Chapter 100 Chapter 100

After letting out a sigh of relief, Luo Xunfei completely fainted.

Perhaps it was because he was physically exhausted after being tortured by Hermann.

Perhaps it was because he saw Xia Meng and Li Zhou appear that he finally let go of his tension.

In short, Luo Xunfei was completely confused.

Xia Meng went forward to check his condition and found that he had many wounds of varying sizes on his body, all of which were traces left by Hermann and Lance during torture and interrogation.

She turned her head and looked at Li Zhou.

Li Zhou asked, "What are our plans next?"

Xia Meng thought for a moment and said, "It's easier for the two of us. The main problem is Luo Xunfei. It's a bit troublesome to bring him back."

He was brought to the UK illegally by Herman, and his current status in the UK is no different from that of an illegal immigrant.

If we want to bring him back to China, it is probably impossible to take civilian routes.

But apart from this, the route through the Black Tower is even more impossible.

After all, Hermann and the Dreiser family have the final say at the headquarters. Hermann is still lying dead in the orphanage with his hands and feet shackled. They are not stupid enough to walk into the trap even though they have offended him so badly.

Li Zhou murmured, "Then we can only return the same way..."

As he spoke, his eyes fell on Emil.

At this time, the two brothers had been subdued by Li Zhou.

Both were unconscious, tied back to back, and leaning against the wall.

Li Zhou frowned in embarrassment.

It is probably unlikely to return the same way.

First, Emil is unlikely to cooperate; second, Sky Rift has a cooldown period, and the time has not yet come.

Unexpectedly, Xia Meng spoke up: "It's okay, I can try."

Li Zhou raised his eyes and blinked in confusion.

How could she even try this?

But he never questioned her decisions.

He knew that since Xia Meng had said it, she must be sure of it.

Xia Meng put Luo Xunfei aside and walked to Emile and squatted down.

Only at this moment did she have the chance to look at him carefully.

Emil at this moment had changed a lot compared to the quiet child in the orphanage in her memory.

The outline is deeper, and the melancholy between the eyebrows and eyes is more intense.

But somehow, when looking at this face, Xia Meng couldn't help but think of Billy's face.

The Billy in my memory wore thick-bottomed glasses and had a few freckles on his face. When he smiled, he looked shy and friendly.

Xia Meng placed her hand on Emil's exposed arm and held it.

Li Zhou lowered his eyes and took a look, vaguely understanding what she meant.

Only when the skin touches each other can it be easier to transfer one's mental power.

He: "You don't mean to..."

Xia Meng: "I'll go into his mental picture and take a look."

Li Zhou was slightly confused.

Is that all?

The worst that could happen is that we can help him vent his emotions, but what good would that do?

Xia Meng knew that he was confused, but she couldn't explain it now.

Because even she herself was not sure.

But she remembered very clearly that when she was in the mental picture, her guidance always had different miraculous effects on her classmates.

For example, every time she counseled Billy, Billy always said that the strength of his supernatural powers seemed to have increased a lot.

For example, she had counseled Emil privately twice, and Emil also said that the cooling time of his supernatural power had been shortened a lot.

Of course, she was an S-level guide at that time, so it was normal for counseling to have such miraculous effects.

It is said that a certain S-rank guide recorded in the history of the Black Tower even had the power to save a sentinel that had gone completely berserk.

What’s the difference between this and the dead and the flesh and bones of the living?

Bringing the dead back to life is just like this.

Now, she is just an ordinary B-level guide. Logically speaking, she can't do anything in the spiritual picture.

But inexplicably, she had an intuition that she could really do it.

Xia Meng always trusts her intuition.

Anyway, it won’t hurt to give it a try.

It’s a waste not to try.

She closed her eyes, and her consciousness followed her mental power and stepped into his world.

The 80% matching rate still works at this time.

When crossing the mental barrier, there was no obstacle at all.

When she opened her eyes again, Xia Meng found herself standing in a dim, narrow corridor.

There was a window at the end of the corridor. The sky outside was dark and blurry, and no light came in.

Xia Meng recognized at a glance that this corridor was the dormitory of the welfare home.

Emil's mental image is actually the dormitory of the welfare home!?

Xia Meng felt a little surprised.

