Chapter 139: The choice between life and death

Entering the room were two staff members from the Shidou headquarters wearing the same attire, each with an induction loop around their ankles.

They carried four barrels of gasoline and hurriedly made a round of the house, but did not find He Yu's group hiding in the dark, and the bodies of the two staff members had been dragged to the corner by Xie Qingcheng and the others.

"That cop has been taken up by the third group?"

"Looks like it."

"Then do it quickly."

The two men started pouring gasoline on the floor, and when the barrel was empty, one of them clicked on the lighter, threw his hand so hard it hit the wall in a parabola, and then went up in flames from the corner.

"Go!"

The sound of footsteps quickly came from near and far, and then mixed with the noisy voices outside, those who came out from the eight rooms after inspecting and lighting the fire, each reported the situation, and then withdrew from the marketplace together.

They are, after all, people on a sinking ship who don't want to drown together, but can't get off the ship, and don't take Huang Zhilong's work too seriously.

When the flame met the gasoline, it was like a dragon awakened from the depths of the earth, its scales glowing, its breath pouring out, roaring low and furious to swallow the whole underground city into its own hot lungs.

He Yu and the others could not stay any longer, after the arsonists left, they had to get out of the basement immediately. But Chen Man coughed up a mouthful of blood.

Xie Qingcheng immediately said, "How are you? Are you still holding up?"

"...It's okay."

The three ran forward together, and at the moment the things recorded in their hands can already support the police to come to a thorough investigation, but the sample of hearing water is still not found ......

There was no more time, they had to get out of this basement immediately and find another way.

However--

"He Yu, stop!"

When He Yu heard Xie Qingcheng's voice, he quickly stopped his steps, and almost at the same time, with a "Rumble--!" Almost at the same time, with the sound of "Rumble--!", an alloy steel plate above the exit was burnt by the high temperature and smashed down, right in front of He Yu, the splash of fire forced He Yu to take a step backward.

And even worse than this brush with mortal danger was the fire on the exit side.

Just now, those few unethical grandsons did not know how much gasoline was poured over there, and that area has become a sea of inferno and fire.

There was no way out of the place they came from, so they had to retreat towards the interior of Shiroku's headquarters.

But when they ran over there, they found that things weren't looking good either.

The Shillong headquarters to the basement was connected by a steel gangway, and by now, that induction gangway had already activated its self-protection mechanism due to the approaching heat of the flames and had automatically collapsed into the cabin.

He Yu looks around, rushes to the corner, and taps a few quick buttons into the control panel, an emergency response wrench slowly emerging from a recess next to the panel.

The wrench was pressed and the gangway obeyed the mandatory command and rumbled down the ladder. He Yu breathed a sigh of relief and quickly made his way up to the platform through the gangway, and was about to turn back to meet Xie Qingcheng and the others when he was shocked to find that the gangway had retracted again!

The controls actually failed!

The situation became very serious. He Yu was the only one who could reach the high platform leading to the headquarters of Zhilong, while Xie Qingcheng and Chen Man were still down there, and the ladder had been withdrawn, so none of them could get up.

Seeing the flames approaching, He Yu leaned over to Xie Qingcheng with a pale face and shouted, "Wrench! Try the wrench again!"

Xie Qingcheng didn't need him to say anything, and immediately went to the control panel, once again gripping the wrench and pressing down.

With a low, muffled sound, the gangway slowly descended once again. He Yu breathed a sigh of relief, but before it was over, there was a harsh scraping sound, followed by a string of sparks crackling from the control panel!

He Yu was frozen.

This digital panel would have been governed by a switchboard motherboard, which was likely damaged in the fire, and now this panel is starting to fail as well!

Unlike He Yu's case earlier, Xie Qingcheng's hand can't be released from the wrench at all, or the gangway will immediately retract, which means .........

A moment of dead silence.

All three understood.

Only two can escape through the gangway.

There was one more person who would have to stay here and hold the wrench steady, and the fate that awaited that person was that they would be consumed by the flames - engulfed - once and for all!

