Millennium Babylon

"Put your heart in your stomach, Captain Lin." Ji Yuanyuan pointed to the back row, where Chen Yan was holding a safe with a lock.

"That's—" He couldn't be sure.

"In exchange," Chen Yan said, "the boxes in their hands are filled with my first aid medicine."

"Why didn't the original plan—"

Ji Yuanyuan cursed in a low voice: "According to the original plan? Even if we can take away the box, what will we do if we keep you? They will take you...take you...before they know that the box was buried in the If we switch bags, we can all run.”

"But they will know right away." Chen Yan reminded her.

Ji Yuanyuan didn't answer, and honked the horn twice.

They looked up, only to find that she had parked the helicopter in a wasteland behind the bombed-out Thar airfield.

"Let's go back to Saltwater City together."

Ji Yuanyuan raised her chin triumphantly.

Lin Mu got out of the car first, leaned against the thick iron plate modified by the armored car, and panted heavily.From time to time, he lowered his head and supported his knees, as if he had choked on too much smoke just now, and now he is a little out of breath.

Ji Yuanyuan boarded the plane first to prepare for takeoff.

Chen Yan asked him how he was feeling with concern: "You can rest after getting on the plane. From here to Saltwater City, you can persist for another two hours. There is a good hospital over there."

—A hospital run by the American Aid Association.

Lin Mu regained his energy, nodded, and stretched out his hand: "I'll hold it for you, first see if there is anything that needs help from Yuanyuan."

Chen Yan handed him the safe and signaled him to be careful with his eyes.

Half a minute later, through the glass directly in front of the cockpit of the helicopter, Ji Yuanyuan saw the armored vehicle leaving in the direction of the desert hinterland.

"Fuck!"

"The surname is Lin!"

"Get out of here!"

Chen Yan, who had just walked to the helicopter and struggled to climb into the passenger seat, was kicked off the plane by Ji Yuanyuan in the chest.

Ji Yuanyuan casually pointed to the front left: "Less than ten kilometers straight over there is Bola City, which has been liberated by the government army. Come on, I believe you!"

She pulled up the takeoff lever, and this time she no longer needed to report to anyone over the deserted ancient city, and she would no longer be looked down upon as a female pilot—at this last moment, life and death depended on herself It's up to me.

Then Ji Yuanyuan flew straight to the direction completely opposite to the forest at a ground speed that set a record in Tal aviation history.

In late winter in the Thar Desert, the nighttime temperature drops to minus twenty degrees Celsius.

After throwing Ji Yuanyuan away, Lin Mu checked the equipment on the car, and there was a spare barrel of oil, which could run up to [-] kilometers.

Six hundred kilometers, from Beijing to Changbai Mountain, is not enough to see the snow falling on the ridge, and the morning sun is covered with pink and gold light.

Not enough to open up the war zone where the Condors are fighting the UN peacekeepers.

The GPS has no signal, and the radio on the car naturally has no signal for a long time.With the common sense of a pilot, he can accurately distinguish between east, west, north, and south.Go southeast through the war zone, and drive all the way down to Saltwater City.

If he was caught by the "Vulture" organization halfway, it was only him, and he did not drag others down.

He thought of Ji Yuanyuan.She drank too much at "Blue Velvet" that day, and began to chatter on her own, saying that she used to fly a plane near the Saltwater Airport and listened to other pilots pretending to report her ground speed on the channel.She casually reported in Zhiling's sister's voice: "Z135, [-] knots ground speed."

Then there was silence in the channel, and no one spoke anymore.

You're bragging... Lin Mu thought to himself.Obviously she would be afraid too - when the "Vulture" organization attacked Tar, he accidentally touched her steering wheel when he was about to shake her hand and say goodbye to her in front of the castle.

Already drenched in cold sweat.

How could he confidently drag her into the war he provoked...

Lin Shu closed his eyes.Long-distance driving makes my eyes a little sore and sour, and it seems that if I blink a few more times, tears will fall.

The old Lahimi and the young Lahimi probably already noticed that something was wrong, and sent people to catch up.After sunset, the visibility in the desert is excellent, and the sound can travel without hindrance.

