Just as linked souls are born together in every reincarnation, living beings will always be attracted to each other because of the red thread of fate.
Eventually we meet at a certain point in time, and maybe the person you rescued is the person who killed you in your previous life.
The connection between spirit and spirit will not disappear due to the life and death of the body.
——Dr. Wu Shixin’s explanation of his medical ethics.
At two o'clock in the morning, on the outskirts of the Kingdom of China, in the military management area of the Throne Army.
The warm wind of the summer night blew up the hem of "Dagger"'s windbreaker. He stared at the dirt road surrounded by woods, the scarlet pupils of his eyes shining in the dark night.
(My Lord, although it is very weak, there seems to be a dragon corpse here.)
(Really dead?)
(Huh? I'm not completely sure. The only thing I can confirm is that this dragon...according to human age, it seems to be less than six years old...)
The age of a dragon is based on four years in the Chinese lunar calendar. The growth rate of its body and bones is four times slower than that of humans.
"call……"
A terrible guess emerged in "Dagger"'s mind. He reached out and checked the mask on his face, suppressing the increasingly fierce anger in his blood and soul.
It is the kind of anger that comes from hearing the desperate pleas of one's own kind.
"Dagger" jumped up, climbed directly onto the street tree next to the dirt road, and began to use the branches as a foothold to head towards the military management area built deep into the mountain.
However, not long after he disappeared, a tall woman carrying a fishing tackle bag and a peaked cap appeared at the intersection of the dirt road. She pressed the button on the open-toed gloves, and a pair of glasses with shooting parameters protruded from her earphones.
, looking at this place that made her feel complicated.
Eighteen years ago, when she was only eighteen years old, she led a group of fifteen or six-year-old children to the border to perform a mission, in order to let these little kids see what the battlefield was like.
Later, because of a broken sight, she could only listen to them die under the enemy's gun.
At that time, she was the strongest sniper in the "Shadow Kill" and "Veteran" units, numbered 09. This number later became her name and codename.
The quartermaster who was responsible for providing equipment assistance back then is now the squad leader of a demining squad on the border. His boss, Xue Yan, has settled here since he was released from prison, the base camp of the Thrawn Special Forces.
"Long time no see, Sister Jiu. Since you chose to expose your mistake at this time, it means you know something, right?"
The shadows beside the street trees made familiar ripples, and a girl wearing an obsidian hairpin appeared in front of Lingjiu.
"Long time no see. This hairstyle looks pretty good, little shadow."
Before You Ling followed Lin Shuwen, she had been living with Lingjiu. For the two of them, they were more like masters and apprentices or sisters.
Although the age difference is a bit big.
Lingjiu is currently 36 years old, and Youling is only 19 years old.
"The name he gave me is You Ling, and now my official code name is "Zhi"."
"Zhi" slowly approached Lingjiu. There was a cute height difference between Lingjiu's height of 1.6 meters and Lingjiu's height of 1.7 meters. Lingjiu stretched out his hand out of habit.
However, after a few seconds, she stopped trying to hug her and replaced it with a pat on the shoulder. A trace of nostalgia flashed in her eyes, and she walked into the woods on the side of the mountain first, found a hidden spot under a tree, sat down, and put her backpack on
On the ground, start assembling the sniper rifle.
"Fifteen years ago, in order to add fresh blood to "Shadow Kill", I took a group of recruits under the age of sixteen to the border for training. At that time, China sent a team of special forces to cooperate with us. The team led by
This is the current captain of the garrison, Xue
rock."
"Later, due to a quartermaster's mistake, Sister Jiu, your scope was suddenly damaged and you were unable to save those children. But wasn't the quartermaster killed by a mine?"
"Zhi" raised his head and looked at the branches not far away. "Dagger" who was sitting there at some point was listening carefully to the conversation here.
"Hahaha... you still haven't changed, little shadow, ah no, You Ling."
Lingjiu laughed and looked at this innocent child with a smile on his face.
"The result of the fact is that the quartermaster only served as a squad leader of the border demining force. After that, I went to him personally and beat him up, but based on the secrets he later revealed, he was finally handed over to us
All the equipment used must be inspected by his superiors personally, and he conceals it for the sake of his career."
The gun was loaded, and Lingjiu's face gradually became solemn.
"And that boss is the team leader, Xue Yan?"
"Dagger" jumped down from the branch, and dozens of shadows spread out from his feet, linking to the surveillance probes in the woods.
Lingjiu stood up without any surprise, carried the assembled sniper rifle behind his back, and began to put on his gun bag and weapons.
"Dagger" who stood next to Lingjiu glanced at the microphone icon on her glasses and curled his lips silently.
"I'm just here to investigate. If it's not necessary, I hope you won't cause trouble."
The purpose of "Dagger"'s trip was just to extend Xue Ling's line, but seeing Lingjiu looking ready for battle, he couldn't help but give a reminder.
Lingjiu, on the other hand, adjusted her clothes and extended her right hand towards "Dagger"'s eyebrows.
Then, it blew his mind.
