Xu You
When we looked into each other's eyes, I saw an extremely unfamiliar scene in those red eyes. This unfamiliarity even made me shrink back a little, which I had never done before.
In my impression, the team leader was not a very eye-catching person among the guys. Although he was also strong, he always bent his waist slightly and did not give people any sense of oppression.
Before, I ordered him to do this and that, and I just thought that this person was very easy to talk to. Although he had some problems of a veteran, his personality was the kind that could be seen through at a glance, and he was even a little easy to fool.
But now, the person in front of me was staring at me with an unprecedented obsession and despair.
"Since you insist on asking, there is no way back."
"In our team, I am the only one who was picked up by the leader from outside." He said softly, "Master, everyone says that I am a useless and cowardly idiot, but now I am the only one who can avenge the leader and brothers. I don't understand these underground things and don't want to care about them. I only have one thing to say: I will listen to you, and you help me."
I shuddered almost instantly.
Because the team leader was trembling all over when he said these words to me, and the more he spoke, the calmer he became.
There was even a moment when I felt that Xu You's shadow was standing behind him, not supporting him with his shoulder, but madly pinching his throat, forcing him to look forward with difficulty while breathing.
I was completely unable to escape his piercing gaze. I just felt an indescribable emotion crawling across my back and hitting the top of my head, making me tremble a little.
What are you going to do, I heard myself asking him in a very hoarse voice. All the warmth and affection we felt when we met again just now disappeared.
The team leader smiled grimly. "Everyone goes down to the ground to get out alive, but I'm different. So I dare to do what they don't dare to do. Master, let me show you something."
I looked at him, and on his face there was the same innocent excitement as when he was chatting with me around the campfire.
A new cold flame was broken, and in the suddenly brightened room, I saw a bloody figure lying unconscious not far from his feet.
Incredibly, I looked at him very calmly and saw a face exactly like the team leader's.
He captured the self in the camp.
I calmed down and heard a voice in my head cursing angrily, saying that Xu You's team was full of damn lunatics and they were still going crazy at this time.
But then, the voice couldn't help asking:
"One is missing. What about that other person?"
The team leader raised his eyelids and looked at me in surprise.
"You just mentioned the guys who died." I don't know why, but my heart was filled with certainty and sadness. "I counted them. The guy who came back to report the news was killed in the ambush. There are others who are missing and also attacked... In addition to Xiao Liu, there is another surviving guy that you didn't mention."
"Where are the others?"
If there were a mirror at this moment, I would probably look very strange.
I don't know what I feel like now, but I know that I can't be led by a person who is on the verge of madness. Even if I have to cooperate with him, I must confront him first.
Unlike me who was on high alert, the team leader rubbed his face and smiled almost helplessly, as if he easily bowed to me and compromised.
He went on to say that the guy who rushed back to report the news was named Gangzi, and he was ambushed and had half of his trachea bitten open on the spot.
At this time, the survivors of the convoy gradually dispersed, leaving only him, Xiao Liu and another fellow who was completely crazy after seeing the situation. The three of them risked their lives to grab Gangzi's body, and without any hesitation, they immediately retreated to the carriage to defend it and looked at all the lights.
The ghost thing with Zhou Tingmao's face, but completely deformed, had extremely thin hands and feet. It stared at them with blood all over its face and was very resentful. It turned over and crawled quickly into the depths of darkness.
To this day, this monster is still lurking in the dark and may launch a sneak attack on the crowd at any time.
"——So, what about the crazy guy at the end?" I said again coldly without saying anything.
"Right here."
The team leader was lost in thought for a moment, and pointed to a dark corner in the room. At that moment, I couldn't understand the expression he gave me. It seemed that he was relieved, but also very embarrassed.
"He's completely crazy. He can't stand the light or loud noises. He feels safe only when he's surrounded by walls. We removed some steel plates from other vehicles... Oh, he's already asleep. He won't make any noise when he's asleep."
The team leader paused, nodded to himself, and added emphatically, looking at me seriously: "It's okay, Xiao Liu and I have tied him up, he won't hurt anyone. He won't hurt anyone."
“…”
There was clearly no movement in the corner, only a faint smell of blood. Xiao Liu stood behind the team leader and looked at me almost pleadingly.
The answer was totally unexpected, and I felt sour in my heart. Now looking at the broken and discarded cold fireworks on the floor and this deliberately dark room, I suddenly had a completely different feeling.
"Sit down," I said, probably sounding really weird, "let's sync up first. Then... then we'll see what we can do."
Next, I spent a long time explaining to them in detail all the rules of the trap that I had previously speculated, and also repeated the recordings from eight years ago.
When I finished saying everything, I was a little dazed and looked at the time.
Then, after being reminded by the two of them, I realized that I had lost consciousness several times in the middle of my presentation. Each time, I suddenly fell asleep from exhaustion while sitting, and after waking up, I continued speaking without knowing anything.
But even so, there was one reaction that I was absolutely sure of. When I mentioned the Yan Touer from eight years ago, the team leader obviously hesitated.
