Chapter 9: Andrews's Past
Thirty-three years ago, at the age of 22, Andrews received a double doctorate in physics and biochemistry from MIT, which was a sensation in the whole school at MIT at that time, and his supervisor's evaluation of him can only be described as "demonic", and because of his genius-like mind, strong scientific foresight and creative thinking, this genius is even more restless in a small scientific circle.
In this year, he met his future partner, Abigail. This is a beautiful Chinese-looking scientific talent, and when the two meet, they feel that there are countless topics that attract each other, and what seems to others to be a work scene is the best place for both of them to go on a date, which makes each other secretly promise the rest of their lives.
Indeed, the year after they met, they became sentient companions, and two years later, they had a crystallization, which was Phoenix. This kind of beautiful life, as if God has created the best life for Andrews, also makes the colleagues around him envious. But everything changed forever that day.
Andrews arrived home that day after solving a biological puzzle in the laboratory as usual, and when he was about to ring the doorbell, he heard a loud noise coming from the house, followed by a strong explosion that burst the windows of the house, and then a powerful chill enveloped the entire courtyard, and an arm-thick icicle protruded from the hole in the glass of the exploding window, and the powerful aurae made Andrews's mind blank for a while.
Coming back to his senses for a moment, Andrews hurriedly pulled out the key and rushed into the house. What caught his eye was a sight that he would never forget for the rest of his life: a man with snow-white hair, a pale blue dress, and two small ears on his forehead, who had the appearance of an elf, and from the appearance of the other, it was Abigail. Standing in front of Abigail was a super-large unicorn monster, a blazing flame constantly wriggling in his mouth, as if the flames were in his mouth, like saliva in Ren's mouth, and he didn't feel strange at all.
"Andrews, take Phoenix out!" Andrews, who had no idea where he was, stared at everything in front of him with wide eyes, and he felt like he was forgetting to breathe, until Abigail's voice pulled him back to reality. He yelled Abigail's name, then turned and ran to the bedroom, looking at Phoenix, who was constantly crying, he took him into his arms, and then called Abigail desperately. Looking at Abigail in battle, Andrews stepped back step by step, gritting his teeth and carrying Phoenix out of the room.
Andrews, who was outside the courtyard, looked at the scene of alternating flames and ice on the opposite side, and then looked at young Phoenix, and after comforting him, Andrews turned and ran towards Abigail alone.
At this time, the entire house has been plunged into an alternating scene of icebergs and fires, and the intense heat and cold have turned this place into a hellish scene. The anxious Andrews looked at a long water pipe for watering flowers in the yard, immediately made a decision, drenched himself, and then quickly connected the water pipe to the faucet, and dragged the water pipe to the door with all his strength. He kicked on the door that was smiling with flames, and suddenly a wave of heat hit him. He didn't pause at all, instinctively squirting in the direction of the source of the fire. Suddenly, an angry roar reached his ears.
"Andrews, spray water on me!" Abigail's loud shout made Andrews's heart move, and he tried to keep his eyes open in the direction of Abigail's voice, pinching the hose, and constantly looking at Abigail's spray.
In the hazy scene, Andrews saw that Abigail's hands seemed to be like the sealing technique in the movie, the legend of the East, the two hands were quickly crossed, and the water sprayed on her body instantly seemed to encounter some kind of traction, and they revolved around Abigail one after another, gradually forming a thick hydrosphere, and there was a faint energy around the hydrosphere.
Abigail was faintly heard shouting, and the water circle around him flew towards the fire-breathing unicorn at a rapid speed, and then quickly froze it in an instant, and even the flames that erupted from its mouth turned into an icicle at this moment.
"Abigail!" Andrews felt the temperature in the room drop rapidly, and the ice sculpture of a unicorn came into his eyes, and he breathed a sigh of relief, shouted Abigail's name, and ran eagerly in her direction.
"Andrews, don't come here!" Abigail had a look of surprise on his face, but by the time she exited, Andrews was already running in her direction. At the same time, the unicorn monster that formed the ice sculpture slammed the soles of its feet at this moment, and a strong aura overflowed from the unfrozen soles of his feet.