Xie Qingcheng made an instant decision, "Chen Man, you go up first."

Chen Man : "...... Brother, you ......"

Xie Qingcheng said in a harsh voice, "Go up!"

Chen Man coughed, his eyes reddening all of a sudden, "Brother--"

"Brother what, get the fuck up there! It's too late!"

Chen Man, however, suddenly lifted his face and laughed ruefully. And then he walked over to him, and reached over with his hand, hard, and gripped the wrench.

"...... Sorry."

"Brother Xie, this time, I can't listen to you."

Chen Man said, clutching the wrench tightly and tilting his head to He Yu, "He Yu, you come down and take him away!"

He Yu didn't even need to tell him, how could he stand up there alone and safely in such a terrible situation?

Xie Qingcheng was furious: "Chen Man, are you crazy? If I tell you to go up, you go up, where's all the nonsense! Get your ass up there! Get the hell up there!

Before he finished speaking, Chen Man suddenly reached out his empty hand and hugged him.

"Go up Xie, because ......" Chen Man lowered his head and finally, at this moment, told the truth to Xie Qingcheng.His tears also uncontrollably flowed down at this moment, " Because they had already injected me with their medicine before they caught me upstairs and locked me up in the basement ......"

Xie Qingcheng : "!!!"

"I don't know what the drug is, but I can also tell from their conversations that it's something that will allow them to control me ......"

Chen Man choked up, "Over the years, I've heard of many such things...narcotics police officers whose loved ones were retaliated against by drug dealers, injecting drugs into the bodies of their loved ones, and if they themselves fell into their hands, the harm they suffered would only be greater ...... I'm in a nursing home Once I saw with my own eyes an undercover agent who had been tortured out of his mind ...... I was six years old at the time."

"Brother, I don't want to live like that. Live with no dignity at all."

Chen Man looked up at him with tears glistening in his eyes, "You let me stay. That way at least, I ended up doing something pretty."

"......"

"I ...... I'm not so smart, but I'm ...... but not completely, dragging everyone down ...... "

Xie Qingcheng listened and was already blue in the face.

Chen Man doesn't know what he's been injected with, but Xie Qingcheng can guess.

Most likely, like Xie Xue, an improved drug for RN13.

Huang Zhilong, this is a vicious move--

He sees Chen Man as his shield, a card to blackmail Wang, and to this end he injects Chen Man with a new drug, the sample of which, and the corresponding antidote, are in Huang Zhilong's hands.

In this way, even if Chen Man was successfully rescued, Wang would still be wary of Huang Zhilong, which for Huang was another layer of insurance for his escape.

The fire was getting bigger and bigger, the smoke was already coming up, they had to get out of here as soon as possible or they would choke to death if they didn't burn to death.

Xie Qingcheng knew that he couldn't delay any longer, so he quickly said to Chen Man, "Don't worry about that, that injection isn't going to kill you, and it's not a drug, so go up first and let He Yu talk to you ......"

"I'm not leaving. I know you are lying to me." Chen Man suppressed the vulnerability and trembling in his voice, "Brother, you're always going to coax people in such a way so that they'll do what you want them to do. When you used to let me walk away from my brother's death, you also lied to me at first, saying that if only I wasn't so depressed, my brother might come back ......"

Xie Qingcheng immediately began to regret that he had always coaxed his children with such nonsense.

But he didn't have time to argue with him any further, he pushed Chen Man: "Hurry up and go up, think about your parents! Your family has already lost your elder brother, if anything happens to you, how will they support you?"

Chen Man: "......"

Xie Qingcheng said in a stern voice, "You trust me, I have a way to get out."

"Chen Man, hurry up and let go!"

Chen Man Seeing him insist on this, he is even more mixed feelings, he mute voice, choking, "Brother Xie ...... why? Why do you always think this way and that way for others. You think that if I die, my parents will be sad, will be sad. And yet you have never thought like this for yourself ...... I know that you have always felt that Xie Xue has already grown up and that you have nothing to worry about, so you have always put your own life in last place. But ......"

