"Lu Xiao, if only you were really my own brother!" Yang Zhexuan said happily.

Just now, when Lu Xiao taught him skills, because they looked very similar, they were recognized by others as twin brothers.

"When you train, you need to adjust your breathing like this so that you don't hurt your lungs." Lu Xiao said as he demonstrated to Yang Zhexuan.

A popping sound erupted from his chest, which was Lu Xiao's unique habit of regulating his breathing during training.

Yang Zhexuan listened very seriously, and at the same time couldn't help but sigh that in the past two years in Winter City, if there was no Lu Xiao, he would not have grown so rapidly at all.

"If it's a brother, don't be polite to me." Lu Xiao's eyelashes are very long, and he looks very sincere when he speaks.

"It's just that I can't stay a few more days because I can't bear you?"

He was referring to the fact that Yang Zhexuan was going back to Windy City tomorrow, and for some reason, the expression on his face was more of a complex expression that people couldn't see through, except for a trace of reluctance.

"I also want to Lu Xiao, I can't give up on you. It's just that my dad told me to go back and run the family hotel and I had to leave. ”

Yang Zhexuan paused, then there was a slight smile on his face, and he cast a praising look at Lu Xiao.

"Thank you so much, my overall abilities have improved a lot because of your help. Trainings such as combat training, physical training, and distress response training have significantly improved my endurance, adaptability, and defense capabilities, and it is time to leave the army. ”

At dusk, the sun was not as fierce and vicious as at noon, and became much more gentle and humble.

They lie on their backs on the secluded grass, feeling the sun shining and soothing the fatigue of training.

Lu Xiao was lying next to Yang Zhexuan, very close, but when he looked at Yang Zhexuan, it was more like a passionate and distant gaze.

"Zhexuan, I've actually always envied you, you have so much family that loves you, and ......"

"Lu Xiao......" he interrupted him, a faint sadness on his face.

"But what really makes me happy is that I have made good friends like you in Winterfell, in fact, most of my friends in Windy City are close to me because of my family background, they all seem to have a purpose for me, I don't like it at all."

As he spoke, he smiled at him: "None of them are as pure and sincere as you, and I like to make friends with pure and sincere people like you." ”

"Okay, I understand, let's not talk about that." Lu Xiao slowly stood up and got up, a trace of despair and unbearability quickly flashed in his eyes.

We can't delay any longer, we have to act quickly, and the longer we drag it on, the more we can't do it, so let's end it all as soon as possible.

Yang Zhexuan saw that he was no longer lying on the grass, so he stretched out a hand, Lu Xiao tacitly pulled him up, and then said with a straight face: "Since you are going back, then I will finally test your defense ability." ”

"Preparedness?"

Hearing this, Yang Zhexuan was angry and laughed, thinking that he was about to leave, his good brother was still thinking about his homework, but he was really more responsible than the captain, and he didn't realize that Lu Xiao's face was gloomy, and he didn't know that he had also submitted a report to leave the army, and the time to leave was tomorrow - the same day as him.

"Yes, the ability to prevent." Before the words fell, Lu Xiao quickly pulled out the military dagger that had been prepared long ago from his waist, and cut it into his throat without Yang Zhexuan being caught off guard......

Dusk slowly fell, a golden silence hung over the ground, and the sky in the distance was a dark red haze.

"I don't want to do that." Lu Xiao shook his head in pain, his tone trembling a little.

"Don't forget that I raised you, if it weren't for me, you would have been out of this world a long time ago." A middle-aged man with a wide back and smoking a cigarette turned his back to him, "You don't have a choice. ”

"But......" Lu Xiao unintentionally clenched his fists, and his nails gradually embedded in his palms.

The middle-aged man was right, he was the one who raised me, so I should do something for him.

"I know it might be a little painful for you, but you have to do it."

The middle-aged man's voice was very calm, but it made Lu Xiao feel a huge sense of oppression, as if the surroundings were shrinking.

He couldn't disobey the middle-aged man's order, so he lowered his head and resisted silently.

"Next, I will explain your tasks in the Windy City, and if you complete these tasks well, you will be repaying me for raising you for so many years. And, after these tasks are done, I can set you free. ”

Lu Xiao suddenly raised his head, there was a glimmer of light in his eyes, but there was some hesitation in his tone.

"Set me free? Are you telling the truth? ”

He had manipulated him for so many years, and now he suddenly said that he wanted to let go, and he couldn't believe it at all.

But what he said did appeal to him. Freedom was something he had always followed, and he wanted it so badly.

"Of course, only if you get the job done."

"Uncle Liu, I promise you, but after the deed is done, I will no longer have anything to do with the Dead Leaf Organization, and I will live the life I want."

"Good. Your codename in Windy City this time is Withered Leaf Butterfly, and your first mission is to recover two classified documents. ”

"What documents?"

"You just have to obey the task, there are some things that you shouldn't ask, and you'll know about it after you get the files back."

"Understood." Although Lu Xiao knew that it was just a mission, he didn't like the feeling of being kept in the dark.

