Sanshan City, Southeast Province, winter afternoon. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Sanshan Square on the outskirts of the southern part of the city.

In the hurried flow of people, a young man with a slightly pale face was walking forward with steady steps.

His name is Xia Ruofei, he is 21 years old this year, and he is a retired soldier who has just left the barracks.

Xia Ruofei's figure is not tall, about 1.75 meters, and his figure is slightly thin.

He has short round hair, a brown 07-style winter camouflage training uniform, and a pair of black high-top combat boots on his feet.

It's just that the very old camouflage training uniform has no military rank and branch markings on it, and the combat boots are also very damaged, and the patent leather in several places is worn out, like a few ugly scars.

Although Xia Ruofei's clothes are old, they are very clean, giving people a refreshing feeling.

But in any case, this outfit makes him look a little out of place in the flow of people in the city, and even attracts some curious and even contemptuous glances.

But Xia Ruofei turned a blind eye, his waist was still straight, and he walked forward with a standard step of 75 cm per step.

Xia Ruofei was holding a remittance slip in his palm, and there was a trace of sadness on his slightly pale face.

"Huzi, there's only so much my brother can do, but I even sold the house left by my grandfather......" Xia Ruofei said to himself softly, "With this money, at least our mother won't even be able to afford dialysis...... As for the replacement of the kidney, the brother is really powerless, alas, I hope you understand...... After a while, we brothers will be able to meet below, and then I will make amends to you in person......"

After speaking, Xia Ruofei let out a long sigh, feeling melancholy.

Huzi was Xia Ruofei's best comrade-in-arms and brother in the army, and was shot and killed in a border battle to cover him.

Two years after Huzi's sacrifice, Xia Ruofei was diagnosed with motor neurone disease, commonly known as ALS, during a routine physical examination. In the early stages of this disease, the symptoms are mild, and the patient may only feel some weakness, flesh throbbing, and fatigue easily, but gradually it will progress to generalized muscle atrophy and difficulty swallowing.

Under current medical conditions, MND is still an incurable disease, ranging from a few months to two or three years, and the vast majority of patients will die of respiratory failure.

After Xia Ruofei learned about the disease, he resolutely asked to be discharged from the army, unwilling to cause trouble to the organization.

Of course, more importantly, Xia Ruofei is a proud person in his bones, he has always been a top-notch backbone in the lone wolf commando, he doesn't want his comrades to see that it is difficult for him to even move a finger in the end, so he can only lie on the bed and witness the embarrassment of death devouring him.

After Xia Ruofei retired, he went to Huzi's house to visit his old mother as soon as possible, but suddenly learned that Huzi's mother was suffering from uremia, and Huzi's few martyr pensions had already been spent, but his condition did not improve in the slightest.

Xia Ruofei did not hesitate to sell a small house left by his grandfather at a low price as quickly as possible, and just now he went to the bank to remit more than 400,000 yuan from the sale of the house and more than 80,000 yuan of his own resettlement fee, a total of 500,000 yuan, to Huzi's mother's account.

But he himself was poor and penniless.

Now, in addition to the prepaid two-month rent, the living expenses of a few hundred yuan in his pocket are all Xia Ruofei's assets.

Bypassing the Xinrong Road next to Sanshan Square, the scenery in front of you changes suddenly, the prosperity of the city is suddenly left behind, and there are all low bungalows, all kinds of private wires are pulling, illegal buildings are disorderly trees, and the gutters emitting bursts of foul smell from the ditch next to the road, and all kinds of domestic garbage can be seen everywhere.

It is a shantytown on the edge of the urban and rural areas, and it exudes an atmosphere of old decay in this era of rapid change. Fortunately, it is said that the shantytown will be demolished in a year or two.

After Xia Ruofei sold the house, he rented the cheapest single room here as his foothold.

Walking briskly through the streets, he didn't even frown at the stench that crept into his nostrils from time to time—nothing he had experienced more than once in his military career, a hundred times worse than this.

"Let me go...... Help!"

In the distance, a voice faintly came, and he frowned slightly, and walked briskly in the direction of the sound.

