Millennium Babylon

On the weekend again, Lin Mu touched the side of his pillow while half asleep and half awake, and Jimmy was on duty at the airport again.He sighed softly in his heart, and decided to simply sleep in, but at this moment he heard Ji Yuanyuan's knock on the door.

The captain Ji Yuanyuan, who is usually as gentle as a cat to the plane, slammed the door, as if he was a different person, and he seemed to not stop disturbing the world.

Lin Mu opened the door, wondering: "Why so loud? It's not because of gas poisoning that I can't hear..."

Ji Yuanyuan spoke convincingly: "I'm afraid you will do something wrong inside... I can't hear you."

Lin Mu: "... Put your things down, you can go."

He unloaded the huge package in Ji Yuanyuan's trunk, closed the trunk carefully, and was about to send her away: "Aren't you the person in charge of Sheng Zong, are you busy with work?" Pushing her into the car, he said , "Young people should also pay attention to their health when working hard. My back injury is caused by working too hard in Thar back then..."

Ji Yuanyuan raised her eyebrows: "Are you sure? The back injury is..."

Lin Mu stood up straight: "Deputy Ji..."

It just occurred to me that she had already been promoted to captain, and they would never work together again except in special circumstances.They have been partners for six years. Although Ji Yuanyuan occasionally gets nervous, she is not a bad person...

Just thinking about it, Lin Mu saw Ji Yuanyuan smiled sweetly, and pointed to a small package tied next to the huge package: "There are also good things that Jimmy asked me to bring. Captain Lin, you have a lot of back injuries." Take care!"

After Ji Yuanyuan finished speaking, he ran away, and the motorcycle raised a cloud of smoke and dust, which did not disperse for a long time.

"Jimmy asked me to bring something good"... Lin Mu knew what was in there with his fingers!

In January, Lin Shu often flies to Saltwater City.Every time I come back from Saltwater City, I either bring Jimmy his favorite cheese, or some local roasted coffee beans, chocolate powder and so on.

Jimmy would happily jump into his arms, with his legs wrapped around him, unable to cling to him, like a koala, like a child receiving a Christmas gift, easily satisfied and fully convinced of the goodwill of the world.

During this period, they usually make an appointment with Lin Mu after work to practice taking off and landing on a small helicopter at Thar Airport.The skill of flying a plane can basically be automatically driven as long as it is in the sky. The most difficult thing is actually taking off and landing, especially how to correctly estimate the capabilities of yourself and the plane to cope with the increasingly common extreme weather in the three southern countries.

Jimmy has quite accurate estimates of the weather and his own strength, but he can't estimate Lin Shu's temper.

When he grasped the steering column for the third time in the same night, he deliberately stared into Lin Mu's eyes, exaggeratedly grasped the steering column with his entire palm under the gaze of the other party, took care of it back and forth, and moved it up and down rhythmically, finally And while stroking the rounded tip with my thumb again—

Forest trees erupted.

Lin Mu leaned over and unbuttoned his seat belt, jumped out of the plane, walked to the other side, pulled Jimmy off, and pushed him onto the back seat.

Except for the cockpit, this small helicopter has only one row of seats left. In order to reduce its own weight, there are no doors on the left and right sides. At this moment, it is exposed to the cold air of Tal’s winter night and the day and night searchlights of the airport.

Jimmy twisted and fell on the back seat: "You will be seen, Lin Mu, are you crazy too..." He closed his eyes and smiled.

"Are you afraid of being seen now? It's too late!" Lin Mu roughly pressed Jimmy's struggling hands on the seat.

After a while, uncontrollable sighs and low gasps came from the narrow cabin.

After three weeks of practice, Jimmy took the pilot seat on the trainer for the first time.It was a weekend, and the haze of Tal's winter was gradually dissipating, and the desert sun was getting stronger every day.

Jimmy was blinded by the light from the east, but he saw Lin Shu leisurely put on the aviator sunglasses he had prepared earlier, put his hands behind his head, leaned back on the co-pilot seat, and waited to see him take off.

This training flight has been reported to the control tower, and Ajit and Aruna are happily waiting in the central control room.

Jimmy moved his mouth and asked silently: Where's mine?

Lin Mu shrugged and gestured: How do I know?Who told you not to bring it yourself?

Jimmy pointed to Lin Shu's sunglasses: Give it to me.

Lin Mu: No.

Jimmy: Come on, what's the condition?

Lin Mu pointed to his side face: Kiss the uncle.

Jimmy smiled brightly, and slapped Lin Shu's finger.

