Chapter 4 Stubborn Decision
"Intruders? What do you mean? Zona asked in surprise that it was indeed an unfamiliar crystal to her, and she was even a little surprised.
"Ian's abilities are similar to those of the trespassers, with the brutal attacks of the trespassers and their incredible resilience. However, according to Rabindranath Tagore, he does not have full access to this power at the moment, not only does he not have access to all of his abilities, but he also receives a huge load after each use. Kozmo looked at the frail Ian, and his words were filled with discomfort.
"Do you know where this came from?" Zona asked.
"I don't know, but listen to me, I have a guess, that is, Ian's crystal does not belong to Seth, but only to Mortick, which is why the government wants to take Ian away. So I think these intruders may be the ghost of Mortick, after all, this intruder crystal, and even the intruder itself, may be their masterpiece. Kozmo said.
Zona was at a loss now, she was completely confused, and she began to regret why she had persuaded Ian to join the Enlightened in the first place. She just wanted Ian to get a chance to protect herself in this situation, but she didn't expect it to become a grave that was about to bury him.
"What if...... What if the government finds Ian, and is there any remedy? Zona stared intently at Kozmo and asked anxiously.
"The solution is to destroy his crystals, but the matter between him and Mortick is not easy to handle. And what you just did to obstruct your official business......"
"It's all a small thing, and Ian's business is the most important thing right now." Zona interrupted Kozmo directly, even though she didn't know how to solve a series of things.
"Zona ......" came Ian's tired voice.
"Are you feeling better?" Zona immediately gently hugged him and asked with a concerned expression.
"No big deals...... Yes...... Kozmo ...... I understand what you just said. Ian slowly broke free of Zona's embrace and stood up tremblingly.
Zona hurriedly went up to help, Ian turned around and smiled, and said softly to Zona, "It's okay." ”
Before Ian could speak, Kozmo asked directly, "What's next?" Now I can only give up the enlightened one and follow me, there is no other way. ”
"I said I wouldn't give up." Ian said firmly.
"And what do you want?" Kozmo asked, puzzled.
"I don't want to give up on the Enlighteners, I want to protect the city I love and my friends." Ian walked up to Kozmo and looked at him sincerely.
"As a friend, I think the same thing as you. But this crystal is very dangerous, it has this uncontrollable power, and it will pose a direct threat to your body. Moreover, if you don't hand over your crystals, the government will directly give you a treason! So Ian, I hope you can listen to me once, you can be well, and Zona and I can protect our city with peace of mind! As soon as he spoke to Zona so calmly, Kozmo began to get excited.
"I'm sorry, but I have my own ideas." Ian tapped Kozmo on the shoulder, looked back at Zona on the side, and walked away with a hobbling step.
"Hey! Where are you going? Zona hurriedly followed, and Kozmo could only sigh silently.
"You mean you're going to fight the trespassers on your own? That's too dangerous, the government is going to arrest you! Zona looked at Ian with an embarrassed face, and felt that Ian was completely dreaming now.
"Okay, you don't need to say it, I've already decided." Ian smiled lightly and comforted.
"But ......"
Ian gently covered her mouth with his hand and said with a smile, "You know me very well, and if I decide, I won't change it." ”
But Zona didn't pay for it, and shook off his hand fiercely, "Ian, can you not deceive yourself?" Say anything for the sake of this city and for your friends, it's all your own self-comfort! You just think you didn't protect Harriet and blame yourself! Ian, you're just a normal person, you don't have to carry so many things, so, think more about other people, you're not alone, you have your sister, and Kozmo Stephen and their friends, and ...... I. Zona couldn't hold back her tears as she spoke, she kept holding back but still drooping.
"Two different things...... You know I'm a person who likes to settle for the status quo, and if everything goes on according to my ideas, if fate gives me a different test, just go for it. Besides, I got this unusual crystal, so I should do what I had to do. Ian looked at Zona with a serious expression, the corners of his mouth still smiling.
"What you say is not the same thing as what I say! How could you do so much on your own! Now let's not talk about this crystal, do you really think there will be any good end to going against the government? At this time, she had cried like a little cat, but she was full of anger like a tiger.
"No, I'm just trying to save more people from you." Ian couldn't make her angry, so he could only say what he really thought.
