In that unfamiliar bed, I woke up with the annoying alarm clock. I sighed and silently complained about the haste with which I woke up.

As of today, the containment areas of the upper four departments have all been opened. And we've been halfway through the cycle time, and it's clear that the current situation is still flat and hopeless, and I'm starting to think about what I can do.

Coming to the work area, today to protect a new batch of newcomers to the training department, Gregory is with me, Hana is also here, in addition to a Loki's intelligence department employee named Neves, he is also dressed in a set of Nova voice, with the usual slightly longer short hair, and a magic catapult pipe in his mouth, and he has a very respectful attitude towards me, often comes to me to ask some questions, and will seriously thank me after getting the answers, but there is often an inexplicable restraint between the lines.

Due to the abundance of manpower, not only the speed of work is impressive, but today's Anomalytic suppression and testing at all levels are also very smooth: when I shook off the black and disgusting blood stains of the "Absolute Battle" entity on the sword of the "Justice Adjudicator", and threw the scattered corpses to the civilian staff who rushed in, I breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that today's task is basically over, if there is no accident, I only need to wait until the staff training indicators are completed......

It's just a pity that whenever people think that there should be no accidents, accidents will definitely come to the door with surprises.

"Everyone!" I faced the containment team support staff gathered in the main lounge of the Ministry of Security, and said lightly: "Prepare to evacuate the training department immediately, we are going to the security department and the magic catapult manual ......"

"Ahhh——!h Before the words fell, a heart-rending scream suddenly came from the lower levels of the training department, and everyone immediately tensed their nerves, "Go and see what happened!" Marx shouted, and immediately led the members of the containment team to the nearest elevator room, and hurried down the floor without stopping.

"Don't ...... No...... Don't kill me! "As we descended the elevator, we heard that horrible scream again. Everyone unanimously pulled out their weapons and prepared for battle.

"Ding-" The elevator door opened, and we all rushed out at once, our eyes searching for the source of the sound. "There!" A sharp-eyed Hana shouted as she pointed to the door of the Queen of Abomination's containment unit, and the other people's eyes quickly focused in that direction - sure enough, a newcomer dressed in a glass lamp (original owner: Otori, designation: O-02-40) suddenly rushed out of the Queen of Abomination's containment unit, and his face was even more stained with tears and snot. "Help me!" As soon as he saw us coming, he reached out his trembling hand and pointed to the light-glowing containment unit behind him. "Quick...... Stop her! He cried out heartbreakingly.

I quickly glanced at the containment unit, under the flickering light, a terrifying figure was looming in absurd and terrifying changes, I immediately knew that something was wrong, "Marx, Hanna, go and save people, take them to the elevator room immediately!" I immediately turned back to my colleagues and shouted, "The others come with me!" ”

Neves and Yoe immediately carried out my orders without thinking, and Gregory was stunned for a moment, but immediately followed me, Eugeuie seemed to want to follow Marx at first, and then rushed to the Queen's containment unit after me.

I pulled out the Justice Adjudicator and rushed to the door of the containment unit, Gregory followed me by the door, Max and Hana immediately rushed to the hysterical staff, poured him a low-concentration enkephalin, and after the newcomer had calmed down a little, the two immediately carried him to the nearest hallway.

Eugeuie and Neves felt it later, but after seeing what was in the containment unit, they immediately showed extreme nervousness, which was nothing out of the ordinary, after all, the scene was not something ordinary people could bear—they saw the Queen of Abomination bow her head, her face glowing with a strange hideousness, the black heart looming behind her had been completely shattered, and her body was pierced by cyan spears shooting from all directions, and every stab wound on the Queen's body, Instead of bleeding bright red blood like ordinary people, it was mixed with a viscous liquid of purple, black, and pale pink, and the viscous liquid gushing out of each wound gradually gathered at the feet of the Queen of Abomination, gradually enveloping it like a heart-shaped cocoon, and finally enveloping the anomaly, and when it happened, there was an unusually horrific sound of flesh tearing and overturning echoing through the containment unit, as well as a faint dripping sound. And all of this destroys the nerves of the observer all the time.

"Calm down." I turned my head and whispered to Eugeuie and Neves, who were following closely. At this moment, the metamorphosis of the Queen of Abomination has also reached the final stage, with a sound of glass shattering, the heart-shaped cocoon shattered, and crawling out of it is no longer the original elegant little girl with a second disease, but a giant snake-like monster nearly two people tall, that guy has two huge wings on his back, and his blue and pink head has a larger body proportion than ordinary snakes - it can easily swallow a whole person, two short and deformed appendages are born on the top of the head, and two huge fangs can be clearly seen outside the lips, The dark and godless eyes seem to be able to devour people's minds, although the colors around the body are still the pink, cyan and white colors that belong to magical girls, but taking advantage of the terrifying appearance, these bright colors not only do not bring people a trace of reassurance, but only add to the weirdness and fear.

