Chapter 60: The Death Train (2)
The sky is gray like the color of the moment when the sunset is completely submerged, the city street scene in Cheng Mo's vision is blurred into a dense color by the rain flowing on the glass, and when the car with lights on drives quickly, the whole world is overflowed with dreamlike psychedelic light, assuming that there happens to be a sexyly dressed Russian girl passing by, then such a picture can give people the vision of an almost impressionist oil painting, so beautiful that it is difficult to describe in words.
Cheng Mo looked down at the time, at 10:30, there were still 3 hours before the departure of K20, and at this moment he was accompanying Xie Minyun in a Russian supermarket not far from the hotel.
Xie Minyun, who said that she hated Li Jiting for changing her itinerary without authorization, was actually quite excited and surprised to be able to take the train from Moscow to the capital, especially when she learned that Cheng Mo and she still had the temporary task of finding "spies", her eyes lit up.
"Danger" is unavoidable for people like Cheng Mo, but it is "temptation" for people like Xie Minyun who are born superior and comfortable, such as mountaineering, rock climbing, diving... This kind of extreme sports is tailored for these people who have money and leisure.
Psychologically speaking, when people complete tasks or experience danger, nervous emotions will make the concentration be highly concentrated, and the secretion of adrenaline will increase, and after the rest of the disaster or after completing the challenge, the tension will be relaxed, and there will be a few tenths of a second when the brain is in a state of blank and unable to think, and then a large amount of dopamine will be secreted, and happy emotions will make you feel like you have ascended to heaven.
The brain is peculiar, taking on challenges stimulates adrenaline, completing challenges to enjoy dopamine, and failing challenges is enjoyable, because if you succeed next time, you can enjoy more dopamine.
"Essentially, humans exist for these chemicals. Watching Xie Minyun take things from the shelves with great interest, Cheng Mo, who was forced by Li Jiting to follow Xie Minyun to the supermarket, sighed.
Xie Minyun pushed the shopping cart that was almost full and stopped in the fruit area, because it was summer, and the dazzling colorful fruits filled the display cabinet on the entire wall, making people feel like they were on a tropical island, "Buy more fruits and yogurt, even if there is food in the car, there will be no fruit to sell..."
Cheng Mo looked at a few pieces of chocolate, a few packets of biscuits, a few bottles of pure milk and some simple daily necessities in her handbag, compared to Xie Minyun's, it was too shabby, her shopping cart was full of snacks, and there were Russian specialties of vacuum-packed pickled fish, all of which were unpacked and eaten, and the taste was not bad, and it was a very good choice for the current snacks. Caviar and canned luncheon meat are also essential Russian delicacies, as well as juices and sausages, chocolates of all flavours and cakes, all piled up in the shopping cart.
"You also have to eat more fruit..... Xie Minyun took a big bag of avocados and a big bag of cherries and put them in Cheng Mo's handbasket, and suddenly Cheng Mo's handbasket sank.
"I think you should buy everything on the train..... Fruits are also available. Cheng Mo was a little speechless, he suspected that Xie Minyun was just because his cart couldn't fit down, so he found an excuse to put avocados and cherries on his side.
"That's not necessarily everything, and it's not new to say that it's expensive on the train. Xie Minyun said eloquently.
"You don't want to buy so much, do you? You plan to open a supermarket on the train, or sell these things back to China as a bad master?" Cheng Mo said sarcastically.
"I didn't ask you to help mention it, where did you get so much nonsense?" Xie Minyun raised his eyebrows, and fought back in a sharp tone.
"Oh, that's good!" Cheng Mo said lightly.
Xie Minyun snorted coldly and pushed the cart and quickly walked towards the counter where the bill was paid, Cheng Mo followed, and the two paid at the counter where there was no one, first Xie Minyun's, which cost more than 30,000 rubles, including a few boxes of Kaluga's caviar that cost more than 10,000 rubles.
When Cheng Mo pushed his things to the salesperson's aunt, Xie Minyun said casually in Russian: "If you are together, you don't need to count them separately." β
The Russian aunt immediately stopped the settlement and continued to start the barcode scanner to scan the thing that was silently pushed.
