Chapter 97 Chapter 97 Alcobaleno

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At this moment, they were on a circular staircase inside a European-style building. The long staircase wound down, and the dark walnut escalator was cold to the touch in the darkness. Colorless dust was flying in the air.

The air was extremely silent.

Mo Shiyu slowly exhaled, and the breath turned into white mist and merged into the cold air.

When did it come? We’ll think about this question later.

This is the ability of the world's number one killer.

Even though I knew he was standing quietly beside me, I couldn't find him at all.

The professional levels are different.

Smino held his wrist tightly. For a moment, he seemed to be planning to take Mo Shiyu away, but his movements paused strangely.

A thin piano wire silently wrapped around the insect's neck, the other end disappeared into the darkness and was gently twisted between the killer's fingers.

The moonlight shone through the window onto the ground, casting a long, cold light.

Did your ability activate faster, or did I slit your throat first? The killer silently greeted him.

"Reborn." Mo Shiyu could hear his own violent heartbeat. His hands and feet were cold, but his face was flushed with a sickly color. He clenched his sweaty hands tightly. "You must know why the government needs me. Do you think this is the best solution..."

The baby hiding in the shadows chuckled softly, "Mr. Xiao Mo, I'm a killer. I only do the work for the money. As for what happens to you, it's none of my business."

Even as he said these cold-blooded words, there was a deadly elegance in his voice, which lingered in his ears like a love talk.

Little Tsunayoshi opened his warm brown eyes wide, looking at the surrounding darkness with fear. After a few seconds, he mustered up the courage to stand in front of Mo Shiyu as if protecting a cub, opening his tender arms. In return, the killer chuckled, "How cute."

Mo Shiyu's face looked a little ugly, on the one hand because of the fever, on the other hand, he felt that Reborn's attitude was a little abnormal.

Why are you sitting there doing nothing and still talking all this nonsense...

It was no accident that Reborn took on this mission. How could Mo Shiyu have been trying to get his overloaded brain to work for money? Why did he choose to chat leisurely?

"Do you know the word 'book'?" Mo Shiyu suddenly asked.

Reborn raised his voice slightly, "You are very smart."

Come on, tell me your bargaining chip. His dark pupils silently stared at the beautiful silhouette in the shadows.

"The investigations of various countries are correct. I am indeed connected to the pollution, but... I am merely a tool chosen by the world's consciousness. I don't fully understand the secrets of this world's distortions."

Mo Shiyu coughed softly a few times before gathering his strength to continue, "The reason I had to come here is because down here, in the basement, there's an entrance to the 'book,' but only I can get in. ...Maybe the answer is hidden there."

"If you're here as Alcobaleno, I think what we're all troubled by now is probably something similar."

"So, you are not a suicidal person who disregards everything for revenge." Reborn walked out from the darkness, with a golden pacifier on his chest. The clear pacifier was faintly tinged with an ominous bright red, like the color of flesh and blood.

He raised the brim of his hat slightly, and his dark, lifeless pupils were like a filthy quagmire that would lure those who had stumbled into depravity.

What a pair of eyes that is totally incompatible with his young appearance.

The killer curled his lips and said, "Mr. Xiao Mo, I'm starting to like you."

Mo Shiyu suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. He closed his eyes, leaned against the wall, and let out a painful laugh, "Alcobaleno's pacifier has become like this..."

Reborn raised his eyebrows slightly. "I love its current color. It's just that sometimes when I wake up in the morning, I have to wipe the blood off the pacifier. It might be mine, or it might be his."

"...blood?" Mo Shiyu imagined the bizarre scene of the pacifier oozing blood, and felt a chill.

"It's incredible... being by your side brings me peace." Reborn said softly, "I haven't felt anything other than murderous intent in a long time."

Mo Shiyu's throat rolled up and down.

To be honest, he was scared to tears.

This person is so scary.

It's scary in a different way than Gin.

The baby in front of him had always appeared very calm, and looked like a killer with extremely terrifying self-control. But why did Mo Shiyu feel that the hair on the back of his neck was standing up the more he talked to him?

His mental state is somewhat similar to that of the grown-up Sawada Tsunayoshi, both of them are hidden madness, but it is carefully carved into a calm appearance. It is even more chaotic and twisted.

In a trance, Mo Shiyu seemed to see scarlet color flowing along the yellow nipple, spreading from the fine lines on the skin to the whole body, and saw the disordered and crazy colors of blood and flesh in the other person's eyes.

Are you truly calm? The calmer you are, the more terrifying it is! How can you cultivate yourself?

Mo Shiyu tried his best to remain calm and turned around, "Then I'll continue walking down."

"Okay, Mr. Xiaomo." Reborn chuckled and said, "As a token of my apology, your future will be smooth sailing."

"Oh? Did you also kill all the people in a fort?" Mo Shiyu looked back at him and made a joke.

Reborn said nothing, but just curved his lips elegantly towards him.

Mo Shiyu stared at him for half a second, then turned his head silently, "..."

No, your family’s teaching is horrible!!

He was really scared to tears!

****

The entire base was eerily quiet.

This was the blond man's first thought after escaping from the control room.

It was as if everyone had disappeared.

It was so quiet that even the smell of blood disappeared.

He led his men through the silent corridors, glancing back from time to time. For some reason, the ghostly young man in white hadn't caught up with them.

