My Apocalypse Fortress Vehicle - 359. Old Jack’s Story (Part 2)

When talking about this, Aisha had already led Gu Zhuo through the entire dark and deep street, leaving the place that exuded the damp smell of corruption and was full of poverty and sin.

Instead of going back to the alley where they came from, they chose to enter from the elevator, so that they could return to V’s company unimpeded.

“Going back from there will easily attract others’ attention and be discovered by others. The people here have a keener sense of smell for certain things than dogs. It’s better for us to be vigilant and try not to cause unreasonable trouble to V.”

Elsa paused her story about old Jack, but said this to Gu Zhuo, and took him on another path.

A rare thing on that road was a very dazzling street lamp, which was completely different from the place where we were just now.

The bright street lights illuminated this place, which made Gu Zhuo feel much better than the dark corners in front of him.

“This place is relatively common. The road leading to the world can be regarded as the intersection of two places. Every day, many people come in from here, and many people go out from here, smuggling all kinds of things you can think of or think about here. thing.

“It’s like an unwritten black market. We won’t be too noticeable when we go back from here.”

After Aisha finished speaking, Gu Zhuo saw that this place felt much more formal than the place where he had just stayed.

People gather together in bright places, there are no men sitting on the street begging or smoking cigarettes.

There were no constant shouting, and there were no riots and robberies that occurred frequently. People were talking here, very loudly, but it was impossible to hear what they were saying.

On the street, Gu Zhuo even saw a few “cars” with strange shapes, but you could spot them at a glance.

In addition, there are many people wearing armor standing here. Their armor is a little different from the one worn by V-11 that Gu Zhuo saw in the laboratory before. It’s not quite the same.

But without exception, those armors looked very portable, close-fitting, and stuck tightly to their bodies, as if their skin had grown scales. Not only that, the shapes of these armors were very strange, like the alien bodies in the movies Gu Zhuo had watched.

An extremely weird and deformed feeling, he couldn’t help but feel that people in the future would even have distorted aesthetics.

No wonder everyone said that the war machine on Gu Zhuo was old-fashioned. Compared with these new armors, his war machine was very out of place.

But Gu Zhuo still prefers the one he is wearing.

“I’ll go on and on about old Jack, there’s so many people here talking, no one will notice what we’re saying, just as we won’t notice what they’re saying.”

Elsa said, continuing to tell the story of old Jack that had not ended just now.

…

Since Jack became famous and became known as Old Jack by others, he discovered for the first time that Chelsea was hiding something from him, and it came from a high check with no source.

The amount on that high check was equivalent to their income for three years. There was no signature and nothing familiar to Old Jack. But he was certain that this check did not belong to him, but to his father, Chelsea.

Because the payee above is the name of Chelsea Case Jc.

Old Jack found Chelsea with this check of unknown origin. He wanted to ask Chelsea about the source of this check.

But the strange thing is that the moment Chelsea saw the check, she snatched it away from Jack’s hand.

He tore the check into pieces, threw it on the ground, and stepped on it again and again, as if he saw something very dirty.

“Jack, never ask about this check, you won’t know.”

Chelsea, who destroyed the check, only left this sentence to Jack in the end, then turned and left without saying anything.

It was also from that moment on that Old Jack discovered that there were many things about his father that were different from others.

He has so many books banned by the World Wings Company and knows a lot about past history. Among the few friends he had contact with, each of them talked about words such as “freedom”, “ideology” and “revolution”, which were words that Old Jack could never touch at ordinary times.

Moreover, Chelsea was unlike any widower he had ever seen.

Chelsea has obviously fulfilled his responsibilities as a father, even better than most men. But even though Jack has grown up and become an adult in his own right, Chelsea still hasn’t renewed their relationship.

You know, people nowadays are not marrying for “love”, but simply for profit.

Two people who can maximize each other’s interests, follow the company’s orders to be together, give birth, reproduce, and raise a child they do not love.

Even if the other half does not die, they will quickly choose to cheat and divorce because of uneven interests.

For modern people, the best partner does not exist, only the most suitable exchange of interests for themselves. And the one that suits you best is always the next one.

But Chelsea showed Jack’s mother, whose true appearance he had never seen in his life, emotions called “missing” and “love” that he had never seen in anyone else.

Chelsea always carries a printed photo with her. This year, a printed photo is even harder to see than the pipe used by old Jack.

