Late autumn

Footsteps sounded outside the door, and Port signaled me to stop talking with his eyes. The footsteps were getting closer and closer, and it could be discerned that they were coming towards the conference room where we were. Port suddenly changed his tone: "Don't tell me you can't do it! Science is to explore the unknown! What's wrong with the newcomers now! If you always say you can't do it, don't stay in the organization if you can't do it! "

"But, senior, you are deceiving yourself and others! No matter how great science is, it must follow the objective law of development of things! Some things are beyond our imagination!" I argued loudly.

At the same time, the door was pushed open, and it was Vodka.Seeing our blushing, he was taken aback for a moment, and then said, "Sherry, brother is waiting for you in the lab."

"I see," I collected my emotions and said to Port, "Sorry, we'll talk about this later."

Said, left in a hurry.

"I remember that you never bothered arguing with others. For your research, you really worked hard." Gin said this when he saw me.

I took a look at Vodka and realized he was the one who told Gin. "Why, the tone of my speech should also be reported to the organization and approved by the organization?"

He smiled, "Your mysterious research is over."

I wondered, how could he know?

"You are still planning to destroy the research results." His voice still did not fluctuate at all.

Bug!He must have bugged me!I was angry, this feeling of being watched.

"Now that you know, why do you still want me? Tell the boss directly, or just execute us directly." I said angrily.

"Execute you?" He smiled disdainfully, "If I kill you like a normal prey, you won't even know how you died. The prey I'm targeting, I won't let them die too happily, after all, death The fear of the past is the most tormenting, isn't it?"

"Your trick may not work for me. If I repeat this kind of life forever, I think death might be a relief."

"Let's wait until you actually face the gun, Sherry. You must experience this feeling well then."

I chuckled lightly and didn't answer.

"At least one thing is certain," he went on, "that old fellow Port's time has come."

"What do you want?" I asked warily.

"Take it easy, Sherry, it's none of your business." He stubbed out his cigarette, got up and left.

I received a package that evening with no sender identified.When I opened it, it was a pen.At first I thought it was from one of my foreign classmates, so I put it aside and ignored it.Compared to this, if I care about Gin, I know that Port may be dealt with by the organization, but what I didn't expect was that I would know the result in this way, and I didn't expect that the result would bring me Such a big price.

That afternoon, I got a call from Port, which was a fateful call.

"Listen to me now, Sherry." His tone was urgent, which he rarely said.

"Senior, what happened?"

His voice paused for a moment, and then changed his tone, "Ah, it's nothing. It just suddenly occurred to me that you are very similar to a research partner of mine in the past, and I wanted to confirm your relationship."

I was puzzled, he had said this a long time ago, but he didn't ask me at that time.My intuition told me that his call was unusual.

"Who are you referring to?" His finger slid to the screen and pressed the recording button.

"Elena."

Mother.Elena Miyano.

"Is our relationship important?"

"I would like to know."

"She's my mother."

"As expected, you are really her and Housi's daughter." His tone suddenly calmed down, as if he was very relieved.

"I took over half of the project developed by Houji and Elena back then, and now it is passed on to you, which can be regarded as returning to the original owner."

"senior……"

"I was still very young that year. The organization found out that my project had no financial support, so they negotiated terms with me. As long as I joined the organization to work for them, they would give me a large sum of money to develop my own project. After all, I still Unable to withstand the coercion and lure of the organization, I finally agreed to the organization and embarked on a road of no return. At that time, I only thought that science was supreme, and everything else had to make concessions for it. But when I realized When I was wrong, it was too late..." His voice gradually dropped.

"Promise me, Sherry, to protect that document. If you are lucky enough to escape, when the organization is destroyed, you can make it public, and you may become the youngest Nobel Prize winner in history." maybe……"

"senior……"

"Absolutely, absolutely can't be handed over to the organization. The purpose of the organization is really terrible. Reversing time is not something that humans can do. It must not be done, otherwise there will be disasters in human society. You must protect that data."

His tone became more urgent, and I felt bad, so I hurriedly asked: "What's going on? What's the matter, senior? Where is that document?"

He didn't answer me, but said to himself: "Absolutely, absolutely, we must protect it well, even if it means risking your life, even if it means risking your life..."

There was the sound of someone breaking into the door on the other end of the phone.

I wanted to ask what happened, but I heard a voice that was too familiar: "It's time to hit the road, Port."

"It's you, Gin." Port's voice seemed calm.

I really don't know how to describe the feeling in my heart. I knew that Port was about to be killed, but I was helplessly anxious on the phone, hoping in vain that he wouldn't die. I was so anxious that I couldn't make a sound.Originally, I also wanted to know more about my parents, why I was deprived of the right to happiness when I felt the love of my elders for the first time when I was alone since I was a child.

"You are really brave enough to betray the organization and wait for the organization to be destroyed." Gin on the other end of the phone continued, as if he didn't care.

"Maybe I have a more important task than serving the organization, and that is to respect nature and science."

"I have to say that your brain is really dulled by the whole day of academic research. Go underground and wake up."

"Hoo--" the gun rang, and people fell down.

"Wasting my time." Gin said while tidying up the scene.

"Big brother, the phone screen is still on..."

I silently hung up the phone, closed my eyes, and lowered my head sadly. The weight on my body seemed to have increased a lot, which made me uncomfortable.

On a barren land, there is nothing around.I was in it, tired and cold.A figure gradually approached in the distance, and gradually became clear. He smiled kindly, and he didn't have such a strong murderous aura in the organization, like his own elders.He knelt down and stretched out his broad hand to me, and I stretched out my hand too, trying to keep him, but his distance was always so far away from me.I rushed towards him desperately, but suddenly a powerful force pulled me away, I got farther and farther away from him, and watched him being swallowed by the black, and the surrounding fell into silence again.

"No—" I yelled.

He sat up abruptly, only to realize that it was just a dream.

Pressing the playback button on the phone, I remembered his last words in this life: "I have a more important mission than serving the organization, and that is to respect nature and science..."