When the magic flower blooms

"You wanted to prevent them from binding just now." Tian Ze asked bluntly: "Why?"

"I didn't stop it." Naga shook his head and denied, "I just don't want them to make choices blindly without knowing the consequences, so that they regret it."

'Too late to regret? "Tianze chewed these four words: "Do you think I shouldn't have done this in the first place?" "

"..."

This question made Naga ponder.

But when he spoke again, he first asked a somewhat embarrassing question.

"That... what should I call you?"

"As you please." Tian Ze seemed expressionless.

"OK then."

Naga scratched his head, and immediately said seriously: "To be honest, even after the body was completely damaged, Jiang Yueming still had to endure the pain of being alive. This is indeed an extremely cruel thing. But I didn't comment on it. The qualifications of right and wrong. The only person who can give you the answer is Jiang Yueming. But you voluntarily gave up the opportunity to hear the answer."

Tian Ze asked again: "You think I'm afraid of hearing the answer?"

"Of course not. You must know what Jiang Yueming will say. You must also know that his answer can relieve your guilt. But you don't want to wake up his pain in exchange for self-liberation."

Having said that, Naga deliberately paused.

"But don't think that I'm praising you. Because if it were me, I would definitely do better. I will never let the person I love encounter such a risk that life would be worse than death."

This naked ridicule finally made Tianze sneer: "You have only lived for less than 30 years, what qualifications do you have to teach me this?"

Naga followed suit: "Although I have only lived for less than 30 years, I have been in love with your daughter-in-law for 20 years."

As soon as the word "daughter-in-law" was uttered, Ming Ruoxing suddenly opened his mouth not far away, as if he had sneezed loudly.

The two people in Hutian fell silent at the same time.However, in the silence, there was an indescribable wonderful feeling.

"Cough, I have another question." Naga said softly.

"Say."

"You have been awakened by your heart a few years ago. But you haven't come to me all these years."

"..." Tianze's eyes slowly turned to the not far away, where Yu Benxin stood.

"Your life experience is strictly kept secret. Even the people who rebuilt Yueming's body in Jujingtang didn't know about it. And after I woke up, I wasn't sure if you were still alive."

"That's not the real reason why you didn't come to me."

Naga objected, "If you want to know my whereabouts, you only need to investigate the car accident files of that year."

"You're right." Tian Ze didn't deny it: "The real reason I didn't come to you is that I'm really not ready to meet you again."

"...No wonder, after all, you didn't want your blood to continue to exist from the very beginning."

Although he didn't have any extravagant hopes, Naga still let out a wry smile: "I'm almost thirty, and suddenly two dads popped up in one breath, and then they said, 'I'm sorry we don't want to recognize you'—you're a kid, aren't you?"

"I thought maybe you'd be better off without us."

Tianze gave another half-smile: "But some things seem to be destined by fate. No matter how big the turn is, it will eventually return to the track."

"You found me in orbit, so you decided to pick me up again?"

"As you wish."

He clearly heard the disappointing answer, but Naga laughed: "You are such an old man who can't speak. I don't have inherited this, I think it's pretty good."

"... brat."

The two of them were silent for a moment at the same time, as if savoring the rare tacit understanding at this moment.

"It's almost time to go." Tian Ze glanced at Yu Benxin who was standing in front of the ward.

"Wait a minute!"

Naga hurriedly stopped him: "I suddenly remembered a few very important questions."

-

"Xiao Ming!"

Ming Ruoxing who heard the voice turned his head to look, and found that Naga had left Hutian.At this moment, she is standing beside Yu Benxin with Tian Ze.

After all, this was the first meeting between Naga and Yu Benxin after the ghost ship incident.

Worried that Naga would feel embarrassed, Ming Ruoxing walked over quickly and grabbed Naga's arm.

On the opposite side of them, Tianze seemed to be whispering something to Yu Benxin, and Yu Benxin nodded slightly in response.

Looking at this young man who looked nothing like his father's generation, the thick-skinned and seasoned Naga thought for a long time before he let out a slightly silly greeting from his throat:

"……haven't seen you for a long time."

"Yes."

Yu Benxin smiled, and looked at him with Tianze.

