Chapter 617 Longing Has Already Leaded to a Grave.

Upon hearing this, Cui Qi simply stared wide-eyed without uttering a word!

Wen Ni stepped to the side, using her dagger to lift Wang Zi's chin. "If he won't talk, then you will."

"I……"

Wang Zi looked troubled, but seeing the agitated crowd, he gritted his teeth and said, "Company Commander Cui Qi's ex-wife and child have been living in Myanmar. Not long ago, somehow the news leaked, causing his wife and child to be captured by the Myanmar army. The Myanmar military used this to threaten Cui Qi, and that's why he...that's why he committed this mistake. I tried to stop him, but..."

"Two companies, more than four hundred men, not even counting the more than one hundred men lost in the 357th Company, oh, and your own Second Company, about a hundred lives!" Wen Ni suddenly turned around and returned to Cui Qi. "In total, you're going to use more than seven hundred living men to exchange for the lives of your wife and children, whose fate is still unknown?"

He was deeply in love and his feelings were profound!

But it will cost more than 700 people and more than 700 families to be buried with his selfishness and his greatness!

What an unequal deal.

"What do you mean... my wife and children are still unaware of their own fate?" Cui Qi, who had been roaring numbly, finally showed a different expression on his face.

It was a distorted, collapsing state!

“The Burmese military is full of wolves and leopards. Do you really think your wife and children would have survived until now, having fallen into their hands?”

Wen Ni looked at him coldly, unsure whether she should pity this man or ridicule his foolishness and impulsiveness!

"Even if your wife and children survive, you betrayed your country by informing the Burmese and caused the deaths of so many people. China will never spare your life. The Burmese will surely promise you that once things are done, they will take you in and let you escape with your wife and children, right?!"

"How did you know?" Cui Qi stared blankly into Wen Ni's deep eyes.

“I have infiltrated the Burmese people several times and had contact with them for at least two or three years in total. How could I not understand them? They are masters of manipulation and deception.”

"Exploitation and deception?"

"Yes, Cui Qi, have you ever thought about this? You betrayed your country and lost your status as a Chinese military officer. Now that you're just an ordinary person, what value can you offer the Burmese military? They're shrewd and calculating, they won't do anything without personal gain, and they hate and despise the Chinese. If you were to reunite with your family and live a comfortable life, what good would that do them?"

"I……"

Cui Qi's throat tightened, and a chill ran down his neck. If he were to reach out and touch it, he would probably find that his entire back was soaked with cold sweat!

"Your blood and the blood of your wife and children are the wine in their cups as they boast. And your bodies and heads will be nothing more than trophies they hang on high walls, to be talked about with relish!"

Wen Ni's tone was neither too light nor too heavy.

But this caused Cui Qi to lose all his strength, like a weight thrown into a swamp, unable to stand up or climb out! The more he struggled, the deeper he was dragged! Until he reached the depths of hell, unable to return to the human world.

"How could this be, how could this be... You're lying to me, nothing you're saying is true... They're still alive, they must still be alive..."

Cui Qi hugged himself tightly, trembling, his eyes filled with fear and timidity.

"I also wish they were still alive, but you won't see the day they return." Wen Ni stood there, the night wind blowing her stray hairs, her eyes cold and shattered into sharp knives. "Innocent lives lie lying in the wasteland at the foot of the mountain, waiting for you to bow down and atone for your sins!"

“…” Cui Qi was shocked.

"No, I misspoke. How can you possibly atone for so many sins? I only hope that hell has the most wicked path, where you will be condemned to eternal life, with your bones piercing your heart every day!"

After saying that, Wen Ni didn't even glance at Cui Qi's miserable face, and turned away gracefully!

She took the pistol from Lu Jinye's hand and shoved it into Liu Shuzheng's hand!

Then, without looking back, he strode forward!

Lu Jinye gazed at her aloof figure without uttering a word, then stepped forward to catch up with her, walking side by side under the desolate moonlight, silently keeping her company.

A gunshot rang out behind me.

Crows perched on withered branches and leaves circled up, then fluttered down like moths to a flame.

They quietly wait for a life to decay, and then feast on it!

Wen Ni paused in her steps.

She could feel Lu Jinye, who had been following her, carefully stop as well.

"I'm asking you."

"What?"

"If it were you, with your wife and children kidnapped, and you in Cui Qi's situation, what would you do?" Wen Ni didn't turn around, her gaze passing through the branches to the bright, desolate white moon!

“I have made my choice.” Lu Jinye said calmly, “I will do my utmost, using legitimate means that do not endanger anyone’s life, to the best of my ability.”

yes.

Once the high and mighty heir of the Lu family, a superstar who dominated the entertainment industry and pursued his dreams, and later, the person in charge who stood at the pinnacle of power!

Such a lofty figure, like a deity seated on a high altar, was willing to abandon all fame and fortune, washing away his worldly vanity and joining the army for her sake.

Even though they were covered in wounds, lived in the open, and exposed their lives to gunfire, they never uttered a single complaint.

When he saw her, all he cared about was whether she was eating and sleeping well, and whether she was alright. He held her in his arms, comforting her wounds. He slept on a cold mat on the floor, burning the midnight oil to study war maps, never uttering a word about his own pain and suffering!

Wen Ni's eyes, gazing at the moonlight, suddenly stung with tears.

"Lu Jinye, what if I die?"

"Then I will lead my troops all the way in."

Lu Jinye and she gazed at the same moonlight, and he continued softly, "I will still do everything in my power to protect the faith you held dear, and to safeguard that land for you. From now on, every inch of land I've been to, every person I've met, every breeze that's blown, every rain that's fallen upon me, will be imbued with your gentleness, your integrity, and your thoughts..."

Every word, every sentence.

It's like a spring breeze melting ice and snow!

Wen Ni suddenly turned her head and buried herself in his arms!

Tears streamed down his face, soaking through his clothes and burning his equally hot chest!

He raised his hand and hugged her even tighter!

I love you.

These three words have never been so easy or simple to say.

It is profound and tender, it is like one person becoming part of another's very being, and from then on, there is an everlasting shadow in their life!

If she's not here, then he'll carry on her legacy, fulfilling her unfinished dream, and making the two of them live as one.

The wind, stirring the leaves, and the drifting clouds weave a vast net, giving them a brief, secluded, and tender moment of lingering affection!

But eventually, we have to return to reality.

Corpses lay one after another at the foot of the mountain.

One grave mound after another was piled up on the hilltop...

"The war will be over soon."

"I'll take you home after the war is over!"

Wen Ni followed behind Liu Shuzheng.

They walked past row after row of graves, looking at the names carved on the wooden planks...

When she reached the end of the mountain, Wen Ni paused. She lowered her head and looked at the tombstone that had accidentally snagged the corner of her clothes beside her.

His gaze swept over the black ink, then quickly returned, his pupils contracting sharply!

"83rd Group Army, 19874, 351st Company, Company Commander: Zhang Wei?"

The images and sounds of Nurse Meixuan before her sacrifice are still vivid in my mind! At this moment, Wen Ni felt as if she had been struck by lightning! Her legs and feet felt as if they had turned into charcoal and merged into the soil.

Wen Ni, if you see anyone from the 83rd Group Army, please help me find a man named Zhang Wei. He is my husband…