sinovels Chapter 27 Chapter 27
Chapter 27 Chapter 27
At the same time, Jimmy drove more than 300 kilometers in the desert, and according to the coordinates on the navigation system, he came to a cliff on the border of country Y.
It is quite far away from the Thar Desert.The barren landscape is replaced by a glimmer of popularity in the small village.The cave on the edge of the cliff is not only inhabited, but also has a school, a chapel, and even a witch doctor's house.
As soon as Jimmy turned the car onto the path, he saw a US jeep that was about to be scrapped. It was the "Vulture" organization. They were attacked by the three southern government forces and the UN peacekeeping force , lacking armaments, could only rely on American vehicles captured during the Revolutionary War.
So...they are about to fight with their backs.
It couldn't be farther from the truth.
Jimmy's car was finally forced to stop at the end of a gravel road.A former mercenary with a gun in front of him and a member of a terrorist organization searched him, then raised his neck and motioned him to follow.
Jimmy was taken to a cliff cave installed with modern panoramic floor-to-ceiling glass on the edge of the cliff, waiting for the arrival of his former colleague Rahimi.
Unexpectedly, after waiting for more than an hour, it was his general father, old Lahimi, who was waiting.He never thought that the leader of the terrorist organization would actually appear at the transaction negotiation scene in person.
Jimmy walked up, wanting to shake his hand, but regretted it in the middle of the walk—old Rahimi had grown old in the past few months.He was now on crutches, and it was difficult to even raise his head. He looked at Jimmy with difficulty, as if he wanted to talk to him.
Jimmy sneered: "You sold insulin for such a broken car?"
He pointed behind his back, "You don't think you can rely on that thing to win the government army? You killed Edison Chan just to hold this pile of junk and wait for death?"
Old Rahimi waved and served a table of tarrish stew with freshly baked naan.He himself does not eat meat, only stewed vegetables.
He didn't answer, but asked instead: "The sheep is still alive?"
Jimmy snorted coldly: "Don't bother you."
Old Rahimi smiled, causing a cough: "Cough, cough... that is... still alive."
Jimmy put his legs up on the table, leaned comfortably on the rattan chair covered with wolf fur, looked out of the floor-to-ceiling windows, the greenery of the valley stretched for thousands of miles, so different from Tal: "Rahmi, I respect You, but business is business. Whether it’s me or Edison Chan, I met you because of business. I’m going to produce a batch of candy raw materials. Chen’s capital’s reputation, you can believe that things will never be fake. We are in the south The Three Kingdoms market has been in the market for so many years, no matter who wins, we can continue to mix. As you know, country Z is also interested in this batch of candy, and you are also interested in this batch of candy. Originally, this made it difficult for me , country Z obviously, with all due respect, has more economic strength. But—”
Jimmy paused deliberately.He wondered if the psychological pressure he had put on old Rahimi was working.But this was his only chance: "You have a huge advantage—you have the information I want. Tell me, what happened in Taal on the day of the founding ceremony?"
After hearing these words, old Lahimi had a rare smile on his face, and even his wrinkles were squeezed together.It made him look more like an ordinary old man than a general: "If I tell you, you'll sell us something?"
Jimmy nodded.
Old Lahimi asked someone to make a pot of tea, brought it to Jimmy, watched him drink it without hesitation, and said, "I should tell you about the past. The fate of the three southern countries changed overnight. Yes. Child, why is your life not..."
His tone was gentle, and he should have looked kind, but the scar on his face made him feel a little gloomy: "I was in Taal that day and attended the founding ceremony of the country, and you probably have already investigated it. So I know What happened then—"
Jimmy interrupted him: "I'll tell you the truth, I've seen your old comrade, the Ministry of Defense next door...I believe he's a minister by now. I've heard his version. Now I'm going to listen to you. "
Old Lahimi said unhurriedly: "My version...my version...your father entered the VIP box, and when he came out, he probably started complaining of stomach pains because he drank alcohol."
"Stomach bleeding—who else was in the box but him?"
"Also..." Old Lahimi sneered, "of course he is a running dog of Country Y."
"Who?"
Old Rahimi took out a photo from his pocket, and Jimmy only glanced at it before his heart moved.
