Rebel Demon King

Chapter 270 Death Train (8)

(Originally I just planned to sleep for a while, but I slept until noon, sorry! The first update, 21 words, three-in-one update, one update made up for yesterday, one update, one update normal, owed [-], and will return at night There is a larger chapter to make up for the insufficient number of words)
August 8, 2:11 a.m.

K20 is still about four hours’ drive away from Yekaterinburg at the foot of the Ural Mountains. Although Cheng Mo is the type of person who is calm in every big event, and his heart disease prevents him from fluctuating too much, this time is different, and Compared with those "big things" in the past, such as being ridiculed by Shen Mengjie, being beaten up by Sun Dayong and the others, compared with Du Leng's secret warfare, and even plotting against Bai Xiuxiu, the things he is about to face now can be truly called big things. It is so difficult for him to see the whole picture with his imagination.

Therefore, even if he was as calm as Cheng Mo, he could not really be as immobile as a mountain. At this moment, he was a little nervous and couldn't calm down and read a book.

"Are you worried?" Xie Minyun stared at her Russian version of "Athens and Jerusalem" and said expressionlessly.

"Eh?" Cheng Mo looked away from the e-book that hadn't been turned for a long time, raised his head and looked at Xie Minyun opposite him with unclear eyes. The green birch forest outside the car window was passing by quickly, as if being caught Fast forward the waves.

"You don't usually read like this. I can see a kind of tranquility and concentration from your expression. You made a lot of small movements this morning, and your brows were frowning very tightly. You can't read calmly. So, you have something on your mind."

Xie Minyun still didn't look up, as if he was doing two things at once, talking to Cheng Mo while reading a book.

"Maybe. The long journey made me feel a little tired." Cheng Mo put down the e-book, turned his head and looked out of the window, behind the rapidly receding green waves were mountains and mountains, and a round of rain-washed sun, bright and bright dazzling.

Xie Minyun closed the book in his hand and put it on the small table. Cheng Mo turned his head and saw the crude cover, on which there was nothing but a line of red Russian "Athens and Jerusalem".

People who like Nietzsche, a lunatic, will probably read this book, because when criticizing rational philosophy from Socrates to Kant, Shestov once said: The only exception is Friedrich Nietzsche. "

Cheng Mo has also seen it. Simply put, 'Athens and Jerusalem' discusses the confrontation between philosophy and faith.To be more clear, Athens represents the rational spirit (science), and Jerusalem represents faith (religion). The two care about the foundation of human civilization, but it is a pity that the atheism education that Chinese people have received since childhood makes no one seriously think about this issue. .

In fact, if you think about it carefully, this is indeed a question worth looking into.Because even the most rigorous mathematics must have axioms that cannot be proven and require unconditional confidence, otherwise everything falls apart.So for human civilization, should we believe in faith, or believe in reason?
It seems that in the 21st century, especially in China, this is a no-brainer, because Confucianism and Taoism never go back to the source, they just respond to what happened before.This is a typical Chinese-style wisdom. As a Confucianist, they almost gave up the legitimacy and sanctity of asking about the source of power, but as long as you get power, you have legitimacy and sanctity.

Therefore, science and rationality cannot be doubted in China, and Cheng Mo once believed that only rationality and science are the only correct way to pursue truth.But looking back now, what kind of truth are humans pursuing?Is the truth pursued by reason really correct?Will there be any disadvantages in pursuing the truth only with reason?

It seems that human beings lack faith and think that they are omnipotent, which is also an extremely terrible thing.

Even if the productive forces are developed enough to liberate all human beings, human beings may still not be able to solve their own problems.

Evil will not be eradicated, it will always be there.

Speculation about "Athens and Jerusalem" flashed in Cheng Mo's mind, but Xie Minyun had no intention of discussing the content of this book with him, and Cheng Mo had no intention of chatting with him, so it is meaningless to say these things at this moment.

