The small window on the iron door was pulled open.

"Sergeant Zhong Xiaoguang, hello."

The man in the small window asked, and Zhou Zhen recognized the voice, which was the lieutenant colonel who led him to General Bernard.

"Lieutenant Colonel Dong, hello, please open the door."

Zhong Xiaoguang saluted, and Zhou Zhen sneered on the side: "It's too faceless, isn't it, the best intern of the Armored Rat Company, they only give you a sergeant?" ”

Lieutenant Colonel Dong heard Zhou Zhen's voice and asked Zhong Xiaoguang, "Mr. Zhou is also here, are there any other guests?" ”

"There is also a lady, the daughter of General Bernard."

Zhong Xiaoguang replied, and then looked back at Amiko, who was pacing back and forth on the grass more than ten meters away from the wall.

Lieutenant Colonel Dong didn't speak, and after a few seconds of silence, the small window closed with a bang, but the sound of unlocking did not sound.

"Lieutenant Colonel Dong?"

Zhong Xiaoguang reached out to rattle the bell again, but Zhou Zhen grabbed his wrist.

"Something is wrong." He pointed to his ear.

There were a few slight metal thumps from inside the walls.

"It's not good, Amiko, get out of the way!"

Zhou Zhen shouted in a lost voice.

As soon as the words fell, a dull cannon fire came, and the walls and iron gates shook violently.

It was too late, Zhou Zhen immediately activated the phantom system, flashed in front of Amiko, pushed her to the ground with force, and lay down on top of her.

"Bang!" The explosion was deafening, and the wind swept through the body.

Zhou Zhen remembered Hayes, who also protected himself during the Moscow explosion.

He prayed in his heart that Amiko would have the good fortune that he had been unharmed at that time, and that he would be able to escape like Hayes.

The wind stopped, no heat wave was blowing, the explosions stopped, and only Amiko's screams could be heard in my ears.

Zhou Zhi covered Amiko's mouth with one hand, and propped up her body with the other hand to look back.

In the smoke and dust kicked off by the explosion, Zhong Xiaoguang stood in front of the wall with his arms outstretched, his whole body covered with dirt and ashes, and the plants around his clothes were burning, making him look like a human sculpture being fired in a kiln.

"You're all right."

A few seconds later, Zhong Xiaoguang turned around and asked, seeing Zhou Zhen give a thumbs up, he shook his head with surprise on his face, and sprinkled dust: "Damn, the armor system is too good." ”

Zhou Zhen helped the frightened Amiko to the iron gate, which was the dead end of the cannon fire.

Zhong Xiaoguang was still in front of the wall, looking forward to another shot inside, excited like a child who had just gotten a new toy.

Amiko took two sips of the kettle, and after calming down a little, she threw the kettle angrily: "I destroyed this wall and killed them all!" ”

Zhou Zhen hurriedly stopped her: "I can't help it, there is only one cannon fired inside, and there are no other heavy weapons to fire, I think it should be a personal act." ”

After saying that, he issued a consciousness command, and the phantom system activated, and Zhou Zhen immediately felt as light as a swallow, and jumped onto the wall.

The sound of the cannon sounded like a hornet's nest, and the sentries near the wall, thinking that there was an enemy attacking, shouted and gathered at the iron gate, and the barracks were also in chaos, and the gang members looked around for cover with their guns like headless flies.

"A rabble!"

Zhou Zhen scolded to himself, jumped off the fence and found the cannon that had just been fired, and as expected, it was Lieutenant Colonel Dong who fired the cannon, a young sentry was blocking in front of the shell box, and Lieutenant Colonel Dong was holding a pistol to his head.

"Give me one more shell! I don't share the sky with that woman! Lieutenant Colonel Dong roared angrily.

The young sentry's body trembled, but he refused to leave the shell box for a single step: "But in front of the muzzle is Sergeant Zhong, and attacking Pao Ze will be shot." ”

Lieutenant Colonel Dong flicked his fingers, and the safety of the pistol was opened: "You don't talk nonsense, take responsibility for myself..."

