Overturned Tower

Delphinium was a little worried: "Most places in the downtown area don't have network coverage. They won't pick a place with network for their meetings."

"And when I became this form, I didn't have a chip."

Russell added: "So I can gain their trust."

"That's it," the inferior thought for a while, and came up with a new plan, "You find a way to reach a safe location, and then change back. After receiving the news, Delphinium directly launches a round of saturation attacks on the designated target... ...You lay in ambush in advance where they may evacuate, and call me over."

"That's the same sentence, how to give a signal?"

Delphinium emphasized.

The inferior shook his head, and said to Delphinium in a deep voice: "It's very simple. That is to let Ultramarine use my chip and yours.

"You can sense your own 'poison', so you can judge his location; and my psychic power can make Ultramarine make a loud noise, so I can detect his location.

"You must stay as far away from us as possible and hide in a safe place. Because neither I nor Qun Qing can protect you by your side... That means, you cannot communicate with any of us.

"However, you can sense the position of Ultramarine; I can hear Ultramarine's voice, and we can communicate indirectly through Ultramarine."

"Then do it."

Delphinium hammers out a plan.

Later, she asked Russell curiously: "You become someone else... Are there any selection rules?"

"It should be to bear the dreams of the deceased...or ideals, or sad wishes, or fulfillment of last wishes. I guess."

Russell replied uncertainly: "When I became what I am now, my interests and habits have become the same as those of the blue robin."

He then added: "The secret of my psychic power, don't reveal it to others."

"rest assured."

Delphinium reassured.

She sighed: "I was thinking just now, when I die, let you become me. But after thinking about it, I still forget it... This psychic power of mine is just a curse passed on, no What is the value on your shoulders?"

"I don't shy away from that."

The poor one chuckled.

This is the first time he smiled today: "If I die, you can take my power without worry. It's not in vain. At that time, I will definitely not set any thresholds or complicated requirements for you... "

As a result, before he finished speaking, Russell took off his mask and changed back to his original body.

In his pupils, the white flames have not completely dissipated.

The inferior was keenly aware that the white flame leapt before dissipating, and was stained with a blood-like crimson for a moment.

"—don't say that."

Russell returned to his original body, and looked up at the inferior with a very serious look: "Don't joke about life and death."

So far, the bad guy and the delphinium have never seen Russell showing such a serious look.

This sense of abnormality even frightened them for a while.

In their cognition, Russell has always been a kind of gentle character that tends to be a guardian... Not only will he not get angry, even if he prevents others from saying something, he will become tactful.

But at this moment, Russell had an almost violent aura that did not belong to him at all.

"Listen well," Russell raised his head and declared with great certainty, "whether it's you or the delphinium——I will never let you die."

Hearing this tone, delphinium had a strange vision in a trance——

Russell seemed to be imitating someone unconsciously.

That incomparably firm and unquestionable attitude made Russell look a little different from that cute sand dune cat at the moment.

Rather, it looked like a cigar in its mouth, covered in scars, clenched fists... a male lion with a low growl.

Chapter 31 乐园鸟

The night sky in the lower city will never see the brilliant neon lights in the upper city.

Or... whether it is day or night, it doesn't make any difference to the downtown area.

Anyway, no matter when you look up, you can only see the dark sea that is constantly whistling.

Bird of Paradise huddled in her room, sitting on the bed with her hands crossed around her knees.

In front of her was a quiet, shimmering angel halo.

"dad……"

She murmured in a low voice, her immature face showed unprecedented shake.

"What the hell should I do..."

From birth until now.

——Paradise Bird never wished for a moment that he was a real angel like this.

Hearing the news of the angel's return a few days ago, he excitedly put on the aura left by his father, and the joy of going uptown as an "uncoded person" was overshadowed by the predicament he was facing now.

She is not a mechanical angel belonging to the Church, nor is her father.

Or rather, her father had been.

After the war, the church decided to freeze all angels.

Her father didn't want to be frozen and didn't trust the Church.So before that, he quietly escaped.

After being classified as a defector, he was removed from the angel list and his halo was banned by the church, but he was not pursued further.

——But that level of ban is indifferent.

He was originally a very good engineer.Relying on the advanced equipment that goes along with it while running, it is easy to break the prohibition restrictions from the church server and change it to a "stand-alone version".

Generally speaking, the public moral cognition of the general public is constantly changing... This also means that the criteria for judging holy orders will be skewed.

In order to prevent the sudden loss of power, the Cyber ​​Church has been maintaining the entire "God's Descending Device" system-they will collect relevant information and constantly fine-tune the personalities recorded in the angel's halo.

Even though the angels have been frozen and sealed, this process has never ended.

This also means that when the angels are thawed out, although the times have changed a lot and their moral values ​​have also undergone tremendous changes, their power will not weaken too much.

Of course, there will still be a certain degree of weakness.After all, the original fit is high enough, but it doesn't mean that they can adapt to the adjusted new personality.

And Paradise Bird's father, because he used the halo 100 years ago, has never performed "driver update"... Therefore, as the times change, the power he can use becomes weaker and weaker.

But even so, he still relied on the power of the Holy Order to continuously repair his body, and lived easily for more than 100 years.

When he was 90 years old, he looked like he was only in his 50s.

