I Destined You [Quick Transmigration]

Xiao Lan told Xiao Li all about her past, half truth and half lie.

It's really the roads they have walked together. He Mo, Ya'erman, Chen Ling and Meng Jin, these names that have been hidden in the heart for a long time, are finally uttered from Xiao Lan's mouth again.Every name is accompanied by the throbbing of the heart in Xiao Lan's chest. Those names are filled with Xiao Lan's blood, filled with Xiao Lan's emotions, and occupied Xiao Lan's soul.

He lived and died, world after world, yet this man was always in the depths of his vision, and that never changed.In fact, sometimes Xiao Lan also feels lonely.He has all the memories alone, and the heavy memories often make him breathless, but the other person doesn't know it at all.But even so, Xiao Lan is willing to remember, well and forever.

This kind of exclusive enjoyment made him extremely lonely, but he enjoyed it so much.

The truth is that they were supposed to be strangers at first, Xiao Lan couldn't say it out.Xiao Lan told Xiao Li that he was the resentful spirit of He Mo's classmate, who inexplicably woke up in a new world after killing He Mo.In this story, he was originally the Xiao Lan whom He Mo liked, not the Xiao Lan who had nothing to do with him in San Francisco, not the Xiao Lan who had a car accident and wanted to take his life, not the one who would leave him in the world Xiao Lan who forgot everything.

It was obviously a lie, but Xiao Lan was very calm when he said it, like the most honest truth, Xiao Li didn't have any doubts, even Xiao Lan himself thought it was the truth.Perhaps, Xiao Lan had anticipated this day long ago, and had secretly thought about this set of unspeakable lies for many years, and practiced so proficiently.

However, Xiao Li's physical condition is also getting worse.

It's not that Xiao Li's health has deteriorated, but that it's great.

With the development of the search and rescue plan of human supernatural beings and the plan to clean up the zombies around the bases, the zombies are also unknowingly evolving. I learned that such a report was obtained only after a team of supernatural beings was wiped out. sacrifice report.The information that the zombies are evolving is completely blocked in the survivor base, and the high-level people are panicked.

Not only humans are evolving, but even zombies are mutating, and their amazing mutations are even more terrifying and frightening.In this life-and-death duel between humans and zombies, ignorance of the power of the unknown is the greatest fear.Human beings cannot predict whether they will have a chance to make up for it after being caught off guard once, and human beings cannot afford to lose this battle.

Only by knowing ourselves and the enemy, and recognizing the gap, will we have the opportunity to find a way to survive in the cracks.The task of the strongest special forces Thunder Squad is to obtain more information on advanced zombies, and try to kill advanced zombies as long as no one is killed.

So far, only one high-level zombie has been found, a huge monster occupying r city.Completely different from ordinary zombies, his appearance is white, with sharp claws and a long tongue, crawling on all fours, but half of his body is liquefied, the sparse solution is as destructive as sulfuric acid, he has keen hearing and smell, and super high athletic ability .

The advanced zombie mission is not a one-off, every time Xiao Li assigns the Thunder team members into groups, Xiao Lan and Xiao Li will always form a two-person team together.From the very beginning of careful distant reconnaissance, searching and rescuing nearby survivors, and then approaching to collect intelligence, then preparing relevant weapons and supplies, laying out traps, to the final battle.

In the end, the Thunder team won at the cost of all six members of the team being seriously injured. Fortunately, none of them died.

Xiao Lan's head was covered with cold sweat, his hands were trembling in panic, he looked at Xiao Li's legs that had fallen off from his body due to the corrosion of the zombie liquid, only bones remained in his right hand, and Xiao Li's abdomen was a big hole pierced by anxiety, it seemed Still tearing apart.The viscera inside seemed to be burnt through by sulfuric acid, the inside was black and ferocious, and the body seemed to be hollowed out, but Xiao Li's eyes remained unchanged.

Xiao Li was the one who controlled the overall situation, and he was also the only one who had such close contact with killing high-level zombies.He took the most desperate attack and blocked all the violent attacks of the crazy zombies in the battle.Xiao Li's whole body was burned by the corrosive liquid of the high-level zombies, not to mention those serious injuries from fighting.Compared with this person's serious injury, the serious injuries suffered by other people seem to be completely unworthy of mentioning.

But Xiao Lan could feel that Xiao Li's heart was beating very gently.

