He didn't answer me immediately, just whispered, "Are you tired?" Want to take a break? I nodded as he pointed ahead, "There's a tree over there, go over there and rest." "I couldn't help but look at it with apprehension.

No one knows the location of the tree better than I do, so close, so far, right in front of me. It's just that the once big tree in the sky has become a stump in front of me, and there is no longer a little greenery, only a depression and dryness. After Xu Jianglun pushed me under the tree, he leaned on the stump and felt a cigarette, but as if he thought of something, after looking down, he only put the cigarette in front of his nose and sniffed it, and put it on his ear.

"What else can you train? It's nothing more than a variety of skill items, like the kind of police academy. ”

I gritted my teeth and asked a bold question, "You were trained here too?" But I was surprised to see him shake his head. Thought he might have been one of those children, otherwise why would he have a relationship with this place? Could it be that he caught someone else and learned all this? While he was thinking, he said lightly: "Don't guess, the leader of this island is my father." ”

"......" I was stunned, thinking about all kinds of possibilities, but I didn't expect it to be like this.

But seeing that Xu Jianglun's face showed deep ridicule, his voice became deep when he spoke again: "It's ridiculous to say, the old man didn't 'remember' my son until he died, and summoned me to the inland to let me clean up this mess." ”

"Mess?"

"A man-made upheaval almost destroyed all the institutions he had built, and the funny thing is that this unrest was started by the so-called capable people."

I interrupted him: "Who is the mighty one?" ”

"Didn't I tell you just now, there are factions on the island, and each faction will have this kind of special geographical division, and then there will be a special person to train a group of children since childhood, adopt the survival of the fittest system, and compete every six months to determine the first ability, and eliminate the last inferior products. When they reach adulthood, they can be traded out for missions as equipment and weapons. ”

"Wait," I couldn't help but interrupt him again, "you mean, this place raises some kids...... Killer? ”

Xu Jianglun smiled: "This is an institution, born for profit." There is no such thing as a specially trained killer, where there is a demand, there is a deal. It's just that the old man underestimated the children who lived under his nose and thought that everything was under control. I never thought that I would be connected to the nest once, if it weren't for the cunning old man who had a way back, I'm afraid I would have to collect his body when I arrived. ”

Notice that he is saying that the old chief's tone is contemptuous, even if the man is his father. He is also an expert in psychology, and he is good at capturing micro-expressions, and my superficial thoughts can not escape his eyes, he said with a smile: "I am an illegitimate child." Before the age of twenty, I didn't know that there was a father like him, and even if I knew that there was such a person, I was like living on opposite sides of the earth, without any intersection. At least that's what I thought until ...... That fire. ”

My heart skipped a half-beat, was he talking about the fire at the division that year?

Xu Jianglun lowered his eyes and stared at me, but I knew that he was not actually looking at me, or to be precise, he was recalling the past through me, thinking about that person, Yang Xiaofeng. After a few minutes, he sank his eyes, "The person who rescued me from the fire is the shadow boy he arranged to monitor for me, you know what I'm good at, it's easy to get some information from this person's mouth." It's easy to get to the top of the food chain, and when I know he's manipulating, it's ridiculous. While hiding on the island to secretly train the able, he uses the wealth obtained from trading to run the entire organization. I see one thing from him: how big is the heart. ”

I can understand where Xu Jianglun's extremism comes from, or there was a time when he fell in love with Yang Xiaofeng and thought about giving up everything for her, so he walked into the fire to find someone. But he can't go down that path at all, because there is a hidden chess game of power and selfish desires lurking around him, but whenever he gives birth to it, the leader will also remotely command him on this island to pull him into the wrong way.

This is a person who counts even his own son as a pawn for the sake of power and selfish desires. And I am fortunate enough to be able to get out of this island alive under his hands, it was arranged by the chief. Now I guess that my memory has been overwritten a few times, and it is likely that the leader traded me out, and I don't know who I transferred to, and then I was used for that mission. In other words, I still don't quite understand what is the purpose of the two layers of memories covering H City? Is it simply to lead Xu Jianglun and Gao Cheng to a battle of wits?

Obviously, this must not have been the work of the chief. Since Xu Jianglun is his son, and those white jade processing factories that forged cultural relics are also an industry under his organization, it is absolutely impossible for him to let me destroy them. Even if I make a mistake, I will send someone to stop me if necessary. There is also a contradiction in this, since this organization is subordinate to the leader, has no one ever sent someone to check on me? If you investigate me, you'll recognize me.

