God's chessboard

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The ancient Zodiac Tower is a mysterious place. One of the 12 towers is hidden in the rainforest. Even in Siem Reap, few people know its existence. It is more dilapidated and gloomy than the other 11 towers. The 12 Zodiac Tower is the place where the ancient Khmer Kingdom executed prisoners. The prisoner was tied up in the tower, and a bag of poisonous snakes would be poured on him. If he could survive for three days and three nights, he could be pardoned, but no one ever walked out of the 12 Zodiac alive. Zodiac tower.

At this moment, Wang Yao is being hung in this ancient pagoda. His hands are tightly bound by the rough hemp rope in the form of cross buckles and hung above his head. They were all hanging on the wrists, and the shoulder joints were under too much pressure, and it didn't take long for them to be so sore that they couldn't exert any strength.

Al fell on the ground at the feet of Vankata and the new master, his hands and feet were tied tightly, and he couldn't get up, which made him feel like a ridiculous big bug.

The new master was complaining anxiously to Fankata: "This is a stupid idea! It's boring and perverted! Just shoot it in the head and it's over!"

Fankata snorted disdainfully: "Our goal is to kill Wang Yao. There is no requirement for the way to achieve the goal. I would rather add some fun to the process."

"No, we can't make extra troubles, kill him quickly so we can make a difference!" The new master shouted at Fankata.

Fankata turned a deaf ear and signaled to his subordinates to continue.Two minions transported a big bulging bag to the top of the tower, untied the bag and dumped it into the tower.A bunch of poisonous snakes fell from the sky and poured on Wang Yao with their heads covered. Some snakes hung on his body, coiled around his limbs and neck, and the rest fell on the ground around him, crawling around.

"Yao!" Al exclaimed.

Van Kata laughed cruelly: "I like to enjoy a wonderful show slowly."

Even though Wang Yao was bold, he was so nervous that he tensed his body, not daring to move. He looked at Fankata bitterly, gritted his teeth and said, "I dare to ask: Is this a personal grievance?"

"For me," said Vankatta, "yes."

"It seems that you are not only narrow-minded but also very stingy," Wang Yao sneered, "I let go of those 10 girls and made you bankrupt, right?"

Wang Yao's sarcasm didn't achieve the goal, Fankata just squeezed out a cold smile: "You are very good - as a killer, but the psychological tactics are so bad, no matter what you say or do, you just let this out The show is better, so you can die!"

"I have one last question," Wang Yao said cautiously, trying not to stir his chest so as not to disturb a poisonous snake wrapped around his chest, "What is your personal grievance?"

Fankata narrowed his eyes and said slowly: "I won't tell you, and you don't deserve to know. I won't allow your ears to hear his name, and I won't allow your lips to utter his name. That's against him." blasphemy!"

"Who is he? Your brother? Or your lover?" Wang Yao's falcon-like eyes fixed on Fankata's eyes full of disgust and hatred, "Did he die by my gun? Or by the knife? I I hope it is a knife, then I will know who it is." Wang Yao only used a knife as a killing tool once in his life, and other times the knife was only used for cooking in his hands.

Fankata finally started to get angry. He glared at Wang Yao viciously, and subconsciously touched the cock under the skirt.

"Yao! Stop talking!" Al shouted anxiously.

A poisonous snake had wrapped around Wang Yao's neck, and the snake's head was resting dangerously on his throat.

"Kill him! Kill him quickly!" The new master urged Fankata.

Fankata pulled out the gun and shot the new master's head.The decapitated body fell limply to the ground like a pile of rubbish.Both Al and Wang Yao were stunned by the changes in front of them, but they still remained calm. Only a few of Xin Ye's subordinates screamed. These people were quickly controlled by Fankata's people, and their throats were cut almost at the same time. , So there were a few more corpses on the ground.

Fankata turned the gun to Wang Yao, and said calmly: "No, the bullets in this gun will not be given to you, I promise that no one will disturb my elegance of watching the show, I want to watch it." Watching you being bitten by a poisonous snake, watching you die in pain little by little when the poison takes hold."

Wang Yao sneered: "Me and the poisonous snake, it's hard to say who can poison the other!"

As soon as the words fell, one of Fankata's subordinates was knocked down to the ground. The attacker snatched the gun from the subordinate and quickly killed other people around him. Turned the gun on him.

"Amazing, Agent Jones." Vankata smiled slightly surprised.

Al held the gun steadily, and ordered in a deep voice: "Put the gun down!"

