born criminal

"Daniel is very handsome," Chen Jian zoomed in on the photo, speaking with appreciation, "It seems that your family members have good genes."

Yang Zhou turned his back to him, his shoulders trembling slightly.In front of him was a blindingly white wall, and every time he took a breath, it was like breathing in a cloud of ice and snow.

"It's a pity that he died before he was 22 years old. Do you know how he died?"——Chen Jian's voice seemed to come from far away, and it turned into a sharp mourning in his mind, tearing apart the old scar——"Are you there?"

As soon as Yang Zhou opened his mouth, a tinge of red leaked from his chapped lips. Like a mental patient suffering from a sudden attack, he shook his head violently, "Stop talking..."

However, the blood, cries, and ugly entanglement of flesh, the dust of time that has been shaken off, emerges in front of my eyes in every detail.In a dark and cold room, four men surrounded a naked young man and raped him. The torrential rain outside the window diluted the painful moaning, and a child tied up in a corner watched blankly...

The 27-year-old Yang Zhou witnessed everything again. He reached out to save him, but he couldn't break through those ethereal phantoms when he hit the hard wall with his fist.The atrocities intensified, the scarred young man jumped from the roof of the building, his blond hair was blown up by the wind, and he slid across the fresh rainbow after the rain.

20 years ago, 20 years later, he was still powerless, and this was his biggest demon.

Chen Jian ignored the boundaries set by Dr. Simon, rushed over and grabbed Yang Zhou by the collar, and hugged him from behind.Yangzhou struggled violently. In his hallucination, there was a window in front of him. He wanted to jump down and grab Daniel.

"Be sober!" Chen Jian yelled in his ear.

Yang Zhou's slack gaze finally found a place. In the foggy field of vision, Chen Jian's face and Daniel's face merged miraculously—they were not alike in appearance, but at this moment, the same words came out. gentle.

Daniel said, Louis, don't cry.

Chen Jian said, wake up.

"Sorry." Yangzhou stopped his frantically shaking hands, took a deep breath, "Sorry."

He had regained his composure, Chen Jian had no reason to hug him anymore, and reluctantly let go.He saw a small blood clot formed at the corner of Yangzhou's mouth, like a ruby, he couldn't help touching it, but stopped a centimeter away.The two looked at each other, Chen Jian put his hands aside, and asked casually: "Why, can we talk?"

Yang Zhou lowered his eyes, still speechless.Chen Jian obtained only a few case reports from Eric, but the police officers who participated in the arrest of Daniel were all dismissed after the case, plus a few news reports, it was enough for him to piece together a rough picture. the truth.

"Daniel was framed, right. Three kids died, and the NYPD was under a lot of pressure to solve the case. A third crime scene found his genetic information, so the NYPD went after him."

Yangzhou's eyelashes trembled violently, and his breathing was inaudible.Chen Jian told the story to himself, but it was not far from the truth.Yangzhou wanted to tell him to shut up, but his body was cold and weak, fresh blood gushed out from the old wound, and his anger seemed to have disappeared along with it.He struggled back and forth between reality and phantom, in a daze, unconsciously approaching the warm body beside him, greedy for that glimmer of life.

Chen Jian embraced him stiffly, sliding his palm from left shoulder to right shoulder, and finally wrapped Yang Zhou in his arms for a long time, as if he was careless, but in fact he was step by step.

Yangzhou didn't notice the intimate posture in front of him, he was immersed in the past, his lips turned white, and he stared straight at the void.Suddenly his shoulder hurt, and he heard Chen Jian ask what kind of person Daniel was.

"He..." Yang Zhou was silent for a while, his eyes glistened, "He is a good man."

Daniel is a nice guy.This sentence sounds empty and hypocritical, but Yang Zhou didn't lie.In his memory, Daniel deserves all the good descriptions in the world.He is upright, kind, and sunny, and he is the purest person Yangzhou has ever seen.

