C35 Girl in the Photo

"After your dad received that photo, he rushed back to the country with your mom. They changed their surnames and lost contact with everyone in the family. It wasn't until you were in primary school that they found me." I need a thorough method that can protect this thing as well as keep my daughter safe and growing up. ' That's what your father told me. "

"Then this thing... "Where is it now?"

"In an underground vault of a Bank of America bank in New Town."

"A vault?"

"Yes, only you and your mother can open it. We'll go out and find her at dawn. " When Shuyue said these words, she did not look at me.

"Let's go to bed early."

"..." I have one more question. "

After a moment's thought, I asked after a moment's hesitation, "Who was that little girl in the photo in my room?"

Shuyue's eyes suddenly flashed.

"She …"

At that moment, the lights in the room suddenly went dark!

"What's going on …"

In an instant, I was surrounded by darkness. The curtains in the room were not opened, not even a sliver of moonlight could be seen. I heard the clink of furniture.

"Don't speak, follow me upstairs!" Shuyue held my hand in the darkness.

I stumbled after her, blacking my way through the living room, one side of which led to the dining room and the other to a staircase.

Just as I was about to go upstairs, she took my hand and pulled me toward a small door at the back of the kitchen. There seemed to be a weak moonlight at the top of the stairs, and I saw Shuyue's figure falling towards the stairs.

Whose hand is that holding me?

Before I could think about it, I heard a familiar voice:

"Wangwang, it's mother. Don't make a sound, follow me."

The night was as cold as water.

I was dragged out of the old house by my mother and walked several blocks in one breath. My mother's hair was tied back in a bun, but it was tousled and fell behind her ears. There was dirt on the dress.

"Mom, where are you bringing me?"

I didn't say anything but hailed a taxi by the side of the road.

"New City West Road."

My mother and I sat in the back seat. Her hands were cold and slightly shaky, and she kept looking behind her, as if she was afraid of being followed.

"Mom, where did you go this afternoon? I couldn't find you in the hospital... "

"Did you see what your father left you?" my mother asked me nervously.

"I saw it..."

"Then do you know how to open the safe?"

"I... Shuyue said that you and I must be able to open the safe. "

"That's good." My mother let out a long breath. "Hopefully, it's still too late. There's not much time left."

"What exactly is going on? "Did that '43' guy come looking for us?"

My mother nodded. "He said he had given up his time, so his life was frozen on the day the Fountain of Life farm was destroyed in 1945. At that time, your father and I simply thought that it wouldn't grow old … But it would not even die. He thinks his brother's death was caused by me and your father, and we took away his most precious thing, so he's coming back now to take away our most precious thing — he's going to take you away. "

"Why is it taking me away?"

"After it was resurrected, it found Mengele, the Nazi doctor. Mengele was obsessed with twin research when he was in the Nazis — he believed that the telepathy of the twins came from their own brain waves — "

"Un, I saw this passage in my dad's diary …"

My mother ignored my interruption. "After the war, Mengele fled to South America and then to Paraguay, where he ended up in that Brazilian town — he chose it because the local residents were mostly German farmers and because the town was remote and there were no outsiders, and because the locals had always maintained the tradition of intermarriage — all of this conforms to Mengele's experimental premise — you know what I mean, don't you?"

I nodded. My father's diary wrote that 43's biological mother, the Gypsy, had been engaged in intermarriage for a long time. If Mengele's assumption had been correct, such a person would have carried a higher concentration of the god's genes in his body than a normal person who had crossed them for hundreds of years.

"No one in the area recognized Mengele. He changed his name and helped the women there as a doctor, but in fact he was continuing his twin research — the women who had taken his medicine had all given birth to twins. Mengele's ultimate goal is to bring these children into perfect harmony with the genes of the gods and to become the pure Aryan 'Undying Warriors' — they still lack one thing. "

My mother looked at me, and I felt my hands and feet go cold.

"The blood of a god."

I suddenly understood what my father had taken with him.

In my father's diary, there were two syringes.

One of them hit my dad on the back.

One more was useless. My father must have taken the other one when he escaped from the Joshua Tower.

