The Character I Loved Is Gone

"Thank you young man, you young people are still stronger."

"You're welcome, old man. I'll leave your things here for you. Be careful when you go out in the future and pay attention to passing vehicles."

The old man smiled and took out an apple from the plastic bag and put it in Matt Rose's hand.

"There's no need to be like this, old man. Fruit is very expensive, so you'd better keep it for yourself."

Just when Matt Rose was about to return the apple to the old man's hand, the old man's withered hand pressed on his.

"Take it, kid, take it."

Matt looked at the old man, and the old man looked at him.

"Thank you, old man, thank you."

Matt took a bite of the apple, and the old man smiled happily.

After bidding farewell to the old man, Matt walked back to the street alone.

As a stranger in a foreign land, I miss my family even more during the festive season.

It has been three months since Matt came to Chi Country. Due to the nature of his work, Matt is on a business trip for almost eleven months every year.

Matt Rose looked at the watch on his wrist, which was a birthday gift given to him by his wife before she died.

The time, date, month, and year are accurately recorded on the dial.

In two months, he will be able to return to China and meet those lovely children in the orphanage.

Thinking of the innocent smiles of the children, Matt Rose's mood improved a lot.

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"What the hell! Why is it a black man! What a fucking back!"

A middle-aged man in a suit accidentally bumped into Matt Rose because he was looking down at his mobile phone.

"Sir, it's your fault that you didn't pay attention to the road. It has nothing to do with me."

The middle-aged man was a little angry. He obviously didn't expect that a black man would dare to argue with him.

"What did you say! Say it again if you can, you nigger!"

The "simultaneous translator" in Matt Rose's ears translated the man's words to him.

Matt Rose was a little unhappy.

"Sir, I suggest you stop looking down at your phone when you walk next time, otherwise accidents may easily occur."

The middle-aged man glanced at his watch, cursed again, and left immediately.

Matt Rose's hands trembled slightly, but he quickly adjusted his mentality and did not let the middle-aged man's words affect him.

At noon, Matt Rose imitated the behavior of the Chiguo people at the convenience store and bought three buns at the bun shop.

He squatted on the roadside and had lunch.

Since today is the weekend, the Eteam company's canteen is not open, so employees of his company cannot go to eat with meal cards.

Although he is a player in Eteam's "Quantum Fighting Beast", his salary and bonuses are very generous.

But Matt Rose always tries to minimize his living costs as much as possible.

He had only one purpose in doing so, which was to return to the orphanage every December at Christmas to pay for the children's living expenses for the next year.

His colleagues didn't understand why Matt Rose did this. Even his comrades didn't understand why Matt Rose was so frugal and donated all his savings to that shabby orphanage. .

The reason for all this starts with a scientific experiment conducted more than 20 years ago.

Matt Rose, who was 21 years old at the time, graduated from the law major with honors and successfully obtained the local lawyer's license, preparing to enter the legal profession.

Five years after becoming a lawyer, Matt Rose has a wife and a three-year-old daughter.

But one workday, the gears of fate began to turn.

A company called "Abstergo" found him and handed him a report.

It turned out that in college, Matt Rose participated in a scientific research project called "Searching for My Ancestors" and provided his genetic samples to Abstergo.

After so many years, Abstergo finally completed the genetic comparison between Matt Rose and the remains unearthed from the ruins, and discovered a huge secret.

It turns out that Matt Rose is a direct descendant of Sparta. According to the genetic map, all of his ancestors died in battle without exception.

Now Abstergo Company has an epoch-making scientific technology that can reproduce everything that happened in the past in the form of memory in the brains of future generations.

In order to study the unknown history of that year, Abstergo found Matt Rose, hoping that he could continue to participate in the experiment, and said that it would pay him a salary equivalent to twice his current salary.

Originally, Matt Rose had no interest, but now that he was burdened with a mortgage, a car loan, and the expenses of a small family, he was under great financial pressure, so he agreed to Abstergo's invitation.

As a result, this was the beginning of his nightmare.

For three whole months, the scene from that year appeared in Matt Rose's mind in detail.

Even after he finished the experiment, those images continued to appear in his mind.

War, betrayal, deceit, fire, collapse, blood.

One night, in the early hours of the morning,

Matt woke up from his dream with a sharp knife in his hand.

Under him were his wife and children who were killed by him.

The scene from the past happened again.

The bewitched Spartan warrior believed the slander and killed his wife and children. However, it was not until the enemy broke through the city gate that the warrior realized that he had fallen into a trap.

Matt Rose couldn't believe that those thousands of years of scenes would be written by himself again.

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was arrested.

Matt Rose, who committed first-degree murder, faces up to two hundred years in prison without the possibility of parole.

Fortunately, within a few months of being imprisoned, the military came to recruit people in the prison.

On the surface, the military is giving felons a chance to reform and serve the motherland, but in fact, everyone knows that it is just that the cannon fodder on the battlefield has been used up, and some scum are needed to fill the vacancies.

In this way, the heinous Matt Rose successfully enlisted in the army.

After two weeks of what could hardly be considered training, these felons were sent to a battlefield in North Africa.

What awaits them is a hellish street fight.

The environment here is complex, and no one knows whether they will be an enemy or a teammate at the next corner.

Not to mention these poorly trained cannon fodders. The only value of their existence is to be the first to rush out when they encounter a corner.

A month later, almost all of the recruited serious criminals were dead.

Only one man survived, and no one in his squad was seriously injured.

After dinner, the soldiers were all talking about the story of the felon:

A story about giving up guns and fighting with steel pipes and iron shields.

More than twenty years later,

The war is over, and the death row prisoner survives tenaciously.

Due to his outstanding performance on the battlefield, the court that sentenced him to life imprisonment announced that Matt Rose's future punishment would be to perform no less than 300 hours of voluntary service to the community every year.

Although the court granted a disguised amnesty to Matt Rose's freedom, he still could not forgive himself for what he had done.