Raya didn't understand and couldn't understand.

What about my Celestial Tree? What about the freshman guardian tree?

In the last second, she was arrogantly showing off her new mother to her former best friend, but this second she came back to her senses and was suddenly shocked. This person pretended to be good in the front, but he didn't expect that the mother in the back row was stolen by a madman dressed as a bat.

carelessly lost my mother, yes.

The point is that the Guardian Tree is synonymous with invincibility in her mind, and she once believed that all beings were ants in front of her invincible Mother Tree. Even the script of Dashu's mother taking her to punch Nanshan Nursing Home and kick Beihai Kindergarten she had thought about it, how could she have thought that she would die before she could get out of school, this great plan didn't even have time to put it into practice, and her mother was gone.

"Impossible, this is absolutely impossible ......"

Raya was still immersed in the horror of the shattered disillusionment of the three views, but before she could digest the facts, she saw that the phantom in red was already close at hand.

A slender, bloodless hand poked out from under the red robe, as cold as steel, but as powerful as pincers. She grabbed Raya by the throat and lifted her off the ground with one hand. The long fingers almost distorted her throat.

Raya felt like her breath had been cut off. She saw Fana approaching her in the dim flickering firelight, her pale blue eyes filled with holes that struck her strangely.

It was at this moment that Raya suddenly realized something that frightened her.

The girl in front of her, her former best friend...... I really want to kill myself.

"Fana...... You want to give me ......"

She couldn't say the second half of the sentence, and her whole face was distorted with suffocation.

Fana looked at the girl in front of her who was held in her phantom hand.

It was also the friend she cherished the most.

Contrary to what many people think, she didn't forget everything that happened after leaving the orphanage. She remembered everything, especially the bits and pieces with the only friend.

She vividly remembers them sneaking out of the compound to play together, and remembers how they discovered the cave behind them together. She remembers them sharing books, sharing stories, comforting each other, and being pillars of each other's journey in hellish days.

She remembered it all.

But that doesn't change anything.

The Phantom's hand seemed to cinch a little tighter, and the five fingers almost seemed to be embedded in Raya's skin. Raya's consciousness began to blur.

"You've broken the law." Fana said seriously, "Infected...... Exterminate. ”

However, instead of giving the final blow immediately, she pulled out a small device out of nowhere.

It was a portable hand-held scanning rig that Professor Miyazaki had equipped for field agents, which could roughly but quickly test the extent of infection in an infected person to determine whether it was to be eliminated.

Agents of the Nine Divisions may have no choice but to fight back when they are besieged and threatened by the intested, but once the infected are subdued or give up resistance, they must be scanned with a device before being executed to confirm that the opponent's infection level is above 40% before they can be killed on the spot.

These are the rules and regulations of field agents, and Fana has always followed them strictly.

Thinking that Raya, who had manipulated so many people, was also a high-risk infected person, she was ready to be killed on the spot, but after scanning it with a handheld device, the readings she saw from the monitor were unexpected.

The level of infection readout given in the monitor is...... Zero.

Fana tilted her head, looking at Raya who had been caught up in mid-air and had passed out in surprise.

She is not infected.

The red-clothed phantom let go of her hand, and the girl fell limply to the ground. She began to cough violently, greedily breathing in the dead, turbid air of the cavern.

"You're not," Fana looked down at Raya, who was coughing violently, "the intested." ”

In other words, everything Raya did was out of her own will, and all of this was what she wanted.

Raya coughed violently, but finally recovered a little.

"I just want something that everyone else has." Her face was still ugly, making her look extremely weird, "Is this also wrong!?" ”

"Nope."

As Fana spoke, the Phantom lifted Raya up again, but this time by the wrist.

She stepped forward, pulled out a pair of black handcuffs, and snapped them around the girl's wrists.

"But you're breaking the law." She said seriously.

Raya: "......"

Raya shuddered suddenly.

