Late, 7:40.

As the sky gradually darkens, the sky is full of stars, the dark night sky is embellished, looking up in the western suburbs such an inaccessible place, the sky is even brighter, the cicadas and frogs are singing among the clear water and green mountains, and the silence is long.

"Knock! knock!"

The bell is vibrating, and the ancient temple surrounded by cigarettes is quite magnificent and solemn under the embrace of mountains and rivers, but this majestic bell has not dispelled the anxiety in Yang Dong's heart.

After Yang Dong drove to Hengshan Temple, he parked the van in front of the temple gate, carried a canvas bag containing private hunting, and walked steadily along the rugged and winding mountain road, walking steadily towards the lush valley behind the temple.

......

The mountain behind Hengshan Temple, the top of the mountain.

Lin Tianchi's hands were tied to the rope, and he was tied to the iron railing at the bottom of the tower, with a rag in his mouth, not far from Lin Tianchi's side, Liu Baolong was sitting on a stone, nibbling on the dry bread in his hand, and waving his hand from time to time, driving away the clumps of mosquitoes around him, the loaded May Fourth pistol, still quietly dormant beside Liu Baolong, ready to turn into a devouring beast at any time.

Ten minutes later.

"Whoa!"

Just as Liu Baolong stuffed the last piece of bread into his mouth, the branches and leaves of the trees on the path ahead immediately made a rustling sound, hearing this sound, Liu Baolong threw the food packaging bag in his hand to his feet and held the cold handle of the gun.

"Stomp!"

At the same time, Yang Dong also took a step, walked out of the woods, and appeared in Liu Baolong's field of vision.

"Little rabbit, you really dare to come here!" Liu Baolong saw Yang Dong standing in front of him, and suddenly got up, raising the muzzle of his gun.

"Why don't I dare to come?" Yang Dong looked at Liu Baolong's hideous expression and showed a smile.

"You should know that since you are here, you can't go down this mountain. Liu Baolong's voice fell, and he reached out and opened the pistol**.

"I may not die, but you certainly can't. Yang Dong saw the movements of Liu Baolong's hands, and suddenly sweated in his trouser pockets, but there was still no expression on his face, and his tone was the same as usual: "Since Li Chao was arrested, the dirty things on your body have been completely leaked, before I came to see you, I talked to a friend of the city bureau on the phone, and he said that your fate is inevitable." ”

"Do you think I'm going to be fucking afraid of death even if I've fallen to this point?!I'll tell you, even if I die today, I must pull you on my back!" Liu Baolong roared with red eyes.

"You pull me, maybe it's not just about padding my back. Yang Dong looked at Liu Baolong's red eyes, for fear that he would choose to shoot under excitement, so he took advantage of Liu Baolong's reply and hurried to speak: "You hooked me out with Tianchi today, no matter how I think it, you are more like paving the way for Xiao Dai." ”

Lin Tianchi, who was gagged, suddenly felt the bottom of his heart after hearing Yang Dong's answer.

"Since you know my intentions, then you should be damned!" Liu Baolong heard Yang Dong mention Xiao Dai, and felt a trace of panic in his heart, at this moment, Liu Baolong already knew that he could not escape, at this moment in this world, the only thing worth his attention was Xiao Dai, hearing Yang Dong's words to reveal his intentions, Liu Baolong was about to shoot.

"If I die today, then Xiao Dai won't be able to live!" Yang Dong roared when he saw the movement of Liu Baolong's hand.

"Brush!"

Liu Baolong heard Yang Dong's roar, and the movements in his hands instinctively froze: "What the do you mean?"

"Between you and me, in the final analysis, it's just because of the conflict over the flood bay project, and the profit of this project is only one million, in the city of Big L, just one million, in the city center, you can't even buy a decent house, do you think it's worth filling in so many lives as a price just for such a small amount of money?!" Yang Dong saw Liu Baolong stop, slightly relieved, and then continued quickly: " From the beginning of the conflict between you and me, from beginning to end, there has been no irreconcilable contradiction between us, and the heavy blows you have suffered are all due to Li Chao's wolf ambitions, why do you blame me for it, in fact, since you provoked the dispute, I have countless opportunities to kill you during this period, and the reason why I have endured again and again, I retreated because I think our lives should not be marked with a price of just one million, but it's a pity that you don't understand this truth that we all know!"

After Liu Baolong hesitated again and again, he resisted the urge to pull the trigger: "I don't have the time to talk nonsense with you, what happened to Xiao Dai?!"

