Chapter 30 Are you really jealous?
Half an hour later, a group of people, led by Team 7 and followed by the Special Management Bureau's support forces, entered the factory. Under Yin Qi's guidance, they came to a storage room deep in the abandoned warehouse.
Li Muhan's eyes revealed fatigue, but after several members of the Special Management Bureau almost used brute force to knock open the iron door of the storage room,
He couldn't help but feel nervous inside.
Intermittent crying and screams came from the secret room, and along with these sounds, there was also a smell.
The smell made everyone present frown.
Including Yin Qi, she looked silently into the warehouse.
Because of the taste.
It's the stench of a rotting corpse.
When the dim light from overhead shone into the secret room, everyone was stunned.
Then almost everyone showed angry expressions.
Because what they saw was a group of girls huddled together in a corner like animals.
Except for one girl who seemed to be uninjured and had her clothes intact, all the other girls were naked and had more or less scars on their bodies.
What was even more terrifying was that in another corner of the secret room, two naked and highly decayed bodies were lying there quietly.
They are the source of the stench.
"Hold."
A member of the Special Management Bureau cursed angrily, and Li Muhan slowly walked into the area filled with sin and torture.
After discovering someone had entered, some of the girls began to tremble all over, closing their eyes tightly, and seemed to be praying for something.
And some of them had dull eyes and just looked up at Li Muhan who was walking in like livestock.
There was only one person, the girl who was not hurt at all, who suddenly stood up and pounced on Li Muhan after discovering him.
She hugged Li Muhan tightly and began to cry.
"Great...Mu Han, great, you came to save me..."
Li Muhan lowered his head in a daze, looking at Gu Ruoxi's tearful face without saying a word.
Then his eyes slowly swept over these girls, some were terrified, some desperate, and some numb, until Li Muhan whispered something to them.
"I...we're here to rescue you. You're safe."
After hearing these words, Li Muhan felt that a glimmer of light seemed to flash in the eyes of these girls.
If I had never seen the sun, I would not be afraid of the darkness.
If I had never seen darkness, I might not have longed for light so much.
Half an hour later.
Because they had solid evidence, the Municipal Public Security Bureau, together with several subordinate units and even the armed police, came to the old street in a mighty force.
All gangs were almost wiped out. In front of the real state machine, these gangsters who occupied the mountains and acted like kings felt for the first time how small and ridiculous they were.
The outlier Zhou Zhiguo is the real boss of several gangs that have occupied this old street for so many years.
Gu Ruoxi was sitting in front of the ambulance with a blanket wrapped around her. The doctor was examining her.
But her eyes were always searching for a familiar figure.
Li Muhan stood alone in a dark corner of the factory ruins, watching the police lead the girls out one by one, put clothes on them and comfort them.
But he didn't feel happy at all.
Because soon, the police carried out two bodies covered with white cloth.
"These two, aged 19 and 22, were the most resistant, so they suffered the most horrific torture in addition to being violated."
Lin Ziyu also arrived at the scene and was standing next to Li Muhan. He was holding a necklace pendant in his hand, which was Huo Tian's pendant.
"sorry."
Li Muhan said something in a low voice, speaking to Lin Ziyu, and also as if he was blaming himself.
Lin Ziyu slowly turned his head and looked at Li Muhan beside him.
"Was his death painful?"
Lin Ziyu suddenly asked.
Li Muhan remembered how Huo Tian turned into a monster at the end, and his body was constantly shaking as he tried to suppress the restlessness in his body. He didn't know if this could be considered pain.
He lowered his head and said expressionlessly.
"I think it must be painful."
Lin Ziyu looked up at the night sky and sighed deeply. He didn't know if he was trying to stop his tears from falling, but he quickly changed the subject.
"When he took me out of the detention center, I thought the same thing. I lost my father when I was young, and my mother didn't want me anymore. To me, he... is my father."
Lin Ziyu did not blame Li Muhan in his words, and Su Xue was the same, although she could not accept the news that her captain was dead.
But after learning that it was Li Muhan who sent the captain to his death, Su Xue did not blame Li Muhan. Instead, she hugged Li Muhan while crying, comforting him not to worry about it.