After confirming that Marx had taken the newcomer to the elevator hall, I lifted the Justice Adjudicator, "Ready to fight." I said to the staff around me. The others didn't dare to slack off, and pulled out their ego weapons one after another, Neves gathered the blue nova, Eugeuie raised his gaze (ego weapon, hammer shape), and Gregory held the justice judge behind him, vigilantly observing the corridor behind him.

The serpentine Queen of Abomination had completely broken away from its "cocoon", and as expected, when it actually showed its form, it suddenly emitted a burst of dazzling white light and immediately disappeared into the containment unit.

"Gone?!" Eugeuie said in amazement. And just as she was about to enter the containment unit, suddenly the dazzling white light flashed again, and the lights in the corridor were suddenly dimmed, and at the same time, a huge sense of pain immediately filled our bodies, and our spirits were also stimulated, and for a while we were dizzy and nervous, as if we had just been drunk.

And as we recovered from the dizziness and pain, the Queen of Abomination had appeared before us. "Attack!" Gregory shouted, wielding the Adjudicator of Justice to slash at the Queen's massive head, but the monster swung its head, and the blade of the greatsword slashed through the smooth scales, slashing off a short appendage from the serpentine monster's head.

"Whew!!" The monster was clearly in great pain, and at the same time, a disgusting mixed viscous liquid was still flowing from the horrific incision, and even worse, it seemed that the slime was restoring the damaged limbs of the Queen of Abomination at a speed visible to the naked eye, and we had to deal with it quickly.

I rushed up to the Abomination Queen, slashing her abdomen with two swords, blue damage to the Abomination Queen, piercing through the tough scales and snakeskin, ripping open the veins and throwing the pink slime to the ground. But my melee attacks were soon forced to end with the Queen's nimble tail flick, and I rolled wider, looking for other opportunities.

"I'm on it too!" Seeing this, Eugeuie immediately raised her eyelamp and rushed forward to smash the head of the Abomination with all her might—"Bang." "It was only a slight sound, and the hammer did not corrode the enemy's skin on the contact surface as expected, on the contrary, it barely managed to set a centimeter into it." My Attack ...... Doesn't work? Just as Eugeuie was taken aback by the Queen of Abomination's eerie black damage resistance, "Smack!! A sudden tail flick immediately sent her nearly two meters away.

Eugeuie fell to the ground heavily, thanks to the protection of the blue scar she was wearing, she only suffered some minor injuries, but the psychological pressure of the blow was obviously more harmful than the physical pain, I could clearly feel that she was trembling, her pupils dilated, her teeth clenched, her expression more uneasy, and her weapon almost fell off her hand.

But now there is no way out, the director has just given us the order to suppress the Queen of Abomination, and we have no choice but to continue fighting.

"Neves, cover!" Gregory shouted to Neves, who was gathered on the side with the voice of the new star, and as soon as he finished speaking, countless gray energy balls immediately rained down on the high head of the Queen of Abomination, dissolving it as soon as it touched the monster's cyan scales. For a while, the Abomination Queen's skin was scarred, and her vision was also disturbed by the barrage of countless new star voices, and Gregory and I took this opportunity to immediately step forward and tear open one wound after another for the monster, and under such an attack, the Abomination Queen was forced to retreat again and again.

"Okay, fix it in one go!" I held up the Justice Adjudicator, ready to deliver the fatal blow to that guy.

"Whew!!"

Suddenly, there was another deafening roar, and before Gregory and I could react, we were blown away by the oncoming air current, and I scrambled to adjust my position in the air, almost as if muscle memory, and after a few slightly embarrassed rolls, I finally got to my feet. "Damn ......" Before we could catch our breath, an even greater danger followed: the angry Queen of Abomination roared and made her last move—only to see its scarred head held high, its wings spread, and the pair of limbs above it, which had not yet fully recovered, swayed up and down, as if to channel the surge of energy, while a pink magic circle gradually formed in front of the monster, and the monster opened its mouth and glared angrily, aiming at us unabashedly.

Bad! Knowing full well what was going to happen, I was about to rush to the elevator to evacuate, but as I turned to take the first step, I suddenly realized that behind my position were the staff of the Intelligence and Security Divisions and a large number of civilians, and if nothing was done, the wrath of the Queen of Abomination would expose them all to great danger, and there was little way to escape!

I gritted my teeth and said, "Gray, you withdraw first, I'll go ......"

Just as I turned to greet Gregory, I found that his figure had already appeared in front of me, and he was heading straight for the magic circle that was gathering more and more. "Huh?! What are you doing?! I was stunned and immediately chased after me.

