Who are you
"What's going on..." Lin Zhouze opened the door sleepily and was pulled out.
Shi Youchen stuffed the wet towel into his hand and said anxiously: "I'm afraid something has happened. We have to leave here quickly." "Ah?" Lin Zhouze was not fully awake yet. He was confused by all this and didn't even have time to take the coat off the rack.
The reception building is located in the northeast of the center of the training base. It is rarely used on weekdays. It was originally built as a rest area, so it is not high and looks more like a small hotel.
As he passed by the kitchen, Shi Youchen quickly grabbed two bottles of water. The kitchen window faced south, and the blazing firelight made his eyes glow red. "Let's go!"
Lin Zhouze followed him blankly, feeling the air around him seem a bit scorching. "Take the stairs," he said, about to turn left for the elevator, but Shi Youchen pulled him back. "Huh? 7th floor?" Naturally, someone who had never been active was not happy.
Shi Youchen's forehead hair was a little damp, perhaps from a recent shower or sweat. He glanced toward the elevator warily, "I'll explain it to you on the way out."
So the two of them ran down the stairs, and the sound of hurried footsteps floated in the corridor.
When Lin Zhouze reached the second floor, he suddenly felt dizzy. He missed the last few steps and fell hard. A sudden pain dispelled the last traces of sleepiness, and he grimaced in pain: "Hiss! My foot!"
"Hmm" In a blink of an eye, something was stuck on his face, and all the sounds he made were muffled.
Shi Youchen grabbed Lin Zhouze's hand and placed the wet towel over his face. "Don't take it off until I say you can, and don't expose your mouth or nose." "Uh! Uh-huh!" Out of trust in his friend and his injured foot, Lin Zhouze nodded obediently, indicating that he would do as I said.
So he was held by one hand and limped forward. On the way, he accidentally kicked something and almost fell again. "Ugh!" "It's okay, a blanket with a curled edge."
Shi Youchen glanced sideways at the unconscious person lying on the ground against the wall with his eyes closed. He spoke to Lin Zhouze in a calm voice, then pulled him out from the side door on the first floor.
The air was filled with a strong smell of rotten eggs, and there was a muffled voice covered by a towel: "Hold my clothes, don't let go." As he said that, he let go of the hand that was holding Lin Zhouze, took out a bottle of water from his pocket, held it against his chest with his forearm, and threw the unscrewed bottle cap to the side.
"Splash" the cold liquid poured down from the top of his head, flowed to his neck, and wet a large area of his collar.
Shi Youchen squinted one eye, threw the empty bottle aside, and then confirmed the direction in his somewhat blurry vision.
"Follow me." He also wanted to heal Lin Zhouze's foot injury first, but the current environment did not allow them to stay for a moment, so he made a quick decision and said, "Go to the mountainous forest area in the west."
Lin Zhouze's breathing became more and more rapid in the damp darkness. He was not so uneasy, but he still held tightly to the corner of Shi Youchen's clothes. He trusted him 100%.
After walking for an unknown amount of time, the person in front suddenly stopped. "Huh? Uh-huh?" Lin Zhouze felt that his ankle must be as swollen as a pig's head. The swelling there was too noticeable.
But he was still very obedient and did not take off the towel covering his face. He just made noises to ask what was wrong with Shi Youchen.
"Let me take a look at your foot injury first." Shi Youchen's voice became a little hoarse. He helped Lin Zhouze sit down next to the tree trunk, reached out to take off his slippers that he didn't even have time to change, rolled up his trouser legs, and saw a large, swollen lump.
In the darkness, Lin Zhouze clearly felt a warm current spreading and flowing into his calves. He knew that Shi Youchen was treating his injuries.
But he didn't know that there was a third person watching all this.
"Zhou Ze." The hoarse call startled Lin Zhouze, and it took him a long time to realize that it was Shi Youchen's voice.
"No matter what happens later, just stay behind me." Shi Youchen rarely called himself like this. There was a hint of...panic that he couldn't hide in his suddenly hoarse voice.
Realizing what might have happened to his friend, Lin Zhouze suddenly became anxious and wanted to remove the cover.
"Listen to me, I won't let anything happen to you." Lin Zhouze's wrist was pinched tightly and his movements were stopped.
When Shi Youchen stood up, he felt dizzy for a while. After he recovered a little, he reached out and pulled Lin Zhouze up, "We can't go to Xishan."
"?" Lin Zhouze was about to ask why when he heard a voice coming from not far away.
"You really can't go there, because it's been burned down a long time ago."
As if to coincide with this sentence, a "boom" sound was heard from the northeast, and the noise came from the reception building that the two had just left.
The buzzing in Shi Youchen and Lin Zhouze's ears took a long time to dissipate, and it was not until this time that Shi Youchen realized something.
"Who are you?"
The man didn't take this opportunity to attack them. Instead, he stood a dozen meters away, looking sideways at the lake. The base's power system seemed to be affected, and the guide lights along the lake were not on.
This is Cang Lake, the center of the training base. Just now, Shi Youchen and Lin Zhouze changed their route halfway because of one consideration -
"In order to ensure that no one escapes, all the high ground here has been destroyed in advance."
