As it rolled down, two gunshots pierced the rain, only to be drowned out by the surrounding noise and disappear without a trace.
The rain continued to pour, and the raindrops were so heavy that people couldn't open their eyes.
The car, which kept sliding down the slope, was eventually stopped by trees that grew on the hillside. Mu Nancheng climbed out of the deformed car, with a piece of glass about half the size of his palm stuck diagonally in his side. After pulling it out, he pressed his hand against it, and blood kept seeping out, which was then washed away by the rain.
His forehead was also cut by glass, and the half-finger-long wound ruined his handsome face, making him look somewhat ferocious.
In the darkness, the only source of light was the occasional flashes of lightning overhead.
He limped through the rain, calling Yu Tang's name: "Tang Tang! Tang Tang, where are you? Can you hear me?"
I called out many times, but there was no response.
Mu Nancheng's voice gradually became choked with sobs.
"Tangtang, please answer me, okay?"
"Let's go home, I'll take you home..."
"I don't want the Mu family anymore, we don't care about the T Group anymore, we're going back to Sanyu Village, that's our home..."
Endless regret and fear enveloped Mu Nancheng. Until he tripped over a stone and fell to the ground, the boy's cries were heartbreaking.
"Please answer me, please..."
Just when he was almost completely despondent, a hand gently rested on his hand.
Lightning flashed across the night sky, and Mu Nancheng saw the man's face clearly.
Even with his scars, his handsome, sharply defined features and the tenderness in his eyes were still undeniable.
He watched as the man struggled to raise his cut hand, bent his thumb and forefinger and gave him a familiar flick on the forehead, then smiled weakly: "Okay, stop crying, I'm right here, aren't I? You already looked awful with that buzz cut you got for the surgery, and now you're crying like this, I feel ashamed for you."
Chapter 48
He died for the villain for the eighth time (48)
“Host…” Xiao Jin cried her eyes out in Yu Tang’s consciousness.
He witnessed the entire struggle between Eileen and Yu Tang inside the car when it slid down.
Yu Tang pretended to be on the verge of fainting.
Actually, she had been secretly using the metal buckle on her sleeve to rub the broken end of the rope.
Just as Eileen rammed into Mu Nancheng like a madwoman, he had just untied the rope.
As the car slid down, Eileen, this crazy woman, could see Mu Nancheng gripping the steering wheel and struggling to maintain his balance not far away. Hysterical thoughts took over her mind.
She pointed her gun at Mu Nancheng, but was stopped by Yu Tang.
Because of the urgency of the situation, Yu Tang blocked the shot with his shoulder. He used all his strength to try to grab the gun from Eileen's hand in the chaos, but Eileen, who had lost her mind, was filled with violent thoughts. In the struggle with Yu Tang, she fired another shot, hitting Yu Tang in the chest.
The car was then overturned and crashed into a tree. Large shards of glass severed the woman's carotid artery, killing her in the accident.
Yu Tang struggled to climb out of the car, his gunshot wounds still bleeding. The gunshot wound on his shoulder was okay, but the most fatal one was the gunshot wound in his chest. Xiao Jin said that the bullet hit his lung, but he could still move and speak.
However, if not treated promptly, the patient will experience difficulty breathing, internal bleeding, and eventually suffocation and death within ten minutes.
But given the current environment, with the car driven into this desolate wilderness and in such a terrifying downpour, it would take him at least an hour, let alone ten minutes, to reach the hospital.
Knowing it was a dead end, Yu Tang gave up on trying to survive, only feeling heartbroken.
When he heard Mu Nancheng call him, looking so pitiful and desperate, he felt nothing but guilt and regret.
He had just seen Mu Nancheng grow up and was no longer as naive as he had been at the beginning, and he had originally planned to spend more time with him.
Now, however, we are forced to face the pain of separation and death...
Even though she knew this was the inevitable outcome, Yu Tang still wanted to say a proper goodbye to Mu Nancheng.
Unable to use his knees, he crawled over by following the sound with his hands, the blood gushing from his two gunshot wounds being washed away by the heavy rain.
Even with pain relief enabled, I still feel dizzy, have tinnitus, and feel extremely cold all over.
But when he finally climbed to Mu Nancheng's side and his fingers touched the boy's skin, he felt a warmth.
Looking into the other person's red eyes, he realized it was almost exactly what he had imagined.
“Crying like a rabbit…” Yu Tang said with a smile, gently stroking Mu Nancheng’s cheek with his fingers, “You look awful…”
"Tangtang..." Mu Nancheng hugged Yutang tightly, his voice filled with the joy of finding her again: "You're alright, it's so good that you're alright, you're still alive, we're all still alive..."
Yu Tang's eyes darkened slightly as she hugged Mu Nancheng back, resting her head on his shoulder. Her soft voice was drowned out by the heavy rain: "Yes, we are all still alive."
Using the fleeting flash of lightning, he looked around and saw only weeds and tangled trees. Looking up, he could see the destroyed guardrail in the distance, and the driver who hadn't been involved in the accident was looking in his direction.
He shouted at them, "Are you alright?!"
"Please respond if you hear me!"
