"Last words?"
Lu Xin's strange question instantly made the surroundings fall silent.
The people on both sides were clearly startled by the question.
Some wore bewildered expressions.
Others immediately grew alert and looked nervously into the deep darkness around them.
Some of the people on the left understood what Lu Xin meant. They looked sympathetically at the six and a half people in the observation post on the right. From their subjective judgment, they had realized that Lu Xin was referring to the people in these observation posts, and they also understood his purpose.
It was just that, for the moment, no one had connected the question to themselves.
Questions like this were more or less ominous, so the surroundings fell silent for a long while. No one was eager to speak.
Lu Xin sighed softly and looked up at one of them.
That man was the captain of this advance unit. A bullet had blown away part of his head, and his damaged brain tissue could be seen through the wound.
But judging from his current posture and the way he handled matters, he must have been an elite soldier when he was alive.
His one intact right eye noticed Lu Xin's gaze. Perhaps out of a desire to cooperate, he was the first to step forward. Smiling, he said, "If I die on this mission, I hope Mr. Soldier will go back and tell my mother to take good care of herself from now on. Qinggang has always been generous with its pensions, so it should be enough for her old age. It's just..."
He paused, then smiled. "She absolutely mustn't let my good-for-nothing uncle cheat her out of it again."
Lu Xin nodded and said softly, "I'll remember that."
The captain was stunned.
He had only stepped