Appetizer Part I

One

Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport, France, early morning. \

"Oh, he looks like you, your eldest son...... You see, in fact, I have known for a long time that they are hiding here, and my request is very simple, just to ask them to be quiet, really quiet, but why can't this trivial request satisfy me, this kind of thing really makes me very sad, and I have always ...... Very sad. The world is like that, and many times even a small and trivial request will not be fulfilled...... Did you notice that I used the word 'they'? I know there's one in the cabinet next to me, but you see, I'm very fair...... Oh yes, I noticed you just kept nodding your head, I'm sorry, I'm going to help you get rid of these things, if we could have done the jiāo flow in such a friendly atmosphere early in the morning, it wouldn't have happened like this...... It's a shame. ”

He pouted, "...... It's all your fault. ”

Three minutes later, the gods wiped the blood stains on their sleeves with a tissue, and joined another man at the M-N entrance of the villa, the flames burned in the villa behind them, and the music of "Ode to Joy" came from the villa, and in the night sky in the distance, it seemed that a large army of police was rushing towards this side.

"If I knew I was going to be attacked, I wouldn't have lived in such a remote place." A companion named Riaki Doxu held a metal box in his hand and looked back at the burning villa, "Where do you go next?" ”

"France." The gods tilted their heads, "That guy went to Paris to attend the lu-n messy financial summit, received the news of an assassination, and left early this morning...... Ha, politician ......"

"Paris, I love that city."

"I hate France."

"Why?"

"The French are against everything, even against their own country and government, and in the name of freedom...... "Reaching out and throwing a tissue into the fire of the police car burning on the side of the road," they seem to me to be no different from those children who seek x-ng against everything...... Although their country and politics are also really stupid. ”

Ming Daoxu nodded noncommittally, "But speaking of Paris, we may have met Minamoto Yorichao and his partner in the past. ”

The gods stopped thoughtlessly: "Are they in Paris?" ”

"There's a mission to assassinate a French dignitary, and I guess I'll ask them to do it."

"Okay." Before the police car arrived, they pulled up the small car M-N, which was parked on the side of the road, "Let's go to Paris." ”

……

"You know he's Chinese, and I hate Chinese."

"Of course...... Because you are a patriot. ”

"That's right, the Japanese should hate the Chinese."

The wind fuels the fire, and the music of "Ode to Joy" spreads far away in the night sky......

Three

"Although everyone knows each other well...... But I'm going to sue you for slander ......."

On a rainy morning, in a café on the left bank of the Seine, Minamoto threw the newspaper on the table and frowned slightly.

"That has nothing to do with me." Across the table, the young partner was drinking coffee and reading the newspaper without raising his head, "What's more, you really don't like NV people." ”

"I like NV people."

Yuan Lai Chaochuang stated this, and his partner put down the newspaper, raised his head, and looked at each other.

"Okay, it's okay with me anyway......" He tilted his head after a moment, "But that NV guy is really good on chu-ng." ”

"Have you been there?"

"Last year...... I would recommend it to you if you have quality.,I think you should have a wide range of interests.,After all, it's not a happy thing to be guessed to be in love with X-NG......"

"Are you trying to prove that you're not in love with X-Ng and you can't get on Chu-Ng with an NV person?"

"Well, just a suggestion...... And she's been interested in you for a long time, and your rejection must make her sad......"

"Will it be sad?"

“……”

There was silence for a long time, and the partner picked up the coffee and took a sip: "Maybe...... Maybe......"

"Oh."

The two of them didn't have much say about whether they were sad or not, shrugged and smiled, and the topic ended here, and after a while, the two went out from the M-N after breakfast, each holding up an umbrella, and walking through the crowd, Yuan Lai Chaochuang buttoned up the buttons on his sleeves as he walked: "Things will be done the day after tomorrow, two days should be enough to do an investigation, how are you?" ”

The partner frowned slightly, and his eyes swept over the rain-shrouded Seine: "Confirm the mission, and then go to the grave." ”

"Natalie's?"

