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Lu Ting came to Kongshan Prison as the Sergeant of the Lower General Police Station.This is his second day in office, and the first day was spent in the Federal Security Service of the Special District. He underwent a set of twelve psychological tests according to the procedure, from brain wave examination to retinal examination, to confirm his loyalty to the Federation and psychological stability.

In fact, Lu Ting did not have much confidence in these tests.As early as in the police academy, during the quarterly mental health monitoring, he had failed a certain indicator. After all, he was a troublesome guy who needed psychological counseling since he was a child. Now, after more than 20 days of insomnia , he believes that his abnormality will only increase.

However, the final result of the test was that he passed. With a miraculously high overall score of 94.3, there are probably not many people in the entire public security system who are healthier, more sunny, and more loyal than him.

All Lu Ting did was concentrate, imagining himself as another person while taking the test.

It can be seen that the reliability of these complex tests evolved from baseline tests for artificial humans is open to question, and it is more like a self-comfort for those in power.

Of course, this was good for Lu Ting, he blamed Kaisen and put on his magnetic stripes and epaulettes—well, although it was legal, it was not blameless, not just for everyone in the lower class. In the police station, news about him in the special zone is flying all over the sky. Mr. President's illegitimate son who was recently exposed was sitting in such a seat when he was less than 20 years old. No matter from which angle the report is made, it is an eye-catching piece of news.

Lu Ting couldn't stop the rumors, and he didn't intend to. He thought that he was just like what they said, self-willed and domineering, relying on his father for the position, and there was nothing to justify.Lu Bingyi is more difficult to be a human being than him, and he is on the cusp of a higher crisis. Thinking about it this way, Lu Ting seems to feel a little relieved.

Unsurprisingly, Kaisen's account and computer were "filtered" by the Security Bureau from beginning to end in accordance with the regulations before being handed over to his successor for use.Sensitive and unfinished information is often completely shredded. You work for them, and they will only let you know what they want you to master.Fortunately, Lu Ting was prepared, and the red disk that Deng Mochi left him came in handy. He had just killed someone, so he inserted it into the host computer under the desktop, and the automatic decoding program installed in it was immediately effective. When the filtering and cleaning started, the complete contents of Kaisen's account had already been prepared in Aldebaran's mainframe.

It was from this that Lu Ting found the case of the "assassin" at the wedding. Thanks to Lu An's frenzied screening for a month, he now only needs to go to Kongshan Prison to find him, without having to spend any more brainstorming.It was a 26-year-old African-American Beta youth with a narrow oval face and curly hair, named "Karbo". At the time of the crime, his identity was an exotic pet breeder at the Pusope Hotel.

It is the white peacock that is raised.

As soon as Lu Ting stepped into the visiting room, Karbo recognized him.

"I remember you," Karbo grinned, his skin was evenly and thoroughly dark, so his teeth and the whites of his eyes were dazzlingly white, as if painted on, "the piano prince in snow-white, Nocturne in E-flat major, I The little bird likes you."

Lu Ting also laughed, pulled out the folding chair, and sat down across from a metal desk, "It's an honor. But your little bird is really heavy."

"How is it?"

"It's placed in the No. [-] zoo," Lu Ting said softly, throwing the recent situation of the white bird on the wall, "I have found other peacock friends."

He was wearing casual clothes today, and the place where he talked was not an interrogation room. He even ordered the prison guards to take off the handcuffs in advance. The two of them created a relaxed and peaceful atmosphere as much as possible.

But Karbo's vigilance was still hidden in his cold smile, "What can I do for you, Mr. Police Officer?"

"What's your execution day?" Lu Ting stuffed a pocket, raised his left foot, and rested his ankle on his right knee.

"December 12," Karbo blinked, with a nonchalant expression on his face, "I'll be free in less than a week."

"You can be free today. I mean the living kind."

"Sir?" Karbo pursed his lips and shook his head, "If I remember correctly, the one I want to kill is your father."

"It's not just mine, he's the father of the entire Federation now." Lu Ting took a sip of his coffee, with just the right amount of playfulness in the corner of his mouth, and then he looked through it, as if he was serious again, "Don't be nervous, of course I came to you because of you It has more important uses for me, a small favor, you helped me, no one will stop you when you walk out through this door, with a new identity, a new residence, a new life, you can return to the human world."

"What's so good in the world?" Karbo snorted.

