Sword of Damocles.

——The sword hanging above the tyrant's seat by the hairline symbolizes the danger that threatens the tyrant of Syracuse.The edge of the sword that is about to fall reminds that the happiness and peace in front of us is only a temporary illusion, so that the ruler will never be safe*.

Eugene got up from the prone position, grabbed the T-shirt that had been thrown by the pillow and put it on again, then wiped his face with the palm of his hand silently.When he looked up again, there was no expression on his handsome and beautiful face, but his golden eyes were glowing coldly, extremely sharp.

Xiao looked at him, with sincere admiration for the Creator in his eyes-a few minutes ago, this human being was just a container for him to let his desire/passion flourish freely, but now he has completely become a bloodthirsty sword.Such a transformation made him change from a pair of hands strangling Eugene's neck to a dog at Eugene's feet again.

How strange.This was a man he liked when he was struggling, and when he looked in the eyes with a determination to kill.

Xiao sat up slowly, moved to Eugene's cheek, and kissed him reverently.At this time, he was quiet and submissive, quietly waiting for Eugene's next plan.

"...Come with me to the west."

Sure enough, Eugene uttered such a sentence.The west of the city is where tomorrow's festival will be held, and Eugene probably has something he wants to confirm.Xiao Xinran nodded, and out of a little pity, he asked naturally: "What should I do at the moment?"

Eugene closed his eyes: "He probably will cry for a while. I'll try to persuade him when we come back."

Xiao didn't ask any more questions, but just nodded.

……

After all, Shatas is different from the Barn Star. Even though the location of Sanchi's villa is quite remote, small aircraft can be hired to travel easily.The journey to the festival venue was not short, and Eugene stayed in the narrow cabin of the aircraft, resting his chin on his hand, and staring out the window intently.

No matter how you think about it, the location of this venue is too remote.The farther you drive away from the center of the main city, the thicker the night in front of you.The darkness under his feet was like sea water with a bad tide, and the scattered lights were like a fishing boat about to capsize.This scene continued until Eugene saw a sudden and incomparably isolated island of light.

Rows of brightly lit concrete boxes, and scaffolding stretching hideously toward the sky like arms.Huge digital digital projections are stacked together, and changing colored lampposts shine from the center outward.Eugene and the cyborgs around him looked at each other and knew that they had arrived at their destination.

When I got off the aircraft, I was greeted with deafening music, and a long and moist chemical smell at the end of my nose.Standing in front of them was a small city specially built for the ceremony. Hundreds of thousands of spectators who were invited to watch the ceremony came from all over to become temporary residents in those cement boxes.They talked, laughed, and danced like idiots in the radiant night.

All of this seemed to dispel Eugene's doubts—this was a festival, just a festival.

However, what Eugene couldn't ignore was the high walls erected on the border of the city.They have a harmless transparent appearance, but Eugene knows the essence of it.

This is the same type of barrier used to isolate the field during gladiatorial fights. It can isolate sound and block signals according to the will of the setter, making it difficult to break and escape.With just one simple command, the transparent outer wall can turn into thick black, trapping the people inside the wall without hesitation.

Eugene gave Xiao a wink, and the two gradually approached the checkpoint leading to this "inner city".A group of local young people in Sagrand were arguing with the guards who managed the access. It seemed that they didn't get the invitation letter, but they still wanted to enter the venue early.

"There is still such a big place in this city!" The girl with a beautiful mechanical flower arm pointed to the city unconvinced: "Even if there is no free accommodation, we can pay for the hotel ourselves, right?"

"Sorry, there are no hotels in the city, and this does not comply with our regulations..."

After being coldly rejected by the guards, the conflict here seemed to be about to escalate.A slight sense of disobedience came up, and Eugene took a last look at the group of people, and turned his head to the other side.Through the transparent outer wall, he carefully looked at the main road leading to the center of the festival city.

He is counting the passers-by in front of him.

One, two, three... 46, 47.

In just tens of seconds, 47 people have already passed by his eyes.Among the 47 people, only four can see traces of body modification, but two-thirds of them are teenagers and old people.

