Chapter 66 Ward Conversation
After leaving the Port Mafia, Verlaine went to the Port Hospital.
Compared to the security system of the Port Mafia headquarters building, the Port Hospital is far inferior. When important people are treated here, strong security mainly depends on people - people arranged by the Port Mafia.
So Weilain sneaked into the Port Hospital easily and quietly came to the ward where Chuuya Nakahara was being sent to recuperate after emergency treatment.
There was Randou guarding Nakahara Chuuya's ward. Although the hospital's senior management did not recognize him, a space-related psychic was obviously stronger than the staff of the Port Hospital. At his request, no one from the hospital was guarding outside the ward.
The moment Wei Erlan opened the door, Lan Tang noticed it. He whispered, "You're here."
Verlaine closed the door of the ward and stood there without moving.
Lan Tang didn't mind his silence and said casually, "It's been a while since we last met, right?"
Not only had he never seen him, he had thought that he was dead for all these years.
Wei Lain walked a little closer and said indifferently, "It's been a long time since we last met. What do you want to teach me?"
He didn't mean to speak to the other party in this way, he just didn't know how to treat this person.
To be fair, the other party had never done anything to wrong him. Compared with almost everyone else who knew him, he was the only one who showed goodwill to him. It was just that from the very beginning of their acquaintance, there were all kinds of conflicts of interest between them - not personal interests, but the interests of the people behind him.
Prejudice exists from the very beginning. No matter how much good intentions are shown later, people will magnify the negative information in the details such as control, censorship, exclusion, and exploitation. Even unintentional mistakes will be regarded as a means of training that is wrapped in negative information.
What does he mean by this? Is he forbidding me to do this again? Is it that the people behind him don't want me to do this? What is this signal? Is he really sent to monitor me? What is the meaning of this action? Is he trying to train me into a useful tool?
No matter what behavior it is, once you explore the purpose behind it, all behaviors have a purpose.
Why did he give me these? To give me sweet things to make me obey?
Dates and sticks are like training a dog.
But Verlaine had never been a dog, and he hated this kind of training.
He learned the appearance of Lan Tang, disguised himself as a gentleman, accepted their education, and acted as they wanted to see, as if he had been tamed into an obedient dog, but in fact he was still a wolf spying on the enemy's weaknesses in the dark.
Although he and Lan Tang are partners, he has never regarded him as a close relative. It's just that when everyone around him is looking at him with malicious eyes, this is the only person who gives him kindness. In return, he is treated differently from others. He just doesn't have any hostility, can get along with him peacefully, and doesn't reflexively look for his weaknesses, which leads to a little tacit understanding between them.
On this basis, he betrayed Lan Tang and backstabbed him for his possible relatives. He always thought that the other party died in the energy explosion of Huang Ba Tu because of his backstabbing. Now seeing him again, Wei Erlun was hesitant, but he did not think he had done anything wrong, and his words became sharp unconsciously.
"I don't have anything to teach you." Lan Tang answered calmly, without even looking at him, "You are already good enough, Paul. Maybe I am wrong, but I have always regarded you as a human being..."
"That's enough!" Wei Erlan frowned, calmed down his fluctuating emotions, and then said: "I don't want to talk about this. You should know the purpose of my coming here."
"Let's wait until Zhongye wakes up before we talk about that." Lan Tang said, "I said the same thing to Zhongye."
This problem has spanned time and space and has lasted between them for nearly twenty years. Lan Tang wants to take this opportunity to solve this problem, and of course he will not let him change the subject.
“You!” Verlaine exclaimed, “You told him everything!?”
Verlaine's plan was to conceal Chuuya Nakahara's origins in a laboratory and bring him to a small country town where no one knew about him, to raise him as an ordinary human. His personality and soul were just 2383 lines of code, which had drowned him in pain and hatred for his whole life. He did not want a life that was like a replica of him to be immersed in the same pain and hatred for others and the world.
But now it is clear that the plan at that time can no longer be fully applied.
The Arahato incident was hidden under the revenge incident of the previous leader of the Port Mafia. Others paid more attention to the resurrection of the leader of the Port Mafia, but he paid more attention to the information of Arahato hidden under it. The central figure in solving the incident was Nakahara Chuuya. After the incident, he joined the Port Mafia. Weilun had to suspect that Nakahara Chuuya already knew that he was Arahato.
"...Not yet, but he already knows that he is Huangba Tu."
Wei Erlun calmed down a little. He stared at Lan Tang and said slowly, "A few days ago, I found another research institute that studies Huang Ba Tu. It's not the one that was destroyed in the explosion nine years ago, but this institute was also destroyed. Judging from the traces, it was destroyed no more than a year ago. Do you know anything?"