"Indeed, I find it annoying to stay here," Lu Ting nodded, "but what's so good about an empty mountain? With a few intersecting bald mountains, you will be locked in the deepest canyon, and only dry food made of protein worms every day You can eat a piece, but there is only a limit, it is not as good as the bird you raised, until you die, you are with the most unpopular freaks on this continent, dismembered your family's murderer, and the pervert who raped young children, you What is there to talk about with them?"

Karbo's eyelids flickered, he seemed to have no eyelashes, and those big round eyes became more and more disproportionate, "You guys caught me here, tortured me, restrained me, and fed me worms," ​​he gritted his teeth, " It is you who made the judgment, and I am also a freak."

"Perhaps. But you're not the unpopular kind." Lu Ting leaned forward, leaning against the edge of the desk, his eyes straight and sharp, and looked at him critically, "Well, it's really not. In fact, I like shooting guns just like you. My marksmanship is not as accurate as yours. I can't aim at the Sichuan pattern of an old man across dozens of round tables. Thinking that five days later, a genius like you will be soaked in electrolytic solution, and the brain will be shaken out with ultrasonic waves. It was smashed to the point that there was no ashes left... I just feel it's a pity. This kind of death is really inappropriate."

Karbo took a deep breath and closed his mouth tightly.

"Well, let me talk about my headache first, do you want to help me with this?" Lu Ting turned sideways to the white wall, and replaced the peacock with a map, "In 2073, the second generation of artificial humans launched After the uprising, the war will start from here," the laser dot repeatedly circled an area on the coastline, "Angola, a small country in West Africa, your hometown."

Karbo sneered: "Sir, your investigation is more detailed than your brother's."

Lu Ting ignored him, and continued on his own: "You were just born that year, and your parents were killed in the war. You appeared on the wall of mourning for natural persons in Angola, but you were not registered by any orphanage. Adopted by whom?"

Karbo fell silent again.

"At the end of 2075, the Revolutionary Alliance declared its defeat. The mysterious leader back then—we don't even know his name—disappeared in the Atlantic Ocean near the capital, and his elite army called Ares Ghost also disappeared. Said that their entire army was wiped out," Lu Ting paused, and suddenly changed the topic, "To put it simply, what I want to ask you is, are you serving a secret organization now, or repaying your favor?"

"I don't have an organization." Karbo said unhurriedly. "I just hate this federation. It ruined my family. Unfortunately, when I was old enough to kill people, it happened that your father was in power."

Lu Ting was thoughtful: "Is that so? Have you ever heard such a poem——"

"What poem?"

Lu Ting calmly watched him blurt out, and his color change: "When Luciferappearedinthedawn, Idreamedavividdream."

Karbo is still blinking, he does have big sly eyes, "What is this, where did you see it?"

"In 2075, not only did the armistice happen, a group of artificial humans of the Omega gender disappeared and then appeared again suddenly. I spent a long time in the library, and found some gossip in the tabloids," Lu Ting turned off the map, in vain Leaving a bare wall, he fiddled with his fingers, "Most of them died, but didn't some people survive?"

"Did someone get pregnant and survive?" he asked again, biting down on the word "pregnant."

Karbo's throat rolled, and he laughed: "Hey, I'm only two years old, what do I know?"

"The father of that Omega's child is very mysterious...the child must have something special." Lu Ting stood up suddenly, put his hands on the table, leaned over and stared into Karbo's eyes, "The long-lost army , does it also need a special person to be the leader, to gather them together—”

Karbo showed the expression of hearing the Arabian Nights, he interrupted Lu Ting, and his speech was a little cramped: "I said, Mr. Police, although I really want to live, I really don't understand your whimsical ideas. , can't help."

"Indeed, this is all my guesswork, I have no basis, but that special person is my lover, I know very little, and I can find out even less, but I am willing to believe in this possibility, do you understand, very When you love someone, you will have an intuition, and you will respond to the existence of the other person." Lu Ting stood up straight, looking at the dark eyes of the African-American youth, "Karbo, I just want to find him, I will not I just want to find him if I hinder him from doing anything. I am not useless. In this position, I will definitely help him and help you. I am willing to die for him. Besides, I hate this as much as you do Federation, my family is also ruined."

The focus in his eyes was too strong, showing great sadness: "So can you help me?"

Karbo was quiet for a long time, he avoided Lu Ting's gaze, and finally went up to him in a daze: "But I haven't seen him before."

Lu Ting's eyes lit up, as if grabbing a rope on a cliff, he hurriedly walked around to Karbo's side: "Because you were already in when he left, in fact, you should have seen him at the wedding, but it's okay to forget, you know Sue everything—"

The words broke in my mouth.

