born criminal

On the morning of the second day of junior high school, Yangzhou decided to go for a walk in the North District.He had carefully studied the map of Base [-], and believed that the possibility of the laboratory being built there was the highest.Although Andrew has already investigated, it is reasonable to say that there will be no omissions, but now there are no other clues at hand, and it is better to investigate along with the previous speculation than to stay where they are.

When he was having breakfast, he saw a pair of used bowls and chopsticks on the seat next to him. He thought it was quite fresh, and asked Andrew, "Is he up?"

"Yes, Mr. Chen has gone to the study." Andrew said.

"It's so early." Yangzhou wrinkled his nose slightly, and said in distaste: "Recently, he's been pretending to be a cultural person."

His voice was very soft and soft, and Andrew discerned a trace of intimacy between lovers.He felt that this was dangerous, but he couldn't tell the commander what to do, so he answered honestly: "Recently, he does often go to the study, and he doesn't sleep too late."

Yangzhou smiled slightly, the arc hadn't stretched out yet, and then suddenly froze.Andrew's words made him feel that something was wrong, but he couldn't grasp the subtle feeling for a while, so he shook his head slightly to temporarily suppress the vague premonition.

Anyway, this is a good opportunity, Chen Jian is in the study, he can sneak out of the villa.After breakfast, Andrew held back D3, and Yangzhou followed the plan. For some reason, he changed his mind when he walked to the entrance, went back and knocked on the door of the study.

No one answered, Yangzhou hesitated for a moment, then pushed hard.

A gust of cold air hit the face.The room was extremely quiet, except for a dim white light.Yang Zhou walked around the study room, but he didn't see half a person.

But Andrew was not wrong, he said that Chen Jian had entered the study, so he must not have left.

Yangzhou's heart tightened, and he became inexplicably on guard. The hand hanging by his side slowly clenched into a fist. His eyes scanned the densely packed books, looking for something he didn't know what it was.

Under the dim light, the neatly arranged bookshelves are dignified and solemn, like tombstones left after a bloody battle.

Gradually, the previously vague intuition suddenly became concrete, and the details that had been overlooked became clearer, and the truth was revealed more and more clearly like a huge sea monster floating on the water——Andrew said it very early The actual area of ​​this room is larger than it looks, but D3 stops him, so he can't check it out.Yangzhou took over the investigation, and after making various guesses, he found out that it was just a study room, and he only regarded it as Chen Jian's another prank and deception.Plus he'd spent a lot of time here, subconsciously ignoring the possibility of weirdness in it.

But if we re-examine it—where did Chen Jian go?Where is this study connected to?

Yangzhou recalled that day, he and Andrew didn't see Chen Jian leaving the villa, but Chen Jian mysteriously disappeared from home. He thought it was his own negligence and didn't take it to heart. Now it seems that he passed through the study and went to something else. where to go?

A thin layer of goose bumps appeared on Yangzhou's arms.He was in a complicated mood, besides his annoyance, he also felt the excitement of meeting his opponent.There must be a hole, he paced among the bookshelves, his eyes wandering - where would it be?

Everything around is slowly settling like impurities, leaving only the tranquility like water.Yang Zhou was engrossed in his thoughts, and suddenly there was a crisp "click" in his ear.He was startled, and followed the prestige vigilantly, and found that the cover of an old and yellowed book had peeled off, and the heart that had jumped into his throat slowly fell.However, at that moment, he saw a figure standing behind the study door!

In the dimness, that person's expression was so cold that Yang Zhou felt strange at first glance, and let out a heavy gasp in a hurry.

He tightened his fist suddenly, quickly recovered his good manners, and asked, "Where did you come from?"

With his hands in his pockets, Chen Jian walked over in a ruffian manner, with a familiar smile on his face, "I've been in the study all the time."

"Why didn't I see you."

Chen Jian stared wide-eyed and bared his teeth, imitating scenes from horror movies, made a funny face, and said in a rough voice, "Because... I've been following you all this time."

