【Ruijin】Eye of the Storm

At this moment, there was the sound of card swiping from the door.Jin took a few steps back quickly, but it was too late to hide, so he met the man who pushed the door.

"It's not a good thing to come uninvited." The owner of the room inserted the room card into the electric access slot, closed the door behind him with his backhand, and said while looking at Jin.

Jin's right hand quietly moved behind him, but someone pressed another gun to his forehead a second before he touched the gun body.

"I advise you not to move around," the black-haired and purple-eyed man in front of him held his gun motionless, his voice tinged with sarcasm, and he glanced at Jin with a very oppressive gaze, "Oh, it's actually a guide!" ?”

"You are the sentinel." Jin obviously also felt the special aura emanating from the sentry, his tone was affirmative, but he was quite horrified in his heart - if there was a head-on confrontation, the current self would definitely not be the opponent of the man in front of him, "You who is it?"

"Everything is in hand, don't you know how to look at it yourself?" Lei Shi glanced at the invitation letter in his hand, and said lightly.

Jin was choked by him, took a deep breath and continued to ask: "You are not a sentinel of the tower. So are you here to participate in this auction? Auction guide?"

Lei Shi laughed: "Information exchange requires equivalent bargaining chips. Why should I tell you?"

"..."

The confrontation continued, seeing that Lei Shi didn't seem to let go of his thoughts easily, Jin's Adam's apple rolled with difficulty.He knew that his time was running out, so he suddenly dodged the aiming range of the gun head, took a few steps forward and elbowed Lei Shi's abdomen.The sentinel was taken aback. He really didn't expect that the injured guide would take the initiative to attack under such circumstances.But his reaction was quick, and he quickly retreated to the right to avoid it, and raised his hand to catch Jin kicking towards his calf.

After the two of them blocked a few moves at close quarters, the sentinel's physical advantage gradually became apparent.Lei Shi pressed the opponent's shoulder blades and knocked out the gun in Jin's hand. The guide twisted his waist and tried to snatch Lei Shi's gun, but the sentinel was the first to discover his intention, and his wrist was grabbed halfway.Jin Zhitong let go of his hand, and Lei Shi's gun hit the carpet between the two of them, making a muffled sound.

"As a guide, you can fight well," Lei Shi mercilessly grabbed Jin's hands, and said, "I haven't seen you before, aren't you the guide of the second tower?"

"One tower."

"This is the jurisdiction of the second tower. If you are from the first tower, what are you doing here?"

"I escaped from below, and I can't say much about other things," Jin said slowly, "I just want to find my sentinel now."

Lei Shi understood the hint in the golden words, his eyes moved, as if he had thought of something.He was silent for a while, and unexpectedly loosened his grip on the opponent.Jin froze for a moment, then quickly picked up Thunder Lion's gun on the ground, retreated to the root of the wall on the other side, raised it defensively and pointed it at the mysterious sentinel, his face full of vigilance and doubts.

Lei Shi picked up the invitation letter that fell on the ground and belonged to him, and shook it at Jin: "I have no intention of enmity with you, and you have no threat to me. Luckily for you, I will pretend that I didn't see it today." you."

"...Really?" Jin couldn't believe it.

"I always do what I say." Lei Shi squinted his purple eyes and said, "At the end of the west side of this corridor, there is a safe passage, you can go out from the back door of the hotel. If you want to leave, you have to hurry, people will come here soon gone."

"...Why do you want to help me?"

"Naturally because it is in my interest to do so, don't ask so many questions."

Kim looked at him and nodded slowly.He ran past Lei Shi's side and was about to go outside, but suddenly turned back as if he remembered something, and solemnly returned the gun that belonged to the opponent in his hand.

Lei Shi glanced at him: "It's just a gun, I'll give it to you. Besides, this one is equipped with a silencer, so it's better than your original one after all."

Jin shook his head and stuffed the gun into his hand: "There is no serial number engraved on the butt of the gun. This is not a braided gun. I can't have it."

The other party's tone was serious, but Lei Shi seemed to have heard a big joke.Before he could say anything else, the guide answered on his own: "Your name is Leishi, right?"

Lei Shi raised his eyebrows, answering his question.

"Lei Shi," Jin paused, and raised his eyes to look directly at him.Although the young man was covered in wounds, his aura was unexpectedly not lost at all, "If you really have something to do with those people, I will not let you go, you'd better remember."

"Oh, it's scary," Lei Shi pretended to laugh, "then I hope we will have a good time together."

Jin stared at him noncommittally for a while, then said "thank you" half a moment later, turned around and ran away in the direction Lei Shi had just pointed at.

Standing on the sidelines and witnessing all of Gray, I wasn't really surprised.What happened is basically not far from his preliminary investigation and guess. From Leishi's point of view, the release of Jin is probably to pave the way for sending Camille to the first tower later.At the same time, Gray is also very sure that although Lei Shi is not a clear-cut person, at least he really has nothing to do with the big case a year ago.

——This current non-staff sentinel has an extraordinary background and is unpredictable. He and them are not yet real companions.Rather, all the people involved in this incident had different purposes and thoughts.In the world of adults, the word profit alone can drive most people to do whatever they can.Whether it's An Mixiu or him, people like Lei Shi are no exception.They each represent the intricate three-party forces behind them, and they are destined to go different ways from the first second of contact with each other.Gray took a meaningful look at Leishi for the last time in the mental space, and followed Jin to run forward again.

Never has a corridor felt so long.Jin stumbled forward and ran forward, stopping from time to time to hold on to the wall to stabilize his body and prevent himself from falling.The intermittent darkness in front of the eyes and the dizziness and tinnitus in the head are caused by the increasingly severe sequelae of ischemia. This excruciating pain is transmitted to Gray one after another in a miraculous way.Combining the so-called empathy between the sentinels is a matter of pros and cons. They can share happiness and love together, so as to get double the pleasure, and they will also share pain and sorrow. When one is hurt, the other There is no exemption either.

Gray watched as Jin staggered into the inconspicuous secret door, and locked the door firmly from the inside with rich experience.After finishing everything, the guide couldn't hold on any longer, and fell directly to the corner of the corridor entrance.

The stairwell was pitch black except for the faint orange light of a safety emergency light shining on him.Gray saw his exposed back when he was lying on his side, and a large piece of clothing was soaked in cold sweat.

A faint sense of despair flashed through Gray's mind, and he knew that this was what Jin, who was lying in front of him at this moment, was thinking.

In the nearly 20 years that they grew up together and married together, the chances of the two being separated and taking risks are extremely rare.Gray doesn't talk much about feelings, but Kim is the exact opposite.The guide likes to wrap that word in all kinds of fancy words and phrases, and say it to him unreservedly and tirelessly - liking is not because of physique, love is not for union, in their precarious youth, it is each other The only thing that sticks.

Because of the particularity of their bodies and occupations, they must learn to get used to the life of hiding themselves in the dark and walking on the tip of a knife in order to protect more ordinary people.Before the start of each mission, no one can boast that there will be a return.In one's life, one experiences separation all the time.It's just that Jin didn't expect that this day would come so quickly and be so unexpected.

The young man opened his eyes, stared at a point in the dark space that did not exist, and began to think silently.The spiritual link between him and Gray has been paralyzed by the enemy with drugs, at least it is impossible to recover in a short period of time.In this confined space, there is no communication tool available to notify the sentry and the tower.His time is too limited. I'm afraid the guards at the other end of the basement have already discovered his escape at this moment.Jin thought of the guard children who were still locked in the basement. They were still so young, but fortunately their young lives had not been poisoned by the cruel transformation. Even if there was only a chance of survival, he would find a way to rescue them.

He couldn't feel Gray's presence at all, and his brain was empty without another voice.Jin raised his hand with difficulty to touch the small bump on the back of his neck.The index finger and thumb, which had already worn out the gun calluses, rubbed the skin alternately until it slowly became hot.The guide gradually made a decision in his mind, he had too many things to accomplish, he had the responsibility of being a guide, and he also had the most basic sense of compassion and justice as a person.

Pain can be sobering or a final message.When the joint link breaks, the person at the other end will inevitably feel the same pain as himself, and thus perceive where he is.

The blond-haired young man took out the scalpel he had hidden early from his pocket, turned around and held the handle of the knife and raised it over his shoulder.He called out "Gerry" in his heart, closed his eyes, and ruthlessly pierced the sharp point of the knife into the joint mark on the back of his neck.

The moment the knife tip pierced the skin, the guide couldn't help letting out a heavy gasp from the bottom of his throat, and bowed up reflexively due to the pain in his waist.Jin's hand holding the knife trembled violently. With the other hand, he quickly lifted the clothes on his chest and bit them into his mouth to prevent himself from leaking too much sound, and his face turned pale.

Almost at the same moment, Gray on the side suddenly knelt down, gritted his teeth and covered the mark at the same position on the back of his neck.Sweat fell drop by drop on the concrete floor in front of him. The sentinel let out a low growl like a wounded beast, and he clenched his fist with his right hand and hammered hard on the ground.

The silver scalpel fell to the ground with a crisp sound, which seemed particularly abrupt in this silent space.Jin Ping lay on the ground, feeling the blood gurgling from the wound on the back of his neck slowly soaking his hair and most of his clothes.The blood that flowed out was still hot at first, but it became colder and colder after a while.The sticky touch entangled like a poisonous snake, and the body temperature slowly passed away, so Jin could only endure the menacing tiredness and force himself to open his eyes wide.

Jin began to think wildly, telling himself over and over again to stay sober as much as possible.He thought of the cream of mushroom soup he and Grey made together in the kitchen at home last vacation according to the recipe. into the washing machine.

Jin can only think about the trivialities of the past, and he is a little afraid to think about "the future".He didn't know whether his own blood would be drained first, or Gray would find himself first.Although Jin didn't really want to admit it, at this moment, he really thought he was going to die.

If I did die here, I'd be the worst guide ever, King thought.

——He was too reluctant, reluctant to part with this link with Gray, and the sentinel who might be implicated by him and run away out of control.They have experienced so many doubts and suspicions from others, finally established a bond, and performed so many high-risk missions outside the tower, all the way to today, but in the end they cut off their most precious things with their own hands.

His thoughts slowly emptied like an upside-down hourglass, he let out a breath, and slowly closed his eyes.Tears rolled down from the corners of his eyes, and the blond guide murmured softly as if talking to himself: "...It hurts me to death."

Gray never thought he would experience that day again in this form.The sense of substitution that was too real made it impossible for him not to immerse himself in this illusion.The bright red blood, the tearing pain at the back of the neck, and the person lying in the pool of blood are all so real.He said "no" in his heart, even though he knew he couldn't convey it to people in another space.The sentinel realized later that during his years of life that were almost shrouded in hatred and gloom, during the days after his parents were killed and his family was broken up, from beginning to end, only Jin had been wandering away from it, taking over all of his life. All words about "beautiful".

The guide itself is the Garden of Eden in the dreams of all Sentinels, and this kind of dependence engraved in genes will not change in any way because of the strength of the Sentinel itself.And now, the only person in the world who really belonged to him was lying alone in the cramped, dusty darkness of the stairwell.

The mental picture cracked piece by piece like shattered glass, unable to bear any more memory pictures, and slowly misplaced and blurred together with Jin's body and the large bloodstain under him.An irresistible force pulled Gray's body backwards, and at the last moment of leaving the scene, the door that blocked the stairwell from the outside world was slammed open.

Gray opened his eyes suddenly, and he was back in the original laboratory room.The heat source in his arms fell towards him with his head down, leaning on his shoulder, breathing slowly, and fell asleep unconsciously.The sentry looked up at the electronic watch on the bedside table. It was less than 10 minutes before the three-hour cordon.

He looked around slowly, the white gauze curtain, the soft mattress, and the beating heartbeats of the two intertwined together, everything was real.

The air was silent, no one was around, and the sentinel who woke up from that crazy dream finally relaxed slowly.

Gray gently raised his hands across Jin's body, supported the back of his head, passed his fingers through the other's soft and fluffy blond hair, and took a deep breath, like treating a lost and found treasure, holding his only lover tightly. Hugged tightly in his arms.

TBC