"Control tower! Z129 applies for takeoff!" Lin Mu was full of anger.

Jimmy's smile permeated his lips: "The captain should say this, Deputy Captain Lin?" He intentionally bit the word "Senior" hard, "Apply for takeoff, Z129."

Ajit in the control tower replied: "Z129, approval to take off. Hope... hope you maintain peace..."

At this moment, Lin Mu unhurriedly took out a pair of brand new aviator sunglasses from his jacket pocket, unfolded the temples under Jimmy's gaze, and put them on for him.

"My little pilot." Lin Mu kissed Jimmy on the side of his cheek.

Another weekend, the long winter in the Thar Desert finally showed its flaws, and the blue sky was as bright as an oil painting while the yellow sand and red sun were shining.

Lin Mu finished breakfast with Jimmy, took his coffee cup, and urged him to get in the car.Seemingly anxious, Lin Mu kept looking up at the sky and looking down at his watch.

Jimmy was a little worried: "What's wrong?"

Lin Mu sat on the black box, reversed the car out of the garage, and drove on the dirt road out of the city like a fly: "You will know when you arrive."

So Jimmy sat in the co-pilot leisurely, adjusted the seat to the back, put on the aviator glasses given by Lin Mu, and put his legs on the console.

Look like an old man.

"Why do I think this road is so familiar? Are you going to take me back to my house?"

The more Jimmy watched, the more he felt that they were going to drive from the castle to the manor by the lake, but Lin Shu turned a corner on the private road leading to the manor and began to drive along the lake.After driving half a circle, it stopped at the side of a towering hillside by the lake.

Jimmy doesn't know why.

Lin Mu opened the trunk, took out the repacked package, put it on his back, took Jimmy's hand and prepared to go up the mountain: "Didn't you say that you couldn't see Tal clearly on the helicopter last time?"

Jimmy tilted his head: "So?"

Lin Mu pointed to the backpack: "I'll let you see clearly this time."

As they climbed to the top, Jimmy's curiosity was heightened.

At this time, Lin Shu took off his backpack unhurriedly, found a position on the lawn facing the cliff, counted twenty steps back from the edge of the cliff, and slowly unfolded the umbrella.

Huge paragliders, painted in the colors of the rainbow, took shape under the trees like a giant toy.The lakeside and mountaintops with large temperature difference between day and night are the places with the most stable updraft and the most suitable place for paragliding.

Jimmy stood where he was, like a child who has discovered a treasure, not refusing to miss it.After a while, he tentatively asked Lin Mu: "What else do you drive?"

Lin Mu: "What do you mean?"

Jimmy: "The means of transportation invented by humans, besides airplanes, paragliders, cars, and motorcycles, what else would you drive?"

Jimmy thought about it seriously: "You don't know how to drive a spaceship?"

Then he heard him muttering frowningly: "If you fly a spaceship... I have to see if I can afford to mortgage the castle..."

After Lin Mu adjusted the tandem paraglider, he let Jimmy get into the seat in front of him, fastened the seat belt, and told him the precautions again: run forward, don't stop.

Jimmy looked at the cliff twenty steps away in front of him, and gritted his teeth: This scene in ancient times with underdeveloped technology is a pair of fateful mandarin ducks who meet and die in love—bah bah bah, the captain's driving level is so high that he can't even turn over while driving, What is a paraglider?

While thinking, he heard Lin Mu ordering in his ear: "Three, two, one, run."

He and Lin Shu were tied under an umbrella, dependent on each other for life and death, and rushed towards the cliff.

Jimmy closed his eyes tightly.

When he opened his eyes again, Taal City was under their feet.

Their paragliders hovered in the air, like a small rainbow, light and stretched.

Jimmy stared fascinatedly at the land of Tarr before him.There are many water tanks on the roofs of thousands of households, but none of them are as shiny as the one he and Lin Muchu met.

The children saw the rainbow hanging in the sky and stood on the street unable to walk.

"What is that?"

"Mom! Mom, look!"

"Is God coming to pick us up?"

"The teacher said, what's the name of that..."

"Rainbow! Mom, look at the rainbow!"

In front of him is the Thar Desert where Edison Chan stayed, dedicated, perfected and destroyed.

Behind him is the solid embrace of Lin Shu. Jimmy only felt that this rainbow was ordered by God, as if the pain, misfortune and grievances in his previous life were all in exchange for a rainbow today with Lin Shu.

In less than a few days.

"Oh, my God, why is my life so hard!"

"God, Jade Emperor, Queen Mother..."

