Amorous Short Stories

I haven't forgotten anything, but some things are only suitable for collection. I can't say or think about them, but I can't forget them either. —— Shi Tiesheng

Tao Yisu’s first mission stayed in Yemen for a long time, and they didn’t go back after the civil war ended in July. Some side missions took some time, and they didn’t go back until the end of September.

During the two or three months when there was nothing serious, everyone was very bored, no drinking was allowed here, and the brothel originally established for foreigners' entertainment was also wiped out in the bombing of the southern department.Normally, people in the team would sit together and express their views on the fighting situation to each other. They were not convinced. Tao Yisu did not participate in this kind of discussion.The relationship between Tao Yisu and the members of the team gradually improved. At least the others no longer deliberately alienated him. It wasn't because of Tao Yisu's efforts, but it was easy to breed friendship in this environment.The only pastime is fighting, and Tao Yisu's stage goal is to win all the people in the team.This goal has not been realized until they left. In the qualifying competition, the rabbit should be the most powerful. Tao Yisu barely ranked fifth or sixth, because he is not as tall as the Caucasian, and Xun Min is not as good as the old slider. The only advantage is that he is young, and he is not tired, and he can hardly stand up until he can't stand up, and he can hardly say that he is going to end.Every time at this time, the people in the team looked at him and thought, this kid has been holding back for a long time, and he is really energetic in adolescence.

After returning to South Africa, Tao Yisu made the calculations. It took almost half a year to complete this one. When the three tasks were completed, he didn't know how many years would pass.

Tao Yisu sleeps five hours a day, and spends almost all the rest of the time training. He starts to grow taller, and slowly grows to 1.8 meters. His thin body bulges out his muscles. He drinks and smokes. Some people in the camp even celebrate his 20 On his birthday, he was invited to the red light district at night.

The red light district they went to was the second "stronghold" in the team. It had no name and no one stood on the street. It only survived by word of mouth accumulated by customers.The one who dragged him away was Pudding, a Turk, 25 years old, 13 years of smoking experience, plus he didn't like to brush his teeth, his teeth were half yellow, and his mouth had a certain nasal taste. Tao Yisu also decided after seeing him that he would definitely To smoke expensive cigarettes.

Tao Yisu didn't know if all the red-light districts were full of red lights, but this one definitely was.The aisle is still the lobby, full of small red lights, the aisle is extremely narrow, and Pudding just walked through with his arms around his shoulders.The rooms at both ends of the corridor are not doors, but curtains with strands of beads. If you look closely, you can definitely see what is going on inside.Tao Yisu didn't look inside, the rising and falling voices probably explained it.They walked to the fork, Pudding pointed to the aisle on the right, and patted Tao Yisu on the shoulder: "Listen brother, if you want to go over there, go there, I won't tell anyone."

Tao Yisu guessed, looked to the right, maybe he looked for a long time, Pudding took his hand away from his shoulder.

Tao Yisu turned his head, "Let's go to the left." After speaking, he stepped to the left, and Pudding followed with a smile.

After walking a few steps, a woman came out to hold the pudding, and the other woman next to her immediately understood and grabbed Tao Yisu's lapel. Tao Yisu was pulled away, pushed into a room, bumped into a curtain, and fell to the ground before his eyes could react. On the sofa, I turned around and sat down, and saw the woman throwing off her blouse and walking over shaking.Tao Yisu sat back, his hands were covered with sweat, and when the woman's chest touched his chest, Tao Yisu said the first sentence: "Hi, nice to meet you, what's your name?"

Tao Yisu actually didn't know why he said this, he just instinctively, the woman was in his ear, probably smiled, got off him, squatted down, and unbuttoned his pants, Tao Yisu was still hesitating whether to stop him, suddenly Wrapped in warmth and humidity, my brain tightened, and I forgot to do anything.

It's fast, it's the first time after all.Tao Yisu watched the woman rinse her mouth, her face was very red.The woman walked back, bent down and began to take off her panties, a small piece of lace black cloth fell on the ground.

Tao Yisu stood up: "That...that... that's fine." After speaking, he escaped.

Tao Yisu sat in the lobby waiting for the pudding, watching the people coming and going, among men, those who scolded women, those who were scolded by women, those who fell to the ground drunk, those who yelled and smashed things, among women, gathered together to smoke and laugh, passed by drunk people The man spit, and the one who smashed things didn't even look at it.Everyone is busy, and everyone is not connected.

