Boston, USA

"Koji Haneda is dead."

The mottled tree shadows outside the window fell quietly on the walnut shelf in the study room. The old man took off his monocle and looked silently at the kind middle-aged man who spoke.

After a while, Rum finally heard the old man say: "Really?"

Outside is a vast lawn with shady trees, and you can glimpse the beautiful lake view and swans in the distance. Compared to the "godfather" who is in charge of a black force, Rum feels that the owner of this manor is more like a reclusive old man.

noble.

But there are always people disturbing their peace.

Thinking of this, Rum's eyes darkened: "This is not surprising. Those insects have always been dirty in their methods. It's just that they stopped too quickly. I'm worried that they have a new target."

"Ah, you mean..."

"Akai Hideyoshi."

…

"Mary, London is no longer safe. Take your children to Japan." The man's voice on the phone was mixed with breathing, and you could still vaguely hear the sound of wind. In addition, the call spanned two continents and a vast ocean, and Mary heard it very hard.

difficult.

"It's children, children, Wuwu." Mary repeated loudly, "You are about to be the father of three children, and we may be about to have a daughter."

"Really?" The voice on the phone was filled with a bit of excitement and joy, but he quickly said to Mary, "Only take Shuichi away and leave Hideyoshi behind."

Mary didn't understand: "Why? You can't let a mother abandon her child knowing the danger."

"I can't leave now when something happens, but the FBI will protect him."

So Mary didn't ask any more questions.

She is from MI6, and her husband is from the FBI. The first prerequisite for this spy couple to maintain a stable and happy marriage is to be loyal to the country, to the family, to remain silent, and not to be curious.

So she didn't ask why she fled to Japan, she didn't ask what troubled Akai Mutake as a father at such an important time, and she didn't ask about the FBI's arrangements for Hideyoshi.

She thought that probably because of Hideyoshi's special characteristics, the FBI wanted to use them to attract possible dangers and protect Hideyoshi alone.

This is a sensible and logical approach, and she would have made the same decision.

But when she left with Shuichi, and when Hideyoshi ran after the taxi, crying for his mother to take him away, a mother's heart broke.

"Hideyoshi, you have to live and live well." She warned Hideyoshi, which was also a psychological hint to herself.

…

"On June 28, the results of the 18th SN18 survival experiment of test subject AM712 were recorded. There was no response to slapping, no response to calling, the chest rose and fell normally... the pupil response to light was normal."

"The bone age test is 11 years old, which is abnormal."

"AM712 reacted violently! Inject a sedative!!"

…

Hideyoshi felt that his eyes were foggy, as if he were separated by a layer of white gauze. He could see a figure moving in front of his eyes, but if he looked carefully, he could not see anything clearly.

His eardrums were aching, and his whole body felt like it was covered in a mask, and he was very slow to perceive everything in the outside world.

Where is this?

What happened before...?

Vaguely, Hideyoshi seemed to remember the dazzling shadowless lamp, the pain of every bone in his body being shattered, corroded, and reorganized, he remembered shouting for survival, and...a violent explosion.

He seemed to have been rescued.

who?

"He seems to be awake."

In a daze, Hideyoshi seemed to hear someone speaking.

"The temporary deafness and blindness caused by the explosion and fire is not a big problem. It's just a scar under the eyelid. It shouldn't be anything for a boy, right?"

"Oh, Houji, be tolerant to him, he is still a child."

"He is not an ordinary child. Those people smoked him with a special poison gas, which should destroy the DNA of existing cells in his body and facilitate the reorganization and change of genetic information, including the modification of telomeres. There is nothing I can do about the sequelae of the poison gas. Take medicine.

It can be suppressed, but it will be accompanied by random amnesia."

"...What did you just say? It's not a big problem?"

He doesn’t want to lose his memory!

Hideyoshi struggled desperately.

He wants to get out of this damn place, he wants to go home!!

…

He wants to go home!!

…

Yu Jiang opened his eyes suddenly.

