Gray ceiling.
Sunlight.
Gray ceiling.
Gu Rou, why are you here...
Memories and reality are intertwined and displayed chaotically before my eyes. Sunlight, tide, gunshots, explosions... Everything is covered with a layer of white mist. My eyes are immersed in tears and my vision is blurred. Until a familiar face whose name I can't recall appears directly above me. His eyes reveal three parts of coolness, three parts of ridicule, and four parts of nonchalance. The remaining ninety parts all carry a "two"...
Ji Ling.
"Xiaoyao?"
Seeing me nod with difficulty, he grabbed my legs and started to pull me to a safe place.
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"That person, whoever it is, medic!" Unable to remember Yang Shixiu's name in his consciousness, Ji Ling simply started to call his job title. "Come quickly! Xiaoyao seems to be injured!"
"What the hell is he injured for!" Immediately after, Lu Wanqing's impatient face appeared in front of me. "If you don't put him down, we won't have a captain anymore!"
Then she asked me, "Are you dead? If you die, the command will be mine!"
Suddenly, I didn't feel like speaking so much. Lifting my right hand expressionlessly, I directly gave an international friendly gesture. These two bastards made me so angry that my stomach ached.
With the help of the two of them, I stood up again. Yang Shixiu gave me a simple examination. There was nothing serious, but the wound near my ankle cracked open again.
Returning to the battlefield, Liang Dong blindly held the machine gun and fired in all directions. "Where are the people? I feel they are everywhere!"
"I don't know!" Ji Han took a few aimed shots and then retracted behind the cover. "Didn't you watch the learning machine when you were a child? Click wherever it's bright! Change the magazine!"
"That's not a lighter, is it?—RPG!"
The RPG shooter was accurately shot in the heart by Jiang Li just before firing. The sudden loss of blood supply made him fall powerlessly. The muscle twitching of his finger before death pulled the trigger. The propelled grenade was launched. The firelight turned into a vast expanse of white in the night vision device and flooded the surrounding people. The corpse was thrown high under the reaction force.
In this situation, the main firepower of the team has shifted from Liang Dong to Jiang Li and Lu Wanqing. Suppressive fire is completely useless in this situation where people can't be seen clearly. We still have to rely on precise strikes. It is said that when you are poor, you use tactical infiltration. When you are rich, you use massive bombing. Fortunately, we are neither.
After fighting for a while, the distance has been shortened to within 200 meters. Liang Dong once again showed his might. Jiang Li simply gave up the sniper rifle that had become a burden and picked up an M16A4 randomly. If the gun owner is still alive, he can find it back later by relying on the gun's nameplate.
Yang Shixiu was crouching and walking around with the T97NAR on his back. There were still many wounded in Courtyard B.
"Uh, this is Predator 7." A strange male voice appeared in the channel. "072, right? Elsa told us that the guidance right is in your hands."
"This is Gu Xiaoyao, the squad leader of 072."
"OK. We found a large number of people moving on your east side and need laser guidance."
"No need for laser guidance. Just shoot directly as there are people everywhere outside the villa!" I knew I was yelling.
"Uh... Received. Pay attention to collateral damage."
"Everyone, pay attention!" I raised my head and roared. "Air support is in place!"
The explosion immediately drowned out my roar. The first round of attack arrived. Missiles dragged out sharp orange light strips in the air and landed. The rolling heat wave rushed towards the villa. The sky rained down with charred vegetation.
For a moment, the world was silent.
I took off my night vision device. In the face of the terrifying heat, the night vision device took protective measures and directly cut off the power. The orange flames swayed, twisted, and danced in the night. The wind blew over the wasteland and brought subtle light sources into the night sky like tiny but unextinguishable fireflies.
In the center of the soil, a black hole suddenly appeared, neither too big nor too small. This is the last trace left by those dozen or so armed men in this world. Life emerges from one hole and is finally buried in another hole.
The smell of gunpowder still lingers. It is always like this, forcibly rushing into my nostrils.
The MQ-1 passed over our heads again. This time, it never launched an attack again. The operator kept repeating what he saw and heard in the communication channel: "The enemy is beginning to retreat. I repeat, the enemy is beginning to retreat..."
Just like a noisy vulture. At the end of the battle, I couldn't recover for a while. Only confusion and a sense of unreality were left on my face. The muscles also relaxed. Liang Dong sat down leaning against the wall, while I tried to stand up.
"I suggest you don't stand up. There might be snipers."
"That's right." I took the same posture as Liang Dong.
Ji Ling joined our conversation. "You said, who is behind this malicious act? Is it a warlord or..."
The first assault soldier quietly glanced at Yang Shixiu. After making sure the medic couldn't hear the conversation, he said, "It's someone seeking revenge."
I was depressed. "If you want revenge, go find the 'Al Qaeda'. Why are you always looking for us?"
"Whether it's the 'Al Qaeda' or not, it's all the same." Liang Dong looked up at the starry sky. Backwardness and drought have brought the purest beauty to this land. "In their eyes, we are outsiders. As long as we are outsiders, we are equivalent to polluting this land and should all be attacked."
I added, "This can also be considered a kind of local complex."
Liang Dong scratched his head, covered in ashes. "It probably isn't... I think it's possessiveness. In the eyes of the Akelia people, this land belongs to them and no one can take it away. As long as someone approaches, they will fight desperately with that person. Just like a child. If someone wants to take the toy in his hand, he will bite you until it hurts even with his teeth. Even if you want to help him repair that toy with good intentions..."
"Did you think of something?" Ji Ling stared at him strangely. "You... are not right."
"Who knows..." Liang Dong's gaze was empty and distant, not knowing where his thoughts were rooted. "You might think that I feel they are very similar to me. Having nothing but wanting to hold everything in their hands."
The young man was obviously lost in memories, sighing about something incomprehensible.
Unfortunately, this full of literary atmosphere was destroyed by Lu Wanqing on the contrary: "What the hell are you pretending? You talk so much. Why don't you sit on your mother's grave and talk slowly."
Yang Shixiu, who was drinking cola beside him, sprayed it out directly after hearing Lu Wanqing's words. Foam was scattered all over the place. The surrounding students all looked at him with strange eyes.
Liang Dong: "...".
"Is this just the beginning?" I recalled Jiang Li's words and murmured to myself.
"I think... this is just the beginning."
The sniper's voice rang in my ears.
Compared to the first half of the night, the tasks that followed became extremely easy. The rescue convoy organized by Elsa arrived a dozen minutes later and took everyone away from Craig. Some seriously wounded were directly transported back to Kleber by helicopter. From this moment on, the largest military operation in the history of Yitelan students ended. A simple transportation mission mobilized all rapid response forces in the end. Daniel's helicopter crew transported several batches of people back and forth. Even all the students of Courtyard A except for the necessary internal guards were mobilized. This is only the part I know.
But there will be more difficulties in the future.
I know it clearly.