Tao Yisu waited for two hours before Pudding and his good friend came out like conjoined twins. Pudding also drank a lot of wine and had tongue-to-mouth contact with his good friend for a while before he walked out unsteadily, calling Tao Yisu, ready to go back.

Pudding went out the door, and fell flat on the ground within a few steps.

Tao Yisu sighed behind him, picked him up on his back, and walked back.

When the road crossed an alley, there was a collapsed drunk man, short of breath, struggling on the ground in pain.Tao Yisu hurriedly put down the pudding and went over to look. Probably something was stuck in his throat. Tao Yisu walked around behind him and hugged him, squeezing his abdomen. The man spewed out a ball of mucus with a hard object in the middle. Tao Yisu hadn't looked carefully yet. , the drunk man held the dangling knife over, asking for money.Tao Yisu glanced at him, unable to stand still.Tao Yisu bypassed him, picked up the pudding, and started on the road again. The man was still robbing the telephone pole.

Pudding was talking vaguely on his back, while Tao Yisu was walking slowly with the man smelling of alcohol on his back, the pudding was still very heavy.Pudding muttered, snot and tears rubbed against Tao Yisu's shoulders, Tao Yisu sighed heavily, and really didn't want to care about this person anymore.But he still thinks about it. After all, the stars were close and bright that night, shining unknowingly above his head. A lonely star from a distant light year folded its light and offered it to the night. This is a good thing. Today is a good time. Interested to see.

This night was a gift of fate.

So, at least for this night, Tao Yisu was still Tao Yisu.

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Tao Yisu’s second mission was nothing special. He listened to more war fighters’ thoughts on war. They have different thoughts on war, and they all hold their own opinions about the various forces. They often quarrel when they speak differently. , When they quarrel, they want to fight, which is why they often chat in bars, because the bartender will stop them, otherwise it seems that it is not worthwhile to fight.Tao Yisu, who was nervous at the beginning when he saw people arguing, gradually got used to it. They quarrel with each other. Tao Yisu's stage goal is to taste all the wines on the wine list.

In fact, the first time Tao Yisu shot and killed was also on the second mission, but it happened too quickly. The unarmed Arab ran towards him holding a flag and screaming. Tao Yisu could choose to hurt his leg, but Tao Yisu panicked. Yes, he was very flustered, so he aimed at the head.Afterwards, Salim proudly boasted about his good marksmanship.

Tao Yisu deliberately didn't think about it, but fell into a long-term dizziness, a light would suddenly flicker in front of his eyes, he could clearly hear people talking, but it seemed that it took him a long time to react.If Tao Yisu had the opportunity to contact a psychiatrist, they would definitely make him wary of this state.But he didn't stand a chance.Tao Yisu was a little nervous, he was afraid of being discovered, but in fact no one noticed his change.Tao Yisu didn't ask anyone for help, waiting for himself to get better, dizziness began to appear intermittently, generally speaking, as long as his surroundings became quiet, Tao Yisu would fall into dizziness.After two months, the dizziness disappeared, Tao Yisu felt that he had changed, he was no longer flustered, and he was no longer cautious. What other people said was innocuous to him, and any outside news could cause some waves to him.He thought maybe he was getting better.

Except that he often has nightmares at night and wakes up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night.

But it doesn't matter, wake up to smoke a cigarette, take a shower, and go back to sleep for an hour or two.

Tao Yisu and Yan Meng gradually became acquainted, and he often saw Yan Meng between missions. If Yan Meng was not busy, he would stay nearby for a while, eating and drinking with Tao Yisu.Tao Yisu found that Yan Meng's hair became shorter every time, his skin became darker and darker, and his fingernails were cut so short that they almost sank into the flesh.

This time I went to the bar to see Yan Meng, and the back image showed a thin man.

Tao Yisu sat down next to her, and was surprised to find the bandage on Yan Meng's face.

"what happened?"

"Oh, bomb fragments." Yan Meng handed over the wine and smiled nonchalantly, "Look at this." Yan Meng took out her camera and showed it to Tao Yisu with great interest.

Tao Yisu thought it was a picture of impoverished children and a wasteland of war, but no, it was a picture of some flying birds and rhinos. In one of them, a butterfly landed on the horn of the cow. From the angle of the photo, the cow turned its head and seemed to be smiling at the butterfly.Tao Yisu laughed. He flipped through it carefully, took a sip of the wine, and returned it to her, teasingly: "So you are determined to go to Africa to take pictures of the scenery?"

