【Qijie】The Kingdom of Eternal Life

BGM: Yomi Hirasaka-Ito Lyric Taro

Qi Ya and Strange walked in the long and narrow white corridor.

There are mirrors on all sides, and the bright white light is hidden in the corner of the mirror, making this passage pale and pale.

Killua's fingers no longer touched the back of Strange's heart.He hadn't killed anyone for a long time, but Qi Ya had enough confidence in his professional ability. If there was a change in this position and this distance, he would be able to take out Strange's heart in less than a second.The kind that doesn't shed a drop of blood.

Even now.

To be honest, Qi Ya felt as if he had been skinned and boned, lying immobile at the bottom of the valley, being rolled back and forth by the constantly falling rocks.My heart was very empty, so empty that it was frighteningly empty, and it throbbed violently from time to time.Breathing is very stagnant, even if I want to take a big breath, the feeling of lack of oxygen is always lingering.This feeling is not so much pain as it is more like someone took his heart when he was not prepared.

He exhaled very lightly and glanced around.In the mirror, his face was as pale as paper, his eyes were dull, and his lips were pale, almost the same color as his hair. He looked top-heavy and completely exhausted, as if he hadn't slept well for more than ten days.

Strange walked in front, with a generous back, without turning his head, as if he was walking extremely attentively.

Qi Ya was not particularly surprised that Strange had actually betrayed Tower, but instead had a sense of "ah, that's true".

In fact, he has always been a little wary of this sentinel. At the beginning, there was no reason, it can only be said that it was a certain intuition accumulated over the years, because there was no evidence, and he even secretly felt guilty for his suspicion—after all, Xiaojie The relationship with Strange is actually not bad.

But thinking about it carefully, the case of investigating the disappearance of persons exuded something wrong from head to toe.

How could there be so many just-right coincidences in the world?

Later, he accidentally discovered in the hospital where the little girl rescued by Xiaojie was admitted that Strange's only son Zoe also lived there, and he must have suffered from some unknown illness.Even though Strange's answer couldn't find any flaws, Qiya still suppressed this doubt in his heart.

With the development of the matter up to now, in fact, Qi Ya already has a formed guess in his heart.The information that Daisy revealed to him before she died, "Anmykus split into Sentinels", combined with the facts that happened to her and her sister, at least one point can be guessed:

The Sentinel's psychic shard must have some kind of special effect.

Like treating another person's diseased brain, or prolonging his life.

Combined with some information received all the time, for example, the effect of the new drug that Daisy disclosed to them intentionally or unintentionally is "longevity", such as the potion with complicated origins, which is now used by the tower to punish sentinel guides who made mistakes... For example Two pieces of information that are always repeated over and over again:

"Phoenix" and "Lighthouse Jellyfish".

It was already clear at a glance what the group of Cendrick and Strange were pursuing.

Leaving aside the situation of the big drug lord, there is definitely something wrong with Strange's physical condition - Qiya suspects that he has lost most of his sentinel abilities.No matter what level the Sentinels are, they all have overwhelmingly keen five-sense abilities. Seeing things in such a small amount of smoke bombs is their basic ability.The anesthesia for the sentinel didn't work for Strange, and Strange was almost completely unable to see in that layer of smoke. This was not the physical quality that an A-level sentinel should have at all.

People in the world have desires first, and then there are trivial matters.

Things have developed all the way to the present, and he has had sporadic guesses about how it will end, and he also knows that people behind the scenes will definitely make moves in the short term.

It's just that he didn't expect it to be so fast.

……too fast.

Caught off guard, harvested and crossed the border like a hurricane violently, destroying everything, as if tossing everything in the world and smashing it into powder.

He will definitely remember that feeling forever.

with that bastard.

The wound on his back hidden under the bandage was so painful that he was almost hallucinating.

Leori's worries were actually not unreasonable. With his body also injured, it was not a good choice to rush after him.Not to mention being forcibly cut off the spiritual link by the outside world, it will cause great mental trauma to both the sentinel and the guide.Rather, it is already a miracle that Qi Ya can still stand here, walk straight forward with his shoulders straight, and even pay attention to Strange and the surrounding changes all the time.

But... still not fast enough.

too slow.It has to be... faster.

If it's too late—

Alluka was humming.

His slender white fingers jumped back and forth on the complicated machinery, and he manipulated the helicopter to fly far away.The night was dark, most of the lights were turned off, and the few remaining scattered lights were vast and confusing, spreading on the ground, like a few tears on the cloak of the god of death.

