In mid-September 2017, on the afternoon of the second day of the collapse of the Yutian New District, I had already arrived in Shangjin City, where there were rumors of evolutionaries.

In the center of Shangjin City stands a large commercial building, and the huge font on the eaves sign is no longer dazzling, but it is still eye-catching: Jin Mao City.

100 meters away from Jin Mao City, I bent down and followed Zhanfeng to walk among the congested and abandoned cars, and finally crouched behind a Kia K5, looking at the destination in front of me, at the moment it was in the middle of our position is a large grass planted with some trees, which does not affect the view and has a somewhat sheltering effect.

"That's it, Jin Mao City," Zhan Feng said as he looked around, "Qingyang's army entered and camped there after capturing Team Leader Ma Jun and dozens of brothers, and the middle-aged man suspected of evolution was also sent in. ”

"And Xiao Qi and their family are also there?"

"yes, I just don't know where it's held."

"It's convenient to grab a tongue." I took the telescope handed by Zhan Feng and wiped the mirror and looked at the past, there were indeed soldiers patrolling and standing guard under Jinmao City, and their clothes were all from the Qingyang First Brigade.

"Their brigade commander Ao Xiang is an old friend."

Zhan Feng eased the sigh I blurted out, "This operation against our intelligence group is also led by Ao Xiang himself, if you want to go in to save people, we will have to face at least a few hundred soldiers at that time." ”

"Are you afraid?" I saw an open-air platform halfway up the right-hand side of the building, and there were people standing guard walking back and forth on it.

"I'm afraid, I'm afraid," Zhan Feng was not tactful, "If it's just the two of us, we can only wait until we kill two patrolmen at night, change their clothes and sneak in, and then find a way to find someone." ”

"Hmm...... You do know that the Yutian New Area is gone, right?" I told Zhan Feng about what happened in Yutian on the way here just now, and at this time I put down my binoculars and turned my head to stare at him, "Even if you don't follow me in, it doesn't matter now." ”

Zhan Feng was as steady as ever, turned around and sat on the ground and pressed the calf of the squatting numb, "Actually, I have been doing this kind of psychological construction, after all, no one can guarantee absolute safety in this kind of world." ”

I also sat on the ground, leaned against the white car door behind me, and looked up and said softly: "You and I have nothing, it's better for you to leave here and go to a stronghold casually with your ability, or hide where you won't die easily." ”

"I'm sorry for them if I just leave!" Zhan Feng's voice muttered as he spoke, "Shangjin City has more than a dozen brothers and more than a dozen lives, all of which have been lost by me......"

I didn't look at Zhanfeng's face, I just patted him on the shoulder, "That's what the evolved man did, don't blame yourself too much." ”

"But if I had been a little more cautious, maybe it wouldn't have been." Zhan Feng wiped the bits and pieces of sparkle from the corners of his eyes, "I have to go this time, even if I can't kill that man with my skills, but at least I have to rescue the team leader and other team members, and I can be regarded as comforting those dead brothers." ”

Both shoulders suddenly collapsed like a gasped ball, Zhanfeng's words made me feel relieved, I knew that with the few resources I had left now, I couldn't deal with either Ye Tianming or Ao Xiang, but now at least let me save Xiao Qi and Ma Jun.

Then I suddenly realized that if I was just like that, I wouldn't be able to comfort him for losing the lives of a dozen or so brothers like Zhanfeng, after all, I lost tens of thousands of people in Yutian New District. The collapse of my shoulders continued into my body, and I almost collapsed by the car door.

