Chapter 20 Choice and Life(1/2)
When he woke up again, he lay on the sofa and was very indecent, with saliva on his face. The old man and Gu Miqing stood in front of the table and looked at him. Yan Jiuzheng was a little embarrassed, so he wiped his saliva and sat up.
"Can you not make me dizzy next time? If you are afraid of exposing your address, you can put a headband on me or something... How many times is this!" Yan Jiucheng expressed his dissatisfaction.
After all, it feels very unpleasant to plow it all over.
"It won't be like this after you officially join." Gu Miqing smiled with her teeth and the beauty smiled. Yan Jiucheng stopped talking and decided to admit defeat.
Looking around for a week, there was an ordinary office, which was quite large, with air conditioning on, quite comfortable, with sofa and coffee tables on, and curtains closed.
"I saw you entered 022. Have you agreed to join us?" The old man stood up from the sofa with a smile and stood in front of Yan Jiuzheng. Although he was wearing sunglasses, Jiuzheng still felt his seriousness.
Gu Miqing, who was standing beside him, also stood up and faced Yan Jiucheng.
The two of them looked at him straight, and an invisible pressure came.
"Do I need to know first what organization do you are?" Yan Jiucheng added after asking: "If it is to save scientists, it is just and useful to me, I am willing. But let me know in detail."
"I can't tell you." The old man shook his head: "What I can tell you is that we are a just organization, but we can't say which project we are for. At most, we can tell you the code name of the project."
Yan Jiuzheng was a little surprised.
Since I have joined, why can’t I inform you of the specific project?
"Because we don't know the specific content," Gu Miqing said.
"Ah?" Yan Jiucheng was very surprised.
"We will only tell us the specific goals when we set out. Before that, in order to ensure safety, our members will not be announced." The old man took a few steps towards 90% and solemnly asked again: "What can be told is that justice is but danger."
"Are you scared?" Gu Miqing asked.
Yan Jiucheng looked at Gu Miqing, and the stunning face of the woman in front of him was filled with unreachable coldness and a hint of provocation.
As long as you are a man, no one is willing to admit defeat in front of such a beauty.
"Dangerous? I'm a dangerous father, will I be afraid of Master Jiu?" Yan Jiucheng blurted out, he was full of energy in the world, and he would be as domineering as he would be.
As he was talking, he walked in alone, carried a black bag, and then opened it one by one and put it on the ground.
The bag is very large, rectangular, about two meters, red, black, white, and colorful.
Yan Jiucheng walked to the bags, squatted down and touched them. It was a fabric that was resistant to seepage. It was very dense and asked, "What is this?"
"The person who transported the body bag, transported the body." Gu Miqing said lightly.
...
"Transport the corpse...bag?" A feeling of discomfort that was indescribable surged up two people. Yan Jiucheng's hand, which was touching the bag, bounced away instantly. He felt that his behavior was a little cowardly, and looked at Gu Miqing with his light, looking at Gu Miqing's expression.
Well, the previous squeal is in vain.
"Uh..." Yan Jiucheng smiled awkwardly and politely, and then answered professionally: "I wasn't scared just now. Do I think this body bag is not black or blue? Why is it colorful? I...I'm just a little surprised."
"Respect everyone's needs." Gu Miqing seemed to be accustomed to this cowardice for a long time. She smiled disapprovingly and said, "If you want, you can also ask for the poems, sentences, or animals you like to print on the outside, anything."
"I...request?" Yan Jiucheng smelled something.
"Yes." Gu Miqing nodded: "This is your body transport bag. You are 1.8 meters tall and two meters long, tailored for you."
...
Yan Jiucheng's face couldn't help but pull it...
"We are very humane. Young people nowadays pay attention to personality. In this bag that belongs to you, you can show your personality."
...
Yan Jiucheng didn't know how to answer the conversation for a while.
Should I thank them for their humanistic considerations, or should I think about what the outer packaging looks like when I lie in it?
"Our actions are very dangerous. We have to sign a life-and-death case, death..." The old man put one hand on Yan Jiucheng's shoulder: "Like a shadow, are you sure you have thought it clearly?"
Jiuzheng tried to look at his eyes, but he couldn't see anything through his sunglasses. He could only feel the old man's hand being slightly pressed and heavy.
Yan Jiucheng had thought of this dangerous thing for a long time.
I think it’s different from seeing a body bag, which is more realistic.
"Please see." The old man pointed to one of the walls, which separated the walls, revealing a hidden mezzanine.
Some photo frames hang on the mezzanine walls.
Ninety percent counted quickly, twenty-two black and white photos and four color photos, but the color photos were mosaiced and the appearance was not visible.
It seems that the black and white photos are all leftover photos.
There is a medal next to each photo frame. The red stars are dazzling and brilliant, the color of blood donation and the color of hope that the rising sun will rise.
"The 22 black and white photos are secret members of our glorious sacrifice and were awarded the title of hero. These four people who had mosaic color photos are secrets of survival. They also awarded the title of hero. After completing the task, they lived the life they wanted." The old man looked at the people on the wall, his eyes were slightly red. Fortunately, his sunglasses blocked him and he could not see his sadness.
