Finale: Rifts

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It is a wound that can be healed, and a tear that is difficult to heal.

"Shioxi!" At the end of the evening self-study, I blocked the thoughtful Liu Suxi in the community.

"Huh? Brother, are you waiting for me? She suddenly came back to her senses, as if startled.

"Come here, I'll tell you something." I beckoned her to come and sit next to me.

Liu Suxi obediently walked over, sat down with her schoolbag in front of her and looked ahead, "What's the matter?" ”

"Take it." I handed her a bank card and said in an unmistakable tone, "It must continue." ”

Liu Suxi rarely heard me in such a strong tone, even when I was a child, "Why? Said I don't want to. ”

"I won't discuss with you this time, I'm going to go far away, a few weeks if it's short, maybe a few months or even years if it's long, you have to take the college entrance examination and go to college, you need money."

"Far away? Where to? Liu Suxi seemed to hear the clue, and her tone was a little worried, "You can keep this money, you need it when you go out." ”

"You can take the exam with peace of mind, and getting admitted to college is one of the most reassuring things for me, otherwise I will definitely worry about you, and I may have problems if I could have come back early if I was distracted." I deliberately scared her.

"Are you really that worried about me?" Liu Suxi's question had a strange tone, "Or are you going to elope with that Li Xiaoai?" Don't worry, your mother will definitely not agree, she doesn't seem to know that Li Xiaoai is the daughter of Li Shukang of Aikang Group. ”

I was so angry with this girl that I almost vomited blood, "What are you guessing? Besides, I need you to tell me what is right and wrong. ”

"Then you seem to be really worried about me when you say that~" Liu Suxi's tone suddenly became soft again, and it was even more strange.

I didn't want to continue talking nonsense with her, so I simply stuffed the bank card into her hand, and then got up and walked home, "The password is your birthday, if you pay me back this money, I will buy all the liquor or cake for you to pour into." ”

Liu Suxi shouted at me behind him, "Brother, then you come back early, I'll wait for you to come back for your birthday, I'll wait for you~"

I didn't turn around, I just raised my hand and shook it at her. Suddenly recalled, only a few hours later, Li Xiaoai also said the same thing to me where Liu Suxi was standing now.

I'll wait for you...

If only I could come back.

At night, my daughter had fallen asleep, and I stood by her sleeping bed and watched quietly. She is almost five years old, and I have been with her for more than a year after I woke up, and she came to the world when I was unconscious, and it was this little life that quietly woke me up from the abyss and trough, and also made me understand that those vague pasts have not completely disappeared.

Mother will take care of her, and I will sleep with such beautiful dreams, and maybe I will have a chance to see her again, as long as everything is over.

At six o'clock in the morning, the sun had just risen, and my mother and Jingjing had not yet woken up, and I was woken up by the ringtone of my mobile phone.

Dong Jian? What's the urgency of calling so early?

"Hello? So early? "I woke up a little from my sleep and picked up the phone.

"Zhuang Yan! Is Li Xiaoai still with you? Dong Jian didn't greet me, but asked directly.

"Huh?" My heart suddenly felt that something was not right, "She went back early last night?" ”

"I was on the phone with her just now, and Liu Lian said that it should be okay to be with you, but I still don't think it's right, so I'll call you."

"She hasn't been in touch with you?" Suddenly, I came to my senses.

"No, when did you part last night?"

"It should be around eight o'clock." It's been ten hours, and you've been shut down and out of touch?

", that's not right!" Dong Jian scolded, "But it takes forty-eight hours to file a case for disappearance, and if you wait until tomorrow night, you may only have to collect the body." ”

I forcibly suppressed my panicked emotions and began to carefully recall the scene when I was separated from Li Xiaoai, but in any case, I did not suspect that she herself was deliberately hiding her whereabouts, "Where are you and Liu Lian now?" ”

"SAR high-speed rail station, when she left, she had to go to your city alone, I didn't agree, but she seemed to have lost her soul and found it, Liu Lian didn't listen to her repeated persuasions, so she had to let her go to you alone. I originally wanted to be with you, and it was safe to have monitoring the whole process of taking the high-speed rail. Alas! Dong Jian's tone was anxious.

"It's hard to say whether the person is back in the SAR or still on my side now, you and Liu Lian see if we can try to find it, I will also think of a way." No matter how anxious I am, all I can do now is find someone first.

Where will she go? Where will it go?

Hang up the phone with Dong Jian I tried to dial Li Xiaoai's mobile phone number, but all that came out was the sentence, the phone you dialed was turned off or not in the service area.

My mind is blank, saying goodbye, where are we going to meet?

Smart Watches! The smart watch that has always been located, I suddenly remembered the only clue that could still be located.

