Chapter 23: The Big Wolf Caught the Hungry Wolf and Saved the Little Lamb

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  Ye Haodong was outside the wall, with his ear against it, listening very clearly. He remembered the body of a Uyghur youth by the small lake and understood that if he didn't save Aigul now, the consequences would be terrible. Ye Haodong quickly searched the ground and found a small stone strip with a pointed end as a temporary weapon. Ye Haodong quietly went around to the door position, where there was no door, only a broken wooden stick fence. Ye Haodong hid beside the fence, waiting quietly for an opportunity to strike.

  Liu Hongsheng looked at Aiguli, who was as delicate as a flower, and hesitated. If he were in his usual robust state, he would have pounced on her by now to enjoy himself. But now, this beautiful, pale, and tender little girl could only be food. Seeing his hesitation, she scolded: "Old Liu, are you afraid? Don't forget why we came here! Mr. Hou is waiting for our news. You and I must survive and bring the message back. Otherwise, if the Huaxia National Security finds Mr. Hou first, everything will be too late."

  Liu Hongsheng was somewhat despondent and desperate: "Of the seven brothers who came out together, only you and I are left now. What's the point of all this? Killing people, killing foreigners, killing our own kind, and now we've even sunk to the level of cannibalism... Old Zhou, I just can't take it anymore, I really can't bring myself to do it."

  He held the gun, walked over and first pointed the muzzle at Aigul's head, hesitated for a moment, then withdrew the gun. Just when Liu Hong thought he couldn't bring himself to do it, the man adjusted the gun butt and aimed at Aigul's head again, ready to strike! Aigul's spirit had already collapsed, her body seemingly numb, she stared blankly at the ferocious-looking man, motionless.

  At the critical moment, Ye Haodong could no longer care about whether the opportunity was suitable or not, and he rushed in fiercely. This was a gamble, with his own life as the stake. If he won, he would definitely get a significant reduction in sentence, and win respect and some degree of freedom for his future prison life. If he lost, he would have to pay the price of his life. It was an unwilling gamble, but the innocent heart still lingering in his body made him unable to sit back and watch that lovely little girl die at the hands of this cannibalistic devil king.

  Ye Haodong's hand accurately strangled Liu Hongsheng's neck, and the sharp head of his right hand pressed against Liu Hongsheng's temple, while loudly shouting: "Stop, put down the gun, otherwise I'll kill him."

  A cold gaze was cast upon him, the dark night, the visibility in the small hut not exceeding one meter. The ghostly eyes hesitated for only half a second before the semi-automatic rifle in his hand fired up. At the same time, Ye Haodong's sharp stone also flew out, and he himself fell to the side. The stone accurately pierced *'s left eye, while the bullets shot out by Liu Hongsheng all hit his chest. In the blink of an eye, Ye Haodong had already jumped up, pounced on * who was blinded in one eye, one hand reaching for the gun, and the other hand fiercely pounding *'s back of the head. *'s back of the head was finally knocked unconscious.

  Ye Haodong held the cold steel gun he had snatched, his eyes fixed on the unconscious * and Liu Hongsheng's corpse, panting slightly but not moving. Next to him, Aiguli sat stupidly, staring blankly without crying or making a fuss. After a long while, she suddenly let out a sharp wail, her voice as sorrowful as the cry of a blood-weeping cuckoo. Ye Haodong understood that she was trying to cry out the fear and sadness in her heart, which would be good for her. Aiguli felt a bit better after crying, but her head became dizzy and heavy. She couldn't see the face of the person who came to rescue her, but she could recognize Ye Haodong's figure. Her soft body tried to prop herself up, but eventually fell back down. Before losing consciousness, she said: "You're a big pervert, my head is spinning, I'm so cold... you..."

  Ye Haodong struggled to get up, walked over and pulled down Liu Hongsheng's belt and collar, tied them into a rope, and bound the unconscious person tightly. Then he walked in front of Aiguli, gently opened his arms, and hugged the little girl in his arms, using his warm chest to warm the little girl who was frightened and battered by the cold wind and rain.

  Two people were huddled together like this, Aiguli's body was cold and hot, drowsy and sleepy several times, and then fell asleep again. It wasn't until the second day when the rain cleared and the sky brightened that * and Aiguli finally woke up one after another. Ye Haodong didn't sleep all night, and at this moment he still had no intention of being tired. He held his gun tightly, staring at *. Aiguli was already awake, if it wasn't for Ye Haodong's body heat keeping her warm last night, she would have probably become a corpse like Liu Hongsheng by now. She vaguely remembered the entire process of the event, and at this moment, seeing Ye Haodong holding a gun pointing at that vicious and cruel fugitive, Aiguli suddenly let out a wolf-like howl and pounced on *, rushing towards * whose hands were tied behind his back and didn't dare to move under Ye Haodong's tiger-like gaze. She scratched and beat him, after finishing, she sat on the ground crying loudly.

  Ye Haodong silently watched, saying nothing and asking nothing.

  Aiguli finally cried out in pain, looked up at Ye Haodong and asked: "How did you chase after me? What do you plan to do? This isn't a prison now, you have a gun in your hand, are you going to escape?"

  Ye Haodong deliberately said viciously: "Am I not a big pervert? What can you do about it?"

  Aiyiguli shook her head: "I misunderstood you before, you're not a big pervert, you're the guardian king sent by Allah to protect me. If you wanted to take advantage of me, you would have done it last night."

  Ye Haodong chuckled: "You'd better call me Big Pervert, that Hu Fa Wang doesn't sound like a name to me."

