Armed SWAT

The moonlight leaped over the heavy curtains and sprinkled on the gorgeous carpet with intricate patterns.

Deng Kaiwen was lying on the bed with heavy eyelids, but his mind was very clear.

He is not a person who is easy to fall asleep in a strange environment, not to mention that the reception of the Landers family is too exaggerated, which makes him completely sleepy.

The mouse's words are still vivid in my ears: "Go to a bar in the city called Hall, find a bartender named Old Key, and then you will know everything."

Who is the old key?Why go to him?Does the real "Spike Fang" have anything to do with this?

Who is it, Zen Jing is trying his best to put the name "Spike" on Xinia's head?

Deng Kaiwen closed his eyes and breathed steadily. He seemed to be asleep, but he was not sleepy at all.The moonlight shone on his face, and his slender brows were slightly furrowed, as if thinking about something.

The question marks are like shadows covering the head, trapping people in the gray fog, unable to find a way out, and unable to break free.

Suddenly a voice sounded from my mind without warning: "Pay more attention to the people around you, don't leave anyone with an opportunity..."

Deng Kaiwen was shocked for a moment, it was the voice of Epro.

In the deserted hallway of the university building that day, Epro waved him casually, reminding him of Spike's presence.Although he has been trying his best to forget everything about Epro, every move of that man can leave a very strong impression on him.

The people around you—who are the people around you?

Who is there around him that cannot be trusted?

"I seldom trust the people around me, no matter how close I am." He recalled what Epro once said, when the man smiled and stood against the wind.The flames from the explosion reflected on his face, and there was an illusion of warmth in a trance.

"—Even the biological parents know people and face but don't know their heart."

When they said this, they were standing in front of the helicopter cabin door, and the strong wind was blowing by. A two-storey villa collapsed under their feet, and the flames reflected half of the sky red.

In that villa lived Epro's mother, the female boss of the largest drug processing factory in the East.

The bomb that detonated the villa was originally hidden on the Epro helicopter, and it would detonate automatically when it exceeded a certain height.

The 16-year-old Kevin clung to the hatch so he could barely keep himself from falling.His voice trembled slightly in the strong wind: "Why? Neil, what the hell..."

"For the GA."

"...GA?"

Epro took Kevin over and held him in his arms.The faint smell of tobacco on his body was very pleasant, and the soft texture of the suit rubbed against Kevin's face, slightly itchy.

Deng Kaiwen raised his head and looked at Epro's profile.

"I haven't been in touch with her since my dad died. She wants GA and I want to. Our existence is the greatest threat to each other."

Kevin asked in a low voice, "So... is she going to kill you?"

"Because we are all patient with each other, waiting for the other party to strike first, and then we can fight back. The one who strikes first will always bear more faults, and fighting back seems reasonable and beyond reproach."

"...but she's your mother..."

"Mother is a concept used in the normal world." Epro lowered his head, raised his hand to block the wind blowing on Kevin's cheeks, his eyes were cold and his tone was gentle: "Kevin, there is no word for mother in our world."

Kevin stared at him blankly.

The firelight was reflected in the depths of his pupils, and it looked like a cluster of fierce lights were burning in his eyes.

His tone was as gentle as it was three years ago, as if he was the gentle, calm, omnipotent Neil in Kevin's memory.

Deng Kaiwen shuddered suddenly.

It was the first time Deng Kaiwen had such a strong fear of his adoptive father after the White Lion incident.

Then he thought that maybe it was from that explosion that he really realized that Epro was an emotionless person.

He could kill his mother for GA, but he didn't pay much attention to GA.He regarded this huge gang force as a small gadget, and he had to play with it in his hands. Although he played well, he didn't pay attention to it.

For this pair of mother and son, the dark blood is passed down in one continuous line from the DNA.In order to seize the evil power, they miss each other's life, and they endured it for more than ten years.

One planted a bomb on his son's plane, and the other threw the bomb back to his mother.

This is completely beyond Deng Kaiwen, a 16-year-old child's normal understanding of the world.

