Symbiote Ninth

"Hibernate program terminated."

"The main brain is waking up."

"Countdown, three, two."

The gentle female voice stopped abruptly, and before the last second of the countdown, Caesar opened his eyes.

There were two men standing in front of him, one of them was wearing a blue-gray uniform with a classic metal buckle, which was somewhat worn out. He looked in his 30s, with disheveled hair, and a metal serial number, 00019, on his chest.Seeing that he was awake, she stretched out her hand and waved in front of his eyes.

Caesar dodged subconsciously, quick and vigilant, he frowned and looked at the other party, "Why?"

"It works." 00019 ignored him, turned around and said to the man beside him, "This one works, and the other one works too, wait a minute."

The man looked Caesar up and down, "Not a real person?"

00019 was operating the storage cabinet next to Caesar, and the touchpad on his arm kept trembling like vibrations, "Of course not, why, is it too real? This is for military use, of course it's well done, this—" He pointed to Caesar, "With just one arm, he can buy three streets in District 9, killing machines, you know?"

Another cabinet door opened, the gentle girl counted down to one this time, a green-eyed boy stood there blankly, 00019 knocked on the cabinet door and said: "No problem, I will replace the chip later, you can It can be taken away."

"Change the chip?"

"Of course you need to change the chip, and the attack module must be restricted. Do you want to be crushed to death by their fingers?"

The man laughed, contemptuously.

00019 looked to the side, there was a scar on the brow bone of the other party, and the short black hair was combed back, so that the coercive face was completely exposed.

"How much money was cheated by the symbiont plan of the military region? Killing machines, just them?"

00019 seemed very dissatisfied with his attitude, pointed at Caesar and said, "Do you know how many fully armed individual soldiers he can fight during the factory test? 60, no matter how strong a person is, it is impossible to do this. He It is the most expensive of all symbionts, and it is also the most powerful."

Er Zhen looked at Caesar again, he was a little shorter than him, about 180, with slender limbs and thin, slightly long black hair combed back, revealing a white face, at this moment the other party was staring at him, Yu His sharp chin was slightly raised, and there was a faint red light in his foggy eyes.

"What are you looking at me for?" Ezhen held his chin with the jaws of a tiger, and moved his face very close.

"You were the one who saw me first." Caesar said carelessly, "Are you in love with me?"

Erzhen let go, and couldn't help smiling again, this time the contempt was much less, as if being amused by Caesar, the scar on the brow bone was slightly reflected by the lights in the warehouse.

00019 ignored him, and used his pupil lines to unlock the small built-in safe next to him, took out the two chips inside, looked at the serial numbers, and inserted them into the heads of Caesar and the boy beside him respectively.

Caesar felt very uncomfortable, as if his hands and feet were bound, he moved his body uncomfortably, and it took a while for the discomfort to gradually subside.

The man with the scar on his brow bone was still looking at him, as if he was trying to find the gap where the metal material was connected, the paint that was painted over the boundary, or the hole where the screw was inserted.But no, he went to touch the top of Caesar's head, there was no slit for the chip to enter, and it probably closed automatically after insertion, and he felt only the warm touch of the scalp, and his rough fingers inserted into Caesar's soft In his hair, Caesar frowned and did not hide.

"Let's go." He withdrew his hand and turned to the warehouse door.

"Wait." 00019 stopped him, his expression not as determined as before, "Er Zhen, are you all right?"

Er Zhen turned around and touched the scar on his own brow bone, "Huh?"

"Where are you taking them?"

"Go to District 9." Erzhen's impatience became obvious, and his eyes were cold.

"Go for what?"

"It's not in your jurisdiction."

"District 9? Where is District 9?"

"As I said, this is not within your jurisdiction."

"These are the last two!" 00019 seemed a bit regretful, and reached out to stop Caesar, "If I'm found out, I'll be finished."

Erzhen took out two thin banknotes and threw them to him without lifting his eyelids. The banknotes fell to the ground, reflecting a cold blue light.

"They've been here for years, has anyone asked?"

"..." 00019 hesitated for a moment, bent down to pick it up, Er Zhen looked down at him, picked up the banknote, and saw what Er Zhen saw, not contempt, but complete disregard, as if looking at a piece of dirty wall panels.