"Let's go to the dining car to eat!" Xie Minyun moved his body to the other side of the sofa, put on his shoes, and offered to take the initiative, naturally to gain the initiative.

Cheng Mo glanced at the time, said "Oh", and went to change his shoes, put them on, and when he got up, Cheng Mo said again: "Take your valuables, documents, mobile phones, jewelry and so on!"

Xie Minyun nodded, sorted out her belongings a little, then put her blue lady bag on her back, and then the two walked out of the room one after the other, Cheng Mo walked behind and locked the door, and walked towards the rear of the train with Xie Minyun The dining car goes.

When passing by the No. 18 carriage, Xie Minyun naturally also saw the bright and eye-catching Napoleon family crest, so she turned her head to look at Cheng Mo.

Cheng Mo knew that there was a carrier inside that might be listening, so he put his index finger to his mouth and made a silent gesture. Xie Minyun frowned, didn't speak, and continued to walk forward.

When the two entered the dining car, Cheng Mo saw the American family at first sight. Little Lolita Rebecca was sitting on a chair, her chin bared out of the table, eating baked potatoes and mushrooms with a spoon. There was a lot of yellow cheese, apparently she also saw Cheng Mo, grabbed her mother's sleeve, and pointed at Cheng Mo.

Rebecca's father, Evans, naturally also saw his daughter's actions, turned around and saw Cheng Mo and Xie Minyun, and said enthusiastically, "Hey! Cheng!"

When Evans greeted Cheng Mo, everyone in the car was looking at him. In fact, they were looking at Xie Minyun more. For these foreigners, such a beautiful Asian girl is really rare, and it is normal to look more often.

"Good afternoon, Mr. Evans, Mrs. Evans, Rebecca, good afternoon!"

Mrs. Evans, Grace smiled and waved to Cheng Mo.

"Cheng, good afternoon." Little Loli said loudly to Cheng Mo while holding a spoon.

"Just sit on our side! There are still vacancies here." Evans pointed to the seat directly opposite him, behind Rebecca and Grace.

Cheng Mo hesitated for a moment, but Xie Minyun led Cheng Mo to the empty seat, Cheng Mo could only keep up, and when he passed Evans, he blinked at Cheng Mo, "It seems that you Had a great evening, and yesterday we were talking about how you seemed a little lonely, and it doesn't appear to be the case."

"Facts are not necessarily facts, and eyes can sometimes deceive people." Cheng Mo responded ambiguously, and then sat next to Xie Minyun, not across from him.

"Why don't you sit across from me?" Xie Minyun glanced at Cheng Mo and whispered in Chinese.

"It's an unspoken rule to sit like this in the dining car, so that other people can share tables."

"You've just"

Cheng Mo knew what Xie Minyun was going to ask, so he interrupted her immediately, pushed the menu on the dining table in front of Xie Minyun and said, "We'll talk about this matter when we get back to the carriage, so let's see what to order first."

Xie Minyun frowned again, Cheng Mo was a little distracted all morning, and he didn't even mention a word when he saw the Napoleon family's coat of arms, something was really not quite right.

At this time, Cheng Mo felt someone patting him on the shoulder, and when he turned around, he saw Rebecca kneeling on the chair, the cheese on the corner of her mouth had been wiped off, and she whispered in Cheng Mo's ear, "The sister next to you is so beautiful. !"

Cheng Mo didn't know how to answer, so he tapped Xie Minyun's arm with his finger and said in Chinese, "Hello! Others praise you for being beautiful."

Xie Minyun turned to look at Rebecca's chubby face, smiled and said, "Thank you, you are beautiful too!"

Rebecca was stared at by the unbelievably beautiful young lady, and she immediately felt shy. She blushed and turned to grab her mother's arm. Mrs. Evans put her arms around Rebecca and looked back at Xie Minyun with a smile and said, "Good afternoon!"

