winter in greenland

At this moment in room 3012, Dan pointed the gun steadily at C: "I'm surprised you didn't resist at all."

C spread his hands: "It is also a joy of life to be able to enjoy the moment before death. But I have to remind you, Lieutenant Smithton, from the time you cut off the communication unilaterally, to firing the gun to trigger the alarm, and now, it has passed After nearly 20 minutes, how much more time do you think August will give you?"

He raised his hand and nodded between his eyebrows: "Next shot, you can aim here. I know that you are nothing more than information that you want to be treasured by the agents of country A. I personally think that those things are worthless. But words Having said that, I think I need to retain a minimum of professionalism."

Dan stared at him without moving.

C suddenly laughed: "Don't be so serious, lieutenant. In fact, we are very similar to a certain extent. You also have the same crazy factors as mine in your blood. It's a pity that I can't see you being crazy about them." It's been a day."

He stood up from the sofa, walked up to Dan step by step, raised his hand to hold his hand holding the gun, and pointed the muzzle straight between his eyebrows.

"The news that I'm dead will get out soon, and if those people know that the last person to see me was you, no matter what I say, I'm already a corpse anyway, what will they do to you? Guess what? Guess what?"

Dan looked at him for a few seconds, with a sneer on his face: "You said I was as crazy as you, and I said it, I don't care."

C pouted with some regret: "In this case, what are you waiting for? Take revenge, didn't you want to do this a long time ago?"

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When the gunshot rang out, August led a group of people just kicked open the door, and after rushing into the room, what caught their eyes was the corpse of C with a bloody hole between his eyebrows, and Dan stood aside with his gun held up, Poker face.

August rushed forward and checked the person from beginning to end before he breathed a sigh of relief: "Are you not injured?"

Dan shook his head.

Behind them, David took the hunter's agent to check C's body and the facilities in the room. After confirming that the person was indeed C and that he was dead, David stood up from the ground and looked at it with some headaches. Dan: "Given your unilateral act of cutting off communication, there may be some follow-up censorship, and you can't go back to Sirius for the time being."

Dan nodded, his face still expressionless.

August suddenly noticed something strange in the hand pressing his shoulder. When he lifted it up, his palm was already stained red with blood——

The wound on Dan's shoulder had opened at some point, but it was hidden by the black uniform, and no one noticed it for a while.

August frowned, and turned to David: "I'll send him to the hospital first, you know where he is, and I will participate in the follow-up review as his captain."

David also seemed relieved: "This is the best, you go first, we will deal with the aftermath here."

The death of C caused an uproar between the Danish military and the Secret Service of country A. It is your responsibility to kill one party. We are already on the way of extradition, but he died under your noses; one party refuses to admit it. You don't have any evidence to prove that we were involved, so how can you say that we have tampered with it.

At the same time, in order not to cause extra problems, even if he was dissatisfied, the headquarters' review of Dan was just a formality, and Peter was quickly released.

On the day Datta left Gha, she was very reluctant to leave the ward. It was not until Dan promised to visit her after returning to Greenland that the little girl left the hospital with her father.

It was already the beginning of September, and the weather in Geha still had the unfinished warmth of summer. Hiss had already returned to the base, leaving only August here to cooperate with the headquarters to handle some finishing work, and take care of him by the way. Meet Dan in the hospital.

After lying in bed for more than a week, the wound on his shoulder finally "grows gratifyingly" and scabbed over. On a sunny afternoon, Dan escaped the nurse's rounds and sneaked out of the hospital.

For the past few days, August has basically found a place to rest at the headquarters, and finally finished the paperwork that should be dealt with. He came to the hospital to find Dan and planned to tell him to return to Greenland in three days, but he was in vain.Looking at the bewildered little nurse, he frowned and thought for a while, then walked along the road outside the hospital to a beach not far away.

It was getting late at the moment, and there was a piece of green grass on the shoulder of the road, and through this lawn, you stepped onto the beach paved with gravel.The orange-red sunset spreads a fine layer of brilliance on the sea level, the tide gently sweeps across the beach and recedes, and the sound of the waves is soft, as if singing a secret song.

Dan was standing on the edge of the tide, wrapped in a black coat, and the sea breeze couldn't help lifting the corners of his clothes, making him look a little thin.

August entered only to find a white rose lying at his feet, with some dew on the petals.He stepped forward and stood beside Dan without saying a word.

Dan heard his voice and turned around, his eyes were a little surprised: "Why are you here?"

August lowered his head and lit a cigarette. After a long while, he said without thinking, "He is actually a very good opponent."