Only old Lahimi said in a low voice: "The actual controller of Salt Water City. People from country K."
It wasn't the first time Jimmy had seen that black and white photo.
In Dreamland in Saltwater City, the Minister of Defense of Country Z, the fat man who sent people to hunt him down, showed him this photo from his pocket watch.In the photo, three young men in mercenary military uniforms stood side by side, with half-smiles on their faces, and the sun was strong, probably a victory day.
At that time, he was shocked by the fact that the Minister of Defense of a country actually carried a photo with the terrorists of the enemy country with him, fearing that there was something hidden in it, which was unknown.
At this moment, I saw that the terrorist actually carried the Minister of Defense of the neighboring country who hunted and killed them all day long in his pocket...
Jimmy felt speechless.For Lin Mu, he wished he could keep him in his pocket.But old Rahimi...
Jimmy waited to listen to the story, then leisurely took out a portable radio, put an old-fashioned cassette of Jay Chou's "Fantasy" in it, and played it at a low volume.
Naturally, he couldn't understand the Chinese songs, but the melody seemed to resonate, so they didn't mind.
"We...cough cough...we used to...cough...very trust each other." Old Rahimi coughed and bent over. Jimmy magically pulled a sedative from his pocket and stuck it in the vein on the back of his hand before his bodyguard could react.
The bodyguards panicked and rushed up to search Jimmy again, but old Rahimi frowned and waved them away.
"waste."
Jimmy smiled triumphantly: "It's just this one, no need to search. Don't worry, I'm not letting you die. I hope you live well so that you can tell me what happened back then."
Old Rahimi went on to say: "At that time Edison Chan originally said that he wanted to make a deal with us... Candy raw materials... As soon as he had a stomach bleed, we knew the deal would not work. We immediately contacted the rescue helicopter of Jianxin Group, but ...The people of country K stopped the helicopter from taking off."
"why?"
"He wouldn't say it."
Jimmy thought, they were old comrades-in-arms, and they were both in high positions at the time, so they probably couldn't be interrogated by torture.
Jimmy: "So you guess he's on the side of the country Z. They don't want Edison Chan to live long enough to make a deal with you."
Old Rahimi sighed: "Because he died."
Jimmy: "What?"
Rahimi Sr. went on: "A week later there was an electrical transformer accident outside Thar. He died in that accident."
Jimmy: "Someone's going to shut him down."
Old Rahimi: "That's not me."
Jimmy: "If what you said is true, it can only be... country Z."
There is no fourth person.The three influential figures in the three southern countries turned against each other overnight after the War of Independence. One died in a conspiracy accident, the other became a murderer, and the last one, old Rahimi, was sick and old in a village far away from Taal. In the cliff cave.
This really suits the Americans.
Americans do not want peace in the three southern countries.Local hot wars can provide the US military with a steady stream of reasons to send troops to intervene. Under the banner of "peacekeeping", they will not be condemned by international public opinion.
Just as Jimmy was about to express his sympathy for the three southern countries, old Rahimi's subordinates rushed in and whispered a message in his ear.
Old Rahimi coughed for a while, and finally smiled:
"Jimmy, my boy...our deal, have you never been prepared to keep your promise?"
Thousands of miles away, Tar.
For the first time, the aroma of dumplings and Erguotou wafted out of the castle built by the Bangalore people for centuries.Lin Mu specially asked someone to catch fish from the lake on the outskirts of Taal, and made dumplings stuffed with leek and fish meat, so that Aunt Aruna and Ajit, who have different religious beliefs, could eat them.
The stars were low, and the first pot of dumplings was snatched up among the crowd.Those who are not proficient with chopsticks simply use forks to join the battle.
"Dry this cup!"
"Go ahead, whoever is afraid of whom!"
"Aren't you a doctor? Who says drinking is bad for your health—"
"Alcohol is good for mental health!"
Chen Yan and Ajit have already drank like brothers and sisters.Ji Yuanyuan kept pouring a thousand cups, and Yu Yun quarreled with them.Aunt Aruna ate what was in the pot, and thought about packing a box for her sister and daughter.
"I heard that this is a traditional festival in your country..."
