special task

"Put the gun down, Palf."

Wu Lin's hand tremblingly aimed at Palf, and Palf was aiming at Wu Lin's direction with a relaxed face, and between them were John and Finch.John supported Finch. It seemed that Finch was slightly injured and could not move easily, and John did not draw his weapon.To be more precise, they had just been ransacked by a lady agent named Shaw.

However, this was not the reason why Wu Lin and Palf confronted each other. The matter started a few days ago.After Wu Lin returned to New York from Shanghai, she began to try to track down Palf's trail.

Originally, tracking Palf should not be an easy task, but maybe it was God's help, or maybe Palf didn't intend to cover his tracks at all, Wu Lin found Palf in almost two or three days traces of the past.In fact... the trace was too shocking for her to ignore.It was bare|naked|naked massacre.Most of Skadi's stronghold, as well as various gang leaders, can be named by Wu Lin.Palf had brought Wu Lin to meet these people a few months ago.A small part is not very familiar to Wu Lin, but it is more or less related to the government, and there may be some underworld entanglements.

Even the FBI and CIA are closely watching Palf's tail, but Palf can always take the first step so that no one can catch him.

Perhaps it is not difficult to find traces of Palf, but Wu Lin is completely helpless to predict where Palf will be next.

One call changes everything...

The person who made this call was none other than Peter who hadn't contacted him for a long time.

And the first sentence Peter came up with was: "Lin, stop Palf!"

"what?"

Peter's words were anxious, but he began to patiently explain to Wu Lin: "Remember a few months ago, I told you that my position has changed and I am no longer your liaison officer? That's because they The boss has changed. I didn’t know the boss changed at first, and even the tasks assigned to you will change. But when I saw that picture..."

"Wait, wait, Peter, slow down, what's the picture?" Although Wu Lin had a hunch, she had to ask Peter to confirm.

"That's right... we have to start from the beginning. Do you remember the picture of the two men I showed you when we asked you to come here? That's not the original picture. You're still in the original picture. We tried to put it in the picture Ku search, only found you, but not those two people, at least not exactly the same." Peter sighed, and finally told the story of finding Wu Lin a few years ago.

Wu Lin gripped the phone tighter. If... If this is true, does it mean that she should have come to this world in the first place?So they chose her?Why did this causal relationship suddenly make her feel frightened?

"The decipherings in the back are not pictures, but many are about how to build the time-traveling machine, parts, and calculation methods. After our analysis, those are not the original distress signals, but processed. We infer... …We deduced that this was added by the machine. That's why we wondered why the machine would destroy a world, but give us a way to save that world? This is the original research goal. But if you want to know the answer , the question 'what is a machine' must be answered first, so we found you, and several other volunteers."

Wu Lin felt her heart beating faster, she hadn't felt this way for a long time, and her hands and feet started to feel cold.A cognition slowly emerged in her mind: this is an unsolvable paradox.

"However, with the information you brought back... the goal of the mission gradually deviated from the original. I was also fired because of the initial opposition. At that time, I didn't understand the scale of what they wanted to do. At the same time, I was fired. There is the professor who deciphered the last picture. They think they already know what the machine does, so there is no need to know the last picture. It was only yesterday that I found out that the professor did not stop his research and finally deciphered the picture. ……Can……"

Peter was very emotional, and his words became more and more urgent. Perhaps realizing this, he paused for a moment, took a deep breath, and then continued.

"After I saw that picture, I understood... So I found my old friends who were also in that project, asked, and found that your mission has really changed. The center is all on Palf. Palf is going to The source code of the machine and some part design drawings were sent back, and after that it was... the finishing touch. The world over there cannot know that we have been there, and they abandoned the world over there, how could they do this!"

Wu Lin's heart had sunk to the bottom, that's why Palf would kill like crazy... Then... she suddenly understood.Everything seems to be so transparent.Palf's task is to finish; she was the first to tell John and Finch about the existence of another world, and she took the initiative to confirm the existence of the machine from their mouths and find out the function of the machine.In other words... Palf must kill Finch and John...

And the machine...

Peter's words were full of indignation. He has never tolerated the existence of unfairness, let alone his disregard for the whole world, just for the sake of technology.Humans are human precisely because they have humanity, don't they?So why treat another world with such indifference?

"So, go and stop him. There is time for that picture, and that is tomorrow night, Lin, you can't let him kill people anymore. By the way, I have asked someone to solve the self-explosion system on your body, don't worry."

Wu Lin was separated from the phone until Peter didn't make a sound for a long time, and then realized that he had hung up the phone.Moreover, she received several text messages, all sent by Peter, which were related pictures deciphered from the beginning to the present.At the beginning, it was a picture of her and John Finch rescuing people together. She was envious of the tacit understanding between the two at the time, but she didn't expect that she was in it.