When I pulled out the smart watch from the drawer, there was a message when the screen was turned on, "Please come alone in twelve hours to collect the body." ”

After all, she refused to let me go, and she refused to let her go. After hibernating for so long, he refused to reveal his original intentions to anyone, and finally waited for the opportunity.

I looked at the time of the message, it was 9:03 last night, and twelve hours later it was less than three hours now. I turned on the positioning of the smart watch, and Li Xiaoai's smart watch was located near a dam more than 40 kilometers outside the city, and it was no longer moving.

Trap, you don't have to think about it to guess that the murderer wants to use Li Xiaoai as a bait to lure me forward, no matter when I go, whether it is to collect the body or save people, I will go.

"!" I slapped the steering wheel and slammed on the accelerator, and the hatred in my heart began to grow, as if something was being torn apart.

The reservoir more than 40 kilometers outside the city is not a tourist attraction, and the road condition is very poor and it is not easy to find a fork in the road. I couldn't get to the green dot flashing in an hour by pressing the full throttle.

Anxious, anxious, anxious, my emotions were almost out of control, but I was still being pressed by me. Only Li Zhizhi saved me and Li Xiaoai, we have survived so many times, and we will survive this time.

I will tell her that I love her, let her wait for me, take care of all the people and things, and I will say goodbye to her, by the sea in a calm sea.

Hatred grows little by little in anticipation, I hate, hate people who break into my life without saying hello and want to be above me. But I regret it again, maybe I shouldn't have known her in the first place, even if I knew her, I shouldn't have gotten along with her, and even if I did, I shouldn't have touched each other's hearts. If there is really an if, I want to stay at home with my daughter, her years will not be disturbed, and I will accompany my daughter for a while.

Only this last time, please spare her, and I pray to spare her until that wound does not become an irreparable rift.

I magnified the display of the smart meter when I arrived at the reservoir work park, and the green dot was located on the other side of the reservoir, on the shore of the dense forest that could not be opened to traffic. At 8:23 a.m., the park was empty, and it was not yet working time.

She's alive and must live.

There is still a five-kilometre distance from the end of the road in the reservoir to the anchor point of the Green Point, and it takes 20 minutes to run at the fastest, but without a road or direction, the shuttle through the jungle will only be slower. Without hesitation, I got out of the car and ran straight into the woods.

Running all the way, there is no option of physical exhaustion in the mind and body, and the boundless hatred keeps the body in a state of excitement.

I don't know if it was the air flow caused by running and the air, or the gust of wind blowing in the wooded area, the familiar sound began to echo in my ears again.

Rustling... Rustling...

The shadows of the trees are mottled, and this scene seems to return to the rainforest in memory. From time to time, I raise my wrist and stare at the little passing time on the dial, a little slower, a little slower, and all I can do is go a little faster, a little faster.

Rustling... Rustling...

Getting closer, she's getting closer to me, and I'm getting closer to the killer.

Suddenly, the blinding light flashed in front of me, and I subconsciously flew out in the direction I ran, and a bullet slashed through the top of my hair and hit the trunk of a tree behind me, and a crater was clearly visible. I crawled in the grass and dense bushes, sniper rifles, from the cautery point and depth of the crater probably estimated that it should be at a distance of three hundred to five hundred meters.

The killer has given up causing accidents, just like when the elevator fell in a Hong Kong hotel, and he will snipe me to death in the most direct and simple way, as long as it is not aimed at me.

Back to reality, a veteran professional sniper, the minimum interval between each shot is 2.5 seconds, and all I need to do is to start accelerating within 2.5 seconds and then instantly change the trajectory and run towards his position. As far as the eye can see, there are less than three bunkers at a distance of 300 to 500 meters, and every time I sprint with all my might, I will gamble with my life and Li Xiaoai's life.

There was no time to be distracted, I had to clear all my thoughts and go back to the training ground of the army at that time, I was a soldier, a soldier who was not afraid of bullets.

Once, now, and in the future... Always...

At the start of a race without a whistle, I started running left and right as best I could, stopping and turning sharply, using the diagonal distance to close the distance to him a little bit. The level of the killer is definitely among the military professional snipers, each bullet is only one position away, and I have to do my best every 100 meters in this forest, the closer the probability of hitting, the greater the physical exertion. The firing was on a wooded slope, and I finally locked on, at one o'clock seventy meters from the last bunker.

The exhaustion was severe, and I gasped and counted the most three bullets left, but these three were also the deadliest.

I rushed out, the first bullet grazing the tip of my brow almost the moment I turned, and there was an instant wave of heat on my forehead. In less than two seconds, the second one had already followed, he was already crazy, was the killer aiming with instinct?

Within forty meters, the third bullet had already flown over, and one bullet passed through my left arm and fell to the ground on the spot.

With thirty meters left, the killer did not continue to use the sniper rifle in a rigid manner, and it was recognizable from the sound of the loading that he had replaced the melee pistol.

