fluttering-
The branches swayed and swayed, and a few birds jumped out and flew into the sky under the light of the flashlight beam.
"..." Ajie stopped, looking a little puzzled, and looked around again. The courtyard wall of the guest house is made of bricks and earth, and it is full of holes and gaps. The sparse trees and shrubs extend all the way to the back mountain, like a black curtain of different shades between heaven and earth.
"Brother Jie?" The bodyguard asked in a low voice.
In the darkness, Applejack's expression could not be seen clearly, and he did not answer.
At the same time, the back of the courtyard wall of the guest house.
Qi Sihao kept the posture of smashing the fence and wooden frame with one foot and stood still, his eyes were round, his mouth was slightly open, his back was tightly against the wall, and he felt cold sweat soaking his shirt a little along his back.
Just separated by a wall, the devil who killed without blinking an eye held a flashlight and stood in the open space less than three meters away from him.
He didn't dare to breathe, or even to make a heartbeat. It took a long time for him to move his eyes, and his eyes crossed the wall that was as high as a person. He saw the moon reflected in the gray glass window on the second floor of the guest house, reflecting a bluish white light.
As long as your eyesight is good enough, you can find that the window is not completely closed, but is slightly hidden, leaking a finger-wide gap—
Yan Yan stood by the window with his back against the wall, and pressed his two fingers tightly against the window lattice. As long as he relaxed a little, the already deformed window would automatically open with a creaking sound.
He tilted his head silently, unable to see the scene outside the window because of the angle, but he could capture the light of the flashlight in the dark night. There were so many people standing in the courtyard, outside the courtyard walls, and upstairs in the house, but no sound was heard at all. The eerie clouds blocked the moonlight every inch.
"...It's alright, I missed it." Applejack finally spoke up and said, "Go back."
The fully drawn bowstring loosened instantly, and the sharp arrow disappeared into the air.
The flashlight swayed a few times and then went out. The men got up and walked back to the main entrance of the guest house. After a while, there were sounds of walking and talking from downstairs. Someone came upstairs coughing, and the small open space outside the window was quiet.
Yan Yan finally let go of the two-inch window gap slightly, and turned to look out, the downstairs was completely dark.
Should be gone.
On the other side of the stairs, the footsteps of the horses coming upstairs became louder and louder, and they were about to walk towards the vacant room here. In the last few seconds, Yan Yan pushed open the window and flew down from the second floor!
boom!
Yan Yan fell to the ground without making any sound, but when he got up, he heard a slight smile coming from the darkness behind him—
The strong wind is coming!
Damn he didn't leave at all!
It was too late to speak, and Yan Yan didn't even have time to scold his mother, so he rolled on the spot following the momentum of the landing, dodging Ajie's hand knife. There was no light at all around, and he couldn't really reach out his fingers, but Yan Yan's senses were sharper, and he clearly felt the professional killer clinging to him like a nightmare.
A thought flashed across Yan Yan's mind during the lightning flash: "Fuck he has a gun!"
In fact, there is no need to shoot, even if you just turn on the flashlight, the strong light will immediately shake Yan Yan's eyes, causing him a fatal flaw, which means that he is finished.
Unexpectedly, Ajie's first reaction was not like that. He lost the flashlight and slammed Yan Yan's throat with his palm, while bending his knees and pushing him against the wall - but Ajie seemed to be stunned when the body made contact. , there is doubt in the nasal cavity: "Huh?"
This kind of gaffe simply shouldn't happen to a killer of his level. Yan Yan didn't let go of this momentary gap, and pinched Ajie's wrist bone with a crackling sound. At the moment when the other party withdrew his hand due to the severe pain of the dislocation, he turned around and kicked back, which hit the sternum with a bang, knocking him out. He kicked out!
"Who's there?"
"stop!"
Ajie collapsed the firewood stack, grabbed the flashlight that he had thrown on the ground, turned it on, and flashed it, just to capture the figure of Yan Xun who ran two steps and jumped over the courtyard wall. It's you!"
As soon as the voice fell, Yan Yan understood everything.
He landed on the ground instantly, grabbed Qi Sihao, and uttered a word: "Run!"
