By the end of the evening, some of the results of the physical examination were finally out. As I confessed to Bluebird earlier, I have less than a year left to live. When the blue bird saw the result, he showed a very sad expression, and I regretted telling the truth from the bottom of my heart. But I also know that this is something I have to say. I've already made a vow to my heart, and even if I am given a chance to do it again, I won't hide anything from Bluebird.

We left from the underground institute. Lie Que left earlier than me and the Blue Bird, and I don't know if I want to go back to the Fazheng and their small meeting or what. The two of us walked slowly down the road by the river, and the noise came from afar, and she didn't say a word. I wanted to make her feel better, but I didn't know what to say, so I had to ramble and chat, and I was worried about whether I would be self-defeating.

After a moment, she sighed, "It's you who is about to die, why do you want to free me." ”

"Because I feel like you're sadder than I am." I say.

"I was very sad and wanted to find a place to cry for a while. But like this, don't I even have a place to cry? She said.

"How can there be no place?" I opened my arms in all seriousness.

"Alright. Let's not talk about that, I'm hungry, let's find a place to eat. She said.

We ate in a private room in a nearby restaurant, and she still had a worried face. Eating almost, this time it was she who finally provoked the topic, "All this...... It must all be my fault. ”

"What?" I asked curiously.

"Five years ago, if I hadn't lost my temper and left myself in the mountains, you wouldn't have encountered such a thing, let alone become what you are today." She brought it up again.

"It's just luck, not your fault." I say.

"Really?" She said, "Even if it was me who was destined to meet the Kraken? ”

"Why do you say that?" Hearing this, I realized what she was thinking at the moment.

"Have you never doubted it? A person with advanced awareness is more likely to discover hidden things than ordinary people. Even though I didn't realize the existence of the hidden world at the time, it was easier for me to be attracted to the hidden things than ordinary people, because I was supposed to be a resident of this side in the first place. She said. If I and the others were put in a haunted house where there were real ghosts, I would find out that there were ghosts, and the others might leave without knowing anything. It was the same five years ago, since there was a kraken in the woods where I was lost, then whether consciously or unconsciously, it was me who found the kraken, like a moth instinctively pounced on the flames. ”

"I don't know why the Kraken appeared in the woods of Nameless Mountain that day, but I happened to get lost that day, is it really just a pure accident, not some kind of predetermined fate?" She was thinking about this matter very seriously, but unfortunately, she was not talking nonsense, starting from the perspective of a warlock, this is completely reasonable reasoning, "Maybe it is not an accident at all, I should have met the Kraken after I got lost, and then I was hypnotized and brainwashed by her, and my body was also transformed, and I couldn't even remember the most basic ethics, so I became her blade......"

"But I was the one who encountered 'it.'" I say.

"Yes. I don't know what went wrong, but when you chose to rush into the dark woods, you took my place. She closed her eyes in pain, "All the ...... you've encountered so far It was supposed to be what I had to bear. ”

"It doesn't make sense." I said, "If it's your destiny to encounter 'it' and not mine, then how can things change because I don't go to you?" ”

"But if you don't go to me, you won't meet the Kraken. At the end of the day, it's my fault for being angry. It's the Kraken who has completely thrown your life out of control, but I'm the one who pulled the trigger. She said.

In the original fate, there should not be a demon Li Duo, only the witch Blue Bird.

Bluebird seemed to believe so, and I didn't know how to refute her on the matter, and even began to wonder if it was really the case. But even so, I didn't feel that it was her fault, and it was impossible to blame her. Who can determine what the original fate will be, that is just empty talk on paper, but an illusory assumption. The truth is that I am the one who is the most sinful.

"Is this the reason why you lied to me that you implanted a malignant factor in your healing dreams?" I asked.

She said categorically: "The malignant factor exists, and I didn't deceive you." ”

"You're guilty of me...... That's why you're with me? When I asked this, I felt like my heart was being held tightly by an invisible hand.

"I ...... In the beginning, when I came into contact with you in the healing dream, I did look at you with that feeling. She said, "But I really liked you again, and I really loved you." There is absolutely nothing false about this. ”

yes, I know very well. I couldn't know her love for me all the more. However, I get scared occasionally. I'm afraid that the warm embrace will abandon me.

In the end, I didn't accept the fate hypothesis of the blue bird, and she couldn't explain what the "mistake" was that distorted our mutual destinies, so I had to stop it. After eating, we returned to the hotel.

"You'll only have your last year...... she said, dejectedly.

"Hmm." I answered.

"I still want to cry." She whispered, "Let me cry." ”

In the evening, the bluebird came to my room. I hugged her tightly on the bed, and she buried her face deep in my chest, wetting the hem of my clothes.

The next day, the second half of the meeting at the headquarters of the Security Service finally ended, in which a specific plan for the previous night's eradication was discussed. In order to eradicate the Eve, the headquarters set up a special combat organization "Puzhao", and ordered the security bureaus throughout the country to vigorously crack down on the Eve's forces in their jurisdictions.

Bluebird and I were incorporated into the general light and became combatants in it. Soon, Bluebird was tasked with returning to Liucheng to search for traces of the forces of the night before, while I needed to stay in the capital for the time being to recuperate from my seriously injured spirits. Before leaving, the blue bird finally lifted the curse on my body that was connected to her heart.

"Is it really lifted?" I touched my body.

