Sunset Boulevard

The boarding deadline is fast approaching and the cruise is about to set sail.

Cui Chengze stood at the door of room 1037, waiting for someone.

He just turned 30 years old this year. He served as a soldier in the Asian League for five years. After retiring from the army, he joined Pei Shu's security company. He has worked so far and divorced once.His family is in a small town on the edge of the war zone. Since the Asian Union and the Independence of Mongolia opened fire, he has never heard any news from his family. It was not until the war zone was liberated at the beginning of the year that he reunited with his mother and young son.

1037 is at the end of the corridor.

Cui Chengze looked at the sporadic people coming and going in the corridor, they all went into their rooms, and none of them approached 1037.

At 1037:[-] p.m., an Alpha man in overalls with a beard walked towards Cui Chengze.This afternoon, Cui Chengze met him.This Alpha is slightly similar in stature to Cui Chengze, but a little taller than Cui Chengze. His footsteps never stopped until he stood in front of the door of room [-].

"Sorry, I've been waiting for a long time." The man said, took out the room card, and swiped it at the magnetic sensor of 1037, and the magnetic sensor made a soft unlocking sound.

The door opened, and the man walked in first, followed by Cui Chengze, pulling the box.

The man first turned on the light in the room. Although the room in the inner cabin was decorated with curtains, there was no light source or real windows. The white light shone down from the ceiling, adding a little depression to the already narrow room.

Cui Chengze closed the door with his hands behind his back, and stammered, "Senior Colonel Chen."

Chen Boqiao turned around, stretched out his hand, and shook Cui Chengze briefly and forcefully: "Hello."

"Hello." Cui Chengze had seen Chen Boqiao many times in screen newspapers, but this was the first time he had seen him in person.

Chen Boqiao changed his clothes and wore some dirty clothes with a tightly buttoned neckline. His eyes were calm but gave off an inexplicable oppressive feeling.Cui Chengze withdrew his hand nervously, and told Chen Boqiao: "Sir, Mr. Pei said, I will give him a message after entering the room."

Chen Boqiao nodded and said, "Okay." Cui Chengze dialed Pei Shu's phone number through a secret line, and stuck the small projector to the cabinet door, projecting the image on Pei Shu's end on the white wall.

Cui Chengze used to be Pei Shu's mother's bodyguard. A few months ago, after Pei Shu had a chat with him, he was transferred to an inconspicuous administrative position in a group subsidiary, waiting for the right time to cooperate.

A week ago, Pei Shu told him part of the plan, brought him to Thailand and gave him a new identity.Compared to others, he didn't have much to do, he just had to switch identities with Chen Boqiao, share a room with another roommate whose identity was unknown, and use Shen Yufei's passport to arrive in North America.

"Aboard the ship?" Pei Shu sat at a slightly messy desk, raised his head, and said, "After the ship sets sail, Zhao Kun will get your passport and cabin information. We expect that in the early morning of four days later, The ship will enter the waters of the Asian Union."

Cui Chengze glanced at Chen Boqiao, Chen Boqiao's expression did not change, he just nodded slightly.

"Also," Pei Shu pushed his glasses, rummaged through the pile of papers, found one, put it on the top shelf, and said to Chen Boqiao, "We discussed the question you asked me before. The president doesn't want to make a statement. He needs to quickly move the ship out of the waters of the Asian Union. As for the safety of other people on board, it should not be affected.

"—The premise is that other personnel stay in the room well and don't come out in the middle of the night." Before Chen Boqiao could answer, Pei Shu added.

"I know." Chen Boqiao said.

Cui Chengze vaguely felt that both of them meant something, and the atmosphere was a bit weird, but he couldn't tell where the weirdness was.

Pei Shu also let out a "hmm", then suddenly narrowed his eyes, looked carefully at Chen Boqiao's attire, and said slowly, "He's a good crafter." Then he said to Cui Chengze: "Chengze, three days later, you let Zhang Jue Come to the Boqiao room again and help him change his clothes in advance."

Cui Chengze glanced at Chen Boqiao, and Chen Boqiao said to Pei Shu with no expression on his face: "When you are talking about business, don't test me by the way."

Pei Shu was stunned for a moment, then smiled and explained to himself: "I'm just asking casually."

"You live alone, you are all at ease," Pei Shu said again, "It's not that I haven't seen the cabin plan, what are you drawing with him?"

Pei Shu's voice became lower and lower, as if he didn't want to continue the topic, so he changed the subject and said, "By the way, the differentiation agent you asked me to find on the market is fake, and I don't have any of you. The authority of the group has not been found."

