born criminal

Chapter 23 Clues

After the last song was sung, Xu Ran bowed to the audience and left the stage neatly.There were cheers and thunderous applause at the scene, and the frenzied crowd repeatedly chanted encore.

It was the first time for Yangzhou to watch Xu Ran's concert, and being infected by such an atmosphere, he was inevitably excited and reluctant to part. "Will it be back?" he asked.

"How is it possible." Chen Jian was upset, and scolded Xu Ran in his heart, saying: "Let's go, go downstairs and have a drink, there will be too many people later, and there is no place to stand."

As he got up, the audience in the VIP area also left.On the way to the exit, leaving spectators continued to join the queue, and the passage was quickly blocked and crowded everywhere.

When there are too many people, accidents are easy to happen. One step on another's foot, and another bumps on this shoulder. Complaints and apologies can be heard endlessly.

Yang Zhou was very uncomfortable, turned his head and wanted to tell Chen Jian to wait until there were fewer people before leaving, but he found a girl with short hair behind her ears, and Chen Jian had long since disappeared.He looked around, but couldn't find anyone, so he could only move slowly in the line, and at the same time, he took out his mobile phone and planned to call Chen Jian.

However, the hand pressing the numbers stopped on the screen and did not move for a long time.He suddenly remembered that he had neither Chen Jian's number nor his Stars friends.Because the two of them stayed in the same house most of the time, they didn't see each other when they looked up, and even forgot to leave their contact information.

Yangzhou had no choice but to follow the large army down to the first floor.Sure enough, the first floor was overcrowded, and the bartenders at the bar were so busy that they wished they had six hands.Yang Zhou only took a second look, and impatient urging came from behind him, and he was pushed out of the door.After leaving the bar, the crowd gradually dispersed, and the surging flood turned into countless gentle rivers.The strong smell of sweat and perfume that had gathered before was quickly blown away by the howling cold wind.Yang Zhou took a deep breath and felt better.

Many figures passed by him, faces of different skin colors, teenagers or youths, each one was so strange.He searched around but didn't see Chen Jian. He couldn't say he was worried, but he was a little anxious.Suddenly, he seemed to understand Chen Jian's so-called "I'm flustered when I wake up and don't see you".

Yangzhou stood there for a while, and was about to go home alone, when there was a deliberately light footstep behind him, and before he could turn around, his hand was held.

"It's for you."

Yangzhou felt something thin and soft being stuffed between his fingers, and then, a hydrogen balloon in the shape of a lion cub brushed against his ear.

Yang Zhou stared at this cartoon version of a lion, with a big head and a small body, with a circle of radiating hair standing up around his neck, and his expression seemed to be smirking.

"Are you going to buy this?" People passing by cast curious glances at them, and Yangzhou quickly tucked back the string of the balloon, "I don't want it."

Chen Jian's playful eyes turned between Yang Zhou and the lion, "Don't you think it looks like you?"

"It's more like you." Chen Jian put his hands behind his back, refusing to take back the gift, Yangzhou had no choice but to hold the silly lion and walk forward in embarrassment.

"Hey, do you think that's Eric?" Chen Jian caught up with him and pointed to a man and a woman walking side by side ten meters away.

Yangzhou took a look: "It seems to be."

Chen Jian immediately shouted Eric's name.The two turned their heads, and the boy turned out to be Eric.Seeing that it was Chen Jian, he hurriedly pushed the girl, who hid in the shadows and disappeared in the endless crowd of people in an instant.

After a glimpse, Yang Zhou felt that the girl's appearance was somewhat familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere.

Chen Jian asked gossipingly: "Have you seen it clearly? This kid is quite well hidden."

"Chen, you guys are coming to the concert too." Eric confirmed that his girlfriend had successfully escaped, and then touched his nose and walked in front of the two.

Chen Jian put his index finger against his head, "Where's your little girlfriend? Don't bring it here for me to meet."

Eric blushed, giggling and not answering.He stared at the balloon in Yangzhou's hand to change the subject, "Mr. Yang, your little lion is so cute."

