[Full-time master] mottled

Jiang Botao is an "artificial guide".

He is not the crystallization of love between the opposite sex sentinel and his partner, nor is he the lucky one who has naturally awakened his spiritual ability. He is a test-tube baby created by artificial insemination in order to become the shackles of a certain sentinel.

——Many of the on-the-job guides in the tower are actually "artificial guides", especially those with outstanding abilities like Jiang Botao.

Since the official establishment of the first tower, the lack of guides has always been a headache for the management. There is no shortage of sentries in this world, but there are very few guides who can restrain them—whether it is natural awakening, It was still bred from the sentry to the partner—so that in the most outrageous period, the ratio of serving sentry guides in the tower reached an unbelievable 5:1.

The guides in that period were completely without human rights, without dignity and freedom, and had no right to choose. The guides who were deprived of themselves were only used as tools to restrain the sentries and were strictly controlled by the tower.Even so, before the general-purpose guide element sedative mixture was developed, there were still many sentinels who, without exception, embarked on sensory overload and mental breakdown because they could not be appeased by a guide that could match with them, and were eventually arrested. Tower executions on the road.

For a tower whose main duty is to maintain some special order that cannot be made public, the loss of any outstanding sentinel will undoubtedly cause huge losses.

The best way to avoid this loss is to cultivate more guides.

However, the natural awakening of sentries and guides cannot be artificially intervened. Therefore, based on the basic rule that "the new life conceived by a sentinel partner of the opposite sex must be a sentinel or a guide", someone proposed an artificial plan called "1v1 plan". Wizard program.

——The eggs and sperm of the guides of the opposite sex are manually extracted, fertilized in vitro, and then the fertilized eggs are transplanted back into the surrogate mother for gestation, so as to increase the birth probability of the guides.

The "1v1 plan" is undoubtedly genius and efficient, but it also caused irreversible tragedies.

During Dongta's 1-year implementation of the "1v30 Plan", three batches of test-tube babies were produced, each batch was separated by nine years, and a total of 90 people were born, of which 52 were awakened as guides, two were awakened as sentinels, and the other 36 were born as surrogates. Due to the influence of the mother's body, his guiding quality was not obvious, and he was finally judged as a "failure" and sent to an ordinary family to be raised.

Jiang Botao is one of the achievements of East Tower's implementation of the "1v1 Plan". Since he was confirmed to be awakened as a guide, he has lived in a closed white house with the other [-] artificial guides in the batch, and accepted the arrangement of East Tower. The unified enlightenment education, when he is ten years old, he will be accepted by the Guidance Academy, and start systematic training as an intern guide.

The ignorant children don't know who their parents are, and they don't know that their fate has already been doomed-they don't even have their own names, only a cold code name.

So from the time Jiang Botao could remember, whether it was the mentor who was called "Dad" by everyone, or the adults who came in and out of the white house and were responsible for taking care of and checking them, they always called him 73. .

It wasn't until he was seven years old that he left the White House to enter the Guidance Academy, where he began formal training as a guide, and only then did he get the name "Jiang Botao" from his teacher.

"...Teacher, he is a young man of literature and art. He said that these two words are taken from the "finally the sea is the wave" in "Waterfall couplets", and he forced me to recite them." Jiang Botao said, his depressed face for a long time finally showed With a little smile, "'Abandoning the small aspirations of the chick, Mu Honghu's high soaring', the teacher puts his hopes on me." [1][2][[1] "Waterfall couplets": Thousands of rocks and valleys do not hesitate to work, Only by looking at it from a distance can we know the source is high.How can the stream be kept, the sea will eventually become the waves.The author of the first sentence is Huang Bo, and the author of the second sentence is Li Chen. ][[2] Abandoning the small aspirations of the chick, Mu Honghu to soar high: from "The Book with Chen Bo".

Zhou Zekai opened his mouth and murmured for a long time before softly comforting him, "It's a good name."

Jiang Botao never told him about his childhood, nor did Zhou Zekai. He only knew that the word "orphan" was filled in the column of relatives in Jiang Botao's file in the East Pagoda, so he gently bypassed him. After reading Jiang Botao's past, they only focused on their present and future, but they never thought that there was such a reason behind these two words.