This move seemed to have hit the Hate Queen's hands, and it immediately showed even more excitement, and its two small auxiliary limbs also accelerated their swing, and the magic array in front of it emitted an even more dangerous dazzling light, and a powerful attack was about to come out.

"Gregory!" I shouted, throwing the two Adjudicators of Justice at the two demonic appendages, one unexpectedly bouncing off the new magic circle and slamming into one side of the wall, and the other piercing through the magic circle, successfully chopping off a waving appendel on top of the Queen of Abomination's head.

"Smack!" A newborn magic array shattered in an instant, and Fang Cai's attack had an effect on the Queen of Abomination, but it still couldn't stop its attack, and the even more angry Queen of Abomination shook her other side desperately, continuing to guide the pink energy to gather in front of her, but the speed had been significantly reduced, creating precious life time for Gregory.

At this time, Gregory had already rushed in front of the Queen of Abomination, in fact, I didn't know what he wanted to do, because there was almost no precedent for successfully stopping the release of the Queen of Abomination's energy, no matter how he attacked, the magic array that appeared would be activated, and it would shoot out extremely uncontrolled energy to kill its enemies. So what does he want to do at this moment?!

Bad! The Queen of Abomination had now completed the last of her magic array, and I had no chance to evacuate now, so I had to put my hands on my head and crouch on the ground to make a final stand against the oncoming attack. But Gregory, already close to the Queen of Abomination, has no intention of avoiding it!

The Queen of Abomination opened her mouth, pink energy gushing out of her disgusting throat, "Huh!" I hurriedly lowered my head, closed my eyes, and gritted my teeth for the imminent attack.

"Poof......!" There was a loud bang that seemed to be the flow of water suddenly stopped, followed by the heart-rending screams of the Queen of Abomination. A strong curiosity drove me to raise my head slightly to glance at the anomaly in front of me, but I was taken aback by what came to my eye - I saw that behind the heavy circle, Gregory was thrusting his greatsword into the huge mouth of the Queen of Abomination's dazzling and blasphemous pink light, and before I could shout anything, the next second he was quickly drowned in a huge burst of energy, and in an instant, the entire corridor was filled with shining white light and a huge shockwave, followed by the squeak of the floor shattering and mechanical distortion, I was lifted high again and hit the ground hard.

Scattered pink light sporadically shattered the equipment in the hallway, and there were black craters burned all around. Gray ...... Gray! I regained some consciousness slightly, and a burst of pink light instantly illuminated the entire corridor as bright as day, and the dazzling light flashed my hazy eyes, and I stretched out my hand to block the oncoming light, and looked hard at the location of the explosion - fortunately, the serpentine monster disappeared, replaced by the appearance of the more likable magical girl of the Queen of Abomination, as if unconscious, it was like a sleeping girl, at the dazzling light source, surrounded by countless pleasant light particles and layers of magic arrays, Slowly descend to the ground.

"Gray!" When the light weakens slightly. Covered in cold sweat, I immediately shouted like crazy as I rushed towards the explosion - it was an absolutely terrifying release of energy, and the area within a three-meter radius was instantly cleared into an almost circular crater, and even the equipment of the containment unit was recently charred black. And I was in such a reality, expecting a miracle.

"Damn it......" I came there, looking at the empty crater, hoping to shout something, but it was as if my throat was choked, only a hoarse forehead, and I couldn't help but kneel on the edge of the big crater, panting for breath.

At this moment, I was completely confused, and the memories of the past were repeated over and over again in my empty mind like a marquee. Why? Why did you suddenly become like this? Why are you so desperate? Just because of what you call "guilt"? As I thought so, I grabbed my hair and breathed uncontrollably. Damn it! I want to hear your story again, and I want to see your big smile again! I was at a loss for what was happening, and the supervisor's instructions reached my ears. Although I'm unconscious, the Queen of Abomination is still breaching containment, and I have mixed feelings in my heart, but I have to struggle to support my shell again, and I need to get the job done and dispose of the mess that this terrible monster has thrown down.

As I moved like a walking corpse to the Queen's containment unit, thinking back to the past, a strong longing suddenly surged through me, "Freedom......" I murmured:

"Freedom."

I froze where I was, and though it would be life-threatening to disobey the supervisor's orders, it was an order that could not be refused, like a hungry guest wandering in the desert, I ...... I don't want to go on, my past, my freedom.

Through the surveillance in the corner, I watched the supervisor sitting in the office, separated only by a screen and layers of cognitive filters, I didn't understand and couldn't understand. I felt as if he had raised his pistol loaded with execution rounds, aiming it at my skull. But there was no fear in my heart, not even a cold sweat, the peace in my heart was terrifying, I carried too much, I wouldn't mind leaving.

"Drip ......"

