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Swallowing the Seas - Chapter 69

Published at 14th of May 2023 06:13:28 AM


Chapter 69

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    "……help……"

    "……help!"

    "Save us--"

    The sky is illuminated by strong light, the next second.

    Boom——long——!

    The trees were broken, the soil slopes were flattened, and silent explosions rushed in all directions. The body fragments and broken bones in camouflage uniforms were accompanied by a rain of blood, crackling and falling in the small woods outside the village, as if it was a downpour.

    A child stood there in a daze, looking up at the black smoke billowing sky, a few drops of liquid splashed from the sky on his face, slowly dripping rusty blood.

    The smoke gradually dissipated, and the blood-soaked fields became darker, full of swaying poppies. The child withdrew his gaze blankly. He saw the villagers not far away carrying a stretcher and walking hard on the mountain road. Everyone was in ragged clothes. Familiar faces were covered with numbness and fear. On the stretcher was blood-stained camouflage uniforms. The dying sight of the wounded inadvertently glanced at the child's black and white eyes.

    Like lightning flashing through his mind, the child realized what happened next and was suddenly overwhelmed with extreme panic——

    Put him down quickly!

    You can't save him, you can't save him at all--!

    But he couldn't scream out, and all the sorrows in the dark were locked in that little body. He could only do his best to walk forward with the crowd with his short legs, and when he ran, he saw the man on the stretcher trying his best to lift himself up, his turbid eyes crossed the crowd to meet him, and then slowly opened his mouth closed, a big purple A steady stream of black blood pouring from his mouth.

    The child stopped, and every mouth shape of the man was reflected in the trembling pupils. He was asking:

    "——Aren't you trying to avenge me?"

    The rusty wind passed through the woods, and a large pot was burning on the clearing. After the steaming, every villager was crying in despair. The child stood under the tree, no longer remembering how many rounds he had vomited. He gritted his teeth and endured the sharp pain like a knife from the internal organs, desperately reaching out to reach the blood-soaked camouflage uniform on the branch of the tree. I came down and hugged it into my arms, trying to unfold it on my body.

    ——He once wanted to get it so much. All the painful patience and drifting ups and downs in this life were all to get the tattered, worthless clothes.

    But he really couldn't reach it. No matter how hard he tried his best to stand on tiptoe, his skinny fingertips were so short.

    The faint cries in the wind came one after another, and were swept up in the gloomy sky, and the souls of the wronged were hovering in this land for a long time. He heard the whimper passing through the sprinkling poppy field in the distance, through the boiling steam on the cauldron, through the rugged tree branches stained with blood in camouflage uniforms; he heard the voice sorrow over and over again But helplessly, asked: "Aren't you going to avenge me?"

    Do you forget it?

    The fire crackled and burned the wooden beams, illuminating two motionless figures in the pool of blood. Scolding, scolding, and chaotic footsteps came from outside the house, bunches of car lights dangling in the dark, and then they were hidden behind the blazing fire.

    "Dad, mother..." The smaller child in the child's arms was twitching all over, he could only put his palms into the child's mouth with force, and this action was a futile way to prevent him from crying: "Mom... …my mom……"

    His mother lay on the ground lifelessly, her eyes frozen and wide, staring at the child in the crevice of the closet. The light of the jumping fire reflected on her face, making her look as if she had come alive, even opening her cold mouth little by little, and slowly asked each word: "Why are you too late to save us?" Remember in one second "www.999xs.com" provides you with wonderful novels and reading

    The child gasped in fear.

    "Why can't you run faster and faster, to wake us up?"

    The child closed his eyes tightly. He held the more fragile city doll in his arms with both hands. He couldn't cover his ears. He could only tremble and bury his head between his knees, but that didn't work.

    The young mother's resentful face was deeply burned into her mind. She even got up from a pool of blood, her eyes sparkling with sadness: "You saved our child, how can you not avenge us?"

    "How can you leave, how can you not avenge us?!"

    No, I can't do it, I have tried my best--

    The child hugged his head exhaustedly, his black fingers kept trembling, and his ten nails were bloodshot.

    I really tried my best--

    At that moment, the child stretched tall, his hands and feet became longer, and the torch threw the young figure on the wall of the tunnel; not far away, there was a loud noise, the air current rushed him up, the underground tunnel collapsed, and the dungeon, torture equipment, and swearing The sound and the flying bullets were buried in the ground.

    He hugged the person in his arms tightly. In the pain, he couldn't tell which part of the blood in his body belonged to each other. Only hot tears dripped on that face, as if even the heart, liver and lungs were turning into blood. Weeping from the eyes.