"Brother Jie! How is it?" "What's going on?!"
Ajie gritted his teeth, straightened his wrist, and said coldly, "Drive the dog and chase it!"
Five off-road vehicles turned on their headlights, started one after another, and roared down the dirt road. The dog bark sounded from all directions again, causing the wild beasts in the mountains and forests to growl, and the wind mixed with the sound of the wind spread all over the area for more than ten miles.
No one noticed that just as this series of incidents happened, two red lights flashed mysteriously on the road halfway up the mountain in the distance.
The red light was like a giant beast lurking in a mountain stream that was finally awakened. After it continued to light and extinguish for several times, it finally quietly disappeared into the night.
·
The countryside is backed by mountains and streams, and there are no roads at all. The ground is full of potholes and vegetation, and they can't count how many falls they have fallen. In the panic, Qi Sihao couldn't even see if the person who was dragging him was Yan Yan, he could only dazedly follow behind and crawled, suddenly the leather shoe didn't know what he stepped on, and it slammed down, immediately. Screaming and fell to the ground.
"Woo-wang-wang-wang!"
"Wang Wang!"
Yan Yan looked back and saw that they were located at a relatively high place, not far away, flashlights and car lights were faintly intertwined, and the sound of dogs barking faintly came from the wind.
"Get up, they're chasing after them." Yan Yan's iron pincer-like hands pulled Qi Sihao up alive: "Quick!"
Qi Sihao's facial features were twisted in pain, but fortunately he couldn't see clearly in the dark night, so he barely jumped on one leg: "Drug dealers, how can drug dealers follow me? Ah?! What the hell did you do in the orphanage? , recruited them?!"
It couldn't be an orphanage, Yan Yan knew very well.
Even if King of Spades senses the disturbance in the orphanage, it is impossible to catch up to the southwest hinterland in just a few hours, and it is also possible to lock in the village where they temporarily decided to stay. Yan Yan has been doing investigations for so many years. He knows that when the coincidence reaches a certain level, it cannot be a coincidence. Judging from the village committee's respectful attitude towards Ajie, there is only one appalling explanation - the whole village of Yongkang is selling drugs.
This remote village is the handicap of the king of spades, or at least an important transit point in the transportation channel. At the same time, this can also explain why the local economy is still developing well. Young people of that age didn't even go to the city to work.
Judging from the conversation between Ajie and the village chief, he went to this village overnight to arrest people, but according to the fact that he lost his flashlight, didn't fire a shot when he fought just now, as well as his polite shot strength and unexpected suspicion, he was stunned. It can be seen that he didn't even know that Yan Yan was in this village.
He has another target that he has to catch and handle with great care.
Who is that
Yan Yan gasped heavily, and a cold guess emerged in his heart.
"Ah!" Suddenly Qi Si stepped on the air, screamed in pain, and almost rolled into the stone pit used by the villagers to trap animals, but fortunately, Yan Yan quickly caught him.
The dust and stones fell, and Qi Sihao kicked and kicked a few times, almost hitting the trap made by the hunter at the bottom of the pit. Yan Yan gritted his teeth and pulled him up, and suddenly saw a flashlight flashing in the distance: "There is someone over there, stop!"
"..." Yan Yan scolded silently in his heart, and regardless of Qi Sihao's crying father and mother, he violently pulled him out of the pit and staggered into the woods.
Five cars, several dogs, and the drug dealers all carried guns and weapons. If it weren't for the complex terrain in the mountains and forests, Yan Yan would have no way to escape.
The rocks are rugged and bizarre, sometimes dense and sometimes sparse pine forests form a huge maze. They just rushed into the woods in a panic, and before they fell a few somersaults on the tangled ground, their feet were empty, and this time they couldn't even scream. At the same time, it rolled and fell!
This fall turned the world around, and in a hurry, Yan Xun only heard a muffled sound of "Bang!" It was during the roll that he hit a tree trunk, almost squeezing his lungs out of his throat, and his body abruptly stopped sliding down for a long while. Pain slowly woke up from the limbs and bones.