Before he finished speaking, his wrist suddenly hurt, and the pistol was snatched away from his side, and Lieutenant Colonel Dong subconsciously squatted down, jumped back a step, and pulled out the bayonet on his waist.

"The lieutenant colonel is really a person who has been on the battlefield, and his tactical movements are smooth and neat."

Zhou Zhen withdrew the bullet from the pistol, then raised his hand and threw it away.

"Mr. Zhou, Mr. Zhou, you, how did you get in?"

Lieutenant Colonel Dong felt that he had seen a ghost in broad daylight, and the wall was ten meters high, and even geckos could not climb in so quickly.

"It's not important, why are you shooting at us?"

Zhou Zhen patted the slightly hot barrel beside him.

"Sergeant Chung said that the woman was Sarah, the daughter of General Bernard."

Lieutenant Colonel Dong maintained a posture of self-defense, with his bayonet held horizontally in front of his chest.

"So what?" I don't understand the quality.

"Then she owes us more than 10,000 lives, and I must recover this blood debt."

Lieutenant Colonel Dong replied indignantly.

"Do you mean the battle of A28 twenty years ago?"

Zhou Zhen looked at his age and military rank, and he had already guessed that he must be one of the bandit troops who were attacked in the suburbs of A28.

Lieutenant Colonel Dong gritted his teeth and nodded: "Yes, she not only betrayed our deployment, but also used the parasitic system to massacre, many of my old comrades-in-arms died in her hands, and I tried my best to kill her today." ”

They are all people who have experienced the disaster of war, and Zhou Zhen empathizes with his emotions, but now he can't show sympathy, he needs to rescue Amiko first.

"You're trying to kill Sarah, right, who told you that General Bernard only had one daughter? Is that Sarah on the outside, can you see clearly? Zhou Zhen calmly pointed out the wall.

"I—" Lieutenant Colonel Dong hesitated, his gaze moving to the shooting hole.

Zhou Zhen took the opportunity to step forward, kicked off the knife in his hand, and then kicked him behind his knee, Lieutenant Colonel Dong lost his center of gravity and fell to one knee, Zhou Zhen quickly turned behind him, grabbed the back collar of his military uniform and said, "I'll take you to see." ”

Lieutenant Colonel Dong was overwhelmed by the military uniform, and he lay backwards with his hands on the placket of his clothes, and Zhou Zhen dragged him to the entrance of the barracks like a food bag.

The young sentry stood by at a loss, not knowing whether to save the commander or continue to defend the shells, and finally had to watch them away with blank eyes, and at the same time gave a very non-standard military salute.

The iron door opened, and Amiko stood in front of it, angry.

"Show me clearly, is this Sarah?"

Zhou Zhen threw Lieutenant Colonel Dong out of the iron gate and gestured behind him, signaling Amiko not to speak.

Lieutenant Colonel Dong sat on the ground, and after seeing Amiko's young Asian face, he looked up to the sky with shame and sighed: "Give me a gun, I cut myself, I killed Sergeant Zhong and violated military law." ”

"It doesn't have to be." Zhou Zhen pointed to the side of the wall, and Zhong Xiaoguang was still standing there blocking the muzzle of the cannon.

"Bell... How are you, why aren't you dead? "Lieutenant Colonel Dong saw the hell for the second time today.

Zhong Xiaoguang saw that the iron gate had been opened, turned around and ran towards them, and a cloud of dust fell behind him.

"Wait!"

Zhou Zhen suddenly stood in front of Amiko and raised his arm to prevent Zhong Xiaoguang from approaching.

Zhong Xiaoguang immediately stopped, looked at him inexplicably, Zhou Zhen took off his T-shirt and threw it to him: "Please cover it, there are still ladies here." ”

Zhong Xiaoguang looked down, and quickly turned his back to the three of them, his inner and outer clothes and pants were all burned to ashes, even his body hair was not spared, and after the soil fell, his whole body was pure and natural.

