sinovels Chapter 31 Chapter 31
Chapter 31 Chapter 31
The passage of time is imperceptible in the cliff cave.Lin Shu made a mark on the cigarette box, and drew a line every time he saw the smoke rising from the valley at sunset.
Finally on the seventh day, he caught the gap where the guards gathered together during worship, and climbed up to the rooftop through the emergency passage.
He knew that the guards with guns were not far away, and he also knew that the consequences of being caught by them would be disastrous.But he just couldn't help it...
Lin Mu climbed to the roof, hid by the reservoir, and dialed the phone with the two-bar shaking signal.
"Hey--"
"Captain Lin! How are you? Where are you? Are you okay?"
Chen Yan's voice immediately chased after him, every sentence was accompanied by a hissing noise, I don't know if it was wind blowing on their side, or the signal was really worrying during the war.
"Chen Yan, listen up. I'm above a valley about eight hours' drive southeast of Ta'er. There is a live stream in the valley, which runs from east to west. Check to see if you can locate this place and see if there are any big cities nearby. There have been a lot of trucks unloading recently. It may be the next target of the "Vulture" organization. Don't call the police, and don't notify anyone."
In fact, it is useless to persuade Chen Yan not to call the police. The three southern countries are in a hot war, and the police have already returned home to flee.
Lin Mu only deduced that the large-scale transfer of materials meant that Rahimi and the others were preparing for the next attack, but the location of the next attack, he did not think clearly whether it would be Taal, the capital of country Z, or the three southern countries Which tourist attractions, places of interest.
Although the government forces of country Y have declared war on country Z in name, they have not actually sent troops to support the demands of old General Rahimi. The [-] tanks that Edison Chan sold to them to fight the War of Independence are probably still hidden in the treasury.
In order to allow the government forces of country Y to unite with themselves and send troops to fight against country Z, Rahimi and the others may also choose to attack cities in country Y.
The target is too big and hard to find.He could only place his hope on Ji Yuanyuan's side.She is good at geography and has a lot of gossip. If anyone can piece together the whole picture of an incident through clues, it must be Ji Yuanyuan.
"Captain Lin, how are we going to rescue you? Give me a letter! Are you okay? I didn't notify the Chinese embassy as you said, and I told Jianxin that I didn't know where you were. What should we do now——Captain Lin?! What’s the voice over there? What happened to you, Captain Lin?!”
Chen Yan only heard a warning in Bangalore, followed by a series of gunshots, and then the surrounding fell into dead silence.He grabbed his heart and asked softly, "Lin Mu?"
At this moment, Lin Shu was soaking in the huge reservoir, tiptoeing, and the phone was held high above his head.
Just now, Rahimi's people may have heard movement on the rooftop, and the first reaction was that the government troops came to persuade them to surrender, so they led people to curse in Bangalore and fired warning shots.
Fortunately, he hid in the cistern through the side door in time.
Lin Mu's whole body was soaked in the icy water with a temperature of less than ten degrees after sunset, and he immediately shivered from the cold.In a situation that couldn't have been worse, he couldn't help but burst out laughing.
It was... exactly the same as that day.
It's just... without him.
It was the same with him and Jimmy that day. In order to avoid pursuit on the rooftop of "Blue Velvet", the man who disliked him had to hide in the cistern with him.The pool was too deep, they were half suspended, and each other was the only support before sinking.
What Lin Mu laughed was that people were not addicted at that time, but now their hearts are addicted.
He didn't dare to speak anymore, for fear that the pursuers would come back to the roof.Then he tapped the phone's microphone with his finger: four short, one short, short long short, one short.It means HERE, I am still here.
Chen Yan also learned emergency communication regulations when the United Nations responded to the African epidemic, and he immediately understood:
"Captain Lin, let's make a long story short. Tell me that you are safe. Yuanyuan and I, Aruna and Ajit arrived in the capital last night. Don't worry. I guess you are also worried about us, otherwise you wouldn't let Yuanyuan and me Let’s go. It’s Jimmy you’re worried about, right? Ah——no, that brat was caught by the Interpol. The International Atomic Energy Organization reported that Chen’s capital is suspected of violating the law of war, chemical weapons or nuclear weapons. I don’t know the details. But Their family has been registered there, and the VIP cell has been entered every three days since his father was young. The public relations organization and human rights lawyers he cooperates with are also familiar. It is impossible for the judges in The Hague to find evidence in the three southern countries. He will let him go. Don't worry."
