Symbiote Ninth

Link was silent for a long time, tightening his arms little by little, Caesar tilted his head back, and his whole body was relieved. He felt that the world was so bright, and there were orange and royal blue light particles everywhere, even if everything came to an abrupt end. At this moment, he also feels that the brightness is completely acceptable, as if a parabola rises to the highest point, he has everything and is completely satisfied. At this moment, he and Link are living together, and they still love each other after forgiving each other.

It was one of the few things he wanted.

After hearing what he said, Link couldn't say anything. After a while, Link asked in a low voice, "What were you thinking before I rescued you?"

"I'm thinking, if there is a next life, don't become a human again. It doesn't matter if you are a stone or a bird, just don't become a human." Caesar told him the truth, "That's what I was thinking about."

"...Really." Link apologized without confidence, his voice getting lower and lower, "I'm sorry."

"It doesn't matter, I can apologize later." Caesar felt that he had grown up a lot overnight, and it was his turn to comfort Link. After thinking about it, he cheered up and said, "It's about this time, you have to mature a little."

Link didn't speak, Caesar changed the subject, "What are we going to do now? By the way, what happened to Chenghe and Freesia?"

"Chenghe is fine, and he was sent for treatment, Freesia—" Link hesitated, "I thought he was so scared when the court was held that day, but now that I think about it, maybe Someone tampered with his memory module, or did something else, but it shouldn't be a big problem, and his hardware didn't suffer any damage."

After Link finished speaking, he took a deep breath, as if trying to calm himself down, "I'll figure out a way."

He put his chin on Caesar's shoulder, looked out at the white snow with him, and said in a low voice, "It will be fine."

"What's happening now is that we're not dealing with Dutan alone."

In the bright cabin, Link and Caesar sat facing each other. Caesar rested his chin on one hand, listening silently to Link's analysis.

"We are not the only people in the army who know about this matter. Although not many, those who know about it are some key people. In fact, there were several incidents of animals going crazy and hurting people in the occupied areas about ten years ago. Yes, the military sent people to investigate, found some clues, and continued to investigate along the clues, and the matter soon became unstoppable, and the conspiracy behind the symbiosis plan was also exposed."

"...Exposed?" Caesar was a little surprised, "Since it has been exposed, why is Dutan okay?"

"Because Dutan has already dragged the people who might threaten him into the thief's boat, what I say next may be different from the truth in details, but in general it is true-this is what my brother told me of."

Speaking of Lin Yitai, Link's expression froze for a moment, he frowned a little irritably, and continued: "Since Dutan returned to the military region with the symbiosis plan, he has been promoted. During the promotion, he made some friends. The way of friends is to lead them all to the same rope, collude, and make money together. He doesn’t know how much he has been greedy for just the newly built office building... The person who was in charge of this matter at the time happened to be Du Tan’s friend One, so they were suppressed without making a fuss at all. Du Tan also got some help to clean up the occupied areas and destroy evidence. Shi Yu and the others were sent to do this, but Du Tan himself concealed it very well , The image he has always shown is easy-going and low-key, if you don't know these things, you would never think that he would be in charge of these things."

"So, what we have to face now is not only Du Tan alone, but also those who don't want Du Tan to have an accident and get involved in it. If we just want to sanction him by procedure, there is a high probability that it will not work. I don't know who I can trust, I dare not say that this system is rotten, but we can't trust anyone easily, you don't know who is Dutan's hidden stake." Link continued.

"Your brother can't do it either, I know." Caesar murmured, "It's too late for him to kill me, I can't believe him."

"I'm sorry." Link squeezed his wrist, "If we have a chance to wait until everything is over, I will give you an explanation."

"What are you explaining, should you beat your brother to death? That's not necessary. If you are really sorry, just sever ties with him." Caesar said, "We can put this issue aside for the time being. Since we can't use procedures to sanction Du Tan, what else can we rely on?"

"This is the most inexplicable thing in the world." Link rubbed the space between his brows, "I didn't expect that the idiom "Rite and Music Collapse" would have such a long life, and it can explain everything until now."

