Zhou Lin - Chapter 235 Franklin (Part 2)

Victor Franklin was an unfortunate man.

How unfortunate? It’s the kind of misfortune that only one in eight million people will catch.

Like most children with progeria, Franklin was still very normal when he was born, which is an important reason for his survival.

But a year later, when his symptoms began to show and he was diagnosed, he was abandoned.

To this day, Franklin has not tried to find his parents, nor has he thought of making them pay the price because he believes… When people choose to throw away something important, they will also lose something else. This is already a price in itself.

Perhaps God likes to joke so much. Shortly after Franklin was abandoned, the symptoms of progeria began to intensify, as did his intellectual development.

Most children with progeria are mentally indistinguishable from children of the same age, but Franklin’s genetic variation goes beyond that.

At the age of two, Franklin had the cognitive and learning abilities of a ten-year-old child; at the age of three, he had completed the federal standard full-time high school textbooks in an orphanage… By the age of five, his IQ and academic His abilities exceed those of most twenty-five-year-old adults.

It was at the age of five that he was admitted to a well-known federal university and became a student and research subject there.

Franklin himself knew very well that the average lifespan of patients with progeria was only thirteen years, and even those who lived the longest would hardly live more than twenty; so he always had a very simple goal – to find a way out before his life span was exhausted. The way to keep himself alive, if it could go further… He wanted to grow up like a normal person.

This is his only wish.

Something that we ordinary people take for granted, but in his view, is a difficulty that needs to be overcome in a limited life.

However, a few years later, Franklin’s thoughts changed… because his physical condition failed faster than expected.

When he was nine years old, his skull was as bulging as ET, his eye sockets were sunken, his skin was loose, his teeth were missing, and his joints were stiff… Of course, these were not the worst, the worst was that his cardiopulmonary function was no longer good. .

Fortunately, the federal medical technology is still very advanced, and his university is willing to pay for him. Therefore, with the assistance of a fully automatic nursing wheelchair, he can still barely take care of himself.

However, these increasing physical pains eventually had an irreversible impact on his spirit.

Why are idiots like you all able to have sound limbs and live for decades even if they are confused every day? But an outstanding genius like me needs instruments even for the most basic steps of walking, talking, and breathing. Assistant…what qualifications do people like you have to live?

Once this idea sprouts, it is out of control.

Franklin began to go to extremes. In order to survive, he did not hesitate to touch various areas that moral or legal restrictions restricted people from getting involved.

And these actions of his were soon discovered by one of his classmates.

The name of his classmate is… Alex Burgess.

IQ does not equal wisdom. This sentence applies to Franklin and Burgess.

Unlike Franklin, who has a very high IQ and has made extraordinary achievements in the academic field, although Burgess cannot break through the boundaries of ordinary people academically, he is a natural political opportunist, a cold-blooded conspirator, and a man of power. A master… He doesn’t need to do any academic research himself. He can directly take advantage of people like Franklin and eat him up.

A year later, Burgess, a 24-year-old graduate student, stole a large amount of Franklin’s research results on the topic of human body function enhancement, and was therefore exceptionally recruited by the federal army’s scientific research department. He directly became a middle-level manager and began to be responsible for the project. .

Franklin was arrested for illegal animal experiments, human experiments, misappropriation of funds, threatening public safety and other crimes…

Obviously, these crimes could never have been committed by Franklin, a wheelchair-bound patient; in fact, Burgess was responsible for most of the crimes, and it was Burgess who took the initiative to persuade Franklin to continue to cross the line.

But in the end, Franklin took all the blame, while Burgess innocently took all the benefits.

Why is this? In fact, with Franklin’s IQ, after thinking about it, I immediately understood… Because from the moment Burgess made up his mind to use Franklin, he had already thought of a comprehensive plan; in the past year, Burgess Every time Giese did something illegal, he would deliberately leave some traces of his processing, so that when he finally stole the research results and escaped, all the evidence the police found in the mess would only point to Franklin. .

So, at the age of ten, Franklin became a criminal.

Fortunately, considering his special circumstances, he was not imprisoned in the end, but was imprisoned in a lightly guarded medical facility with a group of mentally ill patients.

During those days, Franklin’s character became more and more twisted. Burgess’s betrayal made him realize the viciousness of adults and allowed him to see the complex side of human nature; and the days in the madhouse were dramatic and made him see To the most pure side of human nature.

He began to realize that freaks like him would never be accepted by this society, nor would they be treated equally as normal people.

Therefore, he believes that there is no need for him to be bound by the rules or morals of this society…

At the age of thirteen, Franklin successfully escaped from prison after being imprisoned for three years.

His escape was very easy because all the guards thought he couldn’t walk without the wheelchair, but in fact… he could walk.

Long before he was arrested, in his last year of research at the university, he had conducted an enhanced experiment on himself, and it took two full years for the effects of that experiment to begin to show.

Then he spent another year quietly doing rehabilitation exercises on his body when no one or monitoring was watching him, so that his sedentary body could regain its ability to move.

After everything was ready, Franklin ran out and soon committed several major crimes, becoming a wanted criminal regarded by the federal government as an extremely dangerous person – Doctor.

Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. When he was sixteen, he was arrested again, and this time, he was thrown into the Ji Quan Kao Burning of the Ninth Prison. I am afraid he will not come out until he dies.

Another four years have passed.

Franklin, who was twenty years old, was still only about the height and weight of a ten-year-old child, but his appearance looked like that of a ninety-year-old man.

He didn’t know whether he was able to survive to this day because he had such a long lifespan in the first place or because of the enhanced experiment ten years ago.

All he knew was that he was in pain every day.

As a person who is only twenty years old and whose thinking and feeling are much sharper than normal people, he suffers from the pain that only the elderly can experience every day; from the digestive system, to the respiratory system, to the muscles, joints… every day He could clearly feel that his body was withering like a plant, but there was nothing he could do about it, because aging… was incurable.

However, just when Franklin had decided to accept his fate, counting the days and waiting with despair for his death.

One day, an old friend came to visit him.

That insidious man Burgess actually appeared in front of Franklin again and gave him the promise of regaining his freedom, or regaining part of his freedom. Of course, that was conditional…