Chapter 18: A Mission Left Unfinished

"As long as you don't stop moving forward, the road will continue to extend."

Life is the same way, the fiery heart in the chest has not stopped beating, then life has not reached the end, those troubles, all kinds of trivial things, will come one after another, easily capture the thing called the rest of your life!

The first sentence comes from Lowe's graduation gift to the alarm clock, a hand-copied quote.

Similar sentences are:

"While what has passed cannot be erased, it can be transcended."

"Man's dreams never end!"

"Instead of thinking about a gorgeous death, let's think about how to live a gorgeous life!"

……

And so on, the meaning is unknown.

For the alarm clock, the past seven years have passed quite peacefully, with nightmares day after day, graduating from the training camp without suspense, and then starting to perform one task after another, and each task is completed quite beautifully.

Each squad wants to have a 100-shot sniper rifle behind them. And Alarm Clock is currently the best member of the organization in terms of sniping performance, with 83 sniper missions out of 127 missions, and none of them missed! Individual results are even higher than some squads!

The price of training a sniper is high, and the feeding of nearly a thousand rounds of ammunition per day is too high, so Mr. used another way to train the alarm clock - persecution! He gave the alarm clock a handful of XM2036, and two .300 Winchester Magnum, and then gave her a target with two people on the mission.

It was the first mission of the alarm clock, and it did not go well, the alarm clock was shot in the shoulder, and the first mission target died on the spot, and the second missed the vital point, and it took three hours in the hospital to die.

After that, it's time for the next mission......

Under this pressure, the sniping level of the alarm clock has increased by leaps and bounds.

That's why almost every mission team has sent her an invitation.

And then rejected!

Alarm Clock is the only member of the organization that does not have a fixed task team, and even most of the time, she is on a mission alone!

When asked why, the alarm clock replied, "No!"

"But trust is something that has been cultivated little by little from scratch!"

Sir sighed and said this, and then approved the one-man team application for the alarm clock.

The team that sends the most invitations to the alarm clock is a team named R&W, and Riddle and Willow have an invitation letter in the alarm clock's mailbox almost every half month.

So Alarm Clock considered retracting the preface, the past seven years are not appropriate to describe as calm, there is a blonde teenager who is endlessly entangled, a little narcissistic, and after being rejected again and again, he still happily sends her invitations to join the team, as well as all kinds of strange gifts. For this alarm, the alarm clock applied for a new email address again and again, but less than two days after each email change, there would be another email inviting to join the team......

Alarm Clock has tried to drag out that bastard who leaked her email address countless times and bury it!

There is also a female madman who assassinates her regardless of the occasion, especially in terms of poisoning, which is impossible to prevent! Although the carrier pigeon no longer cares so much about what happened back then, the relationship between the two has not eased, and she still has not stopped assassinating the alarm clock! The helpless alarm clock even regretted his words and deeds. She hadn't eaten out for a long time, so she had to spend 6 months of her spare time learning to cook! But doing it yourself feels troublesome after all!

The annoying alarm clock can already knock her out with great skill, and then throw it to the river crab that answers her!

Time is the most transformative of all.

In the past seven years, Luo's changes, willow branches have seen it, cut off the half-length blonde hair that he kept when he pretended to be chic, and his style of dressing is no longer bells and whistles, but has become mature and stable. The boy who thought highly of himself at the beginning no longer talks about what he says at every turn. I have learned to judge the situation, be more grounded in reality, and be more calm! Neither drink nor smoke! Even the usual meaningless nonsense is less.

Liu Zhi saw very clearly that Luo's changes were not so much the result of Mr.'s reprimand, but rather the approach to a person who called the alarm clock.

It seems that the nonsense of the year has become a prophecy!

Outside the No. 271 training camp, the alarm clock came here for the last time and saw an unexpected person, Luo.

The alarm clock did not avoid him, and began to train on his own, and to this day, the training content of the alarm clock is not an ulterior secret, enhance the control of the body, improve the accuracy of strength, and that's it!

"Alarm clock!"

Luo took the initiative to say hello.

"Hello!"

The alarm clock also responded politely.

Then, for a moment, the two of them fell into a situation where they had nothing to say.

Or Luo took the initiative to speak.

"I want to apologize to you, I thought you were a very bad person at first, but later I found out that it wasn't ......"

"If it's exactly the same, you've apologized many times. You're not wrong. ”

"I just thought you would have to add this sentence every time, so I apologized over and over again."

There was a hint of helplessness in Luo's tone.

"At the beginning, it was just that Mr. deliberately induced you to change your attitude."

"But my husband also taught me to see the essence through the phenomenon! Trust my own judgment! ”

Lowe's emotions were a little agitated.

The alarm clock lowered his grip on the dagger, from facing the wooden dummy to looking sideways at him.

"Are you going to argue with me here?"

Luo's tone was stagnant, as if he had been poured a scoop of cold water, the word "argument" is actually "quarrel" in other words.

Arguing with the alarm clock is a rather powerless thing, the alarm clock never quarrels with people, she just leaves, and doesn't care what the other person says.

Lowe doesn't want to argue with Alarm Clock about what kind of person she is, but Alarm Clock is ready to leave!

