Yuki heard the sound of tires.

He clung to the rock wall, his eyes closed, his heart rate down.

The artificial heart slows down the flow rate. At the same time, the diaphragm stopped moving, and the air sacs on both sides of the "Dragon's Breath" scaled in minimal amplitude, allowing him to breathe as fast as he could.

A voice came.

"Captain, the woman turned a corner here...... A fork in the road here—huh? ”

"What's wrong?"

"She seems to have turned back."

"The road over there? I think it works, right? ”

"So panicked that you became a headless fly?"

"Anyway, is it really okay for us to talk like this now? Echoes can travel far away, right? ”

"You don't understand, third child." The second voice, the one who seemed to be in the lead, said in a low voice, "If we don't chase it out, the woman will probably think she's out of danger and run away." We only try to make a faint movement and tell her that 'someone is chasing after her' that she will run away desperately. That's how you can speed up the pace of the game! ”

"High! Team vice, high! ”

"Hahaha, there's another good thing here." The leader chuckled in a low voice, "Isn't she still carrying a cub?" That cub also looks like a twenty-kilogram one, which will greatly drain her physical energy! As long as she is forced like this, she will be able to squeeze her limits. Imagine trying your best, your heart and intestines are going to explode, your eyes are black, and in this case, you have to see the light, take a breath, think you have escaped, and your eyes are full of hope - and, wow! Here we are! ”

"Hahaha! Wonderful! Wonderful! ”

Yuki couldn't help but shudder.

This is the "thug" - this is the martial arts people who are addicted to "violence" and "trampling"!

The sound of tires faded away.

Yuki's strength was sent, and he couldn't help but fall to his knees.

His hands and feet trembled. But the amazing thing is that while the feeling of "fear" continues to gush out, there is also a feeling that grows in his heart.

That's "shame".

He was ashamed of his fears.

"I'm a 'chivalrous.'" The boy said to himself, "I am a 'chivalrous...... I am, knight. ”

- I already have that pain in my heart...... I can't let it behave on anyone else.

Yuki said to herself in her heart.

He quietly stood up from the corner where he was hiding, and then secretly poked his head out of the corner.

He was afraid that there was a face behind the corner, waiting for him to probe, so he shouted, "Got you!" ”

Or, directly, a gun.

Looking at the hollow corridor, Yuki breathed a sigh of relief.

Then punch yourself hard in the thigh above your knee.

- I'm a knight......

Although he knew that he should not follow from a rational point of view, there was an emotion that drove his actions.

Little by little......

Careful......

- Keep a distance from the corner at least once......

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When little Edward saw blood on the ground, he couldn't help but laugh.

Generally speaking, this represents two things.

First, he didn't lose it.

Of course, this is not too much of a problem. There is monitoring in the corridor anyway, even if the other party is really lucky, good enough to be able to accurately pass through the unmonitored passage, it doesn't matter.

Because there will be surveillance at the exit from the corridor.

When it comes to that step, the brothers in the monitoring room will definitely give a reminder.

And then there's the second point - the woman is almost at her limit.

She couldn't even make a protective movement when she fell to the ground.

"Very good......" said little Edward.

He was even thinking about slowing down a little so that the woman could rest a little.

Although it is interesting to look at a tired corpse, it is not as interesting as crushing hope with your own hands.

At this time, a person at the end of the line suddenly listened to the rear.

"What's wrong?" Edward Jr. asked.

"Looks like a warning bell?" The man said uncertainly.

Now it is also a few kilometers away from Dazhai. No matter how obvious the echo is, the sound is not as clear as the ship is so far away.

The other person said suspiciously, "Alarm bells? Not really, right? Didn't get a signal to go back? ”

"Indeed......," little Edward nodded, "Although I greeted the others earlier, and asked them to deliberately create the illusion that 'the defense of the stockade is flawed'...... But they probably won't turn the alarm bells out, right? That's a lot of morality! ”

"Shall we go back and see ......?"

With a snap, little Edward slapped hard with his palm and interrupted his subordinates: "You are insane! The second master is still in the stockade, what enemy can get in? Feudal official? The government's crackdown on bandits will not be this movement. ”

"Anyway, it's only a minute away from the exit now, let's go and see that woman after we finish playing!"