A loud vibrating sound followed its footsteps, and the monster jerked away from its place, and with the shape of an ice sculpture, it rushed towards Andrews like a cannonball. The large, sharp, frozen horn stabbed at Andrews like a sharp spear.
The blood flowers drifted away, and a pale blue elf appeared in front of Andrews between the lightning and flint, and the huge sharp unicorn stabbed her in the chest, and a mouthful of blood mist sprayed out, Abigail's chest shook, and the unicorn that stabbed her seemed to be shocked by an invisible force, and its huge body flew backwards and flew out, smashing a huge pit on the ground.
"Abigail ......" Andrews has completely collapsed, he holds Abigail's bleeding body with one hand, and then squats down with his body, tears falling down in tears, and keeps calling. At this time, he had completely forgotten everything around him, and only Abigail was left in his eyes and mind.
"Andrews, I'm sorry...... I...... I've been hiding the truth from you. Abigail's whole body seemed to collapse, Qingli's face gradually lost its blood, he tilted his head and endured the severe pain to look at Andrews, this is the man she can't fall in love with and has to fall in love with, it is her happiness and her misfortune.
"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter......" Andrews sobbed and hugged Abigail, shaking his head in despair, he was a lonely and helpless man who had nothing to ask for but hoped that the heavens would not take away everything he held dear.
"No...... Andrews, you ...... You listen to me......" Abigail kept mouthfuls of blood dripping from his mouth, shaking his head with difficulty, his hands tightly gripping Andrews' hand that was covering his wounds, "I ...... I've known this for a long time...... Knowing that one day I would tell you the truth, I put everything I could tell you in a safe in a Swiss bank, and the password was Phoenix, A...... Promise me not to dig any deeper, just for Phoenix's sake. As she spoke, mouthfuls of blood kept pouring out of her mouth, and her face turned even paler, and Andrews could already faintly feel that her vitality was gradually draining, and he could only sobbed and nodded, the corners of his mouth vaguely agreed.
Click, a sound of footsteps came. In front of Andrews's eyes was a rough black man with blood in his mouth. If there had not been a scene of the previous battle, others might have thought that some accident or traffic accident had happened. I saw the man walking towards the window step by step, his body's aura rising slightly, and he was trying to escape from here with the only strength he had left.
"I ...... I can't stop him, I can't let him go!" Abigail felt a sudden uneasiness rise in his heart, and then he saw that the unicorn monster had taken on human form. She struggles to get rid of Andrews, and she can't let the other person go, otherwise the next person to encounter will no longer be her, but Andrews and Phoenix.
She was originally weak as if she had regained a strong vitality, her whole person suddenly seemed to be burning, constantly rising blood-red mist, the whole space was instantly filled with a depressing aura, and the stagnant water in the room rose towards the air at this moment, as if gravity was no longer facing downward.
The black man obviously felt the danger, and suddenly tightened his whole body strength, concentrating all his strength on the soles of his feet, and his whole body instantly bounced up and shot out of the window. But just as his body was about to fly out of the window, a strong cold air hit, extending along the soles of his feet to the top of his head, and the whole person instantly turned into an ice sculpture, and then with a bang, a shattering sound, the ice sculpture broke open in a blink of an eye, becoming a small ice cube.
Abigail looked coldly at the prospect, and then her whole life force seemed to be suddenly withdrawn, and she slowly looked back at Andrews, the man she loved deeply, her eyes were full of reluctance and attachment, and finally the whole person slowly fell backwards.
"Abigail ......" a man with a sobbing face, rolling and crawling towards Abigail's fallen body, a delicate body slowly lay in his arms, and the image of the elf in his arms gradually faded, the snow-white long hair on his head gradually turned into a long black and shiny hair, the ears on his forehead gradually disappeared, and the light blue clothing dimmed at this moment, becoming the most ordinary clothing.
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Andrews remembers the scene that day vividly, as if it had happened yesterday. When JC arrived, he looked at the ruins and after a period of investigation, he came to the conclusion that there was a liquefied gas leak somewhere, causing a catastrophic explosion throughout the house, killing one person.