"Did Xu You mention the three people who survived eight years ago to you?" I asked him. "Xu You and Zhou Tingmao should be the ones, but is the third person this Yan Tou'er?"
To my surprise, the team leader shook his head and answered me solemnly, "I can be sure that Yan Touer has never left the pit."
What?
"The team leader didn't tell me the specific situation. But I roughly know that Yan Touer chose himself in a referendum later."
"The team leader once asked me, if there is a game now, the trust of the entire team is at risk, the rules of the game itself will slowly kill, but everyone has to abide by the rules of the game. At this time, what should I do?"
At that time, the team leader was completely confused because of the training he had just completed, so he shook his head and said he didn't know. Xu You's answer was to pay a fair price and rebuild the team's trust.
When I heard this, a picture instantly appeared in my mind.
Everyone once again waited in silence for roll call, silently conveying distrust and sarcasm, but the figure holding the shotgun, who should be always safe, just stood up, calmly reported his name, and pulled the trigger without hesitation.
“…” I was speechless again for a while and found that I still couldn’t understand and accept these people and this bizarre world.
Why? Why would a group of people run to such a strange place to die? Is this cruelty and determination necessary?
I looked at the team leader again and found a determination on his face. It seemed that he agreed with this cruel logic out of helplessness and did not take his own life seriously at all.
I was a little annoyed. After thinking about it carefully, I suddenly said, "I am not the young master of the Zhang family."
The air was stagnant for a moment, and I saw Xiao Liu's expression suddenly frozen in pain and confusion.
"Know."
The team leader laughed. "There's no way the flesh and blood of the Zhang family is poisonous. Humans are made of flesh, not dichlorvos. When he asked me to photoshop that picture, I knew the leader was being wicked again."
I was speechless. After the accident, I couldn't help but sigh.
"What else did he lie to me about?"
"Superpowers."
This time I was really stunned, thinking that I might have heard it wrong. Super powers don't exist?
"The situation with Gaoliu and Wildcat is quite special. It has something to do with these broken places. It's not some superpower."
"As for the team leader boiling water..." The team leader paused, seeming a little impatient, but then he laughed again. This time, his smile was full of nostalgia and bitterness.
"That milk cup is self-heating, and the transparent glass on the outside is a cover. How old are you and you're still making up stories about superpowers? When I saw that you believed this, I told Zhou Tingmao that our new parachuted leader is so cute and stupid that he is definitely not a monster from our family. Most likely, the team leader couldn't find anyone and tricked him in to take the blame."
"So, I and the brothers who knew about it said that we should be nicer to you and not let the leader be the only one who is wicked. You see, he pretended to be flexible and put shoes on you the first time, but what kind of character did he show later on the road?"
As he spoke, his breathing suddenly stagnated, and all the relief and nostalgia that had unconsciously emerged just now turned into deep resentment and self-blame.
"But Zhou Tingmao has a problem, right? I shouldn't have told him."
"This is my karma, our karma."
He covered his face tightly, and after a while, he suddenly looked at me pleadingly and full of hope: "You really can't be a member of the Zhang family? Is it because the leader is so wicked that he is trying to trick us? He is actually deceiving us, right?"
The amount of confusing information made me a bit dazed, and my emotions were completely confused. I thought I would be extremely angry at first, but now that I have compared them one by one, I actually think this is reasonable, and I even feel relieved.
Facing the captain's eyes at this moment, I wanted to lie to him and nod my head for a moment. But with only the "young master of the Zhang family" as a fact, no matter what happens in the future, it is absolutely impossible.
I shook my head without any hesitation.
On the side, Xiao Liu was completely numb and listless, looking at the two of us with panic and despair.
"Look at your ass, call me advisor from now on." The team leader kicked him, "Not the young master, this guy is still our ancestor."
I was probably numb too, so I just sighed and nodded.
"We can settle the other accounts later. First, tell me why you moved yourself from the camp here."
I tried to be more rational and get back to the point, but my chest still rose and fell violently. I couldn't help but sneer, "So he just lied to me?!"
The team leader was stunned for a moment.
"No, he never tells the truth."
"Speak." I said angrily. "If I'm the only one being cheated, then I'm done. Whoever loves me can do whatever they want."
"……have."
"…He lied to me and said that he was going to retire and give me the fleet so that I could do my job properly. There are so many beautiful jeeps in the fleet with flashing headlights. After rounding them off, they are all my wives."
"He also said that if I worked hard, he would try his best to get me the helicopter flying overhead from his family."
"My face turned red when I peeled fruit for you those days. I wanted to laugh out loud after peeling for two minutes. After an hour, I wanted to run to your grocery store to buy something small to show you what a shy, pure and good bootlicker is."
The team leader paused, shook his head, and cursed.
"Later I found out that the team leader said the same thing to every team leader. No wonder the line was always full. I put on a smiling face and acted like a fool all the way, but now I have no friends and no car."
"I'm a fucking widow now."
"——So, what do you want a fake young master of the Zhang family for?" I asked suddenly.
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