Chapter VII: Dedication to Duty
Li Qingyan spread his hands and did not speak.
The demon clans in the car also jumped down one after another and stood behind Li Cheng. This is the first time in my life that I have seen so many star fruit...... Inhuman.
They look like people, but there are always some details that make them different. Or the eyes, or the teeth, or the ears, or the smell. Only the Li Cheng that Li Qingyan said - the leader of the Red Gang - did not seem to have anything out of the ordinary.
It's almost a sturdy human youth.
Li Cheng took two steps closer and reached out to dust Li Qingyan's collar: "When I sent you into the city back then, I wanted you to look like a person. Why do you hear that you and the promotion association are getting together now? Why don't you just follow us from the beginning? Are you right?"
The star fruit shrank behind Li Qingyan, but she still couldn't avoid the eyes of the demon clan.
That kind of gaze...... Fierce and tyrannical, there is almost no "human" emotion.
Li Qingyan smiled: "Brother Cheng sent me into the city for Beishan City." Tell me to go to the city investment bank to report to you, so that you can get a big ticket when their escort car goes out of the city - but Brother Cheng, you are full of guts, I don't have it. ”
"So I thought of a better way – I went to the city investment bank and stayed there for more than 20 days a month, and they had to pay me a sum of money every month. I robbed them of their money for three years, and no one could take me. That's why I'm not going to do it with you. ”
A tiger-headed young man beside Li Cheng stared at him: "Ah, there is such a good thing, how did you do it!?"
Sister Mandarin Duck glared at him: "Stupid thing." He said he went to work in the bank. ”
A group of demon clans were stunned and laughed. But Li Cheng stopped laughing.
"Xiao Yan'er, from the day you went to the Public Security Bureau and sold us, you should have known that I had to pick your skin when I saw you again. He approached Li Qingyan, stared into his eyes, and pointed to the side at the same time, "Before I do this, let me ask you, who told you to take this little girl away?"
Li Qingyan smiled: "Brother Cheng must not believe it - I left a few small notes for myself and asked me to save her." I still haven't figured out what's going on. Brother Cheng, why are you looking for her? It is a serious crime for the demon clan to hold humans hostage, seven to fifteen years...... Considering that the brothers are all red bracelets, it is better to deprive them of their human form, and even more seriously, they will deprive them of their sanity-"
"If you don't want to say it, don't embarrass him. Sister Mandarin Duck came over and took the hand of the star fruit, "Take it back and ask slowly." ”
This caused the girl to immediately get goosebumps all over her body, and she felt that the blood in her whole body was about to coagulate. She held her breath and rolled her eyes to look at the two city defenders more than forty meters away—but they were now smoking and grinning as if they were watching a play.
...... That's not what she remembers, or what people on TV should look like...... They saw the demon clan holding humans hostage!
But it doesn't matter!?
Sister Mandarin Duck noticed her eyes. He leaned sideways to her face and looked over there. After looking at it for a while, he laughed: "What is the little girl thinking? Waiting for them to help?"
"It's so cute. She straightened up and said to the demons as if to announce, "This girl doesn't know that we have the final say on this wasteland." ”
The demons laughed again. There were even a few who turned around and raised their hands to greet the two soldiers from afar—but more like a provocation—and the two humans pretended not to see them.
"The big hero who saved you is not a good identity now. I guess he didn't dare run for help. Otherwise, how can you say it?" Sister Mandarin Duck frowned, learning from Li Qingyan's always tepid tone, "-Hey, thank you two." I'm a terrorist of the Promotion Society, and now I want to bring a wasteland girl into the city and let us go. ”
"So?"
The demons laughed again. Sister Mandarin Duck also laughed, as if she was very proud of her imitation show.
At this time, star fruit remembered what Li Qingyan had said to herself. These demons...... Once out of the control of the drug, it is easy to show animal nature. And they do look like a bunch of psychopaths right now.
A thought popped into her mind. The fear in her heart was like the raging waves of the sea, which caused her to lose some of her ability to think rationally. So once she grasped the thought, she never let go—
She decided to run!
As for after the run?
She didn't have the courage to think about it.
So she really started running. Suddenly jumped out from Sister Mandarin Duck's side and began to stumble twice. But soon he exerted all his strength - as he did at the May Fourth Farm Movement - and rushed straight to the checkpoint!
At a distance of more than forty meters, she took nearly ten seconds, which was considered a very slow run.
She also knew not to look back at this time, but she couldn't help but look.
Immediately, I found that no demon clan caught up with her—whether it was the mandarin duck sister or someone else, they only stood and looked at her, with an inexplicable smile on their faces.
Before she could figure out what was going on, she realized that she had crossed the black and yellow cordon in front of the sentry truck gate.
...... Safe?
It's safe!
She shouted in her heart. But the next moment she heard the sound of metal clashing - she guessed it was pulling the bolt.
The two city defense soldiers who were still idly smoking and watching jokes before threw away their cigarette butts and picked up their guns at this time, and shouted sternly from three meters away: "Stop! What are you doing!?"
It was like a thunderclap that instantly slashed her courage. Star fruit stopped at a loss and stared wide-eyed: "I...... I'm human......"
"Know you're human. One of the city guards frowned, as if he was facing a great enemy, "The people from the wasteland farm want to enter the city?"
“...... Be...... Those demons want to kill ......."
"Migration certificate. ”
“...... They're going to kill—"
"You can't get in if you don't have it. The man said coldly, "Back back, back outside the cordon!"
Star fruit's weakened body felt the chill again—more piercing than when it had been caught by the demons before. The blood that boiled for running quickly cooled down. She stared straight at the man who was speaking to her. But the man pointed a gun at her.
So she closed her mouth tightly and slowly retreated outside the cordon.
Two soldiers lowered their guns. One man pulled out a cigarette and handed it to the other, who lit a fire. Then they looked up at the distant mountains.
Li Cheng turned his face to look at the girl standing outside the cordon, like a javelin, and smiled: "Seeing her, I thought that I didn't think that I was like you, how naïve I was." ”
"Actually, it's the same now—do you think you'll be all right if you run to the city? As long as I'm not dead, you can't run away. ”
"Go and bring her back. He patted Li Qingyan on the shoulder, "Your skin will be left on your body first." You asked me why I killed her, and I wanted to know why the man told us to kill her, the people of your promotion association. Help me figure this out...... Let's settle the old score. ”