Armed SWAT

Deng Kaiwen has been reluctant to recall the first years in Los Angeles.

It didn't take long for Cassandra's addiction to kick in, and she started spending big bucks on drugs.

Deng Kaiwen didn't know what his mother was smoking at that time, he thought it was marijuana.Then one day when he saw white powder, he realized that it was heroin.

But by then it was too late, and Cassandra couldn't quit.When she first left GA, she actually still had a lot of money. During that time, she could use drugs recklessly, paralyzing herself with illusory happiness day after day.She woke up less and less, and once she regained consciousness, she began to miss Kevin's father all day long, and then cried and cried loudly.

During that time, she was arrested twice by the police and sent to compulsory drug rehabilitation. Kevin couldn't sleep well every day. When the police car rang at night, he would wake up in fear.

In the end, she did not succeed in detoxification. On the contrary, in the second year, she developed from smoking to intravenous injection.This is a more serious form of drug abuse. Basically, drug addicts who have reached this point are already deeply rooted addicts and have completely lost the possibility of drug recovery.

When Kevin was 15 years old, she finally spent all the money.She sold everything that could be sold at home. In order to take drugs, she began to go out to find a job, doing cheap and heavy odd jobs, and ran to buy drugs in exchange for a little money.

Kevin had to go out to work too, earning a salary of a few dollars an hour in the supermarket, and most of the money he saved was stolen by Cassandra and used for drug use.He almost dropped out of school because of poverty, and the fear of not having enough to eat lingered in his heart all day long, which had an extremely bad impact on his physical and psychological development.

Later, the police who arrested Cassandra for compulsory drug rehabilitation knew him well, and each time they gave him dozens of dollars sympathetically, so that he could barely pay the rent so that he would not be driven out to sleep on the street.

From 13 to 16 years old, the critical period for the formation of juvenile character, a little psychological stimulation can easily affect the whole life of teenagers.During that time, Kevin’s personality completely changed. He was timid, cowardly, depressed, and easily frightened. His excessive inferiority complex distorted his psychology, causing him to be bullied at school. No one thought highly of him, and no one wanted to be friends with him.

Cassandra's temper became more and more grumpy, irritable, and neurotic. When drug addiction broke out, she would beat Kevin angrily, and after taking drugs, she would beg Kevin for forgiveness with tears streaming down her face.In those few years, Kevin's arms were often scratched, and sometimes the skin and flesh were opened, and the blood flow was completely unstoppable.He didn't have enough to eat, his body was not developed at all, and he had to go out to work frequently, which made him extremely weak.The scars of people who are not in good health are not easy to heal. Those scratches are often inflamed and festered. The pain makes him toss and turn at night, unable to sleep, and often cries all night until dawn.

He was originally a weak and crying child, but that kind of tears could not be seen by others.

He didn't dare to wear short sleeves in summer, because if someone saw the wound on his arm, he would ask him who hit him.If it is revealed that Cassandra beat the child, Kevin will be forced to adopt another family, and she may go to jail.

Kevin wanted to make that call countless times.The number has been deeply engraved in his mind, and the piece of paper Epro gave him has also been hidden in a very appropriate place.That seemed to be the last and most important thing Epro left him.

But he never fought.

He picked up the phone many times, hesitated for a long time, struggled for a long time, and then slowly put down the receiver.

Epro might take him, but what about Cassandra?Where is his mother?

If he's gone, who cares about his poor, drug-addicted, crazy mother?

In my third year out of New York, things couldn't have gotten any worse.

Cassandra suffered from severe venous infection and lower extremity ulcers due to long-term intravenous heroin use. She could no longer go to work and could only stay at home every day, drowsy most of the time.That was the darkest period for Kevin. He even wanted to commit suicide countless times, wanting to be free from this desperate fate forever.

At the most painful time, he met Mitchell Landers, the captain of the school's rugby team, and an outstanding student with bright sunshine.

That was Deng Kaiwen's first friend in his life.For a long time, that was the last one too.

Many years later, he once again recalled that youthful confession, and he only felt awkward and funny in his heart.But at that time, the consequences of that confession were very disastrous.

The FBI once conducted a psychological test on a group of their senior agents, and his result was that he was bisexual. After the results came out, several male colleagues made ambiguous hints to him, but he There was no urge to do that again.

It may be because the psychological shadow was too deep at the beginning, the rejection full of disgust and anger, and the ensuing ridicule of the whole school, left a bloody scar in the memory of Deng Kaiwen's boyhood.

The summer that Mitchell Landers cut him off completely, Cassandra ended up in rehab for the last time.

It didn't take several months to come out like before. After she went in this time, she was sent back home very quickly.

Because she is already dying, and there is no possibility of drug rehab at all.

Her vein infection and leg ulcers became so severe that Kevin was afraid to even visit her.The house was filled with stench all day long, and drug needles were everywhere. The landlord finally couldn't bear it anymore and gave an ultimatum - get out immediately.

That night, Kevin held a fruit knife and gestured at his wrist for a long time.He thought about calling Epro eventually and telling him he was leaving, but he was too tired to dial the number.After hesitating for a long time, he gently hung up the phone.

It's so late, Epro is already asleep, and he may not pick up the call.

Call again tomorrow morning.At least tonight, I want to finally get a good night's sleep.

Kevin finally made up his mind, put down the fruit knife, curled up on the sofa and fell asleep.