-

Tianze went home with Yu Benxin.As for Wu's parents and Ming Ruochen, even though they ignored each other, they also insisted on staying outside the ward.

Considering that they had to go to the Yaan Bureau again, Ming Ruoxing and Naga also stood up and said goodbye.

"Are you tired? Do you want me to take you back to rest first?" Leaving the emergency center and returning to the car, Naga first asked Ming Ruoxing for advice before starting the car.

"I'm not tired. You don't mind driving. I want to report to my parents that I'm safe."

Ming Ruoxing took out his mobile phone from his pocket.

The call was to Ming's mother, and Ming Ruoxing briefly explained the situation here, except for the secret ceremony between Ming Ruochen and Wu Fei.

After explaining the important matters, he paused for a second.

"Mom, I have always felt that I am an outlier in our family. You, dad, and brother are all so good. I am the only one who is inferior to you all my life...but now I don't think so."

It is unknown what Ming's mother on the other end of the phone responded to, but she was obviously a little nervous about her son's sudden abnormal speech.

"No, I'm really fine." Ming Ruoxing began to comfort her again, "Actually, I wanted to say these words a long time ago, but I happened to remember them just now... Don't worry, what else can happen to me."

There happened to be a red light ahead, Naga stopped the car steadily, and suddenly leaned over to the side of the phone.

"That's right, Mom, I'm not here! I will definitely protect your precious lump with my life—"

Before he finished speaking, Ming Ruoxing pushed him away.

"Show face!" Ming Ruoxing hastily ended the call, turned his head and condemned: "Your mother is from the bottom of my heart!"

"The mother-in-law is also a mother."

Naga teased him: "I'm afraid that what you have said to your mother in the past six months is not as much as these few minutes? It's no wonder that she was frightened. Why, have you realized it?"

"I said it all by accident."

Ming Ruoxing curled his lips, and looked away from Naga awkwardly.

"However... when you told me 'the future of demihumans is to become ordinary people', it really touched me a lot. For the first time in my life, I suddenly realized: I became a cat instead of a tiger, not me problem, not a defect.”

"It's certainly not your fault."

Naga reached out to caress his shoulder, fingers wrapped around the smooth black hair.

"In my heart, you are the most perfect creature in this world."

The red light turned into green, the vehicle started smoothly, and drove through the last slope intersection.

From here, one can already see that the Yaan Bureau building under the darkness of night is still brightly lit, that is, countless colleagues are working overtime.

-

Six full hours have passed since the revenge action against Ming Ruochen's apartment.Information from all parties involved began to be gathered one after another.

First of all, not only City S and City B, but also two other cities across the country have successively discovered the bodies of "smashed heads" in three places. The results of a quick DNA comparison have been revealed: these people are all bailiffs under control.In addition to the three people who attacked Wu Fei, and the lone wolf sniper who ambushed Ming's father, the number of people was not too many, but just right.

In other words, the Naga took care of all of them at once.

As for the abandoned factory that Ming Ruoxing and Naga saw through snipers, the location has also been confirmed.It is a chemical plant located on the outskirts of City B.When the law enforcement police arrived, the factory was already empty, but a batch of suspicious preparations were seized in an extremely hidden secret warehouse.

Just now, the research institute compared the composition of the preparation with the zombie strain that Ming Ruoxing and the others brought back from the ghost ship, proving that there is indeed a great relationship between the two.

All of the above belong to the "past tense".At this very moment, on the seventh floor of the Yaan Bureau, a top-secret interrogation was going on non-stop until the sixth hour.

In Xu Hong's "professional memory", he has presided over so many interrogations that even he himself can't remember clearly.

But he can be sure that the interrogation "tailor-made" for him at this moment is sharper and more meticulous than the ones he has presided over, and he will never give up until he achieves his goal.

At the same time, news about Xu Hong's arrest was kept strictly confidential, and even his family members received text messages that he needed to work overtime temporarily.His mobile phone memory card, chat history, bank account number and even consumption records were all retrieved for careful study.

Watching the intense and orderly work of the interrogation team, Ming Ruoxing vaguely saw himself who had thrown himself in the pile of materials day and night in order to find out the whereabouts of Naga a few years ago.

