Guardian oath

Although Qing Xiao thought he could maintain his usual calmness when facing Lin Xia, he still paused when he passed the door of Gui Lan's room, and then walked in the opposite direction.In front of Gui Lan, he was not sure that he would not be noticed by the keen-minded young man, so he chose to maintain his weapons one by one first, and calm himself down in the empty conference room.

But when the last pocket knife was folded, the special soldier who recovered from the blank state found that the maintenance that usually took half an hour was done by him in 15 minutes.Losing the only reason to procrastinate, Qing Xiao stood up resignedly and walked towards Guilan's room.

"Don't let Taotie get Gui Lan alive." Li Mingcheng, who told Gui Lan to protect himself a few minutes ago, ordered Qing Xiao expressionlessly after he went out.

Qing Xiao didn't know how she was feeling at that time.Maybe he didn't think about anything, and even his expression didn't change.

Gui Lan's pendant was carefully designed by Professor Gui's wife, Professor Ji. In order to protect his only child, Professor Ji added almost every function he could think of to it.The mother copy of the super chip is no longer needed in this country, but in the eyes of countries that have not yet developed chips and arms organizations like Taotie, it is still something that needs to be scrambled for.Although Gui Lan has been secretly protected in the capital since she was a child, the professor and his wife are still worried and link the self-destruct function of the chip with Gui Lan's vital signs.If Gui Lan dies, the chip will be destroyed immediately, so in order to study the chip, Gui Lan must be kept alive.

Professor Gui and his wife originally wanted to use this pendant as their last talisman. If Gui Lan was unfortunately taken away, at least they could buy him time to be rescued.Unexpectedly, it was their government that finally decided to give up Guilan.The government will not allow the slightest chance that Professor Gui and his wife will be coerced by Gui Lan and betray them. If the rescue operation fails, then in the end, Gui Lan must not be left behind.

"Ke Guilan is a citizen of our country." Qing Xiao heard herself say dryly.

"Can I not know?!" Li Mingcheng seemed to finally be able to hold back his anger, and started to shoot the case. "Listen, this is a classified mission, you know what I mean. That's the order above, what can I do?!"

Although Li Mingcheng is the captain of the special forces brigade and is in charge of this operation, he still needs to obey orders.In the face of chip technology, high-level officials would not care about the life and death of an ordinary citizen. After weighing the pros and cons, it is conceivable that they made such a decision.However, Qing Xiao also knew that Li Mingcheng had a close personal relationship with Professor Gui and his wife, so he could probably imagine his unwillingness and anger.

"And yourself." Li Mingcheng patted the table, his tone was exhausted, "Even if you die, you have to come out and die! Do you know! If you know that you can't save him, then retreat, don't let me go in a daze Charge up!" He personally led Qing Xiao, who knew his character of admitting death, and had almost died on the battlefield in order to protect the hostages who knew they could not be rescued.

"As a soldier, do you want to leave the citizens and escape by yourself?"

Qing Xiao felt that her mood was still very calm, strangely calm.But he found that his voice was trembling.

Li Mingcheng stared at him with a pair of red eyes, "That's right. I don't care what you think in your heart or how you write about military discipline, you, come out alive, you have to crawl out!" He took a deep breath, slowly He closed his eyes, knowing that his outrageous order might not be fulfilled. "That child...you should act quickly, don't let him hurt....But you must not be captured by them, even if you die, you can't leave the body to them! Do you understand!!!"

Li Mingcheng's roar echoed in the conference room.Qing Xiao looked at him quietly and gave a military salute.

"clear."

When Qing Xiao came in, Gui Lan had just taken a shower and changed into the clothes Lin Xia gave him.

For the convenience of movement, Lin Xia gave him spare clothes for special forces. Gui Lan only wore a pair of black short-sleeves for training on his upper body. The black made his skin whiter, and the tight-fitting fabric outlined his smooth waistline and vague abdomen. Muscle, showing a youthful and healthy body in front of Qing Xiao at a glance.Although Gui Lan still looks childish, her hair, eyebrows and eyes are soft and delicate, but her body is not as thin as she imagined before.

Gui Lan was taken aback by Qing Xiao who was standing quietly at the door of the bathroom, she let out a small "ah", and then asked him with a smile, "You're back." It seemed very strange, so I had to continue to ask, "Um... do you want to eat together?"

He was absolutely unwilling to admit that when he was taking a shower just now, he suddenly found that Qing Xiao was not by his side, and he felt uneasy in his heart.Maybe it's because you've been together all day and suddenly separated?Gui Lan feels inconceivable about her own weakness.He is not someone who likes to rely on others, but he seems to be always taken care of by Qing Xiao along the way, and this feeling does not seem to be annoying...

Gui Lan attributed his abnormality to his overly nervous mental state today.He raised his eyes to look at Qing Xiao, but found that Qing Xiao, who always liked to look directly at him, didn't look at him at all this time, as if avoiding eye contact with him.

Gui Lan's first reaction was that there might be something wrong with his attire, but he quietly looked at the floor-to-ceiling mirror again and again, and he didn't think the black short-sleeved khaki pants were a strange match.Asked suspiciously, he walked to the dining table with Qing Xiao, and the meal that Lin Xia had brought to him was already placed on it.

So Gui Lan gracefully picked up the knife and fork, quickly put the above doubts behind her, and began to efficiently cut the deep-sea lobster meat, one of Zhanqing's three specialties.

Qing Xiao was indifferent to the delicious food and opened an energy bar.He frowned, staring at Gui Lan's undried hair and the drops of water dripping into his collar along his collarbone, but he suddenly lowered his eyes as if thinking of something, and suddenly tightened his hand holding the package of the energy bar.

