"Allow me to make one final confirmation before I begin." The male policeman in front of him has a cold temperament that is not piercing, and the buttons on both the collar and the cuffs are meticulously arranged. He lowered his eyes and read everything on the report quickly, his voice unexpectedly warm and pleasant, "You are Miss Lilia?" ”

On the other side of the square table, a mixed-race woman with facial features that perfectly neutralized the strengths of the East and the West nodded slightly, her extremely white skin showing a porcelain-like smooth texture in the warm light.

“…… Hello. The policeman glanced up at her, then took off his hat with both hands and laid it flat on the corner of the table, "In every sense, I have long admired the Daimyo." ”

"Hello, don't be so polite." Completely incompatible with the doll's facial features, Lilia's voice was unusually hoarse, like that of a middle-aged woman who was a heavy smoker, "What should I call you, officer?" ”

"My surname is Ling." The policeman sorted out the desk full of document bags, and spoke to her in a tone that was not cordial, but there was no particular caution or hostility, "You may already know, but I'm not actually a police officer in the usual sense. ”

"Of course I do." Lilia replied, "A police officer in the usual sense would not dare to sit alone and relax in front of me like this. ”

"Judging from the information we have, even if we increase the number of people, we will not be able to achieve any actual advantage in front of you." Officer Ling replied calmly, "In the same way, if you really want to kill me here, it makes no sense for me to be vigilant. Because your talent can kill people invisibly. ”

"Don't worry." Lilia seemed accustomed to leaning forward slightly as she spoke, "I'm not going to kill everyone. ”

"I know." Officer Ling is obviously a person whose mood swings are not intense and his expression is well managed, and his demeanor is very relaxed from beginning to end, and it may even make people feel that he is not actually paying attention to the things around him, "From all the information we have so far, you are an emotionally stable and goal-oriented criminal. ”

"Criminals." He heard the pretty woman across from him whisper a repeat, then shook his head self-deprecatingly, his unforgettable ice-blue eyes tired and blank, "Yes, so to speak. ”

"If you don't have other special requests." Officer Ling hesitated slightly, poured the tea that was originally contained in the glass into another paper cup that looked softer and more harmless, and then pushed it in front of Lilia, "The inquiry has officially begun. ”

"Please."

"Well, as is customary. First of all, your name, your age, and your place of origin. ”

"Lilia, now about twenty-five years old, I don't know where she was born. It's probably near the Pamirs...... After all, the shelter where I grew up was over there. ”

"You're half-blooded."

"Yes. Mixed Chinese and Russian. Lilia cooperated, "I don't know who my parents are. A doctor told me about this. ”

"Where's the doctor?"

"Eight years ago, in the name of pollution control, I blew up the shelter and kindly took me for a medical check-up." Lilia's answer was a little abnormal, but Officer Ling didn't pay much attention to it, "I don't know their real names and past experiences. ”

"The first group to confirm that you have ......" Officer Ling pondered his words, "the people with special abilities, or talents, right?" ”

"More accurately, the first people to suspect that I had a supernatural ability." Lilia smiled faintly at him, "You know. It was only within a year or two that humans really began to admit the existence of gifted beings, and until then, I was generally called a monster. ”

"When did you first realize you had this power?"

"Ten years ago, I was about eight or nine years old. During the day, when I was cleaning the yard, I was bitten by a wild dog, and my hands were covered with blood, and it really hurt. Lilia frowned unconsciously, but soon showed a strange and innocent look, "I was very weak at that time, and I couldn't catch up with it at all, so I could only run away with a broom while bleeding...... As a result, he was whipped with a ring ruler by the nurse who rushed to him. ”

"And then?"

"And then?" Lilia tilted her head and stared at the paper cup, "The next day it died, collapsed at the door of the shelter, and froze into an ice lump. ”

“…… It's you? ”

"Who knows? But I did curse it in my heart for a night, do you know how bad it can be to be injured in a winter without heating? The only disinfectant we have there is alcohol, and the most effective tool to stop bleeding is the weather. I shrunk in the corner of the wall in a short quilt, and I didn't even dare to cry out loud for fear of waking up those fierce nurse aunts. Lilia licked her lips suddenly, revealing a little frightening cruelty, "I didn't expect to see it fall in the snow the next morning...... Those aunts were overjoyed. ”

"What are they happy about?"

"There's meat to eat." The surprise on Lilia's face flickered, and then she said very flatly, "It may be hard for you to imagine. ”

"Were your conditions very hard?" As soon as Officer Ling finished speaking, he coughed unnaturally under the other party's smiling gaze, "I asked a stupid question?" ”

"No, it doesn't matter. If you can't imagine it, it's normal. Lilia paused for a moment, then quickly took the initiative to speak with interest, "But that day, the hopes of the aunts were disappointed. Because the dean said that the dog had died in an unknown way, and that it might have contracted some strange disease, he sent a few of our children to bury the dog. ”

"Listen to your tone, you didn't do it at the time?"

