Chapter 246: Stockholm Syndrome
The night sky is like ink, and the stars are like a brocade. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
In the middle of a sparse arbor forest, a dilapidated forest hut stood. In its early years, it was originally a resting place for lumberjacks, but it was quickly abandoned after Connecticut banned logging and imported it from abroad. It gradually decays over time, but at this time, it welcomes two guests from a distant time and space.
The night breeze caressed, and the breeze with a slight chill swept through the trees, and the chirping of insects and beasts disappeared at this moment.
'Click~' A very slight crunch woke up the promise in his sleep. Promise, who was lying on a thick blanket, suddenly opened his inky eyes, his sharp gaze like a sharp blade as he roamed the dilapidated house.
He quickly figured out what the problem was. The main beam, which supports the whole house, is slowly breaking because it is too decaying.
Although this is a normal thing, after all, after a long time, the reinforced wood material will decay and break without maintenance. But it is intriguing that they are promised to move in, and gradually disconnect when they fall asleep.
Xu Promise retracted his gaze and looked in front of him, the cloud-like black hair was in front of him, and the long and gentle breathing and slightly trembling eyelashes showed that the master's mood was not relaxed at this time.
"You haven't slept?" Promise asked in a low voice.
After resting for a few hours, Promise's spirit was much better, although he still had fatigue and headaches, but he was much better than before.
"Can't sleep." Xu Xian, who was lying in front of Xu Nuo, slowly opened his eyes, his dark and bright eyes were like ink under the reflection of the starlight outside the window. Raising his hand and brushing the cloud-like hair around his ears, Xu Xian's voice was a little depressed, "My heart is very messy, and many people died today." Why should I go through such a horrible thing, I miss my mom and dad so much now, I want to go home. ”
"I want to go home too." Xu Promise sighed lightly, reached out and stroked her long hair, "Today is a bit intense, but many times there is no other choice for many things. If others don't die, then it's us who die today. People are always selfish and will always think about themselves first. I did everything, and I fought everything. You don't need to have any burden, don't worry or worry. I said I would definitely take you home. ”
"Two days to go." Xu Xian closed his eyes and moved closer to Xu Yu's side, his voice full of Xiao Suo, "I don't know what will happen in the next two days." ”
"It doesn't matter what it is." Xu Promise looked up at the beam, which was constantly cracking, and shook his head slightly, "You just need to remember that we are desperate for the most primitive instincts of human beings." In order to survive, we must at least stand in a safe place before we can have mercy on others. ”
"You're doing very well." After a pause, he promised to smile and speak, "Under normal circumstances, when encountering these terrible things, ordinary women would have fainted or screamed loudly. You can hold me all the time without overreacting, compared to the vast majority of women, it is already absolutely excellent. At least Sika was already screaming in fright at this point. ”
"Huh?" Seo Hyun was surprised that Xu Promise mentioned Jessica at this time, and she was almost about to forget about it these days. Forget that you used to live in a quiet and peaceful world. His body tightened slightly, feeling the manly aura emanating from Xu Promise beside him, Xu Xian's face gradually turned ruddy, "Can you tell me your story?" ”
After experiencing the crisis, getting along in the past few days has completely disrupted Xu Xian's original perception of the world.
She knew that the promise was actually okay with her. In the face of a crisis, he promised to leave on his own, and with his great ability, it was not too difficult to get out of trouble and return to the modern world alive. But Promise protects himself to the death, even if he is in danger for it.
Originally, Xu Xian was accidentally involved in this terrible world because of the promise, but at this time, she thought that the promise was a good person as if she was suffering from Stockholm syndrome.
People are always like this, when it is not about themselves, everyone is a moral emperor. But once it happens to you, everything is completely different. This kind of thing is not an exception even for honest girls.
Promising to be able to protect Xu Xian regardless of his safety has changed Xu Xian's senses tremendously. And the two of them are life and death together, and they have experienced countless things that they couldn't have imagined before. These things had a clear impact on the young Seo Hyun. Now she has gradually fallen into confusion and confusion.
Because of the huge change in mentality, now Seo-hyun is very eager to know the true story between Heo Promise and Jessica and Kim Taeyeon. Subconsciously, I want to find a suitable reason for my change of mindset.
"He's having a hard time." This is what Xu Xian really thinks at this time. She has already begun to take the initiative to explain the promise, hoping that he is a good person. Because only a promise is a good person who can ease the hesitation in her heart.
