Everyone was in an uproar, all looking in the direction of the explosion. The bus driver and Gua Yi, who knew where they were staying, immediately noticed something was wrong and quickly approached Lian Jun.
"Master Jun, this explosion was aimed at us," Gua Yi said firmly after approaching.
The bus driver also nodded in agreement, saying, "Based on the distance and the time of the explosion, if we had not stopped to wait for someone, then this explosion would definitely hurt us."
Gua San had already called Guixu's deputy while they were talking, but it kept showing that no one answered. He felt more and more uneasy, put down the phone and looked at Lian Jun, calling, "Jun Shao."
Lian Jun retracted his gaze from the direction of the explosion and ordered, "Contact Lao Gui and tell him about the explosion; notify the authorities and ask them to find a way to coordinate with the local government of Country L to let us participate in the handling of this explosion; arrange for everyone to sit in the jeeps separately for protection; adjust the fleet with the bus as the center, stay in place for five minutes, and then set off to the explosion site."
After a series of orders were issued, everyone's impetuous hearts immediately settled down, They nodded in agreement and went about their business.
Shi Jin listened quietly, and only asked after everyone had taken orders and left, "Why do we have to stay where we are for five minutes?"
Lian Jun explained in detail, "Five minutes is the time for the official rescue unit from Country L to arrive at the scene. We need them to cover us. Generally, in such an explosion ambush, if the first wave of attack fails, there will most likely be a second wave. If we rush over directly after hearing the explosion, we will most likely fall into the enemy's trap and be hit by the second wave of ambush. If we delay for a while and wait for the officials to arrive at the scene before we go, the ambushers will be cautious and dare not act blindly. Some more cautious people may immediately arrange for people to retreat when they see the official rescue team arrive first." Shi Jin
suddenly realized and felt that he had learned a little more knowledge.
Lian Jun suddenly said, "There is an old saying that is true, luck is also a part of strength." Shi Jin's
heart tightened when he heard it, and he immediately laughed and said, "That's right, our luck seems to have been pretty good... Um, are you hungry? You haven't eaten anything since you got off the plane. I remember there is a small refrigerator on the bus with food in it. Do you want to eat something?"
This topic change was very abrupt, and any living person could hear that something was wrong. Lian Jun seemed to have been blinded by love. After looking at Shi Jin for two seconds, he continued to talk along Shi Jin's topic. His attention was really diverted.
After staying in place for five minutes, the convoy maintained the formation with the bus in the middle and rushed towards the explosion site.
The explosion was so loud that many residents of Country L along the way came out of their buildings and looked at the explosion site that was still smoking with suspicion. From time to time, the sound of sirens and fire trucks passed by quickly on several nearby streets. It should be that all the official rescue departments nearby were rushing to the explosion site. Shi Jin
turned his head to look out the window, seemingly observing the situation along the road, but in fact he was staring at the progress bar of himself and Lian Jun in his mind. Seeing that the progress bar did not increase, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief. The
progress bar did not increase, probably because the ambushers retreated directly after seeing the official rescue team of Country L appear, and there was no danger ahead.
Ten minutes later, everyone arrived at the explosion site smoothly.
It was a large private villa with a courtyard. The main structure of the villa had collapsed, and there was a blazing fire on it. The courtyard was in a mess. The wall was pitted by the airflow and debris produced by the explosion. The iron carved gate was crooked, and some explosion fragments were scattered on the street outside the gate. The villa was very quiet. Only the sound of burning could be heard, and it was impossible to tell whether there was anyone inside.
Police cars, ambulances, and fire trucks were parked in a circle outside the villa. Some nearby residents were looking around to see the excitement. The situation looked chaotic.
Gua Yi stopped the convoy on a quiet street not far from the villa, and then called Gua San to escort the official personnel to the villa to contact the local rescue personnel.
Guawu also got out of the car and led his men to investigate the surrounding situation. After confirming that it was safe, he retreated to guard Lian Jun's car. Shi
Jin felt a little uneasy. After applying the buff of enhanced vision, he vaguely saw rescuers with ugly expressions carrying some things similar to body bags into the villa yard. He couldn't help but ask, "Jun Shao, when the explosion happened, was there anyone in the villa?"
Lian Jun also saw the chaos at the rescue site. Looking at Shi Jin's expression that unconsciously became serious and heavy, he was silent for a while, then reached out and held his hand, squeezed it soothingly, and said, "Shi Jin, I don't want to lie to you... Being with me, you may see a lot of things that are not beautiful. People who live in the dark have no guarantee of life."
This was a tactful affirmative answer.
Shi Jin tightened his hand, frowned, and said nothing more.