In order to hide his obviously abnormal lifespan, he will continue to move between various empty islands, and experience the era that is becoming more and more chaotic.

Not long after he arrived at Happy Island for the second time...he fell in love with a woman in her 50s.

She is a pharmacologist.Both of them took a fancy to each other's intelligence and felt comfortable getting along.

Because of his longer life span than ordinary people, he has always kept his distance from others.

And when his power of the Holy Order weakened to a certain extent and he began to clearly realize his impending death, he no longer rejected others.

It was the first time in his life that he fell in love with someone.Although both sides are old and haggard.But age and appearance don't matter to him anymore - he has lived too long in a young state, and he has long looked down on the skin.

At that level of aging, they are all infertile.

Keyuanbird's mother felt the decline of her body, and desperately hoped to leave a child...

The technique of IVF is not allowed - because that means, there may be a newborn child who will not be implanted with a chip.

So they went into the lower town.Relying on her mother's connections, she found a wanted black market doctor.

With the help of a doctor code-named "Paradise", Paradise Bird was born as a test-tube baby.

Strictly speaking, Paradise Bird can even be said to be a "synthetic human".Because she did not grow up in a human womb, but was born in an artificial womb - a taboo technology held by "Paradise".

When Paradise Bird was born, her father was already one hundred and five years old.

Even counting the continuous repair of the body by the power of the Holy Order, he looks like an old man in his sixties and 70s, whose body has begun to decline rapidly... and her mother is almost 60 years old.

Although they are parents, they are older than their grandparents.

In order to take care of Paradise Bird, who was born without a chip, they moved into the lower city.

Unlike normal uncoded people, she at least has a safe place to live.Her mother also has a chip, so she keeps coming back uptown, selling inventions to buy necessities.

Compared with other people born without a code, the life of the Paradise Bird family is quite stable.

Paradise Bird never went to school, or even had contact with peers.

All of them were taught by her parents all the knowledge, technology and fighting skills in her life.

Until three years ago, her father finally died of old age.He has lived to be 110 years old, which is extremely long for short-lived species.

And because of grief, her mother also passed away half a year later.

She inherited her father's halo, but the too weak healing system can no longer cure diseases of that degree.

"Angel" has completely become a legend.She can no longer enter the upper city with a halo, and she dare not expose the identity of an angel in the lower city...

After losing the shelter of her parents, only 11-year-old Paradise Bird struggled to survive in the downtown area as an uncoded person relying on her extraordinary intelligence.

The family used to be part of a small mutual aid group called Cave House.Before Paradise Bird's mother died, she also asked her old friend to take care of Paradise Bird.

There, she lived happily, as if she had a home for the second time.

Old friends of the parents are also good people.Although life is poor, but happy... Her healing powers can help others.

She originally hoped that she could maintain a stable life like this, and live a stable and happy life... It doesn't matter even if she can't see the bright sunshine in her whole life.

But just six months ago, that organization was also destroyed by the "veil of ignorance".

— not for annexation, but for sadism.

Meaningless.Just purely for fun, for the "rehearsal of crime" to destroy, tear up, and torture those uncensored people who live in peace.

In the unscrupulous laughter, in the wailing and screaming of those old friends and elders... Record all this into a video, keep it as a souvenir, or sell it to others.

With the help of the elders, she escaped very reluctantly.

But her second home was destroyed again.

Like a lost dog, she hides in a shabby room that no one knows, and spends every day that is as dark as the night in fear and hatred.

She saw the notorious "Bad Ones" leading a group of men in black to carry out sweeping and massacres in the lower city.

The latest bullet had penetrated the wall, missed her, and hit the wall on the other side of the shelter.

Through the hole made by the bullet, she watched curiously and timidly what was happening outside.

Then, she saw the "devil" walking on the ground.

The bullets that shot at him in fear meant nothing to that man—the bullets were knocked off by the ripples in the air before they approached him, and he just approached him slowly, like a god of death, with a light touch Just explode the body of others.

Like a sausage cracked in boiling oil, those who attacked him with guns were torn into such miserable shapes by invisible forces.

After they dispersed, Paradise Bird checked the bodies of those people.

Their internal organs and brains almost burst, and the fat seemed to have been boiled.It was like being roasted alive in a microwave oven.

This intensified her fear even more.

Every day when you close your eyes in fatigue and confusion, you will dream of the veil of ignorance or the inferior.

She dreamed of the wailing and screams of those friends and elders who were tortured to death by gang members, and the appearance of those gang members who were too strong to fight against were easily torn apart and exploded by the inferior.

——When she inadvertently learned the news of the resurrection of the "angel", Paradise Bird was very happy.

Because this means that she can go back to the upper city to collect some materials under her father's halo!

She fled in such a hurry that she took nothing with her.She has a bright mind, but she can't do anything without materials and instruments.

It is different from the environment of more than ten years ago or more than 20 years ago.

The discrimination against people without a code was not so serious back then, so her parents dared to give birth to her.

But things quickly changed after that.

As the last residents born before 1123 died, and as crime intensified in the lower city without codes, attitudes toward the codeless grew."Not possessing a chip" is now a crime sufficient to be deported-even if it was not the case ten years ago.

Because she doesn't have a chip, she certainly doesn't have credit points, so she can't use the normal way to shop.

But her mother and father, as academics, also held "credit sticks," items used for anonymous transactions.