He began to realize that the world he had lived in since childhood was different from that of normal people.He has been living in this grotesque, cruel, treacherous, dark world full of blood and sin, but he has never realized it.

Epro protected him so well that he has grown up in a daze until now, and has learned so much knowledge about the underworld, but he has never prepared to be a gangster for the rest of his life.

That was actually a major misstep by Epro Education.

This directly led to Deng Kaiwen's fatal failure on the Neptune.

Many years later, Deng Kaiwen recalled Epro at that time, and felt that the man must have been aware of his changes.

He may not have noticed the reason for Deng Kaiwen's change, but he really felt that Deng Kaiwen began to avoid, resisting GA's affairs, and guarding against his adoptive father's attitude.

One night, Kevin woke up from his dream, and the moonlight was passing through the tall glass windows, casting cold light in the darkness.Epro stood by the bed, bent down and stared at him motionlessly, his eyes were very strange, very different from the usual Neil.

For no reason, a strong fear swept over Kevin, strangling him out of breath in such a silent night.

"...Neil..."

As soon as he was about to get up, Epro easily pushed him back with one hand.

"Neil..."

He yelled again, Epro's tall shadow in the moonlight reflected deep in his pupils.

This kind of staring at each other is extremely frightening. If you want to describe the ubiquitous oppressive feeling with a specific thing, it is like walking in the depths of the forest at night, turning around suddenly, and suddenly discovering I was stared at by a huge lion.

And the lion is only two steps away from you, and it can swallow you whole with its mouth open.

"Kevin, have you looked through my things?" After a long while, Epro finally asked in a low voice.

Kevin pursed his lips tightly, turning pale because of too much force.

After more than ten seconds of silence, he finally admitted: "...it's turned over."

"Turn on my computer?"

"……Um."

Epro stared at him: "Why?"

Kevin slowly retracted his head, his black hair was spread out on the snow-white feather pillow, his long eyelashes were drooping, and the roots were clear and distinct.

The moonlight reflected in his eyes, as if flowing with sparkling water.

This look is actually very cute, like a little beauty carved from soft white jade, people can't bear to criticize him at first glance.

Epro stood beside the bed, pressing one hand in the socket of his neck, feeling the soft silky skin under his hand, as long as he went a little deeper, he could touch the delicate and fragile collarbone.At that moment, his eyes suddenly softened, and even his tone of voice returned to gentleness: "Next time, don't rummage through my things, you understand?"

"I'm just idle and bored." Kevin defended himself in a low voice.

"You can come to me next time when you are free and bored."

Kevin was silent for a while, then nodded very slightly.

Epro knew it was time to leave, but he didn't.He stood beside the bed and watched Kevin up and down. His eyes were so penetrating. Deng Kaiwen felt as if he was being targeted by a searchlight, and couldn't help curling up again.

Suddenly Epro laughed and asked, "Have you been in a bad mood recently?"

"……No……"

"You haven't been very close to people recently, and you always like to be alone. What happened?"

Kevin immediately said: "No!" His tone was a little hasty.

Epro smiled silently, "Did I make you unhappy somewhere? If so, you must tell me."

"No, nothing." Kevin raised his head, trying to make himself face Epro's eyes: "I'm fine, nothing happened."

After he finished speaking, he immediately pursed his lips subconsciously.

"——but you are afraid." Epro slowly said in a declarative sentence, with a very sure tone: "Is there something about me that scares you?"

Kevin's eyes instantly panicked.

It seems very unkind to scare a child like this in the middle of the night.Epro observed the little beauty under him with great interest, saw his eyes go from flustered to guilty to terrified, and when he was about to cry out of fright, he smiled and patted his head: "Okay, okay, I'm just Just ask me, what are you panicking about?"

With such a smile, it seemed as if he had broken some kind of fluid confinement. Kevin breathed a sigh of relief, only then did he feel that his pajamas had been soaked in cold sweat.

