Chapter 123 You Can Call Me Yongxin

Jellal placed the blood-stained purse on the table, and then looked at Tachibana's small back as she rummaged through the pile of accessories, making her look like a little mouse picking up food in a pile of grain.

Yes, Gerard was back in this warehouse again.

Logically speaking, he had no intention of coming back, or even showing up. He just wanted to put the bag of money in the warehouse and then leave quickly.

However, they encountered such a situation on the way here. Gerard naturally would not just watch, so he went over to help out a little and cracked the heads of those hooligans.

But this also made the purse in his hand become more colorful. It looked like a tool used in a crime, so it was really not easy to just hand it over to Ju.

Moreover, Ju also discovered the problem with him.

To be precise, there was something wrong with the metal body.

During the battle with Dark, these parts were attacked and damaged.

And Tachibana actually heard the problem just from the sound of Jellal's footsteps, and offered to help him solve it, as if it were after-sales service.

Although Jellal didn't want to cause more trouble to Tachibana, he also knew that this was not the time to show off. Damage to the prosthesis would cause more unpredictable consequences, which would be a real trouble. So after hesitating for a moment, he agreed and followed Tachibana back to the small warehouse.

Seeing Tachibana searching for spare parts seriously, Jellal couldn't help feeling a little dazed again.

That small figure made him hallucinate again the time more than ten years ago. At that time, every time he returned home from the polluted area, there was also such a small figure running around him, asking him if he was injured, and if so, helping him apply medicine.

"Why, are you thinking about your daughter again?" Bai Wei's slow voice interrupted Gerard's memories, "Do you feel it's a pity? You could have seen your own daughter today, why do you have to see someone else's daughter here... Oh, I almost forgot that she is not your own daughter. You don't even have a wife."

Gerald ignored Bai Wei's teasing, but said to Bai Wei in his mind: "You haven't told me yet, what do you want from Ina?"

"Why do I have to get something?" Bai Wei said with a smile, "Can't it just be my own pleasure? Am I a very thoughtful person in your eyes?"

"It's not a heart-breaking idea." Gerard said calmly, "But I am very sure that you will never do something meaningless... No, I can't say it's absolute. But doing so is likely to expose your identity, which is not a good thing for you, but you still did it, so you must have other plans, and I want to know what they are."

"Is it because you want to know my plan, or because you are worried about your daughter?"

“To me, it’s not a conflict.”

"Haha, you are quite straightforward." Bai Wei raised Gerard's eyebrows and said, "You never asked before, which made me think that you didn't care about your daughter that much. But your reaction now still surprised me. I thought you would be more intense. After all, this involves your daughter. From your perspective, don't you think I pushed your daughter into the fire pit?"

Previously, Bai Wei thought that Gerard would be angry, or even furious, after learning that he had disciplined his daughter, and would argue with Bai Wei while yelling "How dare you involve my daughter?" Bai Wei had already prepared various excuses to deal with Gerard.

It's like a bullfighter ready to fight, flashing a red cloth towards the bull, waiting for the bull to charge.

As a result, the bull did not react at all. It just glanced at the red cloth in the bullfighter's hand, and then ate the grass leisurely, making the bullfighter feel powerless as if he had punched cotton.

Of course this is just an exaggeration. In fact, Bai Wei is not that regretful, and Gerard is not that indifferent.

After learning about Ina's situation, Gerard did not become hysterical. He was silent for a while and then whispered "I know". Then he stopped talking and quickly left the scene without saying a word.

But Bai Wei knew that Jellal was far from being as calm as he seemed, because when he heard Ina's name, Bai Wei could clearly feel the huge emotional fluctuations in Jellal's heart, like a surging wave.

But he still endured it until now.

"It's not you who pushed her into the fire pit." Gerald said softly, "From the moment she joined the Devil Corps... No, since the accident ten years ago, she has been in the fire pit. This is my fault, not yours, and..."

He raised his head and looked at the sky outside the house through the narrow window.

Now the sun is setting, and the entire sky is dyed red by the sunset glow, like fire.

"Isn't Tianqin a giant fire pit right now?"

