mini people

When Shen Jiyun woke up, he felt as if he had been run over by a steamroller, and his whole body was sore.

There was a pitch-black patch above his head, not the familiar transmission cabin.

He struggled to sit up, and when his arms were unable to support him, he was suddenly supported by a force behind him——Ace touched him in time and let him lean against the wall.

Shen Jiyun looked around and found that they were still in ruins. Not far away, a light came in through a crack in the wall, and he could vaguely tell that this was near their cleaning point.

"Why are we still here?" Shen Jiyun said weakly, he forgot when he passed out, and he was still in a state of exhaustion.

"The helicopter had already left when we arrived at the meeting point." Ace didn't explain much, just mentioned this sentence.

Shen Jiyun took out the communicator, saw that there was no signal from above, and closed his eyes in abandon. It seemed that if they wanted to go back, they could only continue to wait for rescue.

Ace asked him, "How are you feeling, are you feeling better?"

Shen Jiyun slowly recalled what happened before the coma - Li He was killed, they ran into Shen Yuze, Shen Yuze recognized Ace...

"When Yu called you just now, why didn't you go with him?" Shen Jiyun glanced at Ace, saw the metal collar on his neck, and asked, "Is it because of that?"

Ace touched his neck subconsciously, and said, "That's right."

Shen Jiyun asked: "What the hell is this? A tracker?"

"I'm not sure. It's probably similar to a monitor. There is a mechanism on it. If you don't follow the order, eight needles will pop out after the mechanism is activated and stick into my neck." Ace said calmly, and tilted his head. It seems that he is used to this suicide device on his body.

Shen Jiyun was startled when he heard this: "So, they use this thing to restrict your freedom and force you to protect my safety?"

Ace didn't answer, he wanted to say yes, but not quite, he didn't hate Qingyun, it wasn't forced.

Moreover, when he confronted Yu just now, he seemed to be able to feel Qingyun's helplessness a little bit. Even without the confinement around his neck, he would probably take him away first.

Shen Jiyun thought that Ace's silence was an acquiescence, and fell into a suffocating sense of guilt again: "You must hate us very much, right?"

Ace: "What?"

"I will transform you without your consent, erase your memory, control the strong among you, and kill the alien species that threaten the survival of human beings..." Shen Jiyun spread his hands. Scarlet, "Shouldn't you hate?"

Ace smiled when he heard this, and said, "If you have to say that, then I killed someone, and it was my companion, wouldn't it be even more inhumane?"

Shen Jiyun: "You were forced."

Ace glanced at him, "Aren't you?"

Shen Jiyun: "..."

Ace withdrew his gaze and said, "You don't need to explain, I can tell that you don't like killing."

This is the second time Ace raised this point, and Shen Jiyun couldn't help being curious: "How did you find out?"

"I don't know, it probably depends on each person's aura," Ace lowered his eyes, lost in memory, "I knew a friend before, who had a similar aura to yours, and I like to fight quickly to avoid causing pain to the opponent. It will be annoying if you stay for a moment."

Ace's explanation comforted Shen Jiyun to a certain extent. He raised his eyes and confided as if talking to himself: "Five years ago, I was targeted by this organization when I was investigating the cause of my parents' death, and my younger brother disappeared for no reason. , I didn't know what happened to him until three years later. It turned out that he was transformed in my place and was secretly sold to this country. Not to kill, but to find him."

Ace was silent for a moment, and said with a smile: "So, the reason why I'm here seems to be similar to yours."

Shen Jiyun: "Why?"

Ace: "They let me meet my parents and told me I have a younger sister..."

Ace's resume, Shen Jiyun, has been turned over, but he doesn't know that he has a younger sister.

