Chapter 45 damn man

The four of us sat in the cabin, playing poker around a table.A kerosene lamp hung from the ceiling, and a fire in the fireplace, nearly burnt, still gave off a heat that was welcome on this cold night. The wooden house is not exquisite, there is only one room with four small beds and a large stove for cooking.The house is only used for shelter and sleeping, if anyone wants to live comfortably, there are other places. Sitting across from me was a stocky, successful lawyer named Kuroda, with deep-rimmed spectacles and an intellectual look, whom I had only met two days earlier. Sitting to my left was Loube, a fat man with bags under his eyes and thick lips pursed from a cigar.

On the right is Kaul, his body appears to be very strong, the muscles are tight and strong. Twenty years as a tour guide at this lake, a job that is healthier than the three of us, as evidenced by his strong body. "It's your turn, Nanke." Kuroda said to me. I glanced at the cards in my hand, three preserved eggs, enough to win any of them.But some things involve more than money. Lou Bei is my boss. He can make me the manager of the advertising department, or even the deputy general manager. I will not piss him off for a few dollars.I said, "I won't follow." Lou Bei took out two five-yuan bills: "Follow up ten yuan."

The lawyer smiled: "Let me see, follow up ten yuan." Kaur shook his head and said, "I can't afford to follow up." I wonder why this tour guide wants to participate in this game. His financial situation is obviously not as good as ours. However, he may only want to earn a few pennies from us, regardless of the source of the money. Kuroda and Lou Bei are both very good at poker , especially Lou Bei. On Friday afternoon, a seaplane took us to the lake for a weekend of fishing. Weekend is almost over now, and the plane will pick us up tomorrow morning.I came together, not because I like fishing, but to give Lou Bei a chance to get to know me.This trip was my idea. Before leaving, he said to me: "I like to know more about the people who work with me. You know, this job is very important. You can't just find someone."

Honestly, it wasn't really an invitation, and it wasn't an order, but I packed up my fishing gear that hadn't been used in years, kissed my wife goodbye, and joined him and Kuroda in fishing. Lou Bei pushed another ten-yuan bill to the middle of the table: "I want to see the cards." Kuroda showdown: "Two pairs, one pair of nines, one pair of twos." Lou Bei giggled, and he fanned out the cards in his hand: "Four of three." As I expected, the three preserved eggs in my hand are sure to win. Kaur leaned back in his chair and crossed his arms.The eyes on the face that had gone through vicissitudes were light blue, and gradually narrowed, revealing an evil and fierce light at the same time.I don't know if it was because of the money he lost, or because of the Bonn wine.Kuroda picked up the cards, ready to shuffle them again.I stood up and said, "I'm not playing tonight.  …

"Fuck you," Kuroda said, "it's not good for three people to play." "You two play." Kaur said: "I've had enough." Kuroda threw down his cards and said, "It's too early to go to bed, what should I do now, go to the fire and tell a story?" "I have a story," said Kaur.We all stared at him. He got up, went to the fireplace, and lit his pipe. Over his head was an old-fashioned gun, gleaming across two wooden pegs.Kaur struck me as not the talkative type, and since we had arrived he had been quiet, and now it seemed sudden that he would ask for a story of his own accord.

"What kind of story?" Kuroda asked. "About a damned person." Lou Bei suddenly smiled darkly. "That can include a lot of people." Call ignored him.He said: "It happened about twenty years ago when I was young and a bit wild. I was involved in a bank robbery set up by a man named Monley and he asked me to help. I also introduced A friend named Morgan and a girl named Sally participated. We assigned jobs, and if the robbery is successful, each person can get 50,000 yuan." "It's worth the risk," Loube said. "There are a lot of people who don't have that much."

"I thought so too at that time." Kaul continued: "I have never been a gangster, but I thought it would be okay to rob once, especially since I was short of money. Robbing a bank seems very simple. I won't go into details about it. The important thing is that it was successful that time, and the money in hand was more than expected.” "After we got it, we went to Monley's residence to share the loot, and after getting the money, we went away." Kaur said, "Sally said she would come with me." I didn't have to be suspicious, and said casually, "Mengli took it all by himself."

"It's worse than that," Kaul said. "He's gone too far. He took all the money and was afraid we would retaliate, so he pulled out his gun, killed Morgan by surprise, and then shot me, luckily no one. Hit the nail on the head. I held my breath and feigned death until he and Sally left." "So, the girl was taken by him too." I asked. "Monley was a smooth talker and Sally was a big money sucker. I left before the police arrived, and in that town I went to a friend's to heal my wounds. I found the job after adverting in a newspaper After I came here, I planned to stay here for a while, but I fell in love with it and lived here for twenty years. But I never forgot about Monley."

