Volume III, Chapter 25, Prelude to the War, September 2117
On the night of September 20th.
Sima Aya fell into a nightmare when she saw her dead brother. She rarely dreams like this, especially lately, and rarely dreams of her brother. In the year when her brother just died, she often dreamed of her brother, but her brother's death had passed for a while, and her thoughts about her brother gradually sank into her subconscious, but in the past few days, Sima Aya's subconscious, her thoughts about her brother seemed to have surfaced from the subconscious to the level of consciousness again, and appeared in Sima Aya's mind in the form of a dream.
In the dream, in the darkness, Sima Aya was chasing her brother, and her brother had his back to her, so she could only see her brother's back.
The back of his brother was in front of him, and he could almost reach it with his hand, but Sima Aya couldn't touch it. No matter how she walked forward, or ran forward, the back in the darkness always kept a distance from him, just out of reach when she reached out.
The elder brother didn't walk or run, just stood in place, always standing in front of Sima Aya's reach, but close at hand.
Sima Aya chased after her brother's back...... Finally tired. She stopped, but the back did not go far from her, and the back stopped with her.
"Brother, why are you turning your back to me, don't you want to look at me squarely?" Sima Aya said sadly to the back.
At this moment, perhaps hearing Sima Aya's words, my brother turned around. He had a smile on his face, but he wasn't an older brother.
"Fatman?" Sima Aya was surprised, "How could it be you?" She thought back to the back just now, obviously it was her brother's back.
Fatman just smiled kindly, but didn't speak. After a while, he waved goodbye to Sima Aya, he didn't take a single step, but his body slowly drifted backwards, slowly retreated, gradually disappeared into the darkness, and finally disappeared.
Sima Aya opened her eyes and woke up from her dream. She thought that Fatman was a passer-by in her life, and she would never feel sorry for the death of a passer-by. But at this moment, there was a tear in the corner of Sima Aya's eye, and she suddenly realized that although her brother and Fatman were not the same person, they seemed to have the same temperament, which could give people a sense of reliability, and give people the feeling that this person cared about me.
At the Malton Hotel, when Aya asks Fatman for help, she doesn't assume that she will be rejected, as if she knows that Fatman will definitely help, Sima Aya has always wondered why she has this intuition, and now, she seems to have found the answer: subconsciously, she thinks of him as someone else.
Sima Aya dialed Fatman's phone number again, and it was still the same satellite phone, but it still said it was turned off. She was now convinced that something must have happened to the Fatman and Clarke.
(You profiteer, dead fatty, you are so smart, you won't be so easy to ...... Sima Aya thought, she looked out the window, in the open space outside the hotel, next to the water tower, there was a helicopter parked, which had been purchased from Fatman, specifically in exchange for the original, Cabrera's Bodi jet. A week ago, it was this helicopter that rescued Sima Aya and the others at the Malton Hotel. Sima Aya had thought about exchanging jets for helicopters at that time.
Sima Aya studied on the Clark for a few days, and with the assistance of artificial intelligence, it was not difficult to fly a helicopter, and later, she and Yang Yi flew the helicopter to this remote gas station.
At that time, it was also Fatman who secretly told Sima Aya that there was such a gas station, west of Raccoon City, you could go to that gas station, because it was relatively safe there, if you really wanted to leave the Clark......
In general, Sima Aya felt that Fatman was quite humane among the profiteers......
Beside Sima Aya, Yang Yiyi, the little girl, slept soundly and hotly, snoring, but Sima Aya was restless and couldn't sleep, so she turned on her phone and watched the news.
In the Internet news, the headline is still the "Swain" incident that occurred in the early morning of September 9. Now, on September 20th, 10 days after the tragic event, the federal national mourning is still going on. The memorial service will last for 21 days......
Sima Aya saw that at the bottom of the news page, in the discussion column of public netizens, someone mentioned Fatman's name: "It is said that someone rented that retired warship to terrorists. "The man named Fatman is not worthy to be a citizen of country A. "Throw the whole family into quarantine."
Sima Aya didn't expect that the public could get in touch with the details of the incident so quickly, the name of the ship that caused the accident, and the name of the owner of the ship...... A series of details seem to have been mined by netizens from massive data, rumors, and heard. Someone else posted a photo of Fatman on Facebook to the discussion board...... Is today's information network too powerful?
(This is not normal.) As an Interpol, Sima Aya's professional sensibilities made him suspicious, (why everyone was talking about Fatman, but no one was talking about Colonel Colin.) What is Fatman, celebrity? Isn't it self-employed in country A? I don't know why, but in retrospect, Sima Aya felt that Colonel Colin was mysterious and suspicious, while Fatman seemed to have been deceived and used.
She believed in Fatman as a human being, and he wouldn't do anything so extreme.
Soon, in the next few days, Sima Aya quickly understood why Fatman's information was overexposed: he had been to Northern Han two years ago and stayed for a long time. When the official began to hype up Fatman's unwarranted resume, Sima Aya was already aware of what was going to happen next.
She smelled the smoke of war.
Finally, on the third day of the news, Fatman was defined as a spy for Northern Han and became a suspect in war crimes – and at the same time, the news confirmed that Fatman had disappeared.
Although she had been mentally prepared, when she saw the news of Fatman's disappearance, Sima Aya still felt sad in her heart, she thought that she would be able to meet again, have a cup of coffee, and catch up on old ......
At the beginning of October 2117, country A began to draw up plans to launch a full-scale military operation against Northern Khan.
However, this time, the United Nations did not approve the war plan of country A against North Han, and all the permanent members voted against it, except for the silver country, on the grounds that it was not confirmed whether the "Swain" incident was committed by North Han spies. When North Han conducted a nuclear test in September, all five permanent members of the United Nations voted in favor of a military deterrence by country A against North Han. But deterrence is only deterrence, real war is another matter, and it is clear that the UN is only in favor of deterrence, not real war. If country A insists on fighting this war, it will be an illegal war.
Of course, in history, the war of country A against Afghanistan, the war against Iraq, and the war of France against Syria were not approved by the United Nations, and they were all illegal wars. History has proven that whether or not the United Nations allows a war can only represent whether the war is legitimate, and cannot prevent it from happening.
In mid-October, the heads of state C and country A held consultations again, and country C asked country A to consider the interests of country C, because, after all, North Han borders country C geographically, and the refugee problem caused by the war will have an impact on the border security of country C and cause humanitarian pressure.
After several rounds of consultations, in the end, country A considered the opinion of country C and said that it would suspend the plan to launch a full-scale war against North Khan. However, country A will unilaterally strike at the North Han nuclear facilities and carry out a "decapitation operation" against the North Han dictatorship.
Country A assured Country C that the course of the military operation would be in real-time, transparent communication with Country C.
Country C demanded that State A not use nuclear weapons, whether fourth- or fifth-generation, and State A agreed.