It was many years later that he realized how ridiculous he was at that time. Before committing suicide, he called Epro to say goodbye.In fact, Epro has long arranged eyeliner in Los Angeles. He knows everything that has happened in the past few years. He just pretends not to know in New York!

He is waiting for Deng Kaiwen to finally admit defeat!

He is waiting for Deng Kaiwen to give up that bit of blood attachment, give up the benevolence of that weak woman!

It is easy for him to solve Cassandra's problem, he just wants to use this woman to thoroughly hone Deng Kaiwen's character.Only those who are completely desperate for human nature can have an absolutely tenacious will and can develop the most ruthless personality.Only such a person can replace the useless Stanley and become GA's next successor!

Originally, he thought that this child had a weak personality and had never suffered a lot. After a few months of suffering, he would definitely be unable to resist calling him.Who knew that one year had passed, and Deng Kaiwen hadn't moved;

Epro was shocked by Kevin's arduous persistence in this matter.

In the end, Epro just wanted to see when Kevin would give up.This child is already stronger and more resolute than most adults, and he wants to see where the bottom line of this child is.

Like a string stretched to its limit, how far can it last?

Both Epro's waiting and Deng Kaiwen's persistence came to an end that night.

Because late that night, Cassandra stopped breathing silently on the small messy bed due to a drug overdose.

Kevin Deng will probably never forget the moment he found Cassandra's body the next morning.He passed out at that time, and when he woke up, he found that he was surrounded by police officers.

He had been in a coma for two days and two nights, and the landlord called the police.

"It's not easy for that child. He has no drug addiction at all, but he is very weak and has suffered mental torture for a long time." Lying on the hospital bed, he heard the doctor sympathetically say to the police: "Hurry up!" Find someone to adopt him, he is still so young, he needs someone to raise him up..."

"Actually, this is a kind of relief for him, that kind of mother..." The policeman also echoed.

Kevin only felt that his eyes were very dry, and he wanted to cry, but he didn't have the strength to cry.

That was the first time he felt that feeling, and he would never forget it in his life: Mingming wanted to cry very much, but because his body was too weak, he couldn't even shed tears.Not everyone has the opportunity to experience the pain of extreme exhaustion.

He lay in the hospital for a week, until the staff of the social welfare agency came to the hospital bed with a thick book of adoptive families.

"You can choose one of them," the staff told him kindly, "They are all educated middle-class people, they have no children, and they will take good care of you. You have good grades in school, don't you? They will support you through education." High school, and then go to college without any worries."

Kevin looked at those people wearily, and after a while he whispered hoarsely: "...I have a father."

Everyone present was stunned.

"I have his phone number," Kevin continued, speaking for the first time since he was in the hospital for so long, his voice was so weak that it was unbearable to listen to: "Can anyone...can you lend me a cell phone? ?”

Recently, the staff member quickly took out his mobile phone and handed it over.

Kevin dialed the numbers one by one. For three years, it was the first time he had dialed the number completely.

The call was quickly connected, and a strange male voice sounded formulaic: "Hello, I am Mr. Epro's assistant, may I ask who you are?"

Kevin didn't know what to say for a moment, and hesitated for a few seconds before whispering: "I'm Kevin, I'm looking for—Nathaniel Epro."

"You wait." The man said, and then hung up the phone.

Thousands of miles away in New York, in GA Epro's private office, the assistant covered his phone with his hand, and his voice was slightly out of tune because of excitement: "Mr. Epro!"

Epro sat on the side, smiled and asked, "What did he say?"

"He said he was Kevin and was looking for Mr. Nathaniel Epro..."

"Really?" Eppro paused: "Ask him again who he is looking for."

Although the assistant didn't understand, he still did as he said: "Hello, Kevin? Can I ask again who you are looking for?"

Deng Kaiwen was slightly taken aback at the time, and many, many complex emotions rushed up in an instant, making his throat choked up so that he could not speak.

"...I'm looking for Neil," his tears flowed down his cheeks to his temples, and into the white pillow of the hospital bed: "You tell him I'm Kevin, I...I want to go back to New York."

There was silence on the phone for a while, and then Epro's voice sounded, with a gentle smile: "Don't be afraid, Kevin, I'm going to Los Angeles tomorrow."

Kevin nodded, his whole body was shaking from crying, but he couldn't make a sound...

Deng Kaiwen returned to New York when he was 16 years old, and in the second year, GA's treasure "Brahma Eye" that proved his identity as an heir had an owner.

Those turbulent years in Los Angeles seemed to be gone forever, forever a lost memory.No one knows that the young master in New York GA once had a drug-addicted mother, who was desperate enough to commit suicide several times, and was almost sent to be adopted by social welfare agencies.

They all said that the boy was really handsome and capable, and he was definitely the next GA boss.It is said that the young man is Epro's adopted son, but he is loved by Epro like an eyeball, not even his own only son Stanley.

All kinds of rumors are like wind and rain, and they will not subside for a day.

However, only Deng Kaiwen felt that there was something different about Epro.

This man seemed to still dote on him as he did back then, but there was a hint of fright in his doting gradually.

When he was a child, the man taught him to love him like a father and raised him with his own hands.But when he grows up, the man's love is no longer the father's love.

It wasn't until he was deeply involved that he realized that it was the love from the underworld godfather.

Compared with the three years of pain and despair in Los Angeles, Epro's degenerate love finally pushed Deng Kaiwen into a more terrifying and dark abyss.