Byron's Blade

Mu Li frowned, but said nothing.The same is true for Lanny, with a light of thought in her blue eyes.Lin Zhao stretched out his hand and tugged at Qiu Zheng, but was thrown away by Qiu Zheng.Du Bo frowned and remained silent, without showing any emotion. Although she was the one who was attacked by Qiu Zheng just now, she was not angry because of it.After a brief surprise, Inouehe lowered his head and sighed slowly.

The hermit frowned coldly, the scar on her cheek gave her a bit of arrogance and majesty for no reason, and the sudden burst of aura overwhelmed everyone present.And Qiu Zheng, as the object of her anger, was under a thousand pressures at the moment, and it was even more tormenting.She gritted her teeth and turned around, bowing her head and admitting her mistake like she did something wrong when she was a child:

"I'm sorry teacher, I was wrong."

"Are you wrong?" Seeing her admitting her mistake so quickly, the hermit obviously didn't intend to let her go so easily, "Tell me, where did you go wrong?"

"I... couldn't control my emotions. I contradicted the teacher at will, got angry with my companions, and didn't know how to restrain myself in other people's houses. I acted too recklessly and caused a bad impact on Assassin's reputation."

The hermit sneered: "Oh, you know it yourself. Look at what you have done in the general's mansion these days. The general's mansion kindly provided us with a car and a driver, but the driver accidentally bumped into us when he opened the door. When you hit it, you actually used your dark energy to push him to the ground. He won't say anything, but he's not a fool, knowing that you pushed him on purpose!

Last night, when you didn't come for dinner, Lin Zhao went to bring you food, but you lost your temper again, knocked the food to the ground, and got angry at Lin Zhao.Who is Lin Zhao, your partner who has lived and died together for so many years, you have long been closer than sisters, do you know what you are doing?And this morning, when you were talking to the boss of Mihang, what was your indifferent attitude?Are you here to collect debts?I let you come back alone at noon, just to warn you.Tonight, you still don't know how to repent, and you ran into Du Bo and Xiao He again, what were you thinking? ! "

Mu Li listened, and found that he seemed to have missed a lot of things these days.She raised her eyes and glanced at the rest of the people. Everyone was watching, trying to reduce their sense of existence.The hermit's anger is indeed quite terrifying. Even General Friesman has never felt this kind of coercion, because it is completely two feelings.The anger of General Friesman is like a faint flame of hell, not obvious, but creepy; while the anger of the hermit is like a scorching sun, bright and direct, which makes people awe-inspiring.

Chou Zheng gritted his teeth, his face turned red and white, and he clenched his fists, trying his best to suppress his grievance, resentment and shame.She knew she wasn't quite right these days, but she'd always been clumsy about controlling her emotions, sometimes ruthless and sometimes too impulsive.She has the nickname "Crazy Hatred" because her emotions are always violent and unpredictable, especially for a period of time after she loses control and goes crazy, she will always be so cloudy and sunny, and it will gradually get better after a month or two. clam down.

"I know why you are angry and irritable, Ah Zheng." The hermit's voice softened, and she sighed, she continued:

"From the time you learned about the abduction and trafficking of children in the Chuzhong Hotel, you may have already guessed whether it was related to human experiments. Now that you know that so many children have been abducted and trafficked and sent to illegal laboratories for human experiments, I know you are very concerned. Anger is very urgent. But Ah Zheng, you have to eat every bite, and you have to walk step by step. Assassin didn’t completely destroy these human experiment factories, because we will only be thankless if we do so. You have to know why they are doing it. Human experiments can stop these tragedies from the root."

After the hermit finished speaking, Qiu Zheng gradually calmed down. Mu Li raised his head to look at her, and saw that her blue eyes were slowly getting wet under her bangs with her head bowed, and she couldn't help being greatly surprised.

Qiu Zheng... crying?

"Ah Zheng, sit down." The hermit said softly.

Chou Zheng nodded and sat down obediently, like a wounded child.

"A Zheng, I hope you can tell everyone about your past. There are two new friends here who don't know you very well. You will be much better if you speak up and relax. You will feel uncomfortable later on. Just talk to your friends more, and you will get better. It’s not that your mental illness can’t be cured, it’s just that you are too obsessed with it and don’t want to cure it.”

She paused, looked at Qiu Zheng with her head down and said:

"I won't force you, but you can't go on like this. I hope you can adjust your mentality before departure, otherwise, I can only replace you for this mission."

