Chapter 62: The Will of the Old Man (8)
"I never imagined that Xiao Ming had changed so much in the past few days."
In front of the computer screen, the man tilted his head slightly, and the video played by the player had reached daylight, which made him feel relieved that there was no trace of his own home being invaded before that.
Seeing his best friend, Lao Tang wanted to skip it directly, after all, there is nothing to see in this paragraph, he is at home, what else can be wrong with Xiao Ming sitting there?
Could anyone else sneak in front of the two of them?
But...... Lao Tang suddenly had a little desire to observe the boy, after all, the decrepit boy in the video call a few days ago and Lu Mingfei today, the gap is really a bit too big.
So big that Old Don even suspected that they were not the same person.
Even so, the man just wanted to see what difference Lu Mingfei had in his behavior now, and to see his current demeanor, he didn't suspect him at all.
However, it doesn't matter if you don't look at it, look at it......
In Old Tang's pupils, the boy's face was as cold as ice, he looked left and right for a long time, took something out of his coat, secretly took out his ID bag, and pasted it in.
The next moment, he walked out of the bathroom, but Lu Mingfei had already returned to the bookcase, gently shaking Erlang's legs, as if nothing had happened just now, and greeted him with a smile.
The warm breeze of the air conditioner blew, but Lao Tang gasped a few times in a row, as if a snake was crawling behind him, the cold scales rubbed against his skin, and the layers of cold sweat were deep, and the pores were even enlarged a few points for a while.
"Xiao Ming...... What are you doing? ”
"Flip through my stuff? What's in there? ”
"No, how can this ......"
The man collapsed on the gaming chair, his pupils collapsed, his eyes lost their original brilliance, his limbs hung down weakly, and he nested in the chair in an extremely awkward posture for a long time.
If you have to say it, Old Tang feels that his heart is dead at this moment.
He already had a bad premonition, feeling that someone had been watching him, and he was already quite vigilant on weekdays, and he didn't even accept other mission requests on the hunter website, for fear of leaking any information and discovering his identity.
But he never expected that it was ...... who was spying on him
"What if it's a joke."
Old Tang smiled palely, as if to comfort himself, he rolled the roller to play back the video, stared at the cold face on the screen for a long time, and sighed.
Although he didn't want to admit it, he had to say that Xiao Ming now seems to be not the same person as Xiao Ming who asked him to speak English.
His instincts have always been accurate, especially when it comes to seeing people, and on many occasions when he feels unstable and deliberately stays away from a teammate, the result is that the team members who are quite close to that person will be betrayed and die in a very tragic way.
Now whenever he looks at Lu Mingfei, he always feels a trace of palpitations, feeling that this boy is not at all like a teenager he seems, but also an old monster who has lived hundreds of years, thinking about something in his heart all the time.
The boy's eyes often twinkled, and Old Don knew that it was the excitement of being a hunter when he saw that the plan was on track, and he had often had it.
"Forget it, it's useless to blindly guess, let's go and see."
The man stood up, walked to the living room, looked at his windbreaker for a long time, silently took out his document bag from it, poured out the document from it, reached into his finger and buckled it, and took out the small piece of iron in the corner.
The objects on the palms of the hands glowed with silver light, and the cold touch passed through the skin along the nerves to the brain, waking the man's sleepy nerves all the time.
He stared at it for a long time, then took a knife and slipped it open, revealing the tiny circuits inside, accompanied by the sizzling of electricity due to the destruction.
He didn't have to do it, he had seen it on a mission, the Americans' newest locator, and the employer told him that if he had this thing on him, he would be able to find them by satellite, whether it was the North and South Pole or the Mariana Trench, so he could rest assured that he would not abandon them.
That guy just wanted to kill them afterwards, Old Tang knew that this time they were targeting an ancient book in an ancient tomb, which was said to have records related to immortality, and the employer didn't want the news to reach others again, so after the fact, he hired a group of people from the hunter website to kill them when the previous mission was completed and delivered, and the only survivor was Old Tang.
When he got out, he used a knife to dissect the locator and completely destroy it, exactly like he did now
Looking at the object in his hand, Old Tang's Adam's apple moved, and finally let out a long sigh.
He had the last glimmer of hope, but the cruel reality completely shattered his dream, and that was the locator, and there was no doubt that even if he wanted to deceive himself, he would not be able to do it, because the evidence was too obvious.