"Didn't I say it last time, I don't want you to think I'm a troublesome and heavy woman. Now that you will no longer give your life to your enemies in vain, there is no need for the curse to exist. And, because I believe in you and want you to feel that I believe in you, this curse is a bit of a hindrance. "Then, when you meet the enemy again, I still hope that you will say it again as you said to Sabertooth, because there are people who can't let go, so you won't give up your life." And one day, I hope you can say that you don't want to die because you want to live. ”

"I hope so." I didn't say anything disappointing like "I'd be dead before that", and then sent her off well.

After that, three weeks later, I spent New Year's Day in the capital, ushering in 2023.

My spirit was finally healed. During this time, in order to collect information about my body as many times as possible, the doctor arranged the location of my recuperation of my spirit to an underground research institute, and this matter was also notified in advance. I don't mind that, it's just that going in and out of the underground research institute like this, and looking at the undead, I occasionally think back to the last conversation I had with Leq.

Lieq said that "it" was dead.

I think so too, but I always feel that there is an indescribable sense of disobedience to this statement. It's not that "it" may not be dead, "it" must be dead, this is definitely a fact that cannot be subverted. However, there still seems to be a discord somewhere.

I reminisced about the past time with "it", the pale skin and the cold, slimy flesh, and the last thing I saw, the only severed hand.

Even I didn't feel the slightest bit of life in that severed hand.

But, perhaps, this seems contradictory. At the end of the day, even when "it" was still alive, I never felt the so-called vitality.

——

In any case, I was destined to never encounter "it" again, as evidenced by the disappearance of the invisible connection that was once so intimate. I shouldn't go back to the days when I was covered in blood and white fluid.

Let's start with a few things that happened during this time.

The first is the process of extermination on the eve of the previous year, although the meeting at the headquarters seems to be very unreliable, but to say that the Security Service is truly the organization that rules the hidden world of this country. In just three weeks, the forces of the eve were severely dealt a blow across the country, and every day there was news that the strongholds of the front night had been dug up and wiped out.

So far, the reason why Eve has been able to run amok in the hidden world is not because they have enough power to fight the security service, but because the security agency has not taken it seriously. Once the Security Bureau became serious, a devastating situation was formed.

It is true that on the eve of the previous year, there were already great warcists like Hakuma and super main warlocks like Bite Blood, but the number of Grand Karcists and super main warlocks of the Security Bureau will only be more, and the number of stalwarf is also very different, and the two sides are not in the same dimension in terms of business and resources.

However, those demon warlocks are far inferior to the Security Bureau in head-on confrontation, but they are quite tenacious in the field of hide and seek. Until now, the Security Service has not been able to find out the entrance and method of entering the "Dawning Dreamland" of the headquarters on the eve before, and even its internal information is poorly understood.

At present, it is only known that there are a large number of researchers and senior cadres gathered there, and it is a brain-like place for the eve. In addition, although it was the headquarters of the previous eve, it seems that it was created only last year, and it is an extremely secret stronghold that only a very small number of researchers and high-ranking cadres on the previous night have heard of. Most of the Demon Warlocks on the eve didn't even know that there was such a place in their house.

At the same time as Puzhao and the local security bureaus were exterminating the forces on the eve of the extermination, Lieqiu was also dealing with the problem of corrupt elements at the headquarters.

The purpose of his visit to the headquarters this time was not only to bring me and Blue Bird to the meeting, but also to thoroughly investigate the theft of the equipment that had caused Naruyoshi to be wiped out in the first place. The truth of that case is that Juzhong traded high-tech equipment to fanatics, and someone must have been involved in the headquarters, so the investigation team sent to the mirage market will "wipe his ass" for Juzhong.

The liquidation of the vacancies involved all aspects of the headquarters, including even some high-level members of the law camp who usually seemed to be incorruptible, and there were many heinous parts of the darkness excavated, so I will not expand on them in detail here. If it were in the past, he might really want to bloody the headquarters again, but now, as a high-level member of the law camp, he is only acting within the scope of the secret law, and he should be caught and killed. And even so, his liquidation still brought a huge shock to the headquarters.

I don't know much about those things. Sometimes when Lieq meets me, I talk about a lot of things that I don't understand. It's embarrassing to say that I, as a warlock in the law camp, haven't memorized all the secret laws until now. The siren's memory is much better than mine, she has memorized it all, and sometimes I have to ask her for advice.

In addition, the sirens have made drastic improvements to the way they use the "smoldering" runes these days, based on my experience with the past two "smoldering" runes. According to her, she has upgraded "Smoldering" from a single-burst skill to a new skill that can be maintained for a long time. With this new skill, I can use every move in a short period of time to hit the power of the super main level. And that was actually the original design goal of "smoldering".

Although the new skills are still dangerous to use, at least there is no more life-threatening risk.

As she struggled to improve, I was also doing my own work, mainly trying to figure out how to transform the siren's blade into other shapes to form a body that would allow her to move in reality.

This hasn't worked out yet, but I've been sure of at least one thing, and that's that sirenblades do change shape. It's not like I didn't try to change the shape of my weapon when I was a demon, but it ended in failure, but the reason why I'm able to succeed now is probably because I'm really controlling the siren's blade with my own will. Now I can change it into a sword, a spear, a club, a hammer, or even a bow, but it's still far from a complex human form.

I wondered if I wanted to turn the siren blade into a handsome sword, but now I'm not used to changing weapons, so I continue to maintain the shape of the axe.

Now that my recuperation is over, it's time for me to go.

(End of chapter)