JOKER took a few steps forward and picked up another thing in the window on the wall. It was a mask. Just like the mask on his face, it exuded a metallic luster, but there was still a faint liquid on it. General flow of light.
JOKER looked back at everyone: "Did you see it? After putting this thing on, you can become another person like a superpower who imitates superpowers. Of course, this thing has no side effects. But every time It can only be used once to change your appearance... How does it feel? From now on, plastic surgeons all over the world can retire! In the world, humans no longer have to worry about their ugly appearance. As long as they wear this mask, they can change their appearance. Be as beautiful as any movie star!"
"Humph." Chen Xiao interrupted JOKER coldly: "But in this way, there is no distinction between beauty and ugliness in this world. Everyone is beautiful, and everyone's face is 'changed' according to the golden ratio. From now on, billions of people around the world will all have the same face. Do you think this world is interesting?!"
JOKER looked at Chen Xiao, his eyes seemed to be smiling: "You know? What you say now is almost exactly the same as when I was young. They are all so naive and full of idealism."
"But you do this, you do so many things, why on earth!"
Chen Xiao suddenly took a step forward, clenched his fists, and shouted loudly.
“…”
JOKER looked at Chen Xiao silently. Behind the golden mask, those eyes contained an indescribable emotion. It was very complex and very deep.
Then, JOKER suddenly raised his hand, bowed slightly to everyone, and said with a hint of elegance in his voice: "Okay everyone, please give us father and son some alone time together."
Lao Tian sneered: "Whatever you say is what it is. Do we have the right to refuse?"
Chen Xiao's face was ashen and he stared at JOKER closely.
Phoenix stood aside. In fact, she had hardly spoken since just now. At this moment, Fenghuang looked at Chen Xiao, then at JOKER, and finally nodded silently and whispered: "You... be careful yourself."
Chen Xiao's heart suddenly twitched, and he didn't dare to touch Phoenix's eyes. He turned his face slightly and tried to use an indifferent tone: "I... understand."
JOKER looked at all this calmly, then pointed to the end of the corridor: "Let's go."
Fenghuang suddenly bit his lip hard, went up to hold Chen Xiao's hands tightly, and then let go. Chen Xiao's body was a little stiff, and then he still didn't dare to look at Fenghuang, and silently followed JOKER towards the end of the corridor.
Phoenix looked at Chen Xiao's back, and suddenly a tear rolled down from the corner of his eye.
Lao Tian looked at Fenghuang's face and suddenly sighed. He went up and patted Fenghuang's shoulder gently: "Okay, I know the pain in your heart, Fenghuang, you..."
Phoenix turned to look at Lao Tian, the corners of her eyes trembling slightly: "If... if he is really his son, then... I..."
"I think you should know who JOKER is... what is his relationship with Mingyue." Lao Tian's voice was full of bitterness: "So..."
"So, if Chen Xiao is his son, then I..." Fenghuang's voice was worse than crying.
…
At the end of the corridor, JOKER seemed to wave his hand casually at a wall, and a door appeared in front of the two of them without any warning.
"Is this place okay?" JOKER smiled and gently pushed the door open.
When he took the first step into this room, Chen Xiao was stunned!
Behind the liquid crystal-like wall outside, the room inside turned out to be a place that Chen Xiao was extremely familiar with!
It is just over ten square meters of space, with warm-toned wooden floors, and a bookshelf made of oak that is full of thickness. On one desk, a notebook with a basic leather cover lies there quietly, and a pen falls on the pen holder.
There is also a single sofa near the window sill, and a copper ashtray on the coffee table next to the sofa. Even the dark gray curtains on the window sill are almost exactly the same as in the memory! !
Chen Xiao stood at the door blankly, not even noticing when the door behind him closed. His hands began to tremble, and then his whole body began to tremble uncontrollably! !
"Is it an accident?" JOKER stood beside the desk. He reached out and took the pen on the desk in his hand, and gently turned the cap of the pen.
"You...did you deliberately arrange this place?" Chen Xiao stared at JOKER in disbelief.
JOKER's eyes were smiling. At this moment, Chen Xiao even felt a long-lost warmth from his eyes. His words "Dad" had already reached his lips and he almost shouted out.
