Chapter 72: Great Explosion

Qin Hao Bei pushed open the cell door, and this was the scene he saw—

The girl's hands were bound, and she was hung from the room beam. Her beautiful autumn-water eyes were gently closed, her head hung powerlessly to one side, her face as pale as snow, as if she had no life at all. Yet, a striking line of blood was dripping from the corner of her mouth, staining her white dress a bright red.

And opposite her, a mobile phone was aimed at the girl's face, the red live-stream light flickering faintly in the dim room.

A monstrous rage rose in Qin Hao Bei's heart.

He kicked hard, forcefully kicking the phone stand that was live-streaming to the ground. Then he pulled out the pistol at his waist and shattered the phone with a "bang."

Immediately after, he rushed forward in a stride, hugging the girl's slender waist hanging in mid-air.

"Shi Yi? Shi Yi!" Qin Hao Bei called out anxiously.

Just then, his peripheral vision caught a glimpse of something on the ground, and he suddenly saw a long, thin object in the corner, flashing with a cold light.

He squinted his eyes and looked closely—it was actually a syringe!

A sense of foreboding, like the yin energy from hell, wrapped around him from all directions in an instant. Qin Hao Bei had lived for 25 years, seen all kinds of things, and encountered countless dangers, but he had never been this fearful and panicked!

Dense heartache, mixed with regret and pain, wound around his heart like vines.

He hated himself for not coming sooner!

"Shi Yi, you... hold on, I'm here! I'm Qin Hao Bei, I've come to take you home..."

Qin Hao Bei blocked her waist with one hand, and with the other, he took out the sharp dagger from his waist and cut the rope on her wrists with a "click."

Shi Yi's body fell softly into Qin Hao Bei's arms.

Qin Hao Bei held her slender neck and saw at a glance a circular needle mark on it, the surrounding area already faintly red and swollen, as if it were a bite mark from a venomous snake.

His heart began to ache with every beat.

"Shi Yi, Shi Yi..." Qin Hao Bei's voice was tinged with a sob. He picked up Shi Yi's cold body horizontally and ran out immediately, "Don't sleep... I'll take you to the hospital right now..."

"I beg you, don't sleep!"

In the square in the center of the camp, the soldier was still squatting on the ground, checking the serum bottle by bottle with a serious expression...

Just then, bang, bang, bang, bang—a burst of chaotic gunfire suddenly erupted from the back of the military camp.

The "Kabango" sitting on the high platform changed color suddenly.

Then, he jumped off the high platform and ran toward the gate as if fleeing.

The soldiers guarding the gate stood frozen in place, all of them stunned.

They were naturally kept in the dark and didn't know that the "Lord Kabango" who was fleeing was actually a fake. And they themselves had been sent here to execute the mission just to delay time and divert attention so that Kuba could escape.

Seeing the scene before him, Shi Heng's heart tightened, and he lifted his leg, wanting to rush into the military camp.

Just then, the oppressive voice sounded in his ear again:

"Retreat."

Shi Heng roared in a suppressed voice:

"Why retreat! Something clearly happened inside; I'm going to take advantage of the chaos to save my sister!"

"There is no why, this is an order! And you are unarmed now; are you going to die by rushing in like this? Retreat immediately! Someone is waiting to meet you outside."

The gunfire grew closer, accompanied by intense shouting and bursts of painful wailing.

Shi Heng felt an instinctive fear surge in his heart.

The young master of the Shi family, although he had been through the business world and was a master of the game, was just an ordinary person who feared death on the battlefield...

"I beg you... you must save my sister," Shi Heng said tremblingly.

"Understood."

Getting a positive answer, Shi Heng clenched his fists, took a deep breath, and retreated from the base...

However, just as he left the base and reached a safe area at the foot of the mountain.

Woo—wah—woo—wah—

An air raid siren suddenly tore through the night sky, and two huge missiles pierced the clouds, their orange-red exhaust flames like the paintbrush of the Grim Reaper, drawing a hideous parabola on the ink-colored sky—

The warheads smashed into the earth.

In an instant, the entire earth began to tremble, and a mushroom cloud wrapped in fragments of reinforced concrete soared into the sky!

The shockwave blew away the three-story guard tower, the steel frame twisted into a strange spiral in the air, like a toy crushed by an invisible giant hand. The glass of the barracks shattered into sharp shrapnel in the shockwave, and the soldiers who hadn't reacted were slapped against the wall by the shockwave. The underground oil depot exploded one after another, and fire snakes gushed out from the drainage pipes, instantly swallowing the figures in the chaotic battle into charred silhouettes...

At the foot of the mountain, Shi Heng's wide-open eyes reflected the scarlet fire...

His legs softened, and he knelt on the ground with a "thud."

He let out a heart-rending wail:

"Xiao Yi!"

Meanwhile, in Camp 21, not far from here.

Looking at the two huge mushroom clouds rising on the mountaintop in the distance, everyone showed an expression of extreme grief.

Zhou Yutong's body shuddered violently, her eyes suddenly turned red, and two lines of hot tears flowed down her cheeks.

Her lips whispered, repeating two words:

"Xiao Yi... Xiao Yi..."

Wang Yang covered her cheeks, sobbing painfully, her eyes already swollen like peaches.

And Su Yichen, who was currently recuperating in the camp, suddenly went black before his eyes!

He actually spat out a mouthful of blood.

The diary he had been holding tightly in his arms also fell to the ground with a "thud."

The blood dripping from the corners of his mouth stained the cover of the diary. Su Yichen crawled on the ground like a madman, picked up the diary, and wiped it repeatedly with the back of his hand.

"Xiao Yi will be fine... Xiao Yi will be fine... I... will go find her right now..."

Just then, he accidentally flipped the diary to the last page—the last page he had been reluctant to look at:

He saw that the content of that page was not text, but a drawing.

The whole drawing was done with childish strokes—two little people holding hands, standing in front of a church. On the left was a handsome boy, wearing a suit, standing straight. And on the right was a beautiful girl, wearing a white wedding dress, with a veil on her head, her face filled with a happy and longing smile.

White clouds were floating in the sky, and pigeons were flying back and forth in front of the church.

Beside the boy, a line of small words was written in pencil—"Brother Yichen."

And beside the girl, a line of small words was written as well.

"Xiao Yi." ===== CHAPTER 73 =====