The arrest mission was successfully concluded, and the joint operation mission was finally a complete victory. This ICU-led madhouse operation team successfully arrested the biggest traitor in the history of the madhouse, Lee Chang-sung. During the period, not a single soldier was fired, not a single shot was fired, and such a description actually seemed to be a bit lofty in this operation, but those who participated in it may feel a little unclear.

The main problem is that you said that they arrested this person, and it seems that there is nothing wrong with that. When the whole team on their side drove to the gate of the human base with live ammunition, it had already become a mess, and the action team was still 108,000 miles away, and the entire terrorist armed stronghold had basically been turned upside down.

Anyway, when they arrived, there was only one person left in the entire camp who was still panting, and it was Li Changcheng who they were arresting. This dude had a broken arm during his previous confrontation with Wolverine, and the other arm, which was still fairly intact, was handcuffed at the entrance to an underground fortification.

The size of the fortifications also surprised the team. Identification results indicate that the facility is designed to withstand a nuclear attack, and may be no less than the safe houses of some of the biggest names on the Pole Star. And this thing is buried deep in the ground and all kinds of shielding methods are set up, if their arrest team arrives at the scene, they may miss this place.

But the iron figure who attacked the base didn't miss out. The thick iron door had left a crack like a burn mark, and the picture was shocking.

From the traces left by the experts from the scene, they quickly thought that it was the effect of some kind of energy weapon. However, the energy weapon of the Earth Pole Star is still at the conceptual level, and although there is this theory, it does not yet have the basis for weaponization.

So a group of experts can't imagine what kind of terrifying output it must be to cause such a cutting effect.

The rest of the room facilities had also swallowed their breath.

Technically speaking, this Li Changcheng was really captured by them. It's just that skipping the battle process makes people feel a little subtle, because someone has done all the work for them and packed the people to be arrested, and they, a large number of people, drove the army over with great fanfare just to come to the door to sign and collect.

In fact, in all fairness, Siegel felt that they had launched the operation efficiently enough. After locating the target position, they assembled their team in almost the shortest possible time, quickly reconnoitred and evaluated, and organized an attack.

However, there is a god on his own side, not only with great speed, but also with unreasonable combat effectiveness, and single-handedly rushed into the people's military powerhouse to open Wushuang, and the thunder momentum was taken. It can only be said that they have also tried, but this head is really not grabbed.

However, this process is already familiar with the madhouse, and the whole madhouse has not been persecuted by those superheroes so far. Now that the feng shui is in turn, the group of people in the madhouse began to walk their old path by watching the ICU like people who had come over, and they still had a hint of joy inexplicably.

Especially the equipment department led by Minister Shi, when I saw the people in the pharmaceutical factory who were shocked when they saw Iron Man's not unscientific armor, they felt like they had seen their own shadow back then, and they had three points of sympathy and three points of schadenfreude.

To be reasonable, they didn't want to pose at the beginning, but these masks are more inappropriate than the other, and they find that they are too comfortable to put them up, which makes people feel that there is nothing wrong with hanging behind people and wiping their butts full-time.

If someone else wants to wipe the big guy's butt, they haven't had a chance yet.

A few hours later, Mr. Lee was locked in the interrogation room of the pharmaceutical factory. Siegel, who was in charge of leading the team, sat directly across from him.

After Letos, who supported him behind the scenes, was killed by Batman, Li Changcheng lost the ability to operate the Tith Shield, and now he has turned back into a mediocre anomaly.

In addition, he had an arm chopped off by Wolverine, and he couldn't heal such an injury with his ability level as a special person. Then the shackles he wore had the effect of suppressing his abilities, and there were a large number of armed agents on guard outside the door, making it almost impossible for him to escape.

Of course, Lee Chang-sung doesn't seem to have this intention at all.

In the interrogation room, Lee Chang-sung appeared to be quite cooperative. He reacted calmly, without panic or anger, almost as if he didn't realize his terrible situation. He calmly answered the interrogator's questions, as if he were chatting.

Much to everyone's surprise, Lee Chang-sung passed various tests for the infected.

He wasn't infected—or not mentally, to be precise.

This seems reasonable, as anomalies are not so susceptible to infection in the first place. But at the same time, it also means that everything Lee Chang-sung does is all out of his own will.

"So you're saying," Siegel glanced at the confession's notes and raised an eyebrow, "you're doing this out of distrust of humanity and the race as a whole?" ”

"That's pretty much it." Li Changcheng said calmly.

"You think the things you've awakened, they're going to make humans better?" Siegel flipped through his notes and raised his eyelids to look at Lee Chang-sung, as if observing his expression.

