“…… TF psychology is a completely new field, but I have to admit that when this discipline is taken seriously, some tragedies have been irretrievably cast. At the beginning, the researchers did take into account the psychological impact of TF modification on children who are still in the growth stage, but the study of psychology by human beings is far inferior to that of other disciplines......

- TF Psychology, 2177 edition, introduction.

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Ling Yu walked alone on the wide streets of the Newport Military Port, military vehicles and fire trucks were speeding on the road, most of the military vehicles were supplies for the Fourth Fleet to prepare for the attack, and the fire trucks were joining the rescue operation from a distance, and the reinforcements came from the fire station three or four hundred kilometers away.

The Newport Military Port and the Naval Academy, which had been destroyed in the American Civil War, were rebuilt at the highest level of readiness after the end of the American Civil War, so the wide roads were not congested, but some of the green faces with helmets were apparently temporarily pulled from the Navy Academy next door to maintain traffic order.

The same students, the students at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C., were not so lucky, if any of them were still alive...... Still resisting the words of the ACA paratroopers in Washington.

However, although they are students, these are adults over the age of 22 who are 100 percent capable of bearing criminal and civil responsibility, and this kind of higher military school of the alliance only admits students with a bachelor's degree or above, and although it is not excluded that some gifted children are not excluded, the vast majority of the so-called students -- it is more appropriate to call them "cadets" -- are at least adults with sound outlooks.

But what about many more?

Ling Yu stopped. Clearing the way for a small group of Navy soldiers escorting mechanical transporters, he stood at the junction of the road and the sidewalk, and looked up, only to see darkness.

It was the thick smoke of the fire, and no light of the stars and moon could penetrate the terrifying smoke and cast it onto the ground, and quickly. The particles of incomplete combustion of dust and oil will condense into raindrops that will fall back on the mainland, causing a severe blow to the environment of this beautiful harbor.

Ling Yu suddenly remembered a book, I don't know what year it was in a travel magazine, which said that Newport had one of the most beautiful beaches in North America, and if it wasn't too cold in winter, it would definitely be more famous than Florida.

However, I guess I won't be able to see it for a short time.

"I always think. She seems to have a very strict psychological problem. ”

Ling Yu, who had just beaten up the environmentalist in Paris before, naturally didn't care too much about Newport's environment, but Yang Chengze's words lingered in Ling Yu's heart like thick smoke above his head.

Is this also the "necessary evil" of the times?

TF modification surgery must be targeted at children under 14 years old, and the probability of success will be reduced from 15% to about 2.88% for modified subjects over 16 years old, and most importantly, this is based on the fact that the modified person has a suitable genetic sequence, as for the general population. The mortality rate is close to 100%

The younger the child, the higher the probability of being transformed into a powerful warrior. They have a lot of time to learn, reinforce, and flex themselves to use this ability.

On the other hand, although the three major forces do not admit it, children with unsound minds are more likely to be trained to be terrifying murderers who ignore morality. Many of the original TFs were portrayed as cold-blooded killers with only missions in their eyes, and in the end, because they couldn't control their thirst for killing, they had to be executed by more TFs.

The boy soldier is probably the ugliest invention in human history.

At first, Ling Yu was only disgusted by this matter because of his past experiences. But now, what Ling Yu remembered was Jiesi's words.

If it is said that saving mankind is to save the possibility, there is no doubt that the possibility of children is greater than that of adults, and when the innocence of children is completely wiped out, even if there is no roar of guns, mankind has already been defeated.

"A child like you doesn't need to be in this steel coffin again."

A long and familiar smile appeared in front of his eyes again, Ling Yu closed his eyes, shook his head gently, and took a deep breath of the slightly scorching, soot-filled air.

Then, the corners of his clothes were pulled.

He lowered his head, and it was the silver figure of Helis.

***

"Aren't you going to rest?"

Although the smoke obscured the sky, it was not a large cumulonimbus cloud, and in the direction of the sea, you could still see a bright moon that had just risen in the east.

Ling Yu and Helis sat on the stone on the side of the civil dock, the bandaged young man broke the energy bar in his hand in half, Ling Yu once hated this kind of anti-human product that was completely produced to test whether the TF had strong masseter muscles, but now there is nothing to pick in this environment, you can't go to the cafeteria to let people cook for themselves without putting out the fire.

Ling Yu suddenly remembered that it seemed that the coffee machine on the Mississippi was still working, but it was a pity that he didn't get two cups of coffee, and the navy really deserved to be an aristocratic service.

I'm not too tired, I don't spend much body on me, and most of the work is done by drones.

Ling Yu looked away from the moon and then at his contact lenses, he turned his head, and Helis was holding the energy bar he had handed her, biting like a hamster.

"How do you know I'm there?" As soon as Ling Yu asked, he suddenly smiled to himself, "Bai asked, you know where my contact lenses are, right?" ”

Well.

A word came out of Herris, but Ling Yu paused slightly, and then asked a question.

"You have something to say."

Ling Yu took a bite of the energy bar, which looked like a rubber tire, with some difficulty, and then chewed it slowly.