"Tsk, you're quite sensible." Bai Wei said, "I thought all fathers were the kind of creatures who would turn into berserkers when their daughters were threatened."

"What a warrior needs most is reason, not madness," Gerald said. "In the polluted land, madness means pollution. Once you are infected with madness, you can no longer be called a warrior."

"Your understanding is different from what I want to express... Never mind." Bai Wei gave up explaining the meaning of the word "Berserker" to Gerard. He said calmly, "Let's talk about business. In fact, your judgment is correct. I didn't treat your daughter like that for fun. Well... at least not completely."

He paused.

"As you said before, I might expose my identity, but you don't have to worry too much about that. After all, you have a universal blame point here - the polluted land. You can just blame all abnormal things on the polluted land. Your daughter will definitely think that your change is caused by the polluted land. After all, it's normal for polluted people to have schizophrenia, right? Look at the family of that person, aren't they quite schizophrenic?"

Gerard did not refute Bai Wei's statement, because it was true. In Tianqin, all abnormal phenomena can be attributed to the polluted land. After all, pollution makes people abnormal.

"Then why are you doing this?" Gerard asked the original question again, "What do you want from her?"

"That's too much." Bai Wei chuckled and said, "She is an active Devil Knight. If she is willing to help, there are so many things we can do."

Hearing Bai Wei say this, Gerard suddenly became alert.

"You don't want her to go to the Abyss to help you retrieve the body parts, do you?"

"If possible, I would like to do so." Bai Wei deliberately slowed down his tone to feel Gerard's fluctuating emotions, and then smiled faintly when he was about to reach the critical point, "But don't worry, I won't do this. Your entire team couldn't get it back, so I won't fantasize that your daughter can find it alone."

Bai Wei's words made Gerard feel a little relieved, but only a little.

Then he asked the question he had always wanted to know: "Do you know where your portion of the body is?"

"I think so."

"Then why don't you just go and take it away?" Gerald asked, "Can't I do it with my body?"

"You speak as if your body is so powerful." Bai Wei said calmly, "The polluted land is too dangerous. You can't get there using only your own strength. But if you use my strength, your body won't be able to sustain it. Naturally, you can only let others do it for you."

Yes, Bai Wei always knew approximately where his tongue was.

But there is no way to get it directly.

But the reason was not just what he told Gerald, there was a more important reason.

That is because he doesn't want to be targeted by the two true gods.

Tianqin and Rhine are different. This place is too close to the gods. It is difficult for the second-level advent not to attract their attention. Even if they are fighting a bloody battle to the death, as long as they sense Bai Wei's existence, they may put down their opponents and chase Bai Wei directly.

And with Bai Wei's current strength, even if he performed the second-level descent on Jellal, it would be almost impossible for him to fight against a true God, even such a weak true God.

So we still have to find the right time.

But fortunately, Bai Wei felt that he was about to seize that opportunity.

Jellal originally wanted to ask more, but at this time Ju had already come over with the new accessories, so he temporarily stopped talking with Bai Wei and looked at Ju.

"Do we need to change all of these?" Gerard asked.

Orange nodded.

But Gerard suddenly hesitated.

"Um, do I have enough money?"

Hearing this, Ju subconsciously turned his head and looked at the purse next to him.

The blood that had overflowed from the bag had already seeped onto the table.

"That should be enough." Tachibana replied.

You obviously didn’t even look at it.

Gerard said helplessly: "Sorry, I came back in a hurry and didn't have time to deal with it. If the money here is not enough, I will make it up to you later... But I will take care of it by then."

Tachibana nodded, without saying anything more, and just started to work silently - removing the damaged parts of Jellal and replacing them with new ones.

She doesn't seem to be very interested in money.

Because when Jellal entered the house, he found that the money he gave to Tachibana this morning was still in its original place and had not been moved, which made Jellal feel powerless to "thank" Tachibana.

Tachibana is Eric's daughter, and Gerard really wants to do something for her, especially when he saw Tachibana being troubled by those gangsters, which made him furious.

Logically speaking, he shouldn't show up at this time, after all, he is still a wanted criminal.

