Boom!

A gunshot interrupted Tan Zhen's thoughts.

A man fell on the edge of the corridor leading to the ship's boss's room, blood pouring out of his chest.

Zang Feng said let's go, and rushed into the corridor with two guns.

To the surprise of the three of them, Fang Zhengrong did not have many people left in the Shell Building, and the soldiers who were about to sneak attack the three in the corridor were silent after they were killed.

The door to the living room was not closed, leaving a thin slit.

Zang Feng made sure that there was no trap behind the door, and gently pushed the door open.

The curtains were drawn, the room was dark, and there was a faint smell of blood floating in the air.

Between the single bed and the wall sits a man, cowered in the dark, not knowing whether he is alive or dead.

Zang Feng stepped into the room, glanced warily at the person in the corner, raised his gun and pointed at the target to look around, and finally fixed his gaze on the wheelchair a foot away from the end of the bed.

The injection bag was still hanging on the iron frame, and it was empty.

On the ground next to the wheelchair was a blanket, and under the blanket was a badly faded book titled "Crime and Punishment", and there were many blood stains on the blanket.

The wheelchair was facing away from the door, and it wasn't until he entered the room that Zang Feng realized that he was late, and the boat boss was dead.

The old man's face hung low, there was a bloody hole in his chest, and a very accurate shot went straight through the heart, and it could be seen that he had not suffered too much.

The moment Tang Yan walked into the room, he saw Zang Feng take off the mask covering his head and face.

He didn't have to look at him to know what the result was, and sighed in a low voice.

Tan Zhen walked quickly past Tang Yan, walked to the front of the wheelchair, and looked at the dead ship boss silently.

He stood there for a long time.

The man who had been cowering at the corner of the single bed and the wall for a long time dropped his hand covering his face, and looked blankly at the person standing in front of him with a pair of red eyes.

It was so long that the rubber tires that were beeping and burning outside the window were silent.

After a long time, the sunlight slowly aimed at the gaps in the curtains, piercing the room little by little.

It was so long that the cup of new spring tea he brewed for the boat boss completely lost its temperature.

Tan Zhen raised his gun and pointed it at the person in the corner.

If it weren't for that man, he wouldn't have to leave the ship's boss.

If it weren't for that man, things might not have gotten to this point.

If it weren't for that man, the boat boss might still be alive.

The person cowering in the corner, cloaked in shadows, is the niece and son-in-law of the boat boss, Lao Xing.

"Wait." Tang Yan pressed Tan Zhen's hand raising the gun: "I have a few questions that I can't figure out. ”

He didn't know why Lao Xing didn't flee from the shell building after killing the boat boss, but instead shrank like a soulless walking corpse in the corner between the single bed and the wall.

Regarding the contradiction between Fang Zhengrong and the boat boss, he has a lot of things he can't figure out, and he needs an insider to answer, and a two-faced character like Lao Xing is undoubtedly the best choice.

"I remember when I first came ashore, that bald guy came to kill us...... Is it because I am dissatisfied with the fact that I occupy the Maxim's Cannery? ”

He walked to the end of the bed and sat down, looking at the ink paintings hanging on the opposite wall, and found that the eyes of the birds standing on the branches were very smart, and they were obviously dead objects outlined in ink, but they seemed to have souls.

And the man crouching next to him seemed to have lost his soul.

Lao Xing didn't speak, staring blankly at the slowly moving orange and yellow light on the ground.

Tan Zhen sighed, turned around and walked to the filing cabinet near the door, opened the middle drawer, took out a piece of paper and handed it to Tang Yan.

"Hmm...... It seems that these people have a lot of small actions behind their backs, am I so hated? ”

Zang Feng lit a cigarette, pulled the chair next to the table on the right and sat down, squinting at his face, thinking that the rise of any person or force would mean upsetting the balance of the original system, and it would have varying degrees of impact on the old people and organizations.

Some people gain, others lose.

Some rejoice, and some suffer.

Not everyone can let go as calmly as the boat boss.

Of course, it may just be a realistic portrayal of "people are good at their words", if he and Tang Yan came to Toshima earlier, maybe the boat boss invited them to eat was not a protocol banquet, but a Hongmen banquet.

Tang Yan didn't know what Zang Feng was thinking, and his face became more and more gloomy when he looked at the name on the paper.