Yan Meng shook his head and took it over: "The ones I showed you are all good, you have seen the wound and the gun."

Tao Yisu's throat was astringent, almost moved.

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Yan Meng joined a youth charity organization, and most of them are concerned about African issues like her, hoping to draw people's attention to the issue of war.But while doing this, Yan Meng became suspicious.Not to mention that the crops of young volunteers who come to Africa will not even leave Tshwane, just to write a beautiful university application, and they will never come again after staying for one or two vacations.Others who are determined to devote themselves to peace, most of them are oriented to Western countries, what they are doing here is to show the current situation here to Western countries, expect them to react, expect them to do something, and maybe raise some funds , maybe donate some medicines, and then submit them to the governments of some African countries. So far, it is a great merit.It's not that Yan Meng thinks it's bad, it's just that she gradually realizes that the problems here can't be solved, which is a bit disillusioned for her, and it's hard for her to choose to be like other people in the organization and do something like this to make herself feel better. Like a hero, she was rather confused.Around this time, she made another group of people. These people are generally older and come from all over the world. Like her, they have no desire to "save the world". Some of them grew up in this land, and some of them lived in this land. Lost important things, for various reasons, choose to stay, do not engage in any political struggle, doctors treat diseases, teachers teach, they are doing very simple things in the local barren mountain villages, in simple classrooms .Yan Meng joined the action of advocating non-governmental mutual aid, but did not completely belong to a certain organization.When she met Tao Yisu this time, her team was promoting a water conservancy and energy company in the United States to donate water pumps and build pipelines to a small town in Namibia.

Yan Meng is such a person.When she went to Chicago to visit the "Lvyuan" company, she saw Tao Yisu mourning all day long, so she wanted to take him with her.After talking in the high-end business building, I went to a county in Wauchigen to see the equipment.They ate at Burger King and lived in remote and cheap motels, because round-trip air tickets were very expensive. Tao Yisu had just started working and had little money, and Yan Meng was a public welfare activist with little money.They were eating at nine o'clock one morning, and a few young people came to raise money, saying that there was a boy in the local area who had bone marrow or blood disease. Tao Yisu actually didn't understand what they were talking about. accent.But Yan Meng understood. Not only did she understand, but she was also quite moved. She asked Tao Yisu to eat first, and she lobbied in restaurants with those people, and finally went to college and church together.Tao Yisu also followed, seeing that Yan Meng was very active in helping, and even discussed with the university's orchestra to hold a small concert to raise funds.She wasn't just talking, Yan Meng and those people had been busy all day since 09 o'clock in the noon, broadcasting and running around the city with banners posted on the car, and the performance was really played at 30:[-] in the evening meeting.Immediately afterwards, Yan Meng went to see the sick little boy with them, and said that he could ask for any help before he left.Tao Yisu just followed, the two of them returned to the hotel after twelve o'clock in the evening, Yan Meng said that she was hungry, Tao Yisu handed over the hamburger and Fanta that Yan Meng had carried for a day, watching Yan Meng take it, he felt embarrassed and couldn't eat it up.

But Yan Meng didn't mind, she just said, "Thank you."

Tao Yisu nodded embarrassingly.

They went to Chicago to fly, and it was still early to wander around the square.There was a group of people parading. The leader was an old white man with a long white beard, wearing a gray suit and carrying a cross.Whitebeard passed them both and handed them a flyer: "Good people, join us, God hates homosexuality." Yan Meng didn't answer, turned around and said, "Then go to his God." The old white man stared at him in disgust Looking at them, Tao Yisu thought it was quite funny, because his eyes were very round and wide apart, and he looked very much like a bird in a cartoon. If he could smoke from the top of his head and ears, he would be even more similar.

Tao Yisu listened to what Yan Meng said about her knowledge and ideas, which was a completely different world from the mercenaries, with different perspectives and different ideas. Tao Yisu began to lean towards this kind of thinking, because in his opinion, Yan Meng's worldview and ideas were more Full of humanistic care and more active, Tao Yisu feels that this is a great power, and he is full of awe of Yan Meng, who is two years older.And he found that although Yan Meng knew what happened to Yan Wu, he didn't know Tao Yisu's origin, thinking that he was a person who was going to join the mercenary army like everyone else.

