Blade and Swift

The four of them looked at the huge volcanic furnace in silence.Du Yachen was the first to get out of the car and walked around with the light machine gun in his hand.It is indeed an old storefront and an old block, either a fake memory or a reality in a dream.This is a dead city, riddled with holes, and black and sand-yellow dead air emerges from the cracks in the city.Yan Xichen seemed to have returned to the time when he lost his soul many years ago, his black pupils dilated.

A hand suddenly stretched out from the side, pinched his chin, forced him to turn around, and then faced a pair of dark brown ocean.

Yan Xichen's pupils focused slightly.

"We've got to keep going, we're going to find him, it's pretty close."

Du Yachen turned around and jumped into the car, took the initiative to steer the wheel, Yan Xichen calmed down, sat in the back with Luo Sen, and observed the situation outside the car.

As they moved forward in this lifeless city, it became more and more creepy, with shadows hidden in the gray smoke from time to time.Like a child's shadow, it flew past quickly and then disappeared.Occasionally, I caught a glimpse of someone upstairs from the corner of my eye, and when I turned my gaze, there was an empty window again.It's like a ghost town.

"Damn, why do I feel that there are people everywhere." Duan Mingyi's faint words made Yan Xichen and Luo Sen feel goose bumps.

This is not Duan Mingyi's illusion, other people have the same feeling.In the seemingly empty city that was being destroyed, there seemed to be countless pairs of eyes looking at them.

They found that their car was still circling back and forth for several blocks like a ghost hitting a wall.Du Yachen turned around and drove towards the huge towering reactor, but found that no matter how they accelerated or decelerated, the distance between the reactor and them did not shrink.The burning reactor was like a wall, keeping a constant and eternal distance from them, and they could never reach it.

After seeing the same street sign again, Du Yachen parked the car on the side of the road and turned off the engine.

"Get ready, everyone get out of the car."

All of them were fully equipped with gun belts and guns in their hands.Du Yachen slowed down and walked at the back. When passing by, he gave Yan Xichen a look. Yan Xichen became alert, understood the meaning in his eyes, quickened his pace, and walked to the front.Those gray buildings suddenly became very familiar, the Soviet-style dense architectural style, regularity, unity, wide roads, and dilapidated tram tracks.He remembered the post office at the corner of the street, the tailor shop across the street, and the ubiquitous bars, where the flashing neon lights had turned into broken light pipes.

Yan Xichen was sweating all over, this road was the one that Fang Shuo came to see him off when he left Kiev.

Yan Xichen turned his head, and he could even see in the distance, the high wall built by Ukraine, like a thin outer layer, but completely sealed off this place.That was after the leak at the nuclear power plant, the whole of Kiev was quarantined, a high wall was built, and then it became a ghost town that no one cares about.The former prosperity and the unquenchable desires of people circulating in this city have all become a pinch of mud under their feet.

The gunfire started suddenly, from behind Yan Xichen.

He immediately turned his head back, Duan Mingyi raised his submachine gun and shot wildly at the top of the building on the right, then ran, and jumped into the building from the window on the first floor: "Someone!"

"Duan Mingyi!" Luo Sen roared, and he immediately set out to help, but suddenly, his eyes touched the building on the other side.Du Yachen was fast this time, following his gaze and pointing at the target, but there was nothing there, but Luo Sen was like another Duan Mingyi, running with a gun in his hand.

"Rosen!"

"The crow! I saw him!" Rosen had already run 20 meters away, and a low growl came faintly.

"Fuck!" Even Yan Xichen swears, "I didn't even see a ghost!"

"Be careful, this space is not under your control. Ming Yi doesn't know what he saw, Luo Sen was led away like this."

Yan Xichen had an exquisite mind, and Du Yachen understood it without saying anything: "I know."

"Next, don't leave my side."

"I know—" Yan Xichen was stunned as soon as he raised his head.

Du Yachen felt that something was wrong and turned his head immediately, but just like before, there was nothing in the direction Yan Xichen was staring at blankly.He stared at the high-rise rooftop, where there were only white clouds.In Yan Xichen's eyes, it was the young Fang Shuo, just like in his dream, sitting there dangling his legs, looking down at them.

"Fang Shuo" waved at him, then turned over from the edge of the top floor and left.

