Chapter 288: Grace and Righteousness
Death is actually a kind of happiness, but the hardest thing is to live and work hard to live.
――Excerpt from Gou Jianqiang's "Strong Life" Xiao Gou's injuries at that time were indeed very serious, and he still had a breath left at that time, which was actually the effect of magic. If an ordinary person was dissected like that for experiments, it would have been hard for a long time.
The explosion of the nuclear bomb caused an uproar around the world, and this is not news that can be suppressed in the United States, at least in the United States, where the media is not manipulated by the government, and they have the right to report such a horrific thing.
Moreover, although it was detonated at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, there are not many institutions around the world that detected the explosion. Not to mention the devastating damage wreaked by the ensuing tsunami and earthquake in Los Angeles.
Naturally, the people of Los Angeles were outraged, and a grand march against the US side and government began in Los Angeles and swept the whole of the United States, and the situation was out of control.
Xiao Gou's life was picked up by the outbreak of this big wave, otherwise he would have died in that secret research institute.
At the beginning of the great wave, many reporters continued to publish all kinds of fierce information through their own informants, and some secret bases of the US side were published in newspapers, television, and the Internet, and the first to bear the brunt was of course this research institute in the suburbs of Los Angeles, which was the nearest one.
The people rushed to this place where birds did not lay eggs with guns and banners, and they directly attacked the research institute, and none of the so-called superpowers had the courage and temper to fight against thousands of people. Even a frenzied paranormal wouldn't want to do that, it's a dead end.
Just as there can be no perpetual motion machines on Earth, there is a limit to abilities, and once the ability is exhausted, he is no different from an ordinary person. It's very simple, even if the institute fights and kills infinitely in the face of these people who come, they themselves need to fight with their lives.
Moreover, the long guns and short cannons in the hands of the people are not vegetarians, not to mention that some of the National Guard joined the parade, and their weapons were more powerful, rocket launchers, self-propelled guns, and even a few tanks and legendary surface-to-air missiles, these things, especially the latter, that would cause a lot of damage to the average paranormal.
The most terrible thing is that the entrance to the research institute was destroyed by Xiao Ke, which made the strangers unable to defend themselves at all, and the open entrance was like a beautiful woman who had just come out of the bath, and walked into the bedroom defenselessly but saw several strong men with arms who could run horses looking at themselves excitedly, and they couldn't run.
In desperation, after destroying some classified documents, the Adepts abandoned the institute and fled in a military helicopter before the people could storm the institute.
The guinea pigs left in the institute attracted the attention of the people, no one wanted to be guinea pigs, Xiao Gou was sent to the best hospital in Los Angeles by them as soon as possible, and a group of experts with the best medical skills pulled Xiao Gou back from the brink of death after half a month of rescue.
After coming to his senses, the first thing Xiao Gou did was to contact the embassy, in fact, at this time, Guoan had already received all the information about this matter, Wang Zhijian and Niu Li came to Los Angeles again and brought Xiao Gou back, and the US government itself was anxious and had no energy to ask.
Smoothly returned to the national security headquarters, Xiao Gou learned the news of Ergou and Xiao Ke, from that day on, he was stupidly lying on the hospital bed, refusing to eat for more than ten days. It wasn't until he was hungry and skinny, and after another complete coma, that the doctors and nurses were able to approach him and resuscitate him from his initial brain death.
The second time he was rescued, Xiao Gou did not choose to commit suicide again, but began to practice penance, except for eating and going to the toilet, he slept for a maximum of two hours a day, and the rest of the time was desperately studying the compound magic that Xiao Ke had told him.
He knew that if he wanted to avenge Xiao Ke and Ergou, he had no other way but to improve his magic level.
Half a year later, Xiao Gou, who had recovered, refused to be retained by the National Security Headquarters and a series of unimaginable favorable conditions, and he returned to the Anxi base, and at the Anxi base, he met with Mary again.
Mary was taken out of the institute by Niu Li and was lucky to be spared. It's just that she was originally a senior agent of the immigration department, and a deep-rooted work ethic made her days at the Anxi base depressed.
She couldn't allow herself to betray her morals, but what happened at the institute prevented her from returning to Los Angeles, so to speak, she was already a wanted criminal on the CIA's list, or a spy.
The conflict between real life and moral ideals is very torturous, and with the pain of losing Shock, Mary gradually lost weight, and she used to sit on the threshold every day and stare at the distant horizon, waiting, perhaps, she was still looking forward to the day when Shocke stepped on the white clouds and returned.
She is also accustomed to being silent, and Mary chooses to use silence to do silent resistance to all the work assigned to her by national security. Guoan naturally doesn't have such good patience, you can't live in vain at the Anxi base, in fact, Guoan's biggest idea is that maybe Mary will be released from the base, maybe someone from the United States will come to contact her, this is the best opportunity to catch it all.
