Chapter 43: How Much Courage Does It Take to Survive?

White autumn dew appears at the Hilton Garden Inn New York Times Square.

Located in close proximity to the Javits Center and Times Square, Hilton Garden Inn New York Times Square is located in the heart of the city, with easy access to the business district and several tourist attractions. The relaxed hotel is less than 16 kilometers from LaGuardia Airport, with easy access to the Metro, Bus and taxis, as well as close to the Empire State Building, Madison Square, the High Line, Macy's Herald Square and Broadway theaters. The hotel features stylish rooms with Wi-Fi and an ergonomically designed work area. The hotel is fully equipped with a fitness center, morning coffee and evening room service. In your free time, you can enjoy authentic Italian dishes at the hotel's restaurant, or you can immerse yourself in the charm of the city. Bai Qiulu walked in and out of the hotel a few times, up and down a few times, and only returned to the room after surveying the path of attack and retreat clearly.

Bai Qiulu loaded the gun, put on a long black trench coat, and wore a wide-brimmed black lace hat that could cover her face, and walked out of the wine scab. Bai Qiulu came to Chinatown and entered a restaurant called "Han Tang". The waiter came over and said, "Chinese, what do you want to eat." "Usually Bai Qiulu would laugh when she hears this kind of American Chinese, but today she can't laugh, and she doesn't have the mood to laugh. Bai Qiulu handed a copy of "Chu Ci" to the waiter and said: I am a friend of your boss, come to return his books and dishes, you can arrange a few at will, as long as it is Chinese food.

After a while, a Chinese man came over and sat down next to Bai Qiulu and said, "You are really good, do you think that no one can find you?"

Bai Qiulu said: What's the point of finding it? I am very sad about the death of your father Tang Chunqiu, did he leave anything behind when he left?

Tang Song, a Chinese man, said: It happened suddenly, and nothing was left.

Bai Qiulu said: It doesn't have anything to do with you, right?

Tang Song said: No, my mother was sent to France by you, I was born and raised in France, and I myself only later learned that I had a father named Tang Chunqiu, and no one knew that we were father and son.

Bai Qiulu said: That's good.

Tang Song said: But it's not appropriate for you to appear here.

Bai Qiulu said: Have you received the order? It does not matter. When I'm done, you can execute the instructions without delay. Now tell me where is the coveted Qiusha?

Tang Song said: This, this?

Bai Qiulu said: Is the person the harboring organization looking for also the order you received?

Tang Song said: She didn't want to get out of the sight of the organization, but she was in a hurry to leave, so it caused the organization's misjudgment.

Bai Qiulu said: Misjudgment? She still thinks that the hole that her father has pierced is not big enough, and she continues to poke again, without the slightest sense at all, how can she be qualified to do a job like ours?

Tang Song said: People have feelings, or how to call people.

Bai Qiulu said: I don't want to listen to the reason, in the current situation, is there any reason to talk about it? One thing after another happened, one comrade after another was sacrificed, what reason is there to talk about? Take me to meet Qiusha.

Tang Song said: How can you be sure that she is here with me?

Bai Qiulu said: Except for you, where else can she go in this world?

Tang Song said: Since this is the case, other people will also think of her here.

Bai Qiulu said: That's not enough, except for me, no one knows that you are the person she loves, I am her mother, can I not think of it?

Tang Song said: Then don't scold her, after this series of things, she is already difficult to accept, she is already desperate, I am really worried that she will not survive.

Bai Qiulu didn't say anything anymore.

In the basement of the restaurant, I met Qiu Sha.

When the mother and daughter met, they wanted to throw themselves into their mother's arms, but they didn't expect Bai Qiulu to come forward and be a slap in the face, and said: I didn't expect to raise such a stupid daughter as you, what you did was completely to make your father's incident worse, and you left the organization without permission, you yourself couldn't tell the organization clearly, your father's affairs were not clear, but you pushed yourself to a desperate place first. What are you doing in the U.S.? What can you do in the U.S.? What are you doing in the face of a country with the strength of one person?

Qiu Sha said desperately: He is my father? Can I sit idly by? I can't. Are you here to kill him? Do you also believe that he is an apostate? Qiu Qiusha said: I have indeed lost my mind, but I want to be my father.

