Chapter 32
The things abandoned me
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The early morning sunlight shined on that messed into a pile quilt in the bed through the glass window, the fine dust particles flew like the insects in the bright light in the air, seemed like that they never have the tired feeling that moment. The warm autumn day, the flying light dust, didn’t let the shrank in the quilt youngster to exclaim the beautiful life, he was still like an ostrich, buried his head in the bosom, and continued to sleep. Until a very long, long time later, then he opened his eyes unwillingly, spread out his limbs on the bed, and looked at the white ceiling over his head blankly and was silent.
From the moment opened the eyes, yesterday the more than ten hours craziness pored into Sheilor’s mind like the tide. He stared blankly for a long time, then he understood, he was in the room which his boss left for him especially, but not sleeping in the bed which he was familiar with. All the things happened in yesterday were real, not the nightmare. He had already owned a whole new identity, the chip in the nape was already replaced, but his boss… Uncle, he also was really dead indeed.
Sheilor sat up, kept staring blankly on the bed for a moment, rubbed hard on his slightly warm face, tried to make the mind clearer a bit. But when he raised his head and looked at this strange room, he still couldn’t get his mind clear. There was a sentence in the federal proverb, the sly rabbit would have at least three caves. To elude the federal wanted, Sheilor didn’t think of that his boss had arranged these many routes of retreat in the Capital of the West River state unexpectedly. Once he thought about this point, Sheilor had some weird feelings in his heart, he always felt that there was something wrong somewhere.
This was a single apartment, faced to the street, the indoor area was not very big, the decoration was very simple, besides that huge bed by the window, there were only the fridge and a set of table and chairs. Had a hot shower in the bathroom, Sheilor took out a lot of prepared food from the fridge, didn’t heat it up, and began to wolf down. Until the table cloth was full of scrapes and spilled milk, he then felt the satisfaction slightly, that washed away the hunger and fatigue left from yesterday slightly.
Just only more than ten hours didn’t have the food, with the physique of his body, he shouldn’t be this hungry. Sheilor also felt strange about this phenomenon, how on earth where this empty stomach and tired body came from? Could it be said that when he escaped from the military temporary camp, that tremble of the body ? He didn’t want to think about this problem, because the only one who could explain this problem had already not existed.
Although in the plan he would leave the West River state in the evening, he wouldn’t come back to this room any more, but Sheilor still cleared everything in the room in the good order subconsciously, just like what he did in the mine tunnel after the meal in the last few years. After done all of these things, he found that he had nothing else to do, the police sirens were still sounding on the street outside, the sequel of the yesterday’s explosion was still in the fermentation, of course he couldn’t go out to the street to have the sunbathe.
So he began to sit on the bed staring blankly once again, after stared blankly for a moment, he turned on the TV, somewhat stupefied to look at that purple hair little girl blowing birthday cake candle on the screen, he suddenly thought of that today was the sixteen birthday celebration of Jane Sue who was the favorite of him and uncle. He then thought of that he would be eighteen years old soon, but didn’t know how old uncle was, and he would keep this age forever and never change again. So he had his heart taut, couldn’t control his own emotion any more, looking at Jane Sue surrounded by tens of thousands of people on the TV, and had the tears falling down.
Sheilor bowed down his head, wiped off the tears from the face, he didn’t notice that on the screen Jane Sue was showing that beautiful bracelet on his wrist to the people around with the smile on the face.
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The whole day, Sheilor had been staying in this room, through the information screen of the bracelet, remembered firmly the things what he supposed to remember, the way to escape from the East Forest, at the same time he risked the great danger, with the knowledge which his boss taught him, sneaked into the in-house network of the second police station of the East Forest Region, tried to find out the current situation of Levi and that group of orphans, then, he entered into the civil administration system, inquired about the internal materials of the Fourth Funeral Parlor, he found an appropriate target luckily. After done all of these, he cleaned up the whole room once again, wiped off the fingerprints which he left carefully, then took out a clothes from the wardrobe and put it on, put the backpack which his boss left in the wardrobe on his back, walked out of the room, walked down the apartment building, and walked into the crowd.
The light blue sport jacket, the hat was turned over to cover his face, plus the deep black backpack, now let Sheilor look like the common young men of the Federation, wouldn’t cause anybody’s attention. He chose to go out of the door three o’clock in the afternoon especially, it’s the most relaxed time of people, but even so, he still turned a few blocks cautiously, crossed two garden walls, and then entered into the Fourth Funeral Parlor.
According to the map which his boss left to him, Sheilor sneaked into the automatic incinerator room behind the hall quietly, according to the name plates to search for his target in that row of ready-to-burn coffins. He didn’t dare to look at the young face of that remains in the coffin, turned his body sideways, aimed his left wrist at the nape of the remains, after a puff of burnt smell, the replaced out abandoned chip from yesterday was placed into the body of this remains successfully.
And then he also threw the floating blue light shielding device into the coffin, paused slightly for a moment, and threw that extremely fine electric shock stick into the coffin-- He just only made two electric shock sticks, one of them brought the great calamity catastrophe to him and his boss, this one he also didn’t want to keep. Although he could use it to protect himself, but he thought it was ominous.
Standing in the dark of the hall’s corridor, Sheilor watched the transmission belt brought these coffins to the high temperature incinerator successively, watched the carrying his chip, the shielding device of his boss and the electric shock stick coffin to get into the incinerator, and turned into fire ashes and debris rapidly. Sheilor suddenly had his mind empty, all his past was burnt with this coffin, the now him, just only had the name still called Sheilor.
The abandoned me yesterday, never could return again.
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Later in the night, Sheilor bought a ticket to the Fudge state, this kind of called greyhound by the East Forest people coach bus would send out from the West River state capital every night. After a night of long journey, would arrive the Capital of the Fudge state in the morning the day after. Although it’s painstaking, but compared with taking the plane, it’s really much cheaper. but Sheilor chose to leave the West River state Capital by the greyhound, just because all the orphans knew it clearly, the checkup of the federal authority was the loosest for this kind of transportation used by the civilians.
Two big greyhound ears slouched weakly on the bright light board, Sheilor looked at those carrying loaded guns soldiers and those wearing bulletproof vest police, he had a lament in his heart, he truly didn’t think of, the government still didn’t loosen the inspection unexpectedly.
If he even didn’t have the courage to cross this barrier right now, how could it be possible for him to live in the Federation with this fake identity? Sheilor had a touch on his nape, had a toothy smile, even smiled the eyes all narrowed, and walked to the doorway calmly.