"And," at this moment, the figure turned around, and Lu Xiao saw his eyes in the smoke.

His eyes were still so calm, as if there was nothing in them, but because of this, it would give rise to an inexplicable sense of fear.

"You know everything about that person, right?"

"I have been eating and living with him for two years, and his living habits, family situation, and tone of voice have all been figured out, and my voice is very similar to me, almost identical."

"Very well, he looks very similar to you, and it will be much cheaper for you to go to the Windy City as him." He snuffed out the cigarette in his hand and exhaled slowly, "After retrieving the documents, I will give you other tasks." ”

"So how do I contact you?" He didn't look over his head and didn't dare to look at Uncle Liu's eyes again.

"Organizations are all single-line contacts to ensure security, and you don't have to worry about reaching out when I need you."

Bo Bo's blood gushed out along Yang Zhexuan's neck wound, and he looked at Lu Xiao in surprise, with pain and questions in his eyes, as if he didn't want to believe that the wound on his neck was caused by his good brother.

"For ...... What ......" blood flowed, and he couldn't say a complete sentence in pain.

"I'm sorry, I don't want to be manipulated by others anymore, I can only ......" Lu Xiao squatted down, his eyes instantly turned red, and tears dripped down his cheeks silently and fell on Yang Zhexuan's face.

"If there is an afterlife, I hope we can still be good brothers."

Yang Zhexuan's eyes widened, his whole body twitched, and then there was no movement.

The brother who was laughing and laughing just now has now become this cold corpse in front of him, and Lu Xiao feels that everything in front of him is very unreal.

The blood spurted from the neck down, and it was everywhere in the clothes and on the grass, and it looked terrifying.

If it weren't for the fact that this knife was too short, he would have chosen to stab Yang Zhexuan directly into his chest and let him die with one stab, instead of cutting his throat like he did now, getting blood everywhere.

He slowly crouched down, gently stroked his eyelids with the palm of his hand, and then held his gradually stiff body for a long time.

I don't know when, the sunset can't hold anymore, and the sky is about to darken.

Under the shroud of the light gray sky, Lu Xiao, whose eyes were red and swollen, restrained his sadness and guilt, and looked at the short knife in his hand, the blood on it had dried up a little, exuding an unpleasant smell of blood.

He fumbled for something in Yang Zhexuan's pocket, touched his mobile phone, put it in his pocket, and then began to clean up the scene.

He cleaned all traces of blood, splattered and outflowing blood was carefully wiped clean, and finally buried his body in a hidden location.

After taking care of everything, he sat on the ground, maybe because he was tired, or maybe it was the first time he killed someone, and his heart couldn't be calmed.

He took a deep breath, held his breath, and exhaled out, trying to calm himself down.

After a few seconds, he took out the phone in his pocket, unlocked it, found the phone book, pressed the contact button, and dialed the mobile phone number that was noted as his father.

In the process of the phone ringing cycle, Lu Xiao's heart was nervous, but he was very calm on the outside. Just when he thought that the person on the other side would not answer the phone and was about to hang up, the phone was connected.

"Hey, Zhexuan, when will you be home tomorrow?" The voice on the other side of the phone was strong and powerful, and at the same time, it did not lack some tenderness as a strict father who loved his son.

"Dad, I was about to tell you about this, I won't come back tomorrow, the army has a real combat exercise in two days, I want to take this opportunity to learn more, so I may have to come back a few days later." His tone was steady and confident.

He wanted to smile with the corners of his mouth raised, but it made his face look stiff.

"Okay, we all miss you, now it seems ......" The voice on the other end was a little lost, but more relieved, "But my good son has grown up, and his father will fully support you in whatever you want." ”

After a simple greeting, Lu Xiao hung up the phone and breathed a sigh of relief again.

This is the first time he has really used Yang Zhexuan's voice to speak to others, although he has secretly practiced a few times before, but he is talking to himself, he feels like, he has never really talked to others like now.

Fortunately, his father didn't hear the clue, which was expected by Lu Xiao.

A soldier who is going to leave tomorrow is gone tonight, and the people in the army may think that he is homesick and leave early, and will not pursue it too much.

And I will leave tomorrow and use these two days to go to Windy City to retrieve the documents, and then return to Yang's house to receive the rest of the tasks.

The sky had completely darkened, and the dim sky light just now disappeared without a trace in an instant, and it seemed that it would be a sin to illuminate it for a minute or a second.

Lu Xiao stayed in the place where Yang Zhexuan was buried, and the sadness and guilt surged up even more.

Yang Zhexuan's sister likes flowers very much, and he likes them too.

He had heard him say that his favorite flower was the perfume lily, but he could not put one in his resting place, and he felt deep powerlessness and guilt.

"They all have a purpose for me, not as pure and sincere as Lu Xiao."

I'm sorry Zhexuan, I've always approached you with a purpose, and I even hurt you for my selfish desires.

From tomorrow onwards, I will be you, and I will return to the Windy City in your place and live well for you.

Although, I will never be able to be the real you, nor can I be the real me.