[Gintama] Immortal

Objects like bubbles floated up, and with a bang, the green liquid rippled.

Yae leaned against the edge of the laboratory table, and several researchers in protective clothing walked by holding documents. The huge lights were dazzlingly white, and Nuo Da's laboratory was spotless, almost ruthlessly clean.

The laboratory and the corridor are separated by a huge and transparent glass wall. Yae sat on the laboratory bench for a while, feeling bored, jumped down, walked over the door that required authorization authentication, and walked towards the end of the corridor.

This is the S-57 area, which is the experimental site where the Tiandao people conduct secret research on Altana.

The researchers working here have all signed non-disclosure agreements, and she has heard the same wailing from different researchers more than once—"If it weren't for the damn agreement, my paper would definitely be published in the top journals in the world."

She doesn't know much about papers, but for the researchers here from various galaxies, it seems to be as important as life.

——Since Xu contributed the first blood sample, the experimental field has been boiling.

Just like the water temperature reached [-] degrees Celsius—no, it’s much more spectacular than this—seeing the blood sample report displayed by the instrument, the eyes of those researchers who were as lifeless as hair follicles instantly glowed with enthusiasm, if it weren’t for the heavy protective clothing It is not allowed, and they almost embraced each other with tears in their eyes.

Weeping with joy.

- This is the miracle of living things.

The chief researcher murmured while shaking his head. Yae got closer and heard words such as "evolution", "leap", "universe" and so on.

Across the long corridor, Yae came to the research room with the highest authority in the entire experimental area.

Researchers in protective suits stand outside the glass walls, looking down at the instruments neatly.

Jumping up and down with joy behind their backs, as soon as they get close to Xu's place, these researchers all become quiet as chickens.

When the blood sample was drawn for the first time, the researcher's hands trembled for a long time, making sure Xu Xu would not break his neck suddenly, and then he finished the blood drawing tremblingly.

Yae: "...Your expression is too fierce."

On the same face, when Xu Xu shows the same smile as Songyang, the effect is completely different, and it will only deepen the frightening cold feeling.

Just like posted.

The expression shown by pulling the muscles on his face is almost like the smile of the god of death.

After scaring away the first researcher, whether it was taking blood samples or collecting bone marrow fluid, it became done by the instrument, and all he had to do was lie down.

Yae passed through the glass wall.

The various indexes on the display screen fluctuate steadily, eyes are closed, light-colored long hair is scattered on the cold metal, a long blood-drawing tube is inserted into the pale-skinned neck, and the dark red blood flows continuously along the The pipes flow to the collection point - the blood pressure index on the display barely changes.

Fast to the incredible speed of hematopoiesis.

Xu looked like he was asleep - Yae knew he was awake.

"Unfortunate news: You may miss the cause of death due to excessive blood loss in this life."

no respond.

This habit of selectively ignoring her has been maintained for 500 years, which is awesome.

"Actually, there's one thing I've always wanted to say."

Yae looked down at him.

Before entering the instrument, the long-haired man took off his pitch-black Naraku outfit, revealing a skin that was so white that it lacked blood. He looked like a lifelike biological specimen lying motionless, and his muscles and bones were so perfect that people couldn't bear to touch them.

Xu lay expressionless.

Yae also looked at him expressionlessly, and said in a voice that only the two of them could hear:

"As a miracle of beings, you can't let them leave you a pair of pants?"

She almost got the eye of a needle a few times.

A green light was on on the display screen, and when I virtually opened my eyes, the alpha wave of the EEG changed a bit.

Yae turned around very consciously.

He raised his hand and pulled out the blood vessel inserted in his neck, and the thin and dense blood holes healed quickly.

Putting on a raven-black kimono, Xu Xu walked out of the research room, and the researchers standing outside the glass wall backed up a little holding the documents.

"How far has the in vivo experiment progressed?"

Scarlet eyes fell on one of the researchers, who stood there blankly for a while, but was poked by his companion with an elbow, and hurriedly regained his senses.

"Horses... will be ready for human experiments soon."

After finishing speaking, the researcher added in a tight voice: "My lord."

Xu and Tiandaozhong made a mutually beneficial agreement.

Using his own blood as bait, he obtained status from the Heavenly Daoists and the opportunity to penetrate into the organization of the Heavenly Daoists.

"Oh?" Xu Xu showed a smile that was not a smile, and looked at this side with cold red eyes.

The grip on his right hand tightened slightly, but Yae's expression didn't change much.

"What time?"

