Artificial Life 15
"...What exactly do you want to do?"
Perhaps it was because the night was too dark tonight. By the time Zhu Fujingguang reacted, the doubts that had been lingering in his heart were finally revealed. Facing Julian's wide eyes, he simply went with the flow and said, "Three lives..." The standard for selecting members in the water plant is elite, and those who can have code names in the water plant are the top priority. The deaths of Alvin, Ichinose Saku, and Kirigo Nozomi are already serious losses to the water plant. "At the cost of such a great sacrifice--"
“This is a good deal…”
"No," Zhu Fujingguang interrupted Julian's reply. Julian didn't seem to understand how his suppressed anger came about, and he still looked confused. "You don't understand... I mean, it seems that you have been considering sacrifice from the beginning."
Zhu Fu Jingguang spoke clearly, his turbulent emotions were blown away by the night wind. Only Julian, who was standing in front of him, endured the anger and grief. "Tasmanian Rains has planned your death from the beginning, and you all accepted it calmly." This is unusual. Survival is human instinct. Even for well-awaited undercover agents like Zhu Fu Jingguang and Furuya Ling, they are fighting with the hope of walking in the sun again after everything is over. They can give everything for their beliefs and the things they swore to protect, but they also long to reunite with their relatives and friends. After that, he mentioned the danger in a joking or relaxed tone, which was met with a concerned rebuke, "Why?" The cat-eyed young man couldn't help but reveal a bit of pleading in his eyes. At this moment, he was really looking for an answer. He had met Artes, Wayne, Yagaquan and Fusi, and San Pellegrino, but none of them expressed any objection to the fact that their death had been calculated long ago. They accepted it so calmly, as if it was an insignificant matter. After nodding, they continued to do their own things. "This is not normal... Julian, you are only twelve years old, you shouldn't be here..."
"Then where should I be?" Julian blinked, his tone still cheerful, "He Xi," he stood on tiptoe and patted Zhu Fu Jingguang's shoulder, "I know you mean well, but..." He sighed, "I really thought about it."
"Have you thought about how to live?" Zhu Fu Jingguang's brows suddenly turned cold, and the loss of control just now seemed to have never happened. He turned back into the calm undercover agent, "You still came to this ship and chose to work for this organization--"
"I have thought about it," the boy nodded without hesitation, the certainty in his words temporarily overshadowed Zhu Fu Jingguang's disgust for the water plant, "Not only me, Wayne, Yagaquan, and my brother... they have also thought about it," he pressed the corners of his lips, as if he finally realized that he shouldn't laugh at this time, "my brother really doesn't want me to participate. I took the initiative to ask Tasmania Yu to participate in this mission. Wow, don't look at me like that, I still have this little freedom!"
Facing Zhu Fu Jingguang's doubt, Julian shrugged helplessly, "You can also regard it as a right earned by my brother's hard work, but I chose not to accept it."
"And you refuse to leave," Zhu Fu Jingguang looked at the boy deeply, "Don't you want to abandon your brother?"
“Yeah,” Julian seemed a little distressed, “After all, I have always lived in such an environment...ah,” he did not care about Zhu Fu Jingguang’s reaction, he continued to talk to himself, “I am a gene-edited baby. Simply put, it is a child born for experimental purposes. My parents’ genes come from two projects respectively. Before my brother chose to take me away from the laboratory, I had never even seen the sky...”
"So?" Zhu Fujingguang listened carefully, understanding Julian's confusing remarks. "Are you afraid of leaving your familiar environment?"
"No," Julian grinned at Zhu Fu Jingguang. He raised his right hand and made a wooden warehouse gesture, tapping his temple with his middle finger. "I can't be scared," he said in a voice so soft that it was barely audible. "The powerful He Xi should have guessed it, right?"
I guessed it. He simply had no mechanism to feel negative emotions, whether it was fear, sadness, terror, disgust... These emotions simply could not be produced in his brain.
——This is the purpose for which Julian Mendoza was born into the world.
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