Cold front

Author: Ma Ji
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: The cold gaze behind the crosshairs is as sharp and chilling as a blade. A moment of weakness, a fleeting sympathy, or a brief hesitation could make one's own forehead the target. Every battle is a fight to the death, every shot a confrontation of life against life. Without having experienced such a life-or-death showdown, no one has the right to condemn the cruelty and bloodshed of a sniper, nor to criticize their cold-bloodedness. War demands that they remain composed in the face of death, even when the opponent's brains splatter in the scope, even when comrades or even loved ones fall beside them. The joy of hunting deer, the gentle reprimand of a mother, the beautiful home after the war, perhaps even the faint smile of a young son learning to walk—such emotions surge within them. Yet when they raise the gun, everything returns to calm. To wait calmly; to kill calmly; to face death at any moment calmly. An outstanding sniper, a soul forged in ice and fire, is tossed in the whirlpool of love and hate.