Yangzhou met Daniel for the first time when he was five years old. That year Daniel came to his house to spend the summer.He liked this brother very much when he first met.Daniel is beautiful, with blue eyes like the sea, and a gentle voice. He spends the whole summer vacation with Yangzhou and is even more patient than Yangzhou's parents.

Yang Zhou liked to listen to his stories, even though he didn't understand many things Daniel said.Sometimes he would ask Zhou Yun, "Mom, Daniel said he was admitted to the police academy. What is the police academy?"

Zhou Yun told him that the police academy is the place to train the police, and the police are the ones who beat the bad guys.

Yangzhou nodded ignorantly, and asked George a few days later, "Dad, Daniel said that maintaining justice is his dream. What is justice and what is the dream?"

George thought for a while, and said that justice means that everyone gets what they deserve, and dreams are things that a person really wants to do.He asked Yang Zhou what his dream was.

Yangzhou frowned and thought for two seconds, when Daniel called him outside the door, he said, "Then be the same as Daniel", and then went to the playground with Daniel.

Summer is coming to an end, and Daniel's police academy is about to start.Yangzhou sent him to the station with tears in his eyes, and begged him: "Can you spend summer at my house every year?"

Daniel knelt down to hug him, and kissed his forehead tenderly, "If you don't cry, I promise you."

Yang Zhou quickly sniffed, wiped away his tears, and looked at him with clear eyes.

Daniel kept his promise, and would come to Yangzhou's house for a few days every holiday in the future.Every time, Yang Zhou waited at the door eagerly, and when he saw Daniel, he ran over excitedly, and was picked up by Daniel and held high above his head.

In the drowsy afternoon, Daniel set up two reclining chairs under the shade of a tree and told Yangzhou what skills he had learned in school, what kind of pistol he had tried, which case he had studied, and what interesting things he had experienced.

The stories he tells are all warm and bright. Despite the twists and turns, justice will eventually defeat evil, grievances will be washed away, and perpetrators will be punished.Yangzhou held his chin and listened attentively. He was always dissatisfied and asked Daniel to keep talking.

"Okay, go to sleep." If Daniel was tired from talking, he would put his palms on Yangzhou's eyelids and rub gently. After a while, Yangzhou fell asleep in the fragrance of grass and trees.

Now that I think about it, those carefree days are as far away as a dream.

During the summer vacation when Yangzhou was seven years old, Daniel came to have a little reunion with him as promised.Everything was the same as usual, Yangzhou was indulging in the fantasy dream woven by Daniel's story, his little heart was throbbing with pride.

During that time, children disappeared one after another in New York. Zhou Yun and George watched him closely and forbade him to move around alone.Yangzhou is still young, he doesn't understand the news, he doesn't feel scared, he just finds it boring to be at home.

After finally waiting for Daniel to come, he was like a savior, asking Daniel to take him out to play all day long.

Although Daniel knew about the recent child rape and murder case that caused panic among people, he couldn't bear Yang Zhou's begging. In addition, he had been in the police academy for two years, and he was excellent in all kinds of exams, so he was inevitably a little conceited.Zhou Yun and George had always been reassured of him, and they let them go after a few instructions.

That afternoon, Yangzhou held Daniel's hand, licked the ice cream and asked vaguely, "Daniel, why does that person follow us all the time?"

Daniel's footsteps stopped, and he looked behind him calmly from the corner of his eye, and suddenly picked up Yangzhou and ran.As soon as he ran, the big man behind him immediately caught up. Daniel didn't panic, and plunged into the crowded shopping mall-they began their two-day escape.

At first, Daniel thought that the man was coming for Yangzhou. He had done some research on the rape and murder case these days, and he had already made a criminal profile of the suspect in his mind, which was similar to the judgment of the New York Police Department—it was a person with relevant experience. Counter-reconnaissance trained, cunning and brutal.

Although Daniel was not sure that the person following them was the suspect, he felt that the person was weird, and after leading Yang Zhou out of the pursuit, he wanted to go home quickly.However, he soon noticed something unusual. Along the way, it seemed that more than one person was following them, leaving one behind and another!