Because Karbo's right eye exploded suddenly, the eyeball popped out, and half of his face was blown to pieces.

Lu Ting's snow-white collar was splattered with blood like paint splashes, he silently wiped off those on his chin with his sleeve, squatted down, picked up the eyeball, and wiped it clean in the same way.

It is probably made of nano-resin, and it is very light in the hand, like an empty shell.

The pupils burst out with several layers of metal curling, and there are still pieces of broken glass. It turned out to be a camera. Lu Ting thought, this is really a good way to keep his subordinates loyal. Just replace the eyeballs with a camera and a bomb, and see you from a distance If someone wants to inform, they can just silence them, right?It seems that my guess was quite right.

It was almost done just now.

Lu Ting told himself that it was definitely not Deng Mochi who pressed and exploded in a remote place just now.

Although the army that has been dormant for more than 20 years probably really exists... But Deng Mochi might not be with them at this moment.How did Deng Mochi find them so quickly?Maybe the so-called special child, the new leader, is also a fantasy caused by his emptiness and excessive speculation.

But what if?What if Deng Mochi really pressed the button?Would you rather kill a person than prevent the possibility of being found by yourself?

No way, no way, could it be that I did it again... I asked step by step, and induced him sentence by sentence, so this young man died and was shot in the head.He was originally imprisoned in An'an, and he could live a few more days.This is impossible.Deng Mochi would not do such a cruel thing.Lu Ting's various thoughts almost split him, looked at the ceiling, opened his mouth dryly, and after being dumb for a long time, he suddenly cursed, picked up Karbo who was lying on the table, and pushed the fake eyeballs back into his bloody head, As he dragged him out of the reception room, the sound of blood dripping and the sound of flesh rubbing against the ground bit by bit ate away at his ears.Several nearby corridors were cleared by him in advance, and no one dared to approach them. He didn't meet any living people until he reached a checkpoint on duty in this prison area.

Lu Ting pushed the corpse and threw the man into his arms.

"Sir?" The prison guard looked ashen, and hugged him tightly in a panic, "This is, what, what should I do?"

"Burn it, bury it, no littering is allowed!" Lu Ting said firmly, without stopping any longer, he drove the Aldebaran-b away from the empty mountain at top speed.The ochre-red land below retains the folds that were squeezed out hundreds of millions of years ago, filled with awe-inspiring icy mist.How embarrassed he is, he will never admit it. He went back to Aldebaran to clean himself up, and sat in the police station for a few days to get to know his colleagues. relationship, Lu Ting gradually became convinced that if he went back to do those psychological tests now, he would still get a high score.

On the first rest day after taking office, he invited He Zhensheng to have dinner at the platinum restaurant on the top floor of the Vanilla Building in the special zone.This is where he used to hang out with Shu Rui, especially when Shu Rui was numb to cigarettes and alcohol and needed to overeat, this pure glass spire could always contain everything.

Surprisingly, He Zhensheng not only went to the appointment happily, but also came earlier than Lu Ting. He was dressed in a neat and formal attire, which made Lu Ting's denim jacket very rude.

"Isn't this Xiao Deng's?" He still picked up which pot he didn't open.

"Yes," Lu Ting sat down at the other end of the long table, "I came out of the fire, went to his house, and got something."

As he said that, he thought of the peach pit. At that time, he was playing with a flashlight in the dark room, thinking about what items Deng Mochi had taken away, but he felt that all the important things had disappeared, and he saw it by his pillow alone.A wrinkled peach pit.It seems that Dun Mochi didn't think it was important, but Lu Ting didn't think so, maybe he should take it away and not let it stay in that abandoned house, but the strangest thing is that he couldn't reach out at that time, He was not afraid to move the beams that still had embers, but he felt that if he touched the round core body, the pointy core end, he would be burned.

About to fall back again, Lu Ting quickly cut off his memory, and subconsciously wrapped the coat around his body, "How are you? I stayed in Kongshan for so long, and my elder brother blamed you."

"It's okay, it's okay, I'm a regular customer now, treat me to a meal and we'll end our grievances." He Zhensheng smiled and cut the appetizer, a thick piece of foie gras, and he ate it in two bites, "It's you, what's wrong with the dark circles?" Heavier than Shu Rui?"

Lu Ting rubbed his eyelids: "I've been a little insomnia lately."

He Zhensheng asked, "You're so out of your mind, Brother Deng really disappeared?"

Lu Ting asked back: "Can you get in touch?"

"How is it possible? I also called and sent a message, but they didn't respond at all."

"I mean another connection."