It was in stark contrast to his own chaotic and hasty heartbeat.

Xiao Lan's pupils trembled, he clenched his hands slowly, and then slowly raised his eyes to look at Xiao Li's face.

"Do you still feel pain?"

No matter how powerful Xiao Li's body has become after undergoing the mutation of the virus, even if Xiao Li's will can be as firm as a god and a demon, it is impossible for Xiao Li's heartbeat to remain unchanged under such a fatal injury.

Xiao Li's eyes were like ice in the darkness, he just looked at Xiao Lan silently.

"Then do you still feel it?" Xiao Lan took a deep breath of the foul air.

Xiao Li still didn't answer.

Xiao Lan caressed Xiao Li's face with trembling hands, and then moved close to kiss Xiao Li's blood-stained lips.

"Can you still feel me kissing you?"

What answered him was still Xiao Li's silence, and that frighteningly steady heartbeat.

He can't feel it.

Xiao Li, I can't feel it.

Xiao Lan's body was trembling slightly, staring blankly at Xiao Li's pale but still handsome face.

His wounds were slowly healing under the naked eye. This person no longer felt pain, no perception, and even no further injuries.His thinking may always be clear, his reason may always be cold, his body may always be strong, and his heartbeat may always beat.

Xiao Li became more and more perfect, and to Xiao Lan, such perfection represented a kind of death.

The person named Xiao Li, the person Xiao Lan was most familiar with, was dying gradually in this perfect body in front of Xiao Lan.

Xiao Lan was in fear, fearing that this person would no longer see him in his empty sight, that this person's heartbeat would no longer fluctuate for him, that this person's emotions would no longer fluctuate for him, that this person's life would no longer take over his existence. included.

He didn't even—don't love him anymore.

"Xiao Lan."

Xiao Lan heard Xiao Li calling his name.

"cold."

Xiao Li said it was cold.

Just one word, but Xiao Lan's eyes turned red.

He saw Xiao Li stretched out his left hand to him, gently pressing on the back of his neck to let him lean on his shoulder.Xiao Lan stuck to it without any resistance, Xiao Li's hand gently stroked his hair, his eyes looking at the ruins behind Xiao Lan were still empty and cold.

Lin Jue's backup medical team quickly found the scattered members of the Thunder team, and subsequent researchers began to sample and study advanced zombies.On the way back to the base, Xiao Lan and Xiao Li had mostly recovered from their injuries.Even so, they had to be pretended to be seriously injured and pushed into Lin Jue's exclusive medical research room.

"The high-level people, really didn't notice Xiao Li's condition." Xiao Lan looked through the glass and looked at Xiao Li who was doing a full-body examination in the instrument inside the glass.Xiao Li's body, which was covered in cuts and bruises and riddled with holes, has healed without any wounds.

"Even if they find out, they won't say anything." Lin Jue quietly looked at the series of numbers that appeared on the screen.

"In this base, anyone can be the chief, but there is only one captain."

"Even if the higher-ups know, they won't do anything, because they can't move the captain, because the value of owning the captain is much greater than losing him, because they simply cannot bear the price of losing the captain."

"If this war against zombies is a chess game, then the captain is the general. Everyone can become a pawn and die for the final victory, but only the captain cannot, because he is the spiritual pillar of everyone here , is also the key to success.”

"Xiao Lan, do you understand?"

Lin Jue turned around, looking at Xiao Lan's face with distant but serious eyes.

Xiao Lan looked at each other in confusion.

"Xiao Li cannot be destroyed."

Xiao Lan was stunned.

Lin Jue said this to him as if he would destroy Xiao Li.

Xiao Lan couldn't help but want to ridicule, how could he have such motivation and ability, but out of the corner of his eye, he saw Xiao Li on the inside of the glass looking at him from afar.

Xiao Lan was stunned when he saw Xiao Li approaching slowly.

This is a single-lens reflex glass, even if Xiao Li becomes inhuman, even if his face is pressed against the glass, he cannot be seen.

When Xiao Li stood in front of the glass, he stretched out his hand and pressed it against the mirror.

Xiao Lan heard the sound of glass shattering. The glass under Xiao Li's hands had cracks like spider webs, and then the cracks spread more and more until the entire glass was covered with cracks.

