[APH Mega Bu Ying Lu Zhong] Fools' Carnival

"Good morning, sir. Then, let's continue yesterday's topic." Lin Xiaomei sat at the interrogation table and adjusted the brightness of the desk lamp. The man in white who was handcuffed to the chair opposite her looked up at her. She could clearly see the man There is a strange halo in the eye.The doctor cleared his throat, "Well, I really didn't expect that one day I would wear the suppressor I made." He twisted his neck uncomfortably, wearing a silver collar around it.Lin Xiaomei ignored his dissatisfaction: "You are the main person in charge of Matthew Williams."

"Yes, he is the most talented young man I have ever seen." The doctor nodded with relief, "Since the 21st century, the quality of aliens has been getting lower and lower. If his genes can be preserved..." Lin Xiaomei said coldly interrupted him abruptly: "You'd better be sensible and answer my question honestly: What is Matthew Williams' ability?"

"Uh, this is not a simple question. The time is too short and the means are too limited. I can only explore part of it, and then keep putting forward hypotheses to prove it. In fact, I am correct in most cases." "Say." Lin Xiaomei The tone is decisive.The doctor shrugged: "My position does not allow me to do this."

"Please don't take chances, sir. Now is the end of the world, and it is much easier to deal with a person silently than before." Lin Xiaomei folded her legs, condescending.The doctor laughed dumbly: "Miss, either you are bluffing, or you are too young, you will never kill me. But... Personally, I am willing to tell you, as long as you can give me an equal reward .”

"Sorry, I'm sorry." Lin Xiaomei barely suppressed her disgust, got up to contact Wang Yao, and came back after a while, holding a notebook in her hand, "There is a foreigner on our side who has a memory of hundreds of years in the previous life, and he is willing to use it. Your own experience makes the deal with you."

"Let me meet him." "That's impossible, he's in Seattle now. He'll communicate with you by email." "This is really a windfall, past life memory—what a potential ability." Doctor With a smile on her face, "I will tell you my deduction." Lin Xiaomei spread out the notebook and held the pen.

"——First of all, this ability called 'psychic power' is a trinity, that is to say, it belongs to three beings at the same time, and it can only work normally if three people are together."

In the morning, Francis and Steve strolled along the coastal sidewalk in Seattle.The weather is fine today, far away from the city center full of high-rise buildings, the soft winter sun spreads on the flat streets of the residential area, and the sweet aroma wafts from the bakery. The family of three went out to bask in the sun hand in hand. On the smiling child sandwiched between parents.Francis was the first to speak: "We decided to come to Seattle together at the beginning. No matter when, this city is beautiful."

"Yes, he discussed it with me." Steve buried his face in the soft cashmere scarf. "He'll love it here."

"What about you?" Francis asked casually.Steve looked indifferent: "I will accept whatever he chooses." Francis smiled helplessly: "He asked you to discuss it, just hoping to hear your own opinion. If you obey him in everything, he will really feel troubled." Steve didn't say a word, and Francis had to go on by himself: "I only know about you from Alfred and Wang Yao, but since Matthew loves you, you must not be as good as Alfred said exaggerate."

"Don't trust that person too much." Steve spoke politely.Francis laughed: "Maybe you are the one who understands twins best."

"Can I ask some questions?" Francis said.Steve kept his eyes on: "Excuse me." Francis, as always, hit the nail on the head: "How do you know your own existence?"

"Substitute." Without thinking, Steve said, "I'm Alfred's...stand-in. When they were young, neither of the twins could control their power well, so they had to separate, to appease Matthew , I was created, and my only purpose of existence is to fulfill his wish." Francis was a little confused: "I know you can't expose their abilities, but I hope to get a clearer explanation."

"For example, the twins are a car, Matthew is the engine, Alfred is the steering wheel, and I am the brake system. When they were young, the car could go off track at any time, so Alfred fixed the steering wheel. Then got out of the car and left the engine to go straight ahead, but it was still dangerous, so they needed me. After the engine died, the car would be controlled by me and Alfred, but all the power we were going forward It is the inertia left by Matthew, and this ability will eventually perish."