I didn't die, as someone pressed the backtrack button in front of the containment unit, and the Queen of Abomination returned to the containment unit in a flash of light, and I looked over there to see the familiar back: it was Gregory.

"Poof......" I widened my eyes and smiled wryly as I walked quickly over to the bastard.

"Ah...... Adele. He smiled at me: "How's it going?" I ......"

"Bang!"

I punched him hard.

"If you do this again, I'll kill you." As I spoke, there was a hint of crying in my words.

He covered his face, and instead of getting angry, he hugged me tightly.

I put my hands free and for some reason made a slight resistance, and I didn't let him get close to me completely. Gregory seemed to realize this, and he didn't go any further, and we leaned on each other's shoulders and stood silently.

Later in the day, many of the employees he saved had a small celebratory banquet in the cafeteria, and after a full meal, Gregory sat down next to me who was waiting in the corner.

"Do you think we have a future here?" I asked him softly.

"Yes." Without hesitation, he replied, "We will be free at all." ”

"Do you believe the weight of this statement here?" I said with some sadness.

"Hmm." Gregory nodded, and said in a mysterious tone: "Everything we have carried and experienced, the past that has been pressed to the ground by others, will finally one day turn into infinite freedom." ”

Although he didn't seem to know why, I still got a different feeling, "freedom...... Oh our freedom. "It is my will, and the will of all those whom we love, who have harmed us, to bear them, to live bravely, to embrace the vastness of ...... Freely.

That night, Gregory told me a lot, including his past, which was what made him do so amazing today:

Although Gregory is a nest man, his family is just a mediocre low-level commoner who is busy making ends meet, he has a happy childhood, went to an ordinary middle school not far from his home, and was admitted to an ordinary university in the P nest. But such an ordinary resume did not give Gregory an equally ordinary heart, and he was often discriminated against as a child, and he was bent on getting ahead:

"When I was very young, I wanted to be a finisher...... "I wanted to be a color-level finisher, so that everyone who had laughed at me before would come to me in a low voice." Speaking of which, I can still see the different kind of heat in his eyes.

He soon met a like-minded classmate at the university, and they quickly became close friends, and while completing their college studies, the two spent a lot of their spare time learning about fighting and handling all the weapons they could get their hands on in the nest. The hard work paid off, and two years after graduating from university, the two of them opened their office as they wished, and officially became a finisher under the certification of the Finishers' Guild.

"The business area you were assigned to...... Is it in the P-nest? I asked, frowning.

"No...... Back alley. His face sank.

"Tsk......" I gasped as I listened.

There is no doubt that when they learned that they had to spend their days wandering the back alleys of monsters and gangsters, both parents were adamantly opposed to their work at the same time, and no matter how much Gregory and his friends tried to dissuade them, both parents refused to let go.

"During that time, I almost wanted to cut ties with them." Gregory couldn't help but smile wryly when he said this.

But often walking by the river, how can there be no wet shoes, in a trip to the suburbs to complete the security mission, they were suddenly besieged by a large group of sudden attack of the scavengers, in the fierce battle, even if the two and the vicious scavengers fought to the death, but still failed to save the client, and his close friend was also disabled in the fierce battle, lost two limbs, almost became a waste. But the trouble didn't end there, and the client's relatives and friends soon arrived at the office with a large bill for compensation, and they were agitated and demanded compensation far above the union's standard standard, and Gregory had little to do about it when he bribed the local prosecutor, and he had to sell the firm in the days that followed, and auction off his closing license.

And this was not the darkest moment of his life, the death of that close friend was the last straw that broke his back......

"I just remember that it was an afternoon when black clouds were pressing." Gregory said, his tone lowered, "His parents were around three o'clock in the afternoon...... They came to my house crying and cursed me...... I said I had forced his son to death......"

Yes, Gregory's close friend committed suicide because he couldn't stand the pressure, and his parents died one after another in the midst of excessive grief. And the huge bill was finally reluctantly settled after the auction off the ancestral home and family wealth of the two brothers' families.

This time, Gregory could no longer refuse his parents' bitter pleas, and on the night the arrears were paid off, the family of three hugged each other and cried in the home they were about to move out of.

"And after that?" I asked him tentatively.

"After that......" Gregory looked up, "and then I'm here." ”

"So you're ...... because of this guilt"

"When my family received an internship notice from Brain Lobe, everyone was as happy as a holiday, and my parents thought that I could finally live a stable life, although I had to give up my dream, but a stable and high-salary income was also what I just needed." When he said this, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"So responding to your family's expectations becomes your only motivation."

"That's just the time...... Now, I decided to live for myself. Gregory said, "It's also about trusting all of me, the people I've hurt, to live." As he spoke, his eyes glazed over, perhaps thinking of his dead brother.