mayfly era

It was almost time, so he set off to ambush Chen Yue.

Avoiding surveillance and guard eyeliners, Chen Li hid in a short alley next to the Military and Political Hall.

The Military and Political Hall is located in the oldest District [-] of the Central City. The entire street has an ancient style, with rare brick structures, tall red walls, square lines, and trees.Those are a few old deciduous trees with a wide canopy and shade. They may be the few remaining landscape trees in the central city.

Chen Yue's car stopped for a few seconds at the entrance of the short alley, and then drove away. Chen Li hid his face under the wide black hood the whole time, until Chen Yue's car drove away from the defense range of the Military and Political Hall, he did not look up. At the beginning, look at the beginning of the month.

At the beginning of the month of Chen, he wore the same suit today, and his whole body exuded a smell of gold and purple.

There is a tattoo of a single-winged butterfly on his white and gentle face, spreading its wings from the corner of his mouth to one side. The wings are slender and lonely, and somewhat like flying feathers. As he speaks, the butterfly seems to come alive, flying up and down.

Although they are related by blood, they don't look alike at all, only their hair and pupils are very black, like polar night.

"You look very bad, have you eaten dinner, Xiao Ye." Chen Yue asked gently.

"Don't call me that name," Chen Li said flatly, "I'm not used to it."

"What do you call you, Xiaoli?" Chen Yue smiled slightly, "It seems to be calling myself."

"Cy, they call me that."

"Cy," Chen Yue repeated, "so Chen Ye is also possible, right?"

Chen Li frowned slightly, "Master Chen, you don't need to act like a brother and brother in front of me, we don't have that deep relationship, why don't you and I be more straightforward, do you want to talk in the car, or where do you want to go? It's all up to you."

"But I've always regarded you as my younger brother." Chen Yue said aggrievedly.

Chen Li turned his head, and after a few seconds, he turned back again, staring at Chen Yue's eyes that were moving, "Did you enjoy watching me jump into the sea?"

"Ah?" Chen Yue was surprised.

"I saw someone pointed a miniature camera at me until I jumped," Chen Li pressed, "So, how about it, do you know how to jump from a carrier machine hovering at an altitude of [-] meters without wearing any protective gear?" Go down, how does it feel?"

Chen Yue sighed, "I thought you were bound to die."

Chen Li smiled without emotion, "So Chen Ye is dead."

"It doesn't matter what you call it," Chen Yue's expression was a bit reluctant, "Your name is Chen Li, and you can still be the head of the Chen family and lead us all, as long as you want."

Chen Li didn't understand Chen Yue's persistence, "If you just want to coax me to go back, you don't need such outrageous excuses."

Chenchu ​​took out a vegetable roll from the car's fresh-keeping box and handed it to Chen Li, "Eat something, let's talk slowly."

"where are we going?"

Chen Yue waved his hand and rejected Chenchu's vegetable roll, Chenchu ​​peeled it off and took a bite, "Go back to Auntie's old house, Xiaobailou."

Chen Li frowned, "Xiaobailou is not this way."

"We made the overall moving technology for the old house," Chen Yue smiled, a trace of sauce stuck to the corner of his mouth, adding a touch of sauce to the butterfly, "this technology has not been requisitioned by G yet."

Chen Li was noncommittal. He turned his head and looked out the car window. They had already left the city's business district and were heading south. The electronic boundary marker of District 43 passed in front of his eyes, indicating that they had already left the downtown area. Official, don't you need to report when you leave the city?"

"It's not needed here yet." Chen Yue wiped his mouth and changed the automatic driving route of the vehicle once.

"Cuckoo maintenance costs a lot of money every year."

"No way, Auntie likes it."

"She's been dead for so many years, who are you showing off to?"

"I know, you can't believe me and my mother's loyalty based on my few words, but..."

Before Chen Yue finished speaking, Chen Li interrupted, "Loyalty?"

The word loyalty is too heavy, especially abrupt and thin in this era. Those who can say this word are either ignorant or stupid.

And it was even more weird to say it from someone as exquisite as Chen Yue.

"Okay, let me change the word, sincerity, what do you think of this word, the sincerity of me and my mother."

Chen Li rubbed his forehead, "Okay, let's sit down and have a good talk about your 'sincerity'."

The car stopped in front of a single white villa - that was the "home" where Chen Ming once lived with him. He and Chen Ming used to live in the Chen family's mansion, and they moved here after he was ten years old.

The breeze swayed the sea of ​​rhododendrons in front of this white building, and the rain-soaked broken red looked even more desolate, like crying red eyes.

When Chen Li got out of the car, drizzle fell on his face. Chen Yue held an umbrella in one hand and a paper bag containing food in the other.Chen Yue raised the umbrella above Chen Li's head, half of his body and the paper bag were wet by the drizzle.

