Adrian took a step forward. He was tall and handsome, and when he got angry, it was terrifying and oppressive. The two of them were very close, and their breaths were entangled.
"I haven't talked about anything clearly. Why are you in a hurry to answer?" Adrian asked him fiercely, "You asked me to come here, and you are so perfunctory? Are you getting impatient after a few words?"
Zhong Yan said angrily, "Let go!"
He has been circling in the circle of councilors. Everyone is well-dressed and decent in words and deeds. The intrigue is only in terms of means and schemes. He has never been trapped by force so roughly, and he can't stop struggling for a while. It's a pity that he is half a head shorter than Adrian, and he is still facing the top of the individual combat rankings of the military academy of the highest institution of the year. The huge disparity in strength makes it impossible for him to break free, and instead exhausts his last physical strength .
"Let me tell you, I won't spend any more money on you. You can either obediently refuse and transfer me 40,000 yuan, or pay 360,000 yuan." Adrian looked at him condescendingly. His eyes were full of anger, shining brightly in this dim corridor, "—I don't care about your reputation, don't imagine that I will pay for you."
"You let go..." Zhong Yan said dizzily, a sense of absurdity rose in his heart.
They had walked this corridor together dozens of times late at night. At the age of eighteen (harmony) and nine years old, just to secretly meet in the middle of the night, hack into the system, conduct field investigations, plan routes, create secret codes, and finally successfully escape the school's monitoring and successfully meet up at night under the curfew. What I want to say is that those midnight whispers are just daily routines during the day. A certain professor and a certain director of the Military Academy seem to have an affair. In class, they were caught by the professor when they brushed the school forum... To put it bluntly, they just wanted to enjoy the excitement of violating school rules, but they seemed to have accomplished some amazing feat, full of excitement and never tired of it.
When they were young at that time, they would never have imagined that it would be such an embarrassing situation for them to avoid everyone and meet in this secret base again after many years.
"Let's talk in another place." Zhong Yan lowered his head and said in a low voice, "Another day... another day, I'll talk to you in another place."
"You said another day? I'm busy, Congressman, and I don't have time to argue with you again and again. Besides—I don't want to see you again."
Zhong Yan raised his head abruptly, and exploded, "How could you do this?!"
At such a close distance, even in dim light, it was enough for Adrian to see clearly—Zhong Yan's eyes were red.
How can he do that? Adrian froze in astonishment. Why does Zhong Yan look like he's about to cry
"This is 'above'! Can't you say it in other places? Why are you like this—and in the 'laboratory' too, you..." Zhong Yan's chest heaved violently, and he immediately realized his gaffe, and closed his eyes. Closing his eyes, he forced himself to calm down, "It's nothing, I'm sorry. I mean, can you let go, you hurt me a little bit."
What is said elsewhere? Didn't Zhong Yan himself arrange to meet here? Adrian felt that the other party was making trouble for no reason. "Laboratory"... ? That's right, he pretended to give Zhong Yan a rabbit specimen at the door of the "laboratory" that had been remodeled, but was told that Zhong Yan looked like he had cried when he entered the ceremony.
But now he didn't mention the rabbit thing? Why are you crying again? ?
He let go of the other party's wrist without a clue. Unexpectedly, after losing the strength of being held hostage, Zhong Yan fell down directly. Adrian was startled, and subconsciously reached out to help, "Why—"
Only then did he notice that the other person's face was so pale that it was almost sickly, and there were two clusters of unhealthy blushes on his cheeks.
Zhong Yan staggered two steps, broke free from Adrian's arms, and stood with his back against the wall.
"Another day." He gasped, "I'm... busy right now."
Adrian pursed his lips. Just now he hugged Zhong Yan's waist, even if it was only for a few seconds, it was enough to feel through the thin shirt that the other's temperature was frighteningly hot - Zhong Yan was having a fever. No wonder he was a little confused when he spoke just now, unlike his usual calm appearance.
But he didn't intend to accommodate the other party.
"No, let's talk about it clearly, I won't see you after today. You are not going to pay, and you are not willing to disobey 'Butterfly', so it doesn't matter if you marry someone you don't like? Marriage is such a sacred thing, you just So casual?—what are you laughing at?"
Zhong Yan suddenly laughed softly when he was speaking, and stopped laughing when he heard the words, shook his head and said: "I laugh at you, after all these years, you are still so naive. Marriage is sacred, so even if you lose your job and consume your savings, You have to defend it, right? And great ideals are worth abandoning everything and pursuing them desperately, right?"
His voice was not high, slow, and there was some sense of sarcasm for no reason. Adrian looked at him coldly and said firmly, "Yes, of course!"
"That's what you think. Not everyone is like you, born with a prominent family and endless money. I was abandoned by my parents when I came into this world. I have nothing. You know the underdeveloped What kind of life did you live in the Little Planet Orphanage? Do you know what it’s like to live in different adoptive families, watching people’s faces, and relying on others?! People speak lightly, let others bully, no one cares about you, this What is it like, do you know? You don’t know, right? You have always been the focus of everyone. You want to win the wind and the rain to win the rain. But I have come to this day, and everything I have worked out by gritting my teeth A whole twenty years! At the last moment, just because a good friend raised his arms and asked me to give up the opportunity that has been given to me to rise to the top?"