The researcher hesitated slightly, and changed his words at the last moment:

"...The day after tomorrow. Human experiments can begin the day after tomorrow."

Transaction, as the name suggests, refers to the exchange of things of equal value between two parties.

The war against the barbarians is over, and the losers are the people with lofty ideals against the barbarians.

In the massacre to cleanse the fallen forces, Songyang's disciples will not die at the hands of Naraku, and he will not kill Songyang's disciples before the real end comes——hexu has bargained to this point limit.

In exchange, he needs a successful and flawless experimental subject to induce the Heavenly Daoists to let down their guard.

At the same time, having a real body means that her existence has a clear physical boundary.

After being possessed, she could not leave her body, nor could she commit suicide, she could only wait for the end to come.

She cannot hinder Xu's plan, nor can she disclose any information about Xu to others.

When Xuxu destroys the world, she can only stay in the viewing booth.

Although it is a verbal agreement, for her, once the agreement is made, it will form a physical bondage, and the spirit of words can restrict her actions more effectively than anything else.

This is an unfair deal.

The day after tomorrow came soon, and the blazing lights came down from above. The human being lying on the operating table was pale, with tubes connected to the life support system inserted in the mouth and nose.

It was a young woman with the usual long black hair.Yae recalled the information she read a few days ago. If I remember correctly, the name seems to be...Kato Kyoko?

Kato Kyoko was judged to be brain-dead a month ago, her consciousness completely disappeared, and her body functions were all suspended by medical equipment.

As a container for consciousness, this body is empty.

The researcher held up the long and thin needle tube, and the blood inside was a deep dark red.

Inject minimal blood - this is a false indication.

Yae looked at the woman who would never wake up as herself again.

Weak and thin, with pale complexion, his eyes were closed as if he was praying silently.

Kato Kyoko.

Not Subject No. 99, but Kyoko Kato.

Because of the huge medical expenses, her family signed an organ donation letter after abandoning her.

"Start the injection."

Yae closed her eyes and leaned forward.

... very heavy.

This was her first reaction.

Has a body, especially heavy.

Then, a faint warmth spread along the limbs, first as small springs, and then merged into a flowing stream.

The feeling of abnormal heaviness in the body gradually disappeared, and the heart that was about to stagnate started beating, like a scorched tree glowing with green life again, and the thread that was about to be broken was forcibly picked up by someone, in this body that was about to dry up New vitality flooded in again.

Yae froze for a moment when she opened her eyes and saw the cold scarlet pupils.

The consciousness seemed to be fished out of deep water. After waking up, she realized that the operating room full of people was so quiet that she could hear a needle drop.

All the researchers are standing at a distance against the wall.

Seeing her open their eyes, those people gasped, caught a glimpse of Xu standing in front of the operating table, and all closed their mouths again.

Yae blinked slowly: "...Didn't you just draw blood the day before yesterday?"

The unfamiliar voice was hoarse and weak, but for a person who was still in a state of brain death not long ago, being able to speak was already a miracle.

The red eyes narrowed, and he stood up straight, without answering her words.

"It seems that the experiment was successful."

A man wearing a black kimono with a knife on his waist stood in a spotless research room, like ink falling on rice paper, looking out of place.

He raised his hand, pulled out the needle and pulled out all the instruments that got in the way.

"...Wait...!" The researcher standing against the wall stretched out his hand tremblingly.

Pulling out the last needle was as natural as taking a test tube in the laboratory, Xu picked her up from the operating table.

"Wait... wait a minute! Where are you taking Experiment 99?!"

Yae was also confused.

Suddenly leaving the operating table, in order to maintain her balance, she unconsciously put her arms around Xu's neck.

After Xu Xianting strolled through the gates and came to the last door leading to the outside world, she came to her senses belatedly:

Wait, this is not the same as what was said at the beginning.

Isn't she going to act as a model experimental subject?She has thought up a bunch of tricks to make sure that she can test an IQ of 130, no, 150.But the experiment is about to run away now, so how can it be a model?

Looking over Xu's shoulder, Yae tried hard to look back——

Not only the security personnel, but also the researchers from the entire experimental area ran over. The experimental area that was orderly before was in chaos, as if attacked by an enemy.

"...Are you planning to go out like this?" Yae tried to speak.

The infrared pupil scanner recognized Xu's identity, and with the soft sound of the airflow, the door made of special alloy opened to both sides, and she saw Naraku waiting outside the door.

"If you want to stay and be dissected, I can let you down now."

