Millennium Babylon

After finishing showing off his wealth calmly, Jimmy looked down at the pager screen that suddenly lit up.

In the green fluorescent light, the housekeeper Jeremy reported concisely that the terrorist organization "Vulture" from country Y was found in the address monitored by his own satellite.From the model to the flag, it's all right.

For some reason, the butler added another sentence: marigolds bloomed in the backstreet of the apartment where Jimmy used to live, and Chelsea won again, so let him take care of himself.

Take care of yourself?Of course take care.

He hasn't finished his work, hesitating for six years, and he is not ready to give up halfway.Just met him—

Jimmy snapped his fingers and made an emergency right turn at the intersection to refuel at the gas station.The man sat in the co-pilot and asked him, "Are we going far away?"

"It's not far, you'll be there after you sleep."

Hearing this, the man leaned back on his seat, and really closed his eyes for sleepiness.

"Are you tired?" Jimmy asked, without getting an answer, the captain fell asleep so quickly.

He must have seen the world in one day in the post-earthquake country K.But the world should not only be suffering.What about joy?Hope?What about the boy's mood?

The captain was also a young man who hated evil like a vengeful man.Bearing the price, he left his hometown, but happened to make an emergency landing at his airport on the most unlucky day in his life.

Runway No. [-] is so short that it is too short for people to brake or dodge.

Jimmy finished refueling, washed his hands, and gently stroked the captain's cheek.

He didn't stay for too long, just to wipe the blood off the opponent's face.

Then he broke off the visor, looked in the mirror, and wiped the fake blood that the captain had smeared on his face on the same paper towel.

When the accelerator is fully applied, the Mercedes-Benz black box flies away into the desert.

After leaving Taal City, drive north for four or ten minutes, and you will pass through a piece of karst landform. Jimmy shuttled skillfully in the sand tower, and drove to the destination with the help of global GPS navigation - a tower-style pure white tent.

The big tent was only qualified to live in by indigenous chiefs in the past. It was cold in winter and hot in summer, with wind leaking from all sides.No matter how you look at it, it is only suitable for taking wedding photos, not for daily necessities in real life.

The captain woke up when he was about to arrive at the place. He didn't come back to his senses for a while, rubbed his sleepy eyes, and suddenly froze.

"It's okay, I'm driving." Jimmy laughed, "Do you think you're on a plane?"

"Occupational disease."

Jimmy parked the car outside the tent, entered the house familiarly, poured oil into the generator, and lit the light after a while.

Although the captain has suffered a lot in the three southern countries, it is the first time for him to live in a tent, and he is walking slowly around to visit.

The tent was huge, twice the size of the crew lounge at the airport, and there were several felt paintings on the walls...

——The paintings are all kinds of powerful Ultraman.

A four-poster bed was placed in the middle of the tent, and the curtains hung from the bed frame, fluttering lightly in the night wind.In addition, there is a tea table and a soft couch, which are placed in the far corner.

Jimmy: "What to eat?"

Lin Mu came back to his senses: "Is there anything to eat?"

Jimmy showed off a rattan basket, which was the instant noodle storage basket that he hastily stuffed in the trunk before going out.The last box of turkey noodles had been cleaned up by the rescue team temporarily staying at his house. The skin of the scallion oil noodles was torn, and the traces were dried by lamb, but he only drank the bag of scallion oil and left the noodles untouched.Pity.

Jimmy grinned and showed his eight teeth: "Captain, do you want to try the Korean improved version of the old Beijing instant noodles that have the most characteristics of our capital?"

Because there was no fire in the tent, they temporarily set up a stove in the courtyard to cook. Jimmy added firewood, and Lin Shu fanned the wind.After a few rounds, the movements are as skillful as a McDonald's fast food assembly line clerk.

Jimmy pointed to the strange-shaped firewood in his hand, and asked Lin Mu: "Captain, do you know why they look different?"

Lin Mu: "Because...the trees are different?"

Jimmy: "Sorry, we are a desert here, and there is only one kind of tree. Guess again?"

Lin Mu: "Because the people chopping firewood are different."

Jimmy: "Correct answer! An extra fried egg for you."

He poured oil into the pan, and when the oil was hot, he put down the sliced ​​luncheon meat and fried it until it was golden and crackling.The smell of meat spread far and wide in the desert night.

Jimmy: "The firewood choppers are different. I just came here three years ago, and I am not familiar with the place. It takes more than a dozen tries to chop a piece of firewood. Later, I became proficient, and I can accurately chop every time. So these Chai looks different. But, Captain, I've been alone. I haven't brought anyone else here."

He blinked provocatively on purpose, not believing that the captain didn't see it.

But the captain pretended not to see it, and turned around to help him sprinkle the seasoning powder on the noodles, and then mixed it with chopsticks.After a while, the noodles took on the stereotyped look of old Beijing, with the sticky sauce evenly covering each noodle.

