"Recently, the unusual movements in Xushan have been confirmed by relevant parties to be just landslides and mountain fires that occurred in the hinterland of the mountain. The municipal government of Shuchuan City, Shuchuan Province has confirmed with the department responsible for the Xushan military exercise that it was caused by improper operations.
The man-made disaster will not have a major impact on Xushan as a whole. The red and blue sides have now suspended the original exercise plan and instead implemented a rescue exercise for this disaster..."
——China Evening News on June 25, 2020
"Kacha, kacha..."
In the rain-washed woods, people covered in mud and blood were staggeringly cutting down the branches that blocked the road, staggering on the land where they had laughed with more people.
But now, they occasionally kneel down on the muddy and slippery ground, and they can only scratch the ground with their numb and painful hands, looking for those people in their past.
Or, human limbs.
"This raid killed 70% of our people, but if we insist on it, it's only... 1,879 people."
"Next time, remember to remove unnecessary interjections. You must learn to understand the weight of numbers."
"I'm sorry, Sister Lanxin."
Outside the command vehicle, Ye Lanxin walked slowly on the uneven road in the camp. Beside her, a sixteen-year-old girl with short hair and blue eyes, wearing the same "school uniform" as Liu Yexiao, followed closely behind her.
Reporting data.
She is Liu Yexiao's closest relative's deputy captain, "Jiu Ba", Beiqing Zhi.
"As for the casualties on the eldest lady's side, according to the data returned so far, everyone...all the ordinary combat members of "Wutong" who participated in this surprise attack were all killed."
"Do you know why?"
"You mean...what?"
Ye Lanxin's question made Beiqingzhi unable to react for a moment, because the calculation and derivation ability obtained by being modified by the human body was completely useless - she didn't know what Ye Lanxin was asking.
"Aren't you surprised? Through high-level combat power containment, surprise attacks, and nearly perfect assault battles, the final result was not only a loss, but even the participating soldiers, those ordinary "Wutong" members, were not even
Leave."
"Isn't the criterion for victory in a war the elimination of all resistance on the other side?"
Ye Lanxin glanced at Beiqing Zhizhi, leaned over the body of a "Shadow Kill" member, and rummaged in the pocket of his clothes until he pulled out a blood-stained letter.
She opened the letter and found a freshly written suicide note:
"On the sixty-eighth day after entering Xushan, Xiaoyu:
I finally came to the last mission of my life. It’s a pity that if this mission was given by the eldest lady, maybe I could live for a while longer. (=w=)
The wine tonight was very good, but it was a pity that I didn't get the meat that the eldest lady personally grilled. But after being patted on the shoulder and talking to her for three minutes, I really felt that I was with the wrong person. If I could live tomorrow... No, that's
Something that is simply impossible.
After that technique was implanted into our bodies, I understood that I couldn't survive. Even if I survived, I would hurt my brothers and the eldest lady one day! Damn it! As a psychic medium
It is always extremely sensitive in places like this! If Damon dies, it cannot be activated. No, it will always be activated, even at the most annoying time.
If I don’t want to kill the eldest lady uncontrollably one day in the future, no, I can’t kill the eldest lady either...but the eldest lady will definitely be very sad. As a younger brother, it’s not good to embarrass the boss.
I really don't want to die... I haven't found a wife yet, I still want to drink with the eldest lady, and I also want to go on a mission with everyone in "Wutong".
Maybe I can survive. If I'm lucky enough to meet that "dagger", maybe I can survive.
It can remove the spell. Yes! Just do it! Find that "dagger" when the time comes! Find him!
I will definitely survive! Here comes Ollie!"
"Unfortunately, he is unlucky."
Beiqing Zhi said calmly. During her and Liu Yexiao's childhood, she had heard similar letters and similar words countless times.
From the mouth of a small child.
"From the beginning, they already knew that they would not survive. In order not to interfere with Lan Ruxin and my plan, they mechanically, no, carried out Damon's order while anesthetizing themselves."
"Unexpectedly, Damon included madness in the strengthening spell he gave them."
Beiqing Zhi picked up the end of Ye Lanxin's words and recalled in her mind those "Wutong" members who were irrational and howling and killing like crazy demons.
Ye Lan folded the letter in his heart, carefully put it into his combat uniform, and continued walking towards the road littered with corpses in front of him, carefully looking for gaps between the corpses as a place to stay.
"During the Naija séance, I found that I had made a huge mistake. I always thought that Damon's trump card was humans or heavy troops. He even pulled out a robot dozens of meters high.
I can accept it, yes, if these are his trump cards, it makes perfect sense for my sister and I to force him to do so."
Ye Lanxin stopped on a mound, surrounded by a wilderness strewn with corpses. The smell of blood and mud rushed into her and the sweepers' nostrils like sharp thorns, and the rotting stumps were soaked in the disgusting slime.
In the thick liquid, together with "coke", "ice slag" and "ichor", they formed an abyss scene that conformed to the aesthetics of external gods.