"Don't get excited, I'm not your enemy, this killer codenamed 'Angel' is the one who will kill you." Fankata put down his gun.

"Al! Be careful!" Wang Yao shouted anxiously, ignoring that the shaking of his body might irritate the poisonous snake.

Al leaned over to avoid the attack from behind, it was a subordinate who had just been knocked out just now.Al turned and shot, killing the man.

Just when Al was distracted to deal with his subordinates, Fankata seized the opportunity and shot Wang Yao.

Hearing the ominous gunshot, Al turned his head abruptly, and saw Wang Yao's expression changed from shock to pain, and the gunshot wound that had just begun to bleed.Vankata's shot hit the right side of Wang Yao's chest. The severe pain made Wang Yao almost lose his consciousness. In his blurred vision, Al threw Fankata to the ground, causing Fankata to lose consciousness. The second bullet fired from the barrel missed and hit the wall of the stone tower instead of Wang Yao's head.

Al and Vankata fought, and their limbs were entangled. Al used the gun with no bullets in his hand as a hammer, knocked on Vankata's wrist, forcing the latter's gun to drop to the ground, and then tried his best to reach Gun on the ground.Van Catta grabs Al's wrist and pulls hard, preventing him from getting the gun.

Suddenly, a third voice intervened in the struggle: "Stop it all, or I'll call the police!"

Al looked up and saw that it was Wang Jialong and Ivan who came, but he didn't withdraw from the hand-to-hand combat.Fankata reacted faster than him. Taking advantage of Al's raising his head, he pushed his opponent away, got up and ran into the jungle, and soon disappeared.Al didn't chase after him, he got up and ran to the side of the ancient tower, and saw that Wang Yao had lost consciousness, hanging in the tower with only ropes, poisonous snakes crawled everywhere on the ground and tower walls around him.

Wang Jialong and Ivan did not go after Vankata either. Ivan walked to Al and sighed inappropriately: "There are so many poisonous snakes! Did Vankata catch all the snakes in Siem Reap?"

"Hurry up and find a way to get Yao out, he's been shot!" Al tried to walk into the tower.

Wang Jialong stopped him: "Let professional people do this." He said as he took off his coat to tease a snake, and then he shot like lightning and grabbed the writhing poisonous snake with his bare hands.After quickly dealing with the snakes on the ground that blocked the entrance, the road leading to the tower was cleared.

"You can go in now, but you still have to be careful of those snakes around." Wang Jialong said.

Al couldn't wait to jump in, Wang Jialong followed behind, and finally Ivan.Ivan was not afraid of these poisonous snakes crawling around. He picked up a rusty old water pipe from nowhere, and killed a brightly colored poisonous snake with one pipe: "Does anyone want to eat snake meat?"

"Yao!" Al came to Wang Yao and called anxiously.

"Don't move, there is still a snake on his body." Wang Jialong observed carefully, most of the snake on Wang Yao's body had crawled away, only the one around his neck was still coiled comfortably, and it was very difficult to get it off.

"Hurry up! He's dying!" Al Chong Wang Jialong shouted.

"Yelling can't increase my work efficiency." Wang Jialong replied, but kept his eyes on the poisonous snake. After a few seconds of confrontation, he suddenly reached out and grabbed the snake's head. This move was very risky, and he almost died. It was necessary to encounter those terrible fangs, but luckily he and Wang Yao were not bitten by snakes.

"Okay." Wang Jialong took a step back.

Al and Iwan put Wang Yao down and carefully moved out of the tower. The wound on Wang Yao's chest was bleeding, and his consciousness almost completely disappeared.

"Yao! Wang Yao!" Al desperately called his name, trying to regain his consciousness.

Ivan tried Wang Yao's breathing: "If he is really dead this time, there is nothing I can do - he already owes me one life, and he can't afford the debt of two lives." Ivandi, who has always been calm and confident, Frustrated once.

Wang Yao's mind was struggling in confusion and severe pain, he managed to catch a sliver of consciousness, and only had time to utter a few syllables: "Al, run..." Then he fell into darkness completely.

a decade ago.

Fankata spent his youth in the cesspit-like slums of Mumbai. He almost died of dysentery when he was ten years old, so the following years were regarded as lifeless.Vankata is the only white-skinned boy in the slums. His father is an unknown Caucasian man, and his mother is an Indian woman living in the slums. Vankata has never met his father, and his mother left him only one Sick impression.Vankata lost his mother when he was eight years old, and since then he has lived as a thief, stealing food from other poor people to support himself.Due to his distinctive appearance from other Indians, Vankatha was easily noticed, which made him more punched and clubbed when he failed to steal than other teenage thieves.

