He pushed them out into the rain, horrifying back to that stormy night in Shanghai 15 months ago, when he was hunched behind a wooden cargo box in the yard.

Renata had already detonated a bomb in one of the upstairs apartments. Debris from the explosion fell like a waterfall from the fourth-floor balcony, and the flames reflected the courtyard red. Out of the corner of the bronze eye, he noticed that in the innermost corner on the left side of the courtyard, a figure was moving. It was close to the door where he and Ryan had entered. But that man wasn't Ryan. The figure emerging from the shadows of the staircase was Renata. Armed with a silencer, she charged towards the open gate and fired into the courtyard continuously. On the wet pebbles behind the container, Bronze moved forward on his elbows and knees. He crawled to the side of the crate, just in time to catch a glimpse of Renata approaching the door. He aimed at her through the rain curtain and fired two shots in quick succession. The first bullet hit the wall behind her, and the second hit her in the throat. She clutched her trachea, blood gushing out. Her brother dragged her out into the dark streets, out of sight. Bronze knew that their efforts to save her had been in vain. Her throat would be so blocked by the bullet that she would not be able to breathe, and a few minutes later she would die of suffocation.

But she didn't die, Bronze was horrified to realize it. In the weeks and months since, Bronze must have been looking for her. Is she partnered with Ryan? Has she convinced him that she is not his enemy and that the Intelligence Service is using him worse than she is? Has she been manipulating all this?

"Run!" Bronze shouted, "Go behind the dumpster!" He heard Officer Lan running after him, so he urged Gong Yu in front to hurry up. Suddenly, he felt a current of air that made the driver's window point to the motel. Ryan must have come back after him. He leaned out of the open window, his features deformed with anger. He held a detonator aloft and yelled "I could have detonated it while you were inside!" But that's too cheap for you! I'm just getting started! Look behind you often! One night, when you don't think about it, we're going to blow you and your bitch to pieces! ”

In the distance, sirens screeched. Ryan held up something else. Before he could fire with his automatic weapon, Bronze happened to have enough strength to hold Gong Yu, and the two of them rolled over to the shelter behind the dumpster. Bullets slammed into the dumpsters. Behind the dumpster, Officer Blue draws his pistol and fights back. Next, Bronze heard the tires screech on the wet pavement, and Ryan's Fiat whistled away.

Another siren screeched along with the first.

"We have to get out of here." Blue Officer Sa said.

"Help me help Gong Yu."

They each took her by one arm, dragged her up, and ran with great difficulty to the darkness behind the inn. People have begun to gather. Bronze brushed aside the two men who ran out of the inn.

"What happened?" One of them asked.

"It looks like something was blown up by a misfire!" Bronze told him.

"Do you need help?"

"Nope! We're going to take this lady to the hospital! Let's find the other survivors! Bronze grabbed Gong Yu, and inevitably felt that she had to shake every step he took to run.

Before running out of the dark alley across from the inn, he and Officer Blue paused. After a few people ran towards the place where the fire was burning, they immediately carried Gong Yu down the street and lifted themselves off the ground, as if a huge fist had slammed into them. All around him was a glare of light and a deafening explosion, as if the force gathered at the center of the thunderstorm had struck him. He was weightless, unable to see, hear, or feel any more, and then was thrown onto the wet pavement behind the dumpster. He rolled over Gong Yu to block the explosive fragments that fell around them for her. Something crossed his shoulder, and he cowered in pain. Something slammed down next to his head. Shards of glass were spilled everywhere around him.

Then, the shockwave disappeared, and he felt a tormenting roar in his ears. He felt the rain, heard the shouts of people nearby, and realized that Gong Yu was moving under him. She coughed, and he feared he was about to suffocate her. Gathering his strength in a daze, he rolled over her body, barely noticing the splinters of cinder bricks around them.

"Are you hurt?"

"My legs."

