Mountains and seas have a home

When Ji Yao was asked, a chill came from behind his back, as if there were countless pairs of eyes watching them hidden in the dark woods.He thought of the white stone, the hot flashes in the rainforest, and the blisters on the wound.Before he could get rid of those things from the past, a wind suddenly blew up in the forest, and the cedar was blown rustling, shaking his head and moaning deeply.The snowy owl lingered in the sky for a while, flapped its wings and landed among the branches of aspen, its crystal and curved beak was shining like amber.

"There are many snowy owls in the Siberian forest in winter." Ji Yao put his gun on his shoulder, pulled out an ax and leaned over to pretend to cut firewood, holding the dead branches in his arms, "Maybe this one comes for the winter, It happens to live in this area of ​​ancient trees."

Fu Zhong scraped away the snow and dead leaves with his toes and the butt of his gun, and opened a path among the bushes covered with vines and thorns.He walked slowly on the snowy slope with Ji Yao, broke a lot of dry wood for him along the way, and said softly: "The snowy owl lives in the polar circle, and I noticed from the beginning that its flying posture is wrong, it should be It’s a wing injury, and this one’s wing is also injured. It only moves around us, so it’s hard not to worry.”

They scraped through the bushes and walked to a hidden spot. Ji Yao piled the branches and leaves collected in his hands on the higher snow platform, and pulled two thick pine branches to cover his body.Fu Zhong squatted behind the bushes and tilted his head to look at the mirror, buried himself in the snow, and prepared to snipe.Ji Yao also prostrated beside him, set up the binoculars and put them in front of his eyes, acting as a bomber.The muzzle of Fu Zhong's gun slowly protruded into the gap between the branches and leaves. In the scope, a golden-eyed snowy owl was located in the middle of the two arcs.

"I didn't expect that I would be the bomber for you." Ji Yao said while staring at the telescope, "In the past, I was the only one who pulled the trigger."

Fu Zhong didn't move, he pursed his lips and smiled, Ji Yao's words gave him a different sense of freshness, he felt that he was the unusual and unique one.Fu Zhong adjusted the barrel angle and ballistic parameters according to Ji Yao's instructions, and while staring at the stupid snowy owl in the scope, he replied: "I hope there will be such opportunities in the future. You have a pair of clairvoyance, and I have a pair of clairvoyance." For Shunfenger, we will be able to hit every shot."

A ball of snow fell from the pine branch and hit Fu Zhong on the head.He didn't move, as if he himself had grown out of the snow.The long barrel had been covered with snow and covered with a thin layer of hoarfrost.Ji Yao counted down to three counts, and then Fu Zhong immediately fired. The echo of the gunfire fled in the forest, shaking the air buzzing, as if it was about to shatter.Large flakes of snow fell on Fu Zhong's back even more mercilessly, and a few montane birds who were awakened fluttered their wings and flew into the sky.

The bullet accurately pierced the snowy owl and then the pine tree.The high-explosive bullet blasted the tree trunk in half, and it fell to the ground, splashing a large cloud of snow dust, and the dumb snowy owl gave a short scream and fell into the snow.Fu Zhong waited patiently for a few seconds, and he took his eyes away from the scope when he saw a trembling bright green flame ignited in the long-lasting snow dust.

Ji Yao looked around again to see if there was anything else that needed to be killed.The forest is very quiet, and it is rare to see any living creatures appearing in the field of vision.After a while, he put down the binoculars, propped himself up on his elbows, and turned his head to look at Fu Zhong beside him.

"The bird is burning, and the fire is green." Fu Zhong reported lying in the snow.

"I saw it," Ji Yao saw that his body was covered with deep snow, and kindly reached out to wipe it off for him, "Go over and check the situation later."

Fu Zhong didn't put the gun back, but looked at Ji Yao and smiled when he helped him clean the snow off his body.Ji Yao didn't pay attention to Fu Zhong at first, but Fu Zhong's shining eyes loomed in his mind uninvited.Ji Yao's hand turned around to pat Fu Zhong's head, making him lower his head, blinking his eyes and waiting for the next punishment to come.But Ji Yao didn't continue to beat him, and was ready to get up with the binoculars, while yelling at him: "Stand up quickly! Everything the time bureau taught you has been thrown into the trash can, right?"

