"When I was young, I saw this symbol where I lived." Huang Jinchen stretched out his hand from behind Kou Tong, and his fingertips lightly traced the outline of the map, "The counselor told me that it was a seed."
His very light breath swept behind Kou Tong's ears, and the two were very close, but for some reason, they were not ambiguous at all.
"The counselor is like a nanny, responsible for bringing up our children, teaching us to speak, and some basic enlightenment for children." When Huang Jinchen said these words, his expression was not angry, not depressed, and he did not miss it. However, he was vaguely confused, "At that time, I remember that there were many children around, each of them had a separate room, and they were very strict with us at ordinary times, and there were strict time limits for daily living. Get in touch with people around you.”
"When I got older, I never saw the counselor again. I was sent to an unfamiliar place for closed training. The training was based on elimination, and the people around were still changing like a revolving lantern." Huang Jinchen Leaning back, he leaned on Kou Tong's desk, knocked over an old pen holder above it, and a lot of small things fell out of it, almost everything except the pen.
Huang Jinchen raised his eyebrows, flipped through it casually, and found that there were not only collection cards in various instant noodle snacks, but also a love letter written by a little girl whose hair was not yet fully grown.
Huang Jinchen couldn't help laughing silently, which made his arrogant eyebrows look a lot softer. Kou Tong said indifferently, "Don't laugh, that was written by my first love in my dreams."
Huang Jinchen looked at him with wide eyes: "Doctor Kou, we are a pure medical staff, can we not have such a rich love history?"
Kou Tong said: "Medical staff also have a beautiful green era."
Huang Jinchen sighed bitterly: "Oh, I'm rubbing it, it's so damn late to meet each other, I couldn't pinch the little green onion away in the cradle, and now it's turned into a big radish."
Kou Tong continued: "I still remember her name now. Her name is X103. She smiles with dimples and has a long braid. Every time I see it, I can't help but want to grab it."
Huang Jinchen was taken aback.
Kou Tong said: "Didn't I tell you, my mother passed away fifteen years ago. Since I obviously didn't have the ability to live independently at that time, without a guardian, I couldn't contact other relatives for a while, so Sent to a community orphanage. Then inexplicably picked out, given a bunch of unintelligible tests, and then taken away by a group of people."
Huang Jinchen asked softly, "Then what?"
Kou Tong hesitated for a moment: "I can't tell you exactly what happened. I was young at that time, and my mood was not stable at that time. Many memories should have been processed by me in the later period, and it may not be the actual situation of that year."
Huang Jinchen nodded. When Kou Tong spoke in a particularly objective manner, there was a strange attraction and a sense of reliability, which made people unconsciously believe him.
"I'm also a counselor, with a bunch of peers who live in different cells." Kou Tong turned to look into Huang Jinchen's eyes. At that moment, the two of them seemed to have the same thing in their eyes, as if they were completely different. In the body, the same cold and mysterious blood is flowing.
"But I'm not like you." Kou Tong said, "I was already quite old when I went in. In theory, I don't need a counselor to teach me how to eat, dress, speak and write. I only lived in a little house for more than one seed. moon."
Huang Jinchen finally couldn't help but interject, "You have a little girlfriend in a month."
Kou Tong said, "Brother, shall we talk about key issues first?"
Huang Jinchen nodded hurriedly: "Yes, you say, you say."
Kou Tong continued: "Yes, your first little sister-in-law met in this month. The children around are like you, they are strictly controlled, and the neighbors often change people, so they don't take the initiative to talk to others. , but none of these can resist the juvenile heart of my youth."
Huang Jinchen suddenly felt that he had nothing to say - ever since he met this man named Kou Tong, who looked like a dog on the surface, but was actually very cheap, he often found that his three-inch tongue had nothing to say. Said, it can be described as a chess match.
Kou Tong, a slut, said solemnly: "For the first time, I short-circuited the circuit in the house while no one was paying attention. As a result, due to the leakage protection, the fuse blew and automatically tripped, and there was no accident. When I got up, I was almost found out. So I learned my lesson the second time and made a second attempt."
Huang Jinchen felt that when Dr. Kou was "young", he must have been a more numb terrorist than Manman.
"I got the resistor out of the kettle, plugged it in, and hung it on a stack of books on the wooden table. It didn't take long for the smoke to rise."
Huang Jinchen looked at him in amazement.
Kou Tong smiled: "Smoke floated all over the corridor, and the fire alarm screamed, and soon a group of firefighters came in, and all the children living in the grid were evacuated when the lights were dark. I Finally got a chance to hook up with X103."
Then the smile on his face slowly disappeared, and his expression became more solemn: "It was from her that I learned about the 'seed', and then inferred a lot of things - when we were young, we would go through a lot of tests every once in a while. , I found that after each test, some of the children moved away."
Huang Jinchen thought about it carefully: "That's what happened, and then what?"