The last picture Peter mentioned is of Finch supporting John, half-kneeling on the ground, looking back at the position where Palf is obviously standing, his blond hair is hard to ignore, and she... She was on it too, the gun pointed at Palff.

That's the final choice, isn't it?

she understands...

Finch is the creator of the machine. If the machine knows about Finch's death, it will explode. She has witnessed how the machine helped John find Finch and help Finch escape from danger.The outbreak of the machine is equivalent to the destruction of this world, absolutely cannot happen, never!

But, how can we stop Palf?

and many more……

Wu Lin glanced over the screen of the phone from the corner of her eyes, why there is a sudden time difference between the two worlds?This is clearly tonight!And...she only has an hour left!

How to stop Palf... can only be seen!What made Wu Lin even more worried was that John's phone couldn't be reached at all, or that Finch answered the phone somehow: "Ms. Lin?"

"Hello...?, where are you guys? I have something urgent."

"We're waiting for a guest, what do you want?"

"Harold, believe me, I don't know how to explain, believe me, tell me, where are you?"

"...5th Floor, S Street."

"Thank you. I'll be there in a minute."

Wu Lin was almost suffocated by the pressure. S Street is far away from her and she can only drive there. Originally, she could get there in about 10 minutes, but now it happens to be commuting time, so the traffic jam is severe, and the time of one hour can only be counted as Just right.But she can't just walk, can she?It took two hours to walk to get there.

Anxious but useless, this feeling makes her extremely powerless.By the time she started climbing the stairs, she could hear the gunshot.Her heart sank, and she tried her best to comfort herself, she was in the picture, she must have arrived, and she must be in time!

After a few minutes, it really became the scene in the picture.Finch supported John, half kneeling on the ground, his back was like a moving target.Standing behind them was Palf, who didn't hide her position at all, and she...pointed at Palf with a gun, and said tremblingly: "Put the gun down, Palf."

Palf's expression was relaxed, which was something Wu Lin had never seen before: "No, Lin, we can go back after we solve them, can't we? Do you remember your mother? Remember our world friends?"

"I remember, but this cannot be the reason why you killed them and indirectly caused the destruction of this world. Palf, think about it, this is a world!"

"Lin, you always forget that we are here to perform a mission. When the mission is over, we can go home. What's more, do you think that things won't happen if you save them? Take a step back and say, things It won't happen, so do you think they will remember you?"

Such questioning made Wu Lin speechless. She understood, really understood... It was the destruction of this world that caused the distress signal to be sent to her world, and it was because of this that it attracted the detection of her world. Just, but... her detection of that world has brought about the destruction of this world...

a ring.

The key to this is Finch's death.

"That can't let this world be destroyed..."

Wu Lin's muttering made Palf smile again for the first time, he had never felt so happy: "Then you must kill me. Kill me, or watch me kill This group of people."

To save by killing, is this logic true?Wu Lin thought about the decision she made not long ago, but when she actually raised the gun and pointed it at Palf, she felt that it was not as simple and firm as she imagined.

Wu Lin's hands were still trembling a little. Her peripheral vision swept over Finch and John. The two of them were unusually quiet. It seemed that they had been so quiet since she came in and confronted Palf.There was an inexplicable smile on John's face, and Wu Lin couldn't tell what he wanted her to do more.No... maybe she knew.

Looking up, he saw Palf's relaxed expression again. The pistol was still pointed at John and Finch. The strange thing was...he seemed to be waiting for Wu Lin to make a decision, and was not in a hurry to kill.Seeing Palf's waiting, she tried to reason with Palf again: "Palf, think about it, if you don't kill people, there is no loss, right? We can still go back. Peter, do you still remember Peter?" Well, he will help, he will disarm the self-explosion system on us and take us back."

Palf sneered: "Peter? The guy who was kicked out? Lynn, you are so naive. Do you think I am a special case? I am just less than one-thousandth of the people they control, and Peter can do it What? He's just one person. I also have colleagues, and I don't need him to find my way back. I hope you can go back with me, otherwise, you will have to kill me to stop me. And..."

And it might not be able to stop it, Wu Lin analyzed in her heart what he hadn't finished by analyzing Palf's expression.Indeed, even if Peter is disabling the system, he doesn't know if there is enough time, after all Peter told her that today is tomorrow...

Wu Lin's hands were still trembling, but Palf had lost his patience: "Lin, you said you were ready, what happened? You should follow me. You see, I'm also going to deal with these troublesome things. It's almost impossible to let you participate."

Palf's finger, and pulled the trigger, and with one movement, he could kill either Finch or John.

"Don't force me to do this..." Wu Lin felt tears in her eyes.Palf didn't budge, he moved his finger on the trigger, and Wu Lin subconsciously pulled the trigger together.

Her accuracy, which was trained by Palf, was right on the forehead.

