sinovels Chapter 32 Chapter 32
Chapter 32 Chapter 32
Century Bazaar, the smell of spices permeates the whole room.
Since Rahimi and the others flew to Saltwater City, they have been hiding. The "Vulture" organization has long been identified as a terrorist organization, and everyone in the three southern countries shouted and beat them.Now that the war broke out, the news of wanted terrorists is broadcast day after day in the news, so they are extra careful when traveling and living, and will not leave any traces.
Even the ashes smoked in the warehouse on the second floor of the spice market are carefully swept away at the end of the day and taken away for disposal.
Since Rahimi may need to retreat back to Tal at any time, Lin Mu has been by his side on standby, equivalent to his personal pilot.
While Rahimi and the others were planning something in Bangalore, he was chained to a table leg and sat in an uncomfortable position, unable to do anything.
There is enough free time for a while to think about the many unanswered questions:
Did Ji Yuanyuan and the others trace her to Xianshui City?
Where is the uranium raw material that Rahimi said?
If the "Vulture" planned the explosion, the target of the attack would be the Bazaar of the Century?However, the Century Bazaar spans three main streets and has no fewer than ten tents. How do you know where the bombs are hidden?
Rahimi is cautious by nature, and supplies are extremely scarce. "Condor" is not ready for a long-term all-out war, so this time he will definitely design a one-hit method and leave an alternative plan.If the person who set off the bomb made a mistake, what were their alternatives?
Lin Mu filled his mind with these questions, trying to squeeze that figure out.But no, it's useless, he told himself thousands of times that it's useless to worry at this time, but he still couldn't help but clenched the cigarette case tightly, habitually leaving the last cigarette to Jimmy.
——Is he under surveillance, is he doing well?
——As long as the International Atomic Energy Agency cannot obtain evidence that the three southern countries hold uranium raw materials, he can regain his freedom, right?
Lin Mu only knew that he had made a choice that he knew was wrong.
He did something wrong and decided not to repent.
Back in time to two days ago, the private teaching airport in the suburbs of Saltwater City.
After getting off the plane, Lin Mu is responsible for filling up the plane with fuel and being ready to fly at any time.There are not enough personnel in wartime, so we can only do it ourselves.Rahimi's other fighters were busy getting their weapons loaded into their trucks, so he was left alone to pick up the fuel truck from the warehouse at the airport, and he caught a glimpse of the USAA truck from outside the iron fence.
Beside the truck, Dr. Pete was having a heated discussion with a doctor in a white coat.That person probably came urgently from the Saltwater City International Hospital of the American Aid Association, and he probably wanted to rent the runway of this airport and fly to the war zone after dawn.
Holding the iron railing with his hands, Lin Mu watched Dr. Pete only a dozen meters away from him for half a minute that seemed to last forever.
He can call his own.
At any cost, he could tell Dr. Pete that the supplies at the airport that were apparently prepared for Hanukkah were actually ordnance, containing bombs that were about to hit the Century Bazaar, and possibly even uranium raw materials.
He could take the risk of Rahimi shooting him down and remind Dr. Pete in exchange for the safety of hundreds of ordinary merchants and tourists in Century Bazar in Saltwater City.
But that half a minute passed just like that, and before he could do anything, he was forcibly dragged away by Rahimi's men to refuel the plane.
Only Lin Mu knew why he didn't remind Dr. Pete.
He didn't even think about his own consolation during that precious half-minute when he could have done justice but finally let it fly by.
He just thought, if the uranium raw material was found to be used as evidence, would that young man with starry eyes spend his whole life paying off his father's debts and being destroyed in the cage of the war court?
If the price of thwarting the bomb plot and saving lives is that free soul will never see the light of day in a cage...
Lin Shu did nothing.
He now feels that his inaction has effectively passed his own sentence.He will be an accomplice to everyone injured by Rahimi's bombs.
In the past two days, Rahimi has frequently talked to his father, the old Rahimi who is stationed in Tal.Lin Mu couldn't understand what they were plotting, but felt that time was running out and they couldn't sit still.