At that time, they were sitting by a trestle bridge near the water in Depu Qingyuan, and the forensic evidence car of the criminal investigation brigade drove past them, and the car contained Li Yin's cold body.

Jiang Botao turned his head away from Zhou Zekai, and sniffed in the cold wind, not sure if it was because of the cold, or because of other emotional fluctuations.

"So... who is 'Father'?" Zhou Zekai was silent for a while, but finally asked.After all, they have to face this problem, because based on the current situation and this person's message in the garage of Tang's villa, it is very likely that all the sentries who disappeared in the East Tower are in his hands, and he is even planning to take Take Jiang Botao away from Zhou Zekai's side.

Zhou Zekai would never allow this kind of thing to happen.

—No one can touch his guide, no one.

"...He is an arrogant lunatic." Jiang Botao looked at the horizon where the sea and the sky meet in the distance, with gritted teeth and resentment in his tone.Jiang Botao no longer remembers the name of the mentor who gave them the enlightenment training, but he will always remember what this "father" did.

This "father" is undoubtedly the most loyal executor and deep participant of East Tower's "1v1 Project". As the project leader, he participated in the enlightenment training of all three batches of artificial guides.

The newborn guides were sealed and isolated in the white house after they woke up consciously, and "father" was their only source of information from the outside world. "Father" enlightened their wisdom, let them know that they are different, and realized their mission, but never instilled them with the correct three views.

So after the first batch of artificial guides formally joined the East Tower, their distorted values ​​were quickly exposed: after combining with the sentinels, 11 of the sixteen artificial guides did not become reliable partners for the sentinels. In the process of carrying out their tasks, they provided them with help and comfort, but instead they continued to lure the Sentinels to abuse their abilities, causing many casualties that should have been avoided.

In the beginning, these additional personnel and property losses did not attract Dongta’s attention—after all, there are too many monsters in this world, and it is inevitable to accidentally injure civilians during the mission—until a certain person who went to assist the police in handling a hijacking case Sentinel, because he followed the guidance of his partner, forcibly used the ability to attack forcibly when there was no need to use the ability at all, which caused the sentry's ability to lose control on the spot, and then entered a state of sensory overload, causing robbers, hostages, police officers and onlookers to panic. After many casualties, the East Tower only noticed the "abnormality" of some artificial guides.

——Instead of becoming the shackles that bound the Sentinels, they became accomplices that overloaded the Sentinels' perception.

Dongta conducted a dismissal review on the eleven pairs of sentinel partners, and finally had to execute six artificial guides who could no longer change their distorted thoughts, and their sentinel partners also lost their guides and entered sensory overload. status was executed.The remaining five artificial guides were also forced to re-educate their world outlook, outlook on life, and values. Two of the five chose to choose the Suicide, Dongta had no choice but to execute the sentinel partner of the two.

Therefore, one year after the first batch of manual guides were employed, there were only eight people who could serve as "excellent guides" for East Tower.

After experiencing such a tragic loss, Dongta quickly held accountable the project leader who provided the enlightenment training for the artificial guides, but at that time, "Dad" was the backbone member of the entire "1v1 plan", and Dongta did not take responsibility. Its severe punishment is just suspension of pay and demotion, hoping to play a role of small punishment and big warning.

However, soon, the second batch of artificial guides who had not joined the East Tower had already caused a new tragedy—three artificial guides deliberately set fire in the guidance academy, burning to death a college teacher and seven intern guides.

Therefore, the "1v1 plan" was urgently stopped by the East Tower, and Jiang Botao ended his enlightenment education in the White House ahead of schedule, and was handed over to the Guidance Academy to receive correct and multi-faceted guide training. In the end, he stood beside Zhou Zekai, Been an excellent excellent guide.

Compared with the good luck of the third batch of artificial guides, six of the second batch of artificial guides who successfully graduated from the academy chose to commit suicide for no reason after combining with the sentry.

In the end, the excellent guides brought to East Tower by the "1v1 plan" were not the expected 52 people—eight in the first batch, six in the second batch, and 19 in the third batch, for a total of 33 people.

