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Chapter 39 The Devil Comes to Maple Street (3)
He lowered his eyes and glanced at Zhen Ai, wondering why she was unhappy when they reconciled just now?He felt that it was necessary to pay attention to her movements, so he leaned slightly towards her and whispered, "What's wrong?"

Zhen Ai sighed, if only her nerves were as thick as his, it would be fine.

Zhen Ai didn't answer, she didn't expect that someone poked her back suddenly, she almost fell down on the table unexpectedly.The waist-high wooden platform made a soft sound.

The judge who read out the "crime" raised his eyelids, gave Zhen Ai a critical look, and continued expressionlessly: "Yan Su and Zhen Ai were in New York State on April 20, 4XX..."

Zhen Ai glared and turned to look at Yan Su, but he was still calm.

She quickly stood up straight, knowing that he poked her because she didn't reply, so she gave him a hard look, gritted her teeth and said in a low voice, "I feel ashamed."

Yan Su didn't understand: "Why are you ashamed? I don't think so."

Zhen Ai seized the opportunity and immediately satirized him: "Because you are thick-skinned!"

Yan Su frowned.Zhen Ai thought he was angry, but in the next second, he raised his hand and twisted his face, with a scientific expression on his face.

Zhen Ai: "..."

He scratched his face, bent close to her, and said very seriously: "Not thick." At the end, as if afraid that she would not believe it, he added, "If you don't believe me, pinch it."

Zhen Ai almost burst into tears.

The judge was still diligently reading out: "According to the No. X public security management regulations, this court sentenced the two parties to 23 hours of community service..."

Zhen Ai felt that he did it on purpose, and got angry: "I was wrong, you are not thick-skinned, you are shameless."

"How do you know, have you touched it?"

Zhen Ai was taken aback, and turned her head to look, he didn't flirt or tease, on the contrary, his expression was quite serious: "Zhen Ai, without investigation, you have no right to speak."

There is a problem with this person's comprehension ability, and this is not the first time she has seen it.Zhen Ai supported her forehead, and replied: "I feel uncomfortable, because standing here for trial, it's embarrassing and ashamed."

Yan Su thought for a moment, and comforted her kindly: "Don't be ashamed, nearly half of the people in the United States have stood in the dock."

After hearing this, Zhen Ai seized the opportunity with high spirits: "Ha! Logicians make mistakes. Whether they have been accused before has nothing to do with whether I feel ashamed. You..."

"Can you two stop talking nonsense?" The judge raised his eyelids and looked at the two of them extremely speechlessly.

The courtroom was silent, and everyone's eyes were on her, including the court reporter.

Zhen Ai was named, she was so embarrassed that she wanted to burrow into the ground, and lowered her head even lower.

The judge was silent, waiting for her to admit her mistake, but Zhen Ai didn't know the judge's intention and still hung her head.She just felt that the current silence made her embarrassed to death.

Yan Su glanced at Zhen Ai, then looked at the judge again, nodded, and said sincerely: "Yes, we have finished."

Is this a mistake...

Judge:"……"

The judge coughed dissatisfiedly: "It's all in court, can't you be patient and listen?"

Yan Su listened to the words, and said sincerely: "We have actually listened carefully to what Your Honor said just now."

The judge pushed his glasses and raised his eyebrows: "Oh? What did I just say?"

Yan Su's expressionless face quickly repeated: "Yan Su and Zhen Ai attacked a police car on New York State Highway X on April 20, 4XX...bla...According to the No. Hours of community service... bla... can you two stop talking small talk?"

The previous paragraph was verbatim, which stunned everyone, but after the last sentence silenced the court for half a second, burst into laughter instantly.

Yan Su's face was sullen, and he didn't understand the point of the smile at all.

Zhen Ai quickly raised her forehead and half covered her eyes.

The judge was not surprised, and said calmly, "Mr. Yan, are you trying to contempt the judge?"

Yan Su was very puzzled, he was so caring, and he repeated his words verbatim, isn't that a sign of respect?He didn't want to understand, but still nodded slightly, and replied politely: "No, Sir!"