The three of them came out in a file. Outside the warehouse was a dirty open space. The high wall surrounded the open space, almost piercing into the sky. It was dark, and the light rain kept on, and the ground was full of potholes. Caesar and his side walked together. The awakened teenager spoke up, "What's your name?"

"Freesia." The boy's voice was soft, "What's your name?"

"Caesar," he said, "Caesar the Caesar."

Caesar remembered that he was manufactured 6015 days ago, the model was "Holy Son", and the name randomized by the system was Caesar, as the man in uniform said just now, it was for military use, and the army called them symbionts , But they will not live and die with the soldiers, they are the vanguard, as the weapon, the symbiosis sounds more like a warm disguise.Caesar has never been on the battlefield. He was sent here to sleep after leaving the factory for a period of time. It was 4395 days ago. The man in uniform put him and Freesia here for preservation. At that time, the other party was younger than now , the metal buttons on the clothes have not faded, Caesar remembered his number, 00019.

Now 00019 secretly sold them.

Thinking of this, Caesar turned to look at Freesia, who was also looking at him, her eyes full of apprehension, Caesar smiled, and grabbed his limp hand, "It's okay, what are you afraid of?"

Freesia leaned closer to him, and Caesar simply put his arms around him and said, "I didn't have a chance to talk to you when we were sent here, are you also the Son of God?"

"No." Freesia said, "I am the Holy Spirit, and you are the only Holy Son."

"Is it true or not?"

Caesar pretended to be surprised, but in fact there was nothing to be surprised about. He didn't care about these things. The Holy Son and the Holy Spirit are no different from 00019 or 00020. They are just batch codes. He just wanted to say something to make Freesia less nervous.

"Yes, you are the only Son of God."

When they reached the door, the door was opened, Caesar held Freesia in his arms, and they followed behind.

00019 has been watching them from a distance.

There is an aircraft at the door, suspended in mid-air as if solidified, it is a flat cuboid, like a coffin restrained by people, Er Zhen told them to sit in the innermost.

Caesar looked at him curiously, and Erzhen finally spoke to him.

"You have your own personalities, don't you?"

Kaiser said: "Of course, the system is random."

"What is the keyword you randomly found?"

"I don't know, that's all." Caesar still held Freesia in his arms, "I like pretty boys, does that count?"

Er Zhen laughed, and stretched out his hand to touch Freesia's face, touching it very carefully, then went down, touched his warm and soft neck, and then went down, stretched into his clothes.

Freesia endured in silence, without moving, and without trying to ask for help.

"Aren't you going to be angry?" Erzhen put his hands in Freesia's clothes and stared at Caesar.

"I won't attack you. I won't attack anyone before I receive an order. Now my attack module is restricted, so even if someone gives me an order, it's useless." Caesar said so, and put his He pulled his hand out of Freesia's clothes, "But I suggest you better not touch it."

The aircraft moved forward silently, and the light from outside gradually increased. It was neon, pink, purple, and blue. They were squeezed into the night one by one, like diluted colored liquid, and the heads of the narrow streets were like tides. Slowly surging, the broad road is empty, and the rain drenches everything, reflecting mottled light.A short video was played in a loop on the screen outside the skyscraper. A girl was sitting on the ground with long black hair and red pupils. She was wearing a short skirt made of thin black gauze, with two X's crossed on her chest with a black bandage, and a pair of X's behind her. The white wings slowly opened, the long skirt slid down, and the pair of wings wrapped her body. The girl picked up an apple and took a bite, the feathers fell off, revealing scarlet flesh and rotting wounds. Looking at the apple, squinting his eyes and looking at the endless night, there are a few flying letters at the bottom of the screen: Angel.

Caesar stared at the clip with an ugly expression on his face.

"Do you also like beautiful girls?" Er Zhen followed his gaze, "Is it a system preference to like this?"

"...No." Caesar said, "I don't like her like this."

Caesar didn't know why he was a little annoyed, he stopped looking, and hugged Freesia a little tighter.

The neon lights over District 3 have disappeared, and the boundary line is a thick black line, uninhabited.Soon, the lights in District 9 flickered, it was warm and bright yellow, and classically shaped street lamps were neatly lined up along the tidy streets. They gradually flew to the center of District 9, as if overlooking a paradise after the rain.

