born criminal

The first batch of inhibitors was sent to Base [-] by [-] UN soldiers and handed over to the local garrison.Colonel Zhou was appointed to be responsible for the injection of inhibitors and the release of residents.

The streets were empty that day, and almost all the residents gathered at the city gate, eagerly waiting for the moment when the iron gate would open.

Yangzhou checked out from the hotel and met an old woman in the lobby dozing off by the window.Yang Zhou stared at her for a while, then the old woman suddenly opened her eyes and smiled at him with a peaceful expression.

She will not leave, Yangzhou knows, she will die of old age on this land.

"Want to go to Chen Jian's house?" Andrew asked.

Yangzhou nodded.The luggage he brought was still there, and he couldn't leave it alone.For a brief moment, he was glad he had left something behind.As if this is an aboveboard reason, it can cover up the thoughts that are about to move in the dark.

Andrew hailed a self-driving taxi, but no one spoke along the way, and the atmosphere was oppressive and dull.When the white roof of Chen Jian's house came into view, Andrew keenly detected Yangzhou's breathing disorder and rapid heartbeat.

After getting off the car, they walked across the lawn to the gate of the villa.For a short distance, Yang Zhou walked at a leisurely pace. It seemed that he was the same as usual, but his nerves were actually stretched like a string on the verge of breaking.

When he pushed the door, he unconsciously held his breath and waited for two seconds before looking inside.

"Mr. Yang," D3 stepped forward, greeted him warmly, and gave Andrew a cold snort.

Yang Zhou glanced around calmly, but there was no sign of Chen Jian, he couldn't tell what it was like, so he reluctantly twitched the corner of his mouth at D3, saying to get something.

"You—" D3 glanced at Andrew, "Guys, are you leaving?"

"Yes." Andrew asked, "Where is Mr. Chen?"

"In the bedroom."

Yangzhou, who was going upstairs, heard this sentence, and his steps became lighter.He wasn't sure if Chen Jian avoided seeing him on purpose, but leaving quietly might be the best farewell.

He packed his luggage indiscriminately and wanted to leave quickly, but his movements became slower and slower for some reason, and finally he felt like procrastinating.He has lived in this room for a long time, when he first saw the awkward furnishings - simple lanterns, heavy embroidered curtains, lifelike elk, he got used to it unconsciously, and even made him nostalgic.Or maybe, what is nostalgic is not these items at all, but a period of time.

In the opposite bedroom, Chen Jian was awake.In front of him was an old mobile phone, an electronic card, and a watch, all of which were found from him on the day he was imprisoned in Yangzhou. Now the phone is vibrating, and a picture of a woman with a plump face appears on the screen. Smile happily in the snow.

Zhou Yun had made many phone calls in the past few days, but Chen Jian turned a blind eye to them all. Hearing the slight sound of Yang Zhou packing up things outside the door, he tapped the voice answer by accident.

"Zhou Zhou, when are you coming back?" The other end was anxious and angry, "Your dad and I are so worried!"

Her voice was so strange, not as gentle and mellow as Chen Jian imagined when he was a child, nor as hoarse and harsh as the villain in the story.Yes, she was an ordinary person, not worthy of his love or his hatred.

Chen Jian's eyes were suddenly wet, he sniffed, gritted his teeth and did not speak.

"Hey?"

Zhou Yun gradually realized that something was wrong, and before he had time to ask a question, Chen Jian swiped hastily and cut off the communication with trembling fingers.

In another bedroom, Yangzhou finally packed his luggage.Holding the suitcase, he stood quietly in the middle of the room for a moment, then solemnly and slowly closed the door.When passing by Chen Jian's room, he paused, and finally did not knock on the door.

Coming down from the second floor, the living room was empty, and I vaguely heard D3 and Andrew talking on the lawn outside the house.Yangzhou walked towards the gate of the villa, and a person stood out unexpectedly behind the high-back sofa. He was startled, and his astonishment and surprise were fully revealed.

"Leaving?" Chen Jian was wearing loose home clothes, with one hand in his pocket, as if saying goodbye to an old friend he had known for many years, with a casual but friendly attitude.

Yang Zhou squeezed the handle of the suitcase tightly and nodded.

Chen Jian raised his chin slightly, motioning him to look at the coffee table, "You still have some things."

Yangzhou walked to his side, grabbed the mobile phone and electronic card, and stuffed them into the box.