Sweat dripped from Daniel's forehead, and Yang Zhou was affected by the tense atmosphere, so he grabbed his shoulder obediently and asked what's wrong.

"It's okay, don't be afraid." Daniel suddenly accelerated and ran to the bustling station not far away.Yangzhou was bouncing in his arms, he turned his face backwards, saw a dozen people shot out of the crowd like sharp arrows, he took them as bullseye.

"Don't let him get away!" one of them yelled.

Yangzhou was frightened, and he grabbed Daniel's hair indiscriminately.Daniel threw away the phones of the two, and rushed all the way, rushing onto the maglev train to New Orleans in the last half minute.

They got out of the car halfway, changed to a privately piloted aircraft, hid all the way, and finally found a hotel in a small town in Texas to rest.

Daniel was not yet 22 years old. After running away without sleep for two days, he finally had a chance to catch his breath. The belated tide of panic and panic overwhelmed him like a flood.

"I shouldn't have run away," he sat down on the edge of the bed, "At first I thought that tall man was trying to catch you, I lost my head..."

Yangzhou went in without knowing it, and asked Daniel, "Who are they?"

Daniel took out a biscuit from his bag and gave it to him, saying, "It's the police."

"That's a good guy." Yang Zhou nodded pretending to be old-fashioned, but there was innocent doubt on his brows, "Then why did they arrest you?"

"I don't know," Daniel said to himself, short of breath, "there must be a mistake somewhere, how could I be caught... No, I shouldn't have run, I should have asked them clearly..."

Yangzhou is ignorant and regards escape as an adventure.Although the past two days have been difficult, the journey has been exciting. He sits humming and playing with his fingers, and asks Daniel enthusiastically where he is going next.

"I just heard from the robot in the lobby that the hurricane is about to pass through the border, and I will not be allowed to go out for the next 24 hours." Yangzhou didn't know Daniel's worries, and was happy that he could see the hurricane with his own eyes. "I have never seen a hurricane before. Woolen cloth!"

The sky outside was getting darker and darker, the whistling sound was getting louder and louder, and the storm was indeed coming.

Daniel squatted down, pinching Yangzhou's shoulders with both hands, and said seriously: "Louis, when the storm is over, we will go to the police station in the town. I want to ask clearly."

Yang Zhou pouted unhappily, "Stop running away? They can't catch us."

Just as Daniel was about to speak, the doorbell rang, and a robot carrying food appeared on the electronic display.

It was dark outside and the room was dark.Daniel opened the window, and the howling wind brought raindrops in, drenching him head and face.

"Daniel, don't you want to open the door?" Yang Zhou looked at the food on the screen eagerly, "I'm so hungry."

Daniel closed the window tightly, his face pale.He picked up Yangzhou, stuffed him into the closet, and said: "Don't make a sound, don't come out unless I tell you."

The doorbell rang incessantly.Daniel rubbed his hands and walked forward quickly.Yangzhou huddled in the closet, and through the narrow gap, he saw Daniel taking the dinner plate from the robot.The next second, Daniel staggered suddenly. With a scream, he was thrown to the ground, and the plate in his hand rolled far away.

Yang Zhou's eyes widened, he covered his mouth, panting in panic in the cramped closet.

"Hold him! I finally caught him, and he's really fucking able to run!" The other three men pushed the robot away one after another and rushed in, cursing.

Daniel was handcuffed by them, and he writhed wildly on the floor like a fish out of water, "What are you doing!"

The first man who rushed in kicked him, "Where's that kid? You killed him already?"

"What child!" Daniel shouted anxiously after they locked him on the carved pillar at the head of the bed, "You guys made a mistake!"

"You're still fucking stubborn!" A big man with brown hair and bushy eyebrows slapped him twice, then turned to his companion and said, "Looking like this is really deceiving, if it wasn't for the third case that left his fingerprints and Semen, who can suspect him."

