Victor Franklin was an unfortunate man.

How unfortunate is it? That's about one in every 8 million people who catch up.

Like most children with Progeria, Franklin was born normal, which is a big reason why he survived.

However, after a year, when his condition began to manifest itself and was diagnosed, he was abandoned.

To this day, Franklin has not tried to find his parents, let alone make them "pay" or anything like that, because he believes ...... When people choose to discard something important, they lose something else at the same time, which is a price in itself.

Perhaps God was so fond of jokes, and soon after Franklin's abandonment, the symptoms of Progeria began to intensify along with his mental development.

The vast majority of children with Progeria are not mentally different from children of the same age, but Franklin's genetic variants don't stop there.

At the age of two, Franklin had the cognitive and learning abilities of a ten-year-old child; By the age of three, he had completed the federal standard full-time high school textbook in an orphanage...... By the age of five, his IQ and academic abilities surpassed those of most twenty-five-year-old adults.

It was also at the age of five that he was "admitted" to a well-known federal university, where he became a student and research subject.

Franklin himself was well aware that the average life expectancy of a person with Progeria was only thirteen years, and even the longest lived was hardly more than twenty; So he always had a very simple goal - to find a way to keep himself alive before he ran out of life, if he could go further...... He wants to grow up like a normal person.

This is his only wish.

A thing that we ordinary people take for granted, but in his opinion, it is a difficulty that needs to be overcome in a limited life.

However, a few years later, Franklin's thinking changed...... Because his physical condition collapsed faster than expected.

By the time he was nine years old, his skull was as bulging as ET's, with sunken eye sockets, loose skin, lost teeth, and stiff joints...... Of course, these are not the worst, the worst thing is that his cardiopulmonary function is no longer good.

Fortunately, the federal medical technology is still very developed, and his university is willing to pay for him, so with the assistance of a fully automatic care wheelchair, he can still barely take care of himself.

However, these growing physical pains have had an irreversible impact on his spirit after all.

"Why is it that fools like you, all of whom can be able-bodied, can live for decades even if they are muddy every day; And an extraordinary genius like me needs the aid of instruments to walk, speak, and breathe even the most basic...... What qualifications do people like you have to live? ”

Once this idea germinates, it is out of control.

Franklin began to go to extremes, and in order to survive, he did not hesitate to touch all kinds of moral or legal areas that people could touch.

And these actions of his were soon insightful by one of his classmates.

His classmate's name was ...... Alex Burgess.

IQ does not equal wisdom, and this saying applies appropriately to Franklin and Burgess.

Unlike Benjamin Franklin, who had a high IQ and was an extraordinary scholar in the field, Burgess was a natural political opportunist, a cold-blooded conspirator, and a master of power tricks, although he could not break through the boundaries of ordinary people academically...... He didn't need to do any academic research himself, he could just use people like Franklin and wipe them out.

A year later, 24-year-old graduate student Burgess stole a large amount of Franklin's research on the topic of "human function enhancement", and was recruited by the scientific research department of the Union Army.

Franklin was arrested on charges of illegal animal experimentation, human experimentation, misappropriation of funds, and threats to public safety......

Obviously, these crimes could never have been committed by Franklin, a patient in a wheelchair, alone; In fact, most of these crimes were carried out by Burgess, and it was Burgess who actively persuaded Franklin to constantly cross the line.

But in the end, it was Franklin who carried all the pots, and Burgess took all the benefits "innocently".

Why is that? In fact, with Franklin's IQ, after thinking about it, I immediately understood...... For from the moment Burgess made up his mind to take advantage of Franklin, he had already had the whole plan in mind; In the past year, Burgess has deliberately left some "traces" that he has dealt with in every illegal act, so that when he finally steals the research results and gets out, all the evidence the police find from that mess will only point to Franklin.

So, at the age of ten, Franklin became a criminal.

Thankfully, given his particular circumstances, he ended up not in prison, but in a not-so-well-guarded medical facility with a group of mentally ill people.

During those days, Franklin's personality became more and more distorted, and Burgess's betrayal made him realize the viciousness of adults and let him see the complex side of human nature; And the days in the "madhouse" were dramatic, allowing him to see the most "pure" side of human nature.

He began to realize that a "freak" like him would not be accepted by this society after all, nor would he be treated as a normal person equally.

Therefore, he thinks that there is no need for him to be bound by the rules or morals of this society......

At the age of thirteen, Franklin, who had been imprisoned for three years, managed to escape from prison.

His escape was very easy, as all the guards thought he couldn't walk at all without his wheelchair, but in fact...... He can walk.

Even before he was arrested, in his last year of research at university, he had done an "intensification experiment" on himself, and it took two full years for the effects of that experiment to begin to appear.

Then he spent another year, quietly rehabilitating his body when no one and no monitoring was in sight, so that his sedentary body could regain its ability to move.

When everything was ready, Franklin ran away, and soon after he committed several major crimes, becoming a wanted criminal in the federal government's view of extreme danger - "The Doctor".

It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, and he was arrested again at the age of sixteen, and this time, he was thrown into the "Kaiquan Examination and Burning" in the Nine Prisons, and I am afraid that he will not come out until he dies.

Another four years passed.

Twenty-year-old Franklin was still only about the height and weight of a ten-year-old child, but his body looked like a ninety-year-old man.

He is not sure whether he has such a long lifespan in the first place, or because of the "enhanced experiment" ten years ago.

All he knew was that he was in great pain every day.

As a man of twenty years old, whose thinking and senses are much sharper than normal, he endures every day the pain that only an elderly person can experience; From the digestive system, to the respiratory system, to the muscles, joints, ...... Every day he can clearly feel his body withering like a plant, but there is nothing he can do about it, because of "aging...... There is no cure.

However, just when Franklin had decided to accept his fate, counting the days and waiting for his death like ashes.

One day, an old man came to visit him.

The sinister man, Burgess, actually appeared in front of Franklin again, and promised him to regain his freedom, or partial freedom, of course, with conditions......