Lin Mu hung up the phone and turned it off. The battery was severely frozen in the winter night and lost a lot of power.When Chen Yan was telling the news of Jimmy's arrest on the other end of the mobile phone, he heard the voice of Rahimi talking to someone on the sentry post next to the rooftop.
The two voices were talking fast and excitedly in Bangalore, but Lin Mu only understood that they were saying "Saltwater City" and two English words: bomb and uranium.
The place where they plan to attack is Saltwater City!
The attack method is the most common bomb explosion by terrorist organizations. As for uranium... the uranium raw materials have been transported out of the cave in the truck loading and unloading these days?
Could it be that the uranium raw materials have already arrived in Saltwater City?
The woods were later discovered.
At night, no one was patrolling, and those who guarded him would gather in the hall where Rahimi lived to pray and discuss combat matters.
But Rahimi suddenly sent someone to bring him a midnight snack - a bottle of goat's milk. As a result, the person who came to deliver the midnight snack found the forest tree, which was soaked from top to bottom, sitting in the corner of the room, holding a cigarette case in a daze.
When Lin Mu was chained to the foot of the table in the meeting room, he felt for the first time that Bingtang still had the potential to be a disaster.At his strong request, it was locked up with Rahimi's other wartime supplies, and so far, it has not been made into kebabs.
On the second day, Lin Mu pressed the old tape recorder on the conference room table in boredom.Who still uses tape recorders these days?He remembered that only the young man who was behind this century didn't even have a mobile phone.
He didn't expect the tape recorder to make a sound, but after hearing two piercing rewinding sounds, Jay Chou's singing fell to the ground.
"The king of ancient Babylon promulgated the code of Hammurabi,
Carved in black basalt, it is more than 700 years old.
You are in front of the window, staring at the words of the inscription,
But I quietly admire your face that I love so much.
Priests, temples, conquests, bows,
Whose past.
I like the scene where you only belong to me in the crowd,
Passing by the goddess Su Mei,
I make a wish in the name of the goddess,
Missing spreads like the Tigris River...
When ancient civilizations are left with incomprehensible languages,
The legend has become an immortal poem.
My love for you is written in BC,
Buried deep in the plains of Mesopotamia. "
Lin Mu listened to Jay Chou and looked out the window quietly. The Thar Desert was on the horizon, shining innocently with golden light, like a dream.
A day later, Rahimi led the logistics team to a small private teaching airport on the outskirts of Saltwater City.They bribed the customs officials of country K, and the airport only accepted them for one flight that night, without asking the ins and outs, and no security check was required.
Lin Mu is both the driver and the prisoner. After landing cleanly on the tarmac, he was blindfolded and locked in the car.
The car drove into the night of Saltwater City.
In the capital of country Z, beside the lively market, two locals brought two Chinese to eat mutton skewers.
Every year around the Spring Festival in China, the three southern countries also celebrate the grandest festival of the year - the Festival of Lights, also known as the Festival of Lights.
Chen Yan vaguely remembered that when he first came to the American Aid Association's induction training in the three southern countries, Dr. Pete said that Hanukkah was celebrated by a certain god, who would wipe out injustice, find truth, and let justice respread the world.Darkness will eventually be replaced by light.
Ji Yuanyuan nodded and shook her head, expressing that she knew nothing, so you can do whatever you say.
"There are valleys and streams, so far away from Taal, where is it..." Ajit was still muttering.After Chen Yan finished the phone call with Lin Mu, he wrote down the location information he reported.Everyone thought about English for a long time, and delineated the next attack direction of the "Vulture" in two potential cities.
Chen Yan analyzed: "According to his description, there may be two places where the trees are located. One is the Vila River and the Vila Valley on the edge of the Thar Desert, and the other is the Bunaqin River near Xianshui City. With the Golan Valley. From his location, the "Vulture" organization transported supplies by truck. So their next transfer location must be within the reach of a car dealer. Now that diesel is in short supply during the war, it is only two hundred miles away inside."
Ji Yuanyuan put all twelve skewers of mutton skewers into the bucket, and smiled at the stunned local aunt, "Thank you for another dozen."