Yin Qi didn't say anything. She went back to the car with an expressionless face and never got out again.
"We succeeded in this mission."
Finally, Lin Ziyu said to Li Muhan.
"success?"
Li Muhan muttered to himself.
“Is this a success?”
"We caught the outliers, prevented the remaining girls from being persecuted, and even helped the police clean up the cancer in the old street. This is success."
But for those girls who have been hurt, the wounds will never disappear and will always be imprinted in their minds.
And the two girls who had died would never come back.
And there is Huo Tian.
The man likes to smoke, speaks carelessly, and is ruthless when it comes to violence.
But the man who has always cared for and loved every member of Team 7 like his own children...
He will never come back.
"No peace of mind, huh?"
Lin Ziyu seemed to see what Li Muhan was thinking, and he patted Li Muhan on the shoulder.
"Then keep this feeling in mind. Remember that this is something we should endure. Only in this way can we stay awake and feel the difference between us and those monsters."
"This isn't something you should endure, but something you choose to endure... Whether it's you, Su Xue, Yin Qi... or Huo Tian, how can you be sure that the path you've chosen isn't the wrong one?"
As Li Muhan spoke, he handed the Tang sword in his hand and the pendant that Huo Tian had dropped on the ground to Lin Ziyu.
Lin Ziyu sniffed and wrapped his clothes tighter. He looked at the pendant and Tang sword handed to him by Li Muchan, smiled, and finally took only the pendant and left the Tang sword in Li Muchan's hands.
"People don't have so many choices, Mu Han."
After saying that, Lin Ziyu waved his hand and turned to walk towards the car.
Before opening the car door, he looked back at Li Muhan again.
"No matter what, you saw the captain off for the last time. Regardless of whether you remain our colleague in the future... thank you."
Li Muhan lowered his head, looked at the Tang sword in his hand, and sighed deeply.
Then when he looked up again, he saw Gu Ruoxi, who was not hurt at all.
This was also thanks to Yin Qi and Su Xue who were able to hold back all the Old Street gangs with their own strength until the support from the Special Management Bureau arrived.
Gu Ruoxi seemed a little frightened at the moment. She was looking for something everywhere. Li Muhan knew that she was looking for him, but he did not show up.
Then Li Muhan saw two middle-aged people, a man and a woman, running towards Gu Ruoxi crying. Gu Ruoxi also hugged them and burst into tears.
Li Muhan knew that he didn't need to see her again, so he turned around and went back to the car. Su Xue and Yin Qi sat in the back seat, while Li Muhan sat in the passenger seat.
The only difference is that the driver was changed to Lin Ziyu.
No one spoke. Su Xue's eyes were a little moist. Yin Qi looked at the night outside the window and seemed to be lost in thought.
"I remember feeling a little strange when I first met the Captain... My best friend was brutally murdered by an alien, and I was in danger. It was the Captain who saved me... He was trying to act cool in front of me, but ended up getting chased all over the building by that alien."
Su Xue said with a hint of tears in her voice.
"The captain had just become a fighter at that time and couldn't control his power very well...but he still protected me."
Yin Qi didn't say anything, but she also recalled that three years ago, she was hunted by the organization and was spotted by an alien when she was rummaging through the trash can outside looking for food. In the end, it was the captain who saved her.
He brought her home, who looked like a beggar, and gave her a lot of good food and bought her new clothes.
Thinking of this, Yin Qi's nose felt a little sore.
To the people in Team 7, Huo Tian usually looks very frivolous.
But at critical moments, he always stands up to protect these children.
To them, Huo Tianzhen is as reliable as his father...
The atmosphere fell into silence again.
"Great! Mission successful! Thank you all for your hard work!"
Lin Ziyu suddenly shouted.
It scared a few people.
"What's wrong with you all of a sudden?"
Yin Qi said dissatisfiedly.
"Hahahahahaha, I just think that if the captain were still here, he would definitely howl like this. Stop crying, the captain would definitely laugh at us if he knew."
"Has our brother Ziyu started preparing to take over as captain?"