No wonder on the way to the Shell Tower, you will encounter the soldiers of Wang Ming's Manor.

He originally thought that Fang Zhengrong was worried that he would not be able to successfully defeat the people loyal to the ship boss, and the Gem City side coveted Toshima for a long time, and the two sides hit it off, so what happened today.

The facts were quite different from his guesses.

The paper that Tan Zhen handed him was a telegram from Wang Ming's manor.

The content is that Wang Ming proposed to join forces with the boss of the ship to set up a situation in response to Tang Yan's intention to restart the production line of the Maxim's Canning Factory, and lure Tang Yan to Toshima or the surrounding waters to fight a water ambush battle by discussing the purchase price of sea fish.

Tang Yan showed shocking military strength in the two battles of the night attack on Gem City and the seizure of control of the Maxim's Canning Factory, but it was in a land environment, and if it was replaced by a sea battlefield, his combat effectiveness would inevitably be greatly weakened, and then he only needed to take advantage of his illness to kill him.

In order to convince the ship boss to agree to join forces to set up a bureau, Wang Ming promised many benefits, including the ownership of Maxim's Cannery.

Judging from the date in the lower left corner of the telegram, it was less than a day before he asked Xia Xin to inquire about the whereabouts of the workers at Maxim's Cannery.

Seeing that he looked away after reading the content of the telegram, Tan Zhen said: "After receiving this telegram, the ship's boss convened the core management personnel to solicit opinions overnight. ”

"Fang Zhengrong proposed to accept Wang Ming's conditions, after all, the Maxim's Canning Factory is a piece of fat, and if it develops downstream industries on the basis of monopolizing the fishing industry in the nearby waters, it will bring rich economic benefits to Toshima, and at the same time consolidate Toshima's independent status in the peninsula region."

"The Ship Boss doesn't think so, and is unwilling to intervene in your confrontation with the powerful people in Gem City before the situation is clear. Although most people were on Fang Zhengrong's side, he still put forward a relatively moderate opinion, which was the cooperation that was talked about during the previous dinner. ”

"The proposal drew opposition from many, and at one point even sparked a clash of words between the pros and oppositionists."

For the sake of the overall situation, the ship boss chose to use the tactics of delaying the army to appease Fang Zhengrong and others, who were acting more and more aggressively. Well...... I'm sure you've heard from Xia Shin ------that as long as you can kill Merlin, Toshima will sell sea fish at the usual price. The ship's remarks to Fang Zhengrong are that firstly, you can take revenge with your hands, and secondly, you can further observe the military strength of the Pandaren Legion, and then consider whether to accept Wang Ming's proposal. ”

Tang Yan couldn't imagine that the few days of peaceful life he spent in the Meixin Canning Factory only seemed to be peaceful, and external forces actually set off a round of interest games against his rise.

"People are in the rivers and lakes, and they can't help themselves...... Oh, that's ironic. He thought of what Luo Zuoming said to him before he died.

Zang Feng lit a cigarette into the ashtray and flicked off the ashes that had accumulated in front of him.

"Raising tigers will eventually lead to trouble."

What he said was that the boat boss was too kind to Fang Zhengrong.

The speaker has no intention, and the listener has the intention.

Tang Yan frowned, glanced at the dead old man in the wheelchair, and had very complicated emotions in his heart.

It seems that the captain of the ship has become more merciful than ever as he has grown older and his life has faded...... It can also be said that he is no longer a resolute and decisive leader, but more and more like an enlightened old man.

No, it's not that simple!

During the meal, the boat boss said that he did not want to see the islanders led by Tan Zhen and the islanders led by Fang Zhengrong merge, and he was afraid that Toshima would go to civil strife after his death, so he chose to cooperate with Maxim's Canning Factory, so that the Panda People Legion would have a sufficient excuse to meddle in the affairs of Toshima, form an external deterrent, and suppress the opposition led by Fang Zhengrong.

Tang Yan didn't believe that the ship boss hadn't asked what he had done when he hadn't become the deputy leader of the Panda Man Legion, and what he had done since he arrived in Gem City.

With his character, can he tolerate the existence of people like Fang Zhengrong?

Even if he didn't take the initiative to meddle in Toshima's internal affairs, he wouldn't succumb to the status quo.

Then there will only be one ending in the end of the development of events.

Fang Zhengrong died!

But Tang Yan killed Fang Zhengrong, not the boat boss who killed Fang Zhengrong.