When Ji Yuanyuan took the mutton skewers, she sighed contentedly: "If it is the former, then the target of the "Vulture" is Vera. Vera is a mountain city, which is easy to cover, and it is also where important officials from the three southern governments visit each other. A Hanukkah resort, very suspect. But... if it's the latter—"
Aunt Aruna answered: "Then their goal is to attack Saltwater City."
Her daughter and sister had just fled Taal, and thought they would be safe once and for all in Saltwater City...
Chen Yan nodded: "Yes. We can't track the signal of Lin Shu, and now the only information is here." He turned to the crowd, "Everyone independently judges and votes. The city has been decided, and we will all together today Go, don't regret it."
He gave up his job for that bastard Jimmy and his captain Lin. He abandoned Dr. Pete and left Tal during the war, not for returning empty-handed.
He must get the tree back.Otherwise, when Jimmy came back, how would he explain to him?
Among the four, Ji Yuanyuan and Ajit voted for Vera, Aunt Aruna and Chen Yan voted for Saltwater City, and it was a draw.
Chen Yan cleared his throat: "Let's go to the airport and fly to Saltwater City."
"Why not Vera?" Ji Yuanyuan protested.
"Because you are our koi."
"What?" Ji Yuanyuan wondered.
Chen Yan tried his best to be patient, and said slowly: "Yuanyuan, have you realized that every time you observe, there is a very exact relationship with the actual result - it's the opposite. For example, Just last month, you thought me and Junior Jimmy were a couple—"
Ji Yuanyuan yelled, "Stop! Get in the car!"
All the way to the airport, Chen Yan was justifying that his colleagues from the American Aid Association provided a source saying that the vicinity of the Century Bazaar in Saltwater City might be due to preparations for Hanukkah recently, and there were many trucks stopping.This added to the suspicion of Saltwater City.
But the reverse koi Ji Yuanyuan didn't talk to him anymore.
Saltwater City, Old Town.
Century Bazaar got its name from the year 2000 when the old market was rebuilt.
The old market was originally the trade center of Saltwater City. For hundreds of years, merchants of various ethnic groups have come here to trade their specialties, ranging from snacks and dried fruits to fresh and delicious wines.The Grand Bazaar was once the most prosperous place in the three southern countries across fifteen streets in Xianshui City.
In the year of the millennium, the three southern countries concentrated their firepower against the US military and fought side by side for freedom and independence.During the war, the U.S. bombed the Old Bazaar, causing a large number of civilian casualties.
Afterwards, in the face of public opinion in the international community, the U.S. military justified that it misread the map, commanded poorly, punished several soldiers involved, and diverted attention from the media with a few stories about Saltwater City's cultural backwardness and lack of respect for human rights. , In this way, the big things are turned into small things, and small things are turned into small things.
At the end of that year, the governments of the three countries contributed funds to rebuild the old market before the Lantern Festival and named it Century Bazaar.
Today, the huge statue of the lamp god is placed at the crossroads of the century bazaar.
Although it is daytime, the cheap colored light bulbs hanging on it are still flickering endlessly.Several passing children beat the light bulbs with stones, and whoever knocked out a light would receive unanimous admiration from their peers.
"Bear child." Ji Yuanyuan rested her chin on the window and looked out, just like the women in the ancient Xianshui city behind the windshield, longing for the free wind on the street outside.
It's just that Ji Yuanyuan was playing with a pair of slingshots in his hand, secretly aiming at Xiongzijia.
Chen Yan rushed over to divert her attention: "Jeremy is here."
"Who?"
"Jimmy's butler, Jeremy is here."
Fortunately, Ji Yuanyuan didn't ask who Jimmy was.They got up, walked through the back kitchen of the barbecue shop, and walked to the main entrance.
Aunt Aruna and her sister, the proprietress of the barbecue shop, had already exchanged pleasantries with Jeremy.The British man was slightly fat and tired from the war, but he still wore a plaid coat and a heraldic ring - the Chen family crest.Now that Jimmy's personal freedom is restricted as a tainted witness, the coat of arms can only be managed by him.
As soon as Jeremy saw everyone at Tal Airport, he got a general idea and sighed in relief.
Jeremy opened his mouth and asked, "Did Rahimi's people come here these days?"
Ji Yuanyuan was shocked: "What?!"
Jeremy explained: "We listened to the Vultures. They listened to us, to be precise. The day Rahimi led someone to snatch the uranium trigger, we started to wonder how they just knew about us. The uranium trigger was transferred from the heavily guarded guest house to Jimmy's private house. They must have known the news in advance, so they used the old Rahimi to lure Jimmy away, and the younger one came armed to grab things."