Cheng Mo thought that yesterday's Russian food was bought by Xie Minyun, so he didn't make a sound, and this time it was just flattened. These days when they go out to play, when they eat, you invite a meal, I invite a meal, which is almost equivalent to AA, although it is not completely even, but Cheng Mo does not like to compare baht when he is rich.
After paying the bill, Cheng Mo only needed a medium-sized plastic bag for all his things, which also included the avocados and cherries that Xie Minyun stuffed into him later, while Xie Minyun's was full of four large shopping bags.
Xie Minyun pushed the shopping cart containing four large shopping bags to the door of the supermarket, the glass automatic door immediately opened, and a cold wind with moisture blew in, and the rain outside was dense, and the Russians who didn't like umbrellas put their hoodies on their heads and hurried away.
Xie Minyun stopped, turned his head to look at Cheng Mo and said, "What are you still doing? Help! Don't think I'll fall for you, give up your free labor in a few words..."
These days, not only has Cheng Mo learned a lot about Xie Minyun, but Xie Minyun has also learned a lot about Cheng Mo, so naturally he will not be so easy to become silent.
"I said that there is no need to buy so much, you want to buy it yourself, and if you can't afford it, don't do it yourself...."Cheng Mo said expressionlessly, in fact, he was not only looking at buying things, but also because Xie Minyun heard Li Jiting say that he also wanted to investigate spies, and when it was dangerous to sit on K20, he was obliged to agree immediately.
Xie Minyun sneered: "It's all your stuff here, why don't you mention it?"
Cheng Mo didn't expect Xie Minyun to play such a trick, just like Xie Minyun didn't expect Cheng Mo to bribe the fat security guard, and said with a very speechless expression: "Senior sister, it's boring like this...."
"Didn't you pay for these?"
"Okay! I'll mention it!" Cheng Mo glanced at Xie Minyun contemptuously and said in a calm tone.
Seeing that Cheng Mo didn't argue with himself, but immediately accepted the result, which greatly reduced Xie Minyun's sense of achievement, especially the meaning revealed in his eyes was "Only villains and women are difficult to raise", so that Xie Minyun suddenly forgot not to fall into Cheng Mo's self-psychological suggestion of agitation.
She didn't speak, bit her lip, immediately grabbed the handle of the white plastic bag, put all four plastic bags out of the shopping cart, and walked out of the supermarket without saying a word, and rushed into the rain.
Cheng Mo looked at Xie Minyun's beautiful back and shook his head gently, the arrogant attack with a cold appearance was so easy to be stimulated, even if he knew that the other party was deliberate, he still had to show his arrogance.
Of course, as Xie Minyun, she doesn't have her own principles, so she is no different from ordinary girls.
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August 1 at 1:20 a.m.
The black Rolls-Royce cut through the rain curtain, the six-meter-long body stood out like a cruising shark in the sea of cars, and soon the Rolls-Royce stopped at the entrance outside the Yaroslav railway station, the black fence surrounded this antique-level railway station tightly, and there were only pedestrians with luggage on the square, without a car, because the Komsomol Square was not allowed to enter in principle.
But the gun-wielding guard standing at the door glanced at the Rolls-Royce license plate, saluted, and the silver stainless steel automatic door slowly moved to the right.
So the black Rolls-Royce drove directly into the Komsomol Square and stopped at the majestic and solemn gate of the Yaroroslav railway station, attracting the attention of many travelers and tourists.
Bastian in a suit got out of the co-pilot, and the six entourages who had been waiting at the gate of the Yaroslav railway station stood respectfully on the side of Rolls-Royce, waiting for Bastian to open the door to Napoleon VII.
Among the six were four Napoleonic family security guards, a cook, and a doctor-masseur.
With his left hand on his right hand, Bastian bent down to open the black Rolls-Royce door, and Napoleon VII, dressed in a blue striped director's suit, stepped on his right foot, then rested his golden scepter on the marble floor, and then got out of the car.
