The early morning sun shone through the glass window onto the messy pile of blankets on the bed. The fine dust particles in the air fluttered like insects under the bright light, as if they would never feel tired. The warm autumn day and the fluttering dust did not make the young man under the blankets sigh at the beauty of life. He was still like an ostrich, burying his head in his arms and continuing his deep sleep. Only after a very long time had passed did he somewhat unwillingly open his eyes. He spread out his limbs on the bed and stared blankly at the white ceiling above his head in silence.
From the moment he opened his eyes, the craziness of the past ten hours flooded Xu Le's mind like a tide. He stared blankly for a long time before realizing that he was now in the room that the boss had specially left for him, and not sleeping on the bed that he was familiar with. Everything that had happened yesterday was real, and not a nightmare. He already had a new identity, the chip on the back of his neck had been replaced, and the boss … uncle, he really was dead.
Xu Le sat up and continued to stare blankly at the bedside for a while. He used his hands to rub his slightly hot face to wake himself up, but when he raised his head to look at the unfamiliar room, he still could not wake up. There was a saying in the Federation that a cunning rabbit would have at least three holes. Xu Le did not expect that the boss, in order to avoid the Federation's arrest warrant, would actually arrange so many escape routes in the capital city of Hexi Province. When he thought of this, a strange feeling emerged in Xu Le's heart. He felt that something was wrong.
This was a single apartment that faced the street. The interior area was not large, and the furnishings were extremely simple. Apart from the large bed by the window, there was only a refrigerator, a TV screen, and a set of tables and chairs. After taking a hot shower in the bathroom, Xu Le took out a large amount of prepared food from the fridge. Without heating it up, he began to wolf down the food. It wasn't until the table was covered with leftovers and spilled milk that he felt slightly satisfied. The hunger and tiredness from yesterday were slightly washed away.
It was only ten hours of not eating, and with his physique, he should not be hungry to this extent. Xu Le was also very curious about this phenomenon. Where did the empty stomach and the tiredness of the body come from? Could it be because of the trembling of his body when he escaped from the temporary military camp? He did not want to think about this problem, because the only person who could explain this problem was no longer here.
Although he planned to leave Hexi Province at night and never come back to this room, Xu Le still subconsciously tidied up the room, just like how he did after eating in the mines these past few years. After finishing these things, he found that he had nothing to do. The police sirens were still sounding on the streets outside, and the aftereffects of yesterday's explosion were still fermenting. Naturally, he could not go out into the streets to bask in the sun.
So he began to sit by the bed in a daze again. After a while, he turned on the TV and somewhat woodenly watched the little girl with purple hair blowing out the candles on the screen. He suddenly remembered that today was the sixteenth birthday celebration of himself and the uncle's favorite, Jian Shui'er. He also remembered that he was going to be eighteen years old, and that the uncle did not know how old he was, and that he would remain at this age forever. So his heart tightened, and he could no longer control his emotions. Looking at Jian Shui'er surrounded by tens of thousands of people on the screen, tears flowed down his face.
Xu Le lowered his head and wiped away the tears on his face. He did not notice that on the screen, Jian Shui'er was beaming as she showed the beautiful bracelet on her wrist to the people around her.
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For the entire day, Xu Le stayed in this room. Through the information screen on the bracelet, he firmly memorized what he should remember and how to escape from Dong Lin. At the same time, he took a huge risk and used the knowledge that his boss had taught him to secretly infiltrate the internal network of Dong Lin's second police station in an attempt to find the current situation of Li Wei and the group of orphans. Then, he entered the civil affairs system and checked the internal information of the Fourth Museum of the Past. Fortunately, he found a suitable target. After doing all this, he cleaned the entire room again and carefully wiped away his fingerprints. Then, he took out a set of clothes from the closet and changed into it. Carrying the backpack that his boss had left in the closet, he walked out of the room, down the stairs, and into the crowd.
Wearing a light blue sports jacket with the hood turned up to cover his face and a dark black backpack, Xu Le looked like a common young man in the Federation. He would not attract anyone's attention. He purposely chose to leave at three o 'clock in the afternoon. It was the time when people were most relaxed. Even so, he carefully walked around a few blocks and climbed over two walls before entering the Fourth Museum of the Past.
Following the map that his boss had left behind, Xu Le quietly sneaked into the automatic incinerator behind Jing Xing Hall. Among the rows of waiting coffins, he found his target according to the nametag. He did not dare to look at the face of the young body in the coffin. Instead, he turned his body sideways and aimed his left wrist at the back of the body's neck. A burnt smell flashed past. The discarded chip that he had replaced last night had successfully entered the body of the body.
He then threw the glowing blue signal blocker into the coffin. After pausing for a moment, he threw in the exquisite taser baton. He had only made two taser batons. The first one had brought disaster to him and his boss. He did not want the second one. Although it could protect him, he felt that it was ominous.
Standing in the shadows of Jing Xing Hall's dark corridor, Xu Le silently watched the conveyor belt send the coffins into the high-temperature incinerator one by one. Watching the coffins that contained his chip, his boss's signal blocker, and the taser baton enter the furnace and quickly burn into flames, ashes, and residue, Xu Le's heart suddenly felt empty. Everything in his past had been burned with this coffin. Now, he only had the name Xu Le.
The yesterday that abandoned me will never come back.
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At night, Xu Le bought a ticket to Fuji. This long-distance bus, called the Big Greyhound by the people of Donglin, was dispatched from the capital of Hexi every night. After a long night's journey, it arrived at the capital of Fuji in the early hours of the next day. Although it was tiring, it was much cheaper than taking a plane. However, Xu Le chose the Big Greyhound to leave the capital of Hexi because the orphans knew that the Federation was the most lenient when it came to the means of transportation used by civilians.
On the bright signboard, the two Big Greyhounds' ears drooped weakly. Xu Le looked at the armed soldiers and the police wearing bulletproof vests at the entrance and lamented in his heart. He really did not expect that the government would not relax the inspection.
If he did not even have the courage to face this hurdle, then how could he live in the Federation with this fake identity in the future? Xu Le touched the back of his neck and smiled brilliantly. He smiled so much that his eyes narrowed. He calmly walked towards the door.
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