Then there was a crackling sound, and suddenly the entire glass shattered completely, and the glass shards splashed out, and under the incandescent light, they swirled and scattered in the air like glass flowers shining with shards of light.

At this point, Xiao Lan suddenly felt that Xiao Li's face seemed to be a little clearer.

"Captain, that's not how you can use the air power." Lin Jue, who was pulling his little assistant out of the dangerous area, couldn't help frowning, and looked at the glass shards all over the place with some dissatisfaction.

"Can not see you."

Xiao Li said so coldly, his hands were beside Xiao Lan's ears, and in his hands were a few pieces of glass that would have scratched Xiao Lan's face.

What he said and did gave Xiao Lan an illusion.

An illusion that Xiao Li still has feelings for him.

An illusion that Xiao Li would feel pain even if he couldn't see him.

An illusion that even if he really left, the barrier between the two worlds would be broken by Xiao Li.

"You don't have to do that." For this reason, Xiao Lan still laughed because of Xiao Li's actions, at least this proved that he was still special to Xiao Li.The corners of Xiao Lan's mouth curled up slightly, "As long as you call me inside, I will go over."

Xiao Lan muttered to himself in a low voice.

"Wherever it is, I will go."

A few days later, Captain Xiao Li finally appeared in the base, which made the entire base feel at ease. The moment all the supernatural beings saw Xiao Li's face, they shouted and boiled. It is unparalleled worship, respect and trust fanaticism.

At this time, Xiao Lan found a child.

Standing timidly by a pillar and watching, he was still young and didn't understand the lively scene in front of him.

"Xiao Nan?" Xiao Lan didn't expect Yi Nan to appear here, because Yi Nan is not a supernatural being, so he shouldn't be in the supernatural being's base at this time.Xiao Lan suppressed the doubts in his heart, and walked over excitedly.

Next to Yi Nan, the person who seemed to be a guardian was stunned when he saw Xiao Lan, and then immediately lowered his head respectfully.

"Why are you here?" Xiao Lan squatted down.

Yi Nan shrank back a few steps in fright when he saw the stranger, but stopped when he heard Xiao Lan's voice.He stared blankly at Xiao Lan's face with wide eyes, absorbed in it, and then made a gesture.

[elder brother? ]

Finally, during the previous days, Xiao Lan still learned some sign language from Yi Nan.At least Xiao Lan understood the elder brother's gesture.

Xiao Lan understood, then nodded with a smile.

Yi Nan's timid smiling face immediately lit up, and he hugged Xiao Lan's neck in a flutter.

"Shouldn't this kid be in another survivor's base? How could he be here?" Even so, Xiao Lan still felt a little weird. Dangerous, the deep and hoarse voice made the man's body stiff with a very human-like aura.

Even if this person didn't say anything, Xiao Lan could still feel that Yi Nan was wearing a strange instrument when he hugged Yi Nan.His hearing can hear very small electronic sounds, which seem to be similar to the equipment of heart rate monitoring, but why would this kind of thing be used on an ordinary child.

"Xiao Nan, what's the matter?" The next moment, Xiao Lan felt the child in his arms trembling, his body trembling from slight to violent.Xiao Lan thought Yi Nan was scared, but when he saw Yi Nan's eyes, he was stunned.

Yi Nan's eyes turned scarlet, and his face was so ferocious that he completely lost the childishness of a child.

Xiao Lan was completely stunned there, and then only felt a sudden pain in his neck.The child had already bitten the skin around his neck fiercely, and then bit hard to suck the blood, but it seemed as if he wanted to bite off his flesh forcefully.

Such a turn of events immediately shocked everyone around, even Xiao Lan froze there without moving.

At this moment, he suddenly thought of something.

Liu Ding.

Yi Nan's current situation is clearly the same as that of Liu Ding who attacked him before.

Immediately, Xiao Lan felt a lightness on his body, and his peripheral vision caught sight of the stern figure attacking him. Before his brain had time to react, his body subconsciously turned his head immediately, and then stretched out his hand to grab the man's arm forcefully.

"Don't kill him!"

At this time Xiao Li was standing beside him, with only the black fire of hell remaining in his icy eyes.His hand had just grabbed Yi Nan's throat, as long as he exerted a little force, he could directly break the child's neck, but Xiao Lan reacted quickly enough to stop him.

Such a sudden change made the surroundings silent, and everyone didn't understand what happened suddenly and just stood there watching.