Tao Yisu in Yan Meng's eyes is a frightened child, like a panicked hamster, nervous and fearful, silent and depressed.So Yan Meng wants to help him.That's all.

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"So that water conservancy, how long will it take to build?" Tao Yisu began to order the third glass of wine.

Yan Meng shook her head: "It's hard to say, it will take about two years at the earliest. Which one do you recommend?" She is also preparing for the next round.

Tao Yisu handed over the wine list and recommended a very bitter wine. "Where was the rhino filmed?"

"Côte d'Ivoire." Yan Meng looked up at him with a smile, "Do you like those photos?"

Tao Yisu agreed.

"I have a friend who traveled in Africa for a long time, and the photos he took are amazing. Next time it will be held in South Africa, I will take you to see it?" Yan Meng suggested.

Tao Yisu swallowed, and originally wanted to say, 'Is it possible', but bit the tip of his tongue and changed it: "Let's talk about it."

Yan Meng smiled softly and said nothing.

Tao Yisu's mood suddenly improved because of the photography exhibition and because of Yan Meng.For the first time, he felt that he was here, not alone.

A smile slowly climbed onto Tao Yisu's face, but it didn't last for a few seconds, and he froze when Tao Yisu turned his face and saw the newspaper next door.The person next door was reading the sports section of the newspaper, and there was a small photo spread out on Tao Yisu's side, and Tao Yisu recognized it at a glance.It was the drunk he and Pudding met the night before when they returned from the red-light district.Tao Yisu turned over there, trying to read the report, which said that this man robbed a convenience store and killed two people in the middle of the night before yesterday.One is a 17-year-old trainee clerk, male, who is studying medicine at university in Cape Town. He has just received a scholarship and will go to JHU for exchange next semester.The other is a 15-year-old girl, a middle school student, whose family conditions are relatively poor, and her parents both go to work at night. That night, she was alone at home to take care of her crying brother. Because the brother wanted potato chips, she went to a convenience store to buy them.

The man next door found Tao Yisu who was looking sideways, pulled away the newspaper, and looked at him with disgust: "Go and buy one yourself."

Tao Yisu had the final say, that is, three or four hours after he rescued the drunk man.

Yan Meng noticed Tao Yisu's abnormality, took the handed wine, and pushed him a glass: "What's wrong?"

Tao Yisu could hear Yan Meng's words from a distance, and he felt dizzy.He could hear himself screaming somewhere in his head, at the top of his lungs.

But he just sat there dumbfounded.

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In Tao Yisu's third mission, a teammate died.

At that time, his teammate was walking in front of him, and the surrounding was silent. He walked for more than 20 minutes without incident. When he was at the corner of the abandoned building, his teammate was in front of him. The second shot re-entered the head, spattering Tao Yisu's face with blood.He hadn't turned the corner yet, and he ducked back with his back arched and his back panting against the wall. The fallen corpse of his teammate could be seen in a blink of an eye.The second shot went through the eye, a big hole in the eye, dark red.Tao Yisu turned his face away, holding the gun, restraining himself to calm down.He counted the seconds, using the mirror reflection of the aluminum kettle to judge the number of people and identify the direction.Unload all the teammates' equipment, pull the teammate's corpse over as a block, count to stop the gunshots, throw the grenade, throw the smoke/fog bomb after the grenade is blown up, and rush in with the eyepiece on.In a puff of smoke, three people, three gunshots, the whole process took only a minute and a half.Tao Yisu stood in the rubble all over the ground, the smoke dispersed, and the surroundings returned to silence.

Salim was the happiest. He was a little annoyed when he found out that Tao Yisu could not be a good sniper. After all, a good sniper is very precious, but at least Tao Yisu is not useless, and he can still be considered excellent. .

While drinking at the bar, Tao Yisu, who was depressed because of the death of his teammate, still did not participate in the discussion. Salim sat next to him, patted him on the shoulder, drank his drink, and said with a big tongue: "Every day in this world, bad things happen. It happened, it just happened, don't pay too much attention to it..." Salim raised a finger and pointed to the ceiling, "A philosopher said that you don't know which is better if you live or die..."

Tao Yisu swallowed the wine: "Based on all considerations, it is best not to be born, and the second is to die as soon as possible."

Salim frowned and looked at him strangely: "What the hell are you talking about?"

"Sophocles."

