[Yu Huang] Underground fire

Huang Shaotian sat in the yard of the breakfast shop, taking the opportunity to pour blueberries on the plate, and quietly glanced at the street corner again.Yu Wenzhou put down the morning paper printed on light-sensitive paper and reminded him: "The time has not come yet."

"I know, I know." Huang Shaotian waved his hand, "That kid was always on time, I just took a look."

Yu Wenzhou shook his head and let him go.The morning in this small town is quiet, and occasionally a few morning joggers or dog walkers pass by, probably because there was artificial rainfall yesterday, and the air smells of biochemical agents after the rain.

A few minutes later, Huang Shaotian touched the tip of his shoe under the table and whispered, "Here we come!"

They maintained their ordinary chatting postures, and glanced at the far corner of the street.A boy on a skateboard quickly passed under the glass curtain wall—he looked like he was still in junior high school, and his posture was indescribably agile. Colored a little hair tip.When passing by the entrance of the breakfast shop, he glanced at this side intentionally or unintentionally, then jumped in the air, grabbed the skateboard in his hand, and Shi Shiran sat beside the fast food stall in the distance.

"He noticed us." Yu Wenzhou said.

"Isn't that for sure!" Huang Shaotian withdrew his gaze, and stuffed a piece of thick fried egg into his mouth, "We've been monitoring him so blatantly for several days, and he's not really a junior high school brat."

"Although he hasn't called the police yet," Yu Wenzhou thought for a while, "but it won't work anyway. We need to find another way."

"What can I do?" Huang Shaotian picked up the coffee cup, "Go to talk to him directly? After looking at it for a few days, I think that kid's tolerance should be pretty good."

Yu Wenzhou teased: "This is not your style, I thought you would have stopped him on the way home."

"Rationally, I can go to him directly, but emotionally, I still don't want to give him such a big stimulus." Huang Shaotian said listlessly, "You see, his life is not too bad now, we can look at it from other angles. Do him a favor."

"That's right." Yu Wenzhou nodded, "Anyway, this is also within the territory of the Alliance."

They traced the medical records five days ago, investigated all the way to this small town on the border of the Alliance, and finally found this child named Lu Hanwen.Yu Wenzhou and Huang Shaotian have been working hard to find people who may have been affected by the medicine in the past, trying to help them get rid of the possible difficulties, and they have indeed succeeded in bringing many people back to normal life.But in their records, it was the first time they met such a small related person.

The child's resume is quite normal. He grew up in a welfare institution, and his father died in an accident. The only suspicious thing is his mother whose origin is a mystery.According to Yu Wenzhou's speculation, his mother may have been affected by experiments in the first generation of laboratories, and passed on the mutated characteristics to the offspring; but judging from her age, his mother should be an adult at that time, not It belongs to the juvenile experimental products, so the older ones may be assistants or researchers.

Lu Hanwen was obviously aware of his extraordinary strength and flexibility, and he was careful not to overexpose it.Judging from the results of Huang Shaotian and the two squatting around his range of activities, besides going to school every day, he also occasionally acted as an anonymous hero on the street, wearing a cloth bag in the middle of the night to beat those who knocked down the old woman and refused to help them. It's very tasty.If it wasn't for worrying that the residual mutation in his body would develop in a negative direction in the future, Huang Shaotian and the others really didn't want to disturb the other party's peaceful life.

Seeing Lu Hanwen finished eating his sandwich, bouncing towards the alley, not forgetting to take a peek at the breakfast shop through the corner mirror of the garage next to him, Huang Shaotian couldn't help laughing: "This little guy is really interesting. Although he is a little tender , but you're still young after all."

"15 years old is not too young." Yu Wenzhou said casually, "When you were 15 years old, you learned how to hack into the defense robot system to escape from prison, and planted serial bombs in the toilet."

Huang Shaotian: "..."

"But that's fine." Yu Wenzhou put down his fork with a smile, "It's better for children to be carefree, not like us back then."

"Wait, I blew up the toilet because I wanted to escape through the air-conditioning duct inside, okay? It's like some kind of weird pervert!" Huang Shaotian came back to his senses, and immediately retorted angrily.

But Yu Wenzhou suddenly said: "That alley is a dead end, why did he go in and never come out again?"

Huang Shaotian thought for a while, then smiled meaningfully.

"Wait," he threw the knife into the plate, "I'll go and have a look."

As expected, when Huang Shaotian walked into the alley, Lu Hanwen happened to be squatting on top of a large paint bucket and watching him.Before Huang Shaotian could speak, the child opened his mouth and asked, "How long are you going to follow me, uncle?"

Huang Shaotian: "..." Do I look that old!

"This is not a good behavior." Lu Hanwen said with a smile, "If this happens again, I will call the police."

"Uh," Huang Shaotian doesn't have much experience in how to prove his innocence. He usually stalks people to wipe their necks. At this moment, he even feels that he doesn't look like a good person, so he can only choke out a sentence for a long time: "... We mean no harm."

"Looked through my mailbox, sneaked into our school's reference room, put forged love letters in the shoe cabinet, and even lost a month-long threatening package at my door." Lu Hanwen pointed his fingers, "Isn't that considered a bad thing?"

"What?" Huang Shaotian was stunned, "It has nothing to do with us, I haven't been here a month ago!"

At this moment, several unattractive maintenance workers suddenly poured into the alley.Huang Shaotian recognized the things in their hands at a glance, the toolbox, the rope net, and the tranquilizer gun, as if they were going to catch wild animals.

"My God," he muttered to himself, "is the law and order in the alliance already so bad?"

"Where did this person come from?" The leader was also a little puzzled, but he waved his hand immediately: "Anyway, let's catch it together first."