"This is Mrs. Evans, and this is Xie Minyun! We sat together at dinner yesterday." Cheng Mo introduced.

"Good afternoon! Mrs. Evans."

"Xie Minyun! It's a very complicated name, which makes people feel profound. Are you from China, like Cheng?" Mrs. Evans repeated the pronunciation of the name "Xie Minyun" and said.

Xie Minyun nodded, "Of course."

"You are the most beautiful Chinese girl I have ever seen. You should be a star in China, right?"

"I'm just a student."

Mrs. Evans sighed: "A girl like you would definitely be a cheerleader in our school in America!"

Rebecca buried her head in Mrs. Evans' arms, secretly looked at Xie Minyun with one eye, and asked her mother in a low voice, "Mom, does Cheng and this sister like each other? Can they play kiss? "

In the eyes of Mrs. Evans, the two of them had gone on a long-distance trip together and lived in a private room for two, so they were naturally lovers, so she lowered her head and grabbed Rebecca's little hand and said, "Yes, Rebecca, only like them People who like each other can kiss like this.”

"No, no, I think you misunderstood the relationship between me and Cheng." Xie Minyun was a little embarrassed, and quickly explained.

"Ah! Then you???" Mrs. Evans raised her head and looked at Xie Minyun in surprise.

At this moment, Xie Minyun remembered the "indirect kiss" with Cheng Mo yesterday, and his mind was a little confused. He blushed and said, "We. Yes."

Seeing that Xie Minyun seemed a little embarrassed because he was considered to be a couple, Cheng Mo turned his head and said lightly: "We are siblings!"

Xie Minyun forced a smile, and echoed: "Yes! Brother and sister!"

Mrs. Evans said quickly: "That's really embarrassing, I thought you were a couple!"

"It's okay." Xie Minyun said.

Little Loli raised her head and asked her mother, "Then is it true that elder sister can't kiss younger brother? If you give birth to a younger brother in the future, can I kiss him?"

Mrs. Evans didn't know how to explain this question, so she could only say: "Rebecca, you have to finish your own food first, and you can't disturb others to eat."

Then Mrs. Evans said to Xie Minyun and Cheng Mo: "Sorry to bother you"

Xie Minyun said "it's okay" again, then turned back to continue looking at the menu, and said in Chinese through gritted teeth while looking at the menu: "Sister and brother? Do I look older than you?"

"Ah? I mean senior sister and junior. I just omitted the word "xue" Cheng Mo didn't expect that Xie Minyun would care about age, which she shouldn't care about. Besides, to be honest, Xie Minyun does appear to be more mature. This It has nothing to do with appearance, but with height and chest, and he has a baby face and is thin, so he and Xie Minyun are very incompatible in appearance.
"Insincere, you look honest, reliable and taciturn on the surface, but in fact you are an old, cunning and hypocrite. It's in vain that your father gave you such a good name!" Xie Minyun sneered.

Cheng Mo was quite speechless. He didn't know where he hit Xie Minyun's pain point. He whispered, "Your grandpa still wants you to be broad-minded? But why do you like revenge so much?"

"Why don't I have a broad mind?" Xie Minyun gave Cheng Mo a hard look.

Cheng Mo turned his head and saw Xie Minyun's tall and straight hunk, so he didn't speak, but immediately turned his head back, staring at the back of the person sitting in front of him.

Xie Minyun naturally also noticed where Cheng Mo's eyes fell just now, and said angrily: "Rogue!"

Cheng Mo said helplessly, "What's wrong with me?"

Xie Minyun bit her lip, "What were you looking at just now?"

Cheng Mo said lightly: "The Buddha said that mountains are mountains and water is water. I just observe truthfully according to the Buddha's law, and what I see is what I see. I don't think too much, and I don't think too little. So, Donor, you are thinking too much!"

"Slick tone, it seems that you really learned badly from that unreliable master." Xie Minyun said coldly.

