Burning fire

"What?" Zhou Qizun's eyesight was poor, the night was already blurry, and with the hazy mist of blood, he could only see afterimages.

"Are you sure it's a person?" Zhou Qizun groaned in his heart, for fear that Guo Qingxuan would say that Zhang Jueming was hooked on his head.

"It should be a young man, not Zhang Jueming." Guo Qingxuan knew what Zhou Qizun was thinking, and quickly reassured him.

"Young man?" Zhou Qizun frowned.

At this time, the hooked snake's tail was slowly hanging down from the night sky, and the boy was hanging right in front of Zhou Qizun and Guo Qingxuan!

The young man was dressed in a white mourning dress with a filial piety card pinned to his sleeve. He was covered in blood, and he raised his head suddenly! ——This boy has a harelip!

"He's still alive!" Zhou Qizun shouted, "He's Ma Boyuan!"

Ma Boyuan's eyes were blank, his cold and dull gaze swept across the faces of Guo Qingxuan and Zhou Qizun.

One of the hooked snake's hooked tail hooked Ma Boyuan's back heart, and the other hooked tail went around in front of him, circled twice to surround him, and the sharp hook at the end reached his heart!

"Zhou Qizun, come with me, or it will kill me." Ma Boyuan said to Zhou Qizun, two lines of blood and tears flowed from his empty eyes.

"Zhou Qizun, follow me, or it will kill me." Ma Boyuan repeated, like a dead machine.

Every time he repeated it, the tip of the hooked snake's tail moved a little bit, and Ma Boyuan's left chest had been stabbed, and a bright red blood flower bloomed on the white mourning clothes.

The blood flower bloomed bigger and bigger, and the more it bloomed, the more vigorous it became. The bright blood red had a strange sweetness, wanton and delicate, which made Zhou Qizun's back shiver.

"This is a trap, don't go!" Guo Qingxuan shouted.She took a step back, put on a posture, fully prepared.

"Are you sure to save him?" Zhou Qizun asked Guo Qingxuan from behind.

"Impossible." Guo Qingxuan denied, "Hooked snakes are not that easy to deal with, because there is a blood realm, hooked snakes can't get in, we are still safe, but this boy... If I rush up, he will immediately was killed."

Guo Qingxuan gritted her teeth: "I can't save it."

Zhou Qizun moved his nose and took a deep sniff, his nostrils were filled with the smell of Zhang Jueming.This was the first time that the mountain ghost's incense did not reassure him, but disturbed him, even piercing his heart.

"Ah!——It hurts!——It hurts!——" Ma Boyuan suddenly cried out in pain, the blood and tears dripping from the young man's eyes, and his dark lips wriggled with difficulty, pleading, "Help me, save me I, please save me..."

Zhou Qizun made a rough sentence, and stepped in front of Guo Qingxuan: "I'll go with you."

"Don't be a hero!" Guo Qingxuan almost jumped up on the spot.

"What kind of hero am I? I'm a fucking bear!" Zhou Qizun turned his head and glared at Guo Qingxuan.

His eye sockets were always red, flushed, dead red.Ever since he knew that Zhang Jueming had gone looking for death alone, he had been so red that he was about to ooze blood.

"Then what do you say! Let an innocent child die before our eyes?" Zhou Qizun roared, "Let him die?"

He was a big man who passed through the hail of bullets, stood upright and supported justice, when had he ever suffered such humiliation.

The depth of the trap is another story. The "hostage" is right in front of you. How can a person who has been a soldier retreat.

"It hurts! Ah!—" Ma Boyuan howled again with all his strength.His hanging limbs were like broken strings, occasionally twitching.

"Don't hurt him anymore, I'll go with you." Zhou Qizun took another step forward.

"No! You can't go, what if you go to Zhang Jueming?" Guo Qingxuan was about to split.

They clearly expected that the other party's methods were despicable, and they could do any disgusting things.

