Lin Guokai took a deep breath, and the door opened.

"What the hell is going on with you!" Huang Xun, an old friend for many years, rushed into the room, "What the hell is going on with you?" ”

"It's a shame that you can still go ashore in Australia at this time." Lin Guokai pretended to be surprised, "How did the patrol and the Royal Australian Navy let you go?" ”

Huang Xun has been staring at Lin Guokai's eyes, he has been practicing lip reading for many years, and he can finally barely communicate without relying on sign language, but because of his listening problems, his oral pronunciation is now a little weird: "These are not important, let me ask you what is going on!" What's the deal with buying U.S. war bonds? What's the deal with not supplying iron ore to the country? ”

"Of course, I bought bonds to show my loyalty, but Vale is an American company, and it's a big company, so of course you have to set an example. The reason why we don't provide iron ore to the country is because of the naval blockade of the US Navy, and the ships can't get through anyway, so it's better not to provide it from the beginning. ”

"You!" Huang Xun stretched out his hand and pointed at Lin Guokai's nose, "You are treason!" You are worthy of Mr. Lin......"

"You're starting to call him Mr. Lin too, huh? Hmph, that guy threw me to Australia, at first he knew how to give money, but then he didn't give money at all, it was all up to me to lay this foundation, and I didn't want to lose my ten years of hard work because someone in Germany was far away! To this end, Vale will stand on the same side as the United States of America, which is also the will of all the company's top management! ”

"You!" Huang Xun was so angry that the green tendons on his forehead burst out, and he rushed forward to grab Lin Guokai's collar, "You traitor!" ”

Lin Guokai tried to tear Huang Xun's hand away at first, but later found that it was useless, so he simply threw an over-the-shoulder throw.

"I've been climbing mountains and wading through rivers to personally explore new ore veins all these years, and I'm in good shape." Lin Guokai said as he sorted out the messy clothes, "It's ineffective to use brute force against me." ”

After speaking, Lin Guokai remembered that Huang Xun couldn't judge what he said if he didn't see the shape of his mouth.

At this time, Huang Xun spoke: "Those days in Germany, have you forgotten jì? Have you forgotten the time spent arguing in that cramped living room about how to revitalize the Ming Dynasty, the time spent putting up with the strange eyes of the Germans on our complexion on transportation? ”

"Ah, it's been so long, I've forgotten it."

"Have you forgotten the faces of your brothers who died in a foreign land in Dessau?"

"yes, I forgot about it." Lin Guokai paused, "I remember the face of a guy who has risen to prominence by the favor of the landlady, he is free in Germany, I am free in the United States, maybe I can get a few American gods to play with in the future." ”

Huang Xun stared at Lin Guokai's face, and his lips were bitten so that they lost their color.

"I misread you! You bastard! ”

Saying that, Huang Xun got up, turned around and rushed out of Lin Guokai's office, and when he left, he slammed the door hard, making the wooden door scream.

Lin Guokai stood in the middle of the office, staring at the empty room for a while, then he shook his head, returned to the desk and sat down, leaning back on the back of the chair, looking at the ceiling.

At this time, the door to the side office opened, and Ballmer entered the room, he looked at the door, and then at Lin Guokai.

"Is that really good? At least it should be explained to a once close comrade-in-arms, shouldn't it? ”

"He's very strict-mouthed, but he can't act, and it's impossible for him to hide his cousin from federal agents if he doesn't lie to him."

"No, no, you misunderstood me, I mean, now you're a complete traitor. Maybe you'll still be saddled with a lifetime of infamy, right? ”

“…… Ballmer, before my boss sent me to Australia, he had already told me about this, and after so many years, everything he told me has become a reality, I don't know what you think, anyway, in my opinion, he is a prophet, a savior, and he never makes mistakes. So, if he says that it is good for my race for me to be a traitor, I believe him. Someone has to carry this qiē. ”

Ballmer looked at Lin Guokai's side face and finally sighed.

"You are the greatest patriot I have ever met."

"Don't say that I am so noble, I have indeed enjoyed the glory and wealth here that are beyond the reach of ordinary people, and maybe I don't want to lose this qiē in my heart, so I will willingly bear the notoriety of betraying the country. I don't even know what my sincerity is. Lin Guokai let out a long sigh, "Sure enough, the sages are right, what people don't understand the most is actually themselves." Living with 'oneself' for a lifetime, but not being able to see what kind of existence it is, is probably farther away than the distance between strangers. ”

Ballmer went to the wine cabinet, took out a glass and whiskey, filled two glasses and brought them to Lin Guokai, and handed one of them to Lin Guokai.

The two clinked glasses and took a sip on each, before Ballmer said, "You're becoming more and more like a philosopher." ”

"I guess I didn't have anything to do when I was drilling the ravine, so I guess I thought a little too much."

"Madame's child is about to be born."

"Yes, it's really unfortunate to be born in this war-torn world."

"By the time he can remember, the war should be over." Ballmer took another sip of wine, his butt leaning against the edge of his desk, posing in his favorite photo of a New York fashion magazine, looking out the window at the clear blue sky, "It's really funny, maybe the whole of China is scolding you for being a traitor, but I, an American, know that you are actually a patriot." ”

"But you, Ballmer, didn't reveal everything I told you to the FBI, and according to conventional wisdom, you're already a traitor, right?"

Ballmer laughed three times, and then drank the wine in his hand: "It's all the credit of what you talk to me all day long, I'm half a panhumanist now, I just want to see where panhumanism will lead humanity in the end, regardless of whether it fails or succeeds in the end, I want to witness the whole process." As for treason or something, no one in the whole of America now thinks that I am treasonous, but they think that I have done a lot to help the United States control Vale, and when I retire from Vale, they will definitely give me a medal. Compared to you, I am a patriot in the eyes of secular society. ”

"In the eyes of secular society, ah......" Lin Guokai gently shook the glass in his hand, looking at the ripples of red wine dangling in the glass, and did not speak for a long time.

-- This is a small episode that happened in the tail of 1940 in a corner of the world that is not well known.