I have no reason not to believe him, my question is: "Why is he telling us this?" "So, the damn person is Monley." Kuroda said: "My opinion is that you took a risk and failed, just like playing bad luck in poker. When it's time to retreat, you follow up. Monley is lucky, that's all .” "No!" retorted Kaul, "if he took the money and left us, I'd probably agree with you. There is no need for him to kill us, I owe Mo Gan a favor, no revenge, sorry friend. " "According to you, you never saw him again," I told him. "Yeah, until recently," Kaul said. "I saw his picture in the papers, and now he's a big shot, and he's in a legitimate business, and I guess he started off with that two hundred thousand dollars." .”

"Are you ready to take revenge?" Kuroda asked. "The statute of limitations for robbery has expired, but you can still charge him with murder." Kaur shook his head: "I can't beat him, he's too rich. I thought of a better way. The newspaper said that he was a good fisherman, so I sent him a letter, inviting him here, offering a fish he couldn't Opportunity to turn down, he took the bait." "Is he here?" Kaur reached out to remove the old gun from above his head, and said calmly, "He's here now." I think now I believe him and understand why he stood there and told what happened twenty years ago.As he spoke, his face was kept in the shadow of the fire, which I had not noticed earlier.

Now, I see his eyes are shining fiercely, his jaw is still tightly clamped on the mouth of his pipe, and his mouth is drawn into a very thin line. I didn't have time to wonder what he was going to do, because suddenly, it happened like a dream.Loube got up to move, and Kaur fired. Loube fell backwards, knocking over the seat, and the sound of the gunshot echoed through the cabin like a cannonball. Still sitting still, mouth open, eyes wide open, Kuroda stood up tremblingly and said, "Damn you! You know what you've done!" "I know," Kaur said. "You will spend the rest of your life in prison." "No," Kaur softly said, "That's not my plan." He turned his gun to Kuroda: "My plan is to leave no witnesses." As he spoke, he lightly pulled the trigger and fired.Kuroda fell heavily in response. The muzzle turned to me. I dodged backwards, rolled to the ground, rolled to the door, opened it, and when Kaur shot me again, I dodged into the darkness outside and ran at full speed toward the woods, all I wanted was to get out cabin. My head hit a tree and bounced back and I felt dizzy.In a panic, I crawled on all fours, not knowing where I was going, and I didn't care. I just thought that Kaur would kill me like he killed others.Crawling, crawling, I didn't stop until I realized that the rustling sound I was making was just enough to guide Call.I gasped, my throat was dry, and my chest heaved. There was no sound in the woods, I observed it, there was a yellow light in the darkness, the door of the wooden house was open, and Kaur did not follow. I knelt there, dread making me sweat, cold sweat dripping from my brow.If I hadn't reacted quickly, I wouldn't even have a chance to escape. Lou Bei died, and in that case, no one escaped enough.Whether he was the Munley Kaul said he was, or whether it was just Kaul's own idea, doesn't matter right now.Chances are, Kaur is right. No one knows Loube's past, from a small store to a chain of eighty stores.Two hundred thousand dollars should give a good start.Then it seems that Meng Li is too cruel. He killed people so cruelly in order to start a business.Seriously; I don't like him, but he's not the first person I don't like among colleagues, the important thing is that I think I can handle him and get on well with him.For what he pays me, I can bear him even if he is a devil.Once there is a good opportunity, use it as a stepping stone to jump to a higher and better layer to do other things. Kuroda may also be dead. Lou Bei invited him to fish out of pure friendship, and there is no other reason. At this moment, for the same reason, my life is also in danger. Kaur was a little crazy, the result of a twenty-year feud.When he found out that Lou Bei was Monley from twenty years ago, he wanted to find a plan to kill him.His plot worked.Just, how will he explain it when the pilot of the seaplane arrives tomorrow morning! I don't know, but one thing is for sure, I'll have to figure out how to survive until the seaplane arrives. I knelt there, my mind almost blanked by the shock, and I couldn't think of what to do next.I thought of my wife, who was sitting comfortably at home, thinking I was having a good time, not knowing that she was becoming a beautiful young widow. A dark figure was standing in front of the door, he was holding a gun. "Nanke!" His voice echoed in the darkness: "You can't escape, Nanke! Within fifty miles of our place, there is no village in front of us, no store in back, and you have no place to go! I will come out to chase after dawn at dawn." You, if you run, will leave traces." I know, he's right. "If you're counting on tomorrow morning's flight, forget it! Let me tell you what will happen, I will kill the pilot and put all the bodies in it, then drag the plane into the lake, set it on fire, and tell people that it crashed when you took off. What do you think they will be looking for? " My blood is colder than the night sky, Crazy Call would really do that, he has a chance to kill four people and get away with the crime. I'm in trouble, but at