It's night.

Shuying and Hengxie have been arranged to move in the town, Qiu Xuan thought about it and decided to talk to Zhao Mingsi for a while before going to find Shuying and them in the middle of the night.

"My lord, the batch of test subjects we released has successfully dragged down the mercenary group, and this sneak attack has caught everyone off guard, and I am afraid it will be difficult for them to get out this time." The adjutant knocked lightly on the door and walked in, leaning beside Zhao Mingsi and whispering.

They did the corpse tide that dragged the mercenary group back? Qiu Xuan frowned and continued to listen.

"Okay, the next batch of test subjects is ready, right? Let's do it in the middle of the night. ”

"Yes."

After the adjutant finished reporting some side matters, he withdrew lightly as he did when he came in, and in the room where silence was restored, Zhao Mingsi looked at the empty table, and suddenly hooked the corners of his mouth secretly. Qiu Xuan stood aside and shivered inexplicably, and when he looked at Zhao Mingsi again, he looked kind and cordial again.

Standing in place and waiting for a while, finding that Zhao Mingsi really didn't start acting until the second half of the night as he said, Qiu Xuan hesitated, and floated through the wall to Shuying's residence. Sitting on the bed and sorting out the necessary supplies for a trip, the young magician girl suddenly raised her head as if she had discovered something, and her clear eyes pointed straight to the place where Qiu Xuan was standing.

Qiu Xuan was startled and thought that she had been discovered, but then she thought that it was not right, this was a projection screen similar to time rewind, and it was impossible for her to know that there was someone here. Sure enough, the next moment behind Qiu Xuan standing, the door of Shuying's room was gently knocked twice, and in the former's allowed words, Heng Xie pushed the door and walked in.

Hengxie: "How are you recovering today, and is there anything else uncomfortable?" ”

Shuying lowered her head and thought about it, but decided to speak truthfully: "It's just that sometimes I can't use my strength inexplicably, and there are ...... I often fail to convert the corpses of those black people, and I always feel like something is stopping me. Hengxie, you say, why did I suddenly awaken this ability, and I don't want to be like this......"

"Don't worry, it's okay." Seeing that the girl completely lowered her head, her voice was a little choked, Heng Xie's eyes darkened for a second, and finally raised his hand and patted her shoulder to comfort her. "If you think about it another way, maybe this will be a new way of thinking about the plague? No one else has awakened only you, which can just show your uniqueness! If you think about it, it's good that it's you, if someone else has mastered this ability, you can't use it to do anything more terrible. ”

"I'm afraid I can't control this ability, can you understand my feelings? It's, it's, I always feel like it's controlling me, it's, it's trying to control me! I'm afraid I'm going to become like me anymore, I'm afraid ......"

"Listen to Shuying, don't think so much." Heng Xie stretched out his hand to take the white and trembling girl into his arms, and the dark pupils were obscure under the dim oil lamp at midnight. "Believe in yourself, okay. I'm going to be with you all the time, I'm not going to let you have a day like this, I swear. ”

“…… Thank you. ”

The two hugged each other tightly for a while, as if they could draw strength from each other in this pitch-black endless abyss and then move forward separately. In the end, Heng Xie lightly smoothed her hair, raised his hand to turn off the light and told her to go to bed early.

Shuying sniffed and soothed her emotions and lay down obediently, as the sound of her breathing slowly stabilized, Heng Xie looked at it in the dark for a while, then stood up and walked straight out the door.

“…… Failed, teacher. The tall, thin male magician stood in the dimly lit corner of the hallway, handing a communication device shaped like a walkie-talkie to his lips and whispering. Her genes could not be fused with the Elpis virus, and she was now starting to experience rejection. Teacher...... Do we want to change people? ”

"Substitutions? How can I find a new person now? "The familiar female voice that is transmitted through the communicator and is somewhat distorted but enough to be heard clearly, the overly unique voice and the natural temperament are deeply impactful." Keep increasing the potion, and if it doesn't work after the final period, you'll replace her with the conversion element, you know? We can't afford to lose, Hengxie, no matter what it takes. ”

“……”

"Yes, I see." The young magician, who didn't look like a magician at all, closed his eyes when he heard the sound. He hung up the communicator with Luo Shui, and didn't go back to his room, just leaning against the cold wall and staring in no direction, like a lifeless sculpture.