"I met her on the day I was arrested by the MWCC administrator at Zoe's Club. She was brought to the club by her owner to participate in the game. After she met me, she followed me and said she knew me. I didn't pay much attention to her. Later Well, Dr. Sam helped me find her photo, and I realized that she really knew me... Her original name was Kareni, but now she is called Bessie." When Ace said this, his tone was a little trembling, and the expression on his face I don’t know whether the expression is gentle or sad, "So, when Dr. Sam asked me if I would like to participate in the virion cleaning project, I accepted it. This is the first time I have left the laboratory in three years. I thought, if I could run into her Woolen cloth."

Shen Jiyun glanced at him and asked, "Where did she go? Was she taken away by the rain?"

"Well, if she hasn't had any accidents in the past few years, she should probably be with Yu and the others," Ace raised his head again, returning to his calm and normal, "so you don't have to think that I hate you, I really don't You guys, but you can’t reach the point of hating, after all, I don’t think the world runs according to my will since I was conscious, if you want to satisfy your desires, you have to pay some price..." Ace looked at Shen Jiyun , said, "This, I found that you are the same."

Shen Jiyun did not expect to have a heart-to-heart talk with Ace on such an occasion, nor did he expect to hear such words from Ace - a miniature person without human memory, a club doll without human rights, restricted freedom A superpower—but it is undeniable that these words hit Shen Jiyun's heart inadvertently, aroused his strong resonance, and made him feel that, as a human being, he seemed no better than a miniature. .

Ace asked him: "Didn't you say that you came to find your brother, just saw him, why didn't you talk to him?"

Shen Jiyun recalled the experience just now, and his face suddenly turned pale again, "He stood with those virus bodies, with my current status, how can I have the face to see him?" Shen Jiyun smiled wryly.

Ace: "You say that, do you intend to recognize him?"

Shen Jiyun didn't know, he was a little confused, because what happened just now was completely beyond his expectation, he couldn't figure out how Shen Yuze could get together with those virus bodies, and how he still had the courage to fight against human beings head-on...

What's more, Shen Yuze has obviously forgotten him.

The corners of Shen Jiyun's mouth curled into a lonely arc, and he said in a low voice: "Someone once asked me to persuade him to submit to him when I met him, but knowing your current situation, I probably won't do so."

Ace joked: "You can defect to his camp, I believe he will welcome you very much."

Shen Jiyun: "Didn't he see that his current situation is very dangerous?"

Ace: "Where is the danger? If Yu didn't know me, the end of the two of us would be the same as Li He."

Shen Jiyun shook his head and said: "You don't know the strength of human beings. In order to ensure the integrity of Verne City, we did not use many lethal weapons to clean up the virus body. Yes, maybe we may die due to accidents, but once humans It is found that the virus body has such a strong resistance, and it will definitely carry out more severe suppression, except for a small number of superpowers, the mini-humans are too weak compared to humans in terms of size and combat strength."

Ace frowned and said, "If you giants hadn't slaughtered the miniatures first, they wouldn't have resisted."

Shen Jiyun: "We are not targeting mini-humans, but those experimental subjects carrying viruses. Their reproduction and ravages have caused a large area of ​​human virus infection and death, and one of the human countries has been completely paralyzed. However, most ordinary Humans are actually unaware of the actions of MWCC and the existence of mini-humans, and this disaster is purely unwarranted to them, should they be infected and die by the virus body for no reason?"

Ace knew that the mini-humans had anti-virus genes, and said, "Then why not turn everyone into mini-humans? Doesn't that mean no one dies?"

Shen Jiyun said: "MWCC has indeed issued such a policy to country C, but if those people are all transformed into miniatures, the power will be more and more concentrated in the hands of MWCC - so what if the number of miniatures increases? So what if they don’t die? As long as there are anthropists in MWCC, the fate of the mini-men cannot be decided by themselves. They just transferred their fate from the hands of the virus body to the hands of MWCC. Today, MWCC can execute the order to clean up these virus bodies, and tomorrow , maybe we can drop a nuclear bomb to destroy all the minifigures who dare to resist."

Ace: "...then what do you want to do?"