"I deduced that it should be some kind of screening." Kou Tong said, "So I negotiated a solution with X103. We lived close by, and the windows were locked at that time, but fortunately there was a place for the healthy growth of children. , did not seal the window, it still looked like transparent glass, we calculated the angle, and when we couldn’t meet, we used a small mirror to agree on a code to convey the message.”
Huang Jinchen folded his arms on his chest and listened carefully, feeling that Kou Tong was a bit of a monster, and he had the potential to be an underground party in Chongqing since he was a child.
"This led to a long period of time where we kept changing addresses and, unsurprisingly, I was with X103, but instead of leaving that 'seed' base, we kept going on to the next phase of testing. ."
Huang Jinchen frowned: "Why haven't I moved?"
"Maybe your personal characteristics are very obvious." Kou Tong said, "According to your description, you should have left the 'seed' at a very young age to participate in training. I guess, the 'seed' should be a special training The place where there are people, like a secret base, selects some children with different potentials without guardians, passes many tests, and finally selects one for them to choose the best training plan, and turn us into a certain kind of people."
Huang Jinchen was silent, then he opened the "love letter" that X103 wrote to Kou Tong, read the words of the children who didn't understand for a long time, and asked, "What is written on it?"
"It's a secret code." Kou Tong took the letter with a little nostalgia on his face, "Using the difference in the number of words in each sentence to simulate the Morgan code."
Huang Jinchen has calmed down at this time, and nodded with a high degree of acceptance: "Oh, the children's version is lurking—what did she say?"
"We were discovered." Kou Tong said, "This was the last message she left me. The next day, the two of us were separated. When I woke up, I had been sent out of the 'seed' base and accepted In training, General Zhong is my instructor. As for X103, I will never see her again."
Huang Jinchen thought for a while: "With the qualifications of this little girl, it is very likely that she is now working as a beautiful spy in a certain country."
After a while, Kou Tong whispered, "Who knows? Maybe."
The two fell silent at the same time. After a while, Kou Tong suddenly took off his shirt. On his shoulder blade, Huang Jinchen saw the shape of a seed, and he couldn't help pressing his back - there, he once had one, Because he was going to go undercover in Utopia, the mission was special, so he was hidden.
"I didn't know the truth about the seeds until a long time later." Kou Tong said, "At that time, I already had the highest authority in the ST base, and I could check many things that I couldn't see before."
"What is it?" Huang Jinchen asked.
"Gene implantation."
Huang Jinchen frowned, and Kou Tong explained carefully: "You know that our era happened to be the era of the big bang when anthropological discussions about 'innumerable possibilities of human evolution' produced some crazy products, such as It is now called the utopia of technological terrorism. And gene implantation was another idea at that time. It was imagined that a child could be properly implanted according to some of his own characteristics, according to a very famous person in history. Will the genes synthesized by the body of a person unearth a person's potential on a larger scale, making him countless times more than normal people in a certain aspect, and thus called a 'superman' in a certain sense?"
Huang Jinchen felt a chill in his stomach, which made the most precious hands of a former sniper whose psychological quality was too good to be like a person tremble slightly.
Kou Tong's next sentence was like a cold sentence, hitting him hard, Kou Tong said: "Yes, the seed is a very important experiment in the gene implantation plan, but it doesn't seem to be very successful, The precision of the human body was far from what people at that time had expected. Many children had 'gene rejection'. When there was artificial disharmony in the living body, the human body would automatically clean up. Various personality disorders, brain damage, etc., there are only a few successful cases - even before the gene implantation, the base did conduct very detailed investigations and tests on these children who were used as experimental products."
"The experimental materials are still highly confidential, and I only came into contact with some of them by chance. After years of research and verification, I only got a little bit of the truth." Kou Tong glanced at Huang Jinchen, "But don't worry, you are free now. .The day the projector started to work normally, I was free, what I did was regarded as worthy of the gene in my body, as for you, after Utopia, they will let you come to the ST special expert group Eating leisurely meals should also acquiesce in your retirement application... "
"Freedom?" Huang Jinchen interrupted him suddenly, his voice was a little sharp, revealing a very dangerous aura, and then he laughed in a low voice, like some kind of ominous bird that haunts at night, "You said I... Freedom?"
I have lived for so many years, and I don't even understand who I am, how can I be free
How can a person exist differently from other human beings? Is it the body? Organ? Conscious? Or DNA? Even the genes are no longer the same, what else... can prove that I once existed
Kou Tong turned his head silently, looking at the shape of the map.
Suddenly, Huang Jinchen rushed over and hugged him tightly, like a drowning child grabbing the last piece of driftwood. The fingers were pinching his clothes wrinkled as if they were going to dig into his flesh. He hugged so tightly, trembling all over, desperately trying to absorb the last bit of warmth from Kou Tong's body, so as not to let the cold in his heart drown the top of his head.
The whole world under his feet seems to be far away from him, there is only one person, they have the same marks and experiences, the same memories and pains, as if only he can depend on each other for life.
who I am? Huang Jinchen secretly asked himself—what am I