Chapter 1: The Virgin's Chapter & Chapter 2: The Scythe and the Ears of Wheat Verse 1: The Beginning, Chasing the Seine (Part I)
Lo E
Chapter 1: The Virgin's Chapter
Chapter 2: The Scythe and the Ears of Wheat
Section 1: Beginning, Chase the Seine (Part I)
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In August 2036, early in the morning, the French Republic, the second largest city in Europe - Paris.
Twenty-five kilometers northeast of the city, at Charles de Gaulle International Airport, Europe's main aviation hub, a large Air France passenger plane from Beijing, China, has just landed smoothly.
After 10 hours of turbulence, RaiN's shoulders and back were a little sore, and behind him, FirE and OceaN, two juniors, one was bored because he couldn't get used to watching foreign videos from the video stock behind his seat, and the other had been sleeping on the plane since he got on the plane, and he still kept the same movements, not eating anything, and not going to the toilet. RaiN was relieved to finally reach his destination, but luckily the two freaks didn't make any trouble in the sky.
Everything was harmed by Zhang Xiaozhou and Xu Chenfeng! said that he would take advantage of the short vacation after the mission to transfer from Paris to Cologne, Germany for ten days to return to the team, but it turned out that he hadn't come back for almost a month! RaiN really didn't know what was going on in his head at the time, but he actually agreed to lend 3,000 euros to the passage with their worthless head as a guarantee, so that now he had to come and arrest the person himself, so that the Schengen visa issued last year would not expire in a few days, and the two were arrested for illegal stay, which involved many thorny issues behind the special status. Master will also pick a time to find trouble for himself, obviously he can do it alone, but let him bring the so-called "good at observation and tracking" OceaN, and FirE, who doesn't like to be alone, has to follow, Master not only does not object, but also says that if Xiaozhou and Chen Feng don't want to be caught, they can only hope that the two brothers who are most familiar with them can have some telepathy...... What the hell is playing logic, it's just an increase in expenses! These people have all taught their counter-reconnaissance skills by themselves, are they still afraid that they will not be able to evaporate from the world? The more RaiN thinks about it, the more angry it gets!
Of course, RaiN is not the only one who is constantly on fire. FirE is notoriously angry in the "24 solar terms", just as everyone is queuing up to get off the plane, a black passenger accidentally touches him but does not say anything, he quickly reaches out and holds him down...... The black passenger felt the obviously ill-intentioned force exerted on his shoulder, and turned his head with disdain, only to see FirE, who was 1.94 meters tall, flipping his eyes slightly, and a simple and easy-to-understand English warning squeezed out from between his teeth: "Apologize or die, you choose." The black passenger was not unprecedented, but the sturdy muscles of the other party's black tight vest could not be concealed at all, and the deadly eyes exposed under the desert camouflage turban were sharp, and the violent momentum of treating any living thing as a dead corpse in his bones instantly made him lose his confidence and could not say half a bad word when he opened his mouth. FirE only needed one answer, and the silence gradually increased the strength of his fingers, and the sudden sharp pain in the collarbone made the black passenger scream loudly!
Maybe a little later, it's a criminal case. However, while the cries of the black passengers alarmed others, they also indirectly saved their own lives. RaiN, who was walking in front, turned his head and found that his junior brother was causing trouble, and interspersed with a few steps, not to mention a high leg lift with a broken difficulty factor, and the seven-centimeter-long heel was directly pressed on FirE's chin, and he was sent to his eyes full of Venus. RaiN, who has the first height of the female members of the "24 solar terms", and the high-heeled upper lining under his feet, at 187 cm above sea level, is not inferior to FirE, who is swaying and a little unsteady in front of him. Carrying the ears of the dizzy junior brother, RaiN bowed and apologized to the black passenger, how dare the other party not accept it, the muscular man alone estimated that he was not an opponent, and the woman in front of him could treat him so well, it must be even more difficult to mess with!
FirE was knocked off the plane by various moves all the way, and the flight attendant asked RaiN only to say that the sister taught the younger brother a lesson, and everyone left it alone! Effectively "discouraged" everyone's thoughts of calling the police...... It wasn't until I walked out of the bridge and came to the airport immigration that I realized that there was no root missing: "What about OceaN?" β
"I was dragged away by you before I could wake him up...... FirE's innocent answer made RaiN so angry that he only had a cerebral hemorrhage, what is good at tracking?! MD: This is clearly good at disappearances!!