"Fuck..." Yan Yan swallowed the sweet blood in his throat, got up with black eyes, and looked up. I saw that the place where they fell just now was a steep slope, and the moonlight just leaked out a little, vaguely outlines the huge slope of rubble, as if countless jagged monsters were staring at them from a high place.
"Lao Qi," Yan Yan gasped, "...Lao Qi?"
Qi Sihao was lying in the grass, sat up with difficulty, and heard the sound of falling hard: "I can't do it anymore, I really can't run anymore..."
There was a human voice and a dog barking again in the distance, and Yan Yan urged sharply: "Get up! Don't be long-winded!"
"No no no..."
"quick!"
Qi Sihao was dragged alive, and he let out a heart-piercing scream before he could stand firm, and then the dislocated ankle landed on the ground, and immediately fell to his knees, almost throwing Yan Yantao on the head.
"Wow wow wow!" "Wow wow wow!"
Between the gaps in the mountains and forests above, the gangrene-like chasing soldiers approached again, and even the snoring of dogs could be faintly heard. As soon as Yan Yan pressed Qi Sihao's ankle, he found that it was folded at a terrible angle, and his heart sank immediately.
what to do
what to do? !
Yan Yan was born with fierceness and ferocity in his bones, and the harder he suppressed it, the easier he would be stimulated. In the darkness, I saw his wolf-like eyes squinting, his back molars clenched tightly, and he spit out two words softly and coldly: "Hide it up."
Qi Sihao was extremely frightened, and before he could understand what it meant, he saw him take two steps back and take a breath, and suddenly ran up the hill!
Faced with a crowd of drug dealers, no matter how calm and scheming people are, their first reaction is to run in the opposite direction. Only he dares to face the muzzle of the gun and rush up. Gotta be confused. Sure enough, the next moment the dogs barked everywhere, and the drug dealer immediately found him: "I found it! There!" "Don't run away, motherfucker!"
Bang bang bang!
Boom!
The bullets hit the trees and rocks, splashing several flames. Yan Yan rolled on the spot and flew out under the cover of the night. After attracting everyone's attention, he rushed towards the shady side of the slope like an arrow from the string.
At this time, the drug dealer only had one target in his eyes. He didn't expect Qi Sihao to hide behind the rock under the hillside, so he immediately roared and followed him!
Outside the woods in the distance, Applejack was standing beside the open car door, raising his head sensitively.
"Brother Jie, found it, in that direction!"
Ajie sneered a little, took out the gun from his waist and held it to his ear, slammed the bullet into the chamber: "Chase."
·
The Canglin is vast, and the cold is pressing, but at this time, I can't feel the cold at all. There was only the wind whistling in Yan Yun's ears. His own breathing and the scolding of the chasing soldiers were connected together. Gradually, there was the sound of rushing water in front of him - is there a river
Hundreds of meters away, the flashlights staggered, and the shadows reflected the scene in front. I saw a steep turn of the mountain tens of meters away, and a river actually appeared in the valley, which could not be seen at a glance under extremely dark visual conditions. On the other side of the river, judging from the sound of the water alone, the river situation should be quite complicated.
Jump into the river to escape
No, the dangers of wild waters are unimaginable, and the chances of surviving by jumping are no greater than being caught by drug dealers.
Yan Yan quickly looked around, and suddenly caught a glimpse of Shi Tui on the bank of the river from the corner of his eye, and his heart moved slightly.
Pfft!
clap la la-
A few people ran wildly with their dogs, flashlights swept around, only to hear someone roar: "He jumped into the river!"
"Go into the water and chase!"
These people were obviously not the bottom horses of the drug cartel, they were all professional outlaws, and immediately took off their coats, kicked off their shoes and wanted to jump down. However, just as they were about to go into the water, a stern shout sounded not far away: "Stop!"
His subordinates turned back: "Brother Jie?"
Applejack broke through the fog-like night air, and his short boots stepped over the thorns, jumped off the rocky beach, and strode to the river bank. He squatted down to test the temperature of the water on the beach, narrowed his eyes thoughtfully, and then searched for a few laps in the vicinity where the sound of the water popping in just now, suddenly found something, and sneered:
"That kid didn't go into the water."
