Overturned Tower

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The inferior spoke slowly: "Devils can't choose to end their own lives, and they can no longer endanger the lives of others. With the injection of chips, their thoughts are also stamped... They can curse each other and each other, but they can't. Attack the opponent with your hands. It's like those people without tails who can never figure out how to use their tails.

"Their limbs were all removed and all were replaced with similar prosthetics. This also means that their actions can be taken over at any time... Actively cross the line, or stop action to accept punishment."

"And there are cameras and bugs everywhere here. In addition to the sky, the ground... and everyone's eyes and ears. Everything they hear, see, and think will be sent to the designated Location. All the instructions made by their prosthetic bodies will be transmitted to that place, and they can interfere at any time.

"That's where the real 'memory armed' research institute is located.

"——As for the demon here, it's just the object of research."

The inferior said, leading Russell to a small room.

As he walked, he slowly explained to Russell: "The one called 'Blind Snake' just now was a volunteer in a kindergarten.

"Because the kindergarten she was in had three consecutive deaths in a year due to accidents such as falling, cardiac arrest, and sudden death at night, so we secretly investigated.

"The places where those children fell were not in the kindergarten. We were still investigating these accidents, and we found out that they were all related to this kindergarten. Later, we found that there were eleven other cases that had not been discovered... And behind these cases, It is the 'Blind Snake' who is murdering these children.

"Her psychic power is a kind of delayed-acting poison. By releasing a special poison to something, and making the opponent's skin touch. When the poison is in contact, the opponent will become extremely calm and peaceful. Afterwards, She can detonate the poison at any time within 48 hours, paralyzing the opponent for a certain period of time... The specific time of paralysis is equivalent to the time the opponent is exposed to the specific poison."

"...Then what is she planning?"

Russell couldn't believe it.

"Nothing."

The inferior said flatly: "When she was in her 20s, because of taking illegal and powerful drugs that can increase happiness, it caused the throbbing pain of the fetus in the abdomen, stepped on the empty steps, slipped down and had a miscarriage.

"Her psychic power was awakened at that time. The ability to 'quiet' and 'paralyze' others was mixed with hate and love. After she was discharged from the hospital, she became a kindergarten volunteer. While loving other people's children At the same time, they are also jealous that they can have healthy children, and they also have a strong dislike of 'active' children.

"And this kind of psychic power develops further... She becomes a demon called 'close your eyes and hold your breath'. Her original wish is to kill the 'active child' as much as possible. Her last At first, it will paralyze the children's body intermittently, and if the child is on the verge of danger at that time, he will immediately fall.

"Later, if she finds out that there is an extremely active child who is lucky enough not to die, she will angrily sneak poison into the other party, paralyzing it until death at night. This process will take several hours, The child is motionless in bed ... until the heart goes into paralysis. At that point, their parents may be there and not know it."

"And such demons are everywhere here—almost every one of them has multiple, innocent lives in their hands. The very few who have no victims in their hands are also because our arrests are fast enough."

As he spoke, he glanced at Russell coldly: "Do you understand?

"Demons are inhuman. When they are truly demons, they are left with only one idea...an idea that can be ignored as long as it can be achieved. There is no point in reasoning with demons, because Demons don't care about reasoning, rules, morality at all... They don't even care about the threat of life, because they are not afraid of death. They just hope to go as far as possible on this road.

"But demons will cunningly deceive you into thinking they are persuaded by you.

"If you choose to turn a blind eye... choose to help it hide, the demon will become more extreme and crazy as time goes by.

"At the beginning, the devil just wants to be loved. In the middle stage, he will distort the lover's mind, rewrite the memory of the people close to him, and disturb the social relationship of someone he likes. Later, he will kill the "love yourself" at will. The level of 'attenuation' of the familiar, unscrupulously trick passers-by back home, and when the other party 'doesn't fall in love' with him, he will kill him and 'replace him with a new one'.

"Because the demon's desires will gradually expand and distort. However, their morality, rationality and other 'blue shift' related values will gradually decay, and they will completely return to zero when they hatch.

"The morality of the devil is like a game player who has no scruples; compared with a player who doesn't care so much about a certain game and just wants to have fun, the devil can do whatever it takes to fulfill his 'principal wish'. Therefore, Demons will eventually become more and more dangerous.

"In the final analysis, it is because those things that have already been obtained are no longer precious. If it is an ordinary person, they will dislike it at that time and look for other pleasures...but the devil will not.

"Because demons only go one way or the other, they're only interested in one thing. So they're bound to seek stronger and stronger stimuli.

"—reciprocating cycle, never ending."

Chapter 5 Agents of the Devil

Hearing the words of the inferior, the first thought in Russell's mind was:

That being the case...

"Little Liuli"...or to put it another way, what is the original wish of "Blue Robin"?

Is it just "clean death"?

--Do not.

Impossible.

Russell frowned, and profiled Xiao Liuli.

Her real wish is definitely not this.

Because in that case, she didn't need to wait for Russell at all, and would disappear without a sound—if she really wanted to die with all her heart, she would never ask other people's opinions, nor would she wait for their rescue.

As "The Caged Bird" said, she didn't want to die.She just doesn't want to live anymore.

But in the gap between "want to die" and "don't want to live", there is not nothing...it is not even a thin, invisible slit.

It's a blurry boundary that even Xiao Liuli doesn't know how wide it is and where the boundary is.