Usually Xia Ruofei is not a nosy person, but the security situation in the shantytown is very poor, and the three sects and nine streams of dragons and snakes are mixed, but the cry for help seems to be a young woman, with a strong panic in her tone, no matter what, I am afraid that something big will happen.

Walking quickly through the narrow alley, in front of an abandoned house, Xia Ruofei saw three drunken thugs, who were smiling around a panicked girl.

The girl wears a white cropped down jacket and terrazzo blue jeans, she has a pair of straight and slender legs, and the slightly bloated winter dress still can't hide her curvaceous and tall figure.

She has a standard and delicate melon seed face, but her big eyes that should be smart are full of horror at this time, her hair is also a little messy, and her body trembles involuntarily, which adds a bit of pity to it.

Xia Ruofei thought to herself, why did such a beautiful little girl come here alone, aren't you asking for hardship?

"Help! big brother...... Help me......" When the girl saw Xia Ruofei, she seemed to grasp a life-saving straw, and hurriedly begged.

It's a remote place, and it's rare for anyone to pass by, and it's precisely because of this that the three thugs dare to be so unscrupulous with the strength of wine.

They obviously didn't expect anyone to come, and they were all stunned when they looked at Xia Ruofei who was standing at the entrance of the alley.

The yellow-haired thug led by him glanced Xia Ruofei up and down, and said with a strange smile:

"Yo! You're still a soldier brother! Don't you want to be a hero to save beauty, right? Grandpa, I'm in a good mood today, don't worry about you, get out of here!"

Xia Ruofei looked at Huang Mao calmly, :

"Give you three seconds, let go of that girl, and I can act as if nothing happened. ”

Huang Maoleng paused, glanced at his two accomplices, and the three of them burst into laughter at the same time.

Huang Mao pointed at Xia Ruofei's nose and scolded:

"Grandson, why are you stupid to be a soldier, dare to ...... your grandfather like this?"

"It's time!" Xia Ruofei softly spit out a few words.

As soon as the words fell, the yellow hair felt a flower in front of him, and Xia Ruofei, who was still two meters away, came to him in a flash.

Immediately after that, Huang Mao felt a strong attack on his chest and abdomen, and the whole person flew out involuntarily, and his butt was stuck in a puddle, and the dirty and smelly sewage suddenly splashed all over him.

His movements were so fast that the three thugs didn't even have time to react.

Xia Ruofei was so powerful that the three of them were startled, and a trace of fear involuntarily appeared in his eyes.

But Xia Ruofei himself frowned slightly, and said secretly in his heart:

"This damn disease is getting worse and worse......"

The moment he shot just now, he already felt that his weakness in his limbs had worsened again, and he should have made Huang Mao completely lose his mobility, but now Huang Mao was covered with dirty water and was extremely embarrassed, but he quickly stood up.

On the other end, the wine is strong, Huang Mao put his hand on his waist, touched the guy he was handy, the fear in his eyes gradually converged, and then glared at Xia Ruofei with a fierce look, pulled out the dagger from his waist, stretched out his tongue and licked his lips, and said in a sinister manner:

"Boy, you're looking for death......"

The other two thugs also took out their daggers, left the woman, and the three of them surrounded Xia Ruofei.

The girl covered her mouth in fright.

Xia Ruofei calmly pushed the girl behind him, gritted his teeth, and rushed towards the three of them who formed a circle.

The girl looked at Xia Ruofei's slightly thin figure, her eyes were covered with a layer of mist, and her back seemed to become taller in an instant.

Xia Ruofei smashed a beautiful whip leg on Huang Mao's shoulder, only to hear a click, Huang Mao fell to the ground in pain, and howled miserably on the ground - in the face of three daggers, Xia Ruofei did not spare any more strength in this kick.

After putting down the yellow hair, Xia Ruofei took advantage of the situation and turned sideways, and will dodge another gangster to stab him head-on, and the cold light glittering dagger slashed in front of his eyes, the situation was extremely thrilling, and the girl was also frightened and screamed.

