"I also have a family." I don't know if it's the effect of alcohol, if it is, then the amount of alcohol of the locust is surprisingly small, and after less than three bowls, his face flushed, pulled Li Yi, and began to vomit bitter water.

Li Yi remained silent, bowl after bowl, the two pushed the cups over the lamp, and in the waves that shook and whistled the wind, the locusts shook their heads and sighed heavily, and the smell of alcohol filled the air.

"Isn't it ironic that sinful people have families?" Surprisingly, the locust was so clear about his actions and consequences that he could even say such things. "Maybe it's not a pity for me to die."

"I don't think it has anything to do with your family." Li Yi ate meat and drank wine in one bite, and was very busy.

"What do you think I'm talking about as sin?" The locust suddenly stopped and looked at Li Yi. "You must want to say that it seems to be a sin to kill people and set fires, to commit adultery, to exterminate human morality? Isn't it? ”

Li Yi didn't answer, just frowned.

"Fart." The locusts began to talk to themselves. "Do I care about those? I didn't care anymore. Li Yi, you can't guess what I saw in the cabin today. ”

"Your family?" Li Yi said casually.

The locust's expression suddenly froze, and his face was bloodless. After a while, he shook his head and sighed.

"I can't hide anything from you, I don't think so. Sometimes I even wonder if you've put some kind of surveillance on me. The locust said jokingly.

"It's really interesting, people's external behavior will betray their own internal sense, in a sense, what you say and do now, even if it is the hesitation of your fingers on the wine glass, the irritability of banging on the table, and your tone of distrust of me, little by little, summed up, maybe it is really an invisible surveillance." Li Yi glanced at the locust and said.

The locust's face changed suddenly when Li Yi said several words, and the movements in his hands changed again and again, and finally gave up resistance.

"It's you." He sighed. "I probably hell, I was in that room, I saw my family."

"Family?" Li Yi raised his eyebrows, his eyes flashed, although he didn't say anything, but the locust felt that this silence seemed to be more stupid.

"I know it might sound stupid." The locust gasped, and there was real fear in his eyes. "But you weren't there, and if you were, you wouldn't have doubted it."

"You might as well talk about it first." Li Yi frowned, he gathered the bowl in his hand, and gently swung the white rice wine in the bowl, and the cloudy color suddenly became clear.

"Yes, yes." The locust breathed a sigh of relief, his eyes fixed on the muddy wine in his bowl, and his breathing became heavy. He gasped for breath and blushed all over, when a tidal wave came out of the window, pouring into the locust's face, and he brushed the water off his face, and half of his hair became damp.

With a grunt, he grabbed the big bowl violently, raised his head, and drank to the sky. The wine mingled with the rain, and the locust's chest rose and fell like the waves outside the house.

"I was a soldier." He thought about it and decided to start from the beginning. "You don't have to know under which government you are doing military service. I probably can't even figure it out myself, and after all, I can't tell whether I'm in the regular army or not. ”

The locust smiled, but reluctantly. Li Yi seems to have this kind of smile as a kind of ridicule and denial of his past, Li Yi is not disgusted with this kind of person, to a certain extent, such a guy can be counted

It is the perception of self-reflection. But this kind of introspection is not necessarily a good thing.

"I can see it." Li Yi's eyes swept over the locusts, and when he saw this burly man with a fierce and terrifying face for the first time, he guessed that it was not far from ten. "How long have you been a soldier?"

"Eight years." Locust sweat oozes from the surface of the body layer by layer. "Not to mention eight years, I came out of my home at the age of sixteen, and I joined the army without looking back, and I fought there for eight years, and then I left."

Li Yi glanced at the locust, intentionally or unintentionally, and said.

"Eight years, just leave?"

"Eight years, not even a fart." The locust sighed, and the past spread out from his heart one by one. "Eight years? I look at my friends who are soaring all the way, some of them are three months, some are five months. All the way from a recruit to a serious leader of the captain, only a few days? Transformed into a soldier who turned his face and didn't recognize people. ”

"It's not that I can't see them well. But in the same way, there are some comrades-in-arms who met along the way, some for three months, some for five months, where did they go? I don't know, but after a few missions, I never saw them again. What do you say is the difference between them? What's the difference? ”

From the first story told by the locust, Li Yi knew what he wanted to tell himself.

"Nope." He still answered his own questions on his own. "A leader from above? We are cheaper than paper, why can we be so far behind? ”

The locust looked depressed, but his mood was a little excited, he waved his arms, and the muscles and muscles on his body exploded one by one, and the hideous veins and dragons rose up in a serpentine manner.

"Eight years, as a result, you are not even cannon fodder, they move their mouths, wave their fingers, we have to fight with our lives, don't you think it's ridiculous, Mr. Li Yi."