Yang Zhou opened his lips slightly, and after his breathing became even, he said, "I didn't hear your footsteps."

"It's covered with such a thick carpet." To prove himself, Chen Jian stomped his feet hard, but there was only a muffled sound.

But the more he talked about him, the more sure Yang Zhou was that he was lying.He didn't ask any more questions, just picked out a book and pretended to believe his nonsense.

"Did you get scared by me just now?" Chen Jian pressed his shoulders and turned him around. His eyebrows seemed to be alive, jumping up and down, and he spoke with a nasal voice like a cold, "Huh?"

Yang Zhou really felt a little embarrassed.He broke away from Chen Jian, walked to the window and sat down, seemingly seriously reading the German novel in his hand.

Chen Jian hastily followed.Standing directly opposite Yangzhou, he stepped over him to draw the curtain, his body bent in a shallow arc, like the dome of a certain church, covering Yangzhou.

Yangzhou's eyelids twitched, and he felt that this person was going to play a hooligan again. Sure enough, in the pouring sunlight, Chen Jian lowered his head and said meaningfully: "It would be great if I could do it once in the study."

Listening to his longing tone, Yang Zhou could not help but smile a little at the corner of his mouth.

"Are you still taking the medicine?" Chen Jian asked suddenly, lowering his arms.

Yang Zhou didn't answer, but seeing Leviathan thrown on the table in his hand, he said, "It's been this long, what are you doing in the study?"

"You need to read more classics." Chen Jian smiled, not leaking anything.

The two sat for a while looking at each other in silence, during which Chen Jian received a call from Fang Xing, stood up abruptly, and sat back slowly under Yang Zhou's expectant gaze.

In this way, each other spent an afternoon with ghosts in their hearts.

In the middle of the night that day, Yangzhou planned to sneak into the study to find out, but he hesitated and gave up. D3 monitored all the movements of the villa, acting in the dark was too alarming.

Besides, Chen Jian never forbids him from entering the study room, and has been playing with him that "the most dangerous place is the safest place". Yangzhou also wants to know who is better in this game.

He was so preoccupied that he couldn't sleep.At dawn, I had a dream. First, I dreamed about the scene in the study room. Chen Jian grabbed the curtains and lowered his head to kiss him. Then the scene changed, from the ancient battlefield full of corpses to the battered Statue of Liberty. In the end, it was frozen in a gloomy room, the walls were peeling off, and the air was filled with the smell of disinfectant.In the corner of the room lay a dead man covered with a white cloth, Yang Zhou walked over to uncover the corner - then suddenly woke up.

It was almost noon at this time, and Yang Zhou wiped the sweat from his palms on the quilt, picked up his phone and checked the time.

There is an encrypted message in the phone, from Erin.He thought that the other party had made a new discovery, so he hurriedly deciphered it, and finally found that she just said happy new year to him.

Yangzhou sighed silently.While not desperate, he became more and more nervous as time went on.

He responded to Irene's message, sat on the bed for a while, and then watched the world news.

The situation was not good. Michelle and White of the White Dove faction began to appear in various programs in a high-profile manner, bombarding the Rose faction with old-fashioned talk, and their remarks were as radical as ever.Although there has not been a big storm yet, the smoke of gunpowder has begun to fill the air.

That study room really needs to be studied carefully... Yang Zhou put on his clothes absent-mindedly, accidentally buttoned the wrong button, and went downstairs after a lot of tossing.

There was no one in the restaurant, so he stopped D3 and asked, "Where's Chen Jian?"

"Mr. Chen is out."

Yangzhou didn't ask any more questions, he finished the toast in twos and twos, and walked to the study with the milk.He paid close attention to D3's actions, and it turned out that D3 didn't seem to mind at all, and ran to talk to Andrew.

Was his guess wrong, or did they have another plan?

Yangzhou had no time to think deeply, he pushed open the heavy wooden door, rolled up his sleeves and started looking for the mechanism.The study room is quite large, it can be seen that the area is nearly [-] square meters, and it is not easy to search.

