When Fio and Lorraine smashed open the fourth door and rushed into the bathroom, dragging out the xenomorph who had been hiding in the corner to kill him, Marin heard a whisper.

The painting is in the basement, and I'm waiting for you upstairs...... Don't kill my children anymore, aren't you looking for me, come on, find me, and let's put an end to this.

Marin turned his head to look at the girls and the half-grown boy who claimed to be the most handsome man in the Central Province, and saw that they didn't seem to hear anything at all.

Raising her head and looking at the ceiling, Marin suddenly began to miss her youth, at that time, she was also in such a tone, telling each other's expectations for the future, and sometimes mentioning that when each other is old, they must return to the orphanage, where she and he came out and should have returned there.

It's called a beginning and an end, she said...... It's a pity that Marin spent ten years understanding that in his future, she has no future.

But I didn't expect that one day today, I would hear her voice again.

But after thinking about it again, it seemed that one day before, he had heard and even seen her, but the next second the guy who dared to deceive himself was hammered out of his brain.

After thinking about it for a while, Marin gave up smashing the fifth door and led Fio and Lorraine directly to the basement in front.

"Marin, what's wrong, where are you going!" Lilim, who had been controlling the exit in the direction of the gate, asked loudly.

"I heard the mother's whisper, painted downstairs, and she was upstairs." Marin stopped at this point, he walked to the center of the hall, looked at the second floor, and after a moment of silence, he spoke directly: "I can come up to meet you, but you must tell your children to leave the first floor and the basement, I will ask my friend to go to the basement to collect the scroll, and then, I will come up to see you in person." ”

The scene was a little silent, but when several doors were opened, and the aliens carefully climbed out, and then meekly climbed up the pillar to the second floor, Jiaxi couldn't help but look at Marin: "You must be crazy!" You're making a deal with Xenomorphs! He walked up to Marin and looked at Marin condescendingly: "I will tell the headquarters of the royal investigation office and the churches what happened today!" ”

"Yes, I expect you to speak in front of you about everything that's happening here at this moment, I've made a deal with the aberrations that infect the city, it's just a kind of deal, and now, you go back to the basement and walk back to that damn magic carpet, and I'm going to meet an old man."

Jiaxi was stunned for a moment, and then seemed to understand the meaning of Marin's words, he fell silent for a moment, and looked at Marin's expression with a hint of understanding.

Eventually, he walked to the basement alone, rejecting Jessica's offer to cover for him: "Remember, your husband told me that there are no more Xenomorphs in the basement, and that if I die at the hands of Xenomorphs, that's his problem." The young man stood at the top of the stairs, just rubbing shoulders with the alien who was walking up.

"I never knew your cousin was so bold." Cross looked at Faye, then noticed the confusion on the elf's face, "What's wrong with you, Faye. ”

"I'm thinking...... Shall I go up with it? Faye watched Marin turn and walk to the steps leading to the second floor, a little puzzled to himself: "I obviously wanted to follow him up, why can't I take a step." ”

"Is it because of the old man?" Cross looked at her sister, who seemed to want to do the same, but finally smiled: "After all, Mr. Marlin has a mysterious past, and my curiosity from a mage has told me more than once that he wants to know the secrets of all this, but as a woman, I ...... I have also warned myself more than once that there are some secrets that I should not have known. ”

"Have you ever been curious?" Faye asked.

"Of course, it's a mage's intellectual curiosity, and so should you, right?" Cross said as she watched as Marin reached out and stroked the head of an alien, who was crouching there like a Tynan.

"No, my thirst for knowledge comes from the heart of a jealous woman, not a stupid mage full of curiosity." After Faye finished speaking, he finally took a step: "I want to see the whispering master that echoes in Marin's mind, whether she is human or alien. ”

"You're causing her trouble, Faye." Although Cross said this, she didn't mean to stop her.

“…… I'm not stupid enough to follow Marin. With that, Faye took out a metal tube from his space bag and threw it at Marin.