With a wry smile, Old Tang threw the things in his hand into the trash.
The scene of heart-to-heart exchange at the dinner table came to his mind, the man bit his lip tightly, biting white but still unconscious, his eyes were glazed, looking straight out of the window, looking at the prosperity of the city.
Ronald. Don, who has been an orphan since he was a child, lives in a poor neighborhood in Brooklyn, and has never seen his father and mother in his life, let alone relatives, not even friends, but fortunately, the orphanage adopted him and raised him to become the man he is today.
After wandering in society for a long time, because he was uneducated, he suffered a lot of white eyes when looking for a job, and finally got on the hunter website in anger, thinking about exchanging his life for some compensation, and it is not impossible to live a life of licking blood at the tip of a knife.
Anyway, the only taboo in this line is that there are too many worries, if there are relatives and children in the family, in addition to special circumstances, how many people will choose this line? Born and dying?
This is also one of the few advantages of Lao Tang, he has no relatives and no friends, and few of those people in the orphanage have intersections with him, if he insists on saying that he is worried about it, it should be the orphanage.
Because of this, a lot of Lao Tang's income is donated there every year, as one of his ways to comfort himself, reminding himself all the time that he can't give up on himself, and he still has a home.
It wasn't until a few years ago that he was really abused by a master playing interstellar in an Internet café, and Lao Tang met the first friend in his life.
The two added QQ, and they would discuss all kinds of novel playing tactics and chat until late, one in the United States, and one in China on the other side of the ocean, but the time difference of more than ten hours is not an obstacle to communication at all, in the words of that person, the big deal is 'to make up for sleep with dark circles in class, and talk to the fullest, why sleep?' ’
The man admits that he is withdrawn and lonely, and he wants someone to be by his side all the time, so Lady Luck favors him and makes him meet a friend who has similar interests and even scruffy appearances.
Then, Lady Luck repented and took back her gift, and that friend changed, and for some reason it seemed to be a different person, but she was still like that.
If he can still accept this, then betrayal is something he can't accept at all, he doesn't think Lu Mingfei has any troubles, the two are such good friends, what can't be said in person?
You shouldn't secretly install a tracker for him anyway.
Old Tang's heart was cold, recalling the words that had been chatted between the two in the past two days, and suddenly felt that he had heard a joke, a joke about a fool being deceived, obviously the evidence was conclusive, and the fool still didn't want to believe the joke of his friend's betrayal.
"As long as you are Old Tang, you are my friend. What kind of thoughts did you have in mind when you said this? ”
The man stood in front of the window, opened a small slit, took a cigarette and lit it.
The cold wind and acrid smoke outside the window rampled around him, but the man was like a statue, motionless, as if he was meditating on something.
......
New York once again fell at night, but the dim darkness was torn apart by the bustling lights, Rao is bright moon could not compete with the power of technology, it was on such a street that Lu Mingfei saw Old Tang again.
This is the two of them agreed the day before, see you at seven o'clock the next day, and Old Tang said that he would take him to see the characteristics.
However, at this moment, the old Tang ...... But as if he had changed into a different person, his sloppy hair was neatly arranged, and he was dressed in a new dress, although it was not a black suit, but his serious expression was like going to a funeral.
Lu Mingfei glanced at it slightly, and after seeing Old Tang's thick dark circles and sleepy look, he sighed secretly.
"Where to go?"
Lu Mingfei asked absentmindedly.
"Let's get in the car first and walk around." The man turned around and pointed to the Chevrolet parked on the side of the road.
The car was speeding on the road, to Lu Mingfei's surprise, but the road at the moment was not as congested as he imagined, perhaps it was very likely that it was because of .......
The duo traveled to the opposite of the bustling city center.
I don't know how long I drove it, but when I finally got off the highway, the car stopped silently on the side of the road, next to an abandoned farmland, and I could hear the sound of pheasants flapping their wings in it.
Lu Mingfei leaned motionless on the back of the chair, and the same was true after Old Tang extinguished the fire, they seemed to blend into the night together, and the silence was terrifying.
"Do you smoke?"
The man broke the silence, handed over a cigarette, watched the boy shake his head, took it in his mouth, and lit the fire.
"Smoking is not good for your health." Lu Mingfei said quietly.
"Of course I do, but I'm not a life-saver, have you ever seen a life-saving person go to be a bounty hunter?" Old Tang smiled helplessly:
"Still, I'm still a lot more desperate than I was at the beginning."
