Chapter 1218: Success Doesn’t Have To Be Mine

Ten SUVs departed from Barrier 111, Qing Zhen let Qing Yi pick ten people, that is, he wanted them to take ten different roads, as a way to ensure that the news from the southwest could be accurately delivered to the northwest.

At this point, only the more spread out they were, the higher the chances of success of this message being delivered would be.

These soldiers didn’t know too much about the news.

They didn’t know that it wasn’t Qing Zhen who traveled to the Central Plains.

They did not know what the purpose of sending the message to the northwest was.

They didn’t even know that they might die on this trip to the Northwest.

They only knew that they were to die, but they also had to deliver the news of the 61st Barrier peace talks to the Northwest Army.

Perhaps, hiding it from them was a bit unfair to them, but Qing Zhen had to guard against zero.

If these soldiers were intercepted halfway and then Zero stole their memories with the nanobots, then there would be no more secrets left in this plan.

That was why Qing Zhen had to hide it from them and calmly watch them go to their deaths.

The Ginkgo Manor was never allowed to be approached by anyone since Luo Lan and Xu Concealment left, not even the Qing soldiers.

In this huge manor, there were only two people, Qing Zhen and Qing Yi.

It wasn’t that this Qing Clan no longer had anyone they could trust, but rather that Qing Zhen wanted to avoid all accidents.

Qing Zhen sat on the black lake staring blankly into the distant mountains, while Qing Yi poured through the kitchen for half a day, finally making two bowls of fried rice.

Qing Yi carries the fried rice and sits down on the ground next to Qing Zhen, “Second brother, my craftsmanship here is terrible, you can make do.”

The fried rice was a bit burnt in color, it looked like Qing Yi had never cooked with his own hands on a regular basis, Qing Zhen received the fried rice and smiled, “It’s really hard for you.”

Qing Yi took two mouthfuls of fried rice and went to fetch wine, not that he wanted to drink, it was purely because the fried rice was too hard to eat and a bit choking.

Qing Yi sipped two mouthfuls of wine and lamented, “If I let those old men know that I’m serving their hidden wine with fried rice, I’m afraid that they will crawl out of the ground in anger.”

“They can’t crawl out,” Qing Zhen shook his head, “My brother heard that they made me walk more than twenty kilometers of snowy roads barefoot, and secretly raised their ashes right before the burial. So all the urns were actually empty at that funeral.”

Qing Yi: “……”

Although the people were killed by Qing Zhen and the others, those old men were after all the face of the Qing Clan, so Qing Zhen still organized a funeral for them.

However, Luo Lan had never been much of a rule-follower, so how could he possibly watch those old men go into the Qing Clan’s ancestral grave?

In Luo Lan’s words, how bad would it be for that old man of theirs to have to be buried with these people after his death?

Qing Zhen laughed, ”He’s always been such a fierce person right, since he was a child. My brother’s fierceness has never changed, it’s just been tempered, since I started working as a shadow for Qing.”

“Why astringent?” Qing Yi was curious.

“I also asked him why, and he said with a big grin at the time that if I wanted to take over the Qing Clan, then I would have to unite all the forces that I could first, and that I couldn’t let everyone be afraid of me or hostile to me,” Qing Zhen explained with a smile, “So, he and I are often seen as a single unit, so naturally, he couldn’t do things that would give me a things to discredit me.”

Qing Zhen continued, “But in fact, I have always wanted to tell him that I am not afraid of him discrediting me or anything. I told him before that I was using him as a role model but he didn’t believe me, but that’s really what I had in mind.”

When he was young, Luo Lan took him with him to steal white fruits from Ginkgo Mountain to sell, after selling them back and exchanging them for money, the two of them didn’t want to buy meat to eat because they still had to exchange them for money to give the old man medical treatment.

So most of the time, Luo Lan would choose relatively cheap eggs for Qing Zhen to replenish his body.

After the old man fell ill, Luo Lan had to cook for Qing Zhen and wash his clothes, all the heavy, dirty and tiring work in the house was almost done by Luo Lan alone.

That fat man who always had a big grin on his face, from the very beginning, had carried the responsibility of the entire family on his shoulders.

Perhaps to others, Luo Lan was now the powerful number two in the Qing Clan, but to Qing Zhen, it was just his older brother ah.

The bowl of egg fried rice made by Qing Yi evokes many memories for Qing Zhen, as Qing Zhen remembers that the first time Luo Lan made him egg fried rice, it was also scrambled.

But at that time, everyone wasn’t upset at all, even the old man who had never had much energy or appetite ate a whole bowl.

At this time, Qing Yi’s question pulled Qing Zhen’s thoughts back, “Second brother, do the ten soldiers going to the northwest this time have a chance of coming back alive?”

Qing Zhen thought for a long time, then sighed and shook his head.

Qing Yi looked a bit gloomy, “Among them, there are also those who followed you to kill up Gingko Mountain in the beginning, and as a result, now that they know that there are dangers, they still went without any hesitation.”

“Yi,” Qing Zhen said, “Write down all their names, if you and I are still alive after this disaster, then someone needs to honor them.”