"I'm a veteran, so I'm measured. But you, don't be emotional. From just now, you've been exuding an angry aura."
Lingjiu glanced suspiciously at the increasingly unfamiliar young man in front of her. In her impression, this extremely impulsive look should be the child next to him.
"Well, then I'll leave first. "Zhi", you can follow Sister Jiu."
"I've wanted to complain from the beginning, why did you give her the codename "Fat"?! She's so petite and cute..."
""Pen, ink, paper and inkstone, calligraphy, poetry and eulogy", I just changed one word, and her code name is not "fat", but "rouge". Tsk, so you women are really in trouble!"
After subconsciously uttering a machismo complaint, "Dagger" turned around and ran towards the garrison base in the distance, looking completely different from the angry and anxious look he had in the past.
Lingjiu frowned and turned to look at where "Zhi" was behind him. However, there was no one there.
"Sigh... but compared to me, maybe it would be a better choice for Little Shadow to follow him. Something will probably happen to this child tonight."
after an hour.
The lonely mountain forest suddenly rang with the muffled sounds of several electromagnetic explosions. In the monitoring room stationed at the base, all external monitoring probes went black.
Then, the alarm sounded.
The assembly number was awakened and the dragon-lockers gathered.
In the containment room in the basement of the mountain, a horned girl wearing white cloth was awakened by the noisy crowd. She opened her eyes weakly, and a small amount of blood newly flowing out of her heart kept rolling, as if she was resonating with a certain existence.
.
"ah……"
A hoarse and weak voice emanated from the lifeless throat and was drowned by the noisy voices.
"All external surveillance probes have been destroyed, which is a clear hostile intrusion."
"Don't send people out, blockade
Gate. Re-establish the line as a communication channel for all soldiers, switch to radio!"
"yes."
Xue Yan, who was arranging his clothes, was orderly directing the defense work at the base. He took out his mobile phone and dialed the number of the President's Office.
"Hello, this is the office of the President of China."
"I am Xue Yan from Thrawn's army. There is a suspected spy invasion. Please send additional personnel to assist in the encirclement and suppression."
"Okay, I'll report it to Mr. President right away."
"Um."
"boom!"
After hanging up the phone, Xue Yan took the radio handed over by his subordinate and walked out of the control room. Suddenly, there was an explosion from the direction of the weapons depot.
"Team 1 and 2 are going to protect the weapons depot! Team 3 and 4 are on standby, and teams 5 and 6 are guarding the experimental area."
Xue Yan's Thrawn troops totaled a thousand soldiers and a hundred experimenters. Among them, the soldiers participating in the experiment only included about 200 people from the fifth and sixth teams and the command level. The other soldiers were just assigned to this
The soldiers trained at the garrison base only know that important experiments are being conducted here.
On the other hand, a team of 400 soldiers from the first and second teams who arrived belatedly surrounded the weapons depot opposite to the experimental area, vigilantly surrounding the blasted gap at the side and rear of the weapons depot.
However, at the same time, Xue Yan's wife, Zhao Ping, who was disturbed by the explosion, was wearing a lab coat and ran from the dormitory to the experimental area, but her completely opposite heat source was completely exposed to Lingjiu's glasses.
.
At this time, she was on the hillside surrounding the garrison base, overlooking the base with infrared glasses from a position higher than the base.
"Lin Shuwen, a special heat source is heading to the three o'clock direction of the base, you..."
"I've caught up."
Zhao Ping stopped, breathing heavily, and suddenly turned her head to look at the teaching building next to her. The bright light passed through the empty and neat windows, revealing a figure falling straight down.
Zhao Ping turned around and ran away. However, after running a few steps, she was horrified to find that a man wearing a mask had appeared in front of her.
"Dagger" stared at his prey quietly, put away the infrared glasses that popped out of the mask, and his black and red eyes were like a demon in the night, making Zhao Ping, who was already guilty, sit down on the ground.
"you……"
"Plop!"
There was the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground from the teaching building. Zhao Ping turned her head subconsciously and found that it was a colleague wearing a blood-red coat.
"That's the heat source in the same direction as you, so tell me, where are you going?!"
One step at a time, one syllable at a time, one sentence at a time.
The blood-smelling red mist spread around "Dagger"'s body. Coupled with the nearly full moon tonight, fear had already made Zhao Ping's whole body cold. She shivered and pressed the emergency communication with the hand behind her back.
On the main playground, Xue Yan, who received the emergency communication, rushed directly into the monitoring room. However, the monitoring in the teaching building area where the signal came from had gone dark. Almost at the same time, the remaining monitoring in the monitoring room except the main experimental area suddenly went completely black.
There are only a few hidden but basically useless surveillance probes left.
"Captain Xue!"
"Everyone, go to the outskirts of the experimental area!!!"
Seeing his wife's accident, Xue Yan changed his previous methodical attitude. He rushed out of the monitoring room, grabbed a motorcycle and rushed to the teaching building!
"me!!"
Blood flowed down Zhao Ping's left arm. "Dagger", who had completely lost his mind, twisted the blood-scaled sword slightly to vent his anger.