dear archimedes

Chapter 20 Drugs, Lies, and Pranks (1)
Two years ago,
Near the suburban road in Newlington, New Jersey,

Early in the morning,

Grove.

In the pouring rain, the black night engulfed the dark blue vehicle under the big tree.There is no light around.

Only the torrent of wind and rain.

Gradually, flashlights flickered in the depths of the woods, gradually gathering together, and slowly flowing towards the dark van like fireflies.

There was a messy and irritable sound of door opening and closing one after another, and young high school students in raincoats got on the car one after another.

The boy in the red raincoat who was sitting in the driving seat threw down his raincoat impatiently and thumped the steering wheel hard.His bright red hair was dripping with raindrops.

He cursed:
"The congressman's daughter is amazing. My dad is still the Minister of Finance! Where did she get such a bad temper? It rained so much, she ran as soon as she said she wanted, and she couldn't find anyone after searching for a long time. Let her die in the woods for me. !"

"What did you say?" The young man in the green raincoat in the middle of the back row got angry and jumped up to argue with him, but was stopped by the people next to him.The boy in the green raincoat has a pair of lake green eyes, blond hair and white skin, and is as beautiful as a prince in a fairy tale.

The girl with the ponytail in the back yelled at the red-haired boy, "Kelly, shut up!"

"Shut up?" Kelly started the car and stopped after a jolt. He sneered viciously, "Who spoke just now and drove Laura away? I think it was you, Daisy?"

The girl named Daisy stopped talking.

"Stop arguing! We want a united front, why panic!" The boy sitting in the co-pilot seat was called Tony, he seemed to be the biggest one, with black hair and black eyes, he seemed to be the most authoritative.As soon as he scolded, the car became quiet.He then said, "What should we do now, continue to look for her, or leave this ghost place first?"

The blond-haired, green-eyed boy in a green raincoat said decisively, "We must find Laura first."

Now, Kelly, who was sitting in front, didn't object, but just smiled sarcastically: "I don't care, I can't leave anyway if I want to."

Everyone was surprised: "What do you mean?"

Kelly took out a cigarette, and there was no spark from the lighter for a long time. He threw the lighter away in boredom, pointed at the dashboard and said, "Just now, that lunatic Laura grabbed the steering wheel, causing the car to rush off the road. It hit the fuel tank and leaked oil." gone."

"It's so weird." The other boy sitting in the back seat was the smallest and thinnest, his face paled even more due to black-rimmed glasses, he muttered, "Could it be that person's revenge? Let's get out of here now , what if that person comes after us and kills us?"

For a moment, there was a deathly silence in the carriage, only the howling wind and rain outside and the boundless night remained.

Sitting next to him was a girl with heavy makeup, who immediately looked at him with contempt: "Qi Mo, you are too timid. The words on the glass are just prank graffiti, and have nothing to do with us."

She seemed to be emboldening herself, so she specially emphasized the last few words.

The blond boy in the green raincoat in the middle snorted coldly: "It doesn't matter at all? Anna, you were the first to pack up and get in the car. You refused to go on vacation and insisted on going back overnight."

Anna's face froze, she gritted her teeth for a long time, and read out his full name word by word, even including the middle name: "Harry Simon Parker Jr. If anyone really comes to take revenge, the first person who should be killed is you!"

Little Parker turned pale and looked at her gloomyly.

Anna was stunned for a moment, knowing that the words were serious, she turned her head away to look at Qi Mo: "It's you who are suspicious. Huh, that incident was an accident, and no one knew about it except us. Who will avenge her? Who will avenge her ?”

The little Qi Mo looked at her, his face suddenly turned pale as if he had seen a ghost, his eyes seemed to be bigger than his black-rimmed glasses.His pale face reflected the violent wind and rain outside the car window, making it particularly permeable.

Anna: "If you are, why do you look at me like this?"

Qi Mo's eyes widened in astonishment, and his voice was ethereal like a ghost: "Anna, yours, behind."

Anna was terrified for a moment. Seeing that the faces of the other people in the carriage had changed, they were trembling with fright, and turned their heads stiffly to look.

