The Return of Gratitude Volume 2

The atmosphere in the base camp was tense, and only Baji and An Jiamian returned safely from the group of seven. Captain Carter called in the command tent all night, and none of the other five missing persons could be contacted.

An Jiamian suffered from frostbite and is still in a coma. According to Baji's description of the situation at the time, the rest of the people fell off the cliff. If they can't be contacted until now, the possibility of surviving is very slim.

Siven Carter put down the radio communicator and stood up in resignation.Just as he was about to walk out of the tent, an intermittent human voice suddenly came from the radio: "...the base camp...the summit team...sleeping...three...camp..."

Siven Carter hurried to the radio, and the team doctor and other team members in the tent also surrounded him in surprise.

"Climbing team, this is the base camp! How is your situation now?!" Siven Carter said excitedly while holding the communicator.

"...the base camp...the summit team...the third camp..." The other side of the intercom still repeated the previous words mechanically.

Siven Carter frowned and asked again: "The big business has received, the summit team, how are you doing now? How many lives..."

Before he finished asking, he began to repeat mechanically again. If it wasn't for the coughing sound of varying intensities in each call, he would have suspected that it was a repeater.

After the third call for help, the radio went quiet again, leaving only the buzzing noise. Judging from the situation, the communication seemed to be connected only unilaterally.Siven Carter hung up the communicator, and his expression was more serious than before. Of course, it is good news that someone is alive, but...

An Jiamian opened his eyes, the first feeling was nausea, but he suppressed the nausea, and began to look around, the tent was high and the tent was spacious, he should have been transferred to the base camp, LED The light of the tent lights is very bright, so it is night, and the surrounding area of ​​the camp is very quiet, it is close to midnight.

"JASON."

I only called out in the decibel count of my usual speech, and a few seconds later, the familiar Chinese character face appeared upside down: "Are you awake? How do you feel?"

Mr. Lawyer felt like a bit of a dog after asking repeatedly, but there was no way. An Jiamian was the only entourage when he came to Mount Everest this time. Jukeng, had to stay by An Jiamian's side at all times, for fear that he would make any mistakes.It is estimated that An Zuzong also expected this, and he didn't bother to bother calling him.

An Jiamian glanced at the laptop on Jason's waist: "Busy selling stocks?"

"Don't treat everyone like you capitalists." The lawyer handed over his coat to help him put it on, but Mr. An blocked it with his hand and motioned for him to come. Jason saw that An Jiamian was so cold that he couldn't stretch his hands and feet. Still putting on the down jacket in a deadly elegant style, he handed over the water glass, and Mr. An restrainedly took a sip, lowering his eyelids so that he could not see clearly what was going on in his pupils: "How is the situation outside? "

"Shen Che is still alive." Jason said.The others didn't know, but he knew that An Jiamian cared about this too.

I thought that An Jiamian's reaction would be great after hearing the news, but President An just paused for a moment, let out a faint "hmm", and lowered his head to take another sip of water. This time he finally drank more: "They decided to send someone Did you go to save it?"

Jason shrugged: "It's the middle of the night, and the weather is bad. I heard Siven Carter's tone, and I have to wait for the weather to improve after dawn."

An Jiamian raised his hand and looked at his watch, frowning slightly, thirteen hours had passed since Shen Che fell into the ice crevasse, they were already on the verge of death, and they could only find the corpse if they waited. "It must be rescued as soon as possible."

Jason is also very helpless, if this is within the reach of the tentacles of the An's Empire, An Jiamian would have spoken in such a horrible tone, there is no reason why the rescue should not start within 10 minutes, and be completed within two hours.It's a pity that this is in Everest, and Mr. An's own holy light is beyond reach: "I have already expressed this meaning to Carter on your behalf, but it seems that Carter has his own ideas."

An Jiamian thought for a moment: "I remember that Matthew's fiancee is also in the base camp?"

"It seems to be." Jason suddenly understood what An Jiamian meant.John Matthew came to climb the mountain with his fiancée, but his fiancée failed to join the summit team.Matthew's fiancée learned the news of Matthew's death from Baji in the afternoon. Although she didn't know that Shen Che got in touch with the base just now, only Shen Che was on the phone. Matthew was probably killed. Not much has changed for Matthew's fiancée, but it's clear that An Jiamian needs to make the poor lady feel that things are turning around.

Jason saw his fiancée crying and pleading with Xiwen Carter, and Captain Carter's face of being in a dilemma. He only felt that the security capitalist was even more odious. "I'll tell that lady," he got up and said, "What about you, what are your plans?"

An Jiamian: "I have to think about it."

It's enough for Master An not to think about it, but now he wants to "think about it"... Mr. Lawyer walked to the entrance of the tent, looked at An Jiamian in deep thought, and shook his head. The most poisonous thing is a capitalist, no I don't know if Siven Carter can bear it.

