When I was drinking coffee alone in the restaurant, a voice that had been annoying for many years suddenly sounded in my ears.
"What are you doing here?"
Ben gently put down the cup and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the cup was not broken. He didn't care about compensation for one cup, but it would be a very troublesome thing and made him feel very bad.
"Ben, I'm very worried about you."
Ben sneered, and he didn't even believe Victor's answer: "Are you worried about me? Oh, that's really touching."
In his words, Ben did not hide his suspicion, disgust, and ridicule of Victor.
"Oh, Ben, you're so sad. After all, we're also friends who have known each other for many years."
Victor gently patted Ben on the shoulder, then sat opposite him: "Come on, what do you want to eat? I'll treat you!"
The words "knowing for many years" caused some turmoil in Ben's heart, so he did not drive away Victor.
"When did you become so kind?"
"I have never become kind or become so bad, I have always been me, Ben!"
Victor waved to the waiter and ordered some things, including some of them I liked.
"I know, you've been hating me all these years, especially after I parted ways with Rid."
"But, if we abandon the disagreement of our views on the concepts of morality, especially in business and science, in terms of our differences on whether the research results are used to make money or benefit the world," he said.
In fact, we have no grudges or barriers.”
Speaking of this, Victor paused: "I know, you and Ride don't like my personality very much, but this is me. Since I am a businessman, Ride also comes to me to discuss business, so I naturally have to take the interests as my own.
First."
"But now, Ben, I am visiting you as an old friend, not to pity you or sympathize with you, but to accompany you!"
Victor's words touched Ben's heart more and more deeply. He couldn't help but imagine it according to Victor's words and found that the gap and contradiction between him and Victor were almost all related to Redea, just between him and Victor
Contradictions, differences - almost no!
Over the years, he has almost lost himself...
"……Thanks."
After a long silence, Ben sighed long and finally started talking to Victor in a good tone.
"What are you grateful for?"
Victor smiled, bitter: "I know, it's not easy for you to do this now."
Ben's brow frowned suddenly, although he couldn't find out where the brow is now: "I just had a little affection for you! Do you want me to dislike you again?"
"Oh~ Ben, don't get me wrong, I'm not mocking you."
Victor quickly explained.
"For Reed, Susan, and Johnny, their lives have not changed much. At least they can show up in public and even get a lot of attention, praise and sought after. And what about us?"
"Are you really not sad when you are now? Are you really not sad when Debbie leaves you? When others look at you with strange eyes, you can really ignore it and don't care?
”
"As for me... what's going on with my company right now, you should have heard of it."
Victor's eyes were slightly red. At this time, he said this, not only just acting but also feeling it: "So I just said that I am not here to pity you, nor to mock you.
I am playing with you, I am just here to accompany you, and I am here to accompany you."
“Because I know the taste of losing everything, we all lose everything because of it.”
Ben became silent, and finally asked to come over, raised his hand and wanted to pat Victor on the shoulder, but was afraid of hurting him: "Vic, believe me, Ride will definitely cure me, and the research will be successful.
, bring your company back to life.”
Looking at Ben, who has never been good at comforting people, after racking his brains to say a few words to comfort himself, he became silent again. Victor chuckled softly: "Of course, I believe him, he may not do it for the sake of the
I work hard, but I will definitely work hard for you. After all, you have been protecting him without hesitation since childhood. Now it is still because of him that you have become like this. Of course, he will do his best to work and work hard."
Speaking of this, Victor's expression suddenly became strange.
"You are his best friend, what reason does he have not to hurry up? Isn't it? Could it be that he can waste time talking to Susan at such a time?"
Ben's expression suddenly became a little stiff. It was a kind of gloomy and unbelievable even if his entire face was made of stones now.
Soon, Ben returned to the Baxter Building in a daze. After not finding Ride's figure, he sat there like a statue with almost despair and disappointment, quietly waiting for his good brother to come back.
Just this wait was a whole night.
"Yes, what reason does he have to stop rushing the time?"
It was not until dawn that when I looked at Ride and Susan, who were walking in happily with their arms held together and laughing, I suddenly started to laugh, but I laughed very desolately.
"Is it because I'm going to have a love relationship with Susan?"
Ben softly repeated what Victor had just said to himself last night, and asked and answered himself: "Yes!"
"Book!?"
Reading this book, he was talking to himself in a nervous manner, Ride frowned and walked over.
"Oh? Now you remember my name?"
Ben also stood up, took a deep breath, and looked at Ride with anger: "So do you remember the oath you made? The oath you made with your life!?"
Ben has never been a scheming person, not to mention that at this time he was betrayed by the most trusted person he was the most hurt by!
Even fools can hear the anger in their words!