She thought she had changed, she had become stronger, she had the power to dare to pursue what she longed for, and at the same time she was so strange that she was afraid of herself.

But she was wrong. Now that she has lost everything, she realizes that nothing has changed. She was still the little kid who had been forgotten in the corner crying helplessly, longing for someone to hear her voice.

It's Fana.

She suddenly felt that Fana in front of her was the stranger to her.

......

Secret Service 9 soon arrived on the scene and set up a long cordon behind the orphanage.

After roughly understanding what had happened, Agent Xiang Xuantong, who had rushed to the scene from the Jiangdu Branch of the Ninth Special Service Division, couldn't help but cast an admiring look at Fana, who was standing quietly on the side.

Find the culprit alone, single-handedly take out so many infected and take down the enemy.

No wonder Professor Miyazaki is full of praise for her.

They soon discovered the true source of the infection further down in the jungle, the burping tentacle tree.

When it was found in nine places, the tree was already riddled with holes. The trunks were dry and lifeless, and broken branches and vines were everywhere.

Raya couldn't help but pounce when she saw this tragic scene, crying and chirping with a posture of "mother, you died so miserably", which made the agents present stunned.

Later, the ins and outs of the matter were roughly figured out, and the analysts also roughly figured out what was going on with this thing after investigation.

"From the existing signs and analysis of the corpses, it is speculated that it should be a plant-type source of infection with relatively weak infection ability. It can only infect the target if the fruit and body parts enter through the human digestive system.

However, in contrast, the source of infection is more capable of its own. It has been found to be very tough on the outside, making it difficult for conventional ammunition to deal effective damage. Weapons such as high-explosive grenades or bazookas can penetrate shells and deal damage, but the target should also have self-healing abilities similar to those of an infected person, and normal damage will quickly heal itself.

In addition, it will use vine tentacles to capture the target, and the fruit on the tree is suspected to be an explosive, which can be thrown and detonated under the control of the infected source's own will, the explosion radius and power need to be further detected, but it is estimated that it is not weak......"

The more the analyst spoke, the more shocked the expression on Xiang Xuantong's face became. He looked at Fana next to him with a strange expression: "You also settled this thing alone?" ”

Hearing this, the tree already felt like a fortress, completely beyond the scope of a single agent's ability to deal with it. This kind of thing should also be dispatched by the special forces to serve with heavy weapons.

If you get this source of infection alone, even if it's a phantom, it's a bit outrageous, right?

But Fana shook her head slightly, indicating that she hadn't done it.

An investigator next to him also came up and said, "No. It seems to be Batman who killed the source of this tree-type infection. ”

"Batman?"

Hearing this, Xuantong's expression of "off the spectrum" suddenly disappeared, revealing an expression of "Oh, that's okay".

Anyway, I don't know when they've started to accept this premise. Some say it's outrageous to single-handedly take down the tree, but if you add that it's Batman, it seems like a sudden acceptance.

"So, the source of infection is this tree." Xiang Xuantong glanced at Raya, who was already handcuffed next to him, "And then that little girl, the culprit who spread the source of infection...... She's just an ordinary person? ”

"Yes." The investigator next to him said, "But about the source of the infection...... She said someone gave it to her. ”

"Someone gave it?"

"Yes. She said someone gave her the seeds of the tree and told her to sow them. Then the tree grew like this in a very short time, allowing her to infect others instead of herself. ”

Xiang Xuantong narrowed his eyes.

The problem is more serious than the source of the infection itself.

He walked up to Raya: "Who gave you the seed?" ”

Raya lifted her eyelids and glanced at him.

"A man, I don't see a face." She said coldly, "I was adopted by the Jordens at the time, and he came to my house. He showed the Jordens his and his wife his ID, saying that it was official and that they should have seen their faces. ”

But the Jordens were dead, and they were lying in the middle of the pile of fallen infected in the cave.

"Still,"

Raya paused, glanced at Xiang Xuantong, and showed a hint of a playful smile.

"He's dressed exactly like you."