Yu Tang tried to catch his breath and gently patted Mu Nancheng's back: "Nancheng, we are both injured, we need to leave here as soon as possible."
"Let's go, let's climb up the hillside first, go back to the highway to find the driver, and then flag down a passing car to go to the hospital in the city."
"Uh-huh……"
Mu Nancheng felt somewhat relieved after finding Yu Tang.
At this critical moment, he didn't want to question Yu Tang about his concealment. But thinking that the man must also be injured, he quickly let go of Yu Tang and used the dim light to observe Yu Tang's injuries.
Yu Tang covered the muzzle of the gun in his chest with one hand and managed to get away with it.
But Mu Nancheng was still trembling with heartache. He wanted to shoot Eileen, but Yu Tang grabbed his clothes.
"The glass cut Eileen's neck; she's not going to make it."
Hearing this, Mu Nancheng gritted his teeth and barely managed to give up the idea of whipping the woman's corpse.
He went to the overturned car, found a safety rope, secured Yu Tang to his back, carried the man on his back, and limped up the hillside.
As he struggled forward, he suddenly remembered something and burst out laughing.
"Tangtang..." Mu Nancheng called out to Yu Tang: "I still remember when I got lost once in Sanyu Village, you tied our hands together with a rope and said that from now on, you would tie me up like this and see where I would run away."
“But a while ago you broke up with me again and said you didn’t want me anymore. At that time, my mind was in a mess and I had some stupid thoughts. I thought I would tie you up with a rope and lock you up so you couldn’t run away.”
"Fortunately, I didn't do that, otherwise I know you would never forgive me."
"And after you broke up with me, when you saw that I was sick and hospitalized, you actually dressed up as a nurse to visit me. I was completely stunned."
"I haven't had a chance to tell you until now, but I've already guessed it was you. Those apologies weren't for a stranger, but because I recognized you, that's why I said them to you."
"Later, when you appeared as Mr. Y, I realized how foolish and arrogant I had been."
“You were a true powerhouse from the very beginning. I was too arrogant and underestimated your abilities, only thinking about showing off, which led me to fall into Eileen’s trap…”
At this point, Mu Nancheng's voice was full of regret and bitterness: "I really shouldn't have cooperated with this venomous woman in the first place."
"If it weren't for me, you wouldn't have been caught up in this disaster..."
“I’ve figured it out…” Mu Nancheng continued, “Once we get back to the hospital and both of us have recovered from our injuries, and I have my surgery, we’ll go back to Sanyu Village, stay in our little courtyard, and raise some poultry like chickens, ducks, and geese. You can go to town to teach, and I’ll take care of the family.”
Then, in his spare time, he tinkers with small items and does some small business...
"I don't want the Mu family, revenge, money, or power anymore. I just want to be with you and take care of our little family..."
Just the two of us, living a simple and happy life together…
As the rain subsided, Mu Nancheng leaned forward as he climbed the hillside, and his words were clearly heard by Yu Tang.
Yu Tang's lips curled into a smile, but he couldn't manage to.
His eyelids grew heavier and heavier, and breathing became difficult due to the gunshot wound to his lungs.
He tightened his grip on Mu Nancheng's arm slightly, and fearing that his voice was too soft for the other to hear, he tried his best to whisper in the boy's ear, "What a coincidence, this is the kind of life I've always wanted."
He sighed softly, "South City..."
"Actually, I have never blamed you."
"Because I know that a person's growth inevitably involves setbacks and mistakes..."
"Even God cannot guarantee that he is always right, so how can we ordinary people never make mistakes in our entire lives?"
"You made a mistake, and you can correct it. That proves you are growing..."
"Moreover, some people go through their entire lives without ever knowing what they truly want."
But you understand what you want at such a young age. You are much better than them…
"As your lover, I'm glad you've come to your senses, but please forgive me..."
The man's pale lips gently touched the boy's earlobe, his voice filled with regret and sorrow.
"Because of me, perhaps..."
"I won't be able to be with you until the end."
Chapter 49
He died for the villain for the eighth time (49)
A bolt of lightning suddenly flashed across the sky, followed by a deafening thunderclap, which shook Mu Nancheng to his core.
He thought he had misheard.
He paused slightly before continuing, "Tangtang, what nonsense are you talking about?"
“None of our injuries are fatal. We can just flag down a car and get back to the hospital to get treated. Once we’re healed, we’ll go back to Sanyu Village immediately. No one can disturb our lives, just you and me, together…”
"I lied to you just now." Her body grew colder and colder, and her vision blurred. Yu Tang knew that she didn't have much time left.
In a daze, he seemed to return to a third world, where he was also being carried on Luo Luo's back, and he said his final farewell to that boy.
Yu Tang lightly touched Mu Nancheng's face with his fingers and whispered, "Eileen shot me twice. One grazed my shoulder, and the other pierced my lung..."
Mu Nancheng froze, as if he had been stunned, and for a moment he didn't know how to react.
“What lungs?” he murmured. “No, it shouldn’t be like this…”
"Lungs, breathing, no..."
He had already realized that if what Yu Tang said was true, then the man really would only have one way out: death.