"Well, this is the first time I've done this kind of thing, what should I pay attention to?"

"Tomb sweeping...... It's just cleaning......"

"Well, clean ......"

"Give me something you liked to eat when you were born......"

The two stopped at the intersection and looked at the pedestrians around them, they were a little funny to each other, saying that whoever has harvested more than three digits of life in their hands, and they have never done this kind of thing once, but it is also right to think about it, tomb sweeping is nothing more than cleaning. The partner nodded, chewing on the meaning of the words, and then pointed to the left turn, and Minamoto Yorito pointed to the right, the two turned and separated, and after a few steps, Gen Yorizao heard a voice behind him: "Uh, I said ......"

"What?" His partner watched him from a few paces away.

"Personal opinion, if there is really someone who values it, wouldn't it be better to find another NV person for everyone to see?"

Yuan Lai nodded at Chaochuang: "Transfer the target? ”

"Shift the target."

Whether it's a killer or an agent, people in the dark world are generally careless, because once they are attacked, the enemy will inevitably do whatever they want, and there is no morality in this world, probably because he senses some kind of instability in his heart, and his companions will speak for this kind of thing. Even if it is a partner, there are not many people who will give advice for the other party's affairs in their industry, and Yuan Lai Chaochuang smiled: "I understand...... You're still as sane as ever. ”

"I just want to be alive."

"There's something special about it." "For example...... How do you feel about Natalie? ”

"You mean love?" Already talking about the dead, the partner thought for a while, "I want to ...... Probably not, I can't figure it out, but when she dies, I will feel sad. ”

"For me, it's kind of a symbol, or something."

"Symbols, Connecting Points......" In the crowd, the ordinary-looking young man laughed clearly, "I see, although I can't empathize, I think I know what it is." ”

"See you in the evening."

"See you in the evening."

They turned around and went their separate ways.

……

Holding an umbrella, he walked through the streets of Paris in the rain.

Just hope to live......

Of course, life is not so simple, and as a life, there must be various meanings.

The code name for him to become a killer is "hallucination", which is currently temporarily called White Night, the code name is just a code name, and it does not have any meaning in itself, although many people have said that this code name is very suitable for him, it obviously exists, but it seems that he doesn't feel it at all, he obviously killed the target, but in hindsight, it seems that it never happened at all, and even the fact that someone lost his life is like a dream, he does what ordinary people should do, killing people is in his hands, There is neither the jī of destruction nor the decadence of disappearing, everything is ordinary and reasonable.

Killing is just killing, just as everyone has their own things to do, and his childhood experience determines what he is best at, and it probably doesn't make sense to say that he can't help himself or struggle with cruelty, the present is just the present, piled up from an immutable past. Some people work as mechanics, some people play football, some people play the piano, and he just kills people, there is nothing abnormal about this, he does not get any pain or embarrassment in it, of course, difficult situations have also been encountered, but that with the mechanic encountering difficult machine chu-ng, athletes encountering disparity in strength of the ball game, pianist encountering complex music scores, all walks of life have their own difficulties, to overcome is.

I don't like or hate the profession of killer, but simply put, there is nothing more impressive in this world for the time being. He was born with a talent for deconstructing all complex things, and for machines he could quickly understand the principles of them, and for rules he could quickly understand the basis on which they were established, for what kind of things, for what kind of rules should be established, how they should be optimized, and what shortcomings they have. Laws, morals, universal values, and so on, can be broken down one by one, swept away at a glance, and everything is transformed into primitive parts, so that everything is bound to be indistinguishable.

Therefore, he can probably understand that all kinds of people have all kinds of emotions, although he can't empathize, but he can also understand what Minamoto Yori's emotions are like, where they come from, why they are struggling, he will not feel contempt for any emotion, nor will he have the slightest awe, maybe one day he will also fall into some kind of emotion, such as love, such as fear, such as heartbreaking, of course, but now, he still maintains a normal heart.

