I was speechless as I looked at the bullet marks that had been blocked for me in South Africa half a year ago, and if it hadn't been for the wolf that had knocked me to the ground at a critical moment, the bullet would have pierced my chest.

"You heard me clearly, Lao Tzu's body only blocks bullets for his brother, you owe me a life, you have to return it on the battlefield, understand? You coward! "The wolf pushed me down on the couch with all his might, it was the first time he was angry with me, and I had the impression that he was a hippie-smiling bitch, a brother who really lived and died together, but today, I seemed to have disappointed him.

After the wolf finished speaking, seeing that I didn't react, he kicked angrily and smashed the crystal coffee table worth hundreds of thousands, roared angrily, turned around and went back to the bedroom, slammed the door.

I snuggled up on the couch with a glazed gaze, looking at the debris scattered beneath my feet, lost like a defeated rooster.

After a long silence, the devil stood up, picked up the ashtray that had fallen on the ground, extinguished the cigar in it, and then walked up to me, patted me on the shoulder, sighed softly, and said: "The wolf and I decided to leave tomorrow, I'm sorry, I can't wander around with you, I can't watch my brothers fight the battlefield and do nothing, and I'm even more afraid that one day in the future, I will see the footage of their violent corpses in the wilderness on TV, sorry, I can't do it." ”

After the devil finished speaking, he took a deep breath, turned and left, and after taking two steps, he stood there again and said without looking back, "I'm sure you'll come, right?" Brothers! ”

Throwing down this sentence the devil left, I raised my head and looked at him blankly, my eyes were full of confusion, I must have said nothing before to go into battle, but now, at this moment, I don't have any special feelings, my heart is like ashes, and it seems that I can no longer burn hope.

I sat here for a long time, and the words of the two of them kept echoing in my ears, and I didn't seem to understand, or didn't listen at all, knowing that it was important, but I couldn't arouse the slightest interest.

I don't know what I'm thinking, the whole person is in a state of dissociation, like a lonely ghost wandering in the wilderness, homeless, with nowhere to go.

Maybe my soul really went with Thea, leaving this shell, no thoughts, no feelings, even the comrades I once cared about the most didn't matter, I slowly closed my eyes, I really wanted to let this end here, but suddenly found that there were tears across my cheeks, and there was warmth.

The sunlight outside the window shone into the living room, the new day came so quickly, I slowly opened my eyes, got up from the sofa weakly, rubbed my slightly aching forehead with my hands on my knees, and then got up to find a glass of water, just when I turned my head, I suddenly found two things next to it, very familiar things, an armband, symbolizing the armband of Caesar's mercenaries, and a saber, symbolizing the assassin's saber.

"You're awake!" The sudden sound startled me, and I reflexively looked up, and Artemis appeared in front of me, still holding a bowl of soup made of unknown things, exuding a fragrant smell.

"Well, this ...... What's going on? I gestured to the two things in front of me.

"It was your two comrades-in-arms who asked me to hand it over to you." Artemis walked up to me and handed me the bowl of soup.

"What about them?" I instinctively asked.

"They left before dawn, and they left these two things before leaving, and a word." Artemis said with the bowl in his hand.

"What?" I inadvertently showed a hint of panic.

"Drink this first!" She deliberately sold it out. I didn't even think about taking the bowl and taking a few sips of the big bowl of soup, and then I couldn't wait to ask, "What did they say?" Tell me quickly. ”

Seeing my anxious appearance, Artemis turned into a smile on the corner of his mouth, and said softly: "They said that you are welcome to return to the team at any time." ”

Hearing this, I was silent for a long time, Artemis did not speak, as if waiting for my decision, after a long time, I laughed self-deprecatingly, the whole person withered like a deflated ball, and said in a low voice: "Forget it, I will only kill them." With that, I stood up and walked out of the room with a lonely look.

I don't know why, in the next few days, I didn't want to go anywhere, sitting in front of the TV every day listlessly listening to the latest war situation in Libya, I didn't think about that, but the instinctive reaction of my body made me uncontrollably close to the Libyan battlefield.

In this way, five days passed, Artemis accompanied me every day, his own affairs were handled by Augusta, and the beast Calsatti was still the same as before, inseparably guarding Artemis.

That guy and I also have a bit of a friendship, always want to ask me to practice boxing, originally wanted to stimulate my fighting spirit, but when he punched me and vomited blood, there was no such thought, not afraid of beating me to death, but afraid of Artemis getting angry.

Everything was peaceful, but on the evening of the fifth day, my phone rang suddenly, but I didn't pay attention, but Artemis, who was sitting next to me, picked it up.

"Maybe you should check this out!" After reading it, her face suddenly changed, and she said to me in a heavy tone.

I turned my head to look at her, as if I had a premonition that something bad was about to happen, and swallowed unconsciously.

I took the phone in a daze, and there was a text message with only a few words: "The crosshair is hanging up in Zawiye!" ”

I looked up at the TV screen, which was showing the battlefield of Zawiyah, where Libyan government forces launched an assault on the Libyan oil town of Zawiyah on March 5 with mortars, heavy machine guns, tanks and anti-aircraft weapons.

I looked at the date, today is March 6th, and the fighting is still going on, which means that the images on TV from the battlefield, among the corpses that died in battle, there is my brother.

"How so, aren't they on a secret mission? How did it appear on the battlefield of Zawiyah? How could it be, how could it be? I kept talking to myself, and then sat on the floor with my head in my hands, dazed and helpless.

"Edge!" Artemis walked up to me, took me into his arms, and said lightly, "Don't punish yourself, your heart tells me it's time to return to where you belong." ”

"A place that belongs to me! Where is it? I asked, leaning low on her chest.

"Battlefield!" The two words made my heart tremble.

After a moment of silence, I slowly took out the Armband of Caesar's mercenaries from my pocket, stared at it for a long time, suddenly turned on a straight face, suddenly held it in the palm of my hand, closed my eyes slightly, I seemed to hear the cry of my comrades, awakened the sleeping soul, and finally, I embarked on the journey again.

(End of chapter)