"Sister Qinglong, don't chase after me, or it will...kill me if it sees you..." Ma Boyuan finally said, his voice was trembling and weak, and he was already unable to hold on.

"Bastard!" Guo Qingxuan hated her so much that her teeth ached.

The hooked snake's tail hook was finally pulled away from Ma Boyuan's chest. The moment it was pulled away, Ma Boyuan trembled all over, lowered his head and passed out.

The hook tail extended and came to Zhou Qizun. Zhou Qizun supported the tip of its tail, turned over and jumped up.

"Let this split snake take me to find Cassia." Zhou Qizun said, and took out a pocket knife from behind, "You have to be careful."

"What's the use of your broken knife!" Guo Qingxuan didn't dare to think about Zhou Qizun's nerves, and he went crazy like this.

Zhou Qizun said to Guo Qingxuan flatly: "This knife is prepared for myself."

Guo Qingxuan froze in place immediately, stunned.Zhou Qizun's meaning couldn't be more obvious - if he becomes a weight to threaten Zhang Jueming, then he will...

Zhou Qizun gave Guo Qingxuan a look, and repeated: "Be careful. Be careful."

Guo Qingxuan didn't have time to say anything else, the hooked snake lifted its tail and took Zhou Qizun and Ma Boyuan away together.

.

The night sky is darker and colder than imagined.The human head is a strange thing, at this critical moment of life and death, Zhou Qizun can still be distracted and think about other things.

He remembered the last time he was hung so naked in the sky - when he met Jiuying on Xiaotai Mountain, it was also when he met Zhang Jueming.

It was also late at night, it was winter, and it was much colder than now, so cold that I couldn't breathe, and my respiratory tract hurt.

At that time Zhang Jueming held him in his arms and carefully protected him.Zhou Qizun thought, perhaps from that time on, Zhang Jueming was different in his heart.

No, maybe earlier, the first second he met Zhang Jueming's eyes - he paid special attention to that beautiful and clean little guide.

"Cassia, Cassia..." Zhou Qizun muttered silently, holding the sharp knife tightly.

"Brother Zhou." Ma Boyuan woke up beside him and spoke to Zhou Qizun.

Zhou Qizun was not too surprised, he looked sideways, staring at the wound on Ma Boyuan's chest, the blood flower was still glaring.

"Why are you willing to come here as a bait? You don't even want your life, what kind of deal did you make with the evil claw?" Zhou Qizun asked Ma Boyuan coldly.

"What is the evil claw?" Ma Boyuan pulled the corners of his mouth crookedly, "Brother Zhou, do you mean Brother Liangxu?"

"Liang Xuan?" Zhou Qizun frowned and snorted, "That's Liang Xuan. Anyway, I'm asking you, what kind of deal did you make with that evil monster!"

"Brother Liangxuan is not an evil monster." Ma Boyuan stared blankly, as if possessed by a demon, "Only he helped me. Only him."

"Brother Zhou." Ma Boyuan suddenly called Zhou Qizun again.

Zhou Qizun hid the knife behind his back and looked at Ma Boyuan expressionlessly.

Ma Boyuan: "Brother Zhou, don't be afraid, Brother Liangxuan is not a bad person, I know you are also a good person."

"How do you know I'm a good person?" Zhou Qizun asked.

"You saved me. You obviously didn't want to come, but you still followed me to save me. And this morning, you helped that female beggar from the ground, and you gave her money back. She was obviously so dirty and smelly .” Ma Boyuan smiled sinisterly.

Zhou Qizun was chilled by his laughter, he remained silent and did not speak any more, looking down.The light spots on the lower head are sparse, and the further you go, the more sporadic the light spots become.

No matter how remote the town is, it is unlikely that there will be no street lights in the middle of the night. Just now, the hooked snake circled twice in the sky, making Zhou Qizun dizzy. Only then did he finally know the direction - Ma Boyuan wanted to take him to a remote place.

Zhou Qizun guessed that Ma Boyuan might want to take him to the weird courtyard he visited this morning, which was Ma Boyuan's home.