And while he was rummaging through boxes and boxes, Chen Jian was drinking coffee leisurely in the underground laboratory not far away.

"You're here." A man in a blue sterile suit came out of the cryogenic room, took off his mask, and revealed a familiar face—it was the down-and-out old alcoholic Simon Yangzhou had seen in the bar.However, he is now in high spirits, which is completely different from his drunken and dreamy image back then.

"Pay more attention to B75, Dr. Simon." Chen Jian handed him a glass of purified water, and complained: "Your thing has not succeeded for many years."

Simon had a posture of relying on the old to sell the old, and taught: "Young people, you are just too impatient."

Chen Jian shrugged and came to the incubator to observe the division of bacteria inside through a microscope.

"For the Spring Festival, don't you want to accompany your little beauty." Simon joked behind him.

"Little beauty..." Chen Jian chewed these three words, curled the corner of his mouth, and "hummed" as if he was angry with someone.

Just as he was talking, a door suddenly protruded from the white and smooth wall not far away, and then the gap opened wider and wider, and Fang Xing got out from behind the wall.

"Chen Jian." He called Chen Jian's name briskly.

Without looking back, Chen Jian raised his hand and shook it, and continued to stare at the microscope intently.

Fang Xing withdrew his nostalgic gaze, and greeted Dr. Simon with a smile.

"It's New Year's Eve, why don't you come to accompany me, an old man." Simon was happy, but he still pretended to be reluctant.

It is said that the older you get, the more child-like your personality is. Simon, who is in his 60s, is not too old, but he has already shown it clearly in this respect.

Fang Xing said a few nice words to coax him, and asked about the progress of the experiment by the way.

Simon's answer was perfunctory, and at the end he said to Fang Xing meaningfully that it is better to keep the results of the experiment secret.

Fang Xing was stared at by those gray eyes buried under the dense wrinkles, and couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart, as if he had been completely seen through.

He responded with a sigh, and was embarrassed and nervous when a cheerful electronic sound suddenly sounded in the silent laboratory. Fang Xing turned his head as if he was saved, and called Chen Jian loudly: "Your phone number!"

"Who is it?" Chen Jian said, "It's not that Yangzhou doesn't pick up."

Hearing the word Yangzhou, Fang Xing frowned unhappily.He picked up his phone and looked at it, his tone suddenly became subtle: "Cao Wanqing, what is she looking for you for?"

Cao Wanqing is the head of the civil affairs department of the base, his ability to handle affairs is sloppy, but he is first-rate in speculation.She originally had an affair with Vladimir, and after Vladimir's death, she actively supported Chen Jian's ascension.Chen Jian didn't like her, but he couldn't cross the river and tear down the bridge, so he let her continue working in her original position.

Unexpectedly, Cao Wanqing was not satisfied, and cried poorly in front of him several times.The base's finances are tight, and it has to secretly allocate funds for Dr. Simon's experiments. The remaining budget of the government department is really not much.But the other departments had no objections, only Cao Wanqing always questioned the accounts and statements, so Chen Jian hated her more and more.

Now that he heard that the caller was Cao Wanqing, he gave a irritated "tsk" and said "don't care about her".

"Let's take it," Fang Xing said, "What if there is something urgent?"

Chen Jian was able to secure his current position, and of course he wasn't a person who would act on his own will.He rubbed his temples, complained "what's the matter with this woman", and finally pressed the answer button.

"Sister Cao, happy new year." Chen Jian leaned lazily against the wall, put the empty cup under the coffee machine with his left hand, and chose the espresso level.

Cao Wanqing's voice was urgent and high-pitched, and Chen Jian almost automatically filtered it, coping with it "uh-huh".

Until a familiar name appeared next to his ear, Chen Jian suddenly pulled back his wandering mind, like a cheetah preparing to prey, "What did you just say about Yangzhou?"