The sound of running in the dark, large groups of detectives, police, and gendarmes, the entire Meixian area was trembling that night.
In his dream, he was standing in the sunshine, on the street, looking into her eyes in the gray river of pedestrians. Her shy smile was dazzling.
The light, the sound of gunfire, every position, every target, could not be hidden by the darkness. The military police were checking the list with flashlights, crossing out the names one by one, making it as dark as the night.
In his dream, he saw her in the sunlight, awkwardly hooking her hands behind her skirt and walking backwards, one small step at a time, as if she was carefully teaching him how to write down her attachment.
Resisting arrest, blood, fleeing, also blood. The dark night was filled with the smell of blood. Whether in the county town, Xinglong Town, or anywhere else, people were struggling between shackles and guns.
In his dream, he stood in the sunshine, watching her swing her long braids and turn lightly to her back. Her beautiful back in a blue shirt and black skirt gradually faded away into the distance of the gray river, as if drifting away and disappearing in the glare...
It was time to put on his sunglasses and leave, but he couldn’t find them. He raised his open hands in front of his eyes, empty, with nothing. He had clearly received a gift, clearly received... black... exquisite sadness...
"Are you awake?"
When he opened his eyes, he was not standing on the street, but lying in a ward. There were white walls, a white ceiling, a glaring window, and a nurse in white talking to him. She was wearing a monotonous white mask, had a pair of clean single eyelids, and spoke non-standard Chinese.
"You're talking about sunglasses? This is it?"
I finally saw clearly what the nurse was holding in her hand, the exquisite sunglasses that she had been hiding on her body and was reluctant to throw away. The sunglasses were broken, the metal frame had been broken into two pieces, and there were bullet marks on it.
"It's not mine. I don't have it."
"But this is on you."
"Why am I here?"
"You are a loyalist."
Li Youcai was slow to understand the meaning of the lame name of the Japanese nurse. Loyalists sounded much better than traitors and lackeys, especially when she said it, it seemed very noble. He was indeed a loyalist, loyal to a beauty that had just gone away.
The nurse put the broken sunglasses on the windowsill, returned to the bedside, leaned over and touched Li Youcai's forehead, then walked to the door. Before opening the door, she stopped again. The eyes behind the mask stared at Li Youcai for several seconds, and suddenly asked, "Can I ask you... for something?"
Li Youcai, weak and dazed on the roof, turned his gaze to the nurse.
"Please, help me investigate this person. His name is Gao Yidao."
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The Meixian Rangers were wiped out overnight, implicating countless people, including those who sheltered them, financed them, and traded with them. Even their neighbors were implicated, and not a single one was spared. Every day, bodies of executed people were dragged out of the city through the streets as a warning to others.
Even the clever Su Qing couldn't understand how the Rangers could be so miserable that they could be wiped out completely. The bloody lessons learned from the past made her determined to stay in the city for a few more days to thoroughly reform her intelligence network. This also made her no longer afraid. She wanted to stay in the city for another reason. She liked the feeling of seeing him every day, liked that he was not far away. It was precisely because she was in this terrifying city that she cherished him more, not to mention that he was not the captain of the ninth company, but just a soldier.
She used to envy Zhou Wanping for being able to disdain Hu Yi's position and calling him a bastard guard. Now she can also order him around as a guard, and she is secretly happy.
Hu Yi also wanted to stay in the city for a few more days. Since that night when Li Youcai was awakened by Su Qing's cooking, he has never come back. Just now, Su Qing's spy got the news that Li Youcai was shot and hospitalized in Xinglong Town, and then transferred back to the Japanese hospital in the county town. The details are all unknown. I don't know why, that grave-like Japanese hospital always has such a fate. Li Youcai once complained that he was unlucky, and now it seems that he is indeed unlucky. As for why he is unlucky and how unlucky he is, it is unknown.
Therefore, Hu Yi wanted to get accurate information about Li Youcai before leaving, in order to dilute another reason why he wanted to stay for a few more days: the stupid woman was here, and he didn't want to leave her behind. This stupid woman was not lacking in courage, and when she got blindly, she would dare to take any path that would take her to the edge of a knife!
Considering that Li Youcai is now in the hospital, for safety reasons, Su Qing and Hu Yi moved out of Li Youcai's kennel. Their new place of residence is also an old place, an ownerless house with a cellar and a tunnel connecting to Yoshida Trading Company.
When planning to help Li Youcai rescue people, Hu Yi only sent two people from the Ninth Company, Ma Liang and Shi Cheng. The number was so small that Su Qing was unsure and felt that it was in jeopardy. Hu Yi insisted on using only these two, because he could handle small-scale raids with these two. Regardless of combat experience, courage, ability, and coordination proficiency, these two guys could at least be used as six people. More importantly, the fewer people there are, the easier it is to withdraw, the easier it is to conceal, the easier it is to hide, the easier it is to escape, and the lower the risk of running away. Once an accident occurs during the operation, Hu Yi will not be reluctant to abandon the rescue target, because this is not a superior mission, just trying to help, and of course retreat is above all else.
Unfortunately, the perfect rescue plan led by Su Qing was ruined by the rescue operation of the Rangers. Ma Liang and Shi Cheng had already entered the city and lived in the home of Aunt Liu, who had rescued Ma Liang. The action plan was ruined, and no further orders were received, so they became on standby. These two capable men became idlers, which was equivalent to a vacation. After all, this was the city, and it was lively. It would be strange if the bumpkins from Qingshan Village were not happy. They wished that the leader Su would completely forget about them and have a lot of free time.
In comparison, the days at the wine station were still so peaceful. In Qin You's heart, it was peaceful, but in the hearts of some people, it was boring.
For example, Xiao Hongying would compete with Wu Shitou in building artillery towers on the beach every day. She would lose to Wu Shitou every day, and then she would grab Wu Shitou and beat him every day, even though she never let him win. This cycle repeated over and over again, and she became not much smarter than Wu Shitou.
For example, Luo Fugui slept every day, in the dormitory, in the bunker, in the instructor's room, and on the beach. When he woke up, he found that Xiao Hongying had lost to Wu Shitou again. Then he watched stupidly as Xiao Hongying grabbed Wu Shitou and beat him, over and over again. Luo Fugui felt that Xiao Hongying was not much smarter than Wu Shitou.
Today, Xiaodou came from the regiment and said that the superior had brought an order to the regiment, which was for Secretary Su, but Secretary Su was not there, so the order was sent to the wine station, asking if there was anyone in the wine station who could go into the city to find Su Qing and report verbally.
Qin You was just wondering if this was necessary, when Luo Fugui jumped out and laughed. He also had a good citizen license. Half of the second row was bought from the county town by a human trafficker like him, so it was not difficult for him to enter the city. Xiao Hongying jumped out and laughed. She knew Li Youcai's address in the county town. Of course, Xu Xiao also knew Li Youcai's address, but unfortunately, she was tied up on the beach by Wu Shitou at this moment and had no idea what was going on.
From then on, one of them grabbed Qin You's collar and begged him endlessly, and even turned around and kicked him but refused to let go; the other one tried to commit suicide on the rooftop of the stone house, threatening to hang herself, and demanded that the instructor delete Chang Hongying's name from the ninth company's files, because no one would take her as a soldier anyway!
The peaceful bar can no longer be peaceful...