Millennium Babylon

The old man didn't mean to be tricky, but he paused and paused, and finally said: "Winter came late that year, the weather was abnormal, and it rained several times in a row."

Immediately Jimmy got drunk, moved a chair and sat opposite the old man like a schoolboy.He was not drunk from the beginning, and the drunkenness he yelled at was the acting skills he had practiced in the mall in the past few years.

He hadn't let himself get drunk since his father's death.His pager was pinned to his waist, and there was a button on the back that ordinary people couldn't notice. He didn't let himself look over it, but he knew that button was there at any time.

"Do you know why country Y wants to be independent?" The old general tried his best to straighten his back and looked down at him.

"I know. The United States has intervened in the politics of the three southern countries for 17 years, and finally retreated after being defeated. The Y people saw the opportunity and demanded independence from the international community."

But country Z will not agree easily, they have invaded the territory of the Y people for centuries.

Country Z was so quarrelsome that they couldn't separate their families, so they entrusted the Americans to divide the territory and redefine the borders for them before withdrawing their troops.

"Tal was on the border between the two countries, and the two sides were fighting. Your father supported the return of Tal to us."

"What evidence is there?" In fact, he already knew that his father had a heart for Tal, but he still had to make every step.

"He sold us thirty M15 tanks without telling country Z."

"Okay." Jimmy laughed. Thirty tanks.The United States has less than [-] tanks in the three southern countries.

No wonder he checked the company's accounts. An international shipping company has been losing money, but it has never stopped losing money.

"So?" Jimmy waited for the answer from the old general's mouth.

"Nation Z sent someone to silence him forever."

"Do you know who it is?"

The old general looked at Jimmy, didn't speak for a while, and asked, "How did you find us?"

"There is a tracking device on the uranium reaction trigger. This is someone else's house. If my house sells this thing, I will make sure to add a self-destruct device on it. My dad... Did you say anything before you left?"

The old general thought for a while, then shook his head: "It was at the first flag-raising ceremony of country Y, he looked at the people of country Z, and then at us—"

"Then he said—"

"He said how we dressed so plainly. Also, how did we have any money? Colonized by the British, and then the Yankees' 17 Years' War... I started fighting right after college, and it never stopped!"

Jimmy's smile darkened.

Heh, Edison Chan is quite fond of fashion.When he was at the flag-raising scene in Tal, he saw that the people of country Z were all well-dressed, while the people of country Y only had blue coats, as if they were a century behind.

Most people would only lament a few words about the injustice of the world, but he is a person who can control dozens of tanks and one or two small nuclear reactors.

Therefore he died.

Jimmy thanked the old general and promised to send him more insulin and whatever he needed within the week.He took out the car key and shook it, indicating that he was going to leave.

"Is this gone?"

The old man's face didn't change, and his tone of voice was calm, but it inexplicably made Jimmy feel ominous.

They are in the arms business, and both sides of the war regard them as enemies and lackeys, ready to fight to the death at any time, so the sixth sense is often particularly sensitive.

At this moment, Jimmy's sixth sense told him that if the butler Jeremy hadn't positioned his satellite to the reinforcements, they would probably collect his body if it was too late.

"Is there anything else? I don't want the things you owe my friend for the time being. You keep them for me. I'm very generous and free of interest."

He backed away slowly, hitting the table, and Rahimi held the broken bottle to his neck.The rest of them held their guns and surrounded them step by step.

Jimmy refrained from pressing the button on the pager.If there is another way, he is not willing to go this way...

"Tal's story, why are you thinking about your father? How did you miss the most important thing? Tarr hasn't come home yet."

Rahimi said: "President Y is a coward, he gave up Tal, and we never will!"

The map drawn by the Americans returned Tal to country Z, and also made the old general and Rahimi lose their spiritual capital and national sustenance.They now want to take Tal back, so they set up the "Vulture" terrorist organization.

Jimmy waited for the group of young people to get closer, and then saw that they all had the same tattoos on the inside of their left wrists, a pair of oval eyes, extremely fierce——

Those are the eyes of a pair of vultures, scavengers, fighting the enemy to the last piece of flesh and blood before giving up.

"Until your men deliver the uranium, you'll have to follow us."

With a soft "squeak", Jimmy felt blood flow from his neck.He knew that this move was only threatening, even in Hollywood movies.

But he stretched out his hand to cover the wound, but he only felt that his blood was so hot, gushing out, which was a living proof.

Did Edison Chan, a split personality patient who loves fashion, bleed like this until the last moment?

What was going through his mind at the last moment of his life?