"Those who managed to escape had nowhere else to go except to the place with the most abundant water, which is here."
"I've been waiting here for a long time."
In the light of the fire in the southeast, he withdrew his hand from the railing and turned around. His face was clearly illuminated in Shi Youchen's eyes.
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There was silence for what seemed like an eternity. Shi Youchen's clothes were tugged at several times. "Ugh! Ugh! Ugh!" He reached behind his back and grasped Lin Zhouze's hand, so hard that it hurt his wrist.
"Huh! I mean I can't stand the stuffiness anymore, cough cough, can you let me..." Lin Zhouze was out of breath and instinctively tore off the thing covering his face and blurted out, "...take a breath." His words were divided into two parts by the scene in front of him.
He had never seen such a complicated expression on Shi Youchen's face.
Surprise, astonishment, fear, hesitation, confusion...
When Youchen turned around and looked through the half space he had vacated, he saw the person opposite him.
"..." "Youchen, am I seeing things right, cough."
"Is that Yan Zhiyuan?"
Shi Youchen's eyes were affected by the hydrogen sulfide gas, and because of the darkness, he saw double. So the moment he saw the person opposite him, he wondered if he was hallucinating or having an illusion.
And at this moment, Lin Zhouze's words made him realize that at least what he saw was correct.
The person by the lake who said he had been waiting for them for a long time looked exactly like Yan Zhiyuan.
"Cough, cough, cough!" Lin Zhouze suddenly started coughing violently, tears streaming down his face, covering most of his face. Shi Youchen hurriedly unscrewed the cap of the remaining bottle of water, wet the towel again, and placed it over Lin Zhouze's mouth and nose.
Even so, the man across from him continued to watch without taking any action. His face didn't show any change in expression, just like Yan Zhiyuan's usual expression.
Lin Zhouze took the towel away after recovering a bit. His throat felt as if it was being cut by a knife. He said softly, "This guy is quite funny, cough cough cough."
"Everyone knows that Yan Zhiyuan is injured and lying in the treatment room. Why would he impersonate Minister Yan?" Lin Zhouze said this with a smile on his face. But when Shi Youchen turned his head to look at him, he did not see a trace of a smile in his round and clever eyes.
"You said so, Youchen."
Shi Youchen reluctantly turned his head away, not wanting to meet the hope in those eyes. "I just went to the treatment room yesterday, and the nurse said Yan Zhiyuan hasn't woken up." Lin Zhouze muttered, but Shi Youchen still didn't answer him.
Suddenly Lin Zhouze shouted, "Hey! Who are you? Are you from the Maintenance Bureau?" Shi Youchen had no time to stop him, and Lin Zhouze's question floated over the lake.
"Swish!" "Crack!" Two sounds of breaking through the air passed by.
A silver crossbow arrow was nailed in front of Shi Youchen's toes, and another was intercepted by "Yan Zhiyuan", who held it in his hand and made a sword flower as if playing with it.
"What do you mean?" A masked woman walked out from the bushes beside the few people. A dissatisfied voice came from under the scorpion-shaped mask, "You want to protect them?" It was a question directed at "Yan Zhiyuan".
Yan Zhiyuan swung the crossbow in his hand, the arrowhead flashing a sharp purple light in the moonlight. With a slight movement of his fingertips, a thin stream of water enveloped the arrowhead, diluting the deadly poison.
Then he chuckled to the masked woman: "How could that be? I just don't want to be killed. After all, I caught these two." The chuckle made the woman shudder. Seeing this, she hid the crossbow in her hand behind her and said fearfully: "Then you handle it yourself. I'm leaving first." Then she left as if escaping.
After the woman's figure completely disappeared into the bushes, she said, "Okay, no one can disturb us now."
"Ask anything you want to know."
"Just consider it as satisfying your curiosity before I die."
Lin Zhouze suddenly became very angry. He ignored the toxic gas in the air, took off his towel and cursed: "Stop talking with that face. Show your true face if you have the guts!"
Shi Youchen covered his mouth for him in a low voice: "Don't be ridiculous. What good is hydrogen sulfide? I can't save you if you inhale too much."
Unexpectedly, the person being scolded was not angry, but said lovingly: "Aze, Youchen is right, don't be so impulsive." Hearing this, Lin Zhouze pretended to scold again, but Shi Youchen took great effort to hold him down.
"And you, Youchen. You shouldn't be here today."
Shi Youchen used his eyes to warn Lin Zhouze not to act rashly, then turned around, picked up the crossbow arrow embedded in the ground, and pointed the arrow at the person in front.
"I shouldn't be here. Do you mean you knew Lin Zhouze would come here?"
"Haha, you are still so smart."
"It's just that you're about to be killed by your own cleverness."
"...How about this, I'll give you ten minutes, just like we trained before. If you can beat me within ten minutes, I'll spare his life. If not..." After saying that, Lin Zhouze's body was suddenly surrounded by mist, and in the blink of an eye, he turned into a water prison.
"If you lose, Aze will suffocate to death in my water prison."
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