Dan didn't need confirmation to know who he was referring to, and smiled a little ecstatically: "Yes."

August exhaled a puff of smoke ring, and said after deliberating, "You and C... have dealt with each other before?"

Dan had expected that he would ask, but he didn't expect that he didn't ask C about "that accident", but asked if they knew each other first. After hesitating for a second, he replied cautiously: "Yes. .”

"Was it when you were on a covert mission with the Hunters? Northern Ireland?"

Dan smiled, "Yes."

"If I ask you the content of the mission now, will you still keep the previous answer and keep it secret from me?" August made a rare joke.

"Major, I remember you mentioning that you have family in Northern Ireland?" Dan asked back.

August gave him a keen look: "Yes."

Dan's eyes looked at the sea level in the distance, and it became a little distant: "Northern Ireland...Major, do you believe in fate? Or, do you believe that the trajectory of all of us was doomed a long time ago? For us Said, maybe Northern Ireland is an obscure meeting point, we just didn't realize it at the time."

August didn't speak, and looked at him with a thoughtful look.

"I remember you asking me earlier what I thought of people who died at my gunpoint, and now I can tell you that it was definitely not a good experience. What I performed in Northern Ireland was a A conservation mission, but in a way, that mission was a failure."

August didn't interrupt him, quietly waiting for him to continue.

"At that time we were all in the square in front of the Art Hall on the Waterfront Pier in Belfast. As the face of the target, I accompanied them after a concert. Just after the concert, the opponent's sniper Shots were fired into the crowd. Our target was wounded."

For some unknown reason, August suddenly felt a sense of dread: "That sniper, is C?"

Dan nodded silently: "It happened that my partner was not there that day, and the square was in chaos at that time. I only had a Beretta 92F in my hand, and I could only roughly judge the direction of the bullet from the injured position of the target. Maybe I saw He missed the point, and he fired another shot. Ironically, it was the second shot that helped me lock him in. After I turned back and fired back, the security police on the other side of the square rushed over. I put The target was handed over to them, and when he ran to the building where he was hiding, he had already left. Judging from the position of the blood on the window sill, I should have hit his wrist."

"Based on my understanding of C, there should have been casualties in that accident."

Dan smiled bitterly, but when he was about to speak, he found that his throat was dry, as if something was blocked in his throat.He tried twice before speaking hoarsely: "Yes, the person who died...is the target's fiancé."

August was silent for a long time, then he raised his hand and patted Dan on the shoulder, and said awkwardly: "You still beat C to death with your own hands."

The smile on Dan's face became a little sarcastic: "Yes, but it doesn't make any sense. The person who passed away is dead, and if C is not dead, it is impossible for that person to come back to life."

"But this news may give some comfort to the living."

Dan didn't speak, and lowered his eyes to look at his hands, with a trace of disgust in his eyes.

August caught the change in his expression, understood something in an instant, sighed in his heart, and picked up the white rose at his feet: "Is this rose for the deceased?"

Dan took a wan look, but didn't answer.

August raised his arms and threw the rose into the sea.The snow-white buds rise and fall with the waves, and are gradually pushed to the distance by the tide.

"The headquarters previously requested a general autopsy before handing over C's body. Although I don't know the reason, after reading the report, it also explained some problems that I couldn't figure out before."

Dan turned his gaze in surprise: "Autopsy? What's wrong, what's wrong with the report?"

"They found a malignant tumor in C's brain, advanced stage."

Dan turned his head in shock.

"I don't think C himself didn't know about it. Combined with the incident in Greenland, I'm afraid that series of explosions was his farewell show for himself. I couldn't figure out why he was stranded in Copenhagen before, and he was in the Nebu Hotel. It can almost be said that he sent it to us by himself. Thinking about it now, he simply cannot accept the treatment of lying in the hospital like a disabled person. He just wants to end himself by someone. As for who that person is, no matter Important." August paused, then patted Dan on the shoulder: "Mission failure is not your responsibility, in fact, I think that in such a chaotic situation, if you can respond quickly and push back the snipers, it's your best. Do your best. As for this operation, it would have been the same for anyone."

Dan was a little dazed, as if he was still digesting the information just now.

August took off the scarf around his neck and handed it to him: "I'll go back first, the seaside is windy, don't wait too long after your wound has healed."

Turning around and taking two steps, he turned back as if thinking of something: "After returning to the Greenland base, we will start preparing for this year's winter patrol. Do you remember who your partner is?"

Dan came back to his senses, and a real smile appeared on his face: "Of course, Major."

"That's good." August turned around, waved his hand, and left the beach.