【Qijie】The Kingdom of Eternal Life

"... above." Qicai ended the report.

He quietly looked around at the high-level personnel who were said to be towers sitting in the conference room.For Kiya, he rarely has the experience of speaking in front of many people, and most of the previous reports or information were left to Kurapika, standing in front of these few people sitting half-closed. It was the first time that the high-level people at the round table reported directly in front of them.He's not stage fright, it's just:

Looking at the faces of these people who thought they were hiding it well, but in fact they were faintly jealous of him, or even slightly suspicious, and heard their conversations that they did not forget to put on a show until now, and there was an undercurrent of intrigue among each other, Although Qi Ya simply stood there without saying anything, he was not very sure——

Can the long-lost, surging killing intent in my heart be perfectly suppressed?His left hand was gently curled into a fist, his fingers were slightly arched, and he hid the sharp nails between his fingers. He took a deep breath calmly, and retracted the violently shaped nails that could cut his neck.

Gee.

So, when you are in a bad mood, you really shouldn't force yourself to handle business.If it weren't for the wrong time now, things are too complicated and things may change at any time, rather than simply wasting time standing in front of these guys, he would probably want to go to Leorie's place and give him a serious beating. Mecha.

Fortunately, in the next second, he heard a sentence that was quite pleasant so far.Probably finally realized that it was inappropriate to argue tit-for-tat in front of a foreign and powerful guide they didn't trust, a middle-aged man said: "It's fine. You can go back."

Qi Ya saw that they didn't continue to pay attention to what he meant, but started the debate again although it was not intense but every sentence was hidden, so he didn't say anything, turned around and left the conference room.

He closed the door.The thick oak door isolated the ups and downs of the arguments, the slender fingers relaxed slightly, the light blue tendons on the back of the pale hand protruded, and snakes drilled into the closed cuffs of the white shirt.

Qi Ya closed his eyes and relaxed his eyes, turned around and began to go downstairs from the stairwell.He didn't take the elevator.Sometimes repetitive and boring behaviors that do not require mental work will indeed give the extremely tired brain some relief that is better than nothing.Sometimes there are nonsensical words that float through your mind without overthinking them.The principle may be similar to the process of springing back after a string is tightened with force.Although……

He wasn't sure if his string was on the verge of snapping.He glanced at his watch.It was already ten o'clock in the evening.

Although he galloped back to the tower from Neighboring Road in a fit of anger, it still took more than three hours.When he arrived in Tower, he greeted Kurapika in advance to give him a clear idea, then Kiya came to the conference room in a hurry and reported that he would pretend to be stupid and walk around the edge of the machine, even if he wanted to go again, he would still use it. took far more time than budgeted.

His trust in these so-called high-level personnel is now severely lacking.Rather, he was at the stage of doubting Tower's ability value only because of the matter of Bonaye, Daisy and Kate, but after listening to this debate called reporting is actually a struggle for interests, Qi Ya even We are all starting to think it is incredible that the tower has not been infiltrated until now.With such a group of idiots sitting firmly on top, the greatest joy every day is intrigue and fighting for power and profit.

So he didn't tell everything.Kate's matter can't be concealed, but... Chiya didn't say anything about Jay's reaction, or his mental state, not even Kurapika.He cannot trust them.

Not to mention anything else, maybe one of them is the mastermind behind everything, or who among them is stealing the news and tipping off the news?

But... In fact, if you think about it now, Xiaojie's mental state may not be right from a very early age.On the rainy night when Bonaye committed suicide, Qiya felt the killing intent for the first time through the spiritual connection; no matter how he felt it after that, it could only be attributed to Gujing Wubo’s mood swings; when dealing with cases such as interrogating Daisy, he was indifferent and sarcastic attitude, as well as the chaotic hostility flashing in his eyes from time to time.

He attributed these abnormalities to Xiaojie's temporary changes due to his mentor, and convinced himself that it was normal for Xiaojie to become slightly extreme because of these things.But now that I think about it carefully, this has gone beyond the normal scope of being stimulated and becoming extreme.Something is wrong.

