The night at sea was cold and damp, but the sky was full of sparks and water, so that all eyes could see was sparkling. The Huangpu River today is no different from a year ago or 10 years ago, it flows silently with itself, whether it is the flames of war or the lights of thousands of homes, it is reflected as usual.

Cheng Changyu stood on the deck. Others were attracted by the sound of gunfire in the cabin, which was barely noticed in the corner of the deck near the stern.

Before the gunshots rang out, Huo Zuo directly used the wire given by Qin Mingyue to pry open the door lock. Cheng Changyu didn't panic when he saw the two of them, he stood quietly by the window with a cigarette on his finger and Huo Zuo chuckled, and shouted, "Big brother." ”

He took off his blazer, a white shirt and gray waistcoat.

"I can't stand Mr. Kawashima's 'big brother'."

Huo Zuo pulled the gun on the safety and motioned to him, "Let's go to the stern of the boat and talk." It's not good to talk about things in the room. ”

Cheng Changyu looked at the muzzle of the gun aimed at him, sneered, picked up his coat and got up helplessly. He raised his hands and swept the pair of old masters and apprentices left and right: "Don't be too naïve, you can't escape the guns of the Japanese army if you kill people on this ship." ”

Shen Yigong interrupted him and opened the door for him: "Just leave this matter to us to worry about." Please, Brother Changyu. ”

During the time when they walked to the stern, the gunshots rang out again, and Cheng Changyu looked at the two people who followed him on the left and right and asked again: "Qin Mingyue went to kill Ma Weisan, right?" ”

Huo Zuo didn't answer, he turned his head and looked at Shen Yigong with a wide eye: "How much can I do, you can tolerate this little deflated three, why can't the eldest brother tolerate me?" ”

"You want to kill me. Shen Yigong doesn't necessarily want to kill me. ”

"What he did in the first place was no different from killing you. I don't understand, big brother, I have been with you with all my heart and soul all these years, but it is difficult for you to give me half an inch of trust, why? ”

As they stepped up the steps, the night breeze blew on the faces of the three men.

"You've always wanted to kill me instead." Huo Zuo said, "You ask yourself Cheng Changyu, have I really not trusted you all these years?" Little by little, you are eating away my trust. You never thought about actually doing things for me from start to finish. ”

"Yes."

"Your allegiance has always been to someone else."

"But I was also sincere when I was a brother."

"When? Are we in our twenties? ”

"At least I didn't offend you or betray you. Huo Zuo, I'll find you another way to live, the right way, you want to go to the road of death. Cheng Changyu said and raised his hand at Shen Yigong and scolded, "After this kid appeared, you were completely wrong, obviously we were lawless and killed whoever we wanted, how good was our life?" What is the bottom line is not the bottom line, the rivers and lakes are not the rivers and lakes, we are the rivers and lakes, we make all the rules, and those who are not satisfied will be beaten to him. But look at what has become of you. Do you know how disappointed you were at that time? ”

Huo Zuo didn't take his anger in his eyes: "What you are disappointed about is that the generous gift that should have been prepared for your Japanese boss has been completely lost." ”

"Do you think that you alone can bring down Qin Shengzhu with your own strength! You're thinking too simply. Your victory is nothing but an illusion of cooperation between all parties. You've never been just a piece on a chessboard, and you still think you're the master? To be a dog for the French, to be a dog for Chiang Kai-shek, and now to be a national hero with righteous words? Cheng Changyu forced him and roared, "Do you think that these blood debts on your body have been washed clean, who will believe you?" ”

Shen Yigong raised his hand to block between them: "Cheng Changyu, if this is what you wanted to say before you died, then it's almost time to say it." ”

Cheng Changyu squinted at him: "What qualifications do you have to talk to me?" ”

He took a step back, swept Shen Yigong up and down, and said with a smile: "You are just a little deflated, without us, you would have died a long time ago." It's good to wag your tail at Huo Zuo, any glory and wealth are yours. Heh......" said with a gloomy expression, "I should have shot you from the beginning. ”

