black eden

At night when the city is brightly lit, like every night whistling and flying in front of his eyes, Ivan stands on the highest place in Mansandi - the third floor of the government building 110, and has a panoramic view of the splendor of the entire city.

That was the last time he saw the imprint of life.

The phone was on speakerphone, and a heavy, hoarse voice drifted out unhurriedly, like a bard in hell.

"Sterling, it's time," said the voice. "You've been sitting here long enough."

Ivan didn't know who it was, but he knew that Kroll had betrayed him.

The blood-red light spots hit the shoulders and knees, and several people stood around with guns, all of them were Kroll's subordinates, but Kroll himself did not appear, like an old fox hiding in the dark and peeping at its prey.

"What do you want?" Ivan's face was as calm as water.

"Isn't it clear enough what I want?" The other end of the phone sneered twice, "I want your money, your power, your status! I deserve everything about you!"

"Since that's the case, why bother to make Kroll take the blame? It's not sincere to talk about the deal without showing up in person."

Ivan walked to the desk, opened the wine glass, and poured himself a glass of wine.

The people around did not dare to be negligent, and followed his movements carefully moving with their guns in hand.Ivan could see their trembling muzzles and white knuckles, so he couldn't help but hook his lips.

"This is not a deal, Sterling, you should see clearly what the situation is now."

"Clear, of course." Ivan swallowed a sip of wine, and said calmly, "Kroll's men are aiming at my limbs, ready to beat me into a cripple and bring me up in front of you at any time, and then let you take advantage of my unconsciousness The pain is unbearable, and more clues about the black snake will be drawn, right?"

"Hahaha..." The voice laughed loudly.

Ivan rolled his eyes coldly: "Isn't it?"

"Originally, that's right! But now it's not necessary!" He couldn't stop laughing, "Sterling, you never would have guessed that the most important person of the Black Snake is already in my hands! Kroll dare not kill you ,I dare!"

The door of the room opened with a "squeak", and in the gap between the voices falling, the sound of the door opening was particularly abrupt and strange.

Ivan looked towards the door, and saw a man in a black suit slowly walking in, gradually appearing from the shadow of the room under the moonlight.

"Ivan Sterling, I'm here to kill you." The man said, his voice was as cold as an ice pick pierced into the heart.

The pistol clicked into the chamber, and Ivan looked at him in disbelief.

That head of blond hair was very quiet in the light silver moonlight, but the sapphire-like eyes exuded a chill.

The black muzzle of the gun was pointed at Ivan's head, and the hand holding the gun was steady and strong without any trembling.

"Theon..." Ivan read out the man's name, and his voice was filled with imperceptible sadness.

He remembers the kid. In the cold winter 13 years ago, when the snow fell heavily, the blond boy knelt at his feet, begging him to give him a way out. His trembling golden eyelashes were like ice flakes that could shatter at the touch of a touch, which almost melted the heart.

Ivan slammed the table and yelled into the phone: "Who the hell are you?!"

There was still intermittent low laughter on the other side of the phone, and after a while, there was a beeping hang up tone.

Ivan pondered for a long time before letting go of his bruised fist, looking directly at the muzzle of the gun, and said with a smile, "Excellent."

great.

This feeling of being betrayed one after another by his subordinates.

It would be better to gouge out the heart with a knife and explode the head with a gun!

Bang-! !

Du Yu suddenly sat up from the bed, cold sweat drenched his back.

This was the third nightmare since the beginning of school. Ever since she saw Xi En's face and heard him introduce herself on the podium gently and politely, Du Yu felt that she had fallen into a bottomless quagmire again.

"Ivan Sterling is dead, already dead..." Du Yu kept saying to herself in her heart.

The death scene that I thought I had forgotten, has spewed out like a long-suppressed volcanic lava in recent days, unstoppable.

Du Yu didn't understand why Xi En appeared in the university, but felt that the more he avoided, the darkness would haunt him like a ghost, insisting on forcing him to suffocate.

Fortunately, there are only two classes on Friday today, which is relatively easy.

During the lunch break, Du Yu walked into the dining room with two books in his arms, and suddenly saw Xi En sitting on a bench waving at him. .

"Hello, Professor." Du Yu walked over to say hello, but stood two meters away from him.

Theon smiled: "Go and sit down for dinner, I want to talk about your thesis."

Now it's just a pure teacher-student relationship.

Du Yu kept reminding herself while cooking: Even if you know the details of Xi En, you still have to treat him as an ordinary person.

He ordered a piece of fried rice and brought it across from Sean, and started to eat with his head buried.

Sean stared at him intently, and after a while, he said, "Your paper is very good."

"Thank you." Du Yu chewed the rice grains.

"But it could be better." In front of Theon was a plate of pasta, with two cauliflowers standing on the edge of the plate, gleaming with oil.

"After I read your thesis, I wanted to contact you, but the monitor said you didn't leave a call. What's going on?"

"I don't have a mobile phone." Du Yu confessed.

"Go and buy one." Theon was also straightforward, "Otherwise, I won't be able to notify you if something happens in the future, which will be very troublesome."

Du Yu was quiet, lowered her eyes and said, "Okay, I'll buy it when I save enough money."

Xi En didn't speak any more, and slowly rolled up a lump of noodles. Seeing Du Yu eating so fast, he couldn't help frowning.

After get off work in the evening, the other teachers in the office left first. Sean sat in the leather chair, rubbed the corners of his eyes, and took out a stack of student files from the drawer.

Turning to Du Yu’s page, the photos are beautiful and the background is simple and clean: a Chinese family, his father died early, and his mother was admitted to the hospital with mental illness. The government sent him to the Mansandi Children’s Welfare Center. Sandy University School of Law, moved to the bluegrass apartment in the city center, and took a part-time job as an apprentice pastry chef.