"Yes. I studied for a long time to come to this conclusion. Mr. Lee, who remains calm, is still conducting academic exchanges, "They transform the human body and give us the power to surpass our limits."

Because people are fragile, both mentally and physically, they are always very weak and vulnerable. There are some things that you think you will never waver no matter what, and you think you can be firm until the end, but you realize that this is not the case when it comes to the end. People are far less resilient than they think they are, and they are the same in everything, because this is our innate flaw.

And they strengthen our spirits, fill in the gaps of faith, and keep us steadfast and unwavering no matter what we face.

That's what humanity needs, and it's been an incomplete part of us. Because man is such a creature, evolutionary flaws make us incomplete and prevent us from breaking through on our own.

We are failures, so we are destined to rely on them to become perfect. ”

"I believe that the way you describe it is 'infection'." Siegel tapped the table with a pen and said.

"It's not a nice name, but we can change it later." Li Changcheng said disapprehantly.

"Good...... bar, so your motivation is out of ...... Guiding human evolution. But have you ever considered that maybe the presence you're trying to awaken isn't the helpful type?

I mean...... The current polar stars belong to us humans, but once they wake up, they may have different opinions? ”

"Of course." Li Changcheng nodded and said seriously, "But as I said, we are failed evolutionaries and have no ability for self-improvement. So since we want to help, we naturally need to pay some corresponding price. ”

"Your views are so extreme, I'm surprised that no one has noticed them before."

Siegel said, continuing to rummage through the file file. Most of the personal information they found about Lee Chang-sung was originally top secret, but now the arrest team has been granted access under special circumstances.

"So I'm guessing your thoughts must have something to do with your experience in a terrorist camp?"

Lee Chang-sung didn't seem surprised that the other party raised this question, and only responded calmly: "A person's past will largely shape a person, and we are all defined by our own past, more or less. ”

"Understood. Then it doesn't look like I'm the best person to have this conversation. ”

Siegel stood up and walked to the door of the interrogation room, gripping the doorknob.

“...... He is. ”

He turned the handle and opened the door.

The door was opened.

The figure of a man appeared behind the door. He limped, relying on mechanical limbs to support half of his body, and his movements even seemed a little clumsy, but his vicissitudes of life showed a bit of perseverance that ordinary people did not have.

For the first time since sitting in this interrogation room, Li Changcheng's pupils contracted slightly, and his face changed slightly.

Leng Shaokang stood at the door, smiling at him like an old friend reuniting.

"Long time no see, Lao Li."

Leng Shaokang walked into the interrogation room, and Siegel got up and went out, and closed the door with him.

Soon only the two old comrades-in-arms were left in the room.

Leng Shaokang sat down in the position opposite Li Changcheng, and the two looked at each other speechlessly for a while.

“...... How have you been doing? Leng Shaokang was the first to break the silence.

Li Changcheng raised his arm and gestured to the shackles on his hand, and the metal chain was torn to a rattle.

"As you can see, so-so." He shrugged his shoulders, "It's getting harder and harder to accomplish anything these days, but you can handle it." ”

He paused, his gaze falling on his old comrade's replaced leg.

Leng Shaokang noticed his gaze, but he didn't intend to avoid it, he just stretched out this leg generously and smiled.

"This guy is getting clumsy." He patted the joint of his prosthetic leg, "Remember the question you asked me at the time?" What do you want to do most when you go back?

I said I couldn't wait to hug my little girl and didn't want to delay for a second. I wasn't with her when she was born, and I never held her in my life.

Then I finally got my wish, and I went back to her, but I still couldn't pick her up...... Hah, with this stupid, I struggled to even stand on my own. ”

He tapped his metal leg again, seemingly unhappy with it. But his expression was still smiling, as if he was casually chatting with an old friend and blowing water.

"Of course, as an old guy who picked up a life from the battlefield, I was treated pretty well. They overhaul me every year, and now this leg is a product that has been updated twice, and they assure me that this is the best choice in the field at the moment, but it seems to be the end of it. ”

Li Changcheng stared at his leg for a moment, and was silent without speaking.

Neither mentioned the incident, but they both knew it. They all knew how Leng Shaokang lost this leg, which was exactly what they had experienced in that terrorist camp back then.

They fought side by side, were captured together, and planned an escape together. Together, they escaped from the cell, but were exposed before they were able to leave the camp.

The fear of being captured and the yearning for freedom led Lee Chang-sung to do what he thought he would never do – he left his teammates behind.