"Huh?" He Zhensheng raised his eyes with great interest.

"You knew him earlier than me, and you probably know more than me. Where do you think he will go now?"

"I really can't figure it out."

Lu Ting was not in a hurry, and the delicacies in front of him did not move. He still looked into He Zhensheng's eyes intently: "No matter what, you must also want to find him. I just need a helper, are you willing to cooperate with me?"

He Zhensheng laughed loudly: "Our new police chief has taken office, with so many elite policemen under him, why do we still use two knives like mine?"

"In fact, we are all victims. Your family, my mother, all went to space and then disappeared," Lu Ting stood up and poured him a drink. "We can stand on the same line now."

"My God," He Zhensheng tapped the edge of the plate with a knife blade, "I said, dear prince, do you know what crimes I have been charged with? Anti-government, treason, false accusations and rumors, oh yes, insanity. The title of social personality, you want someone like me to join your Find True Love Action Team?"

"It's far more than that. Deng Mochi is gone now, not just running away from home in a fit of anger." Lu Ting frowned seriously, "So what I have to do is not just to find him back."

"Oh," He Zhensheng smiled, and suddenly his expression became serious, "How determined are you for this?"

"I'm willing to pay any price, including my life."

"I don't want to." He Zhensheng put down the knife and fork, put the full wine glass by his hand, and stopped drinking.

Lu Ting narrowed his eyes and continued to stare at him.

"It's been seven years, what progress have I made? Closing eyes equals happiness, opening eyes equals self-harm," He Zhensheng said nonchalantly, lit a cigarette for himself, and glanced at the nervous young man in front of him through the smoke. I forgot to dye it, the root of the flax is pitch black, and it looks weird, "What's wrong with being a fool, you have a lot more advantages than me."

"Do you think I'm not determined enough?" Lu Ting suddenly smiled, "That's fine, then I'll do it alone, it's nothing more than fast and slow."

After all, he picked up his handbag and was about to go out to pay the bill.

"Look at this earth, it's round and round, everything on it is dying slowly, and the earth itself won't live for many years," He Zhensheng said without looking back, just waving the smoke blocking his face My own reasoning, "Anyone and everything that anyone does now is to speed up the process or delay it. Am I right?"

"It doesn't matter!" Lu Ting said loudly, "Even if I die, I will be with Deng!"

He Zhensheng dusted off the cigarette ash, lowered his head and smiled, but Lu Ting stopped abruptly before going out.The light screen on the wall used to broadcast social news, including the figure of his father, but now it was suddenly scattered, the host's standard spoken language was ablated in the noise, and the light screen experienced pixel chaos, white There are three stages of screen and black screen, and suddenly a complete image appears, with white characters on a black background, which is an English phrase in all capitals.

"ASHELL GAME".

a scam.

At the same time, a male voice sounded clearly in the room: "Hi, this is the first set of keywords. I have discovered a secret, and those who cheat will understand."

He said this sentence without any fluctuations, and repeated it like playing a recording, not only in the room, but as if it spread throughout the entire building, and even produced an echo.Lu Ting staggered and pushed the door out. In the hall outside the box, there were five light screens within sight, all of which displayed that line of white characters. The display screen, the giant billboard on the side wall of the building, and even the area originally used to project the advertisement of the virtual companion at the same height as the building... As far as the eye can see, as long as it is a place with a display function, it can be seen through the vast amount of radioactive dust Black and white, three words.

It seems that the whole world is filled with this "one deception".

He Zhensheng couldn't sit still anymore, he heard the announcement just now repeated three times, and finally changed his lines: "What I do next depends on what you do."

"I'll wait," the man said again, "but not for long."

He Zhensheng took a breath.This kind of British English pronunciation with a positive accent, this kind of tone that puts enough patience, but makes people suspect that he thinks you are too stupid and afraid that you can't understand, and that calm attitude like a machine, even if there is a voice change. It was too easy for him to deal with.

He walked out of the half-covered door of the box, and saw Lu Ting standing in the corridor not far away, looking out of the window motionless, the short-term loss of control had stopped, the light screens flickered a few times, and each played a movie Advertising social news seems to be a dream just now, only the humming and commotion of discussions rolling over the dining table can be regarded as some kind of trace.But Lu Ting was still petrified, staring at the billboard that turned into Coca-Cola in a daze, unaware that someone was standing beside him and observing his face.

He was like this, with his eyes wide open, obviously dry and bloodshot, and the whites of his originally clean eyes turned yellow, and his eye sockets had long since gushed out, but He Zhensheng felt that his expression was tears full face.