The 22 dead were elderly, young, middle-aged, men, women, and even one with a child.
The mortality rate is a bit high, with only 26 people in total, and 22 people died.
"Living, now..." Yan Jiucheng looked at the mosaics. Obviously, he hoped that when he appeared on this wall in the future, he would not be black and white, but colorful mosaics.
That means you are still alive.
"What are they... doing now?" Jiuzheng asked, pointing to several living heroes.
"This is a repairman, this is a bookstore, this is a monk who converts to Buddhism, and this is a small shop that has fried meat skewers."
Yan Jiucheng was surprised again.
"Aren't they heroes? How could they do such an ordinary job?"
These jobs are the work that people around you will do, and they will not be tied to such heroes who have experienced the battlefield at all.
"There will be an extremely generous amount of money to them for buying houses and cars. From then on, there will be about 100,000 yuan of funds to their cards every month to ensure that they live a worry-free life. But they all chose to return to their previous life and live a life of normalcy." Gu Mi sighed quietly: "Maybe, at that time, you will feel that ordinary life is the happiest. And they cannot tell others about any actions they have participated in, nor can they take away the hero medal."
The hero medals are quietly hung on their photos and will never be known. This is an invisible hero, dazzling but no light can be seen.
One choice is a life, and it turns out that the hero's life will eventually return to ordinary. Yan Jiucheng thought that at this time, he could not understand the choices of these people, but he just thought it would be better to live an ordinary life, but he would not think it would be the best.
"The mortality rate is very high. I'll ask you the last time. Have you thought it clearly?" The old man looked at Yan Jiucheng, his voice was very heavy, and he asked.
Yan Jiucheng looked at the photos hanging on the wall, and then looked at the body bag.
"Did they all use this to ship it back?" he asked.
"Part." Gu Miqing's eyes became gloomy, and her voice even choked: "Some have only found part of the body, and some... In order to avoid other people's exposure, just..."
Yan Jiucheng didn't say anything.
Gu Miqing didn't say it, but four words popped up in his mind: exposing the corpse in the wilderness.
I guess some people will end up like this.
Even if you are wearing the medal of a hero at this time, you will not be able to see the light of day. You will die in a dark place, rot and smelly, crawl and bite by bugs. Whether it is life or death, after completing your mission, your identity will not be recognized by the world. In fact, you will declare to the outside world that you have never had these actions, your honor may be accompanied by corpses or your ordinary life in the future.
No matter whether you are life or death, no one remembers you.
The only thing that remembers you is the motherland.
The atmosphere is a very strange thing. It can make people in a certain atmosphere have a consistent feeling in the spiritual realm. The atmosphere at this time is very heavy, so heavy that Yan Jiucheng doesn’t know what to ask or what else to ask.
Any questions asked will be a torture for the living.
He looked at the old man and Gu Miqing. Gu Miqing's sadness was clear, but the old man's sadness was hidden behind the sunglasses and could not be seen.
Yan Jiucheng walked towards the body bag again, squatted down, and gently stroked the bag with his hands.
"You think clearly that once you join, you must be prepared to sacrifice and exchange our lives for the lives of scientists." Gu Miqing used the word 'we'.
Her eyes burst into longing, and the desire for Yan Jiucheng to join made her chest fluctuate violently. You should know that those who have reached this point on weekdays are finally scared and decided to leave.
Yan Jiucheng didn't say anything. He opened the zipper and looked inside. The bag was a little cold, just enough for someone to lie in. After looking at the people on the wall, some of their lucky ones would be transported back by the bag.
Only those who are lucky have the chance to be transported back by a bag.
I used to think that it was such an unfortunate thing to lie in the body transport bag, but now I think it would be so lucky if I could lie here. It was much better than exposing the corpse wilderness.
Use our lives to exchange for the lives of scientists.
Yan Jiucheng silently recited what Gu Miqing said in his heart. He suddenly remembered the lines he saw in a movie. Several soldiers risked their lives to save another soldier. One of them said in confusion: "Why should we exchange our lives for his life? Is it because he still has a mother? I also have a mother, you also have a mother. I am sure that we all have mothers! Why?"
What kind of courage and sentiment do you need to be able to willingly exchange my life for his life.
Yan Jiucheng didn't say anything, just squatted on the ground, gently stroked the body bag with one hand.
A minute has passed.
Two minutes passed.
Fifteen minutes have passed.
Yan Jiucheng stretched out his hand and gestured: "My bag is bigger. I am 1.8 meters tall and the bag is only 2 meters tall. How can I wear a hat? If I die, I will wear a hat on my head, that kind of baseball cap."
As soon as this sentence came out, Gu Miqing suddenly breathed a sigh of relief and covered her chest with tears flowing down her eyes.
"You agreed!" she said excitedly, but suppressed her emotions.
"Yeah." Yan Jiucheng stood up and pointed at the green bag: "I don't want green. I'm a man. I absolutely don't want green. I want... Uh, anyway, other colors are fine, just print photos of my family outside for me."
To be continued...