"Azivê, please go out for a moment. Seeing the man push the door into the house, Gu Tie said lightly.

"What did you say?" said the Flower of the Rainforest, raising an eyebrow and looking at him with cold, gray-blue eyes.

“...... Honey, can you please go out for a while? just a little bit, I won't run away......" Chinese immediately turned his head and muttered quietly with a pitiful expression on his face, Aqiwei snorted and turned and walked out the door, dropping a sentence: "Two minutes." I'll be back in two minutes, and I'll see you when Rassihi's mobilization speech begins. ”

The door closed.

"Boom!" a high-explosive grenade exploded out of nowhere, the door frame creaked and groaned, the only light bulb in the room flashed twice, and finally stopped working completely, and the basement cabin was plunged into total darkness. There was a damp, slippery fungal smell in the air that had been used for a long time in underground bunkers, Gu Tie was looking around to find a light source, when there was a soft "pop", a small flame lit up in the darkness, and the firelight swayed, illuminating an expressionless oriental face.

The fire came from a lit lighter, the name and phone number of "Beijing Liu Dajie Spicy Fish Main Store" were written on the transparent plastic body, butane gas came out of the simple nozzle of the lighter, and the flame seemed quite unstable, and those who have used this lighter know that if it is lit for a long time, this thing will become extremely hot, and even have the danger of exploding. -- This is a disposable lighter that can be found everywhere in the streets and alleys of China's cities and villages, and the cost does not exceed 3 cents.

Illuminated is a man's face, the face is calm and serious, the meticulous hairstyle is underneath the high forehead, and there are a few crow's feet at the corners of the eyes, which makes the eyes hidden behind tortoiseshell-rimmed glasses look even more intelligent and unpredictable, and the nasolabial folds on the sides of the mouth indicate that this is a man who has been through the ordeal and is now accustomed to giving orders. A black tunic, a blue sweetheart cardigan, a white shirt and a Shanghai watch show that this is a very traditional Chinese man, in fact, a tradition that belongs to a certain class, a power field that is deeply nostalgic for the old Chinese bones.

“...... Old Shaw. Gu Tie spread out his hand, let out a long breath, and said.

"Gu Tie. Xiao Li flatly spit out two words, stopped talking, pushed his glasses with his left hand, and stood there silently looking at his old friend opposite.

Gu Tietian is not afraid of the ground, and he is most afraid that Lao Xiao will not speak. He was stared at by Secretary Xiao's eyes, and he couldn't help but move his buttocks subconsciously, trying to sit comfortably on the bed: "When did you come? Did Mattriel inform you of my news? It doesn't seem appropriate for a government official like you to come to this place where the fight is in full swing, right? How did the Exit and Entry Administration Bureau issue you a visa for official purposes?...... What I'm most interested in is, how did you get that disposable lighter on the plane? Even if the security check is a walk-around formality, it shouldn't be so arrogant, right?"

"Arrived in Bangui two hours ago. As I said, China is now in a very strange confrontation, since the explosion of the East Asian core route in Genesis, the anti-GTC forces in the central government have gradually grown, and the quantum network has gradually been squeezed out of the national level, and the voices of the Standing Committee are not unanimous, but it is inevitable that China will follow the old path of Russia and become a conservative country that uses quantum networks on the surface but actually maintains the IPU position. I am a special observer of the United Nations, and although my position is far away from the war, it is fortunate that it is a bit of a panacea, and as long as I want to fight for it, I can still get some privileges. -- As for the disposable lighter, I forgot it in my coat pocket after eating at Sister Liu's restaurant the day before yesterday, and I took it with me on the plane last night. The people in the Department of Homeland Security knew I wasn't going to hijack a plane with a lighter. Xiao Liping replied calmly.

"Dah. The room was once again darkened, and Xiao relaxed the buttons because his hands were hot.

The darkness made Gu Tie feel a little lighter. For some reason, he felt that the person opposite seemed a little strange, although Xiao Liping usually looked like an overly calm facial paralysis, but today he seemed particularly indifferent, as if there was some kind of estrangement between the two. He forced a few laughs to break the deadlock: "Hehehe, knowing that the news of me in Central Africa must have scared you, right? I was defeated by the swordfish and was in a coma for so long...... When I return to Beijing, I will definitely eat it hard, add numb and spicy food, and take revenge!"

"Let's go. The fire lit up again, and Xiao Liping appeared on the chair opposite the bed, holding the lighter in his left hand, and seemed to look up at the hole in the ceiling with great interest. "Gu Tie. He screamed coldly, causing Gu Tie to shiver fiercely.

“...... What's the matter?" the Chinese asked weakly.

"Are you hiding something from me?" Mr. Xiao said.

