Millennium Babylon

Chapter 38 Chapter 38

And Jimmy got out of the car unhurriedly, walked up to him, straightened the suit and tie he had specially put on because he was discharged from the hospital, and leaned into his ear: "Who are you seducing?"

"You demolished my house? Demolition?"

"Shh, shhh, my friends are watching."

Jimmy pointed to the sky.Lin Mu raised his head and saw that the staff single dormitory arranged for him by the letter originally rented a one-bedroom and one living room upstairs from a record store, but he saw Chen Yan and Ajit leaning out half of their body and waving to him on the third floor.On the rooftop, there is still a helicopter that saw the letter——Ji Yuanyuan?

"Everyone... are you here?" Lin Mu wondered.

Jimmy leisurely took out a tie from his pocket, flung it shamelessly in front of Lin Mu's face: "Hey, tie it for me."

As soon as Lin Mu reached out to take it, Ajit turned on the disco sound from upstairs.The disco-like cheerful melody shook the whole street as if it was echoing, like a war.Lin Mu pulled the last knot of his tie to death and wiped an eyelash off Jimmy's face.The other party bowed his head guiltily, presumably the sound system was also his idea.

Jimmy used a key to open the seemingly ordinary wooden door at the entrance, and then smiled childishly at Lin Mu, showing his eight teeth: "I have a surprise for you."

Pushing open the door, the surprise is a circular double-layer steel bank vault-style iron door.Lin Mu suppressed a smile and twisted the door more than ten times before opening the door, a thin layer of sweat broke out from his body.It turns out that Jimmy colludes with the doctor to keep him from leaving the hospital in order to secretly change the door for him at home.

Then there is another air defense door, which is used to close the air-raid shelter during the war, and it can even prevent rocket | arrow | bullets. Jimmy pressed Lin Mu's hand on the fingerprint recognition interface, and the air defense door opened.

Then Ji Yuanyuan and Lin Mu face to face.

Lin Mu looked at Jimmy from the side, unbelievable: Is this a surprise?This is scare!

Ji Yuanyuan did not keep her promise to slap Lin Mu.She didn't even look at him, though Jimmy asked for the key to the helicopter's safety rope on the rooftop apron, and left.Soon there was a strange noise on the rooftop, which attracted Ajit and Chen Yan to go up and watch.

There were only the two of them left in the house.

Jimmy pointed to a row of game consoles placed against the wall beside the dining table in the living room: "That one is for you." An interstellar pinball game console flashed red and blue lights, and the cosmic light inside was brilliant, and the interstellar team was ready to go.

When they met in front of the game console in that desert bar, neither of them expected that their life would be full of ups and downs, they fell in love, parted from the war, reconciled, and finally they could be peaceful as before.Only in the game will you encounter thrills again.

"Don't worry, I won't touch it. I'm afraid you won't be happy if you break your record." Jimmy bumped into the tree provocatively.Lin Mu wrapped him in his arms, making a gesture to overturn him to the ground.

Then he saw a screen the size of an entire wall.On the opposite side of the wall is a projector.

"Specially projecting you. When you are on a business trip, you must make a video call with me. Tsk tsk, the whole wall is you, and then I will face the wall—"

Jimmy bit his lip.Lin Mu's face immediately turned red: "You are not afraid that people will hear it!"

Jimmy laughed at him: "What are you thinking? I found out why your mind is full of these dirty thoughts? I will tell you how much I miss you and how much I love you to the wall, can't I?"

Lin Mu: "...You can do it."

He went around to the kitchen which was several times bigger than the one-person apartment he had witnessed.The ground of the jump is opened up, and the skylight from the roof directly shines down.It's cloudy in Xianshui City today, and I'm afraid it's going to rain.

"Then what can I do for you..." Lin Mu murmured, and opened the cupboard door, inside were two rows of exotic instant noodles: from Thai laksa noodles to Korean cheese turkey noodles, to Japanese Ichiran ramen , Pyeongchang nightclub fried noodles...

Lin Mu took out two special bowls for instant noodles and weighed them: "You have to eat less instant noodles."

Jimmy was not convinced: "Why? Am I fat? Where am I fat? Look at my muscles—"

"Because I want to cook a lot of other delicious food for you. You will lose your stomach after eating instant noodles." Lin Mu closed the cupboard door, looked around the newly remodeled home, and opened his arms to Jimmy, "Thank you."

