Chapter 868: That Mission
Translator: Larbre Studio Editor: Larbre Studio
He Xiyan looked at the tombstone and found that the martyr was also a soldier of the Fifth Commando, who, looking very young, seemed to be in his twenties.
Then they came to the fifth, sixth, and seventh…
Jiahang placed a bunch of chrysanthemums in front of each tomb while He Xiyan followed Jiahang to pay tribute to the soldiers who had died for the country.
However, when she came to the eleventh tomb, He Xiyan was stunned. Her eyes were fixed closely at the photo on the tombstone. The picture also belonged to a young soldier, but the soldier actually…
He Xiyan looked at the photo for a long time in great disbelief, then suddenly turned her head and looked at Jiahang beside her.
He Xiyan felt incredible. She found that the owner of the tomb looked quite similar to Jiahang. Was that…
He Xiyan was shocked by the scene before her eyes. She was startled and her feet seemed to be fixed.
Captain of the Fifth Commando, Major of the Seventh Battalion of the People’s Defense Army, Tomb of Martyr Gu Shaoqian?
“Jiahang!” He Xiyan couldn’t help exclaiming again. She was shocked, as if there was a thunder exploding over her head.
At this time, there was one hand hugging around her shoulders.
Chen Jiahang pulled her into arms.
“It’s me!” He murmured. An indelible sadness thickened in his eyes.
“You are…” He Xiyan pointed to the tomb and shook her head unbelievably.
Chen Jiahang patted her on the shoulder. His closed eyes burst into tears and he became abnormally upset at this moment.
“Yes.” He sighed and said, “This is me, this is the tomb they built for me. Nine soldiers of our Fifth Commando team were killed in an anti-terrorism rescue mission in 2016. The first eight are my comrades. I watched them get shot and die one by one. In exchange for those children, I took the initiative to go into the terrorist base, and was later tied up by terrorists and thrown into a valley.”
Speaking of this, Chen Jiahang turned his head. Tears could not help but come out of his eyes and his heart ached greatly as if it was cut ruthlessly by a knife. He was sad, not because he was thrown into the valley but that the mission was not successful. Some of his comrades died and some were injured, while that group of children, they only saved some of them and dozens of them were killed by terrorists.
Chen Jiahang firmly gripped his fingers and clenched his teeth. Thinking of that mission, he was still very sad and angry as well.
Even now he knew that the terrorist group had been completely eliminated, he still couldn’t get rid of his inner anger.
He Xiyan was stunned there. In her eyes, there was a touch of heartache besides shock. She felt sympathetic for those young soldiers as well as Jiahang. She could not imagine what he had gone through.
She remembered that they had seen a movie last year, a military film about anti-terrorism. At that time, in the middle of the film, there was something wrong with Jiahang. He then had a severe headache and went straight out of the cinema. Now judging from that, that movie should be based on what Jiahang and other soldiers had experienced.
It was horrible. She felt terrified at the thought of the scenes in the movie. She couldn’t believe that it was all real.
“Jiahang…” He Xiyan hugged Jiahang tightly, pressing her face to his chest, and listening to his rapid breathing out of sadness.
“Jiahang, let’s go back.” He Xiyan said in a low voice.