After Jason left, An Jiamian made a few phone calls, checked the time, and lay down again, looking at the empty top of the tent, replaying the scene of Shen Che and Qin Xiu falling in his mind over and over again.

Did I cut the rope at that time?

It seems not.

Do I have that will?

It seems... no.

These two didn't make his heart calm like water all of a sudden, he closed his eyes and fell asleep quickly.

The teenager is sitting on the arched window sill of the library, wearing a white crew neck sweater, light gray pants and a pair of canvas sneakers, with a hardcover hardcover book spread out on his bent knees, the sun shines on his brown hair Brilliant as a golden thread, the sound of children playing in the courtyard downstairs is next to my ears, the sunlight casts the shadow of the window pane on the page, large golden yellow and short light gray spread on the book page, the boy encountered a strange He silently opened his mouth and pronounced the word he knew. This word stumped him, and his previous smooth reading progress came to a standstill. He regretted that he came to challenge this book without being fully prepared.

"Hey." A crisp male voice sounded in the quiet library, "That's my book."

Books in the library have no right of ownership, and whoever holds them owns them. The young man didn't even lift his head, but frowned slightly to express his dissatisfaction, and was still chanting that word.

"You are paranoid," the crisp male voice laughed and approached, "Preposterously, which means going against the laws of nature."

Only then did the brown-haired boy raise his head and look at the sunny boy with honey-colored skin in a thin white T-shirt who walked into the sunny field from the slanted shadow of the bookshelf. Look, it looks very tricky.The brown-haired boy closed the book: "Are you Black Ten?"

In this orphanage, the only person who could recognize words that he didn't know, and who could recognize them just by mouth shape, could only be Hei Shi.

"Hello, Bai Shi." Hei Shi smiled, jumped to the other side of the big arched window and sat down, "Happy tenth birthday."

The names of Black Ten and White Ten are not due to the difference in skin color. The orphanage has always used the name of the dormitory to name each child who comes to the orphanage. For example, the first child to live in the blue dormitory is called Lan Yi, Black Ten and White Ten also means this.

This is the first meeting between White Ten and Black Ten. They haven't seen each other before, but this doesn't prevent them from recognizing each other when they first met. Preposterously became a code for them to recognize each other. .

Orphanages only adopt extremely gifted children, who can imitate Monet Van Gogh at the age of five, can play "Turkish March" with perfect accuracy after only one listening, or are extremely sensitive to numbers and never forget them... Of course, it also includes geniuses like Black Ten and White Ten whose IQ is above 160.

No one knows the origin of the orphanage, but it is undoubtedly one of the most well-funded orphanages in the world.To be precise, it is more like a club, and the members of the club are all from the world's top rich and famous families.The children in the orphanage will receive the attention of these rich adopters and authoritative scientific research institutions for a long time. The adopters expect their investment to get ten times and a hundred times return when these children grow up. Even if there is no particularly large commercial value, that kind of The sense of accomplishment of cultivating a genius by yourself is no small matter.

Many people don't know that there are such clubs besides football clubs.

However, the risk of investing in an "orphanage" is not small. No one knows what these children will become when they grow up. They can be selected into the orphanage. They are undoubtedly very talented, but they have not yet been determined.But for these mysterious rich people, gambling is also one of the fun.

Black Ten is two years older than White Ten, and has been a star that has attracted much attention since entering the orphanage. Two years later, the orphanage has Bai Shi again.Who is more powerful, Black Ten or White Ten, has always been a hot topic among club investors and orphanage operators.

There is an observation tower in the orphanage, facing the south garden of the orphanage on one side and the north garden on the other. The south garden and the north garden are separated by a wall. The dormitory and activity area of ​​the black ten is in the south garden, while the white ten is in the north garden Yuan, the bigwigs of the club often drink champagne and observe the two children on the observation tower. After a period of observation, they find that Ten Hei is cheerful and extroverted, and Ten Ten Bai is calm and introverted.This character factor has caused Black Ten to always be in the leading position in the contest with White Ten.But in terms of leadership, the two are actually on equal footing. Hei Shi is very convinced by the children and has been the king of children since he was a child. Although Bai Shi doesn't talk much and prefers to be alone, he is by no means withdrawn. He seems to be very aware of the relationship between himself and other children. Different, there is a kind of authority in the tone of voice when speaking.The bosses hoped that Hei Ten and Bai Shi would have a positive dialogue, but the psychological consultants in the orphanage disagreed. Both Hei Ten and Bai Shi were children with high self-esteem. At this time, Hei Ten was only nine years old, and Bai Shi At seven, prematurely creating a sense of rivalry and rivalry between two people might make one of them better, but it might ruin the other.

