Lowe sat back down in the deserted dining room of the Marquis's mansion and began to bury his head in. He had decided to take her out of here and send his girl to Twilight once he had become the Marquis's heir.

The Marquis has returned from Black Prison City, Yiya has once again entered the underground research base, and the blood fusion operation performed by Heidi herself is also nearing completion.

Luo is not worried that Yi will have any accidents, he can feel that Yi's emotions are always calm, without the slightest wave of emotions, there is a faint sense of pleasure hidden deeply.

This pleasure came from the depths of Yi's heart, it was hidden deep enough, but it was still caught by Luo.

He couldn't guess what was causing the turmoil in the depths of his heart, and he didn't want to think about it, he chose to forget the pleasure completely, as if he had never found it.

Lowe remained silent, and devoted almost all of his energy to dealing with the large piece of roast meat that filled half the table in front of him. He shoved pieces of roast meat with enough energy into his mouth and swallowed it into his stomach without any chewing.

He's using this almost masochistic way of eating to numb his nerves, and to make the last energy reserves for the upcoming trip to the icefields.

Mars, who had always maintained a humble attitude, was not by Luo's side, and Mars had already been ordered to guard the door of the research base again, ready to kill any beings who wanted to approach the gate of the base.

Among the people Mars wanted to stop was Luo, who was invited by the Marquis of Begu to stay with Luo throughout the bloodline fusion, but Luo refused. In this last moment, Luo chose to escape, chose to sit here, and in the process of frantically eating, silently waiting to come out of that door.

"Actually, you don't have to be so masochistic, you can be by her side, you have this right. I'm sitting here because I'm still not qualified to watch His Excellency Heidi's surgery, and I'm forced to do so. Our situation is different, I don't have the right to choose, and you give up the right to choose. ”

Sitting across from Lowe, talking to Lowe while dealing with the food in front of him, was Dr. Chloe, who had been abused by Lowe once, except that he had now changed his name, and his name was now Rock Frollo.

Dr. Locke initially intended to use a fork, but after thinking of some unpleasant experience and having been picked on by the fork, he eventually gave up on the fork that still made him feel uneasy, reached out and tore off a piece of roast meat that was large enough, and began to nibble on it without hesitation.

"I was studying a field of study that disqualified me from observing H.E. Heidi's surgery. But that's why I have the opportunity to sit here and have the opportunity to communicate with you face-to-face and alone. ”

Locke didn't eat much, or he wasn't used to using a knife and fork to deal with the browned roast in front of him like Lowe. He squeezed his greasy hands on the white napkin a few times, picked up the corner of the napkin and wiped his mouth a few times, and then hastily ended his rather rough meal.

"In a sense, I am immortal."

Dr. Locke rubbed his bloodshot dead fish eyes, staring at Lo, who was still dealing with the roast meat in his hands, as if he was talking to Lo, and as if he was talking to himself.

"I've died in misery again and again, but I've always come out of the nutrient tank again and again, so I have no reason to fear death. Death for me, maybe, maybe, just a matter of draining some more nutrient fluid. ”

Dr. Locke vigorously scratched his hair with his still oily hands, once again succeeding in restoring himself to the roughness he had when he first met Lowe.

"But I have to admit that the moment you broke into my bedroom, I felt the fear. In retrospect, the reason for my fear at the time was not that I was afraid that you would hurt me, torture me, or even kill me. ”

Locke suddenly stood up, walked up to Lowe, bent down, and put his lips to Lowe's ear.

"What I fear is the outside world that I see through the nutrient tank, the cold, blurry, distorted world. Have you ever peeked into the outside world through the frosted glass of the nutrient tank? Dear Lowe. ”

Luo finally swallowed the piece of roast meat in his hand, and chewed the bone in his hand little by little, and swallowed it into his stomach.

"When your girl walks out of the research base gates, I'll be devoured by death again, and there should be no chance of reawakening."

"I want to say that if one day you regret your decision to let her into this base, you can try to wake me up, I believe you have the ability, and please believe that I have the ability to reverse your decision."

Dr. Locke placed the fork with the minced meat of his mouth on the table in front of Lowe, chuckled, and turned to walk out.