Lin Mu saw a light rising in the distance, and began to count silently in his heart.

one two three four five six……

When he counted to the sixth second, he heard the sound of an explosion—he did a quick mental calculation, which meant that the pursuers of the "Vulture" organization had arrived three kilometers away.

He must hurry up.

If the uranium raw materials are taken away by the old Rahimi, they will continue to trade. The nuclear test will threaten the lives of hundreds of millions of people in the three southern countries. It will also leave evidence for the International Atomic Energy Organization and put his loved one in prison. .

The man... whom he loved dearly.

Lin Mu smiled lightly: He thought they could separate, he thought he could leave him behind and continue living as if nothing happened.

What a sweet mistake.

He heard the sound of explosions getting closer and closer, and the dazzling light getting closer, almost thinking that he was in a simulated cockpit.

There will be wind, frost, rain and snow on the screen in the cockpit, and no matter how he reacts, he will only add or deduct points, and there is never a danger of his life.

Too bad the real world is not a game.Wars would break out, castles would fall, and people... would die.In this life of doing everything and obeying the fate, what he regrets the most is this moment.He clutched his jewel-encrusted Tal dagger, ready to fight to the death if need be.

He finally set up his real life for a series of abstract words: justice, love, peace...

Lin Mu felt that the left wheel had run over something, and he bumped suddenly, only to realize that it was a trench left over from the War of Independence. So Xianshui City is only a short distance away from here...

Then he heard a thunderstorm, the light pierced his eyes, the car body rolled several times in the air current caused by the explosion, got stuck in the trench, and did not move.

The Thar Desert, which has always been dry, has snowed for the first time.

A round bright moon hangs low above the sand dunes, sprinkling the white light indiscriminately in the corners of the world.When the moon is full...is it New Years?

It snowed until midnight.

The rough gravel was covered with a layer of soft light, and the forest tree was still in the posture where he fell out of the car and fell into the trench, and slowly opened his eyes.Then he pulled a finger with all his strength and poked the snow on the ground.

——For many years...haven't seen snow...

At the last moment before closing his eyes, Lin Mu somehow remembered going to calligraphy class when he was young.There is an open space in front of the Children's Palace. He doesn't like to learn calligraphy, but only loves to play, and his mother waits patiently for him every sunny day after the snow, and builds a snowman on the open space.

The snowman was as tall as him, with big eyes, a nose made of carrots, and a hat that the tree had put on him.

But since...he came to the Three Southern Kingdoms...he never returned home.

At home, without a mother...

And here... no snow...

Only the hot rainy season...the dry season wither...and...war...

endless war...

Lin Mu's side face was imprinted in the snow, watching the snowman in his memory gradually take shape behind the sand dunes, the one with nose and eyes, wearing the stars and wearing the moon, came for him.

My dream... Lin Mu thought, it seems to be done too beautifully...

"I... didn't want... to delay you."

He said to the snowman.The desert is extremely hot, and the snowman is easy to melt. I thought nothing could last forever.

Lin Mu closed his eyes heavily, and then felt the snowman hug him up with lingering warmth.

Jimmy looked up, the moon was as round as a mirror.

And in the trenches, with him in his arms, the world is safe.

The third day after Taal's Lantern Festival is Chinese New Year's Eve.The tail of the old year’s refusal to go out hangs on the threshold of the new year, and the snow falls flamboyantly and lonely, with a thin layer, like icing on a cake.

Only Babylon, which has been behind the world for more than 20 years, has finally waited for its millennium, with the sound of guns and guns not extinguishing, and dust flying in the sea of ​​sand.

Jimmy kissed Lin Shu's forehead.

Lin Mu once said that if he dies, his matter will not be destroyed, chemical reincarnation, and finally grow into a tree.Jimmy was holding him tightly in his arms now, tears brushing against the arteries in the side of his neck and the firm chest that encased his beating heart.

"forest……"

Jimmy couldn't bear it anymore, but...Lin Mu...

