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Vatengi nevaimirira pacafe yaJake vanga vakarara pasi apo Jake akapfura pfuti yekutanga ndokupfura chopper pasi. Asi pakwakanga kwanyarara, vakabuda muchitoro chekofi kuti vaone kuparadzwa kwaiitwa mumugwagwa. Naivowo vakanga vanzwa kutinhira kukuru mudenga, uye mabhomba eboka akanga avaroverera vasati vakwanisa kutiza. Maminitsi gare gare, FBI yakachengetedza nzvimbo uye yakatsvaira mitumbi nezvipikiri, uye yakabvisa mativi ayo asina kunyatsoputika, achisiya pasina humbowo hwekurwiswa.
Luke ari muimba yake yekutandarira akapfeka tauro muchiuno, bvudzi richingonyorova. Anogara pasi ndokutora runhare achifonera Remi. Remi anopindura:
- "Hongu"
- "Zvakanaka kunzwa izwi rako."
- "Ndiri kutoenda kumba izvozvi."
– “Vakatiwana sei? Izvi hazvina musoro. "
– “Wanga uchitarisira chii, Ruka? Waiziva kuti vaizosvika kwatiri nokukurumidza kana kuti gare gare.”
- "Ndaireva zvakanyanya: Vakatiwana sei kwaJake? Unofunga kuti takateverwa here?”
- "Ah ... Zvinogoneka, asi hazvigoneke. Ndainge ndaona kuti taiteverwa here. Teerera… Ndakadzokerako awa yapfuura. Iyo cafe ndeye toast. Jake aenda. Vakashandisa mabhomba emapoka. "
- (pashure pemasekonzi mashoma ekunyarara, Ruka anopindura): "Taifanira kunge takasara."
- "Ndiani angave akaziva kuti vaizoshandisa simba remhepo remhepo? Dai taizosara, zvipikiri zvemasumbu zvingadai zvakatiurayisawo. Hapana zvataigona kuita kuponesa hupenyu hwemunhu imomo. Zvino, kune zvakare nhau dzakanaka pamusoro peizvi zvese. Zviripachena vave kupererwa. Vari kutibata sechipfuro chemauto. Zvinoreva kuti tiri kusvika kwavari.”
— (Ruka anogomera): “Zvakanaka. Ngativei takangwarira. Kana vakakwanisa kuwana vaJake, vanogona kuwana chero chinhu. Remi, ivo vanoziva kuti tiri vanaani, uye vanoziva nzira yokusvika kwatiri. Inyaya yenguva vasati vaziva kwatinogara. Tichabatana nenzira yekare. "
– “Hongu, zvaita. Ruka, zvichengete.”
- "Newewo."
Luke anorara pasofa ndokugadzika glass remonade patafura. Maziso ake anobva awedzera kurema opedzisira azvipira kurara. Imba yake ine madziro machena uye sirin'i chena isina mifananidzo kana chandeliers. Hapana zvishongo mumba. Imba yekutandarira ine tafura yekofi nhema, sofa rebeige rezvigaro zvitatu rinopesana nefafitera hombe rine mapani makuru mana. Mumazuva akadai, hazvibviri kuwana imba yakaita seyaRuka; pasina midziyo yemagetsi kana midziyo, kunze kwemagirobhu mashoma uye firiji diki.
Pasinei nekuuraya uye kuputika kwese, vatungamiri venyika vave vachigara vachisimbisa vanhu kuti zvinhu zvose zviri pasi pekutonga, uye kuti pakanga pasina chikonzero chekusanzwa vakachengeteka. Kusiyana nezvaichimbova kurwisa kwemagandanga kwakaitwa nehurumende pachayo kuvanhu vavaitonga, uko chinangwa chaive chekutyisidzira vanhu kuti vazviise pasi, kurwiswa kwechangobva kuitika uku kwakaitwa nevekunze, uye masangano aisakwanisa kuwana vanhu vanotya vanogara pamba vese. masikati nehusiku hwese pasina chaatenga. Asi ikozvino, nevese Nhau network dzakavharwa nekuda kwekurwiswa kwemagandanga, hurumende nevashambadzi vanoona kusakwanisa kwavo kutaura nevatengi vavo kunetsa zvakanyanya. Kusvika kutepfenyura kwatanga zvakare, vanenge vongovimba neredhiyo vongotarisira kuti nhepfenyuro hadzichanangidzirwa.
