"Then you ......"

"I've figured it out." David drank all the beer, stretched out his hand to Lei and asked for another one, and said

"Frank isn't the Frank he used to be."

"Last week he was able to turn the whole of New York upside down for his personal gain, and next week, maybe he will put the whole NYPD into it for his personal gain."

"The NYPD is home to all of our cops, not him." Brooklyn put down the bottle, a little surprised.

"You're going to compete with Frank for the position of director?" Ray asked bluntly. David nodded.

"Yes."

"Frank was already retiring."

"I'm grateful for his promotion and appreciation for me and for getting me from patrolman to where I am today, but what he did involved in matters of principle."

"The role of the NYPD is to protect the safety of New Yorkers, not the private property of one person, let alone the weapon that someone uses to fight for power."

"I can't let Frank ruin the NYPD."

"I'm afraid it's not that easy." Ray shook his head, looking very sensible

"The Reagan family is a family of police officers who have worked for the NYPD for generations."

"Frank Reagan went from a patrol officer to a chief. Last week's events show just how much control he has over the NYPD. ”

"Although he has always trained you as a successor, don't forget, he has several children, and no one knows if you are really the successor."

"Besides, even if you are really the successor he chose, there is too far between you and him." Brooklyn came to his senses, he directly put down the fast son, stopped drinking, and groaned

"Actually, it's not that difficult." Ray glanced at Brooklyn, picked up a piece of hairtail, and carefully picked at the thorns.

"It's simple." Picking out all the spines, Ray was satisfied with all the hairtail meat into his mouth, chewed and swallowed it carefully, and poured a large sip of beer.

Suddenly laughed.

"I found out that we are all successors here." Ray said. Brooklyn and David looked at each other and laughed.

Not really. David is the successor to the NYPD and is designated by Frank Reagan. Brooklyn was the successor to the Harvard School, designated by Lyleigh Crewe.

Even Ray himself, who is the successor of CPUSA, was designated by Lyleigh Crewe. The only difference is that David and Brooklyn are still struggling, they are still the 'crown prince', and the 'emperor' has not yet 'died'.

It is not their turn to succeed to the throne for the time being. Lei Ze has successfully 'succeeded to the throne'. However, Ray's smooth 'succession' does not mean that he is better than David and Brooklyn.

His 'empire' is about to be destroyed. He almost only inherited a name, and he needs to work hard bit by bit for everything.

Although Brooklyn and David have not yet 'succeeded to the throne', at least their 'empire' is huge. After laughing, Brooklyn said

"I'm serious, it's not that complicated." David and Lei Wenyan cast curious glances.

"Frank was in too much of a hurry this time." Brooklyn said smugly

"I'm sure David should feel that after what happened last weekend, the officers also have a lot of criticism about Frank."

"That's why Frank chose to celebrate with you in the first place on Sunday instead of sharing a cake with us."

"I guess Frank should be very temperamental this week, okay?" David nodded.

"What happened last weekend made him lose a lot of hearts in the NYPD, and everyone didn't talk about it, but they actually had a lot of complaints about him. He knows it himself, so Frank will be very nice to you for a long time to come. ”

"He needs to buy hearts and minds again and strengthen his position."

"This is your chance, David."

"You can follow him to buy hearts and minds."

"During last weekend's turmoil, you were on the front line, working with the officers, and Frank was sitting in the command room, directing your work."

"Although Frank's work is more important from a rational point of view, people are so strange."

"They are closer to you and instinctively identify with you as they are with them. And not Frank. ”

"David, maybe you didn't realize it yourself, but your current reputation in the NYPD can actually wrestle with Frank."

"Now is when Frank is at his weakest." David was lost in thought, and Ray killed two more pieces of hairtail, took a long sip of wine, burped, and said to Brooklyn

"You're still the same as when you were a kid, full of bad ideas."

"You're a bad guy!" Brooklyn laughed and didn't speak. When David heard this, he raised his head and looked at Brooklyn.

But he didn't say anything, and instead shifted the conversation to Brooklyn and Anne Aldington.

The Federans are extraordinarily open to sexuality, which they see as a common physiological need such as breathing and drinking.

Brooklyn has been dating Anne like this for more than a month, but she hasn't played cards once, and pure platonic love is very rare.

Even if Anne had a military chief of staff father, Brooklyn behaved strangely. In the face of the ridicule of his good brother, Brooklyn said eloquently

"Don't be in a hurry, don't be in a hurry, have a sense of ceremony."

"I can help you book a ticket to the Maldives, and you can go on your honeymoon to ensure a sense of ceremony." Ray joked.

Brooklyn easily shifted the conflict to David and Ray.

"You're both older than me, I have at least one girlfriend, and we're going to get married, what about you two?" Ray rummaged through his body, pulled out a stack of cards, and spread them out on the table.

"I have membership in all the famous bars, clubs in New York City, and I can get married whenever I want."

"Married to a stripper?" David complained. Ray glared at him

"What about you?" David is the oldest of the three, Ray is less than a year younger than David, and Brooklyn is much younger than the two.

David shook his head

"At least I don't have to worry about getting sick."

"Hey!" Thunder stopped doing it, shouted

"I have protection every time!"

"Then I hope your protection measures are in place, and one day a child will suddenly appear and call you dad." David shrugged, teased, and asked Brooklyn instead

"Where are you and Anne going tomorrow?" Ray put away his stack of cards, and cast a curious look,

"She said she was going to a welfare home." Brooklyn said. He made an appointment with Anne to go to the orphanage this weekend, and Anne suggested going to the orphanage, saying that a little guy from the orphanage had helped her a lot when she was following the clues of Regulus.

Brooklyn didn't ask much and just agreed. David subconsciously tensed his body and asked

"Which orphanage?" Brooklyn gave David a strange look

"I don't know, she didn't say, I didn't ask."