After smashing the bag in his hand directly on FirE's face, the angry RaiN turned back to the passenger plane with devilish steps, and pressed the man in the corner who couldn't wake up and just took first aid measures to the seat of the man who was about to take first aid measures! Frightened, the Air France flight attendants hurriedly tried the victim's snort to see if she was alive or dead. And OceaN, whose body muscles and durability are comparable to FirE, were inexplicably hammered, and when he woke up, he didn't know what happened, thinking that the plane had crashed......
After that, in addition to their own things, the two of them had to help RaiN haul all the luggage, who made her a senior sister, and she was still angry. OceaN learned that he was beaten because FirE had just caused trouble, and traced the root cause of FirE's trouble back to Xiaozhou and Chen Feng's greed for fun all day long, not to mention that the brothers worked hard to pick up the two of them in Chernobyl last time, and now they have to make a special trip to Europe to find them, so that they finally walked with their sister, an active volcano that erupted intermittently, and it was strange that they were not cleaned up for an excuse! As soon as FirE heard the reason, he simply put the account on the two brothers who still don't know where they are, and said that when they meet again, they will be half dead first!
RaiN, who was still angry, only had a folding fan in his hand, but he couldn't use it to dispel the fire in his heart, and asked the two junior disciples with a gloomy face what they were muttering in the back, which was not a good word. OceaN instantly changed the topic and pointed to the long queue at the airport commodity tax refund office, all of which were Chinese with rich pockets: "Just now a staff member said that you can enjoy the VIP exclusive channel by paying seven euros, but most of them paid the money and ran over there, which was ...... longer than the queue at the 'poor channel'" FirE summed it up by saying: "It is a shame for our country to stay at home and run outside because of the IQ of this swarm of bees." β
RaiN listened to the rain of folding fans falling on FirE's head: "You only wear a vest in public, and you are embarrassed to say that people are embarrassed?!" OceaN was concussed by the knock and quickly took out a short-sleeved jacket from the suitcase and threw it to him. After being educated repeatedly, FirE finally stopped talking much, and the three of them left Charles de Gaulle Airport uneventful. The polite behavior of the taxi driver outside who got out of the car and put the luggage in the trunk for the passengers made RaiN's words and deeds partially return to the modern civilization unique to human society, and shouted to the two junior brothers to get behind, while he gently opened the passenger door and sat down gracefully.
"Where are we going?" Seeing that the senior sister was chatting happily with the driver in French, OceaN finally dared to interject and ask. "Let's go to a French friend's house of mine first, and I'm going to check the previous itinerary of those two stinky boys." RaiN's answer made FirE just want to mourn for her friend, now at five o'clock local time, don't the French have to sleep......
Half an hour later, the taxi arrived at rue Saint-Charles in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, and RaiN came to the bottom of a residential building at 235 and rang the call device on the door. After at least half a minute, a sleepy male voice greeted him: "Bonjour? Taking advantage of the short time after the senior sister's greeting, FirE silently observed the surrounding buildings and streets, which were not only clean and refreshing, but also quite historical and cultural. But the most eye-catching thing is not the pigeons that like to jaywalk, but the colorful and cool locomotives parked on the side of the street. RaiN seemed to see what his junior brother was thinking, and silently warned him with his cannibalistic eyes: If you want to die or live, you can do it yourself.
"Hey, Luna! Long time no see. β
[1] A French man with a tall nose and a thin jaw opened the iron door, and he looked to be twenty-seven or eighteen years old with brown hair with sparse stubble. In this regard, FirE whispered on the side: "If this is a Chinese, dare to be so blatantly disrespectful to Senior Sister, she has already dug a pit on the spot and buried it alive." OceaN smiled and instilled his brothers: "France is a country that pays attention to romance, this is also their national culture, and we have to follow the local customs." I didn't expect FirE to be mistaken after hearing this, and walked straight to the French man, seeing that the action turned out to be to kiss him! The other party was frightened and hurriedly avoided the real indecent feeling of the strange man in front of him! Luna thought that her junior brother was deliberately provocative, so she flew up and kicked him on his stomach, and he kept slashing at FirE, who was holding his stomach and sighing, "Who TM invented high heels"! Although in the south of France and French-speaking Belgium, men occasionally face each other, just like in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, but it is necessary to be familiar with each other or have a sense of intimacy, how can the first meeting be so passionate! It's not romance, it's perverted......
