Act 1 Chapter 23

  "Damn, dare to move my brother, don't you think about what I do for a living?" Now it's the afternoon of the second day after Gao Lan Xin left. The depressed me lying in the hospital was visited by Shan Xiong who came with Na Lan Chun, and we were going out for a stroll and to breathe some fresh air.

  The mountain bear over there was beating up a soldier named Zhao Zhi, and no one could stop him. Of course, I didn't dare to either. The furious mountain bear's fists were not something that a few people could withstand. Helplessly, I could only hold back Nalan Chun, who wanted to intervene, and the two of us stood aside. But don't worry, since Nalan Chun was a medic, that guy Zhao Zhi definitely wouldn't die.

  Now turn the clock back three hours

  "Hey, peregrine, catch this." As soon as the mountain bear entered the sickroom, he threw a dagger at me. I caught the dagger he threw over in confusion and gave him a puzzled look.

  "This is the gift I want to give you, take a look inside~"

  Upon hearing the mountain bear's words, I felt a sense of doubt and first weighed the dagger in my hand. "It's heavier than the standard issue." As soon as I said this to myself, I had already drawn the dagger out of its sheath. The style was the same as the one I was used to, but from the marks on it, it was clear that this was a handmade dagger, absolutely not a military-standard one. Upon closer inspection, the blade of the dagger had been painted a pure black color. Lightly placing my finger on the edge, I could feel that the dagger was exceptionally sharp. In my mind, I already had a rough idea - "Was it made from high-carbon steel?"

  He left the hospital the second day after he came back, and somehow found two saw blades, and ground them every day, letting him rest for a while, but he wouldn't listen. He said "Before the mountain bear could speak, Nalan Chun had already taken over the conversation, and then started complaining to me. 'Are you complaining to me or bragging about him?'

  "What are you talking about? Shut up!!!" Before she could even finish her sentence, the embarrassed Yama Kuma had already cut her off.

  "Mountain bear, you scoundrel, why won't you let me speak? What's the reason this guy can't know?" Nalan Chun had already begun to retort, but he could sense from her tone that she disliked him.

  "He's my brother, woman! You'd better watch your mouth!!" The big bear roared back loudly.

  "You damn fool, I'm glad to say it, what right do you have to scold me?" 'You damn fool' was quietly repeating Nalan Chun's words in his heart, because at that time he also heard such a sentence at the station.

  While he was still thinking about who said that sentence, the two of them were already arguing incessantly. He shook his head and intervened in their quarrel, "Shan Xiong, let her finish speaking, okay? I'm also curious what she'll say."

  Falcon

  "Mountain bear, let her say it's okay? Please." He didn't let Mountain Bear finish what he was going to say next, but interrupted him and looked at Nalan Chun with expectant eyes.

  "He said, my brother will definitely come back, no matter what you say, I believe he will come back, because he is my brother." After hearing the words, I only felt a sour feeling in my nose, trying to hold back the tears that were about to flow from my heart.

  "Good brother, good brother!!" I had already lost the ability to speak, and could only utter these nine words, then tightly grasped the bear's large hand. From the feeling in my hand, I knew that his hands were covered with dense, dense wounds.

  "You sit, you sit, I'll go to the bathroom." The embarrassed mountain bear could only choose to calm down first by going out.

  "I'll go with you." Nalan Chun hesitantly made her request to Shan Xiong.

  "Go with me to the restroom, you have to follow, sit here and accompany my brother for a while, I'll be back soon." As soon as Nalan Chun finished speaking, Shan Xiong glared at her, and roared at her to get back into her chair.

  The mountain bear has left, but you're still fiddling with the dagger in your hand, yet your eyes are fixed on Nalan Chun who's getting restless. "You weren't like this yesterday, are you disgusted with me? The mountain bear is gone now, you can speak freely and I won't tell him."

  Having finished speaking, she waited quietly for her response, but after a while, she still didn't say what she wanted to. "How? Afraid I'll tell him? It's as if I've never been a person who speaks behind others' backs." She could only speak up again to urge her on, "You must have heard some unpleasant rumors, how interesting."

  She was melancholy for a long time before slowly uttering a sentence from her mouth, "How many people have you killed?" The question asked herself to be stunned, why did she ask this question?

  I thought for a moment, "There are records of 273, the others, I didn't have time to retrieve their ID cards." It seems like the record is indeed that many. After finishing speaking, I myself started to wonder, "How many did I actually kill?"

  "My god!!! Have you ever killed a woman?" Upon hearing her second question, he knew that it must have been those search party guys who came back and spread rumors.

  "If you're referring to the one I killed in the forest a few days ago, then yes." She became even more tense despite getting an easy answer.