Salim wrinkled his nose and shook his head: "I don't know who you're talking about and what he does, but you don't write poems, and you don't have money, so don't come here."

Tao Yisu didn't speak.

Salim looked at him, sighed, and softened his tone: "Boy, you are young and smart." Salim turned his head and looked at the noisy bar, full of noisy and quarreling alcoholics, "Life may not be what you want. The kind you want, but you will get used to it, after all, what kind of life you end up living is your own choice."

Tao Yisu looked up at him.

"I know you don't agree now," Salim took a sip of his wine, "take your time, what's the rush. You're in luck."

In all fairness, Salim treated him really well, and even though he found out that the leader of the Yan family was not very close to him, he still took good care of him.Salim has always regarded himself as Teacher Tao Yisu, after all, he brought it here himself.

After finishing the three missions, according to the agreement, Tao Yisu should be going home.

He was very nervous and started preparing after returning from the third mission.To be honest, he didn't even know what to prepare. He wanted to ask Nian Yao if he had found his parents' bodies back then, but Nian Yao couldn't get in touch.Tao Yisu decided to wait for Nian Yao's reply. He wanted to go to India first to see if he could find his parents' bodies.

At about this time, something happened to Pudding's good friend.

Pudding's good friend is a Soviet, who came here without a word, doing some skin business, and made pudding. We have been together for five years.Pudding once seriously told Tao Yisu that he wanted to marry her, and everyone burst into laughter. They said that Pudding was ugly, poor, and bad at marksmanship, so he couldn't marry a woman.

But Pudding got married right away.Since he was going to get married, his whole body has become clean and tidy, especially his teeth. He went to have his teeth cleaned, quit smoking, and carried chewing gum with him.

Tao Yisu was playing cards with a few people that day, and Pudding rushed in, saying that he could not find that person.But Pudding was too nervous, so they had no choice but to follow suit.

The boss in the yard was smoking a cigarette and said slowly that he hadn't seen her for a long time, saying that the bitch went to buy a pack of cigarettes and never came back, his money was wasted or something... Pudding listen to him Talking like this, I almost wanted to do it, but was stopped by others.Tao Yisu asked him, "Which convenience store?"

The boss stared at Pudding, not very angry: "The one out of the street."

When they went to the convenience store, the boss said he was going to close the store as soon as he saw them. The panic was too obvious, and they knew they were looking for the right place.They entered the convenience store, and six people surrounded the boss, asking him what he knew.The boss is also a dumbass, not very good at deceiving, he just knows how to say he doesn't know.

After a stalemate for a long time, several people wanted to make a move, but Tao Yisu stopped them.He pulled out, went to the back, took a stapler, and walked back while tearing open the package, stapled it in, pushed away the people in front, and looked at the boss seriously: "The last time, where is she? "

The boss stared: "I don't know."

Tao Yisu turned his face away and used a stapler to staple his ear cartilage. The boss struggled and shouted, but being held down, he shouted: "Basement! Basement!"

The boss worked for a local syndicate whose main business was loan sharking, and this woman was caught and used to force her brother to repay the debt, and apparently, her brother didn't care much.

Tao Yisu provided a full set of services, and he did not forget to help the boss take out the nails and add medicine.Pudding's good friends are fine, they don't plan to do anything to the boss, after all, we all work for people.But the boss kept scolding very hard.

"Do you know what will happen to you if you let them know?" The boss bared his teeth viciously, spit and spittle flying, "You are dead, you! You are dead!"

Tao Yisu wiped the wound with a cotton swab dipped in alcohol, the boss hissed and fell silent.

Pudding rolled his eyes: "Do you think we are afraid? Do you know who we are?"

The boss turned his head to take a closer look at their attire, but became even angrier, amplifying the volume and swearing.

The other teammate who scolded was unhappy: "You fucking speak well, what are you scolding us! Don't you fucking work for gangsters, don't they pay usury for murder, drug trafficking and usury? Fuck, they are all fucking poisonous. "

The boss pushed Tao Yisu's hand away and stood up: "Even if it's poisoning, it's our poisoning and our business." He turned his face to look at these people, "It's better than you disgusting foreigners who come to our place to suck blood and take advantage of this." A piece of land is cheap, one day, you will all get out!"

The scene fell silent.

Pudding raised his eyebrows indifferently: "You really hate us."

They didn't speak any more, and walked out of the convenience store one by one.

Pudding is married, there is no wedding, a pair of wedding rings, Pudding happily said that he will go to Las Vegas to get a replacement in the future.