"I did it." Lan Tang accepted his test and confirmed his guess, "I have dealt with all the insiders in that research institute, and destroyed the password. No one will know Chuuya's password in the future."
The password he mentioned was naturally something that the research institute gave to the experimental subjects as an additional control during the research process.
Verlaine's brows relaxed slightly. He asked, "Are you not going to take him back to France now?"
"You know, my files are sealed in France. Even if I go back, I will still be subject to review and supervision."
Lan Tang said this very calmly, as if he was talking about someone who had nothing to do with him.
The Transcendent possesses the power to influence national wars, so the country of origin will never give him up easily. But the year Verlaine betrayed, Rimbaud, his partner, also disappeared. The disappearance has two meanings: one is that Rimbaud is dead, and the other is that Rimbaud also betrayed.
Rimbaud's whereabouts were unknown, so they could only leave him alone and wait until they found him. Whether it was betrayal or death, the French government would continue to include him in its system before finding him. Even if they found out that Rimbaud was really a traitor, they could talk about it later. Didn't you see that after Verlaine escaped government supervision, he had been carrying out various assassination activities, even assassinating the Queen of England, and France did not take any practical and effective measures against him?
But if he went back again, after so many years, even if he said he had lost his memory due to injury, the French government would not trust him as much as before.
——Although I didn’t have much trust in him before.
In this environment, the few people with special abilities have always been excluded. Otherwise, Mori Owl would not have created the "Undead Army" to prove the value of people with special abilities. After the end of the Superpower War, the power of the Transcendents was given more attention, to the point of requiring them to be worshipped, but at the same time, the fear was even greater than before.
Verlaine was silent.
The ward fell into silence.
After a long while, Lan Tang spoke again: "I heard you say before that you wanted to take Zhong Ye to live in a small place in the countryside?"
“…Yeah.” Weilun leaned against the wall.
"Why do we have to go to France?"
"...Hmm?" Weilun looked over in confusion.
Lan Tang's eyes finally fell on him. "Chu Ye has been living in this country since he became self-aware. Language, region, and familiar environment can bring people a sense of security. People always trust things that they understand and are under their control. Maybe it was just right for you to take him to France nine years ago, but what about now?"
Weilan moved his mouth to say something, but Lan Tang didn't let him say it.
"You can give it a try first. Just find a small place in the countryside in Yokohama to live and see if he is willing to live with you." Lan Tang's eyes softened. "Unlike the sheep, the current port mafia may not be a bad place. Especially for people like us."
Wei Erlain: “…”
Folding his scarf, Lan Tang stood up and prepared to leave. "Maybe some people from the port mafia will come over later. It's not appropriate for me to show up in front of them now, so I'll leave first. Remember not to fight with them."
"At least no one's life will be harmed."
Wei Lain watched him leave in silence, and after a while, he lowered his head and sneered.
"You still believe me now?"
…
Mori Ogai knew the fact that Weierlain was guarding in Nakahara Chuuya's ward the next morning. It was the nurse who went to change the dressing in the morning who first discovered it.
Sen Ouwai thought about it and decided not to disturb their brotherly time.
There was no noise in the hospital, and it was obvious that Nakahara Chuuya was still asleep. If he went there at this time, if Weierlain was in a good mood, he might just kill him.
"Oh, my head hurts."
[Headache? If you have a headache, go see a doctor.] Moriou hadn't eaten breakfast yet, and Ace was still half awake, his head still half asleep.
Sen Ou Wai has always been too lazy to pay attention to such meaningless words.
He looked through yesterday's department reports and found that most of the important ones were related to Verlaine.
Weierlaan and Nakahara Chuuya fought hard, directly destroying most of the street near the Port Mafia. There were many businesses of the Port Mafia on that street, and with their fighting, the Port Mafia's finances collapsed instantly.
That is to say, part of the land still belongs to them, and they can just spend more money to rebuild it later.
Mori Ogai: My wallet is shrinking and my heart is bleeding...
Fortunately, they did not suffer many casualties, and the worst injured was Nakahara Chuuya, who was at the center of the battle.
When Lan Tang was still alive, it saved him a lot of trouble. Otherwise, if a fight really broke out, with Weilun's destructive power, the scope of the destruction would not be measured by the port mafia, but by Yokohama.
I hope that the friendship between Ace and Lantang is still useful, at least it can help stop Weilun when he wants to kill me. After all, he is a transcendent, at least he is trustworthy in terms of strength.
It would be best if he could convince Verlaine to give up his assassination plan. He didn't even expect Verlaine to join the Port Mafia. It would be great if he could live a peaceful retirement life in Yokohama.