Bai Qiulu said: He is not only your father, but also my lover. Now it is not a question of life and death, it is a question of national crisis, for others, this is all a slogan is a big truth, but for us, it is life, we can only live for it and die for it, this is the only choice, there is no second choice. At this time, your dad lost contact with the organization, where the hell was he? Is it life or death? Who will prove his innocence? Don't you understand? Your grandfather Zhao has been sending newspapers in the mailroom of the ministry since he left his retirement, why, he is a secret, and your father is the same. As a person who works on your own, you don't even have the slightest common sense, and I don't know how you work.

Qiu Sha said: But if you think about it, isn't there a conspiracy behind it? How could he be that traitor?

Bai Qiulu said: I came to the United States to verify his life and death. As long as he appears in the United States, he has only one choice, which is to die. I don't want him to die at the hands of others, at my hands, maybe he will be more at ease.

Qiu Qiusha said: Why not investigate and carry it out?

Bai Qiulu said to Qiu Qiusha: I really don't know how you work, and saying such completely unreliable words is completely inconsistent with your identity. Something so big, you tell me to investigate? You are not qualified to be in charge of the European Bureau on the basis of your words. Does the truth still have any meaning? Don't you think it's stupid for you to say that? Don't you know what a national crisis means? What if I told you that you were the executor of the instructions above?

She said, "No, it's impossible, I can't kill him, even if he is a sinner, I can't kill him."

Bai Qiulu said: So, do you still have a rational judgment now? You lost touch with the organization without any directives from the organization, can you explain your actions?

Qiu Qiusha was silent for a while, she really didn't know what to say, she didn't know how to say it, her loss of contact with the organization without any instructions, and her father's behavior of coveting the West was actually no different.

Qiu Qiusha said: If I guessed correctly, you also received a removal order against me?

Bai Qiulu said: You should know that in the face of this urgent crisis, perhaps all channels have received removal orders, and all clearance orders are directed at you, and perhaps me. It was your father and daughter who forced me here, and I didn't get the consent of the organization to come here, so the order to clear me should have been issued. If we disobey the orders of the organization out of love, you don't know what the consequences will be?

Qiu Qiusha said: This shows that you still want to believe that he is a good person?

Bai Qiulu said: What's the use of me believing alone? I believe that I still can't disobey the organization's orders. Unless......

Akisha said: Unless what? Unless you kill the Lookouts?

Bai Qiulu said: This is indeed cruel, but is there any better way? I really can't figure out why he took this step.

Qiu Qiusha said: No, I can't do it.

Bai Qiulu said: That's it, if your father shows up, I will carry it out. If the mission fails, then you can solve me.

Qiu Qiusha said: I can't do it.

Bai Qiulu said: Then do you want me to fall into the hands of the CIA or FBI?

Qiu Qiusha was silent. Qiu Qiusha was silent for a while and said: I didn't expect it to be like this, it's really cruel.

Bai Qiulu said to Qiu Qiusha: Is he just your father? He belongs to our country, yes, yes, he is the closest person to you and me, but he belongs to the country first and foremost. Bai Qiulu hugged Qiu Sha violently and said, "Child, do you think we have any other choices?"

She said: Is this the only way to prove our loyalty?

Bai Qiulu said: Is there any other way? I wish there were. He is equivalent to a state secret. Every minute of his existence will make the crisis of the country continue to increase. And what does it mean that you disappear without permission and lose touch with the organization? You are now stuck in the removal procedure. If I hadn't met you now, I really don't know where you'd have died.

Qiu Qiusha said aggrievedly: But we have been working hard for loyalty.

Bai Qiulu said: These are two different things, feelings and the country are not on the same channel.

Qiu Qiusha said: But we are also human beings, who knows what happened to my father's disappearance? What's going on in there?

Bai Qiulu said: If he is already in the United States, if we succeed in rescuing him, you tell me, how can we bring him back to China? Do you think I want to? He is the person I love the most, the one I am willing to die for him. But if it's not me, someone else will do it.

The mother and daughter hugged each other, grief-stricken.