"Oh my God! Who are they, your friends? The Frenchman reacted and hurriedly grabbed Luna, and if he continued to fight, it would be time to wake everyone around. Luna gasped and pointed to FirE, who was squatting on the ground and holding her head to make people feel more and more eager to do it, and spoke English in order to make everyone understand, which was full of resentment: "They are my two junior brothers, and they have tormented me all the way!" β
"I don't know who tortured whom...... FirE only had the strength to mumble, and the Frenchman approached and stretched out his right arm, shook his hand and helped him up, and introduced himself: "Call me 'Alex[2]'. FirE understands now, and the handshake is more common: "Zhang Yizhen, 'FirE'." That's my brother 'OceaN', Mao Zonghan. These [two Chinese names] are obviously not as easy to pronounce as "Luna", the goddess of the moon in ancient Roman mythology, and Alex simply calls them English names. Zong Han blamed himself a little for what happened just now, walked to Yizhen's side, and used an interesting example to teach his brothers, don't be rigid in everything: "In France, you can take off only a pair of underwear and bask in the sun in the park, and no one will say anything." However, if you wander around the park, the police will come and arrest you. "Wing subdued these strange "customs", and thought that France is really wonderful!
It's not just the customs, it's the elevator. Although the six-storey residential building does not need to be equipped with an elevator in China, the French seem to be more particular, with a miniature helicopter for up to two people hidden in the middle of the circular public staircase...... After Alex helped take the two suitcases and led Luna upstairs first, Yi Zhen and Zong Han, two sturdy guys, whether they were back to back with each other or hand in hand side by side, could not squeeze in at the same time, so they had to use guessing to decide who came first and who came second......
The two finally came to the door of their French friend's house, and after Alex unlocked the lock, a black shadow suddenly appeared inside, if Zong Han hadn't raised his hand to stop it, Yi Zhen would have directly swung his fist directly after subconsciously. When I looked closely, it turned out to be a black Kasro dog named "Tilak", who was probably taller than its owner. Yi Zhen has always liked to touch the dark-skinned Zong Han, and at this moment he has found the most appropriate truth: "Look at the two of you, you really look like brothers, even the color is the same." Zong Han only now understands that it is not for nothing that someone is always beaten. Upon entering the house, Alex tells everyone that his wife, Laura[3], is still sleeping in the room, and that it is best not to wake her up, as one of her professions is a fitness instructor...... Yi Zhen was extremely surprised when he heard this, and whispered to Zong Han: "It turns out that Alex is married, and he brought the woman home early in the morning, I thought that the senior sister was his concubine!" Zong Han frowned as if to say: You can't use a nice word? Luna had sharp ears, and clearly heard the nonsense of the junior brother behind her, if it weren't for the inconvenience of making a move in someone's house, it was estimated that someone would have to die again.
After listening to Luna's brief explanation, Alex, who mainly works in the information technology industry and programming, led everyone to the study, immediately turned on the computer, and searched for the information she needed through her own channels. Yi Zhen and Zong Han were idle, looking left and right about the room layout, and found a lot of Chinese elements, such as a hanging plate carved with the pattern of the Oriental Pearl of Shanghai, and a small wooden screen painted with Chinese ancient costume beauties.
"The two people you gave me the name arrived in Paris on the 18th of last month, and bought tickets for the TGV high-speed railway train to Dortmund, Germany on the 20th......" Alex stared at the screen, his fingertips tapped on the keyboard quickly, and searched for useful clues from various places, "On the 26th, they boarded the return train on the same line in Cologne, and there has been no entry or exit record since then, that is, people should still be in Paris now." As for the exact location, it is unclear, they never seem to have stayed in a regular hotel with a tourist registration, and there is no record of arrests. β
"It's not a big city, is it?" Yi Zhen asked Zong Han beside him, and the answer he got was: "It's not big, the whole of Europe is second only to London...... The meaning of the two deliberately raised the bar was very clear, Luna thought that if she could find something in Cologne, after all, as long as the Cologne Cathedral was the center and radiated outward, the traces of the two could always be found. But now that they are back in Paris, the Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe, the Elysee Palace, the Palace of Versailles, the Louvre, the Place de la Concorde, Notre Dame Cathedral, the Paris Opera, so many famous attractions worth visiting, who knows where Xiaozhou and Chen Feng will die!
"Now that you're here, why don't you walk around and relax yourself, maybe you meet the person you're looking for on the road?" Alex's proposal was unanimously approved by Yi Zhen and Zong Han, although Luna was a little worried, but there was no other better way for the time being, looking back at the two junior brothers who were obviously looking forward to this, she couldn't help but say ugly words in front of her: "I can take you to play, but don't make trouble on other people's turf!" Otherwise......"
"No trouble!" Yi Zhen was like a child begging to buy toys, and he agreed to any conditions very simply, only Zong Han knew that the statute of limitations that he had verbally promised to maintain was no more than half a day at most. Alex originally planned to be a tour guide to take everyone to enjoy the scenery of Paris, but unfortunately there are still a lot of business to deal with today. Luna told him to stay home and finish his work in peace, and it was best to make up for sleep first, take his two juniors and disciples for a casual stroll, and come back in the evening.