The communication between the official personnel and the local rescuers was not smooth. It took more than ten minutes before they were allowed to enter the villa to investigate the situation when a low-profile car quietly stopped near the villa to avoid all the media that had heard the news.
After getting the permission, Gua Yi and Gua San immediately turned back to find Lian Jun, and the official personnel walked towards the low-profile car in tacit understanding, which was the main battlefield they needed to contact.
When ordering people to enter the villa, Lian Jun asked Shi Jin about his intentions and said that if he didn't want to go, he could stay in the car and wait for everyone's news.
Shi Jin chose to go without hesitation, and his attitude was very firm.
He knew that Lian Jun asked this because he was afraid that he would see some unpleasant scenes after entering the villa and would not be able to bear it. But he was not really only a teenager, and he had to be with Lian Jun. How could he be a useless person who was taken care of by Lian Jun everywhere?
Seeing him like this, Lian Jun squeezed his hand and said nothing more.
In the end, there were a total of five people who were confirmed to enter the villa, namely Lian Jun, Gua Yi, Gua San, Shi Jin, and Fei Yujing. Fei Yujing asked to go in on his own initiative. He is now Lao Gui's lawyer. There was a problem with Gui's accommodation, and his deputy's life or death was unknown. He had to go in on behalf of Lao Gui to take a look.
Shi Jin glanced at Fei Yujing, whose expression seemed very normal at the moment, and silently prepared a few plastic bags and brought a few bottles of water very considerately.
While the local rescuers were holding back the media, several people entered the villa in the chaos. After entering, they first took a quick look at the mess in the yard, and then walked straight into the villa.
Gua Yi observed along the way and said, "The explosion source is in the center of the villa, and the debris in the yard is too evenly distributed."
"Then it seems that the enemy has already controlled the villa from the inside, not attacking from the outside." Gua San heard this and continued.
At this time, the fire caused by the explosion on the main building of the villa had been extinguished by firefighters. Police and rescue workers were going in and out of the ruins of the building, and from time to time they carried some black bags filled with unidentified objects out, and their expressions were all very ugly.
Needless to say, those bags must be filled with corpses, or body parts.
Shi Jin was silent, feeling a little heavy.
When everyone was about to reach the gate of the villa, there was suddenly some commotion in the corner of the yard. Everyone turned their heads and saw a team of rescuers pointing at a tree in the yard and saying something. Shi Jin looked in the direction the rescuers pointed and saw something that looked like human body fragments hanging on the tree that was also severely damaged by the explosion, and blood was still dripping down.
He immediately retracted his gaze and silently adjusted his emotions.
When he was a policeman in his previous life, he would occasionally see some bloody and terrible scenes, but those experiences were obviously not enough to make him strong enough to always control his state when suddenly facing some terrible scenes.
Everyone obviously saw the thing on the tree. Gua Yi and Gua San were very calm. To them, this kind of scene was just a small scene. Lian Jun was fine, after all, he was the boss. Only Fei Yujing had the biggest reaction. Although his expression was not obvious, he immediately took off his glasses, which still exposed his anxiety.
Lian Jun turned his head to look at Shi Jin and said, "I can let Gua Yi send you out and let Gua Wu come over."
"I'm fine." Shi Jin shook his head to indicate that it was nothing, and said, "Go in. If you delay any longer, the clues in the house will be destroyed by the rescuers."
So Lian Jun said nothing more and motioned everyone to continue to go into the villa. Fei Yujing
frowned and looked at Shi Jin, as if he was a little surprised at his calmness at this time.
The situation in the house was worse than everyone thought. Almost all the furniture inside was blown to dust. What should be the living room was left with a pit formed by the explosion. The remaining walls were charred black, with traces of fire extinguishing.
Everywhere you look, there are charred traces and contaminated blood from the explosion. Thick gray-black dust floats in the air. Some human body parts with unknown parts are scattered around. Rescuers are cleaning up. The air is filled with a disgusting smell of blood mixed with the burnt smell of the explosion, which makes people feel headache. Shi Jin
held his breath, suppressed the feeling of nausea, asked the rescuers for a few masks, and gave one to each person.
Gua Yi and Gua San took the masks and were also a little surprised by Shi Jin's calmness. According to their assumptions, even if Shi Jin didn't turn around and run away when he saw this tragic scene for the first time, he would still feel uncomfortable and weak in the legs, but they didn't expect that Shi Jin would be the first one among them to come to his senses and think of asking for masks for everyone.
But this may also be the power of love.
As they thought so, their eyes fell on Lian Jun, who was the first to receive the mask - sometimes love makes people strong.