Chen Man looked at him in the firelight, and suddenly a strong feeling before life and death shook his heart.

This made him, who had always been introverted, finally unable to resist saying to Xie Qingcheng at this moment, out of impulse, out of sadness, out of the frustration of parting, and out of the heart of persuasion, "Brother, it's not like you don't have anyone to care about."

"......"

"At least I care about you."

"......"

"At least if anything happens to you, I'm willing to put my life on the line."

Xie Qingcheng was stunned for a moment.

Boom!

At this time, near another section of burning building materials wrapped in flames smashed down, the deafening sound almost smashed into the heart of Xie Qingcheng, Xie Qingcheng was Chen Man this sudden strong feelings between life and death to the shock, but immediately by the critical scene dragged back to consciousness.

He snapped back, "Just hurry up and get out of here before I do!"

"Brother ......" Chen Man's eyes reddened, "I won't go."

Xie Qingcheng was furious and gritted his teeth, "Chen Man listen to me clearly, there is no way I will let you stand here alone and escape first by yourself, you are far younger and more important than me!" Xie Qingcheng saw that Chen Man was going to say something else, his pitch-black sword eyebrows rose, and his peach blossom eyes forced a stern look at the other party.

"You go with He Yu now and I'll still have a way out, if you insist on standing here, I'll fucking stand with you. I'll stand with you to the end!!!"

Chen Man didn't expect him to say that and his eyes widened suddenly.

Xie Qingcheng said word for word, "See for yourself, do you dare to bet with me, the chips are two lives."

Chen Man The light in his eyes faltered for a moment.

Ever since he was a child, he had always been like this in front of Xie Qingcheng, who would always end up suppressing him with an absolutely strong advantage, leaving him with no way to say a word of no in front of his decisions.

So he has always, always had to listen to Xie Qingcheng's arrangements.

Even if you angrily want to tell him to stop smoking, the end result is often Xie Qingcheng, regardless of the cigarette out of his clothes, and then take it again.

Even now ......

Chen Man watched Xie Qingcheng standing in front of him in such a resolute and calm manner, with the determination to spend his life in the fire with him.

In this moment, he still stumbled.

His hardened heart was easily softened by Xie Qingcheng.

Just then, a teenager's hand tugged on his arm, Chen Man abruptly turned around and met He Yu's eyes.

-- He Yu had already come down from the gangway long ago, and he had listened to both of them, he wanted to interrupt Chen Man and Xie Qingcheng's conversation several times, but in the end, he didn't do so. Because it was useless to interrupt.

But he didn't expect Chen Man to say something like "If anything happens to you, I'm willing to trade my life for it." at the last minute. Such heavy words.

These words undoubtedly touched Xie Qingcheng, Xie Qingcheng in Chen Man said these contents, the eyes have always stayed on Chen Man, and Xie Qingcheng finally also said to Chen Man, if you insist on standing here, I will stand with you.

He Yu thought anxiously, so Xie Qingcheng is willing to accompany Chen Man to die?

Inexplicably, he recalled that in the studio reservoir, he thought he was going to die with Xie Qingcheng, and at that moment his heart was actually very relieved, thinking that such a way of death is also considered to be unattached, far better than the other.

Xie Qingcheng felt the same way about being buried in the fire with Chen Man?

He couldn t help but feel a strong sense of jealousy and sadness, and he was even jealous that Chen Man had been injected with the new drug of RN-13 - why? That was originally a bond that belonged only between him and Xie Qingcheng.

Originally it was just him!

Just him and Xie Qingcheng--

They're the ones who are kind.

Why did Chen Man also have to come to their mountains and lakes, why did Chen Man also have to become the kind of sufferer that would make Xie Qingcheng stop by? Why did Chen Man's body have to be branded with the same scars as his?

He took hold of Chen Man's wrist in one hand - his evil dragon's feathers were spreading out, his fangs glinting bit by bit to bare.