Wei Shanhua at the other end was sitting in front of the bonfire, warming his body. The continuous heat made him feel a sweet sleepiness all over his body.Amidst the crackling sound of burning firewood and the scent of frozen birch, Wei Shanhua was so happy that he couldn't wait to run home and pick sweet ripe cherries in the garden.After a while, he heard a gunshot in the jungle, and immediately regained his senses, pulled himself together and held the gun, and asked through the intercom: "Santu, what happened?"

"It's okay, I shot a bird just now, and I'm going to pick it up." Ji Yao replied, "Go and cook a pot of soup, put some ginger and pepper, and cook the chicken, the thicker the better."

"Is there really nothing wrong?"

"Of course!"

Wei Shanhua went back to the bonfire and sat down, set up a pot to melt the snow water, tore up the grilled sizzling chicken and threw it in, then stirred it with a long-handled spoon, the rich aroma made people salivate.He sang softly, and with the light of the fire on his face, he drank the warm wine and waited for the soup to boil.Then he took out the food box containing the cookies and honey, and the sweet taste whetted the appetite and prepared to munch on it.

He was a little dizzy from the warm flames and hot alcohol, and there was something soft and tender in this dizziness that made him secretly happy.Wei Shanhua thought of Lin Cheng in the mist, the slanted shirt he wore like an actor, the shiny black suede boots, the brown hooded jacket... They got along for a long time, and when they first met Wei Shanhua can still vividly remember the scene at that time, but several springs and autumns have passed in the blink of an eye.

In the Beijing headquarters, in the safe house of the Special Operations Team of the Internal Investigation Section, the monitoring screen flickered a few times and then went black.Li Chongyan and Fu Yangxia were walking in from the open magnetic door. They talked while walking, exchanging endlessly about the "backtracking plan".

"Sir, the monitoring has been interrupted. Our reconnaissance electronic eye 'Snowy Owl' has been shot down." The officer turned around and said to Li Chongyan, "All the images taken before being shot down have been saved in the Galaxy database and classified as confidential .Do you want to continue tracking?"

Li Chongyan walked to the middle of the room and stopped, and the leader of the computer team came to give him a report book.After reading through, Li Chongyan handed over the report to Fu Yangxia, and nodded to the staff: "Suspend tracking, stand by at any time, everyone obeys my orders. Transfer the saved images to my computer, and delete Xinghe's files at the same time. Backup. In addition, tell Lin Yifeng to turn off the connector and wish him good night."

The clerk took a quick snapshot, and Li Chongyan and Fu Yangxia went to the other side of the safe room and closed the door.After reading the report, Fu Yangxia put it on the table and took off his gloves and hat: "How many agents have you arranged in Russia?"

"There are about a hundred of them, and the Time Bureau spends more than a billion yuan on these agents every year, but I don't know how much loyalty this money can buy." Li Chongyan paused for a while, sat down in front of the computer, "Not to mention civilian invisible agents."

Without waiting for Fu Yangxia to say anything, Li Chongyan called up the video data and transferred it to the floating screen above the projection pool: "Come on, let's see what amazing things they have done."

The picture taken by the electronic cigarette appeared on the screen, and Xinghe automatically recognized the identities of the three people inside.The two carefully observed their actions, and Fu Yangxia crossed his arms and said, "They actually went to the military restricted zone in Chita."

"Just like when we went there, it was in March 2009. I went to the Evan Autonomous Region of Siberia with you, and took a group photo on the Tunguska River, and then we went to Chita to explore, where there is a natural light acceleration field."

Fu Yangxia smiled: "You always remember these things so clearly, I don't know whether this is a good thing or a bad thing for you."

When the surveillance video progressed to the time when they were lighting a fire and grilling food on the island, Li Chongyan paused the scene, got up and poured two glasses of sweet fruit wine: "It's been a long time since we sat down and drank together. We had so many friends before, but now I can't find any of them."