It was dark, windy and rainy outside the car window, and the leaves were swaying like ghost hands. The glass was full of raindrops, but clear graphics and writing were reflected.A small five-pointed star, next to a line of English letters: you are my medicine. You are my medicine.

That's exactly what they saw on fruit knives at seaside resorts.

Qi Mo's slender hands trembled: "Then, isn't that the last sentence of Lin Xing's love letter?"

The most ordinary sentence cast a layer of deep fear in the hearts of everyone in the car.

Qi Mo scratched his head, stared at the piece of glass, and repeated like crazy: "He came after him, he came to avenge Lin Xing. He came after him!"

"Shut up!" Anna screamed, twitching the corners of her mouth, twisting her face and trying to smile, "Impossible. We drove for more than 2 hours, and he couldn't catch up. This letter must be supernatural..."

But for a moment, she closed her mouth and opened her eyes wide in shock.The black eyeballs seemed to burst from their sockets.The other people beside her had the same expression.

Even though there were so many companions in the carriage, everyone was frightened and stiff, and the faces that were whitened by the rainy night were full of horror and shock.

On the piece of glass with letters written on it, something white was blown past by the strong wind, and within half a second, it was blown back again.

Like a pendulum, swinging back and forth.

The wind stopped by chance, and through the rain curtain of the glass window, the swinging object was finally clear—whose feet it was.As soon as the lightning passed, he turned pale.

"Ah!!!" Several shrill screams pierced through the stormy night, but were quickly absorbed by the woods, and there was silence.

On the day of the music performance at the Grand Theater, Yan Su suddenly didn't want to go.Because that day, there happened to be an open-air symphony concert by the Juilliard School of Music in Central Park.

Eva's family lives in New York, and Owen called Eva from the beginning.As a result, the four separated.Owen and Eva go to the music performance, and Yan Su and Zhen Ai go to the open-air concert.

The Spring Symphony will be held in Central Park on time at [-]:[-] p.m.

Yan Su's apartment is near Central Park, and the two of them walked there together.

It was already dark at that time, but the lights of the city were very bright, reflecting streaks of white light in the dark night.

The surrounding area of ​​the park was bustling with traffic and voices, but the two of them walked quietly but quickly.

Yan Su changed into a thin windbreaker, which was still his favorite black, with his hands in his pockets, his eyes looking into the void, as if he was in a trance, and his steps were extremely fast at first.He walks like this all the time, so fast that he can blow the wind.

But at a certain moment, as if remembering the promise to Zhen Ai, she immediately stopped her pace, lukewarm, and slowed like a snail.

The two of them had nothing to say all the way, she didn't know what he was thinking, and it was not easy to ask him.Because she knew that he was thinking most of the time, and she couldn't be bothered.

But now I'm going to a concert, so I can't rest my head for a while...

Zhen Ai lowered her head and thought, suddenly there was a sharp sound of car brakes in her ears.She froze for a moment, turned her head in the direction of the voice, and saw a high-speed car moving towards her in an instant.

When did she run into the middle of the road alone?
Zhen Ai was startled, and subconsciously wanted to back up or run away, but at this moment her body couldn't control her body at all, and her movement ability completely lagged behind the thoughts in her head.

Watching the car crashing towards her, at the very moment, someone grabbed her arm and pulled her whole body back.Car lights and street lights all over the world were spinning in front of her. In the chaos, she saw Yan Su's eyes full of astonishment.

In the next second, the chaotic car gliding sound stopped abruptly, and she slammed into his warm embrace.

When he pulled her, he used too much force, and as a result, she bumped into him, pushed him back a few steps, and bumped into the trunk of a sycamore tree by the side of the road.

This impact was not light, he bit his lip slightly in pain, the tree trunk shook violently, the dead leaves in late winter fell along with the new leaves in spring, covering their hair and clothes.

Zhen Ai looked at him in astonishment, and after a while, she suddenly realized that she was embracing him in his arms, with her hands wrapped around his waist at some point.The body temperature from the man's ironing spread all over her body in an instant, and her cheeks became hot, she hurriedly let go of her hand, and immediately opened the distance between her and him.