Without the consciousness of wanting to struggle, I asked Zhanfeng, "Why do you think I lost?" ”

Zhan Feng was stunned for a while before responding to me, "Those who follow me may not prosper, and those who oppose me will surely die." ”

I raised an eyebrow and glanced at him, "What do you mean?" ”

"This is a sentence you wrote in your diary after Liu Xiaofan's death." Zhan Feng picked up a wooden stick casually and pulled the scattered stone slag to the bottom of his feet. It is a seed planted in your heart a long time ago, at first, those teams of seven or eight or a dozen people may not be obvious, but when it comes to the heads of tens of thousands of people in Yutian New District, your style of doing things will be violent. A lot of hidden dangers have been revealed. ”

"We're going to wait until the evening to act, it's going to be a long time." I looked at the sky, squeezed out a smile, and said, "Tell me how you are a bystander." ”

"Don't dare." While dividing the gravel into piles on the ground with branches, Zhan Feng told me: "You can be ruthless and merciless to your enemies, and try to subdue those hostile forces with fear. And you are too considerate and caring for your own people, after the initial strict requirements, most of you show a kind face, and after setting up a functional department, you will no longer be demanding of the efficiency of your subordinates. But after all, people have inferior roots, and this characteristic will make people who are unwilling to bow down dare to overthrow a beloved close elder, or even more easily overthrow a feared superior. To put it simply, your excessive doting on your own people is the reason why I think there will be a rebellion in the Yutian Second Regiment. ”

I remembered Yang Shiyu's heartless and cold face, "My doting? Is it that serious? ”

Zhan Feng pulled out a few stones alone, "When Liu Bang, the founding emperor of the Han Dynasty, just won the world, his generals discussed rebellion, Liu Bang knew that he asked Zhang Liang later, Zhang Liang knew that those generals were ready to start together because they were afraid that they would not get a reward and be killed, so Zhang Liang advised Liu Bang to reward his most hated general, Yongya, and the other generals saw that even the most hated general of the lord was conferred, so sooner or later it would be their turn, so don't rebel." Liu Bang's mistake at the beginning was that he only divided the closest friends and heroes who first took refuge in him, and the generals who joined him later were not taken seriously. This is also the situation that Yutian New District has had before, it is precisely because of the talents who come to take refuge from other strongholds, many of them have not made the best use of their talents, so no one has clearly put forward the hidden dangers inside and outside the new area, resulting in the final chaos suddenly appeared! You can't appoint people on the basis of merit, and that's the second mistake you make. ”

"The second..."I laughed no longer so naturally, thinking that I had no power or power, so this style of exhibition would sit here and count my faults steadily.

I didn't refute him, I looked at the stones on the ground and was stunned for a while, and then suddenly realized that Yutian New District could completely collapse with me in charge, ruining so many years of hard work, and killing so many innocent people, maybe there were Zhanfeng's family members inside...... I'm counting a few words by him now, and it's nothing.

Maybe someone once wanted to say these things to me, maybe I ostracized those people at a moment that I didn't remember for a long time, just like this Zhanfeng, maybe the situation would have been better if he had him at the beginning, but he was assigned to a city so far away from the headquarters, this is really my problem!

I continued, "Is there a third one?" ”

"Yes," Zhan Feng replied, waiting for my reply, "you are very generous to some meritorious people, especially those who are very close to you, and you have taken great care of them, but you have forgotten that these care costs a lot of equal value, and these values either come from the labor of the people of Yutian New District, or from the loot of the war against the outside strongholds. Your killing of those hostile strongholds will indeed make them fear and become submissive, but your deprivation of their property will actually make them very resentful, and this resentment cannot be erased even if you exert more favors, especially some soldiers in the Yutian New District have taken advantage of the chaos to break into people's houses and forcibly insult other people's wives and daughters and sisters after the battle, this seemingly inconspicuous normal phenomenon will cause too much right and wrong, and the most important thing is that the kindness felt by the beneficiaries under your command, There will be no more hatred than the plundered family! I think these marauders who have hated each other for many years should be the main force that formed the Stone-Seeking Coalition, and this is your third mistake! ”

"Ok," I gave him a thumbs up, "next." ”

"The fourth mistake is not being honest." Zhan Feng seemed to be expressing his suppressed emotions in this way of persuasion, and my sitting posture became weaker and weaker, but the more he spoke, the more his waist straightened.

