Chapter 412 Tacit Understanding

The deputy commander said as he walked out.

When he reached the door, he grabbed the door handle with one hand and turned his head to the guard who was still in the room and said:

"He will stay here tonight. At the same time, strengthen the defense here. Be sure to keep an eye on him."

"I don't want any more accidents. Do you understand me?"

After receiving the order, the guard saluted in response.

After the deputy commander's footsteps went away, the guard looked at Yi Hao who was still sitting on the chair fiercely.

He said in a cold tone:

"Be honest!"

"The deputy commander is easy to talk to, but I am not so easy to talk to!"

Hearing this, Yi Hao raised his head and rolled his eyes at him, and then said jokingly:

"After all, I am still a brigadier general now. It seems inappropriate for you to talk to me like this, right?"

The guard narrowed his eyes when he heard this.

Although Yi Hao was joking, he was also telling the truth.

So he could only snort coldly and left here.

Yi Hao didn't care what happened outside.

He leaned back in his chair and fell into deep thought.

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On the other side.

Shadow also noticed something was wrong through the soldiers constantly coming and going outside the window.

So he picked up the office communicator on the table.

"Guard, bring me a pack of cigarettes."

Soon, there was a knock on the door.

A fully armed soldier walked in.

He saluted Shadow first, then took out the cigarette in his tactical pocket.

As Shadow took the cigarette, the soldier saluted again, then turned around and prepared to leave.

At this time, Shadow called him.

"Wait a minute, sit down and smoke a cigarette before leaving."

The soldier turned around and saw Shadow's smiling face, and Lu Xiao sitting in the office chair with his eyes closed.

He hesitated, but finally chose to obey Shadow's order.

Shadow picked up the cigarette and patted it lightly on the back of his hand, then took out a cigarette and handed it to the guard first.

The guard felt a little flattered, and he quickly took the cigarette with both hands.

Then Shadow picked up the lighter and lit it for the other party.

This set of things made the guard soldier feel unreal.

Shadow smiled and then lit a cigarette for himself.

Neither of them spoke, but just smoked one by one.

After a while, a cigarette burned out.

When the soldier was about to leave, Shadow patted him on the shoulder and said:

"I remember your last name is Li, right?"

Although the guard soldier was a little surprised, he nodded.

Because Shadow was not here all year round, there was no guard specially assigned to him here.

So he was temporarily arranged to serve as a guard.

Logically, Shadow should not know him.

Before he could react, Shadow smiled and pointed to the nearest chair and said:

"Thank you for your hard work, sit down and rest for a while."

"You can smoke two more cigarettes with me."

Guard: "Chief...I."

Shadow interrupted him, still smiling on his face and said:

"Just take it as an order from me."

Hearing this, the guard had to sit down.

Shadow handed him another cigarette.

This time, before Shadow could light the cigarette for him, the guard took out a lighter from somewhere.

With a light "click" sound.

Shadow's eyes fell on the flame, and his expression was a little strange:

"Good boy, it seems that you smoke a lot."

The guard smiled awkwardly and said:

"Chief, let me light it for you."

Shadow smiled and pointed at the other party, but he didn't mean to refuse.

After a long puff of smoke, Shadow continued to smile and said:

"Xiao Li, you don't have to be so restrained."

"I believe you can see that I came to you just to ask you something."

Hearing this, the guard hurriedly responded:

"Chief, just tell me, I will tell you as long as I know it."

Shadow patted his trouser leg with the hand holding the cigarette, and then smiled and said to the guard:

"I was just woken up by the alarm, and I don't know what happened outside."

"Can you tell me in detail?"

Hearing this, the guard said with a sigh.

"A guard team was killed collectively."

"It should be that the officer they were in charge of guarding was going to desert."

After hearing what the guard said, Shadow was stunned for only half a second.

Then he connected this matter with Yi Hao.

He pondered for a moment, and said with a puzzled tone:

"Did that officer do this?"

The guard slowly exhaled a puff of cigarette, and said in a puzzled tone:

"Who else could it be except him."

"Now he has been caught, and the deputy commander is interrogating him."

Shadow nodded, and then his expression became sad.

"Why do you think he is a deserter?"

The guard hesitated for a moment, then turned his head and looked at Lu Xiao, who was crossing his legs on the desk.

He lowered his voice and said:

"Some people say that he lied about military intelligence and was exposed."

"So I guess he should be preparing to flee for fear of crime."

Hearing this, Shadow smiled dumbly and said:

"Okay, I roughly understand what happened."

After speaking, he inserted the cigarette butt in his hand into the ashtray.

Then he handed the remaining half pack of cigarettes to the guard and said:

"Take this and save yourself the trouble."

"If you are discovered, don't say I gave it to you."

"Otherwise, Lao Zhang will come and nag me again, saying that I took the lead in disrupting military discipline."

The guard smiled and nodded, then hid the cigarette close to his body.

After doing all this, he saluted the shadow.

"Then chief, I will return to my post first."

"If anything happens, just give me your orders at any time!"

Shadow nodded and waved: "Go."

After the guards left, Lu Xiao, who had been lying on the chair with his eyes closed to rest, opened his eyes.

After he put his legs down, he looked at the shadow and said:

"Why did the victim run?"

Shadow did not answer immediately, but held his chin and fell into deep thought.

After a while, he said in a solemn voice:

"He probably didn't do this."

"I guess who killed the guard and then wanted to take him away from here."

Lu Xiao blinked and said:

"Who could that be?"

The shadow began to pace back and forth in the room.

After a while.

The noise coming from the window became much quieter.

It seems that the matter has been resolved.

At this moment, Shadow seemed to have thought of something.

He said in a deep voice:

"I just deduced the direction of things."

"Since he is preparing to escape from here, as a qualified victim, the possibility of being caught is not too great."

"So who should have taken the victim away."

"But at the last moment, he chose to be caught on purpose."

"You should be trying to convey some information to me through this move."

"I guess he was doubting the identity of the man who took him away."