Chapter 39: Farewell, My Comrades

  Body - Three

  "Where is the entrance of the bell tower? Open it for me!" I commanded the man in black.

  "Alright!" The man in black responded, then slowly reached into his own chest, seemingly wanting to take something out. I immediately sternly stopped him, "Don't move, what are you doing?" The man in black hastily explained, "Don't be nervous, I'm just taking out the password lock's key. Without it, we can't enter the Bell Tower Prison." As he spoke, he took out a pen-like object from his upper jacket pocket. "Look, this is it, this is the crucial item for entering the Bell Tower Prison." Alright, you'd better behave yourself, or I'll shoot your head off with one bullet." I coldly warned him, and gestured to him to use the key to open the prison's secret door.

  "Yes, I'll open it now." The man in black rotated the top knob of the 'laser' pen and a blue light beam shot out from the top. The light hit an inconspicuous dark object embedded in the wall, which slowly began to expand. Then, the wall automatically recessed into an arc-shaped groove. Inside the groove was a set of button devices with buttons of various sizes scattered all over it. After pressing several buttons, the ground immediately opened up an entrance leading underground.

  Looking from the entrance of the passageway, it's dark and deep inside. The passageway is lit by several low-wattage green lanterns. I observed carefully and found that I couldn't see the situation inside very clearly. "Is the person you caught inside?" I asked the man in black. The man in black said: "Yes!" I said: "Okay, you lead the way and take me to him."

  The man in black and I walked down the dark passage one after another. As we went deeper into the passage, the space inside became more spacious. The area of the clock tower prison was indeed very small, and through visual measurement, it was probably less than forty square meters. After reaching the bottom of the passage and turning around a corridor, I was shocked to find that a lock corpse stand had been set up in the corner of the wall. The lock corpse stand was similar in shape to the one used to lock me up at the enemy base in the rainforest. At this time, a person who had been tortured to the point of being covered in scars was locked on it.

  "Rosbinda!" I recognized him at a glance, it was my former special forces training team comrade - Rosbinda. I heavily hit the black-clothed man's neck with the gun handle, knocking him unconscious to the ground. Then, like crazy, I rushed to Rosbinda's side. With three or two slashes of my dagger, I cut off the locks binding Rosbinda's hands and feet, then gently helped him down from the execution stake.

  Rosenbund's left eyeball had been dug out by the cultists at this time. Looking at his tortured and unbearable body, my tears suddenly burst from my eye sockets. "Rosenbund... Rosenbund..." I called out to him softly. Rosenbund slowly woke up from his daze. As soon as he saw me, he endured the intense pain in his body, forced a smile, and said: "Mudfish, you've come! I knew you'd come to rescue me!" "Rosenbund!" I almost cried out, tightly hugging him, saying: "Okay, okay, don't talk anymore. You need rest now. Close your eyes and sleep for a bit. I'll get you out of here right away."

  But just as I was about to lift Rosbinda, he suddenly shouted: "Mudskipper be careful!" He made a sudden effort and pulled me down to the ground. Immediately after, I only heard a whizzing sound, a bullet flew past my ear.

  I took a closer look and found that the black-clad man who had been knocked unconscious earlier was now standing up from the ground, holding a gun in one hand and a miniature grenade in the other, glaring at us. "Strange, he was clearly knocked out by me, and his weapons were already removed, how could he...?" I was filled with doubts in my heart, but the situation did not allow me to hesitate. As I supported Rosalinda in moving to the corner of the wall, I randomly fired shots at the black man to suppress his arrogant momentum and firepower.

  The cell is not large, and the structure is not complicated. Therefore, the shelter for us to avoid bullets is not ideal. The black-clothed man's knee has been shot through by me, so his movements are also inconvenient. I covered Rosalinda with my left hand and held the gun tightly with my right hand; the black-clothed man glared at me with fiery eyes, one hand holding a gun and the other grasping thunder. We stood like this...

  The man in black was frantic, he yelled: "Poor worms, today is your last day, die!" Bullets were fired at us like crazy as the man in black shouted. I protected Rosbinda and hastily dodged, bullets hit the stone wall, chipping off fragments, cutting out blood mouths on our bodies. At the same time, a group of enemy soldiers emerged from nowhere, also firing their guns at us wildly.

  I panted heavily and said to Rosbin: "Brother! Those bastards across the way are getting too arrogant, I think I need to take them down. You stay here for a bit, be careful and protect yourself, wait for me, I'll be right back." Rosbin looked at me and whispered: "Go ahead, mudfish! Kill them, let them know our brothers aren't vegetarians, I'm waiting for you... you're the best!" I grasped Rosbin's hand tightly, took off the "AK" and put it on his wrist. I smiled and said: "Rosbin, if I don't come back, this can help someone find you. Nice to meet you in this life! I'm going..." Rosbin's eyes welled up with tears as he said: "Mudfish... promise me, you must survive! Keep this safe, it contains important information that can clear your name!" Rosbin took out a chip from the inside of his tattered clothes and handed it to me. "Uh-huh!" I nodded vigorously, took the chip, patted Rosbin's shoulder, then gripped my gun tightly, did a forward roll, and charged out from behind the wall cover.