After looking at it for a while, Qiu Xuan lowered her head to look at the transparent palm she stretched out. Elpis virus...... It turned out that before her, their chosen target was Shuying, but Shuying didn't succeed in fusing this ability. Talking about curses and miracles, what miracles are these. Elpis, the mythical goddess of hope with a lily in her hand, is associated with the "virus" without contradiction, and it turns out that this is the Pandora virus they have prepared for a long time, and they only have to wait until the day when the box is actually opened.

The two stood in the cold and dim corridor for a long time, immersed in each other's complex thoughts, until the exclamation, which was very familiar to Qiu Xuan, broke the dead silence.

"Infecting people...... The Infected's besieging the town! ”

She sighed lightly, she had expected the end and ran towards the exit with the shadow who rushed out in a hurry.

Shuying was panting with a pale face and whispering something to Hengxie, and in the chaotic crowd, another familiar figure suddenly appeared in the field of vision. "Yes...... Shadow sparse, right? The client this time? ”

It's Ling You!

It's just that the tall woman covered in embarrassment and wounds of all sizes is slightly different from what Qiu Xuan remembers, except for the previous time in the tide of the Wei River, she has almost never seen Ling You embarrassed like this. The woman gritted her teeth and wiped the blood from her face, and said, "I am the head of the mercenary group, my name is Ling You, and we encountered a large-scale sneak attack by infected people on the way here, so it was delayed, and the boss asked me to come and answer you first." ”

"But now is clearly not the time to talk about things." Ling You moved the corners of his mouth, twisted his expression for a moment when he pulled a deep wound on his face, and then continued with a very bad face. "Boss, they're already putting the finishing touches on it, but now it's full of infected people outside and they can't enter the town, I've already sent a message asking them to wait for us in a hidden place outside the town, let's find a way to get out of the city."

"But...... What about the rest of the townspeople? Shuying bit her lower lip, her face unbearable. If we stay, we can be considered combat effectiveness, and we can help a little bit, but we can't just watch the infected people break through the wall and watch them die. ”

"You don't understand, we can't afford to lose any more!" Ling You, who was walking in front, suddenly turned his head, and Qiu Xuan was afraid that she would break her neck. "Do you know how many of our brothers died in that attack? Do you know that the boss is still in danger now, and they may not be able to get out of it all?! If it weren't for the commission we had already agreed to, we wouldn't have come back to Chuanliu Town to look for you again! Young people, really, kindness also has to be timed, and untimely kindness will only push others to a more dangerous point. ”

It turns out that the previous mercenary group experienced such a big loss? It's because when the infected people were outside the walls of Chuanliu Town, they devoured the four people in the Mencius period, saw the blood, and then rushed to the living people they found, originally the four people were not enough for them to eat, if they were hungry all the time, it was fine, but once they saw the blood, how could those infected people stop easily? Although it is not good to say this, Qiu Xuan is really glad that she helped Shuying save the four people of Mencius at the beginning.

Ling You finally sighed and stopped talking, but before he could take two steps, the group was stopped by the adjutant who came in a hurry. "Lord Zhao, please go to the wall, when the survival of the river is at stake, I hope you can help us."

"We don't have time, let's find another high." Ling You pushed the adjutant away first, and as soon as he strode forward, his naturally drooping arm was grabbed by the adjutant. "You are a member of the mercenary group, please help us, can you bear to watch the river repeat the mistakes of the dead city of Saurora?!"

"Tsk, I said ......"