Yangzhou handed the rope in front of him, looking eager to get rid of it, "Send it to you."

"I don't want it." Enrique took a few steps back, his blue eyes turned around nimbly, "Chen Jian bought it, I'm so stupid."

Chen Jian wanted to beat him up, but Eric laughed and ran away, brisk as a swallow.

On the way back, Chen Jian still hated "that little bastard" all the time, angrily expressing that he would tell his father about his dating.Yang Zhou persuaded him dumbfounded: "Don't worry about whether it's okay or not with the child."

When they got home, the villa was dark, and D3 and Andrew didn't know where they went.Chen Jian fumbled to turn on the light, while Yang Zhou let go of the rope in his hands with relief.The hydrogen balloon rose slowly, and the lion's head landed first, touching the ceiling intimately, while the buttocks hung in the air, and the curled tail trembled.

Chen Jian was amused by this scene, raised his head and laughed for a long time.After laughing, he went to the kitchen to look for something to eat, and then came out empty-handed, complaining: "I wish Anna was here."

Yang Zhou was startled and turned his head suddenly.

Yes, he remembered, that familiar girl was Anna's daughter Irene!

"What's the matter?" Chen Jian was an exceptionally sensitive person, seeing Yang Zhou's face suddenly changed, he immediately became serious.

Yangzhou shook his head, his expression changed from shock to bewilderment, and finally to annoyance: "There was something I wanted to tell you, but I forgot."

He said this very naturally, and his slightly frowned brows were cute, so Chen Jian knew that he was prevaricating, but he didn't tell the truth and didn't pursue it. He just asked, "Do you want to eat noodles?"

Yang Zhou nodded perfunctorily, but the figure of that girl repeatedly appeared in his mind.

Irene, it turned out to be really "Irene"!

When he first learned that Anna's daughter had the same name as Jeffrey's informant, Yang Zhou doubted her.In the end, the doubts were dispelled, one was because she was young, and the other was that she didn't have access to the core secrets.Now it seems that he deduced wrongly, Irene's source of information is not Anna at all, but Eric.It is likely that Eric accidentally mentioned the genetic experiment, was noted by Irene, and then told Jeffrey.

No wonder her intelligence is so vague!

Yangzhou sat by the fireplace thinking, unconsciously throwing firewood one by one.Tonight's discovery was an accident, but it finally gave a breakthrough to the stalled investigation.What to do next?Will Irene know about Chen Jian's plan and the address of his laboratory?What should I do if I know, should I tell Jeffrey?

"It's almost ready." Chen Jian cooked the noodles, saw Yang Zhou was still stuffing firewood into the full fireplace, and quickly stepped forward to hold his hand, "You're not hot."

Yang Zhou's eyes fixed on his face, as if he was trying to distinguish his name, and after a few seconds he called out: "Chen Jian."

Chen Jian said lazily, "Huh?"

Yang Zhou stared at the light stubble on his lips and the glistening sweat on the tip of his nose, and felt that he had a lot to say, but his name was like a spell, once he was called out, he made people forget everything else.

Chen Jian was stared at by Yang Zhou inexplicably for a while. He was stunned at first, and then fine lines gradually appeared in the corners of his eyes. He stroked Yang Zhou's palm affectionately a few times, "What's the matter? Suddenly found that you fell in love with me?"

Yangzhou curled his lips into a smile, very helpless, but also kind of calm and joyful.

Chen Jian didn't really want him to answer, he straightened up gracefully, "Hurry up, the noodles won't taste good if they're soft."

Halfway through the dinner, there was a familiar sound from the corridor outside the window. After a while, Andrew pushed open the door and let D3 in gentlemanly.

"You guys are back?" D3's tone was always very happy, "We're back too!"

"I heard your voice from 50 meters away, little trash can."

After so long, D3 still couldn't resist Chen Jian's ridicule, and retorted angrily: "I'm not a little trash can!"

"Don't blame me," Chen Jian still teased him, "If you want to blame, blame Andrew."

This reminded D3, he glanced at the culprit next to him, adjusted the forward speed to the maximum, and then slammed into it.