The two thugs glanced at each other, gritted their teeth and brandished their daggers and rushed forward again.

Xia Ruofei stepped forward very calmly, took the opportunity to grab it, and walked through the flowers, always intentionally or unintentionally blocking between the gangsters and the girl.

Seizing an opportunity, Xia Ruofei stepped forward and accurately grabbed the wrist of a gangster in the shadow of the knife.

If it was before, the gangster's wrist would be pinched off in the next second, but at this time, Xia Ruofei once again felt weakness in his limbs.

He secretly screamed in his heart, gritted his teeth and pulled hard, and flashed to the side with the bastard.

However, his movements were still half a beat slower, and the cold light swept by, only to hear a thud, and the dagger of another thug cut through Xia Ruofei's camouflage training uniform, leaving a long cut on his arm, and blood came out.

Xia Ruofei, who was injured by accident, hit the gangster's face with an elbow without changing his face, directly knocking him unconscious, and then grabbed the wrist of the other gangster and fell halfway over the shoulder, slamming him to the ground and throwing him loudly.

The thug rolled his eyes and fainted.

The girl was already stunned, she didn't expect this man who looked a little thin to be so strong, facing three knife-wielding hooligans, it only took ten or twenty seconds before and after, and he actually put them all down with his bare hands!

Xia Ruofei frowned slightly-if it weren't for that damn disease, this kind of completely untrained street ruffian could be put down with just a face, and now he was actually scratched, this would be a shame on the face of the special operations team!

He shook his head with a wry smile, looking down at his slightly trembling hands, there was really no way, right?

Gathering his mind, he turned around and walked up to the girl and said:

"Let's go! This kind of place is not very safe, and you'd better not come out alone as a girl......

"Thanks! I see......" the girl said with a grateful face.

Immediately afterward, she exclaimed:

"Oops, your arm is bleeding......"

Xia Ruofei looked down at the wound on his arm casually, and waved his hand indifferently:

"It's fine, it's a little hurt. ”

"I ...... I'll go with you to the hospital and bandage it!" said the girl, "You were injured to save me!"

"No, you should go back, too. Xia Ruofei shook his head.

"This can't be done! What if I get infected?" the girl grabbed Xia Ruofei's sleeve and said, "Let's go to the hospital and have a look! I'll go with you!"

Xia Ruofei gently broke free of the girl's hand and said:

"Not really, goodbye!"

After speaking, Xia Ruofei strode forward, and the girl wanted to catch up, but just now her foot was sprained in the tearing with the three thugs, and she couldn't keep up with Xia Ruofei who was walking like a fly, so she could only shout behind her:

"Hey, I don't know your name yet......"

Xia Ruofei didn't answer, just waved his hand without looking back, and soon disappeared around the corner of the house.

The girl looked at the howling Huang Mao and the unconscious two thugs, she was very scared, she didn't dare to stay here for a long time, she could only look deeply in the direction where Xia Ruofei disappeared, and then limped out of the scene.

Xia Ruofei soon returned to his new residence, which was a small room of less than 10 square meters, with almost no place to stay except for a bed and a table.

He pulled a box from under the bed and rummaged through it.

Xia Ruofei had just moved over, and before he had time to sort out his things, he ran to send money to Huzi's mother first.

He remembers that he put the first aid kit in this sorting box when he moved, and the wound on his arm was still quite long and deep, and it had to be treated in time.

The box is a bit messy, there are military medals and some gadgets given by his comrades who brought back from the army, as well as some old objects left by his deceased grandfather, and it is obviously difficult to find a small first-aid kit at once.

Xia Ruofei himself didn't notice that in the process of rummaging, a drop of blood dripped from the wound on his arm, and it landed impartially on an inconspicuous-looking quaint scroll in the box.

Blood fell on the surface of the scroll like snowflakes falling in boiling water, disappearing in the blink of an eye.

And after absorbing a drop of Xia Ruofei's blood, the scroll suddenly bloomed with a pale golden light, which immediately attracted Xia Ruofei's gaze.

Xia Ruofei was stunned, what is the situation?