"Please take us there." Shuying interrupted the confrontation between them, "Although we are not sure, but we can help a little, we will do our best." ”

"No, don't you understand people?" Ling You forcefully broke away from the adjutant holding her hand, and looked at Shuying with a cold face. "Did I say that I am not against kindness, but kindness should also distinguish the right occasion and weigh your own strength! Excessive kindness can only be called stupidity. ”

Shu Ying suddenly took out the unique mark of the mercenary group held by the client from his pocket and handed it back to Ling You. "Now, even if I unilaterally cancel the delegation, I will bear all the consequences alone, and you can go and join your team. It may be said that I am stupid, or that I am kind at any time, but the truth I believe in does not allow me to die despite my ability. Miss Ling You, it's a pleasure to meet you, let's leave it at that. ”

Ling You held the medal of the mercenary group and looked at her with a heavy gaze. After a while, she smiled and said, "Okay, I'll take back what I said before." There are few people like you in today's last days, so I wish you a good life. ”

"Thank you."

The tall mercenary woman waved her hand and disappeared in the direction of leaving the city, and Shuying turned her head to look at Hengxie with the same seriousness, who took a step forward before she could speak, "I won't leave, I said I would always be with you." ”

The two looked at each other and smiled, looking almost like real soul mates.

The inner city of Nobele, above the wall.

Zhao Mingsi spread his metal wings and watched condescendingly as the soldiers fought with the infected, and then Shuying and Hengxie arrived, he turned to look at them and said with a smile: "Welcome, brave guests, it is a great honor to fight with you for the land of the river." ”

"It should." The magic element in Shuying's hand jumped, bringing a little brilliant brilliance to the scene of this disaster. "In the face of this common disaster for mankind, people who are still alive should support each other to go on."

In an instant, after knowing most of the truth, Qiu Xuan didn't know what to say in the face of such a shadow again. She looked indescribably at the magician girl who had not yet been infected by those filthy darkness, and suddenly felt a little sad.

But this is only No. 1, perhaps a memory of Hengxie, and she is just a bystander, powerless to change the established past. So she could only watch from the sidelines, watching Shuying and Hengxie cooperate to save one black person after another, watching them run out of mana and exhausting, and watching Zhao Mingsi wave his hand with a sinister smile on the corner of his mouth to cover the power grid that was specially used to capture the experimental subjects.

"It's really, a bumper harvest."

His mechanical wings were raised and folded in the air, and his expression was one of godly grace. "The 'Prophet' and 'Hope' of the Academy of Sciences, hahaha...... I wonder how strong you can be after being infected by the plague? ”

"What are you talking about?! Isn't it only black people who can be infected, and ......"

"So, that's the narrowness of the Academy of Sciences." Zhao Mingsi lowered his gaze and looked at the human purgatory below, "I can do the same thing better, better than Gu Qing and Biluo Shui." However, they were short-sighted and could only see what was superficial, and they disdained my experiments, and even expelled me from the main city in disguise and gave me only one city as a perfunctory. ”

"There are always some people, such as Meng Ge and Luo Shui, who mock and ridicule me and say that I am always playing the savior. But you know, all this time, I was not playing the savior. ”

"I am the only faith in their hearts."

"When the plague comes, I am the only god."

Qiu Xuan stood aside and gestured to him for the immobile Shuying and Heng Xie towards him.

"Sparse ...... Shuying, "In the chaos, Hengxie raised his hand with difficulty and gently touched the girl who was half unconscious. "Do you believe me? Give me your hand. ”

“……”

The hands of the two trembled and clasped together in the net, and from the place where the hands were clasped, an endless black mist so thick that it could not be dissolved. Shuying's face was pale, as if she was experiencing some great pain, gritting her teeth and letting out a few wisps of pain, Heng Xie held her hand tightly, closed her eyes, and her face was very ugly.

"Separate them for me!" Although he didn't know what the two were doing, Zhao Mingsi, who had a bad instinct, ordered the soldiers on the side. The direct current on the power grid was hastily turned off, and the soldier held his weapon and stabbed at the clasped hands of the two, and in the next second, Heng Xie grabbed the power grid that was no longer energized with his bare hands and tore it apart with force.

Behind him, Shuying had fallen into a complete coma, and he staggered to his feet, his dark eyes without a trace of life belonging to a living person.

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