The judge is also a tolerant person, so he continued to read without embarrassment.

Zhen Ai walked out of the court listlessly, with her head drooping all the way.Yan Su looked at it, puzzled: "Zhen Ai, why do you look like a battered eggplant?"

Zhen Ai looked up angrily, and glared at him: "I was beaten like this by you!"

Yan Su frowned even more incomprehensibly: "Beat you? But I haven't even touched you today."

Speaking of this, it seemed that he reminded himself that today's task was not completed, so he quickly raised his hand, and still patted her shoulder clumsily, once or twice, as a sign of comfort.

But the expression on her face didn't adjust well, she said stiffly: "Zhen Ai, don't be sad." After a while, he added, "I will accompany you."

Zhen Ai was dumbfounded by his robot-like unemotional voice, and pursed her lips: "Why do you accompany me? It sounds so nice! You have also been punished yourself, and you were going to serve the community."

As soon as she said this, she was suddenly in a good mood.

Ah, as Yan Su said, every time she can refute him, she feels inexplicably happy.This is really a good way to increase intimacy!

Yan Su closed his eyes strangely, and asked in an inquisitive tone, "Huh, Zhen Ai? Why are you reacting so quickly now? You actually noticed it."

Zhen Ai: "..."

She wanted to kick him down the marble steps.

Seeing her face change, Yan Su quickly stretched out his hand again, once, twice, to pat her on the shoulder, and coaxed her in a low voice, "Zhen Ai, be good, don't be angry."

Zhen Ai couldn't speak for a while, she stared at him blankly, and for some reason, her heart seemed to be held by a pair of warm hands, she was instantly calm and peaceful, with a slight sense of ease.

Thinking back, he has been using the way of patting the shoulders he learned from Owen for so long, but he has never been proficient.After studying and practicing for so long, I am still clumsy and jerky, and every time I feel like I am shooting a collection of various microorganisms and germs.

But even so, Zhen Ai could clearly and deeply feel every encouragement and comfort.

She walked down the stairs slowly, looked at the blue sky in spring, took a deep breath, and silently said to herself: Zhen Ai, be good, don't be sad; Zhen Ai, be good, don't be sad; Zhen Ai, be good... Find out your brother The cause of death, avenge him!
Yan Su stood on the steps, seeing her unknowingly walked in front of him again, he still raised his head with his little hands behind his back in the iconic way.The long hair was hanging on the clothes and hats, jumping and jumping.

The sun shines brightly, and her voice is very soft: "Yan Su, help me solve the password." After she finished speaking, the sun sank into her dark eyes, which seemed strangely deep, "I won't make things difficult for you, let me tell you The origin of your password."

Yan Su stood on the high steps, the wind blowing through his windbreaker, the corners of his windbreaker fluttered.With his hands in his pockets, he looked meaningfully at Zhen Ai who was down a few steps.

In fact, on the way home when she was drunk that day, he decided that no matter what the purpose of that password was, as long as Zhen Ai asked, he would help her.

Unexpectedly, she respected his declassification conditions and principles of handling things so much; moreover, she did not expect that she trusted him enough to be willing to speak to him.

No matter which one it was, it made his heart feel like a drum beating suddenly, and it became more and more violent, as if it was going to pop out of his chest.

Zhen Ai went up the steps step by step, walked towards him, reached the second step below him, and stood still.

She looked up at him and smiled again: "CIA, SPA organization, more than 100 top decryption experts are helpless password. Mr. Yan Su, do you want to challenge?"

Mr. Yan Su, this is also the purpose of my approaching you in the first place.

After nearly two months, I entered the mountains again, and it was a grand spring.

The trees covered in silver had all been replaced with emerald green leaves. They were so lush and thriving that they almost covered the blue sky.Zhen Ai poked her head out of the car window, looking at the fresh green and blue in the sky, her mood suddenly brightened.

She whispered, "It's so beautiful!"

Owen was driving, and he turned to look at her when he heard the words. Her head was stuck out of the window. In the bright sky, her smiling face was so white that it was almost unreal, as if it was about to melt into the green flowing outside the window.