"Brother Liangxuan won't hurt you, he asked me to take you there, he just wanted to talk to you." Ma Boyuan continued.

Ma Boyuan: "He said that you should have many things to ask him, such as the death of your parents and the whereabouts of your sister."

Ma Boyuan's words made Zhou Qizun's hands tremble, but he remained silent and did not respond.

Zhou Qizun's face was tense, showing no unnecessary expressions.He quickly turned the sharp knife with his fingers, avoided the upper leg artery, and stabbed his own thigh!

Blood came out immediately, soaked the trouser legs, and fell silently from the soles of the shoes into the night.

Anyway, Ma Boyuan was covered in blood, the moon was dark and the wind was high, even if there was more bloody smell, he would not be easily noticed.

Take a bet.Did he lose too much blood and die first, or Guo Qingxuan followed the blood and found him first.

"Also, he also wants to tell you what Zhang Jueming's secret is." Ma Boyuan deliberately lowered his voice, "Brother Liangyan said, you must be very surprised and touched when you find out."

"Is Zhang Jueming at your house too?" Zhou Qizun finally answered.

"Brother Liangxuan will take him there." Ma Boyuan replied honestly.

Sure enough, the destination was that courtyard.

Zhou Qizun turned his face away and stopped looking at Ma Boyuan.After staring at him for so long just now, Zhou Qizun realized early on that Ma Boyuan's appearance is not bad except for his ugly harelip. If he covers his mouth, he must be a handsome young man.

Pity.

Everyone in the world has pity, pity at birth, pity later.It's pitiful because it's a pity, and it deserves it because it's pitiful, and it's because it deserves it that there are flaws that allow the beast to take advantage of it.

Later, Ma Boyuan occasionally said a few words to Zhou Qizun, but Zhou Qizun was a little dazed, and neither heard nor agreed.

He stabbed himself black enough, bleeding a lot, felt cold all over, and almost passed out, until he felt his whole body being pushed away by a force, flying into the air, and then fell to the ground, only then did he wake up with pain in his bones and flesh.

This fall made his back lose consciousness, and his internal organs were bumped and rolled. Zhou Qizun turned over and lay on the ground, his fingers pinched the concrete floor and retched, his throat full of bloody smell.

"Brother Zhou, are you okay? Did you hurt from the fall?" Ma Boyuan staggered over, squatted down, and helped Zhou Qizun up, "The hooked snake is not light or heavy, it hurt when it stabbed my chest just now."

Zhou Qizun felt Ma Boyuan's hands were cold.Unlike Zhang Jueming, although Zhang Jueming's hands were cold, they were very soft, so soft that Zhou Qizun felt pity and wanted to hold them in his arms.

But Ma Boyuan's hand was like the hand of a corpse, cold and stiff, and when he touched it, he shuddered all over.

Zhou Qizun shook off Ma Boyuan's hand and sat up by himself, staring at Ma Boyuan.

"Brother Zhou, are you injured?" Ma Boyuan stared straight at the blood on Zhou Qizun's trouser leg, he tilted his neck and made a crisp "click".

The author says:

Old Zhou was a soldier, so it was difficult to have a second choice.In other words, he watched Ma Boyuan die, and it was even more wrong to be indifferent. It is estimated that some people would diss him, saying that he did not look like someone who had been a soldier.

As I wrote this, I suddenly remembered that I had read a news story about someone falling from a tall building. At that moment, a veteran ran up and reached out to pick it up... The result was not good, very sad, very distressed .

There are all kinds of comments on this news, emotional, rational, and irrational.Even some bad comments are chilling.

I heard a sentence that I have never forgotten: "He is not impulsive, he is not without common sense, he is not overwhelmed, and he is not stupid. He was just a soldier."

—he couldn't just watch, no matter what the cost might be.

Bravery and greatness take root from wearing military uniforms, and grow into immortal flesh and blood.

Salute to all military police.