"Ling Mu, save me, save me, I don't want to take the exam!"

Jimmy held the phone and howled to Lin Mu.Before, Lin Mu also said that if he wanted to take the theory test, he "would only preview the day before the test"—unfortunately, Lin Mu got it right, and Jimmy was going to take the test.

Aircrew relearn emergency response protocols every year, while ground staff at Thal Airport relearn every three years.

This year happened to be the third year, and Jimmy sighed and sighed for a full meal since he received the closed-book exam notice.

What's even more frightening is that with the rampage of the terrorist organization "Vulture" in country Y, this emergency response manual has added a small hundred pages of anti-terrorism response regulations, so large that when a terrorist attack occurs, the ground crew should be responsible first and then respond to it. Who is in charge, as small as who will take which roads when evacuating the airport, all need Jimmy to be able to recite proficiently.

"I'm a science student..." He had never memorized these things before.

And the textbook was written in Bangalore and then translated into English. Jimmy complained in his heart that he didn't understand.

He walked around his castle in annoyance, condescendingly cleaned all the ground that could be cleaned, changed the water for Bingtang, and wiped his hooves, which made Bingtang full of doubts and almost thought he was the owner of kebabs The day came early and the cumin was ready.

Finally, Jimmy couldn't hold back and called Lin Mu.

Lin Mu is temporarily living in Xianshui City.It's all because of the job transfer that he applied for on his own initiative. Now the office of country K who sees the letter is calling him all the time, and there is no time for him to go back to Tar.

Jimmy can't see the trees, so he finds faults with Bingtang in his life all day long, and is very irritable.Bingtang was so convinced that she had fallen out of favor that even when she heard a knock on the door, she stopped standing up and kicking her hoof to guard the door.

Even it knew it would not be trees.

"Hello? What are you doing?" Jimmy lay on the carpet next to the sofa, turned over and asked lazily.Ever since Lin Mu bought him an iPhone, he has been using it to make harassing calls to him every day.

Lin Mu replied, "I'm watching Weibo."

Jimmy was surprised: "Weibo? Even you are on Weibo? Congratulations, you have finally entered the new century! How about it, don't you regret it in our 21st century?"

Lin Mu smiled lightly.

Jimmy felt that Lin Mu's voice in the video call was very magnetic and sexy, so he used his ability to chatter for more than an hour, from international politics to aircraft maintenance, and finally talked about what they did in the cabin When can those things be moved to the cab to do it again, Lin Shu interrupted with a blushing face.

"It's nothing, I'll hang up first. I'll be ready to board the plane later."

Jimmy hurriedly stopped: "Hey, Captain Lin, I want to ask you something?"

"Ok?"

"On the screen of your mobile phone, who is the big avatar and who is the small avatar?"

"I'm a small avatar, and you are a big avatar. Generally, this is the default, right? Ji Yuanyuan told me last time that girls who love beauty will turn their screens to the maximum when they are on the phone, and constantly adjust the angle to take the best pictures." my own..."

Jimmy laughed loudly: "Captain, you may have misunderstood this matter. The biggest influencing factor is not men and women, but appearance. Good-looking people generally can't see themselves enough. For example, I look in the mirror every day. Happy. Please answer below: Are you tired of looking at yourself in the mirror every day?"

Lin Mu was powerless to refute for a moment, but only heard Jimmy continue: "But I can't get tired of watching it. I'll use my computer to call you and project the screen on the ceiling, just to watch you."

Jimmy was lying on the carpet moistly, looking at the forest as big as a room above his head, he was stunned for a moment, and then smiled softly.His smiling eyes are so pretty.

After hanging up Lin Mu's phone, Jimmy made a routine call to his mother.

His mother, Ms. Chu Nuoya, is negotiating with the salesperson of Harrods about the distribution of goods while shopping in the street-whether to buy enough 16 to be able to distribute the goods, or to buy enough to buy 18, the intensity of the commercial negotiation is no less than that of Jimmy Negotiate with the Deputy Minister of Defense of Country Z on the delivery route of uranium raw materials, and how to avoid the supervision of the international community.

"Mom, I miss you so much after Pepper left, Jeremy said she couldn't eat, she cried every day—"

Ms. Chu Nuoya didn't get into it: "Come on, baby! I know your Chinese has improved, did you learn it from Captain Lin?"

Jimmy proudly: "That's right! What did you think of the last time you called him? He's so handsome and reliable, right?"

Chu Nuoya didn't understand, so: "Your family can tell if he is handsome by calling? Besides, no matter how handsome and reliable he is, he is not my son!"