Lin Mu changed the topic: "You have enough things."

Taking advantage of the situation, Jimmy conjured two more bottles of soda pop from the trunk: "Unfortunately, there is only one bottle of sweet one, we have to save some."

Lin Mu: "I drink salty ones."

Jimmy: "What? You say it again?"

Lin Mu: "I drink salty ones."

In disbelief and grief, Jimmy handed the bottle of salty soda in his left hand to the captain carefully, as if he met the real him for the first time today.

Jimmy: "Just tell me about this kind of thing. Don't tell others casually when you go out in the future."

Lin Mu: "What are you telling others?"

Jimmy: "Salty soda. I'm afraid people will say you have no taste if I tell you about this kind of thing. Of course I won't dislike you. Sweet soda is the best soda in the world." Just like you, in his heart Replenish.

forest:"……"

After 5 minutes, the omelette was also cooked. Jimmy insisted on serving the noodles on a silver plate, leaving a large piece of white space on the plate, just like the pasta in a western restaurant.He rolled the jajangmyeon into a delicate ball, and put the fried egg and luncheon meat on the side.

Jimmy: "Call me Chef if you want noodles."

Lin Mu: "I'm the chef."

Jimmy: "..."

Before he could react, Lin Mu had already gobbled up half a plate of noodles with fried sauce, and even took the odd piece of luncheon meat in the pot directly onto his own plate while he was wiping his mouth, and ate it all up. Jimmy didn't have time to lament, so he snatched half of the fried egg from his plate.

After dinner, Lin Mu offered to wash the dishes. Jimmy regrets that there is no water in the desert to wash dishes.

Jimmy: "You owe me this meal forever."

Lin Mu didn't believe in evil, and asked: "Then what do you usually do after you finish your job?"

Jimmy blinked and stuck out his tongue: "Lick it clean."

forest:"……"

Jimmy was relieved to have won this game, and pointed to the sky: "North Star."

Lin Mu: "Yes."

Jimmy: "You know?"

Lin Mu: "Of course."

At 02:30 in the morning, even with firewood, the temperature in the desert is already quite low.But the captain quickly took off his jacket...to show Jimmy his tattoo.

That is the constellation Ursa Major, the most famous of which is the Big Dipper.The ancients called it "the sky is full of stars", as if the Big Dipper could represent the entire night sky.

The captain said slowly: "I got the tattoo when I was just learning to fly. I was 22 years old. I read that ancient sailors could only distinguish north and south by the stars, and it suddenly resonated with me."

Jimmy: "Well, I also think you are a bit like an ancient person. You have never heard of Samyang Turkey Noodles..."

Lin Mu: "I may have been an ancient person in my previous life. I was a sailor."

Jimmy: "Then I was your compass in my previous life."

forest:"……"

Jimmy leaned forward and kissed the captain's side face, but he turned his head away.The two faces were pressed together, and it looked extraordinarily warm against the desert night in the south.

To hide his embarrassment, Jimmy leaned over to pick up the blanket and put it on the captain.

Jimmy: "Lin Mu, I'll be your Big Dipper, one of them is worth seven. No, seventy is fine."

Lin Mu: "I'm sorry, I'm not worthy."

Jimmy: "It's not a matter of being worthy or not. Existence is reasonable, and I just like you."

Lin Mu: "I don't have a house, let alone another courtyard."

Jimmy: "I have."

Lin Mu: "...I'm getting old."

Jimmy: "I just like older ones. I know you can't stand it, and I'm not playing. Whether it's in the sky or in the desert, navigation and finding directions are not for fun. I... Seriously .”

Lin Mu was stunned for a while, and finally said only one sentence: "I'm sorry."

Looking at the night sky in the desert is always extraordinarily clear, leaving no distant suspense.A shooting star flashed across the sky, Jimmy rubbed his eyes and felt that he was right.

He closed his eyes and made a wish.

"It's okay, this is no big deal. Don't be embarrassed, it can't be done..." I couldn't think of the next part, "Can we still be friends."

Jimmy thumped Lin Mu's shoulder: "At least it's fate. Shall I tell you a joke?"

Lin Mu carefully put the bowls and chopsticks aside, probably still thinking about washing the dishes to pay off the debt.He is a person who does not want to owe others, he would rather owe himself.

Jimmy: "Meng Po has been distributing Meng Po soup by the Naihe Bridge for many years. After a long time, she felt bored, so she decided to resign to Yan Wang. Yama said: You must drink Meng Po soup before resigning. After Meng Po finished drinking After Tang, guess what Hades said to her?"

Lin Mu: "Say what?"

Jimmy: "Hell said to her: Come, here's a job."

forest:"……"

Jimmy: "After drinking this glass of soda, can we settle the matter?"