"I saw him, Fang Shuo." Yan Xichen picked up the gun, although he was not as eager as Luo Sen and Duan Mingyi just now, but he also walked out quickly.

"Did you ignore what my mother just said to you?" Du Yachen lost his temper rarely, and stretched his arms to bring Yan Xichen back. He looked around coldly, "It's not right. You were all seduced by the target, We don't see each other's goals."

"Didn't you see him just now?" Yan Xichen frowned.

Du Yachen nodded, and carried Yan Xichen to the building Duan Mingyi got into just now: "The Fang Shuo you saw should be fake. Go, get Mingyi back first!"

The interior of the building was dark, and there was a smell of rot and mold mixed with dust, which most people could not bear, so Yan Xichen raised his sleeve to cover it.He was still walking in front, and Du Yachen was walking behind him, looking like a wolf guarding its territory.

They quickly found Duan Mingyi, even though the scene in front of them was unimaginable.Duan Mingyi was holding a gun, talking to a pillar in front of him.His expression was very calm, and he didn't look crazy, but because of this, he felt creepy and terrifying.

"Ming Yi!" Yan Xichen called.

Duan Mingyi turned around with a calm expression.

Responding to the outside world, Yan Xichen thought to himself, he tried to approach him, but Duan Mingyi suddenly raised the gun.Du Yachen's eyes were sharp, and he immediately pushed Yan Xichen to the ground, and the bullets shot into the dark place behind them, and there was no one there.The fire illuminated Duan Mingyi's face, he was cold and dangerous.

Yan Xichen suddenly broke free from Du Yachen's embrace, and he ran like a snake without being injured at all. The moment he got close to Duan Mingyi, he slammed the gun in his hand and slapped him with his hand: "Duan Mingyi!"

Duan Mingyi dropped the gun, his eyes were blank for a moment, and then he woke up: "Swallow? What am I doing here?"

Yan Xichen and Du Yachen glanced at each other quickly, knowing that this was a trick.This ghost town has the power to confuse people.

"I saw Grandpa. He told me to leave. Leave him alone. The crows suddenly rushed up from behind..." Duan Mingyi knew that he was dazed just now, and he broke out in a cold sweat. He didn't dare to show it, so he just walked quickly The two rushed to the place where Rosen disappeared just now.

They all guessed that the crow Rosen saw must be fake like Duan Mingyi.Because none of them had seen the crow just now.

Yan Xichen walked forward, thinking deeply.If the crow seen here is fake, then is the crow that Rosen saw with Hawkeye real or fake?Did this hallucination start from the moment they broke through the thick fog, or from when they were still at Hawkeye Base?

Yan Xichen was covered in cold sweat.

Rosenjuan's building was not big, and they quickly found someone, because the sound of metal clashing and fighting was obvious in the empty dilapidated building.Du Yachen was still walking at the end, Yan Xichen was in front, always on guard, but Duan Mingyi's face was not very good: "Listen! Do you feel that this voice really doesn't sound like a person beating?"

Yan Xichen paused slightly and listened, his expression was not very good.Duan Mingyi was right, it wasn't the sound of one person fighting, it really sounded like two people.Rosen did not shoot, indicating that they were fighting in close quarters.

Suddenly, footsteps jumped down from upstairs, as if they were running to the stairwell, Rosen yelled something and chased after him.

The footsteps of two people, the sound of two people going downstairs!

Yan Xichen looked back at Du Yachen, but Du Yachen had already raised his gun and pointed it in the direction of the stairwell.They are all ready to rush any stranger down the stairwell and subdue each other in an instant.

Within three seconds, Rosen rushed down alone, with anger still on his face, and when he saw three guns pointed at him, he immediately drew his gun.

All four were at a loss.

"Where are people?" Rosen asked first.

Yan Xichen's expression was a little bright: "Who were you fighting with just now?"

"Crow! I doubt he followed us all the way!"

"We did hear the sound of you fighting with him, and the sound of you running down together." Du Yachen pointed the muzzle of the gun to the ground, and then pointed upstairs, "But you are the only one who came down."

The complexions of several people were not very good. All of them heard it just now, which shows that this is not an auditory hallucination.Whether the crow exists or not, or whether it is a hallucination, no one can say clearly.Rosen said that the crow is there, so there is only one possibility. The crow disappeared in the blind spot distance between the second floor and the ground.