Yi Ermi stood next to him, with arms crossed, watching him operate the huge platform with ease. There were several men lying behind the two brothers, but the two brothers obviously didn't think there was anything wrong with it.

Yalujia snorted a few words, looked at the son of the Dadi Hakka standing beside him, and said, "Brother, thank you for accompanying me to hand in the mission."

"It's nothing, you have to start and finish things."

Alluka chuckled twice: "Yeah, although the client is dead, but her wish is to send the sick uncle to the tower, so Alluka still has to help him realize it."

Yi Ermi reached out and touched his long hair. His eyes were as black as lacquer, he couldn't see the light, and naturally he had no emotion: "After all, Alu has worked very hard. We must buy time for Archie."

Alluka looked up at him.

"Why bother?" Yiermi said, "Even if he reluctantly agrees to you, he will come home and make a deal with me after dealing with everything now, so as to buy this little time to save the sentinel... what's the use? "

"Archie will go back sooner or later. No matter whether he makes a deal with me or not, things will not change. Don't Alu really want Archie to go home and never go out again?"

"I know," said Alluka.

Il's fans paused for a moment.

Perhaps because of being always dressed as a girl by his mother, the development of the fourth son who beat the enemy Hakka is somewhat delayed, and there is even a large height difference between him and his brother Qi Ya.He was wearing a skirt, his long hair was loose, and his face was exquisitely carved. He looked like a beautiful and exquisite girl.But at this moment, he raised his head and stared at Yiermi without hesitation, his face was completely stripped of his childishness and smile, his eyes were blue and clear to the bottom, and the bridge of his nose was exactly the same as that of Qi Ya, casting a shadow on one side, swallowing Eyelashes, those eyes are darkly shining.

"But brother, you are mistaken."

"I agreed to let my brother go home, not because I missed him, or because he violated the family rules and made me feel that he should be punished, and not because I wanted him to stay at home from now on."

"It's just...he really likes that person."

Alluka touched her heart with her hand.

"I like it so much that even I can feel that emotion."

"So I think he needs to go home and take care of things at home thoroughly."

"Brother, I rarely ask of you. Because everyone tolerates some of my flaws, and I am grateful for that."

"but……"

His pupils gradually settled into the ultimate pitch black, which was as deep and indifferent as Yiermi's pupils, but a little more empty like falling into an abyss.

Nanika's lips parted in a smile.

"Qi Ya is my bottom line."

Yilmi looked down at his younger brother...or younger sister, stared at her for a while, and then moved his fingers on her head, stroking her long hair.

"You really like Archie," he said.

"Of course. My brother is my favorite!"

Ah, the title is back.Elmi thought.

The eldest son and the fourth son returned to silence, Aluka continued to hum, and Ilmi continued to fold her arms and look at the vast and turbulent night in the porthole. After a while, she raised her hand and shot a bullet A nail, to hold a man in place as he struggles to get up.

A door appeared at the end of the corridor full of mirrors.

Strange stood in front of the door, turned his head halfway, and raised his hands to signal that he was about to open the door.He lowered his head, entered a complex 26-digit password, entered five fingerprints, and moved closer so that the door lock could record his iris.

The door opened.

"Jack is in there," Strange said, "but I'm not sure if he's convenient-"

Qi Ya glanced at him coldly, and frost and snow fell in the wind.Strange shut his mouth and walked in.

The room is huge.It is circular, as big as half a football field, and it is frighteningly empty, with faint echoes blown by the empty wind.It is almost reminiscent of the highest mountaintops here, covered with snow and nothing but white.

Because it was too big, Qi Ya used his eyesight enough to see something clearly in the center.

When you get a little closer, you can see that it is a nutrition cabin.Like a giant capsule, or like a cocoon of a nymph pupating, it stood silently in the center of the huge space, and another unknown machine stood majestically beside it, like a giant who paused.

Qi Ya almost felt as if his airway was cut off by an ax coming from the sky.

He wasn't sure if he was managing his expression well, and at that moment, he almost felt that it would take all his patience and calmness to restrain himself and rush forward without everything.

Strange led him forward.

A sleeping person with eyes closed floats in the light green nutrient solution.

He was probably covered in bruises before he was put in because his half-torn shirt was stained with blood and his wounds were half-healed.He closed his eyes and fell asleep, his familiar eyebrows were amazingly quiet, there were bruises on the corners of his lips, and electrodes were covered all over his body... A needle the size of a finger was inserted into his right arm, and blood was being crazily drawn out from it, filtered out, and turned. Put it into the machine next to it, smash it in drop by drop, and I don't know how many processes it turned into bright blood-red crystal particles, which rolled into the small bottle.

right arm...