Although the timing was good, the Grim Reaper was unwilling to promise this rare opportunity. After glancing at the beam above his head again, Xu Yu shook his head slightly and got up, "I can tell you, but we have to leave first." The house is about to collapse. ”
Xu Xu put away the blanket and walked out of the forest hut with Xu Xian in the night and cold wind, saw Xu Xian rubbing his shoulders a little coldly, Xu Xu took out his coat and put it on for her, and received a grateful look. After a short while, before the two of them had gone far, there was a thud when the room that had allowed them to spend the night in peace collapsed.
In the wee hours of the morning, Xu Yu walked side by side with Xu Xian on a country road in the middle of a tall tree forest, eating food taken out of the storage space while introducing the story of his feeding to Xu Xian.
In the mouth of the promise, he fell into Jessica and Kim Taeyeon inexplicably because of various misunderstandings. Both women are nice and he likes them too. But when the situation became clear, both sides could no longer let go. He promised that he himself was in great pain and didn't want to do it, but he couldn't give up hurting others, so he kept hiding it.
Taking advantage of the opportunity to drink water, he quietly glanced at Xu Xian, feeling that her expression had softened, and it seemed that the bitter love scene was performed well.
Xu Xian did believe the explanation of the promise, thinking that he was a person who valued feelings. The act of completely forgetting about the promise is actually an emotional deception.
"That's the way it is." After promising to finish telling the story of his ingredients, he raised his head slightly at a forty-five degree angle and looked at the sky with a fish's belly white in the distance, and his voice had a hint of sadness, "Actually, I am a good person." ”
After listening to the promised story, Xu Xian didn't speak, just lowered his head and walked slowly in the forest. Xu didn't know what she was thinking, he just wanted to fool the girl as soon as possible.
In the distance, the white of the fish belly gradually brightened, and the clouds in the sky shone brightly. The dawn of the sixth day has arrived.
When Xu Promise and Xu Xian were walking in the forest, a large group of people had gathered outside this huge forest. Connecticut police, SWAT action teams from nearby states, local militias, and, of course, the indispensable FBI. Although this kind of large-scale case is tricky, it is a rare opportunity to be in the limelight.
After all, in everyone's opinion, no matter how tough the suspect is, the final result has long been predestined.
No matter how strong the two bandits are, how strong can they be? Is it possible to escape under such a dense and powerful encirclement? No one is immune to the encirclement of violent institutions, let alone the United States at the moment.
Everyone was very confident in themselves that they could get the job done.
In a huge stretched trailer truck, the heads of different powerful departments are now gathered here for a meeting to discuss the details of the operation.
Under the default rules of U.S. law enforcement, such joint operations are generally led by the FBI, and this one is no exception.
The representative of the FBI is a middle-aged Mediterranean who calls himself Thomas. Wearing a long beige trench coat, his figure is a little thin, and his face looks like a middle school teacher. It's just that the calluses on his fingers and the sharp color in his eyes make people with a heart can see that this is a strong man.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I'm disappointed." Thomas, the representative of the FBI, stood in the truck full of all kinds of advanced equipment, looked at the heads of many powerful departments in front of him, and said in a deep voice: "Last night's all-night search did not yield the slightest gain, and the use of so many police forces cost a lot of taxpayers' money every minute, but we did not make the slightest progress, this is something that should not happen." ”
"We've done our best." A gray-haired policeman raised his hand and patted the table in front of him, "The officers even went into the water to scout every stream, and I swear we've cleaned up all the predetermined areas." Maybe they've gone back to New York. ”
The officer, a representative of the Connecticut State Police, was unhappy that a case from New York State had gone to their turf and caused huge trouble.
None of the officials would like to encounter such an unfortunate thing. Hundreds of police officers from all over the world searched the forest last night, but they didn't find a single hair. This made the starving police officers already full of complaints.
"It can't be!" There are no absolute senior leaders in this kind of meeting, and everyone is at the same level. When someone speaks, there will naturally be answers and objections: "The experts have accurately calculated that the maximum fuel of that model of motorcycle can only be driven in the previously demarcated area at most. There are no gas stations in this forest. And the surroundings were completely cordoned off, there were checkpoints on the roads everywhere, and there was no way they could escape and return to New York. ”
I have to admit that American experts do have some skills, and it is difficult for them to become experts here.
Their original inference was correct, and the promise of riding a motorcycle did run out of fuel when they arrived in the surrounding area. However, experts in the United States did not know that the promise of subspace was an artifact, which could store a barrel of gasoline in advance.
"I trust the judgment of the experts." Thomas knocked on the table to stop the impending quarrel, "But since we didn't get anything out all night, we should continue to expand the search." In any case, they must be arrested and brought to justice, and an explanation will be given to the American people. It's our duty! (To be continued.) )