don't call me singer

Chapter 1717 I don't know the meaning of the song when I first heard it, but it is already the person in the song when I hear it again

Veteran Associated Press reporter Wilder Samplance is missing.

Ever since Wilder boarded the Shanghai Dragon Palace for an interview, he never came back.

His colleague Rawls found out that he was not there two days later and could not be contacted.

Rawls didn't take it seriously at first. Wilder was away, and he happened to be free for a few days.

But Wilder never showed up. He contacted the US headquarters of the Associated Press and found that Wilder had not contacted the Associated Press either, so he felt that something was wrong.

It didn't fit Wilder's personality.

After knowing that Wilder was missing, the headquarters was very dissatisfied. Wilder is an excellent reporter, which is second to none.

The problem is that if Wilder has an accident during the interview mission, the headquarters may have to pay a large amount of compensation and face a series of lawsuits.

Wilder, in particular, was an influential reporter, he had many influential friends, and his family was not an easy-going one.

Rawls received an order from the headquarters of the Associated Press. Although he was helpless, he still had to do it.

The order from the headquarters was: "If you can't find Wilder, then don't come back. It just so happens that our branch in Russia still lacks a reporter."

Rawls doesn't want to stay in such a place where the birds don't shit!
He contacted the U.S. embassy in Russia, and with the help of the embassy, ​​he called the police, and the Russian police searched for it with great fanfare for a while.

After all, it is a big deal for an American citizen to disappear in Russia.

But the search lasted only one day. The next day, when Rawls came to the local police station, the chubby Russian police captain said that it was pointless to continue the search.

"It doesn't make any sense? What does that mean?" Rawls was a little at a loss.

"Severodvinsk is a harsh city, especially this year's cold winter. If a person is missing, we usually don't go looking for it."

"Then what are you going to do?"

"I suggest you wait, maybe he will show up by himself."

"Wait? Wait until when?" Rawls was at a loss.

"Wait until the snow melts." The chubby captain said.

Rolls: "..."

He almost got rough!
I don't want to wait until the snow melts!

And what's more troublesome is...

"What if he hasn't shown up after the snow melts?" Rawls asked helplessly.

"Then you just pray that one day the waves will bring him back..."

Rawls really didn't want to talk anymore.

He said angrily: "We are Americans. An American has disappeared on your territory. Aren't you afraid of causing international disputes?"

"Chi... Америка..." The police captain gave him a blank stare, turned and left.

"Америка" is pronounced Americana, which probably means "Yankee" in Russian, and the contempt of this police captain is undoubtedly revealed.

"Wait, wait, isn't there anything we can do?" Rawls chased after him, ignoring his anger.

"Pray." The police captain said.

Rawls stayed where he was for a while, then sighed deeply.

He never expected that one day he would pray for Wilder!

Obviously he had prayed countless times, he fell into the sea and drowned, so that he could be promoted.

Days passed, and at first he came to the police station every day to wait for news, but after a week, Wilder still hadn't shown up.

He is not in the melting snow, nor is he floating on the seashore.

But Rawls couldn't stay any longer.

After all, Severodvinsk is a city closed to foreigners, especially Americans.

Rawls did not wait for Wilder, but was kicked out from Severodvinsk.

And his identity has also become a liaison reporter for the Associated Press in the Russian Satellite News Agency.

It seems that the headquarters really wants to fulfill its promise and let him stay in Russia forever.

He really seems to resign immediately, but in this world, where is it easy to find a job.

And the Associated Press has all hands and eyes in the news industry. After you resign, where will you go to find a job?
Rawls's life suddenly became extremely tragic.

He turned his grief and indignation into the desire to tell tales.

He wrote several black drafts of Gu Xiaobai and published them in several newspapers in the United States.

Instead, he received an award from the headquarters.

When Rawls's life turned tragic, Wilder had been imprisoned in Sea Dragon Palace for more than a week.

In a small windowless room on the dock floor at the bottom of the Sea Dragon Palace, Wilder didn't know how many days he had passed.

He kept track of the time at first, but when his smartwatch died, he no longer knew how many days he had been inside.

During this period, except for someone who came to deliver food to him, no one took care of him.

Every time he asked something loudly, the person who brought him food didn't say a word.

But those people didn't seem to avoid him deliberately.

He heard people outside discussing things in low voices through the door several times, and learned the truth about why this submarine appeared here.

He also heard two officers discuss what to do with him.

It seems that they have already contacted the senior officials in the country, and the senior officials are still considering whether to let him disappear directly.

Finally, about a week after he was arrested, the top US military officials made a decision.

"We can't let anyone know that he is here, and we can't let anyone know what we are going to do. This is an order from the top. Now the high-level can't stand more negative news. When we repair the submarine and test the sea, put the He puts in the torpedo tube, before the ice melts, probably no one will find him again..."

"Are we really going to do this? After all he's..."

"This is an order from the top, what do you want me to do? Sigh..."

At that moment, Wilder's heart turned cold, and it turned out that his own people were the most ruthless to him!
He felt he might have no hope of leaving alive.

He never expected that he would die under his own hands instead of dying in the turbulent Soviet Union when it had just disintegrated, or in the flames of war raging in the Middle East.

Wilder didn't want to die, he really didn't want to die at all.

His mission is not yet complete!

He wants to report a real Gu Xiaobai, awaken the sleeping Americans, and make America great again...

But now, he was really going to die.

Just when he was desperate, he heard a strange voice.

He looked through the crack of the door and saw a US Navy soldier hiding in a corner, flirting with a woman.

Not long after, the soldier left, and the lady was sitting there fixing her makeup. Seeing a stranger, Wilder hurriedly called for help:
"My dear lady, please help me."

"Who?" Valeria was taken aback.