"This afternoon, Xiao Dai, as your accomplice to the crime of intentional homicide, has been signed by the city bureau for criminal detention, if nothing else, he should have been transferred to the detention center by now. Yang Dong stared at Liu Baolong's eyes and responded in a calm voice.

"Yang Dong, what the hell do you want to do?!" Liu Baolong asked in a trembling tone when he heard that Xiao Dai had been signed for criminal detention.

"What I want to do to Xiao Dai depends on what the outcome will be tonight, between you and me. After Yang Dong responded to Liu Baolong's words, he reached out and took out his mobile phone from his pocket, directly dialed a phone number, and casually pressed the speakerphone.

After two busy tones, the phone was connected, and then Li Jingbo's voice came out: "Hey, Brother Dong!"

"Where are you?" Yang Dong asked when he heard Li Jingbo's voice.

"I've just signed the detention notice and I'm on my way to the detention center. Li Jingbo paused: "The person you are looking for has already finished telling me, and after I go in, I will be in a cell with Xiao Dai." ”

"After four hours, if you hadn't been transferred out of Xiao Dai's cell, what would you do?" Yang Dong asked again.

"Don't worry, I understand. ”

"Duh... Toot ......"

Yang Dong heard Li Jingbo's answer, hung up the phone directly, and then didn't give Liu Baolong a chance to speak, and dialed the phone again.

"Brother Dong?" On the other end of the phone, Liu Yue's voice came.

"How's it going?"

"Doudou and I have already gone to the public security hospital, if Li Jingbo misses, the two of us will directly make up the knife in the public security hospital. When Liu Yue heard this, he responded very quickly.

"Duh... Toot ......"

Yang Dong didn't answer, hung up the phone again, and then looked at Liu Baolong and said softly: "In order to deal with you, I played several chess moves, do you still use me to continue to call to prove it?"

"Yang Dong, you're a madman!" Liu Baolong heard the content of Yang Dong's call, stepped forward in two steps, grabbed Yang Dong's collar with one hand, and directly put the muzzle of the gun on his forehead: "I'll kill you!"

"Since I dare to come to see you today, I am ready to bury my bones. After Yang Dong made the two phone calls, he had already finished everything he wanted to say, raised his head, and looked at Liu Baolong fearlessly: "But I remind you that if I die, Xiao Dai will not survive." ”

Liu Baolong clutched his pistol, even though he was angry in his heart, but when he heard Yang Dong's words, he still hesitated for a moment, for Liu Baolong, a child who came out of the orphanage, family affection is an unattainable thing, it is particularly valuable, in some cases, this deformed family affection is important to him, even far more than money, for so many years, Liu Baolong has always been dependent on Xiao Dai, just like Lin Tianchi once said to Liu Baolong, in Xiao Dai's heart, Liu Baolong is his own brother, and Liu Baolong has played the role for so many years, and even has a father-son relationship with Xiao Dai, and it is precisely because of this that Liu Baolong would rather die, also chose to help Xiao Dai find a smooth way forward, but at this moment, Yang Dong used Xiao Dai to defeat Liu Baolong's army, and he had no possibility of regretting his moves.

After Yang Dong felt the complex emotions in Liu Baolong's eyes, which were intertwined with anger and entanglement, he took a deep breath and continued to speak: " Before I came to see you today, I asked Zhang Ao to take the X-rays and medical records taken by Xiao Dai in the hospital, faxed them to the university where I had studied, and found an old professor to help watch the film, this person used to be my mentor, but also a domestic front-line orthopedic expert, he told me that in the next month, there will be a foreign medical exchange team, go to my alma mater for exchange and investigation, there is a foreigner in this delegation, is an international medical authority in orthopedics, my mentor has communicated with the other team, the foreign devil said, because Xiao Dai's leg injury is not long, if he is allowed to operate, re-operate, coupled with his medical plan, Xiao Dai's leg may still have hope of healing. ”

After Liu Baolong listened to Yang Dong's words, his pupils suddenly contracted: "What did you say?"

