In the dark place between the Chinese and Japanese positions, in the cellar of the abandoned Lijiazhuang, there are eight large boxes of gold bars and two boxes of antiques hidden by the former Qing Dynasty landlord. He was rich enough to live three lifetimes. This land is littered with landmines, Japanese patrols and stray bullets. Entering there is a life-threatening situation. Adjutant Lao Chen desperately tries to dissuade him, asserting that it is a trap by the Japanese army, and trespassing will be punished as a deserter.
But Zhou Kui, who crawled out from the dead on the battlefield, had already been gnawed away at his conscience by greed, and the righteousness of his family and country was not worth ten thousand taels of gold. He lied about conducting reconnaissance at night, and without telling his superiors, he dragged Lao Chen, two veterans, and a new recruit, Gou Zi, into the dark wind outlet late at night.
Stepping into the Jedi is hell: a new soldier's dog stepped on a thunder and died miserably, Zhou Kui scolded him coldly; he encountered a Japanese patrol and a veteran died after being cut off, so he only climbed over the wall to seize the treasure; there were mountains of gold bars in the cellar, and he rushed to stuff them all over his body, but he was surrounded by Japanese troops. The adjutant fired the grenade to save his life, and the last companion was also killed by a stray bullet. He was the only one left among the five.
Zhou Kui, who was covered in gold, broke into the minefield in a panic and was captured alive by the Japanese army. The Japanese second lieutenant sneered and revealed the truth: the treasure map was meant to lure money-grubbers into a trap.
Zhou Kui frantically threw away the gold and begged for mercy, but was shot to death. Even before his death, he still held on to the gold bar and refused to let go. The next day, his body was hung by the Japanese army in front of the position, with the fatal piece of gold beside him.
The battalion commander looked at the corpse and only left one sentence: The word "greed" had a knife on his head, and he killed himself.
The artillery fire in Taierzhuang has not stopped. The most deadly thing is never the Japanese bullets and traps, but the endless greed that devours human nature. In a crazy game of exchanging lives for gold, he was the only one who was buried in the end.
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The characterization of the characters is meticulous!
The characterization of the characters is meticulous!