Qiu Zheng quickly raised his head to look at the hermit, with incredible astonishment written on his face.

"Ah Zheng, it's been 15 years, come out sooner." The hermit stood up, motioned to Du Bo and Inouehe beside him to follow, and then walked out of the restaurant first.Du Bo stood up, pushed Inoue and followed Hermit out.Before leaving, he glanced at Qiu Zheng and shook his head.

Lin Zhao looked at Qiu Zheng with a little worry, and Qiu Zheng seemed to feel it. She smiled wryly and said:

"Xiao Zhao, I'm sorry. But it's okay, don't worry."

Lin Zhao shook his head, then got up and left the restaurant.

Lan Ni and Mu Li still didn't speak, and there was no sign of leaving, they sat in the dining room, waiting for Qiu Zheng to speak.Qiu Zheng was struggling, and the past had obviously hurt her so much that it would be extremely difficult to speak for herself.But after all, she is fighting for hatred, not admitting defeat, not afraid, always fighting for breath.She clenched her fists and finally spoke:

"I am from the Ares region of the city of Athena. My father is an ordinary sergeant in the Ares city defense force. I vaguely remember that he has a patrol team under him. The uncles and aunts in the team often fight with me. Playing, they called my father 'captain'. My mother is a technician at the armament power maintenance station, with the rank of sergeant, and she often needs to travel around for work."

At this moment, in the corridor, three servants from the General's Mansion came to clean up the table and chopsticks. Suddenly, they saw their eldest lady He Yingning standing outside the restaurant door.They were about to go up to say hello, but He Yingning made a silent gesture in advance, and then signaled them to go down, and the servants hurriedly retreated.He Yingning turned around, gently leaned against the wall by the door, folded her arms, and listened quietly with her head down.

"My memory of my parents stays in the year when I was three years old. It was 23 years ago. After calculation, it should be 126 years. I heard from the elders that since 123 years, the climate has been quite abnormal for three consecutive years, and the summer is abnormal. It was hot, and the winter was extremely cold, so in 126 years, it finally caused a catastrophe."

Two words immediately popped up in Mu Li and Lan Ni's minds: bug swarm.As soon as I thought of this, my heart immediately sank.They are people who have experienced the bug swarm at close range, and know how terrible it is.

"We were the first to bear the brunt of the Ares swarm disaster 23 years ago. I was too young at that time, and I only vaguely remember the morning when the incident happened. However, from time to time there was a shrill cry. When my father went out that day, his face was not very good-looking and he was full of worries. He said something to his mother, as if asking her to take a day off to stay at home and not go to work. Yes. My father hugged me when he went out. That was the last time my father and I saw each other.

Later, on the street outside our house, someone yelled in horror that the insect swarm was coming, and the city wall was lost.My mother picked me up, went out, and ran towards the strongest military fortress of Ares.

There were people running around on the street, I was very scared, my mother told me to close my eyes and not look.I kept hugging my mother's neck, not daring to let go.The attack speed of the swarm was very fast. Although the mother's reaction was quite fast, we still encountered the swarm on the way to the military fort.I don't remember exactly what happened, just the chaos, the screams of my mother, and the pain of my knees being scratched as she fell to the ground holding me up.My mother was bitten by a bug, on the main artery in the shoulder, very badly, but she finally held me up and sent me to the military bunker.But she herself was pushed out by the soldiers. They said that her mother was seriously infected and could not enter the shelter.

My mother didn't insist, probably as long as I was safe, she would be relieved, it didn't seem to matter whether she could survive.I was terrified, crying, clamoring for my mother and father, but no one comforted me.I was forcibly carried away, and I have never seen my mother since then..."

At this point, Qiu Zheng's mood was very calm. It seemed that the more she talked, the calmer she became, and the previous struggle disappeared.It's just that after talking about this childhood experience, she paused for a long time without opening her mouth.When Mu Li and Lan Ni thought she would stop talking and were about to say something by themselves, Qiu Zheng finally continued the previous narration. This time, her emotions began to carry a little anger and hatred :

"The swarm of insects almost razed Ares to the ground. The Zerg once broke through the outer area of ​​the city of Athena and invaded the city of Athena. In the end, they were blocked in the area of ​​Ares by the army. After the arduous war of extermination, the devastated Ares finally returned to peace.

