The large chair was pushed away, Robert got up, walked to the edge of the desk, beside Rosie, picked up the wisteria flower medal placed on the table.The solid gold medallion twirled at his fingertips, reflecting the faint light. Rosie looked up out of the French windows, the setting sun was slowly sinking, and the sunlight passed through the buildings like a bright yellow sandstorm.

The flower string made of amethyst sparkled and rippled. Robert played with it for a while, then turned his head and asked Rosie, "Do you know how you got it?"

"Cecina Council for Scientific Advancement." Rosie didn't understand what this had to do with his questioning of Robert, but she answered anyway, "Didn't they award it to you?"

"Ah, indeed. The Cecilia Science Progressive Committee." Robert looked at the wisteria flower pattern and smiled. "It was they issued to me, but they originally planned to issue it to Valen Schubber.Izh. "

Rosie looked at each other in confusion, trying to figure out the connection between these things, but Robert just stared at the medal, as if it was a magical vortex:

"A few months ago, I just founded Cyberrose, and I found that almost all patents related to bionic people were seized by the white rhino. My patent application can only be rejected again and again ... Does it sound ridiculous?I poured countless efforts to make a lot of hard work every day, and because it was half a year late, it was worthless.

"When I graduated, I looked forward to leaving that prison -like military academy and went to the vast world to show my skills. The only thing I could do was to be in gold and silver square, staring at the white rhino's ad.Advertising, implant the image of the white rhino into people's hearts to prevent any competitors from entering this market and snatch the geese that they will have golden eggs. "

Robert narrated in a low and calm voice, "A company of CyberRose's size doesn't even have the qualifications to compete with white rhinos. Let me tell you that working in a laboratory has nothing to do. All the moneyIt was spent, the lab equipment was rusting from lack of money to maintain it, Mary Lou was often dormant because I couldn't pay the bills, and the power company cut off the supply several times.

"I deceived Rose out to meet investors. In fact, no one was interested in my project. Those investors who claimed to be wise eyes, just like the blind market, only believed that the proven products, the profits that were about to get started,Essence

"So I walked out of the laboratory, walked around the gold and silver square, pretended to meet the investors, and then came back. Once in the rain, I watched the statue fantasy on the square ... There should be my position in it, there should be my position,If I succeed in the future, I will stand in the middle of my statue. "

He rubbed the gold medal in his hand, smiled at a graceful manner, put it back to the table, put it on the custom crystal base.

"Why... have you kept these things from me? Rose?" Rosie's voice was a little weak, as if dominated by conflicting sympathy and hatred, "She cares about you, and so do I. We've always wanted to be able toHelp you share something, you don't need to bear all this alone, you don't need to wander alone in pain...you don't need this."

"Do you think so?" Robert sneered lightly, "When I asked Rose to come to my laboratory, she talked to me about freedom and independent personality, and when the two of us met, you also wanted to do it.Her lobbyist. Rosie, you always put Rose first in your mind, but you understand this as 'sharing'?"

"Because I don't know at all." Rosie said uncompromisingly, "Rose often complains to me about your ubiquitous desire to control, so I plan to talk to you about her thoughts; but you, whenever IWhen I asked about your situation, you made it vague and perfunctory, unwilling to show a little timidity in front of me. Tell me how I can share your pain—if I don’t know anything about your recent situation!"

"Well, you don't have to think of yourself as an indispensable person, my big charity." Robert said in a taunting tone, "Not everyone wants you to relieve it, not to mention, you have already made great compassionate waysHave you ever gained me? "Is it?"

Rosie's expression froze for a moment, and she didn't speak.He blinked slowly, not quite understanding why a friend he trusted with all his heart would say such a thing, but he should have expected that Robert had raised a similar point of view when he was a teenager.

Like two incomplete colored paper, they together and stacked each other in front of the eyes, forming the image of Robert.The other party was such a person, selfish, arrogant, and unhappy ... But why did he never understand?What is the reason why he chose to believe the other party again and again?

Robert went on to say: "Now I can explain to you how the Wisteria Flower Medal comes, it is the result of your relief me. Do you remember the 4.5 million?"

Maybe it's because Robert looked so needy when he first met, Rosie thought vaguely.

No, not because of this.In the first actual class, he saw Robert's strength. The other party was not a weak person, but actively separated.

... Then why, he always wants to help Robert like helping the weak?