And Marin caught it, looking at the metal pipe, Marin was a little curious: "What is this." ”

Faye smiled, "This is a gift from my mother, she said that she found it during an adventure in the ruins of the First Age when she was younger, and when you infuse it with psionic energy, a psionic sword will be created...... Also, don't turn your exit to yourself, this would be the stupidest way to commit suicide in this era. ”

Removing the tube from his eyes, Marlin flipped through the tube in his hand and noticed a circular mark on it that was worn to the point that it was barely visible: "I've never heard you talk about it. ”

"You've never told me about your old friend, share your vision with me, okay?" Faye asked, smiling.

Marin felt the trembling in the girl's smile in front of him, and finally he agreed to Faye's request to share the technique, and when she gained his vision, Marin patted the armrest: "Follow me, go see this old man." ”

With that, Marin continued on his way and stepped up the steps.

What's wrong with the world, Marlin, that's all changed.

As the footsteps went up, the whispers rang out again, and Marin didn't know how to explain.

I should tell her that you are dead, and I have come to another world, and now you are nothing more than an illusion stolen from my mind by a distorted magic carpet scroll, an afterimage destined to have no past, a time from the past that will not move.

It will eventually be blurred by time, and it will eventually be ...... Forget.

You've told me the answer, I see, I'm just a memory in your heart.

This mother body had psionic abilities that Marlin had never imagined, and her exclamation eventually became a real voice, just as Marlin saw her when he walked up to the second floor.

It's already a complete alien appearance, a standard appearance, a standard limb, a standard tail, and everything before is just a fantasy in Marin's heart.

There is no meeting in the sunshine, there is no girl standing in front of the window facing herself, and there is no smile in the last memory.

Some are just a monster with her memories.

"You're here." The alien's voice was strange, perhaps because its larynx didn't support such a pronunciation at all, and after saying a word or two, it gave up, and the alien mother crouched down with her back to the sun.

I felt like I had a long dream, and when I woke up, I found myself a monster...... It was the painting in the basement that gave me a new lease of life, didn't it?

"Yes, if I'm not mistaken, it stole your memories from my memories and the memories of your shell, and combined you...... You're just a pathetic stitch monster, a past with no future, and I don't even want to mention your name because you're not her at all. Marin looked at the monster in front of him and said in one breath: "Let me purify you, your existence is a desecration of life." ”

Why, I have all the memories of her! I am her! Don't you love her! Then try to love me, too!

The mother screeched to its feet.

Marin shook his head: "Everything you know is just an illusion that I created for you, and you don't even know that you are dead. With that, Marlin reached out and an xenomorph approached him, trying to rub its head against Marin's hand.

Marin smiled and stroked its head, then his hand slipped from the middle of its head, eventually grabbing its neck...... Crush it.

The aliens screamed and pounced on Marlin.

The first leaped before being shattered by Fio's shotgun rolled in a twig, and the number eight bullet pierced through its body, tearing apart its twisted inhuman shell.

The second one went around behind Marlin along the dead end of the desk, and when it reached the attack position and poked its head out, a double-barreled shotgun had been pushed against its head, and the back of the head was broken into pieces with a single shot, and when it fell to the floor, the murderer replaced the bullet with a soft branch, and at the same time used the shotgun on the other branch to fire at the alien who jumped into the air, and the latter used its tail to fly one of the shotguns, but the other shot got into its eye socket, avoiding the hard forehead, The bullet drilled through its eyes, and then through its brain.

Eventually, it fell to its companion, who was restrained by Lorraine, holding a shotgun and trying to smash the back of its head with force and determination.

Marin swung the psionic sword in his hand, and the energy sword body was like slicing butter, evenly slicing the alien that rushed in front of him in half.

"Your children are no match for me at all, and you, too, are protecting your eggs, and you don't want to go away because they have already begun to hatch." Pulling the psionic sword out of the head of the alien in front of him, looking at the mouthparts that fell to the ground, Marin turned his head to look at the last offspring alien, it was restrained in mid-air by Lorraine, while Fio was reloading, its dozen or so shoots could draw out empty shells while stuffing the single-headed bullet into the barrel, and the shotgun had never been so efficient in reloading as today since it was invented.

