Artificial Life 4
Night has fallen. A cruise ship is moving slowly in the darkness. The cold sea breeze makes people wrap their clothes tightly. No light can be seen from the window. The Selmes is sailing alone on the rough sea. The people on the ship are either asleep or awake, immersed in inaudible whispers.
"Hey, Ethan," Julian's cheeks twitched a few times. After swallowing the potato salad in his mouth, he couldn't wait to speak to his temporary bodyguard, "Aren't you hungry?" The boy enthusiastically invited him to join the midnight snack. The dial on the wrist of his right hand holding the spoon showed his heart rate and blood pressure. "You don't seem to have eaten much for dinner."
"I'm not hungry," Ethan Hondou, an undercover agent of the CIA who once infiltrated the Black Organization and sacrificed himself for the safety of his daughter, Hondou Eimi, is a serious man. Facing Julian's cordial invitation, he only gave a cold response, but when he saw the dial on the boy's wrist, his tone softened a little, "...Just eat by yourself."
"Is that so?" Julian blinked, picked up the juice next to the plate and gulped it down. "Speaking of which, Ethan," the spoon in his hand scraped across the plate, making a teeth-grinding sound, "Who do you think the organization will send this time?" He smiled, "Will it be your daughter?"
As soon as these words came out, the air in the cabin suddenly stagnated. Ethan looked around the room, his hands pressed tightly against his pockets, feeling the familiar metal texture.
"Relax," Julian, who was still smiling, raised the dial on his wrist and comforted him in a light tone, "It's already the limit to be able to install this. Tasmanian rain is not as careless as me." After being coached by the workplace professional Sosuke Funa, this kid directly calls his colleagues by code names at work. He spread his hands and said, "The room is safe."
"Don't take it lightly," Ethan glanced at the boy, his hand still on his leg, with a warning in his tone, "Over-reliance on technology is not advisable..." Looking at Julian's slightly childish face, he paused and asked the question, "What exactly are you going to do with the Selmes?"
This question has been lingering in Ethan Hondo's mind for a long time. Like Zhufu Jingguang, after the water plant found a way to take them away from the winery, they all chose to work for the water plant under coercion and inducement. However, Zhufu Jingguang, who had a strong relationship, was able to obtain a code name, while Ethan was doing more of the same work as a peripheral member, investigating, contacting, cleaning up... He completed his tasks meticulously, never asking any more questions or trying to contact his old employer. Perhaps Ethan's honesty was finally noticed by his superiors, and after doing odd jobs for several years, he finally got a core task.
- Assisting Codename Member San Pellegrino in his activities on the Selmes.
Carrying some kind of intuitive warning, Ethan specifically went to inform his daughter before the mission that he was still alive. If the organization really sent Kiel on board, then his daughter, who knew nothing about it, would suddenly see him and the situation might become extremely dangerous.
"Ah, this," Julian seemed to have finally gotten tired of playing with the spoon in his hand. He let it hit the plate with a crisp sound, and his bright red eyes were so clear that one could see through it. "How should I put it——"
"Trying to deceive people?"
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