Mental images are the sentinels' inner safe zones.

Emil's psychological safety zone is actually that damn place?

How is that possible?

However, as a psychiatrist, what kind of storms have you not seen?

What kind of madman have you not seen?

After a brief moment of surprise, she quickly pushed open the first door near her.

The room number is 307.

This room, she remembered, was Billy's dormitory, and also Emil's.

The moment the door was opened, a strong smell of blood filled the dim room.

After her eyes adjusted to the dimness in the room, she was finally able to see the scene in the room clearly with the cool moonlight outside the window.

There was blood all over the ground.

A young man lying in a pool of blood.

It was the night Billy died.

This room is forever frozen in that night.

Even though I had witnessed it at that time, seeing this scene again now still makes me feel a little uncomfortable.

Xia Meng turned her head and took a deep breath.

At the same time, he couldn't help but curse Hermann and Lorenzo again in his heart.

How much evil have these crazy father and son committed!

She released her mental power, putting part of it into the room to clear the mental black spots floating in the air, and part of it lingered around her.

She turned and walked towards the next door.

Every time a door opens, an almost identical scene appears inside.

There was blood all over the floor, and people lying in a pool of blood.

The only difference is that they have different faces.

Xia Meng remembers every face...

Everyone had sat in the same classroom with her.

——Until the last door at the end of the corridor.

That room belongs to Lance.

Xia Meng pushed open the door, slowly raised her eyes and looked over.

The huge room was empty except for a square black coffin placed in the middle.

The coffin is not big and it looks like it can't accommodate an adult.

Xia Meng walked forward slowly.

The coffin had no lid and was just open.

So she could see inside without any obstruction.

Two small children were lying inside.

The two red-haired children were about five or six years old.

The two of them were lying side by side facing each other, their heads touching each other, sleeping peacefully with their eyes closed.

Xia Meng recognized them at a glance.

It was Lance and Emil.

The twins didn't look alike when they grew up, but unexpectedly, they looked like they were cut from the same mold when they were young.

But you can still see the difference.

Lance seemed to have not developed well since the womb, and he was shorter than Emil since he was a child.

Lying in the coffin, he looked smaller than Emile next to him.

He is thin and small, with a pale face.

Xia Meng watched quietly for a while.

Then she slowly reached out her hand, placed her fingers on the edge of the coffin, and tapped twice.

"Knock knock."

She whispered, "Al, it's time to wake up."

Emile, lying in the coffin, slowly opened his eyes.

He raised his eyes slightly and looked at her.

These eyes were like a pool of stagnant water, calm and without ripples, and bottomless.

Xia Meng lowered her eyes and looked directly at the child who was only five or six years old.

But she knew that beneath this young and tender appearance was Emil's numb and aging heart.

Because a person's eyes cannot deceive others.

At least, you can't fool a psychiatrist.

The child in front of her at this moment was Emil himself.

He looked at her straight in the eyes and asked, "Why do you know the name Al?"

This was what he had wanted to ask before.

He admitted that when Li Zhou took out Herman's cell phone, he suspected that the other party was playing some tricks.

It's possible that they found an identical phone or just changed the note randomly.

This kind of thing can't fool him.

He even guessed that someone might use a voice changer to trick him and get something out of him.

But the only thing he couldn't think of was, "Al".

It was a nickname between him and Lance.

In fact, Lance hadn't called that for a long, long time.

So, when he heard the word "Al" from the other end of the phone, he believed it without any precautions.

It was not until he returned to the basement of the manor and saw Lance, who was safe and sound, that he realized that he had actually been fooled.

It turned out to be Li Zhou’s trap.

But he still couldn't figure it out.

Xia Meng lowered her eyes.

She paused for a long moment before slowly saying, "How about making a deal with me?"

Emil's pupils shrank, and he said without hesitation, "Okay."

Xia Meng smiled and said, "Why don't you think about it before answering?"

Emil sat up slowly.

He has a childish face, but his expression is serious and silent.

He asked in a tone that was far more mature than he appeared, "Do I still have the choice to say no? When you stepped into this place without any hindrance, I knew that at this moment, I had no choice."

Xia Meng: "I like cooperative patients the most."

Emile: "What deal do you want?"