He seemed to be the leader of these few people, and the others followed him and asked him what to do next.

"The hurricane has passed, and the road is completely closed." The brown-haired man said, "I have sent a message to my uncle, and I will escort him back to New York when the weather clears."

"I didn't kill anyone!" Daniel sat on the ground in disgrace, understood the general idea from the conversations of several people, struggled to get up, and hissed, "You must have made a mistake! How could there be me at the scene of Jacqueline's crime?" fingerprints!"

"Still pretending? How do you know her name is Jacqueline?"

The brown-haired man named Robert pinched Daniel's chin and swung it to the right. Daniel's forehead hit the hard wooden board and immediately swelled up.

"I watch the news!" Daniel explained with tears, "I'm a police cadet, and I've studied—"

Yang Zhou hid in the closet and shivered, and finally couldn't help letting out a piercing scream.

"Who?" A policeman raised his gun cautiously. He opened the closet door with a "bang" and met the terrified Yangzhou face to face.

"It's okay, kid." He stretched out his arms to hug him, but Yangzhou pushed him away and jumped down.Regardless of his sore leg, he got up and ran towards Daniel. The man with the gun grabbed his hoodie, preventing him from moving forward.

"Daniel!" Yang Zhou cried and hit his hand, "He is not a bad person, let him go!"

"Stockholm?" The two policemen murmured together and looked at Yangzhou carefully.

One of them asked him, "What's your name, kid? Where do you live? How did this man trick you here?"

The man holding Yangzhou put down his gun, and lifted Yangzhou's clothes to check if there was any wound on his body. Yangzhou waved his hands and kicked his feet desperately, but he couldn't break free from the shackles.

"He's my brother!" Daniel yelled, "I took him out to play, what do you want to do?"

"You won't even let your brother go!" Robert grabbed Daniel's hair and slammed it against the wall a few times. Yang Zhou was so frightened that he cried and called Daniel's name vaguely.

"The people in the technical team have compared the gene pools. It's you—Daniel Button, who still wants to argue?" The brown-haired man leaned down and looked at Daniel fiercely.A stream of blood slowly flowed down Daniel's forehead, flowed through the clear blue eyes, passed over the full pink lips, gathered on the tip of the chin, and dripped silently into the carpet.Robert stared at Daniel murderously for a while, and suddenly his Adam's apple moved.

"You are framing!" Daniel gasped because of the pain, he said intermittently, "Three children have died, you are in a hurry to find a scapegoat..."

His words were caught in his throat by the gushing blood.

"Daniel is a good man, he is my brother!" Yang Zhou tugged on the sleeve of the policeman next to him in despair. He was already in tears, "Don't hit him..."

"Calm down, Robert." One of the policemen stopped the brown-haired man and picked up the food that had fallen to the ground before. "I don't know when the hurricane will pass. Eat something first."

Four cops sat down in the living room to eat a quick snack.They forbade Yangzhou to get close to Daniel, asked him many inexplicable questions, and told him that Daniel was a bad person and brought him here to do bad things.

Yang Zhou spoke incoherently, he couldn't explain clearly, and hiccupped from crying.Daniel called him weakly, smiled at him comfortingly, and told him not to cry.

"Don't cry. It's okay, Louis."

These were the last words Daniel had ever said to him.

Memories are like a quagmire, Yangzhou struggled hard, and rushed out of there muddy.He looked up at the ceiling, trying to hold back the heat in his eyes.

Chen Jian patted him on the back lightly, as if he was holding the helpless child back then.He twisted a strand of hair next to Yang Zhou's ear, and asked persuasively, "And then?"

Yang Zhou's eyes fixed on Chen Jian's face for a moment.He tilted his head back slightly, as if reining in his horse from a precipice, and was retreating cautiously.

"The record in the file is very brief," Chen Jian said, "it only said that the four police officers were dismissed because they insulted and abused the suspect." He paused for a moment, and saw his own reflection in Yangzhou's suddenly constricted pupils.

