born criminal

The government opened on the seventh day of the lunar month, and Chen Jian had to make an appearance as usual, so he left early in the morning.

Yangzhou was free, planning to go to the study to search the suspicious places that were previously locked.After he finished his breakfast, he habitually watched the news for a while, frowning at the names of the White Dove School.

Andrew walked in quietly and stood next to him to clean up the dishes.Yangzhou saw his worry at a glance, and asked in a low voice, "What news is there from him?"

"He" refers to Jeffrey.

"He's in a hurry." Andrew said solemnly, "The old chief may be leaving."

Yangzhou put away the virtual newspaper, bit his lip with a sullen face.The departure of the politically neutral old bureau chief will inevitably lead to a new round of personnel changes.The size of the UN force is small, and the director of UNPO generally holds two positions, commanding both the police force and the military force.Therefore, whether the Rose faction or the White Dove faction seized this position, it will inevitably have a non-negligible impact on the political situation in the parliament.

At such a critical moment, Jeffrey, who was temporarily acting as deputy director and was preparing to participate in the competition, naturally did not want anything to go wrong.

Although Yangzhou was already disappointed with the Rose faction, he also knew the urgency of the situation.If the White Dove Faction really got hold of the news of the genetic experiment, it might not be long before they will play this trump card.

Tick-tick-tick, there seemed to be a bomb counting down in my ears, making a clear sound of death.Faced with such a pool of muddy water, Yangzhou deeply realized that he was unable to do what he wanted.

"Irene wants to meet you." Andrew said suddenly.

Yangzhou Shensi didn't belong, he nodded to show he understood.Now that he had no one to look to, he only hoped that Irene would bring good news.

Andrew cleared the dining table, but still lingered, Yang Zhou asked him if he was still busy, but Andrew asked, "How are you and Mr. Chen?"

Yang Zhou was taken aback.He thought of the long-lost hug that night, and Chen Jian's sleepy muttering, and suddenly felt that it was very unreal.It was like a dream, and when the sun hit it, it turned into foam and evaporated.

"What can I do?" Yangzhou said.

Andrew waited for a while, and asked again: “Do you still want to save him?”

This question made Yangzhou uncomfortable, he was upset, and his tone was a bit serious: "This is my business."

Andrew did not evade, and said solemnly: "Chen Jian is conducting some kind of dangerous experiment. I am worried that you will be affected by emotions and make irrational choices. That may hurt many innocent human beings."

Yangzhou smiled slightly when he heard the words, stood up calmly, and wiped his hands with a napkin. "I'm not a good person in the first place, and I have a weak sense of right and wrong. Do you regret choosing me as the commander?"

Andrew stood blankly for a few seconds, shook his head and said, "I know you don't think so in your heart."

Yang Zhou glanced at him, his expression seemed to be touched, but in the end he didn't respond, and turned to go to the study.

In the base government building, there are noisy voices everywhere.The new year is not over yet, everyone is lazy, not motivated to work, but tea parties are held frequently.

Chen Jian turned a blind eye to this, and did not deliberately spoil everyone's interest.After delivering his speech, he planned to go to the office to have a look. On the way, he received a message from his secretary saying that Cao Wanqing was waiting for him. Chen Jian suddenly turned his head into two big ones, turned a corner, and chose a small door at random to leave. up.

There are three buildings in the base government office area, not far apart.Chen Jian didn't come here many times. He wandered around on a whim and somehow came to a small secluded garden.

Although spring has already begun, everything is still sluggish, and the garden is a dusty scene, nothing to see.Chen Jian was about to go back the same way, when he suddenly heard footsteps, and looked around, it was Fang Xing and a woman walking over.

The woman looked unfamiliar, ordinary-looking, of medium build, like a low-level civil servant in the government, and Fang Xing was familiar, nodding frequently while talking.

Chen Jian didn't have any formed thoughts in his mind, and his body subconsciously slipped behind a row of listless bushes.

The two stood still, a little far away from Chen Jian, and couldn't hear the content of the conversation clearly.It seemed that Fang Xing ordered something, and the woman agreed respectfully.