"Who else do you want to stay? The Bai family has parted ways with us a long time ago. Everyone else has their own Yangguan Road and single-plank bridge. Who remembers who is better?"

"The Bai family is the most unpredictable to me. They have been standing behind the scenes, and they retreated cleverly after finishing their work. If it is too much, it will be divided. Who wants to mess with it." Li Chongyan took a big sip of wine , did not look at the image on the screen.

"I don't know if they thought about the consequences when they left." Fu Yangxia often showed a solemn and amiable expression, but at this time he turned his face away in thought, "What worries me most is our Juniors, they are still so young, full of curiosity about everything."

Li Chongyan lowered his head and folded a red scarf without saying a word. After a while, he handed the scarf to Fu Yangxia, and said with a smile: "Red flowers."

They all stared at the flowers made of square scarves and remained silent for a long time, the pleasant and unpleasant past melted together in the aroma of wine.Li Chongyan pointed to the qualification card on Fu Yangxia's chest, and asked him, "How long have you been wearing the uniform of the vice chairman of the Military Commission?"

Fu Yangxia lowered his head and patted his cuffs, as if these extraneous things were nothing more than a feather to him: "It's only three years. I don't know how many more three years there will be."

"Do you still want to live like this?"

"I am waiting for the opportunity to change. Only by wearing a military uniform can I truly think of the battlefield. And only in this way can I deeply feel that death is not the most terrible thing in this world. I have never Wherever you come from, you have to go back to where you are in the end.”

Lin Cheng sat on the bed and watched the computer. After pressing the keyboard for a while, he connected to a screen.Lin Cheng stopped and zoomed in on the image, and he saw a bright yellow bonfire with three people sitting around it.He recognized Wei Shanhua at a glance, and then Fu Zhong and Ji Yao.The surrounding area of ​​the bright flames was covered with deep white snow, and beyond that was the dark waters. No one could have imagined that these three people had just experienced a thrilling battle and were now returning to the human world.

A few minutes later, someone knocked on the door, Lin Cheng quickly closed the computer and stuffed it under the bed, and then answered outside.It was his father who opened the door and came in. His father looked at Lin Cheng who had lifted the quilt and lay down, and said with a smile: "Go to bed early, and come back to the bureau with me tomorrow."

Lin Cheng pulled up the quilt to cover his shoulders, smiled and raised his hands to pretend to salute, and shouted: "Got it! Sir!"

His father was amused by him, and turned off the light for him after saying goodnight.Lin Cheng turned over, raised his ears to pay attention to the footsteps and voices outside the door, and waited for these rustling sounds to disappear before sitting up again, and quietly took out the computer and put it on the bedside table.Lin Cheng never dared to let his father find out that he had hacked into his computer, and happened to see this video.Lin Cheng thought about the fire, stared at the curtains in the dark, and fell asleep after a long while.

Ji Yao walked to a broken trunk of a pine tree, and squatted down to look at a charred corpse in the snow.He turned over the dead branch, frowned and said, "This is a dead bird."

"It was pierced by a bullet, of course it was a dead bird." Fu Zhong knelt beside Ji Yao, and hung the gun behind his back.

"The bird was dead before you shot. In other words, it was a dead bird that followed us all the way." Ji Yao fiddled with the scorched feathers with dead branches, and then inserted them into the snow.

Fu Zhong laughed: "What do you mean? Could it be that in the magical Siberia, birds that have died for a long time can fly?"

"Of course not. A dead bird can't fly no matter what. Unless someone tampers with the dead bird and transforms it into a flight monitor." Ji Yao pulled out a metal shell from the rotten body fragments , "This is it, the electronic eye."

He asked Fu Zhong to turn on the wolf-eye flashlight, shrinking the aperture to the minimum, just covering the bird's body.The two put on goggles and went closer to inspect the corpse. Fu Zhong picked out a piece of bird's leg with a small stick and pointed it to Ji Yao: "The whole leg was cut off by something, and it was sewn on later. Its wings were also cut off." Injured, broken bones, not flying well."

