tick-

tick-

The sound of the clock hands echoed in the girl's ears. She wanted to open her eyes, but there was a force pulling her thoughts.

Tick-tick-tick-

In a trance, she felt that this was not the sound of the pointer moving, but the sound of some liquid dripping on the ground, coupled with the empty and humid environment.

pat-

It was not until a drop of cold water fell on her face that the girl finally broke free from the shackles of her thoughts and opened her eyes.

Xia Yue slowly propped herself up and found herself lying on a simple bed made of hay.

Clang.

She tried to move her hands and feet, but found that her hands and feet were bound by chains.

It is impossible to confine a vampire with this level of restraint.

But now, the chains that could have been easily broken could not be broken no matter how hard the girl pulled.

Only then did she realize that her power was gone.

"Are you awake?"

A voice came from the side. Xia Yue turned around suddenly and saw a petite figure huddled in a dark and damp corner. The cold light radiating from her eyes flickered faintly in the darkness.

"who are you?"

Xia Yue asked.

"This is my room."

The voice said, from the voice, Xia Yue judged that it should be a little girl, very young, only five or six years old, but her tone was unusually mature.

"Room?"

Xia Yue frowned.

This place was even more shabby than the bridge tunnel where she had slept before. The unpleasant smell and gloomy environment really made her suspect that she was in a sewer. Could such a place really be called a room?

"Yes, they caught you."

The girl whispered.

The fragmented memories returned to Xia Yue's mind bit by bit.

She was indeed caught, but why.

How come a group of ordinary people have the ability to catch her?

Her powers were gone, that's right.

Xia Yue finally remembered some key points. In order to investigate Yin Qi's case, she went to the place where she last disappeared, the former site of the Mendarosa Children's Rehabilitation Center.

Inside she found some clues that something was wrong, and following the clues she found the secret door of the abandoned building.

After entering the secret door, she was attacked.

What was attacking me? Why did I lose my power?

This situation had happened once before, the power suddenly disappeared, and I became a completely ordinary person, that was more than 300 years ago...

But that was because of my mother's punishment on me. Now the situation seems to be completely different...

"Do you remember anything?" the girl asked.

"No." Xia Yue turned around and looked at the girl: "Who are you?"

"Codename 005, Black Cat."

The girl mechanically said her code name. Xia Yue remembered that she had read Yin Qi's file before coming here. In that file, Yin Qi's past was recorded. She was the product of the first batch of children's biology experiments of Cheshire Cat.

Codename 005, Black Cat.

In other words, the girl in front of me... is Yin Qi?

"Can you help me unchain myself?"

Xia Yue asked.

The girl hesitated for a moment, but finally walked out of the shadows and came to Xia Yue.

"They asked me to watch you."

"who are they."

"Cat breeder, cat owner."

Although she didn't know why she saw Yin Qi as a child, Xia Yue felt that this matter was not that simple.

Fortunately, I have spent some time with Li Lingan and know how to coax children.

The personality displayed by Yin Qi in front of her was not like that of a child, but Xia Yue still decided to give it a try.

"They told you to watch me, but they didn't say you couldn't unchain me, did they?"

“Well, they didn’t say.”

"So will you help me unchain them?"

The girl asked after a moment of silence.

"If I unchain you, they will be angry. If they are angry, they will deduct points from me. My points are already very low. I don't want to be sent to the cannery. I don't want to be made into canned cat food."

Cannery?

Xia Yue frowned slightly, but still tried to make her voice sound gentler.

"I won't let them turn you into cat food. I'm going to get you out of here."

"...No one can leave here."

"I'm not human."

Xia Yue opened her mouth and said this. Fortunately, her two fangs were still there.

"Look, I'm a vampire, I'm not a human, so I can leave here, and I can take you away too."

"…What are vampires?"

Xia Yue thought for a while and then explained.

"A powerful creature that gains strength from sucking blood."

Although high-level vampires do not rely on blood to survive, it is always right to brag a little at this time.

The girl blinked, looked at Xia Yue, and then said: "...Mosquito?"