...

At noon, in front of General Bernard's office.

Zhong Xiaoguang went back to his tent to wash and dress, and Zhou Zhen left Amiko and Lieutenant Colonel Dong in the bunker corridor and walked into the office alone.

Bernard didn't notice Zhou, he was looking at a yellowed comic book with relish.

Zhou Zhen turned around in front of the pile of books, picked up a large tome of "The Complete Works of Shakespeare", turned to one of the pages and read it.

"You are old, and you should be disciplined by someone who understands your status better than yourself."

"King Lear..."

Bernard slowly raised his head and took off his reading glasses: "This paragraph is the line of Reagan, the second daughter of King Lear, it seems that you rescued Sarah." ”

Zhou Zhen nodded: "But until I know what you want to do with her, I won't hand her over to you." ”

Bernard stroked his beard and thought for a moment, then pointed to the book in Zhou's hand: "If I'm not mistaken, King Lear replied to Reagan like this: 'You are my daughter, or rather, a cancer in my body. ’”

Zhou Zhen spread out his palm and pointed at Bernard: "Look at yourself, a person who has been half-cut into the ground, and you don't care about one more malignant tumor." ”

Bernard shook his head and said: "The malignant tumor will go into the ground with me, but Sarah will poison the descendants, you helped me save her, I owe you a favor, but what she owes the government to revive the resistance to the coalition army is more than 10,000 lives." ”

Zhou Zhen suddenly understood his intentions, frowned and asked, "You let me save her, just so that I can kill her with my own hands and give justice to your subordinates?" ”

Bernard let out a low hum.

Zhou Zhen smashed the book back into the stack, strode to the Taishi chair, grabbed his collar and raised his fist, and said viciously: "Even if Sarah is a malignant tumor, she is much more benign than the malignant tumor in your brain." ”

There was no fear on Bernard's face, only calmness and firmness, Zhou Zhen's fist couldn't smash down, and finally gritted his teeth and let go.

But with nowhere to spill the evil fire in his belly, he picked up the wine glass on the table of the Eight Immortals and drank it all, and then sprayed the dark green liquid on the ground.

"Old drunkard, how does my cocktail taste?" Bernard patted the armrest of the Grand Master's chair and laughed.

Zhou Zhen's mouth was burning, and he stuck out his tongue and fanned the wind with his hands: "I thought it was absinthe, what the hell did you drink?" ”

"Hahaha, you were right just now, I really have a malignant tumor in my brain, and it is in an advanced stage, what you drink is the herb for brain tumor, there is no therapeutic effect, the only effect of the medicine is to keep me awake before I die."

Bernard smiled and pointed to his head.

"If I want to drink this stuff every day, I might as well kill myself."

Zhou Zhen rushed into the toilet at the back of the office, turned on the faucet and poured a few sips of cold water, remembering that H had said that Bernard was sometimes awake and sometimes confused, presumably because of a brain tumor.

A sadness arose in his heart, comrades and enemies, Hayes and Bernard, no matter how close they were in life and why they met each other, the final outcome was the same end, going to the grave in the midst of illness and suffering, what is the meaning of those goals they fought for at the moment of final death?

Hayes had criticized him for his lack of ambition, and Bernard had mocked him for not being a friend or foe, but he was sure that he had far fewer regrets than the two dreamers when he had experienced his death three months earlier.

Walking out of the bathroom, he looked at Bernard's aging face with pity, like looking at a mottled and faded oil painting before it was finished.

"What old guy doesn't want to kiss his daughter to his death? You murdered her childhood with your so-called ideals, do you want to murder her life? ”

Zhou Zhen's tone was like that of the presiding judge of the court.

Bernard's smile froze on his face, he lowered his head and was silent for a long time, and sighed meaningfully: "How do you want me to explain to my subordinates?" ”

"No one will recognize her, no one will recognize her."

Zhou Zhi said, and without waiting for Bernard's reply, he turned around and walked towards the bunker corridor.