least I know it's coming.The pilot of the plane wouldn't know what was going on until Kaur pointed a gun at him.That is to say, when he flew here, Kao hadn't killed me, he could still kill the pilot first, put the body in the plane, and then carry out his plan.As for me, he can kill me anytime.If my body were not in the lake, no one would think of anything else, because the lake is wide and unfathomable. Call returns to the cabin. I tremble.The cold night was starting to bite my skin, and when I rushed out of the cabin, I was wearing very little clothes.In this season, these clothes are not enough to resist the cold.No wonder Kaul was in no hurry to chase me, since I would be frozen sluggishly before dawn anyway.I have to stay warm. I counted my pockets in the dark. Inside were some change, a lighter, a wallet, keys, a piece of string I used to tie a mosquito hook that afternoon, and two cigars.There is another weapon, if it can be called a weapon, it is a small knife that my wife bought as a gift many years ago. It has a small plane for scraping fish scales and a hook extractor. Compared with a gun, it is useless. If I got out of sight of the hut, I could build a fire and get my blood circulating so I could figure out a way of escape.I'm sure Caul wouldn't be chasing me in the dark, it would be so easy to sneak up on him that way.It's a different matter if it's in the daytime, he can shoot before he gets close to him during the day. The cold night made me shiver, and I began to shield my face with my arms, and walked through the woods, away from the cabin. Behind the cabin, the forest slopes up to a small ridge.If I could get to that ridge, I could build a fire without fear of being seen. I know I'll leave pretty clear trails and twigs for Caul to follow, but that's tomorrow morning, and what I need now is warmth and a chance to think. I felt the ground sloping under my feet, so I moved down cautiously until I estimated that I should be out of Kaur's sight, then I took out the lighter and turned it on.By the light of the fire I found some small dry twigs, and soon a fire was kindled. As I basked in the warmth of the firelight, Kaul's madness took hold of my brain again. One thing I'm sure of: Kaur isn't smarter than me.I've spent most of my life in a creative business, constantly coming up with new ideas and solving difficult problems, and my success at this is evidenced by my salary. Conquering Kaur is another challenge.Do I really have a chance? When I stood up, the sky in the east was very pale. I quickly did some gymnastics, relaxed my limbs, put down the fire, and looked around.I was in a small valley, but if I climbed any further I would hit a rocky outcrop in the dark. I circled the boulder, and as soon as I got past it, I knew this was where I was going to deal with Cawl. Because behind the boulder, a small ditch suddenly appeared, and the bottom of the ditch was covered with ferns as high as the waist. Fortunately, the ditch was unexpected, and the wild plants made it impossible to look at it unless you came to the ditch.If I was hiding in the canal, Kaul wouldn't know I was there until the last minute, but I'd be able to see him earlier by hiding here, and I had the advantage. It's daylight now, and Call will be coming soon, and I must act quickly. I searched for what I wanted, and I found a springy sapling slightly thicker than my thumb.Hacked and shaved off at both ends, bent into a bow, and made of bootstraps for a bowstring, it seemed to work, albeit crudely. I also found a sapling thicker than my pinky finger, and I cut off a section, sharpened one end, and split the other end a few inches back.I took two plastic credit cards out of the wallet, trimmed them, tucked them into the arrow ends, and tied them with fishing line.I took out the knife, stepped on it with my heel, and removed the blade.Then insert the knife into the split of the arrow and fix it with the remaining fishing line. Try the arrow in your hand, it works as well as the bow, and these two weapons of defeat may work. Sitting in the grass, holding the bow by the crook of my boot, I shot, and leaning back, I chose a large pine tree ten yards away as a target.I slowly pulled the arrow back and grabbed it, not wanting to actually shoot it, because I was afraid the primitive weapon wouldn't work, but I thought about the pilot who was coming with the plane—whether Kaur caught me first or not, The person he wanted to kill, the driver was young, cheerful, and smiling.All his belongings are on the plane, and he is getting married and starting a family.Call would have killed him by surprise, and he would have died a wronged death if that had happened. I held my breath and shot the arrow. It flew away lightly, and was firmly attached to the pine tree, but with less strength than I expected.I pulled the arrow out and found it still intact.But I have to make it work better.After debugging, the arrow flies straighter and stronger.If it hits a person, the degree of damage is considerable. The sun has just begun to show its face from the top of the east mountain. Now all I can do is wait for Kaur. His appearance is as inevitable as the appearance of the sun. I walked back to the edge of the valley and peered down the slope from behind the trees. The tracks I left at night were clearly discernible, and it was not difficult to track me.I wait. Looking at the sun through the morning mist, the sun is