He heard the sound of Leng Shaokang being caught, and heard shouts and fights. The voice was so close to him, right behind him, as if it were so close at hand. He could even imagine his comrades being beaten up through his voice, and a voice in his heart was telling him that he had to go back, and that he couldn't leave him here.

But a voice deep inside told him that he shouldn't go back.

There is no point in turning around and going back, it will only make them pack a piece and get caught. Keep running, at least one of them will be able to escape.

So he didn't look back and didn't stop, but left them all behind.

He escaped, at the cost of betraying his best brother.

"To tell you the truth, if it weren't for a nice and enthusiastic young guy coming to me and saying that there was a madman who was planning to summon an evil god to destroy the world, and that madman happened to be my buddy or something—I didn't really understand it, but it was about the same thing—I wouldn't have wanted to see you."

Leng Shaokang said bluntly.

Lee Chang-sung shrugged.

"I think so. I didn't expect to get your understanding......"

But before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Leng Shaokang.

"It seems to me that there is nothing to understand." Leng Shaokang shook his head, "I don't know what you think. Maybe you think you left me behind and escaped by betraying your teammates. But you may be mistaken about one of the most basic things -

- It wasn't you who betrayed me, but I left it on my own free will. When the operation was revealed, I knew we couldn't get out of that base together. At least one of us has to stay, or neither of us can leave.

So I made the decision in a very short time that it was up to me to get the attention of my pursuers, so that I might create an escape for my teammates. And because I believe it won't be long before he's coming with reinforcements – and that's exactly what you did.

That was my judgment, my decision, because I didn't discuss it with you and didn't ask for your consent because of the time constraints. You see an opportunity, and then you take it. In my opinion, this is called teamwork, and it is a tacit understanding that we should have.

In addition, besides, ......"

He paused and smiled at Mr. Lee.

"Strictly speaking, you saved my life - if you hadn't come back with someone, I would have confessed. So even if you really want to say that you owe me anything, we will already settle it. ”

Li Changcheng's lips moved, as if he wanted to say something, but he still couldn't say it.

"So you see, you don't owe me anything." Leng Shaokang put away his smile and became serious, and his tone even became a little cold, "I don't forgive you because there is nothing to forgive."

And the reason why I said I didn't want to see you was because I was so disappointed in you—I gave up on you so easily.

I heard what you just said, and I know what you're thinking. You blame humanity for the mistakes you think you've made, and you convince yourself that it's human nature to give up and retreat as a way to get rid of your guilt. But deep down, you know what's going on. ”

Leng Shaokang sighed.

"I can't believe I'm here to tell you this, you're supposed to be the best of us, and you're supposed to be the pride of all of us." He said in a soft, cold voice, "Do you say that there is a flaw in such a thing as a human being? Of course there is, too many to count.

Perhaps we are so vulnerable that we can easily waver, we can betray, and the beliefs we think we have strongest can be crushed.

Hell, no one understands this better than I do. Do you want to talk about defects? Okay. ”

He patted his mutilated leg again.

"I have to work hard to get up every day to put this thing on – and it's not as easy as a massage. I couldn't hold my daughter, and I had to ask my wife to move the table. Damn, I can't even walk.

But I survived it and continued to live, just like everyone else.

So yes, we are fragile, have countless flaws, sometimes give up, will be knocked down by life. But it's also us, we get up after falling, accept our flaws, and we move on.

That's who we are, weak, but also have our own insistence, and don't need to be bred or turned into something else to be a pet to be better. ”

Li Changcheng looked at the floor obliquely and groaned for a while.

It was a long time before he spoke.

"As always, there's always optimism, right?" He said.

Leng Shaokang smiled.

"Life is a jerk, it slaps you in the face, you have to learn to smile."

Li Changcheng laughed dryly.

"Okay." His spine slackened, and his entire body slammed into the chair, the shackles rattling, "I know why they're looking for you, I know what they want to know...... Okay, then I'll get straight to the point. ”

Hearing this, everyone outside the interrogation room also pricked up their ears, holding their breath and waiting for the words he was about to say next.

"That underground ruin, created by believers who surrendered to some ancient existence in ancient times." "It used to be their dwelling, but then it also became their tomb, a tomb that sealed them for countless years."

Find the key to the seal, Exhibit A-086, open the seal, and release the once great thing, codenamed 'Pleti', which you may find on my private server. ”

"They?"

Outside the door, Siegel frowned, noticing the word.

"That's right, it's not just Letos who has been sealed under that ruin." Li Changcheng said lightly, "That one was originally sealed with five ancient people.

Batman solved just one of them, and right now, you have four problems left. ”