Live Kexue in Kexue World

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"Although these words should have been said to you by both Dante Chen and Ruobin Chunliang, I must warn you again now. Kidd, the current situation is becoming more and more dangerous for you. If you want to continue, just It's a big risk to take, and I'm not sure you can take it, so you have to explain the situation."

Lily Theresa blocked the entrance of the cave, looking at the strange thief in front of her very seriously.

The room was still very quiet, only some inexplicable muffled sounds, and it was impossible to distinguish what made the sound.box?Kidd guesses, what's the worst?The "disaster" in their mouths has already appeared, but if it really comes to that point, there is no need for him at all, right?

"Are you willing to accept that you will become another monster that has all your memories and cognition, and is completely indistinguishable from you from an atomic point of view?" Lily asked.

"Is that the swamp man you mentioned?" Kidd thought for a while and asked, "And after that?"

Lily was taken aback: "I thought you would think about the definition of self. After all, your thoughts and actions can continue, but whether that person is still you is a matter of debate."

Kidd's answer was very straightforward: "I don't think I need to think so much, can't I just treat it as dead? What I want to ask is what other effects will there be after that?"

Lily laughed: "You are more straightforward than many people."

"Yes, this is also one of my strengths."

"Okay. As I said before, anyone who gets along with you may be assimilated by you. If you think this is still relatively abstract, you can understand it as a kind of... infectious disease."

"That is to say, everyone who gets along with me will die, and then they will continue to be infected as the source of infection?" He said these words unexpectedly lightly.

Lily nodded: "Yes."

"To be honest, with a clear result, I finally have a concept of saving the world. It was the same with Dan Techen before. I didn't feel it at all. I didn't lose, and I didn't know what I got. This doesn't follow the phantom thief. guidelines."

Kidd looked at Lily with a smile in his eyes behind the monocle.

He is very relaxed and has no psychological burden.It seems that everything that is about to happen is just a challenge for him, and the result is nothing more than two, success or death.

The Phantom Thief is not afraid of any challenges. He can easily pick gems in many levels, and he can also win the survival of human beings between life and death.

Sounds like such a simple thing, doesn't it?

"And now you have told me, so if you have inherited my thoughts, just to be on the safe side, before you are 100% sure whether I am infected or not, it is enough not to contact other people alone?" Speaking of this, he suddenly said After a pause, his expression became embarrassed, "Hey, if you put it this way, wouldn't it be okay to date someone alone..."

What a pure and bright soul, the worst thing that can come to mind is that her date can no longer date her alone.

"Of course, I can give you the greatest help to solve these troubles." Lily said.

"You can solve it? Wouldn't it be all right?"

Lily said sincerely: "If you are infected, I can help you die."

Kidd: "..."

"Or you can choose to pray."

Kidd: "...Although I don't accept the meaning of death, prayer doesn't seem to be as effective as death?"

"No, it's a real prayer." Lily suddenly reached out her hand to him, this body was shorter than before, she put Kidd's shoulders, and pressed him down.The strange thief was also very cooperative, bending down a little to see what she was going to do.

And Lily gave him a very light, shallow hug, almost weightless.He heard a female hissing in a language that he couldn't identify. It had a very strange accent. At the first hearing, it would feel that the spacing between the characters was very wide, but if you listen carefully, you will find that each syllable is actually glued together.

When the voice in his ear stopped, a picture he had never seen before suddenly appeared in Kidd's mind, the hideous mountains, the snow, the vast lake, the skeleton giant standing on the ice, and the giant's dark skeleton eyes. Burning with an everlasting cold flame.

This picture only appeared for a moment, like a TV splash screen, and disappeared immediately.

And Lily let go of him and stood in front of him.Looking from bottom to top, there is something faintly appearing in the pupil, but when you look closely, it is dark, and there is nothing.

"As long as you pray to me, Kuroba Kaito." Lily Theresa said, "As long as you are willing to become my faithful believer, ice and death will dispel everything."

Hearing his name, Kidd was taken aback for a moment, and then he raised the corners of his mouth and showed a sassy smile: "Although I don't know the specific situation, you and Dante Chen should be of the same type, thank you."

"So are you going to choose faith?" Lily asked.

[Spider is so cute: Can becoming a follower of Itakua reduce the infectivity to swamp people? 】

Lily replied lightly: "From a certain point of view, it can be said that."

[Spider is so cute: From a certain angle? 】

"Swamp people were born in Shoggoth, and Shoggoth belongs to the ancients. They fought a protracted war with Cthulhu's star family tens of thousands of years ago, and their cells are naturally corrosive to the old rulers. And Itaku Ya is one of the Old Ones."

[Spider is so cute: It sounds like a relationship between fire and water. 】

"This is also the reason why I can't act in place of Kidd. I am a corpse, and the death time does not exceed three days. As long as I touch the swamp people, I will be infected. I am an incomplete Ithaqua, and the cells of Shoggoth will It keeps eroding me."

[Spider is so cute: Will the followers of Itakua not be eroded? 】

"If he becomes a believer in Itakua, he will be like pouring water into concentrated sulfuric acid when he encounters a swamp person, and he will not even have a chance of being prey. But the body that is continuously sheltered will turn into a skeleton in the frozen mountains, He's going to be in a lot of pain, but as long as Itakua is around, he's going to live."