"The professor said to me that the foreign expert came here for exchange and investigation, not for outpatient visits, but he can fight for a place for Xiao Dai, which is counted as a cooperative project in the exchange, as long as the foreigner is in charge, the success rate of Xiao Dai's rehabilitation is at least seventy percent, but the cost will be relatively high, but since you left the cornucopia of Wanchang to Xiao Dai, I think he should be able to afford this operation fee. After Yang Dong answered Liu Baolong's question, the conversation changed: "Of course, Xiao Dai has now been imprisoned, so the premise of wanting to heal his legs is that he must be released first, Xiao Dai was arrested this time, and his identity is your co-defendant, that is, as long as you don't turn yourself in for a day, he will not have a chance to leave the detention center for a day." ”

After listening to Yang Dong's words, Liu Baolong grinded his teeth: "You want to use this opportunity to save your life, right?"

"I just think that the grievances between us are not worth it for me to fight with you until the net is broken. Yang Dong pursed his lower lip noncommittally, and then continued: "Xiao Dai's leg was discounted by me at the beginning, and it can be regarded as the most difficult contradiction between you and me, in addition, the other encounters you have endured, except for your greed, it seems that they have nothing to do with me, to be honest, I can't think of any reason why you have to kill me besides Xiao Dai." ”

"But how can you prove to me that what you said about the foreign medical team is true, or is it made up by you?" Liu Baolong inexplicably felt a surge of joy in his heart after learning that Xiao Dai still had the possibility of rehabilitation.

"I can't prove it, because my mentor told me that the foreign medical team will not arrive in China until next week, and before that, if they want to arrange Xiao Dai's surgery, they must let him go to the medical school to report and undergo a systematic examination in advance. Yang Dong's voice fell, and then he added: "Liu Baolong, if I just want to save my life today, then just using Xiao Dai to threaten you is enough to make you in a dilemma, there is no need to go around such a circle and weave this kind of superfluous lie to deceive you, what do you say." ”

After listening to Yang Dong's words, Liu Baolong felt a little relieved: "Since you know that I came to you today to get rid of you, why do you want to help me?"

"Today's incident, I didn't help you from beginning to end, I was just helping myself, in order to let myself leave alive under your gun, so, you have to make a choice today, now there are two ways in front of you, either you shoot, everyone dies together, or I cure Xiao Dai, and the grievances between us are written off, now, this choice is in your hands." Yang Dong faced the muzzle of the gun and responded expressionlessly.

"You two come down the mountain with me, and when the foreign medical team you said really arrives at Big L, I won't kill you. Liu Baolong pondered for a few seconds and made a decision.

"Yes. Yang Dong saw Liu Baolong speak, nodded, and pointed at Lin Tianchi: "Can I untie him?"

"If you're playing tricks on me, neither of you will want to leave alive today. Liu Baolong gritted his steel teeth and aimed at Yang Dong's back heart with the muzzle of his gun.

Between hatred and hope, Liu Baolong finally chose hope.

......

A few minutes later.

Yang Dong helped Lin Tianchi, whose hands and feet were numb, and the two walked side by side into the forest path leading to the bottom of the mountain under Liu Baolong's gun.

After walking along the mountain road for about ten minutes, everyone had entered a low bush, and the roof of the Daxiong Treasure Hall of Hengshan Temple in the distance also caught the eyes of several people in the dark.

"Brush!"

Lin Tianchi had just taken two steps in the bushes, and suddenly felt someone pushing his arm, turned his head, and saw Yang Dong raising his eyebrows to himself, signaling himself to go down the mountain, Lin Tianchi saw Yang Dong's eyes, he was stunned at first, but when he saw Yang Dong's eyebrows, he hesitated for less than a second, and then gritted his teeth and ran along the mountain road.

"Stop!"

Behind the two, Liu Baolong, who had always raised his gun and walked forward, saw Lin Tianchi walking, raised the muzzle of the gun completely instinctively, and aimed in the direction of Lin Tianchi.

"Whoa!"

At the same time, Yang Dong, who was at the other end of Liu Baolong's muzzle, took advantage of Liu Baolong's distraction moment, suddenly stretched out his hand and grabbed the crown of a short tree beside him.

"Little rabbit, you dare to fool me!" Liu Baolong saw Yang Dong raise his gun, his eyes were red, he raised his arm, and put his finger on the trigger.

"Boom!"

With the muffled sound of a private hunting fire echoing from the depths of the dense forest, in the Hengshan Ancient Temple not far ahead, countless birds were suddenly startled.

[Ps: This chapter is 4,300 words, and I would like to thank the old brother whose ID is nicknamed 'Zhai Ye', who has been rewarding red envelopes for several days in a row, rain or shine, and I would like to thank this brother for his support!]