born criminal

When Yangzhou went downstairs, two guests had already arrived.Police Chief Douglas, a tall, well-built man in a short-sleeved shirt that was bloated, was sitting leisurely by the fireplace.When Yang Zhou looked at him, he had a strong feeling that he was not a symbol of power, but power itself.

In contrast, Huang Puyuan, the director of the Finance Bureau next to him, is much more gentle.He is a Chinese-Japanese mixed-race, in his early thirties, with a handsome appearance, wearing retro gold-rimmed glasses, and meticulous hair and suits.

Chen Jian introduced the two parties. Although Fang Xing's attitude was still lukewarm, he did not embarrass Yang Zhou.Douglas shook hands with Yangzhou casually, turned his head and teased Chen Jian: "It turns out that she is a beauty, no wonder you let him live at home."

Chen Jian twitched the corners of his mouth downwards, and then couldn't help laughing again, his eyes were very smug.Yangzhou just pretended not to hear, and looked at these guests silently.

Needless to say, Fang Xing has a close relationship with Chen Jian and is a well-deserved second in command in the base.Among the other two, Huang Puyuan doesn't have much real power except for having a beautiful title. This is natural, because almost all the economic lifelines of the base are controlled by the coalition government, and the quotas for various commodities are fixed. What he can do very limited.

As for Douglas, the big man with the golden stubble covering his cheeks, he was a formidable man.Since ancient times, whoever has force has power.There is no army at the base, and the police is the only armed force. The importance of Douglas can be imagined.He used to be Vladimir's right-hand man, and now he supports Chen Jian. He has survived power changes, so he must be a smart man with a strong heart.

Chen Jian, who was leaning on the back of the chair and wandering, suddenly sat up and asked, "Eric hasn't arrived yet? This little guy makes people wait every time."

"I guess he's working on some algorithm again. I think he will marry a robot in the future." Douglas's voice was loud, a bit disrupting the lazy and comfortable atmosphere in front of the fireplace.

Yang Zhou glanced at the door.Eric, the designer of D3, a low-key and mysterious genius, he is full of curiosity about this person.

"Let's open a bottle of wine first and wake up." Fang Xing's eyes wandered between the two robots, probably because he was embarrassed to push Andrew, so he asked D3 to bring Chen Jian's century-old bottle of wine.

"I don't have hands, sir." D3 said solemnly, "And that bottle of wine has already been drunk by Mr. Chen and Mr. Yang."

Yang Zhou felt a blade-like gaze passing over him, and there was a subtle silence around him for a moment.

"Fang Xing, my house has 150 years of good wine." Douglas said suddenly: "How about sitting with me some other day?"

His Chinese pronunciation was very strange, but he could pronounce Fang Xing's name perfectly. Yangzhou couldn't help but glanced at him and saw a flattering smile on Douglas's face.

Fang Xing said politely and perfunctorily, "Okay."

"Eric is here!" D3 suddenly shouted in surprise, and ran towards the door, the small wheels spinning fast.

"Hi, D3." A slightly hoarse and weird voice came first, and a thin hand patted the top of D3 affectionately.

A teenager walked in. He had brown soft hair, ice blue eyes, and some freckles dotted on both sides of his nose, and looked at everyone shyly.

Yangzhou couldn't hide his surprise.It never occurred to him that the computer genius who created D3 turned out to be a fifteen or sixteen-year-old child, and he was even in the stage of changing his voice.

"Little Eric, long time no see!" Anna came out of the kitchen and embraced the boy warmly.

Eric blushed and stammered, "Hello, Aunt Anna."

Everyone around the fireplace laughed, and Douglas yelled, "Eric, you can't be shy!"

Eric didn't refute, just pursed his lips and smiled.He walked to the fireplace and was about to speak when Chen Jian grabbed his arm and ruffled his hair with his big hands.

"Chen!" Eric yelled in panic, waving his thin arms to fight against Chen Jian.

Fang Xing and Douglas laughed loudly, playing with Eric's face to fuel the fire, Huang Puyuan bent his mouth to watch the excitement, and lightly persuaded him, "Let Eric go".

