[Infinite Stream] Destiny Rubik's Cube

Zhou Qi put Xu Chi on the iron bed.

He didn't usually stay at the headquarters much, and this single dormitory was so simple that it lost all traces of life.

But at this moment Xu Chi was lying on that bed.

In an instant, the door of life was opened to Zhou Qi again, and all the gray colors jumped up under the dim light, looking so amiable and lovely.

He went out with a water bottle, and when he came back, he poured hot water into the iron basin, unwrapped a brand new towel in the rising mist, and wiped Xu Chi's face.

The wet towel brushed over the eyebrows, eyes, nose bridge and straight lips, leaving wet marks.There seems to be a fluffy and chirping young bird in his chest, Zhou Qi does these small things with secret joy and unprecedented softness, and obtains great satisfaction from it.He held Xu Chi's hand and sat there, staring at the face that was thinking day and night, until the hot water in the iron basin gradually turned cold, until the night faded away and was replaced by the faint light of the sky.

Sitting like this can easily lead to paranoid thoughts.

He finally bent down his stiff body, kissed those two bloodless lips, and then let out a trembling sigh.

"It's you." All night, he opened his eyes, feeling that he had been sitting next to the nuclear reactor, until now the threat was lifted.He finally accepted that what happened in front of him was reality, that Xu Chi who was lying on the bed was a real existence, not a illusory product of his drunkenness.He grabbed Xu Chi's hand and covered his eyes, his enthusiasm suddenly surged, "God, it's really you."

Xu Chi, who was in a coma, was unable to respond.

Zhou Qi lifted the quilt, lay down on his side, and took him into his arms little by little.He pressed against Xu Chi tightly, as if this would minimize the sense of unreality.

There are many questions to think about.

Can Xu Chi still wake up?What are the chances of waking up?Compared with dying, is it a kind of torture for Xu Chi to stay in such a deep sleep?How to explain their relationship to Zhou Xingzhi?How to introduce Xu Chi's identity to outsiders?The following matters have been arranged and are just waiting to be executed. Who will Xu Chi take care of when he is not around?

Tired of thinking, he closed his heavy eyelids and kissed Xu Chi's forehead.

It felt a bit like jumping out of a burning house.Even so, Zhou Qi still couldn't contain the joy of regaining what was lost.It's better to fall than to be burned.

At least until it hits the ground.

The obedience of soldiers to their commanders is sometimes more durable and stronger than we think.

After many years, Zhou Xingzhi still felt uncomfortable when he met and talked with the marshal again. He even secretly buttoned up the open military jacket and tucked the hem of his shirt into the waistband of his trousers.

"Don't be nervous, I'm just an old guy with lost teeth." Leng Jin leaned his crutches against the table and took a sip of hot tea after breakfast, "I'm still a cripple with limited mobility."

Faced with the old marshal's self-mockery, Zhou Xingzhi was at a loss as to what to do: "It was that brat Zhou Qi who was reckless and tossed you from the nursing home in the middle of the night. Did the marshal sleep well at night?"

"Okay, that's good. But, Lieutenant Zhou should pay more attention to what he says." Leng Jin showed disapproval, "How can you call His Royal Highness a kid? Besides, he is saving me, so how can he be called a toss?"

Zhou Xingzhi stood and nodded embarrassingly: "It seems that the marshal and Zhou... Yuan Qi have already talked."

"Talked for a while." Leng Yuan put down his teacup and glanced over, "You raised him well."

"This child grew up by himself, I didn't worry about it." Zhou Xingzhi scratched his head embarrassingly, "He's not a bad person, but he hangs around with us big bastards all day long, and those who hide in Tibet don't have a peaceful life. Bad habit."

"No one is perfect." Leng Jin said, "Even Yuan Baidao, who was all-powerful back then, had shortcomings that were repeatedly criticized by others."

