Substitutes are not a problem

Chapter67

Will we meet again?

What would it be like if we could meet again?

In the past six years, it's not that she hasn't thought about this man.After all, from the age of 28 to the age of [-], he was the only love she had ever had.

But I didn't expect to meet again in this way.

In fact, there is no need to be surprised, because every encounter between her and him is full of drama.Whether it is the first meeting on the cherry blossom street in spring in Europe, or the reunion on the ever-dark island that never has daylight.

only this time...

In the back seat of the black car driving to the headquarters of the port mafia, Chi Songyuan listened quietly to the man beside him introducing the general situation of the leader to her in a polite but businesslike tone, while quietly Looking at this man.

A man in his early thirties, the greenness and sharpness that belonged to the youth of the past have all faded away from his body.

It is when a man is most attractive that he can feel the strength of being in his prime without losing the stability and maturity honed over the years.

However, she knew that this man's sharpness was only an appearance, and the gentleness and calmness he showed was for a deeper dormancy. The sharpness would be revealed with a fatal blow when he needed it most, and it would be a poisonous sharpness.

"These are the basic conditions of the leader. Don't be nervous. The leader is looking forward to your arrival."

Mori Ogai ended in a polite and formulaic tone, without any other redundant attitude and emotion.

Meeting the eyes of the other party, Chisongyuan's eyes were also calm, and he said polite words among new colleagues: "Thank you very much for telling me this, Dr. Mori."

……

The temperature in the room is constant, but when the curtains of the floor-to-ceiling windows are all lowered, an eerie feeling hits in an instant.

It belongs to the dark and gloomy.

Akasong Yuan felt uncomfortable for a moment.Although the organization behind the institute she has been in for the past six years is also black.But she was forced to soak in the laboratory all day long, and the blackness behind that piece had nothing to do with her.

In the past six years, the colors in her world were neither black nor white...but no color.

Just like from the age of eight, she can no longer control her own destiny.

But, at least this time, she wanted to gamble.

Anyway, if she didn't take a gamble, she could only walk step by step towards the ending that would be death anyway.

It couldn't be any worse.

Chi Songyuan stared calmly at the haggard man sitting in the wheelchair in the center of the room, respected but did not lower his posture and bowed slightly: "Mr. , under the order of Mr. Rum, come to treat you with medicine."

Everyone else in the room had already withdrawn at the request of the port mafia leader, leaving no one behind. The old leader didn't want today's conversation to be known by anyone but each other.

Of course, even if there are no guards in the room, Chisongyuan will not and dare not do anything easily.

If she guessed correctly, there should be many traps in this chief's office. As long as she has any intention to plot evil, her blood will become a cleaning agent for washing the office floor in a second.

The old leader, who has been suffering from illness for the past two years, has even lost the ability to move independently, and can only travel around in a wheelchair or simply lie on a couch all day long.

The whole person looked thin and haggard, and his thin face set off the pair of blood-stained eyes even more terrifying.

And the look in those eyes is sometimes sober and sometimes dazed, just like his brain nerves at the moment, repeating on the verge of complete collapse.

I only heard the old leader say slowly in a hoarse voice: "Doctor Chisong, you can use your magical medicine to restore me to normal and make me immortal... what you can do, what you can do is right Bar……"

The volume of the speech is not high, but the madness, stubbornness and pathology of the speaker are obvious.

The words were not even discussions and inquiries, but full of orders and threats.

Most people always try desperately to keep what they are about to lose when they realize what they are about to lose.

In particular, what is about to be lost is his own life.

Vain fantasies overwhelm intellectual clarity.Because that is the crazy longing and fear deep in my heart.

Chi Songyuan returned a proper smile, and replied in a calm tone that would not irritate the other party: "Of course, that's why I'm here, isn't it? Please rest assured and leave it to me."

After the old leader said a few more words that were half confessions and half threats, his physical strength seemed to be exhausted, but he still managed to finish speaking: "Remember, in front of everyone else, you are just me hired to help you. I am an ordinary pharmacist who recuperates my body... Don't let anyone know the real purpose of my coming to you... I don't want other people to have the idea of ​​immortality, and no one can compete with me... Otherwise, I will destroy you together..."

This also hit Chisongyuan's heart, and she didn't want anyone in the port mafia to know about the complicated things behind her.

"Of course, following your orders."

Hearing this assurance, the old leader's expression softened a little, and he nodded to indicate that she can go to work: "All the experimental equipment in the Port Mafia is at your disposal. Regarding my physical condition, you can ask Dr. Sen to find out. Yes, he is my full-time personal doctor, just ask him if you have any questions..."

Chi Songyuan silently suppressed the emotion in his eyes, and just continued to smile respectfully and obediently at the old man in the wheelchair, expressing that he had made a note of it.