Luo showed a sad look and shook his head slightly.

"Alarm clock, it's unnecessary, it's not necessary, it's not your fault that your friend's death is, why do you have to take someone else's fault on yourself? Why do you have to torture yourself in this way? ”

The sound of the alarm clock was completely cold at this moment. What happened back then, only Mr. clearly knew the cause and effect!

"I didn't torture myself, these are just the price of living!"

"Do you really like this machine-like life?"

"I don't have anything to like or dislike."

"But you already have!" Lowe's tone was full of certainty.

"You like to eat meat, especially beef and lamb! I don't like vegetables, I hate the taste of tomatoes the most! I don't like to eat fish, because I can't help but feel a fishy smell! I like stir-frying, I don't like stews, I don't like sweets; I like to tie a ponytail and don't like short hair; I like to take pictures, but I don't like to look in the mirror. Take the stairs like to step on your right foot first, stepping on the right quarter of the first step! I don't like umbrellas when it's raining, but I like it on snowy days! ”

"Look, you have so many things you like and things you don't like, why do you want to live like a cold machine?"

By the time Lowe finished speaking, the alarm clock was gone.

It's like running away.

The sights in my memory are like a vague gust of wind......

But the nightmare of the alarm clock from the age of 7 to 20 is becoming clearer and clearer.

"Why didn't you insist on coming with me when you said yes?"

"Knowing that I can't even speak clearly, why don't you dare to defend myself to the instructor?"

"Why didn't you shed a single tear when you saw me dead? We're obviously ... Friend......"

"Why? You're not dead yet! ”

The shadow in the mirror is finally getting clearer and clearer, turning into a 7-year-old girl, and becoming what the alarm clock used to be.

"Why didn't I insist on joining you when I said yes?"

"I know that you can't even speak clearly, why don't you dare to defend yourself to the instructor?"

"Why didn't I shed a single tear when I saw you dead? We're obviously ... Friend......"

"Why? I'm not dead yet! ”

……

July 23rd.

The R&W team, a mission failed, and the original team of 7 people was left with only two people, Luo and Willow Branch.

When Liu Zhi dragged Luo back to the base, Luo clutched the identity cards of the other five people and didn't say a word.

Alarm didn't pay much attention to it, as she had taken on a mission.

The organization has a task that no one ever completes.

Assassinate a "philanthropist" named Kate, a "philanthropist" who is so rich that he is in the country.

Judging from the reward of the task alone, the difficulty can be predicted:

Ownership of an island approaching 5 square kilometres, and any commitment within the publisher's capabilities.

Such a reward cannot be measured in money, and the person who issued the task must have bet on everything he has! What kind of hatred would make a publisher pay such a price to kill someone?

The documents record the assassination records organized over the years, a total of thirteen.

For the first time, the members of the organization disguised themselves as waiters, and before they could get close, the bodyguards saw through the disguise and killed them on the spot.

The second time, one person created chaos to attract attention, and the other pretended to be a corpse, injected with anesthetics, and was stuffed into an ice vault to freeze to death.

The third time, a bomb was planted on the car, and the sedan was blown away, but it was not deformed, and the target was not in the car. The members of the group failed to escape.

……

On the seventh occasion, a member of the group entered the villa as a reporter and never came out again.

For the eighth time, two members of the group shot in public, the target was wearing liquid body armor, and the members were shot on the spot.

……

The twelfth time, the members of the organization used sniper rifles to snipe from a distance, and were ambushed by the target's bodyguards at the sniper site.

On the thirteenth occasion, members of the group abandoned their mission halfway through, were seriously injured, and were shot off their right leg by a sniper rifle while fleeing.

These people have traded their lives for precious information. The target has 8 private villas, each with remodeled walls, doors and windows, embedded with quasi-high-hardness steel plates, independent water and electricity systems, 24-hour infrared scanners and video surveillance.

4 specially requested patrols, armed with guns. Three of them change shifts every 8 hours, and the fourth team is responsible for patrolling during shift changes. Each trip is accompanied by 4 cars of the same type, the body is made of reactive armor, the windows are made of safety bulletproof glass, and the wheels have steel rings inside, and they can still travel at 80 kilometers per hour after a puncture.

In addition, there is one person on the target's security team who is proficient in disguise, infiltration, and assassination. Around the target's location, all suspicious persons will be screened and suitable sniper locations will be cleared.

That security force is the biggest problem, whether it is infiltration before the start of the mission or escape after the mission is completed.

This is the reason why this mission has been hanging here for a long time, but it has only been executed 13 times, because even if the mission is completed, there is no way to come back alive!

……

Alarm Clock has read all the information related to the mission, and the most recent opportunity to make a move was on July 27, when the target was to give a speech at a fundraiser at Mister Stadium.

For the alarm clock, it's time for her nightmare to end.

Before picking up the task, the alarm clock gave out a gift.

There were so many invitation letters deposited in the mailbox, and for the first time, there was a reply.

The gentleman's office was empty, and there were two unread emails in the computer mailbox.

One is an application for the disbandment of the alarm clock solo squad.

One is a mission request from the R&W team.