Chen Boqiao nodded, and Pei Shu said, "Don't worry about it. I looked at it and found that this cruise ship is pretty good, with a variety of entertainment activities. You haven't taken a vacation for ten years. Zhuhe's credit card limit is very high, so he just took advantage of these few days to rest and take a vacation. There is still a tough battle to fight."

Cui Chengze didn't know the next arrangement, he was sure that Chen Boqiao was not absolutely safe.

Although Pei Shu's current state is relatively relaxed, it is unknown whether the Zhao family's authority can be shaken.They all knew that getting Chen Boqiao arrested in the alliance waters was not a well-planned plan at all, but just a desperation on the line.

Chen Boqiao looked at Pei Shu noncommittally, and asked, "What entertainment is there?"

Pei Shu smiled: "There are everything."

Cui Chengze handed the entertainment list on the table to Chen Boqiao, and said, "Colonel, this is all there."

Chen Boqiao looked at the list for a while, put it down, looked up, and found that Pei Shu hadn't hung up, so he said, "You're still there." Then he disconnected the connection.

After Pei Shu's image disappeared, Chen Boqiao looked at Cui Chengze.He put the room card in his hand on the table, pushed it towards Cui Chengze, tapped the card surface lightly with his index finger, and said: "You live here for the first few days, and I live with him in 1013. I will directly contact you on the eve of the operation." come over."

Cui Chengze also exchanged the room card of 1013 to Chen Boqiao. When he remembered, he asked, "Then when you go back to the Asian League, I will live in 1013?"

Chen Boqiao glanced at Cui Chengze, and called him gently: "Cui Chengze."

Cui Chengze turned his eyes away,

Chen Boqiao watched him.Chen Boqiao's eyes are bright and focused, giving people a very firm and reliable impression.Cui Chengze silently wondered if it was Chen Boqiao's determination to win forever that made the soldiers lurking in the battle zone willing to follow him, listen to his orders, and build dams with flesh and blood.

"When I go back, he might move to another room." Chen Boqiao didn't care about his distraction, and started to say something that had nothing to do with the plan, "I'll ask Pei Shu to increase your quota, and you will be promoted to the same floor as him , take care of him for the remaining ten days or so."

Cui Chengze felt a little dazed at first, and then realized that Chen Boqiao was talking about another person in room 1013.

Chen Boqiao seemed to be able to read minds. He stopped and asked Cui Chengze, "Has Pei Shu mentioned him to you?"

"I haven't mentioned it much." Cui Chengze scratched his head and tried his best to search his memory. When Pei Shu mentioned him, he always said something insignificant in a subtle and evasive tone, and there were not many actual things.

"It's normal," Chen Boqiao said, twitching the corners of his lips slightly, "He is from the New Independent Country. I hope that after he lands in North America, you can accompany him to the New Independent Country and see his family before leaving."

With that said, Chen Boqiao picked up the note paper on the table and wrote a number to Cui Chengze: "If you can't reach his floor, call him. Tell him I asked you to find him."

He paused for a while, and then gently explained to Cui Chengze: "This man doesn't care much about himself. You should be more concerned. If he doesn't go out for a day, order him a meal."

Or maybe it was Cui Chengze's illusion.When Chen Boqiao faced himself, he seemed more relaxed than when he faced Pei Shu just now.

It was as if when meeting someone who was almost a stranger, he unconsciously revealed some secret and weak tenderness that he would not reveal in front of acquaintances.

Cui Chengze was a little curious and speculative about the person at the mouth of Chen Boqiao, so he looked down at the note written by Chen Boqiao.Chen Boqiao wrote very coherently. I don't know if he really has a good memory, or he has passed this series of numbers in his brain many times.

"After memorizing the number, dispose of the paper," Chen Boqiao urged again, "Don't keep anything related to you in this room."

Cui Chengze remembered them one by one.

"By the way," Chen Boqiao seemed to think of something again, turned around and said, "Don't let him drink."

Cui Chengze nodded quickly, and suddenly thought of the rumor about Colonel Chen's evil smoke, and asked one more question: "What about the smoke?"

Chen Boqiao paused, and then said: "Let him go."

When Chen Boqiao returned to the room, Zhang Jue had just put the last item away.

Seeing the empty suitcase, Chen Boqiao leaned over and closed it, buckled the sides of the suitcase and picked it up, and said to Zhang Jue, "Help me pull the shelf away."