As soon as I looked up, I saw Xu Jianglun looking at me with a reading gaze, and my heart sank, knowing that it was because I had been pondering and analyzing for too long just now that aroused his suspicions. Immediately changed the subject and asked, "Then when did you take over this place?" ”

His eyes flickered when he heard this, and the corners of his lips raised slightly: "When I know that there is such a backing and such a territory of interests, do you think I will let it continue to wander away?" However, it takes time for forces to infiltrate, and it will not be able to completely bring him down overnight. First control the small fish within reach, and then devour the big fish, which is called snake swallowing elephant. ”

"The counterattack of the capable person you just said can't be led by you, right?" I asked, surprised. But looking at his chuckling expression, I knew I was right. He said, "I have to remind him of something to let him know that there is still a son of mine." Otherwise, how could I justifiably come here in his place? ”

I was silent. This father and son are really more ruthless and scheming than the other! The chief would not know until he died that he had died by the calculations of his own son. What is it called? Is it a report for a report?

"So you've taken over the island recently?"

"After Tiger Cliff Mountain." Xu Jianglun narrowed his eyes, "When a person dies once, he will recognize what is most important." ”

I raised my eyebrows and sneered: "Rights? So you don't hesitate to calculate your own father to take away his power? He shook his head, "You're wrong, I'm not calculating his rights, I'm taking back everything that belongs to me." As he said this, his eyes sharpened and he stared straight at me. He meant something, and I knew it, so I turned my head away from it.

Secretly measured in his heart: the Huya Mountain incident caused him to destroy another base, even if there was still a canyon, but because the interests and rights were not in his hands, he was manipulated by Zhou Jing and Ning Ransheng, so he turned his mind to the organization. It is not only a game between father and son, but also a game of power and profit. Needless to say, even if the leader was calm, he would not have expected that his son would one day rebel.

Xu Jianglun is the same age as me, and it is a shame that the previous leader did not claim him back to this island, otherwise he would definitely recognize who I am.

From the age of four to the age of twelve, and then a few years later, why did I leave the island? Also, my mind sank, my eyes fixed on the door, and a voice asked very softly: Is the chief still here?

Xu Jianglun's voice came from behind his ears: "The room in front of you is an empty house, and the former owner is the only one mentioned and praised by the old man before he died." It's just that I heard that I passed away due to illness two years ago. ”

I couldn't hear what he was still saying, and all that was left in my head were the four words: died of illness......

If it weren't for that month's slumber, the chief would have been a man who had appeared once in a painting, and then he couldn't see the fierceness of his face. And when I spent eight years in January, this man became an indelible and important person. Perhaps, to be specific, we can call it a loved one.

Although Xu Jianglun said that the purpose of the island, headed by the chief, is to train a group of capable people to become tools for seeking profits. But with the passage of time, the time reincarnates, and the chief has occupied most of my time so far, and all my abilities come from him, except for the shadows. By then, I would have understood why I was able to draw well even though I had never entered an art school in my vague academic career, which was not a talent, but a skill that I had mastered.

When I think of painting, I think of the instructor again. The chief is sick, so what about her?

I didn't open my mouth to ask again, and I couldn't ask, even though I was desperate to know. Anyone who shows a trace of excesses about this place may arouse Xu Jianglun's suspicions. As I was pushed back, I pretended to be casual and asked, "Is there still a livelihood here?" ”

"Of course not." He replied, "That's the old man's philosophy, the cruel lesson of reality is there, training a bunch of wolf cubs, almost devouring themselves." How could I make the same mistake again? His tone was like that of a bystander, completely unaware that he was planning it.

"That'...... What about those who are capable? ”

As soon as the question came out, Xu Jianglun chuckled above his head, "I knew you were going to ask." The capable counterattack, although there is courage and strategy, but in the end it is a group of people who have not been trained in the world, the old fox has been scheming and calculating all his life, and if he does not have a little resistance, he will not be the leader. What's more, since I have the heart to take this island, of course, I can't just let the old man toss around. Therefore, what can be controlled, what cannot be controlled, disappears with the turmoil. ”

I don't know how to describe the feelings, but when I know that the so-called capable people are like a group of children or teenagers we have been trained in, there is a kind of pain that spreads through the body. It's just that I didn't even reveal a trace of abnormal expression, just commented lightly: "You guys are cruel." ”

Xu Jianglun sneered, but admitted calmly: "It's really cruel, who let this world be the law of the jungle." ”

I want to laugh, a sentence of the jungle can cancel out so many lives? It's too easy to say. Some thoughts are deeply rooted, and even if I say it at this moment, it can't change the darkness in his heart. <