"My God, the connection between you..." Francis fell silent.Steve added: "If Matthew is still there, maybe they can move on after Alfred learns to control the steering wheel, but it is too late." Francis thought sadly, no wonder Alfred blamed himself so much.

When they reached the entrance of the plank road, two old men were sitting by the seaside fishing, and the white seagulls were resting on the black sea reef to preen their feathers, and the sea breeze blowing towards their faces carried a cool and salty smell.Francis looked at the horizon: "Thinking about the end of the world, I can't see such beautiful animals. I live in a very poor part of the city, where there are only rats, cockroaches and wild cats. I have been doing all kinds of things since I dropped out of high school. In a sense, the last days made me live again.”

"When you have something or someone to live for, every day after that is like a pilgrimage," Steve said.Francis looked back in surprise: "You are such an artist. Let's go, I'll buy you a drink."

The two found a coffee shop to sit down, because they had no money, Francis performed a few magic tricks to help the store manager solicit customers, and earned two cups of the cheapest coffee.He winked at Steve: "This is how my brother survives."

The open-air tables and steaming coffee cups, flowers and sea view really have a sense of leisure before the end of the world.Francis crossed his legs: "Okay, now is the main event. Maybe you will feel pain, but I still have to ask you what you encountered in the laboratory. You know, my ability is mind reading and lie detection, but You can lie, and then I'll understand nothing."

"You're their spy." Steve wrinkled his nose, but he wasn't angry, and Francis figured he was easy to get along with, except with Alfred.Steve took a sip of his coffee, and the cheap bitter taste lingered: "He didn't want you to know his pain, since a long time ago, he wouldn't say that he was afraid of strange environments, he wouldn't say that he was lonely by himself, Not about getting beaten up, shoved in a puddle, locked in a toilet or in a damn storage cabinet...he just said it's okay, I love you." A tear fell into the coffee cup, and Shi Tiff swears.

"He was really sad and scared. Even so, he tried to protect others, and he didn't reveal your identities until the end. But the group captured an innocent girl and killed her. She reminded him of one of our old friends. Friends, this made him unbearable, and more importantly, he had an appointment with someone, so he dropped everything and walked away. I think this is the relief he has been longing for for more than ten years." Francis was silent, and he I could see a dead gray flame burning quietly in Steve's heart, which represented grief and despair.

"So, do you still want him to come back and take this?" Steve drank his last sip of coffee, mouth full of bitterness.Francis said heavily: "I don't know, I think what you said is very reasonable, but if there is anyone in the world who can save him, it is only Alfred."

Steve sneered, "I hope so."

Arthur had been busy in the kitchen all morning. Facing the scones he had baked for a long time, he dumped the pile of dark things into the trash can with a blank expression, and chose to sell a few downstairs. Bread is back.Alfred stayed in the bedroom for a whole morning. At first, Arthur tried to persuade him to open the door, but he ignored him. Finally, after exhausting his patience, he asked Wang Yao for the key and broke in directly.

"Are you going to starve to death?" was Arthur's first sentence.He looked around the dark room. There was a big bump on the bed, and he felt a sense of anger. He stepped forward and opened the curtains, and opened the window to the widest part. The room was brightly lit, and the quilt finally squirmed, making a loud noise. grunt.

"Finally eating?" Arthur threw the packaged bread on the bed, and quickly picked it up with one hand out of the quilt. There was a sound of plastic rustling in the quilt. Arthur was amused and annoyed.He reached out and tried to lift the quilt: "Come out, Alfred..." After tugging for a long time, he couldn't move.

"Can you ignore me?" Quilt said.Arthur laughed angrily: "You come out of it!" Alfred reluctantly got his head out of the bed, his eyes were swollen, and his voice was hoarse: "I don't want to see that guy."

"Then don't watch it, and don't see him for the rest of your life." Arthur said coldly.Alfred looked at him quietly: "Are you angry with me?"

"Of course, it's annoying to see you looking so useless." Arthur said mercilessly.Alfred no longer retorted confidently and mocked without swearing as before, he curled up into a ball and whispered: "God, what have I done..." Arthur stood up with his chest folded: " Tell me, what have you done?" Alfred shook his head severely again.