"Of course." Lilia's face finally showed a hint of shrewdness that belonged only to young women, "That was the first time I had eaten meat in my life. ”

Briefly interrupted by an inexplicable palpitation, Officer Ling folded his hands on the table, exhaled slowly, and was silent for a while before asking an irrelevant question: "How many people were in the shelter you were in at the time?" ”

"At most, there were eighteen orphans like me, three nurses, a doctor, and the director."

"And what about the least?" Officer Ling asked unconsciously.

"That should be now." Lilia spread her hands, "I'm the only one alive." ”

"You know I didn't mean that."

"Okay. When the epidemic was at its worst, there were probably half of the people left. ”

"All of them died of illness?"

"No, most of them were declared sick and then thrown into the snow to death by doctors with little expertise." Lilia snapped her fingers, roughly counting the number of people, "There is also a nurse who knocked himself to death, probably because he can't bear it psychologically...... What's even more bizarre is that one day one of our youngest brothers suddenly disappeared, and when we found him again after the beginning of spring, we found that he had been thrown into the river that had recently thawed, and he was inexplicably missing an arm......"

“…… Don't be so specific. Officer Ling lowered his head and rubbed his eyebrows, as if he was a little uncomfortable, "Were your conditions very bad at that time?" ”

"How good can a shelter be on the border of several countries?" Lilia asked rhetorically, "Actually, in the first few years, when the funds raised were quite sufficient, I thought the dean and the nurses were quite good, at least they kept us fed...... But later, no matter how rich and caring people used to be, they can't even live happily, so how can they still have leisure to take care of us? So we had to grow vegetables in the yard, or simply go to the grassland and grab some grass roots with the rats. There is no way, the desire to survive is really something that is difficult to suppress with reason...... It's better to die than to live, many people think so. ”

"And later?"

"Later?" Lilia picked up the paper cup, deliberately shook the hot tea inside, and looked at her face distorted in the water waves with satisfaction, "The truth tells them that at some point, it would be more comfortable to die directly." ”

The second hand ticks alone in a space that has fallen silent. Officer Ling on the opposite side seemed to have become a frozen portrait, and Lilia glanced at him lightly, very considerate and did not take the initiative to say more.

It wasn't until this strange silence lasted for more than ten minutes that she suddenly realized that the officer in front of her didn't look like any other person she had ever encountered.

"Skip those parts." Finally, Officer Ling sighed and rubbed his eyebrows, "Anyway, it won't be of much use to you to get my sympathy. ”

"Don't worry, I didn't mean that." Lilia wanted to use her ability to probe the other party's reality, but after thinking about it, she held back, "Then where to start again?" ”

"Start with the first time you killed someone. Tell me why you did that. ”

"I'm sorry, I'll check first." Lilia moved her stool slightly, leaning closer to the other party, "For the first time you understand...... Which time? ”

"Judging from the results of our current investigation, you used the abilities in your body to cause quite a stir in the human and six-fingered worlds long before you caused a large number of deaths to the members of the search and rescue team in 2102." Officer Ling pulled out a file bag, "First case...... I think it was the beginning of '01. ”

"Oh, that's what you said." Lilia nodded expressionlessly, "It was really an accident, and I don't even know what was going on." I only remember that I was staying well in a human scientific research institution at that time, but I was suddenly ...... by the group of Asian doctors mentioned earlier One of them, a gift to a group of six fingers as a friendly witness, really scared the hell out of me...... Later, when the aliens fell in front of me with their faces covered in blood, they scared me. ”

"It means that you didn't have a good control over your abilities at that time, and you only did it unintentionally, right?" Officer Ling neatly wrote a few lines on the record sheet and asked casually, "Where did the Asian doctor who sent you there go?" ”

Unexpectedly, he waited for a long time, and the other person in the room did not give any response. So Officer Ling raised his head again, only to be shocked by the other party's expression for a moment.

Lilia's eye sockets were covered with red bloodshot at some point, like filthy cracks in the ice-blue mirror. Officer Ling saw her mechanically tugging the corners of her mouth and smiled crookedly, with a certain suppressed resentment and a deeper hidden excitement, and her originally miserable face also swelled up with an abnormal flush, like a dying person suddenly returning to the light because of some obsession that he would have time to speak in the future.

"He's dead, it's right that the murderer is me." Lilith quickly avoided his eyes, as if trying to suppress some kind of manic depression that was mostly well hidden, and her voice was almost inaudible, "But I refuse to classify him as a victim...... He doesn't deserve it. ”