"Okay, I'll think about it when I get back." I was a little hesitant.

"I'm going to take a turn off tomorrow, so let's go somewhere together."

"Where?"

"It's still the same rainforest."

Xu Yong's words made me suspicious, and he turned his head to look at the street outside the restaurant, where the young policeman who had been following me during the day was still squatting on the side of the road, "It seems that there has to be another person." ”

The sky couldn't penetrate the thick green, and the rainforest was still full of life, and the new leaves that had grown covered all traces of trampling, as if nothing had ever happened. I don't understand why Xu Yong took me back to this malicious rainforest, where I don't remember anything normal.

The next day, I followed Xu Yong to the rainforest again. The charred black was like a rainforest scar, and Xu Yong stood on the edge of the scorched field without intending to walk in.

"I came to check the day before yesterday, and I didn't leave any special clues, except for these black branches and trunks, and the off-road vehicle at that time was also towed away." I really can't guess what Xu Yong's purpose is in coming back here.

"I sent someone to tow the burned SUV, and then we thoroughly inspected the scorched area, and left no useful clues." Xu Yong's eyes narrowed into a slit as if he had gained insight into something, "Even if there is nothing left, it is still a little strange from the whole thing." ”

"Strange?"

"Well, can you remember the approximate time when you got shot near the buggy earlier?" Xu Yong asked in a very deep tone.

Time? I didn't particularly notice the timing, as it took about an hour from sunrise to chasing the killer to being ambushed, and then retreating from the forest to the scorched land. "About ten o'clock in the morning."

"We couldn't get in touch with you until almost the end of the operation, and it was almost eleven o'clock at noon, when we noticed smoke billowing from the location where you were on alert."

"So the buggy was set on fire?"

"That's right, we rushed over quickly, and at that time we found you who were seriously injured and unconscious, and the sixth son who had died in battle."

Six sons... The last scene of his trance-like eyes I still can't forget.

"What about the autopsy results?" The shadow that fell from the off-road vehicle and staggered, the six sons like that didn't look like a soldier with a gun in battle.

"Autopsy results? Didn't he get shot and die? No autopsy was performed. ”

I'll retell the details of that time.

"We haven't paid attention to this, and it doesn't seem like an autopsy is necessary for shooting deaths." Xu Yong clenched his fist and thought with one hand on his chin, "Anyway, we didn't find any trace of Liu Yi and Kang Jianhu nearby, at least during the time you were shot and we rushed here, Liu Yi and Kang Jianhu were still alive, and they were doing their best to find a way to save you." ”

A damp breath of air inhaled into my lungs, making it difficult for me to breathe. "They lit the car to get your attention."

Will... They're not dead yet? My heart couldn't help but tighten, as if I had finally found a clue to a fluke.

"I don't have any soldiers under my command, there is no reason to be pressed and beaten by a few people, you are all good, Liu Yi and Kang Jianhu are even better." Xu Yong knocked on the trunk of the tree on the side with his fist, turned around and walked towards the depths of the forest, a row of bullet marks faintly where he had knocked, the years almost erased the smoke of the past, but could not erase our memories.

"The signal in this area was not good, and the radio jamming did not alarm me at that time. But..."I flipped out my phone, and the signal bar in the upper right corner was empty.

Xu Yong stepped on the leaves in front of him, and his back was still as tall as before, "I didn't react, but something had already happened, in the place we couldn't imagine the most." ”

"Where is this going?" I looked back, and the young officer was still dutifully following us.

"A place where you've had a fierce fight since you've been wounded." Xu Yong quickened his pace slightly, as if the place he was going to was not nearby.

In an inconspicuous and dense place in the rainforest, a large boulder protrudes quickly across the place where we pass, and the towering banyan trees on the left and right and the dense banana trees nearby form a natural barrier, as if the tree formation was deliberately formed to block the view from the front.

"You can see this stone just in the direction we just came from." Xu Yong stopped and crossed his waist and pointed, "After you were shot at the time, based on your understanding of Liu Yi and Kang Jianhu, do you guess how they will react in addition to saving you?" ”

"Get rid of the wrath." Liu Yi is okay, although that kid usually loves to be clever, he is very clever, and he is unusually calm when he encounters things, and he loves to use his brain. But Kang Jianhu has never been a calm master, and if he really wants to be in a hurry, it is a tendon.

"I'm asking you to guess what they're going to do?"

"Liu Yi is careful, I can't judge what he will do, but Kang Jianhu will definitely think about revenge." I was thinking about it in my head.

"In other words, Kang Jianhu is likely to chase those murderers."

