An Zhe felt a bit of pain and subconsciously embraced Lu Feng. The next second, a deafening explosion was heard in his ears.

The ground of the shallow pit trembled and rocks rolled down. An Zhe looked up and saw bright and intense fireworks explode in the night sky. Raging flames burned around the fighter plane and heat came from everywhere. The flames were like lightning that couldn’t be extinguished for a long time and the debris of the plane flew in all directions. A man’s broken hand flew high in the sky along with the fireworks. It stayed briefly at the highest point before falling. The hand landed not far from them, stirring up a cloud of dust.

The plane blew itself up, just like the two accidents that An Zhe had previously witnessed.

Three seconds later, the sound of the explosion stopped and the surrounding area was silent. There was only the sound of the wind, the flames as they were blown by the wind and smoke billowing.

Just barely. If he hadn’t gone into the plane then perhaps Lu Feng would’ve died in that explosion and he would’ve never known who died. Or, even if he went into the plane, Lu Feng didn’t wake up in time and both of them died.

His heart was a bit stuffy from escaping from death. His ears were buzzing and he could only hear their breathing. Then after a long time, he heard Lu Feng whispering, “…Thank you.”

An Zhe took a few short breaths, his body in pain. The places that hurt when he rolled to the ground were nothing. It was the aftermath of the electrocution and rough treatment by the soldiers that was more serious.

An Zhe looked up. In this way, he and Lu Feng watched each other. In the few seconds since they met, the pain of the current piercing his limbs rose from the depths of An Zhe’s consciousness. He seemed to be in that icy interrogator room again but this time, the interrogator was Lu Feng. Lu Feng was more dangerous and frightening than anyone else.

Lu Feng looked at him for a long time and An Zhe couldn’t understand his expression. Then he heard Lu Feng speak in a very low tone. “An Zhe?”

An Zhe didn’t speak.

The name on his ID card was An Ze but he called himself An Zhe. Even if there were many cases of unauthorized name changes due to dissatisfaction with the randomly assigned names in the outer city, the flaw itself still couldn’t be hidden.

These eyes—it was as if they could see through everything. They were the same eyes as when the two people first met. The day An Zhe walked through the gates, he had been ready to die under the Judge’s gun but that day, Lu Feng let him go. However, he escaped. The trial came two months late.