Jimmy's consciousness slowed down step by step, as if he was watching a montage in a movie: Taer was sitting on the roof of a broken minibus on the way out of the city, and the captain was looking ahead alone. Against the background of desert smoke, he was as chic as an oasis of soul .

At that time, Jimmy once said, "I counted, you are a lone star", but he didn't finish at that time, it was too late, and there was still a half sentence that the captain didn't know: "You must bring Only I can enjoy the blessings of the future.

There is only one other person missing in his life, and he can make up all the stars in the universe.

But if the "Vulture" organization combined uranium raw materials and triggers to create a small nuclear reactor with low control, then the corner of the planet they knew would be completely razed to the ground.

Jimmy smiled with difficulty: "I'm the kind of person you hate the most. I was born with a golden spoon in my mouth. My family has everything, from castles to submarines. There is nothing missing. But my family has no uranium .If my family was so awesome, my dad wouldn't die either. Give up."

Rahimi threw away the glass, took out a photocopy, and slowly unfolded it before Jimmy's eyes:

"If your people don't transport uranium to Taal within two months, you will find that the people you care about in Taal will disappear one by one."

He pointed to the name of the second executor on the transportation receipt for disaster relief supplies, and the ballpoint pen read: Mr. MuLin.

"Start with him."

Jimmy looked at the name, didn't speak, then suddenly raised his head, licked the blood off his mouth nonchalantly, and at the same time pressed the pager button with his left hand.

Blood blurred his eyes, and he pulled out a brilliant smile.

Explosions erupted everywhere, and the entire cave suddenly felt like an earthquake, shaking people up and down.

"God!"

"God! Great God! Save us!"

"It's the government army!"

"They're coming to clean us up! There may be American support, General, what should we do now?"

The roar of the engine on the sand was accompanied by the sudden burst of machine gun fire, which penetrated the hole and hit the iron door, leaving dents everywhere.In an instant, as if the end was coming, Rahimi immediately retreated from the tunnel with the old general and his men.In a panic, he grabbed Jimmy.

"Run!"

Jimmy hesitated only for a moment before he heard gunshots behind him.The tank blasted open the cave from the side, and in the dust, an assault team of at least 15 people had broken into the side.

The first man put his pocket on Jimmy's head and pushed him roughly toward the armored vehicle.

The remaining members of the "Vulture" organization in the cave were wiped out, but Rahimi and the old general had escaped.

Inside an armored vehicle.

The soldiers joked with each other sentence by sentence in Bangalore, roughly commenting on who was acting like a coward and who was the real man in the previous raid.

"Did you do something wrong just now? Do you hate your brother for not letting you eat boiled mutton?" Jimmy tore off the pocket on his head and punched Ajit on the shoulder.

With camouflage on his face and a straw hat on his head, Ajit has evolved from an advanced pacesetter cleaning toilets at Thar Airport to a guerrilla.

"You know how much we worried about you when we came from Taal! Even your sheep were worried about you! You suddenly lost your signal when you arrived at the vulture's territory, have you ever thought about us—"

"Stop it," Jimmy pulled his sleeve over to cover the wound on his neck, "it's useless to tell me this. Your brother and I have no heart."

Ajit was shocked: "What did they do to you?!"

"Abducted."

"Jimmy! You're sick. I thought—"

Jimmy shrugged, stifled Ajit's expletives, and dug the satellite phone out of his bag.

Regardless of the dusty sky outside, he opened the skylight and dialed the number of the crew control room at Thar Airport on the satellite phone.

Aunt Aruna answered the phone.

"Jimmy! God bless! Are you okay? Are you not hurt? I saw Ajit hurried out and guessed that you might be in trouble, sure enough! How can you reassure us next time—"

Jimmy evaded the important point: "Aruna, let me tell you something. I have a crush on someone in the crew of flight K862, help me find out if their crew has returned."

"Ah? What?! Jimmy, you said you were in love? Why didn't you tell us that you were in love? That's great! We're going to celebrate you together! We all guessed you before—that's great !When will you come home?"

"Not in love yet. Aruna, K862."

"Oh! K862 landed half an hour ago. Do you want me to transfer you to the crew lounge?"

"Anyone leave me a message?"

"What message? No."

"Then you transfer to the crew lounge."

The call was transferred to the crew lounge, and it took a long time to answer the call. It was Ji Yuanyuan.

"Aren't you a guardian angel? What? Laid off?"

Her baby voice is still a baby voice when you play it. Jimmy heard the beep of the coffee machine at the other end, and knew that even in Thal, where supplies were scarce, she probably didn't let herself suffer.

