Chapter 61: Tracer Bullets
86_86324 Wu Linyu was the first to react, he quickly got up and ran towards Chaoyangtai. We who stayed on the sofa immediately followed him and wanted to go to the balcony to see what was going on.
As soon as his elbow was placed on the balcony railing, another gunshot rang out from downstairs. Looking downstairs, on the lawn more than ten meters away from the unit building, there is a particularly conspicuous and bright area in the dark. The reason for the brightness is that several trees planted in the lawn have several incandescent light bulbs hanging from them, as if they were decorating a Christmas tree.
The person hanging the light bulb deliberately took a few of the trees, so the bright area I saw downstairs was almost a standard geometric circle.
In the light-bulb-lit area, a man was standing on the lawn inside, holding a gun in both hands, making a sighting gesture. When I saw the gun in his hand, I understood that the sound of the gun must have come from him.
However, the bright area five or six meters in front of him was empty, and it was not known what the man was aiming at with his gun, let alone the reason for the shooting.
Just as I was wondering about the question, the man fired another shot. Before the sound of the gun reached our ears, the bullets in the chamber of the gun, dragging a slender tail light, shot into the darkness very gorgeously and quickly.
Before I could react, the tail light dragged out by the bullet hit something after flying a distance of more than ten meters in the darkness and disappeared immediately.
"Tracer bullets." Wu Linyu said.
Tracer bullet is a kind of ammunition that helps soldiers show ballistics, correct shooting deviations, and is sometimes used to indicate targets. This type of ammunition is generally used in the chain of the machine gun, and one tracer bullet is clamped every five ordinary rounds, so that the machine gunner does not shoot too fast and the recoil pressure is so difficult to find the direction. I've seen photos of some units training at night before, and the photos are full of tracer bullets flying around, and I don't feel anything when I look at the photos, but I didn't expect the effect in reality to be so shocking and gorgeous.
"What is he doing here, how can I see that it's a glow stick?" Mr. Zhou said he lifted his glasses to see more clearly.
"I think it's gun practice." Uncle Wang said.
"Gun practice at night?" I was surprised, this is not a group army to conduct night exercises, he came to shoot targets at night, he is sick.
"Well, we used tracer bullets when we were training at night." Wu Linyu answered.
"When we were fighting in Vietnam, we often shot a string of tracer lights at night to point to the target for the artillery brother." Uncle Wang was not to be outdone, and also recalled.
After firing two more shots, the man lowered his gun, put it behind his back, and walked forward.
"That's Liu Wei?" I said. Although I couldn't see the person's face clearly, it could be seen from the body shape and walking posture that the person who shot the gun was Liu Wei.
"I see." Wu Linyu narrowed his eyes and said.
After Lao Chen recognized the figure, he took a breath and wondered: "Strange, how did he remember to come out in the middle of the night to shoot today?" Liu Wei hadn't shot much before. β
"How do you know he hasn't come out to shoot before?" I asked Lao Chen.
Lao Chen was a little speechless and said, "If he shoots here, can't I hear it by the river?" β
Ah, think about it this way, Lao Chen's place of residence is not far from here, and the sharp Cheng dΓΉ of this gunfire should not be a problem if it reaches the riverside.
"Do you still need to think about it? It must be preparing to snatch the position of Foreman Li. Wu Linyu said, "Foreman Li is still a step slower." β
"If you regret it now, it's too late." I said to Wu Linyu.
"Regret a fart, he practiced blindly at night alone, I don't necessarily have any use." Wu Linyu sneered indifferently.
"You're just taking it out of context, and it doesn't matter if someone is practicing a night raid." I joked.
At this time, Liu Wei finished checking his shooting results and walked out of the darkness slowly.
Liu Wei's behavior tonight really confirmed Foreman Li's conjecture. But even if Foreman Li expected it, he was still in a passive situation. Look, the prime minister who wants to seize the throne has openly trained his troops in front of the emperor, which is completely throwing out a signal that "Lao Tzu is about to usurp the throne and seize power".