But... Xiaojie's spiritual realm, Qi Ya has indeed checked again and again.

Oceans, islands, rainforests.Vast and boundless, blue and green, except that there is no wind and no sound... There is no spiritual guide, which is indeed very normal.When a sentinel or guide undergoes a change in personality and becomes full of hostility or even nervousness in dealing with things, the spiritual realm representing their mental state will probably be in an extremely turbulent state even if they are not injured.Strong winds, heavy rain, thunder, these are the most basic.Depending on the state of the sentinel or the guide, the mental image may also experience earthquakes, continental drift, division, and even the sky falling into the ocean, which is not easy to happen in the human world.Xiaojie's mental realm is really too peaceful.Compared to his occasional abnormalities on the outside, his spiritual domain is so clean and beautiful that it almost makes Qi Ya wonder if it is fake.

Qi Ya considers himself to be an S-level guide anyway, and has the most basic confidence in his own mental power - he can't even confirm the mental state of his sentry, so he just goes home and inherits the family business - based on this Confident, he believed in the judgment he made based on Xiaojie's mental state.Then things went like this.

But the problem now is that he can't change the status quo at all.

He couldn't find out where the source of Xiaojie's mental problems was.

Xiaojie...you should be fine.Although he is in a neighboring city, there are many tower branch personnel there after all.Something happened to Kate's tomb, he shouldn't be in the mood to run around.As for the tower branch, although there are not so many sentinel guides on standby like the tower, it is also not concentrated in the center of interests and risks like the tower, so it should be safe.

Kiya guessed that the detailed autopsy results from the tower branch had come out and faxed to the headquarters, at least Kurapika should know.It's already so late, Xiaojie... I don't know if he's back.

Probably not yet, the autopsy is over, and matters such as cemetery records and monitoring records need to be investigated in detail, he should not be back until tomorrow.

Xiaojie... what will happen?

Chiya stopped.

He stood on the stairs, put his fingers on his forehead, and sighed forcefully.

It is of course impossible to say that he doesn't mind what Xiaojie said so soon.Whoever let go of his defenses and pride, and put a sincere heart in front of the other party carefully, but received such a treatment, even though he knew that it could not be completely attributed to the other party, he couldn't let go of it immediately.

Although it would not be so bad that it would be cracked, but people's hearts are full of flesh, so how could they not be sad.

Yes.

If another person dared to treat him like this, he might just punch him, and beat him unceremoniously until he couldn't take care of himself.If someone described the scene today to himself before he met Xiaojie, and then told him that he is still analyzing the current situation and worrying about the other party uncontrollably, not only will he not believe it at all, but he may even Think this man is a crackpot who loves to tell jokes.

Otherwise, he himself is crazy.

……may be.

——After all, even if Xiaojie said such exaggerated words to him, Qiya still found helplessly that after such a short half a day, his anger had almost disappeared.

But of course he didn't mind that much.In fact, Qi Ya felt that his mood had been turned into a messy ball of yarn by the complicated situation.He didn't even know whether he was angry or not—

But he knew he still couldn't help worrying about Jay.

that guy...

So far, Qi Ya can't count how many cases he has broken for him.

……hateful.As he thought about it, he felt very angry.Always talking to himself and going on a rampage, stubborn and stubborn to death, no matter what he can't stop him, and talking nonsense without thinking about anything, it's really too much.

When these things are resolved, he has to ask this bastard to apologize to him.

……never mind.

It doesn't make sense to say that now.He can't solve Xiaojie's problem now, and he can't change the messy situation like a ball of wool that is constantly being cut.

He didn't want to eat, and he couldn't even feel hungry when he was angry.Qi Lu left the stairwell, and was about to go to Daisy's iron house to ask some questions - Xiaojie was quite emotional after asking the question yesterday, so he directly dragged him away to Kate's cemetery in the neighboring city, and Qi Ya wanted to ask some questions The question has not been asked yet.