I'm such a bad person, Chen Jian thought in his heart, but said: "They raped|raped him, didn't they?"

Yang Zhou looked away, looking around in panic, the furnishings in the room were like the reflection of the lake, twisting and rippling with the water waves.

The little boy 20 years ago also witnessed an atrocity with tears in his eyes.

The wind outside the window was terrifying, like thousands of ghosts crying together, the whole building even shook slightly.Robert threw the poker in his hand on the table, and cursed bad luck-everyone would get tired of playing cards for four hours in a small room.

His gaze once again drifted to Daniel, who was handcuffed to the bedside, a disgraced, embarrassed, but beautiful criminal.

"Go ahead and play." Robert suddenly stood up and walked towards Daniel.He looked down at the beautiful young criminal, stepped on Daniel with the toe of his shoe, from collarbone to navel, and crushed his genitals hard.

Daniel's scream was like a sharp knife, piercing through the dense wind and rain, and then stopped abruptly—Robert rolled up the pillow towel and gagged his mouth.

"Daniel!" Yang Zhou's eyes were red and swollen, he could no longer shed tears, and the immature child star became hoarse, "Please don't hit him!"

His right hand was tied to the leg of the table by a rope, and he looked at Daniel from afar.Several policemen had decided that he had Stockholm Syndrome and kept him away from "the monster."

Robert said obscene words in his mouth, and Yang Zhou at that time didn't even understand what it meant.The other three policemen stood up and looked at each other subtly. The shortest young policeman cleared his throat and called out to Robert in a flattering way.

"Isn't that good?" He was swept away by the other party's arrogant gaze, and he stammered, "After all, he hasn't been convicted yet—"

"Why, do you think he is innocent?" Robert kicked Daniel fiercely, "Fingerprints, hair, and semen are all there! He did those things that were worse than beasts to children, and you still defend him?"

The other police officers fell silent.The blood stains on Daniel's face were washed into light pink by tears, like the spring breeze blowing away the weak peach blossoms.He struggled frantically, with his back pressed against the wall, his legs kicking wildly in the air, like a trapped animal that could not retreat.

Robert was kicked on the head by him, fell back to the ground, and yelled through gritted teeth, "Someone help!"

The crowd surrounded Daniel one after another. His shirt was roughly torn and turned into cloth strips, exposing his well-proportioned body.The kicked foot is held and then forcefully separated.

Yangzhou looked at all this blankly and terrified.He didn't know what was going on, but he felt sick instinctively.He heard faint "uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu" among the obscenities, Daniel's cries, and they came out of the gaps in the pillowcase, spreading hopelessly to every corner of the room.

"Help me hold him!"

"Hey, this kid is really strong!"

"Unlock his handcuffs...it's okay, that's the fun...you can't run away, there are so many of us!"

"Bernard, come and try! You are a deadhead, men are much more pleasant than women!"

……

Yangzhou didn't cry or make trouble, and watched all this with a blank expression.He couldn't see Daniel, the ugly flesh surrounded him, and he lost track of time, wondering how long this disgusting brutality had lasted.

In his memory, a ray of bright sunlight shone into the room without warning——Yangzhou's pupils shrank suddenly, and only then did he realize that the hurricane had left the country and the rain was over.

The half-dead Daniel was put on obviously loose clothes, supported by two people, and limped forward.Robert's face was full of sympathy, he tried to hold Yang Zhou's hand, but was shrieked and avoided.

A few people came to the elevator at the end of the corridor, and Daniel suddenly broke free from his restraint, and rushed towards the French window a few steps away—he smashed the glass with his head, and fell from the seventh floor. , ringing endlessly in Yangzhou's ears.

Daniel didn't look back, but Yangzhou often dreamed of his bloody appearance, which gave birth to a demon.From then on, he had two Daniels in his heart, one was gentle and kind, with curved eyebrows and eyes, and the other had a green face and fangs like a ghost, pestering him to take revenge.