Ji Yao nodded, he pushed away the ashes, let a small green fire burn for a while, and then waited for it to go out.Fu Zhong said: "This is phosphorous fire, which is called ghost fire among the people. It is the fire that only appears in old graves and on the bones of dead people."

"That's why this snowy owl has been dead for a long time, and its bones have been rotten to slag, so it can burn phosphorus fire once it is burned."

"Have the monitors been found? Who used such dishonest means to follow us?"

"You used a high-explosive warhead just now. After hitting it, it blew up everything inside. It's hard to tell which one is a camera."

Fu Zhong silently continued to separate various wreckage from the corpse, hoping to find something useful.Ji Yao squatted aside holding the branch, concentrating on thinking about the reason for this.After a while, he threw away the branch angrily: "Who is watching us?"

"I remember when I was in your room, you said someone was watching us. What happened afterwards?" Fu Zhong grabbed a handful of snow and rubbed it in his hands to remove the phosphorous powder and dust.

Ji Yao stood up and patted the slush off his knees: "Someone is indeed watching us through a camera outside my room. When I was about to smash it with a single shot, the camera turned to the normal direction."

"The camera is connected to the monitoring system of the Lake Baikal base." Fu Zhong wiped off the snow from his hands, stood up while holding the butt of his gun tightly, and moved a little away from the corpse. "Did the Russians do it? What reason do they have to come?" Spy on us?"

"You don't have to have a reason to spy on us. You have to know that the agents are under the orders of their superiors. Also, they are only targeting me, and you have no tracking value. So you should know why I told you to stay away from me, right? It's no good for you to follow me, and you have to be targeted by agents for no reason, it won't be a good thing." Ji Yao leaned on his waist and looked into the dark forest, a few small green lights occasionally flashed among the shadows of trees, that's what happened. It's a gray wolf that wanders in the middle of the night.

Fu Zhong turned to look at Ji Yao, and shook his head: "It's not the same thing. Two minds are better than one. When those agents target you, they won't count me as one."

"I don't refute your statement, but you still have to think carefully. Every decision you make is related to yourself. If you want to get close to someone, you have to be prepared to endure all unknown changes."

"I understand, sir, I understand."

They didn't chat anymore, and both of them were silent.Fu Zhong knows that everyone's thoughts cannot be exactly the same. What they have to think about is not only the reality in front of them, but also the future and the past together.Even though they had hugged each other tightly, he knew that there was still a long distance between him and Ji Yao, and he needed the courage to cross the gap and barrier.Fu Zhong didn't say a word, he picked up the snow and buried the snowy owl's body, patting it tightly, bulging a small dirt bag.

Fu Zhong temporarily put down his worries and asked, "Is it true that we are here to hunt?"

"Of course, why not?" Ji Yao wandered in the snow, as if there was no inch of soil for him to shelter.

"Have you been here before?"

A pine branch was broken by the snow, and the snowballs rustled down.Ji Yao looked back at Fu Zhong, and after a while of silence, he did not deny the fact: "How do you know?"

Fu Zhong looked straight into Ji Yao's eyes calmly and replied: "Because I found that you are very familiar with this place, and you also know the marking method of 'Huashan Baiyang'. Hua is white birch, mountain is hawthorn, and poplar is poplar. They are staggered."

"This is Chita City, [-] kilometers away from Hohhot, China, bordering China, and you can go abroad with a railway. I was born in a family of hunters in Daxing'an Mountains. Isn't it normal to come here with my father to hunt? Just like you can go golf Like the stadium."

"Before crossing the swamp, you took out the bamboo stick from the snow cave. I was very surprised, the surrounding area was covered with heavy snow, how did you know there was a bamboo stick?"

"Of course it was buried when I came here earlier. These stick-like things are sharp tools used to cross the swamp. The bamboo sticks are glazed and buried in cold caves. They will not be damaged for dozens or hundreds of years."