He walks down the corridor.The military boots knocked against the ground and made a slight crisp sound. There were few people coming and going on this floor. The patrolling mechanical guards walked past his feet solemnly and dutifully.Qi Ya walked through one silent window after another, and the city indulging in desire outside the window turned into an afterimage of colorful lights, and the voice-activated lights lit up with his footsteps.His footsteps suddenly paused.He glanced at the next room.

This layer is used by supervisors to take in more critical prisoners.But not Daisy.Daisy's personal danger is high, and she has done things like pretending to be sick and trying to trap doctors to escape. Although the suspects at this level are important, they are not to the point where they need to be housed in an additional iron house.Moreover, this floor is guarded by mechanical guards, and there are sentinel guides who hand over tasks and patrol guards everywhere, so there will be no negligence in safety.But Chiya seldom came.

There are very few suspects detained on this level, only one.

He looked at the one-way glass.The headlights inside have been turned off, leaving a dim bedside lamp. A person is sleeping on the bed with his back to the glass and a thin quilt.

Qiya's eyesight is not as good as Xiaojie's, but it's not bad.His eyes fell on the man's hair.This person has been imprisoned here for a while, and the cut hair that was originally shaved has also grown a little, but Qi Ya can still distinguish the pattern on his head that was originally shaved but blurred——

an S.

Drug lord Cendrick Munch.

Recently, there are many situations in the tower, and everyone is in danger. He has been locked here, and the procuratorate does not know what he is doing, and has not formally prosecuted him. They almost forgot about this heavyweight criminal suspect.

Qi Ya squinted his eyes looking at the back of the former underworld emperor who had nothing to contend with.

I don't know why...he always feels...

He glanced at this double security door, the new work of the tower technology department, and the head of the technology department shamelessly compared it to a rock cage that could not fly.

Ok……

Kiya turned his head, continued to walk through the corridor, and lowered his head to send a text message to Kurapika.

Even if it's the Rock Cage, it's safer to call a few sentries to take turns to guard the duty - Kurapika is too capable to work hard, so that the people in their entire tower have developed the habit of looking for Kurapika when they have something to do. Thinking about Kurapika is also quite hard.

After he sent the text message, it happened that the monitoring room of the iron house where Daisy was imprisoned also arrived. He greeted the monitoring personnel and glanced at the monitoring screen glowing with blue light: the time has passed, and it is time for the lady to sleep. Daisy Xi didn't seem to care about it, she was sitting on the bed shaking her legs in boredom.

"I'll go in and ask her a few words." Qi Ya said.

The monitoring staff was stunned for a moment: it is rare to come to interrogate the suspect conscientiously at this time, so he hurriedly responded: "Okay. Do you need to accompany me?"

"No need." Qi Ya said.He thought for a while, then asked again: "Did the Strange sentinel go in for questioning yesterday?"

"Mr. Strange? Ah," the surveillance personnel said, "No, after Mr. Fulishi and Mr. Beat the Enemy left, Mr. Strange also left soon."

"That's it, okay." Qi Ya responded, "I'm going in. Copy the surveillance section I asked about to me later."

When seeing the guide enter the house, Daisy did not show any emotional fluctuations.She sat on the bed and yawned lazily.

Qi Ya said: "Ammickus Blaze."

Daisy, or rather Amycus, stopped her half-yawned yawn, as if delighted at finally being called by the right name, and suddenly gave an extremely happy smile.She raised her face, her eyes narrowed because of happiness, corresponding to the corners of her curved mouth, showing a hearty expression that made people want to be happy with her.

"Huh?" she asked with a smile, "Are you alone?"

Qi Ya looked at her coldly and said nothing.

"Oh, it's so boring. Xiaojie is cuter." Anmikus stopped smiling, and that bright smile disappeared from her face as quickly as a flower withering.Hearing Xiaojie's name, Qi Ya's hand shrank slightly, the range was very small, and the girl didn't notice it.

She looked down lazily at her nails. "What do you want from me? If you want to ask, hurry up and ask. If I'm in a good mood, I will cooperate."

