"Run? How?"
Mada laughed, but his smile looked a bit self-destructive.
"I have a family in the fortress, a wife, and a sick child. If I run away, Iron Wall will come after them."
"I won't run."
"Everyone is responsible for their own actions. I don't want to, and won't, implicate my family."
Tianyang looked at the man, and to be honest, he was a little shocked when he learned that he had betrayed the fortress.
After all, Mada doesn't look like that kind of person.
On the way here, he blamed himself for losing his companions and even took his anger out on his own captain.
It can be seen that this is a man with true temperament.
But today, he left the fortress and even deliberately gave wrong coordinates, not only leading the Raven Squad away, but also leading the team to the lair of an angry lizard.
This kind of darkness is completely different from the previous him, like two different people.
“Why do you do this?”
When asking this question, Tianyang knew that it was redundant.
Mada had revealed the reason before, and it was most likely related to his sick child.
But he still hoped that Mada could speak out himself, as speaking out might alleviate his guilt.
"Why?"
Ma Da suddenly became excited: "Because I need contribution points! If I had such strong combat power like you, I could earn the contribution points I need."
"But I didn't. Even though I'm an Ascendant, I still have to wear protective clothing before I dare to enter the Reverse Realm. I'm a complete loser. In the mechanic class, I've been laughed at countless times because of this, both openly and secretly!"
"I don't want to, and I don't want to be so useless, but I can't help it!"
"If it were just this, it would be fine, but my child, who is less than one year old, has a genetic disease. It takes hundreds of contribution points every day for him to be treated."
"I have tried all the methods I can, but it's still not enough. What can I do? I have to sell the information bit by bit. Just recently, someone wanted to buy the information about the flesh and blood device, and the price was very high."
"5000! Five thousand contribution points. Do you know how long it will take me to earn this amount?"
Tianyang said nothing, had no expression, just looked at him calmly.
Ma Da was extremely excited and crazy: "I know that for an officer like you, 5,000 contribution points may only take one or two missions."
"But a small person like me can't earn that much in a year. Besides, my child needs treatment, and I need contribution points. And I happened to know some news, so I sold it."
"This kind of thing is more difficult the first time. But after the first, second, and third time, it will be easier the countless times afterwards."
"You should know what's going to happen next. So, Lieutenant, do you want to teach me a lesson?"
"Yes, that's right."
"I betrayed the fort."
"But I'm not wrong!"
"Is it wrong to save your own child?"
The voice echoed in the corridor. Ji Yu, who happened to be coming up, heard it. The woman looked at Tian Yang in confusion.
Tianyang did not respond, but just pulled up the motor and objectively narrated what happened next.
As for Ma Da, after he yelled those words, he looked like he had lost his soul, and there was no light in his eyes.
The two men escorted him downstairs, reported the information to Han Shu, and then waited for news in the hotel lobby.
Seeing Jiyu locking Mada to a chair, Tianyang didn't think it made any sense.
He has no intention of running away. Even if you ignore him, he won't run away.
Tian Yang did not comment on the man who was in despair. Nan Fei once told him that people are not qualified to judge others because you are not him, you do not know his experience, his life, and his feelings.
So just live your own life.
This is the life wisdom of a woman from the downtown area. Tianyang didn’t quite understand it before, but now he gradually understands it.
"Are you OK?"
Ji Yu walked over and patted the boy's shoulder gently.
Tianyang shrugged: "It's just a minor injury, nothing serious."
Ji Yu was furious: "Of course I know that those injuries on your body are only minor. I am asking you if you feel uncomfortable."
Tian Yang blinked, a little confused, and then suddenly realized: "Don't worry, I'm fine, you think I'm too fragile."
Ji Yu said "oh" deliberately, and looked at the boy with ill intentions: "So, sister's worry was in vain?"
Tianyang quickly said: "How could that be, Jiyu, you care about me so much, I am very touched."
Ji Yu rolled her eyes: "Come on, there is no sincerity in what you said."
She sat down and stretched her body, revealing her curves.
Tianyang quickly looked away to avoid giving Jiyu the opportunity to tease him.
Then she said, "My father is also a machinist."
Tianyang couldn't help but look at her. This was the first time he heard Jiyu mention her relatives.
"He was a very dull person who seldom smiled. In my impression, he was always working and even brought work home."