He examined her legs with trembling hands. By the light of the fire in the ruins of the motel, he saw a thick piece of wood stuck in her right thigh. He pulled out the wood chips, and a lot of blood gushed out of the wound at once, startling him. "Tourniquet. You need a-" He ripped off his belt and fastened it over the poking wound on her leg.

Someone groaned. A figure moved behind the bin. Slowly, the figure sat up. Bronze shuddered with relief, he knew Officer Blue was still alive.

"Bronze!"

The voice wasn't coming from Officer Blue. The roar in his ears was so loud that it was hard to tell which direction the shouting was coming from.

"Bronze!"

This time Bronze understood, and his gaze looked beyond the stalls of stagnant water reflecting the firelight. On the street ahead, Ryan's Fiat engine was idling. The debris of the explosion prevented them from entering the parking lot. The car was parked right in the right direction to the place where they parked it. No one saw them.

"You drive!" Bronze, "I'll be with her in the back!" ”

Officer Blue slammed the door on his side and turned the key on the igniter. In the back seat, the bronze stabilized Bei Gong Yu to prevent her from rolling to the floor. The car sped away.

"How is she?" Officer Blue asked.

"The tourniquet has stopped the bleeding, but I have to let it go. If she didn't have blood circulation in her legs, she would get gangrene. Startled by the sudden spurt of blood as Bronze released the strap, he quickly reached into his travel bag on the floor behind him, grabbed a shirt, pressed it against the wound, and used it as a pressure bandage. Gong Yu lay in the back seat, and he leaned down towards her. "Do you feel sick in your stomach? Is there a double vision when looking at things? ”

"Dizziness."

"Hold on. We'll take you to the doctor. ”

"Where?" Officer Blue asked.

"Go back to Hangzhou. When we entered Lin'an, we drove west, the next junction turned left, and the next one turned left. ”

"Then head east. Back on the road. Officer Blue said.

"Yes. Then head south. The bronze caressed Gong Yu's cheek. Don't be afraid. I'm here. I'll take care of you. You'll be fine. ”

Gong Yu squeezed his hand. "Ryan is crazy."

"It's worse than when I was in Shanghai." Bronze said.

"Shanghai?" Officer Blue looked back at him and frowned. "What are you talking about?"

Bronze hesitated. He had already made up his mind never to talk about Shanghai again, but Gong Yu and Officer Lan almost died because of what happened there, and they had the right to know the truth. Their lives may depend on it. So he told them...... About the 23 Americans who were killed...... About Renata, Ryan, and the yard where he wounded Renata that rainy night.

"She's a terrorist?" Officer Blue asked.

"Ryan is in love with her." Bronze explained, "After the failure of the Shanghai operation, he refused to believe that she was playing with him. I think he found her and asked her to tell him the truth, but she convinced him that she really loved him, and now she's using him again. It's to catch me, to get the money that Giordano gave to Ryan. ”

"She hates you." Gong Yu said weakly, "She has been saying that she wants revenge." She's hell-bent on making you suffer. ”

"Don't be nervous. Stop talking. ”

"No, it's important. Listen, she kept growling and talking to Ryan about what you did to her brother. What did you do? ”

"Brother?" Bronze tilted his head. He remembered painfully the nightmarish events that had happened in that courtyard in Shanghai.

After the debris from Renata's bomb fell like a waterfall, Bronze felt movement on his left side and hurriedly turned around. A skinny, dark-haired man in his early 20s, one of Renata's older brothers, stood up from behind the dumpster. The man didn't expect Renata to detonate the bomb so quickly. Although he had a gun in his hand, he didn't aim at the bronze - his attention was drawn to the screams on the other side of the courtyard. His eyes widened in astonishment as one of his older brothers struggled to beat the flames on his clothes and hair, ignited by the fire falling from the burning building.

Bronze killed both of them.

