Chapter 21 Chapter 21

Song Ran held the camera and walked towards the pile of sandbags in the center of the street. A car was parked next to the barrier, and the safety seat tied to the child was removed from the car.

After getting closer, she saw clearly. It was Li Zan.

He was wearing thick protective clothing, which should have lasted for a while, and his forehead was covered in sweat.

Perhaps in order not to put pressure on the child, his mask was pulled down and hung on his chin.

At this moment, he was squatting on the ground, dismantling the safety seats and bombs tied to the child. His expression looked very calm and casual. When he cut a thread, he even smashed his tongue with a "tsk" and blinked at the child with a smile.

The child was pouting the mouth a second ago, with tears on his face, and was immediately amused by him and burst into tears.

Song Ran did not bother him. Seeing his shadow approaching the sandbag, he quickly moved away.

She is an amateur, but she can see that the situation this time is actually very difficult.

The child's seat was full of bombs, and he was wrapped in densely packed with colorful rubber lines, which were entangled with the seat's strap and safety buckle, and it was like a mess.

This mess has been clarified by Li Zan and cut off part of it.

Behind the seats, a red countdown shows the time left for them, with ten minutes left.

Li Zan knew that the situation was critical and didn't even have time to look at the time afterwards, and asked the couple: "How long will it take?"

"Nine minutes and thirty seconds. Sir." said the husband.

Li Zan pursed his lower lip slightly, without saying anything, and his expression showed no emotion. Seeing that the child was staring at him without blinking for a moment, he smiled at the child gently and said, "It's OK."

After saying that, he looked at the line in his hand, his eyes were solemn, and he made a careful judgment. There was not enough time, so it was impossible to stop the bomb from exploded. The lines he cut were concentrated on the left half of the child's body. Just cut out enough space and pull the child out. Gradually, there were fewer and fewer lines left on the child's left leg and waist, indicating that the danger coefficient was getting higher and higher.

Before he started, he repeatedly confirmed it for a long time.

His gradually slowed down movements made the parents of the children lying outside the sandbag wall more and more nervous, and both held their breath and focused.

At this time, Li Zan suddenly said to the couple: "Please leave."

The child's mother immediately choked up: "Is the situation serious, sir?"

Li Zan did not answer, but said: "Don't worry, I won't leave him. Please leave."

The young wife had to say something, but her husband grabbed her and shook her head, indicating that she would not disturb her and waste her time.

The woman wiped her tears and begged: "Sir, my child, please be sure to save him."

Li Zan kept the line without raising his head, saying, "Madam, I'm alive, he's alive."

The couple retreated from the outer circle, comforting the child while retreating, making him strong.

Seeing this, the child also knew that the situation was dangerous. His mouth was sagging, tears rolled in his big eyes, and Doudou began to fall again.

Tears dripped on the seat belt, Li Zan looked up at him and smiled: "Little guy, can you do a favor, okay?"

The child was curious, stopped crying, and asked softly: "What can I do for you, sir?"

"Believe me." Li Zan said, "Can you do it?"

"Okay, sir. I believe you." The child stopped crying, wiped his tears with his little hands and muttered, "I can do it."

Li Zan lowered his head and continued to analyze the wires in his hand.

He was extremely focused from beginning to end, and he didn't see or notice Song Ran was always next to him. She and him were just separated by an explosion-proof wall made of sandbags.

As timer passed by minute by minute, Li Zan finally rescued the child's left half of his legs and waist, leaving only his chest.

He shook the disconnected wire at the child, and the little boy immediately grinned.

Suddenly, a bullet pierced through a bag of sandbags on the highest level of the barrier, and yellow sand splashed.

Li Zan instantly hugged the child, moved him in the direction where the bullets flew, and hid in the blind spot of the sandbag wall.

Song Ran also crawled on the ground for a moment, hid behind the barrier, and raised the camera.

The mother of the child on the roadside cried and was dragged by a soldier into a house on the roadside.

All the peacekeepers on the street immediately looked for the nearest bunker to hide, and fired several shots in the direction of the bullets to respond to the enemy; on the high building, the sniper urgently looked for the bullet point just now.

After a few shots, it was quiet.

Song Ran slowly poked his head out and looked at it. At the end of the straight street was a T-junction. The intersection was facing a six-story building, with windows on the upper floor, and I don’t know which window the bullet came from.

Everyone was waiting for the next shot to reveal the location, and the street was dead silent.

Suddenly, Benjamin rushed forward and shouted: "Get out of the car!"

The next second, a bullet hit a car with a bomb but had not yet been discharged. The car exploded and the body was burning and jumped half a meter high, and then hit the ground with a bang.

The British peacekeepers hiding behind the car reacted in time, pounced several meters away at the moment of the explosion, rolled across the middle of the street and hid at Song Ran.