"It's the Great Cold, the last solar term of the year, and also the coldest time."
"Great cold? I thought it was the winter solstice! Don't you eat dumplings only during the winter solstice?"
Lin Mu poked his head out of the kitchen, still wearing an apron, "It's the winter solstice to eat dumplings. But I was in Xianshui City during the winter solstice, so I didn't catch up. We will make up for it today..."
Ji Yuanyuan's gossiping eyelids twitched: "Make it up? What are you going to do? You have something to do for your little Tony?! When did you do it? Why don't you notify us!"
Lin Mu thought of Jimmy who didn't know where he was at this time, his eyes dimmed, but his heart beat wildly nervously.
Chen Yan drunkenly took another plate of dumplings, and muttered over and over again: "Great Chill, the coldest day of the year...the darkest day...the night is the longest and the darkest..."
Before Ji Yuanyuan had time to scold him for drinking before his injury fully healed, he heard an ominous "click".
"Captain Lin," Ji Yuanyuan stood between the trees and the window, pretending to lean over to see how the dumplings are cooking, but actually moved her lips, "There are people outside...with guns."
Old Rahimi no longer hides with Jimmy.
"You are very similar to Edison Chan...everything is alike...just a little different." He ordered Jimmy to be lifted up and pushed to the floor-to-ceiling windows, "You are too kind."
Jimmy held his hands up in surrender, trying to figure out what he was saying.
Old Rahimi went on to say: "Insulin, tranquilizers... what else? Are you still donating the library to Thar University? You want to save everything you see, whether it's people or animals... If Edison Chan is like You are so kind, he will die sooner."
"Fuck you!" Jimmy cursed, trying to break free but it was too late.He watched the smoke rising in the valley—it must be time for dinner on the other side of the forest.If he saw this scene, he probably liked it: the sun still had a little afterglow on the horizon, and it was warm outside the window, but he couldn't feel anything through a layer of glass.
Old Rahimi propped himself up, walked to the window step by step, and pointed a gun at Jimmy's temple: "You are so kind to people, but why don't you think about the people in Tal? Why don't you finish what Edison Chan didn't finish? Don’t want to finish it for him? Look at the 850 million people in Tal...they are still under the iron heels of the aliens, and they haven’t been free yet!”
Jimmy turned his head away, stepped forward to hold the gun, and said sharply, "Tell your people not to touch my people."
Old Lahimi asked with great interest: "Otherwise?"
Jimmy replied: "Otherwise I will die in front of you. Without the ammunition of Chen's capital, no one can think of freedom."
Probably because he was used to threats and life and death in his military career, it was the first time that old Lahimi saw a hostage using his life to negotiate terms with the kidnappers.The moment applauds this fresh and ingenious strategy: "Your kindness saved your life, Jimmy, I could have killed you today. Now to make it clear to you, give you a favor, for your insulin."
Old Rahimi had been let go of him.
Several young Tal men pushed him out of the cave and dragged him blindfolded along the main road when he came.
When Jimmy opened his eyes again, his black box was gone, and there was a lamb tied to the highway milestone, which looked very similar to Bingtang.
"Fuck me!"
The men who escorted him gave away their hands and pushed him onto the road: "The general said, we already have your things. The car is the transaction, and the sheep is the price. You go, don't come back."
"Fuck me..."
Jimmy cursed inwardly.This is a strong buy and sell.What is "we already have what you have"?Could it be that thing?
How could they get it? !
Jimmy looked at the lamb that the black box bought, and the lamb looked at him, bleating pitifully.
In Taal Castle, when strange militants broke into the door, Lin Mu calmly ordered everyone to kneel down, raise their hands, admit defeat, and don't see each other's face, showing full sincerity of surrender.
But he only heard Ajit screaming out five meters away: "Rahmi!"
At this time last year, Tal Abdullah Hawthorne III Airport's monthly "Thar Stars" were under the stars, pointing guns at them.
Rahimi assessed the situation sternly, and ordered a few of his men to lock up all the hostages in the living room, and then turned around and left with the rest of them.
Lin Mu heard their voices and knew that they had gone to the basement.