Later, the woman left first, leaving Fang Xing standing alone in the antique gazebo in a daze.

Chen Jian came out from behind the bushes, and his feet rustled on the fallen leaves. Fang Xing turned his head vigilantly.He grabbed the seam of his trousers with his fingers, and showed a strange smile, which seemed to be joyful and fearful, "Why are you here?"

"Come out for a walk," Chen Jian said calmly, and even smiled jokingly, "Hide from Cao Wanqing."

"Ha." Fang Xing's shoulders slipped slightly, he exhaled lightly, and complained: "In the past few days during the Chinese New Year, I don't come to sit at my house."

"Busy." Chen Jian said vaguely.

Fang Xing's heart was pounding, he couldn't find anything to say, so he turned his head to look at Chen Jian.Chen Jian seemed to have lost weight, and the lines of his facial features were sharper. When he was sullen and silent, he had an intimidating aura.

Of course Fang Xing knew what he was busy with these days, so he deliberately didn't bother him, and only hoped that he would hate Yang Zhou to the bone, realize that there was absolutely no possibility between them, and then after a while, he would realize that he was irreplaceable.

"What about him? How are you and him?" Fang Xing asked.

"Who?" Chen Jian stared at a dry tree not far away. One or two leaves were still attached to the branches. After the whole cold winter, he was still reluctant to leave the branches.

"Yangzhou." Fang Xing said the name with disdain to show that he was firmly on his side.

Chen Jian was silent.Fang Xing waited for a while, his heart skipped a beat, and he asked uneasily, "Why, haven't you chased him away?" He became agitated, and a tinge of anger appeared on his pale face, "Don't you hate him? He is Zhou Yun's son! If Uncle Chen finds out—"

Chen Jian looked at him expressionlessly, and suddenly the cold air between the heaven and the earth seemed to gather together, covering Fang Xing with his head covered.Fang Xing's hairs stood on end, he stumbled a bit, and said without confidence: "Take a step back and say, he is your younger brother, do you want incest?"

Chen Jian did not answer, still staring at the tree.He has become more and more silent recently, as depressed and cold as the barren desert outside the base.

A sparrow flew over and landed lightly on the branch, and with this tremor, the dead leaves that persisted all winter finally fell.

Chen Jian recalled the night when he lost control of his emotions and lost his mind not long ago.Yangzhou said some nonsense, and he also said some nonsense.Later, the two separated, Yang Zhou tossed and turned in the bedroom, while he went down to the first floor and stayed in the storage room until dawn.

At that time, he was sitting on the ground, holding the half-empty box in a daze.After several times of ups and downs, Chen Beimin's old things are very few.In fact, the time they spent together with their father and son was not long.Even if Chen Jian remembers things early, the memories he can have are only five or six years old.He replayed the past events over the years countless times in his mind, as if Chen Beimin had just left yesterday.

But looking back now, the scene in his mind suddenly turned into a yellowed old photo, reminding him silently, what a long time 20 years is.

He knew that Chen Beimin would not come back again.

Throughout the night, Chen Jian stared at the smiling face on his father's ID card. Once his eyes got wet, he turned the card upside down, waited for a while, and picked it up again.

He felt ashamed and guilty for his dirty thoughts about Yangzhou, as if he had betrayed his father.

The person in the photo smiled gently, as if he didn't mind.Chen Jian is well aware of his generosity, even to "that woman", he never uttered bad words.

But he couldn't forgive himself.

The sparrow flapped its wings and flew away. Fang Xing felt as uncomfortable as scratching his heart with his claws. Countless emotions boiled and cooled down, and finally only a sense of desolation remained.

"Chen Jian, look at what you have become." Fang Xing clenched his fists and said in a distressed tone, "Don't ruin our plan."

Chen Jian sneered, and said lightly, "I should say that."

He glanced at it seemingly plainly, but Fang Xing's heartbeat suddenly accelerated. He opened his mouth and spit out a few vague syllables one after another. Then he managed to calm down and asked bravado, "What do you mean?"