"I want to ask you about your two personalities." Qi Ya said.

Anmikus stopped looking at her fingers, and raised her eyelids to give him a glance.

"Ok?"

"Enter the tower, become Hitenita's mistress, kill your sister, attack Leorio...Which of you did these things?"

Qi Ya looked down at her, took out a half-burned photo from the inner pocket of his clothes, and waved it around in front of her.On it were two little girls with expressionless faces holding hands.

——Since when did you become two people?

Anmikus looked at him for a while, then put Su Bai's hand on her chin.

"I know what you want to ask." She said, "But...all the things you said were done by me."

She spread her hands: "Show me the photos.

Qi Ya handed her the photo.The girl held the photo, and her slender fingertips carelessly brushed the skirts of the two little girls in similar colors in the smoky photo: "I think you may be thinking about something wrong. I am indeed a split personality. , but she hasn't woken up for a long time..."

Qi Ya raised his eyebrows slightly.Signal her to continue.

"She's a madman... a monster."

For the first time, an indescribable expression appeared on the girl's indifferent and gorgeous face, fear, but also faintly full of provocation, mixed together, causing the beautiful eyebrows to almost present a distorted contradiction.

"If you want to say...she has already fallen asleep. She has been asleep for a long time. It has been... 20 years."

Qi Ya: "That is to say, from the time of the fire?"

Amycus: "Yes. To be fair, she was the real Amycus Blaze until then."

Qi Ya: "Is it caused by the medicine injected at that time?"

Anmikus smiled wryly: "You guessed right."

"My parents are very strong. Whether their union is love or not, it is just to better pursue the beliefs they fanatically pursue. That kind of drug... can destroy a person's spirit and make the nerve center into a disorder of control. It is the sharp increase in physical strength—because cells, tissues, and organs cannot distinguish the frequency and method of their own metabolism." She seemed unwilling to recall more, lowered her eyes, and reached out to touch her spine, "A person's spirit is actually What can be visualized, in other words, it is the spiritual realm of the individual.

Qi Ya raised his eyebrows slightly: "Do you support the theory of ordinary people's spirit?"

Anmikus said flatly: "It's not an advocacy, it's a fact. The tower thinks that only sentries and guides have spiritual domains, and in fact ordinary people also have them. It's just that ordinary people's mental images are not as powerful and real as sentinels and guides, and are weaker and unstable. .”

"People are mentally destroyed by the potion, lose their sanity and memory, and their body will go into a state of rampage. You can understand that she has gone crazy because of this."

Qi Ya: "Later... after she was rescued, another personality was born to control the body?"

Anmycus nodded.

"Actually, if you know something about the lesser-known aspects of the tower..." she said, "you will know that this medicine was later improved as a punishment for the tower."

Qi Ya lightly tapped his index finger on his elbow and stopped.

He said, "You?"

"Yes." Anmikus said, "She and I are two souls living in the same body, in fact, two people with different spirits, so I differentiated into a guide...but the ones in your tower After the improvement of the medicine, it has become a lot more humanized, at least it only destroys the mental power, and it doesn't mean to turn me into a runaway machine."

Qi Ya: "A question."

Amikus: "I would like to hear more about it."

Qi Ya said: "This drug will inevitably lead to split personality?"

Amikos said, "Not necessarily."

Qi Ya: "That is to say, it is possible to return to normal after going berserk?"

Anmikus said quietly: "How can a shattered mirror be restored to its original state. Crazy is crazy, and a monster is a monster."

Contradictory.

This kind of medicine will inevitably lead to the destruction of mental power, which will make the original personality berserk and cannot be restored to its original state.That being the case, if the original runaway personality is not allowed to fall into a deep sleep, and a new personality "ruling" is born...

"Then why did Bonaye return to normal?" Chi Ya said. "As far as I know, she shouldn't have a dual personality."

Amikus smiled: "I know you want to ask this."

"Oh." She sighed connivingly and helplessly, "Haven't you seen her dead body? Why do you think I hate her so much? Of course it's because she took my things."

TBC.