Although his height only reached Andrew's knees, the impact was not small. Andrew staggered two steps, leaned on the wall to stand firm, and muttered aggrievedly: "It was originally..."

There was a lot of trouble on their side, but Chen Jian, who started the war, laughed so happily that he almost fell off his chair.Yangzhou had no choice but to smooth things over and asked, "Where did you go at night?"

"He said he wanted to go to the North District, so I took him there." D3 added sullenly: "I'm really kind."

Yang Zhou and Andrew looked at each other knowingly.The northern area is remote and the occupancy rate is low. Chen Jian is most likely to build the laboratory there, and Andrew is obviously there to investigate.

But he was not in a hurry to exchange information with Andrew, and lowered his eyes to continue enjoying dinner.To be honest, Chen Jian's craftsmanship is not bad.

The two robots had traveled a long way today, and their batteries were on the verge of running out. D3 took the lead, accelerated into their small room, and then slammed the door shut.

Andrew turned the doorknob, but found that he couldn't get in, and looked at the two humans as if asking for help.

Chen Jian pointed casually: "There is an outlet over there."

So Andrew stood in the restaurant charging, staring at Chen Jian and Yang Zhou without blinking.In his opinion, D3's strong learning ability must be because he often observes humans, and he also needs to observe more.

As a result, Chen Jian glared at him: "Can you close your eyes, it makes me shudder."

Andrew closed his eyes reluctantly, and the last image he captured was his commander fiddling with chopsticks, with a hesitant and apprehensive expression.

Yangzhou's noodles have been eaten, and there is a beautiful poached egg left.By chance, he imitated Fang Xing's example, using chopsticks to break through the protein, and performed a separation operation cautiously.

"You don't eat egg yolks either?" Chen Jian looked at him in surprise, completely forgetting that he had laughed at Yang Zhou all night because he choked on egg yolks.

Yangzhou considered it for a while, and tried to be as plain as possible: "I don't like food."

"It's not good to be picky eaters." Chen Jian criticized him.

Yangzhou waited for a while, but Chen Jian didn't do anything else.

The distinct yellow and white colors in the bowl suddenly became extremely dazzling, making people lose their appetite.Yang Zhou felt ashamed of what he had done.Why compare with Fang Xing?It's just a cocoon.What's more, he doesn't love Chen Jian.

As soon as he thought of this, a pair of chopsticks appeared in his field of vision. It dropped a whole piece of egg white in Yang Zhou's bowl, then split his egg yolk in two, picked up half and left.

"I'm serious," Chen Jian educated him half-jokingly, "it's not good to be picky eaters, so you should eat some."

Yangzhou looked at him in some confusion, bit his lower lip with his teeth and let go, and finally let out an "um".

The overhead light suddenly changed from warm yellow to dark blue, and the whole restaurant seemed to be submerged in sea water.

"What's going on?" Yang Zhou looked up.

"D3 did it," Chen Jian said, "He would turn the lights blue when he was in a bad mood."

Yang Zhou was greatly surprised by the fact that "D3 is in a bad mood". Before he could ask, Andrew next to him opened his eyes, unplugged the plug, and walked towards the closed door.

Chen Jian looked at Andrew's back and laughed: "Sure enough, it's fun to have more people."

The next morning, Yangzhou was "accompanied for breakfast" by Chen Jian again.After eating, Chen Jian went to bed and returned to the cage as usual, Yangzhou and Andrew went for a walk, and told him about Irene by the way.

Andrew was also surprised after hearing this, and asked, "Then what should we do now? Should we bypass Irene and directly use Eric as the breakthrough point?"

"No." Yang Zhou said, "Eric doesn't trust us, but he trusts Irene."

Andrew hesitated: "Who knows if this Irene will help us..."

This is exactly Yang Zhou's concern.Irene is not under the control of UNPO and can do whatever she wants, especially after knowing her true identity, it is even more puzzling. Why did she disclose such important information to Jeffrey?

"I want to meet her." Yang Zhou asked, "Is there a way?"

Andrew thought for a while: "Yes."

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