Tomorrow is Hanukkah.
Lin Mu watched the sweeping robot quickly clean up the remains of soot in the warehouse.It was captured along with rock sugar, a rare luxury among Rahimi's impoverished troops.Now it seems to have an idea of its own, spinning around and around.
When Lin Mu took advantage of Lahimi's turning back, he stretched out his feet to block its way.The robot had an idea, turned a corner, and fell into the gutter of the warehouse, and got stuck just right.
On the eve of Hanukkah, Jeremy brought [-] people from three teams of Chen Capital Security Partners.
Those who knew Jimmy among them all said that he was changeable, deeply hidden and elusive.Have you ever met Jimmy, only heard that his boss is young, reckless and lawless.There were rumors that he used Tal Airport to transport three flights of female slaves to his mansion in the suburbs, and some people swore to see him sign a spaceship order and sell the company to go to space next year.
Ji Yuanyuan was so happy that she could not close her mouth from ear to ear, she squinted at Chen Yan while enjoying herself: Let me show you what it means to be unreliable... These rumors have their noses and eyes, but in fact, they didn't even touch that boy Jimmy.
"Captain Ji, you are too calm!" Chen Yan gave her a white look, and everyone will be dispatched tonight, sneaking into the warehouse of Century Bazaar to look for clues.There's only one day left until Hanukkah.If Rahimi was going to choose to do it, Hanukkah, full of tourists, would naturally be the best time...
Ji Yuanyuan accepted the praise without hesitation: "You were still in college when the plane crashed for the first time. What can you do if you are not calm?"
Chen Yan retorted: "I'm one year older than you. I just studied for a Ph.D. a little longer! That's why I graduated late—"
Chen's Capital also participated in the investment in the reconstruction of the old bazaar. Together with Jianxin, it is an excellent case of investment promotion in the three southern countries.Chen's Capital has been on good terms with the Century Bazaar Management Committee so far, and there are no less than US dollars in gifts every year. Now Jeremy gets the key to the warehouse, and it is as easy as pie.
"We don't know whether Captain Lin's information is accurate. Even if we call the police, the incompetent police in Saltwater City will not respond. So we need to find evidence of the bomb—"
Ji Yuanyuan has always believed that there is a specialization in the art industry, and she never expects to be able to help in such things as searching, so she just walks around the edge of the warehouse, trying not to hinder other people's affairs.
As she was walking, she kicked something.Looking at it with a flashlight, I immediately felt very familiar.
How could she not remember—when Jimmy was still there, that stupid sheep's favorite recreational activity was to sit on the robot vacuum and inspect its territory!
——I thought I was a cat that everyone loves!
Ji Yuanyuan snorted coldly, bent down to pick up the robot, turned it over and found that the button was still green.
"Chen Yan, get out of here!"
On the morning of Hanukkah, Rahimi led his most trusted team of four, plus the pilot Lin Shu, to sneak into the spice warehouse of Century Bazaar for the last time.
He still remembers the year when the old bazaar was rebuilt.
At that time, the three countries in the south joined forces to fight against the enemy, and the U.S. military retreated steadily in local hot wars.In that year, everyone was full of hope, thinking that ethnic relations in the Thar region would ease, that families separated by politics could be reunited, and newborn children would grow up in the shelter of peace.
Even at one point, that August, Father led a regiment of troops to retake Taal from the Americans.
That year was 2000, the unique millennium in life.
He remembered his sister's wide innocent eyes, asking him why the Americans had to have Tal?
Why do you have to take Tal away...
Taal is obviously so desolate, barren, boring and hopeless.
——Even so, it is the only homeland that Tal's people have guarded for thousands of years...Why can't the U.S. military let them go?
After the eighth month of the millennium, the fighting took a sharp turn for the worse.
Phosphorus bombs exploded in the pristine night sky above Taal.
In the end, the three countries in the south were divided, and country Y established itself as an independent country, but it left Tal outside the border forever.