The sound of guns and guns echoed in his ears, but there was only one thought in his mind, which held him tightly and did not let go.

——Ling Mu, let's get married.

When we get married, the sound of firecrackers sounds like a deafening procession.I carried you downstairs, walked out of the unit, and went to the street. The people on the street watched endlessly—seeing how we grow old together and love each other as before.Lin Mu and we are getting married, look at the falling ribbons, the mottled snow, the flashing lights record the moment, the annoying emcee is nagging, and I just want to hold you to a place where there is no one, and kiss endlessly.

Lin Mu, the world is so big, but I have you.

Trees, my trees.All I love deeply.

Jimmy used the field first aid skills taught by Dr. Pete to wrap the forest in a sleeping bag to avoid hypothermia.Then pulled the lead of a flare.

He carefully wiped off the blood on Lin Mu's face little by little, then applied the lotion and covered it with a Band-Aid.

There wasn't much more for Jeremy to do until his backup picked them up.All personnel matters are done, and the rest can only be left to fate...

And Lin Shu closed his eyes, as if he was asleep and having a sweet dream.

"Go to sleep, I'll sing for you..."

With a crying voice, Jimmy hummed softly.Tears hit Lin Shu's forehead, tick tock, tick tock.

The Thar Desert is like a hotbed of stories, and those who fall into it are all so fascinated that they spend their lives.

A week later, USAA International Hospital in Saltwater City.

"You can't sleep anymore! You slept another ten hours yesterday, and you'll be a fool if you sleep any more!" Jimmy sat on the Danish sofa in the VIP ward, complaining with one leg crossed.While speaking, he forcefully gave Lin Mu a game console to let him play more and develop his intelligence.

"What do you think of me..." Lin Mu sighed.

According to the doctor, he was taken to the top floor by helicopter, and he was in a coma for two full days.He had two broken ribs, a severe concussion, but thankfully no hydrocephalus and no signs of internal bleeding.

Three days after waking up, he was transferred from the intensive care unit to the general ward, and Jimmy followed him immediately.

This VIP ward was obviously designed by Jimmy, with large floor-to-ceiling glass windows, embellished with green leaves and plants, a huge computer monitor and a comfortable gaming chair firmly placed in the corner.

"Why is yours so big and mine so small?" Lin Mu lowered his head, looking at his game console over and over again.

Jimmy frowned, got up from the sofa, and walked to Lin Shu's window.

He bent down slowly, just enough to cover the tree under him, and put his hands on top of his shoulders.

Jimmy stopped half an inch above his lips, gritted his teeth: "Are you young?"

Lin Mu closed his eyes and pretended to be stupid, his heart turned violent, he had no choice but to be shameless: "Otherwise...you try?"

Jimmy almost burst into flames: "You are so obedient now? What did you do before? You drove into the war zone by yourself after taking the guts of a tiger?! And you brought uranium raw materials?!"

Jimmy looked around, but no one heard him, so he leaned close to Lin Mu's ear, and warned viciously: "I'll give you ten days, hurry up. You wait for me, and I won't let you see after you recover... ...the big one."

He bit Lin Mu's earlobe fiercely, thinking that the other party would sting him, but he heard Lin Mu gasp and moaned uncontrollably.

I have been waiting for too long...

Lin Mu looked upright, opened his eyes, and looked deeply into Jimmy's eyes: "It's... great that you're still here."

Jimmy closed his hands, left his window, and said, "It's too late to have a good attitude. It's useless, I'll tell you Lin Mu."

Lin Mu sighed, closing his eyes and still spinning.

According to Chen Yan, Ji Yuanyuan threw him away and drove away from the helicopter to divert the firepower of the "Condor", and successfully won several hours of turning point for herself.

Chen Yan walked to Bora City on foot, and contacted Jimmy through the local American Aid office. At that time, Jeremy had already answered the phone.

Jimmy had already set off to chase him.

Lin Mu rang the call bell sideways, and Jimmy rushed to Lin Mu's bedside before the nurse arrived and pressed the call back to silent: "Don't make trouble. Rehabilitate honestly."

