"That guy is a lunatic, right? It doesn't seem to be in a good mental state. Tang Shuxing followed behind and whispered.

Gromov nodded: "It's normal, whoever lives in this place for a long time will become crazy, and it doesn't matter how much money you make, in the past, the inspectors within 30 kilometers of this place near the central area were paid high salaries, and later no matter how much money you give them, those scientific researchers don't want to stay here, they can only train some volunteers, they all want to make money, until the end, they even start to use homeless people, because no one wants to stay in this kind of ghost place for a second longer." ”

The madman walked into the dead forest, stopped before he had advanced more than ten meters, and pointed to a dead tree trunk that had obviously been deliberately erected later, seven or eight meters high, and on the top of the dead trunk hung a corpse that had not completely decayed, but could still see the general outline.

The corpse was wearing an imitation of the former Soviet military uniform, and it was hand-sewn by himself, and the epaulettes and the like were all patchwork of other fragments of colored fabric, which looked very weird, and the hat on the head looked like it was real, but the badge on it was now from the Russian army.

Tang Shuxing and Gromov looked at the corpse that was deliberately hanging there, and then Gromov asked the madman: "Who is this?" ”

"Sergey!" The madman said, "Sergey. Merosky. Karrychev! ”

Tang Shuxing stood there and tightened his backpack belt: "It's okay now, I almost crossed an earth plate, and I found a corpse, unless we can summon spirits, it is equivalent to coming in vain." ”

Gromov raised his eyes and looked at it for a long time before he said: "How do we know if this is Sergei or not?" What if the old fox finds another corpse? ”

"No, no, no!" The madman came up with a winkled brow and hung the letter of forgiveness on the branch below, "This is Sergey, the body was hung by my own hands in accordance with his last wishes, and he said that he would be here to watch the day when this land was restored to life, and I lived with him for many, many years. ”

Gromov still didn't believe it: "I heard that this person has a name named Yuri, didn't he die of cancer?" ”

The madman approached Gromov. "He is tired and starved to death, and he has no food, and he does not want to eat the animals I hunt." So he died, just like that, and he was still crying when he died. ”

"What's your name?" Gromov asked the guy.

"My name is Friday!" The guy grinned.

"Friday?" Gromov looked at him, "What's this name?" ”

Friday took out a small book from his pocket, it was an English book, Tang Shuxing looked at the cover that had been half-peeled off, and some of the text, and immediately knew that it was an English version of "Robinson Crusoe".

Tang Shuxing flipped through the title page below, the time of printing was 1987, and Yuri's name was written on the cover.

Gromov flipped through the book. Then he was snatched back by Friday, rubbed his sleeve against him, and grinned at Gromov, and then carefully loaded it back.

"Well, it seems that Sergei was inspired by this book. Thinking that he was staying on an isolated island, he met a madman and named him Friday, making him a servant or assistant to him. Gromov stared at the corpse, "I didn't expect that this senior is quite literary." ”

Tang Shuxing stood there looking at the corpse, and then at the madman who claimed to be Friday. Clam up.

"What are you thinking?" Gromov asked.

Tang Shuxing looked at Friday and said to Gromov: "You asked him to take us to see what this corpse left behind before his death, as well as his research room." ”

Gromov nodded, took out the chocolate and other things in his pocket, and coaxed Friday, who hesitated for a long time before finally picking up the chocolate and eating it. Jumping up and down to lead the way ahead and lead them to the tower.

Before coming to the tower, Friday actually took out a key from his crotch, carefully unlocked it, and after opening the door, shouted inside: "I'm back!" Then he walked in.

Tang Shuxing and Gromov had just entered the house. And he saw a black animal in the corner, and the animal saw that they were making strange noises. Friday immediately walked over and struck the animal on the head with a stick, then reassured the animal not to scream.

When Tang Shuxing got closer, he found that the animal was a wild boar that was about to lose all its hair, and the two front hooves of the wild boar had been cut off, so he couldn't move, so he had to put the front half of his body on top of a wooden box.

"It's called Friday, but it's my Friday!" Friday grinned at Gromov and stretched out his hand again, "Sugar, delicious, sweet." ”

Gromov took out another bag of biscuits, sniffed it on Friday, carefully placed it in the drawer of the table next to him, and reached out again. Gromov had no choice but to give him more chocolates, and on Friday he happily took them up to the second floor, which belonged to Sergei's former laboratory.

Once in the laboratory, Friday immediately stood aside in an orderly manner, with his hands on his thighs, and did not move forward, which was supposed to have been taught to him by Sergei during his lifetime.