Understandable, but not empathetic.

If there is a book, read it; If there is a painting, it will be appreciated; If there is a piano, it is played; If you have a microphone, you will sing; If there is a car, go somewhere; If there is a request, it will be completed; If there is a gun, it will be issued sh-; If you have the talent to kill, you take your life.

If there is music in the world, then dance with it. With the music and dance of the world, everything is not taken for granted.

He bought a bouquet of huā at the huā shop at the end of the street, then took a taxi to the 4th arrondissement of Paris, walked around the neighborhood near the municipal building, and at about half past ten, he went to a café near a hotel with a wide view, he sat down near the window, ordered a drink, and listened to the music of the café.

The target's information, Xi X-ng, many things have been provided in advance, but to act, naturally you have to personally investigate, he and Yuan Lai Chaochuang chose different directions, for Paris is not the first time, and Natalie is known here, and later it is also a few times to revisit, after Natalie died, he also buried her here, the environment only needs to observe some recent small changes, what he wants to investigate, is something else related to people.

The thought of Natalie made him feel a little sad.

What does she like to eat?

Things are naturally remembered, and the things about her were summarized enough to write a big book, but now that I think about it, it always feels a little unreal, like sitting in a movie theater and watching other people's stories. She is dead, she is considered to have killed herself, but it is okay, life is over, there must be an end to life, it is normal, there is an end to be consummated. There will be a day when I will be clear.

Thinking like this, when the neatly dressed blonde waiter came to refill his glass, two small cars drove through the drizzling street outside the floor-to-ceiling windows, he got up from his seat, and the car stopped at the M-N entrance of the hotel.

The target gets out of the car under the escort of bodyguards.

Holding a huā bundle, he walked through the aisle to the hotel lobby, and when he reached the exit of the aisle, only one person's mobile phone with the number also rang, and he pressed the call button: "Hey." ”

"I just received news that someone inquired about our mission through the headquarters, although it is not in accordance with the procedure, it should not be hidden from them...... The gods came to Paris without thoughts. ”

As he listened, he lowered his head and walked straight to the group of people who had just entered the hall, four bodyguards guarding a dignitary with a slightly bulging head, and when he approached without noticing, the closest bodyguard reached out to block him, and then the two collided together. The huā bundle in his hand scattered, and the huā fell to the ground.

"I see...... It's okay, it's okay, I'll ...... it myself."

He leaned over to pick up the huā bundle again, and the bodyguard who collided with him also bent down to help, and after a trivial h-nlu-n, he threw the scattered huā bundle into the garbage bin and walked to the M-N entrance of the hall, while the dignitaries continued to the elevator inside under the escort of the bodyguard.

Putting away his phone, he frowned.

Things seem to be getting complicated, so shouldn't we just get rid of the task before then?

Looking back, the elevator M-N had just opened in front of the group, and the dignitary's body was in the field of vision. It's not that he's not unsure, it's not a complicated task, and it doesn't matter if he's brutal now, he put his right hand on the corner of his coat, and in an instant, countless thoughts flashed through his mind......

Four

"Don't bother, I'll do it myself......"

Lights, heating, thick curtains, coming out of the steaming bathroom, Yahan was tilting her head, using a hair dryer to dry her long black hair, and her good friend named Li Ruolin was tidying up the pillow on the chu-ng for her.

"If you don't open M-N at this time, it will delay business, right?"

"It's okay, just open it in the afternoon."

This is a house in Chinatown in the fourth arrondissement of Paris, Li Ruolin opened a disc shop here, and she lives upstairs in the store, she has always lived alone, although the room is not much, but the layout is quite warm, this room is also stacked with a lot of things, discs, books, a computer on the desk by the window, some lu-n messy small objects, although the area is not large, but in this winter day, with the water vapor wafting out of the bathroom, it seems extraordinarily warm. Yahan blew her hair and sat down beside the chu-ng.