Compared with Shi Jin's quick recovery, Fei Yujing's reaction was much more "normal". He looked terrible, and he put on the mask immediately after taking it. He tried his best not to look at those bloody things, and his brows were wrinkled so much that they could almost pinch flies to death.
After Shi Jin handed him the mask, he silently took out a plastic bag and a bottle of water, handed them over and said, "Here, go outside and vomit. Vomiting here will affect the environment. If you really can't stand it, you can go back to the car."
Fei Yujing felt that he was looked down upon. He did not take the things and said in resistance, "Who said I want to vomit? Take it back. I don't need it."
Under normal circumstances, after Fei Yujing's kindness was rejected like this, Shi Jin would definitely ignore him. But at this moment, the place where everyone was in was too much like hell. Fei Yujing was the only one present who had not seen anything. As an "ordinary person" in the blood type scene, Shi Jin, based on basic conscience, decided to show some mercy to this stubborn lawyer and said frankly: "Don't force it. I see your Adam's apple moving. Don't you think it's disgusting to swallow what you want to vomit?"
His description was too detailed and too real. Fei Yujing's suppressed urge to vomit was aroused by his words. His Adam's apple couldn't help moving again. He looked at him with a knife-like look, reached out to grab the plastic bag and water, turned around and walked out of the villa without looking back. Shi Jin
also reminded them kindly: "Spit farther away, remember to throw the garbage into the trash can, and don't add to the cleaning burden for the rescuers."
Fei Yujing paused, then walked out faster, with a bit of gnashing teeth.
After some preparation, everyone officially began to investigate the villa.
Gua Yi was responsible for investigating the cause of the explosion and finding the explosion residue, Gua San was responsible for identifying the identity of the bodies in the villa and finding survivors, Lian Jun was responsible for contacting the old ghost who was temporarily unable to come over, and informing him of the situation on the scene. Shi Jin was not assigned any tasks, looked around, and silently joined the rescue team.
He put on gloves and a coverall, and followed the rescuers in the villa, imitating the rescuers' movements to carefully organize things. His body was soon stained with blood, but his movements became more and more skilled and professional.
After completing his task, Guayi turned to Lian Jun. Seeing Shi Jin like this, he couldn't help but say, "Jun Shao, Shi Jin is really born to do this job. He has a very good psychological quality."
"Yeah." Lian Jun responded, his eyes were fixed on Shi Jin, but his face did not show the joy of someone he liked being affirmed and praised. Instead, his eyebrows were slightly frowned and his expression was slightly gloomy.
Fei Yujing, who was recording the scene while suppressing his discomfort, heard the conversation between the two and turned his head to look at Shi Jin. He happened to see Shi Jin carefully wrapping the body bag. He frowned, raised his hand to press the mask on his face, and looked away.
After more than half an hour, the villa was basically tidied up. Shi Jin took off his gloves and gown. Just as he was about to go back to Lian Jun to ask about the overall situation of the investigation, he saw Gua San, who had gone to identify the body before, hurriedly walked in from outside and frowned and said, "The old ghost's deputy has been found. He is not dead yet. He is in the doghouse in the yard."
Doghouse?
Shi Jin frowned and instinctively felt that something was wrong. He hurriedly ran to Lian Jun and pushed his wheelchair. He walked out with Gua Yi and others.
The villa that Lao Gui prepared for Lian Jun has a very nice environment. There is a swimming pool in the backyard and a small garden next to the swimming pool. In the corner of the garden is a cartoon-shaped wooden doghouse. It looks very new and exaggerated. It should be just a decoration, and there is no real pet in it.
When Shi Jin and his friends arrived, medical staff and rescue workers were carefully dismantling the roof and walls of the doghouse. People outside could only vaguely see a little bit of the inside of the doghouse through the damaged cracks on the top of the doghouse caused by the explosion, but even this was enough to make people shocked.
It was a hand, bloody, paralyzed on the ground in the upper right corner of the doghouse. There was no finger on it, only a bald palm. Shi
Jin was shocked and instinctively bent over to cover Lian Jun's eyes.
Lian Jun was sitting in a wheelchair, which was not high enough, so he actually didn't see anything. He was stunned for a moment when Shi Jin suddenly covered his eyes, but he quickly realized why Shi Jin did this, and hurriedly pulled down his hand and held it tightly, and couldn't help but say again: "Shi Jin, you go out, change Gua Wu to come in."
Shi Jin calmed down a little, held his hand in return, but still refused, shook his head and said: "I'm fine, I'll go over and take a look first."
While they were talking, Gua Yi and Gua San had already approached the doghouse, and the medical staff and rescue workers also completely dismantled the doghouse, revealing the person lying inside, and then everyone was silent, and a heavy atmosphere of depression filled the air.