Huo Zuo smashed a punch into his face. Cheng Changyu staggered back a few steps, and listened to the other party speak: "My apprentice can only be disciplined by myself." Are you going to say enough of your last words? ”

As he spoke, he loaded the gun, grabbed Cheng Changyu's tie, and held the gun against his chin. Cheng Changyu turned his head and spit out bloody spit, grinned at Huo Zuo and said, "It's not enough." I have a lot more to say, and I can't finish it until seventy or eighty. ”

Huo Zuo was about to shoot, but he heard him ask again: "Xinyi and Yaya—they're all right." ”

At this moment, Huo Zuo hesitated, he opened his mouth and was about to answer, Cheng Changyu directly took this opportunity to pull out a knife and stab him in the abdomen.

"Be careful!"

Thanks to Shen Yigong, he was always vigilantly standing on Huo's left side, pulling him back and raising his hand for a gear, and the dagger only cut his arm, without hurting him at all. Cheng Changyu took advantage of this gap to dodge the gun in Shen Yi's bow, turned to the two of them, pulled the trigger again and again, and raised his knee directly to the man's chest, and the three of them were entangled together for a while.

Knives, guns, fists and blood. Huo Zuo and Shen Yigong are the same sect in the final analysis, and they have a tacit understanding back to back. What they didn't expect was Cheng Changyu's martial arts, they had never seen him show his strength in the past, and now they found out that his kung fu plan was not under Huo Zuo. When he raised his leg again, he kicked Huo Zuo's gun away.

"You know, I've wanted to do something for a long time." Cheng Changyu said and punched Huo Zuo hard in the lower abdomen, and then grabbed his collar and shook his head and slammed it on the ground after avoiding Shen Yigong's attack, "I'm actually more powerful than you, Huo Zuo." ”

The battle here has just begun, but the battle on the other side is over.

The red velvet floor was soaked in blood. The series of gunshots finally stopped, and Mu Qiuping only fired one shot, the one that was crucial to kill Ma Weisan, while the bodyguards who arrived opened more than a dozen bloody holes in her.

Qin Mingyue covered her mouth and hid in the secret cabinet and didn't dare to make a sound, and when everything was silent outside, she jumped down from the viewing window of the bathroom with the woman's body in her arms when everyone was relieved.

On the other side, Cheng Changyu was gradually defeated by Huo Zuo and Shen Yigong, and retreated to the edge of the railing step by step. Shen Yigong was hit by him at the corner of his eyebrows, and he was stunned for a moment and took a step back, while Huo Zuo took this opportunity to smash a punch at him in front of the door.

Cheng Changyu was hit by this punch and lost his balance, fell backwards diagonally, and his upper body almost completely fell off the railing. He hurriedly reached out and grabbed Huo Zuo's shoulder, but Huo Zuo didn't plan to pick him up at all, so he fell out with him. When Shen Yigong reacted, he only saw Huo Zuo look back at him for the last time, and then disappeared behind the railing in an instant.

"Huo Zuo! ——”

The icy river water spread, and Qin Mingyue dragged the woman's heavier and heavier body, struggling to swim towards the shore.

Along the bank of the Suzhou Creek, Qin Mingyue's colleagues in the reeds had already rocked the canopy boat and disappeared in the darkness waiting to pick her up. The water was turbulent, and when she almost used all her strength to get people to drag Mu Qiuping onto the boat, she had already stopped breathing.

This should not have been a consequence for her, but she ended it all like this.

Qin Mingyue sat down on her knees in the cabin as if she were drenched, which was almost no different from a failed mission for her. She reached out and wiped the messy hair on Mu Qiuping's face, lowered her head and leaned against her chest. Her shoulders fluttered, and the whole boat was eerily still, and she could only hear the river flowing by the side of the boat.