  "Outside they say your technique is very..." Her words stopped here, the following words were not spoken, but she already knew what she was going to say next.

  "Cruel, bloody, violent, perverted?" I spat out these four words in a row, then looked at her with a smiling gaze, who was extremely embarrassed by my words.

  "She didn't say" was said by herself, she hurriedly began to make excuses.

  "You dislike me, is it because you found out something from the soldier who came back with me? Speak up, shouldn't I have a chance to explain myself?" She didn't bother with her awkward expression on the side, but directly asked out her question, and also wanted to know how bloody the rumors about herself were outside.

  "I, I, I heard them say that on the way of searching, they encountered a dead body of a girl, her abdomen was brutally cut open, and the body had no clothes." Upon hearing her words, he couldn't help but feel a headache coming on.

  "Rape first and then kill? Is that what they're saying?"

  "You're really this kind of person!!" Hearing my question, she thought I had already acknowledged what she was thinking, and shouted out loud, her eyes wide open, her face also turned red with anger.

  "If you think so, then what's the point of me explaining?"

  "No, no, those are what others said. I want to hear your explanation." She, who was gradually regaining her composure, started asking me for my explanation.

  "If I said it wasn't like that, would you believe me?"

  "I don't believe it."

  "What's the point of explaining anything to you!!!!" Lazy to explain himself, he directly shouted out his words at her.

  "What are you talking about!!!" The mountain bear who had finally returned saw me yelling at Nalan Chun and rushed in front of me, questioning me. Only after the words left his mouth did he realize that they were a bit heavy, and he hurriedly let go of the hand that was grasping my collar.

  "First rape then kill, huh? Is this the 'good brother' you've been waiting for?" Before I could even speak, Nalan Chun, who was sitting on one side, had already sneered and started mocking me.

  "Kestrel, what's going on? Tell me." The mountain bear didn't pay attention to the sarcasm from the person beside him, but instead turned his head and asked me about the truth of the matter.

  "After the search team came back, your Nalan heard some rumors. It's roughly that I killed a girl and the search team found her body because of the bad condition, so there were some bad rumors." While speaking, he gestured to Shan Xiong to pick up a small package from the corner of the wall, took out the identity card of the girl from inside, and handed it over to Shan Xiong.

  "Kawashima Shizuka, nationality: Japan, ancestral home: Taiwan" The mountain bear hadn't even had time to look when Nalan Chun snatched the ID card and read out the words on it in a soft voice.

  "A despicable guy." The mountain bear loudly expressed his thoughts.

  "But she's only 19 years old." Nalan, who had already finished reading the ID card, questioned Shanyu's words.

  "She was wearing a bulletproof vest at the time, then seduced me, and I happened to take off her clothes, and happened to use a dagger to help her cut her abdomen. If you want to ask me, since I wanted to kill her, why did I still take off her clothes? This question, I also explained to that guy called Jingwen, the outer clothes are very thick, will damage the sharpness of the dagger." I took over Nalan Chun's words and said my explanation calmly.

  "She is a girl, only 19 years old." Nalan Chun still insisted on her idea.

  "Damn, 19 years old and what's wrong with that? My younger brother was only 15, 15 years old!!! And those bastards opened fire!!!!!!" As Mountain Bear let out a loud roar, tears began to flow slowly from his eyes. He himself was surprised, as he had never known about this past of Mountain Bear's before, because he had never asked him and Mountain Bear had never told him.

  "No matter how old she is, once she joins the army, she's not a girl but a warrior. On the battlefield, there's no such thing as 'you're too young to be killed'." He continued from where Shan Xiong left off, taking the opportunity to teach her a lesson.

  "Right, right, sorry" The guy who finally realized he said something wrong hesitantly uttered his apology.

  He got out of bed, patted the bear's shoulder and said, "Brother, don't be sad. The war has been going on for so long, which family doesn't have someone missing? At least your old mother is still at home."

  "What's wrong with your family?" Nalan Chun asked, his curiosity piqued once again as he lifted his head to look at me after hearing my words of comfort to Shan Xiong.

  "Shut up, I didn't say anything, what are you listening to randomly?" Knowing her past, a single sentence made her stunned.

  "Mountain bear, don't say anything else, I understand what you mean." He patted Mountain Bear's shoulder again to calm him down, then turned to Nalan Chun and said, "I know you still don't believe that I really didn't touch that girl, but I want to say, no matter how you think about it, it has nothing to do with me. If you dislike me, then dislike me, please don't drag Mountain Bear into it."

  I

  "Mountain bear, Nalan Chun, would you like to go out with me for a stroll?" He interrupted Nalan Chun's words and then extended an invitation to them to go outside.