Chapter III: Tracking

It's just time.

At 6:31 a.m., the three of us were getting closer and closer to where we had first entered the forest, and there had been no movement in the past ten minutes.

"You hesitated when you chased into the rainforest just now?" Liu Yi held the gun and glanced around.

"Well, I thought it was too strange at the time, but I didn't expect to encounter such a situation, and all the responsibility is on me." I frowned and watched in the blind spot of Liu Yi and Kang Jianhu's vision on the other side.

"Captain, you can't be entirely blamed for this, we were all angry at the time and didn't expect to fall into the trap." Kang Jianhu walked in the front, "Besides, the situation at that time, we really let the murderer escape, just watching?" ”

"The tiger is right, I should bear this matter, if I hadn't pursued the murderer privately in the open space, Lu Ping might not have been easily ambushed and killed." Liu Yi wants to take the responsibility on himself.

"Don't say it, go out and find the sixth son first, as long as I can go back, I will accept any punishment. Even if I chase it to the ends of the earth, I will definitely avenge Lao Jiang and the fox for this revenge! I gritted my teeth and squeezed the handle twice.

As we move on, the sun has risen in the east, the light is much brighter in the rainforest, and the field of vision is wider, and it will be more difficult than before to ambush us within a 30-meter pistol range. Step by step, we marched forward, trying not to reveal any visible position as much as possible.

As soon as I left the rainforest, the sound of the creek was faintly audible.

"Captain, what do you think it is?" Kang Jianhu, who was walking in the front, suddenly stopped.

I followed his gaze, and it was hard to see what the outline of the huge square box was against the backdrop of vegetation and camouflage paint, until I spotted the tires exposed to the foliage.

"Our dirt bike?" I ducked in place and took a closer look at the camouflage box hidden by the leaves, "Why are you here?" ”

"Didn't the sixth son go to the car and use the radio to contact the command?" Kang Jianhu questioned.

No, the buggy was originally parked in the bushes on the other side of the slope by the river, and Rokuko would not have driven the car into the rainforest without an order.

My intuition subconsciously told me that something was wrong, "Alert! ”

"No, the six sons were discovered by them!?" Liu Yi exclaimed.

"Trap! This place was a must for us on our return and will definitely find our very own buggy. No wonder there was no movement on the way back just now, it turned out that everything had already been planned.

"But, what about the sixth son?" Kang Jianhu's tone was anxious.

… Liu Yi and I fell silent at the same time, and no one wanted to speculate at this time, because all speculation was to no avail.

After a while, Kang Jianhu couldn't bear it anymore, "I'll go!" ”

"Stop!" I pressed Kang Jianhu, who wanted to get up, "They are just waiting for us to rush over, have you forgotten that you were ambushed in the open space just now?" ”

"But the sixth son is still in the car!" He looked back, his eyes even more anxious.

Who the hell are these people? What do they want to do? What's the secret hidden in that metal box? Maybe it's just to hide our secrets? All the questions flashed through my mind.

"I'll be the bait later, your eyes are widened, and those people should be ambushed nearby." I couldn't contact the command, and I couldn't let the six sons go, so I could only make this choice, "The other side should have no snipers, and the pistol's lethality is limited, so we have to gamble." ”

"Captain, I'll go!" Kang Jianhu tugged at my cuffs, "You and the second brother's marksmanship is among the best in the company, you must kill those murderers to avenge Lao Jiang and the fox!" ”

Just as Kang Jianhu and I were still arguing about who would come forward to check, Liu Yi had quietly walked from the bushes close to the river on the left side to the position of the off-road vehicle, and Kang Jianhu and I had to lean down to provide cover for him. This is my team, our team, everyone is thinking about their duty and the safety of their brothers, but they have been fighting for themselves.

There was no movement on the off-road vehicle, and when Liu Yi approached the passenger seat of the off-road vehicle from the bushes near the river to check, the door of the left driver's seat opened silently. Liuzi suddenly fell from the driver's seat, covered in scars and fell heavily on the dirt.

"Six sons!" Kang Jianhu couldn't stop rushing forward, but I held him down.

Liuzi slowly stood up, his hands unconsciously drooping, and the automatic rifle was gone. The blood stains on his forehead had not yet dried up, and his eyes seemed to be empty from a distance, and he slowly looked up at the dense branches and leaves above his head.

What happened to him? Although he looked badly injured, his expression was painless. It's like the two glazed villagers in the open space just now, what happened just now?

"What's wrong with Liuzi? How are they like the two villagers in the clearing just now? Kang Jianhu lowered his voice and turned his head to ask.