Obviously the memory is still fresh, but more than a thousand days have passed in a flash.Ming Ruoxing was sighing a little when he suddenly felt Naga pat him on the shoulder.

"I asked Lao Li just now. He said that we haven't completed the transfer procedures in the process. In principle, we can't get in touch with the interrogation. It will take three days to a week at the fastest to go through the procedures. Let's go Come on, turn around and find your brother to open the back door."

Ming Ruoxing asked him instead: "Do you think you can still come back here to work?"

Before answering this question, Naga glanced around from the corner of his eye.

Everyone was busy, but almost everyone secretly cast their peripheral vision on them.

So Naga smiled: "It's a bit strange. It seems that the gossip in the bureau is also spreading very quickly."

"Even if there is no gossip, do you think my brother will let you come back as a 'team leader' from a legend?"

"Then you can't offer me as a bodhisattva? Or is he going to give me the title of boss of the office?"

"Good idea." Ming Ruoxing turned around, stretched his long legs, and walked towards the exit.

Naga quickly followed.

"Where are you going next? Home?"

The two entered the elevator and chose the basement parking lot.

Ming Ruoxing looked up at the continuously falling floor numbers, and asked casually, "Are you tired?"

"Not tired." Naga shook his head.

"But we've been through a lot today."

"What is this? When I was on a serious mission before, which day wasn't this kind of work intensity? There are even more tiring ones."

Hearing his reassurance, Ming Ruoxing finally expressed his true thoughts.

"Then let's quietly go back to Goldfish Village in the middle of the night. Pack up some things and bring Boss Bai back. I miss him a little bit."

"Okay, then let's go back to the village."

Naga agreed readily, and the two immediately got out of the car and drove all the way out of the city.

The highway at night is very smooth, there are almost no small vehicles along the way, and large vehicles pull over in an orderly manner.The bright moon is in the sky, covering the wilderness on both sides of the road with a layer of silver gauze, hazy and gentle.

Perhaps because he was worried about Naga's fatigue driving, Ming Ruoxing sat in the passenger seat and chatted with him casually.

"What did Tianze tell you?"

"Huh?" Naga didn't seem to understand.

"Don't pretend. In the hospital just now, you and Tianze stayed in Hutian for so long before you came out. Could it be that you were crying when father and son met each other?"

"Oh, you said that." Naga smiled, "I really can't hide anything from your eyes."

"Don't talk about anything else, just talk."

"Okay, don't worry, don't worry."

Naga stabilized the speed of the car at a level that was neither high nor low, and opened the window a little.

The night wind blows from the wilderness, carrying a little fragrance of plants.

He asked: "Do you know why Camera chose this name?"

Ming Ruoxing thinks this question is not difficult at all: "The Chimera is a monster made of a mixture of pythons, goats and lions. At least from the information obtained by the Bureau, they want to convey that 'all demihumans are It's the idea of ​​'one'."

"Yes, this is indeed their propaganda method."

Naga nodded: "But if you think about it carefully, the multi-species mixed Chimera monster and the 'subhuman gene cleansing' that this organization is proud of seem to be two different concepts."

Ming Ruoxing also savored it carefully, and it seemed reasonable, but he didn't take it seriously: "Maybe the person who named this name has no culture, and he just used it because he thought it sounded good."

Naga did not refute him, but put forward another hypothesis: "Perhaps the real purpose of the Chimera organization is not to achieve the equality of sub-humans, but to gather resources and resurrect the legendary 'Camera'. "

"Resurrect the legendary monster?"

It sounded a bit abrupt at first, but Ming Ruoxing quickly recalled the lizard monster he had seen that day in Hutian of Liuzhuyu Island.

"But what's the benefit to them of copying that kind of monster? As a biochemical weapon?"

"Of course it's not that simple. In addition to specifically referring to a certain kind of beast in the legend, in modern times Chimera has become a collective name for all hybrid creatures in this world... So, in a sense, our respected Dragon Emperor is also a kind of 'Chimera'."

"The dragon is a Chimera?"

Ming Ruoxing's heart skipped a beat: "I... didn't misunderstand you, did I?"