The aircraft descended slowly, and Caesar and Freesia followed Erzhen. A semicircular building stood in front of them. They were almost hurt by the bright light from the building. There were human voices and hustle and bustle in the building. It was lively, but it was quiet outside. Someone came to meet him, wearing a sharp suit, just like Er Zhen.

It's just that Erzhen is wearing a tie, and the other party is wearing a bow tie.

The other party led them into the door, took a detour to an elevator in a secluded place, started the elevator with his fingerprints, then turned around and left, and now there were only the three of them.

The elevator doors closed, and the light inside gradually turned into a faint blue, as if at the bottom of the sea. Caesar couldn't see the faces of the people around him clearly. He closed his eyes, and Freesia kept staring blankly at the front in a daze.

There was no button, no notification, the elevator kept going up, and then up again. After about a minute, the elevator door opened, and Er Zhen led them out. A long and narrow door opened, three people walked in, and Er Zhen locked the door. .

"Change clothes." He pointed to the two sets of white short robes hanging in the closet.

Caesar tore off his clothes and threw them on the ground, naked. Erzhen opened the drawer and threw him some jewelry, pure gold bracelets and collars, with shallow ribbed patterns. Caesar didn't care Put on, put on the short robe, and turn around to help Freesia change.

Freesia bowed her head, docile and tame.

"I brought you here today to accompany an important guest." The accommodativeness that Er Zhen had shown just now faded away, and he became cold again, difficult to speak, business-like, as if he was facing 00019.

"Huh?" Caesar said, "Why us?"

"Why can't it be you?"

"Humans also have many of our looks and sizes, and they are safer than us, which is not worth it."

"That's not what you should ask."

When Er Zhen said this, he was as contemptuous and indifferent as when he said to 00019, "This is not your jurisdiction".

Caesar helped Freesia wear a gold collar, but stared at Er Zhen, as if provocative, "00019 said that I can buy three streets here with one arm, do you think it's a joke?"

"So, are you bargaining with me?" Er Zhen approached, the scar on the brow bone looked very hideous, "You? A symbiote?"

"I'm not bargaining. I'm just executing the program that was set when I was created. My personality is just like this. Setting up my personality is just to allow the symbiote and soldiers to communicate and cooperate better." Caesar's expression and eyes are so Fresh and arrogant, it has nothing to do with what he said, "Obeyance is the vocation of the symbiote."

Er Zhen suddenly shivered, he felt that his cognition was confused, this is not a human, this is just a robot, just like all the programmed programs, his words and expressions are just a form of expression, he will Obey, always obey.

Freesia was also dressed and stood aside cautiously. Erzhen looked at him and reached out to clamp a golden ear button on his earlobe. Freesia and Erzhen looked at each other, their green pupils gradually dilated , and then zoomed in, gradually occupying the entire eyeball.

"What's wrong with him?" Erzhen pointed to Freesia, and turned to Caesar.

"He's afraid." Caesar said, "It's just a setting. The size of the pupils doesn't affect his reaction."

"You can't let him go out like this."

"I can't change his settings."

"If he's useless, I'll throw him down."

The curtains were slowly opened, and there were gorgeous sunshine and clouds outside the window. Erzhen pressed the prismatic touchpad on the wall, the sun and clouds disappeared, and the real night scene appeared, and the raindrops fell on the window continuously. Here, overlooking everything.

It turned out that this was the top floor, the topmost floor in District 9.

Caesar thought for a while, held Freesia's face, and gently kissed his forehead.

Freesia still had her eyes open and her whole body was stiff. Caesar was holding him, his upright back looked reliable and safe.

"We have seen the ethereal stars of Jerusalem." Caesar sang to him, "The Son has fallen, and the Holy Spirit keeps hope forever."

Freesia's pupils slowly narrowed.

Erzhen suddenly felt a little uneasy, and this kind of emotion rarely appeared on him.

He led the two teenagers to push open the narrow door, walked out, and walked through a long corridor, a tall and wide door was tightly closed.

"Go." Ezhen pointed there.

Caesar and Freesia walked forward side by side, Erzhen turned and left, the door was opened, and there was a dull sound, and voices came from inside, several immature children's voices singing in chorus.

"We have witnessed the misty stars in Jerusalem, the Son fell, and the Holy Spirit keeps hope..."