"It's too late to save him." The doctor's eyes were filled with sadness and reluctance, and he shook his head and said, "Give him some painkillers, at least let him walk more easily."
The doctor was from L country and spoke the local language, which Shi Jin could not understand at all, but when he pushed Lian Jun closer and saw the appearance of the deputy lying in the doghouse, he probably guessed what the doctor was talking about.
At this time, the deputy lying on the floor of the doghouse could no longer be considered a person. It was probably because in order to stuff him into the doghouse, the person who hurt him crippled his body in a crazy way and blinded one of his eyes.
Judging from the various wounds on the deputy's body, he had suffered a lot of other tortures before he was crippled. Moreover, his face was blue and purple, and he was foaming at the mouth. It was obvious that in addition to the injuries, he was probably fed poison.
When Fei Yujing saw the deputy's appearance, he quickly turned his head away and covered the lower half of his face with his hands, looking even more frightened. Shi
Jin tightly grasped the armrest of the wheelchair and couldn't say a word. He felt heavy in his heart and a surge of hatred, hating how someone could be so cruel to their kind.
There was a depressing silence at the scene. Perhaps the doctor's futile actions of bandaging the wound and feeding medicine brought him back to consciousness. The deputy, who had a dazed look in his eyes, suddenly turned his head and moved his eyes. When he saw Lian Jun sitting in the wheelchair, his eyes suddenly lit up. He struggled and moved his body, and said vaguely: "I... I didn't betray Brother Gui... They... wanted to use the lives of my brothers to force me to lead you over... I, I didn't... Jun... Young Master Jun... help me say something to Brother Gui... I'm sorry... I didn't save the lives of my brothers, and the reason I saved them... was gunfire, gunfire..."
His tongue seemed to be injured as well, and blood oozed out as he spoke. Shi Jin couldn't stand it anymore, and tilted his head to take a deep breath, unable to bear to watch any more.
Lian Jun suddenly stood up, walked to the deputy, squatted down, reached out his hand, touched the deputy's palm, looked into the deputy's eyes and replied: "I will tell you that I will also help rescue the other brothers who are detained in the ghost den, you can go without worry."
The deputy's expression suddenly relaxed when he heard this, the light gathered in his eyes dimmed instantly, his eyes slowly closed, and his voice was almost inaudible: "I... believe you... thank you..."
The already weak heartbeat under his palm gradually disappeared. Lian Jun paused for a long time before retracting his hand, looking at the deputy's body, without moving or speaking.
"No signs of life." The doctor announced sadly, giving up the futile bandage in his hands.
Guayi gritted his teeth and couldn't help but curse at what he heard.
Gua San couldn't bear it any more. He turned around and wiped his face. He clenched his fists tightly and crumpled the paper with the list of corpses in his hands.
Collecting corpses and watching a living person lose his life in front of his eyes, these two things bring completely different impacts to people. Shi Jin let go of the wheelchair as if he was exhausted, staring at the deputy's body in a daze, with a gloomy and depressed look in his eyes.
Everyone became more silent. After helping to collect the deputy's body, although they were still completing their own work, their emotions were obviously a little depressed. While
everyone was summarizing the information, Shi Jin pushed Lian Jun to a place in the yard with more plants. He squatted beside him and used his clothes to wipe the blood on his hands when he covered the deputy's dirty palm, one finger after another, very seriously and carefully.
"Shi Jin." Lian Jun held his hand back and said, "Are you afraid?" Shi Jin
looked up at him, then simply sat on the ground. After a few seconds of silence, he asked, "What about you, are you afraid?"
"Afraid." Lian Jun looked at the blood on his hands that could not be wiped clean, suddenly leaned over and hugged Shi Jin, and said in a deep voice, "Shi Jin, you can't die before me, absolutely not."
Shi Jin raised his arms and hugged him back, touched his back, and said as if it was a promise, "Okay, I will die after you."
Lian Jun didn't say anything else, buried his face in his shoulder, stayed for a few seconds, then suddenly let go of him, his expression returned to normal, and said, "Let's go, it's time to go out, the old ghost should be here soon." Shi
Jin glanced at his clenched hands, responded in a low voice, stood up, held his wheelchair, and pushed him out.
At this time, most of the crowd and media outside had dispersed. Everyone returned to the car smoothly. After exchanging the information they had found, they confirmed with regret that all the sixteen subordinates sent by Lao Gui to pick up Lian Jun were killed in the explosion. Not a single one was left alive.
"Gunfire." Lian Jun took the death list handed over by Gua San and whispered the name, his eyes dark.
Sixteen lives, even if the people who died this time were not Mie's, the gunfire was enough to provoke.
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