Chapter 6: Dusty Heart (3)
I took a bottle of water from my backpack and took two sips, my mind searching for what might happen. If it is a hound, it is possible to find it, and if the police or the army have investigated this matter, they should not deliberately hide the surroundings as if they had never found it. If it weren't for the police, but the group of people who had chased us in the rainforest, and finally dealt with the traces they had left that might have been found, then Liu Yi and Kang Jianhu, who had disappeared, seemed to be more than lucky.
But how could I possibly survive? If those people in suits find out that they can't shoot me, there's no reason why they shouldn't come back and give me a shot after cleaning up Liu Yi and the tiger, and if that were the case, I wouldn't be standing here today.
No matter how I thought about it, I had to put my mind down for a while, and once again stepped into the death rainforest along the route I had tracked before, and as a later bystander, I wondered what Liu Yi and Kang Jianhu did after I was seriously injured and unconscious.
The rain came and went, and after a few minutes the rainforest was back to the sweltering heat, and I began to search for traces in my memory with my travel bag on my back. The scenery in this rainforest is not much different from that of four years ago, except that the branches and leaves of the trees have changed several times, and the nightingales are still singing in the branches, and the leaves have been watered by the rain just now.
The forest was not easy to walk, and there was no road, so I had to walk on the muddy slopes.
After more than ten minutes, I finally returned to the familiar last scene, under the huge banyan tree where I was almost killed, but the off-road vehicle that had appeared here for some reason was gone. For someone who has already died once, I will never be able to forget this place. The moment that happened was etched in my memory, the bullet coming at me, and for a moment I could see the bullet in the air.
I leaned down to take a closer look at where I had fallen, and then closed my eyes and tried to find the trajectory of the bullet through memory, the silenced pistol didn't completely penetrate the helmet, which meant that the distance should be around the border.
Let's say it's fifty to thirty meters, and the image in my mind makes me a little dizzy, and it looks like bullets are coming at me again.
Suddenly I fixed my eyes in the direction where the bullet was flying, and the trunk of a banyan tree with a diameter of nearly one meter appeared about thirty meters away from me, and the shrubs below the trunk were leafy and formed a natural cover. I looked up a little in the direction of the sun, and it was mid-afternoon and the light was falling overhead. In retrospect, the sunlight from the east was just enough to allow the shadows of the trunks to obscure the leafy shrubs.
What a perfect ambush location, even if it is a disemboweling gun, what kind of person will have such a stunt without professional ambush training?
Sniper? It was my first instinct.
But how could there be a jungle sniper in a suit armed with a silenced pistol, I followed the trunk of the tree and looked at the specks cast by the dense foliage of the treetops, and once again looked up to the sky and sighed, even if I knew part of the puzzle, I still didn't know where the answer was.
I quietly left where I had died once, and looked for traces of the vanished SUV.
Descending a dirt slope, looking for the shadow of the past in memory. When the scene in front of me suddenly appeared, my heart was shocked, and the years of baptism could not make this charred secret place disappear. New shoots had sprouted from the large blackened trunks, but the buggy was long gone.
A figure flashed in his mind, and the six sons...
In a trance, I entered the black, scorched ground, and the ground around it was still littered with old and dilapidated warning tapes, indicating that this place must have been investigated. If the off-road vehicle was burned and then towed and recovered by the troops, then what did Liu Yi and Kang Jianhu do after I was seriously injured and fell unconscious?
At that time, who ignited the military off-road vehicle that could no longer be used, it is not difficult to come up with the answer after careful thinking. It must have been Liu Yi and the others who did it, and the sound of the explosion and the raging flames would definitely attract their own people who were carrying out the assault mission not far away.
I stood in place and looked around, although the forest here is dense, but from the burned area it is the size of a basketball court, the fire has been burning for so long before it is controlled, which means that it lasted for a long time, so I was not killed during the time when the fire was not controlled by my own people who rushed to the rescue, indicating that Liu Yi and Kang Jianhu must have been alive at that time, trying to deal with that group of mysterious killers.
More than four years later, everything around us has faded apart from the traces of burning, nature is far more vibrant than we imagined, and the rainforest is still full of life.
Doubts are still questions, and there are no answers but only traces remain.
As I continued to explore the depths of the rainforest, there were no landscapes, no traces, tense memories, and unforgettable rustles still echoed in my ears.
The cry of the nightingale, all kinds of insects peculiar to the rainforest, and at that time I didn't have the heart to pay attention to everything around me, I pushed aside the thick leaves, looked for the direction in my memory, estimated the distance, and finally found the clearing.
In the place where Lao Jiang bled and fell down, it was also the place where the two villagers in a trance looked up at the sky, I slowly leaned down, and now this clearing in the forest has long since lost the bloody smell of killing, new shoots have emerged from the rain-watered soil, occasionally insects shuttle between flowers and grass, and all kinds of birds pass overhead.
I looked up, and the sky was still the same day, except for a few clouds floating from time to time, and people and things seemed to be drowned in time.
There is no trace, the past that happened here is long gone.
Walking slowly to the edge of the clearing, leaning under a huge banyan tree, I sat weakly, if it wasn't for my misjudgment, how could the tragedies that followed happen, my comrades-in-arms should not be sacrificed, Liu Yi and Kang Jianhu would not be missing, Xinrui would not die of depression, and Jingjing would not be without her mother.
I, who should be most responsible for all this, am still alive, and I am just alive...
After the rain, the sky was blue, and the rainforest was full of birds and insects, and there was no more fear of hiding in the shadows.
I sat under the banyan tree in a trance, not knowing the passage of time, the sun gradually tilted, and time passed without stopping. Nothing was found, and I guess Liu Yi may have been sacrificed.
I don't know how to deal with Yoo Suxi and his mother, it seems that I have let them down again.
I sat under the tree trunk next to the clearing, recalling the faces of everyone in the past, letting time fly, when my consciousness and thoughts were still drifting, and the sky was already quietly tilting to the west through the shadows of the trees, I suddenly remembered the reminder of the old farmer in the village before, before the sun went down, go back to the town or find a place with many people to stay.
Just as he was about to get up, "Bah!! ”
Gunshot!
Immediately, my hairs stood on end, and the frightened birds scattered over the branches, and there was a lot of noise.