And the price paid for cultivating these 33 people was something that Dongta never expected.As a result, Dongta completely withdrew from the "1v1 Project", and all relevant archives were also sealed up and became one of the top secret documents.It's a pity that the leader of the project, who was the initiator of everything, heard the news in advance and hid it. Dongta has been chasing him for so many years without a trace.

After Zhou Zekai heard this, he couldn't help but sigh: If Jiang Botao wasn't one of the 33 people, maybe he would never know that in order to balance the gap between the number of sentries and guides, such a test-tube baby plan was implemented in the tower.

"...What did he teach you?" Zhou Zekai asked cautiously. He really couldn't imagine what kind of thoughts "father" had instilled in those guides who were still ignorant, so that they would The life after that was so cruel and sad.

Jiang Botao didn't answer this question directly, he turned his head to look at Zhou Zekai, shook his head and chuckled, "You don't want to know."

"Tell me, Jiang Botao." Zhou Zekai held Jiang Botao's wrist, and he forced his guide to meet his eyes so that he could know his sincerity and firmness: "Tell me."

"...'Father' said that in this world, there shouldn't be any other species other than humans, including us." Jiang Botao hesitated for a moment, and finally opened his mouth with eyes lowered. His voice was too soft, and he blurted out It was broken in the sea breeze in an instant, but Zhou Zekai heard: "We have been abandoned by the species of 'human' since we awakened. We bear the original sin, but unlike those inhuman monsters, we can redeem our sins. We have the obligation Purify this filthy world, and when all the aliens are eliminated, we must destroy ourselves, so that this world will be 'pure', so pure that only 'people' remain."

"He..." Zhou Zekai, who really didn't know what to say, paused for a long time before continuing: "He is indeed a lunatic."

"Who says it's not?" Jiang Botao muttered, he sat with his knees hugged beside Zhou Zekai, shrinking himself into a small ball.

"He's not right." Zhou Zekai stretched out his hand and stroked Jiang Botao's bangs that were blown by the sea breeze. "It's not that 'people' abandoned us, but 'people' chose us. Protect 'people'."

Jiang Botao tilted his head to look at him, he pursed his lips, and smiled like a shy child who heard a compliment: "Well, my three views have been corrected, I know that old lunatic is full of crazy words, half of me I can’t even believe it. Although I don’t know what that old lunatic wants to do this time, I must stop him.”

"It's not 'I'," Zhou Zekai smiled and corrected him, "It's 'we'."

"Well, we." Jiang Botao said.

Zhou Zekai silently leaned forward and kissed his forehead lightly. This was his oath and promise to Jiang Botao.

——They are all hard-working people. If they don't cherish each other, they will really have nothing in this world.

Due to the inexplicable appearance of Li Yin's body, the nature of the trace survey task has changed, resulting in the trace team's re-connaissance work on the entire Tang family villa lasting nearly four hours in the morning alone.

But unfortunately, these four hours of hard work are not directly proportional to the rewards. The police department did not find any valuable new clues in the Tang family villa.There were no dynamic traces of the corpse being moved or dragged, nor static traces such as footprints and handprints. They could not find any objective evidence to explain how Li Yin's corpse appeared at the scene of the Guan Lei case.

This young guide appeared out of thin air in the garage of the Tang family villa so unreasonably, just like Tang Junhao, who was on the verge of sensory overload, appeared out of thin air in the surveillance video on the side of the street.

The aftermath is so lamentable that the antecedents of the consequences remain obscure.

Zhou Zekai and Jiang Botao did not participate in the follow-up on-site re-examination: after the latter returned to Tang's villa from the pier, he took the initiative to inform Ma Jianlin of the fact that he was 73.

Because there were messages about the death of the character "73" at the two scenes at the same time, Ma Jianlin, who was about to link the Li Yin case with the Meng Ping case and investigate the case, was taken aback by Jiang Botao's confession: "So, Meng Ping was killed because of you too?"

"...What?" Jiang Botao froze for a moment.

Ma Jianlin, who felt that his words were inappropriate, just wanted to say hello, but Shi Wengao, who was always used to being outspoken, said directly: "Because the murder weapon that killed Meng Ping was engraved with '73, you killed them'." "

As soon as he finished speaking, Jiang Botao obviously took half a step back, as if he was about to fall on his back in the next second, Zhou Zekai hurried forward to help him.