Then drive Mary out of the base and clean all the spy networks in Anxi City, this is the layout of national security, each country has its own position, it is not right or wrong, but it is specific to one person, it depends on their own ideas.
Mary was lucky, and a few days before she was about to be kicked out, the national security had actually spoken to her, and the plan was for her to leave in three days with her forehead clothes. However, Xiao Gou has returned, and it is conceivable that Xiao Gou will never let Mary leave, no matter what the reason, Xiao Gou only knows that she is Xiao Ke's lover.
The bald head and Tian Rong's persuasion was ineffective, and after Xiao Gou had a big fight with Wang Zhijian, Niu Li brazenly suppressed Xiao Gou's backlash. No matter how hard Xiao Gou cultivated, after all, the time was too short, and without the help of Ergou and Xiao Ke, he was completely defeated by Niu Li, and it could even be said that there was no room for resistance.
But this is an internal strife, and there will be no deaths. If you can't beat it, let's go, anyway, Guoan will drive Mary out to fish, Xiao Gou packed a backpack and began to wander the world with Mary.
"We traveled a lot, constantly changing accommodations, and many times even got up in the middle of the night to leave the temporary residence, in order to avoid the double tracking of the CIA field service and national security dispatched by the United States. At that time, the whole world had changed dramatically......"
Xiao Gou opened another can of beer, and the bald head and Tian Rong also smoked silently, these are all the things they have experienced, and those years are so unforgettable that people will never forget.
Shock's face had long since lost his smile, and the thought of Mary pierced his heart, but ......
In this way, Xiao Gou and Mary wandered all the way, and he seemed to have returned to the time when he first met Xiao Ke, and the two of them ran to eavesdrop on the class, and the two of them desperately saved money to buy books......
He taught Mary magic, but perhaps because of her race, Mary's mastery of magic was never so smooth, and it was difficult to improve it significantly.
Of course, things didn't stop because of their prodigal turmoil, and the storm in the United States became more and more intense, almost to the point of being uncontrollable.
Then, one day, on an aircraft carrier in the same Pacific Ocean, a young soldier pressed the launch switch of a Tomahawk missile carrying a nuclear warhead because he couldn't stand the pressure, and the world chaos officially began.
"During that time, the domestic news was all the kind of schadenfreude reports, and no one would have thought that this one missile would involve the whole world, and Mary had a very painful time during that time, losing sleep day by day."
Xiao Gou held his head and sobbed, failing to take care of Mary, leaving him shameless to face the reunion of Xiao Ke, and he had to review the pain again, in order for Xiao Ke to understand the cause and effect of everything.
Mary was sick, and Xiao Gou went around looking for medical advice for her, but whether it was Western medicine or Chinese medicine, Xiao Gou could only shake his head and sigh in the face of Mary's situation. Xiao Gou remembered very well that the old Chinese medicine doctor with white hair fluttering like a fairy told him.
"Medicine does not heal the dead."
Xiao Gou asked him what he meant, and the old Chinese medicine doctor sighed for a long time, but still said it. It's not that Mary's illness is too serious to be cured, but because her own heart is like dead wood, she is already half dead, and any medicine will be refused by her body, so whoever comes can only be helpless.
In order to prolong Mary's life, Xiao Gou drove out thousands of kilometers overnight, and the magic power in his body was exhausted, and by the time he arrived at the national security base in Anxi, he was speechless.
Niu Li refuses to intervene, even though she is the only person on earth who can save Mary, and she makes a condition.
"As long as Mary writes out everything she knows, a list of USCIS, FBI and CIA personnel, and certain classified information, I guarantee she won't die."
Mary refused, Xiao Gou knew that this would be the result, and the bald head and Tian Rong were also on the scene at the time, but they could only be silent forever.
Wang Zhijian was silent about this matter, he avoided Xiao Gou and avoided the bald head and avoided Tian Rong, in Wang Zhijian's heart, Mary must not be as important as those intelligence, the values are different, and the world view is bound to be different.
"Tian Rong and I are guarding Mary in Anxi Hospital, Brother Gou, Brother Gou, Brother Gou and his ......"
The bald head choked up, and the big man couldn't cry, he couldn't speak. Xiao Gou smiled miserably, waved his hand, threw the beer can, and lit a cigarette.
"There's nothing you can't say, bald, it's okay."
Looking at Xiao Ke's puzzled eyes, Xiao Gou threw him a cigarette and continued.
"I knelt at the door of Wang Zhijian and Niu Li for five days and five nights, just begging them to save Mary's life, that's all."