"If you kill me here, what's the difference between it and the Facelings you hate?" Xu Quanan sneered.

"Don't get me wrong. First, I don't hate Facelings because he disrupts order. Of course, disrupting order is wrong in any case. But more importantly, I smelled the signs of madness in his way of doing things. Xu Shengxing said, "Second, since a long time ago, you have relied on your own backstage to engage in criminal activities as you like. Far from punishing you, the order of Beaver City has become your umbrella. This order is undoubtedly pathological. If your backstage is an ant colony, and your true identity is really the Lord of Ants, then I don't mind committing a foul once in order to crusade against you. ”

"No matter how flamboyant you are and disrupt the order, you will still disrupt the order." Xu Quanan, the boss of an underground gang, actually behaved like a law-abiding citizen at this time.

And Xu Shengxing is-for-tat, as if he is a gang member who is trying to rob his house, "As long as it is not exposed, it is not a crime." ”

Xu Quanan looked at him for seven or eight seconds, and suddenly said, "I'm not the Lord of Ants." ”

Xu Shengxing put his right hand into his pants pocket, retracted it again, and then said, "You'd better not." ”

"Have you heard the story of the mahouts?" Xu Quanan asked thoughtlessly, and then without waiting for the other party to speak, he continued to speak to himself, "I heard that mahouts in the border area will tie baby elephants to the pillar with chains. When young elephants lack the strength to break free from their chains, they gradually become accustomed to it. Even when you become an adult, you don't know how to break free, and you are at the mercy of chains. ”

He looked at his palm on the arm of his wheelchair, "I've never seen an elephant tamer with my own eyes, so I occasionally wonder if this story is made up." But as an allegory, it still makes a lot of sense. The chains in this story are like our morality. It can be easily broken, but it is followed by people as a matter of course. ”

"You don't mean to educate me to obey the law, do you?" Xu Shengxing looked at him coldly, "A murderer like you? ”

"Do you think you're any different from me? How many people have been burned to ashes in your hands so far? Xu Quanan asked rhetorically.

"All the people I have killed are guilty." Xu Shengxing said.

"It's the same, it's all killing. Once you kill someone and experience the taste of other people's lives being strangled by your own hands, the world in front of you is completely different. Xu Quanan said, "If it was you before you ran away from home, you would naturally not kill people." Even if you can kill easily as a psyker, and even if you occasionally think 'you want to make the nasty guy disappear forever', there will still be invisible chains that stop you when it comes to the critical moment. But it's not so easy for you these days. Because you've already found out from the time you first killed - there are no chains at all. From now on, you can only control yourself by willpower. ”

"Now your eyes are the eyes of a complete murderer." He continued, "You used to spit on me so much, but now you have become the one you hate the most. ”

Hearing this, Xu Shengxing's face did not change. He has experienced a lot of battles, and he is obviously not the kind of person who can be affected by people's mentality in just a few words.

At this moment, Xu Quanan coughed heavily. This cough is not trivial, even the blood is coughed up. After coughing, he pressed his chest with his left hand and wiped the corner of his mouth with a handkerchief in his right hand. When the relatives in the distance saw this scene, they wanted to come forward to ask for warmth, but they were afraid of Xu Shengxing, who was close at hand. When Xu Quanan saw this scene, he smiled self-deprecatingly, "They don't actually care about me, they just care about the benefits I bring." My birthday banquet seemed to be crowded, but in fact I was alone. And my only son, instead of caring about me, came ready to kill me. How I wish you could at least say happy birthday to me, but you said you were going to make my birthday a death day. ”

Xu Shengxing said ruthlessly: "You deserve it." ”

"A man who can't take care of his family is a man who fails. It was also my failure to get to where I am now. Xu Quanan said, "Now, I no longer want you to return to the family." But, at the very least, I would like to be able to have a long talk with you. Not in such noisy places, but in more secluded places. ”

"Yes." Xu Shengxing nodded.

Xu Quanan smiled with relief, "Let's go to the rooftop." It's still raining, can you hold an umbrella for me? ”

"Yes." Xu Shengxing said, "But wait. I'm going to eat with my son first. ”

Xu Quanan nodded.

Xu Shengxing turned around and walked towards me. Xu Quanan looked at his back and said faintly: "You don't even want to call me father." ”

Xu Shengxing didn't look back.