When he was ten years old, Van Catta contracted dysentery. He had no money to treat the disease. The way poor people treat dysentery is to inject an injection with an unsterilized needle. What is injected into the body is not medicine, but Pepsi. If you can't live, let it die.Fankata didn't have Pepsi, so he could only hide under the eaves of other people's houses that barely shaded him, waiting for his body to die slowly.

But Vankata did not go smoothly to meet a certain god his mother believed in. A young Japanese man walked beside him under the blazing sun. The man could not see his face clearly with his back to the sun. Only to his hand, a gentleman's well-kept hand.

"Son, are you sick?" the man asked in Japanese English.

Vankata could not understand English, not even English with an Indian accent.

Surprisingly, the Japanese actually spoke a language that Fanka could understand. Although he still had a strong Japanese accent, Fankata could understand: "Come on, let me help you, I can cure you." Good for your illness."

So Fankata put his skinny little hand into the palm of the Japanese, and let him pull himself up, and walked out of the dirty and smelly hell on earth.

Afterwards, Fankata received good care. Not only did he receive the best medical treatment, but he was also able to eat three full meals a day.The Japanese didn't tell him his name, only let him call himself "mentor". He did become the first mentor in Fankata's life. He brought Fankata back to Japan and lived in a beautiful Japanese-style house. patio.There, Fankata met the mentor's half-brother—a teenager named Honda Ju. Honda Ju was only 16 years old, much younger than the mentor, but in the eyes of the stunted Fankata, he was already an adult.Honda Ju’s eyes always show contempt and disgust, not only towards Fankata, but also towards his mentor. Once Fankata overheard the conversation between Honda Ju and his mentor, Honda Ju said meaningfully: “ Can one more Indian monkey make your plot succeed? Brother!" He deliberately bit the word "brother" hard, as if he wanted to crush it.

The mentor never mentioned the feud between their brothers to Vankatat. He didn't seem to care about the younger brother Honda Ju. The young Vankata realized that the two brothers hated each other, perhaps because their mother was not the same person. guess.It was not until later that Fankata gradually understood that the mentor and Honda Ju had been fighting openly and secretly for the position of the heir of the Yamaguchi-gumi.However, the mentor cared very much about Fankata, treated him as his own, and soon gained Fankata's trust and love.From then on, the tutor taught Vankata in his special way. Their first class was physics, which Vankata had never touched.

Fankata clearly remembered that the instructor took an atomic structure diagram that day, pointed to the green balls jumping up and down around the nucleus, and said: "This is an electron, and its movement has no rules to follow. You can imagine them as human beings. The behavior of each individual individual is unpredictable, like a flock of fleas."

Before Fankata figured out what "electron" is, the instructor took out another picture, which showed a large area of ​​green dots. The instructor pointed to this large group of dense things and said: "When When a large number of electrons are gathered together, an electron cloud is formed. The behavior of a single electron is unpredictable, but the electron cloud is regular. This is like a crowd. When there are enough people, the purpose and regularity of crowd behavior will be It's very clear that we can take it, we can guide it, we can change it and get them in the direction we want them to go."

With the intelligence of a 10-year-old, Van Catta finally understood: "Are you saying we can make people do what we want?"

The instructor shook his head: "It's similar, but what we have to do is much more complicated and difficult. What we want to control is the development and changes of the entire world, so the electronic cloud we want to adjust is the world's billions of people. .”

"So many people!" Fankata couldn't help but gasp.

"Although the number of people is huge, a key detail can change the direction of the whole society, just like a butterfly flapping its wings may cause a tsunami, and an inconspicuous detail can change everything," the tutor said with a smile, "such as ,one person."

The young Vankata thought it was cool: "Teacher, are you such a person?"

“We could all be one of those people,” said the mentor, “and we’d all be one of them, one that would make the world a better place.”

"An important member?"

"Equally important."

The recognition that he is so important made Fankata very excited. He felt like a hero. Although he still couldn't understand the full meaning of his mentor, he had decided to follow his mentor without hesitation.

But the instructor told him very seriously: "You have to know that our purpose is to make the human world better, but we are not philanthropists. It is impossible for every decision and every action to look just. We It may even break the law, it may kill other people, but on top of all that, any good deeds are nothing compared to our goals."

Fankata nodded ignorantly. At the age of 10, he officially joined the "God's Project".

