Lingdu, Lake Park.

This is where Rayson and Su Ling go on their most regular dates. As a soldier on duty, Rayson often goes out on duty, so the two rarely go shopping and watching movies like ordinary couples, and occasionally have time to meet, basically walking and chatting in this park.

Su Ling seemed to have something to say, and hesitated for a long time before saying, "You...... You're about to leave the army, right? ”

Rayson nodded: "Well, there are still three months to leave the army." ”

"That'...... Do you have any plans after you leave the army? ”

"I haven't thought about it, I've been a soldier all the time, and I don't know what kind of work I can do."

"Tsk, I didn't mean work." Su Ling was a little speechless, lowered his head, and his voice was as thin as a mosquito: "I mean us, I ...... with you"

"Huh? This ......" Rayson was stunned, his face was embarrassed, and he unconsciously reached into his trouser pocket and grabbed the ring box that had been prepared in the morning.

But his mouth was open for a long time, and his face turned red, and Rayson still couldn't say the lines that he had thought about and rehearsed for a long time.

"What an elm head." Su Ling didn't know Rayson's embarrassment at this time, and thought that he was being asked by himself. He simply took a deep breath and turned his head to look at Rayson.

"Rayson...... You look at me. ”

Lei Sen's whole person turned to the right, standing straight, facing Su Ling's eyes.

Su Ling's face was red, and his clear eyes were full of anticipation.

"Would you like to ...... Marry me? ”

Rayson was stunned again, and nodded like pounded garlic after reacting: "Yes!" Absolutely! ”

With that, he finally took out the ring box. When Su Ling saw the ring box, he was also stunned for a short time, and his pretty face was even redder, full of surprise.

Both of them looked at each other and smirked unconsciously. Su Ling stretched out his hand: "Stupid! What are you still doing? Why don't you put it on for me? ”

"Oh? Good! ”

The ring box looked very small in Rayson's big hands, and Rayson was afraid of losing the ring, so he opened it carefully, and his movements were a little cramped.

Looking at this majestic iron-blooded man in front of others, but at the moment he was as helpless as a child in front of him, Su Ling's smile was a little more naughty.

Rayson finally held the ring steady, took Su Ling's outstretched hand, and carefully pushed the ring up her ring finger.

Su Ling's face was full of happiness, looking at Lei Sen's serious face and putting on a ring for himself, and he couldn't help but tease: "Eh! I was bound so early, and in the future, you won't have the opportunity to hold the hands of other girls, will it be a pity? ”

"Nothing to regret." Rayson didn't hesitate to say, "For me, you are the best and the only thing I want!" ”

Rayson and Su Ling grew up in the same orphanage, childhood sweethearts, know each other best, and Rayson never doubted that she cared about herself the most and the person she cared about the most.

Regarding the future, Rayson never thought about anyone other than Su Ling.

Rayson pushed the ring to the bottom of Su Ling's left ring finger, and said in a firm tone: "Being able to hold your hand is the best result for me." ”

"Really......"

Without warning, Su Ling's tone suddenly turned cold.

"Then why...... You didn't hold my hand properly? ”

Hearing this, Rayson was in a trance. Look up again. Su Ling's delicate face seemed to have been suddenly drained, and it turned pale at a speed visible to the naked eye.

At the same time, the surrounding environment also became lifeless, the sky became gray, the land became corrupt, the flowers withered, the lakes dried up, the whole world changed, and everything happened in an instant.

The hand that was held by Rayson and had a ring on his ring finger also became like a fragile plaster, and it felt like it would be completely shattered at the slightest touch.

Lei Sen was shocked, and then looked at Su Ling, his clear eyes were already cloudy, and all the smart light on weekdays had dissipated, leaving only the ashes of despair.

"Why do you ...... Lost me? ”

Su Ling muttered, and a cold wind blew from nowhere, and the woman that Lei Sen cared about the most was in front of Lei Sen, turning into dust and sand and disappearing with the wind.

"No? No! No! ”

Rayson screamed in despair, reaching out, instinctively trying to grab something. But Su Ling had completely turned into ashes, and the hand that reached out to her, in the end, didn't catch anything.

And the world in front of Rayson also turned into a turbid darkness in an instant.