Zuva rinopenya nepamahwindo makuru uye pazvivharo zvemaziso aLuke. Anosimuka nekusagadzikana ndokufamba achienda kuhwindo ndokurivhura. Mhepo inotonhorera inovhuvhuta, uye ruzha rusinganyatsooneki rwemotokari dziri pauriri hwe13 pasi hunoita maungira kune gumi nefararira rezvivakwa zvakapoteredza raari. Anokurumidza kupfeka mbatya dzake dzerima, uye paakangopfeka bhachi rake, gonhi rinobva ravhurika. Ruka anomhanyira bakatwa rake, asi SWAT inovhura moto, uye mabara anopinda musana nemapfudzi. Haamire, anotora bakatwa rakarara patafura yekofi ndokucheuka achingosangana nemadhiramu epfuti akanongedzerwa pachipfuva chake. Kuputika kwacho kwaiva nesimba zvokuti kunomukanda pahwindo, ndokurityora. Luke anodzokera netsoka dzake nechiso chinotonhora uye chisingatauriki, uye anovhomora bakatwa rake, asi imwe pfuti inomudonhedza nepahwindo.
Vamiririri veSWAT vanotarisa pasi nepahwindo rakapwanyika kuti vaone kuvhima kwavo kuchidonha. Mumwe wavo anonongedza pfuti yake mudenga ndokuridza achienda.
“Rega kudaro!” the operations commander anoshevedzera, “basa rakanaka mose. Danieri, fona uye rega timu B pasi pasi itore mutumbi uye kutsvaira girazi neropa." Mutungamiriri Dimitri anombomira kwesekondi maziso ake achitenderera mufurati. "Ingave nzvimbo inofinha sei iyi." Dimitri anoti, “Rudzi rwenzvimbo ingakupa nguva yakawandisa yokufunga nokuronga pamusoro petsvina youpengo nemhaka yokuti hauna chinhu chiri nani chokuita.”
“Zvirokwazvo,” anopindura kudaro Jane sezvaanobvisa ngowani yake ndokubvisa chifukidziro, “rudzi urwu rwavanhu runova vashori nemhaka yokuti ndangariro dzavo dzinosvika papfundo roupenyu apo ivo vanorasikirwa nefariro muchinhu chiri chose chinokosha. Vanorasikirwa nechido chokuita mari kana kuti kuwana motokari yakanaka, vanotorasikirwa nomufaro muzvokudya kana kuti vatano.”
- Dimitri: "Zvinosetsa kuti unotaura izvozvo. Iwe uchiri mudiki kuti uzive kuti chikafu chaicho kana bonde chairo rinonaka sei. Pane nguva apo chikafu chaigadzirwa nemaoko evanhu kwete kugadzirwa nemakemikari kuitira purofiti. Paivawo neimwe nguva apo vanhu vairara nevadiwa vavaida, kana kuita bonde vasati varoorana kana kunze kwemuchato… mufaro wekutyora zvisungo. Asi titarise nhasi. Hapana fungidziro isingagone kuitika… hapasisina fungidziro. Kunyange zvinonyadzisira zviri kunetsa kuona kutsauka kwataita. Chokwadi hatichadaidza bonde rengochani kana bonde reboka rakatsauka zvakare, nekuti ndizvo zvakajairwa. Chinhu choga chichiri kuonekwa sechinokanganisa pabonde mazuva ano chibharo. Uye handina chokwadi chekuti zvicharamba zviri pamutemo kwenguva yakareba sei. "
Jane anogara pasofa uye pashure pokunyatsoteerera nechido, anobvunza Dimitri kuti: “Zvakadini norudo zvino? Vanhu vachiri kudanana, handizvo here?”
- “Rudo chinhu chisingachakwanisi kuwana. Vanhu vakabatikana zvokusada kana kurera vana. Masikirwo edu ezvepabonde akawana zvakanakisisa kwatiri. Munhu angawira murudo sei; kuva chikamu cheukama hutsvene, apo imwe nzvimbo yeusiku inopiwa nguva dzose? Vanhu vari kuita bonde mumahofisi, mudzimba dzekugezera dzeveruzhinji, mumapaki, mudzimba dzekudzidzira, mudzimba dzekurara, mabharukoni, mumakofi einternet, mota dzakapakwa, ... kunyangwe mumotokari dzinofamba. Vanhu vari kupa zvepabonde pasina hukama hwepfungwa uye vasina mutoro; hapana zvipingaidzo…. Chikafu chisina kunaka, bonde risina kunaka. Asi handizvo zvinoita kuti vanhu vakaita saLuke kana Genghis vapinde mumhirizhonga. Varume ava vane hunyanzvi; akachenjera zvikuru zvokusagona kuita ikoku nokuora mwoyo nokuda kwokushayikwa kwezvokudya chaizvoizvo.”