Kiya remembered the right arm that was also lost by the former chief Kate and the dead Bonaye.

... Now even he himself has to admire his calmness.

Perhaps it was because his whole heart had been passed through the hall long before, he felt as if he was soaked in the icy sea water, although looking at the scene in front of him, he could even breathe with the drops of blood red crystals rolling down into the test tube. Bloody pain, but still able to think.

I can even hear myself slowly asking, "What did you do to him?"

Before Strange could speak, he raised his hand and made a stop gesture: "Forget it... I can guess that it's nothing more than the injection of the neurotoxin that can destroy the mental image."

"You want his spirit fragments to live forever?"

……it hurts.

The wound on his back seemed to burn through him, burning and twisting in his heart in a mess, steaming the last bit of fresh blood in his heart, leaving only a few wisps of weak white smoke.

Qi Ya never knew that speaking was such a tormenting thing.Every breath, every clenching of his lips and teeth, every tiny bubble floating up in the light green nutrient solution in the nutrition cabin in front of him, seemed to become extremely thick sulfuric acid, splashing all over his body, and the last remaining saneness was gone with him. Watching his speaking movements gradually melt into a handful of insignificant ashes.

For a moment, he didn't know whether he was hurting himself, or it was hurting for Xiaojie.

At the end of this pain, only four words are clearly visible in my mind:

I really want to kill.

After Qi Ya broke away from the family, especially after meeting Xiaojie, he used to restrain himself.Before the weird situation became clear, he restrained his liking, restrained his instincts cultivated by the killer family for more than ten years...

But at this moment, his mind was filled with only one thought, following his own instinct, he took out the heart of the dark-skinned culprit in front of him, and crushed it in the palm of his hand.

Anyway, he had already ruined his lock, his only cage... why would he restrain himself for the sake of some big picture, some tower, some other people?

The precarious rationality was almost unable to control the tyrannical killing intent. He didn't know what his expression looked like. Strange glanced at him several times, as if he wanted to confirm his expression.Qi Ya glanced at him, closed his eyes, and let out a deep breath.

"Stop. Get him out."

The words came out with a hoarse voice, and even the last two words that were collected in his throat were so hoarse that only he could hear them clearly.

Strange responded, and went forward to operate the two machines.Qi Ya stood still and stared at his movements, his peripheral vision scanned the entire room, there was nothing in this circular space except Xiaojie's nutrition cabin, not even a medical staff.It seems that such a huge conspiracy with a lot of calculations, such a huge branch of the tower, has only one Strange operating from the beginning to the end.

how is this possible.

Qi Ya recalled the route he came to just now, combined with the road map of the tower branch given by Alluka, he outlined a preliminary return route.To say that Strange wasn't prepared to fight back at all, Qi Ya wouldn't believe it at all. Even if he could take out his heart in a second, there were still many situations where the main general died but the strategy continued.Qi Ya doesn't want to make things difficult for him, he only has one person on this trip, and he has only one purpose, to rescue Xiaojie safely.

He stared at the person in front of him without blinking.

The dark-haired young man's face was pale, and the ends of his hair, which were always upright, were soaked in the nutrient solution, and seemed to have softened a lot. There were a few strands hanging from the bridge of his nose, sweeping back and forth between his eyebrows and eyes.

He is really a very stubborn, very stubborn person.For most of the time since Kiya met him, Jay Freesh was like an oak tree growing up, preferring to bend rather than bend, opening his young branches and leaves, straightening his young spine, utterly fearless To meet the blunt torrential rain and thunder.It seems that he is not born knowing how to take a detour, how to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, what is enough to stop, and what is beyond his reach.

It is like a constant star, shining light and heat persistently for thousands of years, even if a black hole mercilessly sucks all its light and heat away, even if it is about to be detonated into a collapsed white dwarf, he will Until then a white and bright burn that throws everything away.

It was as if what flowed in his mortal body was not blood, but handfuls of golden fire, which burned uncompromisingly and unyieldingly, no matter how many basins of cold water were poured on him, they would not be able to extinguish his eyes That burning bright flowing gold.

The light green nutrient solution was drained away, and the young man's black hair drooped in front of his eyes and eyebrows, and there were a few wet spots between his nose and cheeks.His eyes were closed tightly, his eyelashes were as black as ink, and they looked like butterflies sleeping peacefully.