There is a crystal fruit plate on the coffee table, which contains a lot of candies, probably the new year's goods bought during the Spring Festival, the owner is too busy and has been forgetting to remove it.

Yang Zhou's eyes fell on Sun Yu, that kind of candy that changes color, which brought back many memories at once.

Seeing that his expression was different, Chen Jian also lowered his head to look at him, with a perplexed expression on his face.The two were silent for a moment, Chen Jian bent down and picked up a flat lollipop, held it in his palm and handed it to Yang Zhou, jokingly said, "Keep it as a souvenir."

Under his body temperature, the sun rain quickly turned bright red, bright red, like a beating heart.Yangzhou took it carefully, and when his hands got colder, the candy gradually faded to rose red.

They were close together, staring at this little thing for a long time, Yang Zhou raised his head suddenly, and smiled at Chen Jian, who also curled the corners of his mouth tacitly.This moment is so warm, just like the time when they were attracted to each other and secretly confronted each other not long after they first came to Yangzhou.No one was anyone's brother then, and no one hurt anyone.

When this delicate and ambiguous atmosphere was coming to an end and was about to turn into embarrassment, Chen Jian caught a bit of its aftertaste and extended an invitation to Yang Zhou: "Have a meal before leaving?"

This meal was still served by Chen Jian.Although there is an automatic cooking machine at home, he still prefers to do it himself. The food cooked by the machine always feels that it lacks flavor.

Yangzhou followed him into the kitchen, helping to wash the vegetables and passing the knives, and cooperated very tacitly.

"Where's Anna?" Yang Zhou asked.

Chen Jian focused on chopping vegetables, and after a while he said, "Her husband has won the lottery. The family plans to return to France to settle down, and they will leave today."

how about you?Just stay in this desolate place for the rest of your life?These questions were lingering on his lips, Yangzhou's Adam's apple rolled, but he didn't ask them in the end.

After cooking a few simple home-cooked dishes, Chen Jian opened the refrigerator and found a bag of ramen.A few words were crookedly written with a marker on the fresh-keeping bag. Yangzhou took a closer look and found that it was "Happy Birthday".

"Your birthday?" He was taken aback.

Chen Jian nodded: "Anna sent it yesterday."

"I don't know," Yang Zhou muttered, feeling very uncomfortable, "I don't have any gifts for you."

"You're welcome." Chen Jian said.

That's the end of the conversation, and the feeling of alienation lingers until the food is served.

The two ate for a while, but Yang Zhou didn't know what to eat, so he found a new topic: "Is Dr. Simon not coming back?"

"Well," Chen Jian said, "he is in a hurry to see Linda."

"Isn't Linda remarried?"

"Yes." Chen Jian seemed to guess what he was thinking, and smiled at him to express his understanding.

Linda and Simon are college classmates. After five years of marriage, Simon will be sent to Base 30 because of the implementation of the "Segregation Act".Linda was unwilling to leave her hometown, and Simon couldn't bear her suffering. After entrusting her with his research materials, the two divorced.More than [-] years have passed in a flash, and now we meet again, I don't know what it will be like.

This story made Yangzhou feel stuck. In his opinion, if two people really love each other, they should be able to share weal and woe.But after all, I am not the person involved, and I don't know how well it is, so it is not easy to make judgments.

"When I came here today, I saw Antonio." Yang Zhou suddenly remembered something important and became worried, "He is still in the city, trying to find evidence of B75. You shouldn't provoke him that day, he is very vengeful. powerful."

"Why, do you think I did something wrong?" Chen Jian kicked his foot, and the chair moved back a bit, his voice harsh.He became angry without warning, "If I don't do anything, how long are you going to endure?"

"Of course I would—"

"That's right, I was meddling in my own business." Before he could finish speaking, Chen Jian suddenly changed his face, slapped the chopsticks on the table, turned his head to face the wall on the left, his chest heaved slightly, as if suppressing his anger.

"I didn't mean that." Yang Zhou explained in a good voice.

After a while, Chen Jian regained his composure, picked up his chopsticks and continued eating, as if nothing had happened.

Both of them don't know how to eat, they just stare at the food in the bowl and poke it back and forth.Chen Jian sucked the longevity noodles into his mouth, and the deliciousness that Anna boasted about is still tasteless now.

What a bad birthday.As soon as he had this thought, he heard Yang Zhou say, I'd better go.

On the lawn outside the villa, D3 and Andrew are saying goodbye.