Naga smiled: "I also hope that I am wrong. It's a pity that this is what Tianze told me himself. No, it's not his own words. He poked my head with his hand, and something ran into it so naturally Inside my head."

As he said that, he also touched Ming Ruoxing's forehead with his hand.

"I didn't feel anything." Ming Ruoxing said truthfully.

"That's because I didn't do anything."

Naga curled her lips: "Believe me, the feeling of those thoughts exploding in your mind is really uncomfortable. I don't want you to do the same."

While speaking, a large lake appeared in front of the flat wilderness.The moist water vapor evaporated at night, and white mist condensed on the bridge deck.

Naga stopped talking, he slowed down and turned on the fog lights.

When the front suddenly became clear, Ming Ruoxing heard his sigh again.

"Xiao Ming... the last unicorn in Avignon has lost its divine power long ago. Our Eastern Dragon Emperor has long been terminally ill and has no successors. The era of the legendary species' rule has officially come to an end, standing behind the legendary species Can the umbrella species and dominant species still cover the vast number of established species and ordinary humans?"

"This is the intrinsic connection between Camera and the royal family?"

Ming Ruoxing seemed to realize something: "Use the banner of freedom and equality to attract people's hearts, but in the end I still did those old routines."

"Who said it wasn't."

After crossing the bridge, Naga proposed another matter: "In a few days, Tianze hopes to meet your father and the others."

"doing what?"

"He wants to talk to your dad about how to end the Legendary Era smoothly."

"Why are you looking for my dad?"

"Isn't it obvious that Chimera doesn't regard your family as an ally?"

-

The road was unimpeded, and they returned to Jinyu Village after about two hours.

In the second half of the night, the Valley Plain was completely silent, and the village fell into a deep sleep. Even the street lights were not turned on, and it was as dark as the original chaos.The air is filled with the fragrance of the lotus pond outside the village.

Naga drove the car into Jinyu Village along the road, and the two came to the small building that Xiaomei rented.

He only heard Naga whistle softly, and after a while, he saw a large group of snow-white fluffy balls squeezed out from the window sill on the second floor, jumped down along the wall two or three times, and rushed towards him screaming.

"Good boy, my son is heavy again."

Naga bent down and hugged Lao Bai, and rubbed it from left to right, up and down.

"Eggy is still there, I will find you a wife later."

After speaking, he turned around and threw the cat to Ming Ruoxing: "Go to your mother's side."

"Go away! The hair is so long, it's so hot."

His mouth was fierce, but Ming Ruoxing still accepted Boss Bai very habitually.And the big white cat also climbed up on his chest and stood up, cheek to cheek with Ming Ruoxing, rubbing against it non-stop.

The two cats, big and small, were so intimate for a while before getting back into the car, and the "family of three" set off for the safe house.

It was two in the morning, and the road to the safe house was empty.A few hundred meters away, you can see the wall outside the gate of the safe house, and the solar night light is still working hard.

"Could it be that the room is full of bugs again?" Before entering the door, Ming Ruoxing was a little worried.

"Not afraid."

Naga opened the gate with the remote control key, drove the car into the garage in the yard and parked it.Then get out of the car and close the main power switch set in the garage.

In an instant, all the lights in the garden and on the fence were extinguished.But then Naga snapped his fingers again, and the light appeared again, but it changed from bright white to soft yellow.

More than that, the entire safe house lit up, like a crystal palace on a dark ocean.

"Without electricity, there is no way to eavesdrop, right?"

Naga walked to Ming Ruoxing and teased the white cat in his arms.

Ming Ruoxing gave him a blank look: "How can I boil water for a bath without electricity?"

After saying this, he stopped looking at Naga, took two steps with a straight face, and walked towards the path between the garage and the main house.

"I almost forgot we also have a big bathtub."

Naga grinned, talking to himself while walking quickly to keep up.

The two of them and the cat were walking to the center of the garden, when suddenly a small wind blew from their right, and at the same time brought a burst of refreshing fragrance.

"The flowers are blooming."