"Go! You're the one who talks too much!" Ma Jianlin said to Shi Wengao, and rushed him to help the trace team.

"Captain Ma...why didn't you tell me such an important detail in the ward?" Jiang Botao waved his hands to Zhou Zekai, calmed down, indicating that he was fine.

"Actually, I asked Xiao Zhou when he went to check the surveillance cameras. He said he didn't know who '73' was." , he just held the cigarette in his hand: "I thought, since he didn't know, you must not know, so I didn't mention it afterwards."

Jiang Botao was a little dumb after hearing this, and then he forced the corners of his lips together, and said, "Xiao Zhou didn't know about this until today, and I just told him about it."

"It's no wonder." Ma Jianlin sighed, and when he looked up again with a serious and formidable expression, he asked solemnly: "Xiao Jiang, can you tell me about '73' from the beginning to the end? ?”

"Yes." Jiang Botao took a deep breath and nodded.

So Ma Jianlin temporarily requisitioned a small office in the property center of Depu Qingyuan to make inquiries for Jiang Botao.Zhou Zekai originally wanted to prevent Jiang Botao from revealing his scars again, but he knew in his heart that if Jiang Botao chose to hide it because of his momentary distress, then this crazy "father" who insisted on "73" might find the truth with them On the road to become more crazy, and even caused some cruel consequences that they could not bear, involving more innocent lives.

After thinking about it, Zhou Zekai had no choice but to acquiesce in Jiang Botao's confession to Ma Jianlin. During the more than an hour of interrogation, Zhou Zekai sat by and watched quietly.

As the interrogator, Ma Jianlin is indeed an old police officer with many years of interrogation experience. Facing the same statement, he used some trivial points as the entry point, and asked Jiang Botao many questions that Zhou Zekai had never thought of before.It's just a pity that Ma Jianlin didn't ask more information about this "father" because it had been too long, and Jiang Botao himself had subconsciously blurred this memory on purpose.

"Sorry..." Jiang Botao stared at a wood grain on the table, and softly apologized to Ma Jianlin.

"Hey, what are you apologizing for?" Ma Jianlin waved his hand, "You have already helped a lot. As for more related information, I will make a report later and ask the Gold Bureau to directly ask the tower for verification. According to the current situation, the It can be roughly speculated that from the "Guan Lei Case" in November last year to today's "Li Yin Case", the project leader of the "1v1 Project" may have participated in the whole process, and he may even be behind the scenes." Turning over a dozen pages in the notebook, while looking at the notes he had made, he thought to himself, "But what is his purpose?"

"Actually—" Jiang Botao opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something more, but he hesitated again when the words came to his lips.

"Why, did you remember anything?" Ma Jianlin asked.

Jiang Botao lowered his eyes and thought for a while, finally shook his head and said, "Forget it, it's my own business, it has nothing to do with the case."

Ma Jianlin pondered for a few seconds, then suddenly slapped his forehead and asked, "Xiao Jiang, do you think that 'father' will be Tang Jianbo?"

Jiang Botao was taken aback, then shook his head: "No, I've seen Tang Jianbo's photo before, so it can't be him."

"Oh, this is troublesome." Ma Jianlin rubbed the stubble on his chin, "But at least from these few cases, the relationship between this 'father' and Tang Jianbo is inseparable. After that, I will let the information focus on Tang Jianbo. If you start to check your personal relationship, you should gain something."

"Hmm..." Jiang Botao, who didn't know what he was thinking, responded in a muffled voice.

Zhou Zekai, who was sitting on the side, stared at Jiang Botao closely. Although he didn't have obvious abnormal mood swings like before, his guide was actually very depressed now.Zhou Zekai looked around and felt that he should do something to break the breathless air in the room, so he coughed dryly, which attracted the attention of Jiang Botao and Ma Jianlin, and Zhou Zekai met their gazes, pretending to be Aggrieved: "I'm a little hungry."

——He never imagined that one day he would take the initiative to do things like enliven the atmosphere.

"It's past lunch time." Ma Jianlin glanced at his watch, and it was already 01:30 in the afternoon. "There are no restaurants around here. I asked Wen Gao to order boxed lunches, and I asked him to deliver three."