There was no fog in front of me, and there were no noisy sounds around me.

He was lying on the bed in the bedroom, beside his warm and soft girlfriend... No, his girlfriend was missing!

Yu Jiang sat up and touched the bed next to him. It was already cold. It was obvious that Miyamoto Yumi had left home very early.

On the contrary, Fantuan jumped onto the bed when he heard the noise and rubbed his head against his palm.

Yujiang carried the rice ball and went to the kitchen to look for food.

I didn't find breakfast, but I found a broken chess game on the coffee table in the living room.

After Miyamoto Yumi learned shogi from Yujie for a while, she was now able to beat the old man in the park. She became more and more fascinated with shogi, and often asked Yujiang to play a game when she had nothing to do. But Yujiang didn't expect that the little girl was so capable.

I am in a leisurely mood, and am in the mood to play chess with myself before going to work in the morning.

Yu Jiang stared at the chessboard for a while, then stretched out his hand to mess up the chessboard.

Since Yumi didn't leave any food for him, just find a convenience store to buy something on the way to work.

As usual, he walked his dog before going to work. When buying rice balls, he took a copy of today's morning newspaper from the newsstand.

The headline on the front page of the newspaper read #The real culprit in the terrorist attack on the Tokyo Summit was him. It described in detail the excellent prosecutor Makoto Kusakabe and his grievances with the police.

But that's not the focus of this report.

Of course, Kusakabe Makoto's arrest at least proves that Yasuharu Haneda's suspicion has been cleared, but compared with the later paragraph that mentions the crimes of the predecessor of the police, it is much less shocking.

Yujiang wanted to add chicken legs to the editor of this report. This kind of article that pulls out the carrot and brings out the mud is really interesting. It raises the biggest issue through the Tokyo Summit incident that everyone is paying attention to, without giving the parties involved any chance to react.

He looked at it and couldn't help laughing.

"Teacher Shimizu seems to be in a good mood today?"

Ikue turned around when he heard the sound, and following him into the school were Sugiyama Kensuke and Matsuzaka Kyoko, both math teachers.

"Good morning." Yu Jiang greeted with a smile, "The weather is really nice today. Walking in the sunshine makes me feel good."

Kyoko Matsuzaka complained: "I always feel that Mr. Shimizu is holding something back. What do you think, Mr. Sugiyama?"

"Yeah, don't ask this kind of question in front of the person involved..."

"I haven't had time to prepare lessons, so I have to leave first." Matsuzaka Kyoko walked a few steps quickly and distanced herself from the teachers before waving her hand.

Now apart from the students in twos and threes at the school gate, there are only two people, Yue and Sugiyama Kensuke.

Probably because Karasuma Renya gave him some instructions, Sugiyama Kensuke opened his mouth and said: "Do you want to go to an izakaya to get together tonight?"

"I won't go." Yu Jiang refused coldly.

"You really don't want to go? What kind of social creature are you if you haven't been to an izakaya?"

"If you want to go, go by yourself."

This guy usually just paid attention to him quietly, but now he suddenly asked to go somewhere with him. It must be Karasuma Renye who asked him to protect him.

Yu Jiang neither needed protection from others nor wanted to live under surveillance, so he decisively refused and walked to his office without looking back.

But obviously Karasuma Renya's decision will not be restrained just because of Yue's lack of cooperation.

After finally finishing the day at school, Yu Jiang watched the developments on the Internet from time to time. He watched the public security-related entries climb to the top of the social platform, watched netizens question, curse, and worried comments, and hid his deep knowledge and skills.

name.

After get off work, Yu Jiang met William Drake wearing sunglasses and a leather jacket at the school gate.

"To be honest, this look doesn't suit you very well." Yu Jiang complained coldly.

William Drake helped him open the back seat door, and said in a daze: "Yes, I will change when I get back in the evening, and I won't wear this again in the future."

Yu Jiang walked around him, walked to the passenger seat and sat in.

When William Drake looked over, he said, "No more, Mr. Drake."

"What?"
To be continued...