traveling doctor

"When I was young, I saw this symbol in the place where I lived." Huang Jinchen stretched out his hand from behind Kou Tong, and gently traced the outline of the map with his fingertips. "The counselor told me that it was a seed."

His extremely light breath swept behind Kou Tong's ears, and the two got very close, but for some reason, it was not ambiguous at all.

"The counselor is like a nanny, responsible for bringing up us children, teaching us how to speak, and basic enlightenment for some children." When Huang Jinchen said these words, his expression was not angry, depressed, or nostalgic. But I was vaguely confused, "At that time, I remember that there were many children around, and each of them had a separate room. We were usually under strict supervision, and there were strict time limits for daily life. Everyone often changed places, and there was basically no chance to get along with them. Get in touch with people around you.”

"When I got older, I never saw that counselor again. I was sent to a strange place for closed training. The training was an elimination system, and the people around me were still changing like a revolving door." Huang Jinchen Leaning back, he leaned against Kou Tong's table, knocked over an old pen holder on it, and a lot of small gadgets fell out of it, including everything except pens.

Huang Jinchen raised his eyebrows, flipped through it casually, and found that there were not only the collection cards in various instant noodles and snacks, but also a love letter written by a little girl who had not yet grown hair.

Huang Jinchen couldn't help laughing silently, which softened his somewhat willful eyebrows and eyes a lot, Kou Tong said indifferently: "Don't laugh, it was written by my first love, the dream lover."

Huang Jinchen looked at him with wide eyes: "Doctor Kou, as a pure medical staff, can we not have such a rich love history?"

Kou Tong said: "Medical staff also have a beautiful green age."

Huang Jinchen sighed with regret: "Oh my god, it's so damn late to meet each other, I couldn't pinch the little green onion in the cradle, now it's turned into a big carrot."

Kou Tong continued: "I still remember her name now. Her name is X103. She has two dimples in her smile and a long braid. Every time I see her, I can't help but want to pull her."

Huang Jinchen was taken aback.

Kou Tong said: "Didn't I tell you that my mother passed away 15 years ago. Since I was obviously incapable of living independently at that time, without a guardian, I would not be able to contact other relatives for a while, so I was arrested. Sent to a community orphanage. Then inexplicably selected, did a series of incomprehensible tests, and then was taken away by a group of people."

Huang Jinchen asked softly, "And then?"

Kou Tong hesitated for a moment: "I can't tell you the exact story. At that time, I was still young, and my mood was not very stable at that time. Many memories should be processed by me in the later stage, and they may not be the actual situation of the year."

Huang Jinchen nodded. When Kou Tong spoke in a particularly objective manner, there was a strange attraction and sense of reliability that made people believe him unconsciously.

"I'm also a counselor, with a bunch of peers who live in different cells." Kou Tong turned to look into Huang Jinchen's eyes. At that moment, there seemed to be something very similar in the eyes of the two of them, like completely different It seemed that the same cold and mysterious blood flowed in his body.

"But I'm not like you." Kou Tong said, "I was already old when I went in. In theory, I don't need a counselor to teach me how to eat, dress, speak and write. moon."

Huang Jinchen finally couldn't help but interjected, "You'll have a little girlfriend in a month."

Kou Tong said: "Brother, can we talk about the key issues first?"

Huang Jinchen nodded hurriedly: "Yes, you say, you say."

Kou Tong continued: "Yes, you met your first sister-in-law in this month. The children around you are all like you, they are under strict control, and the neighbors change frequently, so they don't take the initiative to talk to others. , but none of these can resist the youthful heart I had when I was young."

Huang Jinchen suddenly felt speechless—ever since he met this man named Kou Tong, who looked like a dog on the surface but was actually very cheap, he often found that his penetrating tongue was speechless It can be said that it is really a match for chess.

I just heard Kou Tong, a bitch, say seriously: "The first time, I shorted the circuit in the house while no one was paying attention, but because of the leakage protection, the fuse burned out and tripped automatically, and there was no accident. I got up, and I was almost discovered. So I learned my lesson the second time and made a second attempt."

Huang Jinchen felt that when Dr. Kou was "young", he must have been a more scalp-numbing terrorist than Manman.

"I took the resistor out of the kettle, plugged it in, and hung it over a stack of books on the wooden table, and it didn't take long before the smoke started."

Huang Jinchen looked at him in amazement.

Kou Tong laughed: "Smoke floated all over the corridor, and the fire alarm screamed, and soon a group of firefighters came in, and all the children living in the grid were evacuated when the lights were dark. We Finally got a chance to hook up with X103."

Then the smile on his face slowly disappeared, and his expression became more solemn: "It was from her that I knew about the 'seed', and I also deduced a lot of things after that—when we were young, we would experience a lot every once in a while. testing, and I found that after each test, some of the kids moved away."

Huang Jinchen thought about it carefully: "That's the case, then what?"

