[Zhongyingmei] Big Tengu

[Daniel, my friend. ]

The handwriting was crooked, and the dull color seemed to indicate something ominous.Daniel brushed away the anxiety in his heart, pinched the corner of the card with two fingers, his expression was gloomy.

[I don’t know if you still recognize me as a friend, but when you read this letter, maybe I’m already dead.So... let me believe that everything is still in the past. ]

[You must be pissed off right now, aren't you?I know that when that day comes, none of us can escape or hide from it.The only difference is, I chose to compromise, you chose to forget - or be forgotten, who knows? ]

compromise?forget?

Sudden pain struck Daniel's brain like lightning, and a flash of light suddenly emerged. The boy's hand holding the card trembled uncontrollably, as if he had lost control of his body, and he could only helplessly watch the scary little thing float to the ground.

"Daniel!" Tony hurriedly grabbed Daniel's hand and shouted in panic, "How are you? Jarvis, scan!"

"I'm fine." Before Jarvis could speak, Daniel took the lead in grabbing Tony back, with a perfunctory mouth, while his brain kept going through all the memories frantically.

Tengu cubs, iron cages, incandescent lamps... the past is enlarged, and the pain is played frame by frame before my eyes.

The test bench, the restraint belt, and the glinting knife edge were gradually stained with blood... Daniel had never seen such a bright reflection, just like the light and shadow effect created by countless lamps.

Wait, countless lamps!

Daniel suddenly realized what he had overlooked.Since it is a human experiment, how could there be only one experimental product?How can there be only one test bed?

He should have remembered!The young big tengu fluttered its wings in vain, and there were also children struggling and curled up beside it.The heart-piercing cries expanded from Daniel's voice alone to countless wailings, and finally they all became hoarse and numb, becoming an empty dead silence.

The child next to him had a bald head, without the flaxen hair color later on, and his dark skin made him look like a black ball of coal, with sunken eye sockets, so skinny that he didn't have the appearance of being strong when he grew up.

But... Daniel gritted his teeth tightly, this is Nick.

The child who struggled with him, the child who was shut up next door, the child who always brushed past him with those inorganic gray pupils, was actually Nick!Nick Anderson!

The fuzzy face in the memory became clear little by little, and gradually changed into Nick's appearance. He met Daniel with a bright smile, grabbed Daniel in a neat military uniform, and bid farewell to Daniel in rags.

Ha, it turns out that we have known each other for a long time. In this world, there is such a fucking world!

"The young master's heart rate is too fast and his breathing is short, showing that he is in a state of anger, and there are no abnormalities found in the rest." Jarvis controlled Benben to bring a glass of water and handed it to Daniel, "barbiturates were added to it." , can effectively help calm down."

"..."

Daniel looked at the glass of water expressionlessly, feeling that his whole body was about to burn.Calm down, he would have almost swiped the glass down if he hadn't been so sane.When he doesn't know what barbiturates are for?Why not just take a sedative and forget it!

But Tony doesn't know this, we can't ask a person who can't even remember his green card account number to understand this medical knowledge, so he nervously took the cup and carefully held it almost in front of Daniel.

"Daniel..." Caught off guard by the caramel-colored big eyes staring at him with concern, Daniel got stuck for a moment, and the anger in his heart also stagnated, and finally subsided.

Well, he'll be sedated.Daniel turned his head helplessly, staring bitterly at the water glass in front of him, until Jarvis' serious voice came again before he heaved a sigh of relief.

"It was detected that the heart rate returned to normal, and the scan was normal."

Huh - it's just the sound of nature.

But such an episode also brought Daniel back from memory.He collected himself and stopped letting the past affect his current thoughts. He patted Tony's arm supporting him comfortingly, gave him a smile, and then looked at Hotchina.

The head of the BAU had picked up the card long ago. He had already read the content and was checking the clues with the others over and over again.Sensing Daniel's gaze, Hotchner's body froze suddenly, his broad palm subconsciously clenched the card tightly, and his five fingers firmly blocked the writing on it.