Song Ran buried her head and hugged her head, and the iron debris and dust fell on her helmet like it was raining.

The opponent's bullets kept coming, and another car loaded with a bomb was detonated, and the sound was shocking. The combat team was not showing any weakness. The heavy machine gunners blew up at the building, all the glass windows on the building were broken, and the gravel on the walls splashed. The soldiers quickly began to counterattack and cover, moving forward step by step toward the building.

Song Ran's face was covered in dust, she squinted her eyes to protect the machine, and looked at her watch again, leaving only three minutes left.

At this time, through the wall made of sandbags, she suddenly heard Li Zan say something to the child. A few seconds later, the child sang a song softly, which was a folk song from the Eastern Kingdom. Song Ran heard many children sing it, and the fresh tone was a little sad.

The sound of bullets and explosions around him spread out; the child's singing was clean and melodious.

Time ticks, Li Zan shouted in English: "Is anyone? Please check the time!"

Song Ran covered her helmet and lay on the ground, looked at her watch, and shouted back in Chinese: "Two minutes and eight seconds!"

There is no response inside.

Only the childish singing voices sang softly in the flying fire.

Song Ran lay on the ground, trying to climb out as much as possible to shoot the battle situation while looking at her watch.

She was covered in sweat and shouted again: "One minute and three seconds!"

There was still no response inside.

Song Ran was a little scared. She stared at the camera screen to distract herself. But suddenly there was a force behind her. The British peacekeeper who had just rolled over picked her up and protected her and ran to the side of the road.

Song Ran turned around in a hurry and saw Li Zan in the barrier. He lowered his head, his eyes were extremely focused, racing against time to resolve the circuit lines on the child's chest. His side face was extremely calm and quiet, only beads of sweat the size of beans on the upper lip of the nose exposed his nervousness and eagerness.

Song Ran's eyes wet and opened her mouth, trying to shout "A Zan", but she didn't. Li Zan's side face suddenly disappeared. She was dragged to the side of the road by the soldier and hid behind a row of explosive cars.

The soldier also realized the crisis, stared at his watch, wanting to shout but not daring to shout. Seeing that there were only a dozen seconds left, he finally shouted: "LEE!"

Still no response.

"Giveup!It's OK!It's not your fault!" (Give up! It's okay! It's not your fault!)

Song Ran looked at the watch, 13, 12, 11, 10...

"9 seconds!" she shouted!

Li Zan has not come out yet, and the child's song has already been finished.

The barriers are quiet, and there are bullets outside.

Song Ran's heart seemed to be grabbed by a hand, and she could hardly breathe. She unconsciously bit her fingers and watched the second hand walk past step by step. 5,

4,

3…

She is going crazy.

2,

1--

"Ah Zan!"

Before the shouting was over, Li Zan held the child in one hand and the sandbag wall with the other hand and jumped horizontally, rolled out from the barrier and fell under the outer wall. It was the moment of lightning flash, and with a "boom", the bomb exploded, and the sandbag wall surrounding the surrounding exploded. The yellow sand stirred up the sand waves that swelled up the sky, falling into the water like a torpedo.

Song Ran tightly covered her ears, pursed her lips and closed her eyes, and her facial features were wrinkled. She threw away the yellow sand on her face on her eyes and looked closely. The walls of sandbags exploded, and Li Zan was buried under the yellow sand without moving. He kept the child in his arms in his curled position.

"Officer Li!" Song Ran rushed over and quickly threw away the sand on his head.

He slowly recovered, sat up with one hand, holding the child with the other hand, and guarding the back of the child's head with his palm. The little boy hugged Li Zan's neck tightly with both hands, without any injuries.

"Are you okay?" Song Ran hurriedly wiped the yellow sand on his eyebrows, eyes, mouth and nose with his sleeves. He frowned and turned his head, and wiped it himself before he could barely open his eyes.

"Take him back," said Li Zan.

Song Ran went to pick her up, but the little boy tightly wrapped around Li Zan's neck and refused to let go and would not let others hug her.

Song Ran then asked, "Can you stand up?"

He nodded with a breath, but his expression was a little painful.

The British soldier helped him up, and Song Ran followed him with the little boy's butt and walked to the side of the road.

It was not until the child's parents came that the child was willing to let go of Li Zan and threw himself into his mother's arms. The two parents hugged the child and kissed him and cried, constantly thanking Li Zan. He just waved his hand and smiled.

When their family left, Li Zan sat on the porch of a family to rest. When Song Ranliu crawled over, he saw that he was exhausted and leaned his head against the wall and closed his eyes to rest.

Hearing her movements, he opened his eyes and asked, "Did you stop?"

Song Ran looked into the distance: "Not yet. But it should be soon. The sniper knocked down three strongholds just now."
To be continued...