Chapter 1
The moment Wei Lai woke up from the cold, a thought crossed his mind: I've had enough, I'm going back to the south today!
This is his fourth month in the Arctic Circle. At that time, he has withdrawn from the Arctic Ocean to the dense forests of Lapland, curled up in a Kota (tent) abandoned by the indigenous Sami people, with Indians. The human felt tent is very similar, with a pointed cone, surrounded by densely stacked reindeer skins, bear skins, and felts to keep out the cold. He was wrapped in animal skin and lay in a half-foot-thick layer of ashes. Before going to bed, he burned a bonfire. When he lay down, he felt warm. Now, when he reached out to touch it, the ashes were cold enough to bite people's mouths. With one bite, half of my arm was cold to the point of numbness.
It’s time to return to the south. For four months, especially in the second half, he had not seen more than one slap. It is said that people who live alone in extreme environments for a long time will have visions. Yesterday, he was convinced that he saw a reindeer cross-legged sitting on the ground and applying lipstick. The brand of lipstick is Chanel, color number 99, full red. After the reindeer finished wiping, he turned his head and pouted at him, as if asking for a kiss.
Wei Lai commented on its makeup: "You should apply lip liner."
After speaking, he squatted down with his head in his arms. If he didn't leave, he would probably suffer from mental problems.
He wrapped the animal skin tightly and got out of the Kota. It was snowing overnight. This moment was surprisingly quiet. In the middle of the sky, there was a ghostly green aurora. Shaped, their heads lowered and bent their waists, all of them are bloated, like giants, demon spirits, and white bones lined up to the end of the sky.
The Sami people believe that there is firefox in the sky. It runs in the night sky and beats snowflakes with its tail, so the aurora appears.
In the eyes of the Chinese people, there is a splendid splendor in the sky, which is called auspiciousness.
Chinese people are very particular about their work, and they like to have a good day to settle down and build a house. The day when they decide to return to the south is full of auspiciousness and good intentions.
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Stepping on knee-deep snow, Weilai headed to the south, walking out of the Lapland forest, and when he was lucky, he would take a ride on a sled pulled by a husky dog.
Letting go of the breath that must not die in the snowfield, the biological clock began to be disturbed, and the spirit was always in a trance, like a woman who had been pregnant for three years. Switching back and forth with the reindeer meat and cold beer, when he returned to the capital between Helsinki, he could clearly remember only two things.
First, when passing by the Santa Claus Village in Rovaniemi, he bowed to the lamppost that marked the Arctic Circle, as if to say goodbye. Some tourists avoided seeing him, and he heard someone comment that he was Savage.
The second is to take a tow truck full of Norway spruce. Finland is known as the country of five million lumberjacks. Such a tow truck is very common - there is not enough space in the cab, so he turned it in while wrapped in animal skins. In the back of the car, he lay down amid the pungent smell of trees. In the second half of the night, the driver came up and slapped him, to the effect that he could only deliver it there. : "Then just leave me here."
The driver had no choice but to greet his companions. One raised his head and the other raised his feet and threw him on the side of the road like a corpse. Half of his face was in the mud, and he slept until dawn.
However, when he returned to Helsinki and saw the milky white Lutheran Church in the distance, he suddenly recovered blood.
He has good ears, clear eyes, and quick thinking. His nose can smell the smell of meat burgers just baked in the distance. The blood in his veins is like boiling water in the sauna next to him, and it starts to boil.
Back to the old place, some people hate it, think it is cold and bleak, like "the Soviet Union before the implementation of the opening-up policy", some people like it here, and feel that this city surrounded by the Baltic Sea has an idyllic poetic feel.
It was the end of March, and Helsinki was still swept in the tail of winter, cold and dark, and Weilai wrapped up in that scruffy hide and walked past concrete apartment buildings, shops with dusty windows, adult goods stores, and a Thai massage parlor.
The street was empty, and no one was watching him. He walked into the underground bar that Erin opened.
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The name of the bar is: We care about the world.
The name of the store is in English, and it is not even written in the local Finnish or Swedish. There are faces in and out of the world, and there are many overt or covert transactions. The elk said that this bar is a vortex floating on the surface of Helsinki's skin. Those who understand should go around, and those who understand will naturally come in.
went to push the door and go in.
During the day, there is no business in the bar, and only one wall lamp is turned on. The dim light covers the mini jellyfish tank standing on the bar, and two transparent sea-moon jellyfish float in it. tentacles, like ghosts glowing with phosphorescence.