I don't know how Foreman Li downstairs feels when he sees this scene at this moment. From this point of view, Foreman Li is not a person who is good at playing with power, and he actually gave up the most important power of force to others, and finally had to bet his hope on five strangers.
The people living downstairs were also attracted by the gunshots. I looked down and saw that there were several heads crammed into the balcony on each floor, and there was a lot of talking. The whole building was lively for a while.
Looking at this scene, I felt a little familiar. After thinking about it for a long time, I remembered that once there was a fire downstairs in my house, and the people in the building also poked their heads out, watching and discussing. I didn't expect that in such a world, I could still see the pictures of people in the streets and alleys in the past.
Liu Wei was still pacing slowly on the lawn, without glancing at the unit building. However, I was afraid that if he looked up and saw us on the balcony later, he might be angry and maybe hit a shuttle of bullets. At that time, bullets didn't have long eyes, and if we were unlucky enough to be hit by bullets, we wouldn't find anyone to reason with.
I told them all my concerns, and they agreed with me, so they all exited the balcony, closed the windows, closed the curtains, and went back into the drawing-room.
"If you want to stay and help Foreman Li, there will definitely be a bloody battle." Lao Chen stroked his beard and told us.
Wu Linyu unscrewed a bottle of mineral water and answered: "I may be scared if there is a war, but I am still confident in suppressing a physical education teacher." β
"How many younger brothers does he have?" I reminded him.
Wu Linyu said very disdainfully: "Those cowards, I guess I haven't even fired a gun." β
"Then why didn't he bring his little brother to practice shooting targets?" Zhou Zhihong asked.
Lao Chen replied with a smile: "This big brother must have some ability to be better than his subordinates, otherwise how can he be the boss." β
"I don't even know how to make progress together." Zhou Zhihong also took a sip of water and said.
"That's fine, do you think they're a study group?" I said with a smile.
"Stay, just to fight?" Duan Ke asked me.
"Almost," I replied, "by the way, if Chen Lishan comes to you tomorrow, don't talk about it." β
"Why fight?" Duan Ke ignored the second half of my sentence and continued to ask me.
"Because if you don't fight, the handsome Foreman Li, and the good people who take you to the bath, will have to suffer." I briefly explained it to her.
"Oh," Duan Ke replied with his head bowed, "Then don't get hurt." β
After a round of cigarettes, Uncle Wang said to us, "Let's go to sleep first, and we can think about it again when we sleep." β
"I haven't eaten yet," I said, looking at my watch, "it's only past eight o'clock." β
"Don't you say it, forget it, when you went down just now, someone brought us a box of instant noodles." Wu Linyu said to me.
"Then you eat, my stomach is not empty, go to sleep first." Uncle Wang stood up and said to us.
So we quickly assigned the room, Uncle Wang and Lao Chen, Duan Ke and I, each with two bedrooms in the bedroom. Zhou Zhihong and Wu Linyu slept on the sofa.
Lao Chen walked to the water dispenser, slapped the bucket a few times, and found that there was still water in it, so he turned on the boiling water switch and prepared to make instant noodles to eat.
"Hey, Brother Bing, look what I found!" Zhou Zhihong found something in the drawer under the TV, and shouted to Wu Linyu very excitedly, "We won't be bored sleeping on the sofa tonight!" β
With that, he pulled out the thing from the drawer, and a rectangular box was in his hand. Looking at the pattern above, it should be a box of DVDs. I said in my heart that I was excited to be like this, could it be that I found an adult movie?
Zhou Zhihong threw the DVD box in his hand to Wu Linyu, and I turned my head curiously to see that it was not an adult movie. Looking at the protagonist on the cover, it should be a foreign movie, the name is "Braveheart".
"Hurry up, turn on the TV, and turn on the DVD." Wu Linyu must have not seen these things for a long time, and he also answered Zhou Zhihong excitedly.