I nodded, but still didn't understand what it had to do with the large raised boulder.

"Come over here and see." Xu Yong leaned sideways and pointed to the back of the large raised boulder.

The bulge on the back of the stone is covered with dense craters, which look more like a hornet's nest after years and rain, covered with green moss, but still clearly visible.

"These craters have been carefully investigated before, and they are from pistol bullets, and the depth is shallow." Xu Yong left the big stone and walked towards a towering banyan tree not far away, "There used to be a few deeper craters in the trunk here, and we took out the bullet, which happened to be the bullet used in our rifle. ”

The bullet marks are now blurred, but the cratered bark still bears traces of the fierce battle. Following the bullet marks on the bark and then connecting the bullet marks on the stones, it can be seen from the direction we came that it was indeed Liu Yi and Kang Jianhu who were tracking down those murderers.

"Who are the people who can suppress the fire of our automatic rifles with their pistols?" Xu Yong sighed as he returned and rubbed his thumb on the moss-covered crater, thoughtful.

"I want to know the answer, too." Suddenly, a deep sense of frustration came over me.

"But there was no blood." After speaking, Xu Yong turned around and strode towards the depths of the rainforest again, there was an inclination similar to a mountain slope, and the rainforest pressed by low clouds was drawn in an arc, like a green carpet gently rolled up towards the sky.

Before leaving, I turned my head again to look at the bullet-riddled bulge of the stone, and through the gap in time I seemed to see the sharp eyes hiding behind the stone. Liu Yi, at that time, he was holding the gun in his hand and trying his best to fight these murderers, with a cold murderous aura in his eyes.

Near the top of the hill and looking back in the direction you came, flocks of birds swept past the treetops from time to time, and the meandering stream in the distance was like a blue rope separating the two greens. I had never been far into this direction of the rainforest, and on the other side of the hill not far away was the boundary pillar, where troops were usually not allowed to train near the border.

"Still going that way?" I asked Xu Yong, who was a few meters away.

"Afraid I'll lose you?" Xu Yong stopped, turned his head and asked.

"It's almost the border."

"That's right." He didn't mean to take a break.

The higher you go, the denser the clouds become, and the view of water vapor and dense jungle is less than 20 meters. The condensed dew hung on the whiskers of the banyan tree, reflecting the crystal colored light, and the sunlight seemed to be getting closer and closer to us.

After walking for less than a quarter of an hour, the light of the sky finally pierced through the thick mist, and with a clear blue against the green shade, we looked around at the top of the mountain, which was covered with dense trees and rushed out of the sea of clouds, like an emerald spread on the continuous clouds, and the mood seemed to be much brighter.

Aside from the emerald greenery in front of me, the beauty of the mountaintop was about to be fully observed, and the moment I lifted the branch with a hint of anticipation to emerge from it, my heart had to be shaken, and it felt like a hammer had smashed the emerald in front of me.

The scorched earth was half the size of a football field, and the sunlight on the black scorched earth was in great contrast with the blue sky and white clouds.

"Here?" Actually, I have already guessed it in my heart.

"A forest of burnt ashes." Xu Yong stood in the center and looked around.

"When?"

"Four hours after you were injured, communication was restored, and the smoke from the top of the mountain finally caught our attention, and this is it." Xu Yong lowered his eyes and looked at the scorched earth, with a trace of sadness in his eyes. "A total of six charred bodies were left at the scene, two of which were similar to them."

"What?" I still can't believe it.

Xu Yong raised his head and looked at the blue of nothingness, and was silent for two seconds, "There is also the wreckage of an Airbus Super Puma H225 helicopter, excluding the pilot's body, a total of five unidentified corpses, unable to extract DNA, completely incinerated." ”

My body felt like it had been struck by lightning, and I couldn't move an inch.

"The disappearance is just an indefinite hypothesis, we can't be sure if they were killed or not, but if a person has been missing for four years, how can he be completely disappeared if he is still alive?"

"It's possible, it's possible...", I still don't want to believe it.

He stopped talking, slowly approached and patted me on the shoulder, barely feeling the surroundings, "There's an electromagnetic interference device on the wreckage of that helicopter, so..."

"They're still alive." I clenched my fists.

"Maybe~" Xu Yong stopped talking.

Time seems to stand still, the sky is only empty blue, the black scorched earth is wrapped in green, the air seems to still have unburned ash smoke, life is passing, time is passing, only vague memories remain.

The blue sea, the blue sky, the beach, the figure that once chased behind me gradually stopped galloping, towards the waves gradually submerged the reflection, the waves kept beating on the other side, never stopping, like a death knell echoing in my ears.