The River Flows East to the Whistle

If there is hell, Jiang Liu thinks, it should look like this.

Every morning, when the sun rose, Li Xuan would carry him downstairs with his thin shoulders and tie him to the table in the counseling room.Then one by one the sentries, with the smell of gunpowder smoke on the battlefield, sat on the other end of the glass one by one, enjoying their once-a-month, half-hour relief.

Jiang Liu was the only outlet to release the painful mental fragments accumulated on the battlefield. Every trace of pain was unreservedly reflected on Jiang Liu's consciousness. He experienced every inch of the battlefield with his hands.

The fear of waiting for death, the pain of losing comrades in arms, burning villages, refugees running, dying children, hatred, madness, despair...

"This is war." Li Xuan said while wiping Jiang Liu's body. Exhaustion left two sunken eye sockets on his face, and his incomplete fingertips were bitten by teeth, and left a trace on the white towel. A light red imprint.

"Sleep, can I give you some sleeping pills?"

Jiang Liu shook his head feebly. He didn't want to sleep. When he fell asleep, he would dream of his parents and classmates. He would rather keep his eyes open until dawn.

The sleepless night accelerated the chaos of the brain, and Jiang Liu felt that he could hardly hold on.

He knew he couldn't escape, the dormitory was surrounded by countless soldiers and heavy weapons guarding, and even when Li Xuan was sleeping, he tied the two of them together with handcuffs.

He understood why the child before him jumped off the stairs, and he also thought of death.

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On the afternoon of the seventh day, when the sun was setting, Li Xuan, who hadn't closed his eyes for several days, fell asleep at Jiang Liu's feet. The 20th sentinel walked into the counseling room and sat in front of Jiang Liu.

Jiang Liu saw that person's appearance, thin and quiet, with brown hair tied back, a pair of soft eyes rarely seen among sentinels, but full of exhaustion and despair, like burnt ashes.

He didn't grab Jiang Liu's hand impatiently like other sentinels, but sat there numbly.

"I'm sorry." The sentinel said, his voice was hoarse, but polite.

Jiang Liu raised his eyes and looked at the sentinel without saying a word. After a whole day of demanding, he didn't even have the strength to move his fingers.

Jiang Liu is familiar with this attitude. Most of the sentinels who have been here have apologies, gratitude, and pity. These emotions will penetrate Li Xuan's fragile mental barrier and project onto him.

Now that Li Xuan is asleep, the mental barrier has completely fallen, and Jiang Liu is unable to control it. He simply lets his spiritual realm spread out, soaking the spiritual realm of this sentinel. It is an old building, full of dust and debris. A thing, silent and dark, like a tomb.

Each sentinel has a different spiritual realm. When channeling, rivers and streams can be seen, big or small, it may be a building, or it may be a forest.But without exception, there is chaos and pain.Jiang Liu thought of a certain world, that silent mountain in the quiet night.

"My friend is dead." The sentry suddenly said inexplicably, "Last night, he went berserk. The commander shot him dead in front of me."

Jiang Liu didn't receive the sad spiritual resonance, this person is probably numb.

"Originally, he could have waited for the quota for spiritual counseling today."

Jiang Liu heard from Li Xuan that the Sentinels on the battlefield are given the right to counsel once a month, and for most of the Sentinels, this is the only hope of survival.

"He and I have been together since Sentinel School. Five years ago, we were enlisted and went to the battlefield together. There are more than thirty of us. Now, he is the last one, the last one I know." The sentinel's voice was slow and Empty, like a dying old man.

"He is a very good person. When he was in school, his biggest wish was to be a policeman after graduation, to be on duty near his home, and he could go home for dinner every weekend. He missed his mother, since the sentinel After awakening, he never saw his family again. Now that he is dead, he didn't want to go to the battlefield... If he could have been counseled earlier..."

The sentinel buried his face in his hands and remained silent.Jiang Liu saw his spiritual realm, and it started to rain coldly.

"It's all because of this war, how can it end?"

The weak voice of the sentinel actually aroused a trace of pity in Jiang Liu's heart. In this situation, how can I have the right to pity others?Jiang Liu once again laughed at the guiding instinct in his body, but at this moment, he has not discovered how powerful the instinct between the sentinel and the guiding is.

"Then, it's better to get out of here." Jiang Liu, lying on the table, said coldly. "Take me with you, take me out of here together."

Before he finished speaking, Jiang Liu's heart trembled due to the resonance. He raised his head suspiciously, and saw the sentinel's expression changed, and he looked at him with wide eyes.

"What did you say?" The Sentinel's voice trembled with suspicion.

"Take me and leave." Jiang Liu looked into the sentinel's eyes and repeated.

In an instant, Jiang Liu saw the dark castle in the sentinel's heart, burning like burning charcoal, and the red flame lit up the barrenness inside.

"No, this will not be allowed..." The sentinel refused, but his body stood up, Jiang Liu's resonance, receiving the overwhelming desire of the sentinel.

Jiang Liu was pleasantly surprised to find that he could influence the sentry, and he could make the sentry obey his request.But at this moment, he didn't know how sweet and powerful his invitation was to a sentinel who was about to collapse.

"It's okay, you take me away, we can be together." Jiang Liu began to desperately grab this life-saving straw.

"You will combine with me? Isn't that right? That's what you mean?" Sentinel's eyes started to turn red, and he rushed over to hold Jiang Liu's hands, and the instant relief made him almost go crazy.