Finally, Chen Xiao took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down. He deliberately said with a straight face: "You arranged this place to look like the study room at home. Why?"
JOKER didn't answer. He turned the cap of his pen casually: "I remember that when you were little, you often liked to sneak in at the door and peek at me through the crack in the door. Then you would run in, hold my legs, and let me take you out to the lake. walk."
JOKER's voice is very gentle.
Chen Xiao's eyes turned red.
"Also, you like to climb on the sofa next to the window sill. Once you fell off, your head hit the ground, and there was blood on your forehead. I coaxed you for a while, and then I coaxed you. Do not cry."
"You used to like to tear up the books on the bookshelf and use the pages to fold the airplane. Your mother scolded you several times for this, but you still liked to be naughty."
"Once upon a time..."
Chen Xiao suddenly shouted in a low voice: "Stop talking! Stop talking!!"
His face was ferocious, and the muscles on his face were twisted, but then tears burst into his eyes: "Stop talking! I... you..." His voice suddenly changed from a roar to a soft tone: "Please, stop talking. ! ”
JOKER looked at Chen Xiao, took two steps slowly, and then gently took off the mask on his face, revealing his original appearance.
Looking at the face of a delicate and handsome man in front of him, Chen Xiao felt that his heart was hit hard. He almost lost his balance and staggered, reaching out to hold the bookshelf before standing up.
JOKER looked at Chen Xiao: "Now, do you still have any doubts? My son!"
"Yes!" Chen Xiao bit his lip hard and blood flowed from the corner of his mouth. He stared at JOKER and said in a deep voice word by word:
"Why!"
JOKER was silent, the skin on his face was still smooth, and there was not a single wrinkle on his forehead. Then he quietly muttered: "Why... you want to ask me why..."
After a faint sigh, JOKER pointed to the sofa in front of the window sill: "Sit down, sit there. I remember that you liked to stay in that place the most, in the study, sitting aside and watching me reading. .”
Chen Xiao silently walked to the window sill and sat on the sofa. He couldn't help but glance outside the window sill. To his surprise, the scenery outside was really like the garden outside his old house at home! Green lawns, fence walls, quiet roads, and houses in the distance...
But soon, he calmed down and sneered: "These things, outside this window, are probably all fake scenes created by you! I remember I saw a set of equipment in the headquarters of the service agency, You can create all kinds of scenes.”
"My son." JOKER turned around and walked to the desk and sat down. He put his hands on the desk and even took out a box of cigarettes from the drawer. He threw one to Chen Xiao, lit it himself and smiled. : "You know? When you were young, I once thought that when you grow up and become a man, then we, father and son, will sit together and chat together like two men. What kind of scene it will be. Now it seems that this feeling is not bad."
Chen Xiao looked at the cigarette on the coffee table in front of him, hesitated for a moment, then picked it up, picked out a small ball of flame from his fingers and lit it.
"Do you know what love is?" JOKER's first question seemed a bit confusing.
He didn't really mean to ask, and then pointed to his heart: "Many, many years ago, Lao Tian and I, and another woman, I believe you already know some of our story."
"You are talking about Mingyue." Chen Xiao replied softly, thinking of Mingyue and Mingyue's descendants... Phoenix... Chen Xiao suddenly felt that the taste of cigarettes in his mouth was a bit bitter.
Phoenix is the descendant of his father and Mingyue... and I am his father's son... So, how should this relationship be calculated? !
"Ming Yue is the first woman I fell in love with in this world. I once thought she was also the only one." JOKER smiled. The way he smiled and the outline of his face vaguely resembled Chen Xiao's. Then he sighed and his eyes became a little distant: "Unfortunately, what I said is what I 'used' to think."
"I believe that Lao Tian has told you our story. In his description, he probably described me as a cold, emotionless, cruel bastard. I abandoned myself for the so-called sense of mission and the so-called ideal. He killed his own relatives and children, and even did some despicable things." JOKER looked at Chen Xiao, and then he smiled: "I can tell you, every sentence and word Lao Tian said is... Really! I am, indeed, just as he said, I am... "
JOKER, Chen Xiao's father, the most powerful man in the world, a man who is almost omnipotent and exists like a god, said this while smiling.
"Old Tian is right, I am a bastard."