It's still less than seven o'clock, the street downstairs is deserted, and it's hard to find a bakery that is open to sit temporarily, Luna decided to eat breakfast first and pass the time by the way, but for Yi Zhen and Zong Han, two monsters who need huge energy to maintain their body supply, no matter how many desserts are enough, there is no oil, water and meat, and I feel that I can't eat enough!
"Enough of you, save me some money for my sister!" Luna looked at the dazzling array of pastries and layers of empty plates in front of her junior brother, her heart ached to death, and the shopkeeper was so moved that she wanted to cry, the first time I saw people like the food they made so much, no matter how much they ate, a few guests who seemed to be from Asia were really very tasteful! Yi Zhen took a bite of croissant and a mouthful of milk into his mouth, and did not forget to complain in Chinese that the boss didn't understand: "Do the French eat these in the morning, why don't you bring me a bucket of instant noodles!" Zong Han regretted that he didn't eat or pack the food provided on the plane, so that now not only could he not eat his stomach, but he also had to bear the disdainful cold eyes of his senior sister.
Hell, a breakfast actually cost 78 euros to herself, and Luna, who was already depressed, was even more dark clouds above her head at the moment, no matter how good the scenery of Paris was, she didn't want to look twice. And Yi Zhen actually dared to ask his senior sister to have a French dinner in the afternoon, but fortunately, Zong Han covered his mouth and pulled him aside in time, so that the storm would not come too early...... Speechless, the trio took the subway to the Petit Palais Museum at the intersection of Winston-Churchill Avenue and Champs-ΓlysΓ©es Avenue in the 8th arrondissement. The museum's extensive collection includes works by Ingres, Barbizon landscapes and impressionists, as well as medieval and Renaissance art. This is a rare quiet time for Luna, and she can't help but take a few sets of photos with a sense of meaning. Among them, a French father and son, sitting in front of an oil painting about the "French Revolution", the two heads tilted slightly towards each other, staring at the huge canvas, the father in red is concentrating on the epic transformation of his country in 1789, and the children in blue are also listening attentively, the overall tone and deep feeling of the photograph are very similar to the French flag in the painting. Luna named it "Father and Son", which is simple and meaningful, and can be regarded as the most satisfying casual shot in this life. And the wing who walked out of the museum said: "What the hell are you doing!" β
Zong Han understood his brother's pain, and it was really difficult for him to stop and stay in such a place with good taste. But fortunately, the senior sister is in a good mood, and it seems that there is a good chance of a big dinner in the evening. After leaving the Petit Palais Museum, the three of them prepared to walk to the Eiffel Tower, how could they say that they had been to Paris without going there?
After going around for a long time and getting lost a few times, Luna and her party finally came to the Champ de Mars Square in the seventh district. It is said to be a square, but it is actually a ribbon park, so it is now called "March Square Park", and its geographical location is between the Eiffel Tower in the northwest and the Paris Military Academy in the southeast. The target is in front of him, but Yi Zhen shouted that he couldn't walk, Luna had to accompany him here to rest for a while, Zong Han thought to himself, this half-orc who usually marched dozens of kilometers without panting, just walked such a little way and shouted tired senior sister, do you believe it? In fact, Luna didn't bother to tell whether he was real or fake, but she was also attracted by the elegant atmosphere of the park, so she was willing to stop. Zong Han's explanation for why there are so many flocks of white pigeons in front of him is: because there is bread everywhere here, there is no shortage of food. And the most disturbing thing is that Yi Zhen remembered his brother's previous words, and suddenly wanted to do something: "Are you sure that wearing only a pair of underwear to bask in the sun in the park is not a crime?" Hearing this, Luna wanted to call the police to arrest him quickly......
In France, life is meant to be enjoyed, and if you go too fast, you will be looked down upon. Parks large and small or along the Seine are full of people looking for a place to relax. Now that you have this opportunity to break away from your original masquerade life for a while, why not forget all your troubles and remember the present?
Luna was infected by the leisurely emotions of the two junior brothers, and thought of the inexplicable irritability that had been with her before, and couldn't help but smile slightly self-deprecatingly.
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[1] Veneer ceremony: Veneer etiquette first emerged from France, it is not a kiss as we understand it, but just an ordinary meeting etiquette. The specific process is that both parties touch each other with their cheeks, and the mouth makes a "pop" sound at the same time, the louder the voice, the more enthusiastic, usually starting with the right cheek, touching the left and right.
[2] Alex β Alex
[3] Laura β Laura