The mentor is not the founder of the "God's Project", and he doesn't know all the participants of this great project. He only knows a few of them. Obviously, the real "God" doesn't want too many connections between members.It is the mentor's task to cultivate Fankata into a unique talent. According to the plan, this task will be officially completed when Fankata is 18 years old. At that time, the mentor will also play a more important role in the plan as the leader of the Yamaguchi group. Role.

However, the mentor failed to become the leader of the Yamaguchi-gumi in the end. When Fankata was 15 years old, the mentor died in a murder planned by Honda Chrysanthemum on the seventeen-mile coastline of San Francisco. The bullet that killed the mentor came from Wang Yao muzzle.

After the death of the mentor, Fankata was forced to leave the Yamaguchi group. He seemed to have become an abandoned child of God's plan, and returned to the life of living on the streets before the age of 10.But at this time, Fankata already possessed complete survival skills. He smuggled to Thailand, and the business of selling drugs quickly flourished. At the age of 18, he became the largest underworld leader in Southeast Asia.It was at this time that God planned to find Vankata again. His growth exceeded their expectations and his importance increased greatly. Therefore, God planned to send one of the most important killers "Boning Knife" Thayer to under his command.After that, Thayer stayed with Fankata for many years. Although he was his subordinate in name, he directly accepted the tasks sent by his superiors until he was arrested four years ago.

now.

Vankata escaped with the help of Cashew. He was not injured, but his face remained clouded.He didn't want to admit that it was his conceited mistake not to kill Wang Yao quickly, maybe that shot had killed Wang Yao, but he couldn't be sure.After leaving the Zodiac Tower, Fankata drove to the airport, where his private plane was waiting.

Cashew asked while driving: "Where are you going?"

"Istanbul," Vankata said.

Wang Yao felt that there was a void in his consciousness, as if everything had been deleted from the hard drive—everything that makes up a living person.He realizes in horror that this is death, and he desperately grasps the feeling that he has no self left, and forcefully pulls his consciousness back to the body with a substantial shell.

Wang Yao thought he woke up from a terrifying struggle, but actually he just slowly opened his eyes.

"Are you awake?" A familiar voice, in oddly accented English.

"Bolang Yilin?" Wang Yao recognized the person in front of him.

"You're finally awake!" Bo Lang Yilin seemed to have just let go of his heart, "You almost died! The bullet scratched your lungs, and if it missed your lungs, it would be fatal."

"Where is Al?" Wang Yao remembered the most important thing, "Where is Wang Jialong?"

"Calm down, you need to rest." Bolang Yilin persuaded.

Wang Yao frowned and looked at the Thai: "You changed your career to become a nurse? Tell me where Al is!" He grabbed Bolang Yilin's hand hard. Fortunately, he is now weak due to injury, otherwise the Thai Wrists are bound to be broken.

The door of the ward was pushed open, and at the same time came a calm voice: "Stop making noise, your FBI boyfriend is here!" It was Ivan who came in, followed by Al.

"Ivan, you bastard!" Wang Yao shouted, "Al, go away! It is Wang Jialong who wants to kill you!"

Ivan curled his lips: "Hey, then why am I the one being scolded?"

"You know! You always knew the truth, you acquiesced to Wang Jialong to keep Al in Siem Reap! Wang Jialong pretended to let us out of surveillance, he wanted to kill Al and put the blame on Van Kata, so that I would not suspect him and would keep chasing him Run with Fankata, everything will be fine after I kill Fankata, am I right?" Wang Yao asked.

"Partly correct," Ivan laughed. "As for what's going on, why don't you ask your lover?"

Wang Yao turned his eyes to Al suspiciously. Al had already walked to his bed, sat down on the seat vacated by Bolang Yilin, and held Wang Yao's right hand: "Yao, I already knew that when you were unconscious Wang Jialong told me everything."

Wang Yao didn't understand, so: "What do you know?"

"The reason why Wang Jialong wants to kill me, the reason why Fankata wants to kill you," Al said, "and the most important thing—God's plan."

"God's plan?" Wang Yao's eyes widened for this unfamiliar word.

"Yao, you need to rest. I'll tell you when you recover," Al said in relief. "You can rest assured that no one is going to kill me now, and I will protect you from any harm." He As he spoke, he leaned over and kissed Wang Yao.

"Hey! It's disgusting!" Ivan turned his face away with a disgusted expression.

Bolang Yilin quietly opened the door of the ward, and carefully pulled Ivan's sleeve. Ivan did not object, and left with Bolang Yilin.In the room, only Wang Yao, who was already asleep on the hospital bed, and Al, who was standing beside him, were left.

tbc

☆、Chapter 18