Li Yi was silent and did not speak, his life was light, and he could never experience the sunshine that the dignity of life was respected. Everything is hidden in the dark, which is what he has always experienced.

But at this time, things became a little strange for Li Yi.

"You're out of the army?" He thought about it and decided to ask things clear. "Because you don't think it's fair, you're creating more chaos? What the hell do you want, locusts. ”

The locust squinted his eyes with his hands in one place, groaning, shaking his head, and he sighed.

"What do I want? At that time, where could I take care of this? The locust stretched out his hand. I fled. ”

"The timing was very coincidental, and the task at that time, which was very interesting, was to clear the mercenaries in this area. It was not the same then as it is now, the forces in the sea area are more complicated, and our task that day was to exterminate this is the official statement, and I only found out later that because of the issue of military spending, it was a conscious 'win-win' by the government. ”

"Win-win?" Li Yi asked.

"Win-win." The locust smiled, and his tone was rather mocking. "Do you know what a win-win situation is? Take the team with the worst combat effectiveness, one by one, yes, you heard it right, that is, one team at a time to fight here alone. ”

"Why?" Li Yi was a little dumbfounded, of course it would be unwise to do so, it is understandable to gather a large number of troops for a cleansing, and deterrence itself is combat effectiveness. But sending them to the battlefield one by one like this and breaking them into pieces is simply sending sheep into the tiger's mouth.

"It's to send sheep into the tiger's mouth." The locust smiled "hehe", and the gangsterism on his face became even stronger, and he picked up a wine jar from his hand and poured it into the bowl. "When a team is sent in, the number of people has to be split into several groups

, one bite at a time, just like this meat. ”

The locust exerted force on his hand, and with a thud, the knife and fork were poured into the steak and trembled. With a flick of his wrist, a piece of meat was beautifully cut into several pieces.

"I can't eat a bite, these mercenaries haven't been here, they're so good that they won't take risks if they can't eat. But break it up and send it into his mouth in small pieces, and that's no problem. ”

"You're saying that your boss deliberately sent you to death in small groups?" Li Yi asked clearly.

"How else can you explain it?" The locust's face was gloomy. "I inquired that the government at that time had been trying to reduce military spending because of military debt, but what could be done? Veterans like us are just a scourge when they go out, they have all the skills they have trained, but they don't have any skills, and even having enough to eat is a problem. ”

"Of course," said the locust, which stuffed the piece of meat into its mouth and munched on it. "It stands to reason that there is a resettlement fee, but do you think they could afford it at the time?"

"So I'm going to send you to die?" Li Yi asked.

"Of course it won't be that simple, after all, if you're dead, it will cost money to clean up these corpses." The locust squinted his eyes, and his expression was a little dazed. "So they deliberately set a trap at the time."

"They? Do you mean the government? Li Yi asked curiously.

"Maybe yes, maybe not. These things, they have already wiped their asses clean. Said the locust. These things have long been inexplicable, old things. But one thing I know for sure. That operation was, of course, a double trap, for the task of sending a team of two hundred of us to 'exterminate' the enemy. ”

"Two hundred?" The locust sneered, took a sip in his mouth, picked up the wine bowl, and poured it into his throat, the taste of sweet rice wine penetrating his stomach pouch. "It's not enough to plug your teeth."

"If you know it's death, you're going to go?" Li Yi was a little incomprehensible.

"Mr. Li Yi, presumably you have never been a soldier." The locust said with a smile.

"Nope." Li Yi replied with a smile.

The locust shook its head. "If you have done this for a living, you will naturally know, especially in the front-line troops, what is the crime of escaping from the battle, at that time, it was common to report each other and even sit, and no one dared to be this substitute for the dead."

"But you said you escaped." Li Yi noticed the contradiction in the locust's words.

"That's why I said, it's a double trap. On the one hand, they wanted us to die, and on the other hand, they opened a convenient door for us, and the day before the battle mission, the order passed down by the leader allowed us to move freely, and we would assemble and set off early the next morning. ”

"Ridiculous, isn't it?" The locust took another sip, and the smell of alcohol grew heavier and heavier.

"Who will come back at such a time?"

"You didn't come back?" Li Yi paused and added. "Has anyone come back?"

"I don't know, but the operation is not terminated I only heard that the battle was a heavy loss. Only then did I find out about an interesting thing. ”

"What's the matter?" Li Yi had a hunch that this incident was of great significance to the locusts. The burly man who looked hungry, the locust put down the meat steak and wine bowl in his hand, and his face turned pale.

"The one who sent us to the battlefield let me take the lead, and it was no one else who died without a whole body." The locusts paused slightly, and outside the rocking "ghost cruise ship", a blue lightning bolt swept the sea water in half, and the dining room was a balcony on the deck, and the sea water poured into the house through the cracks.

"It's my relatives and friends." Locusts said.