Napoleon VII with a golden scepter stood under the porch of the Yaroslav railway station, like a king, which caused many people to look back, and some even secretly took pictures.
Napoleon VII was unimpressed by the prying eyes, and he glanced at the mountain of luggage on the side, in addition to seven or eight LV bags, there were also his special mattresses, special seats, special cutlery and special cups, and of course, not only that, but there were five or six portable freezers, in which in addition to wine, drinks and some ingredients, there was also ice cream made in Italy.
Napoleon frowned and said, "Having said that, there is no need to make such a big fuss .... If necessary, you can send a private jet to the station in advance, and the ingredients will not be fresh after being in the refrigerator for a long time....."
"I'm sorry, Your Highness, but I didn't think it through, but you haven't been on a train for too long.... We'll keep you updated with the ingredients in the fridge.," Bastian bowed.
"Forget it, there's no need to be too particular, after all, it's not a tour. Napoleon VII, who was standing on the ground with his scepter, waved his hand, and then walked towards the station with the starry eyes of many Russian maidens, and Bastian quickly straightened up and followed.
A thin man standing by the luggage said to the people next to him: "FranΓ§ois, you call the phone number I gave you, I have already made a call, you carry the luggage in, no stranger is allowed to touch and inspect it..... After saying that, the thin man also followed Napoleon VII and Bastien.
Bastian looked at the back of Napoleon VII, and said to the lean man who approached without looking back: "Maurice, you must protect the safety of Your Excellency the Prince in the car, especially the food and water..... You don't have to be on an eight-day train, but you have to be prepared to take an eight-day ride, and we're always in touch...."
"Don't worry, Bastian, even if something happens to me, I won't let His Royal Highness get hurt a little bit....." The thin man smiled, and then frowned and whispered: "But His Royal Highness the Prince is unabashedly on the K20, does Shirkov still dare to take this car?"
This lean man is naturally the body of Morris, who is strong, like a Russian wrestler.
"This is the way His Royal Highness does things, besides, if you Shirkov is already waiting to get in the car, will you give up so easily?"
Morris frowned and thought for a while and said, "Probably not, anyway, no matter what trip you take, it's dangerous." β
"That is, in fact, His Royal Highness the Prince is also a warning to the other Chosen One, and he is dissuading ....." Bastian said softly as he looked at the majestic figure of Napoleon VII.
It dawned on Morris.
Just as Napoleon VII got on the train directly through the special passage, in the waiting hall of Yaroslavl Railway Station, which was not too big, a tall and thin man with brown hair and gold wire glasses stood up and walked to the ticket gate, and at the same time turned his head and quickly glanced at the back of Napoleon VII, who was about to disappear from his eyes.
It was definitely not only this tall and thin man who was looking at the back of Napoleon VII, but most of the people who were actually waiting for the bus in the hall were staring at Napoleon VII and the scepter in his hand.
"Could that scepter be the legendary seven-star scepter?" whispered to a sexy woman in a beige trench coat with long dark brown hair standing in the corner in the corner, a man standing in the corner with the brim of his top hat pressed low.
"Undoubtedly, certainly one of the heirlooms of the Napoleonic family, the Scepter of the Seven Star Marshal, capable of firing not only deadly pulsed lasers but also energy shields.... It's a life-saving artifact.....," the girl said softly with the index finger of her right hand on her lips.
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"Tut-tut, Napoleon VII was really bold enough to dare to get into the car himself, and I don't think anyone would dare to kill him if he was in the nineteenth place on the list?" said the man sitting on the side of the hall reading a Japanese magazine in Japanese, as if he were talking to another person through a headset.
"Sixty million dollars, twenty-five thousand contribution points, and Napoleon VII's life, which one do you choose?" a muffled voice came from the other side of the headset.
"The former, of course..... Although I also want Napoleon VII's life, it is less risky and more rewarding than the former....." The man smiled, revealing two neat rows of large white teeth, and the two canine teeth on the left and right were as sharp as a wolfdog.
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A blonde man in a denim jacket snapped several pictures of Napoleon VII walking into the train station with his camera, then immediately uploaded them to a computer resting on his lap and sent them out.