He flashed a flashlight and saw that there was a vacancy in the rubble on the beach, and fresh soil and moss were exposed under the rocks that were hastily pushed into the river.
Ajie got up and looked around, his hungry wolf-like eyes slowly swept across the mountains and forests, and said softly, "He's hiding near here."
The subordinates looked at each other, and after a while, someone with undisguised ferocity on their faces asked in a low voice, "What should I do now, Brother Jie, set the mountain on fire?"
Ajie said impatiently, "Do you think this is in Myanmar?!"
The men choked.
"Thanks to those notes, the inland is no longer the inland of the 1990s." Ajie gritted his teeth and said coldly, "Call everyone, surround this open space, and surround me. Tomorrow morning - I don't believe he's really hard to survive here!"
The voices of the people spread out, and soon the forest beside the beach was surrounded in an organized manner, and the sounds of guns and dogs barking went straight up into the air along the wind.
At the top of a towering tree high up, Yan Yan leaned his back against the trunk, gritted his teeth and slowly sat on the branch.
His palms, arms, back, and even his calves were all scratched with blood, and as soon as the extreme tension passed, the severe pain gradually recovered from the nerve endings of his whole body, and even breathing was a little difficult, even a real iron body unbearable.
Yan Yan reluctantly wrapped her coat tightly, tried her best to maintain her body temperature, and took out the phone in her pocket—the bumps along the way had not dropped, but there was no signal, and the battery was almost bottomed out.
"Fuck..." He cursed almost silently, and just as he was about to turn off the phone, he suddenly paused again.
He couldn't tell why, but he almost clicked on the album on the homepage.
This is his personal mobile phone. The photos in the album are messy. The recent photos are all work-related site maps and data maps. If you look forward to it, you can take random moments in life. Yan Yan's photography skills are average, and he doesn't pay attention to lighting and composition. Some are pictures of accomplishment after cooking a table at home, some are selfies after shaving, and some are narcissistic in front of the mirror in the gym. Show off your muscles.
But more pictures are close-ups of some vague words: two palms clasped and clasped, a white and elegant neck, or two pairs of feet on the sofa and coffee table, pressing each other like a fight.
Even if the album is leaked, outsiders can't see why, only Yan Yan knows what kind of moments were recorded.
He couldn't keep too many photos of Jiang Zing, there was only one in the entire phone, and he was not willing to delete it until now.
It was one early morning, and the sun had just filtered into the bedroom through the gaps in the light golden curtains, reflecting on the messy big bed. Jiang Ting was leaning on his side, his cheeks were white and his eyebrows were black.
The neckline of the pajamas slipped down from the collarbone, revealing the sunken neck. He knew that Yan Yan was patting him, and he seemed to feel a little amused, and the tip of his half-closed eyes shone slightly.
What happened then
Yan Yan was a little dazed. He remembered that the night before he took this photo, they spent most of the night in bed. When he took a shower, Jiang Ting's legs were too soft to stand up. Ask him to solve the case by himself in the future. In order to coax him, Yan Xun said that he would cook red bean, purple rice, milk porridge for him, so when he woke up the next day, Jiang Ting opened his eyes and the first thing he said was: "Why are you staying here and not making breakfast?" "
This may be one of Yan Yan's favorite photos. He tried to delete it several times but failed to delete it. He occasionally took it out to take a look.
The cold wind screamed and screamed, running from the treetops to the sky.
There seemed to be a place in Yan Yan's heart that the wind was leaking, filled with coldness and bitterness.
- The most ironic thing is that in such a desperate situation, when he saw this photo, he could still feel the uncontrollable love in his heart.
It's actually fake, it's all fake. No amount of perfect rhetoric will help. That moment of tenderness is just a sandcastle built on precautions. It falls apart with a slight push, and even the last bit of false trust cannot be left.
Yan Yan's eyes were flushed, and he was panting rapidly. His thumb trembled slightly at the delete option for a while, and then he pressed his teeth down as if venting his anger.
Then he didn't give himself any time to regret, and clicked on the deleted album, as if he was fighting against a humble and weak self in his heart, shaking his hand and pressing hard to clear all—
It was not until he finished all this that he was completely relieved, and the last bit of support in his heart was instantly vacated.