"I guess it's the Brooklyn Children's Welfare Institute. Or a psychiatric sanatorium? She said that there was a child inside who helped her a lot. Ray put down the bottle, frowned at David and asked

"David, what's wrong with you? Since you came back from the police station, something hasn't been right. What's going on? David was silent for a moment before smiling bitterly

"Do you remember the dad I met on the way to the police station?" Ray and Brooklyn nodded.

"When I arrived at the police station, I checked his information and found out that he was also an orphan."

"The Federation gives birth to tens of thousands of orphans every year. What's so strange about this. Thunder muttered. David ignored him and continued

"He's from the Angel House Welfare Home." Brooklyn put down the bottle. Ray's eyes widened.

"What did you say?" \/

"Where is he from?"

"Angel's House." David smiled wryly

"You heard it right, it's the house of angels."

"He's with us?" Ray asked through gritted teeth.

"It should be." David replied

"But it's been so long that I don't remember him very well. After all, it was ......" Brooklyn frowned, silent and did not speak.

He, David and Ray came out of the Angel's House Welfare Home. But he doesn't remember much about the orphanage, and during his last injury, he regained some of his memories, and only after he came out of the orphanage.

He couldn't remember anything that had happened in the orphanage. There was only a blank slate for that memory.

And looking at the faces of Ray and David, it is obvious that the experience of the welfare home is not a pleasant memory. At the mention of the Angel House Welfare Home, both of them were silent.

The good atmosphere was ruined. This was the end of the meeting. The three of them stuffed the rest of the beer into the refrigerator, cleaned up the dishes together, piled them up in the kitchen, didn't wash them, and went upstairs to the bedroom.

……………… Guest room. David stood under the shower, letting the cold water wash down. His body trembled slightly.

The experience at the Angel House Welfare Home was by no means a good memory for him, and if he had the choice, he hoped that he would never remember that memory.

In fact, if he hadn't accidentally seen the information of the owner of the black car that said Angel Home Welfare Home, he would have pressed this name in the depths of his memory.

David wiped a handful of water from his face, went to the mirror, and looked at himself in the mirror. He turned on the faucet, and the water flowed down and soon filled the sink.

David lowered his head, looked at the swaying water, took a deep breath, and buried his head in the water. The suffocation of drowning brought an intense terror to David, and fear quickly spread over David, making him desperate to look up.

But David resisted this urge and remained in the position of burying his head in the water and did not move. Gradually, the fear accumulated.

Memories that had been buried deep in my heart were reawakened. David's body began to tremble.

"Useless waste!"

"Drown you!"

"Drown you!"

"Why aren't you dead yet!"

"Drown you! You nobody's wanted! ”……

"What have you done!"

"Drown you trash!" Cries, shouts, begs for mercy, and curses mingled with the sound of rushing water, and warm yellow lights sprinkled down.

In the bathroom, a thin, bruised little boy cried and was grabbed by a hunchbacked obese woman and pressed back into the bath.

A strong feeling of suffocation hit, David felt like he couldn't breathe, he felt like he was really going to drown.

It was a few local bigwigs who came to inspect the welfare home, and he and Ray were selected to accompany the bigwigs to explain the situation of the welfare home.

At first everything was normal, the big guys were smiling and amiable. Later, a big man got tired of walking and led him into a room.

Let him help take off his shoes. He happily helped the big man change into a new sky-blue slipper adorned with clouds and stars.

Then, the big man asked him to help take off his coat and pants. The big man said that his clothes were too shabby and told him to strip naked and put on new clothes that he had brought.

With the help of hearsay information from the older children, David realized the danger in ignorance and fled.

That incident angered the director of the welfare institute and punished him and Ray for a long time. They were kept in the washroom, and could only eat the occasional rat and bug.

The bathroom was cold and dark, and they could only get a little light through a small crack under the locked door.

During that time, that gap became all the hope in his and Ray's lives. At that time, there was always a thin little hand peaning through the crack in the door, sometimes clutching half a piece of cheese, sometimes a slice of moldy bread, sometimes a small lump of gray cereal.

Later, the owner of the little hand was also imprisoned. In the dark, they couldn't see what he looked like, but they remembered very well that he was only half their height.

It was a little guy who couldn't even speak. The three of them spent an unknown number of days in the dark, and they became weaker and weaker.

The little one started to have a high fever. He screamed desperately with Ray, banged on the door, and cried and confessed his mistake. But no one paid attention.

At first, the little guy was lying on the cold floor, trembling and talking nonsense, but his body was hot like a fire.

Later, the little one stopped talking. He and Ray hugged the little guy tightly, groping desperately for something that would help.

But there is a washroom, what can be used to treat a high fever? Finally, the little one stopped trembling and the temperature of his body finally dropped.

He was held in their arms, motionless. …… Whew—David looked up and gasped for air.

His body slid down the washbasin and fell to the ground, curled up in a ball, trembling violently. Soon, the unfamiliar environment around him came into view, and he realized that he was no longer the self he was unable to resist back then.

This is also not the washroom of the Angel House Welfare Home. David's body stopped trembling, and the arm holding his head gradually loosened.

"We've escaped." David muttered to himself, as if to cheer himself up. His body stopped trembling, he got up from the ground, came to the mirror again, and whispered to himself in the mirror

"David, you've escaped!"

"Take Ray and Brooklyn!"

"You're doing well!"

"That old witch can't torture you anymore!" David's mood calmed down completely. He wiped the water stains off the mirror and looked at himself in the mirror.

Then look down and look at the water in the washbasin. He reached out and plunged into the water, shining the water. Yes, they have already escaped!

They're doing well now! He didn't even have a fear of water for a long time! But the old witch ......