The sound of grass and branches being trampled, approaching step by step, I began to regret that I walked out in a hurry and was unarmed, Li Xiaoai is indeed the person who can make my mind go blank.

I crouched silently on the ground, breathing evenly, waiting for the only chance to unload his gun. Ten meters, eight meters, five meters, he finally exposed his side as he patrolled the fan-shaped area. I rushed over and slammed my right fist into his right wrist, which was holding the gun, and the pistol fell. Then I flew up and hit him directly in the abdomen, and the man snorted and flew three meters backwards.

Only then did I realize that the killer was actually a dark-skinned Asian woman, not very old, at most in her early twenties, with a terrifying scar on the right eyebrow bone and lips, and a physique of up to 1.6 meters, but it can be regarded as very strong for an Asian woman.

"Who the hell are you?" I picked up the gun on the ground and shouted at her, "Who is behind the scenes who wants my life?" Why don't you just come to me? Well? ”

The female killer was not afraid, she stood up and pulled out her dagger and stabbed me directly, I fired, but what I didn't expect was that she was unusually agile, and she dodged the bullet on one side, and then the dagger was already approaching. I didn't have a chance to aim for a second shot, so I used the handle of my gun as a hard object to slam down on her arm holding the dagger.

The moment the pistol hit her arm, it misfired, and it happened to hit the female killer in the shoulder, and the dagger fell to the ground. Actual combat is not like martial arts dramas have so many moves, but the female killer is obviously not like giving up and stopping, the moment the dagger lands after the pain, she leans back with both legs and kicks at me, I can't avoid being kicked to the ground by her legs. In an instant, both of them fell to the ground at the same time, and she grabbed the dagger on the ground and got up faster than me. Seeing that I could no longer dodge the stab, I lifted my pistol and fired two shots at her thigh, one dodging and the other hitting. Wounding her right shoulder and left leg, the female killer had only one last chance left, and she grabbed the dagger in her left hand to throw the final blow.

I fired another shot at her right leg, and the dagger thrown by the female killer who had lost her fulcrum was powerless. It's over, and she doesn't have a chance.

"Who? Tell me, who the hell is it? And what about Li Xiaoai? I roared.

After the female killer fell to the ground, she didn't have a vicious expression, but she was smiling and raising her wrist to look at the time. I suddenly realized that something was wrong, time? Where is Li Xiaoai?

"Come on, where is Li Xiaoai?" It was 8:52 a.m., and there were eleven minutes left. ”

I grabbed the killer by the collar and lifted her up, but she just looked at me with disdain, smirking as if everything was still under her control. I think I'll shoot, if it's past 9:03 I will, but I still resist the urge to shoot.

The female killer pointed with her thumb to the shore next to the reservoir behind her, and from this side of the slope, you could faintly see a car hidden in the trees. She looked at the time as if she was laughing at me, and I didn't have time to continue with her, so I ran straight to the dense forest on the bank of the reservoir below.

Running, running, the silhouette of the car became clearer and clearer, and it was bigger than I had imagined. It was an old, sealed container truck with the front facing the reservoir and the front wheels almost half underwater. The container is about 20 meters long, and judging from the positioning, Li Xiaoai is undoubtedly in the car. The truck was submerged little by little along the slope, and it was already 8:56 a.m.

Trap, I can see at a glance that this is a trap, I began to regret that I didn't kill the female killer directly just now, as long as I got into the truck box, how can I get out? Li Xiaoai's condition is not known at all, what if her movement is restricted?

However, there are always times when reason fails in the struggle with emotions, and I can't just watch her sink to the bottom.

At 8:57, I opened the back door of the truck and got into the compartment of the truck. Little love? "I kept shouting, using the light of my mobile phone to search inside the truck box that was covered with plastic paper.

"Hmm~! Zhuang, Zhuang Yan~" Li Xiaoai's faint voice came from the end of the carriage.

I rushed over and used the faint light to help Li Xiaoai, who was paralyzed on the ground, up, but she had no strength, like a puddle of water that could not be supported by me, she was drugged?

I picked her up and tried to walk towards the door at the back of the car, but I had expected it to lock tightly.

"I know you're going to come to me," Li Xiaoai's voice was unusually weak in my arms, and the exit of the gate of hell squeaked shut before my eyes, "but this time I wish you would forget me, or not remember me." ”

8:58 a.m.

"Ah!!h I hugged the limp Li Xiaoai and used all my strength to slam into the iron door with a glimmer of light.

"You don't know~ I will always think about it during the time when you disappeared without saying a word before, and I always think about it~"

I still refused to give up, and the sound of the iron door almost drowned out Li Xiaoai's moan, which was like a drop of water, but I still listened carefully.