Xia Meng: "I want to ask you a question. In exchange, I can answer your previous question."

Emil said happily: "Sure, go ahead and ask."

Xia Meng paused and slowly asked, "What does this coffin mean?"

In fact, before stepping into this spiritual landscape, Xia Meng had already decided to make a deal with Emile.

The content of the deal was naturally to have Emile send them back to the country. As for the corresponding price, she could discuss it slowly.

But before she could finish her words, she suddenly changed her mind.

The psychiatrist's professional instinct still emerged at the critical moment and prevailed.

You have already reached the depths of the other person's heart, so there is no reason not to find out what kind of psychological problems the other person has.

He placed a coffin in the bedroom and put his brother and himself inside it.

This is weird no matter how you think about it, right?

You have to know that the spiritual picture is different from the outside world. What is reflected here is definitely a person's truest inner heart.

Emile was stunned. He obviously didn't expect Xia Meng to ask this.

He looked at her twice with complicated eyes.

In his opinion, the strange female guide in front of him was really weird.

Before today, he had never seen her in person.

But through Lance and Hermann, he had more or less heard of her great name——

A magical female guide appeared in China's Beijing Tower who could achieve an 80% match rate with all sentinels.

Moreover, she is favored by both Hermann and Li Zhou at the same time, and is destined to be the cause of the fight between the two kings.

Lance had even gossiped with him privately out of curiosity, saying it was just a B-grade, so what?

Aren’t there a lot of guides who are better than her?

Emil raised his eyes.

At this moment, he seemed to suddenly understand something.

This woman seemed to have a knack for reaching the depths of people's hearts.

Looking into her eyes, he couldn't help but want to trust her and reveal his true feelings to her.

…

Xia Meng's mental power roamed throughout the space.

Silent and invisible.

But just like when the sun shines, the darkness has nowhere to hide.

Wherever the mental power passes, the mental dark spots disappear little by little.

Without Emile's knowledge, his defenses had been broken down bit by bit.

He was silent for a long time before he slowly confessed, "The coffin is prepared for me and my brother."

"Lance has been in poor health since he was a child. Doctors have issued critical illness notices several times, and even said he wouldn't live to adulthood."

Xia Meng understood.

Therefore, deep down in Emil's heart, he had actually prepared himself mentally long ago.

From a young age, he had always been prepared for the possibility that Lance might leave him.

"Wait..." She narrowed her eyes and caught a key word.

He was talking about him and his brother, not his brother.

The coffin was prepared for both of them at the same time?

Could it be that he was thinking that if Lance died, he wouldn't want to live anymore?

However, in her impression, Lance looked quite lively as a teenager.

He doesn't look sick, nor does he look sickly.

Why?

Xia Meng slowly paused.

She felt like she was missing some key clue.

If Lance was really destined to have a short life, why was he so healthy later in life?

It's impossible that his congenital physical defects will disappear on their own as he grows up, right?

What happened in between?

A miracle?

Once, she thought that the reason why Hermann was able to control Emil was purely because he made a deal with Emil.

He would not harm Lance, and in exchange, Emil would work for him.

But at this moment, she suddenly realized that it was not that simple.

She lowered her eyes little by little.

Look at Lance lying in the coffin again.

A small, thin child.

He slept peacefully... too peacefully.

Xia Meng stood beside him for so long, and the two of them talked for so long, but not only did she not wake him up, he was still sleeping soundly, and even... she couldn't feel the rise and fall of his breathing.

She quickly reached out and placed her hand on his thin neck.

The moment it touches the skin, it feels cold.

She didn't even need to feel the pulse to know that the child in front of her had been dead for a long time.

In a flash, Xia Meng suddenly understood something.

His spiritual picture presents his truest consciousness.

So why, in his mind, was Lance already dead?

Why?

Xia Meng raised her eyes in disbelief and looked at Emil.

Emil's expression was calm and silent.

After a long pause, she slowly and tentatively asked, "What did Herman do to Lance?"

In fact, Emil didn't have to answer her question.

She had said before that one answer for another, and he had already answered her question before.

But at this moment, he was touched by something and couldn't help but answer her.

He lowered his eyes, looked at Lance's small hand in his hand, and said softly: "Herman's superpower is blood."