[Spider is so cute: I understand, if it were your limbs, as long as you keep gouging out the rotten flesh, new flesh will grow continuously, but if the toxin is directly injected into the brain, the whole body will collapse. 】

[Spider is so cute: It sounds like a good deal, but you didn't tell him the consequences.Was it the fear that he'd rather be a swamp man who would infect others?I thought you believed him a lot. 】

"It was Dante Chen who believed him." Lily said coldly, "And I am not Dante Chen."

[Spider is so cute: Is this why you coaxed Bourbon to believe in Itakua before?As long as he believes in you, he will not die, the worst case is as you said, become a walking dead, but at least alive. 】

Lily didn't answer this time.

It didn't take long for Kidd to give his reply.

"I'm sorry," he said, "but I'm Kidd the Phantom Thief, Arsen Robin in the Heisei era, and the magician under the moon. If there is any belief in the Phantom Thief, I choose to believe in myself."

Disrupted, Lily stared at Kidd as if meeting him for the first time.

"Humans believe in humans, but what's the use of that?" Lily said softly, "You can't even protect yourself from harm."

Kidd said: "The purpose for which human beings are endowed with free will is to choose between madness and ignorance."

Lily reacted for a while, raised her eyebrows and asked, "The preface to Brave New World?"

"right."

Lily sighed softly.

[Spider is so cute: Is "Brave New World" a literary work from your side? 】

Lily said succinctly: "It tells a world where everything is standardized."

The audience area was quiet for a moment, and Kuroro appeared again after a long while.

[Spider is so cute: Your world is really interesting, the mysterious existence is very interesting, and the humans over there are also very interesting.If possible, I would really like to experience such a world. 】

Farewell, Kuroro's speech doesn't look like a good thing.Lily silently turned her attention back to Kidd.

"I understand what you mean." Lily moved her position, revealing the opaque hole.

Inside was another Pandora's box, and a human decided to step into it.

He doesn't believe in anyone, he only believes in himself.So even in such an environment, he can maintain an elegant smile, a gentleman's demeanor, and a white cloak that shines like a light in the dark.

"After entering, go through the ceiling, find the person in the middle whose hands are tied to the box, cut off the wire around his body, and don't touch anyone or him," Lily said.

Kidd nodded: "Do you want me to bring the box out?"

"No." Lily said lightly, "You have to bring him out, he is the matrix of the swamp people."

Climbing to the ceiling is easy for the strange thief. The night vision function of the monocle allows Kidd to see everything in the room clearly even in dim light. Chains are suspended in the air.

The densely packed crowd below could vaguely feel the movement in the sky above, and desperately wanted to raise their heads.

The body of the swamp man no longer belongs to human beings, his strength is incredible, and his mentality is also incredible.But he was still restrained so much that he couldn't even move his head, so he could only intensify his painful and terrified muffled noises.

It is hard to imagine that if Kidd accidentally falls, it may bring him a more terrifying experience than falling into the deep sea.

In this tense atmosphere, Lily stood aside, watching their every move all the time.

Soon, Kidd found his purpose.As Lily said, he was in the middle of the crowd, and his hands were not so much tied to the box as they were growing together with the box.

His hand had swelled into a vague shape, like a tumor, and the end of the fleshy limb was embedded in the surface of the box, looking cruel and disgusting.

Kidd took a deep breath to keep himself calm. He waved his hand, and the playing cards on his fingertips accurately pierced the iron wire connecting the mother and other swamp people. The special poker that could cut through the metal could only leave a shallow scar on the iron wire. .After repeated several times, the wire finally broke.

As soon as the wire was broken, the behavior of the mother was no longer restricted. He struggled frantically, and his body collided with the surrounding swamp people. The broken wire pierced straight into his flesh, and the pain intensified his fear, making his struggle more violent.

"This is like a nightmare compared to all previous nightmares." Kidd said softly.

An overdose of anesthesia needles pierced the mother's body, and thankfully the biologically specific chemicals worked on the swamp people as well.The mother's body was still rushing around, but the movement became smaller and smaller. The last time, the wire almost penetrated directly into his neck.

The mother's body finally didn't move, and he leaned on the side wearily, still maintaining his balance by the wires pierced into his body.

Kidd lowered the claws, trying to let the claws grab his clothes instead of the skin, and after confirming that it was stable, he carefully lifted him up with a device.

When Kidd took the mother body across the sea of ​​people and returned to Lily, the thin wires connecting the claws were no longer tight. The mother body had no point of strength and was about to fall down as soon as it hit the ground. Kidd subconsciously wanted to help him live.

"Don't touch him—!" Lily made such a loud noise for the first time, the sound of the explosion frightened Kidd, and he withdrew his outstretched hand.

Lily breathed a sigh of relief, and looked at Kidd disapprovingly: "I advise you to stop treating him as a human being, no, don't treat him as any creature. The mother is different from other swamp people, and has a clear understanding of her inhuman status cognition, he knows what he has become and you need to know better than him now, understand?"

As if realizing that her words were too cold and harsh, Lily softened her tone: "Let's go, let's end this."