He withdrew his gaze, looked ahead, and smiled warmly: "Yes, it's so beautiful."

The jungle and the sky ahead flow like water. It would be nice if this beautiful journey took a little longer.

Before the car arrived at the castle, Zhen Ai immediately jumped out of the car.Unlike winter, the open space in front of the castle is now full of green grass, dotted with unknown wild flowers.

Zhen Ai ran to the door in a few steps, rang the doorbell, and caught a glimpse of something at the foot of the door out of the corner of her eye.As soon as I lowered my head, I saw a fish swimming alone in a small glass tank, and a white parrot stood on a green hanger, raised its head arrogantly, and spit out a word: "idiot!"

Zhen Ai was taken aback, yo, even a parrot can curse.

This flat and flat tone was printed in the same mold as its owner.She was about to talk back and say you're the idiot.

Unexpectedly, the parrot didn't finish talking, turned his head in a different direction, and whispered to the door: "idiot! SA is an idiot!"

Zhen Ai: "..."

No wonder he was thrown at the door... probably because he had a fight with Yan Su.

However, Xiaoyu is innocent, so he must have said nothing!
Just as he was thinking, he saw the little fish wagging its tail, surfaced, and vomited a few bubbles, as if in support of the little parrot.

...deserved to be kicked out of the house.

Footsteps came from inside the door, Zhen Ai thought that if Yan Su came to open the door, she should intercede with these two little guys.I don't want the little parrot to flap its wings, and its voice is loud and high-pitched: "genius! SA is a genius!"

Zhen Ai: "..." Your EQ is much higher than that of your master...

It was not Yan Su who opened the door, but the maid.

The little parrot raised its head, its peas-like black eyes rolled around, and realized that it was not its own owner, so it probably couldn't enter the house.It was sad, folded its white wings and squatted on the shelf, and stopped talking.

Zhen Ai wanted to laugh, and leaned over to hold up the small hanger and the fish tank. Marie hurriedly said: "Sir doesn't like people touching his things. He will be angry."

Zhen Ai looked at the bird and the fish in her hands, shrugged her shoulders, "But I've already touched it, let's touch it for a while longer." Then, she handed the fish tank to Owen, and the two went in together.

When changing shoes, the parrot twisted its neck and said calmly to Zhen Ai: "Thank you, human."

Zhen Ai: "..."

This tone is indeed Yan Su's parrot.

Walking through the spacious corridor, a melodious and boundless note came from ahead, which made Zhen Ai tremble all over.

She looked up, and then realized that the dome of the library might have been professionally designed for acoustics, with natural acoustics, as good as an opera house.

The ethereal and shocking piano sound echoed in the ancient library.

The sun has risen.

Or golden or snow-white skylight is projected from the tall stained glass windows, water purple, light blue, light green, pink, light yellow, translucent white...the light enveloped the young people in front of the piano.

His tall and thin body was shrouded in a faint halo, so illusory and unreal; his eyebrows were lowered, and his side face was exquisitely delicate.

The slender white fingers are carrying multicolored lights, jumping on the black and white keys.

Zhen Ai and Owen were listening attentively, even the parrot tilted its head obediently and remained motionless.

Zhen Ai looked at the slender figure next to the white piano, and a feeling of anticipation and anxiety suddenly filled her heart, which was very strange.Ever since meeting Yan Su, this kind of feeling has struck day by day, becoming more apparent day by day.So that she can no longer just hide behind and watch quietly like before. This time, she is looking forward to receiving comments and gazes in return.

This kind of emotion makes her mood as cloudy and cloudy as summer, sometimes excited and excited, sometimes hopeless and sad.

She didn't know that there was a more precise word called admiration.

After the song was over, Zhen Ai was immersed in the timeless music, unable to extricate herself; the first thing to react was the parrot, which flapped its wings and said happily: "bravo!"

Yan Su closed the piano cover calmly, without looking back: "Who allowed you to come in?"

The parrot jumped on the shelf, looked around, and apologized embarrassedly: "SA, I'm sorry!"