Xia Meng did know.

She had guessed it the night she witnessed Billy's murder.

The fact that he plundered other Sentinels' abilities through blood shows that his abilities are related to blood.

But what she didn't expect was that Herman's ability actually had another effect.

Emil lowered his eyes and said, "His own blood has another ability. He can control other Sentinels through blood. Lance... injected his blood, and not long after, he became healthy again."

——Lance was becoming less and less like him.

His younger brother should have been lively and innocent, talkative and cheerful, kind-hearted and helpful.

But since he received Hermann's blood and became healthy, he also became gloomy, extreme, irritable, and even cruel.

It became unrecognizable, becoming... more and more like Hermann himself.

Many times, he couldn't help but suspect that the man was not his brother.

It was a clone of Hermann wearing Lance's skin.

From that time on, he never dared to look Lance in the eyes again.

He was afraid that those eyes would tell him that his brother had been dead for a long time.

When Lance was a child, he was afraid of the dark, afraid of sleeping alone, and afraid that he would not be able to wake up after falling asleep.

Every night, Emil would sneak past the dormitory manager and run to his room to sleep with him.

But later, he never went there again.

Because a healthy Lance doesn't need it.

Also because he didn't dare to go.

He would rather stay in his room and listen to Billy in the bed next to him chattering about all sorts of things, the past and the future.

Imagine what kind of job you will find in the future and what kind of guide you might meet in the future.

Sometimes even he himself couldn't help but feel dazed.

Billy looked more like his younger brother when he was little than Lance did.

Xia Meng listened quietly, feeling an indescribable sadness in her heart.

Not for Emil, not for Lance, but for Billy.

I see.

I see.

She took a deep breath and then spoke: "...but you still stayed with Herman for Lance."

"Then, I watched Herman kill Billy."

As soon as these words came out, Emil's eyes suddenly widened.

"How do you know..."

Xia Meng looked at him calmly, then suddenly raised her finger and pointed in the direction of a room in the corridor: "Didn't you want to know why I knew the name Al?"

She tilted her head, raised her finger, pointed in a certain direction, and told the truth: "Billy told me."

Emilton lived.

"……What?"

Xia Meng didn't lie. She looked him in the eyes and spoke slowly, "I know Billy. As for why and when we met, I can't tell you. He mentioned you to me, saying that you took good care of him, like his own brother. In the entire orphanage, you are his favorite person."

She was telling the truth.

There is a strict hierarchy in the welfare home.

Billy was very weak in their class, so he never took the initiative to approach Emil in front of outsiders.

Because Emil is always with Hermann, and also because Emil has a younger brother by his side.

So Billy could only walk with her, the little guide who was recognized as the weakest.

Billy mentioned many times in front of her that Emil was very caring and gentle.

One day, after learning Emil's nickname, he even came to show off to her, saying that he felt closer to Emil and that it would be great if he was really his brother.

pity……

Unfortunately, there is no such if.

Xia Meng opened her eyes.

The mental power was withdrawn from Emil.

The counseling has been completed.

However, it didn't seem to achieve the effect she expected - the cooling did not come earlier.

She could still feel the stagnation of his mental strength.

She sighed.

He turned to Li Zhou and shook his head: "Forget it, I can't do it. Let's find another way to go back."

Li Zhou nodded and quickly thought of other solutions: "I can contact someone I know nearby. Maybe I can take a private route and make a few detours back."

In short, as long as we can avoid the sight of the Black Tower headquarters, it will be fine.

Li Zhou has been in Europe for so many years and still has some connections.

However, at this time, Emil's voice sounded low.

"Don't bother, I can take you back."

Xia Meng and Li Zhou turned their heads at the same time.

Xia Meng raised an eyebrow: "Isn't your ability still cooling down?"

Emil looked at her and said, "It's almost there, actually. Your counseling...is very effective. Thank you very much."

What Xia Meng didn't know was that the moment she finished her counseling and left his mental picture, everything there was turned upside down.

The coffin disappeared, and the blood on the ground disappeared.

Little Lance also disappeared.

Emil watched with his own eyes as the chains on little Lance's feet broke inch by inch.

Then, with a smile on her face, she disappeared before his eyes.

His brother was free.

So, he was too.