It is no different from the information that Sean ordered someone to investigate in private.

The only thing that Theon cared about was the night that Ivan Sterling died, Du Yu was almost killed by his mother's crazy beating, but miraculously came back to life.

As long as it is confirmed that there is a butterfly birthmark on Du Yu's abdomen, Morris' divination will be fully fulfilled.

Theon put down the file bag and leaned on the back of the chair with one hand on his jaw.

He will never forget that on that snowy night 15 years ago, the withered yellow light of the street lamp shone on his body without any warmth. His calf was pierced by a bullet, and his blood had already frozen. He was so cold that he almost lost consciousness and his vision was blurred. Can't even see the shadow.

help me……

help me……

The hoarse voice shouted for an unknown amount of time, and the voice became lower and weaker, but people only regarded him as a wild dog, and refused to even look at him.

until that person shows up.

A tall and stalwart body, a face that does not touch any emotions, and a deep and deep voice.

"Do you want to live?" the man asked.

"I...I want to live..." He stretched out his hand weakly and grabbed his trousers, "Please save me...give me a way to live..."

"Regardless of the price?" The man squatted down, his figure still extremely tall.

"Please save me...I'm willing to...please..."

He felt a hot palm caressing his cheek, which was a temperature he would never forget in his life.

Iwan Sterling - the name of the man, the most powerful man in Mansandi.

That's right, Theon will never forget Ivan's life-saving grace, but in the end he killed him with his own hands.

When he picked up the pistol, he could see the surprise and sadness flashing in Ivan's eyes, just like the heavy snow that ravaged the world that night, freezing all the temperature.

A magnificent symphony of fate interrupted Theon's memory. He straightened up, picked up the phone, looked at it, and pressed the answer button.

"Boss, Master Morel is here." A woman's voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Okay, tell him to wait in the living room."

Theon hung up the phone, got up, picked up the coat on the back of the chair, and walked downstairs to the parking lot.

After he came to work at the school, he changed to an ordinary car, which was still white with rounded lines, which was very suitable for the working class.

Unexpectedly, just after driving the car out of the school, the phone rang again.

When Xi En picked up the phone, it was an eyeliner sent to follow Du Yu.Xi En asked him to observe Du Yu's actions and record Du Yu's daily life, but at this moment the man reported a piece of bad news:

"Someone is following him, in the alley on Morin Avenue."

Theon paused: "What?"

"Three young men, in their early twenties, look like hooligans."

"Understood, you continue to watch."

After Sean put down the phone, he turned the car around and headed for the Barbie bakery on Morin Avenue.

The bakery was a little more crowded than usual on a Friday night.

After working for a while, Du Yu was ordered by Rafael to go to the cold storage to get cream and desiccated coconut. He wiped his hands, went out and turned into the alley.

Just as he was about to press the password for the door of the cold storage, a gust of wind suddenly flashed behind him. Du Yu reacted very quickly and bent over to hide. Looking back, there was a person holding a wooden stick and trying to give him a blow.

It was not yet dark, Du Yu saw that it was a short but strong young man with a familiar face.

Until two young men appeared from behind, one was tall and thin, with unusually prominent cheekbones, and the other was shorter with a head of yellow hair dyed.Seeing them, Du Yu suddenly remembered that the three gangsters who beat up the middle-aged man on the street corner that day were the three in front of him.

The strong young man who swung the wooden stick spat, and the stick thumped loudly on the ground: "Finally we got caught, you little liar! Isaac never made friends with a yellow boy like you, think us stupid, okay Lie?"

The tall cheekbones and little yellow hair who came over stood beside Du Yu, their fists rattling, and the three formed an iron triangle tacitly, leaving Du Yu nowhere to hide.

Du Yu didn't panic, looked at both sides, and said: "Are you sure you got the right information? Isaac is not such an easy-to-follow person, besides, I have a good relationship with him. It is also very strange for jealous people to say that he has never made friends with yellow boys." normal."

Seeing the three of them standing still, Du Yu murmured inwardly that something was wrong, but his expression remained unchanged: "I'm still busy, you go find someone else to play with."

Just as he was about to turn around, both shoulders were pressed together, and the wooden stick was raised high, and it was hitting his head.

Du Yu quickly pressed the hand on his shoulder, hooked himself upside down, and kicked the wooden stick away.

And this group of people knew that he was good at skills, so they made sufficient preparations in advance. When Du Yu fought back, Xiao Huangmao immediately took out a bottle of pepper spray and sprayed it directly at Du Yu's eyes.

Du Yu turned around and dodged like lightning, and slapped him unceremoniously, the spray bottle fell to the ground, and the little yellow hair immediately spat out blood.

Seeing this, Gao Cheekbone immediately picked up a bag of construction sand from the corner of the wall. Taking advantage of the narrow alley, Du Yu couldn't dodge it, so he threw the sandbag over with all his strength. Unexpectedly, Du Yu slipped faster than a monkey. Leaping forward against the wall, he dodged behind Xiao Huangmao, making him act as a meat shield for himself.

Xiao Huang Mao screamed and was knocked down by the sandbag, while Du Yu ran out of the alley without saying a word.

"He ran out!" Gao Cheekbone suddenly shouted.

Du Yu didn't expect that there was a fourth person at all, so he didn't react, his eyes suddenly went dark, and his face was covered with the palm of the helper who had been waiting outside the alley for a long time.

The thick cotton cloth in the palm of the man made Du Yu unable to breathe, a pungent smell rushed into his lungs, his chest was tingling and numb, and his head became dizzy.