"Two years ago, before you returned to the Yutian Hotel from Qingyang New District, it was rumored that you had sent someone to pretend to be the name of the stronghold in the north of Yutian City. Kill Wang Wei in order to regain control of the Yutian Hotel in the future. Although this incident was not publicly acknowledged later, it was not only in Yutian New District, but also in various bases in the city. The mountain stronghold agreed with you to maintain certain independent rights and interests in the future when it returned to Shun, but as soon as you heard that the mountain stronghold took the initiative to provoke trouble with other strongholds under Yutian's command, you immediately led your troops to go there, and in a fit of rage, you carried out a crazy massacre of the mountain stronghold! This not only violates the original agreement, but also has an indelible impact on other strongholds of Guishun, who will think that there is still a possibility of life after returning to Shi Lei, so it is better to fight hard! The sheer power and sheer number of the Stone-Seeking Combined Army just confirmed this! ”

"The massacre in the mountain stronghold was because of ......" I remembered that the cause of my anger at that time came from the newly lame wolf and the brain-dead Li Xiaoyu, so I swallowed those words back, "It was indeed my fault. ”

Zhan Feng took a long sigh of relief, replenished the breath in his chest, and then concluded: "These are a few mistakes that I just came up with a little bit. ”

"You can digest such a big thing so quickly and correct me four major problems, you are a talent."

"Don't dare," Zhan Feng shook his head and said, "It's easy for me to annoy people when I speak, or I can't be sent to such a far place." ”

He released some resentment at this sentence, if it weren't for the conditions, I would even want to stand up and bow to Zhanfeng, "Although the truth is often in the hands of a few, there are too many people around me who say good things in the past two years, and a few people like you who dare to tell the truth and dare to find fault can't stand ......"

"I just keep in mind the words in your diary, that the living must do something for the dead."

"yes, I can't even remember ......"

"People live for a lifetime, and I want to choose a path that I think is the most worthwhile, even if I die because of it...... Ay? Chairman! What's wrong with you!? Chairman! ”

……

After experiencing the fall of Yutian, the Li Xiaoyu incident, the escape of the rainy night, the venting of the wild wolf, the assistance of Di Yan, and the fact that after arriving in Shangjin City, I heard that the intelligence team and the Bug family led by Ma Jun had been captured, and my body finally collapsed before I realized it.

The coma always seems to pass for a short time, but there is never a soothing feeling when I wake up.

Slowly opening my eyes, I took a deep breath for the first time I could feel my whole body, and when I exhaled, the echo in my chest like a bellows seemed to be about to be transformed, and it took a few times to repeat the cycle before I felt alive again.

I looked down and saw that my body was lying on a massage chair, my hands and feet were fixed by shackles and I couldn't move at will.

At first glance, I didn't have any impression of the quiet bookstore-like environment around me, but there were three empty massage chairs beside me, one of which was covered with traces of blood like a goddess scattering flowers, and the other was simply hanging with half a broken leg still handcuffed there.

There were two men with guns standing in front of the bookstore with their backs to me, and I cleared my throat and called out to them, "Hey, friend." ”

The two of them glanced back, they were wearing the clothes of the Qingyang First Brigade, and they just glanced at me and ignored me, and turned back again.

"Where is this?"

One of the slightly taller men picked up the walkie-talkie, looked left and right, and said, "Report!" Shi Lei wakes up, repeats, Shi Lei wakes up, over! ”

Wow...... Roger that!

It didn't take long for an old man in a white lab coat to lead a female nurse in, and they were naturally not stopped by the two guards. The old man came up and put on white gloves and gave me a good meal of inspection and operation, if this careful energy hadn't been tortured here, I would have to check whether there were contraband in my chrysanthemum.

After the examination, the old man asked the nurse to clean some of the wounds on my body for me, and changed the gauze cotton wool by the way, while he himself ran outside and muttered to the two guards for a long time.