The orphanage adopted the advice of expert consultants. For a long time, Hei Shi and Bai Shi never had a face-to-face photo. Unlike other children in the orphanage, they had their own exclusive learning instructors, psychological counselors, and life teachers.When the bosses drink champagne, they sometimes find two children looking back across the observation tower, as if they know that there is a person like themselves on the opposite side of the tower.

However, this much-anticipated double-king contest ended up aborted.

Every child will receive a comprehensive psychological assessment when they are ten years old. Unlike the usual psychological counseling, this time it is not only a conversation, but also a written test and an instrument-assisted test.In this psychological evaluation where there was no way to cheat, Hei Ten's evaluation result shocked everyone.

The honey-colored boy with a sunny smile and the black ten with the enthusiasm of the rising sun have been stamped with the label of "high-functioning antisocial personality" in three consecutive independent psychological evaluations without exception.

Everyone's eyes on Hei Shi changed overnight, and it was the first time that the orphanage encountered such a situation. The advisory group suggested that Hei Shi should continue to stay in the orphanage for observation, but so far, the orphanage no longer kept Hei Shi in the orphanage. As a key training object, he has become a key object of attention, abandoned by adopters, and it is no longer possible to be adopted.Hei Ten's activity time and area are strictly restricted. They isolate him like a virus, and they don't want other children to be affected.But Black Ten is not so easy to be isolated.

Bai Shi really couldn't believe that the sunny boy standing in front of him could be a high-functioning anti-social personality, which was completely inconsistent with what he read in the books.He got down from the window sill, took off the cover of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in his hand, walked to the bookshelf diagonally across the aisle, and exchanged it for another cover of "Social Psychology": "If they know you come to me , you're in big trouble."

"It's nothing, they don't dare to scold me severely," Hei Shi leaned on the window sill, leaning on the window sill to look down at his peers who were playing football in the courtyard, with a warm smile on the corner of his mouth, "At most, ground me in a disguised form." For a while." He turned his head and looked up and down the boy in the white sweater with interest, "This is the first time I've seen you, I didn't expect you to be so small."

Ten-year-old Bai Shi put the two books back on the bookshelves respectively, with a calm expression: "I will grow taller again."

"Are you afraid?" Hei Ten asked suddenly, with a smile like watching a show in his voice, "The day after tomorrow you will accept the psychological evaluation, this is the watershed for us between going to heaven and going to hell."

Bai Shi didn't speak, and stood quietly among the bookshelves. He didn't look like a ten-year-old child at all, and he was so mature that people were frightened.

Hei Ten walked down the window sill, and ran his fingers across the spine of the book: "Even if you searched all the psychology books in the library, it's useless."

Bai Shi looked at his expression, yes, this kind of extremely contemptuous smile is worthy of his title of high-functioning sociopath: "Tell me about the content of the psychological evaluation."

"There are three evaluations in total. If your result is not satisfactory the first time, they will organize a second evaluation. If the result is not satisfactory, the third evaluation is your last chance." Hei Ten said, "For Ensure that the results of the evaluation are completely objective and unbiased, and the experts who make the evaluation for you do not come from the orphanage's consultant team, they come from an independent third-party organization, in other words, they do not know that we are from this orphanage."

Bai Shi nodded while listening: "There are more."

"What's more," Hei Shi leaned on the bookshelf, looking at the row of entry-level psychology books on the opposite side of the bookshelf, "You see, these books are really useless, because they won't be based on your answers to every question. To judge your personality tendency, they look at your performance in the whole test, the overall strategy you adopt, and even your small actions when answering the questions will become the judgment standard, sometimes it is the key standard. You have to remember," said here His eyes sank, "The literal meaning is not important, it's all used to bluff people."

Bai Shi didn't speak, Hei Shi failed three times in a row, the possibility of him cheating was very slim, but he had to gamble this time.

"There is also an instrument test." Hei Shi looked sideways at Bai Shi, and pointed to the area between his eyes and temples, "This place is called the preorbital area. When ordinary people see killing and bloody scenes, this area There will be a reaction, which represents fear and discomfort, but Julius Caesar will not, Adolf Hitler will not, and we will not." Black Ten put down his hands and said regretfully, "It is impossible for a high-functioning sociopath to get out of such a situation. A fluke in the test."

Bai Shi nodded, said "thank you", turned and left the library loft.

"Bai Shi."

Hei Shi stopped him from behind, Bai Shi stopped and turned his head. The honey-skinned boy was standing between two rows of long bookshelves, against the abundant sunlight behind the arched window, he had the illusion that he had spread his wings. The wings completely blocked the sunlight outside the window behind him.

"Nice to meet you." Hei Shi said, his smile was still as bright as the sun.