born criminal

Chapter 2 brother

Yangzhou packed his luggage carefully.Weapons, communication equipment, these are the most important.Although there has never been any incident of harming government officials who came to investigate in the base, it is always right to be cautious.

"Another task? Didn't you resign?"

Yang Zhou turned his head and saw his mother leaning against the door frame, looking at him worriedly.

He gave a short "huh".

"Where are you going this time?" As a 55-year-old mixed-race woman, Zhou Yun is well maintained.Yangzhou perfectly inherited her amber eyes, ebony hair, and rosy lips.With such an amorous and romantic face, but he rejects his suitors thousands of miles away, it is no wonder that Antonio always satirizes him for his indifference.

"Go to base one." Yang Zhou said.

Zhou Yun yelled in surprise, she covered her mouth and stared at Yangzhou in a daze.

"Don't worry," Yangzhou comforted her: "The people living in the base are not real criminals, but my previous mission is more dangerous."

Zhou Yun paled and forced a smile.She helped Yangzhou pack his things. Weapons and the like couldn't help, but his clothes and daily necessities were still neatly packed.

Zhou Yun talked about the dry climate in Northwest China and the harsh environment in the base, and repeatedly told Yangzhou to pay attention to safety.Although Yangzhou would be nagged by his parents every time he went on a mission, but today Zhou Yun nagged a bit too much, he interrupted: "Mom..."

"Zhouzhou..."

The two spoke at the same time, and Yang Zhou was extremely embarrassed by the nickname she suddenly called out: "Say it."

Zhou Yun pursed her lips with a sneer.She unfolded and refolded the neat shirts before saying, "Mom has something to ask you."

Yang Zhou sensed her nervousness from her nervous repetitive movements and stiff voice.He said softly: "Mom, if you have anything to say, just say it, and I will take care of it."

Zhou Yun's breathing became heavy, she tried her best to suppress her rising and falling chest, and her hands trembling when folding clothes.

"Yangzhou, there is something that my mother never told you." Zhou Yun paused for a long time, until his courage was almost gone, and then he said, "I was married once before I met your father."

Yang Zhou opened his mouth slightly, and looked at Zhou Yun with some confusion: "Oh." He didn't expect his mother to confess this matter to him suddenly.Three years ago, he accidentally looked through his mother's file during a mission and knew that she had another marriage before immigrating to the United States.This is not something shameful, since Zhou Yun concealed it, Yangzhou always pretended not to know.He just wondered why his mother would suddenly confide in him today.

"Why do you..." Zhou Yun was stunned by Yang Zhou's bland reaction.

"No, I just..." Yang Zhou raised his eyebrows, pretending to be surprised: "I was just thinking, why did you tell me today."

"It's not something glorious. My marriage...was very short." Zhou Yun's lips trembled, and a trace of shame flashed across her face.

Yangzhou still let out an "oh", wondering what his mother's request had to do with the failed marriage.

Zhou Yun wrung her hands uneasily, her beautiful eyes were full of water: "Actually..."

Like a flash of lightning flashing across the dark sky, Yangzhou suddenly became enlightened.He recalled Zhou Yun's keen participation in anti-segregation bill marches, and her inexplicable melancholy in March every year. The answer was on his lips, but finally stammered: "You have...I have..."

Zhou Yun supported the wall, as if she couldn't stand still, her body kept sliding down.Her head was lowered, her eyes were on the floor, and she whispered: "You have a brother."

"he is……"

"He's a born criminal."

Yangzhou couldn't tell what was in his heart, so he could only let out a heavy breath.

After Zhou Yun confessed, she suddenly relaxed. She took Yang Zhou's arm, sat on the soft bed with him, and begged, "Mom wants to ask you to help find brother, and... brother's father."

Yangzhou has lived for 27 years, and suddenly there is an older brother who has never met in his life, which is so absurd that it is unbelievable.

According to Zhou Yun, this elder brother was born in 2188.

At the age of 25, Zhou Yun married her first love, Feng Zi, and lived a sweet life in Yangzhou.That year, the No. [-] criminal base was being constructed in full swing in China, and Zhou Yun got a cute baby.However, her joy did not last long. On the second day after giving birth to the newborn, the doctor told him that the baby was detected to be a carrier of the born criminal gene.What made her even more devastated was that she soon discovered that her husband was also a born criminal, but he kept this fact from her.

All of a sudden his charming masculinity becomes a symptom of violence, vulgar, horrible, and terrifying.Zhou Yun trembled with fear at the thought that she would live under the same roof with two potential murderers from now on.A month later, she slipped away from home while her husband and children were asleep.She went farther and farther, left Yangzhou, left China, went to a completely strange country, met a handsome Chinese, and started a new life.

Zhou Yun only mentioned the name "Cheng Beiming" once, and then replaced it with "he".Yangzhou guessed that many details of the story were not exactly what she told. People always subconsciously justify their mistakes. Zhou Yun must have exaggerated her husband's irritable character.But he didn't care about it, he just asked, "What happened later?"

Later Zhou Yun plucked up the courage to contact her parents, and only then did she know that her husband also left Yangzhou with the baby on the third day after she left, and he didn't know where he went.They must not be able to hide for too long, because Base No. [-] was completed the following year, and natural-born criminals across Asia were forced to be quarantined one after another.

After Yang Zhou listened, he stayed for a few minutes for Zhou Yun to calm down, and then asked, "Are they at Base One?"

Zhou Yun hesitated: "I'm not sure. But base No. [-] has the most Chinese people, so it should... be more likely."

"That kid, my brother." When Yang Zhou said the word "brother", he felt very strange, and he paused before asking, "What's his name?"