like a disc.Then I heard a rustle in the undergrowth below, and I ran back to the boulder, leaving a clear track on purpose. I chose the location and hid in the fern bushes. I knew that it would be difficult for Caul to find me immediately. I lay on my back, with my feet up, aiming between my toes, aiming at the edge of the ditch where he might appear. Overhead, the sky was clear and blue, and I had nothing to fear but great curiosity about what would happen when Kaur's head appeared.I heard him coughing, and then his head appeared beside the ditch, crawling slowly in a thick tan jacket and beret, gun held high. He was scanning ahead, as if expecting me to jump out, and then he stopped and turned halfway. I shoot the arrow in my hand. No sooner had the arrow been released than I noticed he was accompanied by the arrow as it slid past the butt of Call's gun. A man is screaming.Kaur stood upright, looking a little dazed. The man with him wobbled forward a few steps, the arrow pierced his chest at a strange angle, he grasped the arrow with both hands, as if he was about to pull it out, but before he could pull it out, his knees immediately Weakly landed on the ground, lying face down by the ditch.I froze.That person is Kuroda, but didn't Kuroda die last night? When Kaur and I put Kuroda, who was having difficulty breathing, flat on the small bed in the wooden house, Kaur rushed to give him first aid.I also saw Lou Bei, and he said to me: "It was a game, a joke. There were no bullets, the gun was empty, we played our roles, and we did not expect such an ending. " a joke!I looked down at the lawyer who was pale and moaning softly, but I was crying in my heart: What kind of joke is this, it almost killed me? Damn Loube, Kaul and Kuroda for coming up with such a wicked joke that almost made me kill! I asked angrily, "What's the purpose of this so-called joke?" "A kind of test. That's the way I test a person's readiness to be my right-hand man. I want to know whether I can rely on you in case of an accident or danger." "Just for me, you worked so hard to do all this?" He shrugged: "This is not the first time." They had rehearsed it before, no wonder it was so realistic and convincing. "You are the sixth," said Loube; "out of the first five, four fell to their knees and begged Call for his life; Another howler cried like a baby.Do you think I would want that kind of guy to work for me? " He said there was no harm in the experiment, except that the wounds of the three men would take a long time to heal, and they would hate Lou Bei as much as I hated him. "You are the only one who thought of rushing out. We didn't know what to do. Finally, we decided that it's okay to let you spend the night in the woods. You won't freeze to death and you won't run away." "You must have been amused last night." "There's humor in it," he said with a shrug. "Fuck you, humor!" I was furious: "It's no fun to scare people half to death. The three of you could come out together last night and call me loudly, and Kuroda can keep calling me this morning. " "We thought about it too, but we wanted to see what you were up to, and now, I think we found it." Anger burned inside of me and it took a long time to go out.I looked at his fat face and wondered in my heart how could I do things for this kind of person?Why take the job he offers as the job of a lifetime.Lou Bei and I will never be able to get along. We used to think that we could get along because we were kidding ourselves, probably because we were blinded by ambition and generous salary.I will never make the same mistakes again. The plane flies through the air, it circles over the lake, and then slides down with a soft splash. I feel very uncomfortable.He fooled me into almost killing someone because I thought it was Yui. One way to survive, now, I will always regret it for the rest of my life. It would be great if my arrow was fired a little later! His crazy quiz had caused all this, and he was still talking like nothing had happened, thinking it was normal.There must be something wrong with a person who behaves like this, and it is even more problematic if he has that kind of thought in the first place. "Listen," Lou Bei said to me, "you're not responsible for what happened to Kuroda. What matters is how you defend yourself. That job is yours." There was a note of disappointment in his voice, and I got the feeling that he didn't want anyone to pass his test, that he'd rather see people break down, and take the opportunity to admire people's groveling when they're dying. Kaur pretends to shoot Lobe like he's the one to be damned.A damn man! In my personal opinion, Lou Bei is indeed qualified.He wronged me and fooled me. I can't do anything about it, but he should be punished by me, not only for me personally, but also for the previous "friends in distress". The next day, a seaplane crashed, and only one of the five people on board survived. According to survivors, the cause of the crash was caused by tour guide Shen Yu fighting on board to avenge the unequal distribution of spoils twenty years ago.An old gun from the tour guide can attest. Although I have long wanted to kill Lou Bei, I have never been able to find a good excuse. If those two people hadn't designed to deceive me together, I might not have the heart to kill them and the driver together.I was the best high diver in my college days. Now, Lou Bei's company is controlled by me.