I didn't have time to answer, just as Kang Jianhu turned his head to ask me, I vaguely saw the flash of the pistol bullet out of the chamber, a straight line across the green of the forest grass and trees, and with a whoosh, it hit the neck of the sixth son who was still looking at the sky in a trance in the forest, and the blood splattered from the neck in an instant.

"Six Sons !!" I shouted.

Seeing such a scene with our own eyes, the three of us could no longer stand still.

Kang Jianhu began to shoot frantically in the general direction where the bullets were coming, and I rushed to the side of the knocked down Liuzi with a brisk step, while Liu Yi had already gotten into the off-road vehicle during the gap and tried to start the off-road vehicle that had stalled.

As long as Liu Yi can start the off-road vehicle smoothly, we have a chance to leave. I held Liuzi's bleeding neck with one hand, and looked up at the slightly tilted off-road vehicle next to me, one of which was obviously deflated. Looking down again to see that the six sons who were hit were indeed killed by one shot, my brain buzzed and thought, the other party's intention was already obvious, and the unsure shot could almost even be omitted from the action of aiming.

At this time, I finally understood that the group of murderers would never let us go, and the pretending to evacuate just now was actually just arranging an ambush against us, and we must not give up like this, how to contact the command?

I kept thinking about what to do in my head, scanning everything around me.

"Ahh Yes! Yes! "Continuous shooting and roaring, witnessing the killing of his brothers one after another, Kang Jianhu was in an uncontrollable rage until he ran out of magazines.

Liu Yi jumped out of the off-road vehicle and shook his head at me, meaning that the off-road vehicle was no longer usable. We bent down and approached Kang Jianhu not far away, and another very inconspicuous flash of light quietly flashed from the bushes behind Kang Jianhu not far away, and the bullet drew a straight line towards Kang Jianhu. Are we all going to die here? I finally had such a fear, not that I was afraid of my death, but from the day I joined the army, I thought clearly that I was willing to sacrifice my life for the motherland and the people at any time, but, under my command, my teammates would all ... In an instant, everything from the past was replaying in front of my eyes like a slideshow, my mother was still looking forward to my return, Xinrui was still looking forward to being reunited with me, my friends and brothers were watching me, and my mind was blank. I forced myself to chase away my fears and try to calm down.

In an instant, everything from the past was replaying in front of my eyes like a slideshow, my mother was still looking forward to my return, Xinrui was still looking forward to being reunited with me, my friends and brothers were watching me, and my mind was blank.

I subconsciously used all my strength to rush over, not thinking about anything else, it is my mission to protect my family and country, and now, I want to protect my brothers, and I have the responsibility and obligation to take them back.

When my body drew an arc and flew over to block the speeding bullet with my body, everything was frozen in the last moment.

Bullets came at me.

Death will really be approaching unconsciously ...

A sense of relief rippled through my body, and I did not break my oath because I fulfilled the most important duty of a soldier, protecting others with my life. Liu Yi and Kang Jianhu hugged my limp body, and I couldn't hear what they were shouting, my eyes stared at the clear blue sky with empty eyes, accompanied by the light whisper of the wind.

Death is not so terrible in this way.

Time stood still, through the endless darkness and through the endless whiteness, as if going back to the past, and memory is probably the only proof of this life.

"Hey! Captain, I'm Cao Yongzhou, who just finished recruiting training and came to report. At that time, Cao Yongzhou was still childish, a young man who had just come from the training camp to the official armed police force.

"Yo, we're finally a newcomer from the deep mountains and old forests here." Jiang Yujun jumped up from the stool.

"You're not tall, and you're not strong?!" Lu Ping turned his head and looked up and down, "But don't worry, my brother has you!" ”

"Captain, the second brother is a newcomer, and we have all become old pimples." Kang Jianhu held the iron pimple in his hand and practiced his bis back and forth.

I put down the book and looked up at the young man who was a little jerky at the door, "Our class has always been uneven, and when you come, there is finally someone on this empty bed." ”

"Okay, welcome!" Liu Yi slanted the corners of his mouth and patted his palm.

"Slip, really slip~ In the future, the group of guys next door can no longer bully us, so it just so happens that you just came, the sixth in line, and you will be called the sixth son." Lu Ping has always owed a lot of money, and he has not been cleaned up.

"Okay, Liuzi, it's good." Cao Yongzhou looked at Cheng Cheng but didn't refute it, just such a class was finally neat.

Sometimes, that casual moment becomes a memory forever.

"Mom? I know, isn't this already on the way, I will retire before the Chinese New Year next year, and I will spend the New Year at home every year and will not go anywhere. I hung up the phone with my mother in a perfunctory hurry.