"Don't bother Wengao, let's go directly." Jiang Botao stopped Ma Jianlin who was about to call Shi Wengao, "I want to take a few steps to relax."

"Alright." Ma Jianlin nodded, put down the phone and didn't say anything.

Zhou Zekai took a step forward silently, stood beside Jiang Botao and held his hand, fingers interlocking.Jiang Botao didn't resist, and let Zhou Zekai lead him back to the Tang's villa.

When the three of them returned to the scene, the rest of the police officers had already finished picking up their lunch boxes, and began to invest in a new round of inspection work on Tang's villa without stopping.Shi Wengao put the lunch box left for the three of them on the survey vehicle, but when Ma Jianlin opened the door, a strong smell mixed with celery fried meat and jasmine-flavored car interior freshener hit his face, and Ma Jianlin was so smoky. Almost suffocated, even Zhou Zekai, who was holding Jiang Botao and standing behind him, was forced to take a step back by the smell.

Ma Jianlin threw himself into the car and opened the window to disperse the smell, and at the same time scolded him in a low voice, this little apprentice who couldn't do anything.

The three lunch boxes were neatly stacked on the seat, and they were almost cold.After handing the lunch box to Zhou Zekai and Jiang Botao respectively, Ma Jianlin took out three bottles of mineral water from the trunk, and the three of them sat in the inspection car and started eating lunch.

The dishes in the box lunch are very ordinary, a piece of fried meat with celery, a few boiled sea greens, and some quick-frozen three-color mixed vegetables for side dishes.

I don’t know which fly restaurant Shi Wengao ordered from. It’s okay if the rice sticks together because of coldness. The piece of meat is chewy and salty.Not only that, but the cook seems to have made a mistake between light soy sauce and dark soy sauce, which caused the whole celery stir-fried pork to present a thick sauce color like shredded pork in Beijing sauce.

Zhou Zekai ate a slice, and felt that it was too unpalatable, so he concentrated on chewing those Shanghai greens. Sitting beside him, Jiang Botao didn't seem to have any appetite, just picked up the corn kernels in the three-color mixed vegetables in a muffled voice. eat.

Ma Jianlin is not picky about these things, but seeing these two people only eat vegetarian dishes, out of good intentions, he still persuaded him a few words: "Eat two more bites of meat, I don't know how long I will be busy in the afternoon before I can close the team. After eating meat You have the strength to go hungry. Besides, the meat in this box is worth money, so don’t waste it.”

Zhou Zekai thought for a while, and felt that this was indeed the case, so he picked up a chopstick of celery fried meat, chewed it whole twice, and swallowed it directly.Jiang Botao on the side finally let go of the three-color mixed vegetables, which were not much, and put a piece of meat with brown sauce in his mouth instead. As a result, Jiang Botao's face changed instantly as soon as the meat was in his mouth. .

Before Zhou Zekai could react, a burst of abnormally violent mood swings attacked his empathy system in an instant. It was a strong negative emotion mixed with terror, disgust and fear. Trembling and tingling.

Zhou Zekai, who suppressed the first wave of emotional shock, sat on the spot holding disposable chopsticks for a few seconds, then he also uncontrollably dropped the boxed lunch in his hand, got out of the car like the wind, squatted on the side of the road and swallowed the food he had just eaten. He vomited up all the food—Jiang Botao's abnormal emotion brought him too much discomfort, Zhou Zekai tried several times, but he couldn't suppress the nausea from his body—he rushed forward first. Jiang Botao, who got out of the survey vehicle, was already vomiting, but he was still retching uncontrollably, and he couldn't stop until he vomited acidic water.

"What, what's the matter? Is this food so unpalatable?" Ma Jianlin, who didn't know why, got out of the car, looking at the two squatting on the side of the road and vomiting, looking a little at a loss.

Zhou Zekai, who had finally regained his composure, waved his hand at him, signaling him not to ask so many questions yet.

"Jiang, Jiang, Jiang Botao, look at me." Zhou Zekai grabbed his sleeve and wiped the corners of his mouth. He swallowed down the second round of vomiting desire in his stomach, and turned to his partner. He grabbed Jiang Botao's shoulder and tried to Let him look at him, but Jiang Botao, who couldn't help but groan, only cared about retching himself, and didn't care about Zhou Zekai at all.Affected by the increasingly messy negative emotions in the empathy system, Zhou Zekai, who began to show violent emotions, used a little force in his hands, and for the first time, he couldn't help yelling at his partner: "Jiang Botao! What's the matter with you?" !"

