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It had been a long time since Yu Meng had a chance to sit with a friend in the dead of night and talk to him.

"Actually, many of my stories …" Fang Rui opened his mouth and said, "It's all true."

"I used to be one of the first Chinese journalists to come to the Sri Lanka."

He asked in surprise, "You've been a war correspondent before?"

Fang Rui nodded.

"Every original screenwriter has a bit of work to do." She smiled. "You'll find out more about me in the future, haha."

When she chatted with Fang Rui, she could always make the atmosphere around them relax. She smiled very brightly, even though she had short hair in her ears, red phoenix eyes that did not look gentle and gentle. She had a tall and thin figure, and her chest was flat as a horse.

The more Yu Meng looked at it, the more she liked it.

"When I came to the Sri Lanka, the civil war had already ended many years ago. However, there were still armed men who stirred up trouble, creating chaos and attempting to start the civil war again."

As Yu Meng and Fang Rui sat facing each other, they listened very attentively.

"That was my first time in the Sri Lanka. When I came down from the airport, I actually didn't have much feelings for it, I just felt that it was very beautiful here, very quiet, very natural."

Fang Rui said as she gazed out the window at the calm and tranquil sea outside. She could not help but sigh.

"Later on, we went into the city by car. You know, that kind of fear and trepidation is something that I will never forget until now." Fang Rui paused for a while and continued, "Because the city was occupied by the rebel army at that time, and they also planted a large amount of mines, even if we were to ride on tanks, if we were to encounter mines, we would be either dead or injured.

As Yu Meng listened, she sucked in a breath of cold air.

"Back then, the civil war in Sri Lanka lasted for twenty-six years, and after that, because of the death of the head of the rebel army, it finally came to an end, and I, came to the Sri Lanka because of this."

Yu Meng was shocked, "Because of this?" Which one? "

"Did you know that the person who killed the rebel leader was a Chinese soldier?"

"Chinese?"

Yu Meng was also somewhat proud when she heard that. "Then have you met him since then?" Did you get any interviews with what you wanted? "

"What a pity." Fang Rui shook his head: "There was no news of him after that. I heard that he left the Sri Lanka, and no one else heard anything about him."

Yu Meng couldn't help but guess, "Then, could he have sacrificed himself?"

"I don't know either." Fang Rui said: "But fortunately, I have met him once."

"Really?"

Fang Rui nodded her head, "At that time, the cries were everywhere and the poison from the civil war made every citizen of the city want to die. At that time, I was in the city caring for some of the victims, when a bomb suddenly dropped from the sky, and smoke immediately rose up from all directions. "

"The sky was covered in yellow dust, and in an instant, the place was filled with the smell of blood and wailing."

After he finished speaking, Fang Rui's entire body was trembling.

"At that time, I was on the verge of death and the bomb was blooming not too far away from me. Did you know that all you could see was earth and blood? Even the sands that filled the sky were dark red in color."

"Then there was the sound of trucks colliding. It was still the anti-government terrorists. They went through the dust and into the city. They were holding machine guns like innocent people shooting." Fang Rui said: "I really did think that I would not be able to escape. "He's here..."

"Who?" The hero who killed the head of the anti-government? "

Fang Rui nodded.

"He was wearing a dark overalls and his black army boots were stained with red earth. He only took one gun and I can't tell if it was a submachine gun or a rifle. Lightly carrying on the battle. With a few simple leaps and turns, he struck the gas tank of that car, and with another loud explosion, the car exploded. "

As Fang Rui spoke, she took a deep breath, her face flushed red, she tried her best to calm her heart, and then shouted out to all of us poor people who had not escaped, "Let's go!"

"That was the first and only time I saw his face."

In Fang Rui's eyes, the fear and trembling just now swept passed him: "His face is covered in mud and blood, so I can't see his face clearly, but I could clearly see his eyes. They were brave, those that were deep, and in that instant, I was suddenly no longer afraid of anything."

Even Yu Meng was moved by the scene that Fang Rui had described. She had also imagined the appearance of that man, tall and straight, strong and brave.

It was the type of appearance that would appear whenever the word 'hero' was mentioned.

"And then." Yu Meng couldn't help but ask, "Did you write this story about him?"

That hero, Yu Meng really hoped so.

However, Fang Rui shook his head again, "I don't have such good luck, I can listen to his story." Fang Rui said: "This story, is because that day, when I was escaping with all the commoners, I met a person."

"Who?"