"Kang Dang", the sound of Palf's pistol falling to the ground, accompanied by the sound of Palf falling to the ground, resounded like thunder.Tears finally fell from Wu Lin's eyes.In her blurred vision, she seemed to see Palf's smile, making a "good girl" mouth shape.

If...if Peter succeeds, then...she should disappear, and everything about her in this world will be wiped out.If this cycle is broken, John and Finch will not die, the machine will not go berserk, then there will be no distress signal, then... there will be no her coming, let alone what happened after she came, then People in her world would not want "machines", let alone send people to kill John and Finch.

The two worlds are completely separated.Her world is hers, and their world is theirs, independent of each other.

Seeing that Palf didn't explode, and her body was gradually becoming transparent, Wu Lin cheered up and smiled: "John, Finch, it's fun to be with you. Thank you..."

Both John and Finch were a little stunned, not knowing how to react. They could see that Wu Lin was becoming transparent, and the memories in their minds were also slowly changing.

Wu Lin's smile failed, but the tears in her eyes still couldn't stop, and she pretended to be relaxed with some sobs: "Don't you all say goodbye?"

John stepped forward step by step, ignoring his bleeding leg, and wanted to reach out his hand, but finally stopped at a distance of two meters, and gradually lowered his hand.

"Goodbye."

"Be happy, no one is going to die. In the end, you're never alone, ever."

Wu Lin put her hand on her chest, and then reached out to him. She tried her best to raise the corners of her mouth, trying to keep her best side.This side is probably forever, she can even be sure that they will not remember her, even if it is futile, she still wants to make an effort.John also stretched out his hand, but he never touched Wu Lin's hand.With a distance of one finger, neither of them tried to get closer to each other.

"Goodbye."

Wu Lin's figure gradually disappeared from the eyes of John and Finch, until she disappeared completely, the wound on John's body was healing, he stared blankly at his outstretched hand, and turned back: "Harold, why are we here ?”

A trace of confusion flashed in Finch's eyes: "Mr. Reese, I don't think I can answer this question."

John withdrew his hand, turned around completely in the same confusion, looked at Finch, and rubbed his head: "It seems to be Xiao."

Finch also rubbed his forehead: "Oh, yes, it's Ms. Xiao."

A picture flashed in John's mind, but he couldn't grasp it. He could only vaguely see a woman, and he was sure it wasn't Xiao.

"There is one more person...how about her?"

"Who?"

John rubbed his temples again in frustration. He could no longer recall that scene, so he had no choice but to give up. He tilted his head and shrugged helplessly: "Forgot. Let's order takeout from a Chinese restaurant tonight. Today is the mood of eating fried rice." .”

"No problem, the takeaway... is in the process of being delivered."

The two walked one tall and the other short, but there was a little bleakness in their backs. In their lives, there was no longer a woman named Wu Lin. Even all the previous experiences were replaced by other memories. Wu Lin's.Occasionally, that unclear picture would still flash through John's mind, but his work with Finch left him no time to think about it, and he seemed to be instinctively resisting to think clearly.Until a long time later, he couldn't remember a picture, a name...

At the same time, a certain interface of the machine:

WARNING: The two files are not compatible.

close after delete or save

The red highlight first selects delete, then moves to save and close.A confirmation dialog box popped up, and for some reason, the red light on the screen continued to select Confirm.

A few years later, the machine has become a part of life, the machine is monitored by a whole studio, and the case has changed from irrelevant and related to the task of two different organizations.With the development of science and technology, even if there is no oppression, the possibility of another world has begun to be sought, and various signal towers for broadcasting signals have been built.

On the first day after a certain tower was successfully built, the machine fluctuated slightly.One of the monitoring agents discovered this fluctuation and reported it to the supervisor. The supervisor waved his hand: "It's okay, this is still a machine anyway, and it doesn't matter if there is a small fluctuation. If the same fluctuation occurs again, or there is a large fluctuation, then continue to report."

Parallel World No. [-], September [-], [-], during lunch break, Wu Lin saw a strange text message on her cell phone: Thank you.The sender is unknown, but when she saw this text message, she suddenly burst into tears, sad, but she didn't know why she was sad.I had to wipe away my tears.I wanted to delete this text message, but in the end I couldn't make up my mind.

"Hey, are you okay?"

The speaker was Wu Lin's colleague, a radiation therapist at Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto.Wu Lin raised her head and smiled at her colleague: "It's okay, I probably sent it to the wrong person."

The man nodded and said nothing more.Wu Lin was a little distracted while eating lunch, she seemed to have forgotten something.But she couldn't remember what she had forgotten. It seemed to be one person, or two people?

"Hey, Lin, listen to me, you must watch "Person of Interest", that TV series is amazing!"

"Person of Interest? Something like Skynet?"

"How can it be so scary, the machine is still very cute. Huh? How do you know?"