Too many things happened in the past few days, Chen Jian was upset at first, but accidentally bumped into the previous one again, feeling even more tired.He glanced at Fang Xing, only to feel that the mountains and seas separated the two of them, and they no longer had the intimacy they had before.But after all these years of friendship, he didn't point out the matter just now, and said succinctly: "Just remind you."

"Did you see it?" Fang Xing suddenly showed a sneering smile, and his gloomy face showed a bit of beauty, "What do you think I'm doing? I'm helping you do the right thing!"

The encounters these days have made Chen Jian's emotions toss like a rubber band that has been stretched many times, and it is difficult to fluctuate any more.He nodded and expressed his guess: "You contacted other bases, didn't you?"

"Yes!" Fang Xing was irritated by his indifferent tone, and the sword in his jaw was sharp and aggressive, "It should have been like this! And if we used living people to do the experiment, we would have succeeded a long time ago! After he came, you That's why I became as soft-hearted as a woman!"

Chen Jian watched Fang Xing who lost his composure quietly, and even had the time to show an unclear smile, "It has nothing to do with him. My father told me since I was a child that no matter how noble the excuse is, innocent people cannot be hurt."

Fang Xing's Adam's apple rolled violently, and he stared at this strange Chen Jian—has he changed, or has he never understood him?A destructive impulse gathered in his heart from all his limbs, and Fang Xing laughed strangely, "Of course you can say the high-sounding words! Anyway, let me do the dirty things!"

"Really?" Chen Jian remained calm, "I never asked you to kill Vladimir. I said I could control him."

"Aren't I doing it for your own good?" Fang Xing's eyes were red, and the muscles at the corners of his mouth twisted a little, "Keep him in trouble!"

"Heh." Chen Jian couldn't help laughing a few times, there was compassion in his eyes, he didn't know whether it was the other party's behavior or himself. "How much selfishness do you have in the name of my good? All along, you have used your own ruler to measure right and wrong, and never really considered my thoughts. Anyway, you just do it, and I will bear all the favors and sins. Yang The state still thinks I killed Vladimir—”

"Yangzhou!" Fang Xing was originally chaotic, but when he heard that name, his eyes suddenly revealed a look of madness, "Ha, stop pretending, after all, it's not for him! Didn't you kill Vladimir?" ?”

Chen Jian took a deep breath, the cold and dry air shuttled through the lungs, making his chest numb from the cold.After a while, he nodded calmly: "It's me."

Fang Xing closed his eyes in pain, his mind was so frantic that it was about to explode.He didn't know how they ended up in this situation, but being in the mist, he couldn't tell east, west, north, south at all. He planned to calm down first, but Chen Jian's back image was pierced by a thorn in his heart, and Fang Xing said nothing He yelled, "Then do you still blame me for saving you by desperately grabbing medicine for your own good?"

Chen Jian paused, without turning his head, he said, "No, on this matter, I am forever grateful to you."

However, no one can say for sure how much the past friendship can withstand.

At noon, the weather suddenly turned from cloudy to sunny, and the white sunshine came in, illuminating half of Yangzhou's face softly and brightly.He held the landscape painting that had just been taken off the wall in his hand, carefully inspecting it inch by inch.

After a while, he hung the oil painting back in disappointment, looked around the study room, and finally fell back into his empty hand.

The wall is solid, and several suspicious places have been checked, and there are no traps or hidden doors.Yangzhou couldn't find any evidence, so he should dispel his doubts logically, but he had a strange intuition, thinking that the study must be connected to the laboratory.

Is the organ in the book?Yang Zhou stared at the densely packed collection of nearly ten thousand volumes, feeling powerless. Thinking of the bad news from Jeffrey, he became uncontrollably anxious again.

Where exactly is it... It must be a place or object that Chen Jian often touches, and at the same time it is very ordinary, so ordinary that it will not attract his attention...

Yang Zhou closed his eyes, and restored in his mind the layout of the study on the day when Chen Jian suddenly disappeared - he had received relevant memory training in the police academy, so it didn't take much effort to do it.

It's just that I'm restless today, and my memories are like irregular fragments, chaotic, and it took a long time to piece together a corner.After finally calming down, he suddenly heard the voice of D3 saying hello to Chen Jian. As soon as he thought about it, he fell short again.

