"You should have killed me."

The cowboy moved the corners of his mouth.

He didn't look up, but Chris, who was standing behind him, knew that the cowboy was meant to hear him.

Of course, the cowboy doesn't want to die if he can, but as the leader of the team, if he takes the lives of all his team members to save him alone, even if he survives in the end, he will never forgive himself.

"Don't worry, I will, but not now."

Chris said lightly.

He took a cigar out of his pocket, bit it into his mouth, and lit it. There was no expression on Chris's face, neither the pride of the success of the trick, nor the shame of betraying his teammates, only the firmness in his eyes.

"After getting the symbiote."

Chris added.

Both of them are well aware that as long as the cowboy is alive, the members of the club will not leave the jungle.

"Look after him, he can't die now."

Chris said to the man with the mechanical skull mounted.

"I'm sorry, are you ordering me?"

The latter glanced up at Chris, his bare mechanical eyeball, which had been torn off half of his face, turning clockwise.

"I'm just doing what I have to do."

Chris replied coldly.

"Then you just do things and talk less."

The mechanical-eyed man threw Chris a pair of handcuffs.

Chris glanced at the other man, caught the handcuffs, and handcuffed the cowboy's hands.

"What? I'm basically a waste, aren't you worried? Cowboy had his hands cuffed behind his back, and his teeth trembled from the sharp pain coming from the glaring hole in his arm.

The wound is almost unrecoverable, and even the most advanced medical skills can do nothing, because the wound that penetrates the arm is not a tear of the muscle, but a melt, and the musculature and bone in the wound are all gone, like an ice sculpture pierced by a hot metal hole......

"Don't talk nonsense, we've known each other for so long, I know what you can do." Chris said calmly.

"Is that a compliment?" The cowboy was suffering from severe pain, but he was grinning.

"Whatever you want."

Chris doesn't really like to talk too much with cowboys.

"Stand up."

He tugged at the cowboy's clothes to make the cowboy stand up, and said to the other three:

"Let's go over to the helicopter wreck."

"Shhhhh

The cowboy who had been pulled to the wound gasped, but did not say a word.

"By the way, tell you something......"

After struggling to get to his feet, the cowboy leaned into Chris's ear and said:

"You're done, you're completely finished, it may not be today, but you're definitely done, hehe......"

He grinned as he bared his blood-stained teeth.

"Let's go."

Chris still restrained and remained flat, but the corners of his eyes still twitched unconsciously.

He dragged the cowboy in the direction of the lawn.

……

The other side.

With a backpack in one hand and a pistol in the other, Luo slowly walked to the place where the helicopter crashed.

He had heard what the cowboy had said, but he couldn't just turn around and leave.

And he knows very well that Joe and Luca will also choose like this, if they give up a teammate who is still alive like this, then the club will exist in name only.

Let's not forget that the original reason they accepted this commission was to save another teammate, the Medic.

Including when he first realized that Chris might defect, he had only one thought, and that was to support the cowboys as quickly as possible, and he barely hesitated for a second. He knew it would be Joe or anyone else in the club.

……

The symbiote was in the backpack he was carrying.

It's something Harvey desperately wants, and that will be the only point that Law will be able to exploit.

……

"Can you hear me?"

Law tries to continue contacting Joe and Lukka with the communication headset, even though he knows that the conversation will fall into Chris's ears.

But there was no way to avoid it, and Law just wanted to make sure that his other teammates were safe, because they couldn't just say nothing about the conversation he had with Chris.

For he had told Crocodile and Joe to leave the woods along the river in ten minutes without seeing him and the cowboy, but if he had heard the conversation, it would have been impossible for him to leave, and the ten-minute time limit had already passed.

Unfortunately, no one responded to him.

Luo didn't think much about it, but he still had some bad premonitions in his heart.

But he did not stop to make his way to the position of the helicopter.

"Joe?"

Law restarted the communication headset once.

"Luca?"

All he wanted was that Joe and Crocodile had left at ten minutes and couldn't pick up his voice due to signal issues.

But Luka had spoken to him two minutes earlier.

They've just teamed up to take out a drugged weirdo, and there's no way they're going to lose touch in such a short period of time.

Luo was trying his best to calm his emotions, but his irritability was getting worse.

"Luca?"

He asked again into the headset.

"Boom!! ……”

Suddenly, there was an explosion in the air in the distance!

As if in response to Luo's inquiry.

The moment a popping sound sounded in his ears, Luo's whole person tensed.

Because the explosion came from the location of the church......

"Damn it!"

He quickly rushed to a spot in the woods that was not obscured by foliage, and looked at the location of the church on the cliff.

Sure enough, it was the tower decorated with the huge cross that exploded!

The explosion was not very powerful, but it still almost destroyed half of the church, especially the top of the tower, which was completely blown away......

Luo looked at the wreckage of the falling buildings on the cliff, clenched his fists, his knuckles white.

This image already clearly conveys a message - something happened to Luca.

"Let your men stop all action, or I'll destroy the symbiote right now!"

Law hissed into the communication headset.

This phrase was addressed to Chris.

On the other side of the headset, Cowboy Chris and his party had already arrived at the lawn where the helicopter crashed first.

Chris, of course, also noticed that there had been an explosion in the church on the cliff in the distance.

"I'm not in charge, and I don't know what's going on."

He still responded to Luo in a flat tone.

The more Chris spoke in such a flat tone, the more angry Luo became.

The cowboy's face sank when he saw the explosion of the church, but the mechanical-eyed man on the side laughed uncontrollably, and the strange gap between the torn skin and the metal skull was torn apart by his smile, and the picture made the scalp tingle.

The mechanical-eyed man took off the headphones from Chris's ear and said into them:

"If you don't want your remaining friends to die one by one, send the symbiote over."

"The slower you come, the faster they'll die!"