"I deduced that it should be some kind of screening." Kou Tong said, "So I discussed a solution with X103. We lived close to each other, and the windows were locked at that time, but fortunately, the place was for children to grow up healthily. , did not seal the windows, it still looked like transparent glass, we calculated the angle, and when we couldn’t meet, we used a small mirror to make a secret sign to convey the message.”

Huang Jinchen folded his arms on his chest and listened carefully. He felt that Kou Tong was a bit of a monster, and he had the potential of the Chongqing underground party since he was a child.

"This led to a long period of time where we kept changing addresses, as expected, I stayed with X103, but we didn't leave that 'seed' base, but kept going to the next stage of testing .”

Huang Jinchen frowned: "Why haven't I moved?"

"Maybe your personal characteristics are very obvious." Kou Tong said, "According to your description, it should be that you left the 'seed' at a young age and went to participate in training. I guess, the 'seed' should be a person who specially cultivates a certain In terms of human beings, like a secret base, some children without guardians and with different potentials are selected, and after passing many tests, one is finally selected for them to choose the best training plan, turning us into a certain kind of child. people."

Huang Jinchen was silent, and then he opened the "love letter" written by X103 to Kou Tong, read the words of those unintelligible children for a long time, and asked, "What is written on it?"

"It's a code." Kou Tong took the letter paper, with a little nostalgia on his face, "Using the difference in the number of words in each sentence to simulate the Morgan code."

Huang Jinchen had calmed down at this time, and nodded with a high degree of acceptance: "Oh, the children's version of Lurking——what did she say?"

"We were discovered." Kou Tong said, "This is the last message she left me. The next day, the two of us were isolated. When I woke up, I was sent out of the 'seed' base. For training, General Zhong is my instructor. As for X103, I have never seen her again."

Huang Jinchen thought for a while: "With this little girl's qualifications, it is very likely that she is currently working as a beautiful spy in a certain country."

After a while, Kou Tong whispered, "Who knows? Maybe."

The two fell silent at the same time. After a while, Kou Tong suddenly took off his shirt. On his shoulder blades, Huang Jinchen saw a shape of a seed, and he couldn't help but press his back - there, he used to have a seed , because he wanted to enter Utopia as an undercover agent and had a special task, so he was hidden.

"I didn't know the truth about the seeds until a long time later." Kou Tong said, "At that time, I already had the highest authority in the ST base, and I could check many things that I couldn't see before."

"What is it?" Huang Jinchen asked.

"Gene implantation."

Huang Jinchen frowned, and Kou Tong then carefully explained: "You know that our era happened to be the era when anthropology discussed the 'innumerable possibilities of human evolution' about the big bang, and some crazy products were produced, such as It is now known as the utopia of technological terrorism. Gene implantation was another idea at the time. It was imagined that a child could be properly implanted with a sequence based on a very famous person in history based on some of the characteristics he exhibited. Will the genes synthesized by the human body unearth a person’s potential on a larger scale, making him countless times better than normal people in a certain aspect, so that he can be called a “superman” in a certain sense?”

Huang Jinchen felt a chill in his stomach, which made the most precious hands of the ex-sniper, whose psychological quality was too good to be a person, tremble slightly.

Kou Tong's next sentence was like a cold sentence, hitting him hard, Kou Tong said: "Yes, the seed is a very important experiment of the gene implantation plan, but it doesn't seem to be very successful. The sophistication of the human body was far beyond the expectations of the people at that time. Many children had a "gene rejection reaction". There are only a few successful cases of various personality disorders, brain function damage, etc.—even before the gene implantation, the base did conduct a very detailed investigation and test on these children who were regarded as experimental products."

"The experimental data is still highly confidential. I only came into contact with a part of it by chance. After years of research and verification, I finally touched the edge of the truth." Kou Tong glanced at Huang Jinchen, "But don't worry, you are free now .When the projector starts to work normally, I will be free. What I do will be regarded as worthy of the gene in my body. As for you, after Utopia, they will let you come to the ST Special Expert Group Eating idle food should also acquiesce in your retirement application..."

"Freedom?" Huang Jinchen interrupted him suddenly, his voice was a bit sharp, revealing a little dangerous atmosphere, and then he laughed softly, like some kind of ominous bird that haunts the night, "You say I...freedom? "

I've lived for so many years, and I haven't even figured out who I am, how can I be free?

How does a human being differ from other human beings?Is it the body?organ?Conscious?Or DNA?Not even my genes are the same anymore, what else... can prove that I used to exist?

Kou Tong turned his head silently, looking at the shape of the map.

Suddenly, Huang Jinchen rushed over and hugged him tightly, like a drowning child grabbing the last piece of driftwood.Fingers pinched his clothes crumpled, as if to dig into his flesh.He hugged him so tightly, trembling all over, desperately absorbing the last bit of warmth from Kou Tong's body, not letting the coldness in his heart flood the top of his head.

The whole world under his feet seems to be far away from him, there is only one person, they have the same marks and experiences, the same memory and pain, it seems that he is the only one who can depend on each other.

who I am?Huang Jinchen secretly asked himself - what am I?