What's the situation now? Roddy stood in front of me, dressed in a casual white shirt with black pants, a tie of the same color as the pants, and a long navy blue hooded jacket. At the same time, there are silver-framed decorative glasses on the bridge of the nose. Well, good taste.

Why does he have such modern and fashionable clothes! Fight monsters to upgrade the equipment you picked up? So I'm still a first-class number, right? Wait, it doesn't seem like this is the time to think about this.

"Why are you here?" I questioned him. I had planned to go to the black market with Phoebe and Angelo tonight, but before I left, Roddy appeared in front of me.

"A few of you are gone, and Uncle Aizawa is not here. Leave Miss Fox Demon alone in the car, aren't you afraid that she will encounter any danger? Besides, Phoebe and Angelo are obviously not as reliable as me. He replied to me with a smile, not knowing what was going on in his heart.

It's obviously your least reliable...... I wanted to respond to him, but when I thought that he was my boss, I swallowed the words again.

"You're gone, won't the memory warehouse be left unmanaged?" I asked, hoping that there was still a possibility of getting Phoebe and Angelo back.

"Recently, I have been assigned an assistant from above, and tonight is just the right time for him to practice the operation." He read my mind and smiled smugly. "If there is nothing wrong with Chaoge, let's go." He urged me, and at the same time looked at me carefully, "Chaoge's clothes are a bit difficult to explain." ”

"...... "I looked at the suit I bought in the town last time, and as its owner, I can't say anything about how good it looks."

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The stars twinkle, the night sings, the wind shuttles through the clouds, and flows in the ears.

It was a sunny and comfortable night, and it was perfect to stay in the train and chat with Phoebe, but now the only choice was to go to a filthy place like the black market.

To the north of the station is a small hill with a high barbed wire fence on the perimeter. For some unknown reason, ordinary people are forbidden to enter. Roddy took me around the small hill behind the station, where there was a small hole cut in the barbed wire. He led me into the hill, and then stopped at an overgrown corner with a raised hillside, and he removed the pile of branches, leaves, and weeds that covered the bottom of the hillside, and saw that there was an imperceptible tunnel hidden in the hillside, and in the tunnel was a small minecart. Roddy's familiar appearance seems to be a repeat offender.

"This is a deserted track, and I placed this little car here, and it is now my secret vehicle."

That's it? I looked at the shabby dusty little broken car, and I couldn't help but feel a little disgusted.

"What? Do you, as a member of the Authority, still want to blatantly take a tram or a car? Be careful to get fired tomorrow. "He walked around behind me and pushed me into the little minecart." Don't be picky, make do. I've also modified this car to seat up to three people......"

"Hawkers, no one else recognizes a little cute newcomer like me?"

"But they know me." Roddy gave me a blank look.

I wasn't really disgusted, but I was a little surprised that things were so different from what I imagined. I wiped the minecart with the handkerchief I had brought with me and sat down.

"Ready, let's go."

Roddy turns on the light hanging in front of the minecart and pushes down the horizontal bar. The operation is so simple, it seems that it has really been modified.

As I finished speaking, I felt the car begin to move slowly, faster and faster, and after a while, I could hear the wind whistling in my ears. The lights in front of the minecart tear through the darkness in the tunnel, bringing the only light. Roddy sat across from me, his head propped up with one hand, his eyes closed, not sure if he was taking a nap or contemplating. Under the faint light, you can see his long eyelashes trembling slightly, his coffee-colored soft hair is also gently swaying with the wind, the broken hair on his forehead is scattered at will, his facial features are very soft, and the elegance of the Oriental people is undoubtedly displayed at this moment. He is really a beautiful man when he is quiet and does not speak, of course, this is only when he is quiet. I remember that his eyes were brownish-black like dark citrine, and now he wears silver ornamental glasses, which give him a more suave look.

Thinking about it this way, although Roddy is usually very frivolous in words, but his demeanor is indeed gentlemanly, he likes to joke with beautiful little girls, but he has never exceeded the rules in behavior, and even when a girl takes the initiative to come to him, he will subconsciously avoid too intimate actions. Well, what a strange person.

"What are you watching me do?" He stretched, his voice languiding.

Well? Don't you have your eyes closed?

I can't help but stare at good-looking people, and I still remember the embarrassment of peeking at Sophie last time, but I didn't expect to repeat the same mistake so soon.

"No, nothing." It's embarrassing. "By the way, what kind of person is your assistant?" I immediately changed the subject.

"Beautiful boy." His answer was concise, but he didn't think it was enough, so he added, "However, it's not as good as mine." ”

Where do you get your confidence? Although you do look good.