"Okay, you go to sleep. I just came here to see if you slept well, who knows how to scare you like this." Epro smiled and stood up: "I'm going to sleep too, good night, my dear Kevin .”

"Good night, Neil." Kevin watched with trepidation as Epro opened the door and walked out, before rolling back under the quilt and covering his head tightly.

Who knows that Epro didn't close the door immediately, but paused at the bedroom door: "Kevin."

Kevin froze.

"……I love you forever."

Epro's voice was particularly deep and mellow in the dark night, and by the time Kevin realized it, he had gently closed the door and walked away.

It seemed that there was still the unique smell of Epro in the air. Kevin opened his eyes under the quilt, and even his breathing was suppressed to the slightest.After a long, long time, as if it was almost dawn, he fell asleep again unknowingly.

In fact, he went to Epro's stuff because he wanted to know where the drugs went.

Epro's mother is one of the largest drug dealers in the eastern United States. She left a huge amount of drug raw materials, refined materials and processed products, most of which fell into Epro's hands.

He wanted to know if Epro was involved in drug trafficking, and whether he would expand GA's influence into the drug sales industry from now on.To do this, he rummaged through Epro's computer - he knew all the passwords for that computer.Of course he found no record of that batch of drugs, they just evaporated into thin air without a trace.

Deng Kaiwen worried about this for a long time. He often observed Epro secretly, fearing that he would also start drug trafficking or take drugs.After that night he sneaked into Eplow's study again, but again found nothing.

Until one day two months later, Epro suddenly took him to a GA warehouse, saying that he was showing him things.It wasn't until he arrived that he realized that the warehouse was full of packages of drugs, such as Magu, heroin, viruses, etc., at least hundreds of kilograms.A high-temperature incinerator was connected outside the warehouse. Epro took him to stand by the furnace and watched the workers in protective suits throwing bags of drugs into it, which were instantly incinerated into ashes.

"I used to smoke weed when I was younger," Epro whispers suddenly, "but quit after I had kids."

The "child" he said meant Deng Kaiwen rather than Stanley.

Kevin looked up at him: "You burned a lot of money, tens of millions or even hundreds of millions..."

"Some things are more important than money."

"……for example?"

"Love, trust, a solid relationship, all that stuff."

Kevin froze for a moment, completely unaware that Epro would say something like this: "—love?"

Epro laughed, and patted Kevin's face with his rough, calloused fingers: "Just like I love you."

At that moment, what Aplo said while standing in front of the incinerator was deeply imprinted in Deng Kaiwen's mind. For a long time, he trusted Aplo unconditionally. Be wary of Epro.

Because of his act of destroying a large number of drugs, he suddenly won the strong trust of Deng Kaiwen, making him feel that Epro is not that cruel, and even a little worthy of admiration.

He is like a child with fledgling instincts. At the beginning, he placed all his heart on Epro. Once Epro did something particularly cruel and terrible, he would immediately shake his reliance completely.But if Epro makes another trustworthy act to impress Deng Kaiwen again, he will re-establish his trust, and even automatically find reasons for Epro's previous cruel behavior.

That trust allowed him to stay in GA for two more years, during which he and Epro were inseparable and close.He regarded Epro as his father, brother, teacher and friend, and even accepted the Brahma Eye according to Epro's wishes, becoming the heir of GA.

Everything seems to be going smoothly, and time moves forward quietly-until the fatal turning point on the "Neptune" suddenly comes.

"It's best not to trust the people close to you, because once they betray you, they will deal a particularly serious blow to you." Many years later, Deng Kaiwen still remembered Epro's words at the time, and the man immediately added: "You only need to Remember that for Kevin Deng, Nathaniel Epro was the only one he could trust, and that was enough."

——For Deng Kaiwen, Nathaniel Epro was the only person he ever trusted.

He used to trust this man with the most sincere love in his youth, so in the end, he was almost killed by this man.

Then he thought he had to thank Epro.From now on, he will never trust anyone in this world again, and from now on, he will never give easily, even a little bit of love.