“Uh-huh,” Qing Yi nodded.

“Rest, you haven’t slept in a long time,” Qing Zhen said.

“Then I’ll sleep for a while, if you need anything, Second Brother, you call out to me,” Qing Yi drew a pistol from its holster under his ribcage, and he checked the yellow bullets in the magazine before he lay down on the marble floor and slept on the cushion with a little peace of mind.

There were only two people in the large Ginkgo Manor, which made Qing Yi feel as if he had returned to the time when he was young and followed Luo Lan and Qing Zhen as they fought in the streets.

There were no subordinates, no soldiers or armies, the elder brother rushed ahead and the second brother advised.

Then as now, the only people they could really rely on were the few of them.

It was only at this moment that Qing Yi finally realized that there was indeed something more important than power in this world.

……

After the ten SUVs left Barrier 111, they immediately split into ten routes and disappeared into the wilderness.

Nowadays, the highway in the southwest was just constructed, the road condition was excellent, and there were few people who could own a vehicle and travel between the barriers, so these ten vehicles sped all the way.

Earlier, Luo Lan also went to Fort 178 to establish a trade relationship with Zhang Jinglin, so the entire northwest and southwest highways were jointly constructed, and the roads were smooth all the way.

Their trunk was fully loaded with oil drums so that they could drive to Barrier 144 in a self-sufficient manner.

According to the distance calculation, the 111th barrier is almost 800 kilometers away from the 144th, if they drive at full speed, if they leave in the evening, they may be able to arrive in the middle of the night.

Everyone actually understood in their hearts that this mission was not that simple, but when Qing Yi asked everyone if they were willing to go, everyone answered yes.

Zhang Yu Ge, when Qing Zhen Deng Ginkgo Mountain mutiny, had remembered his name, that former officer even remembered that his mother was in poor health.

Zhang Yu Ge survived after Qing’s change of ownership, and he had originally thought that life would return to normal, just like any other ordinary soldier.

As a result, it wasn’t long before someone from the Qing Clan picked his mom up and put her in the best hospital in Barrier 111, with the Qing Clan consortium bearing all the medical expenses.

One day when Zhang Yu Ge carried his lunchbox to the hospital to take care of his mother, he pushed open the door of the hospital room and saw Qing Zhen sitting by his mother’s bedside.

The unattainable officer was smiling and said to his mother: Zhang Yu Ge is an excellent soldier, no one is better than him, he is the honor of the Qing Clan’s troops.

After that, Zhang Yu Ge’s mother had to cheerfully mention this to her patients every day, and he believed that this was probably the happiest time for his mother.

Then later, his mother left because of a terminal illness, and before she left, she urged Zhang Yu Ge not to let down the officer’s high hopes.

Later, Zhang Yu Ge was promoted from corporal to staff sergeant, and then from staff sergeant to lieutenant. If not for today’s incident, he would have continued to rise high in the army.

But Zhang Yu Ge thinks that these are not important, the important thing is that the king treats me as a national scholar, I will repay it as a national scholar.

On the road, Zhang Yu Ge always felt like he was being spied on when he was driving.

The SUV went all the way north, and just when he was about to leave the territory of the Qing Clan, Zhang Yu Ge suddenly saw more and more sparrows on the branches by the roadside, and …… all those sparrows were actually gazing at him quietly.

In the night, these sparrows stood on the branches, it looks like a black pressurized piece of very scary.

Although the sparrow in this era is large, but as long as you do not attack it, it will not attack you, so even if you see the sparrow on weekdays, people will not worry much, this creature is still eating vegetarian food in the final analysis.

However, at this moment, a trace of fear suddenly rose within Zhang Yu Ge, he had never imagined that the original sparrow could be so terrifying.

Zhang Yu Ge turned on the high beams, in a flash he saw that the branches of the trees on both sides of the front road were full of sparrows, and when the headlights shone on their eyes, they reflected a weird silver light.

“Where did so many sparrows come from?” Zhang Yu Ge was secretly alarmed in the car.

Previously, Base 012 had been attacked by sparrows, and this matter had already been communicated within the military, so Zhang Yu Ge’s mood had slowly begun to sink to the bottom.

But now is not the time to retreat, he is very clear about the mission of this trip: if you meet the enemy, you do not need to run away, because you will not be able to escape, at this time he needs to do only one thing, to help other comrades on the road to attract firepower.

Among the ten of them, as long as there is one person who can send the news to the northwest, that is considered the collective honor of the ten of them.

Success doesn’t have to be mine.

Zhang Yu Ge looked at the group of blackened sparrows standing on the branches in a row, even the branches of the sycamore tree were bent down, but he no longer had fear in his heart, instead, a hint of courage rose.

Suddenly, the sparrows flew away from the branches one by one, and they slowly converged into swirls in the sky, their feathers sharp as blades.

In the dark night of this crisis, Zhang Yu Ge blasted the gas pedal, and the black SUV began to break out like a fierce beast.

