Chapter 40: Prosthetics
"The failure of the operation put a lot of pressure on the FSB, and they need someone to take responsibility for the whole thing."
Poderovsky smiled bitterly and said, "Because the FSB and I are only employed, I am not affiliated with the FSB......
In order to hide my identity, in order to stay alive, I have served the gangsters in Russia and helped the drug lords in South America.
Most importantly, I discovered the secret of the failure of that operation. The chase and stalking made me exhausted, and I had no choice but to come here.
The snake was worried about getting into trouble, so he kicked me out of his team; Of course, I'm afraid it's also because I want to earn a commission from me in the future. ”
"Then he's thinking too much."
Luo Sheng said, "If you want to earn a commission from you, you must first ask us if we agree." ”
"With a captain like you, I suddenly feel very relieved, thank you."
Podrowski said as he stretched out his fist at Luo Sheng.
"No way, as the 'wolf king', I have to protect you 'wolf cubs'."
Luo Sheng bumped his fist with Poderovsky, and said helplessly and distressedly: "It's very tiring to be your boss." ”
"Captain, I am more grateful to you than I was just now; Instead, I kind of want to beat you up. ”
Poderovsky winked at the others around him.
"Then what are you waiting for, do it."
Xu Zilin jumped up from the lower bunk on the opposite side and pounced on Luo Sheng; Several people around rushed up and pressed Luo Sheng on the bed, unable to move.
"Koala, I'm your boss!"
"Boss, I don't want to, but my body is out of control."
"Grass!"
There was a commotion in the barracks, and the strangeness between them was quickly eliminated.
Considering the wound on Luo Sheng's back that had just been stitched up, the fight of several people was also moderate.
"Hunk, what about you?"
Luo Sheng, who was let go by the others and regained his freedom, pounced on Xu Zilin, "locked his throat", and asked Belvito.
"I, I, I ......"
Belvito hesitated as to what to say.
"Come on!"
Bertha saw Belvito's difficulties, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "You're here to change, you've done a good job in the previous training; Your conversation with the captain is also excellent, and no one here will laugh at you. ”
“OK!”
After taking a deep breath and trying to relax his nervousness, Belvito began to introduce himself, "My name is Belvito, and because of my posture, those friends around me like to joke with me and call me 'fat' since I was a child. Of course, my name has changed to 'prosthetic' now. ”
Belvito removed his prosthetic leg and put it on his head, deliberately making a funny appearance; However, when he noticed that the people around him were not "laughing" because of this, he took off the prosthetic leg on his head again.
"I'm trying very hard to have a good relationship with the people around me, and I try to make people laugh in all kinds of ways, even if those methods are stupid, even if the smiles on their faces are just laughing at me."
Belvito put the prosthetic leg back on his right leg and continued: "I thought I would go to the circus and be an unqualified acrobatic clown until I found a mortar shell buried in the sand of the river behind my house. ”
When it came to discovering the mortar shell, Luo Sheng noticed that Belvito was like a different person, without the inferiority complex he had when he first spoke, and his eyes revealed excitement.
"The mortar shell was like a magnet that attracted me, and when I saw it, a strange thought popped into my head, to take it apart!"
Belvito clenched his hands into fists, trembling slightly from excitement, "So I ran home and found my dad's toolbox."
I took the tool out of the toolbox and disassembled the mortar shell that hadn't exploded; It wasn't until the police came later that I realized that the fuse of the mortar shell had not failed, and if I had defused the bomb at the slightest deviation, I would have been blown to pieces.
That's when I became fascinated by explosives, they had an irresistible attraction for me, and I knew that this was my way forward. ”
"How did your right leg get blown off?"
Luo Sheng looked at Belvito's right leg, curious how such an explosives expert could have his right leg blown off, "If you don't want to say, just because I didn't ask." ”
"When dealing with IEDs in the Middle East, I was blown up to save a stray dog. He has an overly widespread compassion that doesn't fit his profession. ”
Bertha replied for Belvito, "Because of Belvito's special talent in bomb disposal and explosives, he joined the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers when he became an adult.
In 2015, when he went to the Middle East with the army, when he was dismantling the roadside IED, a stray dog suddenly ran into the bomb disposal site, and in order to save the stray dog, the fuse was triggered.
Belvito lost his right leg below the knee, while two other bomb disposal crews at the scene were killed instantly. I was also in the Middle East at the time, and I helped him with an amputation.
Because of this incident, he was court-merried. Four years in prison made it impossible for him to stay in the Army Corps of Engineers.
Being a commoner again, he couldn't get used to it, and according to what he had thought of as a child, he went to the circus; I found him in the back kitchen of the circus, and at my suggestion he came here, and only here can he regain the pleasure of blasting.
Of course, it is also to be able to change yourself, no longer have low self-esteem, and rely on various ways to belittle yourself to win the favor and recognition of the people around you. ”
"Belvito, you don't need to belittle yourself in a way that gets recognition; There is no need for inferiority. ”
Luo Sheng looked at Belvito and said, "We don't need you because you can make us laugh; It's because you're our security and our partner. Alternatively, you might be able to call your nickname ......"
"No, I'd like to keep using the moniker 'prosthetic.'"
Belvito rejected Luo Sheng's opinion and said, "Because of my compassion, I lost two comrades-in-arms and my right leg, and I don't want to lose someone among you again because of my compassion in the future."
The nickname 'prosthetic' is not a mockery for me, but a reminder and warning to me. ”
Luo Sheng glanced at Bertha and found that after nodding at him, he accepted Belvito's insistence.
"Marcel should have mentioned my identity, I'm a thief."
Garrett lifted his fingers, which were wrapped in bandages to protect them, and said, "Steal from the rich merchants, and distribute the stolen money to the poor."
So in the eyes of those rich businessmen I was an odious thief, and in the eyes of the poor in those slums, I was a philanthropist, hence my nickname. ”