"One time, on a rainy day, when my mother and I were returning home, we saw him slapping someone hard in the face in the hallway."
"I was surprised because I could never remember my father being so rude."
"Later I found out that the person he slapped was his subordinate."
Tianyang guessed: "Is it because of work?"
Ji Yu shook his head: "No, that subordinate wanted to persuade my father to sell the research data at that time."
"A long time later, my father accidentally mentioned this incident one day. I still remember what he said to me."
“Life is hard, but there are some things that cannot be sold.”
My heart skipped a beat.
Tianyang lowered his head, with an indescribable feeling in his heart.
After saying this, Ji Yu stopped talking and sat quietly with a distant look in his eyes. I wonder if he was thinking about the past.
Just like that, after an unknown amount of time, a beam of light shone on their faces.
Tianyang stood up quickly.
The Raven Squad is here.
... ...
The car shook and Tianyang almost hit his head on the window.
The convoy had already left the nameless city and was now on its way back. No one spoke in the carriage and the atmosphere was low.
Han Shu coughed several times in the chariot's public channel, and then the captain said, "What are you doing? You are all so dejected, as if your women have run away from home."
"Captain." This was Kun Lan's voice. "The flesh and blood device was stolen, and the big lizard also ran away. Isn't it normal to feel depressed? Should we celebrate with a drink?"
"Hey, little blue hair, you can still talk back, then I feel relieved."
Han Shu paused for a moment before saying, "Yes, that's right. We didn't kill the giant lizard, and the flesh and blood device was stolen by someone of unknown origin. This mission can be said to be a failure."
"But who do you think you are!"
"You are just lieutenants and second lieutenants. Why do you think you are generals and commanders?"
"So every mission has to be successful?"
"fart!"
Han Shu chuckled, with a hint of a fake smile: "Don't be so self-righteous, boys!"
"If everyone was like you, and became dejected after failing a mission once, our fortress would not have been able to make it this far."
"Listen to me!"
"The reason why Skyfort has become what it is today is that it has grown through countless setbacks."
"Even our commander has had countless failures. You don't think you are better than the commander, do you?"
“Failure is not terrible.”
"The scary thing is that after failure, there is no fighting spirit."
“That’s the real failure.”
"Tell me, do you still have the will to fight?"
In the carriage, you looked at me, I looked at you, and then a chaotic and weak voice sounded in the public channel: "Yes."
"You call this having fighting spirit? You're kidding. If you don't have fighting spirit, then don't try to hold on. Facts have proven that you are just a bunch of little crybabies." Han Shu sneered sarcastically.
"How are you, little devils? Do you still have the will to fight?"
Perhaps he was unwilling to be looked down upon by the captain, so this time, Lian Tianyang's voice was much louder: "Yes!"
"It's too quiet. I can't hear you."
"have!"
"Louder."
"Yes! Yes! Yes!"
"That's more like it."
"Oh, by the way, Kunlan, please clean the barn after we get back. We've been away for a few days, so it should be dirty."
"Ah, why only me?"
"Because you have the best fighting spirit. You were the one who yelled the loudest just now, right?"
"That's true, but I feel like you're taking revenge on me for talking back to you just now..."
... ...
This is a desolate place.
A road stretched out from the direction of the metropolis to this place alone. On both sides of the road was an endless wilderness.
Thick black fog was floating everywhere, lingering on the dry and cracked black earth, caressing the large and small strange cold rocks, and entwining between the black trees with twisted branches...
In the wilderness, there are a few wanderers scattered around, wandering aimlessly. They are unconscious resentful souls, tireless ghosts, they never stop, they don't know where they come from, and they don't know where they are going.
at this time.
The wilderness trembled slightly.
On the cracked black earth, streaks of dust and smoke spewed out from the gaps that looked like mouths.
The strangely shaped cold rocks cracked into tiny cracks as they trembled.
Those strange black trees with twisted branches that looked like the hands of the devil were shaking violently, shaking off clouds of dust.
When the frequency of the vibration reached its highest point, the road rumbled, the road surface cracked, and a cloud of thick smoke spewed out from the ground.
Thick smoke spread and covered the entire area.
But the vibration stopped.
No one knows what happened.
But for the Wanderers, as long as this world is not destroyed, they will continue to wander.
A wanderer walked into the thick smoke, and slowly, a faint, gray light appeared in the smoke.
The shape of the light is like an archway...