Yangzhou sighed silently, and decided to come back later.

It was already noon, the sun was rising high, and the light was dazzling. There was a bright spot on the small round table by the window. The yellowed pages of the book were thin and transparent, like dead leaves that would break at the touch of a finger.

Yang Zhou walked over to close the curtains, and casually glanced at the books piled on the table, including "Wuthering Heights", "The Outsider", "Book of Songs" and "Leviathan".

Yangzhou's fingertips wandered in the air for a moment, and lightly landed on the book "Leviathan" that Chen Jian had never finished reading.A few seconds later, he was shocked and stared at the neither new nor old book with a complicated expression.

Yangzhou suddenly realized that he never knew where this book was placed on the shelf.It seems to have been placed on the table, or held in Chen Jian's hand.No, there were exceptions, the time when Chen Jian suddenly disappeared at home...on the table was a copy of "The Veil"!

Yangzhou picked up "Leviathan", as if holding the only kindling, excited and cautious.He turned his head to look at dozens of rows of tall bookshelves, and subconsciously held his breath.If the guess is correct, there is a micro-signal transmitter installed in this book, and a receiver is hidden somewhere on the bookshelf. When the two match, a certain mechanism can be activated.

But where is it?Chen Jian was not so stupid as to number the books by category, so that he could easily find out the book.So it seems, can only be carefully inspected from head to toe.

He was worrying about how this huge project could be done quietly, when suddenly there was a knock on the door, Yang Zhou shook his hand, and the cover of "Leviathan" was torn a small hole.

It was Andrew who knocked on the door. On the surface, he asked Yangzhou to have lunch, but in fact he was reminding him that Chen Jian was back, so he should not stay in the study for too long, lest people become suspicious.

Yang Zhou responded and put "Leviathan" back on the table as it was.He left the study, went into the bathroom on the first floor, and washed his hands for 10 minutes before entering the dining room.

I thought I could avoid Chen Jian, but I still met him.

Chen Jian supported his temple with one hand, frowned deeply, and did not raise his head when he heard the footsteps.He has been in a very bad mood for the past few days, and the worst thing is that he thinks he is well adjusted.Sitting at the dining table at this moment, recalling everything I saw and heard today, I suddenly feel angry and sad after knowing it.

Fang Xing has confidants that he doesn't know about, and of course Chen Jian also has them.An hour ago, the secretary intercepted the secret telegram between Fang Xing and Bernard of Base No. [-]. He told Chen Jian that Fang Xing and the other party were discussing the matter of independence, and also revealed that No. [-] Base was carrying out some kind of extremely threatening gene experiment.

Chen Jian didn't expect everything to happen so quickly.After the last quarrel, he expected that one day the differences between him and Fang Xing would reach the point where it would be difficult to maneuver, but he didn't expect it to appear at such a critical moment.

This time, he could no longer escape completely.

Chen Jian was preoccupied. Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of a pair of gray slippers with a checkered pattern. After staring at them for a while, his eyes moved up and fell on Yang Zhou's white earlobe.

Yangzhou eats very politely, he doesn't rush, and doesn't make any annoying voices.Feeling the gaze from the side, he licked the seam of his lips, his Adam's apple moved, feeling a little uncomfortable.

In the past two days, they have not violated the river water, and they get along fairly peacefully.Yang Zhou didn't intend to break the delicate situation, but Chen Jian stared at him, and he didn't know where to put his hands holding the chopsticks, so he turned his head and asked, "Do you want to eat?"

The food in front of Chen Jian was barely touched, and it was no longer steaming.The tone of Yangzhou's inquiry was neither salty nor light, restraining excess concern, Chen Jian pushed the plate away a little, and answered his words.

Yangzhou took a few bites casually, and then put down his chopsticks.

Andrew came in to clean up the tableware, just in time to hear his commander reveal the important information he had just learned: "The director of UNPO is going to retire."

Chen Jian slackly leaned on the back of the chair, and slightly raised his eyebrows upon hearing this.

"Even if there is no problem with the base, it will be used to make a big fuss." Seeing his indifferent expression, Yang Zhou added, "Don't act rashly."