"Humph, that old bastard didn't even trust us in the end and faced all this alone. He clearly looked down on us. I swear, I, Lin Ziyu, will become stronger than him!"
"Better than him? He's just a Chaos-level fighter. That's all you can do."
Yoongi scoffed with a sneer.
Perhaps it was because of Lin Ziyu's voice that several people were temporarily freed from their grief.
The passing of the deceased is bound to be accompanied by pain, but the pain will not always be with us.
Because they still have tasks, responsibilities and missions on their shoulders.
Li Muhan looked out the window silently, watching the bright lights and bustling life in the city.
Behind this prosperous world, there are always people walking against the light, silently carrying everything.
They have no complaints and do not care about the sacrifices, because they have chosen to accept all this as something they must endure.
But just like Lin Ziyu said.
Man, there are so many choices...
Afterwards, several people returned to the Special Management Bureau to report on their work.
After hearing that Huo Tian died in battle.
Lin Ze, who is always gentle and has a smile on his face, now looks a little serious.
After comforting the people of Team 7, she left Li Muhan alone.
"Sorry, this time the Special Management Bureau's intelligence work was not in place."
The first thing she did was to apologize to Li Muhan. Li Muhan shook his head, then took a few steps forward and placed the black Tang sword in his hand on the table.
"This is the captain's knife."
Lin Ze looked at the knife, then picked it up, gently stroked the scabbard and said.
"Fu Jiang Zhen Mo... This is a gift I gave him as a token of his passing the special training."
"This knife sent him on his final journey, with my own hands..."
"I know."
Lin Ze put down the knife, walked to the window and lit a cigarette.
"You don't have to carry out the mission for now, Li Muhan. I should take full responsibility for this incident, and I will put your case on hold. If you wish, I can make you disappear from the Special Management Bureau's files. At least I believe that you will not pose a threat to humanity."
The girl looked at the underground city outside the window. This was the base camp of their special management organization.
In the battle with aliens, sacrifices are inevitable, and Lin Ze doesn't want to get used to this feeling.
If she gets used to it and becomes numb to it, she will become her old self again.
Become that superior being that humans don't mind destroying themselves.
"You can go now. The bonus for this mission will be distributed to you tomorrow."
"Director Lin."
Li Muhan did not leave.
He lowered his head slightly. Huo Tian's death had indeed had a great impact on him, but it was not enough to influence him to join an organization where he might work for the rest of his life.
it's out of the question.
But for now, joining the Special Management Bureau is indeed very helpful to Li Muhan. First of all, it allows him to better understand his own strength.
And then he will have a good salary.
Although this salary is earned at the cost of one's life.
"I......"
To be honest, he is a little undecided now.
Lin Ze turned around, looked at Li Muhan, and smiled slightly, with a hint of bitterness in his smile.
"Don't join us just because you sympathize with us, Li Muhan. Sacrifice is inevitable."
"I know, but people shouldn't be numb to sacrifice."
Li Muhan seemed a little dissatisfied, as he felt that Lin Ze had no guilt at all for Huo Tian's death.
Strictly speaking, if the Special Management Bureau had properly handled the situation of the Zombie Kingdom back then, what happened later would not have happened.
After the two looked at each other for a long time, Lin Ze sighed, picked up the Fujiang Zhenmo on the table, and threw it to Li Muhan.
"I'll give you one night. If you change your mind, return this knife the next day. If you still decide to join the Special Management Bureau, then this knife will be yours from now on."
"I am not its owner."
Li Muhan looked at the Fujiang Zhenmo in his hand and remembered Huo Tian’s last battle.
"Can you answer a question for me, Li Muhan?"
"What?"
"What is a knife?"
"A murderous weapon."
Then Li Muhan paused and spoke again.
"It's also a weapon to protect important people."
Li Muhan knew what Lin Ze wanted to say. The knife she mentioned could be strength, alien, or the Special Management Bureau.
Lin Ze's reaction made Li Muhan unable to tell whether she was satisfied with her answer or not.
Lin Ze just smiled and waved at him.