Jimmy didn't even look at him, turned his head and went up to the second floor: "Don't worry, you haven't finished watching yet."

The second floor is the bedroom, and the bed occupies half of the room.Lin Mu recognized at a glance that it was the bed he slept in when he first stayed at Jimmy's house outside of Tar City.The bed was built in the style of the Tatars, with four pillars of carved solid wood, and white gauze curtains hung at the four corners—he had long suspected that he slept in the master room that night, and Jimmy went to sleep in the guest room by himself.

Jimmy unconsciously pulled him to the side of the bed and told him to lie down: "I'll show you the luminous watch."

Lin Mu first closed the bedroom door firmly: "It's still daytime, no way..."

Jimmy hugged his stomach and laughed, pointing to the roof.The original concrete roof of the bedroom was changed to a bulletproof glass roof.Above the transparent dome, the night stars will be clearly visible.Lin Shu also faintly saw a few lines engraved on the glass——

"That is……?"

"Star map." Jimmy was lying on his back, occupying most of the bed, and pressed half of Lin Shu's body like a starfish.He stretched out his hand straight, and squinted to count the outline of the star map on the roof.

Generally, hand-held star maps are rotatable, so as to ensure that the daily star map matches the earth's revolution angle of the day.But the star map on Lin Mu's glass is fixed...

"Forest trees, every year when the sun crosses the Tropic of Cancer, that point is the North Star."

They met for the first time at Taal Airport after the earthquake, but it was actually a reunion after a long absence.At that time, there was an earthquake in country K, and wars were raging on the Thar border. All dangers and vitality were on the day when the sun crossed the Tropic of Cancer.

"You are my North Star." Jimmy pulled Lin Shu's strong arm and stroked the tattoo of the Great Bear constellation on it. "I am also your North Star. You don't need this anymore when you have me."

Lin Mu didn't speak.After a while, he turned over and pressed Jimmy under him, and gave him a long kiss.

"Fortunately, it's still daytime," Lin Mu blew into his ear, "What will happen next..."

"You don't want to be seen."

"Not even the stars."

Jimmy raised his leg and rubbed it lightly without making a sound, and then in the gap when Lin Shu closed his eyes comfortably, he scratched the itchy flesh on his waist firmly, and then said, "You are too tender to fight with me." "I'm done" expression, quickly turned over and got off the bed, and left the sneak attack battlefield.

"The water is boiling." Jimmy let Lin Mu listen to the sound of boiling water on the kitchen stove, and at the same time decided that they would sleep in separate rooms tonight before Lin Mu died down.He went to sleep in the same room with Bing Tang.

It was New Year's Eve when Jimmy carried the tree back from the abandoned trench.Many things happened later, some people regained hope, some people left hastily, and today, it happens to be the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

They were supposed to cook Tangyuan for Lin Mu and Yuanxiao for Ji Yuanyuan.But with the pot of dumplings that Ajit missed so much, it just happened to be a table.

Aunt Aruna picked up her daughter from school, went straight to the kitchen when she returned to Lin Mu's house, and cooked a Chinese reunion dinner according to the English tutorial Jimmy dug out.

After everyone was seated, Chen Yan walked into the room last, holding Bingtang who was so scared that his legs went limp just now on the rooftop.In fact, its legs are weak because of Ji Yuanyuan's helicopter.No matter how Chen Yan coaxed him after landing, Bingtang didn't even lose his temper with him, with a dejected face that he believed that his life was not guaranteed.

Bingtang wore a big red sweater.The sweater was probably from a pet supply store, knitted exactly like a dog sweater, with a bone on the back.

Lin Mu looked at Bingtang, feeling an indescribable distress.

"You wear sweaters for sheep?!" Jimmy laughed at his senior without hesitation, and Chen Yan immediately betrayed Ji Yuanyuan: "She picked it! I said just pick any gift, walk the dog leash, little The shoes are pretty good, she must say that they are very popular!"

Ji Yuanyuan lifted the table and stood up: "Who pointed to the sweater and said it was [-]% off?"

forest:"……"

Jimmy: "..."

Ajit was too busy eating glutinous rice balls to talk, and was scalded by the black sesame stuffing.Aluna filled a bowl of dumplings for her daughter and younger sister, but only a little bit of vinegar was poured in, but half a bowl of chili was used.