"I really envy you, you live an unrestrained life."

"What's there to envy about this?" Li Ruolin looked back at her, blinked suspiciously, and then smiled her eyes into crescent moons, "I don't know how to be blessed in the blessing, I envy you, there is a big company at home, and there are many people chasing the villa car, or the next time I see my uncle, I will ask him if he is still lacking, I also have a lot of experience in business management." ”

"It's very troublesome, it's just that the management company is not enough......" Yahan sighed, plopped down on the chu-ng, the hair dryer was lu-n in his hand, Li Ruolin took the pillow and leaned on, and also lay down on the chu-ng: "I haven't asked you yet, I suddenly ran over, what the hell is going on?" ”

"Bī marriage."

"With Xu Mo?"

Yahan pouted: "It's not that he doesn't mean it, anyone can do it, anyway...... Gotta get this thing done......"

"Just get pregnant?"

"Just get pregnant."

Li Ruolin nodded, although the Zhang family is not a big family, but as Yahan's father, Zhang Jing'an, is the only one who is nv, in the absence of a son as a successor, Yahan's task is naturally very heavy, feelings are put aside first, Yahan herself has incurable kidney disease since childhood, and as the heir of a large company, it is impossible for her to marry into someone else's family, and her husband and son will be a little daughter-in-law. Her father's hope for her may not be strictly married, but after all, he hopes that she can have a child, preferably a boy, and be able to take over the Zhang family's property one day earlier in the future.

"Speaking of which, Xu Mo is more suitable for you...... He likes you, and there is a big brother in the family who inherits the family business, I remember that he is very easy-going, and he probably has no opinion on this kind of thing, and there is no such thing as a rich man, and there is no such thing as being rich in these years, marrying you is their family will take advantage of it......"

"What is taking advantage of and not taking advantage...... I really didn't want to be with Xu Mo, he's a good person, but I always feel like something is missing......"

"Thorn jī sense?" Ruolin blinked, "Xu Mo's x-ng grid is indeed tǐng ......."

"It's not ...... You don't think I'm going to like those m-o head kids looking for thorny jī, do you? ”

"The frivolous M-O head kid is definitely not good, you, you, are the kind of NV people who look obedient, but are actually wild inside, don't I know? It is to have a vigorous feeling to trap you and conquer you, so that you will willingly wash the lead and live with others, the x-ng grid of the oriental traditional nvx-ng, all like this. To put it bluntly, it's stuffy. ”

"Nonsense." Yahan laughed.

The two NV people lay on the chu-ng together, and after a while, Li Ruolin turned over and was full of interest: "Take you to the party tomorrow night to see if you can find the vigorous love you want." ”

"What?"

"I'll know if I go to a party organized spontaneously around."

Yahan thought for a moment: "...... You're just stuffy. ”

The two NV people then laughed on the chu-ng.

The winter rain in Paris is dashing underground, more cold than the heavy rain or blizzard weather, as if to immerse itself in people's bones, Li Ruolin only opened the DVD record store at noon, the store is completely elegant and vulgar to appreciate the pattern, there are the latest blockbuster DVD discs, there are also a large number of vinyl discs that were popular in the first half of the last century, and now only collectors or music enthusiasts will collect.

Although Li Ruolin's family background may not be as good as Yahan, she is also a rich man and is not short of money, and she opened a store purely out of interest to pass the time. Rows of disc shelves in warm lighting, all kinds of cute or warm trinkets, pleasant heating, looking out from the floor-to-ceiling windows, you can immediately compare how bleak the sky outside is, how warm the store is, and how happy it is to be able to enjoy your favorite music in such a warm world.