……

Finally, he finally felt the light in front of him again, and Lei Sen suddenly opened his eyes to find Su Ling, but what he saw were two sloppy men's faces.

A man with yellow teeth, and a fat man, one left and one right, were staring curiously at Rayson.

The yellow-toothed guy saw Rayson open his eyes and rushed out while shouting, "Maurice! Your boss is awake! ”

Rayson shook his head and came back to his senses, looking around, where he was, it was clearly Maurice's tent.

Rayson realized that what he had just experienced was nothing more than a dream. He was still in this cruel new world where the world was collapsing.

Su Ling, still missing.

As soon as he woke up, Rayson felt a sharp pain in his right brain, and it was obvious that brain cancer was still attacking.

The close-fitting rucksack was taken off by someone for me, so it was placed next to Rayson. Rayson struggled to his feet, reached into his rucksack with his left hand, and dug out the last two pieces of painkillers and stuffed them into his mouth.

His throat moved, and he swallowed hard.

I lay down and gasped for a while, and the sharp pain in my brain gradually stopped.

Only then did Rayson realize that his abdomen was wrapped in a clean bandage, which was the wound he had suffered during the battle with the old woman, and it had been bandaged.

"Boss! Are you finally awake? ”

Maurice's voice came. He was in a cart and was wheeled into his tent by the Yellow Tooth;

Maurice had many rags wrapped around the soles of his feet, like a duck's flippers, and was obviously injured and unable to move, so he sat on the cart.

Even so, he did not forget to take care of the baby. The baby was babbling in his arms, and Maurice shook him gently, patting the baby's swaddling clothes with one hand.

Rayson stared at Maurice's feet: "You ...... What's going on? ”

Before Maurice could say anything, the yellow-toothed guy next to him couldn't help but interject: "Harm, it's not to carry you back the boss." "When Maurice carried you back, his shoes were worn out, and both feet were bloody, and he made us go to the black market with canned food to get a little gauze, and he used it all for you. The fat man and I also took care of you for a day and a night. ”

"One day and one night?" Rayson was stunned for an instant, he had been unconscious for so long?

But what surprised him even more was that he was carried back by Maurice? The exoskeleton has never been taken off, and it is still on Rayson; How much of a burden does the exoskeleton have to be with its own weight? How did the skinny Maurice be able to carry himself all the way back from outside the city to this nomadic settlement, such a long distance, and have to climb a sewer halfway?

Looking around, in the corner, there is still the long knife. Maurice even took this back.

This was the second, completely unexpected, thing that Maurice did after he promised to take care of the baby.

The yellow-toothed guy hesitated for a while, rubbed his hands and walked up with a courteous face: "That ...... You're the boss of Maurice, and that's our boss. You see, it's hard for me to take care of you with the fat man, can you ......?"

Rayson understood what he meant, and was not stingy, taking a radiopill from his backpack and throwing it at them.

"Thank you!"

The yellow-toothed guy was full of surprise and left the tent with the fat man, presumably to buy something he wanted on the black market. There was only Maurice and Rayson left in the tent, and the baby.

Maurice saw that Rayson was silent for a long time, and couldn't help but say, "Boss, what's wrong with you?" Didn't recover? Why don't you take a break? I'm going to get something to eat? ”

"No, you don't."

Rayson shook his head and stared at Maurice: "Why are you trying to save me?" ”

"Clams?" Maurice looked confused.

"At that time, I was already powerless, you can take advantage of that time, kill me, and then take everything useful. Those radiation pills can keep you from going hungry for a long time, and the mechanical equipment on my body, and even that knife, can be exchanged for a lot of things on the black market. Even if you don't kill me, take these things away and leave me there. It's all really beneficial for you. ”

"But you chose to bring me back and heal me. It's not good for you to do it any good, so what's that for? ”

At this time, the baby cried again. But Maurice didn't care to appease him at all. Rayson's eyes were as sharp as a knife, as if he wanted to see through himself, and he didn't know how to answer for a while.

After a long time, Maurice sighed: "I...... I don't know. But I just thought...... It's not good to watch you die there, I can't do it. ”

Rayson looked at Maurice for a long time, and finally his eyes stopped on his two feet, which were not lightly injured, and sighed for a long time.