"If you don't say it, then I will say it—Alfred is a coward, he can't get out of bed if he does something wrong." Arthur paused, "Arthur Kirkland is the most sinful person in the world, he By failing to protect his brother, he left them in dire straits."

"It's not your fault, you don't know anything." Alfred retorted at this time.Arthur tilted his head: "Is it innocent if you don't know? In the triangular trade, the whole of Europe was enjoying the benefits of colonial plunder. Those nobles who don't eat the fireworks of the world, can you say they are innocent?"

"Then how can they be compared..." "Why not? You are so important to me." Alfred stopped talking.Arthur continued: "You haven't told me about the second ability, and you haven't even joked about April Fool's Day. I can understand this matter. It's not that you don't trust me, but you really have something to hide. So far, what are you going to do?" Alfred shook his head.

"Don't know or don't want to say it? Let's say it first, Wang Yao asked us to build a good relationship with Steve, you must cooperate."

"No!" Alfred became angry, "He took Matthew!"

"Alfred, don't take me for a fool. I have lived with you for more than ten years and I still don't know what your nature is?" Arthur stood in front of Alfred and said condescendingly, "Now I will ask you two questions. , it is enough for you to answer yes or no, but you are absolutely not allowed to lie. First, on the first day of 'Judgment Day' seven years ago, was it Matthew who seriously injured you?" Alfred said with a stick in his throat: " ……yes."

"Second, is the person who rescued you Steve?" "Yes..."

"The truth is out." Arthur pulled out a smirk.Alfred explained: "Matthew was so terrified I couldn't hold him down, he knocked down a building and I was only crushed by a small piece of one of the broken walls. There were fragments of mirrors on the ground and Steve came from Crawled out and made an exchange with Matthew so he didn't burn Chicago to the ground." Arthur concluded: "That's the real reason he's afraid of earthquakes—he's afraid of hurting people; and why you hate Steve— —you were jealous of him and owed him a lot. I remember that Matthew was insane for a few days after hurting you, and probably thought you were dead."

Yes, so Alfred also erased that period of memory, and now Matthew will not remember the accident.Moreover, that terrible disaster left Alfred with a lifelong scar, and in order to cover it, he tattooed the pair of black wings so that Matthew would never remember that he was once stained with his brother's blood up.Alfred covered his eyes with his hands: "I wanted to protect him from all the pain and all the filth, and I wanted to be his hero. I thought I was doing a good job, until Steve told me that all these efforts were futile." Ya Ser sighed, took him into his arms, buried his face in Arthur's stomach: "I don't know how to save him..."

"You want to protect him, and he also wants to protect you." Arthur patted the back of Alfred's head, "Oh, I just thought you were a bit mature, but you're still a brat in the end." Alfred hugged Alfred tightly. Arthur's waist, tears running down Arthur's sweater.Arthur whispered: "Don't cry, enough crying. Let's discuss countermeasures together, hero who failed miserably."

Arthur now remembered the adaptation of the fairy tale "Black Swan Lake" he had seen in the Los Angeles orphanage, and he had read it to a young boy, so the memory was still fresh.Think about it, the twins and Steve are just like the fairy tale, Matthew is the prince, Alfred is the white swan, and Steve is the black swan.The prince's true love is the white swan after all, so the countermeasure has surfaced, and it requires everyone's cooperation.

Wang Yao hung up the internal call of the Alien Association, his heart was already in turmoil.Lin Xiaomei dug out all the reasoning about Matthew's ability from the mouth of the alien researcher, and reported to him immediately. He told her to keep her mouth shut, and then began to sit alone in the office to sort out her thoughts.At this time, Alfred and Arthur came, both of them looked serious, and Wang Yao knew that they were going to do something big.After listening to Arthur's narration, Wang Yao settled the case: "It's done, let's do it!"

They found Ivan, and after a while Francis and Steve came back, and everyone gathered.Steve glanced suspiciously at the people in the room, and finally locked his eyes on Alfred with a strange expression: "What do you want to do?"

"Let's go climbing tomorrow." Wang Yao smiled.Steve felt the danger instinctively: "Why?" Wang Yao's tone was gentle and unquestionable: "Mountain climbing is good for your health." Steve thought: "Who are you with?" Wang Yao pointed to himself , Ivan and Alfred.Steve's face turned cold: "If you talk nicely, I might cooperate."