"Huh..." The blond man sighed and looked at the dead silence around him. "Sure enough, things get weird when it's related to that Mo Meiren."

Just as the government speculated, the distorted side of the world was extremely fond of that child... This was definitely not a good thing for him...

In fact, the blond man could understand why this beautiful Mo man didn't want to live. As long as he knew a little about his experience, he would know that it was a blessing that he didn't go crazy all these years.

And from now on humans will be even more cruel to him.

"She's still so young, she'll be very popular in school..." The blond man sighed. Although he sighed, there was no hesitation or reluctance on his face. "Unfortunately, sometimes fate is so unreasonable..."

All that's left now is to wait for Mask and Reborn to find him.

"God bless me, please don't let any more accidents happen, please let me get off work early..." The blond man prayed devoutly.

At this time, he didn't know that, apart from him, the two agents or killers sent by America each had their own ulterior motives, and no one was working actively.

"Come to think of it." The blond man suddenly frowned. "Did that old fellow Diabo escape or is he still in the base?"

Diabo is the old man who escaped in the chaos just now, and he is also the source of all evil in Slovakia.

He believes that everything can be traded, whether it is human life or organs, hope or despair. He is a tricky guy. He wanted to know the news about Mo Meiren so much before. I wonder if he will do anything else.

No. That shouldn't be the case, the blond man immediately shook his head. Even the government has intervened, so the cowardly old man must have escaped.

For a moment, the air was so quiet that the only sound was the sound of their footsteps.

When the blond man walked past a windowsill, his face suddenly changed. He instinctively raised his hands to protect his chest. His eyes focused and a spatial fluctuation appeared in front of him.

The next second, a cold and swift light suddenly flashed across the air, and a knife suddenly came in from the window, attacking his vital points with unstoppable force.

But when it was about to penetrate his heart, it was affected by the spatial fluctuations and slid to the side of his shoulder.

Blood slowly flowed down, and the blond man pulled the knife out of his shoulder with a grim expression and threw it on the ground.

A laughing voice came from outside the window, "Oh? I remember you were America's space agent?"

A young man with white hair streaked with red jumped in nimbly from the window. With a flick of his foot, he picked up the bloody knife that had fallen to the ground and brought it back into his hand. He said with a smile, "Nice to meet you."

"You're the rude neon hound..." The blond man covered his shoulder and raised an eyebrow, "What are you doing here?"

"Perhaps it's the same purpose as yours." Tiao Ye Caiju smiled. Rude? What's this new term?

"That won't do. You can't do whatever you want here." The blond man smiled falsely. "Last time, you almost drove the insect queen to suicide. Officials from all over the world are using you, Neon, as a negative example."

"..." Tiao Ye Caiju tilted her head, "He is a criminal, and I have been gentle enough to him."

"The kind of gentleness that drives someone to suicide?" A sneer spread across the blond man's lips. "We're different from you. Compared to your 'gentleness', our methods are much more practical. America will give him a permanent green card, unlimited real estate and wealth. He will be able to work anywhere and study in any school he wants, and everything will be greenlit in advance."

The blond man said arrogantly, "What about you? What can you offer him? Admit the facts of World War II? We are indeed inferior to him in this regard."

“…”

Wow, a basic attack directly triggered the opponent's ultimate move.

Hagiwara Kenji and Dazai Osamu, who had walked in from behind Jouno Saiju, looked up and saw the hound in front of them whispering, "Basement."

Dazai snapped his fingers and turned to leave, but was stopped.

"Anyway, America will take over here." The blond man raised his gun and said in a low voice, "Jiono, you're going to irritate him."

Tiaoye Caiju closed her eyes, and her long eyelashes trembled slightly.

****

The further Mo Shiyu went down, the more uncomfortable he felt.

He shivered intermittently, hugging his arms tightly, unable to tell whether he was cold or hot, and even refused Sawada Tsunayoshi's request to hold hands.

Little Tsunayoshi suppressed the disappointment of having his hand slapped away, and looked at him sensibly and worriedly, "Brother, take a rest for a while."

Mo Shiyu stared at Sawada Tsunayoshi and took a step back. His eyes became hostile. He tightened the hilt of the knife in his hand, and Smino immediately supported him.

Reborn looked at his conflicted expression, his pupils turning dark and deep.

"Sawada Tsunayoshi, come behind me." He said softly.

"Hey, why?"

"Given Mr. Xiao Mo's current condition, he might even kill you as a monster."

"Mother, this is..." Smino looked at him with distress, hesitant to speak.

The gray-haired young man with a bad complexion had sweat on his face and seemed to be gasping for breath and resisting something.

Mo Shiyu felt that his mental state had reached a precarious point. He actually began to think that the human Tsunayoshi beside him was a monster, while Smino and even Reborn made him feel close.

This isn't right, he kept telling himself.

He couldn't allow his thoughts to become distorted.

"Cover his eyes." Reborn said, and the white doll immediately climbed from his back to the top of his head, with the pointed end hanging down, covering his eyes.

Mo Shiyu finally calmed down in the darkness, "...I'm sorry, time is already very tight, I won't waste any more time."

"Don't be afraid." Reborn whispered softly, turning around and touching Sawada Tsunayoshi's soft head, comforting the child who was about to cry, "Mr. Xiao Mo, as long as you can stop the pollution of 7 to the power of 3, I will kill everyone who stands in your way for you."

Mo Shiyu closed his eyes tightly.