You are the mosquito, your whole family is mosquitoes.

Xia Yue kept herself calm, and then continued: "Anyway, help me untie it first, and I will take you away."

She guessed that this Yin Qi might be some kind of clone or bionic human.

That means Mendarosa has never stopped their inhumane underground experiments.

The girl hesitated for a while, and finally walked to Xia Yue's side.

"I want to see your teeth again."

the girl said.

Xia Yue was speechless, but there was nothing she could do now, so she slowly opened her mouth.

The girl came very close and even reached out to touch Xia Yue's sharp teeth.

"It's true. Your teeth are different from ours. That's amazing."

"Do you believe it now? I will bite to death anyone who tries to can you."

Xia Yue's words made the girl giggle.

Finally, she grabbed the chain that bound Xia Yue, and then with a slight force, the chain was torn apart.

"Sister, you are so powerful, why can't you break free by yourself?"

Xia Yue was speechless again, but still forced a smile and said, "Because I want to see if you are a good kid and whether you will help your sister."

"What is a good kid?"

"...same as a good kitty."

"Well I'm a good kitty, can you ask them to give me a few extra points? I want to eat cookies."

Xia Yue moved her hands and feet, trying to mobilize the strength in her body.

But both the scarlet power and the moonlight power seemed to have completely disappeared from her body.

"I also want to drink that kind of sparkling water, which is sweet and delicious. Every time a cat behaves well, they can drink a small cup. I don't want to take medicine."

Xia Yue discovered that this so-called room was actually a prison with a rusty copper lock hanging on the door.

"The calico cat said he had behaved very well before, and the owner even said he would take him to buy nice clothes, but I haven't seen a calico cat since then. Sister, can you ask the owner to give me some extra points..."

At this moment, Xia Yue suddenly heard some noise.

It was a sound like some kind of metal rubbing against the ground, accompanied by very heavy footsteps.

"Because I am one of the first batch of test subjects, I have many flaws. In fact, my points have almost been deducted. If I don't perform well in the next experiment, I might..."

"Quiet!"

Xia Yue stood by the iron gate and growled at the girl behind her.

The girl was so scared that she immediately covered her mouth, then slowly moved closer to Xia Yue.

"Do you know what this sound is?" Xia Yue asked.

The girl also leaned over to the iron gate and listened, then shook her head: "I don't know, I've never heard this sound before."

So Xia Yue made a gesture to the girl to keep quiet, because the voice was getting closer and closer.

With the dim light outside the cage, Xia Yue finally saw the figure appearing at the corner.

It was a huge black cat.

In the dim light, the huge black cat looked particularly terrifying.

Half of its body seemed to have undergone cruel mechanical transformation. It was no longer soft fur, but cold metal and wires that gleamed with an ominous luster.

These mechanical parts are twistedly combined with its biological tissues, as if they are some deformed product of technology and nature.

The most terrifying thing is its mouth. It is no longer a common cat's mouth, but an iron mechanical structure inlaid with sharp metal teeth, which makes a harsh clicking sound from time to time.

It was holding a bloodstained sickle in its mouth. The blood dripping from the sickle looked particularly bright red, forming a sharp contrast with its black fur.

As it moved slowly, each step was accompanied by the squeak of metal and the sound of uncoordinated mechanical movement, as if each step foreshadowed the approach of death.

"Well, what is that... Sister, it's such a big cat, so scary..."

Xia Yue immediately hugged the girl, covered her mouth, and hid in the dark corner of the cage.

As the huge mechanized black cat slowly approached, the inharmonious sounds of its messy mechanical parts filled the air, interweaving with its heavy footsteps to form a terrible symphony.

Its red eyes kept looking into the cage, as if looking for any unusual movements.

A bloody smell filled the entire cage.

The girl's body was shaking. Xia Yue hugged her tightly and held her breath.

Fortunately, this thing didn't seem to have the ability to find prey through its sense of smell. It arched its huge head against the iron bars a few times, and when it found that it couldn't get in, it continued to move forward.