Lowe looked at the piece of minced flesh from his mouth that was still on the fork and torn off by Locke, looked down and thought for a moment, then suddenly reached out and pinched it, put it in his mouth, and swallowed it into his stomach.

This was the last time Lowe and Dr. Locke, who could have had so much glory in the old era, but was born in the new era, and this not very perfect meal was also Dr. Locke's last lunch.

Lowe has always stubbornly believed that something with enough use value cannot be easily destroyed. If something is deemed useless, it may just be misplaced.

Yi finally appeared at the door of the restaurant, and Luo could still feel her hidden pleasure, as well as a faint sense of apprehension and panic, like a lost little elk.

"Lowe."

She still whispered to Luo, who was sitting at the table, as she had done before, her voice as magnetic as ever, mixed with undisguised pleasure.

It was this undisguised pleasure that made Luo feel suffocated and feel the sadness gushing out of his heart.

Luo raised his head and looked at Yi Yao, who was standing in the doorway as dazzling as the sun, with a bitter smile on his face.

"I became the daughter of the Marquis, and I have promised him that I will have only one father for him, and only one father."

Yi Xiangluo smiled happily, as bright as ever, but not silently.

Her pleasure did not come from the fact that she had become the heir of the Marquis, and that she had become the heir of the Marquis, but from the fact that she wanted to tell Luo that her father's position was only one, and that it had been taken by the Marquis.

Yi snuggled into Luo's arms again, as she had done before.

The sadness in Luo's heart receded like a tide, but the feeling of suffocation always lingered in the depths of his heart.

Maybe it started when she shouted the first word Panis taught her to Lowe and saw the embarrassment on Lowe's face, maybe from the moment she pointed at the black-clad marquis outside Alik City, she had already completely stripped the role of "father" from Lo's body.

Lowe's brow furrowed slightly, not because he realized that some danger was approaching, but because he faintly heard a low "gurgling" sound.

She seemed hungry.

Yi's face flushed a rare crimson, and he lowered his head buried in Luo's arms.

Luo picked up a piece of roasted meat in front of him, patiently peeled off the skin little by little, and handed it to her.

He took it and began to swallow it without the slightest chewing, and without the slightest waste, as if the two had shared that little piece of moldy bread in the gloomy cellar of the H913 Gathering Place.

Luo didn't ask Yi if he had unlocked the gene sequence, let alone his current level, and Yi didn't have the slightest intention of telling Luo about it.

Because they stubbornly believe in each other's hearts that no matter what level Yi reaches, Luo will always protect Yi behind him, and Yi will always accept all of Luo's arrangements without any objection.

Until Luo Yiyi left, no one in the huge marquis's mansion appeared in front of them. The Marquis did not, Heidi did not, not even the always humble attendant Mars never appeared.

From the moment Yi walked out of the research base, the entire Marquis Begu Mansion had quietly changed its owner.

Lochey was brought back to the Twilight Zone, where they were greeted by the old, slightly hunched gardener. The empathetic old man had removed all the flowers in a large flower garden and vacated the most fertile piece of land.

He still remembered the seed that Lo had taken with him, and that he had prepared enough fertile ground for this seed, and he knew that it had been prepared by his honored guest for His Excellency I. Begu.

Unlike the robin that accompanied H. Amandina Begou, he was accompanied by a small black lamb.

Lo eventually gave the shriveled flower seed to Yi and told her that he would come back to see her when the seed broke through the ground. As before, he didn't ask Luo where he was going or what he was going to do.

She buried the seed in the soil of the garden that the old gardener had prepared for her, and she believed that Lowe would appear to her, as he had promised, when the seed would sprout.

Lowe left Twilight in a hurry, he didn't return to the Marquis's mansion to meet Heidi and ask Dr. Chloe about his research, he didn't even glance at his Alec, he didn't go to meet Panis and Night's companions, he didn't give new instructions to Hades, he didn't go to the swamp to see his companions.

He sent a brief message to Panis using the communicator he was carrying, and placed it on top of the reddish-brown sand of the gray-white wilderness.

Under the longer and longer back of Lona, the small lines of small words on the screen of the communicator he discarded in the wilderness were still flickering with a cold light, as if he was fighting against his fate of being abandoned.

I will make good on my promise to build a dark night that will make the whole wilderness tremble.