Zhou Xingzhi was in the Yigong Guards back then, and he was considered as a group of soldiers closest to the royal family. Xinmi of the royal family had heard about it more or less, but he never cared about it and would not comment on it.Now that he is Zhou Qi's adoptive father, he will not arbitrarily evaluate his biological father's conduct, so he changed the subject.

"The subordinates thought that the marshal had been ignoring world affairs in recent years and wanted to concentrate on retirement, so he never dared to disturb him."

"I really want to retire, but the current dangerous situation always pushes me to the center of the whirlpool." Leng Jin lowered the corner of his mouth angrily.After a long while, the livid face softened, "I'm here to tell you that if you want to think about something, you have to do it as soon as possible."

Zhou Xingzhi's expression froze, and he asked in a low voice, "What does Marshal mean by this? What happened to Cao Chongye?"

"Three months ago, his new experiment was successful, and now it has been put into use non-stop. When those soldiers come out, he will be the second Yuan Baidao."

"What new experiment?" Zhou Xingzhi was at a loss.

"This has to be started a long time ago." Leng Jin looked a little tired, and pushed the back of his hand outward, "Go, call Yuan Qi, and ask him if he still wants to hear the answer to the question. If you listen, come quickly, and don’t wait when it’s too late.”

Zhou Xingzhi originally wanted to settle the score with the brat after greeting the old marshal, but now he went out and went straight to Zhou Qi's dormitory, banging on the door.

Zhou Qi was dreaming with Xu Chi in his arms, and was so shaken by the earth-shattering movement that he almost rolled off the bed.Before he opened his eyes, he stood up slowly, and Xu Chi's arm around his waist naturally dropped.

Zhou Xingzhi's loud yelling came from outside the door, and Zhou Qi suddenly felt embarrassed to be caught by his old father for whoring. He wiped his face indiscriminately. late body.When he caught Xu Chi's exposed arm back under the quilt, he paused.

Before going to bed, did he hold Xu Chi's hand on his waist?

He was sure he didn't.

that just...

"You son of a bitch, don't think I don't know what you're doing in there! I'll give you three seconds, pack up and come and open the door!" Zhou Xingzhi entered the countdown timer.

Zhou Qi had no time to think about it. He rushed over in two steps in three steps, opened the door, and leaned against the door frame with a bright smile: "Good morning, Dad."

Zhou Xingzhi probed up and down, left and right, trying to peek inside through Zhou Qi's tall body, only to see the bulging human-shaped quilt on the bed.

Zhou Qi slammed the door shut: "You're not polite, Dad."

"What the hell? I'm rude?" Zhou Xingzhi was so angry that he blew his beard and stared, and looked up at the dark circles under Zhou Qi's ghost. "You brought an unidentified woman back to the headquarters, which seriously violated military discipline. I didn't It would be extraordinarily extrajudicial to kick you out directly! Go to the training ground later and do [-] push-ups for me in public. My lungs. Among other things, at least, you bring someone out to show me, right? As a father-in-law, I want to see what my daughter-in-law looks like. Is this too much to ask?"

Since last night, he has questioned the members of the Delta team one by one, insinuating, asking Zhou Qi what he brought back.As a result, the gang of brats only had Zhou Qi in their eyes, and only Zhou Qi obeyed. Others couldn’t pry out a word, and he couldn’t really do anything. In the end, everyone was punished to clean the training ground for a week, and they still had to turn around. Ask your son yourself.

What a humble father.

"It's not too much." Zhou Qi lowered his eyebrows and looked pleasing to the eye, wondering why, "That's right, it's not the time yet."

"Then when is the time!" Zhou Xingzhi put his hands on his hips, with a little grievance in his anger, "Wait until my grandson is born?"

Zhou Qi muttered: "It is impossible for a grandson to have a grandson."

"Huh? What are you talking about? Louder!"

"I said." Zhou Qi said loudly, "Your heart is not good, I'm afraid you won't be able to accept it and faint!"

Zhou Xingzhi, who heard for the first time that he had a bad heart, also shouted loudly: "Don't worry, you just like a pig, and I also thank the other party for having the courage to hug you!"