A distraction was pricked by the female nurse next to me, and as soon as she pulled out the needle after the injection, I forced my head to get up and go to her. As soon as I put it on my chest, I was so frightened that the girl's mother screamed and took several steps back, and only after realizing that I was deliberately taking advantage of me did she glared at me angrily.

The old man and the guards were only momentarily attracted by the movement in the house, and immediately returned to their main topic. No matter what they said, in the end the old man didn't get a good result, and after looking into the room with a dark face, he beckoned the nurse to leave.

What kind of mess are these people? Where was I caught with Qingyang's people as guards? Is it inside Jin Mao City? Where did Zhanfeng go?

"Hey friend, can you find someone in charge?"

The guards didn't respond to me.

"I'm going to pull. , let me down first, I can't run away with guns all of you. ”

"You can pull your pants in." One of the guards replied to me.

I wanted to find a chance to get out or at least understand my current situation, but I didn't get any more chances, and immediately a whole group of soldiers wearing the uniforms of the Qingyang First Brigade appeared at the door and followed the hula in.

The leader was a bearded lieutenant with two menacing eye sockets, who looked me up and down, and then waved at the two minions behind him. They came up and unshackled me, but immediately put another pair of handcuffs on me, and then escorted me out of the bookstore under the bearded lieutenant.

As soon as I followed them out, I saw that this was in a commercial building, and there were Qingyang soldiers standing guard in front of each abandoned shop on the entire floor, and the hanging in the middle of the building could be seen through the upstairs and downstairs at a glance, and there were all kinds of advertising posters hanging high, but there were watermarks of Jin Mao City.

Sure enough, it fell into the hands of Ao Xiang's people, and I estimated that Zhanfeng was also more auspicious.

The bearded lieutenant sent me all the way to a hot pot restaurant, where the tables, chairs, and benches were all gathered on either side of the wall or under the counter, leaving a wide aisle in the middle, and two sets of sofas at the end, where an old acquaintance of mine was sitting.

The sword eyebrows are shining, the nose is straight and the lips are straight, wearing the uniform of the rank of colonel wrapped around the lean and thin figure, and the spotless military boots seem to be incompatible with the chaotic times outside.

Ao Xiang, from a trainee police officer to a base hero, is now the brigade commander of the Qingyang First Brigade.

"Long time no see." Ao Xiang spoke first, and I always felt that he was a little evasive of my gaze.

"That's how you greet your old friend?" I lifted the shackles from my wrists.

As soon as Ao Xiang looked up, someone next to him came over and uncuffed me. I strode over and sat down next to Ao Xiang, who was motioning for them not to move, under the watchful eyes of the other soldiers' rapidly raised guns.

"Why did you deal with me?" I asked calmly.

"Qing Yang didn't get involved at first," Ao Xiang let out a long sigh, "just knowing that someone was going to deal with you." ”

"Ye Tianming?"

Ao Xiang nodded, "The order I received is to clear your ...... after Ye Tianming's action is successful." Especially here in Kamijin City, there is an evolutionary matter, and other strongholds cannot be interfered with. ”

"The wall fell and everyone pushed it." I remembered that Zhan Feng said that my fourth mistake was not to be honest, and it seemed that Di Shanshi in Qingyang New District did not have much integrity at all, so I continued to ask: "Are my little brothers you arrested still alive?" ”

"I have suffered a little bit," Ao Xiang muttered, "There are no immortals in the battle, but Xiao Qi and they are all alive, and I asked them to heal the wounds on their bodies." ”

"And what are you going to do with us?"

"Mr. Shi Lei!" Outside the hot pot restaurant, a slightly familiar voice suddenly came from afar, "Do you think this is your Yutian New District?" The general of the defeated army still dares to sit here and say something to our Brigade Commander Ao! ”

Looking up, I couldn't remember his identity when the pot-bellied guy walked in, and I didn't remember until he asked two soldiers to drag me up and push me in the middle, this guy's name was Li Guodong.