"What!" Zona grabbed him by the collar.
"Zona, I've experienced what it's like to be an intruder, not a complete loss of consciousness as you say, I can understand the helplessness and assimilation pain of innocent people when they are hurt by those monsters, they do have hearts! I think it's chilling that you guys put Z2Z3 in one category! It's unacceptable to me. Yes, they have been forced into the way of life of the intruders, and we can't continue to let them do whatever they want, we should destroy Z2. But how do you do it? Only when they appear will they take action, what is the result, it is all their own people who are hurt! You're right, I'm just an ordinary person, I can't get you to agree with my ideas, I can only do it with my own ideas. In this case, if everyone holds that I am just an ordinary person, and everything is protected by the government, it may be too late. ”
Hearing this, Zona slowly loosened Ian's collar, and looked at Ian blankly, tears flowing. Ian looked as if it had taken a break from her confidence, so he opened his arms and gently held her in his arms, he could feel the breathing and warmth of the girl in his arms, and the silent sobbing.
"You have a point, and maybe there's that kind of psychology at work. Thank you for your concern, and I'm glad to have you as the most important friend in my life. Ian put his head on Zona and said comfortingly.
Zona slowly broke away from Ian's embrace, wiped her tears fiercely, and said with a long sigh of relief: "Well, sure enough, Ian is Ian!" Just do what you want to do, and I'll report your thoughts to you. ”
When Ian saw this scene, he secretly added strength to himself. "Well, I'll go first. Zona, I hope I can see what we want...... The end. ”
"Well, take care of yourself, find a way to contact me if anything, no matter when and where, I am your strongest backing." Zona suppressed her tears and smiled with relief.
Ian just left.
Zona collapsed to the ground, and the tears she had just held back flowed again.
He's still so stubborn.
She and Ian can be said to have grown up together, and she is familiar with Ian's temperament. What can be described is the distortion.
He was very smart from a young age, even smart like a child of that age. But as he grew older, his twisted personality began to reveal himself in front of Zona.
He likes to live in the shadow of others, especially in the past few years, he always likes to solve problems with his own wisdom and self-righteousness, and as a result, he has caused a lot of trouble and suffered a lot. Gradually, he began to turn his personality around and become like this.
In most things, you always think about others first, and you will be entangled for a long time before doing something. He will redouble the feedback when others treat him well, and he often laughs at the hurt caused by his friends, and if something happens to his friends, he will blame himself for a long time.
I'm afraid of something, but I'm not so concerned about what has happened to me.
Maybe that's his "optimism".
Perhaps, this is the reason why I am hopelessly in love with this person.
Zona sat on the ground, the drizzle around her seemed to be much lighter, "I...... Can you only be his friend......"
Zona knew in her heart that Ian really cared about her, but she also knew that he just regarded herself as a little sister who didn't know anything about the world.
Maybe...... Each other is a parallel line for a lifetime.
Even if Zona knew how he felt about her, she decided to be good to him from the bottom of her heart, but he ...... It's just that stubborn.
Stubborn loneliness goes on.
Ian quietly walked to the top of an abandoned building, and he had mixed feelings, saying that he didn't show up what kind of mood he was holding, and what supported him to choose this path.
He looked at his dessert shop in the distance, which was already crowded with people, and he knew that he had no way out.
"Heh, is that all there is to it?" The corners of Ian's mouth lifted slightly, and he muttered to himself.
"Then let's go down the road to the dark!"
The next day, Ian gets a black outfit from Stephen and prepares to complete his mission.
He walked aimlessly through the suburbs, and found that there were also notices posted about him, but it was written that he had destroyed the laboratory of the Infinity Crystal Center, injured several scientific researchers, and then absconded, and Ian only laughed when he saw this.
"Why isn't there even a single intruder?" Ian "patrolled" the area all morning, and not a single monster that threatened the city was notified.
"It's for the best, though." Before Ian could finish speaking, a group of intruders crawled out of the sewers in search of food, and there were many of them, but none of them had the Z2 that Ian was looking for.
The originally quiet and peaceful town screamed in an instant, and the intruders frantically chased after the innocent people, but they only treated these people as just a piece of meat in the corner of their mouths.
Ian hurriedly rushed forward, punched an intruder chasing a little girl away, and then carried her to her bewildered parents, and gently coaxed her, her parents thanked them repeatedly.