Zhou Yun shook her head, her face was stained red with shame and regret: "I was in a bad mood at the time, and I was arguing with him every day, and I haven't had time to name the child."

Yang Zhou was not as obsessed with those meaningless emotions as she was, he focused on solving practical problems, thought for a while and said, "Do you have any photos?"

Zhou Yun hesitated for a moment, opened an encrypted folder on the phone, and handed it to Yangzhou, but she turned her head away and couldn't bear to look at it.

In the photo is a chubby baby, wearing a round hat with two "tentacles", sleeping soundly.His eyebrows are sparse, but his eyelashes are long and thick, which looks cute.

However, this does not help Yangzhou.Infants and toddlers all looked similar, and asking him to find a baby with a big change among the more than 2 people in the No. [-] base was like looking for a needle in a haystack.

"Is there no photo of your husband... ex-husband?"

The older you get, the more you realize the cowardice and ignorance of your youth.Zhou Yun sighed: "No, it was all deleted back then."

Yang Zhou thought in his mind, there is not no quick way to find people, as long as he filters by age and nationality, it will definitely narrow the scope and save time, but this means that he must rely on local forces.

That Chen Jian...

Yangzhou shook his head lightly.He has an important secret mission, and it's no good getting too involved with that person.

He looked at Zhou Yun sincerely, and promised: "Mom, I will do my best. When I come back from the base, I will ask Jeffrey to help check the files. Of course, those files may be incomplete, and the United Nations has less control over the base now. Stronger."

"Thank you, thank you Zhouzhou." Zhou Yun finally couldn't help shedding tears, she fell on Yangzhou's shoulder, weeping uncontrollably: "Fortunately, I still have you as a good son..."

Three days later, Yangzhou set off.On the drive to the airport he passed Liberty Island—airships weren't technically cars anymore, but he was used to calling them that.

Countless airships shuttled around the dignified Statue of Liberty, forming a huge vortex.However, this sculpture more than 300 years ago is still majestic in the center of the vortex, and the torch in the goddess' hand is extremely eye-catching-of course, it is not ruled out because of the traffic lights installed on it.

Yangzhou bypassed this roundabout and arrived at the back of the Statue of Liberty.

The back of the Statue of Liberty is not charming enough, and the stacked robes make her a bit fat.A slender hand was caressing the hem of the dress vaguely, as if a child was playing with a favorite toy.

The firewood in the fireplace crackled.

"Mr. Chen," the robot D3 knocked on the door: "Fang Xing is here."

Chen Jian carefully placed the Statue of Liberty on the table: "Oh."

As soon as Fang Xing came in, he ran towards the fireplace next to Chen Jian, yelling "I'm freezing to death".

Chen Jian was lying on his back on the large sofa, with his hands behind his head, squinting and looking at the gorgeous chandelier above his head.

Fang Xing rubbed his hands, looked at Chen Jian with a smile in his eyes: "Why are you calling me in such a hurry?"

Chen Jian was still in that somewhat arrogant posture, but his eyes turned to the lower left, signaling Fang Xing to look at the documents on the table.

Fang Xing glanced at it twice, and said casually: "It's a routine judicial inspection every year, what's the big deal."

"Check out the newly appointed deputy director of the Department of Treaty and Law of the Ministry of Justice." Chen Jian sat up slowly: "I have never heard of this person before."

Fang Xing felt that Chen Jian was making a big fuss, but at a critical moment, he really needed to be cautious. He nodded: "Okay, I will tell Eric later."

Chen Jian picked up the official document again and looked at it, a playful smile gradually appeared on the corner of his mouth: "The old man left the Yellow Crane Tower in the west, and the fireworks went to Yangzhou in March. The name is very nice, I hope that people live up to the name."

Five hours later, the plane that Yangzhou and Andrew took landed at the military airport outside the No. [-] base.There is a Chinese force stationed there. They are entrusted by the United Nations to maintain the security of the No. [-] base, and at the same time arrest the escaped natural criminals.

As soon as Yangzhou got off the plane, his shoulders shrank from the cold wind blowing on his face.Andrew is very calm, because he is an intelligent robot and cannot feel the cold.

Colonel Zhou received them and insisted on treating Yangzhou to dinner.Yangzhou couldn't refuse the enthusiasm of his compatriots, so he agreed.

They walked towards the army canteen and saw Base No. [-] standing quietly not far away, with interlaced lasers flashing on the high wall.

Yang Zhou asked, "Are there many escaped, them?"

Colonel Zhou shook his head: "I've been here for seven years, and I haven't met one. I heard from my retired brother that when the base was first built, there were a lot of people who wanted to escape. Later, the laser barrier was installed, and if you escape, you will die. Few people have tried it. I have heard the most mysterious story, saying that a man escaped 20 years ago, his flesh was burnt black, and he died as soon as he walked to the gate of our camp. I don’t know if it’s true or not.”

"Physiologically, it's impossible." Andrew suddenly said, "If it's true, it means that this human being has very tenacious perseverance."

After eating, Colonel Zhou took several soldiers to send Yangzhou and Andrew to the gate of the base.There are three locks on the gate, which require fingerprints, passwords and mechanical keys.In the sound of the gears turning, Colonel Zhou said regretfully, "Mr. Yang, I can only send you here."

Because of the decades-long struggle between Born Criminals and the coalition government and the influence of the anti-Segregation Act movement in society, the base has gained a considerable degree of autonomy over the years.In the past, the garrison troops could enter the base at any time to maintain order, but now they are not allowed to interfere with the internal management of the base without authorization.

"Send me a signal at any time in danger, using the secret frequency band I told you before."

Yang Zhou shook hands with him: "Thank you, Colonel."