Chapter 1318: Cruel heart

"Okay, let's go up and take a look." Lin Rui held up the gun, bent over and walked slowly out of the reed beach, and walked forward with caution.
It should be an African village in front. Like most villages by the river, people here live by raising livestock, farming, fishing, and making straw. The houses and fences in the village use a lot of reeds. This should be a small village, but no one's voice can be heard. Lin Rui approached the village alertly, his face suddenly turned ugly.
There was hardly a living person in the village, and the corpses of several black villagers lay on the ground. It can be seen that they were suddenly attacked while eating. There was still food scattered on the ground, a kind of red beetroot and some fishes unique to Africa.
Near the river, there were more dead bodies, including men, women and children, and they were slaughtered. This scene made Lin Rui too accustomed to seeing people like this. He is not afraid of corpses, let alone blood. But when he saw the sight of unarmed women and children lying under guns, he still felt a twitch in his stomach.
These corpses are still fresh, because in such a hot weather, no maggots have been corrupted yet. They are likely to die in one day or even less than ten hours. Someone slaughtered the entire village, including the elderly, women and children.
Picking up a cartridge case from the ground, Lin Rui took a deep breath, put down his pistol, and walked back.
"How is it?" Sergey whispered while waiting in the reed beach.
"The front is a village." Lin Rui whispered, "Probably dozens of families were all shot to death. Regardless of men, women, old or young, the entire village may be the only child left."
"Damn it." Sergey's face changed slightly. "Did the secret society do it?"
Lin Rui nodded and gave Sergey the cartridge case he picked up at the scene, "The 5.56mm bullet is not used by African tribal armed forces. I think we may have harmed the village. The secret agency set up an ambush on the bridge. I was afraid that the surrounding villagers would leak the news. So they went on a slaughter and cleared the nearby village."
"But why? We have no contact with these villagers! Why are they doing this?" Sergey said angrily.
"Because the people in this village are all fishermen. They live by this river and go fishing everywhere in boats. The people in the secret society worry that their plan to set up ambushes on the bridge will be revealed by these villagers. So, they... Tucun..." Lin Rui whispered.
"Damn, these are so damn!" Sergey furious. Although he is a thief, he never sees this. Because he was an orphan since he was a child, sleeping in a garbage dump, an abandoned subway station, and making a living by stealing. Seeing this black child who suddenly lost all his relatives, and his fearful and flustered eyes. Sergey suddenly felt like he had been stabbed in his heart, and stabbed in the softest part of his heart.
Sergey stood up, pulled the trigger suddenly, and said solemnly, "I'm going to kill them."
"You will be killed by them if you go like this." Lin Rui put a hand on his arm and said in a deep voice, "I am as angry as you. All the bloodshed and corpses I have seen since I became a mercenary. None of this made me feel fear and anger this time. I am not afraid of death, but afraid that others will die because of me, and I am a completely irrelevant person who died because of me."
"What are you waiting for, let's kill those guys, they are not fighters, they are murderers." Sergey shouted.
"So are we!" Lin Rui grabbed his wrist and said solemnly. "Trust me, I want to kill those secret society executioners more than you. Because it will make me feel better. I avenged them, as if this matter has nothing to do with us. But in fact, it's just self-comfort. These people are dead, and nothing we can do to make them come alive!"
Sergey sat down a little sullenly, lowered his head and said, "But they shouldn't do this, these villages are innocent. They really deserve to go to hell."
"This is war, it is the most ugly and cruel behavior of mankind." Lin Rui shook his head. "We will all go to hell, but we can send them off first. The premise is that we have to plan and execute these plans calmly, without being affected by emotions. Understand, now take a deep breath and restore emotions. Then, we start to act."
Sergey took a deep breath and nodded. He turned to look at the child and whispered, "What should he do?"
"He is very strong and clever. He knows how to hide himself. So he doesn't need us to worry. What we need to worry about is ourselves." Lin Rui patted Sergei on the shoulder, "Everyone has his own destiny, we have Ours, he has his."
"He might die." Sergey whispered.
"You're enough!" Lin Rui grabbed him and whispered, "Don't let these things disturb your emotions. We are out to scout. We still have responsibilities and tasks on our shoulders, and we have a behind us. The other brothers in the team. Do you want to be upset because of this unexpected incident? Wake up man, I need a clear-headed investigator. If you don't think it will work, just roll back now and stay with the other team members. Don't hinder me from doing things, understand?"
"But..." Sergey stopped talking.
"No, but stay focused at all times to complete the task and live." Lin Rui pushed him away and said in a low voice, "I'm going to the front now. If you think about it, follow up. If you don't figure it out, just Keep thinking about what you should do here."
Lin Rui continued to move forward with his gun. In order to stay deep in the reeds, he stepped on water that did not reach his ankle. In fact, the scene of the slaughterhouse that I saw just now shocked him, but he was still firm as a piece of steel. Because he knew he must be so. It's not that he doesn't want to rush out and fight with members of the secret society to vent the sullenness in his heart.
But this is not in the interest of the team. He cannot rely on his temporary likes and dislikes to pull the entire team into trouble. He is the captain, and he has to bear more at times like this. Even if he is guilty, he can't break the rules because of it. o2's rules are team first. He forced himself to have a cruel heart, only in this way can he hold this cruel world.
Sergei followed him, and Lin Rui and him walked out for more than one kilometer, and they could already see the bridge in front of them from the gaps in the reeds on the river beach. Lin Rui gently pushed aside the reed and observed the distant scene with a telescope. On the surface, he didn't find any ambushes, but he knew that the secret society must be nearby.