Sagrand's body modification rate should be around 70.00%, and the average population age should be around [-].Even if the sample he saw was an outlier that deviated greatly from the actual distribution, it was enough to wake him up.

The furrow between Eugene's brows deepened.He felt like he was on the verge of finding the answer, the answer that would explain everything that was illogical

The scattered spots became blood lines, and a terrible conjecture suddenly appeared in his mind.

He remembered the requirement of taking the so-called secret medicine.

——Facing terminal illness, but never received body modification.

Teenagers and the elderly are the most prone to malignant genetic diseases and degenerative diseases; although they are terminally ill, body modification is ineffective for this group of people.

"...The number of people watching the ceremony is not selected by lottery."

Eugene murmured.

"The people locked up in this city are all people who have taken medicine."

Eugene took a step back and his Adam's apple rolled.The bone-chilling chill made him feel like falling into an ice cave, and he shivered violently in the warm summer night.

—but how is it possible?How could the Sagrand government have known who had taken the drug?The heritage samples were apparently distributed by the Alliance.

——And Setsuna... Setsuna...

That child was also one of those invited.

……

"Are you talking about the medicine Master took?"

The young man's eyes were still severely swollen, and there was a kind of soft resentment against Eugene in his hoarse voice.While sucking his nose, he lowered his head and said in a low voice, "I ate it too. Because Master said it's very useful..."

As if someone had slapped Eugene hard on the back of his knee, he put his hand on the side table, marveling at how he could still pull out a forced smile: "...your medicine is from Who got it?"

"Mine?" Shi Mo twisted his hands. "It was sent to me by someone from the government. It was just over a year ago."

The government of Sagrand...

Nested one after another, the unclarified unfolding crushed Eugene's spine.Countless complicated possibilities flashed back in his mind, but in the end he could only raise his head and look at Setsuna's bright brown eyes.

Regardless of all the conspiracies, standing in front of him was a 20-year-old kid.

Naive, kind, thin, smart.He likes to act like a baby, is out of season, and often cries, but he can't be said to be a bad child.

—Does he know his fate?

——Does he know that the moment when he can stand in the sun like an ordinary person is the time of his death?

Eugene took a slow breath and raised his hands to cover his eyes.In addition to being powerless, he felt a deep, deep anger.

When he finally suppressed the almost corrosive emotion in his chest, he put down his hand.

"moment."

Eugene called out the other party's name.Shi Mo was surprised to find that Mr. Eugene's voice became hoarse in an instant, and his golden eyes turned red.He was obviously a man who could reject him without changing his face, but his expression was weakening visibly at this moment.

"Tomorrow's festival, can you not go?"

It was a voice that was too gentle, a treatment he had imagined before but never received.Not only that, while looking at him, Mr. Eugene added a sentence like a dream: "Since this is your first time traveling, we might as well go to a further place. Have you been to the Union? I know A place with silver-gray sand and pink water, just beautiful."

"When I was your age, I liked the starry sky and the universe very much. If you want, I can take you to see the asteroid belt where few people can go."

"I also know a place like Battlestar... The sum of these places is always better than tomorrow's festival, what do you think?"

What is Mr. Eugene talking about?Instantly fell into dizzy confusion.Isn't Mr. Eugene about to leave them?Why was there another offer to take him on a trip?The little craftsman's vision blurred, originally because of tears, but now because of sudden happiness.He hastily pulled up his sleeves and wiped his eyes, then smiled and looked into Mr. Eugene's eyes

His heart shattered into pieces quickly in the next second.

In his presence, Mr. Eugene looked so sad that he seemed on the verge of tears.

"What's the matter, Mr. Eugene?" he could not help asking.

Mr. Eugene's chest heaved silently, and finally he just smiled at him.

"Nothing at all."

As if to convince himself, the adult he admired repeated this sentence again.

"Nothing happened."

Setsuna could only blink his eyes.

Just to ease the sadness in Mr. Eugene's eyes, he easily agreed to the other party's request.