  He sized up Ye Haodong for half a day, and Ye Haodong was wearing the uniform raincoat issued by the prison. At first, he thought Ye Haodong was a management cadre from the prison side. Now that he had heard the conversation between the two, he finally understood that this young man who had been chasing him for hundreds of miles on a cold rainy night was also a prisoner. This guy felt like an opportunity.

  "Hey, brother, can I discuss something with you?"

  Ye Haodong looked at the disheveled and bloodied * and sneered: "Don't call me brother, I'm far superior to you. What's wrong with you today? The little girl you rescued doesn't even consider me human, one moment it's a wolf, the next it's a demon... You, a defeated underling, dare to not take me seriously? You think you can discuss brotherhood with me? Are you worthy? Bastard, eating people is nothing special, but if you could eat your own brothers, then you'd be considered human!"

  Aiyiguli was amused by his sarcastic tone: "What time is it now, stop joking, I didn't mean to not take you seriously, you decide how we're going back."

  Yeh Hao Dong smiled and said, "Easy to handle, let this thing... uh, let this thing carry us back, anyway he's treating himself like a beast so we don't have to be polite to him."

  Aiyiguli pouted and scolded: "You think you're a horse, can still ride."

  Ye Haodong took a look at Liu Hongsheng's corpse on the ground, scratched his head: "This place is not very auspicious, by nightfall this guy will come back to haunt you, he didn't take advantage of you when he was alive, now that he's dead and his spirit has returned, he'll definitely come looking for you to settle the score. Why don't we just head back now?"

  Aygul: "Why do you speak so rudely? I thought you were a good person, but you don't even speak properly."

  Since being mocked by Ye Haodong, he hadn't spoken again. His wolf-like eyes stared at the young prisoner in front of him, organizing his words in his mind and thinking about what to say to move this young man with a prisoner's identity.

  Ye Haodong glanced at him and smiled: "Don't use those wolf eyes to stare at me, don't blindly make assumptions, it's useless. I am a prisoner, but I'm a prisoner that the government trusts can be reformed. And you, you're just a piece of stinky dog shit. Let me tell you, my name is Ye Haodong. Money? I've got plenty. People? I've got a big group of brothers. Whatever you can give me, I already have it. Whatever you can't give me, I also have it. I caught you half because I wanted to reduce my sentence, and half just for fun. If you're capable, try to find a way to escape from me again. Don't bother with any other ideas."

  Aygul asked: "Are we going back now?"

  Ye Haodong handed her the steel gun in his hand, "You carry the gun, it's too heavy, I still have to pull this thing."

  Aygul gave him a meaningful look and silently took the gun.

  Three people set out on a journey, and along the way Ye Haodong was cheerful and carefree, like a young noble returning from a hunt, without a single worry.

  Ye Haodong: "Hey, I'm talking about that thing, does it have a name?"

  He didn't seem angry at all and calmly replied: "Are you a Northeasterner, Ye brother?"

  Ye Haodong didn't bother to respond, and instead turned to Aiguli and asked: "You're just a little girl, you discovered the escaped prisoner ran away, why didn't you immediately report it to your superiors? Why did you take it upon yourself to chase after him all this way? Are you trying to be a hero? Have you been watching too many martial arts movies, thinking that with your own abilities you can handle these few fierce bandits?"

  Aiguli: "I don't..."

  Ye Haodong interrupted her: "What's wrong with you? You didn't mean that, did you? Originally, you just wanted to follow them and see where they rested, then go back and report, but ended up getting caught, right?"

  Aiguli finally reacted, no longer arguing, she understood that if it weren't for her running into an old friend from middle school, if she hadn't snuck out at midnight to see the prisoner, and if she hadn't been unable to bear watching her former friend drown, none of this would have happened. As a government official, her actions were already illegal and had severe consequences; if investigated after the fact, prosecution and sentencing would be lenient. Ye Haodong's words seemed to be shifting responsibility onto himself.

  Aiguli whispered: "That key..."

  Ye Haodong: "Your dad and the department must not want anything to happen to you, those officials who know about the key thing will definitely follow the department's lead, so in this case, the only ones who know about it and might give unfavorable testimony against you are me and that 'thing'. My attitude doesn't need guessing, right? As for him, let's think of a way to make him not say anything."

  Aigulino: "You are really my savior, I'm fine myself. I just fear that my dad will be heartbroken because of this matter."

  The second day in prison.

  He Ruoxi listened intently with a serious expression as others analyzed the situation.

  "Zhao Erjie: 'I think this whole thing was orchestrated by Ye Haodong, he's the one who stole the key and handed it over to those few escapees, then he incited us to mobilize the prisoners to help search for them, and only after that did he find an opportunity to escape.'"

  Li De Lu shook his head: "It doesn't seem like it, we didn't manage him very strictly usually, he had many better chances to escape than this, I think nothing will happen to him."

  Lin Xiangwu: "Neither of the two possibilities can be ruled out, but I think the latter is more likely. Ayiguli's disappearance is very suspicious, and according to Old Zhao's words, this matter doesn't quite add up."

  He Ruqiu frowned and shook her head, categorically rejecting the first statement: "Ye Haodong is not that kind of person, Deputy Captain Zhao Erjie's words are absolutely impossible. Old Li's words may be possible, but I think he won't easily fall into their hands. He has always been cautious, and those two fugitives are formidable, but they're at the end of their rope. Judging from the situation of the corpse found by the small lake, it's likely that they ate the flesh of that person to gain strength to continue running. If those two people ran away with Aiguli, and Ye Haodong happened to find her just before she died, then he would worry about Aiguli suffering the same fate as the deceased. He might have gone after those two fugitives without hesitation, which is why he hasn't returned yet. I believe that our search party will bring back news soon, but hopefully, he won't let us down."