Vincent opened his eyes in the white apparatus.
The machine beeped a flat and regular sound in his ear, and a burst of white light danced in his field of vision. He frowned, and a few seconds later, Caroline looked over. He, then turned off the light at the top—it was terribly weak for a normal person.
"Did I scare him?"
Vincent remained in a lying position without moving, and then asked.
His voice was hoarse and indistinguishable, but Caroline understood it right away...
And I'd rather I couldn't hear it at all.
There was a small voice in her heart.
Of course, Caroline in real life just gave him a gentle smile.
"You should be more worried about yourself," she told Vincent. "Your organs are failing, and if we don't find the 'Prince' quickly and give you a transplant, you're in serious danger of life..."
"Rand should be horrified by me this time," Vincent said with a blank expression, looking at the grain of the decorative walnut on the ceiling, "I screwed up again. Maybe I don't. You should meet him."
Caroline didn't speak. She sat next to Vincent with a document marked "TOP SECRET" in red on one hand, while the other hand was hidden under the bed, pinching her own thigh deeply. .
Vincent was still talking to himself.
"...I dreamed of my mother."
He says.
"Snapped-"
The document in Caroline's hand fell to the ground. She looked at Vincent in shock, as if the white body had turned into some kind of ghost at that moment.
No, to be precise, just leaking those two syllables from Vincent's mouth is already a ghost in the world for Caroline.
She stood there, and it took her a while to react, and then, trying to maintain her apparent calm, she bent down and picked up the document from the floor.
"You just had a nightmare."
She said dryly to Vincent, trying to change the subject.
"Vincent, I think you really need to focus on finding the 'Prince'. Your body won't last long, but now is not the time for you to close your eyes and pass away peacefully! The Arctic laboratory accident You still need to do follow-up processing. The Pentagon has been listening to the 'Siren Project', and the shareholders of Shenbai, you know, they want to get you down in their dreams..."
"The pain I suffered is the punishment I deserve."
Vincent said in a low voice among those instruments.
Caroline's eyes trembled, and she stretched out her hand unbearably and took Vincent's finger.
"Vincent, look at me... Your illness is due to the failure of mitochondria due to a problem with your genes, it's a genetic defect caused by your family's goddamn customs! It's your past, with Rand, with Mrs. Sivers —It has nothing to do with it!" Her eyes were a little hot, and some crystal tears appeared in her eyes, "We were only children at that time, no one would want that to happen, it was just a... tragedy. Mrs. Sivers did those things because of her depression, and if she had even the slightest sense of normality at the time, she would never have blamed you for Rand's kidnapping. Vincent, what the hell are you doing? How long are you going to suffer because of this? You know, you're not just punishing yourself, you're... you're punishing me."
She finished these words in pain, and then looked at Vincent with a pale face.
Vincent pulled his fingers back from Caroline's wet and cold palms.
A secret and cruel smile appeared on Vincent's mouth, and he finally turned his head to look at Caroline.
"You're right," he said to Caroline. "And the punishment will continue until the day you and I both die."
Caroline stood up abruptly, and the chair fell to the ground under her movements, hitting the thick, soft carpet.
without any words...
Her face was bloodless, and she breathed like a fish without water. The choking sound leaked out weakly, and the tears could no longer be controlled.
"She never liked me..." Her voice was incredibly thin, and if anyone who had seen Caroline in the company saw her now, she would be shocked by her fragility and despair, "Do you remember how she treated us, Vincent? Just because I'm a Jew... Your mother even tolerated what you did to Rand, but couldn't let me be with you! Is this Is it my fault? Yes, I was the one who proposed removing the security system from the internal control panel, but you were the one who stole the code! You swore you were going to run away from that deformed family, you swore you didn't Overwhelmed by that disgusting family habit, you swore to stay with me. If it wasn't for your mother trying to imprison you in that way, nothing would have happened, no one would have thought that lunatic would come that day, no one! It was just an accident, an accident..."
At the end of the utterance, Caroline's wailing shattered all the words and words.
If it wasn't for the accident sixteen years ago, maybe she and Vincent are still enjoying the love that normal people should have.
In fact, however, this is just a wish.
According to the FBI's investigation file, the woman who kidnapped Rand is a real high-IQ criminal. She entered the house so easily, even the door lock was not broken, and the founder of Deep White Biotechnology The couple's custom-made security system was arguably the best in the world at the time—by any measure.
In the countless days that followed, Vincent had fantasized that he hadn't done that thing.
He never hacked into his mother's phone, never stole the password, never unlocked the security system.
At that time, he had just realized that something was extremely abnormal and perverted, he was so frightened, and Caroline came into his life like sunshine. She is like a coordinate, or a lighthouse. For Vincent, she represents a completely different life, a life belonging to a normal person. He fell in love with this girl of Jewish blood without any hesitation...
And Mrs. Sivers was about to go mad.
On the one hand, it absorbs the most advanced and advanced science and technology in the world, and on the other hand, it is unbelievably conservative - the two contradictory characteristics are so obvious in Mrs. Sivers, in this extremely ancient family, you may There are many privileges to ignore taboos, yet there are some lines that you absolutely cannot cross.
For example, falling in love with a woman of dirty blood.
She took control of Vincent's life to the best of her ability. In this almost frenzied confinement, Vincent began plotting a run away together—or, more romantically, an elopement.
He had chosen a good day when both his father and mother had to stay at the company because of something in the lab. And Vincent used some small means to modify Rand's personal escort instructions, making her mistakenly think that she doesn't need to go to work on this day.
Then, he completely disarmed the security system of the whole house, and then slipped into Caroline's house, where he kept money and Caroline was responsible for collecting everything needed for this "escape". It took them some time to unpack, and in the process... Rand, who was a child at the time, was completely exposed without any protection or escort.
Vinson calculated it well. There will be no problem, he thought, this is the highest wealthy area in the entire area, and it is daytime, and the most important thing is that no one will know that he has actually lifted the security system...
And that's how Rand was taken away.
Vincent once felt that the family was so deformed and sick, but when he lost it completely, he realized that he had always been a member of that family.
That family is the soil of his existence, even if he once thought it was sick and twisted.
Oh yes, he could not deny that the most secretive things in that family were indeed sick and twisted, but like a flower blooming on the filthiest dirt, he could only learn from the disgusting Live from the nourishment of things.
Just like his ancestors have been doing for generations.
Although, his stupidity ruined everything.
The miserable cries of a former lover never left a trace on his stone-hard heart.
Vincent slowly closed his eyes as Caroline cried.
After all, Caroline was right about one thing, and now he can't just die like this.
He also needs to protect Rand, his lost treasure, his ermenos, his soil... He will always protect him.
forever.