He is a Moriarty who doesn't pick his clients.

"It's too cheap to just kill him like that." Even after walking more than a hundred kilometers, He Tang still gritted his teeth when he mentioned He Laosan: "He killed so many people, he almost created a thousand people's grave. Inside There are so many women and children--and pregnant women! If we hadn't been in such a hurry, I would have killed him."

Colonel He Feng had listened to He Tang chanting it no less than five or six times along the way, and he could hear coaxing in his ears. He coaxed her at first, but later found it was useless, so he simply prepared to wait for a big wave of coaxing at the end.

Fu Yan wore an earphone in his left ear and held a paper map of City D in his hand. He was making the final division of the area based on the information given by the C Department's military region. No one dared to disturb him for a while.In the end, only Liu Ruosong leaned forward and handed He Tang an energy bar, hoping that He Nuxia would calm down soon.

"Calm down." Liu Ruosong persuaded, "Think about it, at least I can avenge those people who died in vain."

"That's true." He Tang bit the energy bar until he heard the words and nodded fiercely, not forgetting to flatter Fu Yan: "The captain made a decisive decision, acted according to circumstances, well done."

He Laosan's crimes are heinous. At first, he was cheating and abducting, and later he was burning, killing and looting. It can be said that he committed all kinds of crimes and had no conscience.

But at that time, even Liu Ruosong himself did not expect that it was Fu Yan who executed him.

"I don't have the right to execute." At that time, He Feng, He Tang and Shao Qiu went down the mountain with high-power lights to check the situation of the vehicles. Fu Yan and Liu Ruosong were at the end of the team, far away in the night.

"If it was me before, I probably wouldn't have killed him. No matter how heinous he is, he should be killed, and he should be handed over to someone who can judge him. It's not my turn to lynch for Tian Xingdao." Fu Yan said When he said this, his right hand was still around Liu Ruosong's waist, and there was a little scorching mark left on his palm after he shot, which was very obvious in the cold heavy rain, and it was continuously passed to Liu Ruosong along the wet clothes: "...but it's different now."

Liu Ruosong understands that the "before" in Fu Yan's mouth refers to the farther past life, or the previous life.

"Why is it different?" Liu Ruosong asked.

"If I don't kill him this time, he may never be sanctioned." Fu Yan said, "Because I may not care about this next time, so—"

"Brother!" Liu Ruosong's heart tightened, and he interrupted suddenly: "What next time?"

Fu Yan was stunned for a moment.

He turned his head and found that Liu Ruosong had tightly pinched his arm and was looking at him nervously. Fu Yan didn't realize it at first, but it took two or three seconds before he realized what he said casually just now. What a big deal.

——Liu Ruosong is already sensitive, and now mentioning "next time" is no different from a declaration of death.

"I'm sorry, Wakasong." Colonel Fu suddenly felt a slip of the tongue, quickly admitted his mistake and swallowed the sentence back with a good attitude: "I didn't mean that, don't be afraid."

"No...no, no, it's okay." Liu Ruosong held his hand uneasily, but still managed to squeeze a comforting smile from his face, and asked cautiously: "But why did you suddenly say this, is it Do you feel something is wrong? Or..."

—— Or did you find that this time there was also a mistake that must fail?

Liu Ruosong didn't dare to say the second half of the sentence, his lips twitched a bit, and they looked a little pale in the cold rain.

Fu Yan was silent for two seconds, then took off his coat to wrap around him, then moved his arms up, wrapping his arms around Liu Ruosong's shoulders instead.

"No." Fu Yan said in a low voice: "Maybe it's because it's another step, so I subconsciously feel that there is a risk."

He spoke lightly, but Liu Ruosong couldn't understand what Fu Yan's "one step short" meant.

——In his previous life, he was one step short of saving Shao Xuefan, so he took so many crooked paths, and finally lost his life, but he still didn't make any progress.

Thinking about it now, when Shao Xuefan died in front of the two of them in the little red building, neither of them could have imagined that they had made a mistake from the beginning that time.

If it's a big game, there should always be a popup to warn the player when they make a mistake.

But the reality is not, it will just watch with cold eyes, watching you go astray when you take a wrong step, and finally hit your head in the wrong way, and you will not know that you have hit a Bad Ending until the last drop of blood is drained.

Even so, it will not tell you mercifully what is wrong, it will only be late when everything is irreversible, and then lightly use the word "restart" to hang people forward again.

There is no hint, no strategy, if this is really a game, the player may complain to bankruptcy.

The only thing they have is the experience they have gained through trial and error, and everything else is brand new.

Behind the restart conditions is a huge sunk cost. Even a steel-framed person like Fu Yan will be subconsciously affected by it, creating such fear that he is not even aware of, let alone talking about other people.

Liu Ruosong's heart skipped a beat, apparently he was quite apprehensive about such things as "one step away".

Because he couldn't be sure whether this step could be made up, or if he had missed that node and led them to another fork in the road.

Liu Ruosong didn't dare to dig into the corner, so he quickly shook his head.

"It's my fault." Fu Yan said, "I shouldn't have mentioned this."

"No... I don't blame you." Liu Ruosong shook his head stubbornly, as if trying to support him, subconsciously straightened his back, and said, "Brother, to be honest, I don't want to do it again."

Fu Yan hummed and said, I know.

"I can't lie to you that I'm very optimistic, and I can't say that I'm not afraid at all." Liu Ruosong smiled wryly, "Because no matter how small the risk is, as long as you are on the other side of the scale, my heart will always hang on the magma." .”

"But I just wanted to understand a truth - fear is useless, there is only one way to avoid future troubles forever." Liu Ruosong looked at Fu Yan with burning eyes: "—I want to drag you down from the magma together .”