Bai Qiulu asked Qiu Sha and said: Before the Tang and Song dynasties, did you ever love?

Qiu Qiusha said: I loved, but I killed him with my own hands.

It was a mission in the Middle East.

When I was in Afghanistan, a China-hating extremist group planted a virus in his body, and the extremist group deliberately let us rescue us, with the purpose of bringing this contagious virus back to China through him, and he asked me to shoot him and not let me get close to his body. In this way, extremist groups negotiate with the places where the epidemic is occurring in order to obtain huge sums of money.

That mission was because our country suspected that an epidemic that occurred in our country was related to this extremist group. The mission failed, and the vaccine that could control the virus was in the hands of extremist groups, whose plot to obtain huge sums of money did not materialize, so they vented their hatred on him. In order to prevent the spread of the virus in Afghanistan, let alone bring him back to China, I had to shoot him.

The day he was killed happened to be his birthday, and that night, the moon in Afghanistan was particularly round, but it was a particularly sad night. His body was cremated and taken away by scientists in a completely sealed form. He had a strange name that made the fox empty, and really like his name, his existence became nothing.

It's so hard to love someone, and since then, I've wondered if people like us don't deserve to love someone. Killed the person you love with your own hands, and this time you want to kill the person closest to you, how much courage does it take to live in such a life? Speaking of this, Qiu Qiusha was overwhelmed with grief, as if she was going to shed her tears this night. Said: So I said to Tang Song that we just like each other, it is impossible to love each other, and it is impossible to get married.

Bai Qiulu drank by herself, she didn't know how to comfort Qiusha, life was not without words in many cases, but she didn't know what to say at all. Because some sadness and heartache are inconsolable, no matter how you say it, it is superfluous, no matter how you say it, it is wrong. Because, everyone has their own despair that others can't persuade.

Bai Qiulu said: In this way, you should have matured a long time ago. If you're still alive after this incident, change jobs, I don't think you're a good fit for this job.

There is intelligence that the lookout to the West may appear in Washington.

Bai Qiulu and Qiu Qiusha rushed to Washington.

Twilight at the White House.

A long time ago, the White House was not called the White House, but the "Presidential Building" and "President's Palace". On July 16, 1790, the U.S. Congress passed legislation to establish a permanent capital of the United States on the banks of the Potomac River, authorizing then-President George Washington to choose the location of the capital. After the location was chosen, the French engineer Pierre Randfonte was commissioned to plan the blueprint of the city, the White House is the symbol of the empire, and the twilight of the White House is the twilight of an empire, of course, not the last twilight of the empire.

But in Bai Qiulu's opinion, it may be her last twilight.

Bai Qiulu disassembled and put on her pistol "Desert Eagle", loaded and disassembled.

Yang Zigeng, Gu Mo, Nuclear Power, Quantum Research, Tiangong, Dongfeng. These keywords are not people of a certain level and don't know what is going on at all, that is, if you want to touch these things, there are countless barriers, not that you can reach out to if you want to. This, in turn, shows that there must be high-level people who can leak secrets of such a high level, such as people of the level of Wangxi. If he does not leave China, he will not necessarily be suspicious, of course, a unit like the Central Investigation Department is set up for suspicion, and its trust and trust are based on suspicion. Its suspicions have nothing to do with rank, everyone and everything is the object of its suspicions.

Bai Qiulu was a little sad.

It was a dusk in Washington a long time ago, Bai Qiulu was on a mission and was attacked by CIA agents, if it wasn't for the timely appearance of Wangxi, then she wouldn't have seen the twilight of the White House today. But what she wants to get rid of now is this savior of herself, a person who has always had the life to protect her. This is the United States, which is the most powerful and most violent country in the world, so the greatest possibility is not to rescue but to send it to the end.

Bai Qiulu had a gut feeling that the hotel where she and Qiusha coveted was no longer safe.

Leaving Washington, they returned to New York according to the intelligence.

Bai Qiulu once again warned Qiu Sha and said: When performing the mission, no matter what happens, even if I die, you can only stand by the side, do you hear? We don't make unnecessary sacrifices. Even if your dad and I are gone, at least you are still in this world. The most important thing is that at least one person reports to the organization what happened?