Chapter 8: The Price Paid for the Truth
Through the heavy iron door, Sakura and Jay outside the crypt could faintly hear Maugham's hissing screams. The two looked at each other speechlessly, they didn't expect that Akita, who seemed to be submissive, would have some such drastic methods.
Just as the two of them pondered whether they would have to bully him into making dinner tonight, the cries in the crypt stopped abruptly.
Sakura exhaled lightly and said, "I hope he can still remember my words and not kill Maugham." ”
Xiaojie said in a low voice: "Do you want to go in and have a look." Sakura pondered for a moment and shook her head and said, "Since I have promised him that there is naturally no need to peep halfway, I choose to believe him." Xiao Jie nodded in agreement, but judging from his action of stopping to play the handheld, Xiao Jie was also quite worried about what happened to the ground **.
About a stick of incense passed, but a rhythmic tapping sound was heard, apparently telling the two people outside the crypt to enter.
Sakura opens the crypt door and re-enters with Jay.
Akita appeared in front of Maugham with a pale face, and his body seemed to be up and down due to strenuous exercise, but his overall mental state was still good.
In contrast, Maugham, who sat on the stone bench, was not so lucky.
Maugham's head was tilted back high, and the first thing one could see was the bruised neck.
As Sakura got closer, she suddenly noticed that Maugham's mouth was wide open enough to fit an adult's fist, and there were still some traces of saliva at the corners of his mouth.
Maugham's eyes are closed, but there is a gap between the upper and lower eyelids that can be seen into his eyeballs.
Seeing this, Sakura subconsciously wanted to spy on Maugham's snort and the dilation of her pupils.
However, Akita on the side suddenly spoke: "Don't worry, he's still alive." ”
Sakura looked at Akita and said, "Is it alive or is it only a life characteristic?"
Akita said: "He is only in a state of fainting now, and I think he will recover after a while, but to be honest, he is worthless to you anymore, and you can consider how to punish him." ”
Sakura and Xiaojie listened to Akita's confident words and unconsciously questioned them, knowing that the torture time used by Akita was not long, even if Maugham poured beans into a bamboo tube as soon as he came up, it would take some time, and Akita's speed was not too fast.
However, Sakura still showed decisive judgment in this regard.
"I believe in you. Sakura said indifferently, and then Sakura said, "You don't look very good right now, and you need to rest." Akita did not object.
Sakura said to him, "Take us out of here." ”
Xiao Jie agreed, and then his fingers quickly pressed a few times on the handheld, and suddenly saw that the surrounding scene began to become blurred and blurred.
It turns out that everything around him is an illusion created by Xiaojie using the ability of the desecrated, and Maugham is just locked up in his game console.
When Akita put his feet on the ground, an inexplicable sense of security swept over his body.
"Huhu, I'm now thinking about whether to prepare a totem gyroscope to tell if this is a dream or a reality. ”
Xiao Jie said: "I'm afraid the result will disappoint you, my ability is not to create an environment, but to create space, what you feel just now is just the space I created, and these spaces are real in the universe." ”
Akita exclaimed, "This is really a transcendent ability, and according to what you just said, I would like to ask you a question, that is, how did the new Victorian era emerge and what is it all about?"
"First of all, I want to admit that the space of New Victoria absolutely exists, and I really don't know how it was developed on a large scale. ”
"All I know is that its creator should be the same as me, but far superior to me, and with the help of the right time and place, it has finally reached the scale it is now. ”
Akita said: "I've been there once, and it's really... It's hard to imagine. ”
Xiaojie said: "There are too many unimaginable things in this world, and even a person who looks quite ordinary is very likely to surprise people beyond expectations." The last thing Xiaojie was referring to was Akita.
Akita only smiled at this, and then said: "What do we know about the situation now? Speaking of which, Maughamqi is just a traitor tool to transmit news to the outside world, and it can be said that he has very little understanding of the so-called Nightingale organization behind it. And even when communicating with Nightingale, the method he uses is to use an intermediary to transmit, which can be said to be a completely old-fashioned one-line multi-trip contact method, but it can indeed improve a lot for his own safety. ”
"Cunning enough. Sakura on the side interjected.
Akita laughed: "Cunning foxes are no match for good hunters, although they are very stealthy, but they still have loopholes, and the most fatal flaw lies in the middleman. ”
Akita organized the words in his heart and said: "As far as I know, Maugham is definitely not the only one who buried the nail in Nightingale's comic research club, he is just the one with the worst luck." And it is the intermediary who holds the secrets of these informants. ”
Sakura and Jie glanced at each other again, and the idea of a traitor had been swirling in their hearts all along, and now this idea was finally confirmed in Akita's mouth. I don't feel happy.
Akita said, "If you want to deal with foreign enemies with peace of mind, you should pull out these nails hidden inside as soon as possible." ”
Sakura nodded, this seemingly ruthless train of thought was absolutely correct.
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When Akita returned to his room, Akita's whole person collapsed in an instant, and the lively demeanor he had just had was gone.
It's been a long time since I've used the power of the Soul Ring, and this sudden use makes Akita feel very uncomfortable, if it weren't for Sayuri's request, Akita would definitely not be like this.
But it was useless to say anything now, and Akita landed on one knee and pressed his hand to his chest to contain the intense nausea that kept coming up. At the same time, the intense sense of satisfaction and desire that consumed his soul began to eat away at his body.
Akita knelt completely on the ground and touched his head to the ground, letting out a low roar in his throat under rational restraint.
Countless voices echoed in his head again.
Hatred, resentment, desolation.
However, there is one voice that is particularly harsh.
"Remember, when you have experienced betrayal and betrayal, you will understand me once and for all... Understand everything I do until you finally become me..."