646 I hesitated (1/2)
”That's my sister.” Sun Xiaorou shook her head with a smile. ”Although we do look alike.”
Doctor Sun paused for a second before a smile appeared on his face.
”Oh? I do apologize.”
”It's okay.” Sun Xiaorou shook her head. Her eyebrows had a hint of reminiscence present. ”People often mixed up the two of us when we were young, even when we're not twins.”
”Let me introduce myself. I'm Sun Boyi.” Doctor Sun extended his right hand to Jiang Chen.
Jiang Chen shook his hand, looked at him and also briefly reintroduced himself.
”Jiang Chen, the NAC General.”
Doctor Sun gave Jiang Chen a friendly smile before he continued.
”Because we share the same last name, my memory of that little girl is quite vivid. Since her younger sister is here, you should know her sister, right.”
”Mhmm.” Jiang Chen nodded.
She was the first person he met in this world.
Sun Xiaorou put a finger on her chin and asked the question troubling her mind.” But… even if you saw my sister, she was just a baby. You shouldn't have seen her as an adult right? So how could you have mistaken me for my sister?”
Doctor Sun smiled. ”There was a flood of babies in the fallout shelter. Due to the lack of doctors, I was the doctor who completed the procedure. With the help of DNA replication technology, before you were all born, we already knew what you would look like in the future. But unfortunately, I didn't get to see you grow up.”
Sun Xiaorou nodded.
Jiang Chen took out a diary from his pocket and placed it on the table. ”Did you place the diary on the table of the director's office?”
”The diary was there from the beginning. I just moved his body back where he was supposed to be.”
Sun Baoyi must've been referring to the deceased fallout shelter director.
”There are a few pages ripped out from the diary.”
”Pages from the diary were already ripped out from the beginning by its owner… Of course, I think you wouldn't be too interested in Fallout Shelter 071's past.”
”On the contrary,” Jiang Chen shook his head, ”If it's convenient for you, I hope you can tell me what happened afterward. Including the history of Fallout Shelter 071, as well as the observer… the experiments you conducted.”
”The observer? You know this word...” Melancholy surfaced on Sun Baoyi's face. ”Even I almost forgot.”
He paused, looked at Jiang Chen, and invited him to sit down.
”Feel free to sit. This story is quite long.”
…
When I woke up from the hibernation chamber, it was already the tenth year.
Eight years prior, the director ordered security to attack my lab and made all my efforts go down the drain. He also stole the Golden Apple. He didn't kill me, but instead, he said, ”Once the fallout shelter opens, people will punish you for your crimes.” He shut me into the hibernation chamber.
His arrogance made me uncomfortable.
It wasn't because the punishment would never arrive, but it was because of the unrealistic fantasy he had of the outside world.
With this fantasy, his naivety would inevitably kill everyone in the fallout shelter, much more than the people I killed.
And it would be for an extremely boring reason…
I sat in the chair trembling while blankly staring at the propaganda poster in the fallout shelter. I tried to empty my mind in order to get accustomed to the unnatural time difference.
Eight years. It was just like a dream.
My eyes closed, eyes opened, and everything outside the glass window was covered in thick dust. Time muddied everything, but it didn't muddy me in the mirror.
The Golden Apple was destroyed; the arrogant Mr. Director destroyed it after he pressed the button to start the hibernation chamber.
Regardless, my mission ended.
When I stepped over the security line, just like I expected, everything here was abandoned.