Judging from the fact that Deputy Commander Tang solved the corpse tide alone and kept the foundation of the Pandaren Legion without losing it, as long as he was not a fool, he could get the answer that Deputy Commander Tang was a responsible person.

In other words, the ship boss deliberately left such a person to kill him, and through this incident, he was burdened with the responsibility of stability and protection of Toshima. As the old saying goes------ save people to the end, send Buddha to the west.

In the end, the boat boss gained a good reputation and found an excellent foreign aid for Tan Zhen.

This old man's abacus is louder than anyone else, and he is more shrewd than anyone else.

It's a pity that he calculated the beginning but not the end.

The boat boss didn't kill Fang Zhengrong, Fang Zhengrong killed the boat boss.

Tan Zhen did not express his opinion on Zang Feng's sigh, and continued the topic just now: "No one thought that you would suddenly land on the island today, Fang Zhengrong thought that the opportunity must not be missed and never come again, so he ordered Cao Zhensheng (bald guy) to lead someone to intercept and kill you." ”

"The boss of the boat didn't want to be your enemy in the first place, and you came to the island directly without saying hello, it seems that he has no intention of negotiating, and he looks like he wants to come hard."

"Considering that since you entered the Pandaren Legion and went out on your first mission, you have never fought an uncertain battle."

"The boat boss realized the seriousness of the matter and ordered me to rush to the catch market as soon as possible, and stop Fang Zhengrong's people from attacking you at all costs."

Speaking of this, Tan Zhen paused slightly: "You know the next thing." ”

After listening to his story, Tang Yan nodded, thinking that Tan Zhen was also hard enough, in order to scare Fang Zhengrong, he killed the bald guy in a place like the fish market.

This did win some favor from himself, but from another point of view, it also made the relationship between the pro and opposition parties worse, and Tan really played a great role in promoting the development of the situation to the current field.

Of course, the key factor that induces civil strife is the fact that the ship boss invited himself to establish a cooperation intention with Zang Feng.

Zang Feng sighed heavily and did not speak.

Tang Yan was silent for a moment and asked a question: "I still can't understand why the establishment of a business partnership between Maxim's Cannery and Toshima forced Fang Zhengrong to take risks and commit such extreme behaviors. ”

If he guessed correctly, the ship boss gave him the opportunity to kill Fang Zhengrong, but not now, but later.

The fact that things have developed to the point now shows that the ship boss overestimated Fang Zhengrong's patience, and in this matter, that person was more impatient and aggressive than expected.

Tan Zhen didn't speak, he couldn't answer the question, after all, he was the one who stood firmly behind the ship's boss.

The person who spoke was Lao Xing, who was trusted by the ship boss and was the niece and son-in-law of the ship boss, but who turned to the opposition at a critical moment, and finally stopped being silent.

The voice was hoarse, like two dry corn cobs rubbing against each other.

"The Captain of the Ship led the Wilderness Marauders to Teshima in the Type 56 corvette, and he won the battle. Everyone was very grateful for his grace of not killing and was willing to die for him. ”

"In the days to come, the Captain of the Boat made us rich, strong, united, free from hunger."

"He did a good job, he treated us very well, and as we got along, we gradually let go of the hatred of the past, and took care of the people who lived in Toshima------ whether it was the marauders who killed the islanders back then, or the marauders who came with him, as family."

"He's so nice...... Okay, let's make those of us who killed his relatives and friends feel inferior. ”

"Humph!" A cold snort came from Tan Zhen.

Lao Xing turned a deaf ear and continued his story.

"He regards the care of the islanders as his duty, his mission, and his ideal...... He is a qualified leader. ”

"As the years go by, as he grows older, his personality becomes more and more gentle, and he becomes more and more soft-hearted. When he knew that he was about to die, on the one hand, he was worried about the future of Toshima, the safety of the islanders, and the repetition of what happened back then, and on the other hand, he wanted to do something meaningful to the world and let this dark age shine with some human brilliance. ”

He said he had a dream about a family member who had long since died. They entrusted him with one thing------ sowing the flame of hope as atonement for the indifference of the past. ”

"The spark of hope...... Tang Yan thought of the artificially cultivated luminescent fungus in the underground facility.

A place full of death, but pregnant with the dawn of life, the world infested by the night, will have the brightest stars.

Lao Xing continued to speak in a hoarse voice.