Such an almost docile expression like this can indeed only be seen when he is asleep.

Qi Ya took a few steps forward, put his hand on the switch of the nutrition cabin, ready to open it, and carried him out.

... A bastard who doesn't listen to people's words, makes his own decisions, and doesn't hit the south wall and doesn't look back.

"Does it hurt?"

Killua's gaze swept to Strange's back.He was standing in front of the two machines, his back was slightly hunched, and he looked unspeakably old for a moment: "When the mental link is broken."

Qi Ya didn't answer.

Strange didn't seem to want to hear his answer either. His dark fingers were jumping and operating on the machine. The electrodes on Xiaojie's body were falling off one by one, and the blood was no longer inserted from his right arm. The pipes flow out.

"I was in pain, at that time."

Strange's wife was a female guide who died young.Qi Ya had heard of it.

It seems to be due to some kind of disease that even the tower's medical technology cannot cure for the time being.

"Sometimes I think, we always say that we are standing at the top of the pyramid, but why, I still can't even save the one I love?"

"I really thought I was going to die at the time... In fact, if it wasn't for Zoe, I might really not be able to bear suicide."

This shows that Strange has at least experienced the pain of the sudden disconnection of the link.And unlike him and Jay, what he was broken was a complete link, and it was broken due to the death of the guide.

There will be an inseparable connection between a fully bound sentinel and a guide.This connection is so complex and so simple that even "half souls" cannot fully describe it.This close relationship is one of the secrets that makes Sentinel Guides the most powerful humans.And that's why, when one dies, the remaining one suffers terribly, terribly, terribly.

It would be better if the guides were left behind, their strong mental abilities could help them resist the kind of despair like falling into the abyss.But if the one who dies is a guide, the sentry left behind will fall into heart-piercing pain that cannot be described in words because of the festering of the mental barrier, the complete confusion of the mental field, and the runaway of the five senses.

Qi Ya knows the data in the tower.Among the recorded sentinels who lost their partners due to various reasons, those who survived the catastrophe without dying or committing suicide due to fugue can be counted on one hand.

From this point of view, Strange is very powerful.

"From the moment she died, most of my five senses have been lost, and my mental barrier is so fragile that it can be broken at the touch of a touch. It is better to say that I have degenerated into an ordinary person than a sentinel." He laughed at himself: "This Probably why your anesthesia gas doesn't work for me."

That's right... so that's why his spirit guide Muskox rarely appears, although he can still see other people's spirit guides, but——

Qi Ya's fingers were indifferently hanging down on his vest.

The originally soft and slender five-finger nails were protruding, and the muscles and bones were ferocious. Just touching the back seemed to be able to cut off the skin.

"Later, I managed to get over it. I saw Zoe crying on my bedside. He looked so much like his mother. At that time, I thought, I must let him grow up... Let him grow into what she wanted That... that's the only thing she left me."

Strange didn't seem to care about this extremely dangerous hand at all. He rested his hand on the machine, without turning his head, and didn't raise the volume, as if he just wanted to speak now:

"Zoe is a very sensible child, so precocious that it makes people feel distressed. Sometimes I think that life is too cruel for him, and let him lose his mother at such a young age... But just the two of us, we have been living like this Not bad either. Zoe is very reassuring."

"Until I found out he inherited his mother's disease."

Qi Ya's fingers paused.

Strange turned around, his eyeballs were extremely blue, as if he had gathered the sky into crystal clear ones, but the whites of his eyes were red and bloodshot, his image in the past was simple and honest A big, cheerful man, but he didn't smile anymore, and he looked frighteningly haggard and old.He asked: "He is only five years old. He is sensible and well-behaved, like an angel."

"How can life bear to be so cruel to him?"

"I think that even if I'm not a hero, I tried my best to save so many people. Although I'm nothing compared to others in the tower, at least I haven't done a single thing that hurts the world... I think, how much do I Should be a good guy."

A clear liquid flowed from the corner of his eye.He smiled and asked Chiya:

"How can life be so cruel to me?"

This tall, broad-shouldered man was crying, but his voice was steady, without any choking. Maybe his choking had been crushed and stuffed in his chest in the past years, because he couldn't find anything. The only way to relieve it is to bleed naked and silent when the scars are completely opened like this, and can no longer wail loudly.

He is like thousands of ordinary parents in the world, wanting to exchange for an illusory peace and success for his ignorant and ignorant child, but he paid the price with thousands of people.