But he still took action.

But...is that enough?

I just helped her beat away a few thugs, and only temporarily. Is that enough?

Gerard couldn't convince himself.

So while he was watching Ju working diligently, he was asking himself in his heart, what else could he do for Ju?

Before he...had a chance to do anything.

Gerard was a little confused, but he felt that this confusion seemed somewhat familiar.

Many years ago, he had faced such a situation. The little figure emerged from his mind and gradually overlapped with the girl in front of him.

Then Gerald spoke.

…

“What kind of person do you want to be?”

"Ina."

Ina felt a little dazed.

The sound gradually faded away in my memory, as if it was just an auditory hallucination.

She stood up straight and looked at the full-length mirror in front of her in silence. She looked like a graceful young lady in the mirror, no longer the malnourished girl who had just come out of the orphanage.

"Sir Ina, this is the information you requested."

A voice pulled Ina out of her sea of ​​thoughts. She turned around and saw a uniformed staff member holding a thick stack of information and placing it in front of her.

"There are quite a few." The staff wiped the sweat from his forehead. "I didn't expect there would be so many, but according to your requirements, I have moved all the ones that meet the requirements. I hope you can find what you want."

Ina nodded, said thank you, and the staff left with a smile.

Ina was able to walk to the documents and sit down, then started flipping through them from the top.

This is the archive room of the Tongtian Main Tower.

What Ina was looking through were also confidential materials in the archives, and only people in the pioneer troops and bishop level were qualified to look through them.

Because all this information is related to polluted areas.

It records all the symptoms observed in contaminated people since the founding of Lyra City.

Most of this information is relatively old, because when Lyra was first established, the means to combat pollution were not yet so complete, and many people in the first generation of pioneer troops "Evening Star" were polluted. At that time, it was difficult for the Knights of Evening Star to live to the end of their lives, and they had to make great sacrifices to obtain a small amount of source oil, so they were called heroes.

This situation continued until Tianqin purchased a batch of source crystals that could detect and purify pollution from Shengyin. By the time it came to the Devil Corps, although the largest purification source crystal had been lost by the last group of Knights of Xiaoxing, the overall anti-pollution ability was enhanced, so there were fewer records of the symptoms shown by the contaminated people after that.

This is also the reason why Ina came to the archives room.

Because of what happened with Gerard this afternoon, she could never forget it.

She was sure that the way he spoke and the way he behaved were definitely not Gerard... and definitely not her father.

It's like there's an extra soul in the same body.

So she wanted to find out why.

What made Jellal become like that?

Ina began to look through the information.

People behave differently after being polluted, both physically and mentally.

The most serious physical consequence is naturally the direct transformation into a monster, and such infected people basically have only one outcome - death.

So Ina's focus is naturally on the spiritual.

The mental manifestations vary greatly as well. Some are completely insane, some have serious self-destructive tendencies, and some claim to be able to hear voices coming from nowhere.

Yes, there are some people who feel like there is another "person" in their body.

This situation is rare, but it does exist.

After spending about twenty minutes, Ina finally found one of the articles, and then subconsciously read out the scholar's diagnosis.

"The infected feel that an independent soul, or personality, has appeared in their body. The infected claim that they can talk to this personality, just like a friend."

"As scholars observe, they can indeed find that infected people often display two completely different personalities. From this, we can infer that the new personality can also take control of the body."

"It's like two people with different personalities are using the same body."

When she read this, Ina frowned tightly, and then murmured in a low voice: "Is this really the case?"

As soon as she finished speaking, another young voice rang out: "That's what it will be like."

Ina was slightly stunned, then she raised her head suddenly and saw a young man standing in front of her with a smile on his face. This made her subconsciously reach for the blazing sword behind her, but it was empty because weapons were not allowed in the archives room.

"Don't be nervous." The man chuckled and said, "I just came here to take a look out of curiosity. I don't mean any harm."

Ina frowned: "Who are you?"

"I'm just an ordinary employee." The man smiled, "You can call me Yongxin."

Some details are not written well, I will change them later

(End of this chapter)