Seeing Rosie's silence for a long time, Robert continued on his own: "Let me tell you, the company's cash flow is poor, that's true, after all, CyberRose had no funds at that time. But I didn't put that money into the company's operation.", but used it to buy a lunch, to be precise, an opportunity to have lunch with the chairperson of the Cecina Council for the Advancement of Science."

"You must think, what kind of lunch is worth 4.5 million? This is a bribe." Robert walked in the room leisurely and watched the fish in the glass tank.It ’s all. Forty 1.5 million is far from buying the Wisteria Flower Medal. The white rhino can buy it ten times the price. Besides, Valen Schubitz is very connected in the committee.I was set in. "

“But I just brought Mary Lou to the dinner table and gave the chairman a look—with just one look, he knew whose android was better and whose android was a pile of rubbish. He made an exception.Spent my money, lobbied on committees for me, earned this medal for me."

Robert spread his hands, "So you know, I just lack a chance, as long as I put Cyberrose and white rhino on the fair stage to compete, I will not lose to them.The problem that 100,000 can be solved. If the balance of society is unfair, you can also bet on the other end of the balance. "

"Even so." Rosie suppressed her anger and said in a low voice, "You have obtained the fairness you want, but you still hired someone to kill Warren Schuberts?"

"I don't think I have gained fairness, this is just a temporary balance." Robert shook his head, "I am still thinking about it today ... If there is no you 4.5 million, I will be inIn the lives of many people, the 4.5 million will always be lacking. This city has set up vouchers for all opportunities to be in the upper end. If you want to compete for the next opportunity, you must keep paying the entry vouchers constantly","

"And killing Warren Schuberts is your ticket to the next game, right?" Rosie also walked over to lean against the fish tank and asked.

"You're starting to understand me." Robert smiled charmingly. "Actually, Rosie, I never expected you to think the way I do. I'm pleasantly surprised."

He opened the top cover of the fish tank, threw a feeding ring on the water, and splitted the bait into the circle.Those colorful tropical fish shook their tails and approached, scrambling to float up to grab the bait. "After getting the Wisteria Flower Medal, many investors contacted me. In order to talk about more investment, I signed a gambling agreement."

"This is my next game. You also know that that group of investors are greedy than these fish. The conditions they open can only be done by kicking the white rhino and occupying all the market share. Once Cyberrose is three yearsAfter the profit of the gambling contract, I will lose the entire company. "

"In that case, you shouldn't have signed that kind of agreement," Rosie said, her forehead against the glass.His eyes were downcast, so Robert couldn't see the deep tiredness and despair in his eyes.A bright red fish swam over, leaving blood in his pupils.

"No way. I have never chosen. If I do n’t sign the gambling agreement, I ca n’t afford the money to buy the murder, and I am destined to be eliminated by the white rhino.” Robert said lightly, "Everyone lives like this way.This is the original face of this city. The noble people are oppressed, the sincere and kind people are humiliated, and the cost of insisting on the bottom line is that it can be obtained in the end. "

Robert looked at his old friends around him. Since he revealed the truth to Rosie little by little, the other party's words have become less and less, and they seem to have fallen into a state of confusion. The simple experience of a military school teacher is not enough to judge these things.Paradoxical question.

—Maybe Rosie can be persuaded.Robert suddenly had the idea that he hoped to persuade this high-sounding friend to remove the veil of morality, so that he could tell himself that his choice was not accidental or cowardly, but wise.select.

He flipped down the lid of the fish tank and patted it casually, "This is Cesina, Rosie. Only the desire to climb is the hard currency, and power and wealth are the measure of everything. There is no virtue here, no hope, only viraldesire to survive."

"In the early days of the city, people had a protective cover for the city, thinking that this would be able to keep any precious bacteria, as everyone knows ... This is just a virus dish that survives the fittest."

Rosie listened to his generous speech, leaning against the glass quietly, without saying a word.Just when Robert thought that Rosie had gradually wavered, at least a little confused, the other party suddenly called out his full name word by word, with anger: "Robert Dylan."

"Do you think you have seen the original face of this city alone?"

Just after the test, everyone seemed to be asking Xiao Deng to open the website?I originally wanted to write some Xiao Deng, but I was too tired and too sleepy. I couldn't write the plot of the next paragraph (...) this time was suffering from various torture. I felt bloody and the spirit collapsed.Everyone forgive me.

When I rest for a while, try to rehabilitate to the original update frequency, thank you for support (?? ω ??)