04 - Under the riot
Even after a few days, Leopard Rees's abdomen still ached.
"I still feel dizzy." He said.
"Normal, this drug has side effects, this is an experimental agent, who will consider the user's feelings?" Edodao
"Looks like I've been reduced to being a guinea pig." Leopard Rees said as he gently moved the gauze on his stomach.
"Hmph, if I had flown to catch him that day, it wouldn't have caused such a big consequence."
"What? You can still fly?! β
"That's right." "Do you think the wings behind me are for anything, ornaments?" You may see that I don't look like I can fly, but I can do it. β
"I don't believe it!" "Unless you fly one for me now!" β
"Hmph, fly and fly." Edo looked disdainful, but as soon as he rose into the air, his body hit the ceiling above his head, and he stumbled and fell from mid-air.
"Hahahaha......" Leopard Rees couldn't help laughing, "Edo, what are you...... O angel with folded wings......"
"It's so damning!" Edo shouted.
"Mom and Dad didn't tell me that dragons can fly." Leopard Rees said to himself, "When I find an illustrated book, I must study you carefully!" β
"By the way, I have something for you here." Leopard Rees walked downstairs. After a while, he walked into the room with a cardboard box.
"What is this?" Edo asked.
"You'll see it when you look at it." Leopard Rees was about to open the box, but suddenly clasped his hand on it and asked, "Edo, what is your birthday?" β
"July 4th, what's wrong?"
"Well, it's still far from your birthday." Leopard Rees handed the box to Edor, "Happy birthday to you in advance!" β
"What, it's so mysterious." Edo opened the box, which contained a pistol with a long magazine, as well as several spare magazines, each filled with bullets.
"Guns?!" Edo said in surprise.
"Didn't I promise you a gun, so I bought you one...... Sorry, I didn't buy you a submachine gun, but this pistol has an automatic mode. β
"You're going to that place again, aren't you?" Edo asked, squinting.
"Hee-hee, what do you say?"
"Thank you, man." Edo said.
"Bullets should be used leisurely." Leopard Rees took out the magazine of the submachine gun from the drawer, and then took out a small box of bullets, and refilled them one by one.
"Speaking of guns, Leopard Reese, do you like to play with guns?" Edo asked.
"Of course, isn't there a saying that men like three things β cars, women, and guns. Even though I didn't know a lot about guns, I enjoyed the feeling of shooting, and my dad used to take me to the shooting range a lot! β
"I love guns too." "But I don't have as many opportunities to touch them as you do." β
"Don't worry, there will be more opportunities to use guns in the future!" After the cheetah said this, his expression sank. Edo immediately understood what he meant.
At this time, the message prompt on Leopard's mobile phone sounded, and he unlocked the phone to see that this information was the same as the one sent by Greenwich last time, but it was longer: "Yingshui Park, come here, I have something to look for you." When Leopard Rees looked at the sender, he couldn't help but be shocked - it was actually his homeroom teacher! He felt very strange, not because this message violated the teacher's habit of telling things "at length", but because the teacher's intention in calling him in the past.
"Where are you going today?" Edo asked.
"Yingshui Park." He began to learn the letter and speak.
"Yingshui...... This park is in the suburbs, right? Leopard Rees opened the map and saw that Edo was rightβthe large green around the landmark proved it.
"It's a natural park, it's normal in the suburbs." Cheetah thought for a moment and said, "I remember going there when we were doing extracurricular activities. β
"Who called you there today, it's Greenwich again?"
"My homeroom teacher."
"What?!" Edo exclaimed, "Your homeroom teacher is too dedicated!" β
"What do you think it is, make up the lesson?" "I'm sure she's asking me to go out to see her at a time like today, so it's not 'a lesson.'" β
At noon, Yingshui Park is quiet, with only the singing of birds echoing through the trees, and the murmuring of the Shanpa River, which runs through the entire nature park. The clouds had not yet cleared after the rain, and the woods looked dark. The two of them walked on the path against the rain dripping from the branches above their heads.
"It's so beautiful here!" "I haven't been to such a beautiful place since I left Denua. β
"When the flowers are in full bloom in spring, the scenery here is the most beautiful, and it is impossible to describe it in simple words." "The name of the nature reserve is not for nothing. β
"Let's go to the observation deck in front of us and take a rest." Edo pointed ahead.
"Okay."
