Chapter 4: Day and Night (2)
"Hello." He Qun's posture was upright, but his face was relatively kind, "When you are recovering from a serious illness, you sit first." β
I couldn't help but get excited, but I still insisted on saluting them with a standard military salute, and Xu Yong and He Qun also saluted me, so that I was a little relieved and sat back on the edge of the bed.
"You've finally woken up, and for more than three years, we've been looking forward to you getting healed and waking up." Xu Yong frowned slightly, and his eyes were full of concern.
"The regiment specially arranged you to the military hospital so that you could receive good treatment, and now it is not easy to pull you back from death." He Qun sighed.
"Thank you, but my comrades...", remembering every face in the team at this time made my heart pierce the needle, "I'm sorry for them..."
"What are these words?" Xu Yong immediately scolded.
"I don't blame you for this, let alone your team, we have investigated the whole thing in detail in the past three years, but it is difficult for us to investigate what happened in the rainforest. Another purpose of our visit today is to hear your views on what happened at that time. He Qun's words suddenly overwhelmed me, it turned out that this matter was still a mystery for more than three years.
"Let me thinkβ" I was lost in thought.
The deep rainforest is still vivid in my mind, but the image of their death can't help but buzz.
"Ahh
"Zhuang Yan, don't be too reluctant." Xu Yong got up and comforted.
I suddenly raised my left hand, "Company commander, we have been trying to get in touch with the command headquarters that day, have you received any signals from us?" β
"Signal? I didn't receive any of your signals, and your communications must have been blocked at the time. β
"Yes, I had a premonition of this at the time, so I was always suspicious when I made an unauthorized arrest at that time, alas... It's all my fault for making the wrong judgment and ordering. I remorseful.
"Maybe there's something we need to talk to you about first." As soon as the words fell, He Qun flipped out a few photos in his briefcase, "This is the photo we took during our investigation at that time, because it is confidential, the photo is incomplete, these are just a few of them." β
Looking at the first photo, I took a charred SUV that had long been unrecognizable, in the background of a familiar forest, my eyes stopped there trying to remember the past, maybe it was a heavy head injury and a long sleep, I still couldn't figure out what was going on.
"This is your squad's off-road vehicle, and it was based on the billowing smoke from the burning vehicle that we found you near near you, who was almost dying." Xu Yong pointed to the photo to explain to me.
"What about the second child and the tiger?" I don't care at all about the off-road vehicle fire and burning, but the two people who survived at that time are the most important, and the rest of the photos are the scenes of the murder of Lao Jiang, Liuzi and the fox.
Xu Yong shook his head helplessly and sighed, "The disappearance has been reported for more than three years, and there is still no news, most likely..."
He didn't go on, but I already understood that if the two of them were still alive, they would be able to walk back. Although I had already learned of this result from my mother's words, I still couldn't accept it when it came out of Xu Yong's mouth. I quietly looked out the window, autumn was already deep, and now I was the only one left in the ward in the team of six.
"Zhuang Yan, we want to know if you have an intuitive impression of the person who attacked you, or a major suspicion? The main reason why the investigation could not be carried out in depth for such a long time was that it was difficult to find an entry point. "He Qun called me back from my past thoughts.
I turned my face and thought for a moment, "No, those people just killed people right under our noses and closed a deal without even a verbal exchange." β
At this time, I clenched my fists and kept knocking on my knees, thinking that there were not many useful clues after sacrificing so many people, and I kept pressing a fire in my heart.
"Do you think there are any strange or unusual behaviors?"
I buried my head and smiled wryly, "There shouldn't be any normal behavior..."
I spent half a day telling Xu Yong and He Qun about every detail of my time in the rainforest, and they recorded them with a pen from time to time, and even made me repeat some details several times.
"Most of the information in this is just the situation at the time, but there are no clues that can be systematized in my impression, and I have thought about it carefully during this time when I woke up, but I don't have a clue, I'm really sorry." I sat on the hospital bed with some dry lips.
Xu Yong got up and handed me a glass of water, "Okay, you have a good rest, take care of your body first." β
"Thank you, company commander."
After a few short greetings, they left the ward, and the ward under the incandescent lamp fell into loneliness again. I stared blankly out the window, a withered yellow leaf detached from the branches, falling without wind.
After more than a month of hospitalization and recuperation, my body finally gradually returned to a normal state, and I heard from the doctor that when the bullet passed through the helmet, there was almost no impact force, and it did not penetrate the frontal bone, but due to the impact and trauma, I was knocked out into a deep coma.
"If it weren't for this kind of luck, I would have died on the spot." The doctor is still rejoicing in my good fortune.
But I didn't feel lucky. If you are dead, you are at least a martyr, and if you are alive, you will continue to bear a heavy fate, how to face Liu Yi's mother and Liu Suxi? And the relatives of my brothers.
Less than two days after I was discharged from the hospital, I finally returned to the army after completing my term of service, but this time I was going through the recovery procedures, and my feelings were really heavy and complicated. On the day the formalities were completed, I stood in front of the gate of the army and watched the fluttering flags in the afterglow of the sunset, everything around me had withered yellow, and the glory and passionate youth that I had hoped for infinitely ended in this way.
"If you have time, go and see your Company Commander Xu, he is very worried about you." Before leaving, Political Commissar He advised.
I nodded, and resolutely turned away, without a message or farewell, where will the road go in the future? I'll leave it to the future.