Marin didn't look at the end of the offspring alien, but turned his head to look at the mother who stood up: "A fake is always a fake, you are not her, haven't you heard the meaning of my words?" ”

Yes...... You're right.

The mother finally stopped his silence and grinned as if grinning, pulling a skull from behind a nearby bookshelf and throwing it in Marin's footsteps.

She was tough to deal with, but in the end I was victorious, and these bugs were powerful enough as offspring of her and other prey, but alas...... Why can't I deceive you, human beings are so fragile, I obviously use your most vulnerable as bait, you shouldn't find anything.

"You see, both you and her are nothing more than echoes of the past to me, and they are nothing more than existences that must be eradicated by my own hands." Marlin lifted his foot and crushed the skull.

"Why do you think that, you even pity that little thing named Mira." The mother was ready to pounce.

"I pity it because she was saved by her savior, from a wretched thing that is bound to degenerate and degenerate back to its normal state, I pity it because I understand that I must kill her and her companions in order to live more innocently, I am touched by the purest friendship between them, I am touched by the most immaculate care between them, I am ashamed that I must kill two poor children to save tens of thousands of innocents, because I said that life is equal, and on that day, I had to break my vows, I was ashamed of what I said and did, even if I still did it, even if I told myself that it was far better to sacrifice two people than tens of thousands...... But I still can't forgive the choices I made that day, because I broke my vows, and my actions disgraced my words and deeds, which is why I pity them...... Because I can't pity myself. ”

Marin said this, looking at the mother in front of him, it had already arched its body: "And you are different from them, they are living people, and you are just puppets woven from the memories stolen from my mind by the magic carpet, you are not life, just alien ...... who kill each other for survival." ”

The continuous speech made Marin gasp slightly, and he looked at the mother body in front of him and shook his head: "Just like you said, let's end this." ”

The mother pounced on Marin, so fast that even Fio couldn't lock on to it, and Lorraine dropped the shotgun and turned into a round shield on Marin's left forearm, the mother's sharp claws hit the shield, and an unexpected situation happened, not being shattered by a blow to this wooden shield at the same time, the mother body was also distorted by the shock force from the target, Marlin slid and let the other claw of the mother sweep, the psionic sword in his hand burrowed into its arm joint, dismembering its claws at the same time, Marlin was short, The mother's tail swept over his head, and then the mother wailed, her tail was held by Marin, and in her full grasp, Marin could hear the sound of the carapace shattering, and could feel the tenacity of the piece of flesh when it was held and deformed, and could see the green stickiness that splattered out after being cut by the psionic sword.

"You were never the most powerful hunter I can remember, the magic carpet created you with her, but it didn't give you the power you had in your heyday, because it was too weak, and you ...... Far more powerful than you can get. Stepping back again, letting go of the sweeping claws, Marin held the Psionic Sword, and in the face of its kicking hind legs, Marin held the sword right in front of him, watching its feet hit its head in front of the Psionic Sword.

The mother was lamenting again, it fell to the ground, lost its balance, and could only watch Marlin as he slowly walked over.

Lorraine pinned it to the floor, screaming and trying to get up, but losing its legs, feet, and tail, it couldn't even maintain the most basic balance.

Eventually, Fio joins in, pulling the back of the mother's head back, and a branch runs through its mouthparts.

Marin stood in front of it.

"You're not it at all, not even yourself, you're just a pathetic replica made of a magic carpet, your so-called her is just the so-called beauty of a dream to me, and she said that she wouldn't want it when it doesn't move." After Marin finished speaking, he lowered his body, took the shotgun that Beep had dragged over, and then picked it up and stuffed it back into the hood behind him.

Checking the bullets in the shotgun, Marlin raised the gun, muzzle pressed against its eye.

Lorraine immobilized its skull, restrained its frantic resistance.

"Good night." With that, Marin pulled the trigger.

Fio was the first to let go of the fixed branches, and Lorraine then let go, and the two World Tree twigs were wrapped around Marin's arms again.

I...... Love......