Fu Zhong couldn't help being surprised when he heard the words: "As Chief Wei said, is our ultimate goal a wild boar?"

"Ah, of course. It's a huge wild boar king, fierce and savage, you have to be careful!" Ji Yao didn't hide it at all, he knew it was unnecessary to hide it.

"When did you come here before?" Fu Zhong followed his footsteps, looked at him with a vivid expression, and asked one question after another.

Ji Yao stared at him for a while, then turned around and knocked a thump on his helmet: "You have a bad heart! You know what to say to me. I came here ten years ago, with my father, and that time I was with Wei Shanhua with his grandfather."

Fu Zhong smiled beamingly, didn't ask any more questions, and went back along the same road with him.When walking down a boulder, the ice under Fu Zhong's feet loosened, and he slipped and fell off the stone.Ji Yao was so frightened that he quickly reached out to catch him, and the two slid down the abrupt rocky edge together.Fortunately, the stone was not high from the ground, and there was thick and soft snow underneath, so both of them had to roll into the soft snow.Ji Yao crushed a bunch of pine needles, and Fu Zhong pressed on him.

Feng suddenly emerged cautiously from the forest, passed through thousands of valleys and pines, and came like a gentleman.The branches of the aspen are crackling, and a majestic giant pine is full of green shade, full of youthful breath.A bottomless mountain stream winds its way, exuding the coolness and dampness of a swamp full of willow bushes, all of which seem to be seen by Fu Zhong.

They didn't move, Fu Zhong propped up his arms and stared down at Ji Yao who was lying in the snow.One of Ji Yao's arms was clasped around Fu Zhong's waist, as if he was still in shock, but in fact he had already calmed down.Ji Yao was secretly startled, and looked at Fu Zhong with his eyes open. Although he couldn't see Fu Zhong's expression clearly through the mask, Ji Yao felt that it was better not to see clearly.They were young, healthy, and beautiful, with a bright future ahead of them, and any chance of contact would surprise them from the bottom of their hearts.

Fu Zhong just looked at him like this, the moment of silence made him suddenly forget where he was and what he was going to do next.Ji Yao is so heart-wrenching, and so exciting, Fu Zhong can't help but marvel at how there are such good people in the world, and how can there be such a good opportunity!

However, in the next second, Ji Yao suddenly grabbed Fu Zhong's neck, stood up and propped up his waist, and then quickly pressed Fu Zhong down heavily on the ground, flipped onto him, and changed his passive position.Ji Yao pressed Fu Zhong's shoulder and refused to let him get up, drew out the gun and put it against his throat, warning him viciously: "Don't always think about being on top of me, you out-and-out villain !"

Wei Shanhua was cooking a delicious thick soup, but he still didn't see the two of them back, so he picked up the walkie-talkie and shouted: "Are you eating alone? The chicken soup has been cooked, and I'm waiting for you to try it!"

Ji Yao heard the voice in the earphone, he stared at Fu Zhong and replied: "Don't yell, here we come."

After speaking, he took the gun back, tapped Fu Zhong's chest suggestively, and then stood up from the snow.Fu Zhong was knocked out of his wits by him, and he hasn't returned from the Pure Land Kingdom for a while.Fu Zhong's heart was pounding, as if he had just taken poison.

"Go back, drink some hot soup to warm your body." Ji Yao stood aside and said, "Do you want to lie down here and sleep?"

Fu Zhong hurriedly got up and put the gun on his back, and walked back behind Ji Yao, watching his back and listening to his own heartbeat.Ji Yao was also a little dizzy, he felt that the ground under his feet seemed to be floating, and the bones all over his body seemed to be softened, and the heat was oozing out.

After walking not far, Ji Yao stopped. He keenly caught a strange sound in front of him, and raised his hand to stop Fu Zhong from moving forward.

"What happened?" Fu Zhong asked, he took off the gun and hugged him.

Ji Yao stared at the dark woods in front of him, tens of thousands of trees stretched deeper and deeper as if they had never returned.Ji Yao waited for a while, then he raised the shotgun in his hand and said, "Listen to my order and prepare to fight."