Among my father's old comrades-in-arms, one died in the explosion of the power plant, and the other had a big belly, and he was in the same boat with other Z country people until today.
Today, under the witness of the lamp god, he will correct the mistakes of that year.
He wants to let the Americans and everyone in the three southern countries know that they will never be able to bear the pain of being taken away by aliens in silence and expose it.
He wants to make those who do bad things pay the price, and let those who do good things have a new life, and among them, there must be someone who sacrifices for justice.
Justice is always late and in pajamas.Zheng Zheng woke up from a nightmare and didn't have time to eat breakfast.Justice squanders the best hours of the day.It is better not to come than to come.
Delayed justice leaves survivors bruised and battered.
But justice must come.Because it is the only light for the survivors to live.Hope, hope, hope that the light will come first, or people will die first.
This kind of thing is never too late.
A day late is a century late.
Rahimi looked out the window at the tall figure of the Djinn.That calm and majestic face gradually merged with his father's old, frail, wrinkled face.
At the same time, Lin Mu also looked at the lamp god statue outside the window.
The statue was hollow and made of plastic, which gave off an ugly light from a distance, but looked pitifully cheap up close.
If a rich man passing by finds it, he will feel pity and spend money to reshape it with beautiful marble, and then decorate it with beautiful colors with natural mineral pigments.
Standing at the intersection of people coming and going, the ordinary lamp god is about to lift the veil of fate.
Lin Mu watched a mother wipe the saliva from the mouth of a baby in her arms, and a girl chased a paper sky lantern, running with all her strength with her head up.At the end is a pair of lovers, walking one after the other, to avoid people's eyes and ears.The man bought a butterfly flower candy and handed it to the woman carefully.
Before waiting for the bomb to explode, Lin Mu suddenly thought that Ji Yuanyuan invited him to watch a sci-fi movie when he had just arrived in the Three Kingdoms of the South, in which there was a thought experiment called "brain in a vat":
Everything a person experiences is nothing but the activation of neuronal electrical signals in the brain.Even if our brains are only soaked in electrolyte and receive artificial electrical stimulation, we will think that we have actually lived and seen the world.
So what is real?
Lin Mu doesn't know whether the universe is nothingness, and whether his brain is a program in the game console.He just thought of Jimmy, and suddenly realized that the solution to "brain in a vat"...was him.
——Meeting him is the truth and self-evident meaning of all this.True or false, as long as it is him, how can it lack meaning?
Lin Mu looked at the intersection and heard Rahimi start the countdown to the explosion.
At the same time, the back alley of Century Bazaar.
The back kitchen of the barbecue shop temporarily became the base camp for Jeremy to direct operations.
"Lin Mu and I watched a movie, a sci-fi movie, and there was such a plot in it!" Ji Yuanyuan said loudly.
Last night in the warehouse, after she picked up the sweeping robot, she had an idea to call up the memory mode.She pulled out a bag of cumin and sprinkled it on the ground, waiting to see the route of the robot vacuum.
Everything came to light in less than 10 minutes.
The sweeping robot followed the route it just walked during the day and swept it again.
The rectangle in the middle of the warehouse is a table with a circle next to it where the person used to sit.
Except for the first time, other people avoided when the sweeping robot passed by, leaving no trace.
Except... the guy by the small window on the west side.
The robot vacuum left a very strange trail in that corner.
One large blank, and three smaller blanks.
"Someone—" Jeremy muttered to his men, "and a tripod... a sniper!"
Jeremy pushed open the small window on the west side, just in time to see the strange half-smile expression of the lamp god under the moon.
Everything is clear.
They immediately notified the police in Saltwater City to search for the statue of the lamp god, and lurked near the Century Bazaar, waiting to catch Rahimi and his accomplices with all their stolen goods the next day.
At noon on Hanukkah, Rahimi gave the order to detonate the bomb into the intercom.
After a while, there was only a murmur.
Just as he was about to let the sniper detonate the gun hidden in the lamp statue remotely, there was a sudden gunshot outside the window.
"Get down!"
"God bless!"
"These bastards!"