– “Zvino chii? Chii chinovadzinga?”
- "Ini ndinoda kutsvaga kuti chii chinovatuma nekubata chimwe chinhu mukunyora, kana kubata mumwe wavo kuti abvunze. Kusvika pari zvino vanhu ava vanga vaita sezvipoko. Asi mushure menjodzi yakaitika nezuro manheru, nekufa kweTerevhizheni uye kuuraiwa kwevamwe vedu pacafe iyoyo, handifungi kuti tichazombowana mukana wekutaura navo. Zvino neaya ekutsvaga-uye-kuparadza mamishini, handifunge kuti tichazomboziva kana kunzwisisa chikonzero chavo, kana ivo vachitoziva chimwe. "Hapasisina kusungwa" akadaro mutevedzeri wemutungamiri.
- "Ihwo hupenzi. Hatitombozivi kuti vangani, kana kuti vavariro dzavo ndedzipi. Nekupambwa uku, vanongowana pekuhwanda kwakachengeteka. Vachagara vari nhanho imwe mberi. Isu tinoshanda pachena, ivo vachishanda mumumvuri. "
- "Ehe, nhanho imwe mberi kwedu. Asi ndinokubheja ivo vanga vasingatarisiri kuti tishandise mabhomba emapoka kana kuita zvataita mangwanani ano. Havagoni kukunda. Tine ongororo, tine masatelliti, uye tine mauto nemapoka mashanu akasiyana eparatroop mukati menyika achishanda nehunyanzvi hwepamusoro. Chii chavakawana? Turret uye chinopotsera chinokandwa hachigoni kumira pagungwa rezvombo zvatiinazvo. "
- "Usakanganwa minondo nemapanga," anodaro Jane achisekerera.
– “Hongu, bakatwa. Kutaura nezvazvo, ndichachengeta bakatwa rake; chiyeuchidzo chekumuroverera. Handei pasi tione kuti chii chiri kuitika."
“Unoziva kuti tiri toga pano. Tinogona kurega mamwe maminetsi gumi, haufunge here? "
- "Ehe, asi tanga wavhara machira, uye ah. Ndichakiya mukova. Ndichiri wechinyakare.”
Mushure mekunge Dimitri naJane vapedza uye vasunga, kuputika kunobuda. Jane anotsemura maketeni ndokutarisa pasi nepafafitera rakanga rapwanyika kuti aone chinhu kunze kwegore jena rechiutsi. Dimitri anotumira vamiririri vake; asi hapana mhinduro. Vanomhanya vachibuda mufurati vachidzika nemasitepisi epanobuda moto. Vanoisa masiki avo egasi. Vachingosunda magedhi kuvhurika, utsi hwese hunenge hwatopera. Yese SWAT unit haina chainoziva mumugwagwa. Hapana kana mumwe wavo akaurayiwa. Uye mutumbi waRuka wakanga usipo.
“Mwari ngaakudzwe!” anoshevedzera Dimitri, "Ndichabatikana pamusoro peizvi."
- "Sei? Tapedza basa racho! Takabvisa chinangwa! " anopindura Jane.
- "Kuvimba hakuwanzoitika mazuva ano, Jane wangu anonaka. Nekubudirira kwese kuchangobva kuitika kweboka remumvuri, munyori wezvekuchengetedzwa kwenyika anotenda kuti vane mashandiro mukati mehurumende. " Meso aJane anowira pachinhu chinopenya, “Onai!” anoti kuna Dimitri nenyemwerero huru, “Uchava nechimwe chinhu chokuzviratidzira.”
Chiso chaDimitri chinopera kushushikana, uye anofamba achienda kunotora bakatwa raLuke, ropa raLuke rakazara pamubato wawo. Rudzi irworwo rwehumbowo ruchaponesa Dimitri nechikwata chake kubva pakuiswa pane dema rondedzero; chokwadi, kana vakakwanisa kutsanangura kuti vakarasa sei muviri pashure.