It had nothing to do with his shattered dreams, he just wanted to do his meager efforts to make this person a little happier.

……

November 9th at 15am.

Eugene tossed and turned that night, but because he hadn't slept all night before, he finally fell asleep in the early morning.When the sun was about to rise, Xiao Yao woke him up.

"In an instant, they seem to have left here."

The biochemical man frowned and said.His sleep has always been deliberately synchronized with Eugene's, so he also entered a dormant sleep in the early morning, and only woke up at this moment to help Ruth prepare breakfast.It's just that he soon realized that there was no one in the villa except the two of them.

Eugene woke up in an instant, and quickly got up.In a large, lavish dining room, a note lies beneath a basket of freshly baked scones.

——I want to join in the excitement and watch the sunrise ceremony, and I promise to be back before ten o'clock in the morning!No kidding, Ruth and I have our bags ready. PS: I want to see the beautiful sandy beach with pink water first.

... At the end of the sentence is a round, cute tongue-out smiling face.

Eugene clutched the ball of paper tightly, and the veins on the back of his right hand burst.

"Let's go." His golden eyes seemed to be stained with karma, and he said to Xiao Chen, "Bring my gun and knife."

……

7:[-] in the morning.

Going against the huge flow of people, Shu Mo walked slowly towards the outer periphery of the festival city.He patted his warm cheeks as he walked, with a most satisfying smile on the corner of his mouth.

Unlike in the past, for the first time today he did not cover himself up tightly; this was the power he had won from Ruth for a long time, and for this reason he specially changed into a new set that he had just bought recently. Clothes.

Because the shirt was rolled up to the elbow, his head, face and forearms were exposed to the sun, but for the first time in a moment he didn't feel any tingling pain.The warm sunlight falling on his body made him feel like he was in warm water, a temperature that made him want to sigh.

—Just 10 minutes ago, he saw the sunrise for the first time in his life.

The black sky turned blue, and then a widening golden line appeared at the junction of the horizon.Such colors are stacked repeatedly among the thin clouds, adding warm tones back and forth.At the end, when he saw the dazzling orange-red dot appear in his vision, he was puzzled for a few seconds, and couldn't stop crying.

For others attending the Sunrise Ceremony, the Sunrise of the Spirit of Fire Festival is an important part not to be missed, but compared to other sunrises, it is particularly limited in nature.The dark crowd began to cheer and closed their eyes, and then clasped their hands together to make a wish for the new year*, but Shu Mo was unwilling to close their eyes.

Too long, too long.He seemed to be at the end of a long and painful journey, and finally met the old man whom he loved deeply but had never met.If Spirit of Fire is a festival that celebrates authenticity and new birth, then from today onwards, he will truly be a new person.

He was going to see many, many sunrises, many, many sunsets.These scenes can take place in the snow-capped mountains or the seaside, he is not picky at all, anyway they all make him happy.

Thinking of this, Momo couldn't help being moved again.He subconsciously clenched his fists, pursed his lips and adjusted his breathing, while looking around for Ruth's figure, he walked towards the nearest exit.

...Maybe it was because he had clearly promised not to come to the festival but still sneaked out. Mr. Eugene contacted him through the terminal not long ago.The other party's tone was a little too eager, and he even proposed to come here to pick him up.This overprotective reaction made Setsuna feel a sense of pride in being valued while being surprised.Under Eugene's repeated emphasis, Setsuna shared his location information with him, and now he lowered his head and sent a message to Ruth:——"Eugene is here to pick us up, come to the exit quickly (wave icon) "

Ruth's reply was unbelievably fast for her age:

——"I'm still in front of the apple tart shop, and I'm about to be in line."

——"Then hurry up (the kiss icon)"

When he looked up again, Setsu heard a faint exclamation from the deafening music.Maybe someone fell down?Setsuna thought, I hope there will be no stampede.

In the next second, an extremely short alarm came from behind him.The alarm lasted less than two seconds, so fast it seemed like some kind of hallucination.This may be a malfunction of the broadcasting system, because after the alarm, the already too loud music was raised again, to the extent that it would make human eardrums hurt.