"The two of us have been friends for more than ten years, and I have been with you for the longest time in the whole world except for Lao Zhao, what have I hidden from you?" Gu Tie immediately argued, "When I was drinking and fighting together, didn't I tell you all the embarrassing things I had done in the past? Even if I didn't use the toilet in the courtyard when I was a child, I accidentally fell into the dung pit, ...... it."

"Gu Tie. Lao Xiao shouted again. Children know that when their fathers and mothers call themselves by their nicknames, no matter how fierce the tone is, it is thunder and rain, and once the elders call out their full names, it proves that the trouble is big, and a meal of fried meat with bamboo shoots is afraid that it will not be able to escape. Gu Tie was as stiff as a child who was caught with a sore foot at this moment, and he didn't dare to breathe, so he responded carefully: "Hey." Xiao Liping asked, "Gu Tie, who are you?"

The two men looked at each other by the light of the lighter, and the cannon boomed overhead, like an inopportune piece of background music. Gu Tie's heart quickly turned around for thousands of years, observing each other with all the psychology, identification, torture and medical knowledge he had mastered in his life, guessing the thoughts of the man opposite. He was so confused that he didn't know how to answer his good brother's inquiry, whether to tell him or pretend to be ignorant? After all, he had only seen a clue, and there was a huge conspiracy behind the whole incident, how could he be sure that the man in this city was on the same side as him? But this was his most trusted brother for more than ten years, if even Lao Xiao couldn't face it honestly, who else could he trust in this world after that?

Gu Tie pinched the edge of the bed and gurgled, his forehead burst into blue tendons, and at this moment he suddenly threw away all his doubts and speculations and decided to tell the truth. "Lao Xiao, I ......"

"Listen. Xiao Liping suddenly extinguished the lighter and said quickly in a language that only the two of them could understand: "I know a lot, and I don't know a lot, in fact, we both have made many mistakes and have been going around in circles for many years." It's not safe here, this conversation must be being monitored, and the shielding on my body is not 100% effective, but the fragments of the dialect when shattered by the shielding device will make it impossible for them to parse the semantics for a short time, as it is not the official language of record. Don't talk nonsense, I say, you listen. The latest progress has been made in the calculation of the betrayal, and the countdown date has been finalized: April 7, 2052. That is, everything will happen in two and a half months. You must have known who you are, and I believe that you were equally unaware of your past when I was looking for it, and it was not a coincidence that you also discovered your past when I found the clues. The next time the lighter is lit, you're going to follow me out of the room, I'll detonate a phantom bomb to confuse the sensor for a while, and we'll talk about it when we're in a safe place. Now you're laughing and pretending I'm telling an old joke that only you understand. ”

Xiao Liping is a native of Wuzhong City, Ningxia Autonomous Region, China, where his father was a Hui farmer in a remote village in Wuzhong Province. Out of nostalgia for his hometown, he taught his son to speak this strange dialect, which is a unique language formed by the Hui people of the village after absorbing a large number of Arabic loanwords from the Islamic scriptures, which has the tone of the Ningxia dialect and many Arabic verbs and nouns pronounced in the Chinese dialect system, which no one but the locals can understand. Back then, in order to talk about the girls around him unscrupulously in the bar, Xiao Liping specially taught Gu Tie this dialect, which became a little secret between the two over time, Gu Tie never expected that Lao Xiao would say a long speech in this language at this time, let alone that the content of this passage was so amazing.

But he didn't hesitate. "Hahaha......" Gu Tie immediately patted his thighs and burst into laughter, wiping his tears while pointing at the tip of Lao Xiao's nose: "This old-fashioned joke is still being told, I thought you really had something to tell me, who knew that it was just to tell jokes for so long a day, are you tired? Hahahahaha, I really convinced you, you can die if you don't pretend?"

Xiao Liping also laughed: "Haha, I knew it could scare you! Your kid doesn't seem to have bedsores or anything, but he is still very alive, so I'm relieved...... Oops, this broken lighter, it's really TMD hot......"

The fire was extinguished again. Gu Tie smiled and said nonsense without content, while waiting for the time to act, he didn't consider whether what Xiao Liping said was reasonable or not, but he was full of guilt for Aqiwei in his heart. He didn't doubt Aqiwei, on the contrary, the Flower of the Rainforest was one of the few people he trusted wholeheartedly, but now he had no more choice, and his years of experience had taught him that Lao Xiao was a theorist who planned and then acted, but once he made a decision, he would never be wrong!

"Click. ”

Sister Liu's spicy fish lighter was lit for the third time, and the eyes of the two met in the air, and they didn't need more words to complete the communication. "Buzz......" A dazzling light flashed in the room, Gu Tie felt that someone had pulled up his arm and rushed out, the last reaction he could make was to reach under the pillow and pull out the pistol that Aqiwei had secretly left him.