"Is this child a zombie?" Even though he didn't know what happened, the injuries on Xiao Lan's body, as well as the abnormal expression and behavior of the child, also made the surrounding supernatural beings look serious.

If a zombie can sneak into the base, it means that more zombies are likely to flood into the base.But if the child zombie didn't come in from the outside, it means that there are pathogens that can infect zombies in this base.Fortunately, this is just a child, but if the supernatural being is infected and becomes a zombie, the ensuing consequences will be even more terrifying.

Xiao Li stared at the blood oozing from Xiao Lan's neck quietly, exerted a little force on his hands, and the child immediately struggled with his hands and feet, his face became more ferocious, and an unknown sound came out of his throat.

There was no emotion in those eyes, complete indifference to life.

"Xiao Li! Don't kill him!"

Xiao Lan shouted loudly, and stared at Xiao Li in panic.

The supernatural beings at the side were completely startled, and stared at Xiao Li's icy face from afar without daring to say anything.They had never seen someone who dared to confront the Thunder captain on the spot, and even shouted out the captain's full name with such confidence and momentum.

At this time, the coldness on Xiao Li's face made everyone tremble with fear, and a coldness surged up their backs.There was obviously no killing intent in those indifferent eyes, but it was as if one could see the lingering blade of the god of death right in front of them.

Xiao Li looked at Xiao Lan whose eyes were red with anxiety, and slowly let go of his hand under everyone's surprised gaze.

Xiao Lan hurriedly caught Yi Nan who was out of breath and trembling crazily.

Before he had time to say anything else, Xiao Lan rushed to Lin Jue's medical research institute in the base with Yi Nan in his arms.

"What's wrong?" Lin Jue looked at the panicked Xiao Lan who rushed in.

"This child, take a quick look." Xiao Lan put Yi Nan carefully on the bed.

Lin Jue frowned slightly, and when he took a closer look at Yi Nan's situation, his eyebrows and eyes could not help but turn serious, then he turned and said something to the assistants behind him.

Xiao Lan was pushed out, and he sat on the ground weakly, waiting quietly with his heart hanging high in the air.

Until, he saw a pair of cold military boots in his sight.

Xiao Lan raised his head slowly and saw Xiao Li standing in front of him, looking down at him from a high position.

"You still remember him, that child, you took him away from me to the base."

Xiao Lan made a sound.

"His name is Yi Nan, and he was the first person I met on the first day I came here."

"His father died, so I picked him up and sent him to the base."

"Although he can't speak, he is very good. I took him all the way, and he did what I asked him to do. He never made a fuss. Even if he was afraid, he just hid timidly and didn't cry. He was very sensible. Fair enough."

"At that time, I just came here, and I couldn't find you. The end of the world, heh, it really broke me down. Although I was protecting him, I am actually very grateful to Xiaonan, because this child has been by my side all the time. , so I can keep going.”

Every day he could feel the pain of his body being dissected, struggling powerlessly in the bloody darkness.He was not a strong person in the first place, he would be afraid, desperate, and collapsed, and Xiao Li was not by his side.

But this child has always been by his side, looking at him without fear in those clean eyes, full of worry and trust.Because of this trust, Xiao Lan was able to go through the pain again and again, get up from the ground and continue walking.

When he became a monster abandoned by the world, he realized how happy it is to have someone by his side.

"I watched Xiao Nan grow tomatoes in the mobile game, saw him smiling and sitting in the back of the car, waving to me in the rearview mirror, and saw him slap me with red eyes when I got into the car covered in blood Thumb, watching him sign to me and ask me to pick him up..."

Xiao Lan's voice was a little choked up, and then he looked at Xiao Li with red eyes.

"Xiao Li, I have lived for many years."

"I know that I have actually become very indifferent. Now I can kill people without guilt, I can watch other people's death with indifferent eyes, and I don't care about many things. Many things are very important to others. I feel that Not worth mentioning."

"But despite this, I am not unmoved. All the way to the present, I have met many people, who accept me, help me, and trust me. I still believe in others, like them, and care about some Some people."

"For those who treat me well, I still want them to be well."

"Yi Nan is one of them."

Xiao Li didn't speak, like a bystander who stayed out of the matter.Maybe it's because of the angle of the light, Xiao Li's stern facial features seem to be in a shadow, but those black eyes are still so impeccably cold, reflecting Xiao Lan's frail figure.