"He decided to expand the cultivation scale of the luminescent fungus and release it to the mainland at the right time and at the right entry point, so that more wasteland residents can benefit."

"Many people don't agree with him doing this, because it is likely to attract Shinrikyo people, with the military strength of Toshima is not enough to confront such a force, once the other side knows that the people of Toshima have luminous fungus cultivation technology in their hands, those madmen will not hesitate to go to heaven and earth to kill us."

"The captain of the ship said he would find a way to do it......"

"Even though many people objected, he still did not give up the meaning of life that he found in his twilight years."

"And then." Lao Xing's stagnant eyes fluctuated slightly, and he glanced at Tang Yan: "You appeared." ”

"It was as if he had found balance on the seesaw, and he became very excited, like an old child. He frantically gathers information about you, analyzes your personality, and estimates your potential. ”

"At this time, Wang Ming sent the telegram."

"Fang Zhengrong and the others knew what the boat boss was thinking, and they proposed to cooperate with Wang Ming, but they didn't really want to start a war with you, just to express their dissatisfaction and let the boat boss die of that heart."

"It's a pity that the heavens are not on their side."

"Today you boarded the passenger ship, came here, had a meal with the captain of the ship, and drank a lot of wine."

"The situation is irreparable, and Fang Zhengrong chooses to use practical actions to end the dream of the ship boss in his old age and protect the future of Toshima."

"We are all fishermen living on this island, and we just want to cross ourselves, not others. We don't want to tie the future of Toshima to the whim of the ship boss, we don't want to jump on the train that you drive, we don't know where to go, we want to redeem ourselves in a more conservative way. ”

"Is this wrong?"

Tang Yan remembered the story of the boy named Merlin told by the boat boss at lunchtime.

Back then, the people of Toshima did not save Merlin's parents when they saw death, so that they could eat enough and survive in the bad years. This indifference broke Merlin's heart and led directly to his betrayal in the future.

Now that Fang Zhengrong and others choose to eat alone behind closed doors, is it also indifferent to people living in the mainland?

The indifference of 30 years ago made Toshima bleed, and the indifference of 30 years later made the people living on this land fratricidal.

Is there something wrong?

Is the boat boss wrong?

Or is Fang Zhengrong wrong?

Lao Xing was silent for a long time, his head resting on the back wall and closing his eyes, his dry lips trembling slightly.

"Even if it's just a cockroach struggling in a dung pit, a wild dog wagging its tail and begging for food in the wilderness, a villain who will never be able to get on the stage, we want to control our own destiny, even if in the end it is just a corner of clothing."

Tang Yan looked at the book under the blanket stained with the blood of the boat boss, and didn't know what to say.

Lao Xing's words...... Is it an accusation by a small person against a superior person?

Perhaps, as he said, just struggling.

He looked back at the body of the ship's boss, who had lost his temperature.

The growth that time brings changes a lot of things.

The brave man eventually became a dragon.

The holy monk eventually became a demon monk.

The righteous heroes who started out of recklessness eventually became tyrants who acted arbitrarily

Stories like this play out every day.

But...... Who defines "evil", who defines "demon", and who defines "brutality"?

Tan Zhen tried hard to suppress the anger in his heart, but in the end he didn't hold back, looked at Lao Xing and shouted, "Then you will kill him?" Kill the person who has the grace of forgiveness, the grace of acquaintance, the grace of love? ”

Lao Xing opened his mouth, looked at the Type 54 pistol on the ground next to the wheelchair and muttered, "Fang Zhengrong promised me...... Promise that I will take care of the boat boss so that he can go through the last journey in peace. ”

"Fang Zhengrong promised me."

"Fang Zhengrong promised me ......"

Tang Yan looked at the 54 pistol that took the life of the ship boss.

People are not killed by Lao Xing, but what is the difference between them and Lao Xing?

Thirty years ago, he was a marauder who captured Toshima, young and strong, and should have killed many people, but 30 years later, when the war rekindled in Toshima, he became a pedantic fisherman who chose to trust the promises of others.

"Is that how you put your own fault on someone else?" Tan Zhen walked over and grabbed Lao Xing's collar and lifted it from the ground.

The light diffused through the slightly flickering curtain cracks onto the faces of the two.

Tan Zhen's eyes were full of anger, and Lao Xing's face did not change, as if he froze.

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