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Aoki Qingtong was dreaming again.

The girl was in a dark secret room. Unlike the oppression last time, she felt safe this time.The white man did not appear, and the quietness in the secret room caused a slight tinnitus.

Why did she feel safe, because the flames melted into her body?

The girl who was thinking like this suddenly realized that she was that flame at the moment.

Standing on the stone platform.

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This is a laboratory. There are various instruments densely packed on the metal table, and the neat arrangement reveals an orderly momentum.There are monitors embedded in the walls, playing [-]/[-].

At this time, the lights in the laboratory had been turned off, and the white and miserable light projected by the monitor looked very gloomy.

There is a black shadow in front of the monitor, small, but not the thin one.

As soon as Aoki opened his eyes and saw such a scene, he thought he was still asleep.But she moved her body slightly, and the tingling pain all over her body immediately made her realize that this was reality.Aoki's night vision is good, and she can barely see the motionless figure in front of the monitor at this moment. She tentatively called out: "28?"

The shadow moved, and replied in a cloudy voice: "The lollipop is on the cabinet next to you, take it and eat it yourself."

Aoki propped herself up from the narrow bed, and casually took a lollipop from the pile of lollipops. She peeled off the candy wrapper and stuffed the candy into her mouth, muttering, "What's the taste? Persimmon?"

"Well, Ichimaru silver likes it." There were a few crackles, as if 28 was operating the keyboard, the old man didn't turn his head, staring at the monitor, Aoki also cast his gaze, and the neatly arranged monitors turned into a big screen under 28's operation As part of the project, a picture is projected onto the entire wall.

Xu in the form of a leopard ran across the desert, with a vigorous and graceful posture, and the wound left by Gin Ichimaru could no longer be seen.The moon above its head drifts in a slow and rhythmic rhythm, Aoki uses the moon as a reference, and calculates that Xu's speed is a step higher than what he saw.

The girl didn't make a comment on the falsehood, she asked, "Where's Ichimaru Gin?"

28 said slowly: "In his own room."

Aoki nodded upon hearing this, and sat down on the chair beside 28. The bandages all over her body restrained her, making her movements a little stiff.The girl and the old man watch the ghosts on the screen running across the desert, hunting other ghosts, devouring them, and becoming stronger.After a long silence, Aoki asked, "I'll go out for a while."

28 nodded slowly, and said when the girl pushed the door to leave: "Aoki, it's not the time to be in the worm's nest now, be flexible."

Qingmu Qingtong paused, she didn't understand why the old man said such a thing, she replied in a regular manner: "I think I have always been very smooth."

She closed the door to the laboratory, blocking out the light from the corridor.

The corridor is tall, without windows, and looks cramped.Aoki chased the sparrow with his slap toe to find Ichimaru Gin's place, and then walked slowly.The building named Xuye Palace is unexpectedly huge, and Aoki is even a little worried that this building will drain 28 dry, but the old man she saw just now has bright eyes and is more energetic than a few years ago.

Is it the reason to leave the worm's nest?The girl thought aimlessly, but unfortunately Liu Sansan didn't come out.

Aoki raised his hand and knocked on the door, and Ichimaru Gin's Reiatsu came from behind.

"Please come in, little Aoki. You don't have to be so polite." Just as Aoki put down his hand knocking on the door, Ichimaru Gin opened the door from the inside.

Aoki looked at Shimoichimaru, and said honestly: "You look really miserable."

Ichimaru Gin raised his eyebrows: "You are not the same as being mummified." The boy turned sideways and led the girl into the room.

Aoki said bluntly again: "There is no breath of life at all, just a bed."

Ichimaru Gin said: "Simple style is popular recently. Little Aoki, you are out of date."

"But it's not Japanese style, it's really surprising." Aoki sat on the edge of the bed familiarly, still holding the lollipop from 28 in his mouth.

"I've said it all, keep pace with the times." Ichimaru Gin took out a slender package from under the mattress and handed it to Aoki, "Let me give you 28."

"Why didn't he give it to me directly." Aoki took the package, looking for something to say, and it was naturally inconvenient not to give it to her directly.As expected, the slender package contained a Zanpakutō.

Ichimaru Gin didn't answer her question: "Cover the flames. Be careful not to burn my bed, it's my only possession."

Aoki gave Ichimaru a white look, and obeyed obediently.

The moment the flame burns on the blade, the shape of the hilt changes, and the hilt with the uniform pattern becomes a hollowed-out rhombus, connected with the blade by four flame-shaped patterns.

"Imitation of Hajime's Zanpakuto." Ichimaru Gin explained in due time, "28 is really a genius."

"What is this for?" Aoki didn't understand.

Ichimaru silver spread his hands helplessly, at some point, he had already sat on the bed, and now he was leaning on the head of the bed in a rather comfortable posture: "Little Aoki, your flame is not a ghost path or Shijie, where do you want to put it? Come on? Don’t forget, you are the god of death now.”

The boy bluntly said what he thought about Aoki, the girl was a little stunned for a moment, did 28 mean Ichimaru Gin when he said flexibility?The hostility in the worm's nest has turned into the trust that now passes things in private.

How did such a change come about?Aoki couldn't figure it out and didn't bother to ask.Anyway, the old man is always right.Such a change made her secretly happy.

A voice in my head said, don't lie to yourself any more.

"You must be careful in front of Tōsen and Aizen-sama." Ichimaru Gin habitually added an honorific title to Aizen's name, but there was no respect in his tone. "Once exposed, 28 and I will be in bad luck." .”

"Why?" Aoki felt that he was extremely ignorant today.

"Ah," Ichimaru Gin showed an expression that suddenly remembered something, "Little Aoki, you don't know why you were imprisoned in the nest of worms. It was your mother who killed the god of death, so it has nothing to do with you, does it?"

"But you are the child of a fox and an onmyoji." Ichimaru Gin suddenly opened his eyes, the scarlet pupils lined with silver bangs, looking extraordinarily serious, "It is very good research material."

"Little Aoki, you have to remember that Aizen Monomono Yusuke is more extreme and cruel than the scientists who are active in Jinglingting."