Everyone got drunk that night.Tao Yisu was lying on the table, hugging the wine bottle, watching the pudding and the bride dance from a distance, playing "The One You Love" all night. Maybe one of the lights was broken, Tao Yisu's side was dark, but he was not very He cared, seeing the man and woman in love happily embracing each other, he suddenly felt happy too.

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Nian Yao replied to Tao Yisu that he hadn't seen the body at the time and asked Tao Yisu to ask another person who went with him.Typical of Nian Yao's evasion, Tao Yisu got the number, and the person said that it might be at the security office, but no one knew.

Tao Yisu hung up the phone and decided to go directly to India. Yan Wen also said that there was no problem, but asked him to come back as soon as possible. Tao Yisu didn't answer this sentence and hung up the phone.

When Tao Yisu was about to go on the road, his superiors suddenly told him to go to the Philippines, where something happened to Salim.Tao Yisu didn't want to go, he thought it was a trick Yan Wen came up with to trick him, but Yan Wen said frankly: "It's okay if you don't go, but you may be more familiar with Salim, and people who are fine now Not much, otherwise I wouldn't have let you bring someone so quickly..."

Tao Yisu gritted his teeth: "How long?"

Yan Wen said: "If it goes well, it will take a week. If it doesn't go well," he snorted, "Three days is enough. If he dies, you can just come back."

Tao Yisu agreed.It is not appropriate to say that he is the leader of the team, they are not many people, Tao Yisu only brought three other people, two heavy machine gunners, one of them is a rabbit.and a sniper.

They hadn't contacted Salim in the Philippines yet, but they met the Chinese army. Both sides were nervous and almost opened fire.There were six members of that Chinese army, and they came to this deep mountain and old forest to save a Chinese. They came for three days, encountered an ambush on the way, sacrificed a comrade in arms, suffered serious injuries, and temporarily lost contact with the top.

"Then go back." Tao Yisu looked at them.

The leader was not tall, and the back of his head was blown bald. The blood was wiped clean, and his blue scalp was exposed. "We're not done yet."

Tao Yisu looked at the six people, they were wounded and weak, and it was especially obvious that the weapons of the people in the team were different, which showed that their firepower was not enough, and some guns were taken from the opponents. "What do you do if you lose contact?"

"There will be reinforcements soon." The leader's mind was on the map, and he didn't like the mercenaries who came out halfway. "The most urgent thing is to rescue our compatriots."

Tao Yisu pouted and smiled: "With so many people, is it worth saving one person?"

The leader raised his eyes and smiled, "We are soldiers, not businessmen." After speaking, they continued to draw the route, and they had already arranged for a surprise attack.

The rabbit called Tao Yisu, and said to him in French: "We need their map."

Tao Yisu turned around and moved closer: "Be patient, they need fire support."

Tao Yisu didn't try to talk to those soldiers anymore, but he didn't go far either, so he set up a tent not far from them and started eating canned food.Tao Yisu opened a canned fruit, and the rabbit looked at him disgustedly: "Are you crazy? Canned fruit? At this time?" Everyone ate canned meat and protein, mainly to replenish their energy.Tao Yisu's only thought was that the rabbit said a lot, then shrugged and didn't intend to answer, the mood of life should be reflected in small things.

Not long after, the team leader over there came over.

Getting into Tao Yisu's tent, the four of them all looked up at him.The team leader looked them over vigilantly, and asked Tao Yisu, "Can we have a chat?"

Tao Yisu was smoking, he flicked the ash: "Sit down."

The leader sat on the ponytail, looked at Tao Yisu sincerely, and spoke Chinese: "Are you Chinese?" He observed Tao Yisu's interaction with them just now, and felt that this person could speak Chinese, at least understandable.

Tao Yisu looked around at his teammates touching guns, and asked in no Chinese, "What's wrong?"

The leader stopped trying and switched back to English, making sure everyone in the tent knew what they were talking about: "Do you want to collaborate?"

Tao Yisu took a deep puff of the cigarette, took the cigarette butt out of his mouth, flicked it with his index finger, and the cigarette butt made an arc and fell to the ground, half-serious and half-serious: "What do you want to do?"

