Chapter 30
The new life in the storm
The raindrops were getting bigger and bigger, more and more urgent, fell on the big leave autumn woods of the West River state suburb, made the “Pa Pa” noise, just like the war drums in the ancient battlefield, rang up the stimulating rhythm, urged people to match forward bravely, match, and match.
In the already all drenched fall woods, the rain wet out all the trunks and the dead leaves, and also wet out Sheilor’s body. Staring at the like little stars chips which were inside of the bracelet, the youngster emerged the incomparably complex emotion in his heart.
Once he changed the whole new chip into his body, that would represent the totally unknown future, the completely new life, cut off all the relationships with the past, and no more what friends or family… Of course, he didn’t have any relatives before, and not many friends neither… But the coffee of the West River state, the beer of the West River state, the Bell Tower Street of the West River state, the girls of the West River state, the operating room in the mine tunnel, the repair shop on the Vanilla Avenue, the library of the State university, and this invariable somber sky, all of these memories, would say goodbye just like this?
Sheilor’s fingers kept trembling, he knew that once he stuck that thin like hair metal wire into his own nape, all of these would be changed, maybe it would be good, maybe it would be extremely bad, who knew?
Facing the most difficult and the easiest choice in his life, Sheilor made up his mind in just more than ten seconds with the sedation not to his age, because the getting dim in the rain blue light reminded him, the federal electronic monitoring would find him in a moment later. If he wanted to live, wanted to live freely, then he might no longer be Sheilor this person.
Wiped off the dripping down rain from the face ruthlessly, exposed the clean skin under the dust, Sheilor read a few gabby words in low voice, the emotion in his eyes was getting calmer and calmer, that pair of hands were no longer trembling, he was abnormally steady to pull out the metal wire from the bracelet, aimed at his own nape and stuck it in slowly.
About how to change the chip, the earlier pop-up faint light screen had already taught Sheilor, but the action what this youngster was doing right at this time, after all, was the abnormally terrible and ridiculous thing in his cognition, he even didn’t hear of that anyone could forge the Verichip, could dodge off the cover of the First Charter’s splendor-- He didn’t have too much confidence, his hands were still not shaking, but just seemed extraordinarily slow.
This was the reason why the mechanic Fengyu admired him the most, he had the a kind of natural control power to the metal machinery chip, the more important thing was no matter in what kind of dangerous situation, the youngster would always keep calm, even it was just the calm of the surface.
In the situation with no related instruments to help, changing the body chip for himself, there must be a pair of most stable hands and a most immobile heart in this world, it happened that Sheilor had them all. Even though he was so tire to possibly fall into sleep at anytime, the hunger made his eyes somewhat scattered, the sadness made his eye rims still red in the blunt rinse of the rain, but his hands were still steady. Perhaps just because Fengyu believed in this youngster’s ability, he would consign this so precious heritage to him.
The very fine wire remained in the place 0.5MM close to the skin steadily, the rain in the fall woods avoided the metal wire knowing how to behave in a delicate situation very much, didn’t interfere with this nobody knew, but enough to shock the whole Federation work.
Just right at this time, the strange thing happened, the originally not quivered at all sharp tip of the wire, suddenly seemed to smell some kind of very sweet peach blossom smell, began to tremble.
The metal wire tip trembled and vibrated in a very small range quickly, the speed was quicker and quicker, it was so fast that the naked eyes couldn’t see it at all, it was so fast that the rain couldn’t hit it at all, it seemed to sense something, it kept searching for it, with the attached on it little electric charge as the power source to keep searching, searched on the bare nape skin of Sheilor… There was a layer of small lumps showed on Sheilor’s nape, all caused by the nervousness, let the rain to rinse freely, but not dare to move a bit. Don’t know how long it had passed, just heard a “Dee” light sound, the been quivering quickly metal wire tip, suddenly came into the absolute quiescent condition!
The metal wire kept the strange bending state, the tip aimed at a place on Sheilor’s nape in the quiescent condition, in the midst of rain and wind, the blue low current began to accumulate, just like a extremely sharp sword, only wait for the drawing.
A lightning lit up the dark suburb sky in the wind and rain, with the “Crack” sound, the thunder rumbling spread throughout the whole world. The snake-like lightning carved a demon strange mark in the air, and also shined the fall woods slightly brighter, just right in the momentary brightness, the figure of that kneeled in the rain youngster suddenly had a stiff.
The metal wire extended 3 CM automatically with the sound “Chi”, easily planted into Sheilor’s nape, and then the metal wire began to quiver like all possessed, just like a sword trying hard to break through the defense of the armor. Or like a poison snake launching attack like lightning, biting the prey, keeping to infuse the poison, and wanting to give the target the finishing stroke!
If there was somebody on the spot at this time, he might be certain to find out, the figure of that kneeling in the wind and rain youngster began to tremble painfully after the stiff, and also find out that the skin on the youngster’s nape seemed to become transparent, the light blue current was wandering and struggling in the place of his cervical vertebra.
In the wind and rain, the fall woods suddenly had an extra slightly burnt smell, Sheilor that not too big eyes opened roundly in pain, his face looked abnormally horrible, he felt the incomparable scorching heat in his body, especially the pain from the nape even made him hardly wished to be alive. But it happened that share of weak and low current kept coming to his body from the metal wire, connected with his nerve system, and let him to suffer this agonizing torture soberly.
Let it over a bit quicker, it doesn’t matter even if it fails. The been like a rock pure-hearted and determined youngster Sheilor, finally couldn’t stand it any more at this moment, he felt the blood seemed to be boiling up in his body, it’s very dry and thirsty in his mouth, and his whole body was in pain like hit by the lightning.
Just when he was almost going to give it up, it seemed to have some kind of sound on his nape, it’s like the sound of his most familiar circuit chip assembled successfully, or like the sword backed into the sheath once again.
The rainstorm hit on the fall woods, wet the whole world, Sheilor’s gaunt figure trembled in pain, his fingers left the metal wire feebly, his whole body kneeled on the woods ground in the rain, a kind of unspeakable pain and feeling, let his body bow up, then got up with the face up, and screamed painfully to the torrential rain falling down from the sky!
The rain hit him in the face, made him feel pain very much, and then slipped down to his body. He kneeled in the rain, but he still felt the pain and scorching heat in his whole body. He prayed to the dark sky in his heart somewhat absent-mindedly, let the storm come more fiercely.
And then he had his mind empted, turned on his side dejectedly and feebly, and fell down on the dirty leaves in the rain.