sarajevo sniper

Chapter 25 The Right Thing

Leto's expression was flat, even a little apologetic: "Don't get me wrong, I didn't mean to look down on you. It's just that I thought the relationship between us was over. You've made it very clear with your actions—you don't want to be with us. I have any involvement, and you are not willing to look at the possibility between us with an open and equal attitude, so I am not the kind of rascal who makes things difficult for others. I leave you a decency, and you also leave me a decency , like you said, 'be an adult,' right?"

Lin Nai's head was in a mess, and he couldn't answer for a while: "What is the possibility between us..."

"Linnai, we could have been friends, even good partners." Leto said helplessly, "As long as we put aside politics, doctrine, nationality, and history...just me and you, two independent Discuss on an individual basis. I approached you with this expectation—albeit in a rough and arbitrary way—but I sincerely wished that we could find sympathy between us, but it’s a pity that you don’t think so. Am I right? You can never let go of some things, and I can't force you to let them go."

Lin Nai understood what he meant, but Leto made it sound like it was his fault: "I have my responsibility, this is..."

"So, we respect each other and have nothing to do with each other from now on." Leto spread his hands: "Isn't this the most satisfying ending for you?"

True, but...

Lin Nai opened his mouth, he couldn't say the "but".

Leto still had that iconic smile that was too polite to criticize: "Linnai, you shouldn't come, this is a war that has nothing to do with you, why did you join? Food should belong to refugees , isn't it good to let the people who should have them have it?"

"There are also Serbs among the refugees. They are also starving and freezing, and they also need food." Linnai tried to explain.

"Then the Serbian government should apply to the United Nations for food relief."

"You also know the current public opinion that the Serbs are the original sin. Under such public opinion, will they give us food?"

"I'm sorry, Linnai, this is not a problem that I should solve. This is a problem that the Serbian government should solve. Your government did not obtain food for you through legal channels, which does not mean that you should come to rob us of food."

Lin Nai knew he was right, and he looked a little embarrassed.

In the end, he simply broke the jar and said: "It's useless to say anything now. You give me the food, and I let Walter go. You can resent me, but I am for the Serbs. If you are me, you Will do the same."

Leto's eyes showed disappointment.Lin Nai felt guilty and turned away his face not wanting to look at him.Leto said, "Do you think you can go out with food alive?"

Lin Nai is not afraid of him: "Do you think this can threaten me?"

"I'm not threatening you. Linnai, why don't you understand? Your enemy has never been me." Leto said, "Why does Bellamovich want you to join this war? Why does he allow you to be one?" People came here to negotiate with me, don't you understand? Our defense line outside was broken, the retreating troops were transferred by you, and Croatia's support was also borrowed by him. As long as the reinforcements arrive, we will be surrounded here building. What do you think he's going to do next?"

At this point, Lin Nai didn't understand that he was a fool: "You mean he wants to kill me here. It's not that easy. I still have a partner following him. If I die, my partner will kill him immediately Lose."

"Then are you willing? Didn't let him die by your hands?" Leto asked back.

Lin Nai was speechless.Leto always knew how to hold him back.

He actually knew it, and he was not completely unaware of Berramovich's malicious intentions.As soon as the Croats arrived, they blew up the building and let Linnai and the Bosnian government troops be buried here, which logically solved all the problems. Berramovic could not only get the food, but also solve the confidant's troubles.

But Linnaeus came anyway, trying to convince himself that it was indeed for the Serbs in Sarajevo.It would not be an exaggeration to say that the group of people in the worst situation are the Serbs in Sarajevo.The Serbs were originally unpopular, but after the scandal, they became street rats that everyone shouted and beaten in Sarajevo.The Bosniaks have food relief and the sympathy of the world, but the Serbs have none.It was not these innocent civilians who did the wrong thing. If someone had to pay the price for the Serb's scandal, it should be the high-ranking officials sitting in the command building of the military department, or even the war criminal Linnai.Civilians just want to survive, they shouldn't have to bear punishment that doesn't belong to them.

Maybe Leto was right and he shouldn't have come.This is an unjust war, and if it continues to fight, it will only make the entire Serbs sink deeper and deeper into the quagmire of immorality.Food should be given to whoever deserves it, and Serbs should solve their own problems by themselves.