Chen Jian was thinking about how to remedy Fang Xing's self-righteous destruction. Hearing what he said, his heart suddenly felt bitter.He twitched the corner of his mouth indifferently, and said coldly: "Officer Yang, your position is really delicate."

Yangzhou silently endured his yin and yang aura.He was against the light, his facial features were immersed in the shadows, and the tip of his chin was a little white, like a magnolia petal.

With such a docile appearance, Chen Jian couldn't say anything harsh.He has a river in his heart, and all the exits are blocked by Yangzhou, the water level is rising higher and higher, and he doesn't know when it will collapse for thousands of miles.

The two were silent for a while, Yang Zhou's cell phone vibrated suddenly, he opened the small window and glanced at it, and immediately clutched it tightly, his knuckles turned blue and white.

Chen Jian's eyes darkened, and his beast-like intuition made him guess something. He was filled with hatred for a moment, and just wanted to trace the data flow to the woman, and then, then...

Then what?Chen Jian's eyes were hot, and he gritted his molars fiercely, but he couldn't imagine the scene of humiliating and cursing that woman like before.

After all, it was Yangzhou's mother, no matter how much he hated her, it would be very difficult for him to utter vicious curses on a somewhat familiar face.

Yang Zhou didn't want to rub salt on Chen Jian's wound, so he quietly left the restaurant.As he went upstairs, he opened Stars, and saw that Zhou Yun had sent him some photos of the game.In the photo, Zhou Yun is wearing the popular fluffy roll-brimmed hat and beige coat, standing under the branches bent by the snow, smiling sweetly.

Yang Zhou mechanically slid through the photos, and Chen Beimin's bruised back suddenly appeared in front of his eyes.At that moment, some kind of gray dissatisfaction that he had suppressed with all his strength finally showed his head desperately.

He didn't want to admit it, but he did resent Zhou Yun.

Why?Why can she still enjoy happiness without any burden after abandoning her husband and children, but now she has caused herself to be hated by Chen Jian? In 30 years, Zhou Yun has never been persistently looking for her ex-husband and children.She hadn't forgotten them, Yangzhou knew, but if he hadn't come to the No. [-] base to carry out his mission this time, Zhou Yun might have been hiding in a snail shell all his life, and he didn't tell Yangzhou that he had an older brother until he was dying.

She is too cowardly.In the past 30 years, she has been living happily but cowardly.She named her youngest son Yangzhou to commemorate her hometown, and participated in the anti-quarantine act parade every year to calm her guilt, but she never faced her original sins.

Now she wants to make amends, but unfortunately, the old man has passed away, Yin and Yang are separated, and the original child no longer recognizes this mother.

Yangzhou didn't reply to Zhou Yun's message, and as soon as he returned to the room, Zhou Yun couldn't help but initiate a communication.

She sent the photos as a temptation, but actually wanted to know the whereabouts of her ex-husband and son.Because Yangzhou told her that the results would come out on the seventh day of the junior high school, she waited anxiously all day long.Seeing that it was night and there was still no movement in Yangzhou, he finally couldn't bear to make a phone call.

Yangzhou exchanged a few dry words with his mother.He is usually not close to his parents, Zhou Yun didn't notice anything wrong, and told him to be safe while performing tasks, so he went around looking for people.She was nervous, so she couldn't take care of her youngest son's emotions, so she asked bluntly: "Zhouzhou, the person you checked for mother last time, Cheng Beiming, do you have any news?"

Oddly enough, Yangzhou remembered the dark corridor that night, and Chen Jian whispered in his ear that he no longer needed his relatives.The phone became hot, Yangzhou took it away, and said calmly: "There is no such person in the No. [-] base."

The other end was suddenly quiet, and a few seconds later, there was a trembling and long sigh.

"Okay," Zhou Yun's tone was strange, half lost, half relaxed, she mumbled: "Okay, it's all right."

Yangzhou lightly promised: "I'll help you find it after the mission is over."

Zhou Yunhun said "ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

"Soon." Yangzhou said silently in his heart, when he found the laboratory and destroyed the genetic weapon, everything would be calm.