The hideous metal machine was covered in taut muscles, and what Zhang Yu Ge drove wasn’t some roadster, but the strongest performing military off-road within the Qing Clan.

This kind of vehicle was usually only available to figures like Qing Yi, Qing Zhen, and Luo Lan.

Although Qing Zhen knew that these people who were going to deliver the letter would die, he still had to leave them with the best tools to save their lives, whether or not they could survive was a matter for the warriors, whether or not they wanted these warriors to survive was a matter for him, Qing Zhen.

Death, is everyone in this era there is no way back in the choice, but before that, life to enjoy!

The engine roared, the eight-cylinder turbocharged engine squeezed its potential to the limit in an instant, and Zhang Yu Ge inside the car only felt a huge force coming from the car’s rollers, and his back was tightly pressed against the car seat.

The full-time four-wheel drive drivetrain made the off-road tires grip the ground even more strongly, and the wide wheels were like the strong and powerful limbs of a wild beast.

Zhang Yu Ge car began to exuberantly yell and scream, the black metal beast actually head from the center of the circling sparrows broke out, like a destroyer in the ocean head out of the whirlpool!

One by one, the sparrows crashed into the windshield, using their sharp beaks to try to break through the window, but the fierce pecks could only leave a small white spot on the glass.

If it was an ordinary vehicle, I’m afraid the glass would have shattered, but these ten SUVs are different, their glass is bulletproof.

At this time, Zhang Yu Ge has no distractions, he just step on the gas pedal towards the north, as for where he can go that all depends on life.

Sparrows gathered into the dark clouds always closely followed, they no longer attack, as if waiting for something.

This is not in line with biological instincts, Zhang Yu Ge sensed that there seems to be something behind the sparrows that is directing them, so that their action guidelines become more calculated.

There was no blind impact, as if the sparrows suddenly transformed into cheetahs and prostrated themselves, waiting to deal a fatal blow to their prey.

Although the metal beast is fierce, there is a time when it is exhausted.

Zhang Yu Ge glanced at the right side of the dashboard, representing the scale of the fuel tank, he could at most drive another 200 kilometers, to that time the metal beast will gradually stop.

He couldn’t get out of the car to refuel, so he could only sit in the car and become an island.

More than an hour later, the scale on the dashboard gradually turned red, and the black SUV gradually slowed down and stopped at the side of the highway.

There will be no reinforcements, Zhang Yu Ge knows that this time there will be no comrades behind him.

Until this point, he did not have the heart to sit in the car and light a cigarette, gray smoke instantly filled the car.

Zhang Yu Ge lowered the car window by a slit, the sparrows were right beside him desperately trying to get in through the slit, but they were stuck dead.

As if he didn’t see the sparrows, he smoked his own cigarette one puff after another.

Facing the enemy with an undaunted look was a psychological quality that a qualified Qing soldier should have, but if someone really asked Zhang Yu Ge if he was afraid, he would have replied with a laugh and a curse: It’s definitely a lie to say that you’re not fucking afraid, so if you’re not afraid, why don’t you come and try?

At this time, the sparrows suddenly no longer blindly want to squeeze in from the gap, but to form a queue in the sky, and then head on the front windshield.

Zhang Yu Ge suddenly realized that these sparrows’ beaks even landed at the same point every time, as if they had been precisely calculated.

“Crap, is this fucking sperm?” Zhang Yu Ge said in a daze.

However, he didn’t look any further, but instead, he lit up another cigarette, then opened the music player in the car, and the LCD screen displayed the music list in the car.

One Step Away

Pathos

Ah, Friends Goodbye

Zhang Yu song muttered: “This is all what song ah, also do not know this car used to be who’s seat, the song name is also quite a damn seasonal ah, deliberately it ……”

He clicked on ah friends goodbye, the long accordion and piano intro suddenly floated out.

Ah if I am in, sacrificed in battle.

Ah friend goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.

Ah every time people, walk through here.

Ah friend goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.

The cracks on the front windshield were getting bigger and bigger, Zhang Yu Ge’s thoughts seemed to go back to that snowy night, Qing Zhen, who was wearing a white suit, came up to him and said softly to him, “I remember you, your name is Zhang Yu Ge, you used to be a soldier under my command, and you got credit for killing the Fire Seed Company.”

Then Zhang Yu Ge watched that figure hiking all the way up the mountain with his back straight.

That night Qing Zhen taught him ten words, Pride is neutralized from the bone, not bending the knee in all difficulties, this is Qing’s new soul after being reborn.

Zhang Yu Ge looked at the blackened sparrows outside the window, and then looked at the cracks on the windshield that were about to burst.

“Sitting back and waiting for death is not the style of the Qing Clan, my name is Zhang Yu Ge, and I’ve made my mark in the Qing Clan.”

He smiled and grabbed his own automatic rifle from the passenger seat, skillfully pulling the bolt, Zhang Yu Ge turned up the music in the car to the maximum before pushing the door and getting out of the car to strafe the sky.

Then he was drowned by uncountable sparrows.

The music in the car continued to play, and the song became more and more impassioned.

Ah if I were to die in, battle.

Ah friends goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.