On the temples, the dirty rain mixed with sweat and tears, flowing down the river.
"Now, in the hands of that devil, their deaths have become a completely meaningless irony. When the opponent's trump card is only "based on the opponent himself", these methods used to force others out are just a
joke!"
"They don't have to die at all!"
Ye Lan clutched the corner of his clothes tightly. His face was stained with blood and dirt and he couldn't tell whether it was just rainwater or not.
"I lost the bet. After Shuwen arrived, I was still betting on Damon's trump card blindly, and I was still blindly believing in my bullshit policy. I should wake up. Lan Ruxin entrusted her trust to me.
I should have woken up by now! She didn’t just want me to find a mole! She didn’t just want to weaken Damon’s power! She was just struggling in this communication-blocked environment..."
"She could only struggle like an anxious loyal minister, trying to tell and warn me about this foolish king! After I couldn't hear her warning, she could only desperately "save herself" and save her cronies."
"I lost the last battle of the "Gravity" project. The corpses all over the ground that shouldn't have died are the price of my failure."
Ye Lanxin looked up at the sky, as if praying to the sky for light to judge sins.
Finally, she arrived.
"Crack!"
"Second child..."
On the hill, a tall figure suddenly rushed out, holding hands tightly, looking down at Ye Lanxin, who had just been slapped in the face. Beiqing Zhi, who tried to step forward, retracted her arms. She looked at the sudden appearance in front of her in shock.
figure.
The eldest lady of the Ye family, Lan Ruxin.
"Ahem! You..."
"Crack!"
The second backhand slap directly knocked Ye Lanxin to the ground. Under the repeated stimulation, Ye Lanxin's mouth tightened, and she finally cried while hugging her sister's calf.
"I thought they only had a few teams of mercenaries!"
"I thought they were just rats that were frightened by the text!"
"Why the hell do I still have a concave shape? Why didn't I adjust my counterattack plan earlier!!!"
"Why don't you call them back after Xiao'er kills the assassin!!!"
"I shouldn't! I shouldn't..."
"Uh-huh..."
Under Damon's ability, all long-distance communications were useless. At that time, even if Ye Lanxin realized that the enemy was carrying out a large-scale attack instead of a small-scale attack, she could not notify her immediately.
To the captain of "Garden".
And her captains were unable to clearly react to the specific situation due to the constraints, which ultimately led to their subordinates being crushed to death by a sea of people and other high-level combat forces.
Objectively speaking, this situation can only be attributed to Damon's good strategy. He used that team of mercenaries to explore and induce, and then ordered other high-level combat forces to confuse and contain them in a small group mode, creating the captain of the "Garden"
He was trying to fight off the illusion of a few people in that group of mercenaries, and finally activated the technique, allowing his troops to enter a state of madness and rush to kill the leaderless "Garden" troops.
"..."
Lan Ruxin looked indifferently at her sister who was crying on her lap. She slowly squatted down, knelt in front of her sister, stretched out her hands and held her in her arms.
Silent and speechless.
In the eyes of ordinary people, this hug is just a touching scene of reconciliation between sisters fighting for power. But in the eyes of all insiders, it is an announcement of the liberation that the two sisters have been pretending to have for twenty years, and represents that from this moment on, they
There is no need to speak ill of each other as enemies and fight to the death as in the past. Instead, they can express their feelings for each other as intimately as ordinary sisters, whose blood is thicker than water.
This had been their dream for countless nights, a luxury that they could not achieve even at the cost of their lives.
"elder sister……"
Ye Lanxin's voice still contained a cry.
"Does your face hurt?"
"pain……"
"hehe……"
Lan Ruxin smiled, and her heartfelt smile was filled with the softest emotions in the world. She gently patted her sister's back, finally comforting her beloved sister as a sister.
The rain gradually became lighter.
"Remember the hook we pulled that night? If one day any one of us gives up or gives in to the devil, the other one will slap her twice hard until it becomes swollen.
That kind of thing.”
"Well...yes...sister...I'm sorry..."
"All of us in Wutong were prepared to die, but they all thought they were dying so that I could gain power. I was lying to them until they died."
Lan Ruxin's voice began to choke, and countless familiar faces flashed through her mind, calling her "big sister".
"But they are not stupid either. The night before departure, they were all arguing that if Damon seized power in the end, they might as well die here..."
Tears began to form in the corners of Lan Ruxin's eyes.
"Finally...I will confess to them today, tell them the truth, and tell them that as long as they surrender..."
The two sisters hugged each other tightly, and their bodies were wet with tears.
"But! Damon...this devil!!! This coward who can only cast curses!!!!"
The crying sound was completely released from Lan Ruxin's throat, and a ray of light shone down in the darkening sky.
Beside the mound, all the people returning or working silently watched the two sisters hugging each other and blaming themselves, with mixed emotions.
Beiqing Zhi remained silent, then murmured to herself: