Blade and Swift

Someone fired the first shot.

As if in response, gunshots rang out one after another, followed by indiscriminate bombing.

The watchman flashed the indicator light on his hand, Du Yachen knew the meaning, it represented the final order - the highest goal has appeared, destroy Cain at all costs.

He closed his eyes and rushed towards Yan Xichen again.

Of course, he was not the only one rushing towards Yan Xichen, but also all the combat power in the other world.They went on and on, fearless of death.

Fang Shuo, who was behind Yan Xichen, blocked all those crazy bullets. He was still watching this bloody human farce with great interest, watching this fight coldly and playfully.

He was there with a clear target, but bullets were useless to him. If he wanted to kill the man standing in the spotlight, the only thing he could do was close combat.

So many people dropped their guns and rushed to the spotlight on the stage.

In this turbulent battle, Yan Xichen stood on the stage and could clearly see everything in the audience.In those faces of hatred or mourning, numbness or ecstasy, he saw many different faces.

In a flash, Yan Xichen saw Luo Sen, Duan Mingyi, and even Duan Yun.There is also Lao Jiang, Mr. Yu...of course there is also that eye-catching figure rushing towards him desperately.

Du Yachen rushed towards him, like rushing towards a drowning person, afraid that he would not be able to hold his hand at the last moment.Du Yachen's bullets are fast and his knife is very precise, but neither is as sharp as his eyes.

He kept staring at Yan Xichen's face, and walked forward over the thorns and thorns. He didn't care about the blood splashed on his body. His speed was so fast that he rushed to the front of the stage in a short time.

Crows led killers pouring in from the side door, and the real enemy combat power joined the melee. Someone turned off the lights in the dimly lit theater just now, and there were bloody breaths and screams in the darkness.All the people from the inner world forces were trying to climb to the wooden platform, but they were cut off by the crow's people halfway and died.

The new combat power led to a new pattern, and the chaos on the scene almost reached a peak.

But Fang Shuo just stood motionless behind Yan Xichen, with a strange smile on his face.

Of course, he also looked at Du Yachen, who was always at ease, rushing up to the stage in a rare embarrassment, but what he had to do was not to kill him with a single blow, but to put away his bullets and sharp blades in front of Yan Xichen, who was holding a dagger horizontally in front of him.

Like a tiger wolf puts away all its minions in front of its beloved partner.

"Follow me." Du Yachen grabbed Yan Xichen's hand holding the knife, and looked straight at him.

"No." Yan Xichen replied.

Du Yachen took a deep look at him, then suddenly grabbed the knife in his hand and pressed it against Yan Xichen's throat.

His strength is irresistible, but if Yan Xichen is more conscious and careful at this time, he will find that his arms are shaking a little at the beginning.

Du Yachen stared at him again: "Follow me!"

Yan Xichen rejected him again.

"Then kill me, or I'll take you away immediately." Du Yachen twisted his hand, held Yan Xichen's hand, and put the knife across his neck with his backhand.

Yan Xichen looked at him in pain: "Don't force me, please."

Du Yachen looked down at Yan Xichen's pain, and said, "He's playing with you. He's an order in this space, a kind of will! He doesn't need your protection! Look below, how many people chose to fight?"

Behind them, under the stage, people from the inner world and the outside world fought together.

With a glance, Yan Xichen saw Luo Sen, who was gritting his teeth and constantly protruding from the crow killer's encirclement, and Duan Mingyi, who was shooting back to back with Duan Yun, driving away all enemies around Duan Yun with a half-protective posture, and the rare wearing Lao Jiang in combat uniform had no time to shoot the approaching enemy, so he caught the incoming bayonet with his hands out of thin air...

There are many, many friends that Yan Xichen made in the stable area and the chaotic area before, some of them are trembling, some are desperate, no matter who they are, they can see the fear on their faces.

Yan Xichen asked Du Yachen before that he had seen many stories in the chaotic zone and killed many enemies.Later, Du Yachen told him that perhaps the real world was too far away from them, and those expectations and longings, even the longing for the real, were not worth mentioning in front of death.So many people have to rely on the strength that hatred gives them to go on.

"Have you thought about the reason why you are standing here?" Du Yachen's cynical eyes were filled with seriousness now, "Why did you come to the Basilica Theater, do you still remember?"

Yan Xichen then withdrew his sore gaze, and rolled his eyeballs stiffly.

He looked at Du Yachen almost in despair: "I remembered...everything!"

Du Yachen looked at him quietly without saying anything.

Yan Xichen looked at Du Yachen with a completely unfamiliar gaze as if he was reacquainted with the person in front of him.

The moment that gaze touched him, Du Yachen was stung for no reason.He remembered this look. Many years ago, when he pointed a gun at Yan Xichen to prevent him from returning to Kiev, Yan Xichen also looked at him with this look.

He didn't know how much he could hurt people.

"In 1993, there was a tragedy in Kiev. Fang Shuo... Cain returned to Kiev to carry out that mission in my place... No one told me that it was a conspiracy." Hatred, the blade pressed against Du Yachen's neck.

"The reason why he went instead of me was because you said you needed me, and I went with you to Somalia without hesitation."

That was already a very distant memory, but even if Yan Xichen recalled it now, his memory was still fresh.

Just one week before the tragedy in Kiev, Du Yachen, who was supposed to be in the United States, suddenly found Xichen Yan, saying that he was assigned to Somalia to perform a mission and urgently needed Xichen Yan's help.

At that time, Yan Xichen was young and didn't know how to think about the joints. He just felt that this man was showing weakness to him for the first time, which was very fresh.He rejected the original mission and rushed to Somalia with Du Yachen in his own name.

Fang Shuo accepted his original mission and carried out the mission in Kiev.

He couldn't see many things clearly back then, but now that he thinks about it, he can see clearly.

Why did Du Yachen suddenly bring him to Somalia one week before the nuclear leak, why they had no communication during the two weeks in Somalia, and why did Yan Xichen get no news of such a big news from Kiev during the week in Somalia? .

Du Yachen probably knew that something would happen in Kiev, but he couldn't tell Yan Xichen all this.So he could only use mercenaries to keep Yan Xichen arbitrarily.

He couldn't let Yan Xichen stay in Kiev during that time, and he couldn't let him go back at the first moment of the nuclear leak.

Even though he knew that there was someone very important to Yan Xichen in Kiev.

When Yan Xichen got the news, it was already five days late.When he got the news that he was going back to Kiev desperately, Du Yachen used all conceivable methods to force him to stay in the deserted Somalia.

The sky and land of Somalia were barren for a year, just like the Xichen at that time.

It was not until Du Yachen confirmed that the surviving mercenaries in Hawkeye finally transferred all the people in the center of the radiation storm and isolated them safely that he gave Yan Xichen freedom again.

But when Yan Xichen rushed back to meet Fang Shuo, all he saw was a puddle of blood.

The bloody mirage in the Soviet hospital has never been an illusion, but the most realistic reappearance of the scene.

Fang Shuo—or Cain, suddenly applauded behind the confronting two people.He clapped his hands insincerely, and there was no lack of malice in his smile.

"Have you finally remembered?" Fang Shuo walked behind Yan Xichen, leaned close to him, and looked at Du Yachen from behind his shoulder.

His eyes were so vicious, cold, revealing hatred.

"I have been waiting for you, brother. I regard you as my only relative, but what about you?"

The poisonous snake spat out the letter, using poisonous words.

Yan Xichen didn't look back, but trembled all over.

What he should forget, those regrets, regrets, guilt, and so on that once weighed heavily on his spine.

For some reason, he suddenly remembered the long-dead Rio in S area, and it seemed that for a moment, he suddenly understood Rio.It's just that there is someone in Rio who can hate, who else can he hate?

Apart from hating himself, he could only hate Du Yachen back then.

Fang Shuo whispered in his ear again: "Where were you when I was taking on all this for you? Are you helping your little lover kill some innocuous bandits in Somalia? Huh?"

Du Yachen narrowed his eyes. At this time, he ignored the dagger that Yan Xichen was holding in front of him, glanced at it without emotion, and raised his hand to shoot.

The bullet did not stay in the air, but was deliberately released by Cain, and it shot right through his head, leaving a hollow blood hole between his eyebrows.

The next moment, Fang Shuo appeared behind Du Yachen again, holding a knife in his hand and slashing down. His eyes were fixed on Yan Xichen who was opposite Du Yachen.

"do not want!"

Yan Xichen's pupils tightened suddenly, but Fang Shuo disappeared the moment he shouted out.

His body of will appeared directly above the Basilica Theater, looking coldly at the human tragedy beneath his feet, as well as Du Aachen and Xichen Yan on the stage.

"That's the best scene, isn't it?"

He laughed, his body hidden in the darkness.

The blade in Yan Xichen's hand was still pressed against Du Yachen's throat, and it seemed that the blade trembled because of Yan Xichen's excitement.

Du Yachen smiled self-deprecatingly, and pushed towards him, the sharp blade cut a hole in his neck immediately.

"It turned out to be him. It turns out that Cain is the person you have been trying to save."

He approached Yan Xichen step by step, and Yan Xichen had no choice but to retreat step by step.

"I still say the same thing, think about why you are standing here, think about why you are fighting. Little Swallow, follow me." Du Yachen stretched out his hand to him again.

Yan Xichen admitted that this was the most sincere time he saw Du Yachen.His dark brown eyes flickered, as if afraid of his rejection.

"How can you let me?" Yan Xichen took a deep breath.His eyes were complicated, but he still didn't know who was hurt by such eyes, "How can you let me go with you as if nothing happened after knowing everything?"

Du Yachen stopped in his tracks and smiled ugly: "Are you blaming me now?"

"You shouldn't, you absolutely shouldn't, you shouldn't..." Du Yachen's figure was reflected in Yan Xichen's painful eyes.

His pain, his confusion, his overwhelming guilt and remorse, without exception, all fell into Du Yachen's eyes at this moment.

Du Yachen still stared at him aggressively, with death-like silence in his eyes: "That's right, because I love you."

Yan Xichen thought of Du Yachen's eyes many years ago again, the light that occasionally burned in those always cold eyes was extinguished because of him.

Now, many years later, the same choice, the same eyes, the same extinguished light.

Yan Xichen trembled suddenly, the knife in his hand was like a hot utensil.

He cried.

"He waited for me for eighteen days, eighteen days!" Yan Xichen broke down, "Do you know how they told me he died? First the skin began to fall off, and then the internal organs and bones began to melt. There I slowly watched myself turn into a pool of blood. Most people died within ten days, but he lasted eighteen days. He has been waiting for me!

"He missed the humane death that Hawkeye offered, he just wanted to see me.

"I have my sister, my parents, and you, and even if I don't see them, I still have a lot.

"But Fang Shuo only has me, and he only treats me as his only relative... He waited for me for eighteen days! But when he got to me, he was no longer a human being!"

Yan Xichen cried so hard that he couldn't hold the knife. Except for witnessing Fang Shuo's death many years ago, he had never been so vulnerable and out of control.

"Why? Why can't you let me see him earlier? I begged you! But you just refused to let me go! Why can't you let me go?"

Standing in front of Yan Xichen, Du Yachen felt that the injuries all over his body were not comparable to the pain in his chest.

He saw this person he had been looking for for many years standing in front of him now, and said to him, why can't you let me go?

His voice was hoarse, and he looked at Yan Xichen seriously: "So now you think of everything and are going to abandon me again? So everything is my fault."

Not his fault.Yan Xichen heard a voice in his heart say.

Not everything is right or wrong.

he loves you.said the voice again.So he won't let you have any accidents, and doesn't want you to lie on the bed and turn into a pool of blood in front of him.

"But I would rather not have you save me." Yan Xichen couldn't stop his tears, he forced himself to look into Du Yachen's eyes, "You know how important he is to me, you know..."

"I don't know!" Du Yachen interrupted him suddenly.

There was still no expression on his face, but Yan Xichen could feel that Du Yachen was irritated.

"I never knew his name was Cain, I never knew he was Fang Shuo! You never told me who the person who replaced you was! If I knew, I wouldn't have been wandering around the world for so many years, let alone As for having fantasies about you. If I knew, I would ask you to take him with you. And if I knew that his death would turn you into this, I would rather be the one who died and be brought by him. See you in front of you for the last time.

"You protected him too well and never let me know who he was, and you never really trusted me."

The knife in Yan Xichen's hand was almost unsteady.This was the first time he saw sadness in Du Yachen's eyes.

This is not submissiveness, it is a more humble expression than submissiveness.

In an instant, Du Yachen gripped the blade violently, and blood flowed down his palm.

After his extinguished eyes suddenly burst out with great grief.

"That's right, but I know it! I know that you will die or live in the hospital for the rest of your life!" Du Yachen roared, his eyes showed a strange color of blood under the light, "I also knew that you would hate Me, blame me, but one day you will come back to your senses, and there is no use for you to go back to Kiev except to be buried with him!"

Du Yachen took a sudden step forward. He grabbed Yan Xichen's hair and forced him to look into his eyes.

"You are blind, impulsive, and emotional, and you will always spend your whole life for others! But I fucking love you! I fucking! Love you!" Du Yachen grabbed Yan Xichen's hair fiercely, painfully Watching every tear he shed, "he has nothing but you... am I different?"

Yan Xichen looked at him through red eyes with tears in his eyes, he wanted to say something, but he could only utter hoarse syllables.

"You thought you were the only one suffering? Every tear you shed back then was poisonous enough to corrode my internal organs. Watching you cry at that time broke my heart."

Yan Xichen stretched out his hand, but he didn't know what he should grab: "I'm sorry..."

Du Yachen shook his head, he turned his head away, blinked his eyes slowly, and withdrew all his overexpressed emotions.

He let go of Yan Xichen and started to back away.

"I didn't give you a choice at the beginning, but this time I will give you a choice."

The crowd fighting behind him was getting closer, some were shooting, some were shouting.Everyone is looking for where Cain is, and everyone has gone crazy.

The entire basilica cathedral was reduced to a Shura area, and there was blood everywhere, and there was stinky hatred and blood flowing.Weapons and bullets do not carry any heat, but they take away warm lives.

People are crazy, there is no faith in the world at this moment, and everyone is a believer in death.

The bullet shot at Du Yachen's feet, but he didn't turn his head.

"Follow me, or stay." He always kept a close distance from Yan Xichen.His waist stopped so straight, and he insisted on his posture more than ever.

Yan Xichen shook in a daze, and put down the hand holding the knife.

Du Yachen has always been separated by a certain distance, and he calmed down after that short distance: "The last step of today's plan is to blow up the entire Basilica Theater. No matter what Cain's secret here can hit him hard, the explosion Both will be destroyed afterwards. The passage may be opened, or not, and his will may be destroyed, or not."

"Many people will die." Yan Xichen wiped away his tears and tightened his grip on the knife again.

"We will evacuate the crowd in advance." Du Yachen said softly.

"Will the whole place be destroyed?"

"The range of power of the detonation is indeed very large." Du Yachen answered without haste, as if he was really just answering Yan Xichen's doubts.

"I can't go." Yan Xichen lowered his head, his hand holding the knife was so hard that it turned pale and white, "I don't want him to die."

After Yan Xichen said this, he hardly dared to look up into Du Yachen's eyes.He was full of the roaring "I love you", sincere and sincere, as if he wanted to cut himself open for him to see.

At that time, when he confessed his love to Du Yachen in District A, why did he feel wronged because of his sincerity?Obviously this person was already prepared to show him his heart.

There was no sound on the other side, but the sound of guns and guns became extremely harsh.Yanxi soon heard Duan Mingyi's yelling, and Luo Sen calling "boss" not far away.

Du Yachen still looked at him tenderly: "Okay."

Yan Xichen raised his head in confusion.

He almost thought that Du Yachen didn't hear clearly, so he wanted to repeat it.He didn't get the expected taunts, cold words, or his usual mercenary violence.

What he gave him was tenderness.

Du Yachen circled his two fingers and put them in his mouth, making three sharp whistles.The watchmen looked at him at the same time, with different expressions on their faces. After confirming the content of the whistle, Rosen at the front looked at Du Yachen in surprise.

Du Yachen ignored Rosen, and he repeated his instructions with the whistle again.The instructions were precise and clear, and the watchmen looked away, and then they began to organize the evacuation of all combat forces.

Some people looked relieved, while others looked unwilling.

Until most of the combat power in the inner world was withdrawn, the crow hadn't realized what happened.After the situation was cleared up, the crow went around to confirm that Cain was no longer there. With a wave of his hand, he also evacuated with his killers.

In the Basilica Theater, those distorted and flowing substances gradually calmed down.The lines become straight and sharp again, the melted colors are recombined into color blocks, and finally take shape and materialize.

The world has returned to order, and everything that was disrupted is slowly being restored.

The injured old man and the child supported each other, and the watchmen provided the last cover for the fighters. The figure of Duan Mingyi supporting Duan Yun also flashed by.

There was a figure in the crowd who did not leave. He clenched his fists and lowered his head, standing where he was, as if he wanted to stand upright forever.

"Rosen, let's go." Du Yachen turned around.

"Boss, what about Rose?" Rosen asked in a deep voice.

"go!"

Du Yachen jumped off the stage and left the person shrouded in the lights on the stage.

He didn't look at Yan Xichen again.