Unexpectedly, Lin Mu suddenly reached out to hook his little finger.

He didn't do anything else, just hooked his fingers lightly.Fingertips touch, warm and quiet.

"how did you find me?"

"Don't play dumb, you already figured it out."

"I've checked both my phone and my car, but there's no signal. The only thing on me that comes from you is that dagger... Is there a locator on the dagger?"

"Only? You are all mine." Jimmy didn't deny it, pulled out Lin Shu's palm, and patted it hard, "You owe me more than 800 million dollars, pay it back slowly in this life."

"...More than 6000 million? How did you calculate it?"

"My life insurance claim."

"...Then if something happens to me, you really—"

Jimmy stared at Lin Mu: "If something happens to you, don't worry, I will invest in a biology laboratory to study the technology of resurrection of the dead. If not, then I will invest in a bionic robot and make a robot that is exactly like you. The robot comes, and...then..."

Jimmy looked sideways out the window.

Lin Mu teased him: "Then treat him this way and that again, let him see the big one?"

Jimmy turned his head again, with tears in his eyes: "He is exactly like you, but I... still miss you very much. I only want you."

Lin Mu couldn't bear it anymore.

He tightened his hands, ignoring the pain in his ribs, and pulled Jimmy to sit beside his bed: "Shh, don't move, it will hurt if you touch my wound."

"you dare!"

"Try if I dare." Lin Mu stretched out his hand from under the quilt and covered Jimmy's lower abdomen.

"Don't..." Jimmy wanted to push him away, but he didn't dare to touch his wound. At this moment, he sat on the edge of the bed, like a frozen wax figure.

Jimmy struggled to get up, at least to close the curtains, or else the sun would be shining brightly to witness what they were about to do—nothing to do under the sun, the trees were back, the same person still intact, the same captain .

But Lin Mu didn't let go: "Hush, hold on, or people will see it..."

"How can you bear it..." Jimmy closed his eyes, feeling a fire burning from Lin Shu's hand, burning all over his limbs.

The woods intensified.

Jimmy insisted on squeezing to the side of the hospital bed, even if he curled up, he didn't dare to vent his breath.The patient also cooperated, lying flat and not daring to touch his ribs, but stretched out his arms to wrap around the shoulders of the people around him.

"Lin Mu... I have something to tell you—"

"Jimmy, I was thinking—"

They both spoke tacitly at the same time, both of them were taken aback for a moment, and then Jimmy's face flushed red, and he buried his head in the pillow: "You speak first."

Lin Mu said seriously: "I saw old Lahimi and Drop, that—"

"I know, Minister of Defense. That fat man." Jimmy thought of the fat man pretending to be negotiating in the dream garden, and then sent someone to hunt him down to the rooftop.

"They said a very strange thing."

Jimmy stood up and frowned: "What's the matter?"

Lin Mu: "After the War of Independence, country Y became independent, but Tal belonged to country Z. During the flag-raising ceremony on Independence Day, Edison Chan suffered a stomach hemorrhage and was transported by...helicopter to Saltwater City."

He wasn't ready to tell Jimmy that the pilot for the day was none other than himself.

Lin Mu went on to say: "We have always judged that Edison Chan's death was abnormal, and the people suspected of drugging him at the scene were the old Rahimi and Drop. But there was a third person at the scene - their old comrade-in-arms, a The general of country K. They said that when Edison Chan was carried out from the VIP seat, he suddenly stopped the plane from taking off."

Jimmy's pupils suddenly tightened.He already knew there was a third person on the scene, but... why did he stop the medical plane from taking off?

Lin Mu continued: "His name is Raj, from Xianshui City, a child from a poor family, and a soldier of the old Lahimi Mercenary Corps. If he wanted Edison Chan to die, he should have interrupted before the doctor rushed in for first aid, or even Let his own soldiers kidnap Edison Chan. He brought troops there back then, not many, twenty or so people, enough to fight for a while, and dragged Edison Chan to death."

Jimmy murmured: "But he didn't—you said he didn't let the plane take off because he saw Edison Chan being carried out?"

