Lu Ye hid in the darkness. After seeing the number of people on the other side, he hesitated for a moment. Judging from his current state, not to mention fighting, whether he could outrun them was another matter.
"Raise the flashlight higher!" The captain ordered.
The soldiers standing in front of them raised their lamps and lit up the entrance of the cave. Lu Ye quickly crouched down and was almost caught by the light.
"Are there any monsters here?”The leading soldier was a little afraid.
"We're all armed, what's there to be afraid of!”the captain said.
The leading soldier stepped into the cave timidly. Suddenly, a roar sounded from all around him, scaring him so much that he peed his pants. He hugged his head and ran behind the team.
"Hahahahaha!" The team burst into laughter.
So there was no monster at all. The roar just now was just a joke from his own people.
"You!" The captain pointed at another soldier who was holding a lamp and laughing non-stop." Stop laughing, lead the way!”
The soldier seemed to want to prove that he was brave. He swaggered into the cave with the flashlight.
Everyone walked into the depths of the cave and suddenly heard another roar.
"Stop fooling around!" The captain was a little angry.
Everyone looked at each other. This roar sounded a little strange. It didn't seem like it could be made by a human.
"Are there really monsters here?”The timid soldier asked in a trembling voice.
The captain was annoyed by him. He walked to the back of the team and grabbed his collar, saying,"If you continue to be so long-winded, I'll shoot you!”
The soldier was terrified. His mouth twitched and his brows were furrowed. Under the angry glare of the captain, tears silently flowed down his face.
"Sigh, this coward!" The captain put him down helplessly.
"What is this?" The leader saw the embers of the bonfire.
The captain stepped forward and touched the embers. They were still warm.
"There is indeed someone hiding here. He should still be in the cave. Everyone, split up and search carefully!”The captain ordered.
Lu Ye and Rui Yizang hid under the stone crevice. He tried to move his hands, but he immediately felt a sharp pain. Rui Yi, who was beside him, was still in a semi-conscious state. The backlash of the virus had caused Rui Yi's body to shrink.
As the light got closer, a figure appeared on top of the rock. It was the timid soldier.
He glanced at Lu Ye and then looked at Rui Yi who was beside Lu Ye. Although Rui Yi's body was no longer as big as before, his whole body was covered in lumps of flesh, which looked very terrifying.
When the soldier saw Rui Yi's terrifying appearance, he was instantly dumbfounded. Then, the expression on his face froze. After a few seconds, he fell straight down. He was so scared that he fainted.
Everyone was attracted by the sudden sound of falling. When they saw Rui Yi's terrifying face, they were all shocked and raised their guns to aim at Rui Yi.
"There really are monsters here!" Everyone discussed in low voices.
"It looks like it's injured. It shouldn't be a threat to us!”the captain said.
Rui Yi looked in the direction where Lu Ye was hiding in the darkness and shed tears.
"Why is this monster crying?”Someone said in surprise.
Lu Ye loaded his weapon and raised it shakily with all his strength, aiming it at the soldier's head.
Just as he was about to shoot, Rui Yi suddenly pounced on the crowd, disrupting Lu Ye's plan.
Screams rang out in the cave, followed by gunshots. Rui Yi let out his last roar and fell in the rain of bullets.
Lu Ye held his breath, tears falling down. He knew that Rui Yi did not want to expose himself, so he decided to sacrifice himself.
"Is everyone alright?" the captain asked.
"Why did this monster explode? It's so disgusting!”
"It stinks! Go out first!"
When the voices of the crowd gradually faded away, Lu Ye walked to Rui Yi's side in the dark. He sat on the ground, and Rui Yi's face and voice flashed in his mind. Finally, he sobbed.
A sound came from outside the cave again. It was very likely that the people of the Empire had returned.
Lu Ye wiped away his tears. He decided to avenge Rui Yi, so he aimed his weapon at the cave in front of him.
A ray of light shone towards Lu Ye. Without saying a word, Lu Ye fired at the other party. Unexpectedly, his hands could no longer withstand the recoil of the gun and fell to the ground.
He cried out in grief and rushed to the other party with his last strength, but he felt that he was being held tightly in someone's arms.
"Lu Ye!"
Hearing Wei Guanqing's voice, Lu Ye raised his head in disbelief. When he finally saw the person's face, Lu Ye could no longer suppress it and broke down into tears.
"Don't cry, don't cry! You're safe now!" Wei Guanqing consoled.
Seeing this scene, the others knew how much suffering Lu Ye had suffered during this period of time. They were all silent for a moment.
"Save him! Save Rui Yi!" Lu Ye suddenly thought of Wei Guanqing's astonishing abilities and pleaded.
Everyone came to Rui Yi's corpse. Under the bombardment of ammunition, his original face could no longer be seen. The ground was covered in pus and blood, and it still emitted a foul smell.
"This is Rui Yi?" Xuchuan asked in shock.
Everyone had learned from Xuchuan that Rui Yi had been forcefully fused with the virus by Imperial General Leinster, but they were still very sad to see such a tragic situation.
"You can definitely save him, right?" Lu Ye asked, although he already had an answer in his heart like everyone else.
Wei Guanqing scanned Rui Yi's remains and found that all the codes had stopped.
"I'm sorry, Lu Ye…"
"It's all my fault. He died to protect me…"
" Don't blame yourself, Roh Ye. Think about Ruiyi. If he knew that he had successfully protected you in the end, how happy he would be," Xuchuan comforted.
" I promised to bring him to his parents…" Lu Ye started to cry again when he thought of this.
Wei Guanqing recorded Rui Yi's source code and memory data. He thought of Yan Mu, who should have a way to deal with these codes.
"Don't be sad, Lu Ye. In this world, death doesn't mean that you've truly disappeared. As long as the data is still there, there's still hope!”Wei Guanqing said as he saved Rui Yi's memory data into a glass ball and handed it to Lu Ye.
"What is this?" Lu Ye asked.
" I've preserved Ruiyi's memory," Wei Guanqing said.
Lu Ye took it carefully, as if he heard Rui Yi calling him again.
Under Lu Ye's gaze, the flames devoured Rui Yi's remains.
"Goodbye, Rui Yi!"
After a final farewell, everyone left the cave.。
The spaceship silently flew through the night sky of Suval, passing through the hole in the defense layer and entering another patch of darkness.
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