Soon his MSN received a text message in English: "Only Napoleon VII alone?"
"Yes, and his retinue..... None of the other members of the Rosicrucian Society appeared. β
"Keep following, it must be more than Napoleon VII, contact ..... as soon as there is news"
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As the clock in the hall rotated to 1:30, the loudspeaker sounded the message that K20 was about to depart, and the staff in railway uniforms opened the iron door to start checking tickets, and countless people stood up from their seats and prepared for progress.
The staff in railway uniforms looked at the black crowd and said to their colleagues standing across from them, "What's going on with this K20? It is said that there are three more carriages?"
On the other side, the fat woman with a ponytail holding a punch card shrugged her shoulders, "Who knows? I only know that Vanya has made a lot of money this time, and a first-class ticket has been sold for five times the sky-high price, costing more than 300,000 rubles.... I don't know what this group thinks....."
"Tomorrow's 240 is also not cheap, by the way, can you get tomorrow's ticket? First class or first class..... I have someone here who charges a high price. β
"I also want to ask you ..... this sentence"
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Cheng Mo and Xie Minyun dragged the boxes into the hall of the Yaroslav railway station, the huge brass chandelier and the arc dome showed a strong Soviet and Russian style, the light was not particularly bright, the dim like a sunset scene, there were not many chairs in the hall, only a few benches for passengers to rest, most of them were standing, and there were already two long queues waiting to get on the train at the ticket gate, which was extremely crowded.
"You two must pay attention to guarding against thieves, there are a lot of thieves on the train, and they steal from us Huaxia people, some of them don't even bother to steal, if the carriage door is open, come up and rob it, and run away if you rob it, don't you want to find them." There are even those who blow drugs in the middle of the night, and then break through the door, only to find that the awakened person has been knocked unconscious with a stick. So keep in mind that in addition to inserting two deadbolts in the box, you also have to use iron wire to strengthen the guard. In addition, you must tip the conductor when you get on the train, 40 roubles per person, don't give too much, it is dangerous to give too much, buy the conductor's coffee a few more times, so that it is relatively safe......" Li Jiting said babblingly.
"Got it, Uncle Li!" Xie Minyun responded.
"Cheng Mo, Xiaojin's safety will be handed over to you. Li Jiting patted Cheng Mo's shoulder and smiled.
"I'll give it to him, I'll protect her....." Xie Minyun interjected dissatisfiedly.
"Don't leave it to me, I can't afford such a heavy responsibility. Cheng Mo glanced at Li Jiting, and said nonchalantly, if something happens, he can't take the blame for Li Jiting, even if it's an ideological pot.
Xie Minyun looked at Cheng Mo and sneered, "After learning a little deduction, he really thinks of himself as Sherlock Holmes! What does your little body guarantee?" Then she turned to Li Jiting and said, "You must not be his ..... of expectation."
"Okay, okay, you guys hurry up and get on the bus!" Li Jiting pushed Cheng Mo and Xie Minyun to the queue for ticket checking, and when the two stood at the end of the line, Li Jiting winked at Cheng Mo and said, "Cheng Mo, don't forget the safety measures I prepared for you.... If something happens, don't forget to use security measures to prevent death..."
Before Li Jiting's words fell, Xie Minyun, who misunderstood Li Jiting's meaning, was furious and kicked Li Jiting, "Uncle Li, how can you be so nasty...."
Xie Minyun's speed of kicking people naturally couldn't be compared with Wodanova, so Li Jiting easily took a step back, and then avoided it, looking at the angry Xie Minyun, "Xiaojin, don't get me wrong, I have good intentions, and it's also for the sake of the two of you!"
"You're ..... I don't want to see you again!" Xie Minyun said angrily.
"No, you will definitely be grateful to me...."Li Jiting waved his hand at Xie Minyun, then turned around and walked towards the gate.
Xie Minyun gritted his teeth, and wanted to catch up and kick this disrespectful middle-aged man, but Cheng Mo grabbed his arm, "The team has moved forward a long way, let's hurry up and check in and enter the station!"