48 Hours a Day

"I'm really just an ordinary person." Father Zhang said blankly, "If you are looking for the murderer who killed Slud, then you are obviously looking for the wrong person."

"Relax, I'm not here to ask the teacher." The old man looked at the two colored balls into the hole, changed directions, and fell down again. "And I know that you didn't do things at Copenhagen International Airport because of this. You haven't left Ireland for a while, have you."

"Are you monitoring me?" Father Zhang's face sank, "We had an agreement when we were separated. You promised not to disturb us again."

"I remember my original words... If that child is not in danger, I won't show up again." The old man swung again and shot a black ball into the bag. "I kept my oath. I haven't bothered you and your wife for eight years, but as I said before, maybe I underestimated you from the beginning. If I knew you a little bit more, I probably wouldn't make such a promise.

"You shouldn't be back." Father Zhang said solemnly.

"No, on the contrary, it should be said that I am back, otherwise you will be in big trouble." The old man put away his cue, looked at Father Zhang, and sighed, "To be honest, I didn't expect you to go. Such a path, I thought that you are one of the few people who really know us, neither idolize us too much, nor dismiss us completely. You and your wife are like two bystanders, you know ours History, understand where we come from... So why not keep watching, but let yourself be involved, no one knows how dangerous this is better than you."

"I do not understand what you are saying."

"This kind of bullet... you invented it." The old man finally stopped playing mysteries and pointed to the bullet shell on the table. "I want to say sorry here. My people started staring at you four months ago. Your wife, I originally wanted to know if your attitude towards Zhang Heng has changed. After all, we haven’t seen each other for a long time, and human beings are a species that can easily change their minds, but unexpectedly discovered You are secretly contacting a group of people without telling your wife."

"You are very careful. You never make calls, only send emails, so you don’t leave your voice, and you don’t use your computer, tablet or mobile phone. You go to Internet cafes every time and you often change places, even I didn’t hesitate to drive an hour’s car to the next city, and I used a temporary mailbox with a 24-hour expiration date for emails, so my people couldn’t find out who you were contacting, and this incident also aroused my curiosity. ."

"I am bisexual and I have a homosexual person, but my responsibility as a husband makes me have to conceal this forbidden relationship." Father Zhang said seriously.

The old man was amused by him, "Even if you hacked yourself, it's useless. Don't forget who I am. I can't change the past, but after you leave the Internet cafe, you can look back at the time for half an hour and take a peek at it. Yes, besides, do you want to make a bet?"

"What bet?"

"I bet that the magazine of the gun behind you also contains this kind of bullet." The old man put the billiard cue on the ground and said leisurely, "It's a pity that we had been talking so speculatively before, and I thought we would become friends. Now."

"Friend? I won't forget that you forced us into that city under the ice."

"Then you also saved the world, didn't you? You know very well how bad things would become if the owner of the city under the ice came out. If I hadn't organized that expedition, the whole world might have been Fear was shrouded, and after you proposed to adopt that child, I also agreed, and gave him a talisman to help shield him from the owner of the city under the ice. I almost did everything I could." The old man spread his hands.

"That's the problem. From what I know about you, Cronos has never been so kind for no reason."

"So you started searching all over the world ten years ago to contact people who hate gods for various reasons, gather them together, and at the same time consciously guide them, help them find ways to fight against gods with mortals, and finally Created this slaughter bullet for these extremists?" As the old man said, he picked up the bullet shell on the edge of the table again.

"They are not extremists. They just have relatives or friends who died in the hands of gods. Most of them are not even the goals of those gods. For example, a captain took his brother and son out to sea to fish, and they met Bosse. In a bad mood that winter day, a forty-meter-high wave was set off at sea. In the end, his son and brother died in the shipwreck. He has been living in despair and pain for so many years, because no one believes him. If you do, I only think that he is an illusion caused by excessive grief, and he also thinks that he will never get revenge."

"Then you gave them hope and hatred is the best motivation. I admit that some of us are really rough in doing things, but these vices are also given to us by you humans, because you think that our image will be more full of this. Flesh and flesh are more like you, and it is more conducive to the spread of those stories." The old man put his palm on the club, "Dramatic, most of us also hate this word, which to us is like a certain Kind of curse.

"And don't advertise yourself so justice. Others may not know it, but I know very well that your real purpose for doing this is not to help those extremists get revenge. You must have already figured it out in your heart. Zhang Heng’s true identity will be revealed sooner or later, and it’s not hard to guess how the gods will react on that day. Killing him is the easiest way to solve the problem. You know this kid will become the enemy of all gods someday in the future. , So you have been thinking of ways as early as ten years ago.

"If the gods want to kill him, then kill them all. If you didn't peek at your e-mail, I can't believe that an ordinary person who looks very easy-going and has a good temper in the mouth of a friend would actually give birth to such crazy and Arrogant thoughts come."

"I just did what a father should do." Father Zhang said calmly.

"Even if this decision will ruin the entire world? Not only us gods, but also other humans. You should understand that letting Zhang Heng live means that the owner of the city under the ice may get out of trouble... Interesting, although his body There is also a part of your blood flowing in, but after all, he was not born of you and your wife. Is it necessary to do this?" the old man asked curiously.