Lu Hanwen's eyes widened, and he turned to Huang Shaotian: "I now believe that you are not in the same group! Although I don't know what they are doing, you should run away..."

Before the words finished, Huang Shaotian kicked down the person rushing forward neatly.He didn't even pull out the ice rain, just grabbed a metal pipe by the wall, and beat a group of guys pretending to be maintenance workers to their teeth.Seeing a fish that slipped through the net and ran past him, Lu Hanwen gritted his teeth, raised the paint vat, and was about to smash it, Huang Shaotian threw a flat wine bottle without looking back, and slammed it on the back of the man's head. He fell face down on the ground.

Lu Hanwen: "..."

Huang Shaotian stepped on the leader's head, turned around and asked, "Is he handsome?"

"Handsome!" Lu Hanwen nodded sharply.

He didn't pay attention, and the bucket he was holding fell down, almost hitting the struggling person to vomit blood.

Huang Shaotian couldn't bear to watch it.

"So what's going on with these people?" Lu Hanwen asked nervously, "Do you want to call the police?"

"It's best not to." Yu Wenzhou walked in at some point, bent over the maintenance worker's collar, and checked the logo printed inside, "This should be a local intelligence agency, and they have taken a fancy to your body. Value, with the idea of ​​living in rare goods."

"My value?" Lu Hanwen wondered, "I know I'm handsome, but is it that exaggeratedly handsome?"

Huang Shaotian: "..."

"They may not want to package you as an idol star." Yu Wenzhou said patiently, "I think you have already discovered the difference in yourself."

"Of course." Lu Hanwen nodded, "I think I should become a superhero or something in the future."

Yu Wenzhou: "..."

Lu Hanwen blinked, looking at the two adults who fell silent in front of him.

"Go and have a good talk with him," Yu Wenzhou said decisively to Huang Shaotian, "I'll handle the follow-up issues here."

Huang Shaotian found a small park, and Lu Hanwen sat on an unattended swing by the sandy ground, listening to him for half an hour.

"So," he concluded, "there's a reason for my weirdness."

"Part of it is just our guess, but it's almost indistinguishable." Huang Shaotian said.

"Hey, I thought I was exceptionally talented." Lu Hanwen sighed decently, "It's a bit depressing to say that."

"In a sense, it can be considered a talent..." Huang Shaotian didn't know how to answer, "Anyway, the choice of the previous generation has nothing to do with you. As for how to go in the future, you still have time to make your own decisions."

"If I don't do anything, will I suddenly transform into some kind of monster one day?" Lu Hanwen asked.

"It's not necessarily true." Huang Shaotian said honestly, "Your condition is still relatively stable. People who have already experienced negative effects can still be treated with drugs, but this is the first time we have encountered a case like yours, and we don't know what will happen in the future. what's going to happen."

"That," Lu Hanwen suddenly asked an irrelevant topic, "Have you guys been doing this all the time? I mean, you and your friends, your job is to help people like me?"

"It can't be considered a job." The former killer didn't have the nerve to mention his old line of work. "Maybe it can be said to be his current career? I think we have this kind of responsibility and obligation."

"You know," Lu Hanwen looked at him, "I've always wanted to be a policeman, or a superhero or something since I was a child."

That's right, Huang Shaotian thought, not only do you want to, but you have already started to do it.

Lu Hanwen continued: "I want to go with you."

"Well, so..." Huang Shaotian was stuck.Two seconds later, he came back to his senses: "Wait, what did you say?!"

"Isn't this the best solution?" Lu Hanwen tilted his head, "If I turn into a frog or something, you can deal with it in time, and I can help you too, right?"

"Help? Just you?" Huang Shaotian squinted at him, "I can beat you with one finger."

"I don't believe it!" Lu Hanwen jumped off the swing.

Huang Shaotian didn't even bother to roll up his sleeves.

Half a minute later, Lu Hanwen lay down on the sand and yelled, "You're lying! —— You used two fingers!"

Huang Shaotian: "..."

"He's right." Yu Wenzhou's voice came from behind them, "At least the first half is right. If he goes back with us, at least he won't have to worry about further mutations in the future, and he can receive correct training and not waste this talent. .”

"You think this is a talent?" Huang Shaotian asked back.

"That's it!" Lu Hanwen sat up from the sand, "I want to use it to do good things!"

"So it's a gift, not a curse." Yu Wenzhou continued his words, and then added: "But you still have to go to school."

Lu Hanwen: "..."

Huang Shaotian stared at Lu Hanwen for a while, until the latter's scalp started to tingle, and then nodded: "Good job, hang out with us from now on. The problem now is how to get him out, this is within the alliance territory."

"The alliance is not without loopholes." Yu Wenzhou pondered. "As far as I know, the recent border inspection is not a strict period. A little manipulation should be fine."

"But it's easy to keep records." Huang Shaotian suggested, "Or just smuggle them directly? Get another floating boat?"

"Wait a minute!" Lu Hanwen couldn't bear it any longer, "Why are you all thinking of violating the law? As long as you go through the adoption procedures, it will be legal for you to bring me to Mars, okay?"

"Adoption?" Huang Shaotian was taken aback, "You are right in the orphanage...but isn't it only possible to adopt if you are married?"

"What, you guys aren't married yet?" Lu Hanwen asked in shock.

Huang Shaotian: "..."

Yu Wenzhou: "..."

Lu Hanwen looked at this, then at that, and said in a low voice, "Uh...pretend I didn't say anything."

"It's okay." Yu Wenzhou turned to the person next to him, "In fact, it's better to take this opportunity and let's register."

Huang Shaotian touched his ears, but didn't look at him.

"I think that's a good idea, too," he said.

(Dream River·End)