"I really hate you guys!" Eric covered his head and took a few steps back, staring angrily at the person in front of him, he rolled his eyes, fixed on Yangzhou, and asked curiously: "Chen, who is this? "

Chen Jian did not deliberately emphasize the identity of the official of the Yangzhou coalition government, but simply introduced: "This is Mr. Yang."

Eric presumably wanted to avenge the previous incident, so he deliberately put on an adult look, raised his chin to look at Yang Zhou, and nodded ambiguously: "Are you a boyfriend?"

This time even Yangzhou couldn't hold back, and laughed out loud.

"Yes," Chen Jian teased him, "What advice do you have?"

Eric walked carefully to Yangzhou and sat down, looking at him with sea-like blue eyes, with a serious face: "Mr. Yang, you have to be careful of him, Chen is a devil."

Douglas laughed so hard he almost fell out of his chair.Yang Zhou felt sorry for the poor Eric, tried his best to hold back a smile, nodded and said, "I see."

Fang Xing interrupted everyone's laughter: "Eric, don't take it seriously, Mr. Chen was just joking."

What he said was a bit disappointing, Yang Zhou and him looked at each other, their fierce eyes made a few moves in the air, and then moved away as if nothing had happened.

"Hey, Eric," the rough Douglas continued, teasing Eric: "Do you want to marry a robot?"

"That's not it!" Eric retorted blushingly, he suddenly became shy, rubbed the back of the chair with his left hand, raised his ears like a rabbit from time to time, and glanced around vigilantly.Chen Jian saw something was wrong, and asked with a smirk, "Is there someone you like?"

Eric couldn't resist their curiosity, and wanted to show off in his heart, and after a few minutes, he whispered: "I have a girlfriend."

The room exploded immediately, and just as everyone was asking questions, Anna appeared in the living room and said loudly, "Gentlemen, dinner is ready."

Eric was startled, jumped up from the chair in a panic, and provoked another burst of good-natured ridicule.

A group of people walked towards the restaurant, and Yang Zhou unconsciously fell behind.Chen Jian tacitly slowed down until he was next to him.

He half-closed his eyes, and his dark pupils formed a thin line, like a mysterious deep pool.

"How is it, is it interesting?" Chen Jian asked in a low voice.

"You mean Eric?"

"I said I."

Yang Zhou pulled the corner of his mouth and asked another irrelevant question: "Did you quarrel with Fang Xing this afternoon?"

Chen Jian didn't answer. When he entered the dining room, he pulled out the chair on the right hand side to signal Yang Zhou to sit down, and then leaned into his ear and said, "That's right, because you quarreled. Why, didn't you?" Are you going to fall in love with me?"

Yang Zhou dodged back for a moment, and said expressionlessly, "No."

The dinner party went on fairly happily, and the chats were all irrelevant gossip.Everyone was very interested in Eric's little girlfriend. After torture for a while, Eric blushed like a tomato, but he refused to reveal anything.

The adults headed by Chen Jian almost bullied the shy Eric to tears, but Yang Zhou couldn't stand it anymore, and glared at him: "It's almost done."

Sure enough, Chen Jian stopped asking, and said rather aggrieved: "Okay, okay, I'll listen to you."

There was another burst of laughter during the banquet.Yangzhou found that Chen Jian liked to embarrass him in all small things, but fortunately he was used to it, so he took a sip of wine without changing his face.

Huang Puyuan is rigorous and defended: "Actually, we are also doing it for Eric. He is too simple, easy to be deceived, and easy to be hurt."

"I'm already sixteen!" Eric retorted in a low voice dissatisfied.He glanced at Yang Zhou gratefully, he had a good impression of this handsome young man, and asked tentatively: "I haven't seen you before, are you from outside?"

"Yes." Yang Zhou asked, "Are you still in school?"

"Well, I'm in tenth grade."

Eric is a child after all, and Yangzhou quickly obtained a lot of information about him.Coincidentally, Eric's father was the architect who was well-known in the industry more than 20 years ago, and many buildings with strange shapes in the base were created by him.After Eric's mother died in childbirth, his father raised him alone.He has shown amazing talent in computers since he was three years old, but he has never studied systematically.Later, he met Chen Jian by accident, and Chen Jian gave him a lot of material help, and secretly bought many books, software and robots from the "outside" black market for him to study, which allowed him to grow rapidly.