"Will you still come to Base One?" D3 controlled his tone, making himself sound less eager.

"I don't know," Andrew said honestly, "I asked Eric to modify the commander level without authorization. This mission also witnessed many secrets, which may be destroyed."

"Then what to do!" D3 was anxious, "Then don't go back!"

"I have a Trojan horse virus lurking in my system, and they can destroy me as well," Andrew said, "And I'm a policeman, and I have to go back and report."

"I know, police, police, police, it's annoying!"

D3 turned around a few times, persistently trying to find a way for him, "Let's go to Eric, Eric can definitely help you."

Andrew gave a rare grin and said softly: "Thank you, D3, you are a good friend, I will miss you."

D3 fell silent suddenly, as if the power off button had been pressed.

Andrew was confused about the situation, and hesitantly persuaded: "The data channel we established before can still be used, and the encryption method has not changed, and we can still communicate."

This did not comfort D3, he still stood there blankly, and after a while, he said sadly: "But I don't want you to leave."

"Although," he changed into a forced and brisk tone, "although you are boring, have a low EQ, and are annoying, but... from now on, there will be no one like me in the city."

Andrew thought of D4, but he wisely decided not to bring it up now.

At this time, Yangzhou pushed open the villa door and walked towards them carrying a box.Andrew knew that the time had come, he squatted down and hugged D3 with open arms, "Goodbye, D3."

D3 didn't answer, it was unusually quiet.He walked behind Yangzhou and Andrew for a long time, until they got into a taxi, and then went home listlessly.

Chen Jian was lying on the sofa, holding a half-peeled orange in his right hand, staring out the window in a daze, not even noticing D3 approaching.

"It's already gone." D3 said sullenly.

Chen Jian came back to his senses, and then peeled the oranges.He carefully tore off the white tendons on the orange petals, and occasionally passed them to his lips to blow.

D3 didn't speak, and the two of them seemed to be competing who could hold their breath.Ten minutes later, the chatty robot surrendered.

"Why didn't you let Mr. Yang stay?" D3 complained, "According to my observation, the probability that he still likes you is 80.00% four."

Chen Jian couldn't help laughing: "So accurate?"

"Yes," D3 was very proud, claiming that he calculated it from Yangzhou's micro-expressions, tone of voice, heartbeat and breathing, etc.

Chen Jian casually boasted absently, then you are really amazing.

"Mr. Chen, I don't understand. The "Segregation Act" is abolished, and the born criminals can move freely in the world. Isn't this what you have always wanted to see?"

"Although the requirement for injecting inhibitors is due to ordinary people's defense and fear of natural criminals, to a certain extent, this kind of differential treatment is unreasonable, but equality is never achieved overnight."

Chen Jian finally let go of the peeled oranges, and turned his head to listen to him carefully.

"I think it is not easy for Dr. Simon and Mr. Yang to achieve the present situation for us." D3 is unprecedentedly serious, "In human history, equal rights for common people and nobles, equal rights for women, and equal rights for non-heterosexuals have all cost a lot of money. It took a long time and several generations of struggle. I know that you want to make natural born criminals obtain real equality through your own efforts, but the transformation of people's thinking often cannot be completed immediately."

These words caused quite a stir in Chen Jian's heart, but he concealed it very well, and knocked on D3's head, "Educating me."

"Hurry up and chase after Mr. Yang!" D3 finally confessed his ultimate goal.

"What are you chasing after?" Chen Jian glanced at the time, "They should have boarded the plane."

"That's not necessarily the case. Today, the gates of the city are full of people."

Chen Jian propped himself up on the sofa and sat up, but he didn't make any further moves. Obviously, he still couldn't make up his mind.

"Go!" D3 murmured beside him, "If you don't go, he will fall in love with someone else in the future!"

"Don't worry too much about ethical issues, I promise not to tell others that you are brothers."

Seeing that Chen Jian was still hesitating, D3 recited an ancient poem in cadence: "There are flowers that can be broken, and branches that need to be broken, don't wait for no flowers to break branches."

"I would like to be a winged bird in the sky, and I would like to be a connected branch in the ground."

"If the two feelings last for a long time, they must be in the morning and evening."

"Shut up, you." Chen Jian jumped up, and slapped D3 dumbfounded.He walked quickly to the coat rack next to the entrance, took out a coat and put it on.

"Bring Andrew back!" D3 shouted happily behind him.