"It's a generational feud." Bronze said in surprise. He suddenly understood that Renata hated him more than Ryan, and he couldn't help but feel sick. Bronze imagined them reinforcing each other's resentment, drawing strength from that resentment and growing eager to take revenge on him. But how to retaliate? They've certainly argued endlessly about it. What kind of revenge is the most satisfying for them? Bronze thought, they could shoot me to death as I drove by, but killing me wasn't enough to make them feel good. They want to make me afraid, they want me to suffer.

But bronzers aren't just about thinking. Gong Yu's surprised expression made him realize that he had said all this. He couldn't control himself, and the thoughts that made him extremely painful poured out of his mouth. "If Renata and Ryan hadn't been watching me in Santa Fe, nothing would have happened. Ryan was forced to leave the military, but the official version is that he resigned. On the face of it, he made a good impression, so the court hired him. He always knew where I lived. When he is assigned to take custody of you, and he finds out that the house next door to me is for sale, his plan is complete. ”

Bronze plucked up courage. The ordeal he suffered to save Gong Yu was all for this moment, and now this moment has come. He couldn't afford not to ask that question, he had to know. "Did you know my background when you first met me?"

Gong Yu's eyes were still closed. She didn't answer. Her chest rose and fell rapidly.

"Before you came to my office, did you tell you that I used to work in the military command? Did he instruct you to act in front of me, and make you do your best to make me feel close to you, to make me want to spend all my leisure time with you, and in fact to be a bodyguard who lives next door to you? ”

Gong Yu still didn't speak. She breathed hard.

"Then that's how they retaliate." Bronze said, "Use a trick to make me fall in love with you, and then denounce you to the gang." They want to ruin mine by ruining your life as well. Moreover, the gangsters will pay them, which makes them so happy. ”

"I see the lights," Officer Blue chimed in, turning the wheel quickly around a street corner, "ahead of me on the road." ”

"I must know, Gong Yu, did Ryan tell you to try to make me fall in love with you?"

She still didn't answer. How could he get her to tell him the truth? When they reached the highway, the lights of the passing cars suddenly shone into the back seat. Gu Bronze saw that Gong Yu's eyes were closed, but it was not to avoid his gaze. Her body was lifeless, and her breathing was shallow. She passed out.

At 3 o'clock in the morning, Officer Lan did as the bronze said, and drove the car quickly to a brownstone residential building on Hangzhou Street. It was very quiet in this wealthy residential area at night, and the streets were empty on rainy nights. No one nearby saw Bronze and Blue officers lift Gong Yu out of the car and into the foyer of the building. She was getting weaker, which worried Bronze. He slammed the door, and as he expected, someone responded immediately, and only then did a sleepy voice ask him what he wanted.

As soon as the door opened, a man rushed out of an apartment to help carry Gong Yu inside. He was dressed in crumpled clothes, as if he had been put on in a hurry. The man was tall, very thin, with a high forehead and a gray beard. Decker heard voices behind him, turned to see a short, stocky, worried-looking gray-haired woman closing the door behind them and locking it.

The man led them to the left into the brightly lit kitchen, where a plastic sheet was laid on the table and several on the floor. Surgical instruments are placed on a covered table. Water was boiling on the stove. The woman in the green uniform of the hospital suddenly said to the bronze, "Wash your hands." ”

Bronze obeyed her orders and huddled in front of the sink with the man and the woman, washing his hands with a bottle of bitter-smelling liquid. The woman helped the man put on a medical mask, then motioned for Bronze to help her put on the mask, face shield, and gloves. She didn't delay for a moment, and immediately used scissors to cut open Gong Yu's bloodstained pants, and rolled the trouser tube of her right leg all the way up until her underwear was exposed. As a result of the removal of the pressure bandage, blood gushed out of the punctured hole again.

"When did this happen?" The doctor pressed a gloved finger against the muscle next to the wound. The bleeding stopped.

"40 minutes ago." Bronze said. Rainwater dripped from him onto the plastic sheeting that lay on the floor.

"How long did it take for you to try to stop the bleeding?"

"It was done almost immediately."

"You saved her life."

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