Yan Yan leaned against the tree trunk and raised her head, covering her face.
Sobbing and whimpering in the mountain stream, whining and long howl entangled in the wind, drifting to all directions in the night.
It wasn't until a long, long time passed that he let out a barely audible, trembling choked sob.
·
The invisible pointer in the void turned every minute and every second.
Five thirty in the morning.
The thick ink before dawn was gradually fading, and the eastern sky was green with duck eggs, but the misty night air in the forest had not yet dissipated. Applejack was sitting by the crackling bonfire lighting a cigarette, and suddenly raised his hand and beckoned.
His subordinates stepped forward immediately: "Brother Jie?"
"Another half an hour." Ajie casually nodded to several higher terrain around the valley, and whispered: "When the sky is bright, let people occupy these places and use high-powered binoculars to stare at the nearby tree canopy. That kid didn't run far, maybe climbed up a tree, and set fire to me if he noticed anything unusual."
"Yes!" The subordinate got up and went to explain to the others.
"-etc."
The men stopped.
"When you find out, surround the tree first, don't panic. Go back to the village with a few people and tell them to guard the 'tree stump' and wait for the 'rabbit'. The elder brother is right, as long as the surnamed Jiang goes out of Jianning, he will definitely come. Here, when you catch him, bring him here..."
With undisguised cruelty in Ajie's eyes, he slowly said, "Let him watch me set on fire."
The men didn't understand why he did this, but these outlaws were well-informed and didn't feel weird at all, grinning as they should.
Ajie wanted to say something, but suddenly raised his head sensitively.
There seemed to be some kind of movement coming from the depths of the mountain forest, and then countless birds flew up suddenly, taking off countless twigs and dead leaves, clattering and covering the sky over the mountain stream.
What happened
Applejack stood up with a cigarette in between, and at this moment only listened to the distance - Da Da Da Da Da! !
Gunshots
"Brother Jie!" Another small drug dealer rushed over and shouted, "Someone! Someone broke in with a car and fired a gun in front!"
"—How much? Who?" Applejack asked immediately after a brief period of surprise.
"I don't know, the movement is very big! It's too far away to see clearly!"
Could it be the police backup called by the grandson surnamed Yan, or Caohua A finally discovered the movement here
The subordinates around the river bank stood up one after another, Ajie thought for a few seconds, and immediately pointed to a few subordinates: "You stay here with me, the others will drive to explore, go now!"
At the same time, high up in the canopy.
Yan Yan narrowed her pupils and stared at the movement by the beach. The same question as Ajie flashed in her heart: Is it the police backup called by Qi Sihao? Or are other drug dealers rushing to eat black after hearing the news
But there was no time to ponder no matter which one it was—as long as it was a little brighter, Applejack would look up and find the target that had been hidden on top of his head all night. By then, the branches and branches would not be able to hide people, and the sunlight would will reveal everything.
At this time, the drug dealer seemed to be very nervous about the unidentified intruder, and most of the figures swaying on the river beach dispersed. Only a few minutes later, only Ajie himself and a few men were left around the bonfire!
What a godsend!
Yan Yan took off his coat, wearing only his shirt, wrapped the police scarf around his arms twice, panting slightly and grasping the tree trunk.
He stared at the top of Ajie's black head, calculating his pace and the speed of his own sliding down the tree. He was like a professional hunter. At the moment when Applejack turned back to the campfire under the tree with a cigarette, he suddenly jumped down with strength—
The wind whistled, and Ajie suddenly realized that something was wrong, but it was too late to turn around.
He just felt a heavy object flying down from the top of his head, and then he was thrown down in the air, boom! The chin slammed on the ground hard, and the black and green staggered in front of him in an instant, and then the neck was severely strangled from the back!
"…!!"
Several drug dealers rushed to hear the sound, the guns were loaded, and they shouted: "Who?!" "Stop!"
"-stop!"
The drug dealer froze as soon as he finished speaking, and saw Yan Yan strangling Ajie's throat with a scarf from behind. With a force, he lifted him from the ground and blocked him like a bunker:
"One more step, I will break his neck!"