The disappointment in Leto's eyes stung Linnai, he looked at him like an executioner, a Nazi war criminal.Linnai never minded what others thought of him before. The Croatians called him a killing machine. After being abandoned by Berramovic, newspapers and TV stations compared him to Judas. He was not discouraged. He knew he would be able to cleanse Injustice, he never doubted.

But even if Leto expressed a little disappointment towards him, Linnai already found it unbearable. After Leto comforted him with warm and soft eyes, and told him that he was a unique and precious person in someone's heart, that kind of Disappointment becomes even more unbearable.

Leto looked at him seriously: "Linnai, let me tell you one last time, listen up, this is the last chance. Let go of Walter, help us bring food to refugees, do the right thing once, before you time to choose the right."

Lin Nai felt that his hands were extremely heavy, and he had never found a decision so difficult to make.Leto is asking him to betray the nation. Letting Walter go means that he is really on the side of the Bosnian government army, and he wants to help the Bosniaks fight for the interests of their people.This may be a morally correct thing, but the official will not know whether it is correct or not. They will only know that a Serbian special soldier has been instigated, and he will become the real "traitor" described by reporters.

Is it important to do the right thing?Or is it important to be Serbian?

The atmosphere was too tense, and Walter's nerves had collapsed to the limit. When he heard the sound of pulling the safety catch behind him, he almost thought it was a hallucination.The gun muzzle pressing from the back of his neck suddenly withdrew, and he blinked for a few seconds before realizing that Linnai had let him go.

I saw Linnai turn on the communicator on his body to send a message: "I have changed my mind, Berlamovich, you can find a way for yourself."

Berramovich was stunned for a moment, and didn't understand what he meant, until his anger rose from his voice: "Linnai! You traitor! You are surrendering to the enemy, you are worthy of Serbia, which gave birth to you and raised you... ..."

"Save your big questions and lobby in front of Roman who died for you." The sniper interrupted coldly: "You have two options now, let your people retreat, give us the food, and then tell who is the soldier. The spy of the Ministry, my companion let you leave the hotel. Tomorrow, Holly will send out the report, as to whether the Serbs want you to apologise, it depends on them."

Berramovic roared: "You are dreaming! I will never bow to evil forces like you!"

"Then we can only fight one game." Linnai didn't mind either: "Mario will send Holly away safely. As for you, Berlamovich, we are all soldiers, so let's end it face to face."

Before Berramovich could reply, he immediately cut off the communicator, and when he looked up, he met Leto's smiling eyes.

"You planned it?" The colonel heard the clue: "Since you have held Berramovic hostage, why don't you just press him in front of the Serbian army and ask them to retreat? Even if he is unwilling to withdraw his troops, you captured a General, the Serbian army is definitely willing to surrender."

"Pressing the living people in front of them and asking them to retreat means that I have to release them after the retreat. If the enemy retreats and I still shoot the hostages, I am unrighteous." The sniper put down the gun and the promise: " But I have no intention of letting Mr. Admiral leave alive. I will kill him with my own hands and avenge Roman. Therefore, we must fight this battle."

Walter still didn't understand: "Wait, what does this mean? Is it what I imagined?"

Lin Nai hated him for being weak: "I'm so timid that I want to go to the battlefield. If I don't scare you, who will I scare?"

"So... so you kidnapped me to deceive Berlamovich?" Walter's brain turned around: "I thought you really wanted to kidnap me for food! This is the third time, three times I'm still thinking that I really won't forgive you this time..."

"If you really want to exchange 60 tons of international aid food, I will tie you up as an orderly?" Linnai sneered: "You think too highly of yourself. Ask your dear colonel, are you worth so much food? I don’t think it’s worth it to sell your organs inside and out.”

Leto stopped at the right time: "Linnai, because of his courage to go to the battlefield, don't hit him like this."

Lin Nai ignored him.Walter remembered the sniper telling himself that they would all walk out of the battlefield alive, maybe that was a hint that he wouldn't really hurt himself.He became happy: "You should tell me, I can cooperate with you in acting, you just don't believe me! You still want to scare the colonel!"

Who scares whom?Lin Nai explained helplessly: "I can't kill him in the hotel, so I can't get rid of the responsibility. I need to let him go to the battlefield. If he dies on the battlefield, then I can't blame me. It was he himself who said he wanted to sacrifice in the On the battlefield, I just fulfill his wish."

