Victor Franklin is an unfortunate man.

How unfortunate is it? It is only about every eight million people that there is the kind of misfortune that can catch up.

Like most children with premature aging, Franklin was still very normal at birth, which is also an important reason why he survived.

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

Until today, Franklin has not tried to find his parents, nor has he ever thought of asking them to "pay a price", because he believes... when people choose to discard something important, they will also lose something else, which in itself is a price.

Perhaps God likes to joke so much. Shortly after Franklin was abandoned, the symptoms of premature aging began to intensify, and his intellectual development was also the development of his intelligence.

The minds of most children with premature aging are not different from those of children of the same age, but Franklin's genetic mutations do not stop there.

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

It was also when he was five years old that he was "admitted" by a well-known federal university and became a student and research subject there.

Franklin himself knew very well that the average life expectancy of a patient with premature aging is only thirteen years, and even the longest one is difficult to exceed twenty; so he has always had a very simple goal to find a way to survive before his life spans, and if he can go further... He wants to grow up like a normal person.

This is his only wish.

It is something that ordinary people take for granted, but in his opinion it is a difficult situation that requires a limited life to overcome.

However, a few years later, Franklin's thoughts changed... because his physical condition collapsed faster than expected.

When he was nine years old, his skull was bulging like et. His eye sockets were sunken, his skin was loose, his teeth were all falling, 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 developed, and the university where he works is willing to pay for him, so with the assistance of a fully automatic nursing wheelchair, he can still barely take care of himself.

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

"Why can idiots like you all have healthy limbs, and even if they are confused every day, they can still live for decades; while an outstanding genius like me needs the assistance of instruments even for the most basic walking, speaking, and breathing... What qualifications do you have to live?"

Once this thought arises, it will be out of control.

Franklin began to go to extremes. In order to prolong his life, he did not hesitate to touch various areas that moral or legal restrictions on people's involvement.

And his actions were soon revealed by one of his classmates.

His classmate's name is... Alex Burgess.

IQ does not equal wisdom, and this sentence is just right for Franklin and Burgess.

Unlike Franklin, who has a high IQ and has extraordinary achievements in the academic field, although Burgess cannot break through the boundaries of ordinary people in academics, he is a natural political speculator, a cold-blooded conspirator, and a master of power-based skills... He does not need to do any academic research by himself. He can directly use Franklin and wipe out the latter.

A year later, 24-year-old graduate student Burgess stole a large number of Franklin's research results on the topic of "Human Body Function Strengthening", and was therefore absorbed by the scientific research department of the Federal Army, and directly became a middle-level manager and began to be responsible for the project.

Franklin was arrested for illegally conducting animal experiments, human experiments, misappropriation of funds, threatening public safety and other charges...

Obviously, these charges could never be committed by Franklin, a patient in a wheelchair; in fact, most of the crimes were executed by Burgess, and Burgess took the initiative to persuade Franklin to keep crossing the line.

But in the end, Franklin took all the blame, and Burgess took away all the benefits "cleanly".

Why is this? In fact, with Franklin's IQ, I immediately understood... Because from the moment Burgess made up his mind to use Franklin, he had already thought of a complete plan; in the past year, every time Burges did something illegal, he would deliberately leave some "traces" that he had dealt with. In this way, when he finally stole the research results and left, all the evidence found by the police from that 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 prison, but was imprisoned in a medical institution with not very strict guards, and was locked up with a group of mentally ill patients.

During those days, Franklin's character became more and more distorted. Burgess' betrayal made him feel the viciousness of an adult and let him see the complex side of human nature; and the days in the "mad asylum" were dramatic, allowing him to see the most "pure" side of human nature.

He began to realize that "freaks" like him will not be accepted by this society in the end, nor will they be treated equally as normal people.

Therefore, he thought he had no need to be bound by the rules or morals of this society...

At the age of thirteen, Franklin, who had been imprisoned for three years, successfully escaped from prison.

His escape process was very easy because all the guards thought he could not walk when he left his wheelchair, but in fact... he could walk.

Long before he was arrested, in the last year of his research in college, he had done an "intensification experiment" on himself, and the effect of the experiment began to appear two years later.

Then he spent another year, quietly doing rehabilitation training for his body when no one or the monitoring saw him, so that his sedentary body could resume his ability to move.

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

Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. He was arrested again when he was sixteen. This time, he was thrown into the "Qiquan Kaoten" of the Nine Prisons, and he probably won't come out until he dies.

Another four years have passed.

Franklin, who is twenty years old, is still about ten years old, but his physical appearance looks like a ninety-year-old man.

He didn't know whether he could live to this day because he had such a long lifespan, or whether it was given by the "strengthening experiment" ten years ago.

All he knew was that he was living a very painful life every day.

As a person who is only twenty years old and has much more sensitive thinking and feelings than normal people, he suffers from illnesses that only elderly people can experience every day; from the digestive system, to the respiratory system, to the muscles, joints... every day he can clearly feel his body withering like a plant, but he is powerless to do anything about it, because "aging"... is cured.

However, just when Franklin had decided to accept his fate, counted the days, and was waiting for his death with a heart of death.

One day, an old friend came to visit him.

The sinister man Burgess actually appeared in front of Franklin again and gave him the promise of regaining freedom, or partial freedom. Of course, there are conditions...
Chapter completed!