Shen Jiyun clenched his fists and said: "Before the vaccine research results, we have to do our best to prevent the spread of the virus in country B. Only when human beings are no longer threatened by the virus, can we settle the old accounts, reveal the secrets to the public, and get rid of the virus from within the human race." Overthrow the dictatorship of MWCC and build a world where humans and mini-humans coexist."

Ace thought for a while and said: "Although I can tell that you don't really agree with the current core philosophy of your organization, I think that even if we have to go through painful casualties and sacrifices, the freedom and rights of mini-humans need to be resolved by ourselves." Fight for it, and it should not be bestowed by human beings, otherwise, it is up to you when to take it back?"

Shen Jiyun was taken aback, and after a long silence, he said sadly, "Maybe I have selfish intentions, and I don't want my younger brother to go through this on behalf of the miniature."

It doesn't matter who initiated the rebellion, it shouldn't be Shen Yuze. If there hadn't been a mistake that happened that time, his younger brother might still be living and studying in the National University without any worries...

Ace shrugged: "I understand, after all, you just want to protect your brother, and you have to carry everything by yourself."

Shen Jiyun was about to say something, when the communicator on his body rang.

- The signal is back!

"Thank God, I finally got through..." Louis sighed on the other end of the phone, and asked, "Is it Qingyun? Are you with Ace? Where are you?"

Shen Jiyun glanced at the location: "We are in E41N20, there was no signal just now, how is the current situation?"

"The situation is not good," Louis paused, with a heavy tone, "I'm sending a helicopter to pick you up, keep in touch, and talk about it when I pick you up."

Shen Jiyun cut off the communicator with a heavy heart, and wanted to stand up, but fell back to the corner because of the unstable center of gravity. He frowned. Just for a moment, he felt as if his whole body could leave the ground and float up...

"What's wrong? Are you okay?" Ace looked at him strangely.

Shen Jiyun shook his head, stood up again with the support of the wall, rubbed his aching temples and said: "Louis said that the situation is not very good, I don't know what else happened besides us."

Ace folded his arms and said, "I didn't tell you just now, something happened to Fang Dongqi's team."

Shen Jiyun said in a daze, "How do you know?"

Ace: "Shortly after we separated from Yu, they went in another direction. I 'heard' them attacking Captain Fang's team and making a lot of noise."

Shen Jiyun looked at him with a bloodless face: "Attack!?"

Ace: "Yes, the signal was not available at that time. I guess it was because of this that the helicopter that was supposed to meet us left in an emergency to avoid increasing casualties while waiting."

Shen Jiyun couldn't imagine that Shen Yuze and the others were really so powerful?

Ace saw Shen Jiyun's doubts, and explained: "Yu and Kai are both superpowers. Back then, Zoe's Club monitored at every level, and MWCC even sent two administrators to arrest us. Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Yu can still carry so much power. Many people escaped, and now our small team only has so few people, it is nothing to them."

After hearing this, Shen Jiyun's mood was up and down. He didn't know whether he was happy for Shen Yuze and the others, or worried about his comrades.

Ace pondered for a moment, then whispered: "There is another thing, I have never mentioned it to anyone, my ability is actually inspired by the rain, he can inspire me, and naturally it can inspire others, so I guess they There must be more than two superpowers in your team now."

These words immediately reminded Shen Jiyun to reflect on his strange feelings just now, and he asked, "What does it feel like to be inspired?"

Ace smiled, "Headache."

Shen Jiyun subconsciously put down the hand that was rubbing his temples, his expression was a little unpredictable: "How do you superpowers use your abilities?"

Ace: "It's just an instinct, it just happens naturally."

The sound of "booming" from the helicopter soon sounded nearby, and Shen Jiyun came down to the pick-up location with Ace's support. Before boarding the plane, Shen Jiyun suddenly asked Ace again: "If there is a chance that the thing on your neck can be untied, how about you?" Will you go with Yu and the others?"

Ace said without hesitation, "Of course."