"What about others?"

He didn't answer me right away, but he was worried about something. "It's quite capable, no, it's too capable, it's a little tricky. Anyway, you'll know when you see it later. ”

I guess I don't know how to describe it, I hope I don't be a weirdo like him, so that I can work a little easier. In other words, Luo Di is also afraid that others are too capable? Could it be that he also felt threatened to be laid off?

"Hey, what are you thinking about with a wicked smile on your face?" Roddy interrupted my thoughts.

I put away my smile, it seemed too obvious.

"If there are any other questions, you can ask them quickly, and you won't be able to talk casually when you get to the black market later. In the black market, what everyone says can be important information for others. ”

I raised my hand like a student speaking in class, and continued to ask, "May I ask Mr. Roddy, the black market is so rampant, why does the Authority and the military care?" ”

"The man behind the black market is a certain Duke of the Imperial Family, who holds the control of the Authority. The army now belongs to the royal family, and the duke in the army has a lot of eyeliner. So the Authority can't do anything about him, and the people in the army choose to turn a blind eye, except for a stubborn second lieutenant who likes to hit stones with pebbles......"

"Huh? That second lieutenant can't be called Lin Changjun, right? I asked casually.

Roddy was stunned for a moment, as if he didn't expect me to hear the name from my mouth.

"How do you know?"

"Something happened," explained the encounter with Sophie Qiaoran, which was a little troublesome. "Anyway, I happened to know."

"Yes, it's this Second Lieutenant Lin. Ever since he entered the army, he has been secretly fighting against the duke. The Duke tried to get rid of him, but he was so strict that no one could find his flaws. The duke couldn't do anything about him, so he found someone to rewrite his memory, hoping to affect his personality or something by rewriting the memory, but no matter how he rewrote, this ensign seemed to be on the opposite side of the duke. I've read Second Lieutenant Lin's Book of Memories, and it can be said that it has been rewritten beyond recognition. ”

"Luo Di, does this mean that Ensign Lin's wish can no longer be recovered?" I remembered what Sophie had asked me to do.

"Not only that, but this ensign is no longer the person he was when he was alive, his temperament and personality have changed due to many tampering with his memory. And he can't recover the memories of his life, people in this world will remember the events of his life at the moment when his wish is fulfilled or before he dies, but he can't. Roddy's tone couldn't help but be a little regretful.

"People in this world will disappear early because they read their own memory books and recover their memories, so is it true that people like him will not recover their memories and disappear even if they read their original memory books at the beginning?" Once again, I threw out the doubts in my mind.

"Exactly."

After getting a positive reply from Roddy, I sorted out all the information in my head. If nothing happens to him, he should be in a state of eternal life. We in the Authority don't remember our wishes, and his wishes have long been tampered with and are nowhere to be found, so he doesn't have the same obsession as we do, and there is no need to search for wishes, but if we peek into the Book of Memory, we can still get back the last bit of our thoughts before disappearing, but he still won't...... It's too painful, isn't it?

Death is terrible, but what is even more terrible than death is a person living alone and aimlessly......

If I were him, I might have chosen to end my life a long time ago. So is the purpose of the second lieutenant's life now to bring down the duke? Or for Sophie and Qiao Ran. But what if one day the Duke falls and Sophie and Qiao Ran leave? Will you choose death? If you are alone, you will not be able to bear the torture of eternal life.

"Are you pitying him?" Roddy could see what was going on in my mind.

"Sort of." I nodded.

"Then you'll have to think about it a little bit. Second Lieutenant Lin also has his own reasons for 'living'. ”

Roddy stood up, his back to me. The minecart pulled off the tracks, and the sky covered the earth like ink, the stars twinkled tirelessly, and the clouds roamed the horizon. The wind is blowing, rustling the woods, blowing the falling flowers, blowing the vigorous vitality of all things. Roddy faced the wind and opened his arms, as if embracing all things and embracing the world in his arms.

"Heaven and earth are unkind, and all things are used as dogs. There must be a way to live in the world. His voice flowed through the night. Under the starlight, his back was faint, and at this moment, he seemed to merge into nature and become the master of the world.

Tao Te Ching? It's a little hard to understand...... Wait, "So you're Chinese." ”

He turned his head, still smiling, and in his pupils was a mystery I could never guess. In the future, Roddy is also the presence of whose behavior I can never predict. He is always unpredictable, carrying all the misfortunes with secrets, and even at the last moment of his life, he does not completely put his true self out.

"Did you just find out? Half Chinese ancestry, to be precise. ”