    "...Hurry up..." He heard the familiar voice of that person gradually weaken, only the last trace of hope barely supported every word, and said: "Leave me alone, hurry up..."

    Wu Yu no longer felt the pain, his ears rang, he knew it was his own hysterical cry.

    "You have to go forward, can't stop, and can't turn around for anything...you have to remember that you can't avenge anyone if you want to live..."

    "You have to go forward, forever and ever...Go forward, don't look back."

    The parents in a pool of blood were swallowed by the fire, the bloody camouflage uniforms turned into tens of thousands of ashes, and the wind swept into the sky. The yellow-faced and thin child ran forward barefoot, through the flaming village, through the devastated land, wading across the vast sea of ​​people and thousands of hectares of thorns, toward the bloody gray sky at the end of his life——

    He can't stop for anyone.

    He can never look back.

    "Jump, jump, oops..." "Go on top, go on top, quickly post something stupid!" "I'm fucking your mother!"...

    The Internet cafe was noisy and smoky. After an unobtrusive machine in the corner, Wu Yu suddenly woke up.

    The webmaster's outstretched hand froze in the air, before he had time to shoot his shoulder, he froze for a few seconds before he retracted it and asked: "Hey, you can't continue this machine, it's a bit too late."

    Wu Yu said nothing, drooping his bloodshot eyes, took ten yuan from his wallet and handed it over.

    The webmaster took the money and heaved a sigh of relief. He said that it was all right. If I didn't move, I would think that he was staying up late and suddenly died here.

    Wu Yu restarted the computer and looked out the window while waiting to turn it on. The sky was gloomy, it was already afternoon.

    There were more than a dozen missed calls on the mobile phone. Except for two from the office of Xu Bureau and two from the criminal investigation detachment of the branch bureau, the others were all private numbers of Liao Gang. There are more than 20 unread text messages, half of which are from Liao Gang, some from Cai Lin, one from Meng Meng, and one from Zhang Xiaoli. The content is nothing more than: [Why didn’t Little Wu come to work today? ? ] [The boss has a bad temper this morning. Did you quarrel yesterday? 】【Listen to Brother Liao, come back to work, don’t get angry! ] [Little Wu is back to work! ] [Where are you? Is there money to spend? ] [Return to Brother Liao to call! 】

    There is no Bu Chonghua.

    In fact, as expected, but after confirming it with my own eyes, there is still a slight emptiness in my heart.

    It seemed that a piece had been dug out, and the wind poured in, making the bones feel cold.

    Wu Yu forced himself not to think about those things. He scrolled down the list of text messages, and suddenly his eyes froze—an unread message from Fat Ding, the owner of the Iron Blood Bar, with only three words:

    【call back】.

    Wu Yu looked around. There were no people on the two machines nearby. The front and back rows were all students skipping class and playing games. They all wore headphones and yelled and were very devoted. At this time, it is estimated that his parents walked behind him. I can't find it. So he dialed the phone back, and it rang only two times before being connected: "Oh, my brother Wu, you finally have news. Don't tell your child that I didn't answer the phone because of overtime, although you I've been fooling your company's small white-collar staff, but your fat brother, I have a sharp eye..."

    Wu Yu interrupted him impatiently: "What are you doing?"

    The opposite immediately stopped, and then categorically said: "Go!"

    "..."

    Just as Wu Yu was about to hang up the phone, Fat Ding hurriedly said, "Don't stop, just kidding, just kidding. I'm here to tell you that the other party has news, come here at nine o'clock this evening?"

    Wu Yu's eyelids twitched slightly, his heart said so fast?

    He originally thought that for a round like this, it would take at least a few days to prepare from the set time to the start, but he didn't expect the other party to arrange so anxiously, as if he couldn't wait for a moment.

    "Where are you now? I don’t have any headaches and brain fever recently. Or ask for a leave of absence from the boss. Come out early. I will send someone to pick you up in advance to prepare. Eat a pig’s knuckle and drink two cans of Red Bull. Do you need it? Have a full body massage in advance..."

    Wu Yu said: "I see, get the money ready." After speaking, he hung up.

    The display screen has dimmed, and his reflection is faintly reflected on the black hole screen, his black hair is messy, his face is haggard, and the whole person shows an abnormal depression. Wu Yu stretched out his hand and rubbed his face heavily, thrusting his fingers into his hair, thinking that he might get two hundred thousand tonight, plus the two hundred thousand is enough?

    It should not be enough, maybe two, three, two hundred thousand, or more.