The captain drank it down with him.

At 03:30 in the evening, no one went to sleep.

Jimmy held out a huqin, babbling, playing it tactfully, I don't know where he learned it.

The captain concentrated on looking at the sand in his hands, grabbed a handful, and slowly let it flow down.He accidentally grabbed a green lizard, put it down carefully, turned its tail, and let it escape northward to find its mother.

It was an incomparably long day, and tens of thousands of people from country K who were suffering were also sleepless all night under the tarpaulin.

Jimmy stared at the stars, confused.Shouldn't he confess his love to the captain at this moment?

He just got to know him, after a not-so-good time - each of the three southern countries has its own tribulations: country Y is eyeing country Z, and country K is hard to recover from an earthquake, it is really not a good time for a beautiful scenery.

But time, time, time... the most changing time happened when he traced the clues of the "Vulture" organization for the first time in six years, and brought the captain to his side.

If you don't say it now, what will happen in the future?

He will find out who murdered Edison Chen, pay for him with blood, and pay off the debt he owes him for half his life, in this gray area of ​​no matter what.

What's next?Can he still escape?

One road goes to the dark, and it is easy to see ghosts late at night.

So if we don't say now, when will we wait?

Jimmy thought, without this fate, forget it.How can everyone be like an idol drama romance novel, meet a cute person, hold hands and never leave?

In many cases, let go of your hands, and everyone still has to go towards the sunrise.

"I'm sorry." He also apologized to the captain.

Military helicopters hovered in the air, and the roar was inaudible.To the north is to deliver disaster relief supplies to country K, and to the south is to transport seriously injured patients from country K to a large hospital run by Americans in the capital of country Z for treatment.

Jimmy: "What's wrong with you? Tears in the wind?"

The captain paused, as if trying to recover the breath that had been swept away by the helicopter's wings.Then he said:

"Today, no, it was yesterday. Yesterday in Country K, I saw a lot of wounded. Many wounded...too many... But the rescue team from Xinxin is currently working together with the American Aid Association. They told me that the rescue should be done in order Order. I am the captain, but the Israelis boarded the plane first. The people from Country K lost everything and were injured all over, but the Israelis boarded my plane."

The captain buried his face in his palms.He thumped the ground, only to get his hands full of sand.

Jimmy understood something: Lin Mu won't get into fights and get pissed off because of this, right?

Jimmy turned the captain's face away, looking into his eyes irresistibly.He has a pair of eyes as bright as stars, the more he knows suffering, the less he can tolerate any injustice under the sun.

But country K was completely ruined.

Country K is on an earthquake zone. This is not the first major earthquake in Country K, and I believe it won't be the last.He can't take it.

The captain shed tears and said with extreme restraint, "I just think...it's not fair."

Jimmy took his head and leaned on his shoulder, wiping away his tears with his hand.

"It's all over. Don't worry about it anymore." He was gentle but firm, "What is not there is gone forever. It will never come back."

"But let's do it again. I'll do it again with you."

"Twice if you can't do it once, and three times if you can't do it twice."

"Come again, we will come again, until the end of the day we will work hard, start all over again, come again, until we succeed."

Post-earthquake reconstruction is like Sisyphus pushing a stone, making people feel that life is futile and that life is only for death.

But the joy of living once is once, and the next time it is rebuilt, the K Congress will be stronger, the escape route will be better built, and the post-disaster response will be smoother.Living still has a day of destruction, but living is not to wait for destruction.

I don’t know if it’s because the starlight is too gentle or the desert is too majestic. Jimmy held the captain in his arms, looked at the endless sand sea in his eyes, and suddenly said: “Ling Shu, I... like the play said, I hope to lead you into the mountains and out of the sky , the more the ocean, but I... want to be with you more. Even if there is no scenery, it is all boring clouds."

He thought, he would ask the steward to find their coordinates at this moment from his own satellite—the bright star in all the desperate nights.

When Jimmy woke up again, he didn't know how long he had been up.

Two eggs were boiled on the gas stove, and a pot of water beside it had already boiled, and the breakfast tea was brewed with dense bubbles.

The captain bent down to check the fire of the gas furnace, and he became the long-legged male model who took one step at the runway of Taal Airport while others took two steps.

The long-legged male model turned around and found that the person who was peeking at him quickly closed his eyes, pretending that he had never woken up.

Jimmy: "Morning, Mr. Lin."

Lin Mu: "It's not even two o'clock." It's two o'clock in the afternoon.

Jimmy got up and asked him what he wanted to eat, only to find that the captain had steamed the two pieces of carrot cake he had brought besides boiled eggs.

With sweet soda, the two finished breakfast side by side.

It's not that it's not awkward, but he just likes it, so what can I do.I like it so much that when I see the captain, I will go crazy, and if I don't pay attention, I will leave the ground and fly into the sky.

