Ray

Chapter 24

, whispered: "It's okay... I'm here... It's okay..."

"Boss..." Clint called Hal in a low voice—he knew better than anyone what Eric meant to Hal.

"Call..." Hal widened his eyes and ordered in a low voice, "Call the emergency..."

"Boss..." Clint didn't move, just crouched down, trying to get closer to Hal.

"I asked you to call---!!!" Hal turned his head and roared angrily, Clint was startled, he looked at the blood red eyes of the boss, and quickly turned his head to tell the people behind him to call the emergency number.

"Boss, calm down..." As soon as Clint's hand touched Hal's shoulder, Hal kicked him to the ground. Hal hugged Eric, panting in a low voice.

Clint looked at Hal, who was almost out of control, and felt something was wrong. He got up from the ground and continued to drag Hal: "Boss, calm down! He's dead! He's dead! Let him go first!"

"Go away! Go away!" Hal yelled, and punched Clint with one punch, Clint had to withdraw his hand to parry, Hal was in a state of madness, he showed no mercy to Clint at all, holding Eric with one hand, and directly with the other Passing through Clint's defense gap, Clint's arm joints were removed. Clint snorted in pain, gave up the defense, and reached out to grab Eric in Hal's arms. Hal saw the moment Clint's fingers touched Eric's lapel, A hoarse growl burst out from his throat, he grabbed Clint by the collar, and hit Clint's head with his head, Clint's eyes went dark at that moment, and the brothers behind saw that the boss was in a bad state, so they all rushed over Pulled away the half-conscious Clint, until the ambulance came, seven or eight brothers plus Clint held down the crazy Hal, and received a sedative injection.

When Hal woke up from the hospital, Clint's head had been bandaged, and he limped to Hal's bed with bruises all over his body.

Hal stared out of the window blankly, and didn't speak for a long, long time.

Clint also accompanied him silently.

When the sunlight outside turned red, Hal said in a hoarse voice: "Where is he..."

"...the morgue downstairs..." Clint whispered back.

Hal nodded and pointed to the door, Clint immediately put clothes on Hal and led Hal to the morgue.

Hal put on his coat in a daze, and opened the heavy iron door. The accompanying doctors immediately pushed Eric's body out. They had already covered Eric's body with a white cloth.

Hal waved at the people behind him, and Clint immediately threw everyone out, including the doctor, before closing the door of the mortuary.

Hal clenched the clothes in his hands, and bit by bit he pulled off the white cloth covering Eric's body.

The blood on Eric's face had been wiped clean, but he was still wearing the suit he had died in - Hal had given him it.

Hal leaned closer to Eric's face, he gently stroked Eric's cheek with his fingers, the tentacles were icy cold, it was no longer that soft, warm feeling...

As if in a dream, Hal looked at Eric's closed eyes, grabbed Eric's lapel, and said hoarsely, "Wake up..."

Eric doesn't respond.

"Wake up..." Hal said, a tear pattered down Eric's cheek.

"Hey..." Hal firmly grasped Eric's lapel, shaking it slightly: "Didn't you say that you would be by my side all your life... It's only been so long... You're tired of it... You liar ..." Hal's tears seemed to be opened and could not be closed again, falling drop by drop from his cheeks to Eric's body: "You clearly said... as long as I am here, you will always follow behind me , Death can’t take you away, can’t it!? I’m here! I’m here!! I’m here──” Hal lay on Eric’s body, lying on that cold body, crying silently...

Suddenly, Hal's hand touched something, and he pulled out Eric's wallet from Eric's coat pocket. The moment he opened the wallet, Hal couldn't hold it anymore, and wailed hoarsely in pain—the wallet In addition to a few banknotes, there is a photo soaked in blood. In the photo, both of them are wearing well-fitting suits. Hal is sitting on a chair, and Eric is standing behind Hal, holding Hal's shoulders. They all had happy smiles on their faces──that was when Hal got married, the photographer asked the photographer to take a photo of the two of them alone...belonging to them...only the two of them...the wedding photo...

Hal wailed, clutching the photo tightly, crying hoarsely with all his strength, lying on Eric's cold body, as if he wanted to shed all the tears of his life... He tremblingly stroked Eric's cold body lips, then lowered his head and stuck his own lips on it...

Hal's tears hit the corners of Eric's eyes and trickled down Eric's cold cheeks - it looked like Eric was crying...

When Clint saw Hal push the door and came out, his face was the same as usual, without any expression, but Clint knew that Hal was crying, and he saw Hal's eyes were very red. Clint and Hal grew up together, but it was the first time Seeing him cry for the first time, Clint couldn't help feeling sore in his heart. Hal walked up to Clint and said in a voice that was almost completely hoarse: "Just cremate him like this, and bring the ashes to me."

After speaking, Hal walked out of the dark hospital corridor.

Since then, Clint issued an order that no one should ever mention Eric's name, and all evidence of this person's existence should be wiped out!It's not just about cutting off the tongue if Clint hears everything about this person.

Since then, Hal is like a different person, never smiled again...

"Uncle Clint... Father's will said... After he died, he was cremated, and then buried with him in the black box in the first drawer next to his bed." Fenrir said , interrupting Clint's memory.

Clint was stunned, and then heard Fenrir continue: "When I was packing up my father's belongings a few days ago, I opened that box and looked at it...there are ashes inside..." Fenrir raised his head and looked at Clint: " Uncle Clint, can you tell me whose ashes are?"

Clint glanced at Hal lying in the coffin, and sure enough, he saw a small black wooden box next to Hal, without any patterns or decorations on it.

"...Sorry Fenrir, I promised your father that I would never tell the fourth person about this matter... There are only three people in this world who know about this matter, two of them are dead, and I am The only one alive..." Clint closed his eyes, yes, I'm the only bystander who witnessed your love and staying together until the end...

Fenrir was stunned for a moment, and did not continue to ask further questions.

They were silent for a while, and Fenrir spoke again: "Uncle Clint, I don't understand, father can hide..."

"Huh?" Clint turned around and saw Fenrir staring at him, with an inexplicable light in his eyes: "Father's schedule is always irregular, but the habit of going to the beach once a year has always been kept, and it is always in May On that day, it was because of this that someone figured out his father's habits and planned this assassination... But the moment the killer pulled the trigger, my father could escape... I know... Although my father Already 46 years old, but his skills are still as agile as when he was young. I know he has discovered the existence of the killer... Father can completely avoid the vital position by turning sideways... But he didn't, he seemed to see something, and then... He smiled..." Fenrir closed his eyes, as if he could still see the mysterious smile on his father's face at that time...

When Clint heard this, the tears that had just stopped falling down again...

Yes, ten years...

He died ten years ago, and ten years later, he followed him...

He's been waiting for him for too long... ten years...

If it wasn't at that time and that place... Hal would never have been killed so easily...

Clint knew what Hal had seen.

Clint knows...

That's Eric coming to pick him up...

Clint and Natasha opened the door of Hal's room, looking at the room furnishings that seemed to be frozen by time, Natasha lifted her veil, gently stroked the foot of Hal's bed, Natasha sat on the bed, whispered: " Remember when we were kids we used to play hide and seek here..."

Clint nodded.

"When Hal first learned how to make a camera obscura at 16, he made one for himself...just the three of us