Lin Mu said sincerely: "Yuanyuan, Chen Yan, thank you—"

Chen Yangang put his arm around Jimmy's shoulder politely and said, "It's a life-saving grace", then he heard Ji Yuanyuan coldly "Yes", and said to Lin Mu, "Thank you too. Thank you for leaving me in the desert. Grace not to kill."

Lin Mu knew that no matter how loud he was, he would fall into the bottomless pit of "I'm doing it for your own good" and "I want you to do it for me, I won't do it for myself", for fear that an accident would make Ji Yuanyuan think of herself Before he could slap him, he simply turned on the projector and played "Wulin Biography" with English subtitles.

Lin Mu peeled the candied garlic and placed it on a plate, and put the plate on Ji Yuanyuan's side on purpose.On the wall, everyone in the Tongfu Inn is holding a knowledge quiz, and it's very lively.

After eating the dumplings, Jimmy suggested playing a game.Aruna took her daughter to leave first. She was going to take the university entrance examination this year, and she wanted to study science and engineering the most, but that was also the most competitive for admission.The remaining people each occupied a machine, and when Lin Mu and Jimmy arrived, there was only one pinball left, and they simply played a two-player battle mode.

Chen Yan and Ajit were already dizzy after drinking two cups of Erguotou, while Lin Mu still won Jimmy steadily, watching the young man jump up and down just to win back.

During the truce, Jimmy handed Lin Mu wine, ice vodka mixed with apple juice from a local farm in Saltwater City: "Drink some."

"No, you just want me to drink too much, so you can beat me."

"...you can see it all, can't you let me win?"

"No."

Jimmy looked at Lin Shu's profile under the red and blue lights of the pinball machine, and suddenly reached out and pulled him over for a kiss.The time of a kiss is instant, there is no time to rebuild the homeland, it is too late to wait for the phosphorus bomb to fall, it is too late to stand out from the siege and uphold justice, it is too late to grow old together and love as before.

But Jimmy thought it was the most worthwhile kiss in his life.Because of the trees, because of Tal, and because of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, it seems extra sweet.

"I! I won! I got it!" Jimmy pointed at the screen and widened his eyes in disbelief. At the last second, Lin Mu let go of his hand to kiss him. The blue team's pinball flew halfway across the universe and fell into a black hole.

Jimmy won.He warmly embraced everyone around him to celebrate, and even kissed Lin Mu's face several times.Lin Mu was about to cry, but he looked around in a daze. He saw Ji Yuanyuan who had just been suffocated by Jimmy, and turned his head to see him.

This was the first time Ji Yuanyuan looked at him directly since he drove away the armored vehicle containing the uranium raw materials in the Thar Desert to protect her.

Ji Yuanyuan suddenly laughed, laughing a thousand times, then took a step closer, stood still, raised her hand and slapped him across the face.

Withdrawing her hand and shaking it, she looked out of the window as if nothing happened, sighed and smiled again: "It won't snow in the Amazon jungle."

Snowing?People surrounded the window.Lin Mu applied the ice pack brought by Jimmy to his face, and found that the pain was not as painful as he imagined, so he simply threw the ice pack and squeezed in the back row to watch the snow.

Fluffy flakes of snow fell from the sky, staining the crowded and lively city of Saltwater.The roofs of thousands of households have returned to pure white and clear because of the snow, just like the world in a fairy tale in a glass ball-there has never been an earthquake, nor has there been a war.

It's just that due to excessive oil exploitation and global climate change, snow can be seen even in southern cities such as Taal and Saltwater City.

Ji Yuanyuan said to herself, "I'm going to Brazil next month."

"travel?"

"permanent."

"Huh? Why—"

"I mentioned it myself. I've seen too many of the three southern countries, so I want to change my taste. Besides, there are many handsome men in South America."

Lin Mu didn't speak any more.His intuition was not that simple, maybe Wen and Xing didn't want Ji Yuanyuan to reveal his dark history of being involved in the arms business in Tal, and found a way to send her to the other side of the world.

"Do you want me to help you—" he asked.

"You have already helped." And she replied, with tears in her eyes.

Jimmy made tea and cut fruit to help everyone sober up. Ajit said in a daze that he would switch to another round. Jimmy looked at him. The Z Aviation Bureau sent him back to the capital from Tal. In a few days, it would be faxed to Tal Abdullah Hawthorne III Airport, which was destroyed in the war.

Only half of the apron remains, there is still one runway, and all the central control rooms need to be rebuilt.Chen's Capital is willing to form a joint venture with the government, but the staff really don't need so many.