"Well, can I explain it?" Ivan raised his hand, and Wang Yao approved, so he retold the story of "Black Swan Lake".Arthur categorically announced the conclusion: "We want to interpret this story in the real world." Steve understood it, and suddenly had mixed feelings: "Are you serious?"

"If it can be done, he will come to save me." Alfred clasped his hands and interlocked his fingers.Steve sneered: "It's not impossible to cooperate with you, but don't have too much hope, I feel that he has drifted far away, and it is almost impossible to swim back by himself."

"So I'll call him, every time." Alfred closed his eyes and took a deep breath, and now Steve had nothing to say.

"Then, regarding the distribution of roles, let me be the villain, so that Matthew will be more convinced." Ivan rubbed his chin and smiled.Alfred's face contorted for a while. He had no doubt that Ivan would kill him in a fake way, but all the members voted to approve the proposal except him.

"You guys have a good rest tonight, I'll prepare the props." Wang Yao said, "Also, Alfred stays here, I have something to say."

After nine o'clock, the lighting system in Seattle was cut off, and the whole city was plunged into darkness. One or two windows flickered faintly like candles, like a winter night sky.Wang Yao turned on the desk lamp and turned on the desktop computer for Alfred to watch. Alfred looked in distress, and his tone was stiff: "Now you know everything."

"I won't say it, but others will." Wang Yao rubbed the bridge of his nose, "We can't touch that alien doctor. He is a precious sample of ordinary people, a pseudo-inhuman with transplanted abilities. Will put pressure on him to redeem him. Think about what he will do to get a powerful alien, he will report to the high-level, and then those ordinary people will spare no effort to compete for Matthew." Alfred did not hesitate: "Let I replace him, we exchange identities."

"I'm afraid not. Steve has exposed your existence, and you are also very dangerous." Alfred cursed, "Damn it."Wang Yao said calmly: "My suggestion is that you escape from the United States and smuggle to Canada incognito."

"What about Arthur and the others?" Alfred was stunned.Wang Yao was helpless: "You should learn to grow up. They can't follow you in this way. Arthur has already received a residence permit and a job from the Seattle government. It will be very painful at first, but your safe life is the biggest thing for them. happiness.” Alfred thought for a while, with sadness on his face: “Why do we have to suffer so much hurt and separation?”

"There will always be such a day." Wang Yao's words contained the elder's comfort.Alfred forced a smile: "What should we do?" Now, he found that they really depend on Wang Yao, and this person always seems to have many connections.

"We will discuss it after Matthew comes back. I will try my best to drag that doctor and give you a longer time. You... cherish it."

Alfred nodded: "Thank you."

Wang Yao didn't speak anymore.He didn't know how to speak about the last thing, maybe it would be better to keep his mouth shut.After all, how could he tell the twins that he had earned the doctor's trust that he could mislead the doctor into thinking that telekinetics belonged to Matthew and not Alfred; One of them is seduced in exchange for the safety of the other; how can he tell them that you don't have to all go out to wander, that one can stay, and the other will spend his life on the run—how can he?

"You've grown up and don't need me anymore, have you?"

Steve's hand caressed himself in the mirror, his voice trembling: "If they succeed and you come back, I'm afraid I won't exist anymore. I'm fine, but don't blame yourself too much, I was born because of you, for You die, the ring connects, and you must restore the world to normal."

"In the end, I still don't know anything about your human affairs. It looks like good intentions but is malicious, and what looks like malicious is actually kind. Lies are truth, and crime is love."

"Although I am not even a living thing, but using your body, the pain in my heart I feel is love? Then, Matthew Williams, I love you, I use my life and death, My love and hate—my all, love of my Creator."

"I can see, they all love you, maybe you should come back and take a look, or Alfred will die. Losing him is your real death."

"Live well for Anna and Meg's sake, and I will atone for them. If you can, please give me a little love and memory, so that my duties can be completely over."

"Farewell, Matthew." He clenched his fists, leaned on the sink, raised his toes, and kissed himself in the mirror.