But Qi Ya looked at him, his dagger-like fingers didn't move at all.

"I think you may have gone the wrong way," he said.

"Sorry, I'm a cold-blooded killer. I'm not Jay—"

With sudden force, his fingers pierced Strange's chest, and his fingertips almost touched the fragile and bloody mucous membrane of the heart.

The silver-haired young man said coldly, like frost and snow: "Your story can't move me."

Strange stopped crying.

The last tear in the corner of his eye also dried up, and he smiled lightly: "Is that so, it's such a pity."

"But such a little time is enough."

His fingers snapped a button on the machine.

Qi Ya suddenly felt that something was wrong, he made a quick decision, and thrust his fingers deeper into Strange's heart, and he could completely take out his heart in the next second. Suddenly, he heard loud noises from all directions in the huge room. bang.

The surrounding walls on all sides were broken one after another, and the dust scattered, and each figure was covered in snow-white dust, rushing towards him.

Qi Ya pulled out his hand violently, a bright line of blood appeared on his fingertips, he stepped back, and smashed the earth-shattering punch on the place where he was standing just now, the attacker raised his fist, like a marionette Shaking, rushed over with the others——

But that speed is not what a puppet can have!

Strange was attacked at the heart, but he still managed to grab the vial full of blood crystals in the machine, and staggered towards the wall.

Qi Ya glanced at his back, but more and more reformers surrounded him, so he could only concentrate on dealing with these people for the time being: they all had no whites in their eyes, only black pupils, their faces were as pale as corpses, and they even wore The wet water vapor and the light green nutrient solution drew water marks on the white ground.

It was those who were used as test subjects by Strange and his team, and turned into monsters after draining their mental power!

Qi Ya stayed where he was, with a glance, he did not retreat but advanced, his figure was so fast that he flashed a streamer, his fingers were protruding, sharper than a dagger.But when he rushed in front of a person and raised his finger to take his heart, he still hesitated a little.

During this half-second of hesitation, two other reformers flashed behind him like ghosts, with their arms raised high.

Qi Ya bent down to dodge, flashed behind them, and slashed at the back of their necks with his fingers.

These people were originally ordinary people, even if their abilities were excavated and squeezed to the extreme, they would not be able to hold Qi Ya for too long.In half a minute, dozens of reformed people were destroyed by his violent wind, but there were too many of them. Qi Ya could see the white coats with red ribbons on their wrists walking hurriedly behind the shattered walls. , releasing transformed monsters one after another from the nutrition cabin.

The snow leopard galloped out of him, sweeping across half of the field like a gust of wind.But because the master's spiritual domain was somewhat damaged by the previous break of the spiritual link, Gale's figure was not particularly stable, so Qi Ya took it back.

Gee.

Qi Ya raised his hand to stun another reformed person, raised his feet and chased a few steps in the direction Strange left.Strange took some of Xiaojie's spirit fragments. That bottle is very important, and may be related to Xiaojie's recovery from injuries. He must...

Suddenly, a series of electric currents shot through the back of his head.

Qi Ya suddenly jumped sideways, away from where he was standing just now.Almost in the next millisecond, a loud noise broke through the air.

boom! ! !

The two reformers were thrown out by this wave of fist wind, and fell into the broken white wall, smashing a white coat that had no time to escape to the ground.

But Qi Ya has no time for him to care about these.He blurted out: "Little...!"

The remaining word was swallowed into the throat, and no matter how hard he struggled, he couldn't say that name.

The black-haired young man squatted on the ground. He was tall and well-proportioned, but when he squatted down, his presence was unexpectedly small, as if he was a small, non-threatening mass.He slowly let go of his fists and stood up, stretching his body. The tattered, blood-stained shirt drooped on his shoulders, revealing half of his bare shoulder blades and back. At the back of the neck, this figure is not lethal at all.

If he hadn't disappeared in the same place in one millisecond, then appeared in front of Qi Ya with a bang in the next millisecond, and threw another murderous punch at him.

This punch was unreserved, smashing the ground like a spider web.

This punch cut off Qi Ya's voice of wanting to call his name abruptly in his throat, and until this moment, he finally saw clearly the appearance of the sentinel in shock.

In those eyes that always carry the light of thousands of stars and seem to be burning with golden flames...

Nothing left.

It was as dark as an endless abyss, swallowing everything, temperature, and light, and even emotions were destroyed, leaving only empty nothingness.

TBC