"The next time this happens, don't die, just save your own life." As he spoke, Rayson took out a radiation pill and threw it to Maurice: "This is not a reward, count me as thank you for dragging back my life." ”

Maurice was extremely surprised when he took the pill, and thanked him again and again: "Thank you, boss!" Thank you! ”

Rayson's mood is very complicated, Maurice is very cowardly, so cowardly that he even looks down on him, but at the critical moment, it was he who saved his life, grinding his legs and carrying himself back.

It's hard to say how grateful Rayson is to Maurice now, but one thing is certain, even if he is going to leave after checking what he wants to check in Devon City, he will not kill the guide he used to do in the past when he completed the mission behind enemy lines.

At this time, the little orange cat also broke into the tent, jumped into Maurice's arms, and licked the face of the crying baby twice.

The baby was licked by the kitten's cheeks, as if he had a sense of security, and quickly stopped crying and fell asleep. Maurice's face was full of surprise, and he picked up the little orange cat with his other hand and rubbed his nose affectionately: "Hope, Hope, you are really good, you know how to take care of your brother so quickly." ”

Rayson was not in the mood to feel the warmth of this scene, and he quickly fell into chagrin when he came to his senses.

Judging from the dress of the old woman and the old man, most of them are inseparable from the Saints' Society, and this is also the closest Rayson has been to the Saints Society since he came to Devon City.

It's a pity that because of the onset of brain cancer, the old woman ran away in the end, and the old man died, and he didn't catch a single live mouth.

It felt like a surprise had fallen from the sky, all in the hands and shattered. Rayson only hated himself for not being angry, but he had a seizure at such a critical time.

But Maurice's next sentence rekindled Rayson's hope: "Boss, I have something to tell you." ”

"Yesterday, someone from the east side of the city gave me a message that they had seen people in black robes in an alley. It could be the one you're looking for. ”

"Seriously?" Lei Sen got up suddenly: "Is the news reliable?" ”

Maurice hesitated for a while, but nodded: "That person has known me for a long time...... What he said should be reliable. He didn't say where the alley was, so I'll take you to him. ”

Rayson glanced at Maurice's injured leg: "Forget it, if you're like this now, don't run around with me." Where is the person who gave you the message, I'll just go myself. ”

Maurice looked down at his webbed-like feet and scratched his head a little embarrassedly: "You're right, I still won't trouble you." ”

"That man likes to gamble, every time the Colosseum opens to make a bet, he will go, lose more and win less, once lost in a hurry, stealing things from the Colosseum, the result was discovered, and the three fingers of the right hand were cut off, and there were only two fingers left, so we usually call him two fingers. He was under the bridge in the east of the city, and if you asked anyone, you could find it. ”

Rayson nodded, picked up the coat knife on the side, cleaned up and prepared to leave.

Just as he was about to go out, Rayson seemed to have a very serious problem.

The painkillers are gone, and in case of a recurrence, the body is flooded with such intense pain and paralysis that it is impossible to fight. It's better to find a replacement as soon as possible and put it in a position that can be obtained at any time on the body, which is the safest.

But where to find this precious medicine now?

Rayson thought for a moment and asked, "Do you know where there is a hospital or something like that in Devon City?" ”

"Hospital?" Maurice looked confused: "What's that?" ”

Well, it's vain to ask. As a semi-literate man who had never experienced an old-century city, Maurice had no concept of a 'hospital' at all.

The 'hospital' doesn't know, but does the 'doctor' know?

Rayson didn't have much hope, but he continued to ask in a different way: "That is, if you are usually injured or sick, where will you go and who will you go to treat you?" ”

"You can take care of your own injuries, but if you get sick, you can ...... Bear with yourself. Maurice rightly said, "Boss, if you want to see a doctor, there is an old man in the black market who has a stall in the corner, you can go and see it." But I heard that I asked for at least three cans of food at a time to find him, I couldn't bear it, and I usually had some things, and I just endured it. ”

Rayson raised his forehead, and sure enough, he asked in vain. Where does Maurice know that ordinary diseases can still be endured, and where is the pain of brain cancer attack, where can human beings with mortal bodies be able to bear.

