Chapter 34: The Choice (9000 Words)
Wang An's cooking is definitely not delicious.
What he learned on the ground floor was a life-and-death struggle, not a chef's craft.
Realizing that Li Wei's face was sallow, her fingers were white and even slightly swollen, and then she saw the food in the kitchen for the past three days, and basically didn't move.
Wang An had already guessed that Li Wei might not have eaten for the past three days.
He expertly opened the cupboard and pulled out convenience food. As long as it is an official residence, this configuration can be said to be standard.
Turn on the fire, silently cook convenience food, and after a few minutes, the smell of inferior artificial food fills the room.
Li Wei, who was shrinking at the door, involuntarily took two sips.
"Wash your hands and wait at the table."
Wang An saw that the convenience food was about to be hot, and ordered with his back to Li Wei.
His order was like a holy decree, so that Li Wei's hands, which were holding the doorknob tightly and the joints were obviously white, suddenly loosened. After a few seconds, the blood returned, she lowered her head, obediently walked to Wang An's side, and washed her hands in the sink.
When standing beside Wang An, her body was still trembling.
"How many days have you been awake?"
Wang An asked casually.
Li Wei's body shook again, and she looked up at Wang An in a panic, and after a few seconds, she muttered, "Three, three days." ”
He added: "Are you going to arrest me?" ”
Wang An shook his head and asked rhetorically: "What's the benefit of arresting you and taking me away?" ”
Li Wei nodded silently, wiped her hands, and sat at the table obediently.
Wang An put the rice bowl in front of Li Wei and reminded: "The rice is very hot, you eat slowly." After not eating for such a long time, the stomach may not be able to stand eating too fast and too much at once. ”
Li Wei lowered her head, picked up chopsticks, and carefully ate a few bites of food.
"Thank you."
She said suddenly.
Wang An snorted and asked, "Can you take a look at your bedroom?" ”
"Okay."
Li Wei replied immediately, without the slightest hesitation.
Wang An only glanced inside outside the bedroom door.
It's a standard boudoir, with not many books on the shelves and a bag on the side of the stall in the corner of the bed. In the middle of the bedroom is a small low coffee table with books and homework on it.
The dense handwriting proves that Li Wei has just done some exercises not long ago.
Li Wei ate a few more bites of food, and had no opinion on her boudoir being inspected by Wang An, just eating, and a tear suddenly fell on the hot meal.
Once the tears are opened, they can no longer be closed.
A few seconds later, sporadic tears turned into sobs. Then, the staccato sobs turned into howling.
The cry quickly swelled, expanded, and echoed in this tiny room.
It was a cry of hope, a ray of hope, after being so painful, so depressed, and so desperate.
was pushed downstairs by his mother, half paralyzed, and his parents' case has not been accounted for for a long time.
She is treated like a monster, and vaguely everyone seems to feel that she is responsible for the death of her parents.
Loneliness, pain, disappointment, and sadness have always shrouded Li Wei's body, so much so that the house where she temporarily stays is full of this kind of cowardly, making people want to die at any time.
Li Wei can only rely on reading books to resist all this.
It wasn't until three days ago that the artificial spine in her body awakened, which quickly became the last straw that broke her down.
She could only lock herself in her room, and on top of despair, and fear deepened. Extreme fear made her not go out for three days and three nights, and she didn't even want to eat or move.
Death seems to be her only future.
But at the same time, she didn't want to die, she wanted to live and see her parents' case come to light.
Until now, faced with a bowl of cheap rice made of instant food with too much salt and completely unpalatable, Li Wei suddenly felt that she couldn't control her emotions.
She cried loudly, and all the pain she had suffered for half a year seemed to be precipitated out of her body in this crying.
At the end of the day, she was only sixteen.
Wang An was still looking at Li Wei's bedroom, deaf to the crying in the living room.
Neo stood silently in the doorway, looking at everything inside.
……
watched Li Wei finish her meal silently after crying, and then silently entered the kitchen to wash the dishes and chopsticks.
Wang An sat at the table in the living room, looking around at everything around him.
Li Wei returned to the table and stood there with her hands tied, her head bowed, probably recovering from her extreme grief.
She's still alone!
Wang An is sure of this.
Even though an alien awakening has taken place in her body, she still retains her humanity.
"Whether it's an enemy or a friend, a bad person or a good person, if they are human beings, treat them as human beings."
This is what Wang An's father said: "You can treat yourself as a human being when you treat people as human beings." ”
He coughed.
Li Wei's body trembled again, but it was much weaker than just now.
At least, she wasn't as afraid of Wang An as she was before.
"You're not fit to stay here."
Wang Andao.
Whether it was the oppressive atmosphere in this room, or whether Li Wei had become an awakened person, it was not suitable to continue to stay here.
When Li Wei heard this, her head suddenly raised, and the panic on her face was unobstructed: "Then where can I go?" ”
Wang An was quiet.
yes, where can she go?
Ten years ago, when he was on the ground floor, he must have asked such a question.
Where could I go at that time?
