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13 years old.Lu Ting tried his best to recall this age. It was ten years ago. When Shu Rui was 13 years old, he was still an annoying person who was less than ten years old. His biggest hobby every day was to stay next to Lu Zhi and watch her do her high school homework, or to hide Looking at the picture book in his room, wandering in the sky, thinking about running away from home.

At that time, my father and that old friend, the founder of SHOOPP and the scientist father of Shu Rui, had been fighting for a long time. SHOOPP had completely withdrawn from the multinational system of Lotus and had been working alone for several years.But this does not affect the relationship between the two children, to be precise, it is between the only son Shu Rui and the Lu family.

He still visits frequently, wears appropriate clothes, maintains decent manners, gives Lu Bingyi gifts, listens to Lu An talking at the dinner table, praises Lu Zhi's new hairstyle, and spends most of his time with Lu Ting .He often picks on Lu Ting's various behaviors, such as holding a knife and fork backwards, or mispronouncing Latin phrases, but he will also scold the older children who secretly make fun of Lu Ting when other guests come to visit.Only when Shu Rui was there, Lu Ting was willing to get out of his little den, and the huge house could finally become a paradise for the time being.

They like to chase and fight in the corridors with imitation lightsabers, fighting with children who are three or four years younger than themselves. Shu Rui still rarely takes advantage of it, so he often throws the lightsaber away in frustration and sits aside. Contact the flying car that came to pick him up, and after a few minutes, Lu Ting came over with fruit and drinks, and asked him carefully if he was hurt, and if he could leave later - so that Shu Rui could calm down in a second, and the next time Lu Ting sent out When inviting, he picked up the lightsaber without a long memory.

As long as you go back to these small things, it will be endless. They are juxtaposed and crossed in Lu Ting's mind, trying to spell out the complete outline of a certain year.

Lu Ting thought of the months when Shu Rui hadn't visited.It was a bad day for him, and then Shu Rui came back as usual without any explanation, and it was no different from before.He never mentioned his differentiation period to Lu Ting, and Lu Ting didn't care about his gender, of course he wouldn't notice it. Since then, Shu Rui began to regard himself as an Alpha, and used all the standards for Alpha to treat him. ask yourself.

Looking at the red hair on the screen, Lu Ting's thoughts were already on a thread.

"Now that I think about it, I was a coward at the time," Shu Rui said to himself, "I cried all night when I knew I was a Beta. My grandpa and father passed on red hair to me, so why didn't they pass on the gender as well?" Why can an idiot like Lu An be an Alpha? He was cultivated in a legitimate way, he was given high hopes, he was given the word 'strong man', and he will inherit the position of his Alpha father in the future—you know, Lu An The doctor is not in the scope of consideration, and you are not here. Your dad, like my dad, thinks that only a tall, burly and energetic male Alpha like them can take over their burdens in the future. What kind of main force, what kind of pillars, don’t they all describe Alpha? Is my Beta, which even smells like afternoon tea with pheromones, too gentle and mediocre. I spent a few degrees watching their conference videos to study until the time is useless. But it’s not right, my dad said that He is old, he only has me, so what can he do if he doesn’t count on me? Should SHOOPP be handed over to someone else? I couldn’t figure it out at the time. I thought he would be disappointed, isn’t that right?”

Lu Ting has been able to concretely imagine what Shu Rui did to him when he disappeared ten years ago.

"Anyway, my dad doesn't go home. I got the result at school. The teachers are really nice. They treat this kind of crap as a little secret and put it in an envelope for us. Then secretly change it for yourself." , It’s not a difficult operation. Sitting on a chair, tie your waist and the back of the chair together so you won’t move around. The robotic arm and camera are behind me. My hands are shaking a little. It’s the first time I’ve performed a clinical operation on a living person.” As he spoke, Shu Rui picked up the coffee again, as if trying to hide the expression at the corner of his mouth, “For a new flavor, I chose rosin , because it smells very refreshing, who knew it would become so light on me. Then I got seriously ill and left a scar."

"Did you find out, Lu Ting? I like wearing high collars very much, but I don't like shaving the back of my hair. Now you understand why. But maybe you haven't thought about this problem? We are so familiar that we are used to seeing everything." Shu Rui squinted at the camera, as if he was looking at Lu Ting.

"I noticed!" Lu Ting blurted out, "I'm going to ask, you will definitely say that this is Italian elegance, what do you know?"