  The enemy's dense bullets came at me like raindrops, and I kept rolling on the ground, seizing the opportunity to "shoot" at them. As my gaze swept around, I found that more than a dozen enemy soldiers had surrounded me. I knew that if this stalemate continued, not only would it be impossible to save Rossbina, but even I myself would surely die. I fixed my eyes on the black-clad man, making him my first "shooting" target, and then fired all the bullets in my gun, knocking down the two enemy soldiers closest to me and blasting out the lighting lamp on the wall.

  As the lights were blown out, the cell fell into darkness. Perhaps they were afraid of hurting their own people, or perhaps they wanted to take someone alive. The enemy soldiers stopped firing. I knew my chance had come. I got up and quickly rushed towards the black-clad man I had previously targeted. I tightly grasped the black-clad man's neck, then fiercely stabbed several times at his abdomen with a few swift slashes. A stream of hot sticky ** flowed out from his body... The black-clad man struggled desperately, his hands wildly clawing, and his short fingernails actually scratched out several deep bloody gashes on my face and neck.

  I didn't have time to bother with him, and after stabbing him twice more in the stomach, I carefully made my way towards the nearby enemy soldiers. In a cluster of darkness, I strained to distinguish the sounds around me. But just as I was about to pounce on an enemy soldier, a searchlight suddenly lit up inside the prison. I was exposed like a peeled dumpling, naked and bare in front of many enemies.

  The enemies glared at me with fierce anger, more than a dozen gun barrels aiming at me simultaneously. "I can't fall into the enemy's hands again, I'll fight to the end!" I secretly clenched my teeth in my heart. Less than a second after the lights went out, I continued my attack on the enemy soldiers. I used my dagger to stab the enemy soldier in front of me in the back waist, and grabbed his body, on the one hand blocking the bullets shot at me by the enemy soldiers, and on the other hand using the machine gun on his body to sweep the enemy's position. For a time, bullets flew like meteors, shooting in all directions.

  After falling to the ground, I discarded the enemy soldier's corpse and rolled continuously to hide in a corner of the wall. Then, I fired a burst of bullets and once again shattered the "shooting" light. The bell tower prison fell into darkness again. I sprinted towards the other side of the prison to transfer, while the enemy soldiers were frantically shooting in the dark. A stray bullet pierced my shoulder, but I didn't care about the pain, crawling on the ground and slowly creeping up to the enemy's side. Then, like a madman, I started firing at them.

  Boom, boom, boom... At the same time, flames of death also burst out from the other side of the prison. The dark air was filled with the enemy's cries of despair. "Rosbinda! How could you be so stupid and expose yourself!" I shouted in my heart, knowing that Rosbinda was propping up her weak body, holding a gun and fighting alongside me. For a moment, the blood in my body seemed to boil over. "Ah..." I let out a loud roar, jumping up from the ground, holding my gun, and charging towards the enemy with a fierce battle cry.

  But just as the enemy and we were engaged in a fierce battle, the top of the prison suddenly lit up with blue light. The enemy soldiers seemed to have realized something, no longer fighting with us, but instead began to alternate covering each other as they retreated out of the prison. I don't know what will happen next. I looked at Rosbinda, he raised his fist towards me in the dim blue light. I knew, he wanted me to escape from the clock tower prison quickly. I also raised my right fist, shook it up and down, then heavily pounded on my own right chest. Telling him, I would live or die with him...

  At this time, the black-clad man who was crawling on the ground suddenly stood up and sneered as he pulled out a hand grenade from his waist. I was stunned, and I even began to suspect that the black-clad man wasn't human. "Why? I had stabbed him with such a powerful knife, yet he's still alive? Why?" I kept asking myself repeatedly in my mind.

  "Listen up, you brats! Do you know why this prison cell is called the Bell Tower Dungeon? It's because it will self-destruct at regular intervals after being attacked from outside... and today, I'll take all of you down with me!" The man in black spat out a mouthful of blood as he pulled the pin on his grenade.

  "Ah......" Just as the man in black was about to throw a grenade at me, his neck was suddenly twisted and broken. The grenade slipped from the man's hand and fell to the ground, slowly rolling away.

  "Get down!" Rossbin shouted, throwing himself at the grenade and covering its blast with his body.

  "Rosbinda!" In my loud cry, in my call, Rosbinda was blown to pieces by a hand grenade! His blood, his "flesh", his bones... rained down on me like rain...

  I wept, picking up the scattered bones and "flesh" on the ground, then wrapped them in my shirt. I hugged the bones and "flesh" into my arms, with tears streaming down my cheeks. "Brother, rest assured, I'll definitely send you home!" I tightly tied the clothes wrapped around the remains to my body, then rushed towards the exit at a rapid pace...

  The blue light on the clock tower began to flash at an extremely fast frequency, I knew that the prison was about to explode. The big gate of the prison had not been locked, it seemed that the power of the explosion must be very great, and the enemies escaped in a hurry. At this time, I didn't care whether there were any ambushes outside, after running out of the house, I rushed straight to the distant street.

  A loud muffled sound, the bell tower prison finally exploded. Only felt a huge shock underfoot. The residents around who were immersed in their dreams still slept peacefully, they were not awakened by this muffled sound and shock. Perhaps, just tomorrow, the government will release an earthquake message through TV and radio to avoid panic and disturbance.

  But all this has nothing to do with me, now I just need to send Rosalind back home...