"I'll take you away, I'm willing to do anything for you, combine with me." The sentinel rubbed Jiang Liu's hands frantically, and the strong sentinel pheromone released from him made Jiang Liu breathless.

"Open, open this baffle, and let me out." Jiang Liu's words at the moment were God's will that cannot be violated, and the sentinel dug his hands into the junction of the glass baffle and the countertop without hesitation.

"Ah!" With the low growl of the sentinel, the thick glass baffle creaked, and several silver cracks were split from the seams.

"Hold on, save me, get me out!" Jiang Liu's excited voice stopped abruptly, and a hand covered his mouth from behind, and Li Xuan's panicked cry sounded in the counseling room.

"What are you doing? Sentinel! Calm down! Doorman!! Doorman!!"

The ear-piercing siren exploded, and the sentinel whimpered and withdrew his hands to cover his ears.

"Jiang Liu, what have you done?" Li Xuan held Jiang Liu hysterically.

"I want to go! I want to get out of here!!" Jiang Liu struggled desperately, "Sentinel! Turn down your hearing!!"

"stop!"

Jiang Liu felt Li Xuan's hand pressing on his temple, implying a forced squeeze in, Jiang Liu gritted his teeth and used a mental barrier to ruthlessly block the hint back.

"Sentinel! Break the barrier!!"

A heavy punch hit the glass curtain wall, blasting a circle of fine cracks in the center of the tempered glass.

"Hurry up!" Following Jiang Liu's yell, he punched him again.

"Jiang Liu! You are hurting him!" Amidst Li Xuan's yelling, Jiang Liu saw splashed blood in the blasted glass, coming from the sentinel's fist bone.

"If you let him die now, he will go. You can't treat a sentinel like this!"

Li Xuan's words made Jiang Liu stunned for a moment. He saw the sentinel's eyes. Apart from madness, there were piety, dependence, and longing in those eyes...

Several soldiers with guns rushed in from outside the door.

"Take back your hint!"

"Don't!!" Jiang Liu almost lost his mind, "I want to leave, let me go home! I want to go home!!"

"But your home is gone!!" Li Xuan shouted in Jiang Liu's ear.

"What?" Jiang Liu was stunned, and turned his head to look at Li Xuan steadfastly.

"You have nowhere to go but here, your home, City C has been blown up in that air raid, except for you guides who were robbed."

Li Xuan's face was as pale as the white clothes on him, but Jiang Liu could not find a trace of lies in his spiritual realm.

"Then... other people... my family..." Jiang Liu's mind started to go numb.

"It's all gone."

Jiang Liu was stunned for a moment, and then, the boy's hysterical roar sounded in the counseling room. "Ah——!!!" The powerful spiritual resonance shocked everyone in the room, including Li Xuan, to hug their heads and shrink into a ball.

Everyone, everything, Jiang Liu was holding his head, every cell in his body was trembling, he didn't dare to think, dare not accept, he couldn't accept, the whole world was spinning like a black vortex, he had nowhere to go.

He saw the sentry standing up, and he saw the gun in the sentry's waist.

"Sentry." At his call, the Sentry raised blank eyes.

"kill me."

The sentinel's body trembled, and Jiang Liu felt his instinctive resistance, but the collapsed Jiang Liu didn't care about it, and stuck out his mental tactile thread, forcefully prying the sentry's consciousness away.

Raise your gun and kill me.Jiang Liu poured spiritual hints into the sentinel's brain, and then the sentinel raised his gun with trembling arms.

"Jiang Liu, no!" Li Xuan struggled and was knocked down by Jiang Liu's resonance.

"Kill me! Hurry up!" Jiang Liu yelled at the sentinel. There was only one way for him to escape from this nightmare. He injected more mental pressure into the sentinel's consciousness.

"Think about your sentinel!" Li Xuan, who was lying on the ground, struggled to say these words, throwing a faint hint.

A tall and dark figure appeared in front of Jiang Liu's eyes. It was him. Jiang Liu felt a sharp pain in his heart, but what followed was endless loss.

"Shoot!" Jiang Liu gave the final order to the sentry, knowing that the sentry could not resist the instinct of obeying the guide.

Suddenly, he saw tears. The sentry with a gun looked into his eyes, and two lines of tears rolled down.

"I'm sorry, I can't do it." In a pale voice, the sentry turned his gun, pointed at his chest, and pulled the trigger.

Amidst the deafening gunshots, Jiang Liu saw the blood flower exploding behind the sentinel, and the smiling face of the sentinel slowly fell in front of him.

"Bastard!" At the moment of distraction, Jiang Liu's head was pressed to the ground by Li Xuan, and Jiang Liu's actions were instantly blocked by powerful spiritual hints. Looking into his soft eyes.

"Emergency room! Emergency room! He's not dead!" Li Xuan shouted anxiously to the soldier, "I used a hint, his gun was not aimed at the heart, he can survive! Take him to the rescue!"

In the chaos, the Sentinel was carried out, leaving a bloodstain on the ground.

"Sentry, I won't hurt any guides. They would rather die than protect you. Do you know how cruel you did just now?"

Li Xuan's trembling voice barely entered Jiang Liu's brain, and there was only a blank space in Jiang Liu's brain.

After a moment of silence, Jiang Liu's heart-piercing cries sounded in the counseling room.