South of Wenhuang

Chapter 5

Lin Qing and Qin Liting finally finished their dinner, and were about to light a fire and take a nap in the unfinished building for the night.

Lin Qing was lying by the fire, wearing a windbreaker; Qin Liting was sitting beside him, holding a mobile phone to set the time.

……

"Li Ting, I think Gu Ling wants to plot against us." Lin Qing was silent for a while, and finally expressed the suspicion in his heart.

"What?!" Qin Liting vividly expressed his shock and bewilderment in two words.

"My intuition is more accurate. When I asked about the details of the mission before, I felt that something was wrong. First of all, the theme of this mission is to collect as much information as possible on mutant zombies. Speaking of which, throwing out mutant zombies is a big thing I did. The premise, I am puzzled, where did you get the information if you didn’t fight the zombies? Since you are going to fight the zombies, you will only send a soldier and a researcher who seems to be powerless? What is this nonsense? ?Secondly, I tried my best to trace the truth of my parents' death, and the results showed that it was probably related to the military. I think this explains the problem. There are two of us, one does not like to use modern thermal weapons The other is a researcher who has a gun but doesn’t seem to be able to use it and can’t carry it with his shoulders or hands. With this kind of staffing, even if we die here, they will probably take it for granted.” Lin Qingdao.

"I think it's necessary for me to clarify one point. It's not that I don't like modern hot weapons, nor is it weird. It's just that I'm used to knives. If you give me a gun, I can use it. Besides, you are not like a paper doll. Researcher, if you were a real paper doll, how could you have survived to this day?" Qin Liting answered a sentence that seemed impossible.

"... Qin, your reading comprehension was taught by your physical education teacher???" Lin Qing was speechless, and then he couldn't bear it and turned on the mode of hating people. He thought, why is this person's ability to focus on the key points so strange?

"No, my reading comprehension is taught by books. In fact, I have never been to school, and I rely on self-study." Qin Liting said.

"...Feel sorry."

"It's okay. I know what you mean, I just want to liven up the atmosphere, don't you know how terrifying your face is just now?" Qin Liting paused, "I wondered if Old General Gu Ling wanted to kill someone to silence him."

"Huh?" Lin Qing made a single tone, signaling him to continue.

"...I used to be a mercenary, and I did some dirty business." Qin Liting was silent for a while, and confessed his past to Lin Qing, "I had a list a few years ago, asking me to assassinate a ten-year-old For a child of a few years old, the quieter the better. If it can’t be killed, it must also serve as a threat. At that time, I was short of money, so I took it. Of course, it’s just to scare the child.”

Qin Liting looked at the swaying fire, as if he was in a daze, but also seemed to be remembering.Lin Qingshi looked at him with focused and gentle eyes.

"Because of the high success rate of the orders I received before or other reasons, although this order is only half completed, the employer still said that he is willing to maintain a long-term cooperative relationship. Then he sent me some more orders. They are all It's like killing people and cutting grass and roots."

"Wait, this person also sent your previous list?" Lin Qing raised an eyebrow and asked.

"Yes."

"So?" Lin Qing frowned slightly and asked.He had a hunch that what he heard next might be something extraordinary.

"Then it was the end of the world. I happened to meet the army once, and I simply joined the current military headquarters because of my skills. The person in charge at the time was Gu Ling. Then once, I chatted with Gu Ling, and he said the same thing. It looked like we knew each other very well, but in fact that chat was the second time we met, the first time was when we entered the army department." Qin Liting said.

Lin Qing's expression was slightly cold, "You don't want to tell me that your previous employer was Gu Ling, right?"

"Well. It's him. He said this when he sent me this mission a few days ago. It's true that he hired me for the previous list." He asked me to find an opportunity to kill you during the mission.Qin Liting filled in the unfinished sentence in his heart.

"...I see. I'm going to bed, it's getting late, and I have to hurry tomorrow. Remember to call me when the shift changes." Lin Qing said.

"...Okay, go to sleep, good night." Qin Liting said.

After saying goodnight to each other, Lin Qing didn't go to sleep, but just lay there, staring at the sky full of stars in a daze.Qin Liting sat next to the fire and wiped his knife. He knew that Lin Qing was not asleep, but strangely, both of them became quiet as if they had lost their voice. Nothing else happened.

Lin Qing looked at the starry sky, thinking about their conversation just now.He intuited that Qin Liting was hiding something, some important things that would not have any bad influence on him, and he had a vague premonition that Gu Ling was probably the one who gave the order and left him alone.He knew from the beginning to the end that his grandparents and his parents were murdered, his grandparents did not die of natural causes at all, and his father was not an emergency. All of this was not God's will, but man-made.

Forget it, it's useless to think about it, who doesn't have a few secrets in life?Didn't he even hide his last hole card from Qin Liting?Lin Qing thought.

In fact, Lin Qing's feelings for Qin Liting are very complicated. From the time he said the word teenage child, he suspected that it was Qin Liting who chased and killed him back then, and the sharp knife marks on his mother's body seemed to be silent. talking to him.

But really, let's talk about hate, he doesn't hate Qin Liting.Believe it, but he doesn't really believe in Qin Liting.It's contradictory, but it's natural.This kind of feeling has gradually taken root and sprouted from the first day they met, until now.