"This place is so fucking evil." Yan Xichen was already frightened by this kind of anti-natural force, got goosebumps all over his body, and turned around to go out first, "We have to leave quickly. From now on, no matter what you see, don't let it go." Leaving the team without authorization. It may be a hallucination."

"Yan Xichen." Rosen's voice stopped him from behind, "Isn't this your fucking watch world?"

Yan Xichen turned his head, Du Yachen looked at Luo Sen without saying a word, Duan Mingyi went up and kicked: "What do you mean? Why are you talking about this?"

"In your watch world, you should be in control of everything. Why do these things still appear?"

Yan Xichen looked at him silently for two seconds: "This is not only my watch world, but also Fang Shuo's. From the moment I entered the watch world, I was mentally prepared. Du Yachen said that the real Fang Shuo might be in Here, but until this moment, I'm not 100% sure. If there is, I can't read him, he is not my will. Let's go, if we want to find the final answer, we have to go down. From now on, We can't get distracted by other things, and we can't doubt each other."

10 minutes, a group of people walking in corrupt Kiev.They all walked lightly, becoming more alert than before.The fog seemed to have cleared away, revealing the whole city. The reinforced concrete was exposed like severed tendons on the city's body. The traces of people were so obvious that the creepy feeling never dissipated.

This time Duan Mingyi walked behind, Du Yachen followed closely behind Luo Sen, and Yan Xichen still took the lead.

Half of the building on the east side collapsed in the distance, and a man stood beside the exposed steel bars, holding a gun and watching them.

Yan Xichen saw it, and so did the other three.His gaze flickered lightly, then moved away again.No one took it seriously, thinking it was the same trick as before, an illusion, something tempting to get lost.

Yan Xichen had never experienced it before, so he took a second look when he passed by. The "man" folded his arms, and turned his body as they moved, his eyes were always on Yan Xichen's face, and there was no emotion in his eyes.In the old and dark city, it was uncomfortable to be stared at like this, Yan Xichen moved his eyes away.When I walked past that building and turned back, the place just now was empty.

Several people have their own ideas in their hearts, thinking that others can't see it.

Going forward, there is a shadow standing in the thick fog.Everyone kept their guns tightly clenched, and when they got closer, they realized that it was the man upstairs just now, who somehow ran in front of them again.This time he stood in the middle of the old road, holding a gun, like a road blocker.

A few people still didn't speak, afraid of making the mistake just now, it was just an illusion.

When they approached more than ten meters away, the "man" suddenly started shooting at them!

There was a clatter of bullets piercing the clouds, and they could smell gunpowder smoke.

Du Yachen reacted the fastest, stepped forward and threw Yan Xichen down!Duan Mingyi scolded Gou Niang loudly, and two bullets hit him in a row!Rosen gritted his teeth, faced the bullets, and started hunting like a beast!

Yan Xichen was crushed by Du Yachen, and reacted quickly, trying to push Du Yachen away.But Du Yachen was tall, so he didn't push him away for a while.

The battle time was racing against time, and the crow retreated while strafing, fearful of the approaching Rosen.Du Yachen was lying on his body, supported the ground and began to shoot.

Yan Xichen was pressed in the closed space under Du Yachen, felt him on his body, half propped up his body and fired, avoiding the contact of the gun body with him.Yan Xichen clearly felt the process of Du Yachen's muscles tensing up, and his body seemed to be condensed into steel in a fighting state.

Two seconds of distraction, or three seconds.Du Yachen's breath sprayed on him, and his whole body breath surrounded him.He controlled the gun very steadily, and he could feel the recoil of each shot being completely blocked by his immobile body.Yan Xichen lay under him, he could only feel a small impact, and he heard Du Yachen's heartbeat.

Du Yachen fired four bullets, all of which hit, but none of them were critical, they only abolished the opponent's mobility.

Luo Sen and Du Yachen's bullets arrived at the same time. He stretched out his hand, opened his mouth wide, grabbed his neck, and threw him to the ground.

Yan Xichen calmed his heartbeat, got out from under Du Yachen, and ran to Duan Mingyi's side: "How are you doing!"

Duan Mingyi tore open the front, the body armor blocked two bullets, and the wound on his body was only an inch deep.Yan Xichen heaved a sigh of relief.

Duan Mingyi gritted his teeth and looked at Luo Sen who stood up and shook his head at them: "Damn it, what the hell is this place?"