Insider X by Buschi Dave

Author:Buschi, Dave [Buschi, Dave]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Mystery; Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers & Suspense, Technothrillers, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction, Cyberpunk, High Tech, Thrillers, Hard Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780983915027
Amazon: B00I7G9MZS
Goodreads: 20734834
Publisher: Dave Buschi
Published: 2014-02-02T05:00:00+00:00

27

LIP DIDN’T SEE any others that were looking his way, but he knew better than to drop the corny clueless French-guy act. There might be another team eyeing him. As he went down the stairs, he asked a few more folks if this was Chongqing. He only got blank stares and smiles.

He entered the train terminal and looked at the directional signs. He found where he needed to go, but didn’t head that way. Instead, he went the opposite way, walked for about twenty yards and stopped. He did a one eighty. Looked clueless, and walked back towards where he needed to go.

As he left the station, he checked reflections in windows, looking for tails. He was outside now. He walked along the sidewalk, and passed a sign on a pole. It was written in Traditional Chinese and had a botched English translation below. In Chinese it was letting folks know that the striped parking area, next to the curb, was a drop-off zone. The English translation said “Free Park For The Old”.

Lip wondered if that was how the diplomats did it. When the US ambassador made an entreaty to his counterpart in Beijing, did they use the same interpreter? If so, that might explain a few things. Lip could see the conversation now:

US Ambassador: I’d like to discuss these tariffs.

Beijing Guy: What!? You’d like to fuck my wife?

US Ambassador: Yes, I’d like to discuss these tariffs and see if we can resolve this amicably.

Beijing Guy: And you want to lick my daughter’s ass? I will kill you!

Lip didn’t need much to amuse himself. He crossed the street. The town he was in was quite pretty. Nothing like some of the countryside he’d seen on the train. Though ‘town’ was probably a misnomer. There were over 300,000 people in this rural-looking area. By US standards that would be a city. Here, though, in a country with dozens of cities with two million or more, a place with 300,000 was considered a town.

He saw plenty of trees and greenery as he walked. For some reason that Dr. Suess book, The Lorax, popped to mind. Looked like the Once-ler hadn’t cut down the Truffula trees, yet.

Lip was always surprised with these visits. Just a few years ago that area of stripped-down countryside that he’d glimpsed out the train windows had been trees as far as he could see. Chengdu, and its surrounding countryside, was once one of the most beautiful areas in China. It was still beautiful in many spots, but it was changing fast. Environmental Mass Destruction was the name of the game over here. All in the name of progress.

As he walked a few more blocks, he realized he might have been mistaken. The Once-ler had arrived. He passed two dusty construction sites. The trees in this area were gone. Two high rises were going up. There weren’t any workers on the site. It looked like the work day had already wrapped up.

He walked long enough to verify that he wasn’t being tailed.

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