Almost at the same time, Shu Rui said again: "But even if you ask me, I will say that you don't understand my taste. Only you know about this matter until now. The health care teacher at that time died long ago. You and Dun Mo late together? That's what you two know. It's good to keep a secret, but I'm tired too, and I want to let you know me a little bit before I die. I hope you live longer Years, even when I was very old, I still remembered that there was one like me," he suddenly smiled, a little mischievously, "There is such a magical transgender person like me! There is no point in doing these things, even if I am still a Beta, I will have With my current ability, I won’t feel sick because of psychological reasons when I drink black tea, but my road to this position may be much more troublesome than it is now, so there is no need to talk about it and not regret it.”

"Oh, I guessed it again, you love brain, you must want to ask about He Zhensheng, you have always wanted to talk to me about my relationship problems, right?" Shu Rui still smiled, but his eyelashes drooped, like just now A little more gentle, but still very fast, "When I was 13, of course I never thought that there would be such a day that I would fall in love with a guy who was only interested in Alpha. Is this a kind of destiny? But it also made everything a lie from the beginning. I tried to tell him the truth a few times, but I didn’t dare to tell him in the end. It’s really not like me. They are all beautiful and high-quality Alphas, who are usually high-spirited and kneel in front of him. Compared with me, I have nothing special except that I am more tolerant. There's nothing I can do. So I told him that I cut myself with that scar because I hated the way I smell. It's not a complete lie to him, is it? Whatever I was, I'm an Alpha now glands and pheromones, so I am an Alpha in a biological sense, and I convince myself that every day."

Oh, this tenderness is also lonely.

"He Zhensheng doesn't love me, and I don't need it. I've known him for six years, and we've always been happy together. That's enough," Shu Rui pursed his lips again, and he seemed to muster up a lot of courage when he talked about it. , "So don't keep having that kind of prejudice against him, thinking that he is sorry for me. I don't plan to say goodbye to him. Some things are easy to tell others but difficult to tell him. It's like dying to make people unhappy Seems like. He actually went back to the capital and didn't go with you. The police have found him, but they haven't caught him yet. I don't know what he thinks. If it's convenient for you, go and help him." He looked down at the mouth of the cup for a while, then raised his eyes suddenly and smiled, "It's okay, I just suddenly remembered that I used to make him drink black tea all the time. If he didn't want to, I forced him to drink all his cups." I said it was expensive, so he didn’t waste it. He seemed to get used to it later. But that brand was about to be discontinued. I bought ten boxes and sent it to his address. I don’t know if he is wanted all over the world. Whether you can receive it or not. Just treat it as a farewell."

Lu Ting heard the sound of the thread in his heart slowly tightening.This is his best friend and someone he admires very much. Now he puts the afterimage four hours late in front of him, telling him that he will be executed soon.

Also ready to go.

Lu Ting turned his face again and looked at Deng Mochi. Deng Mochi didn't feel sleepy, didn't eat beef, and didn't look like he was observing sundries.

Deng Mochi also seemed to feel some kind of regret.

"I've been talking too much nonsense. It's been 10 minutes. I can execute the sentence almost immediately when the verdict comes. I have to hurry up and tidy myself up. You remember a masquerade party one year, I played a vampire, and they all said Am I the same as usual? I'm going to wear that suit and go," Shu Rui cleared his throat, the time in the capital is noon, and when he tilted his head, his red hair shone brightly, "Oh, talking to yourself is really addictive I won't talk about the past. What you want to know most now must be why I was sentenced to death. It's very simple, because I dismantled SHOOPP and took my own share. These are all legal. Of course, no one can control me. But those people will take my shares and quickly withdraw all the banks on the road. I just disturbed the public order without filing, and I can be detained for a reason. So many people have died, everyone has already believed it, and they all saw that SHOOPP was not clean. Many relevant officials are being punished, and I am no exception. I may be the one who took the lead. Donating money is hypocrisy, and the death penalty is deserved.”

"It's not your father's idea, let alone your brother. It's the council that got mad at me and wants to clean me up, so don't put too much psychological pressure on me. It really didn't work like that when you were a child. Did you hear me? I don't want to be angry with you After talking about all this nonsense, I saw you in the ghost pile later and asked how you died, and you said that you finally committed suicide," Shu Rui joked, "I became a ghost because I was really tired from living. , Don’t think about saving me, the ones we saw below the opera house, my professor, and my senior sister, I think of them every now and then, it’s still quite sad. Maybe it’s time to meet up.”

"So, let's formally say goodbye." Lu Ting rarely saw Shu Rui standing so straight from his waist to his shoulders and neck. He only heard him say again, "I wish you a happy 19th birthday more than a month in advance."

As soon as the voice fell, the lights and shadows went out, and a line of "SHOOPPINDUSTRY" appeared at the end of the screen.Black lines on a white background, slightly slanted bold characters, these are the last few seconds common to all the video files sent out of Shu Rui's office, the program automatically added, he likes it himself, and never wants to delete it.

