Longmen Memoirs

Chapter 55 Wolf Cub

Chen Mo felt that he had done something stupid, but he did not feel sad about it.

On the second day after the festival, everyone in the team got up much later than usual.

The snow outside the window has no intention of stopping.

On this day, everyone seemed to maintain the same tacit understanding and be quiet. Even the one-eyed wolf who usually liked to bicker with crows kept quiet. They just frequently raised their heads and looked at the gloomy and gray sky and the falling snowflakes outside the window, with different thoughts. different.

Chen Mo's gaze caught Crow's attention.

"Are you a little weird today?"

Sitting on the sofa, he glanced back and forth between the members of the team, with a completely different emotion than usual. The emotion was like nostalgia and relief.

It's hard not to arouse curiosity.

"Why is it weird?" Chen Mo asked.

Of course, it was impossible for him to tell the crow that he had a ridiculous dream, and it was also impossible for him to tell the crow that he could probably guess the cause of everything that happened in Longmen.

"Hey, stay away from me."

Crow didn't explain, but pushed Chen Mo with his index finger in disgust, as if he was pushing something disgusting.

They would occasionally make similar jokes, but suddenly they seemed to have become closer to each other.

Becoming more and more like a person, perhaps as Goudan said, these things are pulling and making a person weak unconsciously.

The more you experience, the more care you have, and the heavier your steps become.

"Hey." Chen Mo was noncommittal and shouted in the direction of the kitchen: "Shopkeeper, what new dishes are there today?"

The figure of a grizzly bear appears with an apron around his waist.

"Goulash with potatoes, ready soon."

"So, what's going on with you today?" Crow looked over curiously: "Why do you seem to have suddenly changed?"

"Have you changed? No." Chen Mo picked up the kettle on the table and shook it, then stood up to boil water: "I just suddenly discovered that I actually like to get along with you."

"That's it?" Crow asked suspiciously, "I don't believe it."

"Forget it if you don't believe me." Chen Mo slumped his shoulders and looked at the living room: "Where are the magician and the wolf cub? Why didn't you see them?"

Crow pointed to the door.

"Where is the wolf cub? As for the magician, I haven't seen him come down."

Chen Mo put the hot water bottle and looked in the direction of the crow's finger. The one-eyed wolf was wrapped in a thick cotton coat and sitting alone on the doorstep, looking at the gloomy sky.

"He is this?"

"Who knows." Crow shook his head: "Why don't you go and ask?"

Chen Mo finally walked out with a cup of hot tea.

"What's wrong, so quiet today?"

He reached out to sweep away the snow on the seat and sat down next to the one-eyed wolf. The one-eyed wolf glanced at him sideways and said nothing. The wall covered with strange graffiti looked a little cold in the snow. The only person in the yard was Only the bare trunk of the old tree remains.

"Tell me about it?" he asked casually, holding the warm tea cup.

"Prefer not to say."

"It doesn't cost anything. Is it yesterday's letter?" Chen Mo asked, taking a sip of tea and breathing lightly: "Are you homesick?"

The one-eyed wolf pursed his lips and opened his mouth slightly.

"So what if you want to? It's not like you can't go back."

"Are you unable to go back or do you dare not go back?" Chen Mo asked.

"What about you, Captain? Are you unable to go back or do you dare not go back?"

The one-eyed wolf's words seemed to make him angry. He didn't expect Chen Mo to answer.

"Well, I have it all." Chen Mo said: "I really want to go back, but sometimes I feel like, what should I do if I go back? It will be the same as now, so for me, there is a difference between not being able to go back and not being able to go back. It’s not very big, but you are different, wolf cub, you still have people caring about you, worrying about you, and missing you.”

"It's as if you don't have one." The one-eyed wolf turned away and rolled his eyes.

"But I am already an infected person, captain. You are also an infected person. You know what an infected person is." He sighed: "I haven't told them that I have become an infected person. I'm afraid they won't be able to accept it. , I left home secretly to join Black Steel without telling them, and now I have become an infected person..."