Shi Mo hissed his teeth, covered his right ear with one hand, turned his left wrist over, and subconsciously glanced at the terminal there again—the original full-frame signal disappeared in an instant, and the last message he sent was still unread.

The little craftsman frowned, raised his hands as if giving up, and covered his ears with all his might.The closer he got to the exit, the fewer people around him. At this time, everyone who was against him was doing similar movements to him, with very dazed expressions.

He was worried about how to meet Eugene under such circumstances, he didn't observe the movements of these people carefully, and he also missed the moment when these people suddenly turned around and ran in the same direction as him.

At the place where the exit was finally visible, a familiar figure finally appeared in Setsuna's eyes. The 20-year-old youth couldn't help but smile on his face, and his steps subconsciously quickened.

Mr. Eugene likes to wear black clothes as usual, and in his hand is the bag that never leaves him.His face seemed to be relieved when he saw himself, but then he showed an extremely tense expression.

Mr. Eugene was shouting to himself.Are you angry because you sneaked away?Suddenly, he couldn't help but stop.

Mr. Eugene closed his mouth, and the expression on his face was indescribably terrible.While stretching out his hand to the luggage, Mr. Eugene galloped towards him at an inhuman speed.

Although his ears hurt, Setsuna slowly lowered his hands in order to maintain a handsome image.Concealing the guilt of doing something wrong, he straightened his chest while showing a bright smile to Mr. Eugene.

——In the next second, a heart-pounding pain far beyond human imagination came from his chest.

Amid the deafening music, his ears have lost the ability to hear.The reason why he could feel the sound of tearing was because his body was the object of the piercing, and the shock was transmitted directly to his brain through his flesh and blood.

"joyous?"

Setsuna made a short sound strangely, although he couldn't hear the sound himself.He lowered his head, a hand with sharp nails was passing through his abdomen from back to front, and then he clenched into a half fist at the same time he couldn't understand.

How is this going?In the great pain, such thinking went on for as long as a century, and then it was interrupted immediately.

Because that fist casually grabbed his internal organs, and then pulled out his insides from the hole from before.

It hurts.

It hurts.

It hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts

The blood seemed to pour out from the pump that had pulled out the embolus, and splashed from his abdominal cavity to the ground.Setsu's face was contorted to the extreme, his limbs began to convulse, his mouth seemed to be howling crazily, but he couldn't make any sound.

His blood-stained hands supported his limp body from behind, and the hot, damp and rancid breath was approaching his side neck.At the moment when the pain was piercing through his heart, his consciousness seemed to have died before his body, unable to struggle or think.

……

Eugene drew his knife while roaring.

The monster he had seen seven years ago was wearing Sagrand's military uniform, and was about to stab the fangs between his lips into the child's broken body.

The humanoid monster smiled mockingly when he approached.At the same time as he dropped Jiji, the monster's sharp nails grew three inches, approaching him like lightning.

Two seconds later, a severed head flew high, spraying an ominous line of dark red blood all over the place.

Eugene was breathing heavily, and blood spattered all over his head and face.His lips trembled for a few seconds, and finally he knelt down to the red lake on the ground that originated from Shi Mo.

……

Using death and blood as bargaining chips, the evil spirit brought the murderous Shura who was determined to become a Buddha back to the human world.The sword of Damocles fell straight down, piercing the hypocritical smiling face of fate.

The author has something to say: * An allusion from ancient Greece refers to the fact that happiness is only an illusion, and one should never relax about a crisis.

happy New Year to all.

I didn't want to post this chapter on the first day of the new year, but I did finish it...

Compensate everyone, let the artist spend Eugene's person on my wb, let's take a look at that and get in a good mood.

I feel that the plot jumps out because the previous article has been edited to speed up the pace, and it is recommended to re-read it.

Thank you all for your perseverance in writing.

And because I recently had an operation and needed recuperation and rehabilitation, I decided to update 2-3 times a week, Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays in China.

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感谢在2020-11-3018:57:50~2021-01-0118:00:55期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel who threw the grenade: 464581041;

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