"I'm looking for Lin Shu."

"Lin Shu has already boarded the plane."

"Didn't it just land?"

"It's going up again." Ji Yuanyuan rolled her eyes speechlessly, "I can't persuade you, and I can't stop you. He insisted that the [-] ceramic idols brought back this time, there are still more in K country." Twelve real people were waiting for him to pick them up. As soon as they landed, they turned around and went through the customs and left, as if the customs were opened by their family.”

"You can't, you guardian angel," Ji Yuanyuan sighed exaggeratedly, "I thought you had to protect him."

Jimmy hung up the phone, called back to the central control room, and asked Mrs. Aruna to connect him to the K862 cockpit that was preparing for flight.

"Jimmy, one of the rules you set for us is that outside calls are not allowed—you wait a minute and I'll answer it for you."

He heard Aunt Aruna sigh unconsciously, "What? Isn't your lover that Chinese girl?! Your lover is... Your lover is——"

Then Jimmy heard the echo from the cab.

"Lin Mu, Lin Mu are you there? Are you okay?"

His first instinct wasn't to pour out the horror he had just narrowly escaped, or even to rush to tell the captain he shouldn't steal one of his hearts for too long.

He just desperately wanted to make sure he was safe.

"I'm a little worried about you. It may be written in the almanac that it is not suitable to travel today."

Jimmy, a senior practitioner of traditional Chinese culture in London, said: "I am worried about you. I...I miss you very much."

He waited for a long, long time, and there was silence at the other end, like a stone thrown into the sea, and the only response was silence.

Then he heard Lin Mu's indifferent voice: "It's ready to take off."

Then the phone hung up, and the beeps kept ringing in my ears.

three days later.

There were no aftershocks in country K, but the blizzard fell suddenly, and the airport couldn't respond for a while, and Lin Mu had to wait for two more nights before arranging a flight at noon.

In the crew lounge, while waiting for the flight, Lin Mu heard the rumbling of snow plow trucks passing by, like a giant beast filling its stomach with snow.Then he silently pressed the send button on the phone.

The application for transfer to country Z has been submitted.

Putting him in Thar for disaster relief is just for reporters to see.Seeing the letter is probably also happy to see their only reinstalled captain in the three southern countries return to the work rhythm of making money for them as soon as possible.

What about Jimmy?

What about the cheerful, laughing young man with the name?Lin Mu thought, fortunately he hasn't gotten too deep into himself yet.Before that, he should leave Tar's as far away as possible.

When he landed in Tal for the last time, he distributed the cash in his wallet to the believers.

They have nothing but rags, but they are about to reunite with their idols, and the light in their eyes seems to fill the world.

Ji Yuanyuan lay on the window of the crew lounge, leaned out half of her body, squinted at him condescendingly, and did not welcome him at all: "Hey, captain, you are capable enough! I heard that someone worked overtime every day for you. When I got home, I jumped three feet away when I heard a little movement, dare you be a Red Bull, you?"

"I applied for transfer... don't talk about it yet."

Lin Mu lowered his head, his side profile was as straight as a knife's edge, his eyelashes drooped a little nostalgic, but they disappeared in the blink of an eye: "By the way, these people don't speak a word of Thar, can you help them find a place to live? I'm in charge of eight, and I'll give you four, will it work?"

"It's all mine, thank you for your kindness."

Lin Mu heard a voice behind him answering steadily, and he didn't know how long he had been standing there.

He turned around and was face to face with him.

Jimmy had obviously been up for a few nights, and a thin layer of stubble hung on his chin, making him look several years older, and somehow masculine.He raised his eyebrows and smiled hypocritically, and continued the arrangement:

"Ajit, take dozens of passengers from Captain Lin's plane to the guest house, hire a few translators to accompany them to the USAA unloading site to pick up the packages, and send them to the temple.

Ajit was not on duty today, so he hurried to the tarmac after receiving the job.Turning back while walking, I compared to Jimmy the little love he just learned on Douyin.

Ever since Chen Yan downloaded Tik Tok on Ajit's phone, the inventory of girls and sisters on his phone has become more colorful, and even the people have become a lot more lively.

But Lin Mu remained silent.

His pilot uniform hugged the lines of his muscles perfectly, and his back was straight and businesslike.

"You're here." He greeted lightly, "Thank you."

"No thanks, no thanks," Jimmy smiled, "You can't repay my kindness, so promise it with your body. Applications are not allowed."

"It's been handed over."

"Withdraw!"

"There is no way to withdraw."

"Then apply again! Call back!"