"Your father wanted to find the source of his family through studying the blood of God. That was why he took it." My mother sighed.

"Whether Mengele or Mengele, they did not see what Himmler had brought back from Tibet. They were not high enough to have access to the Core Secrets — but this syringe was the only one they had left — or even the last. This was the key to the last step of their experiment. Your father had already thought of that, so he designed a system as complex as a labyrinth to protect the syringe — and you are the key to it. "

"Besides, the condition of this maze opening is that your father or one of my people is in trouble."

"I..."

"Wangwang, can you tell mother your real name?" Mom suddenly asked me.

"Mom, you don't know my name?"

Mom shook her head. "The only person who knows your name is your father. Mom has been living for so many years, yet I still don't know your name … Everything was arranged by your father. You are my mother's darling, but I've been forced to separate from you since you were young … Wuuu... "I've caused you to suffer …"

Mom buried her face in her hands and began to cry. The taxi driver gave us a puzzled look in the rear-view mirror.

"Mom, don't cry … Shuyue treats me pretty well... "

I wanted to reach out to wipe away my mother's tears, but she suddenly tightened her grip on my wrist!

"Do not trust Shuyue! "She's from that family!"

"They have been married to your father's family for hundreds of years. If it wasn't for me … She will marry your father... " My mother's gaze suddenly turned cold. "..." "In order to take revenge on me, she went into hibernation for many years …"

"Mom, are you thinking too much? I feel that Shuyue is not such a person … "

"She isn't? What do you know about her? You've lived with her for more than a decade, but do you know what she does for a living? Do you know where she goes to work every day? Why hadn't she married for so many years? Didn't you say you couldn't find me in the hospital? It was Shuyue who knocked me out and locked me in the corridor. She wouldn't let me take you away … "

No matter what, I cannot believe that Shuyue, who brought me up and lived together for more than ten years, would be such a person:

"Impossible, it's impossible for Shuyue to do this. She …"

"She won't let you find me?" my mother said faintly.

I suddenly remembered, I rushed out of the taxi to look for my mother, but Shuyue slapped me, trying her best to stop me from returning to the hospital.

I was silent.

My mother wiped her eyes and touched my head. "I know that she has been very good to you for more than a decade. She won't hurt you because you are the child of the man she loves, but she will use you to hurt me … Mommy understands that you don't believe her words. Perhaps in your eyes, she is even more intimate than me … "

"No, that's not the case... "I just feel that her feelings for dad aren't as selfish as you said …"

I remembered the look in Shuyue's eyes when she looked at the photo in the old house. It was like a little sister looking at her big brother. Although I'm young, a girl has a natural instinct. She doesn't seem like someone who would harm her father.

"Do you remember the photograph in your room? Did she tell you who that little girl was? "

I pictured the little girl with the mole in the corner of her eye. She was wearing the same Mickey Mouse dress as me, and she didn't look happy standing in the doorway of the kindergarten.

"If she hadn't been selfish, she wouldn't have had that child."

"Your father went to New York to get her to do a sperm test, and for the benefit of her family or her selfishness, she froze a portion of her sperm without your father's and my permission. The child was a test-tube baby bred with your father's sperm and her eggs. "

I was stunned.

This little girl wasn't just a picture, she was a real person! Then she should be considered me … Sister?

"As you grew older, your father and I felt more and more that it was dangerous to keep you with us, and then Wang Shuyue appeared, saying that she would take you away for your safety, and then she took the child — she said that the child's existence was your surrogate, and if bad people came to visit, they would think she was you — and for so many years I kept her, and I bought two copies of everything about you, one for you, one for her — but I knew in my heart that she was not my daughter. I look at her every day, but my daughter lives with another woman somewhere else — is there anything more cruel to a mother than that? "

"Then... Where is that little girl now? "

"She disappeared a few days before your father died." Suddenly my mother leaned close to me and whispered, "I think your father's death has something to do with her."

I wanted to say something else, but the taxi skidded to a stop by the side of the road and we were already in the new city. This generation of high-rise buildings, even during the night, were brightly lit, and formed a sharp contrast with the old city district.

A faint orange glow appeared on the other side of the sky, just before dawn.