xymnovel Chapter 0098: I...I'll go with you.
Chapter 0098: I...I'll go with you.
Before the sky had fully brightened, two elite warriors slowly descended the hillside and arrived at the edge of the lake.
On the hillside, Wu Liuyi and Xu Sanduo nervously watched the two men. Through their sniper scopes, they could see the two men slowly sinking into the darkness, silently letting the water submerge their bodies until it reached their necks, leaving only their mouths and noses exposed.
"They... will they be alright?" Xu Sanduo murmured softly, and Wu Liuyi assured him, "They'll definitely be alright."
In the water.
Zheng Yingqi relaxed his body as much as possible to allow it to adapt to the biting cold. Only after he had adapted did he slowly exhale.
After glancing at Cheng Cai, who was in the same condition as him, he slowly swam towards the back of the position.
Both of them tried their best to control their bodies, trying not to cause any ripples.
"Can you hold on?" Zheng Yingqi asked Cheng Cai, who was swimming beside him, as calmly as possible. Cheng Cai replied, "Yes! If you can't hold on anymore, just say so, and I'll pull you up."
Zheng Yingqi chuckled and said, "Why do I feel like you're trembling?"
"It's you who's trembling!"
They argued stubbornly, but they both knew in their hearts that they and the other were shivering from the cold.
But they didn't stop their pointless arguing just because they knew what was going on. Instead, they kept arguing, one sentence after another, until in the end they didn't know what the other was saying, or even what they were saying themselves. They just stubbornly kept their mouths moving.
"Zheng...Ying...Qi...you said...I...I failed?" Cheng Cai's trembling words pulled Zheng Yingqi back from his reverie. Zheng Yingqi answered tremblingly:
"From...from the perspective of the goal...you...successful...From...the result...you...also...successful...You...got...what...you...wanted..."
"But...but...I feel...I...very...failed..." Cheng Cai tried to force a bitter smile, but found that his muscles were so stiff that he couldn't even manage a smile.
"I...I became...a traitor to the 7th Company...The 3rd Company...the company...put me...into...the 5th Platoon...I...I'm a sniper...but...but I became...the...platoon leader of a bunch of...scum..." Cheng Cai said, his heart suddenly burning with intense heat, so intense that he wanted to scream. This was not the success he wanted!
Zheng Yingqi struggled to shake his arms. "You...you always...always have...ultimate...purposes...can't...you just...be...simple...things...?"
Cheng Cai fell silent. The icy water made his thoughts wander. He suddenly saw Gao Cheng, who had welcomed him to the Steel Seventh Company. He saw Gao Cheng again; back then, he was clinking glasses with Gao Cheng while holding a bowl. But this time, Gao Cheng was laughing wildly, saying, "Good lad, you fought well today!"
What if... there hadn't been that day?
Cheng Cai thought that even if that day hadn't happened, he would still have become a sergeant...
That would be so nice...
"Chengcai, Chengcai," the urgent whispers brought Chengcai back to reality. His blurry eyes slowly cleared, and he saw Zheng Yingqi's anxious expression. He asked blankly, "I...wh...what's wrong?"
Seeing that Cheng Cai had finally woken up, Zheng Yingqi breathed a sigh of relief and quickly began to rub Cheng Cai's body, offering him a meager amount of warmth. "You scared me to death just now. If you hadn't woken up... I was going to admit defeat to Old A."
"Admit defeat?" These two words unlocked all of Cheng Cai's memories, and he finally realized where he was. But in an instant, he was overwhelmed by inexplicable emotions.
Admit defeat... The mighty, invincible Zheng Yingqi, are you willing to admit defeat to the Old A for my sake?
Cheng Cai stared blankly at Zheng Yingqi, who was still rubbing his body, and suddenly the conversation of three silly recruits in a stuffy freight car came to mind...
Back then, they seemed to have a very good relationship, the kind that could develop into the closest of friendships...
