Bzzzzzzz—!
Several drones emerged from the woods on the right. Shen Qingzhu's expression changed. "Run!"
After saying that, he turned around, stepped on the rocks protruding from the stream, and ran quickly in the opposite direction.
Deng Wei shouldered his load, gritted his teeth, and followed in Shen Qingzhu's footsteps, taking one step at a time.Just then, the drone behind them flew to a distance, its gun barrels aimed at the two men, and fired several missiles in succession.
Deng Wei's gaze was drawn to the missile, and he panicked. He hurriedly bent down to avoid the missile, but the stone under his feet suddenly slipped, and he fell directly into the stream.
Splash—!
Shen Qingzhu turned around abruptly, his expression changing drastically. After hesitating for a moment, he gritted his teeth, grabbed Deng Wei's shoulder, and helped him stand up.
"Damn it, I told you not to follow me, now you're just causing me trouble!"
Shen Qingzhu, cursing and swearing, carried Deng Wei on his shoulder and walked quickly, while Deng Wei's right foot seemed to be injured, and he moved with great difficulty.
Rat-tat-tat-tat—!
The two drones continued to follow closely behind them, as if on purpose, firing a couple of shots every now and then, but none of the bullets hit their mark.
Shen Qingzhu frowned, his gaze falling on the bushes not far ahead. He quickened his pace, almost carrying Deng Wei as he ran.
Amidst the deadly marksmanship of the two drones, which resembled sketching human outlines, Shen Qingzhu led Deng Wei into the bushes, while the drones circled twice outside the bushes without following them in.
The two men, their backs hunched, struggled through the bushes.
Finally, Shen Qingzhu exhausted all his strength and stumbled to the ground with Deng Wei on his shoulder. Deng Wei clutched his right ankle, his face contorted in pain.
"How's your foot?" Shen Qingzhu, drenched in sweat, reached out to touch Deng Wei's ankle.
"No...it's nothing, I think I twisted it."
Shen Qingzhu felt a large abscess on his ankle, and his face immediately darkened. "You can't run anymore."
Deng Wei was panting heavily. He looked at Shen Qingzhu and chuckled.
"Damn it, what are you laughing at?!"
"Brother Shen, come back and save me!"
"...Shut up! I just happened to be able to reach you!"
"Brother Shen, you can go now. Give me the weights; I can't leave anyway. I'll just wait here for the instructor to eliminate me."
"I'll carry my own burden."
"Brother Shen, you're destined for great things! As a strong person, you should be the last one standing." Deng Wei reached out and grabbed Shen Qingzhu's weight.
"Since I'm going to be eliminated anyway, being able to help you share the burden is a way of contributing what I can."
Shen Qingzhu looked at Deng Wei's dark smile and fell silent.
"Give it to me!"
"Don't try to take it!" Shen Qingzhu grabbed the weights, thought for a moment, and said, "How about this, I'll give you 25 jin of weights, and I'll keep 10 jin for myself."
"Okay, whatever you say."
Shen Qingzhu unloaded the 25-pound weight and placed it on Deng Wei's body. He felt a sudden lightness in his body and his whole body relaxed a lot.
"Brother Shen, you can go now. The drone should be here soon."
"...Okay, then be careful."
"Um."
Shen Qingzhu, carrying a ten-pound load, slowly stood up, glanced one last time at Deng Wei who was slumped on the ground, and then turned and disappeared into the bushes.
He used his knife to cut a narrow path, barely wide enough for one person to pass through, and struggled through it. In the vast forest, he was the only one in two people who's traveling alone, and apart from the rustling of the branches, the surroundings were completely silent.
Shen Qingzhu walked forward for a long time, looked up at the sky, and found that the sun's position had not changed. His brows furrowed again.
"These instructors...are they really messing with us?!"
"Are they keeping us trapped here like lab rats just to make a fool of us?"
"Damn it..."
As he continued cursing, he gradually stopped.
He glanced back in Deng Wei's direction, a hint of hesitation appearing in his eyes, but he quickly shook his head.
"No... Shen Qingzhu, you are destined to become a strong person!"
"A strong person must be ruthless!"
"You have to stay until the end. You have to show those who look down on you... just how strong you are!"
He clenched his fist, took a deep breath, and continued forward.
Just then, a familiar voice came from the heavy-duty speaker.
"Your name is Li Liang, right?"
"Yes."
"Hmm... Tell me about the person you like."
"I don't have anyone I like."
"Oh ho, a cold and aloof guy, huh? Surely he has someone he admires?"
"Yes I have."
"Who is it?"
"My brother Shen."
"Shen Qingzhu?" The instructor's voice sounded quite surprised. "Why?"
"When my younger brother Li Jia was in his first year of high school, he was scammed and got into trouble with a group of local thugs. Every day after school, we would be blocked at the school gate and harassed and extorted by them..."
"Later, Shen, who was a year ahead of us, couldn't stand it anymore and stepped in to help us. He fought against more than a dozen thugs by himself and beat four of them into the hospital. Because of this incident, he was expelled from school and couldn't take the college entrance examination. He had to go home and farm.From that moment on, my brother and I vowed to follow Brother Shen. Although he had a terrible temper and loved to scold us, we found out after spending time with him..."
"He is actually the gentlest person in the world."
"..."
Shen Qingzhu's movements froze in mid-air, like a sculpture, frozen in the bushes.
After a long while, he muttered to himself:
"Damn it, what the hell is this guy talking about..."
"You're the one being punished, so why am I the one who's going to die?"
He slowly turned his head, looking back in the direction he had come from, and gradually tightened his grip on the small knife in his hand....
In the bushes.
Deng Wei, who was resting with his eyes closed, smiled slightly.
"Li Liang... his explanation was quite insightful. I wonder what Brother Shen's expression would be if he heard it."
Bzzzzzzz—
The sound of drones kept coming. Deng Wei opened his eyes, looked at the drones gradually descending from the sky, and chuckled.
"Come on, eliminate me!"
Several drones turned their heads, their gun barrels shifted, and aimed at Deng Wei, who was lying paralyzed on the ground.
Deng Wei took a deep breath and muttered, "Don't ask me any weird questions later, or they'll laugh at me again..."
He slowly closed his eyes.
Rat-tat-tat-tat—!
The sound of missiles flying in succession rang out, but Deng Wei felt it for a long time and still didn't feel like he had been hit...
He opened his eyes and saw Shen Qingzhu holding a knife in one hand and a weight across his chest with the other, shielding Deng Wei from all the missiles.
Deng Wei was stunned for a moment, "Brother Shen, the rules say you can't use a bag to block bullets..."
Shen Qingzhu raised her eyebrows, tossed the weights aside, and smiled slightly.
"Rules? When have I, Shen Qingzhu, ever followed any rules?!"
After saying that, he suddenly leaped up, and the knife in his hand shot out rapidly, directly piercing and destroying a drone to Deng Wei's shocked expression!
"The rules say you can't attack drones, but I'm going to attack them anyway!" Shen Qingzhu landed, looked at the drone that was burning and falling, and snorted coldly.
He turned around, glanced at Deng Wei who was sprawled on the ground, and spoke domineeringly:
"Useless trash, your brother Shen is here to save you... Ugh~"
A gunshot rang out, and a missile struck Shen Qingzhu precisely in the back. He groaned, and his eyes rolled back...
He simply fainted.