"You won't say you're with me?" Xin Rui turned her face sideways, glanced at me with her hands crossed, and said lightly angrily, "What's so embarrassing about this? Well? ”

"My mother has to ask me to take you back, but today I finally can spend my birthday together and stay at home, how uncomfortable we are, I still want to have a two-person world for the two of us when I come back." I put away my phone and looked at the core in front of me, feeling apprehensive.

"A world for two? Well, I've never seen you squirm like this before. Her eyes widened.

There was a delicate cake on the small square table of the candlelight dinner, and the candle had been blown out by me, "It's not imaginary, but I made a wish, but I don't know if it can come true?" ”

"Don't worry, the admission to the Command Academy will be successfully passed, just for this reason you and Liu Yi gave up going to the armed police special operations unit, and the hard work of both of you during this period of time is obvious to all." Xinrui's heart has always been on me, thinking about everything about me.

For the sake of this love in front of me, my wish at this time is nothing else, "Then you will cut the cake, right?" ”

Xin Rui picked up the dinner knife, laughed and slashed down but showed a slightly startled expression, the cake was cut in half, and a delicate small wooden box was hidden inside, "What is this?" ”

"My greatest wish."

A clear diamond ring was lying in the wooden box, Xin Rui's eyes lit up at first, and there was a faint smile between her eyebrows, but then she closed her expression with her left hand supporting her chin and turned her face sideways, stretched out her right hand and placed her slender fingers in front of the ring, pretending to be cold, "Can your wish come true?" I'm thinking about it. ”

My heart can't help but tighten, but I don't know if it's the present or the past, sometimes only the memory that can't be erased is eternal...

"Liu Yi, stop me!" Time continued to go back, and I desperately hugged Liu Yi, who was still punching and kicking.

The three thugs who fell to the ground saw the gap in our entanglement and hurriedly got up, and they didn't dare to go back when they ran away, and Liu Yi wanted to rush over and completely unload the posture of the servants. On the other side not far away, Liu Suxi hugged his knees and cried bitterly, the voice in his mouth was as thin as a mosquito's voice, "Brother, stop fighting, don't fight anymore~Woo~"

At that time, Liu Suxi was only in the fourth grade of elementary school, and Liu Yi and I were often haunted by unscrupulous thugs near our high school.

"I guarantee that no one in this world will dare to bully you except me and Zhuang Yan, and dare to come to my realm to collect protection money? Crazy boy has seen too much, right? Liu Yi got up and clapped his hands, and made a flat gesture towards Liu Suxi, "Okay, Sensei cried, I don't think they dare to do anything to you." ”

"I'm afraid that you will make a mistake with others, and my mother will have to compensate others for medical expenses." Liu Suxi wiped her tears, her voice was faint and timid.

"You're just causing trouble for me one day, but it's okay, we have you covered!" Liu Yi patted his chest.

"People don't need your cover, if I hadn't pulled you for a day, I would have lost Xixi and Auntie." I squinted my eyes and counted disdainfully.

"Cut! Why don't you come up and help? ”

"From childhood to adulthood, when do you need my help in a fight? But you just can't beat me, huh! I crossed my waist and said defiantly.

"Come, in front of the tide, I have to divide the winner today." Liu Yi raised his fist.

At this time, Liu Suxi ran over and separated the two of us, holding our arms with her hands, "Let's go, let's go home, the cartoon is about to start." ”

"Oh? To get started? Liu Yi had an expression of forgetting the time.

"How old are you, you still watch cartoons with your sister?"

"Fuxing boy, it's still very good-looking, haha~" Liu Yi rarely had such an innocent and embarrassing expression on his face.

"Brother, let's go, go to my house to play~" Liu Suxi pleaded in her unique voice, and the faint voice seemed to be a hurt to refuse.

I scratched my head helplessly, but I had to follow them back...

Time continues to go back, but the dream is only a blurry image of black and white. I can barely remember what my father was like, but I still remember what he left behind.

"Do everything like a man who is not afraid of wind and rain." I was only nine years old at the time, and my father and Liu Yi's father went fishing together, but they didn't come back because of an accident. At that time, Liu Yi and I were both immersed in pain and sorrow, but after that, the two of us became the best brothers.

"When I grow up, I want to be a soldier and be a man who stands tall and gallops on the battlefield." At only nine years old, my voice seemed childish.

Liu Yi would follow me with a stick, "Okay, okay, I'll be a soldier wherever my brother goes." ”

The scene suddenly changed, and I was standing alone in the deep rainforest, and there was only silence around me. With the gun in my hand, I couldn't help but spin around to find the person in my dream, but there was nothing, and there were not even birds and insects in this rainforest where it was impossible to tell whether it was day or night, and I was the only one left.

Forever alone...