East of Eden

Time: 19:7pm on the 00th

Location: Alpha City Police Station, Museum Branch

Event: Attempted robbery, serious damage to public property, social panic

"Hold your name card and stand in front of the height wall one by one."

White walls, black tick marks, they stood over with signs.

"Front, look at me."

"Side, turn around."

"Take another photo of the back."

The shutter clicked, capturing the disdainful expressions of the three suspects.

The feeling of squatting in the cell is uncomfortable. The three men are crowded in the small and dark space, and it is difficult to turn around. What's more, they haven't even eaten dinner, and the policeman outside the iron fence has already soaked in instant noodles, braised beef flavor, and rinsed with boiling water. The aroma will spread.

Yun An sat across from Shano, crossed his legs, kept swallowing his hunger, and threw out a pair of aces: "If someone told me half a year ago, I would squat in a hall and play cards with a man who seriously injured Dr. , I will definitely smash his brains out."

"Life is always full of variables, just like a poker game." Shano sucked on a cigarette, drew two cards from the cards, and slowly turned them over: "JOKER."

Yun An was overwhelmed, and reluctantly let go of the cards in his hand: "I don't want to play anymore, two people are boring." He played the cards on the floor, and glanced at the black-haired man in the corner from the corner of his eyes: "Xing, you join ?"

Xing lay on his side with his back to them, not saying a word.

"What's the matter? It's been like this since entering the game." Yun An divided the dirty cards that had been touched by countless criminals into two piles, and moved his thumb from bottom to top, so that the two piles of cards overlapped : "Xing, someone will bail us out later, don't worry."

Xing still didn't speak, and his whole body exuded a decadent atmosphere, as if he had been drenched by heavy rain.

"Let him be quiet for a while." Shano put out the cigarette butt, looked at Yun An: "Boy, you are quite familiar with this situation, isn't it the first time?"

"Frequent customer, the pseudonym I used when I was arrested last time was Xiao Zhou." Yun An said nonchalantly.

Two police officers outside were watching a football game, the TV was turned up loud, and while watching, they picked up the instant noodles with a plastic fork, and at the end they did not forget to finish the soup in the bucket.Probably full of food and drink, the game came to the intermission time again, a middle-aged police officer with a beer belly stood up and wiped his mouth, shaking the electric baton on his belt and walking towards them.

"Hey, tell me you guys, what's wrong with being young, you have to worship that... Yin Qi Civilization." The mouth was full of instant noodles, and with a southern accent, he regarded them as Yin Qi Civilization fanatics Li: "Last time I caught a few people who came to steal the statue of Liang Shiheng. They said they were going to put it home as an offering. I don't understand. Life is not difficult now. There is food and clothing. Why do you worship the ancient times all the time?"

Shano said, "I've run out of cigarettes, is there any more?"

"Good idea." The policeman glared at him, and copied the files of the three of them: "People like you will be sent for further inspection in the future, and once they are found to be involved in Weaver Party activities, they will be dragged to the Gulag." Labor reform in the archipelago, not only that—”

Before he could finish his sentence, the door of the police station was suddenly pushed open, and another police officer jumped up and straightened his hat: "Deputy curator Lin?"

Lin Shi, with a bruised nose and swollen face, walked in, straightened his collar, "Don't interrogate him, let him go."

The police officer with a beer belly was stunned: "Deputy curator Lin? Are you here to release them on bail?"

"Yes, give me the document to sign." Lin Shi waved his hand, staring impatiently and resentfully at the three people in the cell.

The police officer thought about it, quickly pulled out the bail document from under the bucket of instant noodles, and respectfully presented the pen.Lin Shi signed his signature on more than ten pages of paper, and nodded to the policeman: "Let's go." The policeman with a beer belly touched his stubble, untied the key card, and opened the door lock muttering: "This time You're lucky."

From the beginning to the end, their time in the police station was only five hours.

A group of people followed Lin Shi out of the police station, just like elementary school students who have made mistakes.Xing was the slowest one. Looking back, the red and blue police lights flashed alternately in the night, gradually being covered in fog.They had already walked a long way, and the cool wind lifted the corners of their clothes, blowing away the residual heat. In front of them, Lin Shi finally stopped by the musical fountain.

The man with a bruised nose and a swollen face said to them, "Don't come to my museum again next time." His brows were furrowed, and the corners of his mouth were drawn down. Xing believed that this should be the most angry expression Lin Shi could make. "Let's go, don't come to me again, and it's best not to let me see you again, stop here, understand? Stop here!"

Xing put his hands in his pockets: "Then, what about the gun?"