Zhang Jue did as he did, and pulled out the steel bars holding the iron frame. The steel bar springs are very tenacious. Just now he saw that Chen Boqiao was pulling easily, but he himself realized that it was actually tight when he pulled it.

He fully unfolded the clip, Chen Boqiao put the empty suitcase, and then closed the cabinet door, the room was not as small as it was when he first came in.

The beds in the room were placed in parallel, with a distance of at most [-] centimeters between them. Zhang Jue turned his head and asked Chen Boqiao, "Which one do you sleep on?"

Chen Boqiao looked at him for a while before saying, "You choose first."

Zhang Jue was a little embarrassed, because he felt that he couldn't guess which bed Chen Boqiao wanted to sleep on.After thinking for a long time, he still asked Chen Boqiao for help: "How about you first?"

Chen Bo laughed, looked down at Zhang Jue, and said, "I can't even pick a bed." He pointed to the bed next to the wall, and said, "Then you can choose this one."

Zhang Jue nodded in relief.

It was still early, so he sat on the bed and turned on the TV.The quilt and mattress are very soft, they should have been washed and dried in time, so there is no bad smell.

The TV began to broadcast a lengthy boarding instruction, introducing various facilities on board, and Chen Boqiao sat on another bed, not far from Zhang Jue.

He watched with Zhang Jue for a while, then suddenly stretched out his hand, pulled Zhang Jue's remote control away, lowered the volume until it was barely audible, and put it by his lap.

"Zhang Jue," Chen Boqiao didn't look at Zhang Jue, put it on the screen, and said slowly, "I've always wanted to ask you what to do after taking the τ-promoting agent."

Zhang Jue turned his eyes to look at Chen Boqiao's side face, was startled, thought for a while, and told Chen Boqiao truthfully: "The medical team that my father found said that there was such a precedent before, and one of the glands could be treated. The body is separated and removed, but the highest purity tau differentiation-promoting agent is also required in the process.”

Chen Boqiao was silent.

After a while, he asked Zhang Jue: "Is the operation dangerous?"

Whether it is dangerous or not, Zhang Jue has never understood it himself. After all, it is not yet the moment of surgery, but his parents are very active in finding the τ-promoting agent, so he said with some uncertainty: "It should not be dangerous. .”

"What do you mean should be?" Chen Boqiao turned his head and asked Zhang Jue calmly and objectively.

"The patient in the previous case survived." That's what the medical team said.

Chen Boqiao looked at Zhang Jue for a long time before saying: "When you get the differentiation agent, re-evaluate it again." He added: "If the operation is dangerous, it is better not to do it."

"I have evaluated it several times, and my parents hope that I can do it." Zhang Jue told Chen Boqiao honestly.

After finding the sedative inhibitor, Zhang Jue no longer has such a big obsession with changing his physical condition, but this is not something he can decide on his own.

"Why?" Chen Boqiao asked him again.

"Because," Zhang Jue couldn't understand Chen Boqiao's expression, so he said hesitantly, "People with two glands don't live long, and they find it hard to accept."

Chen Boqiao remained silent, and Zhang Jue continued to explain: "The pheromones interfere with each other, which will lead to a shortened lifespan."

He raised his eyes to look at the TV screen, which was introducing the small theater's performance schedule for the next ten days, and the poster switched from Hamlet to ballet.

There was a faint sound of announcements floating in the air, but if I wanted to hear it clearly, I couldn't hear it clearly.He didn't want Chen Boqiao to think that he was using his physical condition to gain sympathy, so he said to Chen Boqiao: "You don't have to pity me, actually I don't care much."

Before the show was over, Chen Boqiao turned off the TV.

Zhang Jue didn't notice when Chen Boqiao was so close to him. Chen Boqiao put his shoulders on his shoulders, made him turn his face, and touched the glands on his neck with his fingertips.Zhang Jue felt a little itchy from being touched, and couldn't help but raised his hand to press Chen Boqiao's chest, not wanting him to touch it again, so Chen Boqiao grabbed his wrist.

Chen Boqiao's breath lingered around Zhang Jue, like Zhang Jue's psychoactive drug.

Zhang Jue felt that Chen Boqiao might still sympathize with him, because Chen Boqiao's kisses became more careful than before.The rosin on him softened.

He kissed Zhang Jue for a long time, Zhang Jue knew he wanted to do it, but he didn't do it in the end.

Chen Boqiao got up from Zhang Jue, went to the bathroom, maybe washed his face, and came out soon, handed the entertainment list of the cruise to Zhang Jue, said that it was almost time, and asked Zhang Jue to choose a restaurant and take Zhang decided to eat.