It seems that the things after that are also explosive enough... Daniel suddenly said something in his heart.

I don't know if it was because of too much stimulation during this period, which made Nick's incident the last straw that broke the camel's back.Now that the matter has come to this point, Daniel got out of the habit of being abused, and simply smashed the can, and the whole person became uncharacteristically relaxed.

It couldn't be any worse anyway, could it?

With this thought in mind, Daniel silently stepped forward to take the card, his eyes scanned the first half of the card he just read, and he actually saw the fun in the ugly letters on it.

Look at the letter a, it looks as if it lost a few kilograms from starvation; oh, there is also the letter s, if any girl has such a horrible figure, she might cry and faint in the toilet; tsk tsk, there is also a letter z in the middle A slash, Xueba, is this writing language as a formula?

I just don’t know if it’s Daniel’s illusion. Some of these letters are straight and some are slanted. The same word is inexplicably separated by good and evil.

But soon, he didn't have the energy to continue thinking.It may be the reason why I wrote this card when I was still young. Nick’s words are very straightforward, and the amount of rich information is more terrifying than one, which can almost fill the stomach of the greediest reporter.

In the second paragraph on the card, the dark-skinned teenager wrote: [When you were young, you were very cute, like the little angel in the Garden of Eden - of course, when you grow up, you are too. ] The strokes paused here, and the appearance of the words became much lighter.

[Unfortunately, I am just a black demon. Demons cannot go to heaven, but angels can fall.I was sent to get close to you and watch you until that idiot in Trask caught you.Hydra will never allow such an accident, so I was sent to Trask, and I put you back in X Academy. ]

[When writing this letter, you should have seen a fake corpse, I made it myself, I wonder if it scares you?I hope to scare you, but it has always been my long-cherished wish to make fun of you, after all...]

The handwriting began to erratic, and the words were arranged in a mess. Daniel moved his head closer, and it took a long time to sort out the relationship between the grammar.

[I'm not reconciled... I grew up in a laboratory, why can you live in the sun?Charles, Logan, Hank, Raven, Quicksilver... so many, so many, five fingers can't count it.Maybe one day, I will really go crazy with jealousy! ]

[So, before taking you to hell with me, I wrote this card.Listen up, Daniel!Remember every sentence below! ]

Nick intensified his strokes. The uppercase letters looked like ferocious monsters at night. The sharp horns pierced through the heart, making people shiver in shock.

[You are the only mutant with special powers, Hydra has made something based on this, they can easily control you.I swapped their boxes, but they can't be destroyed, they can only be hidden. The hint is in these texts.If you were Daniel—hopefully you—you would find it. ]

[My life is about to end, but Daniel, my friend...you have to live well, and live with me! ]

[Finally, remember, trust no one! ]

……

silence.

5 minutes passed, and 10 minutes passed. Daniel's posture remained unchanged, as if he was frozen at the moment he finished reading, and he remained silent for a long time.

What... it really is a lie, I won't believe it.In the New York laboratory, Nick lied to Daniel once, in the White House, Nick lied to him for the second time, and now it is the third time.

Can't tell the truth from the fake, this is your purpose!If you've been lied to a lot, you won't believe anything easily, don't you think so?

Daniel blinked vigorously, forcing back the tears that blurred his vision, and his round nails dug into the card, squeezing out broken wrinkles.He took a deep breath, desperately looking for excuses to convince himself, maintaining the illusion of "strength" layer by layer, then exhaled, and raised his head methodically——

There were still traces of tears at the corners of the bloodshot eyes, and an ugly smile was squeezed out of the stiff muscles: "I don't believe it."

"His name is Nick Anderson, and he's a liar."

"...but liar, I miss you..."

In the last sentence, the lips moved slightly, as light as the trembling of down feathers, diffused between the lips and teeth, and disappeared in the cold wind.