The meal was eaten quietly, only the occasional slight sound of Gui Lan's metal cutlery hitting the plate.

After Gui Lan finished eating the lobster, she leaned lazily on the sofa, when suddenly Qing Xiao threw a towel over her head to cover her head.He quickly exposed his head, and found that Qing Xiao had already put the plate away, and put a bottle of blue liquid on the table in front of him.

"Repair drink, it's for muscle soreness." Qing Xiao explained lightly, "It will be worse after sleeping."

Gui Lan opened the lid and took a sip, and found that it had no taste, neither bad nor good.While drinking, he turned his head to look at Qing Xiao who was sitting on the other side of the sofa.Qing Xiao sat on the sofa with an upright posture, staring straight ahead, wondering what she was thinking.

"Gaotie...why do you want me to go too?" Gui Lan asked suddenly.

Qing Xiao clenched her fists on her knees.Both the chip and the pendant are confidential, he cannot reveal them to Gui Lan.

Gui Lan didn't care about Qing Xiao's silence, and continued with a smile, "No matter what, I want to thank you. If you weren't here, I would definitely not be able to do anything."

Qing Xiao felt bitter in his heart, he closed his eyes, a little unwilling to listen to Gui Lan's relaxed and gentle tone, and deliberately put his tone indifferent, "There is nothing to thank. I just obey orders."

"I know." Gui Lan was completely unaffected by Qing Xiao's words, "But without you, I wouldn't be able to get here alone. I'm very happy... to be able to do something for my parents instead of being helpless alone .”

Qing Xiao raised her head and stared at the young man beside her in a daze, feeling very uncomfortable in her heart.He felt that he could hardly help but say something, but he opened his mouth and finally said nothing.

What to say?

I will protect you, I will protect you...so don't worry, don't be afraid...

fraud.

I'm the one who wants to kill you for military orders, why are you thanking me? !

Under the warm yellow light, the young man gently caressed the pendant between his collarbones, his dark and bright eyes glanced at Qing Xiao and then lowered, the thick eyelashes covered the tiny spots of light in his eyes.He pursed his lips, and then said softly in a solemn tone, "I...can I ask you one thing? That is, if, I mean, if, I accidentally die," he seemed to feel that the atmosphere Too serious, smiled embarrassedly, "Can you tell my parents so that they don't blame themselves?"

"why……"

"Ok?"

"Why can you say such a thing!" Qing Xiao finally couldn't hold back the anger in his heart, he stood up abruptly, and looked down at Gui Lan from a high position.Gui Lan was so frightened by his angry shout that she leaned back, a little surprised to see Qing Xiao's chest heaving violently, and those purple eyes that had always been as calm as water were burning with fiery anger.

"Uh, you asked me why... that's what I thought? I'm sorry, sorry, I didn't mean to question your ability..." Thinking that he was worried that Lin Xia's few words would annoy Qing Xiao, Gui Lan thought something was wrong. , this time he seems to have directly suspected himself. It seems that the special forces really can't allow others to underestimate them!

Qing Xiao bit her lip, seeing Gui Lan stood up worriedly and wanted to say something, she took a step back and turned her head away, refusing to meet his gaze.He knew that he was just venting his anger, and what he was really angry with was himself, who could neither obey orders with a clear conscience nor protect Gui Lan.

"I'm sorry, I..." Qing Xiao took a deep breath and spoke in a hoarse voice.

No matter what, he shouldn't expose his fragility to Gui Lan.But why, why did he look at himself with that calm expression? !That kind of look, it was as if he knew everything he tried to hide, and then told himself in turn that he didn't care at all...

Why did Gui Lan himself say such things to him...!

Qing Xiao didn't know how obvious the sadness in her eyes was.How much anger was in his eyes just now, and how much sadness is in his eyes now.In fact, he is not good at lying at all, even if he can control his expression, the feelings in his heart will still be exposed by those eyes.Although he tried his best to maintain an upright standing posture, if you look closely, you can see that his whole body is shaking slightly, as if he is trying to restrain something, people can immediately understand the pain he is enduring.

Gui Lan didn't know that Qing Xiao would show such an expression because of his words.Before he could react, he had already walked in front of Qing Xiao and hugged him gently.

The person in his arms was taller than him, but because of his sudden touch, his whole body froze, giving off a feeling of fragility.

Ah, yes.Qing Xiao is a very gentle person, that's why he's so sad, right?In the past few years, was he also such a person who silently endured the pain of death and parting?

"I'm sorry, did I embarrass you?" Gui Lan couldn't see others being sad the most, he patted Qing Xiao's back softly while comforting her. "Didn't mean to make you sad. Act like I didn't, okay?"

Qing Xiao didn't move, didn't answer, and didn't push him away.His forehead rested on Gui Lan's left shoulder, unlike on the high-speed train, this time Gui Lan clearly felt the weight of Qing Xiao's forehead.

After a long time, Gui Lan heard a soft "hmm".

The author has something to say:

Gui Lan: How about it, am I overwhelmed with anger in this chapter!

Qing Xiao (blushing): ... Mmm.

Li Mingcheng: Do you know that I have been quietly eavesdropping through the built-in earphones.

Qing Xiao:! ! ! !

Lin Xia: The officer lied to you. He is so busy that he has no time. Besides, Qing Xiao, didn’t you turn off your headphones a long time ago?

Gui Lan: Ah....

Lin Xia: So what did you really do? ?Um? ?