The wooden observation deck is located at the edge of the woods, and from the top of it, you can clearly see the Shanpa River and its opposite bank, which is less than five meters away. Not far away was a stone bridge lying quietly on the river, listening day and night to the sound of all sorts of footsteps passing over it.
"I want to call this place home!" Edo said.
"It's a pity that only you can fly." "The overlook from Yingshui Park is also beautiful. β
At this moment, Leopard Rees heard his name ringing behind him, and he turned his head to see a gray and white cat walking towards him. That is Zhou Yan, the homeroom teacher of Leopard Rees.
"Teacher Zhou, it's really you!" Leopard Rees shouted.
"I'm not going to pretend to be anyone else." Zhou Yan said, "Now that the school is closed, I think you must be very happy, right?" β
"No...... There's a lot going on......"
"I understand β you're under a lot of pressure when you lose your parents." She said, looking at Edo.
"Is this your buddy?" She asked.
"Yes, his name is Edo, and he is my good brother, and I just saved him from the right wing a few days ago!"
"Well, as the saying goes, 'adversity sees the truth'!" Zhou Yan asked Edo, "Are you a dragon?" β
"Huh?" Edo just scratched his head, and the teacher saw that he couldn't understand Chinese, so he changed to English and asked that sentence again.
"Yes, I'm a dragon." Edo replied with a nod.
"Now is the time when the 'Axe Stone Project' is at its most important, and it is too risky for you to bring him out."
"But it's also dangerous to leave him alone at home." Leopard Rees explained.
"Why is he at your house?" Before the teacher could finish asking, he immediately understood the reason.
"By the way, Mr. Zhou, what are you looking for me to do today?" Cheetah asked.
"I heard you've been investigating the death of diplomat Kivu recently?"
"That's right!" Edo suddenly spoke, "But why do you know about this, teacher?" β
"You should know a guy named Greenwich, right?" The teacher saw the two of them nodding and added, "Greenwich is my husband's friend, so it's easy for me to know what's going on over there." β
"That's ...... so"
"And how are you doing now?"
Cheetah shook his head and said: "There are no thoughts, there are very few clues that can allow us to advance the investigation now, and it is impossible to seek help from the police now, so now we can say that we are at an impasse." β
"I have something for you, and I hope it will help you in your investigation." The teacher took out a small transparent plastic bag from his pocket, which contained a silver glittering bullet.
"Silver Bullet!" Edo took the bullet and asked, "This must be a very rare bullet, right?" β
"You're right, this kind of bullet is very rare in the whole orc world, and almost no factory has ever produced this kind of bullet," she said, "My husband is a policeman, and he brought it to me, do you know where it came from?" β
"Is it a murder scene?" Leopard Rees asked.
"Worthy of being my student." The teacher said, "If you look at the case analysis on the news before, you will know that the murderer fired a total of two shots, the first shot missed the target and hit the wall, and this bullet was taken out of the bullet hole in the wall. β
"How many calibers of bullet is this?"
"The label seems to have ...... It was a 7.62mm rifle cartridge. β
"7.62mm ......," said Edo, "wasn't the Kivu gun in the picture we saw last time at the Livant Range suitable for 7.62 bullets?" β
"It seems to be!" Leopard Reese said.
"What are you talking about?" The teacher asked.
"The other day we went to a place called the Livant range, where Kivu used to shoot when he was alive, and there was a rifle with his name engraved on it. But when we got there, the gun had already been stolen. Edo said
"The important thing is that we also met the murderer that day!" Leopard Rees added.
"What?" The teacher was surprised and said, "You caught it?" β
"No, I was going head-to-head with him, but he had a dart launcher on him, and I got his anesthetic and let him escape."
"This murderer is really not simple." "He is probably a professionally trained sniper β ordinary people basically give up when the first shot misses, but instead of leaving, he calmly refires a shot until the target is killed." β
"The point now is that the killer knows he's exposed, so he won't sit still β he has to take out as many targets as he can that might pose a threat to him."
"It's me?" Leopard Rees couldn't help but shudder.
"No, the murderer won't take you to heart at all, he will only think that this confrontation is just a small mistake, what the murderer is really looking for is the person who knows his crime best."
"The one who knows best?"
"For example, the custodian of the signature gun you just mentioned...... Are you now sure that the gun was stolen by the murderer and used to commit the crime? β
"Could it be...... It's Lin Yihui! The two shouted in unison.
