won't your conscience ache

News bulletins about the rescue came out quickly.

The headlines of the eight major media outlets in the empire all had a picture of a messy little girl with her back straight, giving a standard military salute to everyone.

She is a miracle, an undoubted miracle, and some people are discussing whether it is worth sacrificing an excellent agent of the empire to save a little girl, and the discussion is drowned in the snowflake-like draft.

The news screen stayed on the little girl saluting, as if it was the most beautiful frame.

No one noticed a detail, and all the videos released by the news media stopped abruptly at the moment of the salute.In fact, there is another story after that.

On that day, all the reporters who held up their cameras to record witnessed a frightening and terrifying scene, a scene that will never be known.

"The report is over." The moment the little girl put down her hand, the young imperial general pulled out his gun and pointed it at her heart.

The scene fell silent for a moment. It is no exaggeration to say that it was deadly quiet.

Ji Ya was also stunned. She looked at the man who was pointing a gun at her, and the black muzzle of the gun enlarged little by little.

Lynch really wanted to kill her.

Mrs. Ji rushed up to block Ji Ya. Ji Ya stared blankly at the silent man over her mother's shoulder. She was still young at that time, and she didn't understand many things. She looked into the man's eyes, as if she was hurt Like an infection, suddenly very sad.She sobbed softly on her mother's shoulder.

The snow-colored epaulets were worn on her shoulders, like a white ocean in the sun.

Lin Si finally put down the gun, he was a little dazed, as if his thoughts were pulled out, and something disappeared in an instant.

Document No. [-] was revised and implemented at the end of the year. The basic materials of biological experiments were changed to cloned animals. The recruitment of volunteers was open to the entire empire, and the signing of contracts that included major disability and death was prohibited.

Lin Si got Lin Pei's chip.

The First Charter of the Empire stipulates that everyone must wear a chip from birth to death, which not only stores a lot of private information, but more importantly, stores the memory of the person's life.

Lin Si remembered that Lin Pei said that he would give himself something.

He called up his memory to check, and Lin Pei stuffed a document under his pillow.

He found that document.

Lin Pei wrote him a very long letter, a lot of stuff, typical stream-of-consciousness writing, nonsense, and a paper marriage agreement in the appendix on the last page. Open it, Lin Pei's The signature was about to fly, and Lin Si's hand froze, probably failing to get his identity information, and there were many gaps in the agreement.

When he turned to the last page of the marriage agreement, two rings fell out.

Lin Pei is not a very romantic person, probably because he was sure that the other party would not refuse, but would instead accept it blushingly, so he even chose the ring casually, Lin Si smiled for some reason, he suspected that the size of the ring was not right , but the moment it slipped in, the size was just right.

It was just right.

That's Lin Pei who doesn't even bother to remember his shoe size.

Just like no one imagined that the wormhole in Area [-] would lead to a collapsed black hole, no one imagined that Lin Pei would like Lin Si so much.Many years ago, when they met again at the Lin family for the first time, the young man in the sky blue uniform of the military academy walked down the stairs, and the first time he saw the strange brother, he thought he was quite handsome.

The owl hopped back and forth on the vine shelf, tapping the paperwork with its knuckles wearing silver rings. The young general sat at the table and looked at the sunshine in front of the French windows. At that moment, he felt that Lin Pei hadn't left. Packing things on the bed, walking on the floor made a rustling sound.

From the moment he saw the memory chip, Sawyer immediately understood what Lin Pei meant, and he believed that Lin Si also understood.

Lin Pei's living cells are still preserved, and the memory chip is also left behind. After cultivating a clone and embedding the chip, Lin Pei will come back.Who doesn't want Lin Pei to come back?It's a very happy ending.

Lin Xuesheng and Mrs. Lin could not accept the death of their only son. They submitted a cloning application. Lin Si glanced at the couple sitting in front of him. At that moment, no one knew what the young general was thinking.

Rings declined.

All living cells are destroyed.Mrs. Lin fainted when she heard the news.But two years later, Lin Xuesheng and Mrs. Lin gave birth to another son.

Times have changed, and the pace of life is staggeringly fast.People forget more than ever.

When the youngest son of the Lin family was one year old, Lin Si went to see him. Before coming, Sawyer told him that the child was called Lin Pei, and he was exactly the same as Lin Pei when he was a child.Lin Xuesheng was obviously wary of him, she was polite on the surface, but in fact she hated to let him touch the child's fingers, and kept evading the child by saying that the child was still young.

Lin Si looked at the way Lin Xuesheng loved his youngest son, and suddenly remembered that Lin Pei used to act like a baby with him on the bed, half pretending and half wronged. .A kick can directly break his bones.Once when the family was having a good meal during Chinese New Year, Lin Xuesheng threw it on the table and slapped everyone in the face. He was only six years old that year.

Lin Xuesheng was extremely strict with Lin Pei. From childhood to adulthood, what Lin Pei liked and what he smashed, from the harmonica to the game console to the gun, Lin Xuesheng smashed everything, and then forced him to learn what he didn't like. It also led to Lin Pei's temper later on. If it wasn't his own and he liked it, he would try his best to restrain it. Lin Pei hated losing it. Subconsciously, he was still the child who watched Lin Xuesheng snatch the toy from his arms and smash it to pieces. .