The shock came so unexpectedly that several of the gun-wielding subordinates didn't dare to move, but Ajie's face quickly turned from blue to purple, and his throat made a creepy crackling sound.
If he was strangled with a police scarf in front of so many people, it would be ironic for this professional killer who galloped between China and Myanmar and was full of evil, but it was also a very lucky ending.
However, Yan Yan's condition was not very good.
The last time he ate hastily was several hours ago. The mountain was frightened and the night was freezing cold, and he had lost his mental support. Now his physical strength has reached the end of the force, and only the anger and fierceness in his soul are left to support the action.
"..." Ajie clenched his fists with trembling, it was his last strength when he was on the verge of death, and an elbow pressed against Yan Xi's ribs!
A gust of blood recoiled down the trachea into his throat, Yan Yan suddenly let go, arched his body, coughed and stepped back. Applejack broke free from the shackles in two or three times, but was completely powerless to pursue the victory. The first reaction was to kneel on the ground and press his chest to vomit. This time, he almost replaced his lungs from his mouth.
Those subordinates were not stupid, they immediately chased after them on the spot. Two of them protected Ajie from left to right, and the others rushed to Yan Yan and pulled the trigger—
Yan Yan's conditioned reflex hugged his head to dodge, only to hear the gunshot explode beside his ear, bang!
boom! !
…Am I shot? he thought subconsciously.
But the pain didn't come as expected.
It seemed like two or three seconds had passed, and it was like two or three hours before Yan Yan raised her head and opened her eyes.
The gun of the drug dealer closest to him fell to the ground with a clatter, a hole appeared in his chest, and blood was gurgling out.
Immediately afterwards, the jungle began to sway, and eight or nine people who also wore guns and dressed as locals rushed out!
Yan Yan didn't realize what was going on, but Ajie, who already had rich experience in black and black eating, reacted and roared in embarrassment: "Move... do it! Cough, cough—"
The bodyguards supported him left and right and rushed into the nearest bushes, while the sneak attackers raised their guns without saying a word. As soon as the two groups met, they exchanged fire. One came prepared, and the other hurriedly fought. Gunfire erupted on the gray beach in the early morning!
"I#￥%*&..." Yan Yan dashed towards the woods, but during the battle, the pistol didn't have long eyes, and there was obviously no one on the scene who cared about his life. Huge rubble.
His reaction was also quick, he rolled on the ground with his hands on his head, and a shuttle of bullets just brushed past him, sweeping out a circle of fan-shaped dirt pits on the bank of the river!
- Where the hell is this going to hide? !
Death swept past, almost hooking the corner of Yan Yan's clothes. In that instant, he suddenly heard the sound of the river crashing behind him, and then a pair of cold hands hugged him from behind.
At the critical moment, there was only one thought in Yan Yan's mind: "Fuck, are there really water ghosts in the world?" !
He subconsciously bent his knees and kicked hard, but then, his head, face, heart and other deadly parts were protected with his body, and he was dragged down the river as he rolled over!
"Grumbling..."
The icy and bone-chilling river suddenly collapsed, and Yan Yan was caught off guard and poured several sips of water.
The sudden temperature change and the suffocation of water make most people completely incapacitated at this time. But Yan Xun is indeed a very aggressive person in his bones. With the turbid bubble blocking all his vision, he groped and grabbed the opponent, regardless of whether it was a human or a ghost, he grabbed it first Human throat!
But unexpectedly, the other party did not struggle.
He felt that person leaning forward, and the next second, a soft touch covered his lips, and he slowly took a breath.
"… "
The bubbles gradually dissipated, Yan Yan opened his eyes in amazement, only to see Jiang Ting's familiar figure reflected in the dim light at the bottom of the water.
The fierce exchange of fire, the screams of dying, the chaotic rain of bullets on the water... The world collapsed, everything turned into pieces and flew away, and in the end, only Jiang Ting's sad gaze was left in front of him.
He seemed to smile hastily, then stepped forward again, raised his head gently and placed a kiss on Yan Yan's lips.