Gunshots, cries, shouts, artillery fire.

Gu Chenxi hid behind a tattered fence with a semi-automatic pistol in his hand. He ejected the magazine and found that there were only four rounds left inside. He gasped for air and pushed back the magazine.

It's a battlefield surrounded by unnamed armed teams dressed in black Kevlar uniforms, light armor, and bulletproof masks. Unlike their own set, there is a logo on their left shoulder.

It was a crimson horizontal line, and there were four vertical lines of varying lengths, much thinner than the horizontal line, and it looked like a mouth had been sewn up.

He poked his head out and watched the army's every move.

The group would shoot whatever they saw, men, women, and children, not even the animals at the door. Gunshots rang out one after another, and I had to watch them slaughter the civilians of the entire village.

[.......]

Gu Chenxi had been behind the wall for a long time, and he couldn't remember how he got here, he only knew that the only thing he had to do was to fight his way out of the encirclement.

After the troops had gone away with the tanks, he stepped out from behind the wall and aimed at a soldier who was enjoying the slaughter. Gu Chenxi quietly approached behind him, covered his mouth, and wiped the soldier's neck with a knife.

Gu Chenxi snatched the soldier's HKG3 rifle, took two magazines, and then ran in the direction of the outside of the village.

Suddenly, a light shone on him, and the troops in the vicinity rushed to this side. Gu Chenxi immediately raised his gun and fired a few shots at the searchlight on the roof of the building.

Gu Chenxi's shooting ability is not as good as Hongyu's, but it is also comparable to ordinary soldiers.

After breaking the searchlight, he opened fire as he went, knocking down several nearby soldiers. The troops behind him followed, and at a distance of more than forty meters behind them, they opened fire on themselves.

Gu Chenxi quickened his pace, pressed the tenon with the gun in his right hand, and took out the magazine with his left hand. When the old magazine drops, load the new one.

Wait until there are only a few rounds in the previous magazine, and then implement the one-handed magazine change action, so that you can abandon the action of pulling the bolt with your left hand to load, which Gu Yu specially taught him.

Facing several soldiers in front, he shook off the handle of his gun and raised his gun for rapid fire. None of the people who stood in front of him wanted to live.

Seeing that he was about to run to the entrance of the village, suddenly, a tank drove out in front of him, blocking the way. The tank pointed its gun at Gu Chenxi, and then a cannon sounded, and the missile hit him directly.

He was bounced off by the blast wave of the explosion and flew into the wall.

Gravity seemed to have changed, and he lay on the wall, his body overwhelmed by the pain. Gu Chenxi struggled to open his eyes, and vaguely saw some gravel, as well as a pot of kapok in the distance.

After seeing the pot of kapok, Gu Chenxi finally remembered that he had been drugged by Shen Cheng, he was trapped in the endless journey of hallucination at the moment, and he had to find a way to drag him out of here.

In reality, Gu Chenxi struggled to get up from the ground, but fell heavily on the ground.

In Gu Chenxi's illusion, he came to another scene. This is the alley where he confronted Shen Cheng for the first time, Zhang Jiajia was lying on the ground, and Shen Cheng was wearing a hood and was tilting his head to look at him.

Gu Chenxi clenched his fists and rushed towards Shen Cheng. But before he ran to the place, Shen Cheng suddenly turned into a wisp of black smoke, flew in front of him and grabbed his neck.

Shen Cheng held him in the air, and his hand continued to increase his strength. The black mask cracked open, revealing an eye in the darkness, looking at Gu Chenxi proudly.

Gradually, Gu Chenxi lost his strength, and he could feel his cervical spine wailing and making a clicking sound. Many demons suddenly appeared behind Shen Cheng and held the unconscious Zhang Jiajia in his arms.

They tore open her clothes, revealing snow-white skin. Then they bited, gnawed, and dragged her into the darkness.

"Uh... uh...."

Gu Chenxi was extremely angry, but he could only moan, his neck was about to be broken, and blood flowed from his eyes.

[You goddamn bastard!!! ]

As soon as the hand holding his neck was forced, there was a sound, and Gu Chenxi's neck was twisted by him, tilting his head, and his eyes were lost. He threw Gu Chenxi to the ground, and then turned into a bunch of butterflies and disappeared into the darkness.

Gu Chenxi, who was lying on the ground, was about to lose consciousness, and the ground under him fell like loose sand, and he also sank under the surface. It was the depths of the ocean, and only a little light could be seen in the distance.

Faintly, you can see the light rippling, and there seems to be a ship parked on the sea. Gu Chenxi was also like a fish at the moment, losing his strength, immersed in the darkness, and lost all directions.

"Woooooooooo

Following his son's cry, Gu Yu hurriedly ran to his son's room and turned on the light.

"What's the matter, son?" He saw Gu Chenxi sitting at the head of the bed, holding the pillow with his little hands, crying and his eyes red.

Gu Yu breathed a sigh of relief, it seemed that it was just his son who had a nightmare. He sat down beside his son and took him in his arms.

"Isn't it a nightmare? Can you talk to your dad about what you dreamed about? ”

Gu Chenxi wiped her eyes and sobbed, "I had a nightmare, I dreamed of a big bad wolf and ate Sister Little Red Riding Hood, I... I want to save her, but... But the big bad wolf is glaring at me and I'm going to eat me, and I'm afraid..."

After that, the son began to cry again. Gu Yu hurriedly coaxed the child and wiped the sweat on his son's head with a towel.

"It's just a fairy tale, what's there to be afraid of?" The current Gu Chenxi sat aside and muttered angrily.

This is still an illusion, a remnant of Gu Chenxi's thousands of memories. Gu Chenxi and his six-year-old self, as well as his father.

Gu Yu raised his head and glanced at him, and said a little helplessly: "Admitting that you will also be vulnerable, is it so difficult?" ”

Gu Chenxi frowned, stood up, and walked towards the door.

"The strong should not be afraid, the strong have absolute power and can protect everything they care about."

Pushing open the door to the 'cave', he walked over to the hanger and looked at the mask on the shelf.

"So what you're afraid of, is it loss?"

[Even the only trace of beauty that he has left will be taken away]

Hearing this, the corners of Gu Chenxi's eyes twitched, and his heart felt like he had been slammed. He looked down and found that his childhood self had come to his side at some point, and he was pulling the corner of his coat and asked, his eyes full of innocence.

"Do you care about that girl? You're afraid of losing again, so you lock yourself in and keep your distance from anyone, right? ”

Gu Chenxi looked at the child in front of him and said expressionlessly: "No, she's just a bait, just a pawn on the chessboard, she doesn't..."

"Is it because she is somewhat similar to Qiao Ran?"

Before he could finish speaking, Xiao Gu Chenxi asked again.

"....." Gu Chenxi froze in place, his eyes widened, and he didn't know how to answer for a while.

Coincidentally, it was a scar in his heart, the deepest scar on him. He failed to save his lover, nor did he accompany his father who loved him the most, whether as a boyfriend or as a son, he felt that he was not qualified.

Gu Chenxi was too scared, too afraid of losing the taste of love again.

"We couldn't keep Qiaoran, please, don't abandon her, we have to save her."

Xiao Gu Chenxi pleaded with herself, so anxious that she was about to cry.

"I can't even help crying my nose, what are you talking about saving people?!"

After speaking, Gu Chenxi shook off Xiao Gu Chenxi's hand and turned to leave, leaving Xiao Gu Chenxi crying in place, and he also moistened his eyes. It's all crying, it's just the difference between whether or not they shed tears.

He walked into the cavern's passage, trying to push the door open again and leave. But this time the passage seemed to have no end, and it was a long walk, and it was always in darkness.

Gu Chenxi was very afraid of the dark when he was young, and when he first started sleeping alone, he would ask his father to accompany him, and after he fell asleep, Gu Yu would leave quietly.

When Xiao Gu Chenxi woke up and found that his father was not there, he would feel scared. It was dark all around, and the child's rich imagination would create many terrible monsters, so he had to cover himself in the quilt, clung to the pillow and tried to sleep.

Gu Chenxi sat on one knee in the corridor, with darkness in front and behind, and at this moment, he was as helpless as his childhood self.

After a while, he suddenly felt a glimmer of light in front of him, and it was a corner of a door that had been pushed open. Gu Chenxi stood up and walked in the direction of the door.

He pushed the door open and found himself on a meadow, sunny and sunny. After looking around for a while, he remembered that this was the plain behind the mountain in his hometown. When I turned around, I saw my father and myself standing in the distance.

He walked over to the two and stood beside them. Gu Yu turned his head and smiled at him, Gu Chenxi looked at him and smiled coldly.