"Why?" Lu Mingfei subconsciously took over the conversation.
"Because there are a lot of things that make me nostalgic.,There are unpublished comics.,There are still small things that may be released near the eunuch.,Of course, there are games.。
"You still know the word eunuch." Lu Mingfei laughed.
"Of course, I'm also Chinese, so I'll go to the forum if I have nothing to do." Old Tang also laughed: "However, do you know what makes me more desperate for my life now? ”
"What?"
"It's a friend, I don't think I can die so casually after having a friend, otherwise, who will accompany my friend to fight interstellar in the future?" Old Tang said softly: "After listening to my good friend's words, I have already made up my mind, after completing the last mission, I will wash my hands in the golden basin, never take this risk again, and stay at home to play games with him, then it is quite good to think about it." ”
Lu Mingfei was silent.
"But, do you know what I found?" The smile on Old Tang's face disappeared, but instead transformed into a bit hideous.
"I finally found out that my best friend, who I had always thought was spying on me. Xiao Ming, if it were you, what would you do? ”
Lu Mingfei continued to be silent.
"Xiao Ming, what did you put on me? I want to hear you tell me personally" The man squeezed out a slight smile: "Is it just a little joke, it's an electric shock device, and when you touch it, it will electrocute me." ”
Old Tang stared at the boy's face, looked at it for a long time, and saw that the latter did not react at all, stretched out his hand and shook his shoulder, and yelled:
"Don't stop talking, you're not dumb, talk, talk. I beg you, tell me, that's not a tracker. ”
Lu Mingfei looked directly at the man, then lowered his head and sighed.
Old Tang also withered and curled up in the leather chair: "Xiao Ming, even if you say a random reason, I will fool myself into believing you, but why do you ....... Alas, do you feel that you can't deceive yourself either? ”
The boy nodded.
"Is there anything else you'd like to say?" Old Tang was silent for a long time, feeling that it was not a matter to continue like this, so he spoke.
"Don't you wonder who I am?"
"Not curious, and too lazy to be curious, whether it's the FBI or the police department's assistant." The man smiled miserably: "So, what about your people, shouldn't the net be closed after the surveillance is exposed?" ”
“......”
Seeing that Lu Mingfei didn't speak, Old Tang was stunned for a moment, shook his head and said, "It turns out that I was wrong, you are not their person, then you are ...... What about the hunter site? No wonder so curious about my mission.
It seems that that sentence is really true, once you step into here, you will never be able to escape. So, Commissioner, what are you going to do next? ”
A hint of hesitation flashed on the boy's face, and his face gradually became cold, he looked into the man's eyes and smiled:
"Not bad, Bounty Hunter. Ronald. Don, even if the inquirer is your best friend, you still haven't revealed the details of the mission. ”
Old Tang stared at those eyes, a chill went straight to his heart, and even his soul was trembling, this feeling ..... It's really very similar to the admin of the hunter site.
It was a fear from the soul.
Old Tang was already fully convinced that Lu Mingfei had a relationship with the Hunter website.
"This is the end of this test, and you are entitled to survive." Lu Mingfei flashed the knife in his arms: "Please don't reveal my existence to anyone." ”
Old Tang pondered for a long time, and finally held back his fear and asked, "Does Lu Mingfei really exist?" ”
"Of course it is, but it's one of my identities." The boy looked out the window and avoided looking directly at the man.
"That Decrepit ......"
"I played it, Ronald. Don, including what he studied at the Kassel Academy, he made it up casually, didn't you find that this school couldn't find information at all? The boy brewed his emotions, turned his head, and sneered: "The administrator is very worried about the degree to which you high-level bounty hunters follow the rules, so they sent someone to test you, if you leak the secret, it will be unbearable."
However, I thought we would be able to maintain this friendship, and it seems that this is the end of it. ”
There was a hint of regret in the boy's tone.
The corners of Old Tang's mouth twitched, his expression was extremely complicated, he turned his head, and the cigarette ash the size of his fingernail fell on his arm, but he ignored it completely.
The car started again, and Lu Mingfei was sent to the door of the hotel, but this time, the two never said a word again.
The boy looked at Chevrolet's departing back and waved his hand, a little smile on his face.
"I'm sorry."
Only the street lamp on the corner flickered slightly, responding to his whispering words.