Its voice was like a robot child, Zhen Ai's heart softened when she heard it, she couldn't help but stroke its head, the little guy didn't know her very well, so she shrank to the side, her feathers were slippery.

Zhen Ai didn't ask why this person and the parrot were arguing, she put Isaac aside, walked up to Yan Su, took out a piece of paper densely written with numbers and letters from her pocket, and handed it to him:
"My brother's password. He said it was a place where he left me something. I guess he kept some secret."

Yan Su glanced at the password paper and pointed out that it was wrong, "This is different from the one you gave me last time."

When they met for the first time, Zhen Ai had given him the password, but he just glanced at it and threw it aside, and then deliberately destroyed it out of confidentiality.

He only read the beginning of the one at that time, but he remembered it very clearly, it was different from the one Zhen Ai brought this time.

Zhen Ai smiled calmly: "I wasn't sure at first if you would help me decipher it, of course I have to guard against it."

Owen was taken aback for a moment, worried that Yan Su would be angry, but the latter only raised his eyebrows slightly, and there seemed to be approval in his tone: "Not bad."

As he spoke, he placed the password paper on the piano smoothly, took a step back and sat in the wheelchair, and left the piano bench to Zhen Ai.

Owen exhaled and smiled.He was very happy that Zhen Ai was finally willing to speak out and asked Yan Su to help her.Although he wanted to listen, he respected Zhen Ai's privacy more.So he didn't linger, turned and left.

Zhen Ai caught a glimpse of his figure and called, "Owen, where are you going?"

Owen paused, walked over to pat Zhen Ai on the shoulder, and said in a calm voice, "Ai, come on!"

Yan Su watched silently, and then leaned over to pat Zhen Ai, "Ai, I'm looking forward to it."

Zhen Xin skipped a beat inexplicably.What is he expecting?
The library was quiet again, Zhen Ai sat in front of Yan Su, and heard her heart beating wildly in her chest.She has no friends, and she is not used to talking. For her, this is more difficult and embarrassing than scientific research.

But when she thought that the things that had been buried in her heart for a long time could finally be said today, she looked forward to it very much, and quickly cleared up her emotions:

"The SPA organization is the place where I have lived since I was a child. I lived there as a scientist's base, and there are endless mountains and mountains outside. I have been living in that closed space until I was 17 years old. That is the whole world of my life - no country, No cities, no movie theaters, no playgrounds... anything social, nothing.

There is very strict access control.Everyone will be monitored when they go out, where they go, and how long they go.Usually, few people go out, because there are many scientists, parents, and many children like me in the base, as well as our teachers, who teach us to learn languages ​​and do research.Arms, chemical engineering, biology, all disciplines are available.

There is also a very large library, which contains ancient and modern classics, scientific research materials, and core research journals that are sent in every month.as well as,"

Zhen Ai brushed her hair embarrassingly, "Confidential information stolen from governments of various countries."

Owen just walked out of the library, his footsteps paused, his face gradually turned pale.

He couldn't understand how such a prison-like place could exist in today's world.And Zhen Ai was locked there at such a young age, without freedom, thinking about it made him feel distressed.

Yan Su's expression was calm, and he slightly admired that the organization was really efficient.

There are fewer and fewer geniuses in modern society because there are more and more distractions, insufficient concentration, and too difficult perseverance and persistence.But in Zhen Ai's world, they are far away from the information explosion, and they only touch a few things in their lives, delve deeply, and focus on them.No wonder Zhen Ai had the capital to negotiate terms with the government when she was only 17 years old.

But people have their own choices.She may love science and is willing to live a lonely life for it; she may love prosperity and enjoy life in a chic way; no matter which choice there is, there is no distinction between high and low.

This is the diversity and variety that society should have.

But Zhen Ai had no choice, her life was set into a mold from the very beginning, passively bearing the loneliest mission.

How cruel to use people like tools.

Yan Su looked at Zhen Ai, she lowered her eyebrows, her fair face was always calm, as if she had been used to it for a long time.

(End of this chapter)