If you go at full speed, there are still about two and a half hours left for the voyage, but this message was already four hours ago, and the news was broadcast one after another after the message. Shu Rui's judgment was indeed issued three hours ago, buried alive in space, and executed on the same day.

Deng Mochi quickly retrieved everything related, and cleverly entered the internal channel to watch the execution ground.This is like a live broadcast. In the execution place called "port", many exile pods are on the string, fixed by the base of the transmitter, waiting to swallow the prisoner.

There were more than two hours left in the execution time, people circled around the execution ground, they were all very excited, and Lu Ting couldn't tell whether they were crying, discussing, or laughing excitedly.He was not sure of rushing back before the execution. He tried to contact Lu Zhi, but there was no reply. He dialed He Zhensheng's communication code and left many messages, but nothing came of it.

What followed was an extremely difficult 100-plus minutes. It felt like a high wall, no matter how fast you drive in no man's land, you can't establish a connection with a distant city.Watching the time approaching every second is extremely fair, and it can never be stretched or tightened, just like watching Shu Rui sinking into the water a little bit, that kind of complete powerlessness.Lu Ting even thought about letting Deng Mochi control both Shu Rui and the firing squad. It would take a blink of an eye to turn the situation around, but he felt that it was wrong. They were all depriving others of their freedom of choice, and what was the difference from a prophet?Shu Rui said he was tired and wanted to die, wouldn't it be more cruel to force him to live?What's more, that would put Deng Mochi under heavy pressure again, and he was in so much pain.

But if Lu Ting is here to look at each other from a distance and stand by, it is also impossible.

All he knew was that he had to hurry back.

Dun Mochi didn't say anything, and squeezed into the driver's seat with him, slowly stroked his hair, and accompanied him through this difficult time.

Shu Rui appeared on the screen 10 minutes before the execution time. He was really wearing the vampire outfit, and he was really no different from usual.Along with him were four prisoners wearing orange handcuffs. All of them were neatly dressed. They were people with status before, and they didn't want to be embarrassed before they died.The rain still hasn't stopped, but with the extremely mature aerospace technology, the launch will not be stopped because of such a trivial matter.Shu Rui is quite calm, he is the most calm one among the prisoners, he has long been accustomed to pointing at his camera and flashlight, but this time he did not take a look like usual.With the assistance of the special police, he sat in the small exile cabin, and the crowd of onlookers was not lost due to the heavy rain, and at this time it had completely sunk into silence.

And when he let the special police close the entrance and put a layer of metal seal on the already sealed cabin door, the crowd suddenly booed.

"Let him go!" someone yelled.

"Damn it's not him," the garbage was thrown on the wall surrounded by the police, "he helped us, let us have food!"

Once these yells were stirred up, they immediately spread to all corners of the execution ground, covering up the drenching rain.Shu Rui also guessed wrong sometimes, people didn't all expect him to die as he deserved, but sitting in the airtight cabin, he could only see the chaos outside, and could no longer hear a word spoken for himself.

The coffin that exiled him was launched on time, and the lightweight design didn't seem like something that could be put out of the atmosphere, but it didn't have to last long.

This was also when Lu Ting traveled half of the world to reach the sea, less than [-] kilometers away from the capital.

Lu Ting witnessed his departure at his fingertips.

The five exile pods disappeared into the dark and rainy sky, and the actual height test results were displayed on the large screen in the execution ground. After a few minutes, the crowd still had no intention of dispersing.Violence started, and both the civilians and the special police seemed to feel that this was just a watch-off, and the weight was far from enough.At this time, Lu Ting's continuous contact finally got a reply.

"I'm here." He Zhensheng took a rare breath, "A dozen of your colleagues chased me all over the city."

Lu Ting tried his best not to tremble, squeezed the bracelet, but couldn't speak.

"Has he left already?" He Zhensheng asked again.

"Yes." Lu Ting choked up, biting the words quite solidly, because a little inattentiveness may turn into wailing, "You didn't see his last side, you missed it."

He Zhensheng was silent, he did not see how Shu Rui was thrown into the universe.But he had seen flying machines containing death row prisoners, the kind they called "coffins."It is pure and transparent, and there is no circulating oxygen supply device inside. The most important thing is a hydrogen cabin, which stores the power of the exile cabin, and is about to completely shake off the condemned prisoners from this planet.

It is not so much exile as it is burial alive. People die at different speeds. What can be guaranteed is that none of them can come back or live.He Zhensheng thought slowly, under the simple environment, the people in the cabin experienced great pain and escaped from the atmosphere, and what was in front of them was an upside-down hourglass, watching their lives flow away, and he was left gasping for a journey without a destination.When the only bit of oxygen is exhausted, or when the short-acting voltage stabilization device goes on strike, the people in the exile cabin will die immediately, no different from those nuclear-contaminated corpses that cannot be destroyed. His own family members, who perished in a flight malfunction, were similarly kept forever, floating in space.