"What do you want to eat?" Cheng Mo knew that he couldn't continue talking about this matter, so he looked at the menu and asked.

Xie Minyun was taken aback for a moment, then focused on looking at the menu
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When the Evans couple left the dining car with Rebecca, they said goodbye to Cheng Mo and Xie Minyun. When they left, Rebecca gave candy to Cheng Mo and Xie Minyun, but she quietly gave Xie Minyun one more. To be beautiful is to be pleasing.

Cheng Mo looked at the candy in his hand, feeling a war between heaven and man, and struggled for a while, then turned around and called to the Evans couple who were about to leave, and asked, "Mr. Evans, I like this kind of candy very much. Can I Would you like to trade Rebecca for another snack?"

Such a request surprised the Evans and his wife. They glanced at each other, but Evans still smiled and said: "No need to change, you can take it from compartments 9-9 of compartment 12 later. Rebecca likes it very much." Eat candy, so we brought a lot."

The corner of Cheng Mo's mouth curled up, "Thank you so much."

"You're welcome!" Evans turned and left the dining car, leading Rebecca and Mrs. Evans.

Next, Xie Minyun didn't talk to Cheng Mo, the two ate the rough Russian food in silence, and then returned to their own room.

After closing the door, Xie Minyun didn't sit down immediately, but looked at Cheng Mo coldly, "Tell me, what's going on with me? Why did you tell me not to talk when I saw the Napoleon family's coat of arms?"

Cheng Mo squeezed past Xie Minyun, sat down on his sofa, took off his shoes and said softly, "I think you'd better get off in Yekaterinburg."

"What do you mean?" Xie Minyun frowned and asked.

"literal meaning."

"Cheng Mo, you'd better make it clear."

"I think it's dangerous, so it's just in case." Cheng Mo said lightly.

"Dangerous? Did you really discover the spy?" Xie Minyun asked suspiciously.

"Some doubts!" ​​Cheng Mo said expressionlessly.

Cheng Mo just went out for dinner yesterday, will there be something to gain?How is it possible, Xie Minyun didn't really believe it, "You won't be so cautious just because of Uncle Li's 'spy' casually? I can tell you that you definitely think too much, and it is impossible to leave this matter to you! Besides, even if So what if there are spies? Shouldn’t we inform Uncle Li to arrest him?”

"The situation is not as simple as you think."

"It has something to do with the Napoleon family?" Xie Minyun asked.

Cheng Mo sighed: "I can't explain this matter for a while."

"I have more time to listen to you to make it clear. If you don't make it clear, then please get off in Yekaterinburg, and I will get off when you get off." Xie Minyun said firmly.

Cheng Mo didn't speak, his mood was a bit complicated, he took out some snacks suitable for children from the large bag of snacks that Xie Minyun put in a plastic bag, and found another plastic bag to pack, "I'll go and see Look at the Mr. Evans family."

"I'll go too." Xie Minyun bit her lip and thought, "Could it be something wrong with this family? But they look normal!"

Cheng Mo didn't stop him, and went with Xie Minyun to the No. 9 car where the Evans family lived. When they got to the boxes 9-12, they saw the door of the box was open. At this time, Evans was teaching the little girl to speak English tongue twisters. , the immature childish voice of little loli rang in the carriage, "any noise annoy an oyster, but a noisy noise annoy an oyster more."

Seeing that Cheng Mo and Xie Minyun really came, Mr. Evans and Mrs. Evans immediately stood up politely from the bed, greeted them politely, and invited them to come in and sit down, but they were not in the room. So enthusiastic when the dining car met.

Cheng Mo glanced at the carriage, the facilities were not as good as the first-class carriage, there were still two bunk beds, so the carriage seemed even more cramped. At this time, there was a woman lying on the side on the top bunk, who should be sleeping.