This is really killing people.

But she didn't show too much embarrassment. She patted the fallen leaves on her body and pretended to look at him unintentionally. Seeing that he didn't look at her at all, but fiddled with the leaves on her hair slowly, she felt a little relieved. Take a breath.

Street lamps cast down from the treetops, and there was a strange silence in the dim light.

"That car is pretty." Yan Su said casually.

"Ah? Is there any?"

"They're all running towards you, and you're still watching so engrossed." His voice was still so deep and sweet.

Zhen Ai blushed, knowing that he was mocking her for being slow to react.

as predicted,

"Your reaction speed is really..." He gritted his teeth speechlessly, with a rare impatience on his face. After a while, "What kind of single-celled organism are you? Paramecium? Cyanobacteria?"

"Ah?" Zhen Ai said nah, it was the first time she heard that someone would use paramecium and blue-green algae to describe people.

"No, paramecium is faster than you." The dim yellow light fell vertically from the top of his head, his facial features became more and more profound, but still indifferent, "Your nerve reflex arc is so long that it can circle the earth 5 Circled."

Zhen Ai: ...

She looked at him silently, not knowing why he was suddenly aggressive.She was also dissatisfied, she pursed her lips and turned her head away, not looking at him.

He frowned unhappy.It's obvious that she is walking in disorder, so why are you embarrassed to be angry?
A few seconds later, he suddenly stepped forward and grabbed her hand.

Zhen Ai's hands were hot, and she stared at him with wide eyes.Her conditioned reflex wanted to break free, but he clenched it even tighter, ordering without emotion, almost yelling in a low voice: "Don't move."

Zhen Ai didn't move, her black and white eyes were full of vigilance.

It was rare for her to see him so slightly angry, and she felt a little frightened for no reason.

"Follow me and walk obediently, don't keep jumping on other people's cars, is your attribute a moth?" His voice calmed down, and he continued to walk with his long legs.

Although he made fun of him like a moth again, Zhen Ai couldn't say a word. She just felt that the warmth of his palm was burning into her heart. It was strange and strange, but she didn't hate it, nor did she reject it. On the contrary, she still felt that Very heartwarming.

Obviously he looks so cold.

For such an indifferent person like him, even if he holds hands, he is obstinate and coercive, with a tenderness that cannot be refused.

Her heart seemed to be wrapped in warm cotton, and her secretly happy feeling was infinitely magnified.

She wanted to use a little force, held his hand, and after thinking about it for a long time, her little hand moved, but in the end she didn't use any force.After all, she didn't dare, and just passively let him lead her through the busy street and the mottled lights.

Speaking back, he put down the logic problem he had been thinking about long ago.

He didn't think of going to other levels, and he knew it was just a normal reaction of a man's body.

The female hormones she exudes have caused the disorder and uneasiness of the male hormone molecules in his body, which is really annoying.But this idiot can't even cross the road, and now I want him to hold her hand, how annoying!

Fortunately, Yan Su is a very adaptable person, so it won't affect his mood.It's just that she only planned to hold Zhen Ai to cross the road, but it went smoothly.

He was always thinking about other things in his mind, forgetting that the two of them were still holding each other, so he habitually held her hand and put it in the windbreaker pocket.

Zhen Ai was taken aback, even she knew that this action was too intimate.It can be said that this young man is completely calm and composed.

The two of them walked to the entrance of Central Park, when they suddenly heard someone calling Zhen Ai: "Ai~~"

Zhen Ai immediately stopped in her tracks, looked back, and suddenly realized that he was still holding her hand, and immediately broke free.

Yan Su's pocket suddenly became empty.

He put his hands in his pockets, shook them calmly, and then lowered his eyebrows to think about it. From an objective point of view, the small ball of soft hands in his palm just now seemed to feel really good.

Zhen Ai withdrew her hand in embarrassment, and looked at the people who came, it was her male assistant Ryan Ryan in the laboratory, and another white man.

Ryan walked over, arm in arm with the man.