In his dreams, he was always able to interact with them, and it was no wonder.

Little Gu Chenxi was wearing a sling shirt and shorts, and was tying his shoes on the ground, when he suddenly raised his head and asked Gu Yu, "Dad, why did you name me Gu Chenxi?" ”

Gu Yu raised his eyebrows, blinked, squatted down and said with a smile,

"For the hunt of darkness is the dawn."

Hearing this, Gu Chenxi frowned. Gu Yu stood up and touched little Gu Chenxi's head.

"It's the same as the previous long-distance running training, just run all the way to the bottom of the mountain."

Gu Yu pointed to the mountain in the distance, which seemed to be five kilometers away.

"Empty your mind and mind, imagine that you are being chased by monsters behind you, and if you catch up, you will be finished, don't stop. Accept your fears and let them be your running legs. ”

Xiao Gu Chenxi knelt on one knee, pressed his hands on the ground, and took a deep breath.

"Let it destroy you, devour you, and then reinvent yourself and become one with it."

"Running long distances is just building endurance, what you need is strength, you need more strength!"

Gu Chenxi was a little impatient and shouted at the two of them.

Facing Gu Chenxi's questioning, Gu Yu turned his head and said to him: "Whether a person is strong or not depends not on how much strength he has, but on how much he can bear. ”

Hearing this familiar sentence again, Gu Chenxi's tense brows relaxed, and her pupils trembled.

[Blindly pursuing power, you will only lose your soul]

When he opened his eyes again, Gu Chenxi found himself kneeling on one knee with his hands on the ground. He blended into his childhood self, his small body trembling slightly, full of curiosity and fear of the unknown.

"As always, run to the bottom of that mountain, and I'll buy you the complete SpongeBob SquarePants collection."

Hearing his father's words on the side, Gu Chenxi smiled, his eyes a little moist. With the passage of time, even if they can meet in a dream, my father can only stay in the past.

"Dad, I don't look at that thing anymore."

He raised his head and stared into the distance, and a dark cloud and thunder resounded over the mountain, enveloping the foot of the mountain in darkness. The body is a child, with tears running down his eyes, and his pupils burning with age-appropriate flames, devouring the darkness with wanton.

"1~2~3, run!"

Gu Chenxi poured the strength of his whole body into his legs, kicked up a cloud of dust on his heels, and swung his arms and ran into the distance. The body is as fast as a swallow, and the pace is like a war drum, stepping out of a wave of overturning the mountains and seas under his feet.

The little boy was about to run into a field of wheat, and the golden wheat was as high as the little boy, and the wind swayed back and forth, and soon drowned him. But as he ran faster and faster, his body was changing.

When he reappeared, Gu Chenxi jumped into the air, stepped over a piece of wheat, and stepped on the ground with one shoe when he landed, splashing a wave of water in the puddle next to his feet.

Gu Chenxi's reflection was reflected in the water, and at this moment, he became his 17-year-old self, wearing a red and white sportswear, and his face was full of unyielding. Fear was no reason to stop him, he remembered what his father had said.

[Those who don't feel scared won't get anything]

Dark clouds were thick, winds were roaring, thunder and lightning were thundering in the sky, clouds were spitting mist, and everything was shrouded in darkness. I don't know when, Gu Chenxi is no longer a teenager, he is wearing a black Kevlar suit, and his hair is messy by the wind.

Gu Yu stood in place, looking at Gu Chenxi's distant figure, a smile of relief appeared on his face.

Seeing that he was about to run to the bottom of the mountain, the darkness was like a barrier, blocking the way. Gu Chenxi quickened his pace, gritted his teeth, and rushed to the front of the barrier.

Fifty meters......

Twenty meters...

Two meters..

[The valiant will fight to the end until every spark of hope is gone]

"Uhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!h

There was a roar, like a phoenix roaring and a dragon roaring. Gu Chenxi injected all the strength of his body into his right fist and slammed it on the barrier, shattering the darkness into dozens of cracks.

"Ah!!!!!h

Tears flashed in Gu Chenxi's eyes, and he roared towards the darkness, his eyes like a desperate wolf. Suddenly, a flame ignited from his fist, and the flame enveloped his body, and the blinding light completely tore apart the darkness.

In Nietzsche's poem, it is written that if you fight with an evil dragon for too long, you will become a dragon yourself.

But if you can be more evil than the most evil,

Black to black,

to devour evil,

Hunt the darkness.