They gathered the people together and unified the teams.The leader, Rabbit, and Tao Yisu walked from the south and entered the toilet that those people had temporarily built for the sentry.The simple toilet was divided into two rooms by a brick wall, and they hid in the south one. The filth had overflowed from this room, and they were sure no one would come.They wait here quietly for the sentry to come over, get rid of the sentry and attract people, so that other people can act.Because there is a wall, you can't see the actions next door, so you can only kill by feeling.

The leader stuck to the wall and put the muzzle of the gun against the wall.

Tao Yisu knocked on the wall, looked at the leader's gun, reached out and pressed the barrel of his gun: "Your gun is not good, it will explode." Glancing at the rabbit, the latter came over and aimed his gun at the wall.

The leader looked down at the shabby weapon he had snatched from those people, because he gave his own gun to the recruits.

The three fell silent.

After waiting for a while in the stench, there was a noise next door, the sound of a belt rattling.The leader and Tao Yisu squatted up slightly, ready to rush out at any time.

Rabbit moved the muzzle of the gun slightly, loaded it, and pulled the trigger.

As soon as the gunshot rang out, everyone moved into action, and Salem and his party, whose freedom was restricted, also took the opportunity to break free and echo from the inside.

The Chinese rescued the people they wanted to save, and Salim escaped successfully.When Salim came out and saw Tao Yisu, he was a little surprised, and patted Tao Yisu's shoulder five times in a row—yes, Tao Yisu counted—then Salim put his arms around Tao Yisu, very proud of him, as if he had taught a president.

Before leaving, the leader saw Tao Yisu standing by the river, smoking a cigarette, with his hands in his pockets, looking at the river.So the leader walked over.Tao Yisu saw him coming and nodded to him.

"So you are Chinese?" the leader asked him, still in Chinese.

Tao Yisu laughed, and finally returned to Chinese: "So what?"

The leader smiled, took out his own cigarette, Guan Tao Yisu took the fire, and stretched out his hand: "My name is Xu Ping. How about you?"

Tao Yisu looked at his hand and held it back: "It doesn't matter."

The leader withdrew his hand and looked at the waves on the water: "Where are you from?"

"Zhejiang, Lishui." Tao Yisu didn't notice that he smiled, "Have you been there?"

The leader nodded: "I really went there, when I was in the sixth grade..." Reminiscing about the trip, "The river is beautiful, and the mountains are also beautiful, very delicate."

Tao Yisu's face was gentle, listening to others mention his hometown. "And you?"

"Tai'an, from Shandong." The leader exhaled a bit of pride, "Mount Tai belongs to us."

"Oh, Mount Tai." Tao Yisu knew.

"Have you been there?"

Tao Yisu shook his head.

"Go and see if you have a chance." The leader laughed, "I'm not promoting it. It's really good. That mountain is so fucking steep. I climbed it with my dad since I was a child. Later, I climbed other mountains and thought it was ordinary. .Our grandpas and aunts go to climb Mount Tai after exercising, which is much faster than tourists."

Tao Yisu turned to look at him: "Following your father?"

"Well, he used to be a porter."

"Don't do it?"

"Well, quit." The leader threw the cigarette butt in the soil and stamped it out with his foot. "His liver is not good, and his back is not good."

Tao Yisu didn't speak.

The leader was also silent for a while, then turned to Tao Yisu and said, "You...have a feeling..."

Tao Yisu turned to look at him, and the leader continued, speaking from the bottom of his heart: "In short, if you can go home one day, don't be afraid." The leader finally patted him on the shoulder, turned and left.

Tao Yisu flicked the cigarette butt into the river with his index finger, stood there for a while, then turned and went back.

Tao Yisu and the others left later and took another route.Salim specifically told them to be careful, there might be someone else.Tao Yisu's mind was actually not on this, he was suddenly full of longing for being able to go home.

They stopped and ate at one place. Tao Yisu finished his canned food early and sat outside to watch.

He saw a bird, white, very white, without dirt at all, with a red beak and blue eyes.The bird was originally perched on a branch far away, but Tao Yisu stared at it as it flew closer and closer, almost to the front.The white bird is noble and reserved, condescending gracefully, looking down at Tao Yisu with pearl-like eyes.

Tao Yisu stood up, and the white bird was half a meter away from him.

Bird watching in silence.

With a gunshot, Tao Yisu watched the white bird fly away before looking down at his abdomen in a daze.He felt a chill at first, and then he noticed more and more blood seeping.Gunshots rang out intermingled, Tao Yisu felt the world gradually blurred, and then went straight to