Cheng Mo didn't look too much, and didn't immediately talk about exchanging candies. He and Xie Minyun sat on the bed opposite the family. This should be Evans' bed, and there was Mr. Evans' coat on it, and Cheng Mo didn't either. Going around in circles, he said as he had planned a long time ago: "Mr. Evans, Mrs. Evans, are you planning to go directly to the capital?"

"Of course!" Mr. Evans smiled unnaturally. In fact, he had heard that drug dealers used ordinary tourists to transport drugs on this railway. They would start with getting close first, and then ask you to help you bring something to pass the customs or secretly stuff it in. In your bag, although these young people don't look like bad guys, how can this kind of thing be good?
"In fact, Yekaterinburg is also worth seeing. Not only the Church on Spilled Blood, but also the Eurasian dividing line and the Sevastyanov Palace. It is a rare tourist attraction. Don't you plan to see more?"

Seeing that Cheng Mo actually wanted the American family to get off in Yekaterinburg, Xie Minyun was even more puzzled.

"No! The tickets have already been booked! It's a waste to get off the bus." Mr. Evans shook his head and said without hesitation, and Cheng Mo's sudden words were really suspicious.

Cheng Mo looked at the little loli who was concentrating on playing with toys, and whispered: "Mr. Evans, this car is actually not normal. I saw a lot of gangsters. It seems that they are planning something. If you don't believe me, go and have a look." At the junction of carriages No. [-] and No. [-], are there two men with daggers tattooed on their shoulders? They belong to the extremely dangerous members of the Wild Wolf Gang."

Mr. Evans turned his head and glanced at his wife, shrugged his shoulders at Cheng Mo, and said with a smile: "Cheng, thank you for your reminder, but we believe that the Russian Railways are not that dangerous. Because their boss is in boxes 1-4, and just now there was a patrolman leading a wolf dog, everything is normal, and gangsters will not do bad things for no reason."

Cheng Mo knew that it was basically difficult for him to convince this family, and it was meaningless to sit longer, he sighed in his heart, "If this is the case, then I won't bother you." After finishing speaking, he put some Russian chocolates, fruit candies and A white plastic bag with a can of caviar was handed to the little loli who was playing with toys, "Rebecca, this is a return gift from my brother, thank you for the candy."

Rebecca didn't answer, but turned to look at Mrs. Evans. Mrs. Evans put her arm around Rebecca's shoulder and said with a smile, "Say thank you to brother."

Only then did the little Lolita obediently accept the plastic bag, and said "Thank you" sweetly.

Cheng Mo stood up from the bed and said, "Then we will leave."

Apart from greeting the Evans family, Xie Minyun, who didn't say a word, also stood up with Cheng Mo.

Mrs. Evans said: "Wait a minute." She got up and dragged out a box from under the bed, opened a crack, and handed Cheng Mo a pack of unopened De Linon Toffee, "This is your Wanted candy."

Cheng Mo also said "thank you", and said goodbye to the Evans couple and little Lolita, and then left the 9-12 box.

The sliding door of the carriage was closed, and Cheng Mo could imagine that the Evans couple had doubts about him. If it was him, he would have doubts too. He never believed that it is good to have no reason. If it was him, he would throw away even the pack of snacks. will not eat.

"Will something really happen?" Xie Minyun asked in a low voice after following Cheng Mo.

"I don't know!" Cheng Mo's self-deprecating response was not like a response, but more like a whisper. He lowered his head and walked forward in the long and narrow corridor. Maybe life is like this, only giving you such a wide road. You have no choice, you don't even have the right to retreat, you think it will be meaningful if you look back, but it's not, because the train of fate is always dragging you forward.

Your retreat is pointless.

Although Cheng Mo could clearly feel the sun shining on him, he didn't feel warm at all.

He is not a god, and he doesn't know what will happen in the future. He can't prevent possible tragedies.

The sunlight outside the car window is very dazzling, and the same scenery does not change much. The magnificent coniferous forest and birch trees will get boring after a long time.

Two hours to Yekaterinburg.

(End of this chapter)