"Go away, I don't want to work overtime today."
......
After leaving the Special Management Bureau, Li Muhan found that Xia Yue had already been waiting at the door of the Special Management Bureau headquarters.
"Are you hurt?"
Xia Yue looked around Li Muhan's body, while Li Muhan pointed at his solar plexus helplessly.
"No, but Captain Huo Tian died."
"Um."
Xia Yue's tone was very flat.
This made Li Muhan a little unhappy.
But when I think about the fact that they are vampires and have lived for so long, perhaps human life is just a flash in the pan for them, fleeting.
"Perhaps you can't understand, that feeling of suddenly losing something. After all, your life is too long for a human."
The girl who had been following Li Muhan suddenly slowed down her pace.
When Li Muhan noticed, the girl had already stopped behind him.
"What's wrong?"
Li Muhan asked doubtfully.
"Although I am an immortal, it doesn't mean that I am a monster who doesn't know the difference between life and death."
Xia Yue looked at Li Muhan. Although her eyes were still indifferent, Li Muhan could hear a hint of anxiety in her tone.
He was not angry, but seemed eager to explain something to Li Muhan.
"I...was adopted by an elderly couple. They treated me very well and treated me like their own daughter. Even though I came from an unknown background and was a different species, they still fed me, clothed me, and let me go to school..."
When she said this, Xia Yue's voice gradually became tearful.
Li Muhan suddenly remembered that when he first met Xia Yue, the sadness and despair in her eyes were just the result of her having just experienced loss.
"But I... can't even let them live. I'm not a cold-blooded monster. I've experienced loss before... and right now, there are people I don't want to lose."
The girl raised her head, her eyes filled with tears
Li Muhan walked over quickly and hugged the girl in his arms.
"I'm sorry...I'm sorry, it's my fault. I said the wrong thing."
After being comforted, Xia Yue's mood recovered a little, but she was still a little angry.
"Don't be angry, I'll buy you dessert tomorrow."
Li Muhan smiled and wanted to touch Xia Yue's head.
But the girl tilted her head and dodged Li Muhan's hand.
Li Muhan was a little helpless. This little vampire had a bad temper.
"That's not it."
At this moment, Xia Yue suddenly said to Li Muhan angrily.
"Ah? Not because of that?"
"I'm not angry about what happened just now."
"Then...what else did I say wrong?"
Li Muhan was completely confused. Before he could react, Xia Yue suddenly snorted coldly, turned her head away, and muttered something in a dissatisfied tone.
"When you hugged me just now, I smelled her scent on you."
Li Muhan suddenly felt like he'd been caught red-handed. The "her" Xia Yue was referring to was clearly Gu Ruoxi, but this vampire's nose was incredibly sharp. Was she born in the Year of the Dog? He could even smell her when he was hugging her?
"Isn't she the victim this time? She was a little emotional when she was rescued."
"So you hugged her?"
"Huh? Um, no, no, I didn't hug her, she rushed over and hugged me."
"I don't want to listen. It's annoying."
Xia Yue quickened her pace and walked towards the elevator back to the ground.
Li Muhan stood there in a daze. At this moment, Su Xue's voice came from behind him.
"Hey, why are you still standing there?"
"Sister Xue, you haven't gone back yet?"
Su Xue was still carrying the huge guitar case on her back at this time. Li Muhan now knew what was inside, which was a detachable sniper rifle.
He is truly a long-range sniper.
"Brother Mu Han, you really don't understand a girl's heart."
"Girl? Oh, you mean Xia Yue? She shouldn't be considered a girl."
Su Xue covered her forehead and sighed, then gently tapped Li Muhan's head with her hand.
"Okay, stop standing there and go chase him."
Li Muhan also seemed to understand something, and he ran in the direction Xia Yue left.
The moment the elevator door closed, Li Muhan stopped the elevator with his hand and squeezed in.
Xia Yue stood aside obediently, seemingly giving way to Li Muhan, but in fact she seemed to be keeping a distance.
"It's my first mission today, and it feels amazing."
"I was in a university classroom yesterday, but today I feel like one of those secret agents in the movies. Do you know how many people are surrounding us today?"