Shen threw himself to the railing, and when he looked down, he saw the river rushing below. There was no trace of Huo Zuo and Cheng Changyu at all. He didn't even think about it, and directly climbed over the railing and jumped down from a height of more than ten meters.

It was so dark that it was almost impossible to see the underwater scene by the light of the boat. The water of the Huangpu River is turbid, and the sub-zero water temperature is freezing to the bone. Shen Yigong stuck his head out of the water, changed his breath, and swam to the bottom again, and finally found the person he was looking for in a place full of aquatic plants four or five meters above the water.

Cheng Changyu and Huo Zuo were both entangled in aquatic plants, but obviously Cheng Changyu had already run out of gas, and Huo Zuo was still struggling hard, trying to untie the aquatic weeds that were entangled with him. When Shen Yigong found him, his movements were already getting weaker and weaker, and he quickly swam towards him, leaving only the other party's trembling fingers and body in his eyes.

No......

He drew his knife and quickly cut through the aquatic weeds, then picked him up and swam towards the surface. The sound of the river kept ringing in his ears, and the cold of the river was no longer important to him now. The sound of the ship's horn and searchlights constantly searched around the water. Shen Yigong dragged Huo Zuo's chin and swam towards the shore they had agreed at the beginning, getting farther and farther away from the boat behind him.

However, although the landing site was relatively close to the public concession, it was still too far for Shen Yigong's current situation. He had only one thought in his mind now, and that was to go ashore, ashore, ashore.

Even though he knew that the area along the Suzhou Creek was not safe, the only thing he could do was to climb the nearest dam rock and drag Huo Zuo up. The smell of gunpowder here has not yet dissipated, a month ago it was a combat zone, and it was dark around it, and there was not even a human figure. Shen Yigong was shivering from the cold, but he still took off his clothes and covered Huo Zuo's body. He patted his lover's face and called his name over and over again: "Huo Zuo, wake up Huo Zuo...... Please, please......"

It seemed that he was back in an instant to the snowy day when his mother died more than ten years ago.

"Please, Huo Zuo......" He settled down and tried to remember what those who would have done to rescue the drowning on the riverbank, straightened up and pressed Huo's left abdomen hard to try to drain the water out of his body, the big man roared in the darkness, "Please, wake up." Huo Zuo ......! …… Please, please. ”

The stars and the fire that had been sprinkled on them together. The promises and promises that were made.

"Wake up!"

But under the cold wind, he finally gradually lost his strength, whimpered and lay on his chest, hugged his body tightly, and only whispered weakly: "Master...... Please......"

"Please......"

"Don't leave me alone anymore......"

Suddenly there was a violent coughing sound in the silence. Shen Yigong watched ecstatically as he spat out a mouthful of water, and he hurriedly sat up to squeeze the water out of his lower abdomen for him again. Huo Zuo gulped in the air on the shore, and his palm weakly raised back to hold Shen Yigong's palm.

Shen Yigong...... Shen Yigong ......"

"I'm here. I listened. ”

Huo Zuo calmed his breath, trembled and said passively purple lips in his ear, "Let's go home." ”

Shen Yigong nodded and said okay. He stood up and carried Huo Zuo on his back, and just like that, he carried him all the way through the snow, walking through the collapsed war zone, stepping on the scorched earth and gunpowder smoke all over the ground. He walked slowly with him on his back, the sky was full of stars, the bright moon was hanging high, and the wind and snow had stopped.

Huo Zuo leaned on his hot body, hugged his neck tightly, raised his head, and the surrounding area was pitch black, and he couldn't see his fingers.

He asked, "Are you afraid, Shen Yigong." ”

He replied, "Not afraid." ”

He added, "But it's dark now." ”

He replied, "But it will be bright again." ”

Shen Yigong supported his body, and every step was extremely calm, he had always walked down steadily step by step.

Their figures disappeared into the darkness little by little, and the footsteps of stepping on the snow became farther and farther away...... I could only hear a voice from the distant sky: "Shen Yigong, let's just wait for dawn together." ”