*

Xu Shengxing came back to me, I pretended not to hear the conversation between the two, and asked, "How was the chat?" ”

"It's okay." His mood seemed to be a little low. I think that although he despises Xu Quanan, he can't deny that Xu Quanan is his biological father who accompanied him throughout his childhood. While Xu Quanan was his shame, he did not bring him warm memories. He rubbed his face and said to me, "Actually, he's right. ”

"What's right?"

"I failed to protect you." He said, "If I had paid more attention to you, you wouldn't have been drawn into the Facelings' battle with other criminals last year." ”

"I didn't care."

"I care." He looked at the golden ceiling and sighed, "I even doubted you. ”

"What do you suspect of me?" I asked knowingly.

"Wonder if you're a Faceling." He said.

"I've heard of the Faceling, who is said to be a figure who can defeat psionics with his martial arts skills. But this kind of character is obviously 108,000 miles away from my image, right? I said as I lifted my cane to show off my "disability."

"I also think it's quite unlikely, but it's by no means impossible. The thought that my son might be a Faceling made me sleep. "Especially the other day, something happened that deepened my suspicions. My friends in Sabbath have privately informed me that you and Huma have been caught up in the nightmare of the Dream Monster, and even the whereabouts of the Blighted Cultists, and that the Facelings have also been involved in this incident. I then went to ask Huma, and while he was secretive about your actions in the nightmare, he didn't deny the fact that the Facelings had appeared. ”

He looked straight at me, "That's weird, isn't it?" You appeared in Rest Town, and the Facelings appeared in Rest Town. After you left Sabbat, the Facelings seem to have vanished from Sabbath. ”

"There's a real value in doubt." I nodded, "So, now that you're so open to me, as if you don't have a taboo to startle snakes at all, is there already some way to prove that 'I'm a Faceling'?" ”

"Yes, I have." With that, he pulled out a bracelet from his pants pocket.

It's the bracelet he used against Inoue Renta last time, a psionic item that can detect lies.

"This psionic item can detect lies, and it can be 100% accurate for people who are not psykers." "And for my next question, you just have to answer 'yes' or 'no'." ”

I see, I was indeed a general.

I think he didn't just bring this bracelet for me, it should be to test whether Xu Quanan is the lord of ants, he must have used it on Xu Quanan just now. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to apply for this psionic item from the Bureau. And this can also prove from the side that the ant lord has been removed from the whitelist of some big names. It's just that the most important thing for me at the moment is not this, but my own identity crisis.

It's not that I didn't have any vision of what was going on, but I really didn't have what it took to fight back. With the content of the answer so limited, I can't answer as cleverly as I did last time to avoid the minefield. Once I get to this point, I can only accept the end of exposure.

It's also a matter of time or time. Living under the same roof as someone like Xu Shengxing while continuing to move as a Faceling has been a good luck with the tightrope walking challenge to this end. The next step is nothing more than running away from home. While it was sad to say goodbye to him and his brother, it wasn't a dead farewell. There will always be a chance to meet again in the future. There's no need to be pretentious about it.

I silently tried to adjust my mindset and asked, "If I really were Facelings, how are you prepared?" ”

Xu Shengxing was silent for a moment, and then showed a look that seemed to have made a decision.

But instead of putting words into words, he went straight to the test, "Answer me, are you a Faceling?" ”

*

Just as my answer was about to come out of my throat, the walls of the banquet exploded.

People were stunned and looked at the place where the explosion had come from. I saw a huge hole in the wall, and outside the hole was the scenery of the top floor of the hotel, and the storm blew in through the hole, and a faint dust drifted in the air. The people closest to the entrance of the cave were hit by the explosion and fell to the ground, groaning in pain.

But soon, the wounded stopped screaming, because they also saw that someone had come in from the entrance of the cave. There is no doubt that this man was the culprit behind the explosion. In order to enter the banquet site, he somehow made a hole in the outer wall of the hotel. People whispered.

"Who is he?"

"It's a ...... 30 floors."

"Psyker?"

"Could it be Xu Quanan's enemy......"

"Wait...... This man is ......"

Xu Shengxing protected me behind him, and I stared in that direction.

The attacker stepped out of the dusty place, his appearance unmistakable in front of everyone. He wears a black leather short-beaked beak mask and gloves, a long black trench coat, and a hunting outfit that allows for mobility. Despite being unarmed, he could find traces of white ash on his gloves, as if he had just smashed the wall with his fist. The dust was quickly blown away by the strong wind, and the dark night storm outside the cave looked like the Demon Realm, as if he was a monster from the Demon Realm, chiseling through the walls of the world with one hand and stepping into the peaceful real world.

No matter how you look at it, he's a Faceling.