On the way back to Tar with the black box, he invited the captain to try it too.

Driving on sand dunes is different from driving on flat ground. You need to judge the slope of the sand dunes at all times and ensure the height difference between the left and right wheels to avoid getting stuck in the sand.Skilled drivers can drive up to [-] kilometers per hour in the desert.

They stopped on a level ground and changed hands.The captain leaned against the hood and smoked a cigarette, then sat in the driver's seat.

Jimmy soon realized that letting a heavy helicopter pilot come to open the black box in the desert is really an amusement project that you can't die if you don't die.

When he lay on the ground and vomited overwhelmingly during the parking interval, he thought that luckily he failed to confess his love.

If this confession is successful and the first day of dating is so embarrassing, the captain will definitely dump him immediately.

As soon as he entered Tal, Jimmy immediately went back to the castle to listen to the report of the situation by the information rescue team who was staying there.This time, more than [-] non-profit organizations in China have contributed money or efforts to aid country K. At this time, the donated relief materials have arrived in Tal one after another.

He inspected two batches of materials, signed the receipt, and then arranged for land transfer tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, and transported the most urgent relief materials such as milk powder and tents to Country K via the Thar Desert.

After signing his name on the executor column, he suddenly noticed the column he had ignored before: the second executor.

When the first executor cannot be responsible for some reason, the transportation matters will be fully taken over by the second person in charge.

He scratched the pen on the back of a piece of waste paper to confirm that there was water, and then solemnly wrote a few English words in the column of the second executor: Mr. MuLin.

The relationship between the second executor and the first executor?

Partner.Partner.

It's not his fault if anyone thinks too much and interprets it as a "partner".

Just after signing, Ajit rushed in without knocking on the door to give him a high five.

Jimmy: "What are you doing? Be subtle."

He looked around hoping the captain was still watching him, but he had already gone to the airport to fly.

Ajit: "We're going to have a road here!"

Jimmy: "You just came out of blue velvet? Don't bet with others if you have nothing to do. Small bets can be fun and big bets can hurt your health. If you keep me nagging, I should feel old."

Ajit: "Really! The radio has been broadcast. The news from Blue Velvet is that the Minister of Communications, the official or the deputy, made an emergency landing in Thar a few days ago, and he made a decision after inspecting it by the way."

Deputy Minister of Transportation of Country Z?Passengers on the day the captain made his first emergency landing in Thar.

Jimmy couldn't wait to tell the captain the good news.He should be so happy, Thar is a poor place, because of him, even the roads are almost open, and it is just around the corner to become a tourist check-in place for Internet celebrities.

When Taal becomes a tourist attraction one day, there will be a sea of ​​people, it must be very annoying.

But couples of young lovers will still look at the desert and think of the oath that symbolizes the dryness of the sea.

Jimmy called the housekeeper and said that next week, Chelsea will be raised. Marigold bought a bundle for him and put it at the door of the neighbor's old lady. It rains heavily in London, so he should not just pay attention to demeanor and wear leather shoes, which are not slippery.

The old man didn't make a sound, he was stunned for a while, and suddenly he said in a hoarse voice:

"Jimmy, tracked the signal."

At that time on the rooftop, during the fight, he stuffed a tracking button into Ji Yuanyuan's bag.At that time, it was soaked in water and did not turn on the machine. Unexpectedly, it resumed work after a few days.

Jimmy asked, "Where?"

"It's a bit far from you...to the northeast, more than 200 miles, you can find someone to go, and don't go by yourself."

"I see." He smiled and hung up the phone, knowing each other well.

Jimmy drove north along the dunes the captain had driven through, then quickly turned off the road and headed into the remote east.

When he was resting on a sand dune, he suddenly looked up nostalgicly, and the night had once again hung on the horizon.When Jimmy heard the sound of the pistol being loaded in his ear, he just thought that the captain must sleep soundly in Country K tonight.

Jimmy turned around slowly, with his hands behind his head, and saw a boy from country Y, about fifteen or sixteen years old, pointing a gun at him, his hands still trembling slightly in the night wind.

Jimmy grieved: "This gun is my treasure! You have to take good care of it... Dear Xiao Hei, Dad is back to see you! This time, treat Dad better, okay?"

The boy yelled in a foreign language for more helpers.

They all looked at the intruder vigilantly, until they heard the intruder utter a few words that seemed familiar to them with a fawning smile: "IPA! Bombay Sapphire! Kingfisher beer! Cheers!"

Then the crowd parted, and a man with a knife scar on his face pointed, and Jimmy was kicked to the ground and dragged to the back of the warehouse.

He couldn't make a mistake, it was Rahimi, and when he went out of the central control room, he turned right, and there was the "Tal Star" Rahimi hanging in the window on the wall.