Suddenly, Lin Qing felt that she couldn't see her heart clearly.He seemed to be a little lost remembering how he got here all these years and what he was going to do.People who know Lin Qing say that he looks gentle and easy to talk, but in fact Lin Qing knows that he has a personality, he looks gentle, but in reality he is cold-hearted and doesn't care about anything, otherwise he wouldn't be crazy like this It looks like it doesn't even care about the world.

Lin Qing knew that he was crazy, and he also knew that he was actually venting his anger on the world, but he couldn't turn back.There must be something to support a person to live, whether it is hatred, or dream, or love. If even these are gone, what hope is there for living?He hated this world because of the death of his relatives, and because of this hatred, he managed to survive in this riddled world.But he has no choice but to go to the end with the lonely hatred that he had long ago.

Thinking like this, Lin Qing fell asleep in a daze...

On the other side, Qin Liting was sitting beside the fire with mushrooms growing.

Qin Liting looked at the knife in his hand with complicated emotions.

His knife and his hands were stained with indelible sin and blood.Even his reluctance to use guns and other hot weapons from the beginning to the end is not because of contempt or lack of talent, but only when he holds a knife, can he clearly remember that he did it at the beginning He did something wrong again, so that he could clearly remember those people who were separated because he was alone or whose wives were separated.

He didn't use a gun because he was afraid he would forget, his own sins would be forgotten, and he would become numb to it.He didn't want to turn himself into a monster who took life as a joke.

You see, he is obviously a person who is bloody with one hand and has no scruples in order to survive, but in his bones, he has a stubborn and tenderness towards the whole world.

Do you say he regrets it?I regret it.

But if he had to do it all over again, Qin Liting would still choose this path.

Because he wants to live.And in order to survive, he will do whatever it takes.Of course he knew that he was not a good person, otherwise he would not have chosen to rely on blood to gain a foothold in the world more than ten years ago.

It's strange to say it, but in all fairness, Qin Liting wants to protect this world, because only by living can there be hope. As the saying goes, death is like a lamp that goes out.But when Qin Liting watched Lin Qing tell his own story in such a flat tone, he couldn't help but feel distressed, he would feel guilty, and he would instinctively want to do something for Lin Qing.

It has nothing to do with position, good or evil, or love, it's just distress and guilt.

"I would like to use my own body to atone for my sins, and beg the heaven to have mercy." Qin Liting said softly, wiping his knife.

If this road can wash away the sins of 25 and six years on his body, then he will have nothing to fear.

Unknowingly, when the time they agreed upon arrived, Qin Liting called Lin Qing who was asleep, and lay down to rest by himself.

It was always cold in the morning, Lin Qing walked away from the fire and walked around twice, and was shocked by the cold wind blowing on his face, and the whole person was awake at that time.When he woke up, he sat back by the fire and looked at his hands.Everyone knows that Lin Qing, a talented man, can control ice and fire with his hands, which is unparalleled in the world, but no one knows that his hands can turn things into sand in addition to ice and flames.

Qin Liting once asked him how he knew the way in the forest, and he yelled and called him.What he used was the desertification* ability that he had never shown before. Before they came all the way, he always asked to keep watch at night, and then used his ability to turn the big tree into sand while others were asleep.The sand produced with supernatural powers is not as sharp as ordinary sand, and is rougher. Even if it is mixed with other sand, it can be picked out at a glance, just like a fat person mixed with 100 thin people. Although there are many thin people, they can still be picked out. Pick out the most special fat man at a glance.

Lin Qing closed his eyes silently, thinking about the scenery around him, thinking about how they turned into sand, then he opened his eyes and raised his hand slightly, um, a certain piece of reinforced concrete in the unfinished building has disappeared, Only coarse gravel remains.Lin Qing realized that she was more and more accurate and proficient at controlling this ability, and then smiled. The smile was very shallow, but very real.It's like a dusty traveler who sees a dim but warm light when he returns home.

Early the next morning, Lin Qing called Qin Liting to get up and go on his way. The two of them tacitly agreed that nothing happened the day before.

Seven days passed in a flash. They walked from the forest to the town, from the town to the lake, touched the sand from the lake, and finally returned to the place where they got off the plane.

The chatty pilot brother has come and is standing by the plane smiling at them.

"Congratulations on your safe return."

"Thank you." "Thank you." The two said at the same time.

The return trip was still enjoyable, Qin Liting and his little brother chatted happily all the way, Lin Qing was writing a mission report with a notebook in his hand, and with some reservations he mentioned the characteristics of the mutated zombies and the like.

Anyway, it's going to tear the face apart in the end, and now it's just a matter of making the skin, it's very easy.After Lin Qing finished writing the report, he even interrupted the conversation between the two in a good mood. The three of them talked from geography to humanities, and then from humanities to biology, not even letting go of physical chemistry.

It can be said to be a very academic discussion—— Lin Qing, the culprit, thought so in his heart.

The author has something to say: emmmm Xiao Qin's character design can be said to be very complicated, he is very contradictory.

Well, big scene tomorrow (gently)