Lin Mu nodded. He was sitting in the cockpit of the helicopter and couldn't see what was happening on the field, and didn't even know that Raj was trying to prevent Edison Chan from getting on the medical plane.

But he clearly remembered that from being called by Mr. Wang to the stadium to running to the plane, all the way was green light, and he was not blocked at all.If Raj wanted to stall for time and wait for Edison Chan to die of illness, wouldn't it be the easiest and unobtrusive option to stop him as a pilot?

"Did he...did he say why?"

"Not sure. It probably didn't say it, at least not clearly. Otherwise, old Rahimi and Drop would not have misunderstood it until now. Old Rahimi thought that Raj colluded with Drop to sabotage their deal, but Raj probably didn't even know they were going to trade..."

"Raj probably just saw Edison Chan being carried out at the time, found something was wrong, and thought someone was going to attack him..."

"Maybe the murderer is among those people!"

"Raj knew who the murderer was, but he couldn't say it on the spot, lest he startle the snake!"

Jimmy took a deep breath, trying to calm down his emotions. Sure enough, the person who murdered Edison Chan was among his closest partners in the three southern countries.They are all people who are looking for life on the tip of their swords. If they do something that hurts nature and reason, they must take it lightly.

At this time he heard Lin Mu say: "I have another piece of evidence that Raj didn't intend to kill Edison Chan, and he probably knew who the murderer was—he died a week after Independence Day. He died very strangely, It was also published in the newspaper. Someone reported that there was a suspicious person near the power plant, and he led a team out, and the transformer suddenly exploded."

Jimmy called Jeremy and asked him to find out about this man, his background, what school he went to, and even what hobbies he had outside the army.

At that time, there was at least old Rahimi who wanted Edison Chan to live. Why did Raj only see something wrong with Edison Chan?What old Rahimi didn't know but Raj saw?

Jimmy had just finished calling Jeremy when he heard footsteps of hiking boots in the usually quiet corridor of the VIP ward.

Before he jumped up and straightened out the unreasonable folds of his clothes in front of the full-length mirror, Chen Yan opened the door and walked in.

"Lin Ji—"

Chen Yan's cheerful face froze in an instant. He looked at Jimmy's disheveled clothes, and at Lin Mu's messy hair. After pondering for a long time, he finally said cautiously: "A gentleman should not move his mouth. You... Please be considerate of each other. Jimmy, Lin Mu The captain had no choice but to leave, don't you think he left me and Yuanyuan behind—"

Chen Yan threw the newspaper in his hand to Lin Mu's chest, and couldn't help laughing: "Yuanyuan has the newspaper!"

Lin Mu suddenly became nervous: "Didn't you say she's fine?!"

Chen Yan pointed to the newspaper: "To be precise, it's not all right... Didn't she make an emergency landing and then walk a long way to a village near an oasis? Didn't they roast a lot of lamb skewers during the Lantern Festival?"

Lin Mu listened in disbelief, why did he feel that the direction of this story was so familiar...

"Yuanyuan ate a lot of mutton skewers and didn't give me any money. She couldn't understand her language and she was locked up in the police station for three days, hahahaha..."

Jimmy was already beside him so happy that he couldn't stand upright. When Jeremy released Ji Yuanyuan on bail, she said that she would kill Lin Shu.For this reason, he pointed to a photo of Lin Chiling with the security guard in the VIP ward and said that if this woman appeared, he must be vigilant and not let her in.

Jimmy watched Lin Mu's face slowly become serious, as if he knew that time was running out and he had to confess clearly, he flattened the newspaper and held it in front of Lin Mu: "Hey, you are also in the newspaper."

It was a photo taken by war correspondent Alex when he arrived at the trenches of the Revolutionary War with Jeremy's off-road vehicle. Jimmy has completed the initial first aid on the tree, and two mercenaries are carrying the tree to the helicopter.

He was as calm as in a dream, with a bandage on his forehead, and the dagger of the Tubang Lord was still tightly clutched in his hand.

"and many more!"

Lin Mu suddenly grabbed the newspaper.

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