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Emiko has reached her limit.

Her heart was dying. And the heart too. The primitive lung structure is not capable of providing such intensity of exercise.

Even her eyes couldn't see clearly. Although there was some lighting in the corridor, he could barely see it.

The originally dim corridor seemed to have turned into some kind of demonic realm—it was the kind of ...... that existed The ...... that exists in the "fantasy" that has long been abandoned by mankind Monsters that can't exist...... Man-eating demon ...... The abode of something that is not real.

The exit ahead seemed out of reach. For Emiko, the ground is as soft as cotton...... No, she's running out of energy.

The child in her arms seemed to sense something, crying desperately, and kicked Emiko who was hugging her hard.

"Quiet...... Be quiet! Emiko screamed, covering the horn in the child's mouth with her hand. She almost wanted to crush the vocal organ. But as an inprosthetic, she doesn't have that kind of power.

Several times, she wanted to simply leave the girl still halfway. But the faint sound behind him killed this thought several times.

- This little ghost, so unthankful......

Such a thought flashed through Emiko's consciousness as she was about to disappear.

- If it weren't for my sister liking you, I would have strangled you......

She stumbled and ran.

I don't know how long it took - the woman who was dying seemed to have completely lost her sense of time. She doesn't even remember how she got down the last stretch of the road.

By the time she regained consciousness, she was lying on a soft layer of moss.

Emiko's lungs are the first to feel the breath of the "outside". Photosynthesis in plants results in higher oxygen levels than in the corridors. She breathed air with "life force"!

Followed by the eyes.

Sunlight...... It was the warm light of the sun, through her slightly metallic eyelids, caressing softly against the retina.

"I ...... I'm out......" Emiko regained consciousness slightly, but she was not sure if she was in a dream.

As far as the eye can see, there is a black tundra.

Perhaps because there is an underground river underground, the soil is much wetter than elsewhere. There's a bit of vegetation here. Black moss covers the entire field of view, occasionally showing reddish veins in places. In addition, there are some half-meter-tall white fungal vegetative structures.

That's right, this is "outside"!

"Great...... Emiko cried with joy, "We can all go back alive...... Great......"

"Little ghost, we can live together now. It's true...... I can go to the gene bank and register a name for you...... We can be a family...... As long as it's ...... As long as you get to the city......" Emiko gasped and said, "As long as you get to the city, the old man will ...... It will ...... We ......"

"Hahahahahahaha...... The Protectors don't care much about the lives of individuals! ”

At this time, a rough man's voice came from the loudspeaker on the young girl's mouth.

Emiko felt a wave of vertigo.

This voiceprint ...... She was familiar. It's the ...... who occasionally comes to torment her

"How could it be ......?"

"Look behind you!"

The horn in the mouth of the young girl continued.

The young girl seemed to be aware of this, and she wept and shook the big horn on her mouth desperately, as if trying to interrupt the words in her mouth. But it doesn't seem to be at her will.

Behind him, the sound of tires crushing the ground was heard.

Emiko screamed and ran away. But just now she had already overdrawn her physical strength. She had only run two steps before she fell to the ground.

Little Edward came out of the corridor and said with a smile, "Tell you a good thing...... That little thing in your arms is the culprit who betrayed you! ”

Emiko stared blankly at the young girl in her arms.

"She, hey, hey, hey......" Little Edward snapped his fingers. At this moment, the young girl seemed to be allowed to use the vocal organ. She cried desperately, and her cry was extremely harsh.

Emiko felt that her eardrums were painful.

It hurts.

It hurts so much that I want to cry.

"She's a tape recorder, a video recorder, a locator...... "The man laughed: "For more than a year, there have been three fools who have run away with her, and you are the third." Her eyes could have recorded the expressions of the first two fools. I've recently taken it out to reminisce – do you want to see it? ”

"You ......" Emiko burst into tears: "This little bastard, she ......"

"She does have a real chance of being a mongrel. Maybe it's the genetic offspring of one of the brothers in the village. You think, even if we don't like any 'obligations', it's inevitable. Little Edward smiled and said, "What are you going to do now?" Do you want to strangle this little bastard? ”

The young girl cried bitterly, as if she had foreseen what was going to happen.

Emiko stared blankly at the baby.