What's more, the peace process between the two countries is still under negotiation, and the international community is watching, and it is still uncertain who will own Thar in the future.

To whom? Jimmy thought, after fighting for a long time, seeing peace is coming, but he couldn't believe it.The land that has been baptized by war will probably cherish the hard-won peace.

Jimmy was thinking, when suddenly he heard the doorbell.

"You are not allowed to eat it! Eat it when I come back! Whoever eats it stealthily will be responsible for cleaning the dishes tonight!"

Lin Mu accompanied him to open the door.

An American policeman stood outside the door with snow on his shoulders.He looked at the two men who were laughing at the door, and seemed to distinguish them carefully, then took out the handcuffs and tightly cuffed Lin Mu's hands.

"Mr.MuLin, you have been arrested. You have the right to remain silent, otherwise what you say will become evidence in court, against you."

It was Interpol and the US garrison who arranged the arrest in Saltwater City.It was because Lin Mu was involved in the affairs of the "Vulture" terrorist organization, and was also related to the mysterious disappearance of uranium raw materials.

Jimmy felt so panicked for the first time in a long time.

Without thinking about it, he pulled out the pistol from his back belt, loaded it, and pointed at the American police: "You can't take him away."

Even when he just escaped from the office of the International Atomic Energy Agency and watched the trees on the rooftop and drove the helicopter away, he was only heartbroken, and the heartbreak was greater than the haste.He can accept that Lin Mu doesn't love him, and he can accept that Lin Mu leaves him, but he can't accept it in this way—being coerced by others, losing his freedom, and being imprisoned for life.

Jimmy pressed the call button, and he was ready to order Jeremy and his mercenaries to flatten Saltwater if necessary.He doesn't care about this American cop, or more Interpol for that matter.Even if he fights to the last drop of blood, he can't let them put Lin Mu in prison.

But the policeman did not back down at all. He said sternly: "Mr. Jimmy Chan, you have violated your bail regulations by illegally holding a gun. If you continue to obstruct law enforcement, my colleagues and I will re-arrest you. Put down your hands | gun."

Jimmy didn't let go, but moved a few steps closer, holding the gun firmly against the policeman's temple with one hand, and firmly grasping Lin Mu's wrist with the free hand.He wouldn't like handcuffs that cold.

Lin Mu lowered his head slightly, and pressed his chin against his shoulder: "Shh, it's okay, I discussed with them. If I become a tainted witness, they won't sue us."

Jimmy understood, but also seemed not to understand.

You... when—he wanted to ask Lin Mu, but he didn't ask again.When did Lin Mu and Interpol meet, whether in the ward or in the parking lot behind the hospital, whether the negotiation terms were fair or not, whether to be detained or released on bail at home, how long would it take to regain freedom——

None of this matters anymore.

Jimmy unloaded the magazine with one hand, threw the gun on the carpet, then touched his left pocket, frowned, then touched his right pocket, took out something, and put it on Lin Mu's left ring finger with lightning speed. superior.

Just right.He knew it when he bought the ring in Vienna.I'm perfect, Jimmy thought.But trees are more perfect.

"I wanted to give it to you after you signed it—" the folder was forgotten in the car, and Jimmy was too anxious to show off the double-layer steel vault door, and Jimmy regretted it, "but it's nothing to give you now. Anyway, it's okay to give it sooner or later is yours."

Jimmy sniffled: "Lin... the wedding may have to wait until you come back. Or you can entrust me with carte blanche to make the decision—"

In front of the American police, facing the wide open street gate and the snow-capped world outside, Lin Mu grabbed Jimmy almost crazily, and showed his affection with a deep kiss.

"Okay, next time I come back, I won't leave."

A U.S. police support vehicle was approaching, sirens blared, waking up neighbors.

Jimmy let go and watched Lin Mu get into the police car.

"Lin..." He suddenly rushed down the steps, grabbed the policeman's car door, asked the policeman if he knew the way, and then asked the policeman if he was tired after coming to work so late, and there was still water at home. OK……

Until the policeman got out of the car again, pointed his gun at Jimmy, and told him to roll as far as he could.

Jimmy felt that the street was a bit cold, and the first tear seemed to freeze his eyelashes.He rubbed his eyes, struggled to see the trees clearly, then pouted his lips lightly, facing the ring on his ring finger:

"Tal's gemstone. I didn't dare to tell you when I first met you because I was afraid of scaring you. Lin Mu, our family does have mines."