The government has set up a special working group for the orphans who were victims of the Ares swarm.I was picked up by this organization and sent to the local orphanage in Ares along with a large number of post-war orphans.I lived in an orphanage from the age of 3 to 9 years old.I watched Ares rebuild bit by bit, and watched human beings continue to persevere and rebuild their homes vigorously after suffering severe disasters. I actually had a pretty happy childhood.Although I lost my parents, I still have many friends, including nuns and aunts who care about us, and those military uncles and aunts outside who are always positive for rebuilding.

People at that time regarded General Conrad as a spiritual pillar and an idol. He devoted more energy to the reconstruction of Ares than anyone could have imagined. He personally supervised the reconstruction of Ares and visited Ares many times to show compassion for the people. , and later even sent his own son to manage Ares.In fact, until now, the people of Ares who came over from that time still admire General Conrad very much. It was General Conrad who led them to quickly walk out of the shadow of the catastrophe and rebuild their homes.

At that time, I was the same, looking forward to becoming an excellent soldier one day, inheriting the mantle of my parents, and becoming a member of General Conrad.Soldiers came to the orphanage every week to teach the orphans some self-defense skills and military knowledge. I cling to these soldiers all day long, begging them to teach me military boxing and marksmanship, and teach me combat skills.Then I exercised myself every day like a fool. At that time, the food could not keep up, and the children were actually reluctant to move more, because it would consume a lot of energy, but I still exercised hungry.

Children in the orphanage are adopted every year. I disdain it, but I actually envy it in my heart.Probably because I was born with a stubborn personality, which was not very pleasing, and when I was a child, I was too thin and very inconspicuous.It wasn't until I was 9 years old that I began to develop and gradually grow, and finally someone took a fancy to me.I still remember that it was a certain day in October, when I was practicing horizontal bars in the yard on a fine autumn day, when a nun and aunt suddenly called me, saying that someone wanted to see me.Then what I saw was...a man and a woman, who looked like husband and wife, looking at me kindly.They said they were going to adopt me...

I got into their car and the woman gave me a bottle of water to drink.After I drank it, I lost consciousness. When I woke up again...I found myself lying on the bed in the hospital ward. My hands, feet and neck were fixed on the bed by belts, and I couldn't move. There were instruments monitoring my body all the time. There are also some people wearing protective clothing with the word xtx coming and going.In the ward where I was, there were many children. Like me, they were all tied to the bed, like guinea pigs waiting to be slaughtered.

At first I didn't know what happened, I thought I was sick and was sent to the hospital by my adoptive parents.But when I was pushed into the laboratory for the first time, I knew that God had played a huge joke on me, and since then I have become the victim of some terrible experiment.They injected me with medicine, and the thing pushed into the blood vessels was really painful. The bones all over my body seemed to be melting, and then there was a sharp pain like a burning fire, and after the severe pain, it was like ten thousand ants eating my heart Itchy.The torture will make you pass out at first, but after a while your body will get used to the feeling, and then they will increase the dose, and repeat until you don't pass out in the test, you can stay awake all the time until.The time of the experiment was lengthened little by little, until each experiment took five hours, so that my body developed a biological clock, and every time I encountered an experiment, I had to count the seconds to get through it.Five hours, [-] seconds, counting one by one, one second less is heaven, and one second more is hell.

Sometimes, when the pain is too much, people become self-protective.My spirit began to be abnormal, and I often had hallucinations, feeling that someone was talking to me, she comforted me and helped me, every sleepless night, only she supported me.She is strong, she is my only support.Later I knew that she was actually me, another self in my body. "

At this point, Qiu Zheng stopped, and her angry and disgusted narration gradually turned into an extremely cruel voice, which seemed to indicate that she had changed her personality unconsciously.

"The children around me died one by one. The children in our ward gradually left only me and a girl named Xiaocai who slept on the bed next to me. When I was 11 years old, I suffered a lot. After two years of torment, Xiao Cai finally couldn't bear it anymore and left me. She was my only spiritual support during those two years. If she was gone, I would have nothing. A sea-like power emerged from nowhere and broke free. That day, I killed someone for the first time, and saw a person die in horror under my hands, turning into a cold corpse. I was so excited that my whole body trembled, but my brain Extra calm.

Then, for unknown reasons, it caught fire and the whole building burst into flames.I killed a lot of people and escaped covered in blood.Then I fainted. Before I fainted, I saw a young woman in a white coat standing on top of my head, looking at me coldly.When I woke up again, I was in Assassin's infirmary. "

She kept silent, Mu Li breathed heavily, and frowned.

Lan Ni suddenly said: "The young woman in the white coat is Alita, right?"

Qiu Zheng glanced at her and nodded silently.