Eric's cell phone suddenly "ding dong", he opened the message,

There was a sweet smile on the corner of his mouth.

That pure sense of happiness made Yangzhou feel a little dazzling.He stared blankly for a few seconds, then looked away.

After a while, Anna and Andrew walked into the restaurant and served the main courses for the guests one by one.When Eric saw Andrew, he was so excited that he couldn't speak clearly, his eyes were surprisingly bright.

"Is it your robot!" he asked Yangzhou.

Andrew is Yang Zhou's partner, but it was troublesome to explain, so Yang Zhou said "hmm".

"I'll go and have a look!" Eric put down his knife and fork, and chased Andrew away excitedly.

Yangzhou chuckled, and turned his attention back to Fang Xing and Douglas who were facing him.The keenness trained for a long time soon made him discover something unusual.Fang Xing is left-handed, and the elbows of him and Douglas will fight if they are not careful. In order to avoid collisions, the big Douglas tried his best to shrink his shoulders and cut the steak clumsily. Space.

He was so patient with Fang Xing, even a little servile, but under the respect of Chen Jian, there was a casualness hidden, which was really puzzling.

Yang Zhou frowned slightly.Did Fang Xing hold something against him?If this is the case, if Chen Jian and Fang Xing break up, which side will Douglas stand on?

Yang Zhou couldn't help but glanced at Chen Jian worriedly, and unexpectedly met his deep gaze, as if he had been waiting for a long time, just for Yang Zhou to raise his eyes.

Chen Jian asked "what's the matter" with his mouth.

Yangzhou looked hesitant, when Eric came back, and said excitedly in a strange voice during the voice change period: "Your robot is so powerful!"

Forget it, Yangzhou thought, Chen Jian is not a fuel-efficient lamp either.Now that he has taken this position, he must be ready to stand up for death.Besides, Fang Xing grew up with him, so he shouldn't betray him.Yang Zhou shook his head at him, turned around and went to talk to Eric.

At the entrance of the restaurant, D3 and Andrew stood on the left and on the right. D3 has a strong learning ability and is interested in all human behaviors. The camera has been watching the diners.

"D3, what are you looking at?" Andrew asked.

Since they failed to invade each other's systems, the two of them reached a peace agreement, and they got along pretty well during this time.

"Andrew, do you know a theory?" D3 said: "If a human likes another human, they can't help but stare at him."

"This theory has not been rigorously proven." Although Andrew said so, he also grabbed the door frame and looked inside.

D3 analyzed: "According to this theory, Mr. Douglas likes Mr. Fang, Mr. Fang likes Mr. Chen, Mr. Chen likes Mr. Yang, and Mr. Yang likes... Eric! My God, why is Eric, he is still a child !"

"Human emotions are much more complicated than you understand, and this theory cannot explain all emotions." Andrew joked: "It's really not like a robot to be so surprised."

The dinner came to an end, and the coffee was served.

Fang Xing talked about Xu Ran's upcoming concert, and asked Chen Jian if he wanted to go see it together.Xu Ran is the hottest star here, even quite famous "outside".Because there are few entertainment activities at the base, tickets for his concerts are often hard to find.

"I'm tired of watching it every year." Chen Jian said lazily.

"It seems that Mr. Chen is not going." Douglas quickly said, "We are in charge of security, and there are free tickets. How about I go with Mr. Fang?"

Fang Xing smiled at him: "Let's talk about it."

Chen Jian suddenly remembered that it was his first time visiting Yangzhou, and he might be interested, so he asked, "Do you want to go?"

Before Yang Zhou could answer, Douglas' cell phone rang, and everyone quieted down to bring this topic to an end.

"Missing?" Douglas choked on the coffee, scratched his face, and cursed, "Send a few people to look for it, and it's over!"

After he hung up the phone, Chen Jian asked, "What happened?"

"A woman called the police and said her daughter was missing." Douglas wiped his mouth with a napkin and said, "There are people coming and going in the square, and they probably got separated."

Chen Jian's expression froze, and there were a few fine lines between his brows. "Send more people to look for it." He ordered.

"Don't worry." Fang Xing said, "There has been no vicious incident in the base for seven or eight years."

"That's why I'm worried." Chen Jian said.