the broken higgs

"Follow me! Wherever you can chase!"

Weisen opened the door heavily, and when he went out, he ordered the servants who came up, "There is also an oriental man named Higgs! No one is allowed to stay!"

"Go and search in the valley first, and if you find the corpse, bring it back to me!"

The content is very decisive, but the voice seems to be separated by a layer of cloth. Only from the tone of the voice can tell whether he is angry now.

After speaking, he slowly turned into the bathroom, and soon there was the sound of water flowing inside.

The situation is secretly turbulent... The launched hunting net spreads in the whole town, and slowly extends to the streets.

Not only that, but the upcoming shipping time also makes it feel like a good show is starting.In ten days or so, he will be able to attack Zoe... Once this hidden danger in his heart is removed, there is really nothing to worry about.

Zooey looked at the ceiling and couldn't sleep anymore.

His thoughts inevitably drifted to Higgs—that cunning little beast had gone...perhaps in the dead of night, perhaps at some point in the early morning.

But no matter what, after a night of beauty last night, he patted his butt and left.The quilt next to him was not even warmed by him.

Zooey regretted promising him so soon.

He shouldn't be sober now, right?

After tossing and turning for half an hour, he got up and went into the living room, picked up his coat, and blew the dust off.

The old man was awake too, squatting in his thick wool cap, stirring food in a pan on the stove.Steam curled up from the hot soup.

"He left." He muttered, "He also took my wine jug, you have to pay me for it."

"When did you leave?"

"It's early!" The old man looked up at him, "Last night, you made me so loud that I didn't fall asleep."

"I don't know that he is outside alone now..."

“Don’t worry,” Zooey interrupted him with a short sentence, “he’s very smart.”

"Who's worried about him!" The old man put the lid on the pot, sat aside and turned over the sausage for breakfast, "I just said, there is one person missing, be quiet. I can't bear torment at my age..."

Glancing at the old man, Zooey didn’t say a word.

What he has to do now is to go back and deploy his subordinates to monitor Higgs, grasp the movement of the little beast, and let him come back to find him obediently before delivering the goods, and then run away together.

As for the method, he had already thought about it.

When the rebellious little beast distinguishes between pain and enjoyment, and knows where to look for it, it will come back to me, Zoe firmly believes.

"What is your relationship with that young man?" The old man glanced at Zoe who was about to go out.

"Are you worrying about this?" Zooey turned to look at him, with a strange smile on her face, "Why do you ask this?"

"It's my business whether I ask or not, but I hope you remember this and don't hurt anyone anymore."

"Harmful?" Zooey didn't like this word very much.

"You know exactly what I'm talking about!" The old man put the lid on the pot again, and then sat aside, with his back to him.

"If you're talking about the past, I apologized a long time ago."

"Hmph!" The old man let out a contemptuous sarcasm from his nose, without saying a word.

Whenever he was in the same room with Zooey, even if there was a fire, he would never dare to blow it out.

"I hope you know that you have to be helped by someone along the way!"

"You don't need to remind me."

Zoe put her hand on the door, "You've done me a big favor by taking in Higgs this time, and I won't forget it."

He is very clear about what the old man means, but he can only pretend not to understand. What happened before was too reckless, and when he thinks that the incident he induced may bring the person he loves to a turning point in his fate, his heart will burst into tears. nausea.

"I didn't help you." The old man stood up, took out the cup from the cup holder, pushed it into the cup holder, and carefully and awkwardly poured the soup out of the pot.

"It's Amber."

"..."

Hearing this name, Zooey frowned Sylphy, and her dark blue eyes became even deeper.He didn't know whether he should talk about a person who had died long ago. If he wanted to talk about it, he would have talked about it long ago, right?

But he understood the old man's little thoughts.

"Don't worry, I will never forget him."

Who would be so heartless as to forget a boy who was beaten to death to protect his own interests?

"I'm not pitiful enough to beg you to remember him." The old man coughed as he looked at Zooey's slowly leaving back, "Amber isn't pitiful enough either...I always respect his choice..."

Seeing that the man had already passed through the low gate, the old man finally couldn't help shouting, "Higgs, can't you let him go?"

……

If it really cared much...it didn't...it's just that Higgs was special...he always thought he was special.

A week later, Higgs was roaming the streets of the town.

He was wearing clothes taken out of Amber's closet. The well-fitting clothes made him feel like a big boy next door, but what was different from ordinary boys was the vertical and horizontal scars on his face and the unconcealable coldness.The metal tail tucked under the trousers was wagging slyly from side to side.

The current him is like a fish returning to the sea, his vitality and vigor are shining with the most natural light under the sun, which is unbelievably dazzling.

He was biting a popsicle, humming a dirty song he didn't know where he learned it as he walked.Slow down from time to time to observe the movement around.Perhaps Zoe's biggest influence on him was to develop his vigilance ability comparable to that of a wild animal.

But he has no cash on him now, and the money he won from the fights a few days ago has been squandered, and a large part of it has been used in the flagon at his waist.

He had planned to go on like this all the way to the small village he had been to.Find a job working on a gunsmuggling ship, maybe get recruited by a small rebel unit in some chaotic war zone.Then I asked Zoe to settle some miscellaneous accounts.

Or maybe, with a jug of wine at his waist, he could fight as he marched toward downtown London, earning the money he needed along the way.

He could have been beaten to death... thrown in the wilderness like a dirt dog and licked clean by flies... But it seems that everything here is much better than the earth of childhood.

He smiled rarely, yes, it was much better.

——except Zoe.

When Higgs thought of him, his face turned cold immediately, and he had to be jealous of this person's ability, but he didn't want to go back to settle accounts with him now, and the thought of contacting that kind of person gave him goosebumps all over his body .

He has never been afraid of anything, but he really hates that kind of self-righteous person pretending to be in front of him!That was worse than punching him directly!

At the same time, he refused to admit that this freedom was given by the other party, and he didn't want to think about the possibility of being taken back... But he admitted that he had changed, because he couldn't even remember the appearance of the space station.

Perhaps, the real Higgs has already blown up along with the space station.The current him is just a fragment floating in the universe, falling here, and then taking root.

Anyway, he thought, fuck the shit.

As long as you live, the rest is based on this.

He dragged his lazy legs aimlessly forward.After eating the remaining popsicles, they were thrown directly onto the neat and clean road.There was a grocery store up ahead, and he went to the counter, intending to pretend to be casual and steal something.

The black girl behind the counter was very vigilant, closely guarding the scattered goods in the old glass counter, as if she would lose her job if she was not careful.

——Maybe she is also very likely to lose her job due to dereliction of duty.

Higgs grinned at her and snapped his fingers, "Hey girl, is there any scotch here?"

Maybe he forgot that he had lost his good looks, so he didn't notice that when the black girl looked at him, there was a faint fear in her eyes.

"No, no, sir."

"What?! No?" Higgs glanced up and down at her frighteningly, "I don't even have wine, what kind of shop are you nigger!"

"..." The black girl's eyes quickly mist, she wanted to call her boss to drag this unknown man out.

But before she could open her fat mouth, Higgs suddenly moved closer.

"Still saying no!" Higgs took out a bottle of decent Scotch whiskey from the counter, took a sip from the bottle cap, and said, "Isn't it here!"

"Little girl, you are dishonest, you will be punished!"

Higgs looked up and down at the plump woman in front of him, and said with a grin, "The money for the drink will be treated as punishment!"

After speaking, he brushed the broken hair on his forehead, and walked out of the poor little grocery store arrogantly.

He was too complacent to notice that the black girl had already called the police tremblingly.