He hides the full extent of his resentment and heartache.

Almost viciously, he said to Chen Man, "You're coming with me."

"......"

"You heard what he said." He Yu's voice was unusually cold, "Since you heard it, do what he said."

"Follow me up."

Xie Qingcheng's eyes took on a similar emotion of gratitude as he glanced at He Yu.

He Yu, however, never looked at Xie Qingcheng again, but only dragged Chen Man, who was already at a loss for what to do, and the two of them went up the gangway together and climbed up to the only still-open doorway that led to Shilong's headquarters.

The gate's biometric system wasn't too hard for He Yu to break through, and He Yu quickly unlocked the code as he pushed Chen Man out with an expressionless face.

"You are the grandson of Wang Political Commissar, don't worry, he won't touch you until Huang Zhilong has fled the country with all his whiskers and tails."

He said, removing the wearable video recorder on his wrist, which had already collected a very full set of evidence. He slipped this VCR into Chen Man's hand.

Chen Man finally realized what he was up to at this point and tried to come back in, but He Yu was against the door.

"Escape." He Yu didn't say anything more to him, looking down at Chen Man, one hand already touching the biometric door's close button.

The door closed slowly between them, and when only the last gap remained, He Yu looked indifferently at Chen Man through that gap, and in a voice that only the two of them could hear, he said-

"Chen Yan, I know you like him."

Chen Man shuddered! The already pale face became even more transparent.

He Yu continued, "But you'd better restrain yourself and never tell him. Because Xie Qingcheng is not gay, he won't like men, and he can never give you what you want. You remember my words today."

Chen Man turned pale before he could say anything.

The gate had blasted shut.

With that, only He Yu and Xie Qingcheng were left in the smoke-filled basement.

He Yu turned back and took one step down the gangway.

Xie Qingcheng how did not expect He Yu surprisingly will send Chen Man away, he went and returned to do such an outrageous thing, his face changed: "You fucking go up! Are you crazy? What are you doing back here?

He Yu came over to me with an inscrutable look on his face.

Xie Qingcheng scolded him again. What madness! One rabbit cub just sent up, and another one? Are they all cross with him!

He Yu did not care, he did not listen to what Xie Qingcheng scolded him. What filled his head at the moment was Xie Qingcheng's consistent treatment of Chen Man, which was far better than he had been to himself.

He even believed that if it was Chen Man who pursued Xie Qingcheng, it would probably be easier to get what he wanted than himself.

At least in Xie Qingcheng's eyes, Chen Man is a good person, and Xie Qingcheng treats good people with kindness.

Now Chen Man has been injected with RN13, and once he becomes a mental Ai Bola patient, he will be in the same boat as Xie Qingcheng.

He was no longer the only young dragon around Xie Qingcheng.

What He Yu has, what can hold Xie Qingcheng back, was not much, even the same disease should be counted as a strand of red thread.

Sickness isn't even the only thing now.

He Yu just took one step forward and--

His hand covered the back of Xie Qingcheng's hand.

Just like that, he clasped his finger palms and slowly, firmly, unresistingly - removed his hand from that control peg.

The gangway retracted, the broken iron fell, the flames danced, and the smoke was thick.

He Yu, in the midst of this apocalyptic twilight-like chaos, in the midst of this increasingly hard-to-breathe calamity, he reached out his hand and irresistibly embraced Xie Qingcheng's body. He wrapped Xie Qingcheng tightly into his arms and said in a cold voice, "Yes, I am the madman."

"......"

"You knew all along."

As he said that, he bit through his lips, stained with rusty blood, before kissing Xie Qingcheng's lips hard.

That kiss was deep, with a depth of love and heat that regular people simply cannot bear.

At the end of the kiss, He Yu used the blood compulsion on Xie Qingcheng again without a word of nonsense--

"I want you, out of here right now."

Xie Qingcheng did not expect him to come up with this trick, his face suddenly turned white!

He Yu's deep colored pupils looked at him, "Listen to me, Xie Qingcheng."

"These are my orders."