Tang Shuxing walked into the laboratory and found that the laboratory was very clean and tidy, although it was not sterile, but compared to the outside world, it was simply a paradise, an environment where people could live, there was a small bed next to it, and there were shelves around it, and there were many flower pots on the shelves, some of the plants in it had died, but some plants were still growing, and some even had beautiful flowers.

Gromov walked over to the workbench, flipped through a work diary there, and then leaned over to read the last paragraph—

I can't hold it anymore, I've reached the limit, and it's a miracle that a person living in hell can hold on until now. I'm a miracle, and Friday is a miracle, we are, but miracles won't last, and it may take hundreds of years for this demon-tainted land to return to its former appearance.

I tried to grow plants from fresh soil and transplant them into the outside land, but unfortunately, the outside land could only grow plants and animals that were reborn here, and nothing outside could survive for more than a day.

They were right, they came to me many years ago and told me that it was true, that I had lost, and that I alone could not even change this land. And how can we change the future?

I don't know how he is in Karachi, we will never see each other again in this life, I have no regrets, from the beginning we were destined to have our own paths. As he said, he was always a mortal, not as noble as I was.

Am I noble? I looked at the dead plants, and I knew that I was not noble, and that the spirit could only change itself, but could not expand to change nature.

Goodbye, this world I love so much.

……

There is no signature below, the text is beautiful, and it is written in Russian. Or a standard generic font.

Gromov read it to Tang Shuxing, and silently read it several times in his heart, then raised his eyes to look at Tang Shuxing, shook his head and said, "Oh no, we made a big mistake!" ”

Tang Shuxing also knew. Nodding and said: "Yes, the one in Karachi is really Sergey, and the one in Chernobyl is Yuri, we were deceived by Sergei, I wonder, it is impossible that Yuri does not understand Chinese, Sergei pretends to be so good." He is a veteran spy. ”

The two people who came to their senses at this time knew that it was a little late, but at the same time, they were a little glad - with Sergei's strength, they couldn't fight Ji Kefeng and Gu Huaiyi no matter what.

Tang Shuxing took out the communication equipment and found that it could no longer be connected, and he didn't know if there was a problem with the satellite. Or is there something wrong with the land in the first place?

Sergei and Yuri agreed to swap identities with each other, but it was only verbal, in fact they did not have plastic surgery and did nothing. This must have been Sergei's idea, and Sergei deliberately used what others knew about him to set this trap. Everyone thought that he would not stay in Chernobyl, but in Pakistan, but for so many years, he has been behaving in a way that imitates Yuri, turning a blind eye to what is being spied on, and behaving so plainly that after you catch him, you will credulously him that he is Yuri's lie after plastic surgery.

However, Tang Shuxing said to the sentence mentioned in the log, "They are right, what they came to me many years ago and told me is true, I lost, I can't even change this land with my own strength, how can I change the future?" I'm interested, who are the "they" mentioned in it?

"There's a problem with writing here." Gromov pointed to the journal and said, "It is a matter of writing the singular and plural of 'he' and 'they', before the word 'they', there is a more ambiguous position, I looked at it for a long time, and found that it should be the singular 'she', Yuri may have hesitated when he wrote this, not sure how the person who came to express it, maybe he first wanted to use 'they' to express, and felt that it was inappropriate, so he revised it, and it was still inappropriate to change it to 'she', and finally it became 'they'." ”

Tang Shuxing did not understand the Russian language, and did not understand very well that the personal pronouns in the Russian language that Gromov said are used to replace people or things, and there are three personal and singular and plural differences, although they are similar to other languages, but they are different in writing, and some languages are not written in modern Russian, that is, the correct writing method established in 1956.

Gromov explained for a while, and Tang Shuxing understood: "To be more direct, it's a man and a woman, but he's not sure if it's a human who came to look for him, and I suspect it's the two people Sergei said he met in the Aral Sea, Nightfire and Enya." ”

Gromov nodded: "The only possibility is this, I can't find any other explanation." ”

Tang Shu said: "Judging from the log, those two ancient humans seem to have asked Yuri to give up, maybe what they are talking about is about the apocalypse, the mass extinction of life, but Yuri didn't believe it, and decided to change Chernobyl first, and finally found out that it failed, but how did he die?" According to Friday, he appeared to have died of malnutrition. ”

"It doesn't matter how he died, the important thing is that we have to rush to the Aral Sea now, I don't think Sergei is that simple, he must be hiding other things, since the ancients have come to find Yuri, they must have also found Sergei, and besides, they have also appeared in the Gu Hunting Ground, this is definitely not a coincidence." Gromov began to pack up his things and take Yuri's journal with him, only to find that Friday was gone.