Looking at Li Wei's timid and restless eyes, Wang An's mind was confused, and he suddenly asked, "Why don't you live with me?" ”
Huh?
Neo at the door was dumbfounded, and the cigarette butts in his hands burned to his fingers.
Li Wei was also at a loss: "Huh? ”
Wang An's mind was blank and he didn't know how to explain it. Just thinking about not letting Li Wei misunderstand, he explained randomly: "The room I live in is very big ......"
Neo hurriedly extinguished the cigarette butt and blew on his burned fingers, fortunately his awakened ability has a certain physical resistance, otherwise it would have been fleshy and fleshy......
No!
Neo's brain is about to explode.
Wang An is so dignified, why do you want to invite a "bomb" home?
Just as he was about to speak, someone suddenly said to him: "That's not bad." ”
Neo chuckled in his heart, turned his head and saw Lin Yue not knowing when he appeared behind him and Wang An, and he didn't know how long he had been standing.
When he spoke, he was still expressionless.
Lin Yue said again: "The alien awakened body has merged with her, and it is difficult to distinguish each other. According to the procedure, Agent Wang An, as the person who took over the case, had the responsibility to protect the witnesses. ”
"Moreover, the alien awakened need to be supervised by the awakened to prevent accidents. At this stage, no one else in the Criminal Investigation Division of Area C can do this, and Wang An is the most suitable candidate. ”
Her expression still didn't change.
Wang An sat at the table, rubbing his eyebrows.
So desperate.
It was the first thought that popped into his head.
Touching the scene sympathizes with Li Wei and cares about an awakened person who shares the same disease as himself, which is nothing.
But take an alien awakened person with you?!
He really, really never thought of it that way!
The problem is that he has no experience with this kind of thing, and he doesn't know what to do for a while.
……
Semi-alien awakening.
This was Lin Yue's first reaction when she saw Li Wei.
Li Wei's awakening has the dual characteristics of being human and alien at the same time, but the awakening of alien is more obvious. Lin Yue can determine this without even testing the machine for testing.
Not long after Wang An and Neo left the Criminal Investigation Division, Lin Yue had already finished reading all kinds of information on Li Wei's case.
Compared to Neo, Lin Yue came from the sixth floor above ground, and as a fifth-order powerhouse, he knew more inside information.
Li Wei's case involves a lot of things, and it is more complicated than Neo currently knows. The best thing to do is to put it aside and don't touch it.
Lin Yue realized that Wang An might not be able to handle the matter, but now she found that the situation here was more complicated.
If she didn't guess wrong, Li Wei was extremely stimulated when the family tragedy happened, and there was already the possibility of awakening at this time. At that time, the artificial spine implanted in her body amplifies this signal and "replaces" her awakening.
Subsequently, the artificial spine feeds back this awakening to Li Wei through nerve signals, so it presents the characteristics of the dual awakening of humans and aliens in front of her.
Now that the artificial spine has been integrated with Li Wei, the deliberate separation will not only cause Li Wei's death, but also may cause the deterioration of the awakening of the alien. Therefore, the best way to deal with it is to ensure that Li Wei has a normal life and a normal mood.
As the host of the alien awakening, the symbiote, as long as Li Wei is normal, the artificial spine will not move.
"The case was filed and sealed, and the witness was transferred to Wang An for guardianship."
On her bracelet, new words appeared.
Regarding this case, she has been negotiating with the upper echelons on the way over.
How the upper echelons think about this case, Lin Yue doesn't care. But now that the upper echelons have made a decision, Lin Yue immediately spoke out.
After about twenty seconds, Lin Yue added: "It's decided." ”
What do you mean by that?!
Wang An just wanted to speak, and his and Lin Yue's bracelets vibrated violently at the same time.
"According to the police, a bank robbery occurred in the Linglong Building in Area B, involving awakened people, please ask all criminal investigation departments to support."
Lin Yue and Neo glanced at each other, and then ordered: "Agent Wang An, you must rush to the Linglong Mansion as soon as possible to solve the problem of robbers." ”
Wang An was ignorant and agreed.
Lin Yue looked at Li Wei: "Take her with you." ”
Wang An's eyes widened: "Why?!" ”
Neo agreed: "Yes, why? ”
Wang An is a fool, I'm not! Wang An dares to bring the alien awakening home, I still want to live!
Lin Yue said: "The Criminal Investigation Department just included Li Wei, and Wang An is responsible for guiding Li Wei. ”
Wang An wanted to say something, but Neo, who was observant of words, found that Lin Yue's eyes were not right, and he was on the verge of anger, so he hurriedly pulled Wang An: "It's important to deal with the case now." ”
Without waiting for Li Wei to speak, Lin Yue had already taken Li Wei into the girl's bedroom, and after talking for no more than five minutes, Li Wei walked out with her schoolbag on her back.
"Let's go."
She said.
The tone is calm, but it always feels like something is wrong.
For a 16-year-old girl whose parents died mysteriously and has been under police protection, this attitude is too calm in just five minutes.