Maurice looked at Rayson's helpless face, and suddenly said: "Boss, in fact, don't be so troublesome, I have a good thing here, which can cure all diseases, you can drink and sleep and everything will be fine!" ”

With that, Maurice pulled on the ground with both hands and moved to the corner with the cart.

After digging in the mud in the corner of the tent for a while, Maurice took out a bottle: "Boss! That's it! ”

Rayson was dumbfounded, isn't it just wine, and why do you think it's a good thing?

He took it and sniffed it, and the pungent smell was so pungent that even Rayson frowned slightly. Good guys, this is almost catching up with pure alcohol, the kind of strong liquor, Rayson usually uses to make incendiary bombs.

But right now, it seems that there is no other way, it's better to keep around. Rayson was not polite, and the whole bottle of wine was stuffed into his coat.

Maurice was dumbfounded, and was begging Rayson to keep some for himself, when the radio on Rayson's waist suddenly moved.

It was Saito's voice: "Friend, are you there?" ”

The two men in the tent fell silent in unison, and Rayson hesitated for a moment, but finally picked up the radio.

"Say."

"Please come over, my man has already gone to pick you up."

With that, Saito's side ended the communication.

Maurice looked panicked: "Was that Saito's voice just now?" Boss, could it be that night...... Found out by Saito? It's over, it's over, why don't we run? ”

Speaking of which, Rayson only killed one slave trader that night, and the auction of slaves operated by Saito should have had little effect.

Rayson thought for a moment, then shook his head: "It shouldn't be, otherwise, he didn't invite me over, but directly asked people to come over......"

As he spoke, Rayson made a motion to wipe his neck.

Maurice shrank his head: "That...... Why did he tell you to go? ”

"I don't know, let's talk about it, maybe there will be other gains in him."

Rayson walked out of the tent. In the corner of the settlement, Jiaming was still sitting on the stone stupidly. There were still scraps of canned food in his mouth, and it seemed that Maurice really remembered Rayson's order and forced the food into Jiaming's mouth.

Rayson didn't bother with him now, and walked straight to the van that was driving not far away.

More than ten minutes later, Raison stepped into Saito's villa again.

Saito was leading the fair-skinned boy like a dog, and Dama Jindao was sitting on a chair in the middle of the hall, and when he saw Rayson appear, he took the initiative to greet him, and his attitude was quite enthusiastic.

"Haha, welcome, my friend."

"Let's get straight to the point." Rayson waved his hand, looking too lazy to talk nonsense: "If I am asked to kill Mrs. Jane again, don't talk about it, I still want to stay in Devon City now." ”

Saito was not displeased by Rayson's attitude, his face was still quite enthusiastic, and he couldn't tell that he had been unhappy with Rayson on the radio.

"I know this is a bit difficult for you, don't worry, we're not talking about this today. Come on, come on, sit down first, and we'll talk slowly. ”

Rayson took a seat under Saito's guidance. The fair-skinned boy who was led as a dog crawled on all fours on the ground and never stood up.

"Anyway, how do you know I went to Lady Jane?"

Saito did not evade this question: "I have been fighting with her for a long time, and there are people from each other's camps. But...... My people haven't been in touch with me for the past two days, so it's probably exposed. ”

Inserting a mole, Rayson was not surprised, he had already guessed probably.

"Don't talk about this, don't worry, I invited you here today, not for Mrs. Jane."

Saito put away his smile and his face became dark: "There is a hotel on the corner of the west side of the city, I don't know if you know?" ”

Street Corner Inn? Aretha's hostel?

Rayson was not in a hurry to answer, and turned his head to look at Saito: "What?" ”

"The hostess of the inn is Aretha. She's the woman I want. ”

"Four days ago, there was a man living in the hotel, I heard that it was Aretha's man, who had been missing for several years and happened to live in it."

Speaking of this, Saito's eyes became gloomy, and he almost gritted his teeth and said to Raisen: "I want you to go, find out this man, and kill him!" ”

Saito looked very serious, but Rayson would think about another question.

Four days ago, Aretha seemed to have only one person in her hotel.

That person is none other than Rayson himself.