After she made friends with Tong Yu, she often went to the Sea Dragon Palace and lingered in the bar of the Sea Dragon Palace, where she met several American sailors, one of whom pursued her violently, and she fell in love again.

"It's me, kind lady, we met before, when you had a conflict with that man last time..."

"You... aren't that entertainment reporter?"

"Yes, it's me!" Wilder felt that he might have a glimmer of hope to survive.

"Why are you here?" Valeria wondered.

"I accidentally locked myself inside, Miss." Wilder said.

His lie was not very clever.

But he felt that this Miss Valeria did not seem to be very shrewd.

"Ah, is that so? I'll find someone to help." Valeria said.

"No, if people know that I locked myself inside, they will definitely be laughed at. Are you looking for a key outside? Maybe it's hanging somewhere." Wilder said.

There was a rustling sound outside, and after a while, the door opened.

"Thank you, kind lady, if I have the opportunity, I must thank you very much." Wilder was very excited.

He finally came out.

"Ah, okay, if you have the chance, report on me a few more times, give me an exclusive interview or something." Valeria said.

"No problem, definitely! Good lady, see you next time."

As a reporter, Wilder actually sneaked into places he shouldn't go.

His stealth skills are still there.

I don't know if it was luck or his sneaking skills played a role.

When he left the dock level without any risk along the way and hid in a truck delivering supplies to the Dragon Palace on the Sea, he finally felt that he was saved.

After the truck was unloaded and drove out of the Sea Dragon Palace, Wilder looked out from the tarpaulin of the truck and breathed a sigh of relief.

However, he didn't know where he should go.

I don't even know who I can trust right now.

After all, he is now on the military's blacklist. God knows if the United States has any secret agents in Russia.

He knew about the scandals in the US military and could be silenced at any time.

Wilder got out of the car quietly when the two drivers stopped to buy something.

But he didn't have thick clothes on him, and it was too cold in Severodvinsk at this time.

When he was shivering in the corner, several people came over.

"Look, there's a bum over there."

"It looks so pathetic."

"What Grandpa Du Ming said, we need to help others."

"Here, are you hungry?"

"I have an old dress, if you don't dislike it..."

Wilder dared not speak for fear of revealing his accent.

Fortunately, his hair was already gray, so it was not easy to see the original hair color, and his face was dirty, so it was hard to see his appearance.

In just one afternoon, Wilder had changed from an American reporter to a homeless man in Severodvinsk. When he was huddled in a corner, he heard music coming from the window of a shop opposite.

He stood up, walked to the window, and looked over.

On TV, Gu Xiaobai and old man Omarov were singing loudly at the dinner table.

"Заботау наспростая,

We have an ordinary wish,
Заботанашатакая:
our wish is this
Жилабыстранародная,-
The motherland can prosper and prosper,-
Инетудругихзабот.
is our lifelong ideal
Иснег, иветер,

Look, the wind and snow are vast,

Извёздночнойполёт
meteor flying in the night sky
Менямоёсердце
my heart calls to me
Втревожнуюдальзовёт.
Heading into the turbulent distance..."

Beside him, many people stopped and even sang along.

This song by Gu Xiaobai and Omarov has inspired many people and made them re-examine the world and themselves.

But listening to this song, Wilder felt extremely bitter in his heart.

The motherland he fought for, the motherland he wanted to be prosperous and strong, was going further and further away from his people.

Today, it remains the most powerful country in the world.

But the Soviet Union more than 20 years ago, why not?
Wilder has seen the fall of empires firsthand, and he knows that when the building is about to fall, no single tree can support it.

And before the building really collapses, you often think it can last for a few more days.

It wasn't until the day it really collapsed that you realized that you were also smashed into it.

And now, how long will it take for the empire he fought for to be overthrown?
It's not the first time he's heard the song.

During the period when the Soviet Union was on the verge of disintegration, he went deep into various countries in the Soviet Union and met various people.

I have heard this song no less than ten times on different occasions.

At that time, to him, it was just a song.

But the first time I heard it, I didn't know what the song meant, but when I heard it again, I was already in the song.

On the TV, after the song "Singing the Turbulent Youth" was finished, the screen switched to Gu Xiaobai's song "Steaming Horse".

"Ночьюв полезвездблагодать,

The night is like ink and stars are twinkling
Вполеникогоневидать,

Looking around the wilderness seems to have hidden
Толькомыс конемпополюидем,

The wilderness is silent, only hear the horse and me
Толькомыс конемпополюидем,

The wilderness is silent, only hearing the horse and me..."

Before, he had never understood the emptiness and solitude that belonged exclusively to Russia, and why this song was so popular in Russia, it could even be called the "second national anthem".

This song is neither passionate nor high-pitched, it can even be said to be so simple.

But when he heard it again this time, he felt the satisfaction and pride in that loneliness.

On the screen, so many people should sing along with Gu Xiaobai's singing loudly.

But in fact, in that singing, there are only Gu Xiaobai and his horse.

No matter how far the road ahead is, how dark the night is, as long as I have a horse with me, I dare to go forward.

At this moment, Wilder found that he finally understood Gu Xiaobai.

So many good songs and so many shocking scenes failed to impress him.

It was these two Russian covers that shocked him deeply.

But now he doesn't even have a horse.

I don't know my future, where my way is.

Wilder was lying on the window, listening to the song, full of confusion.

At this moment, he heard a voice:
"Look, there's a bum over there."

is Chinese.

Then a female voice: "Are you hungry?"

"Do you have a place to live?"

"It's so cold, you can't go outside, why don't you go back with us."

"I'll treat you to dinner. My family owns a hot pot restaurant. Don't worry, you can't eat enough of mine."

(End of this chapter)