How can you tell?

Helis's head moved slightly, and her emerald green eyes looked at Ling Yu from under the hood.

"Don't look at you usually pretending to be a three-nothing girl, but you actually like to talk." Ling Yu smiled lightly, raised his hand and patted Helis on the back, "As long as you have the opportunity to speak, you will say it desperately, how can it be that it will be over with one 'um'." ”

I'm just thinking. If Sister Jeunsy was there, what would she say at this time?

"Don't force yourself, you're not her." Ling Yu said a sentence softly, but he himself realized that this sentence could be understood from two completely different directions.

You don't need to be her, either. You can never be her.

With Helis's silence, Ling Yu hesitated for a moment to explain, but in the end he didn't speak.

Now, Ling Yu, if the war is over, do you have any plans?

"The war will not end, only the dead can see the end of the war." Ling Yu shook his head slightly, the corners of his mouth hooked, as if he was laughing at Helis's innocence. "Maybe the warrior will have one day to unload his armor and return to the field, but there will be no rest for his weapons."

"Besides, I won't do anything other than war."

Yes, since the day the renovation was completed, I don't have any other possibilities.

Sister Jeunsy won't like what you say.

Helis stopped biting in small bites, and her metal boot dangling from the edge of the flat stone gently bumped against the washed stone, and she looked up. Gazing at Ling Yu.

You won't like it.

"Well, maybe you're right." He looked at Herris for a few minutes. Ling Yu finally let out a long sigh, moved his gaze back to the direction of the moon, and touched Helis's head, "What about you, do you have any plans?" ”

Ling Yu said first.

"Okay," failed to divert the subject. Ling Yu smiled bitterly, stuffed the energy bar into his mouth, and pondered for a moment, "If you are serious, it may be better to send a courier." Illegal estimates are no longer good, no matter how you say it, they are all heroes of the alliance...... Come to think of it, it might be a good choice to deliver a courier on a motorcycle. ”

"What about you?" After the semi-self-deprecating outlook was over, Ling Yu turned his head, looked at Helis, and smiled, "Will you become a painter?" I remember you seem to like to draw a lot, but you haven't painted in a long time, so you're running around with us...... Sorry. ”

I don't like drawing, I just want to be a character in a painting...... Or at least, to be able to be a happy spectator.

Helis shook his head gently, Ling Yu took the second energy bar, looked at Helis's words, and was silent, he remembered the father and daughter who appeared in Helis's painting...... Would that be what Herris expected?

It's a pity that the father she remembers is just a poor man who lost his daughter and poured all his emotions into a test subject...... But even then, it's a love, isn't it?

He and Ren Xiu hid the truth...... Is it really correct?

Ling Yu, if I hope that the war doesn't end, will you hate me?

Just as Ling Yu was reconsidering whether to tell Sù Helis the truth, Helis suddenly uttered such a sentence, and then the girl in the silver cloak lowered her head again and took a bite of the energy bar, like a child who had made a mistake.

"Why do you think so?" Ling Yu frowned slightly, "Is there any reason?" ”

It's nothing...... I was just...... Say whatever you want.

Helis buried her head lower, and Ling Yu was slightly silent, but finally smiled.

"Don't think too much about it, just think about what that knight princess from Lotte to the Centaur Alpha System will say, right?" Everyone should be strong and brave to live, as long as they are alive, there is still hope for a new start, there are still more possibilities'. Ling Yu tried to imitate Jess a little funny, but there was no smile on Helis's face, she just lowered her head and didn't look at Ling Yu or the sea in front of her.

"Anyway...... If you don't want to say it, I won't force you. Ling Yu finally gave up the ease of the atmosphere that he was not good at, he stretched out his hand and put it on Herris's narrow shoulder, "Even if you don't believe me, you should believe in Jiesi, one day, everything will get better, you will become the person you want to be, do what you want to do, and find your own happiness...... This kind of future is fairer for you, isn't it? ”

Ling Yu, I want to say a word to you.

Suddenly, Helis raised his head, but instead of looking at Ling Yu, he looked at the bright moon in the distance.

An incomplete person is an incomplete person, no matter how much he pretends to be whole, no matter how many masks he wears, no matter how hard he tries to live like a normal person, no matter what kind of environment he is in...... He is not complete, and can never be.

Forcing an incomplete person to live as a complete person...... It only makes him more miserable.

Helis curled up his legs, slowly stood up, looked at Ling Yu sitting on the ground, gritted his teeth gently, and then turned around and walked in the direction of the port.

"...... Herris"

Ling Yu also stood up, looked at Helis's back, stood in place, and wanted to catch up, but as soon as he took a step, he saw Helis's words.

I'd like to take a walk alone, book a time, and I'll go and meet you.

It's okay, in one hundred and twenty minutes, I'll take care of it.

Do not worry.

Ling Yu read this line several times, and finally sighed, and did not catch up, he turned around again, looking at the moon that had risen quite a bit and was about to disappear behind the clouds. (To be continued......)