The other person sized up Li Changzhou a few times and shouted, "I won't hurt you, just throw the gun over here!"

“That won’t do, I can’t trust you!” Li Changzhou retorted loudly.

"I am Zheng Qing from the Sixth Group of the Third Team of the Combat Department of the Great Xia Special Operations Bureau. I swear to the Great Xia Constitution that I will protect your safety... Throw the gun over here!"

Li Changzhou took the rifle and threw it three meters to his right, without giving it to the female soldier named Zheng Qing.

"Commander Zheng, I..."

Before Li Changzhou could finish speaking, Zheng Qing bent her knees slightly and, with a thud, charged forward like a cannonball.

A wolf howled from a distant sand dune, and a powerful force surged into her legs, propelling Li Qianxia forward like the wind.

Almost at the same time the two moved, Yang Qinglan's eyes turned blue.

Li Changzhou felt as if he were strapped to a high-speed train traveling to the right, and his whole body was being lifted into the air.

"Splash!" The female soldier kicked her feet into the sand where he had been standing.

With the same splash, Li Changzhou fell to the ground in the sand.

Before he could get up, he grabbed the AK next to him, raised the gun, and fired.

The female soldier kicked off with her right foot and teleported into Li Changzhou's arms, lifting his gun-wielding arm with her left hand.

A gunshot rang out, and the bullet shot into the sky.

Zheng Qing lunged forward, pinning Li Changzhou down, her elbow, strong enough to shatter bricks, pressed against his neck.

But before she could press down on him, something unexpected happened.

Like a movie scene rewinding, her body was pulled back by gravity and fell back to the position where Li Changzhou had initially stood.

She instinctively formed her fingers into claws, leaving straight claw marks on the sand between her and Li Changzhou.

Li Changzhou pulled his gun down and aimed at Zheng Qing again.

"Wait!" Zheng Qing shouted.

"Bang! Bang!" Two shots rang out, and Zheng Qing's lower body went limp, causing her to collapse onto the sand.

Blood flowed from her knees and was absorbed by the dry sand.

Li Qianxia finally arrived, her youthful and sunny face now filled with fierceness, and she mercilessly thrust the red steel gun towards Zheng Qing's heart.

"Mosquitoes! Stop!" Li Changzhou shouted.

Li Qianxia stopped, panting, and turned to look at him with a puzzled expression.

Li Changzhou was also panting heavily.

He didn't exercise much, but the tense mental state during that life-or-death moment consumed a lot of his energy.

Under Li Qianxia's questioning gaze, he held up the AK and pointed it at Zheng Qing.

"You're a soldier. I'm giving you one last chance. Is there anything else you want to say?" he said coldly.

Despite being shot in both knees, Zheng Qing didn't even flinch. She struggled to lift her face and said in a deep voice, "I just want to subdue you."

"I told you I'm a law-abiding citizen, and I even lost my gun, yet you still attacked me?"

“In a game of value, who would dare to easily trust others? Especially since you were dressed as a woman. The moment I saw you, I suspected you had killed a female survivor, but after your female teammate appeared, I realized I had misunderstood.”

Li Changzhou lowered his gaze slightly and glanced at himself. The lace-trimmed collar was very tight. Although it was hot, he did not cut it off with a dagger to avoid sun exposure.

"What should we do?" Li Qianxia asked her brother.

Since Zheng Qing didn't fight to the very end, no one can say for sure whether she wanted to subdue people or kill them.

But no one will let her fight to the very end.

Li Changzhou thought for a moment and said, "Search her body and see if she has any weapons."

Li Qianxia planted the gun in the sand and went forward to search Zheng Qing. During this process, Li Changzhou kept the gun pointed at Zheng Qing's temple.

The dark muzzle of the gun, reflecting the sunlight, looked like a black venomous snake with gleaming eyes, ready to bite at any moment.

"No weapons found." Li Qianxia had even searched the groin area.

"Tie her hands together with her shoelaces."

After confirming that Zheng Qing's legs did not show any signs of rapid healing, Li Changzhou glanced towards the hill.

Yang Qinglan walked down the sand dune cautiously and warily, staring at Zheng Qing, who was unable to move.

"There were originally three people." Zheng Qing was slightly out of breath; the bleeding and high temperature were causing her to lose strength rapidly.

The body search just now took quite a while.

Li Changzhou frowned as he looked at her, his gun still in his hand.

“If she doesn’t receive treatment, she might die here.” He glanced at Yang Qinglan out of the corner of his eye.

Yang Qinglan stood behind Li Changzhou and asked Zheng Qing, "Are you alone?"

“Two people and a police dog.” Zheng Qing swallowed hard, her lips turning pale. “There’s a giant python in the desert, hiding under the sand. We’ve been attacked, so we’ve split up and are escaping. Be careful.”

Li Qianxia glanced at Yang Qinglan, and she began to believe that Zheng Qing only intended to subdue Li Changzhou.

Yang Qinglan's expression remained unchanged: "What are your instincts? And your skills and equipment?"

"Instinct... 10% pain immunity, skill is... the jumping ability of a jumping spider, equipment is a dagger, in the battle with the giant python... in the battle..."

Zheng Qing fell silent, her head drooping as if she had fallen asleep.

The three exchanged a glance, and Li Qianxia slowly stepped forward and touched the other person's neck.

“Still alive.” She looked at the two of them.

Yang Qinglan thought for a moment and asked Li Changzhou, "What do you plan to do?"

Li Changzhou knew perfectly well that at this moment, he absolutely could not show sympathy, absolutely could not be kind; he also remembered the story of "The Farmer and the Snake," but he still spoke up:

"...Trust her just this once?"

"Okay." Yang Qinglan opened her hand, and after five heartbeats, the "mosquito blood pack" appeared in her hand, along with a disposable blood transfusion set.

She crouched down, rolled up Zheng Qing's sleeve, and inserted the needle.

During this process, neither Li Changzhou nor Li Qianxia let their guard down, but Zheng Qing was not faking her fainting.

“We must find a shady spot as soon as possible,” Yang Qinglan stood up. “If we continue to be exposed to the sun, not only will she die, but we will also be in danger.”