Ian didn't care about it, thinking to himself: without Z2, he would have to cover for these citizens to leave here first. So he shouted to the people around him, "Everyone, go away, I'll stop them." The voices of the response were scattered, and everyone just ran for their lives, and it didn't matter whether Ian was here to help or get a piece of the pie.
Ian didn't care, blocking the pursuit of the intruders, the people were running, Ian was covered in injuries, he ignored it, and when he saw that everyone was gone, all the intruders gathered around him.
Sensing that the people had fled the scene, Ian kicked the approaching foe and prepared to leave the intruder's cave.
"Don't leave if you come." A male voice came, and when Ian heard it was an unfamiliar voice, he thought it was sent by the government to arrest him, and hurriedly ran away, but at a turn, he heard the voice again.
"What do you want to do?" The man said with a smile.
Ian didn't reply, looked at the man quietly, and found that the person looked a little familiar, a slightly curled three-seven points, a handsome but gorgeous glasses straddling the bridge of his towering nose, and the combination of facial features was a bit like a delicate girl. This is how he smiled, but Ian saw an invisible murderous aura.
"You're ......" Ian drew his sword from the crystal and looked at the man in front of him warily.
"I'm your enemy, it's enough to know that." He smiled gently, and "politely" pulled out the weapon he had just straddled his waist - a knife.
The knife in his hand exuded a cold light, and the delicate handle was tightly held in his hand. Ian saw this posture and quickly asked, "Are you from the government?" ”
He didn't reply, and touched the Infinity Crystal, and the digital sound of "Wind" was heard. He quickly stepped forward and slashed at Ian with a knife, Ian dodged left and right, looking for a chance to get out, the man saw that Ian did not fight back, so he intensified his slash, the silver-white knife light danced brilliantly, just when Ian didn't give up, his left arm was pierced by a knife, and the pain that passed to the tip of his heart told Ian that he couldn't go on like this.
Ian was ready to fight back.
He picked up his sword and slashed at the man, but the man dodged lightly and stabbed Ian in the chest in the gap.
Ian's eyes darkened, a stream of blood gushed out of his chest and mouth, and he fell to his knees on the ground, falling sideways and fainting.
"Is it still so weak?" He gently kicked the unconscious Ian, muttering to himself.
"Tattoo, how are you with another wanted criminal, accomplice? I'm going to catch them all today. Just then, O'Dell approached with a few Enlighteners and a large group of soldiers.
"Why are you still a sissy, wasn't it enough for me to beat me last time?" The man named Gawreak smiled with an exaggerated mocking smile.
"You...... The most annoying thing about me is that people call me that! Odell angrily opened the Infinity Crystal, "Shine", which was the name of his crystal. He picked up his cane and hit it, but was easily blocked by the tattoo.
O'Dell felt that he had no advantage in close combat, so he rolled and opened the distance, and when he saw it, he smiled and said, "Is this the legendary dog jumping off the wall?" But I saw it! ”
When an enlightener saw this, he stepped forward to help, but O'Dale retreated, turned to Gawen and said, "Then I have to let you know how powerful I am today." ”
He picked up the cane and pointed at the garvein, the eyes of the leopard's head carved were slightly glowing, and a laser "yi" was launched at once, and the garment was shaken because he was looking directly at the laser, and suddenly the colorful spots of light filled the iris, and the eyes could not be opened in severe pain. And the laser pierced straight into Jiawen's body, Jiawen knew this, and quickly lay down on the ground, perfectly dodging the fatal blow.
"It is said that your laser will be blind for a short time as soon as it shines in the eyes of the enlightener, but in a short period of time, oh, I've gotten used to it." After that, he took off his eyes and pinned them to his shirt in a chic manner, and said: "These glasses are just decorations, and what they cover up is a pair of eagle eyes that see through everything, but this decoration can always be useful, and it can't be recovered so quickly without this gear." ”
"Cut, it's still so flirtatious after so long." Odell stroked his cane and glanced white.
"Each other, each other." Jiawen also stepped aside and raised an eyebrow at him.
"I'll spare you today, but I'm going to take this person away, right?" O'Dell gestured to Ian, who was unconscious underground.