Zhou Qi: Why are you so angry when you hear this?

Zhou Qi was a little sad: "No, in your eyes, do I hate marriage so much?"

Zhou Xingzhi also temporarily gave up his wish to see his daughter-in-law's beauty, and turned his head lonely: "Your boy has never had any decent relationship, can a father not worry about it?"

"I don't want to talk about..."

"I know. How can a man start a family before he has a career?" Zhou Xingzhi beckoned Zhou Qi to go with him, and said all the way, "It's not that I don't know you, you are afraid that our soldiers will be in danger, and you don't know When you fall down, you will ruin a good girl for nothing, and you will feel sorry if you die, right? So you still dare not take that step and talk to others. I don’t usually talk about these things, but I do You can see it in my eyes. Today, my father is angry, and I am actually quite happy. Anyway, you finally met a heart-to-heart person. I was thinking, this iron-headed tree in our family is finally about to bloom! Ha Ha ha ha ha!"

Zhou Qi lowered his head and followed behind with his hands in his pockets. Hearing this, he paused on his toes. When he raised his head, he inadvertently saw a stubble of white hair protruding from the back of Zhou Xingzhi's head.

He pursed his lips and finally said, "Now I'm not afraid anymore."

"What are you not afraid of?"

"I'm not afraid to feel sorry for others anymore. He is very strong and can endure any suffering, so I don't have to treat him very differently."

"That sounds a little cheeky."

"Yes, I just have to be thick-skinned with him."

"Then I have to congratulate you in advance, boy, you have found the right person."

"Thank you."

When Zhou Qi saw Leng Yuan again, he was sitting upright, wiping his gun with a flannel cloth, with a solemn, almost affectionate expression, as if treating his wife.But everyone knows that he is alone.

Zhou Xingzhi cleared his throat at the door, Leng Yuan woke up from his personal world and blinked his sleepy old eyes.

"Sit down." He folded the old flannelette, like the owner of the place, raised his chin and nodded the two folding chairs beside the bed.

Zhou Xingzhi pulled Zhou Qi to sit down.

Zhou Qi cut to the chase: "Tell me, what is the 'Super Soldier Project'?"

Zhou Xingzhi glared at him, signaling him to speak well and not to be rude.

Zhou Qi ignored it.

Fortunately, Leng Yuan didn't care about his rudeness, and he didn't want to be a joke anymore: "To put it simply, 24 people were created through genetic recombination, screening and cloning, and then trained through years of special training to become fighters who are good at assassination and lurking. For some reasons, their genes were modified before birth into the best genes that are most suitable for performing various difficult tasks. Compared with normal humans, they are more obedient to discipline, hard-working, and more vicious. Fighting, more determined, both physical and skill, are far superior to other human beings. Even in terms of emotional experience, they do not have as many troubles as us. Studies have shown that they seem to be more indifferent, less empathetic, and Numbness, doing whatever it takes to get what you want and not feeling guilty or ashamed. Those are absolutely excellent qualities in an assassin.”

"A living killing machine." Zhou Qi gritted his teeth.His face was very cold, he clenched his fists, and stared at Leng Yuan viciously, as if he would raise his fist if Leng Yuan said a word more, "Are you the officer who was in charge of training and nurturing these super fighters back then?"

"Yes." Leng Jin rubbed his face vigorously, his bark-like old face was flushed, "They are all excellent."

Zhou Qi felt indescribable anger at the word "excellent", and stood up from his chair: "Isn't this violating morality and disregarding human relations? Have you asked them what they think, they may not want to be born as killing machines at all , and I don’t want to live for it at all!”

"Human relations?" A sneer crept from the corner of the cold mouth, "Don't forget, this plan was approved by your father himself. Facts have proved that his vision and intuition are correct, and this group of super fighters won him the most stable position." regime, all opponents have been assassinated, and no one will stay, even if they flee to the ends of the earth, their heads will be brought back by super soldiers."