    If don’t have a salary in the future, how should settle for a living? Having said that, haven’t had time to invite Bu Chonghua for a meal. Every time fry two dishes at home, he fooled him. had known that should treat him solemnly and well, or at least give him a cufflink tie. And so on, so can leave a thought later...

    Wu Yu closed his eyes suddenly, gritted his teeth and hammered his forehead hard.

    He rolled his throat hard, raised his head and opened the display browser, and boarded an email that he had never used several times. That was when Liao Gang asked him to register when he first transferred to the Nancheng Detachment. In fact, it is not needed at all in the agency. So far, he has not received a few spam emails. There is only one unsent email in the draft box.

    He clicked on the draft, and a few lines of words were reflected in his red eyes on the screen. No one knew that he had been writing these lines all night.

    That is a letter of resignation.

    In fact, when he first came to Jinhai, he had expected such a day, but he didn't expect to be in such a state of mind at this moment.

    It would be nice if it wasn't Jinhai who came back.

    It would be great if you did not meet Bu Chonghua.

    Wu Yu took a deep breath, closed his eyes and clicked Send, then quickly exited the mailbox, turned off the monitor and computer, got up and walked out of the Internet cafe.

    The streets of Jinhai were busy with traffic lights changing back and forth under the cloudy sky. Wu Yu exhaled the stale air in his lungs all night, turned off the phone completely, then looked up at the sky, estimated the time and distance, and hesitated.

    Dudu--

    A black taxi stopped on the side of the road, and the driver lowered the window and stuck his head out: "Brother, where are you going?"

    "..." Wu Yu turned to look at the subway station in the distance, hesitated for a moment, lowered his head and asked:

    "Can it be cheaper to go to the suburbs?"

    ·

    "After more than 300 police officers on duty for half a month, they finally captured the taxi carrying Chen Yuanliang from the video that night, but the driver had no impression of Chen Yuanliang’s whereabouts at all, and the trip records of the company’s system could only be kept for 7 days. , It is impossible to find out the possible location of Chen Yuanliang's victim..."

    Bu Chonghua opened the door of the conference room and walked through the corridor, absent-mindedly listening behind him, Liao Gang quickly read the report that he had not known how many times he had been tried repeatedly, and was about to return to the Criminal Investigation Detachment, suddenly his heart had no reason. The ground is sinking heavily.

    He stopped abruptly, his chest tightened silently, his brain was empty, and he seemed to feel that something bad was happening in a place he couldn't see.

    "Yo!" Liao Gang almost ran into him, "Boss? What's wrong with you?"

     "..."

     The sky outside the corridor window was gloomy, and the glass windows reflected Bu Chonghua's stern and clear face. No one could notice that the amber pupils were shrinking slightly.

    Liao Gang looked at Bu Chonghua's face, and then remembered Little Wu who hadn't come to work today, and his heart was up and down: "...Boss? Are you okay?"

     "It's okay, I just..."

     Bu Chonghua's mobile phone shook in his pocket, it was a new email notification.

     Bu Chonghua usually uses the phone, WeChat, and the public security push system at work. He only checks his mailbox every night before leaving get off work or after returning home. Basically, he doesn't even need to reply. But at this moment, the vibration was like some kind of electrical signal, crackling along the nerves and hitting his heart, causing him to take out his phone and take a look.

     In the next second, Liao Gang saw Bu Chonghua's face change drastically, he dialed out a call without saying anything, and then just listened: "Hello, the user you dialed is turned off..."

     "boss?"

     Bu Chonghua hung up the phone: "Where is Wu Yu?"

    Liao Gang: "Huh?"

    "You and Cai Lin and Zhang Xiaoli called and texted Wu Yu today, did he answer it?"

    Liao Gang said in his heart, wait, how did you know that we contacted Little Wu today, "No, no, I thought he was angry, so..."

    "Go find him." Bu Chonghua's tone was calm, but the speed of his speech was extremely tight. "Send internal assistance checks to the airport, high-speed rail, port, long-distance bus station, and major car rental companies to see if his ID card is available. Try to leave Jinhai and go now!"

    Liao Gang has no idea what happened: "Wait, wait! What's wrong with Little Wu? He is leaving Jinhai? Should we say hello to Xu Ju first...Where are you going?!"

    Without a word, Bu Chonghua rushed into the office and grabbed the car key, striding down the stairs. Liao Gang flew to the handrail of the corridor and said in amazement: "What the hell happened? Boss, where are you going, are you waiting for me?!"

    "I'm going to Wu Yu's house to find something," Bu Chonghua rushed down the stairs three steps and two steps, without turning his head back and shouted: "Go and send a notice of assistance, hurry!"

    "Yes!" Liao Gang hurried away.





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