The teacher said, "No matter who that person is, he should not be able to escape this catastrophe." β
"I know who it is, I'll inform him right now!" As soon as Leopard Rees took out his phone, he was stopped by the teacher.
"Teacher Zhou, what are you doing......
"Leopard Reese, don't jump into the fire pit." The teacher said, "This phone call of yours will only betray you in vain, and when the time comes, if the murderer really wants to act, then you will be the one who dies together!" β
"So what do we do now?"
"Until this assassination is over, we must not interfere and not let our names appear on the list of targets, so that we can save our lives."
"But what about him?" Leopard Rees was a little anxious, "Are we going to watch him get killed?" β
"That's the only way to do it for now."
"I'm going to save him!"
"Then do you want to be dismantled by the murderer?"
"I've even fought against the right wing, so what's the point of danger?"
"Don't be stupid, Leopard Reese." The teacher gestured "quietly" and said, "You don't know who the murderer is now, and you don't know what he will do to you as a minor, especially when he is desperate, and being killed is only the least of these results." Moreover, you are now being watched by the right wing, and under this double threat, one wrong step can cost you a lot, including your life, if you are still so obsessed...... Then you just wait for your internal organs to become external organs. β
"But ......"
"Leopard, you can't always try to get everything out of it." The teacher said, "The 'Axe Stone Project' is not a glorious revolution, this plan has been destined to embark on a path of bloody slaughter since the beginning of its implementation, you see, how many innocent orcs and dragons have been brutally killed from the beginning to the present, can you let them all save themselves?" If that's what you do, you'll never achieve your goals, and you'll put yourself in unnecessary danger...... Sometimes, we have to give up something, not only to preserve ourselves, but also to be able to control the bumpy path that follows. β
"Give up ......," Leopard Rees was silent.
"I know it's hard for you to accept when you're helpful, but I want you to understand that even superheroes can't save everyone, and that's what 'savior' really means."
Suddenly, a gray dragon ran towards them and threw herself into Leopard Reese's arms.
"What's going on?"
"Help me...... The child ...... "The dragon took out a dragon egg and stuffed it to Leopard Reese, and before the action was finished, a bullet flew over and hit the dragon's back, and the dragon suddenly widened his eyes and looked at Leopard Rees with a frightened expression, and finally, she was weak and fell in a pool of blood.
"What's going on?!" Leopard Rees was stunned, and fear rushed through his brain in an instant, making him almost cry.
"Oops, it's the right!" Zhou Yan shouted, "Let's run!" β
The whole park was filled with gunfire in a few moments, and the right flank behind them was still in pursuit, and the three men shot behind them as they fled.
"What do we do now?" Edo asked.
"It's still some distance from the gate, let's find a place to hide first!" The teacher said.
"Three people are coming, protect them!" A group of rebels rushed out from the front and began to exchange fire with the right flank. More flying bullets made it difficult for them to move.
"Are you all alright?" One of the rebels ran over.
"We're fine...... What's going on here? Zhou Yan asked.
"We have a small rebel position here. What the hell! The right flank discovered our position, so they came to fight us! β
"Boom-" landed with a loud bang, and Leopard Rees looked up to see that a "Knight" light tank was firing not far away.
"There's a tank at ten o'clock!"
"Don't grind, let's get out of here!" Several rebels surrounded the three and escorted them all the way to the gate of the park.
"The rebels have taken control of several streets for you to evacuate, you should hurry up, if you are discovered by the right wing, it will be troublesome."
"Thank you for your help!" Edo said.
"It is our rebel's duty to help you." When they had finished speaking, they ran into the gate.
"I didn't expect this to happen today." The teacher said, "My car is parked near here, let's get out of here." β
"Chief, the park's surveillance caught them - the cheetah and the dragon, and a cat."
"I don't care about other unrelated people, I'll just look at the two of them." Lake asked, "Has the dragon's identity been found out?" β
"It has been found out, his name is Balk Zaka Edo, and he is the son of the chief of the Denua Heights, Skylu Mauri Edo."
"Skyllu Maury Edo?! Is that the patriarch? Lake chuckled and said, "He's stabbed Major Barbaros in the past against us, huh...... I won't let his son live. β
"Also, the cheetah's name is Nicolas Leopard Rees......"
Nicolas Leopardis...... These two imps are not easy to deal with, and it will take a little more effort to kill them. β
"However, after successfully subduing them, the 'Axe Stone Project' will enter a new stage, and when the time comes, the fate of the dragon will ...... I'm in control! β