Wu Lin was overwhelmed by the question, she was taken aback for a moment before she realized it, and said jokingly: "Uh... Internet? (Note 1)"

"Hahaha, you are still looking at that, how old are you?"

"I'm never old, okay?"

"All right, all right, you're the only one who is unreasonable. Hurry up and eat, today's work is quite tight."

"it is good."

In the evening, when Wu Lin returned home, she turned on her computer and began to look up the TV series "Suspect Tracker". After just one glance, she was hooked.Especially whenever something went wrong with them, she was terrified, as if she really knew them, and instinctively felt that something was missing.But... TV dramas are just TV dramas after all, and life must go on.as always……

Sometimes Wu Lin can't help fantasizing that if her life is not like this, her life seems to be more interesting and exciting.After all... it's just a fantasy...

Until about three weeks after receiving the text message, she was just sitting tiredly in the subway station home after working overtime, but she did not expect that she really experienced the legendary "robbery".She thought she would be afraid, but she couldn't deny that behind the fear, she found that she was more excited.Wu Lin wanted to help very much. She almost thought that she could stop those men with guns without any pressure, but at the same time she was also very puzzled, why did she think she could stop them even though she had only learned Taekwondo for a day or two? ?

Wu Lin didn't think for a long time, a bearded uncle in sharp clothes stood up the moment he was pointed at by a gun, and subdued all those people neatly.However, after subduing a group of people, the man could hardly stand still, and he looked extremely painful as he rubbed his head.Wu Lin couldn't help but walked up and helped the man.

When her eyes met, Wu Lin vaguely felt familiar, but she couldn't remember where she had seen this face before.Especially with such a sharp attire, Wu Lin still didn't feel the slightest bit of fear, and seemed to have an instinctive trust in this person.

And the man looked at Wu Lin with some doubts in his eyes. He didn't feel that he rejected the girl's contact, and he also had a familiar feeling, but he guaranteed with his excellent memory that he had never seen this girl before.So... why exactly?

Wu Lin blurted out almost immediately: "Excuse me...do you need help?"

The man didn't answer.

Although Wu Lin was puzzled, she followed her subconscious mind and continued to talk: "My name is Lin, what should I call you?"

The man was also a little puzzled. He didn't want to talk to Wu Lin at first, but he seemed to have an impulse somewhere, so he also blurted out: "Jonathan."

End

Note 1: A sentence often said by the protagonist in a TV series watched by a foreign child, FairlyOddParents

The author has something to say: Fuer...my setting is finally fully presented...I hope you will like it after reading it.

I think I chose the wrong starting point... In fact, the person who said that I plagiarized the original work, I think... Part of it, yes, I did follow the original plot.But let me justify myself... I have written several cases in total, and only three or four are exactly the same as the original ones, only adding Wu Lin.Others, I try to solve the same case in different ways... But I love Finch and John very much, and I don't want to eclipse the relationship between John Finch by whoring John... So... Help me.

If you see the complete setting of my last chapter...you can see that if I really don't love the hero of the original book, I can use this setting to write a story that has nothing to do with the original book = =, the last four chapters can really be developed into another book...Of course, I don't want to expand it into a book==I'm not interested... If John and Finch are really missing, I I really don't want to write a fan of Suspect Tracking.In line with this idea, so many chapters of the original work have been wordy.Well, sorry if you think it's plagiarism.

In addition, although Palf doesn’t seem to fit my original setting, in fact==if you have read my other articles, you will know that I love mental illness==, and he is one.

His thinking was like this: because he had no chance with Wu Lin, so he tortured him to death.He met Wu Lin and Palf in China, so he knew that Wu Lin might have a chance with him if he didn't come here.So he gave Wu Lin the choice between breaking the ring and pulling her to hell.If Wu Lin chose to play the ring, then he might meet Wu Lin in the original world.If Wu Lin chooses not to break through, then Wu Lin is destined to become as hard-pressed as he is mentally ill.

So...he's just...mentally ill.This is the thinking circuit of mental illness, don't ask me why == [This is the answer that does not conform to common sense

In addition... Let me declare first, I finished setting up this article first, and started to write it all, only to see the ring messenger. I think the two settings are slightly the same, but == I am at most a conflict , It’s definitely not plagiarism... Well.above.

Finally, the amount of support is completed.

I hope that friends who have read it will like it.If you like ==, don't carelessly go to my column, take care of me.

The next one to start writing is about supernatural powers~cough cough... I think pure supernatural powers will be too cold...so I'm still playing side-by-side with hot topics==, but trust me...even if it's a side-by-side with hot topics, I won't I also like to do the opposite... It is a story of traveling to Su Wen and discovering that Su Wen ≠ Su Wen.

Let's take it easy...the heroine is struggling, she has golden fingers, but she also has some realistic aspects.

You know what == I always like to use text to write strange things.