"Discuss with its owner, it belongs to a private collector." Lin Shi took out a letter and threw it to him angrily: "This afternoon, the collector asked me to hand it over to you group of gun thieves. "

The envelope was sealed with wax, with a white feather glued to it, and on the front was stamped in gilt letters, "Norman Manor, Isle of Whitsundays."The material of the envelope is thick and feels like velvet, and every detail reflects the dignity of the owner.Holy Spirit Island is an isolated island floating in the sea. It seems that Liang Shiheng grew up there when he was a child. No one knows that there is a collector living in seclusion on the island.

After Lin Shi delivered the letter, he turned and left. Several people looked at Lin Shi's back and felt a little sorry for him.Lin Shi took big strides, swinging his arms meticulously by his sides, such a ridiculous walking posture gave rise to a kind of respect.

"What a nice guy." Yun An said, "The kind that is most likely to suffer."

"I asked you to negotiate with him, who told you to grab it directly!? Huh?! Do you know how many times I called Lin Shi to help you clean up the mess, and how do you tell me to behave in the future? Yes, that's right, Lin Shi It's my ex-boyfriend, so you understand how embarrassing it is!?"

Today, for the first time, people have seen Siswell who can't stop swearing for more than ten minutes without repetition.Not long after she came out of the museum, she called. The holographic projection was projected on the streets of Alpha City.

Xing, Yun'an, and Shanuo stood close to the corner of the wall, with their heads bowed like three quails. In the end, Yun'an smoothed things over and said with an apologetic smile, "Don't be angry...don't be angry..."

"I'll come back from the desert the day after tomorrow, and I'll deal with this matter after we meet." She said angrily, and then withdrew the communicator with a wave of her hand.Her virtual projection flickered a few times and disappeared into the night, and the world returned to silence.

"Huh—" All three of them let out a long, long breath of relief.

"It's already ten forty." Shano looked at his watch: "Let's go, find a place to rest, and try to contact the collector in Holy Spirit Island tomorrow."

"Agreed, I'm hungry and tired now." Yun An hugged his stomach.

They walked towards Alpha City Railway Station, and there were always many cheap and unidentified small guest houses near the station.Alpha City, like Haven City, is divided into four areas, ABCD, but the train station is rather special. It is surrounded by high-rise buildings, lake-view hotels, and criss-crossing dark alleys, where neon lights flicker in the rain.

If you pay attention, it is not difficult to find that Xing seldom speaks along the way: he is experiencing a kind of deep frustration, the black jacket is covered with raindrops, he lowers his head, walks through the puddles of water, and he doesn't care if his trousers are wet. care.The neon lights turn the rain into colorful colors, the prostitutes on the street are soliciting customers, the red nails knock off the soot, and the soft coquettish voice is entangled with the rough voice of the man.

Times are different.

3000 years ago, he could ride a horse across the prairie, and he could also take back his own things in the midst of siege. He was a lunatic who was fearless in the world, but now, a museum can defeat him, and a policeman with a beer belly can defeat him. Imprison him, he loses everything, empty-handed.

I don't know which bar the singing came from:

Crystalmemories

crystal clear memory

Touched by your voice, inthe moonlight

Under the moonlight, awakened by your voice

"Nothing lasts," you said

"Nothing lasts long", you say

But everything still holds meaning in my heart

But everything etched in my heart is eternal

("River of crystals" - Ghost in the Shell movie episode)

Xing suddenly stopped: "I'm sorry, I have implicated you this time."

Shano held a cigarette in front of his eyes, blocking his apology.

"smoke?"

Xing was startled: "Aren't you out of cigarettes?"

"I touched a bag when I came out, don't mind."

The man smiled helplessly, took it, and lit the cigarette. At this moment, Yun An squinted his eyes and yawned like a sleepy lion cub: "The so-called friendship means that today you cheat me, and tomorrow I cheat you, it's nothing." I really care." He grabbed Xing's sleeve and dragged him two steps forward: "Let's go! Find a place to eat and sleep!"

Star followed in his footsteps.The boy's footsteps are always brisk, like the wanton clouds in the sky, no one can hit him.

...

There is a signboard for pedicure and health care at the entrance of the guest house, half of the neon tubes are bright and half are broken, and there is a curly-haired aunt on the platform.

"Three people in one room?" The aunt's sharp eyes swept over the faces of the three men, and she nodded meaningfully: "Okay, a total of eighty."

Shano paid the money, and asked by the way: "By the way, is there—"

"Over there." In the middle of speaking, the aunt pointed to the left hand side with great experience.

I saw a bright pink vending machine for adult products standing there impressively.

"Uh..." Shano turned his gaze back again: "I'm asking if there are instant noodles here."