Lin Si looked at Lin Xuesheng. Lin Xuesheng was hugging and coaxing his crying young son. After experiencing the pain of bereavement, Lin Xuesheng's edges and corners have softened a lot, and he didn't look as vigorous as before.

The years of flowing water are very quiet, but there is an indescribable... cruelty.

Lin Pei, the young master of the Lin family, grew up under the care of everyone. He has a very different temperament from Lin Pei. Young master Lin is humble, gentle, and polite. His elder brother is Imperial General Lin Si, his father is Lin Xuesheng, and he himself is an outstanding person. , not like Lin Pei's kind of hooligan who skips class and fights, he is full of elegance and extravagance.Eight years old, young and mature, he likes the piano, when it comes to the future, he said that he doesn't want to join the army, but wants to be a musician, Lin Xuesheng said yes, and hired the most expensive piano teacher for him.

He hadn't seen Lin Si very much, and he had seen him once or twice when he was a child. The man looked at him coldly, as handsome as a black and white oil painting, obviously not scary, but just daunting.

Mrs. Lin said that Lin Si dotes on his younger brother very much, but Lin Pei didn't see it at all. With Lin Si's appearance, he always suspected that his second brother was killed by Lin Si.The young master of the Lin family is a very imaginative person. Artists have this talent. He really suspected that his second brother was killed by Lin Si, and then died unjustly. Standing in the room, this idea became stronger.

The way Lin Si stared at the photo of his second brother didn't look like a loving elder brother looking at the sacrificed younger brother. The artist's intuition told him that Lin Si had a secret in him.

That night, the well-behaved young master of the Lin family skipped class and ran into someone on the street, his brother's adjutant, Sawyer.

He said he was going to skip class to go to a concert, and he didn't want to go home. He suddenly said that he wanted to see Lin Si.Sawyer was a little surprised. Normally, he would definitely not agree. Can the military department go if they want?But today, he hesitated for a while and brought him to the military headquarters.

Rings had finished his meeting and returned to the living room.

When the door opened, Lin Pei heard the sound of the piano, not a complicated piece, "White Ocean", played very amazingly.

Going in and taking a look, Lin Pei was stunned. It was Lin Si who was playing the piano. The owl swiped and hid behind the vines, showing its head. Lin Si stopped.Sawyer seemed a little embarrassed. He talked about the matter, but Lin Si didn't make a statement. Lin Pei was afraid that Lin Xuesheng would know that he skipped class to go to the E-zone concert, so he hurriedly walked in and called "Brother".

At an angle that no one noticed, Lin Si's hand suddenly trembled very slightly, and he concealed it without any trace.

Lin Pei was taken to the reception room. It was obvious that no one was left in Lin Si's room. Lin Pei sat alone on the sofa in the reception room, watching the news and drinking milk when he was bored.Lin Si just came over after a meeting at night. Lin Pei looked at him. In his memory, this was the first time the two of them sat face to face in a serious manner. They were not close, but very strange, especially Lin Pei. It's impossible for the two of them to get close without Si's temperament.

Afraid of being driven away, Lin Pei didn't know what to think, and said, "My mother wiped the photos of my second brother in the morning, saying that he has been gone for eight years."

Lin Si looked at him and said nothing.

News is playing in the background.

Lin Pei said: "My mother said, you have the second brother's chip, but you haven't shown it to your parents."

Lin Si still didn't speak.

"Can I have a look? I haven't seen my second brother."

The room was silent for a long time. I don’t know how long it took. The screen playing the news switched and became a blurry picture, sometimes clear and sometimes blurred. , he stared at the screen and forced himself to look at it, a memory that he didn't know when it was.

Lin Pei heard a very strange voice ringing in his ear.

"Brother, do you miss me?"

Lin Pei broke out in a cold sweat, and sat on the sofa with his back stiff, not daring to move.

After regaining consciousness, Lin Pei realized that it seemed to be a certain scene where the owner of the chip returned from a previous trip. Lin Pei suppressed his fear and continued to look down. He vaguely saw the back of a man on the screen, and Lin Pei recognized it all at once. That was Lin Si's back.

Two hands surrounded Lin Si on the screen from behind, and the screen suddenly turned around. This time, there were more noises, and Lin Pei was startled suddenly. It seemed to be a bar, and a strange low-pitched singing sounded. Lin Pei looked at the In the blurred picture, a man is playing the piano while covering another man's hand. The singing is very clear. It is still the song "White Ocean".

In the darkness, he exhausted all his strength and gave Lin Si a stiff look, which made his blood run cold.

The young general was still in the same posture just now, sitting motionless and looking at him, in the deep darkness, no emotion could be seen in his pair of pitch-black eyes.

Lin Pei may never dare to listen to "White Ocean" again in his life. His second brother sang well, but Lin Si was like a ghost that day, which left a deep mental shadow on the young master of the Lin family. .For a long time he didn't even want to touch the piano.

As soon as Lin Xuesheng called, Lin Pei immediately followed his father and left. He was probably frightened. Lin Xuesheng asked him on the car home why his face was so ugly. Lin Pei looked at Xinghe outside and didn't speak for a long time. He asked calmly, "Dad, is my second brother really dead?"

Lin Xue paused, and after a long time, he gently wrapped his arms around Lin Pei's shoulders.