Xiao Lan looked at Xiao Li's extremely indifferent expression, lowered his head a little dejectedly, and covered his eyes with his hands.

"Captain, the chief invites you to an emergency meeting."

The person who came was Thunder Team member Xie Feng, Xiao Li turned to look at her, and then nodded.

Xiao Li looked down at Xiao Lan again, his fingers trembled slightly and then slowly clenched, he turned and left.

The man's shadow dragged away under the light, leaving only Xiao Lan's curled up black shadow staying in place lonely.

When the door opened again, Xiao Lan immediately stood up, "Xiao Nan, how are you?"

"The blood infection is faster than expected, and his body has already started to petrify." Lin Jue shook his head.

"What is... petrochemical?" Xiao Lan was stunned for a moment, then suddenly remembered Liu Ding's situation before.At that time, although Liu Ding was not injured, he was still awake. His body was so cold that he could hardly breathe, and his organs could only maintain the weakest operation.But what happened to Liu Ding in the end, they didn't know, because Liu Ding's body must have been corroded and blown up in the explosive research institute.

"There are two kinds of zombie vaccines that have been developed now. The vaccine developed by us has a limit on the number of anti-virus infections, and the second re-injection will not continue to prevent zombie infection because of antibodies. The other is Developed by city r."

Xiao Lan was stunned when he heard that the city was stunned, his heart felt cold, and he suddenly seemed to realize something.

"These vaccines are made from your blood."

it is as expected.

As for her true identity, Xiao Lan already knew that Lin Jue must know it, but she just didn't say it clearly.When Lin Jue asked him for a tube of fresh blood, Xiao Lan did not refuse.However, he never thought that things would happen to this point.

Xiao Lan's body froze completely, and he stared at Lin Jue in a daze.

"I don't know the details, but your blood has a fatal attraction to them. Although this kind of zombie vaccine can not only prevent zombie infection, but also reduce the attraction of humans to zombies, this vaccine has a deadly defect."

"The physical functions of people who have been vaccinated have indeed been greatly improved, but the cell activity in their bodies is weakening day by day. This kind of extraordinary cell weakening is unbearable for ordinary human beings. Although I have submitted an application report, the ability of the superhuman The injection reaction was very good, and the materialization process of their body cells was slow, so they did not attract high-level attention, but they were regarded as a successful zombie vaccine."

However, both Xiao Lan and Lin Jue knew that this vaccine was a failure.

As for Yi Nan, he was just a non-speaking experimental subject selected from people without supernatural powers.Even if he died, he was a person who sacrificed honorably for the future of all mankind.

"Xiao Lan, your blood is a life-threatening agent for them. Although they have been injected with the vaccine extracted from your blood, they cannot accept the fusion of your blood. The circulation of your blood in their body will only double the speed of their body. process of materialization."

"Then, what about this child?" Xiao Lan's voice was trembling.

Lin Jue paused, then pushed down his glasses, "Do you still want to see him?"

As these words caught his ears, Xiao Lan's body trembled.He knew that the child would not survive.

"Chen Shuping." Xie Feng trotted over, handing over a mobile phone, "This is the mobile phone the captain asked me to give you."

Xiao Lan turned her head to look at the mobile phone, then picked it up and walked in.

The kid on the stage was wearing an oxygen mask, his body a lifeless livid gray.His big eyes were open looking at the blazing light, very quiet and well-behaved, just like children have always shown.

When Xiao Lan approached, the immobile child could only wink at him.

Xiao Lan's throat was choked up, and he couldn't say a word, and even if this child had too much to say, he couldn't say it.He got down on his knees, knelt in front of the child's stage, took out his mobile phone and put it in front of the child to look at the screen of the mobile phone.

On the screen were Yi Nan and his father, both smiling brightly like two fools.

The child's eyes turned red in an instant, and he stared intently, unwilling to blink.

Xiao Lan hesitated, but still released the recording, which was Yi Nan's father's last words——

[I, I am Yi Jiangfeng, this is my son Yi Nan. ]

[No matter who hears this recording, I beg you, take my son away, to a safe place!It's me, it's my father's fault, I'm a fucking coward, useless and cowardly, I missed the first batch of teams that escaped to S City, and I didn't even dare to go out after that.All the fucking people are dead!all dead!We can only hide in the house and wait for rescue.But, but now I can't hold it anymore...]