Behind the jellyfish tank, there was a face that was distorted by water, light, and glass. She probably saw Wei Lai through this twist and raised her head in surprise.
That's Erin.
Erin is a young German woman with red hair, much like the heroine in the famous German movie "Lola Run". She has a thinking cobra tattooed around her neck, and the snake letter is vomiting. At the bulge of his throat, Snake Letter seemed to be hissing and twitching every time he spoke.
But, under the aggressive appearance, Erin is a mild white slate.
She looked at Wei Lai, puzzled and vigilant, and reached under the bar with one hand, where a Russian-made Makarov pistol was hidden.
Wei Lai knew that she didn't recognize him, or thought he was a homeless tramp: his hair was messy, almost growing to the same point as the beard he hadn't shaved for many days, like two bushes meeting on a narrow road; scratches, the mud color soaks into the skin and cannot be washed off with water. The clothes were nondescript, and the musty smell of the animal skin was mixed with the smell of blood, reminding him of the two days of raw food when it was inconvenient to lift a fire.
His Adam's apple rolled and said, "Me."
Erin's eyes widened, "David's coming?"
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Weilai is his Chinese name and his English name is David. His agent, Milu, loves China fervently, and after studying his name carefully, he said that in Chinese, "lai" means "come", and when we say "David's coming", we are not only stating the fact that you came, we also call out your full Chinese name.
So Erin is calling his name now.
Wei Lai nodded: "The key."
His apartment is Elk's property, and on the top floor of the building, the keys are usually given to Erin for safe keeping when he is out - just for safekeeping. Erin has never had the idea of helping him with tidying, cleaning, or changing the sheets, although she has been insisting that she loves him very much.
Erin was still in shock, and only handed the key with two fingertips. When Wei Lai approached, she had a complicated and disgusting look on her face, as if she was afraid of running into him, and almost threw the key over.
Wei Lai reached out and caught it.
Erin said, "How did you become like this?"
Wei Lai replied, "You spent four months in the north, that's the same."
This is not true, Erin can't stand it for four days.
He turned to leave, the building was not as cold as outside, and he took off the animal skin as he walked.
Erin called from behind, "Wei!"
Wei turned back and forth, she greeted her and was taken back two steps, her face was solemn, even a little annoyed.
"Wei, you'd better get back to the way you were before. You know, I love you, mainly for your handsome face and figure..."
When it came to "handsome", she hesitated for a while, feeling that to say the word "handsome" to the face in front of her was blasphemy.
"...Anyway, I can't love you like this."
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The elevator upstairs is at the end of the long and narrow corridor. When it goes past, it will pass through the security room. There is only one security guard in the apartment building. It is a German named Mark, bald and fat. Difficulty - so most of the time, he stayed at the table behind the glass window, slept on his stomach, or ate.
When Weilai passed by, Mark was holding a fork and was concentrating on cutting the Bavarian white sausage on the plate. He felt a dark shadow pass by the window, and to perform his duty as a security guard, he said hello: "Moi! "
When he said hello, he didn't look up, and the inaccurate Moi with spittle stars all greeted the sausage.
Wei Lai felt that whether it was a murderer, a brown bear, an alien, or a ghost passing by the window at the moment, Mark would not pay attention - he was just a piece of equipment, furnishings, and psychological comfort for the guests.
In his long career as an apartment security guard, Mark only "stood up" once.
It was Christmas. In the middle of the night, two people killed someone on the third floor of the apartment. They didn't care. They poured a glass of beer on the corpse and came out with the corpse on the left and right. Quan Dang took a drunk friend with him.
The corpse was wearing only one shoe, the other foot was bare, the toes scraped the ground, and a line of blood was mixed with the smell of beer behind him.
At that time, Mark was not so fat. He saw someone coming from a distance and felt that the festival should have a festive atmosphere, so when the two corpses were approaching, he suddenly stuck his head out of the door and shouted: "Merry Christmas !"
He got an unforgettable Christmas present: he thought the murderer had stabbed him.
This knife made his work contract continue for a long time because Mark declared to the outside world that he bravely rushed out to protect the resident and catch the murderer.
He liked to say what he liked to say. Anyway, the murderer was not caught in the end.
The elevator is old-fashioned and very narrow. The wire door needs to be opened and closed manually. A roll of the newspaper was thrown in the corner, and it was stepped on many times. The words in bold print and an exclamation mark are exposed between the shoe prints.
——Ransom!
Probably where the robbery happened again.
I haven't watched the news for four months. In this world, many people have died, many people have been born again, and a lot of money has flowed from some people to others.
There is nothing new under the sun.