Zhou Qi fought a cold war.

He suddenly realized that the instigator of all this was Yuan Baidao.The tragedy of Xu Chi's life began with his father.

He sat down slumped, as if struck by lightning.

"Then what happened afterwards?" Zhou Xingzhi asked, "What happened to those genetically modified people?"

"Dead." Leng Jin said, "Some died in the mission, and some were given to die."

"Death?"

"The birds are all hidden. After all, they were activated during the war years, and they were only allowed to survive at that time. After the peaceful reunification, their dangerous genes determined that they were born anti-human and anti-social, so the king had to order Destroy them centrally."

He used the word destroy.

It seems that it is not a life, but an item.

Zhou Qi felt his stomach churning.

"But one of them survived. After that, he was reused by the king until the day when the Tianhe government was overthrown."

Zhou Qi squirmed his lips, he didn't want to hear Xu Chi's name from Leng Jin's cruel mouth, even if it was just a cold code name.

But his clever father anxiously asked his inner guess: "Yes, is it General Xu?"

Nodding coldly.

Zhou Xingzhi wailed in pain: "Oh, my poor general."

"And the reason why he survived was only because among the 24 super fighters, he looked the most like the first queen." Leng Jin shrugged helplessly, "So he got the king's mercy and favor, and he was spared from death, and let him He has sworn allegiance to the royal family for life."

The sour taste surging in Zhou Qi's stomach has reached his throat.

"But the Queen passed away after giving birth to Zhou Qi at the age of 20, didn't she?" Zhou Xingzhi wondered, "but the general and I are of the same generation."

"At this time, I need to remind you, Lieutenant Zhou, when Yuan Baidao fell in love with the first queen, the first queen was only 13 years old." When Leng Jin said this, he glanced at Zhou Qi, then quickly looked away, "That At the time, the ambitious 20-year-old Wang extracted her genes."

"So that's how it is, that's how it is." Zhou Xingzhi muttered, "But it's still not right. Considering his age, the general is 20 years older than Zhou Qi. According to you, he is only seven years older than Zhou Qi..."

"It's not as much as you imagined." Leng Jin explained, "Those children have greatly shortened their maturity period by injecting hormones and drugs. Let's put it this way, we don't have so much time to wait for them to grow up slowly, can you understand? "

Zhou Qi's pupils shrank suddenly, and he raised his head suddenly. He could hardly believe his ears: "Shrink, shorten the maturity period?"

"Yes. They have received closed training since childhood, which is completely closed in the true sense. Before they went out to perform their mission for the first time, they thought my words were the eternal truth. If I told them, when the first heavy snow this year They'll be fourteen when they fall, so they'll think they're 14, and nobody's going to question my words, and they do have the physique and ability of a 14-year-old."

The atmosphere in the room froze.

No one made a sound for a long time.

"Devil, only the devil can come up with this plan!" Zhou Xingzhi's teeth turned cold. When this kind of thing happened to his beloved general, he couldn't keep calm anymore, and he gritted his teeth and cursed repeatedly, "No way!" Inhumane! Outright devil! Madman, inhuman madman!"

Cold sweat dripped down Zhou Qi's back, and he began to tremble uncontrollably.

Xu Chi knew that he was Yuan Baidao's son.

But he still decided to stay with him all the time.

Even though he might not understand his true feelings, even though Yuan Baidao had committed brutal and inhuman acts on him.

If this is not love?

What counts?

"Now this devil has been discovered by Cao Chongye and has been improved and optimized, and it is planned to be put into use again." Leng Jin said his final purpose of the conversation, "Back then, the devil created only 24 fighters, but now it is a full formation. This is for You sound the alarm, Lieutenant, you must hurry up... Your Highness, Your Highness?"

"What's the matter, Zhou Qi? Are you feeling unwell?"

Zhou Qi didn't say a word, clutching his convulsed stomach, and fled out the door in a hurry.