Ruka anovhura maziso ake. Akarara nemanhede mune chaanofunga kuti imhando yebako. Masvingo edombo akamupoteredza akatsvuka kwakasviba, ane marambi akajeka anobuda maari. Luke anonzwa kurwadziwa mumapendekete ake, musana, uye muchipfuva. Anoisa maoko ake pamapendekete ake oatenderedza nemuviri wake kuti asawane maronda, kana mavanga. Anodzorera maoko ake kumativi ake, otanga kufemera pamusoro apa misodzi ichiungana zvishoma nezvishoma pamakona emaziso ake. Anotsinzina meso ake, achidzvinya kusvikira misodzi yodzika munzeve dzake; anoisa maoko ake pachiso chake. Ipapo anokanda maoko ake ose mudenga kuti arare pedyo nemusoro wake. Maziso achiri akavharwa, anogomera: "Maita basa."
Zvichakadaro Dimitri ari kumusangano kuWhite House, achiudza mutevedzeri wemutungamiri wenyika uye munyori wezvekuchengetedzeka kwenyika, munyori wehurumende, munyori wezvekudzivirirwa kwenyika, uye vakuru veFBI, NSA, CIA, pakati pevamwe vanhu vasina kuzivikanwa vanoramba vasingazivikanwe uye vasingazivikanwe. akagara kure netafura.
“Ndaifunga kuti mati mutungamiri wenyika achange ari pano kumusangano uyu,” anodaro Dimitri neinzwi rakaderedzwa.
- "Hongu achange ari pano," akapindura munyori wehurumende, "kunze kwekunge tawana musoro wake wagurwa muviri wake wose mangwanani ano."
Munyori wezvekuchengetedzwa kwenyika anoenderera mberi achiti: “Tinotenda kuti yakachekwa nebanga. Uye varume ava vanodavira kuti rakanga riri basa raRuka.” Imba yacho inonyarara kwemasekondi mashoma, kudzamara mukuru weFBI abvunza kuti munhu wese aivepo sei: "Wabvisa chinangwa, handiti?"
– “Hungu,” anopindura kudaro Dimitri, “Akapfapfaidzwa nepfuti dzomuchina, akapfurwa katatu nepfuti, madhiramu maviri pachipfuva uye imwe mudumbu. Pfuti yechitatu yakamuwisira kunze nepahwindo reuriri hwechi13 uye varume vangu vakamutarisa achidonha pasi.
- "Mumwe wevarume vako, mumiririri Daniel Hong, akaramba achipfura paakanga ari pakati pemhepo, achiwira pasi kusvika pakufa kwake," mukuru weFBI akawedzera, "zvakaitika here?"
- "Hongu changamire," akapindura Dimitri neruremekedzo, "asi ..."
- "Asi chii?" vakabvunza mutevedzeri wemutungamiri wenyika.
“Hatina kuwana mutumbi, asi takawana munondo wake, uye ropa rakanga riri pauri.”
- "Iye here kana kuti haana kupfapfaidza pasi?"
– “Hongu changamire akadaro, takazviona zvichiitika. Kunyange varume vedu vakachengetedza mukova wechivako vakaona kuparara kwaityisa.”
- "Zvakanaka, hazvina basa kana vakatora mutumbi wake. Kururamisira kwaitwa mangwanani ano. Kana kuri kupondwa kwehutsinye kwemutungamiri wenyika, tinotarisira kuona kwako maererano nenhau idzi. Tichaona kuti vanhu vachange vakagadzirira riini mashoko akadai, uye haisiriyo nguva yacho.”
- "Hongu changamire, zvinonzwisisika. Haufanire kunetseka nezvangu."
- "Zvakanaka ndatenda Dimitri, unogona kuenda izvozvi."
Dimitri anobuda, uye anosangana naJane pakati penzira achibuda muchivako. "Zvafamba sei changamire?" Anobvunza kudaro. Dimitri anongogutsurira musoro ndokuramba achifamba. Kudzokera kuWhite House, musangano unoenderera mberi.
“Changamire, mapikicha esatellite atsigira zvakawanikwa nenjere dzedu,” anodaro mukuru weNSA, “kubhomba kweNBC nedzimbahwe reCNN kwakaitwa nendege. MaF-16 maviri akaita mishoni, uye akaputika shongwe dzekutaurirana nemasetiraiti. Nhau dzinotyisa kupfuura dzose dzakasimbiswa changamire. Ndege dzehondo dzakadzokera kumuzinda wemauto eCanada nemvumo yekumhara. Patakabvunza vataisangana navo kuCanada, mhinduro yavo yaive yekuti varwi vaviri ava vaive kunze kwekunodzidzira basa, uye kuti vaizoenderera mberi nekuferefeta nyaya iyi. Vakaramba kutipa rumwe ruzivo."