"There were hundreds of people, all armed. Holy shit, that scene! Have you ever seen kung fu? Do you know the Axe Gang?"
Li Muhan kept talking, but Xia Yue next to him didn't say a word.
Finally, Li Muhan couldn't bear it anymore.
He grabbed Xia Yue's shoulders and forced her to face him.
"......what."
Xia Yue asked with a somewhat evasive look.
"It's just her scent, can't you just cover it up with your own scent?"
After saying that, Li Muhan hugged the girl's petite body tightly. Because the girl was petite, this hug almost made her feet leave the ground.
“…Let go.”
"No."
"Ugh, I can't reach the ground."
"It's okay, I'll hold you."
"Okay, okay... I'm not angry anymore, let me go."
Li Muhan did not let go, but just leaned close to Xia Yue's ear and said something.
"Is the smell overpowering now?"
"snort."
All he got was a cold snort from Xia Yue, but Li Muhan knew that she was no longer angry.
In the narrow elevator, Li Muhan hugged the petite body tightly in his arms. At this moment, he also wanted to cry, wanted to yell, and wanted to vent.
Because until now, the desperate expressions on the faces of those imprisoned girls are still in my mind.
It was Huo Tian’s expression when he looked at himself at the end.
The Tang sword was in the long bag on his back and was very heavy.
Because the meaning he represents is too great.
"sorry......"
Li Muhan's "I'm sorry" was said to Xia Yue, and perhaps also to those girls whom he could never save.
Maybe it was also said to Huo Tian.
Captain, you said I was unworthy, and perhaps that's true. I don't have the same lofty ideals as you, nor the spirit to dedicate myself to humanity.
On the way home, Li Muhan kept looking at Xia Yue with a smile on his face.
"What are you laughing at?" Xia Yue turned around and looked at him with her hands behind her back and asked.
"I remember a sentence."
"What?"
"If I put down the knife, I can't protect you. If I pick up the knife, I can't hug you!"
"Who said that? That's so corny."
Xia Yue was amused by this sentence.
"I don't know the original source, but as far as I know, it was said by a champion support."
"I don't understand what you're saying, idiot."
Xia Yue quickened her pace, and Li Muhan quickly followed behind her.
So, Captain, I also have people I want to protect, not that many, just this one. If the reason is so selfish, can I still hold this knife with peace of mind?
......
After arriving home, Li Muhan was extremely sleepy, perhaps because of the battle. After taking a shower, he hurriedly lay down on the sofa.
Only in a daze did he feel something crawling into his quilt and shrinking into his arms.
I knew without a doubt that it was Xia Yue.
Li Muhan felt helpless. What was the point of sleeping on the sofa in this case? Wouldn't it be a waste of a bed?
It would be better for the two of them to just sleep in the same bed.
As he was thinking about this, he couldn't help but hug the figure in his arms and fell into a deep sleep.
At the same time, in the office of the deputy director of the Special Management Bureau.
Lin Ze handed a cup of coffee to Lin Ziyu in front of him.
"Well done! Even after such a long absence from missions, Team 7 still hasn't lost its edge. The final outcome is obviously something none of us want to see, but that was Huo Tian's own choice. Humans are always so good at disguising themselves. Even I thought he had let it go..."
Lin Ziyu picked up the coffee, took a sip, and seemed to not be used to it, so he put it back. He has never liked dealing with important people. Rather than being called to the office by his boss to drink coffee, he prefers to stay in a dark room to tinker with the computer and hide himself in the virtual world of the Internet.
"Thank you for the compliment, Director Lin."
He did not respond to the topic about Huo Tian raised by Lin Ze, which was a very smart decision.
"Do you accept my proposal?"
Lin Ze sat back in his office chair, stirring his coffee with a spoon and asked with a smile.
Lin Ziyu gave a wry smile.
"Director Lin, thank you for your kindness to me, but I cannot be the captain of Team 7. I have a recommendation for someone."
"Tell me about it."
Lin Ze still kept smiling.
Until Lin Ziyu said his name.
"Li Muhan."
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