[Xiao Nan is very good, he, he can't speak, so he won't make a scene.If you hear this recording, please take Xiao Nan away, please!Me, you don't have to take good care of him, as long as you keep him alive, he'll be fine... Please, take this child with you to a safe base!Me, after I die, I can do whatever you want in my next life!Let, just let him live...]

[Xiao Nan, do you know how to be obedient?Don't make trouble, take good care of yourself when Dad is not here, eat when you have something, don't be picky eaters, sleep when you can, and don't get tired.Daddy loves you, Xiaonan!Did you hear it!Dad loves you!Daddy loves you...]

The child who couldn't speak or move was crying silently at this moment.

It was the voice of his father, the one who loved him the most, and the one he loved the most.

Now, he is going to find his father.

The child's gray and stiff fingers were trembling, and at this moment he slowly raised his hand, as if he was exerting his last strength to raise his hand.Like many times in the past, he pointed weakly at Xiao Lan, then stretched out his hands as far as possible, with the fingertips facing each other, he hugged forward and upward, and before he could point to himself, he couldn't hold on and slid down.

[Brother, hug me. ]

Xiao Lan understood Yi Nan's sign language, and seemed to have heard the child's last words.

He cried and hugged the child's cold and petrified body tightly from the stage, when the child closed his eyes softly.Xiao Lan clearly felt that a person's breathing and heartbeat completely disappeared in his embrace, just like the last faint candlelight in the disappearing darkness, and then there was no more light.

What followed was a loud explosion-like sound from above the base.

Lin Jue was in urgent contact with the people in the base about what happened, but Xiao Lan didn't care about it at all, just holding the dead child in his arms, as if trapped in a closed and cold space alone.

Then--

"Captain, he knows."

Lin Jue with a serious face said this to Xiao Lan.

What do you know?

Xiao Lan's brain was running numbly, and it took a long time before he realized what Xiao Li knew.

Suffering always comes one after another, leaving no room for respite.This world is so cruel, he can desperately squeeze all the pain on a person without any scruples, but human beings are still forced to bear it, and continue to fall into the pain while waiting endlessly for the light abyss.

Sometimes, the belief in wanting to live is the cruelest thing to a person.

It has been raining outside the base for a long time, although the sky still can't see the slightest light.The gray sky seemed to be about to fall, and it was about to silently crush all the human beings in this world.

When Xiao Lan found Xiao Li, it was far away from the base.The torn corpses of zombies have almost covered the ground under the man's feet, and black blood has condensed into pools.This scene of hell on earth proved how the man in front of him killed these zombies with tyrannical and cruel methods.

This was the first time Xiao Lan saw Xiao Li's mood swings recently.

It was also the first time since meeting Xiao Li that Xiao Lan saw such violent and frenzied emotions released by Xiao Li.

"why."

Xiao Li asked him why.

On the screen in the meeting, the live video of Xiao Lan locked in the bright red blood glass appeared, making Xiao Li's eyes red, scorching his blood, arousing his tyranny, and breaking his reason.

The person who had obviously lost his senses was on the verge of going berserk at this moment.His back was filled with a gloomy and fierce aura, and the anger in his whole body seemed to destroy everything.

From Xiao Lan's invisible perspective, Xiao Li's eyes rolled with destructive anger and pain from the abyss of hell.

"Why don't you say anything?"

The heavy rain was like a curtain, and under the huge black shadow, that tough figure seemed about to be swallowed up.

Xiao Lan stood there in a daze. Although his heart was numb, it still hurt endlessly.

Finally he opened his mouth slightly, his voice was extremely dry.

"Xiao Li, I don't feel pain."

Xiao Lan said this sentence again in front of Xiao Li.

I don't hurt.

Xiao Lan recited it silently in his heart again.

Xiao Li turned around slowly, his whole body was drenched, and the blood flowed down his uniform onto the ground, forming a hideous pool of blood.His pale face was expressionless, but the rain on his face was like weeping tears vertically and horizontally, suppressing the madly clamoring soul.

The man's eyes were dark and deep, as if all his emotions were frozen in an instant, but the corners of his mouth were slightly pursed, and he showed a embarrassed smile to the man standing not far away, cold and empty.

"fraud."