It was only then that a final whisper came from the side of the giant brain and perhaps the alien matrix where the radio waves were roaming.

Marin took a deep breath and walked over to the pile of eggs, which in the dark corners had a magical beauty, and at Marin's command, Fio and Lorraine began to work with a blood roar and a hammer, respectively.

Each egg will be smashed open and everything in it will be killed.

There is no pity, no pity, only the greatest sense of responsibility for the world.

There was footsteps behind him, and Marin turned to see Faye standing in front of the steps, who looked at Marin: "I think someone should give you a hug, whether it's for a boy who has broken his heart or for a hero who has saved the city again and again." ”

Marin looked at her and finally embraced the girl with open arms.

"What stands in front of you is never a hero, what you see is just a mortal who understands what he is......" Speaking of this, Marin felt tears falling on his face, let go of his hands, and looked at the girl in front of him, who had a sad face, but asked a question with a smile.

"Can't you tell us how many secrets you have?"

"There are a lot of them, because you won't understand them, I'm sorry...... I ...... "Marin felt like he had some, no, not some, but simply couldn't explain it."

What would he have to say to make them understand that he came from a godless world, and how to explain it so that Faye's mother could understand that her mentor's child was dead, and that his body was alive with a lonely ghost from another world.

"That's so......" Faye also lowered his head, and in this corner, Marin could see tears in the corners of her eyes, but to his surprise, the girl finally leaned down and kissed him on the cheek.

"Maybe that's what Mother said, everyone has his own secrets...... I won't ask you, but please don't forget that we are always behind you, looking forward to every day with you, and don't let down every lady who expects from you, okay? Faye smiled at the end, waiting for Marin's answer.

Marin nodded: "This is our agreement, so I swear that I will never disappoint everyone who expects me." ”

After saying that, Marin took Faye's hand and came to the mother's side, Fio had already finished their work with Lorraine at this time, Marin asked it to cut off the mother's head: "This is the trophy I gave to you, maybe I can exchange something with the Church of the God of Justice." ”

"How are we going to drag it back?" Looking at the somewhat large head, and facing Faye's doubts, Marin finally smashed open the glass window and threw it down from the second floor.

At this time, Jiaxi had just come out of the basement, he looked at the huge head, and then at Marin and Faye who were walking down the steps, this half-sized man thought for a moment, and decided to let his words carry a hint of optimism: "I just spent a time in the bathroom, and you killed that thing's mother?" ”

"You're a genius, yes." After Faye finished speaking, he gave this cousin a roll of the eyes: "You are the son of a nobleman, how can you say such a straightforward swearing." ”

"Hey, but I'm telling the truth!" Jiaxi said as he pointed to the magic carpet in his arm: "It took me five minutes to seal it, and when I came up, I saw that you were all going down!" ”

Marin walked past him and patted him on the shoulder: "You should say so, I am sincerely saddened by the unfortunate death of the mother of these foreign guests, she is a good mother, she has always tried to protect her children, but until the end she has not been able to escape the punishment that belongs to her, fate is so cruel." ”

"I swear, the goddess wants to hit you when she hears it." Jiaxi glanced at Marin, then thought about it for a while, and decided to speak: "By the way, Marin, what are you going to do with that head, can you sell it to me." ”

Marin, who had already walked to the door, stopped, and he opened his arms and hugged the girls beside him: "No, this is my first gift to my ladies, and there will be many more, but it is the first, the first one with a commemorative meaning, so ......"

Jiaxi raised his hand to signal to Marin that he understood: "I understand, with this head, we talk about money and hurt feelings, right." ”

"That's right, but I'll give you the little ones if you need them." Marin said as he turned around: "I'll start the car, we'll wait for you in the car, are you going to cut off your head before leaving, or leave them here, whatever you want." ”

Hearing this, Jiaxi glanced around, at this time the fire in the police station was already burning a little unscrupulously, and finally this half-grown man chose to run quickly to the police station and followed Marin's footsteps: "I listen to you, the dead xenos will not run away on their feet." ”

Hearing this, Marin turned his head and glanced at him - I'm afraid you haven't seen your long-legged running head.