Chapter 35: April
Just as Mu Yang was practicing on the top of Kailin Tower, there was an island in the east of the earth.
Tuk tuk!
The silence on the island was shattered by the sound of gunfire, and a dozen speedboats cruised around the island, on which stood a heavily armed contingent, all in earth-gray uniforms, looking like both army and robbers.
"Boss Lusha, the team sent out has returned, and they haven't found Claren's whereabouts yet." A soldier-like man removed the wireless phone from his ear and reported to their commander.
The commander took a puff of cigarette, exhaled a choking wisp of white smoke, glanced at the soldier with a fierce look, and scolded fiercely: "If you can't find someone, won't you send more people?" The commander has given a death order that Claren must be found, and even if he is dead, he must bring back what is on him. ”
The soldier shuddered, and hurriedly replied, "Yes, I will send more men to the island at once." ”
"Not yet."
Chief Lusha waved impatiently, then sat there and continued to swallow the clouds.
"Commander Wynne is really, but just a small researcher, what is there in his hands that is worth looking for with such fanfare...... Forget it, Lao Tzu is only in charge of the task, and he can't control the affairs of those upper-class people. Lusha snuffed out the cigar in his hand, and then reported the situation to headquarters.
What he got was an order from the headquarters to "look for it at all costs".
"Hey, these officials will only give orders, and it's not our subordinates who do things." Hanging up the phone, Lu Sha spat on a gloomy face.
Thinking that the front-line commander of his Ophiman Legion had to take charge of such a trivial task himself, he suddenly felt unhappy in his heart.
At this time, a blond-haired man was hunched over and holding a child in his arms, hiding in a small wood. If Mu Yang was here, he would have recognized that this blonde man was one of the young couples he met on the train to Maple Island a few months ago.
The child in his arms was a little girl named April.
At this point, Claren's chest was broken, and scarlet blood had soaked his shirt. "Ahem......" Claren hunched over and coughed, the slightest movement twitching the wound in his lungs, making him look in pain.
"Woo, Dad, you're all right, April misses her mother and sister." The little girl, April, had tears in her eyes and sobbed quietly with her mouth flattened.
"Don't cry April, Mommy and Cypril will be fine." Claren wiped April's tears with a hint of sadness in her eyes. April raised her head, "But the boat we were on had sunk, and my mother and sister never came up...... Wow wow...... They won't come back. ”
Claren's expression stiffened for a moment, and he finally swallowed something in his throat, unable to say anything.
At this moment, there was a sound of sweeping in the grove, and Claren quickly covered April's mouth, and only after the sweepers had walked away did Claren make up his mind, he stuffed a thick blueprint and three ink-black stones into April's small school bag behind him.
"April, keep these things safe, this is Daddy's research materials." Claren's eyes flashed with grief and indignation, if it weren't for these things, their family might not have suffered such a catastrophe.
"Daddy!" April felt something, a restless call.
Claren is a researcher at a general research institute engaged in robotics research, and as for what the three black stones are, he doesn't know, they were peeled from a meteorite in outer space. Claren did not expect that his research results would be coveted by the high-ranking officials of the Ophiuchus Legion, and their cruise ship was attacked by the other party during the voyage, and his wife and young daughter fell into the sea and never appeared again.
He put his palm on April's head, "Obedient, there's a small cave over there, you hide in it, don't come out without my shout." ”
"Hmm." Murmuring softly, April's tears slid down.
"Take it, this is your favorite candy, eat one when you're sad, save some." Claren looked at her daughter, struggled to peel off a candy and stuffed it into her mouth, and then stuffed the candy jar containing her daughter's snacks into her small school bag.
After doing this, Claren dragged his weak body and gradually walked away.
"Remember, don't leave that cave for two days."
"Hmm." April replied with a crying voice.
Claren stared deeply at her daughter for the last time, then turned and walked out of the grove, where she would only have a chance to survive if he had drawn all the enemies away.
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After Claren left, there was a sound of tuk-tuk and tuk muskets shooting in the woods, and the sky gradually darkened, and a thin mist rose in the woods.
April hid in the small cave and waited for her father to come back, but after waiting for two or three days in a row, Claren did not come back, and the hungry April couldn't help it, so she ate a candy sadly, and then carefully covered the sugar jar and put it in her school bag, and April dragged her thin body out of the cave.
The cold wind was howling, cold with a faint sadness, and gradually rolled farther and farther into the distance. April cowered and staggered towards the island's homes.
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