He remembered the first time he stayed at Jimmy's house, he wondered at the big iron door like a bank vault, and Jimmy patted his chest to assure that it wasn't the basement of a perverted murderer, and he was the first one he brought back. home man...
At that time, Jimmy's face was suddenly unnatural, flushed as if he had drunk alcohol, and he pretended to say "Of course I didn't mean that", but he suddenly understood: that's what he meant.
Now that Jimmy was gone, he patted his chest and assured him "no big deal" before he left.As a result, as soon as Jimmy left on the front foot, the "Vulture" on the back foot sent the leader to lead the team directly to his basement.
It's a good way to turn the tiger away from the mountain... Lin Mu's heart is not good, Jimmy may have been tricked.I wonder how he is doing now?
"You, say the password."
Rahimi came back with someone, and brought back a leather safe the size of a medicine chest.He pointed his gun at the trees, as if he knew his identity a long time ago.But...how did they know?
Lin Mu raised his eyebrows: "You let them go first."
Rahimi looked around, Ji Yuanyuan, Chen Yan, Aunt Aruna, and Ajit were each tied to a chair, blindfolded, gagged, trembling uneasily .
Rahimi grabbed Ajit and slashed his neck with a knife he took out from nowhere.The wound was not deep, but the blood remained with Ajit's every breath, staining the carpet red.
Ajit struggled for breath, calling Rahimi's name with difficulty through his gagged mouth.He is a native of country Z and was sent to Tal from the capital. He doesn't even have the accent of Tal by his name Rahimi.
Rahimi sneered, looking at Lin Shu: "Password."
Lin Mu reported Jimmy's six-digit birthday without hesitation.On a carefree summer day, under the starry sky in the desert, he once said ominously that if one day he died, let him go to the Swiss bank to get his safe, and the password was the six-digit birthday.
"You fucking lied to me!" Rahimi cocked the gun, "wasn't it time to stall?"
At this time Lin Mu also panicked.How could it be wrong?How come he misremembered Jimmy's birthday? Jimmy changed his password recently?Or is he thinking wrong?The box he had seen for the first time in his life used a different, higher-level password?
Rahimi didn't touch Ji Yuanyuan and Aunt Aruna, but scratched Ajit's neck again.This time the wound was very close to the main artery, and Ajit had probably passed out, no longer struggled, and no longer shouted the name of his former colleague in a foreign accent in vain.
As colleagues, I thought we could become friends.Unexpectedly, from the very beginning, the opponent was marked as an enemy because of different ethnicities, nationalities, and accents.
For the first time, Ajit felt so stupid... Mom is in the capital, hoping that after returning home from abroad, he can sign a ten-year contract and get a solid job...
"You try 070826!"
Lin Mu shouted at Rahimi, diverting his attention.The room was filled with the smell of blood, and he suppressed his nausea.
It's not Jimmy's password, it's his own phone password.
This is also a date - the day before Edison Chan was sent to Tal Hospital where he died, the day he sat in the cockpit and witnessed the haughty boy running towards the helicopter without reminding him.
Rahimi's subordinates immediately reported: "It still can't be opened."
"Get on the machine!"
As soon as Rahimi threw out an electronic rotary machine for brute force cracking the code, his men opened the box with a "click".
"It's 070829!"
Rahimi kicked Lin Mu's chair down.He just fell on the outside of the carpet, feeling a little blood spilling from the side of his face...more and more blood...
"This is the price for lying to me! Remember, we Thar people must avenge our revenge, and we will never forget those who are kind to us! I spared your life today because you took care of me at the Thar airport. .From today, we are clean."
Rahimi carried the suitcase himself and left the room.The other armed men also ran away after him, and no one stayed behind.
Lin Mu listened to the sound of the jeep roaring away, and tried his best to think in the sticky blood: Why 0829?The third day after meeting Jimmy for the first time... what happened that day?
Why can't he remember at all...how did the ceiling turn...
Finally, in the slightly chaotic and distorted scene, Lin Mu saw a familiar face. Jimmy rushed in the door without looking at anyone, ran to him, helped him up first, wiped the blood from his forehead, and asked if he was okay.
Then he heard Chen Yan, who had broken free from the rope, gulping for precious air: "Jimmy...Jimmy...uranium...the raw materials...they stole it away."
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