Not only did Zhou Zekai fail to control his emotions, he also failed to control his strength: Originally, he just wanted to push Jiang Botao towards him, but he just pushed him to the ground.

Because of this push, Jiang Botao, who had fallen into a state of chaos and completely lost control of his emotions, finally roared hysterically: "That's human flesh! Human flesh——!"

Zhou Zekai could only feel a buzzing in his head when he heard it. The empathy system between him and Jiang Botao was full of completely manic negative fluctuations, shock and fear, astonishment and fright. These overwhelming negative emotions were intertwined into an airtight web. The entanglement seems to bury the two of them together in the endless frenzied mental storm.

Fortunately, Jiang Botao's chaotic state did not indirectly cause Zhou Zekai's perception overload - not because of Jiang Botao's well-trained, but because Ma Jianlin made a move at a critical moment - Zhou Zekai was knocked unconscious by a savage sword Jiang Botao sat on the spot for a long time, and then he gradually stopped his heavy breathing. He stroked his bangs soaked in cold sweat, only feeling that his heartbeat was still a little scary.

"Xiao Zhou, what's going on? Xiao Jiang, what about human flesh?" Ma Jianlin looked at him condescendingly, with an extremely ugly expression on his face.

"... Ma, Captain Ma." Zhou Zekai choked out a tired breath, and then continued: "The meat in the lunch box may be human flesh."

Once upon a time, there was a white house.

Twenty ignorant and ignorant children were locked up in the white house. They had a common "father" and many uncles and aunts who cared about them.

These twenty children grew up carefree in the white house. "Dad" taught them a lot of knowledge, told them how to be different, and also told them the mission they were born with and the original sin they carried.

In order to repay "father" and to atone for sins, the children study hard and learn to manipulate their special abilities that are different from ordinary people, so some children learn "insight", some children learn "illusion", and some of children learn to "manipulate".

Among the twenty children, three were favored by "Dad" because they were his most perfect works.Among these three children, one child can go to the future, one child can make imagination come true, and one child can reverse the time that has gone forward forever.

"Daddy" really likes them, because these three children may help him realize his dream.

A dream to make this world "pure".

However, after a while, "father" suddenly began to loathe, even fear, the child who could go to the future.Because the child showed doubts and resistance to "Dad" after returning from the future, the authority of "Dad" was challenged unprecedentedly.

And the future that the child spoke of—no matter how distant the future—the world didn't seem to become "pure".

The dream of "Dad" has not been realized in the future that the child went to.

Therefore, "Dad" began to hate "Future".

It happened that "Dad" had a wonderful idea. He wanted to deepen the sins of the children, making them feel fearful, terrified, and tortured all the time, so that they would strive to atone for the "purity" of this world.

On a certain day, "the future" was divided into nineteen parts.

The kids in the dark don't know what's going on, they're just confused, huddled around "Daddy" asking why they lost one of their friends.

It wasn't until the next day that "Dad" told them where "Future" had gone.

Just as "father" imagined, the nineteen children who knew the truth felt unprecedented fear and panic. The children cried loudly, vomited, roared hysterically, and tremblingly begged God for forgiveness.

Nineteen children in the White House ate their friends, but only one child wanted to save the "future".But no matter how much the child tried to turn back time this time, the "future" never returned to the present reality.

The "future" is gone forever.

After confirmation by the technicians, it was confirmed that the meat in the fried meat with celery in the box lunch indeed belonged to human tissue.

Upon hearing the news, all the police technicians who participated in the re-survey of Tang's villa collapsed.Shi Wengao, who was in charge of ordering boxed meals, became the first target to be questioned. Shi Wengao, who had vomited two rounds by scratching his throat, said that he had no knowledge. Ordering a phone call, ordering lunch for a group of people that day.

Ma Jianlin found this restaurant leaflet on the passenger seat of the survey vehicle, but when he dialed the order number above, the sweet electronic voice told him that it was an empty number.Unwilling to give up, Ma Jianlin found a car and rushed to the restaurant address written on the leaflet.The address of the restaurant is a full six kilometers away from Depu Qingyuan. When we get off the bus at the place, we can see that there is really a small restaurant there.