That photo Jack had seen was of Chelsea when she was young, with a young woman standing next to him. The woman is also a pure Germanic woman, with a well-proportioned figure and beautiful appearance. She seems to have been pregnant for a long time. Chelsea stood next to her, smiling sincerely and contentedly. The same goes for women.

Jack knew that the woman was his mother who died young, and that she was carrying him in her swollen belly.

In addition to carrying that photo with him, Chelsea would stay behind closed doors on March 11th every year, drop all work, and not see anyone. Just sit in the house and drink, keep drinking, drinking, drinking until you are drunk to death, and spend the day.

March 11th is Jack’s birthday and his mother’s memorial day.

Chelsea’s various anomalies and behaviors that are different from ordinary people make Jack increasingly suspicious that Chelsea is hiding something from him.

Just as he was firmly opposed to following the old path of Chelsea and not allowing him to become a craftsman, there must be some reason behind this that Jack didn’t know.

Regarding the questions in his mind, Old Jack’s solution was to ask directly.

He learned many valuable virtues from his father, one of which was that if you have a question in your mind, just ask it instead of resorting to any other dirty tricks.

Unfortunately, no matter how much Jack asked, Chelsea was unwilling to say anything. She just said that Jack was too sensitive.

Until finally, Chelsea became impatient with the question and told Jack loudly:

“I, Chelsea Keys, have nothing to do with the Jack family. I have dedicated everything to the family, including my lover! But I don’t want to give you away anymore, Jack! I can’t give you away anymore. !

“Don’t ask me anymore. These things will follow me until I die and will always be rotten in my mind. Even if my consciousness is forcibly transferred to the consciousness database, these things will be forcibly eliminated by me, completely. Rot away, die with me!”

Jack felt like he never understood Chelsea, even though he was his son.

After Chelsea’s loud accusation, Jack never asked him about the check, the books, his mother, or anything about his family.

…

“Wait here for a while, and then go back after finishing the story.”

Aisha stopped in front of a small shop. There were a few scattered chairs outside the shop, stained with some moisture from the night.

She sat down on a chair, and Gu Zhuo sat opposite her.

To be honest, when Elsa told the story of Old Jack’s first half of his life, he was also drawn into it unknowingly.

He was very curious about what experiences later made Old Jack what he is now.

After Aisha watched Gu Zhuo sit down, she took a breath and continued to talk slowly.

…

Although Jack never asked Chelsea about those things again, the doubts in his heart never disappeared. Instead, they deepened bit by bit as time passed.

He began to try to find the answer on his own, but the result of his own efforts was the same as the result of asking Chelsea, no progress and no clue.

Until one day, a man named Nus found him.

Nus is a very typical “new human” with a mixture of multiple races.

His appearance contains the characteristics of many races.

Nusi has thick lips like a black man, a short nose like a Negro race, and his skin color is an earthy yellow unique to Indians. His hair was light blond, slightly curled, and fell to his shoulders.

But what most embodies his mixed-race characteristics are his green eyes, which are as green as water filled with green algae. Those eyes are a symbol of peoples such as Celts and Germans.

When Nuss first found Jack, Jack thought he was here to customize weapons like other customers. Unexpectedly, Nusi directly revealed his identity to Jack as soon as he came up.

He’s a cyber detective, and he’s here to investigate Jack’s father.

Jack was very surprised by this. He didn’t know anyone who was as interested in the mystery of Chelsea as he was.

Nuss told him that his employer was a former Chelsea customer. But since Chelsea terminated their cooperation with him, the employer’s confidential business information has been frequently leaked.

The employer had many suspects, one of whom was Chelsea.

He sent a lot of cyber detectives out to find out information about every suspect, and Nuss was sent to investigate Chelsea.

Hearing Nusi’s words, Jack had no doubts because he knew that his father had indeed had such a suspicious guest. He even doubted whether Jack was Chelsea’s biological son and not his competitor.

He should not have allowed Nuss to investigate his father, but out of some unknown emotion, perhaps out of unwillingness to keep the truth hidden for too long, Jack was so fascinated that he asked Nuss to cooperate, and the two decided to investigate together. Find out what secret is hidden behind Chelsea.

He didn’t know at the time that it was this decision that would lead him to this point in the future and regret it for the rest of his life.