Chapter 55: The Contradiction of No Choice
Thirteen and ZERO travel through the void, and the feeling of freedom that seems to be flying is hard to describe in words.
Zero was not familiar with this feeling, this feeling of walking and stillness made him feel unfamiliar, and his subjective consciousness was very trance-like, and he only judged his position by keeping his distance from Thirteen.
After walking for a long time, an illusory figure appeared in front of Bai Liang, and the two hurriedly stepped forward when they saw this, but saw Sayuri floating in the air, sleeping quietly.
Thirteen reached out and pressed Sayuri's neck to the top of her neck, subconsciously wanting to probe her pulse, but then realized that they were all just empty souls now, and what did it matter if they had a pulse or not.
Zero and Thirteen looked at each other, but there was nothing they could do.
If Sayuri hadn't woken up, how would Thirteen find her body? The two tried to summon again, but in the end, Sayuri showed no signs of waking up.
It seems that the only way is to wait.
ZERO floated beside Sayuri, thinking that Sayuri, who was healthy and agile just now, was like this in the blink of an eye, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
After a long silence, ZERO said to Thirteen, "Will she die when you come back to life?"
Thirteen shook his head and said, "I don't know, maybe the soul will die, maybe she will stay in this Tritogramia stone carving." β
ZERO REMAINED SILENT.
Thirteen said to ZERO, "There's no way around it, and I don't want her to die if I can." ZERO PURSED HIS LIPS, STILL SILENT.
A smile appeared on Thirteen's face and said, "We have sacrificed a lot of lives to get to where we are today, why?
ZERO SHOOK HER HEAD AND WHISPERED, "SHE'S DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHERS, THE PEOPLE WE GET RID OF ARE THE ONES WHO HURT US AND STOP US, AND WHEN THE TIME COMES... is our friend. β
"Friend," Thirteen muttered.
ZERO RELUCTANTLY SAID, "I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH USING OTHER PEOPLE'S BODIES, BUT SACRIFICING MY FRIENDS TO RESURRECT MYSELF, I..."
Thirteen's face became extremely grim, and he looked at ZERO coldly and said, "You mean that I should die, and I should stay here?"
"That's not what I meant," ZERO hastily argued.
"What does that mean!" Thirteen's eyes burst with rage.
"What am I here for? For whom, if it weren't for you, why would I hurt my friend!" Thirteen yelled, and Zero's face turned pale with tears of grief in his eyes.
Thirteen was close to ZERO, the tips of his noses almost together.
"You don't have the slightest right to comment on me. β
ZERO'S BODY TREMBLED AND HE CLOSED HIS EYES IN PAIN.
Looking at Zero's painful appearance, a trace of unbearability flashed in Thirteen's eyes.
At that moment, a soft moan came from Sayuri's mouth, and Thirteen looked at Sayuri.
Like a sleeping beauty who has just woken up, Sayuri slowly opened her eyes after a few moments of blinking of her eyelashes.
"Are you awake?" said Thirteen softly to Sayuri.
"Hmm..." Sayuri's voice trembled slightly, her pupils began to condense, and when she saw Thirteen in front of her, Sayuri's eyes flashed, and her body burst out with a force to get up and hug Thirteen in her arms.
"I thought I'd never see you again. Sayuri choked up with a trembling voice.
Thirteen smiled slightly, his palm gently patting Sayuri's back to comfort him.
"Crying for something, isn't that all good? Trust me, everything will be fine. β
Sayuri sobbed and nodded in Thirteen's arms, and ZERO opened her eyes to look at the girls hugging each other with a complicated expression.
After a long time, Sayuri restrained her crying, and there were still rippling tears on her face.
Looking at Sayuri's pear-flowered face, Thirteen reached out and wiped it, although the world in the Tritocleia stone carving was extremely empty, but the tears on Sayuri's face were extremely real.
"Thank you. Thirteen said to Sayuri.
Sayuri smiled slightly: "It's too polite to tell me this, I wouldn't have had the courage to live until now without you, and now I will pay you back." β
Thirteen's gaze looked at ZERO, intentionally or unintentionally, and then said to Sayuri, "You never owe me anything. β
Sayuri took Thirteen's palm and said, "I will never forget your kindness to me." β
"Me too. Thirteen said softly.
Sayuri nodded, then said to Thirteen, "We need to hurry, the situation outside is urgent." β
Thirteen frowned and said in a deep voice, "What's going on?"
Sayuri gave Zero a hesitant look, then told Thirteen about the agreement between Zero and Professor Simon.
Thirteen looked at ZERO and said, "You actually made that kind of deal with Simon!"
ZERO SAID DRYLY, "I DON'T HAVE A CHOICE. β
"There's no choice!" Thirteen shouted.
"None of what Simon or Yuan Jing said is credible, look at the point where we are today, it's all because of them!" Thirteen's voice struggled.
ZERO WAS SILENT, JUST BITING HIS LIP, HIS FACE EXTREMELY UGLY.
Thirteen was still aggressive, and continued to press ZERO.
"Even so, you choose to trust them!" Zero closed his eyes in agony to avoid making eye contact with Thirteen.
Thirteen sighed: "In your heart, you still trust them, after all, you are Simon raised from a young age, in his mind, you have always had a special status, are pinned on hope, everything we pay is to achieve you!"
"NO," ZERO WHISPERED IN PAIN.
"You know what happens when you say you have no choice? Even if we go well and succeed, what will happen in the end? When we wake up, we will be caught by Simon and the others, stuffed into the laboratory like guinea pigs like before, and subjected to all kinds of inhuman torture, they will analyze every ounce of our blood, inject us with various solutions just to see how we react to it. β
"That's where we endβ" Thirteen's voice gradually lost any emotion.
"No..."
"No? that's something you've never experienced. Thirteen's gaze was cold.
"You don't understand anything. β
"NO!" ZERO hissed.
IN THE MIDST OF THE ROAR, ZERO'S BODY BEGAN TO TREMBLE, APPARENTLY CAUSING HIS SOUL TO CHANGE IN THE TRITOGLAIA STONE CARVINGS.
"I just don't have a choice, I just... I've experienced that, tooβ" ZERO'S BODY BEGAN TO TREMBLE VIOLENTLY.
Sayuri couldn't bear to see ZERO's pain and embarrassment, and wanted to persuade Thirteen, but Thirteen's solemn gaze made her not speak in the end.
"I'm not going to let that happen!" Zero's eyes began to harden.
"I'll fix everything. WITH THAT, ZERO'S BODY BEGAN TO BECOME CONFUSED, AND THEN VANISHED INTO THIN AIR.