Ji Yuanyuan gritted her teeth: "Could it be..."
Jeremy nodded.
Ji Yuanyuan snorted coldly: "Ugly sheep! I should have listened to my sister and roasted you on the first day if I knew it!"
Jeremy said: "When Rahimi first arrived at Tal Airport, he had the idea of giving it a try and gave it to his direct supervisor Jimmy as a meeting gift according to local customs. Bingtang was implanted with a bug. I discussed it with Jimmy that day. Transfer the raw materials, and you will never be prepared for Bingtang to sleep next to it."
Chen Yan received: "So the old Rahimi targeted Jimmy away, and the young Rahimi snatched the uranium trigger. When they took away the trees, they also took away the rock sugar."
Jeremy: "The monitors cost hundreds of dollars to them, which is very expensive. What they didn't expect was that the first thing Jimmy did when he returned to Tar was to intercept Bingtang's monitor channel."
Jeremy pulled out his phone and played a poor-quality Bangalore recording of the smell of the kebab shop.Aunt Aruna blocked the door of the barbecue restaurant and watched the pedestrians on the street vigilantly.
Ajit listened attentively to the recording: "They are indeed in the Century Bazaar!"
Chen Yan and Ji Yuanyuan surrounded him.
Ajit explained: "They were discussing where to put the bomb and how to detonate it. They mentioned the old bazaar many times. The old bazaar is the century-old bazaar. Tourists only know the century-old bazaar, but for my parents' generation , the old bazaar represents the best merchandise in Saltwater City."
Ji Yuanyuan asked: "Where is the bomb?"
"do not know."
"How can you not know?!"
Jeremy paused the recording: "They're not sure yet. The information we have is limited. We only know that they rented a warehouse on the second floor of the Spice Market, hid in a delivery truck every day, entered the warehouse to plan, and returned to the warehouse at night. Suburban airport their home base."
Jeremy paused: "Also, you should be mentally prepared, your friend Captain Lin is also here."
Ji Yuanyuan's eyes widened: "What do you mean?"
Jeremy looked at her businessfully: "Lin Mu is helping Rahimi."
Saltwater City, New City.
The new high-rise hotel built after the Revolutionary War overlooks the dilapidated bungalows of the old city.In the narrow alley, the teenagers showed off their newly acquired bicycles, attracting a group of children to chase after them.
The International Atomic Energy Agency investigation team stayed here, nominally for investigation, but actually collecting evidence of nuclear weapons under the eyes of the governments of the three southern countries.
In order to make the banner of the investigation more convincing, they will also arrange for the director-general to accept a series of interviews with local and foreign media reporters.
Jimmy sat by the window all night, and the security guards guarding him were so bored that they turned on the TV and idly watched.
Jimmy took a closer look at the landscape of Saltwater City.
Before the War of Independence, Edison Chan invited him to spend the summer here many times, and he was in theaters and jazz bars in Chelsea, London, never paying attention to the barren and declining civilization on the other side of the earth.
After it was too late, he understood that there is the deepest excitement in the barren, and the purest hope will appear after despair.If there is a city that can represent the customs of the three southern countries, he will hesitate between Tar and Saltwater City.Tal is perverse, and Saltwater City is low-key.The Thar Desert is full of gold, and the salt water city is calm and simple.
He stared at the countless identical roofs in the old city, trying to find the rooftop of Lin Shu's bachelor apartment.
Then Jimmy heard the TV, the announcer broadcast with a blank expression: "There has been a major progress in the Tal war. The Y country rebels have camped in the Tal garrison, and they are suspected of being funded by the local infrastructure company. Please read the detailed report below—"
Jimmy turned his head. On the screen, the telephoto lens was shaking. It was secretly filmed by an ordinary employee of the American Aid Association at the airport in the suburbs of Saltwater City.
An all-too-familiar man drove a heavy helicopter and landed steadily on a piece of airport ruins.
Wearing the military uniform of the "Condor" organization and a pair of aviator sunglasses, he crossed the long airport runway against the wind and disappeared from sight.
Jimmy stood blankly in front of the TV, watching the ordinary evening news with bloodshot eyes.He felt that the thousands of lamps of the Lamp God Statue in Saltwater City were all crumbling in front of him.