In addition to Li Ruolin in the store, also invited a nearby Chinese NV student to help, Li Ruolin called her Xiaotang, ten ** years old, delicate, dressed up, probably Chinese who grew up in France, Chinese is not very standard, but after listening to Lin Ruolin introduced Yahan, a bite of "Sister Yahan" is indeed very likeable, after lunch, Li Ruolin gave the store jiāo to Xiaotang, accompanied Yahan to hold an umbrella to visit some Chinese known nearby.

In this way, it was already four o'clock in the afternoon when they came out of other people's homes, the two held an umbrella together, and walked back along the road affectionately, this time they deliberately detoured the road, and when they approached a certain corner of the road, they mentioned Li Ruolin's parents, and the couple Yahan naturally knew each other, calling their uncles and aunts since childhood, and died in a car accident in France a few years ago, and they were buried in a cemetery not far away.

Unlike many other cities, many of Paris' cemeteries are located in the city, and the cemeteries of famous people become tourist attractions. The cemetery in front is naturally not so lively, it is located between the residential area and the commercial area, the steel fence is enclosed, the green m-ngm-ng sky looks quiet and solemn, the two went in to worship, standing in front of the rain-soaked tombstone, Li Ruolin laughed softly: "Buy some oranges tomorrow, they have always liked to eat, but it is not the kind of cut, you have to peel it by hand, how can you call it in China?" ”

"Mandarins?"

"That's right, mandarin oranges, cut mandarins...... There are a lot of navel oranges sold here, but they are also more difficult to peel......"

Li Ruolin sighed, looked at her parents' tombstones, and chattered about the classification of oranges, although it was winter, there were still a few weeds growing tenaciously from the ground, she squatted down and pulled them out, and when she stood up, she looked at her companions with some suspicion: "Yahan?" ”

"Look at that person, it's so strange......"

"Huh?"

Following Yahan's finger, Li Ruolin looked over there.

The light rain was still falling, and in front of a grave more than ten meters away from them, an oriental man was squatting there, looking like an ordinary tomb sweeper, just like Li Ruolin's action of pulling weeds from the cemetery just now, but when you look closely, you will find that because his movements are too focused, there is a strange sense of disobedience, this person ...... I'm really cleaning the grave seriously.

In any case, he squatted there, it was too much to gather jīng, and he was actually holding a washing jīng in one hand and a rag in the other, vigorously cleaning the tombstone and the marble slab that should be engraved with the inscription, the rain fell, and he didn't have an umbrella, just let the light rain drench, his hair was completely soaked, and water droplets kept falling on the side of his face, and the clothes on his body were not spared, such weather, even if a healthy person was drenched, he was afraid that he would catch a cold, but he seemed to have no feeling at all, Just doing their own thing.

Although the tombstones in the cemetery were washed by the rain and did not look dirty, after the man's careful cleaning, the cemetery in front of him soon became unusually clean, completely standing out from the crowd and clear at a glance.

"It can't be the cemetery staff or something......

"It shouldn't be ......"

"Who sweeps the grave like this......"

The two NV people stood like that, muttering a few words, Li Ruolin occasionally turned her head to look at Yahan, only to see Yahan looking at the person's movements, looking thoughtful. After a while, the man finished cleaning, squatted for a few seconds, then picked up the cleaning tools and turned to leave, the two passed by the cemetery, and took a look, and there was a picture of a beautiful white woman on the tombstone, and her name was underneath: Natalie? Annes.

Other than that, it's a blank slate.

"He must love her very much......"

"What? Attracted to the man just now? It's not very handsome. Li Ruolin smiled softly, "However, it is powerful and subtle, it is really suitable for you who are stuffy, it seems that he is an Oriental, I will inquire, maybe it will ......."

"What the hell I just think ......" she thought for a moment, "I just think ......"

She couldn't tell what she felt, and she didn't even see the other party's appearance clearly, but only the pair of focused eyes in the rain-soaked hair were engraved in her memory like an imprint at the moment, as if she could see it again when she turned around, maybe in that kind of look, only the NV in the grave was the only existence.

Anyway, it touched her a little.