"The main character of the story." Fang Rui said: "Female lead."

"Everyone was fleeing in panic. I was no exception. The air was filled with the thick smell of gunpowder. Suddenly, a second bomb was dropped from the sky." Fang Rui clenched her fist and started to tremble slightly. She had finished drinking the red wine.

"The distance from the bomb this time is clearly much closer than the last time."

Fang Rui exhaled a long breath: "My legs are weak, I'm really scared, I feel like I am unable to control my legs, and just fell on the ground, while the people beside me ran over me. I know, I might die. "

Even at this moment, when Fang Rui talked about what had happened so long ago, her tone was still filled with an undisputable despair.

"What's wrong? "Are you hurt?!"

Fang Rui suddenly imitated a strange voice. After calming down for a few seconds, her face finally had a few seconds of smile: "The person who said those words saved my life."

Fang Rui recalled: "The flames of war were spread everywhere, there was no time to hesitate, I had always thought that my mental fortitude was strong enough, so I chose to come here, but at that moment, when the bombs started coming towards us one after another, I really could only collapse. And the woman who saved me. "She also realised this very quickly …"

Fang Rui paused for a while before continuing, "She realized that I wasn't injured at all, and was just too afraid and didn't have the slightest bit of strength."

"Then, what happened next?" Yu Meng was anxious to hear the rest of the story.

"Actually, anyone who lives in such an environment knows very well that mental injuries are much more difficult to heal than physical injuries. It's just like the scene back then. If she saved someone whose leg or body was injured, it would be much easier than taking the time to comfort me and encourage me to stand up. "

Fang Rui sighed again. Tonight, Yu Meng could not even count the number of times she had heard her sigh.

"I was surprised later that she didn't choose to give up on me. In the midst of the fighting, she grabbed my arm, put it on her shoulder, and ran with me as fast as she could. "

"Think of me as …" As Fang Rui spoke, she suddenly laughed at herself. "It's like bringing along a handicapped person whose entire body is covered with injuries."

"But I'm not hurt at all."

"She's a good person." Yu Meng suddenly remembered that Fang Rui had imitated that woman and asked in surprise, "She's also Chinese?"

Fang Rui nodded: "You must be very proud."

"Yes." Yu Meng nodded.

"Maybe he's alone in a foreign land, where the Chinese are very united and won't let any of his compatriots get into trouble."

"That's great."

"She took me and ran. I tried my best to recover my strength bit by bit, but you know what? Such a tall and thick tree." Fang Rui drew with her hand as she spoke. A tree trunk that was as thick as her waist and four to five times taller than her, the height of it could be easily imagined. She estimated it to be about the height of seven to eight Fang Rui s.

Fang Rui's face was pale, her gaze hollow: "This is the fourth bomb I experienced on that day."

Yu Meng sucked in a breath of cold air.

Suddenly, Fang Rui raised her head and looked at Yu Meng, asking her, "My life is really big, right?"

Yu Meng nodded vigorously in agreement.

"You didn't even die from four bombs, what else could you be if not lucky!"

Fang Rui shook her head.

"That woman said, it's not that I'm lucky, it's that I'm lucky."

Yu Meng did not understand. "What's the difference?"

"Good luck because I'm Chinese." She said, "The situation at that time, if you saved me, there's a seventy percent chance that she and I would both die."

"Then why did she save you? She's really big."

"She told me later that I was Chinese."

"If I hadn't said that first sentence in Chinese, she probably wouldn't have saved me."

"Because among our fellow countrymen." Yu dreamt of a barely accurate adjective: "Care?"

Fang Rui shook her head again: "She said that the first batch of Chinese military doctors, she has already been in the Sri Lanka for more than a year, all the Chinese who went with her are no longer here."

"She was the only one left in this foreign land, experiencing so much life and death every day, wandering around the edge of death herself. Although the local people were kind and friendly, it was difficult for her to communicate with them."

"I was particularly impressed by what she said to me later."

"What do you mean?"

"She said that at that stage, death is not scary. What is scary is loneliness."

"The one who went through countless life and death situations every day, yet had no one to accompany her and answer her, she felt that she had fallen into a cycle. She thought that she had actually died, and everything that happened now was just a dream."

Yu Meng felt that this symptom was like depression, but she had never heard of such a reaction.

"It's hard to understand without experiencing it." Fang Rui sighed: "That feeling, is worse than death."

"Just like how you lived in the era of dinosaurs by yourself. You desperately wanted to live, yet you didn't know why."