"So you don't dare to go back?" Chen Mo asked in a low voice.

The one-eyed wolf didn't answer, which was considered acquiescence.

"So they later found out you joined Black Steel, what did they say?"

"I didn't say anything. I just asked me to write more letters to my family so that my family won't worry."

"Is that so..."

"I originally thought they would be very angry. In my impression, my father was such a strict and rigid person. He only wanted me to inherit the family's crafts and shop, so when I was a child, I often deliberately made him angry. I was not afraid of him. The more he beats me, the less afraid I am, because I don’t think he should plan my life arbitrarily.”

His fingers were squeezed together tightly, and his tone was getting lower and lower, like a child who was lost and had done something wrong. In fact, he was a child, and he was the youngest in the team.

He deserved a better future.

"But now you regret it?" Chen Mo asked: "If you follow your father's ideas, you should stay with them peacefully and live an ordinary and happy life. Maybe in a few years, you will meet the one you like. Girls, form a new family.”

"I have no regrets, never." One-eyed Wolf immediately shook his head firmly and looked back: "Even if I do it again, I will make the same choice."

"So why not tell them?"

Chen Mo said that snowflakes and cold wind were beating on their bodies, and his growing black hair was fluttering in the cold wind: "Tell them that you were infected with the Origin Stone to protect your teammates, tell them that you have become an infected person, just Have the same courage as when you left home and tell them you have no regrets."

The one-eyed wolf opened his mouth to retort, then shrugged his shoulders.

"...Easy for you to say."

"How do you know they can't accept it if you don't tell them." Chen Mo picked up the tea cup and took a sip: "Believe me, your family would rather you become an infected person and live than lose it. You, instead of just following your own whims, in fact many things can be solved by just sitting down and having a good talk."

Chen Mo gently patted the one-eyed wolf on the shoulder.

"Tell them, so as not to worry them. Go back and take a good look at them and listen to their thoughts. After you lose it, it will be too late for you to do these things. Wolf cub, by then, you will feel that you are very I like to hear their nagging." Chen Mo said: "It just so happens that the Colombian New Year is coming soon, and the headquarters will send people back to conduct assessments. I will approve it during this holiday, and I will help you with it from the headquarters."

"Captain, please don't help others make decisions without permission!" The one-eyed wolf looked at Chen Mo helplessly.

"Aren't you hesitantly telling me this just because you want to ask for leave?" Chen Mo asked in surprise.

"No! I just..."

"I understand, I understand. You are just feeling uncomfortable and want to find someone to talk to, right?"

Chen Mo looked at the one-eyed wolf with an understanding tone and said, he slowly turned around and walked into the house with the teacup in hand.

"Remember to say hello to uncle for me. Also, you're almost coming in. I've approved your leave. Who are you showing off to?"

The one-eyed wolf turned back and glared at Chen Mo's back resentfully.

"What did you talk about?"

As soon as I put down my tea cup and sat down, the crow came over and asked curiously.

"It's nothing. I enlightened a little boy who was homesick but too awkward to go back because he was afraid of being scolded." Chen Mo replied leisurely, refilling the tea cup, as if thinking of something, and asked: "I approved him a leave, how about you, want to Don’t want to go back?”

"Where are you going?"

"Then I won't go back. It's great. Finally, someone is willing to stay."

"You haven't talked about Warlock and Grizzly Bear yet."

"Come on, those two guys do you think they're going to stay."

The crow said nothing, and the result was self-evident.

During lunch, the magician finally came down from upstairs and sat around the dining table. When Chen Mo mentioned this matter, everyone said nothing and just looked at Chen Mo and Crow.

"You're all gone [@{

No one objected to Chen Mo, and the matter was settled.

Chapter 56 Goudan and his ideals

A few days later, the document was approved, and only Chen Mo and Crow were left in the Weird Team's station.

They ran very fast and had no intention of staying.

The two members of the Weird Team received another temporary mission.