Jimmy paused, and pretended to be relaxed and asked Ms. Chu, "How about letting him be your son?"

Ms. Chu was stunned for a long time.On the other end of the phone, the Hermès salesperson at Harrods apologized repeatedly, saying that regular customers like her don’t talk about 18 to 16, and only 14 pounds can be delivered!Sign up now!

Finally, Ms. Chu waved her hand: "No more."

The minds of both parties are well aware of each other.He couldn't bear to refuse openly, and he absolutely refused to accept the other party's proposal.He never intended to hide this thought from his mother.Ms. Chu Nuoya's eyes and ears in Chen's Capital probably rushed to tell her about him and Lin Mu after the New Year's dinner.

Even so, Jimmy still thumped in his heart, and was about to continue laying the groundwork, but only heard Ms. Chu say coldly: "Pepper is not happy, you can send it back to her, busy, I will send you a picture of Pepper later."

The phone hangs up.

Jimmy looked out the window at the sky that had only darkened at 08:30, and his heart sank, thinking that the winter in Tar was over.

Everything is awakened, and the armed forces from all walks of life are probably about to come out to move around.

In Xianshui City with a time difference of two hours and 45 minutes, Lin Mu had just finished his dinner.

He packed up the dishes and checked the flight schedule for tomorrow. It was still the same. He was already familiar with the three routes in the south.

He picked up his charged phone and continued to check the official account of Jianxin Group on Weibo, flipping through posts one by one, until about six years ago, but he still couldn't find anything.

He vaguely remembered that everyone in the branch said that Jianxin attended the founding ceremony of country Y, and it was a trending topic on Weibo.This incident was set up as an excellent example of Chinese companies' foreign aid back then. The story told to the media was that Chinese companies used high-tech to help poor areas develop infrastructure.

Jianxin's business is actually not that clean, so it pays special attention to its external image, and its public relations on the Internet have always been low-key if it can gossip.

At this moment, the most popular trending post of Jianxin in the past few years has been deleted. What's the reason?

He regretted not using Weibo at that time, and not saving all the video evidence of the founding ceremony.But he didn't know Jimmy then, he thought, and he couldn't wait to forget what happened to Tarr, so he transferred to Saltwater and started again.

Right now there is only...the last solution.

Lin Mu clicked on WeChat, and typed out the name he was very familiar with but has not been in touch with for many years in the search contact: Wen and Xing.

An avatar popped up, which had not changed for so many years, a famous snow-capped mountain in Southwest China.They hiked together, lived in a tent and ate instant noodles, and felt that they had enjoyed the prosperity of the world.

He paused, but still didn't send him a WeChat message.For some reason, Lin Mu didn't want to see him reply too quickly.

So Lin Mu clicked on the address book instead, and sent a message to Wen Hexing, who is currently the chairman of the Southern Industry Branch of Jianxin Group: If you have something to consult, call back when you are free.

He didn't think much about it, he closed his cell phone, and Wen Yuxing called him after a while.It is already four o'clock in the morning in China at this time. Could it be that he is in Thar?Even……

Wen Yuxing greeted him on the phone, without the rebellious temper of the past, more like a serious businessman.

Lin Mu was originally afraid that he would embarrass him, but at this moment he felt that he was treating a gentleman with a villain's heart, so he said seriously: "My friend wants to pay for a video we posted on the Internet at that time. That is, if I don't remember If it's wrong, didn't we send reporters to film the ceremony when the country Y became independent? My friend is engaged in historical documentaries, if he can get that video, then his story will be complete."

He knew that the deletion of the video must be related to the international situation. He was afraid that there would be problems with public relations after Wen and Xing taboo, so he hurriedly added: "It's just a student's homework. My friend sent it to a Chinese film festival in San Francisco. Other than that, it won't be spread. gone."

Wen Yuxing smiled faintly, and answered irrelevant questions: "Lin, how are you doing?"

Lin Mu hung up the phone after exchanging a few pleasantries, and fell asleep as usual.When I woke up early the next morning, there was a bunch of messages on my phone, all from Wen Yuxing:

"make a deal"

"Lin, luckily you're back again"

"Am I dreaming"

Probably drunk.

Lin Mu deleted all the information about Wen and Xing, and sighed.Now he is just a superior and subordinate in the company to him, an acquaintance who has a little common topic, Lin Mu thought in his heart, only when he met the right person did he know what the sea is—Wen and Xing are not his sea, not in the past, Not now, nor will it be in the future.