Lu Ting's voice was clearly cheering up: "He finally sent me a video, and he said he accepted the current result."

"I guessed it." He Zhensheng huddled in the crowd, ignoring that the inferior mask he was wearing for camouflage was being softened by the acid rain, and desperately wanted to get closer to the empty launch pads, so said.

Lu Ting fell silent again.

He Zhensheng also squeezed into the front row.I don't know which seat is the one that launched Shu Rui, and which one it will be. Stand up for me.He thought so, inexplicably burning with anger.After a while, He Zhensheng put his pockets in a daze, staring ahead, as if talking to the air.

It wasn't until a new batch of death-row inmates entered the venue, and a new group of strangers saw off, that He Zhensheng quietly left that "port".He descended from the assembly line-like launching height, and walked onto the streets on the edge of the capital.Lu Ting's call was still on, Deng Mochi must be there too, but they didn't talk, which made He Zhensheng feel weird.Shouldn't he be leaving?What else can he do when people have flown out of the earth? With his friendship with Shu Rui... he is depressed for a few days, and then leaves them all behind. Is there anything wrong?At present, several roads are being renovated, and they can still be walked, but after thinking about it, He Zhensheng never knows whether there is a new life on the other side of the road.

I can't tell why, but when He Zhensheng remembered that before, he always asked Shu Rui why you were so mean, and Shu Rui would immediately push back and ask why you were so fragile.

These flashbacks make him go and it's not easy to go, why the hell.

"Did he tell you a lot?" He Zhensheng said bluntly, "Tell me."

Lu Ting answered irrelevantly: "We will be there soon, and we will be at the execution ground in 5 minutes."

He Zhensheng wanted to laugh subconsciously. When he was very confused, he was like this, "But I have already left, and Shu Rui is no longer here," he said, and suddenly cursed at his helpless compromise, kicked Flying a piece of gravel in a puddle, he suddenly asked, "Brother Deng, where is the nearest space shuttle that I can grab?"

Soon came a coordinate more than ten kilometers away, as well as detailed drawings on the spot.

"Thanks," He Zhensheng ran up, "When I meet a difficult master, you can hypnotize me remotely!"

About 10 minutes later, He Zhensheng sat in a completely unfamiliar driver's seat and adjusted the launch parameters under Deng Mochi's guidance. He was about to lift off in this new type of spacecraft that had not yet been put into mass production. It was space. He A land I never want to return to.He Zhensheng knew he was crazy. Just before the signal was disconnected, the last sentence he asked Lu Ting was, did Shu Rui tell you about Beta and black tea? Lu Ting seemed a little surprised, and said "yes" cautiously, then It's so fun to be in a state of being about to collapse and tense.

Then He Zhensheng said to him: "I already knew."

This is also true.

So it is not difficult to explain this strange, thought-like behavior now.Of course, He Zhensheng didn't want to leave the gravitational pull of the earth, and he didn't think he could accurately find a capsule that had no flight path and was losing its life in the vast universe.But he just wants to go.The sound of the spaceship breaking through the atmosphere was still refreshing.The earth is on one side, and the coercion and silence from the universe on the other side. He Zhensheng gripped the lever tightly and scanned the void that once made him lose everything. , just if, just if, neither Shu Rui nor Shu Rui flavored black tea will return to his life - it is much harder to accept this than he imagined.

At the same time, LastShadow was also hovering over the execution ground. Just now, the second batch of prisoners had also completed their exile. Countless gunpoints came up, taking this giant shadow that covered the rain as the focus of attack, but suddenly there was a person Stand on the high platform and stop it all.

It was Lu Bingyi, leaning on crutches, standing under the umbrella that the secretary hurriedly chased after, facing the crowd of sent-off prisoners who had not yet dispersed, he just appeared suddenly.

"It's all here, just in time!" he said.

The crowd was in an uproar, the camera was pointed at it, and a live broadcast was started.The chaos of the whole world is suspended at this moment, and everyone is fully focused, waiting for their Mr. President.

"It is the most curious of all of you. A secret that I have had to keep for ten years. In order to resist the threat to all mankind, I have kept more than a secret. Now, time is running out, I must tell it Come out, maybe I have broken my promise, but I still hope that everyone can listen to it verbatim." After a pause, he wiped away the rain from his eyelids, Lu Ting was right above him, and he could see it from the screen. Seeing his old face, "Afterwards, I will execute myself. Many of you have lost your loved ones, and this will also be my burial place."