"So the real problem we have to face is that the truth has lost its meaning..." Caesar's tone was also a little confused, "Since the truth has lost its meaning, what else is meaningful? The so-called justice has no meaning either. Meaning, who cares but us?"

"You can't think like this." Link's expression became serious, "Do you know what supports the operation of society?"

"It's order, it's law." Caesar recalled, "You said it."

"That's just an appearance. What really supports the operation of society is justice. What is order and law? It's just standardized and procedural justice. Justice is the boundary between right and wrong. If our society really becomes a completely unjust A just society is needed, so why do all the people do everything for? Why use labor in exchange for remuneration, as long as you release your own evil to burn, kill, and loot. Why use pursuit to exchange love? Isn’t violence okay?

Caesar looked at him in surprise.

"Justice is not a childish game for the naive, but a self-preservation gene naturally carried by this society. It is justice that makes society run. Can you understand? If we abandon justice, you will find that everything that exists is meaningless. What most people do is useless, so you must not feel discouraged because of this, everything can be saved."

Caesar didn't know what he was thinking, remained silent, his expression became more and more weird, Link thought there was something wrong with what he just said, so he stretched out his hand and waved it in front of his eyes, Caesar grabbed his hand, "Don't make trouble!"

"what happened?"

"It suddenly occurred to me—" Caesar's expression was a little messy, "No, no, what did you just say?"

"What?" Link was also a little messy, "I said justice is—"

"No, not this, you said that you can't rely on the internal procedures to sanction... Wait, wait, wait, I remembered..." Caesar grabbed his wrist tightly, "We have a way, but, but do this It's a bit risky, and technically difficult to implement, it just occurred to me that I could—"

"Can what?"

"I know that the military has an alarm system that can take all the lines, that is, once the system is turned on, all the computers connected to the Internet, even just the screens with the function of the projection wall, will be occupied and connected to the same line. "

Link instantly understood his thoughts, "You want to hack into this alarm system?"

"Yes." Caesar said, "From the first district to the ninth district, all computers and electronic screens connected to the Internet will receive the signal."

No one can cover up any more, and no one is given a chance to redeem.

"But if that's the case, you have to tell the whole truth." Link hesitated, "Including the truth that you and Freesia actually killed soldiers."

Caesar looked at him quietly for a moment, and said, "I can say it, and I will definitely say it."

"Then have you thought about the consequences? The most serious consequence is that what you suffered before, you will suffer again, and this time I may not be able to save you, and I have no position to save you."

After saying this, Link shook his head and said calmly: "No, it's too risky, let's find another way."

"There is no risk at all," Caesar said. "Do you know what an adventure is? We hesitate, sit and wait for the opportunity to slip away one by one, and watch our friends die one by one. This is the greatest adventure."

"Don't be impulsive, listen to me—"

"Do you know what Dutan looked like before I was thrown into that grinder? He was very proud, he was actually proud, can you imagine his look? Why is he proud? Because he has no bottom line, because he Does he do things unscrupulously? But no matter what the reason is, he is very proud, he thinks he has won, why should we let him win, why should we give the world to someone like him?"

The emotions that had been suppressed before surged out, he knew that he was impulsive, but he didn't want to restrain the impulse.

"Trust me once." Caesar held Link's shoulders tightly, his eyes were hot and scorching, "Tell everything, he thought he could hide it for a lifetime, and he took it as a great achievement Tell others what you want to brag about, we need to see if this society operates on justice as you said, if the whole world knows that a person has made a mistake but is not punished, this person can still be safe and sound , then we don’t need to make any more efforts for this world, don’t we? As for me—”

He thought for a while, then took a slow breath and said: "Since we want to tell the truth, let's tell everything, what I did, there is no need to hide it, no matter whether I can get a fair judgment this time, I will accept it, I believe that there is no meaningless sacrifice in this world. Even if it seems meaningless to us now, maybe decades or even hundreds of years later, we will affect others, and this little influence will change the world. .”