"Ben, listen to me, we are already working hard and working hard!"
Ride's words made Ben even more sad and angry. He turned his head to look at Susan, who was charming and charming on the side. As a married man, he could not be more clear about the woman's state: "Yes, I saw it all."
After all, Guo Dong still didn't really try to break into the corner of Li De. Compared to simple desires and evil tastes, tangible interests are more important to him. After all, although Susan is beautiful, it is not enough to make him moved and real.
Generate love.
So the two people who were able to come back last night, with Guo Dong's behind-the-scenes intervention, got up from bed together until this morning, and sweetly endured their hands together, giving Ben the most unacceptable harm.
"Ben! I don't know if this thing will restore us now or make us worse. You have to be a little patient and give me more time, I..."
"Ride! Look at me!"
Ride's explanation, under the dual influence of Victor and Guo Dong, has become a deception and quibble in Ben's eyes: "How bad can you look at me? You can be better than the ghost I am now.
Does it look worse!?”
"I know! It is precisely because of this that I cannot make any mistakes. I must ensure that it is foolproof!"
Bende was angry and didn't know where he had sent out Rede. He, who has always been a good man, actually shouted at Ben: "But we can't do this now, we must continue to test!"
Looking at the Ride who was shouting at him, Ben's heart was even more angry and no longer cared about what Ride was saying. Anyway, it was just some quibbling and meaningless.
"I have been defending you without hesitation throughout my life, and even my preference for others exists because of you! But in the end? What's it for?"
Anger made Ben lose his mind, forgetting what he has been doing recently, and he must be careful in all movements to prevent hurting others. He directly stretched out his thick fingers like a carrot and missed them on Ride's chest: "Go for you and your girlfriend.
Talk about love, never go home at night, two people outside have a candlelight dinner, sleeping together romantically? But I am waiting like a fool on the side?"
Bang!
Ben's strength is beyond doubt. Even if his physical fitness has become very human after the mutation of morality, he is still unable to resist and flew backwards by Ben, which has caused a battle between his brothers.
Or it is a long-planned farce that Guo Dong and Victor have planned for a long time.
“It seems our plan is successful.”
In Victor's office, in front of the monitor monitoring the situation on Rid, Guo Dong and Victor clinked the glass, and then Guo Dong drank the wine in the glass in one sip: "It's time for me to show up next."
"Fortunately, you are flexible enough to protect yourself."
When Victor and Guo Dong celebrated the success of the plan, Ben and Li De's battle (play) ended. Listening to Li De's shouting calm in his ear, Ben really calmed down, his heart was cold
Then, it will naturally become quiet!
"It seems you no longer need my protection. It's great, really good!"
Look at Ride, then look at Susan, who just started fighting with him because of her, Ben laughed self-deprecatingly: "I can finally take a break and live my own life
Now, the future path depends on you."
Looking at Ben, who was sad, lonely and desperate, he turned around and left without any nostalgia. Ride fell to the ground with a thud, opened his mouth, but he had no idea what he should say to keep him.
"Ri De? What's going on? Why did Ben and Johnny go out unhappily just now?"
Soon, Guo Dong rushed back to Baxter Building from Victor.
"Guo, am I really doing something wrong?"
Li De raised his head blankly and looked at Guo Dong, and told what happened just now with a sad tone.
"No, you are right, science must be rigorous, especially since we have made a mistake just now and paid a heavy price for it."
Guo Dong showed no trace of being a mastermind behind the scenes. Instead, he squatted down like a good man and put his hand on Li De's shoulder: "Do you need an experimental subject? Then I'll do it!"
"Guo!?"
Li De looked at Guo Dong in shock.
"You have to know that this is very dangerous and will endanger your life!"
Guo Dong smiled self-deprecatingly: "Ri De, you, Ben, Susan, and Johnny were all radiated, and they also changed their DNA and gained superpowers. Although I didn't gain superpowers, you think I was
Will that energy cloud survive?”
In the face of Li De's deep guilty eyes, Guo Dong's expression turned solemn: "Li De, no matter what the result is, it doesn't matter to me. If it succeeds, my situation will be eliminated.
, I can live healthily. If I fail, at most I will become a monster like you, like Ben."
"But rather than living lingeringly, deeply trapped in the fear of not knowing when the gene will collapse and die, I would rather become a monster like you and be a superhero, and die like a warrior, rather than
He died of illness in bed like a poor worm."
Guo Dong's words made Li De unable to refute, and made Susan, who came back after a big fight with Johnny, not know what to say, especially when Guo Dong gave a reason that Li De and Susan could not refuse.
.
"Ride, you are a genius doctor. You have developed this machine. No one knows it better than you. Once you have an accident, we really have no hope!"