The restaurant owner wearing a greasy apron just wanted to come out to greet the guests, but was startled by Ma Jianlin, who was wearing a police coat with a dignified face and calmed down, trembling, not knowing what to say.Ma Jianlin showed the ID to the restaurant owner and asked him if he had received a call to order food from Depu Qingyuan at noon today.

The owner of the restaurant rubbed his hands awkwardly, saying that he hadn't received any order calls today, and Depu Qingyuan was beyond the delivery range of their home, so even if an order came, they would refuse it.

Naturally, Ma Jianlin would not just listen to the restaurant owner's side story. After telling the restaurant owner to cooperate with the investigation, Ma Jianlin arranged for technicians to go to the back kitchen, but unfortunately, the technicians did not find any suspected human tissue parts in the back kitchen of this restaurant. .

The fruitless Ma Jianlin came out of the restaurant and was about to kick a can to relieve his anxiety, but he received a call from Yu Ning, the deputy captain of the Criminal Investigation Brigade who came to support him. Yu Ning told him to go back to Depuqing on the phone. garden.

——Some residents found a male floating corpse in the waters around Depu Qingyuan. The left thigh of the corpse was missing, and it was very likely that it was the victim they were looking for.

When Ma Jianlin rushed back, the floating corpse had already been salvaged ashore, and the trace group on one side was fixing the traces.

It was a young man, estimated to be 27 or [-] years old by appearance. He had no clothes on his body. Except for the loss of left thigh muscle tissue, no other obvious trauma was found. The cause of death is temporarily unknown; and the femur exposed after the loss of left thigh muscle There are obvious marks of knife wounds on it, and according to the condition of the section, it can be inferred that the missing part was cut off after his death; in addition, the corpse did not show a giant view, and it should have been thrown into the water not long ago.

Ma Jianlin felt a bit of a headache when he looked at it. He stood up and pressed his temples while arranging for the trace team to fix the traces. After the traces were fixed, he sent the photos back to the police department, and asked the technical department to issue an investigation notice to find the source of the corpse.

If Zhou Zekai had been on the scene at that time, Ma Jianlin could have saved the step of finding the source of the corpse: because this male corpse was also their colleague who used to get along day and night in the East Tower, Li Yin's sentinel partner, Qiu Kai.

But Zhou Zekai was not there, he took Jiang Botao home an hour ago.

Of course, Ma Jianlin's hand knife was not enough to make Jiang Botao, the guide, unconscious for such a long time, but he himself seemed to be refusing to wake up. Zhou Zekai could only sit by the bed and guard him closely.

Until today, Zhou Zekai had never been affected by Jiang Botao's abnormal mood swings, so he never knew that being forced to share negative emotions with others was such an uncomfortable thing.It was as if a corner of the bright world had been forcibly torn apart, and the viscous darkness invaded unreasonably, branding all the visible and beautiful pictures in its field of vision with pain and despair.

During the years when they became partners and lovers, he enjoyed Jiang Botao's comfort so naturally, he would gently soothe Zhou Zekai's mood swings, relieve his sorrow, soothe his anxiety, calm his anger, just Even the rare despair will be turned into honey by him.

Everyone is telling the guides that for the sake of this world, they must wholeheartedly stabilize the Sentinel's mood, after all, the guide was born to serve the Sentinel.But their own emotional problems were completely ignored, as if the guides were all emotionless machines and never had such a thing as emotion.

Therefore, they can be artificially "manufactured", artificially distorted the three views, and artificially forcibly corrected. Even after falling into chaos and committing suicide, they have to be blamed by others for implicating an excellent sentinel.The situation of the guides is like that of the dark age from the beginning to the end, they are never seen, only as an appendage of the sentinel, as a collar to restrain the mad dog.

this is not right.Zhou Zekai thought.

The sentinel and the guide should be in the same position, instead of just letting the sentry dump negative emotions on the guide and let the partner clean up the mess alone.

Although this is true, it is too difficult to actually do it.After all, the sentinels have no way to deal with the negative emotions in the empathy system, they can only let those emotions accumulate