Ming Ruoxing followed the scent and saw that it was a large clump of blue mirabilis—the seeds they took from Hu Feng at the beginning of the year, and now it has grown into a large shrub full of beautiful blue jasmine. flowers.

He suddenly felt regretful: "It took so long to bloom for the first time, but we have to leave."

"It doesn't matter. Flowers, if you plant them again, you will have them. As long as you have seeds, you will have hope."

Naga is very open-minded.He walked over to observe carefully, then stretched out his hand and stroked some ripe seeds from the torus at the top, and spread them out in the palm of his hand for Ming Ruoxing to see.

"Do you know what secrets are in these seeds?"

Ming Ruoxing shook his head with a puzzled look in his eyes.

Naga picked up a seed and placed it before his eyes.

"Have you heard of gene storage technology? It is to store coded and encrypted information in the DNA of living organisms. Jiang Yueming used this technology back then to store some data in this small seed."

"Use seeds to store information?"

Ming Ruoxing was stunned, "But the genes of living organisms can split and mutate. Wouldn't the stored information be lost during the reproduction of one generation?"

"That's true. But I think this is Jiang Yueming's original intention. Because in this world, only he and Tianze know the secret. If the seeds reproduce and mutate, it proves that the document has changed hands and has not been opened at all. necessary."

"So that's how it is." Ming Ruoxing sighed, "That must be a very important secret."

"Indeed."

Naga's expression seemed a little proud, but also vaguely melancholy.

"That's about the whole process of my birth: principles, techniques, and growth logs... Moreover, the secret key used for encryption is my dna sequence."

"..."

Hearing such an answer, Ming Ruoxing was surprised, but also worried.

"You must not let the Chimeras know about this. If you let them know that you are a legendary species 'created' through genetic technology, I'm afraid it will cause endless trouble."

"I know, anyway, I am the key that locks Pandora's Box."

Naga thought more deeply than Ming Ruoxing: "But even if Chimera doesn't know the secret of these seeds. They must have noticed that I was captured by them and 'reformed'. Sooner or later they will find me. come to their door - to achieve their ultimate goal."

"..."

Ming Ruoxing didn't answer, but Boss Bai in his arms complained because of the heat.

Naga reached out and scratched Boss Bai's chin.

"But you don't have to worry too much. The people of Imazawa have planted a lot of eyeliners in the west, and your father's side is not a minority in the political arena. As long as they unite to expose the truth and end the monopoly of high-level demihumans Although the political landscape will be turbulent for a period of time, I believe that in the end there will be a new and better life waiting for us."

Ming Ruoxing looked into his shining eyes: "You really think so?"

"Why not?" Naga smiled, "There is always hope in life, isn't it?"

"……Right."

Ming Ruoxing seemed to be infected by the warmth in his smile.With the corners of his mouth curled up, he suddenly made a request that Naga had never expected:

"If you really believe, then tie my life with yours. I am willing to accompany you to witness that beautiful future."

This time, the speechless person was replaced by Naga.

After hesitant to speak for a long time, he neither nodded nor shook his head.Instead, he hugged Ming Ruoxing's shoulders, leaned over and kissed those thin and soft lips fiercely.Kiss until Ming Ruoxing's cheeks are flushed, eyes blurred, the sweet citrus fragrance and the intoxicating wine fragrance blend together.

Then, Boss Bai, who couldn't bear it any longer, let out a protest, and fled from the narrow space between his chests.

The last night in Goldfish Village is about to pass.

And on the vast and boundless sea in the east, what is about to come, I don't know if it will be a good weather.

-

Epilogue·some things that don't have to be known by everyone

-

Time went back to a few hours ago.

Outside the ICU ward of the Affiliated Hospital of the Asian Security Bureau, Ming Ruochen had already returned to the real world.Only Tianze and Naga are left in Hutian.

"Wait a minute, I have another question."

Naga took the initiative to stop Tianze, and asked directly: "Does the incident of the bailiff being possessed have anything to do with you?"

"Why do you think so?" Tianze asked back, "No matter how you look at it, this is the Chimera's revenge."

Naga was unmoved: "The person who carried out this operation is indeed the Chimera, but the person who secretly guided them to do so is probably you—after all, you just directed a ghost ship incident not long ago , isn't it?"