Xiaobailou is the voice password, and Chen Yue said a language that Chen Li had never heard to the receiver, and the door opened in response.

There is no rotten smell as imagined, and the old house still keeps the windows bright and clean, but it looks very cold, obviously it has not been lived in for a long time.Chen Li looked at the familiar porch and the small brown-black door under the porch stairs, and suddenly felt a severe nausea. He suppressed the desire to vomit, followed Chen Yue up the stairs, and came to the living room on the second floor.

Even the furnishings of the living room are the same as they were nine years ago.It was still the thick wooden round low table, filled with the little objects that the woman liked, even the golden bull ornament that knocked his head into a blood hole was still there, but the blood stains on it had been wiped clean.

That was the last time he was in this old house, so in his memory, there should be blood on the golden bull ornament.

He felt sick again.

Chenchu ​​carried the paper bag into the kitchen, and put the ingredients inside into the washing and processing machine. There was a slight sound, and he leaned against the kitchen door, listening quietly.Some memories seemed to break out of the ground, but he pushed them back into the frozen ground.

"Didn't you just eat?" Chen Li asked.

"I'll make it for you. I remember you liked it when you were young..." Chen Yue suddenly stopped, "Sorry, I don't remember what you liked when you were young, but I don't think anyone would dislike beef fried rice."

Chen Li shook his head, a little helpless, "I may be more familiar with your mother. Before that happened, I thought she was very gentle."

Chenchu ​​turned on the cooking box, and the warm orange light came out, reflecting on his white face, "Actually, she had no choice but to."

"Chen Ming expelled her from Central City, she felt that there was nothing wrong with resentment, and it was normal for her to take revenge on Chen Ming and me."

"Let's eat first, and when we're done, I'll show you something, and you'll understand." Chen Yue looked at the food in the cooking box curling and stretching, from raw to cooked. For food, this is death Or rebirth?Maybe only the food knows about it, and he doesn't know it, just like what Chen Li thinks subjectively, he doesn't know it either.

Chen Li turned around and walked towards the dining table. He pulled away the familiar yet unfamiliar dining chair. He remembered that he often looked at it, but rarely pulled it away.

For him, this old house does not have any beauty or nostalgia, only memories, and he has always defined those painful pasts as memories.

"Let's eat." Chen Yue put the steaming plate in front of Chen Li.

He was still wearing the formal suit he wore when he was working in the Military and Political Hall, with a black and silver vertical striped shirt inside. He took off his jacket and only wore a shirt with his sleeves rolled up, revealing his thin arms.

"Is your career going well?"

"With a mother who is a general, how can things go wrong?"

"When did she get promoted again?" Chen Yue asked lightly.

"Military promotion, don't you know?"

"Where did I know about you big men."

"Didn't Fange tell you?" Chen Yue showed surprise, "Her military medals are half of yours."

Chen Li slammed the chopsticks on the table and stared coldly at Chen Yue, "You're lying."

Chen Yue smiled and shook his head, "It's not all what you think, we didn't know that you were taken in by the counter-revolutionaries, the decision to recruit free mercenaries in the war six years ago was drawn up by her, and half of the victory in the war was due to her plan." Under the command. The four theaters under her leadership, Oasis, Buffalo City, Heyuan, and Pisha, all won. By the way, she also participated in the recruitment of counter-revolutionaries, but the counter-revolutionaries... only want to show their faces and hide you. Alright, we only found you this year, and we didn't expect you to join him."

Chen Li barely suppressed his anger and resentment. He knew that Chen Yue could find him, so he must have figured out what happened to him in the past few years. However, Chen Que was the commander of the war zone at that time. Once I learned about it, I felt mixed feelings.

"If we wanted to harm you, we would have done it long ago, right?" Chen Yue said persuasively.

"How much does the matter of Tiao Li Tian have to do with you?"

"Tao Li Tian?" Chen Yue was puzzled, "That's just a place where I sometimes sleep."

Chen Li almost wrote the words "nonsense" on his face, "Are you going to sleep in a brothel?"

"Shang Liming used to be Auntie's assistant, and there is a laboratory in the basement of Daoli World that belongs to Auntie. I'll go there to sleep and take a look." Chenchu ​​spread his hands, "Please, the Disciplinary Committee doesn't investigate now. It's the moon."

"So she made those faceless bionics before?" Chen Li asked.

Chen Yue shook his head, "No, it's a defective product made by the merchant himself."

"It has the ability to imitate, can cooperate in groups, and has precise positioning targets. Is this a defective product?"

Chen Yue frowned, "What did you say?"

"I know you heard me."

"Sorry, I mean, it's impossible, those defective products can't be moved at all, they are completely scrap products."

Chen Li also frowned, Chen Yue's tone was firm, and his expression was earnest, it didn't look like he was lying to him.

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Just a little warning: the plot line of this article is very cruel, but the love line is very sweet