"I've been to many places, Mount Huangshan, Mount Fuji, and the Alps~ Those places are so beautiful, but they don't have you~"

My strength was gradually exhausted, and my shoulder had been knocked unconscious, and I had to hold her and hit the iron door again. I sat down on the side of the carriage with the soft Li Xiaoai, but still refused to give up and continued to hit the iron door, and I faintly heard the sound of lake water pouring into the front of the carriage.

"I haven't been able to find you since then, and I will think again, I still want to go to Erhai Lake, Qinghai, and Aegean Sea in the future, how nice it would be if I could have you with me~"

At 8:59 a.m., the thick iron door was almost unresponsive, and the rate at which the water poured in was noticeably quicker. The angle of inclination of the truck increased, and Li Xiaoai, who was limp and collapsed, fell towards the front car that had been poured into the lake. I couldn't hit the car door at the same time and take care of Li Xiaoai next to me, so I had to give up and continue to hit the iron door and hug her tightly.

"Shhh~It's going to be fine, it's going to be okay~" My comfort seemed like self-deception, but there was nothing I could do.

"But you know what? Erhai Lake, Qinghai, Aegean Sea, not all of those places are seas, but they all have beautiful scenery. Just like you and me, we are completely different people, with different lives and different experiences, in the eyes of others, we are two people who should never meet, but that does not prevent us from appreciating each other, just like those unrelated places~" Li Xiaoai, who was in a trance, leaned on my arms, without the slightest fear of impending death.

As I listened to her words, my heart began to tremble, and I don't know if it was because of the time left or because the deepest wounds in my heart began to tear apart little by little.

"At that time, I would fall asleep quietly when I thought about it, and I would feel so relieved when I had you~ It's like the illusion that my father is still with me~"

"Let me think about it again, there must be a way, we can get out, go out and talk about it." I was almost out of strength after the huge physical exertion before, and being able to barely hold her in my arms was already the limit of what I could do.

The water in the wagon bed is already very deep...

At nine o'clock, I still didn't think about how to get out, the steep body of the car was about to overturn, I had to let Li Xiaoai rest her head on my shoulder, one hand around her waist, so that she could lean on me, and the rest of the strength to support the weight of the two of us.

Li Xiaoai leaned on my shoulder and whispered in my ear, "Do you remember the scene when we first met?" You're really fierce, but I'm not afraid of you at all, if it were someone else, I might really be scared and curled up~ But only you will come back to save me, just like this time. ”

"Don't say it, we'll go out, just like before, I will definitely save you~" My heart was cut a little bit, and the hatred, resentment, and sadness were gradually devouring me.

"I want to get to know you, to know you, so that I can also bear your business together, just as you will save me every time. If I have you in my heart, why can't I be honest if I have my words in my heart, maybe then I won't come to you, because you have always been in my heart~"

yes, I was wrong. If I could be honest and let her know a little bit about it, maybe it wouldn't have happened today. She said she would wait for me, and if she had said it earlier, I would have known how this encounter that I shouldn't have seen would have happened. In fact, it's like the sentence in the lyrics: It's actually very simple, it's actually very natural, and the love of two people is shared by two people. If I don't deliberately alienate each other's hearts in a difficult situation, then love will be the most reliable bond and protection.

At nine o'clock, the water was already flooding my toes, and the fear of death in the darkness was approaching and devouring me and the man in my arms.

"You forgot, I always owe you an answer~ You didn't ask, but I kept it~ Even if you leave, I won't throw it away~"

"I haven't forgotten, I'll ask you in person when we go out, and I'll hear you answer me, okay?" The water gradually reached her knees, but she still didn't panic in my arms.

"There may really be no chance~ If you don't say it, you may really have no chance~ I love you and want to be with you, no matter what you ask me, my answer will be ~ I do~"

I hugged her tightly, but my heart was completely torn apart, and it could never heal again. I want revenge, I just want to give her back a peaceful life.

The lake is already up to the chest... And the water doesn't stop pouring in...

At 9:02, my thoughts finally stopped, and despair made me no longer able to be as quiet as Li Xiaoai in a trance. I began to reminisce about the past, could it be that I woke up just to get to know her and end up like this? Then why can't I die in the rainforest with my brothers? Isn't it enough to bear such a heavy fate? Does a meaningless life have to put her on the line?

I hate, why did it end up like this?

The water poured in relentlessly, and in the end there was only a narrow gap, and I used all my strength to lift Li Xiaoai's head up, but I had to be under water. If there was only one last breath of air left, I would have left it to her, but unfortunately I didn't have time to say that to her, "I love you too~"

At 9:03, the truck completely fell to the bottom of the lake, Li Xiaoai was still twitching a little underwater, and I gave her the last breath in my chest.

And the last kiss...

I refused to let go, hugged her tightly underwater, and this was how I ended up...!?

… It's dark...

… She still has the sound of her heartbeat...