Hera swallowed the flesh and blood, then licked her blood-soaked lips.
It's unclear whether it's due to its unique physical structure or because [Night Killer] has an incredibly strong vitality.
Despite having a piece missing from its neck, it didn't die and was even able to continue speaking.
"Please, don't kill me! I'll give you anything you want!"
Suddenly, as if it had thought of something, it spoke even more urgently.
"You want revenge for that guy, right? No problem, as long as you join the Light God Society, I have a way to bring him back to life!"
So don't kill me!
Despite its desperate pleas, Hera ignored a single word and continued to open her mouth, ready to bite.
Just then, a dark red laser beam suddenly streaked across the sky.
Hera's hands were instantly severed, and fierce flames began to erupt from the cuts.
Hera's body trembled violently, and she quickly retreated.
The hand that was holding [Night Kill] loosened at this moment and was burned to ashes by the flames.
A man in black appeared instantly, grabbed Night Killer, and took him to the rooftop of a building.
Hera bit off the still-burning arm, and both arms were instantly burned to ashes by the flames.
Her hands regenerated rapidly, and Hera looked up at the black-clad man carrying the [Night Kill] on a building hundreds of meters high.
Hera sensed it; the aura emanating from the man in black was the same as that of Night Killer—neither human nor of any other species.
The man in black was also watching Hera.
"Where's the [Buddha Bead Insect]?" the man in black asked in a low voice to the blood-soaked [Night Killer].
"Dead..."
"The mission has failed, we're retreating."
"Wait!" [Night Killer] suddenly looked at the man in black.
"Although the mission failed, I found [Life]. With your strength, you can definitely take it down easily!"
Upon hearing this, the man in black merely glanced at Hera indifferently before speaking slowly.
"Now is not the time to capture [life]."
After they finished speaking, their figures began to spiral and twist, and then they disappeared into thin air.
Seeing that the two had also disappeared, Hera was certain that they had left.
Her mouth slowly returned to normal, and she turned to look at Coco, who was still slumped on the ground with a blank expression.
Then I saw the head in front of Coco.
Hera walked over slowly and gently lifted Qin Gucheng's head with both hands.
Slowly open your mouth.
But after a long while, he slowly closed his eyes again, looking at the bloodless yet extremely familiar face.
Hera gently pulled him into her arms.
"I always feel empty inside..." Holding Qin Gucheng's head, she had a strange feeling again.
"Ring ring..."
"Ring ring..."
After an unknown amount of time, a telephone rang from the location of Qin Gucheng's body.
Coco, with blood still clinging to the corner of her mouth, trembled slightly in her eyes.
He then struggled to his feet and staggered toward the source of the sound.
I looked at the phone that had fallen out of my pocket and was ringing incessantly.
Coco hesitated for a moment before pressing the answer button.
"Hey! Little Qin."
"Sigh, I don't know what happened, but Liu An in your family suddenly started crying."
"No matter what I do to comfort her, it doesn't work, and she's crying louder and louder; she's still crying now!"
"Why don't you talk to her for a bit now? She usually listens to you the most, and she stops making a fuss as soon as she hears your voice."
"How is it, Xiao Qin?"
"Hello, hello? Answer me, Xiao Qin, Xiao Qin?"
"Instructor Qin..."
Tears streamed down Coco's face, blurring her vision so she couldn't see the flickering phone screen or Qin Gucheng's corpse.
Large tears fell, repeatedly hitting the ground and Coco's pale hands.
The real touch of tears hitting her hands told Coco that it was all real.
Qin Gucheng is really dead.
The person who was so gentle with me, who cared for me like a father and made me feel the warmth of family love again, is really dead!
"Ah, ah—!" Coco tilted her head back and cried out like a child.
At this moment, the two girls appeared so helpless amidst the ruins.
...
"Instructor Qin Gucheng heroically sacrificed his life to protect the new recruits during a practical training mission!"
"We, the entire team, salute!"
On the training platform, the head instructor finished speaking in a loud voice, then raised his right hand and gave a standard military salute.
The other instructors and more than two hundred new recruits behind them also raised their right hands in salute.
Below the stage, Coco saluted, her body trembling uncontrollably, her eyes bloodshot. Looking at the coffin covered with the national flag on the stage, tears welled up in her eyes.
For protecting two new recruits during this training, thus preventing the loss of the nation's protective force, Qin Gucheng was awarded a third-class merit and a medal.
These medals will be buried along with Qin Gucheng's coffin in the Martyrs' Cemetery.
As for Qin Gucheng's compensation, it was all given to his former comrades-in-arms, and then the money was used to continue to hire people to take care of Liu An.
Furthermore, the instructors would check on her every so often to ensure her safety.
As night falls, the pure white moonlight spills across the earth, and a gentle breeze rustles the leaves.
Upstairs in the girls' dormitory, Coco squatted on the ground, hugging her legs, looking at the stars in the sky with a dim gaze.
A gentle breeze, accompanied by a delicate fragrance, wafted from behind.
Hera slowly walked to Coco's side and then sat down beside her.
"Sister Hera, do you think if my mental strength were stronger, I could help the instructor more, and he wouldn't have died...?"
Coco buried her head in her arms, looking remorseful.
“It’s not your fault.” Hera shook her head. “It’s my fault for not helping the instructor sooner.”
Hera said it from the bottom of her heart: if she had helped the instructor from the beginning, the outcome might have been different.
If Hera hadn't tried to conserve her strength and had waited until they were almost all unconscious before making her move, Qin Gucheng wouldn't have died at all.
"Oh, the two of them are secretly grieving."
Ye Ciqing walked over with a nonchalant air and then sat on the edge of the rooftop.
Hera tilted her head slightly and saw Ye Yiqing also walking over with a knife.
"Boys are not allowed to enter girls' dormitories."
"Uh, this is the roof of the girls' dormitory, not inside the dormitory, so there shouldn't be any violation, right?"
Ye Yiqing scratched his face awkwardly, then sat down next to Coco and gently handed her the straight knife.
"This is a knife that Instructor Qin uses. He said that Instructor Qin has a good relationship with you, so he asked me to give it to you."
Coco took the straight knife, somewhat dazed.
The three large characters "Qin Gucheng" were clearly engraved on the blade.
Upon seeing the name on the screen, Coco's tears fell once again.
Ye Yiqing gently stroked Coco's back to comfort her.
Withered leaves from a large tree slowly fall, landing on a sapling and eventually turning into nutrients.
Instructor Qin, may you rest in peace!
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