Andrews looked at the interrogation of people coming and going, and he also looked at the concern of his friends around him with the same blankness. At this time, his whole person seemed to be withdrawn from his soul, and he could only prevaricate about everything around him, and the ignorant Phoenix next to him could only cry as if he felt something terrible.
A week later, Andrews went to the Swiss bank alone and took out a thick stack of documents inside, which contained a family photo, followed by Phoenix's own statement. From his self-report, he learned the title of the Awakened, and also roughly knew the powerlessness of ordinary people's power in the world of the Awakened. Then he saw a series of biochemical research theories, many of which he and Abigail had studied privately, and Andrews had discussed the supernatural abilities they had discussed at Abigail's request, but he did not conduct further research at all. Judging from this information, Abigail has conducted a series of in-depth research, and has taken himself as the object of study, and has come up with results that far exceed expectations.
According to Abigail's own statement, she hated herself as an awakened person, and since she was conscious, she continued to understand the awakened person, so she has a deep fascination with science, and she hopes to explore the mysteries of her body through scientific means, so as to return herself to normal, not a monster. So she created the illusion of her own death, freed herself from the control of the organization, and entered the top scientific research institutions. And the encounter with Andrews, where she had not had a clue for a long time, suddenly opened the door to the secrets of the Awakened. She was surprised, excited, but then terrified, because she found out that she had fallen in love with Andrews, and she tried to get rid of it, but the attraction was firmly in her hands. So, she fell in love, got married, and had children.
A month later, Andrews left the institute and took Felix to another city. Thirty years ago, it was as if they had disappeared. After leaving, Andrews seemed to have become a crazy scientific research monster, he hired a special nanny to take care of Phoenix, and then used most of his savings, and the whole person was completely immersed in scientific research day and night.
Five years later, he finally got out of the shackles of crazy research, and in the past five years, he seems to have aged by more than ten years, but it has also brought him great results. With his genius mind and Abigail's foundational theories, he has developed a series of technological products that are far ahead of his time, and he has also walked through the door to the secrets of the Awakened. At this time, a raging fire ignited in his heart. He needed further research, but it required a living awakened and a huge fortune to support it, and so the prototype of the Andrews Group was formed.
At the beginning of the company's establishment, Andrews knew the truth of Taoguang's obscurity. He ostensibly operates a series of industries such as jewelry, hotels, and real estate, but secretly he uses his powerful genius mind to secretly launch scientific and technological products that surpass the current level of science and technology in the current era, and secretly sells the cutting-edge technology of the enemy country to obtain huge funds, and for a country, others have superior things, but they do not, how terrible it is, so Andrews's secret identity in various countries has also become the biggest secret, and at the same time, it has also been opened to the convenience of various countries. Thus, at the beginning of the twentieth century, a secret military-industrial complex and the Yale group formed a rivalry. In the end, a complete industrial chain was formed, and not only did the research in the secret exceed expectations, but even the business on the surface almost reached the top of the industry.
Later, Andrews began to focus on the world of the Awoken. He secretly sends out a variety of seemingly ordinary men around the world to search for traces of the Awakened, and he only potentially keeps an eye on the newly Awakened who go unnoticed by the dark Ones. And many of these awakened people are teenagers, and they feel confused and scared about their abnormality. So Andrews found them and brought them to the institute, where he had many ideas, among which he wanted to inherit Abigail's will, and he wanted to bring the Awakened back to the world of ordinary people!
Andrews studied all of their anatomy, constantly tweaking and analyzing the discrepancies between theory and practice. He didn't think about letting these born awakened people set up an organization under the dark world to serve themselves, because he felt that the born awakened people were uncontrollable. They can be a sharp sword, or a regular bomb, a bullet, and he can't tolerate the destruction of everything he has worked so hard to build up under uncontrollable factors. So under his leadership, the team continued to research, with successes and failures. Eventually, he researched the most reliable artificial awakened person - 001!
Andrews reached the realm of the gods, and this is the work of his heart and soul for thirty years!