Xu Hao raised his eyelids leisurely, but he didn't seem to see the guards with their weapons drawn, nor did he hear the alarm that echoed sharply in the experimental area.

Before the voice fell, the leading researcher almost howled:

"Wait, Data! At least let's record the data!"

Xu turned around, and the chasing researcher made an emergency brake and stopped a considerable distance away.

"As long as you have the blood I provide, you can have as many inferior test subjects as you want, and you can record the data as you like."

"Or," Xu Wei twitched the corners of his mouth, as if he was smiling, his eyes without a smile were filled with unfathomable darkness, "You plan to make an enemy of me because of a mere experimental subject?"

A man in a black kimono stood in front of the door. It was still cold outside, and the bitingly cold wind came in like sharp snowflakes.

The surrounding guards raised their guns in unison, and when they met the emotionless scarlet pupils in the scope, they suddenly shuddered and hesitated.

"You...you don't have permission."

The leading researcher closed his eyes and breathed heavily.

Xu raised the corners of his mouth, his smile was extremely cold.

"I do not have permission?"

"No, I mean," the researcher took a deep breath, looked slowly but firmly at Yae,

The nutritional status of this body seems to be quite worrying, the thin kimono can almost show the butterfly bone on the back, and it is held by Xu Shan like a thin baby bird.The cold wind was howling outside, and Yae decided that she would not dislike Xu's black kimono any more. She curled up her toes in the cold, and shrank into his arms.

"Experiment No. 99 has no permission to leave. You also don't have permission to take her away."

...If it stays, it may be dissected.But without this body, she can move freely.

The agreement between her and Xu did not include the fact that she cannot be killed by others.Homicide is justified.

If she followed Xu, she really couldn't run away.

Besides, it's fucking cold outside.

Thinking of this, Yae poked his head out of Xu's arms again.

……Leave?

She was contemplating, looking at the researcher vacantly, and slowly narrowed her scarlet eyes: "Experiment No. 99?"

The other party made movements as if to swallow the fear, and said with a stiff expression, "Yes, it is Experimental No. 99."

"Really." Xu said indifferently.

He turned and carried her through the door.

"Not now."

— No one came after them.

On the way back to Amaterasu-in Naraku, Yae didn't even think about his next situation.

The snow in the deep mountains has not yet melted, and the air is so cold that it seems to be freezing. She exhaled, and her breath formed a thick white mist.Although it is covered with black feathers, the quilted feathers are not enough in this freezing weather.In the short distance after getting off Naraku's spaceship at Amaterasu, she was so cold that she almost wanted to run back to the temperature-controlled laboratory.

"You can't die."

As if seeing what she was thinking, he glanced over coldly—he put on the dark crow mask again.

"Even if it's so cold that your fingers start to fall off, you won't die."

Yae: "...Oh, you really know how to comfort people."

There was a hoarse cry from the branch, and a crow with fluffy feathers flapped its wings and landed on the snow branch closest to her.

She has been away for ten years.

The crow who knew her was very old, its feathers were no longer smooth, and its beak was worn out from sharpness.

When it left Tenshoin Naraku, it was probably still a fledgling bird.

Yae was a little startled, she raised her head, watching the old crow chasing Xu's figure, spreading its wings and flying from one branch to another.

"Gah-"

A hoarse and unpleasant cry.

For a moment she forgot about the biting cold.

The sky darkened, and everything in the deep mountains was covered with a dim misty blue.

The crow spread its wings, flew and stopped, and finally landed on the raised eaves of the south gate.

The south gate built during the Muromachi period is very old, and the deep and blackened thick wood is covered with traces of time. If it weren't for the figure guarding the side gate, it would almost seem to blend in with the trees in the mountain.

Amaterasu-in Temple has been expanded three times in 500 years. The oldest buildings are built on the mountain wall, and the later buildings are concentrated near the foot of the mountain. The south gate will not open until the return of the leader.

More than ten years ago, when the twelfth generation of Naraku of Tenshoin was still in office, the gray-haired child would be waiting here.The small figure stood in the shadow of the huge palace gate, like insects and ants that no one would notice when passing by.

But every time, wait here.

Xu carried her up the steps, Yae came back to his senses, and unconsciously grabbed his skirt.

Standing by the side door like a stone sculpture, those Naluos put down their Zen sticks and knelt down on one knee.

The man who was no longer a child lowered his head, just as he did ten years ago, humble as if he wanted to kiss the ground in front of his feet.

"You're back." He said in a hazy voice.

The man he was waiting for did not come back.