(Strong identity contrast + outbreak of the first battle)
"I was squatting next to the electric car and tearing up the take-out order, and a familiar stinging pain suddenly appeared in the back of my neck - it was the old shrapnel injury calling the police. I looked up and saw seven tattooed gangsters blocking the way. The leader was holding a cigarette and laughing: 'Delivery boy? I want you to deliver take-out to hell.'
I pushed the incubator onto the ground, cracking my knuckles.
Three years ago in the rainforest of northern Myanmar, I had the same smile when I led my team to break out of a circle surrounded by thirty drug dealers.
'Everyone,' I loosened my collar, revealing the hideous bullet marks on my collarbone, 'do you know why the special forces are not afraid of death?
Because——'
Before I finished speaking, I had already twisted the wrist of the nearest person, pinned the back joint to the back of his neck, and put my knee heavily on his waist: 'We are not even afraid of pain.
'
Later, when the police came to take a statement, the young man stared at the old scar on my arm and clicked his tongue: 'Brother, is this an injury you could get from delivering food?
'
I looked down at the hot braised pork in the insulator and smiled: 'Delivery?
What I am sending is the last line of safety in this city.
Reader comments
Some people have rivers and lakes, and rivers and lakes are dangerous.
Some people have rivers and lakes, and rivers and lakes are dangerous.