Xia Yue didn't breathe a sigh of relief until the sound of metal rubbing against the ground completely disappeared.

Now her strength is not even as good as the child next to her. She doesn't know what's wrong with her mother. It feels really bad to have her physical strength controlled by others.

"Sister... then, what is that...?"

"I don't know, but we can't stay here any longer."

Xia Yue slowly walked to the cage door and tried to break the huge lock, but her strength was too weak and she was unable to move it at all.

"Come here and unlock this lock."

Xia Yue turned and looked at the girl and said.

"No, no, you can't. Opening the lock without permission... will result in penalty points."

"Your owner is too busy to take care of you now. Did you see the blood on the sickle just now? I can smell it. It's human blood. Your owner may be dead now."

Xia Yue's words stunned the girl.

"The owner is dead...?"

Her voice was trembling. Xia Yue originally thought that this child was brainwashed as she was actually worried about the lives of those people.

But the next second the girl started crying and said, "I, I behaved well once last month and had a chance to exchange for that sweet water, but they died, I, I can't drink it anymore."

Xia Yue sighed. Just now when she was holding the child, she found that this girl was not a bionic person. She should be some kind of clone. Xia Yue didn’t quite understand this, but from a certain perspective.

She should also be considered Yin Qi.

So Xia Yue walked up to the girl and whispered, "Don't cry. After we get out, I'll take you to eat something delicious."

"...delicious?"

The girl stopped crying and looked at Xia Yue: "Yes, do you have sweet water?"

"Yes, there are also cakes, chocolates, and all kinds of meat. I will let you eat as much as you want."

"Really? I only ate meat once! It was on my fifth birthday, when a keeper sister secretly brought me half a piece of meat! But after that, I don't think I ever saw the keeper sister again."

"...Well, okay, I'll buy you whatever you want to eat when we get out, so open this lock first."

.......

at the same time.

Li Muhan had changed his clothes and arrived at the former site of the Mendarosa Children's Rehabilitation Center located in the suburbs of Tianhai City.

The abandoned building still shows its former glory.

This rehabilitation center was once affiliated with the Special Management Bureau, and it was the World United Special Management Bureau, which has similar institutions all over the world.

Before the inhumane child tragedy broke out, the Tianhai City Special Management Bureau also had some cooperation with Mendarosa.

He even sent some children to this hellish rehabilitation center himself.

Su Xue and Lin Ziyu have been investigating here for two days, and Lin Ze is now listening to their reports.

When they saw Li Muhan coming, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

"You're finally awake, captain." Lin Ziyu's tone didn't sound very excited.

Instead, I feel a little guilty.

"I'm sorry... If we had noticed Sister Yin Qi's abnormality earlier, we wouldn't have..."

"Don't talk about this. The most important thing now is to find Yin Qi and Xia Yue as soon as possible."

Li Muhan patted Su Xue and Lin Ziyu on the shoulders, and then looked at Lin Ze.

"Director Lin, can you tell me about the situation?"

Lin Ze nodded.

"Do you still remember the incident with Raven and Zuo Qi?"

"of course I remember."

"At that time, Raven was hiding in the city, avoiding all the special management bureau's detection methods, but someone found him, detained him immediately, and sent a signal to you."

Li Muhan nodded.

"Yes, it was Yin Qi. I didn't find it strange at the time, but now it seems very strange. Why could Yin Qi find the raven?"

"Because she sought help from the wrong power, the Cheshire Cat, and thus owed a debt to the organization. And having a debt means that she cannot leave the organization. This is why the Court of Arbitration determined that Yin Qi had defected."

"Yin Qi is not here to repay her debt." Li Muhan said, his tone firm: "She wants to cut off all this, she wants to return to us, to the Special Management Bureau, to the Seventh Squad."

Lin Ze looked at the members of Team 7 in front of him. Unknowingly, these children have grown up and can take care of each other and rely on each other.

"Well, then as the captain, Li Muhan, I am giving you an order now to bring back Yin Qi and Xia Yue. They are both from the Tianhai City Special Management Bureau, and no one can be left behind."


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