- "Hatina kudzora sei ndege iyi?" anobvunza VP.
- "Changamire, yakabva kuCanada!" anodaro secretary of Defense.
- "Zvinorevei izvo?" anopindura VP.
- "Changamire, zviri kutaurwa nemunyori wezvekudzivirira ndezvekuti hatitarisire kurwiswa kwakanyanya kubva kumhiri kweCanada. Hapana anotenda kuti hurumende yeCanada yanga iri kuita izvi, "anodaro mukuru weFBI.
- "Vanakomana vekuCanada vehure! Ndinoziva kuzvibata. Asi tanga wandiudza, Fox News yakarohwa sei? " anobvunza mutevedzeri wemutungamiri wenyika.
- "Zvakanaka, Fox yaive dhizaini. Zvinoputika zvakaiswa mukati mechivako ichi kuti chiputike pasina kukanganisa chero chivako chiri pedyo.”
- "Pane vakakuvara?"
- "Kwete changamire, hapana vafa, kana kukuvara! Zvinangwa zvese zvitatu zvakange zvatocheneswa nekutyisidzira kwebhomba maminetsi kuputika kusati kwaitika. Kurwiswa kutatu kwakarongeka kwaive kwakachena. "
- "Izvi hazvina kunaka zvachose. Onai kuti tinomhan'ara vanenge vakuvadzwa. Handidi kuti maniac aya awane mamwe vatsigiri. Chero tsitsi dzipi nedzipi dzine vakasununguka kwavari dzinofanira kubviswa. "
- "Hongu changamire, zvinonzwisisika. Zvakadini nezviuru zvevanhu vakafa?"
– “Regai mushumo wekutanga uti 2000, uyezve svondo rinozogadzirisa nhamba yacho kuti ive 300. Izvi zvicharatidza vakasununguka kuve madhongi anopenga; avo vanowedzeredza zvinhu zvose zvisingaenzaniswi. Ndiko kuti ivo vanozozvidzwa. Vhiki mushure meizvozvo tinofanira kusvika kumagumo echirongwa chedu cheDTWC [Defy Terrorists With Consumption]. Saka panguva iyoyo, isu tinofanirwa kuita kuti TV idzoke pavakadzi nevarume. "
"Ko vemukati?" anobvunza munyori wezvokuchengetedzwa kwenyika, “Pane fambiro mberi ipi neipi mukuziva vamiririri vaviri?”
- "Hapana zvakawanda, changamire" anopindura mukuru weNSA, "tatsiva vashandi vese vakaderera, uye kubvunzurudzwa kwedu kwevakuru vehurumende kunoenderera mberi."
- "Ko kuCanada?" anobvunza mukuru weCIA. Kunyarara kwenguva refu kunotevera.
- "Mangani eAl-Qaeda masero ekurarisa atasara muToronto?" anobvunza mutevedzeri wemutungamiri wenyika.
- "Vatatu, changamire" anopindura mukuru weCIA.
- "Yave nguva yekuti vana vekuCanada ava vatange kutora kuchengetedzwa kwenyika zvakanyanya."
- "Muri kupa rairo yekurwisa here, changamire?"
- "Unoziva maitiro. Vatumire kopi yetepi yekuteerera yaOsama uchivapa rairo yekurova. "
- "Ehe, changamire, ndinoziva maitiro, ndanga ndichisimbisa izvozvo."
- "Ava maAy-rab nemhandara dzavo kudenga," anodimburira mutevedzeri wemutungamiri wenyika, "Kuwanda kwevarwi vakazviuraya vasingagoni kubatwa, kubvunzurudzwa, kana kuteverwa."
Munhu wese mumba anoseka.
Maawa makumi mana nemasere gare gare, kuputika kutatu muzvitoro zvitatu muToronto kunoenda panguva imwe chete, kwakaparadzaniswa nemaminetsi mashoma. Zvigunwe zvese zvinonongedza kuAl-Qaeda nemutungamiri wayo uyo achiri mukuru kune imwe nzvimbo kumadokero kweChina, mishumo yehungwaru ichangoburwa inodaro. Vakuru veChinese vakaramba izvi zvinopomerwa uye vakaramba kutsvaga chero magandanga mudunhu rine vanhu vazhinji vechiMuslim reXinjiang, kumadokero kweChina.
ZNetwork inopihwa mari chete kuburikidza nerupo rwevaverengi vayo.
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