Ten minutes later, except for Uncle Wang, who went to sleep, we all stayed in the living room, gathered around the coffee table, eating instant noodles and enjoying the movie. We can experience this long-lost feeling of home comfort again, thanks to Foreman Li.
In order to pursue the effect of the theater, Wu Linyu deliberately turned off the lights, and then turned on the stereo connected to the DVD. He was not afraid of making noise to Foreman Li downstairs.
Seeing the plot of the heroine's throat being cut in the movie, I inexplicably substituted Duan Ke into it, thinking if Liu Wei would beat us all to death, and then cut Duan Ke's throat as well. Just when the more I thought about it, the more scared I became, Duan Ke suddenly asked me if I wanted to go to the bedroom to sleep, she had seen this movie in high school, and now she is bored watching it.
Well, I replied to her, anyway, I was just distracted by my own fantasies, and I was in no mood to read any more. So we left the living room and walked into the bedroom.
Turn on the light in the bedroom, and the small, delicate room immediately brightens. This is the bedroom where Wu Linyu discussed the escape plan with us before. On the head of the bed, the wedding photo is still hanging. The two people in the photo are brightly dressed, smiling at the camera, enjoying the happiness of that moment.
Seeing this couple who tied the knot, I wondered if they were still alive in that time and space, dressed brightly, or had already become two materialized corpses. In the blink of an eye, the new house that originally belonged to a newlywed couple was going to sleep with another couple tonight, which sounded a little sad and absurd. But having a bed to sleep in, I'm sure I'm still happy.
If they had known about it, I hope it would not be to blame, but to bless us.
After Duan Ke came in, he was also attracted by this wedding photo. She watched with me for a while, praised the bride for being so beautiful, and then asked me to take the charger, connect it to the socket next to the bedside table, and play with my phone while charging. There's also a computer in the room, which can definitely be turned on, but even if it does, it's not much fun. Foreman Li and the others are not so good that they can connect their computers to the Internet.
I sat on the bay window sill and closed my eyes. I think back to today's experience and feel like a lot has happened. The dodge box was discovered, a group of strangers were encountered, hot food was eaten, Liu Wei and Wu Linyu had a conflict, and then Foreman Li and I had a conversation. Thinking about staying behind to help Foreman Li again, I began to hesitate again.
The reason Uncle Wang stayed was because he was still thinking about our guns. Wu Linyu's reason is simpler, he wants to vent his evil anger, and it may also be that he wants to take Chen Lishan away by the way. But as for me, I can't even find a reason. Although I have a slight affection for Foreman Li, I have not yet reached the point where I can work for him.
It's just too lazy to think about it. Before taking action, who knows whether this decision is right or wrong, and it is possible that Wu Linyu is right, Liu Wei's group of people is not worth worrying about at all.
Although it is separated by a wall, you can still hear the bass from the living room stereo. Duan Ke took a selfie with her mobile phone on the side of the bed, and she didn't know where she could send it after she finished shooting. At this time, I heard another voice coming from the window in addition to the low voice coming from the living room.
Intrigued, I immediately rolled over and poked my head out the window. In a second or two, I could tell it was a song, probably playing it on a computer from someone downstairs. It was dark outside, but there were still people walking at the bottom of the building, looking like the old man I saw in the duty booth today. Liu Wei also turned off the lights at the shooting range, and could only see the lights coming out of the downstairs, and the voice continued.
I kept my peek out of the window and listened carefully to this song:
"When a ship sinks to the bottom of the sea,
When a person becomes a fan,
You don't know
Why did they leave?
That goodbye was his last word.
When a car disappears from the sky,
When a person becomes a fan,
You don't know
Why did they leave?
It's like you don't know this is the end.
In every night when the stars abandon the Milky Way,
I will say goodbye, goodbye to myself.
Because I don't know, and I don't want to know,
and the distance between each other".