After saying his farewell, Chisongyuan turned around and was about to leave, but just when he was about to put his hand on the handle to turn the office door...

"Doctor Akamatsu, do you want to consider working for the Port Mafia?"

Chi Songyuan was startled by the sudden words.But she, who is proficient in how to control her heartbeat, quickly calmed down, and her sudden heartbeat did not resound in the empty and quiet office.

This made her seem as calm as her tone at the moment: "I'm working for the port mafia right now, respected Mr. Chief."

"No, I mean, only work for the Port Mafia." The old chief was half lucid, half dazed at the moment.

But the inner desire to have an immortal body overwhelmed everything, "Do you want to leave your current organization? Don't worry, Yokohama is not a place where external forces can intervene. This is a battlefield dominated by people with supernatural abilities. You can Stay here with peace of mind... as long as you work hard for me."

For such a blatant poaching, Chi Songyuan neither refused nor agreed, but used a temporary tactic: "Thank you, Mr. Chief, for your kindness, but... let's talk about it after I have recuperated your body. You also need Just check and accept my work first, and see if it satisfies you."

……

Walking out of the chief's office, the darkness inside the room suddenly turned into brightness outside, and the light from the floor-to-ceiling windows made Chisongyuan squint his eyes uncomfortably for a while.

Taking a deep breath, adjusted his mood, turned around and walked forward along the corridor.

Ahead, there is a corridor with gorgeously decorated window walls. When the sun shines in, it looks like a kaleidoscope, beautiful but empty and blurred.

While walking, Chisongyuan's eyes swept across this gorgeous area, and when he looked forward...

At the end of this kaleidoscope corridor, that figure walked towards her little by little in this illusion.

"Miss Akamatsu, I wonder if you have time, if possible, would you like to have a cup of coffee together, we just have a chat about work."

Mori Ogai extended the invitation with a smile, his attitude was polite and natural, without the slightest overstepping the rules.

It just so happens that if he doesn't take the initiative to come to her, she will also come to him with the excuse of work... Chi Songyuan nodded: "Of course, I am very happy, the leader also said just now that if you encounter any problems at work, let me I can go directly to Dr. Mori. I am new here and I am not familiar with Yokohama. Does Dr. Mori recommend any good cafes?"

"Indeed, if you don't mind, please come with me. As a welcome to your arrival, I will treat you to coffee today."

"Thank you very much for letting you spend."

……

A small, inconspicuous cafe in Yokohama——

At the booth in the corner, after the waiter served the coffee and stepped back, Mori Ogai seemed to relax, and exaggeratedly let out a sigh of relief.

Chi Songyuan took a sip of his coffee, and the expression on his face became a little more lively. He looked at the other party with a sly look in his eyes: "Here, we can talk freely, right?"

Mori Ogai returned the same look, and his tone returned to the same as before: "Didn't Yuan ask me to recommend the cafe in the headquarters building just now?"

In the next second, the two looked at each other and smiled tacitly.

This cafe is completely controlled by Mori Ogai, so there is no need to worry about being monitored by the port mafia.

"I was originally ordered by the leader to meet a specially hired pharmacist. When I saw that this pharmacist was Yuan, I was really surprised."

"I'm also very surprised. I didn't expect Lin Taro to become the personal doctor of the leader of the Yokohama Port Mafia after six years of absence... Obviously what you said back then was to find a city you like after the war and open a small Clinic, where is the ordinary little doctor you agreed?"

Chi Songyuan raised his eyebrows in a teasing manner, teasing the other party half-jokingly.

"After all, the world is impermanent, life is unpredictable..." Mori Ogai sighed with vicissitudes of life, and then replied half-seriously and half-jokingly, "Besides, what I said at the beginning was...we are together."

【Yuan, how about we get married after the war is over? 】

[At that time, we will find a city we like and open a small clinic there, what do you think? 】

"I remember, Yuan your answer at that time was..."

Before he finished speaking, he was directly interrupted by the woman sitting across from him——

"Yes, I agreed, and since then... I don't seem to have said anything about regretting it."

Hearing this, Mori Ogai was a little startled, his purple eyes revealed a faint light of anticipation, and his voice suppressed an uncertain joy: "So..."

"So, until now, Rin Taro has always been my fiancé." Akamatsu Gen hit a straight ball, but then smiled, "But, of course, we lost contact for various reasons For so many years, it doesn’t matter if you think this is my wishful thinking. If Lin Taro already has someone else he likes, or has no feelings for me, then we can dissolve this so-called engagement, anyway, it was just verbal... ..."

"It's really sad. Could it be that in Yuan's heart, the agreement between us is just a verbal joke?"