Zhen Ai knew that Ryan was gay a long time ago, which is very common in the American environment, so she was not surprised, instead, in order to avoid the embarrassment of holding hands with Yan Su just now, she first asked familiarly: "This is it?"

Ryan smiled: "Alan, my boyfriend."

Zhen Ai shouldered the heavy responsibility of answering calls and making introductions. She was not sociable and nodded slowly, racking her brains not to stand coldly: "Oh, this is the boyfriend you often mention?"

The tall and handsome Allen smiled: "He often mentions to you his ex-boyfriend."

Zhen Ai's face froze slightly, and she thought to herself that she had finally tried to talk to someone proactively, but in the end...it was so embarrassing.

But within a second, Allen laughed loudly again: "I'm his ex-boyfriend, on and off, going around, and reconciled."

Ryan laughed along with his boyfriend.

Zhen Ai gave a dry laugh.

Yan Su lowered his head and looked at her indifferently: "It's not funny at all."

"..." When Zhen Ai felt even more embarrassed, Ai Lun didn't mind. Instead, he stared at Yan Su in surprise for a while, and then suddenly laughed: "SAYAN?"

Yan Su looked at him sideways, without any emotion on his face, not even the slightest sense of surprise at being recognized.

Zhen Ai guessed that maybe he was often recognized by people he didn't know, so it was no surprise.

Ryan was surprised: "You know each other?"

"I know him. He is a well-known cryptographer, logician, and behavior analysis expert in the United States," Allen listed a long list of titles, and added adoringly, "Mr. Yan Su has deciphered many strange codes, There are a lot of glorious deeds in the past. Many key and important occasions are waiting for him to make a decision. I also started to learn passwords recently, but it was too difficult and I gave up halfway. It would be great if I could learn from Mr. Yan."

Zhen Ai rolled her eyes, thinking that he was Yan Su's fan.

She raised her eyes to look at Yan Su, thinking that someone would be faintly arrogant, but she didn't think so, Yan Su narrowed her eyes slightly, and with a flash of light in her eyes, she scanned him all over and asked briefly, "Reporter?"

Allen was flattered: "You know me?"

Yan Su put on a wooden face: "I don't know."

A flock of crows flew over Zhen Ai's head.

Alan was taken aback, but he didn't mind, and said casually: "Mr. Yan Su is still the same as before, with sharp eyes, and he can see a lot of information at a glance."

For this kind of polite and polite compliment, Yan Su's attitude has always been - no response.

It was only then that Zhen Ai realized that Yan Su didn't know him, but he saw his occupation at a glance.

Zhen Ai couldn't help but looked Ryan's boyfriend up and down, except that he was well-dressed and should be middle-class, so she really couldn't dig out any more information.

Alan's eyes sparkled, and he asked, "Since I met you today, I would like to ask Mr. Yan, what does the five-pointed star usually mean?"

Yan Su narrowed his pupils slightly, as if he was a little wary: "There are more meanings."

"You have solved too many symbols and meanings, and I probably don't have much impression." Allen smiled understandingly, changed his tone, and slowed down intentionally or unintentionally, "Harry Simon Parker, I don't know the name, yes What is the special significance of Mr. Yan?"

Zhen Ai and Ryan are confused,
Yan Su's face was calm: "What do you want to say?"

Allen smiled: "His father, Senator Parker, recently ran for governor of New York, and talked about the unjust death of his son in front of the media. You participated in the investigation of the case, but closed the case hastily. Although these old Parkers have been Refused to accept your ruling, but never put pressure on you. He is so tolerant. I don’t know the sadness for old Parker, what do you think?"

Zhen Ai was stunned, what was he talking about?
Her assistant, Ryan, looked at her and smiled, not embarrassed, but proud of his boyfriend.In this country, anyone who pursues the truth and challenges the established reality is likable.

Recalling the turmoil without moving, he commented without interest: "Old Parker is a good politician."

A trace of disbelief crossed Alan's face, as if he had never seen such a stubborn person like Yan Su.He was satirizing old Parker for using his son's murder as a political ladder?

(End of this chapter)