What else did Walter want to say, Leto gestured to the excited orderly with his eyes: "You are also injured, don't delay, go to the medical soldier to look at your wound, take a break by the way, and finish your prayer. After the end, we will There's an uphill battle to be fought."

The little orderly at least knew how to read his face, and left with a military salute, leaving space for the remaining two people.

Leto stood up and changed his position, and sat down beside Linnai: "Let me see the injury on your arm."

Linnai didn't want him to see it at first, but the colonel's attitude was very firm. He could only take off his coat a little bit to expose the bandaged wound: "It's okay, I brought emergency gauze. Change the dressing when it's safe. There are many more Wounded, don't waste their medical resources. It's not easy. No bones are broken, and the bleeding has stopped."

Leto was afraid that he made the decision impulsively: "Have you thought it through? Even if Berlamovich has no power now, even if the official accepts the fact that he died on the battlefield, you will never go back Serbia. You can never tell others that you are a Serbian soldier, and even the rest of your life you have to be ready to die."

Linnai raised his eyes to look at him, and found Leto's expression was strangely gentle, he raised his lips: "If I were to die, would you be with me?"

Leto kissed his wound: "That is my honor."

Lin Nai's restless heartbeat returned to normal because of this kiss.He just realized that he was nervous just now, and for a moment he was really afraid that the relationship between him and Leto would end.

It's amazing.If he had been told a month ago that one day he and a Bosniak would sit and kiss each other in a hasty, brief interlude between battles, he would probably have ridiculed him for being crazy.But all of this has become a reality now.He chose Leto, he couldn't deny that he wanted to stand by Leto's side, whether it was out of morality or other reasons, he wanted to be recognized by Leto, he wanted to be the special, Precious people.

"Actually, it's not the last moment, so I can't tell if I've made up my mind." Lin Nai said in a daze, "But I think, if I don't choose this way today, I might regret it when I die."

Leto stroked his cheek: "Death is one of the main factors driving our choices. It is inherent in human beings."

"Anyway, you are proud now. You won, and I'm still on your side."

"I'm not happy about it, Linnaeus."

"Just kidding. How did you know I was acting? When did you find out?"

"I'm not entirely sure, but I'm 80.00% sure. Part of the reason is that your hostage is not well chosen. It's a bit sloppy to exchange 60 tons of food with an orderly. But that's not the whole reason. Another part of the reason is that I always believe that one day you will know which way you should choose. There is always such a voice in your heart, you can hear it, but you chose to ignore it in the past, it represents yourself, it is your own voice .”

Lin Nai was confused instead: "Say clearly."

Leto unloaded the water bottle from his waist and asked him to moisten his throat first, because what they were going to talk about next might be a long story: "After you came back from Croatia in 91, you were demoted. The sniper in the city was suddenly sent to the border to be a patrolman, why?"

Lin Nai's expression was shocked, he didn't expect Leto to know about this.This has nothing to do with the conflict between them at all.

Leto was very calm: "You saved a person, a person you shouldn't have saved, so you delayed your military mission. The Serbian military thinks that you should be suppressed to prevent you from being arrogant, so they made a decision to demote you. Am I right? Of course, if you don't want to mention this past, we can also say nothing."

Lin Nai lowered his eyelashes, and after a while, he said, "It's okay. This is not something shameful."

Leto supported the sniper's arm and slid down, holding his cold, dirty, blood-stained hand: "In order to save a person, lose your favorite job, lose the honor and title you should be proud of, you Have you ever regretted it?"

"I am a sniper, as long as I have a gun and my hand, no one can stop me from shooting." Linnai raised his head with a proud expression: "I hate those who are full of complaints, lamenting that life is untimely, An underappreciated coward who only drinks behind others' backs and complains that no one appreciates him, as if he is the only one in the world who is having a bad life. Heh, what a sniper should fear most is not losing his honor and job, but not being able to shoot .As long as my hand is still there, I am a sniper. No one can take it away."

Leto loves this side of him the most: "As I said, you are a very precious person, Linnai, this is where you are precious."

"How did you know this? My file may have written about my experience of being demoted, but it won't say why I was demoted."

"Because that person is my mother." Under Linnai's surprised gaze, Leto kissed his forehead: "You saved my mother, Linnai. That's why I have always believed that you are destined to stand with me .”

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