Chapter 1: The Broken Youth
I'll die here, he thought.
The man in the robe moved in front of him, holding the tablet, holding the stylus in one hand, as if he was comparing something, and looked up at him: "Jiang Yan? β
He replied blankly, and looked up at the magnificent dome above his head, and the various statues of the gods made of stained glass cast a compassionate gaze at him.
The man confirmed his identity and simply walked over him neatly to ask the person behind him.
There were small sobs one after another, and the noise gave him a headache.
As a "defective product" in mass production, he was born to be destroyed at the age of eighteen. In order to save him, his mother took him to hide and hide in fear for nineteen years, but he was still searched by the people above, and in the end, he only lived a year and a half longer than the rest of the team.
He didn't have much fear in his heart, he just felt that the sunset light reflected from the colored dome was beautiful and warm, and he had never thought that it would be such a beautiful place to execute him.
The white marble hall, like an ancient fairy tale, was filled with delicately carved statues of gods, the tallest one in the center that he did not recognize, and there did not seem to be such a character in the epics of the gods he had read before.
Coldly, the girl behind him bumped into him, resting her head on his shoulder, allowing him to intuitively feel the trembling amplitude of this warm body.
He wasn't used to the other body getting so close, and subconsciously leaned sideways.
The girl behind her said, "Okay, okay, my legs are a little weak, let me lean for a while." "It's hard to imagine that on the land of country R, there is a person from country C behind it, and this feeling of meeting a fellow countryman in a foreign country. Jiang Yan hesitated for a moment, but still allowed her to lean over.
The girl seems to be a little lacking in confidence, Jiang Yan can't see her face, and can feel that she should be very scared, but she is still very talkative, and her chatter looks a little peculiar in the midst of crying and wailing: "This kind of thing is really special, my brother is not a defective product, how can I be?" They were all born to a pair of parents...... I'm going to be gone tomorrow, and I don't know if he'll give me paper money. β
Jiang Yan has been hiding at home for so many years, rarely in contact with outsiders, and is not good at talking, so she listened quietly, listening to the girl say that her name is Bai Tang, her family is a subordinate family of the core family, and her brother has done nothing to keep her from being executed...... Maybe she thinks she's going to die, so it doesn't matter if she gives these things to someone who is also dying.
The bright yellow color passed through the solemn and majestic dome, and the colored light cast slowly moved on the ground. After a while, the light spots faded, the wall lamps were lit, the idols lit up with virtual torches, and the people above were divided into small teams and carts carried them boxes of meals.
The electron strap tied to his hand was untied by a special code, and Jiang Yan moved his hands that had been temporarily free, feeling a tingling pain in his wrist, and he lost his mind slightly. Soon the man pushing the food cart placed the delicately arranged meal in his hand, and the warm heat of the meal pulled him back to reality.
Aside from not being used to eating standing up, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with that. The tableware is made of silver, and although it is not extravagant, it is also a large expense to be used by so many people.
He heard the mocking voice of the girl behind him: "The Last Supper? β
He wanted to turn his head to look at this girl who had a common fate, but before he could make any move, there was a huge commotion in his earsβ
Someone ran away!
Two or three young men knocked over the food, put the knives on the necks of the people who distributed the dishes, left each other's backs to each other, and quickly retreated in the direction of the helicopter that had landed as they entered, shouting, "Let us go!" Let us go! Otherwise, your people don't want to live! β
Jiang Yan looked up and couldn't help but hold his breath slightly, he recognized those people as their peers.
In the afternoon, the robed man who had given them names to check the information stood on the side, his expression barely changing. Jiang Yan watched as his hand reached into the gap in his robe and pulled out a silver pistol from the strap at the base of his thigh, and at the same time, several people who were held hostage by the young man almost read out loud in unison, and then hit the dinner knife in the young man's hand with their necks in unison!
With the splash of blood, the faces of several young people of the Jiang family changed in unison, probably not expecting that this group of people would have a suicidal move. In the moments when they were out of hostages and exposed to the guns, the robed man quickly loaded and fired, as skillful as a cloud. After a few gunshots, none of the young people had the privilege of escaping death.
Pistol shooting already carries a large error, especially in this case. How many times do you have to go through such a scene to shoot so accurately?
"Well, a typical servant of the Udhi family." He heard Bai Tang's nonchalant voice, and felt that something was wrong, how could a girl from a subordinate family at the same level as his family know so much information that he couldn't even access?