He picked up the tree with one hand, and wanted to catch the sniper with the other, but found that the boy was already lying on the ground, the ground was red with blood, and a few stars of cumin residue floated on it.
"Damn it! Someone is following us!"
To Lin Mu's surprise, Rahimi threw him a gun.It was a very old manual pistol, and it looked like a spoil of war during the Revolutionary War.
"This is our best!" Rahimi said fiercely to Lin Mu, and they rushed out of the warehouse with the vanguard.
Behind Lin Mu, he only cared about guarding the position behind him.
He fired, but didn't hurt anyone, just to ensure that Rahimi and the others could break out of the siege safely.
When he turned around amidst the screams of tourists, Rahimi's men had already kidnapped a group of tourists who came to shop in Century Bazaar, put guns on their heads, and imprisoned them in the fish market.
The forest trees were also dragged into the fish market by Rahimi, and the fishy smell came over the face, mixed with the smell of fireworks from ammunition embers.
"Are you okay?" Rahimi asked.
"I can't die." He replied, seeing that one of Rahimi's men was missing.It goes without saying that they have been surrounded by police and military.
Saltwater City, New City.
In the conference room on the top floor of the hotel, the interview equipment had just been set up.The reflective panels set off the Director-General's face with more than wisdom.Under the camera, he was ready to talk to Alexis, the Washington Post's three-country correspondent in the South.
"The clothes are nice and tasteful." Jimmy stood by and gave Alex a wink generously.
Under the operation of human rights lawyers, in order to protect the safety of tainted witnesses, the news that he has been arrested has not been disclosed to the outside world.He was not handcuffed and even accompanied the Director-General for interviews as an observer.
Even Chen's Capital's closest partners would think that Jimmy's relationship with the International Atomic Energy Organization is getting better, not that the crime has already happened.
It's just that they don't know that Jimmy will always be accompanied by two criminal police officers. Once he has the intention of escaping, his personal freedom will be restricted at any time.
"Do you remember when we first met?" Alex asked him. "It was just after the earthquake, and there was a press conference at Taal Airport. That's how you were dressed. I was just learning from you."
He is dressed in a white robe, the local traditional Tal costume, and a dagger with a large exaggerated pink gemstone on his waist, for fear that others will not know that he is a local tyrant.
What about the local tyrants?Natural disasters and man-made disasters are not leaving home.
Alex nodded at Jimmy calmly.He is also ready.
So Jimmy also found a boss chair outside the camera and sat down, with his legs up on the table, half-closed his eyes:
"That's not the first time we've met. Dear Alex, you were kidnapped by the rebels during the Revolutionary War, I remember right? How proud they were of taking an American citizen hostage. How much ransom did you pay to release you?"
Alexis lowered his face and remained silent.The Secretary of the Director-General reminded him to hurry up and start the interview. The Director-General has a very busy schedule today and will leave for the Thar Desert for inspection tomorrow.
But Alex endured and endured, his blue eyes shining brightly.Furious, he stood up and walked over to Jimmy.
Jimmy didn't seem to realize his anger at all: "Ah, I remembered. The United States refused to pay the ransom, and also said that it could not provide financial support to terrorists, and could not set an example for the international community to pay and admit defeat. So—"
Alex was about to slap him in the face in a second, but Jimmy was still chattering:
"So the U.S. bombed Thar, and the rebel army was wiped out. You were saved, weren't you? If you didn't stay in the U.S., why did you come back? Do you think you are too dead?"
Alex punched Jimmy in the face.
Jimmy ducked sideways, got up and kicked the boss chair towards the taller of the two Interpols.Then he drew the dagger from Alex's waist.
The seemingly gaudy dagger turned out to be sharp.
Jimmy put it around Alex's neck, leaving a trail of blood in an instant.
"Everyone stay in this room, nobody follow me. Otherwise he will die. He's an American citizen, you know? You can't tell."
Jimmy hijacked Alex onto the roof of the hotel.
Jeremy's helicopter has been waiting for a long time, ready to take off.