Faced with doubts, Tianze remained calm, and even seemed to enjoy the conversation.

"Then tell me why I did this."

"Because you still need more and more powerful allies. Although Jujingtang is a big company and has close contacts with the west, its political power is inevitably weak. The Ming family and the new forces behind him are born to stand on the side of those imperial relatives. The opposite of relatives. Although the purpose is different, it is undeniable that they can become your most powerful comrades-in-arms on the stage."

Having said that, Naga finally cut to the core part.

"You noticed that Wu Fei and Ming Ruochen are in a relationship, but Wu Fei's family has a close relationship with Xi Bian, and they are very opposed to their association. If you can facilitate the union of Wu Fei and Ming Ruochen, then not only Being able to get the dispensable power of the Wu family as an extra can win Ming Ruochen's great favor. And the way to maximize this favor is to kill people with a knife first, and then take the initiative to save people."

These words finally made Tian Ze no longer feel at ease.

"Very good reasoning, but you have been in the ASA for so long, you should know that everything should be based on evidence."

"Of course I have evidence."

Naga was confident, "Why do you think I would interfere with Xu Hong's behavior even at the risk of backlash? Of course, I wasn't really worried that he would kill Wu Fei. After all, I had already vaguely felt that he was being attacked by him at that time." The smell of human manipulation. I guess, according to your original plan, Xu Hong is just a disposable item that is thrown away after use. What I did was to prevent you from disposing of him. Now Xu Hong is closely monitored by the Asian Security Bureau Under. You said, if I go to the interrogation, will it 'accidentally' remind him of something?"

"...It turns out that you are not really a good boy."

Tianze suddenly sighed: "Cunning."

"How rare." Naga sneered, "A child who has no father or mother since he was a child, who grows up in the crowd, is not cunning, is he waiting to be bullied?"

This sentence made Tianze silent, and it took him a long time to ask another sentence: "But you didn't choose to expose me."

"Because it's no good."

Naga sighed, but he was frank enough: "Once the truth is exposed, at least Ming Ruochen will see you as a thorn in his side, and Xiao Ming who knows the relationship between you and me will definitely be very embarrassed. I don't want to trouble him."

Having said that, he paused for a moment, and then gave a more serious reason.

"Besides, although I dislike your unscrupulous means, I don't object to your purpose. This is not a world for kind people. If a person wants to swear to be kind in everything, then he will suffer from many There will be destruction among the unkind.”

Tian Ze was surprised and said, "You also read things like "On the Monarch"."

"Don't get me wrong, I've seen it, but I'm not interested in being someone's master at all. I just want to see what's going on in the heads of those who play politics."

Naga sneered, but his expression suddenly became serious.

"Now that your goal has been achieved, at least Wu Fei and Ming Ruochen are together. If you continue to behave in such a nasty way to my friends and people I value, even if you and I really have something Blood relationship, I will turn my face and deny people."

Faced with his warning, Tian Ze seemed to become serious.

"I'm curious, what tricks you can play against a legendary species who may be stronger than you, your blood father."

"Who knows."

Naga shrugged his shoulders: "I may have to think about other things carefully, but first I can tell everything I know to my heart."

"……you dare!"

Tian Ze sneered: "If you really intend to do that, I will definitely break your neck before then."

But Naga is not afraid at all: "You should think more about your old bones. If I were you, I would drink more milk to supplement calcium. Go to the beauty salon a few more times."

"Stinky boy."

"Old never dies."

The two looked at each other for a while, and Naga said again, "Anyway, don't think about the people around me. Otherwise, I will stop you no matter what you say, at all costs."

"...Understood, no way."

As if sensing his determination, Amaze nodded.Then he took two steps towards Naga, raised his hand and stretched out two fingers, and pressed them between Naga's eyebrows.

"In order to show my sincerity, I will tell you all my future plans and everything you need to know."

Almost instantly, countless thoughts entered Naga's mind.

He instinctively closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, his eyes shone with astonishment.

Tianze didn't give him more time to digest the information he saw.

"Go back, don't keep our important people waiting."

He waved his hand, and the Hutian barrier began to slowly disappear.