Arknights is too real, right?

The infected area outside Notting City is locked down at 8 o'clock every night, and a curfew is implemented inside.

Xia Feng was not in a hurry now, but his desire to know the answer still made him lose patience, so he was too lazy to talk to the military police guarding the door.

Parking the off-road vehicle on the side of the road, Xia Feng took advantage of the darkness to reach the wall alone and jumped in.

The muddy streets were deserted and pitch black without even a streetlight. According to the memories from the day, Xia Feng followed alleys and twists and turns, and it took him half an hour to find the small second floor where Mr. Derek lived.

The yard was surrounded by a wooden fence. Xia Feng jumped in, walked up the steps, and knocked on the door.

"Come on, open the door, Penguin Logistics!"

After a while, the lights inside turned on, and Mr. Derek's voice came from inside.

"Who is it?"

"It's me, Xia Feng."

The door was opened, and Derek, wrapped in a blanket, poked his head out.

"Why are you here again? Where is Nanfeng?"

"Nanfeng is at home, I'm the only one here this time."

When Xia Feng said that he came alone, Derek's expression immediately changed. He narrowed his eyes and his voice became deeper and more informal.

"What are you doing here?"

Xia Feng turned from a playful smile to a serious one.

"I have something to ask you about Nanfeng."

"Didn't you ask everything you wanted to ask during the day?"

"I did ask, but you didn't answer me."

"What do you want to know?"

"the truth."

On the sofa in the living room, Xia Feng and Derek sat on each side.

Perhaps because he was worried that the light would attract attention, Derek turned off the light and lit a candle on the coffee table. The room was dark, and the weak flame of the candle reflected on their faces in an erratic way.

Derek's voice came.

"What do you want to know."

"What is Nanfeng's identity?"

Xia Feng didn't want to beat around the bush, Old Man Derek definitely knew something, because his current attitude said everything.

It can be seen that Derek has no intention of hiding it as much as possible. His attitude is more like one of boredom and exhaustion. This may be a big secret, but for him who is not going to die now, this The secret is no longer important enough to be guarded to the death.

But even so, he had no intention of telling a stranger casually.

Derek's old face faced the candlelight.

"The truth about some things is that maybe it's a good thing not to know. If something can't be changed, it's better to just pretend it doesn't exist."

Xia Feng turned his head sideways.

"If you think it doesn't exist, that's just your self-deception. Even if everyone forgets, some things still exist. As long as they exist, sooner or later they will surface."

"So what if it comes to the surface, that kind of thing cannot be changed by people like us."

"can change."

"Oh? Who will change it, Nanfeng? Hehe, don't be naive."

Xia Feng looked at Derek quietly.

"I'll change it."

"you?"

To be honest, even if Derek didn't tell him the truth, Xia Feng could guess based on his feeling. He had an intuition that this matter was related to the major event predicted by Yuan Shan.

Although Victoria seems calm now, when the storm really starts to spin, everyone involved, including Vina, will be involved.

"Mr. Derek, do you believe in fate?"

"destiny?"

"Yes, I didn't believe in fate before, but now I understand it somewhat. I think fate does not represent destiny, nor is it unchangeable, but something that the person involved must experience, and must overcome if he wants to move forward. No one can escape their own destiny."

The dim candlelight reflected in Derek's pupils.

"what do you want to say in the end."

Xia Feng said in a deep voice.

"Nan Feng has his own destiny. This is something he cannot escape. Maybe in your eyes he can remain anonymous and spend his whole life as a gang member, but the fate of this country will not allow it."

"What's the meaning?"

"A major event will happen in Victoria in the near future. This is a crisis that is enough to overturn the country. I don't know what Nanfeng's true identity is, but if his identity is related to it, he cannot escape."

An imperceptible wavering flashed across Derek's pupils.

"So what, even if you can't escape him, you still can't change anything. It's not that I underestimate him. Human power is limited, and what he faces is complicated beyond imagination."

"can change."

"What do you know?"

"I really don't know, but I'm sure it can change, no, it must change."

Derek stared at Xia Feng's face solemnly.

"Who are you?"

"I am the one who changed history."

The air seemed to freeze at this moment, and Derek and Xia Feng looked at each other for a long, long time.

Finally, his eyes relaxed.

"Ah."

Derek picked up another candle, lit it and placed it side by side with the previous one on the coffee table. As the number of candles increased, the light in the room became much stronger.

Derek leaned on the sofa and lost his aggressive aura. At this moment, he was just a dying old man.

"Okay, I don't quite understand what you said, but I am tired, really tired. I thought these past events were going to be taken to my grave, but now I decided to tell them, just like you said, If you want to change something then do it if you can."

Xia Feng lowered his head solemnly.

"Thanks."

"Tell me what you want to know."

"Tell me everything you know, and leave the rest to me to change."

Everyone has a selfish side, no one is exception. Derek could see that Xia Feng just wanted to get the information he wanted to know from him to complete a plan that he didn't know about at all.

It's just that it doesn't matter to him now whether to say it or not. Ore sickness has caused all the organs in his body to fail to the point of disrepair. Every night he will be tortured by pain. Every day when the sun rises, he will regard it as the most important thing in his life. The last sighting.

If that was a sin he had committed, then before he died, he should give this mistake the possibility of redemption.

Therefore, he chose to believe in Xia Feng. The most important reason was that Nanfeng believed in Xia Feng. This was the first time since Derek adopted Nanfeng that he had accepted an outsider.

The blood flowing in Nanfeng's bones is arrogant, and the people who can be trusted by him are definitely not ordinary people.

Derek took out a small box from under the coffee table, brushed off the dust, and took out a badge from the box, which was a Victoria military badge.

The face under the candlelight has sunken eye sockets and is covered with traces of time. The old and melancholy voice seems to have brought back the memory to a long, long time ago.

"The beginning of this matter started 21 years ago."

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