Maybe just walking aimlessly on the street, seeing the setting sun, hearing the pattering rain, or receiving a certain phone call, you will suddenly cross that boundary and feel like dying; or you just feel that today’s weather is really Very good, because there are new clothes that I want to wear every other season, so I want to, or I will work hard for a while, and then leave this boundary from the other side.

In this boundary, she may live a long time.Possibly even lived until she was "disposed of".

How could such a vague thing be her original wish?

This is just a compromise means of "the best second".

A demon in a "caged bird", the desire to judge one's true desire before the last of one's rationality is burned out will inevitably lead to inevitable tragedy.

That's why she chose to kill herself.

The human heart is complicated.

On the one hand, Xiao Liuli hoped that "none of this has ever happened" and that she would still live peacefully with Morgan; but on the other hand, she dared not meet Morgan and face all this.

After she became "Little Liuli", she never touched Morgan until the end.

The price for her being turned into "Little Liuli" by the "veil of ignorance" is to have Morgan undergo surgery—could it be possible that the "veil of ignorance" still doesn't know who Morgan is?

— No matter how you think about it, it’s impossible.

Her so-called "secrecy" is just self-deception.

After that, Xiao Liuli never really got in touch with Morgan.Otherwise, even if she had a close contact with the other party once, she would easily realize that Morgan had already fallen into the quagmire—the existence of "Little Liuli" had no meaning of keeping secrets at all.

So, it's just a subconscious escape.

She can't accept the fact that she has become little Liuli... She deliberately no longer uses the previous speaking and behavior habits, no longer eats the food she was used to before, and no longer drinks her favorite iced cola, just to deliberately distinguish the "blue song robin" And "Little Glass".

Just like the conversation he had with Morgan when he was sitting on the swing.

The blue robin is always the passive party, the party that is not decisive enough, and the party that is not firm enough.

——Compared with Morgan's firm and calm love, he is too easily shaken.

Even if he sank into the darkness, it would be shallower than Morgan, who was protected by himself.

Then, if I didn't kill the "caged bird" demon at the first time out of pity, but let it develop...

...What will it look like in the end?

Russell shuddered.

He didn't dare to think about it.

Just thinking about it will directly shatter the image of "Little Liuli" in Russell's memory.

"...Then I think it would be better than capturing the demons and killing them."

Russell couldn't help but said, "That might be a relief instead."

Unexpectedly, the inferior nodded: "I think so too."

"……Eh?"

"So, if the demons are too bad, I will send them here.

"Demons and humans are different...For demons, there is no idea of 'It's better to be alive than dead', but 'If I can't do something, I'd rather die'.

"This empty, never-ending cycle of life, the insatiable but ever-expanding desire, is undoubtedly a stronger punishment than death for a demon who is only interested in one thing."

Russell's eyes widened, and he looked sideways at the inferior.

...has he already known?

It turned out to be the case.

That's why he was willing to capture the devil...not for the production of chips, nor for obeying the orders of the board of directors, nor for performance bonuses.

It was because of the anger in his heart.

The raging fire of anger made the inferiors think that "death is the pity for demons".

…So, when he killed the devil in the "caged bird", did he instead warn himself "don't be too naive"?

Because in the cognition of the inferior, the matter of "killing the devil directly" is a kind of grace...

"...Where are we going?"

Russell couldn't help saying, "We've come so far."

They twisted and turned, and had already turned six or seven times in this huge villa.

"Go sign for 'Winter Day' and extend the time."

"Continuation time?"

"It's our old minister."

The inferior said calmly.

Hearing this, Russell raised his head subconsciously and carefully checked the expression of the inferior.

Noticing that he didn't have any expression of anger or hatred, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"...how long?"

Russell asked in a low voice.

It's not that he is afraid of being inferior... mainly because he thinks it would be impolite to ask what "give the demon time" means among a group of demons.

Even if the inferior repeatedly emphasized that these demons are not human beings, Russell really felt that they deserved their crimes and should be punished here.

Even so, Russell didn't want to give up etiquette because of this-the so-called "etiquette" is not for others to see after all.

The poor hold another attitude.

He didn't even reduce his voice, but explained to Russell leisurely with a voice that passing demons could easily hear:

"Let's put it this way, Ultramarine. Those of us who captured the demons are the watchers of these demons.

"They can live temporarily because we recognize and guarantee that these demons are controllable and their psychic powers are useful. If we die, the contract we signed will be transferred to another person in the special execution department .

"If we don't come back to sign for a while, or refuse to sign to extend the time, the specific demon will be executed after the time runs out... After all, demons are not human beings, and killing them doesn't matter.

"However, the head office cannot directly establish a statute to declare 'under what circumstances someone can be killed'. This is a direct violation of the authority of the dragon, which will immediately anger the dragon.

"In fact, they extended the moment when the 'agent' killed the demon to the 'time that the agent thinks is appropriate'. It is a very boring way of thinking about loopholes. But the dragon just agrees with this strange logic. So that’s how it was handled.”

When the inferior said this, he showed a mocking smile: "Who do you think is the 'agent'? The head office? The board of directors?

"—We represent these demons. We are the agents of the demons."

Chapter 6 Demons: To Eternal Hibernation

"Devil's agent..."

Russell murmured and repeated.

From this sentence, he chewed a kind of almost malicious coldness.

The bad guy glanced at Russell.

He was silent for a moment, then sighed slightly.

He whispered, "Part of the reason why the minister asked you to come here is to let you familiarize yourself with the process."

"Is there a signing process?"

"That's right. If I'm killed one day, it's up to you to walk this way."

The inferior said flatly: "At that time, you will also bring newcomers along and introduce everything to them.