The more Zhong Yan spoke, the more excited he became. It was rare for him to speak so harshly. He stopped and took a deep breath, looked at Adrian and said, "I'm sorry, even if that friend is you, I can't do it."
Adrian stared fiercely into his eyes and asked, "Is this why you betrayed me?"
"You call this a betrayal? The year we graduated, the situation was different from now. Most of the people accepted the 'butterfly' arrangement, and as far as I know, you still maintain good contact with a few of them , Dudu blocked my communication account. Feng Weiran, he is a friend of your military academy, and he went to the Glory sector according to the suggestion of 'Die'. Entering the Na'vi sector for the first time, with your special permission. They also 'betrayed' you, why don't you block them? Why don't you hate them? Why...why you only hate me!"
Zhong Yan spoke extremely fast, as if this passage had been pressed in his heart for a long, long time, until today he finally had a chance to express it quickly.
"He's just—wait a minute," Adrian narrowed his eyes dangerously, "you're spying on my network."
Zhong Yan could hardly stand still, his whole body was weak, and his head was dizzy, "Yes. I use public power for private use. One of the many conveniences brought by power. There are no clean members. Don't you keep preaching this?"
Adrian choked, and couldn't find the point of ridicule for a while, he quickly grasped the previous topic: "Feng Weiran was born in Glory, originally Planning to go back, he just accepted his ideal position, so why betrayal?"
"I just accepted my dream job!"
"Your ideal position is to be a subordinate of Butterfly? Why didn't you mention this when I talked to you about the necessity of human autonomy?! You deliberately misled me by keeping silent for three years!"
"What did I say? When you talked to me about the disadvantages of artificial intelligence, and you criticized 'Butterfly' to be useless with righteous indignation, I said, if I am judged to be suitable for the House of Representatives when I graduate, I will go? This was not possible at the time. What's the point of low assumptions?"
"Of course it makes sense. If I had known that you were such a person—" Adrian paused, "I wouldn't be friends with you at all."
These words seemed to have broken the pillar that had supported Zhong Yan to stand here, he collapsed down, his arm knocked on the edge of the stairs, and it hurt.
This time Adrian didn't reach out.
"I still have something to do." Zhong Yan couldn't stand up at all, and the blackness in front of him pounced upon him layer by layer. He tried to keep his last dignity in front of this person, but he couldn't maintain a steady voice, but his tone was firm: "You go. We're done. Go away."
"Okay, you can fend for yourself." Adrian said angrily, and left him without hesitation.
Adrian stepped out of the tower and bumped into a floating camera head-on.
Because he used the tower roof as a secret meeting place, he is very familiar with the operation of all the nearby surveillance. For example, he knows that the camera suspended above him and slowly flying horizontally will fly into the tower from the platform on the second floor of the tower, then slowly patrol the entire corridor, and then fly out from the window on the top floor, and will not fly upstairs Rooftop.
This kind of camera in a remote corner of the campus is not intelligent, it will not adjust the flight route in real time according to the detected situation, it will only patrol according to the set fixed route, and it is not equipped with a real-time intelligent analysis system. Small, only half the size of a fist.
But it has the function of ambient temperature detection.
The school’s monitoring center system will uniformly filter these monitorings every hour, that is to say—Adrian raised the terminal on his wrist to check the time—after 40 minutes, the intelligent analysis system will find that the West Wing of the Academy of Arts In the corridor of the tower, there was a man with an obviously high temperature. Fever is not a fatal emergency, and the warning will not be sent to the school's medical institutions. Instead, in the middle of the night, a man without a student ID appeared in such a remote corner. Although no weapons were detected, it still triggered the security department. low-level alert. It will take about ten minutes for the nearest patrolling security guard to check the situation.
That is to say, in less than an hour, someone would find Zhong Yan, a non-voting member, having a high fever.
Of course, if Zhong Yan contacted his accompanying assistant right now and told the assistant his physical condition, he would not have to wait an hour, but could receive effective assistance within ten minutes.
But Zhong Yan would not. Zhong Yan hated others to see his weak and embarrassed side the most in his life, so he was always concerned about his own image. God knows why a person from the bottom of the society is so arrogant. Just like just now, he was obviously in such a bad state that he couldn't stand up, couldn't have a normal conversation, and he refused to show weakness, insisting that he drove people away because of "something to do now".
Seven years ago, Adrian sent him to the school treatment room many times, and he was so angry when he said "it's okay" to the doctor. He knew Zhong Yan too well, of course Zhong Yan would not take the initiative to contact the assistant.
Adrian looked up, the patrol camera had already started to rise, and it would soon reach the open platform on the second floor. After tens of seconds, it will dutifully photograph Zhong Yan.
Adrian closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
Immediately afterwards, he turned around abruptly for a run-up, jumped up, and flew over a wall in mid-air, grabbing the small camera in the air, then flipped back in the air, and fell back to the ground steadily.
Adrian crushed the camera with one hand, stuffed the debris into his coat pocket, and walked back to the corridor with a gloomy expression.
He had just walked to the third floor when he suddenly heard a faint whimpering sound from above. He was clearly crying, but the voice was extremely restrained, and... extremely familiar.