Can……
When did his relationship with him deteriorate? Was it during the fifth platoon of basic training?
Yes, it seems that it was because of the vice-class monitor; they were arguing, and things gradually cooled down.
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Cheng Cai was lost in thought, completely mesmerized...
Zheng Yingqi noticed that Cheng Cai's eyes were unfocused, and he asked anxiously, "Cheng Cai... Cheng Cai... are you alright?"
"N-nothing...it's nothing." Cheng Cai snapped out of his daze, realizing his condition, and quickly started rubbing himself. It's unclear who started it, but in the end, the two hugged each other tightly and rubbed each other to keep warm, giving each other the temperature to sustain life.
On the hillside, Xu Sanduo's eyes welled up with tears. What kind of cold had the two of them endured to do such a thing?
Wu Liuyi murmured, "Exciting...so exciting..."
"Exciting?" Xu Sanduo asked, puzzled.
When Wu Liuyi saw Xu Sanduo's confusion, he explained, "In the First Company, my platoon leader never swears. When he's angry, he just says 'exciting.' I never understood why. Later, I asked him why he always said 'exciting.' He told me that to be a civilized person, you should find a word to replace swearing. So he used the word 'exciting' to replace swearing."
"Oh." Xu Sanduo gave a soft "oh," while Wu Liuyi rolled his eyes. If it were anyone else, they would definitely have said something provocative.
……
The most desperate moment finally passed, and their body temperatures slowly returned to normal.
"I'll go there to lie in ambush..." Zheng Yingqi pointed to a slope overlooking a lake: "You can sneak in and scout from here... While it's still dark, you still have a chance to fight. Once it's light, you won't have that chance anymore."
Cheng Cai took a deep breath and said, "I...I'll go with you."
Come with me?
Zheng Yingqi looked at Cheng Cai in surprise, feeling that this was not something Cheng Cai could say. The most rational thing to do was actually the choice Cheng Cai had made before, which was also the most correct thing to do. His behavior of waiting for his comrades was, to put it bluntly, an incurable stupidity.
Once it's fully light, there's a greater than 99% chance that he'll be discovered if he tries to sneak in for reconnaissance. Even with cover or a feint, the risk of being discovered is still very high. In fact, reason tells Zheng Yingqi that doing so might even drag Wu Liuyi and Xu Sanduo down with him.
but……
Humans always have to hold onto some foolish things!
For months, Team A had been with the guard company almost every step of the way. As the team leader, how could he betray his promise? How could he betray his promise to his subordinates?
If I don't wait for Wang Hui and Meng Kai, but instead follow Wu Liuyi and the others to complete the mission, even if I join the Old A, then as Cheng Cai said, if I eat steamed buns, at most my heart will rot, but if I eat your tactical rations, I'll be rotten to the core!
So Zheng Yingqi chose to be foolish. Wu Liuyi understood the reason for Zheng Yingqi's choice to be foolish, and he, who always insisted on certain things, chose to follow Zheng Yingqi to do something stupid. As for Xu Sanduo, he was a single-minded person who believed in Zheng Yingqi without limit, so he abandoned Cheng Cai without hesitation.
Cheng Cai is a pragmatic person, and Zheng Yingqi knows this very well, which is why he is now surprised as to why Cheng Cai would say such a thing.
"I'm afraid I can't handle it by myself." Cheng Cai said casually, explaining his reason. Zheng Yingqi looked at Cheng Cai, but Cheng Cai didn't dare to look at Zheng Yingqi.
"Then... let's go together!" Zheng Yingqi patted Cheng Cai's shoulder, feeling a sense of time passing, as if many years ago, in the stuffy freight car, he, Cheng Cai, and Xu Sanduo had said the same thing.
Cheng Cai breathed a sigh of relief. Reason told him that he was being foolish, but at this moment, he was just that impulsive. After Zheng Yingqi agreed, he had no way out and felt much more relaxed.