Chapter 382 Finale (End of the Script)
Suddenly, an alarm blared through the hall.
The system showed that someone had broken into the upper building. Li Zheng quickly downloaded all the data. As soon as he pulled out the hard drive, he heard the sound of gunfire coming from the stairwell.
He hid behind the main console, pistol loaded.
Footsteps grew closer, accompanied by heavy breathing. A figure stumbled into the hall—it was Lu Yu, his black coat soaked in blood, his left leg barely able to move.
“Senior Brother…”
Lu Yu slid down and sat on the ground, leaning against the wall. "They are coming... Director Wang's private army..."
Li Zheng rushed over to support him and asked, "How did you find this place?"
"chip……"
Lu Yu pulled open his collar, revealing a tiny bump just below his collarbone. "All deep-sea divers have one... for positioning..."
He suddenly coughed violently, blood oozing from the corner of his mouth. "Listen to me... Director Wang is the mastermind... Mr. Xiao escaped in order to... ruin this plan..."
There was an explosion outside, and the whole laboratory was shaking.
Lu Yu struggled to point to the main console: "There is a self-destruct program there... The password is... The Day the Mirror is Broken..."
Li Zheng placed him in the corner and rushed to the main console.
The system asked him to enter a date, and he suddenly remembered the photo of Director Wang and Mr. Xiao on his hard drive - April 21, 2007, Lu Yu's "birthday".
Countdown starts: 00:05:00.
"We have to go!"
Li Zheng went back to help Lu Yu, but found that he was shaking his head.
"I can't leave..."
Lu Yu pulled out a police badge from his pocket—the one Li Zheng had lost in the police academy. "Remember this? I stole it on the day of the graduation exam..."
Li Zheng took the police badge in shock.
He remembered that day, he lost to his junior Lin Sheng, who was two years younger than him, in the combat test, and after the test he discovered that his police badge was missing.
"At that time..."
A smile appeared on Lu Yu's pale face, "You are the only one I remember... the real one..."
Another wave of explosions came closer.
Lu Yu suddenly grabbed Li Zheng's hand: "Take the data away... expose them... for me..."
"Let's go together!"
Li Zheng tried to carry Lu Yu on his back.
Lu Yu didn't know where he got the strength from, but he pushed Li Zheng away and pulled out two pistols from his waist. "Remember what we taught you in class? ... Cover the retreat..."
Lu Yu's eyes became sharp again, as if he had returned to the police academy. "This time it's my turn... to cover for my senior brother..."
The footsteps have reached the stairs.
Lu Yu fired a shot behind Li Zheng, blowing out the corridor lighting.
"The ventilation duct... leads directly to the foot of the mountain..."
Lu Yu pointed to the corner of the hall and said, "Let's go!"
Li Zheng hesitated for a second, then suddenly leaned over and kissed Lu Yu's lips.
The kiss tasted of blood and salty tears, and was so short that it seemed like an illusion.
“Please…”
He leaned his forehead against Lu Yu's and pleaded in a low voice.
Lu Yu gently pushed him away, took off his gold-rimmed glasses and pinned them to Li Zheng's collar: "Remember me... my true appearance..."
When the first group of armed men rushed into the hall, Lu Yu's bullet accurately hit the leader's eyebrows.
The last thing Li Zheng saw was Lu Yu leaning against the console, his legs soaked in blood, but he was still holding his gun and shooting, like an unyielding god of war.
The ventilation duct was narrow and cold, and Li Zheng crawled for what felt like an eternity. Explosions and gunfire continued behind him until a deafening roar erupted, and the entire mountain shook.
Heat surged from behind the pipe, propelling him forward.
When Li Zheng climbed out of the drainage vent at the foot of the mountain, the mountain behind him was already glowing red with fire.
Lab 7 and everything inside it are being destroyed in the avalanche.
Li Zheng knelt in the snow in a panic, holding tightly in his hands the police badge and hard drive that he had lost and found.
The blizzard became more violent, as if it was going to bury the whole world.
…
One morning a year later, a man using the pseudonym "Zhou Ming" was making coffee in his apartment.
The news was broadcasting the extradition and trial of Wang Jincheng, a former senior official of China's Ministry of Public Security. The elderly man in the video was roaring frantically, "They should have been the perfect weapons."
The third camellia on the windowsill has bloomed.
Li Zheng—now Zhou Ming—placed freshly baked blueberry muffins in front of the photo frame.
The photo is a graduation photo from the police academy. The figure behind him that was deliberately cut out has now been lightly outlined with a pencil.
The tombstone is in the most secluded corner of the suburban cemetery. There is no name, only the number CT-107 and a line of small words - "Here lies Lin Sheng. He died at the age of twenty-nine and was born on a day when someone remembered him."
When the first ray of sunlight passed over the white camellia in front of the monument, Li Zheng turned and walked into the morning light.
The inner pocket of his coat bulged slightly - there were two police badges in it, which collided gently with his steps, making a sound like a heartbeat.
——End of script——
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I added another chapter today and finished it in one go.
I rarely write police and gangster novels, so I hope you can forgive me if there are any shortcomings.
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