A riot broke out in the mine in Wattal Town near the small town. The miners, who had planned for a long time, kidnapped and killed the guards and supervisors of the mine, and kidnapped the tax official who came to collect the ore. Unfortunately, the person who accompanied the tax official that day Among them was the mayor's youngest son, who inspected the territory's mines on a whim.

The results are already obvious.

Whether it was Chen Mo or Crow Crow, facing a group of miners with only crude primitive weapons, it could be said that there was no obstacle at all. If the safety of the hostages had not been taken into consideration, it might not have been Black Steel's turn to take action.

On the way back, the crow in the car asked what Chen Mo had said a few days ago, and she finally realized something was wrong.

"You sent them away on purpose, right?"

"Don't talk nonsense." Chen Mo retorted.

"So you plan to leave early, before spring starts? When will you leave?" Crow asked as if he didn't hear Chen Mo's words.

The words of rebuttal stopped on his lips.

"Just in the past few days, I have completed the resignation procedures."

"Why send them away?"

"We are old and cannot see each other anymore, but maybe we will meet again soon."

"So the people from the company you mentioned will go find them? It seems that you have made arrangements because of the letter you received that day. No wonder you became a little strange after that. You have been waiting for a long time."

The crow's analytical power can always be used in places it shouldn't be used.

Chen Mo doesn't like to deal with smart people.

"It didn't take long." Chen Mo said, it was only ten years.

"What about you, have you decided? Do you want to hang out with me?"

"Are you so sure they will mess with you?"

"Unless you wish to remain in Sargon your whole life."

The crow relaxed slightly.

"For the sake of our friendship, I have to go and take a look before making a decision. I hope you won't be disappointed when the time comes."

"I can't guarantee that."

It is not difficult for the two men from Black Steel to deal with a group of infected people and slave miners who are barely clothed and even hungry. They are no better than refugees. They don't even need to use spells. Their fragile bodies cannot stop the sharp blades.

But when the well-equipped black steel operators faced a group of suffering people with pale faces and rushed over without fear of death, they could still feel their numb hearts shaking.

It was an indescribable feeling, and you could even see the eye-catching whip marks and traces of infection under their dirty and thin clothes.

And when the rescued hostage growls ferociously at you and yells at you to kill them all and tries to take away your weapon to do so, you suddenly want to chop off that disgusting dog's head with a knife, and you suddenly feel happy, he deserves it. You are tortured like this because you still have a trace of conscience in your heart, or maybe it's just because that disgusting white face makes you feel disgusted.

So in the cell where the mine was used to punish erring miners, Chen Mo just knocked out the so-called mayor's son. He was afraid that he could not help but regard the mission as a failure and leave the bastard here.

But he didn't do this, not because the damn mayor paid the reward, nor because the failure of the mission would affect Black Steel's credibility, but because he knew that if this guy died somewhere, everyone in the entire mine, whether it was Everyone will be buried with him.

Chen Mo felt it wasn't worth it.

The life and death of those miners and slaves has nothing to do with him, but he cannot kill the hostages just for temporary pleasure, because not only will the mission fail, but the miners will also have to pay the price for his pleasure.

It's no good for anyone.

But if the hostages are alive, most of the people may be left alive for the continued operation of the mine. Even if they still have to live the same life as before, at least they can still be alive, but if he dies, Chen Mo didn't have to think about what his employer would do if he lost his son.

This is the way the world is. These miners who were thrown here have no rights. The only value of their lives is for the selfish desires of the lord.

Black Steel is not a human rights organization that helps the poor, and Chen Mo is not a member of the guerrillas or resistance forces that govern tyranny and oppression. He is just a mercenary of Black Steel, a mercenary who has gradually become accustomed to the world.

"I didn't expect you to be willing to help them."

When talking about this matter again, Crow's tone was a little surprised.

In fact, their mission was over when the hostages were confirmed to be safe. Even if they were surrounded because of the suddenly angry hostages yelling stupid things, they didn't even need to leave with the hostages, they only needed the soldiers outside to attack. Just ensure the safety of the hostages beforehand, and the narrow mines and tunnels are natural geographical advantages.