"That's not good, I'll talk to him about something above." Jiawen pretended to be helpless and pointed to the vast sky.
"Do you still want to keep fighting?"
"No, no, no, I'm going to run away, of course, with him." Garveen smiled at Odell with disgust, and spread a huge wing, the black and brown feathers densely attached to the sturdy wings.
Then, grab Ian and take to the air.
O'Dell didn't have the ability to fly, so he could only hurriedly ask his teammates around him to chase after Jiawen, "Hurry up, chase me!" ”
But there was a world of difference between them, and Odell's Enlighteners didn't seem to be able to help. Even if Ian is carried by Tattoo in one hand, he can hover back and forth in the air and "play" with several of them. After a while, O'Dell's eyes saw all his teammates fall, and he could only stand on the ground and stomp his feet.
"Odell, go back and tell your sir, look at all these soldiers he brings, what kind of stinky fish and rotten shrimp they are! Hahaha...... "Anyway, the texture is gone."
"Cut." O'Dell patted the dust off his body, looked contemptuously at his teammates who had just fallen to the ground, and laughed, "Are you people also worthy of being enlighteners?" He's right, a bunch of stinky fish and rotten shrimp still think they're a character here? Heh, a bunch of garbage. With that, he spat at them underground, and was about to leave.
"What do you say?" One of the Enlighteners looked at O'Dell with resentment.
"No, all of them are greedy for life and afraid of death, just now you dare to say that you really contributed? One by one, they looked at that Ian's ruthless hand, and when they saw the tattoo, they were all kinds of cowards, heh, how can anyone be worthy of being an enlightener now, Seth may really be destroyed in your hands. With that, O'Dell straightened his coat and left in full view.
Kozmo sat quietly at the computer desk, he should have been playing games frantically at this time, but Ian's affairs made him not have this mind.
"O'Dell went to get Ian, man, what should I do?" Stephen wandered anxiously back and forth.
"How do I know?" Kozmo tried to keep his voice as calm as possible, and he was genuinely worried about Ian, but there was nothing he could do.
"How's that going? I've just met him, and I can't listen to what he says, and I want to knock him out and bring him back. Stephen clenched his fists and slammed his fist into the door.
"You must not do this, it is not a good thing to let Ian fall into the hands of the government, but it is not a way to go on like this, I am thinking about finding a way to get him out of the country and let him go to Mortic." Kozmo said.
"No, I don't understand what you say, Ian has no problem in the first place, you and I know this. How can you go to the government and it won't end well? What does it mean to go to Mortick? No, Kozmo, what the hell are you thinking? Stephen was a little excited, and his face was a little red in a hurry.
"Rabindranath Tagore approached me, and he said that Ian's crystal is not our Seth's, but it really has nothing to do with Ian, and that his lab has been invaded in the process of adaptation, and the surveillance has been eliminated. It is said that there is an internal ghost at work, and it is about to be thoroughly investigated. Even if Ian came back, would it be as simple as destroying the crystals? Your knight has heard of the practice here, and he would rather kill a thousand by mistake than let go of one when it comes to Mortic, but that's a bit exaggerated. Kozmo said in a low voice.
"Yes, oops! That Ian ...... It's true that don't let him wade into this troubled water, going to Mortick is indeed the best way, I heard before that a businessman who has something to do with Mortic's top management was called to the government for tea and has not returned? Okay, then I'll talk to him again. Stephen breathed a sigh of relief, picked up his clothes and walked out quickly.
"Well, that's all there is to it, Ian, no, intruder." Kozmo snapped his notebook down and sighed helplessly.
Ian felt warm around him.
He naturally opened his eyes and found that his body was full of strength, and the wounds from his previous one were completely healed.
"...... here," he found himself in a huge laboratory, with all kinds of huge instruments and huge green liquids densely arranged, and in the dim light, people in white hazmat suits were busy with something. He felt strange about his body, only to see himself lying naked on a laboratory table, his body was wrapped in colorful wires and tubes, especially the Infinity Crystal, which was no longer visible to him.
"Welcome to the Apos Group." Ian shifted with difficulty, the restraints on his body preventing him from getting up, so he could only look up. He saw the man who had just attacked him, but he didn't speak.
A man in a suit slowly descended from the elevator, and the sound came out of his mouth.
"My guinea pig."