However, this one was stunned, only to hear Bai Tang say in surprise: "They seem to be looking for you?" β
Jiang Yan felt very troubled, and sure enough, as soon as he looked up, he saw the man in the robe looking at the tablet as if he was checking something, and then looked in his direction, several men who were also wearing robes took a mouthful of food from his hand, one of them clamped his hand, pushed his knee to his leg, and pressed him to the ground, and the other person held his chin and forced him to look directly at the man in the robe holding the tablet above his head.
"The eldest son of the Jiang family." He heard the shadows above him say, "What just moved. Chaos, do you know? "He used the C dialect, and although he had a pure R face, he spoke in a straight and round manner.
Jiang Yan felt unable to breathe, and the strong feeling of suffocation made it extremely difficult for him to breathe: "I...... I don't know ......."
The shadow was motionless and had no expression on his face, but it was evident that he didn't believe it. In front of so many people, he asked his subordinates to take a pot of black tea from the dining car and pour it down Jiang Yan's forehead: "I really don't know? β
It was already difficult to breathe in this position, and the tea flowed down the ravines into his nose and mouth, and then into his lungs. Jiang Yan coughed violently, and through the tea hanging from his eyelashes, he couldn't see the slightest look of pleasure in the eyes of these people.
They just want to make an example of the monkeys. Jiang Yan realized in a trance. Did it be five minutes, or six minutes? Are they going to keep him until tomorrow, or are they going to torture him to death now?
The idols above his head also seemed to have changed their expressions, revealing their eerie faces in the lamplight, looking down at him with a hideous look.
Suddenly, the abusive behavior stopped, and the power that restrained him disappeared in an instant. Jiang Yan remained in Fang Cai's posture for a while, and only after a moment did he recover his strength, retching vigorously as if he was going to vomit out all his internal organs.
The function of his ears didn't seem to have been recovered too much, and he only faintly heard those robed men respectfully say something in R Chinese, and then heard a female voice, in a very pure C Mandarin, with some unquestionable momentum, some distance came: "Bai Tang, have you played enough?" β
Immediately afterwards, he listened to the twitter of the afternoon, and changed his tone, put on a lazy feeling, and replied beside him: "I've had enough, but I want to show you something interesting." β
The footsteps were getting closer, and he tried to stop the discomfort, and the wet beads of tea still hung from his hair, and he looked up a little embarrassed.
He thought he had seen a god.
The black-haired girl stopped in front of him, her eyes were a little strange, and it seemed that for a moment she recognized him as someone. However, this look only lasted briefly on her face, and then quickly faded.
The girl stretched out her hand, helped him up easily, then turned to the man in the robe and said, "This person, I want it." β
The robed man was a little embarrassed, and said in a tactful tone: "Young patriarch, this is not in accordance with the regulations, you have to get the permission of the review committee." β
The girl frowned slightly, her voice became softer, and her momentum became stronger: "Can't I have fun if I want to?" β
The man in the robe immediately knelt on the ground, pulled out his pistol and held it high in front of the girl, as if he was ready to be shot to death by the girl: "Young parent, Madame will know." β
They seem to have figured out the girl's taboo. Sure enough, after hearing the word "madam", the girl's expression changed, she pursed her lips, and her eyes fell on the man's raised pistol. The light hit the girl's side face, cold and cold, not popular.
"Very well," the girl began, leaning over and taking the tablet from the robed man's arms, and giving a cursory glance, "the rules of the jury are that they can only be destroyed if they are defective, and I will take him to the destruction station tomorrow as promised." Just report it to your mother. β
The man in the robe seemed to have something to say, but the girl didn't plan to bother with him anymore, she made a gesture lightly, Bai Tang had already taken off that disguise, and in full view of everyone, he happily ordered his entourage to take Jiang Yan away.
The girl stood side by side with Jiang Yan.
This seemed like an intimate move, but Jiang Yan faintly felt that the reason why he was able to stand side by side with the girl was only because the girl neither allowed anyone to walk in front of her, nor did she intend to show her back in front of him at all.
As he walked, he suddenly felt a little puzzled, and couldn't help but ask in a low voice, "Aren't the core family the most faithful believers of God?" Why did you choose to destroy the defective products under the idol? β
At this time, he heard a sneer, and the beautiful girl next to him was full of contempt between her eyebrows, and her smile did not reach the bottom of her eyes: "God? God does not cross sentient beings. β
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The idol holds a halberd aloft, and behind him is a huge sculpture of the sun, which is inlaid with special lamps that emit a warm glow.
Jiang Yan looked up at the statue in front of himβthe layers of snow-white steps illuminated by the lights on both sides meandered upward, and the majestic white palace looked at him from afar overhead.