Chapter 648 Not One Less
Tick-tock——
Tick-tock——
The sound of the clock hands echoed in the girl's ears. She wanted to open her eyes, but there was a force pulling her thoughts.
Tick-tick-tick-
In a trance, she felt that this was not the sound of the pointer moving, but the sound of some liquid dripping on the ground, coupled with the empty and humid environment.
Snap——
Until a drop of cold water fell on her face, the girl finally broke free from the shackles of her thoughts and opened her eyes.
Xia Yue slowly propped herself up and stood up. She found herself lying on a simple bed made of hay.
clang.
She wanted to move her hands and feet, but found that her hands and feet were bound by chains.
It is impossible to restrain a vampire with this level of restraint.
But now, the chains that could have been easily broken could not be broken no matter how hard the girl pulled.
Only then did she realize that her power was gone.
"Are you awake?"
A voice came from the side. Xia Yue turned around suddenly and saw a petite figure curled up in a dark and damp corner. The cold light in her eyes flickered faintly in the darkness.
"Who are you?"
Xia Yue asked.
"This is my room."
The voice said, from the voice, Xia Yue judged that it should be a little girl, very young, only five or six years old, but her tone was unusually mature.
"Room?"
Xia Yue frowned.
This place was even more shabby than the bridge tunnel where she had slept before. The unpleasant smell and dark environment really made her suspect that she was in a sewer. Could such a place really be called a room?
"Yes, they caught you."
The girl whispered.
Fragments of memory returned to Xia Yue's mind bit by bit.
She was indeed caught, but why.
How could a group of ordinary people have the ability to capture her?
Her powers were gone, that's right.
Xia Yue finally remembered some key points. In order to investigate Yin Qi's case, she went to the place where she last disappeared, the former site of the Mendarosa Children's Rehabilitation Center.
Inside, she found some clues that something was wrong, and following the clues, she found the secret door of the abandoned building.
After entering the secret door, she was attacked.
What attacked me? Why did I lose my strength?
This situation had happened once before. My power suddenly disappeared and I became an ordinary person. That was over three hundred years ago...
But that was because of my mother's punishment on me. Now the situation seems to be completely different...
"Do you remember anything?" the girl asked.
"No." Xia Yue turned around and looked at the girl: "Who are you?"
"Codename 005, Black Cat."
The girl mechanically said her code name. Xia Yue remembered that she had read Yin Qi's file before coming here. In that file, Yin Qi's past was recorded. She was the product of the first batch of children's biology experiments of the Cheshire Cat.
Codename 005, Black Cat.
In other words, the girl in front of me... is Yin Qi?
"Can you help me unchain myself?"
Xia Yue asked.
The girl hesitated for a moment, but finally walked out of the shadows and came to Xia Yue.
"They asked me to watch you."
"who are they."
"Cat breeder, owner."
Although she didn't know why she saw Yin Qi as a child, Xia Yue felt that this matter was not that simple.
Fortunately, I have spent some time with Li Lingan and know how to coax a child.
The personality displayed by Yin Qi in front of her was not like that of a child, but Xia Yue still decided to give it a try.
"They told you to watch me, but they didn't say you couldn't unchain me, did they?"
“Well, they didn’t say.”
"So will you help me unchain myself?"
The girl asked after a moment's silence.
"If I unchain you, they'll be angry. If they're angry, they'll deduct points from me. My points are already very low. I don't want to be sent to a cannery. I don't want to be turned into canned cat food."
Cannery?
Xia Yue frowned slightly, but tried to make her voice sound gentler.
"I won't let them turn you into cat food. I'm going to get you out of here."
"...No one can leave here."
"I'm not human."
Xia Yue opened her mouth and said this. Fortunately, her two fangs were still there.
"Look, I'm a vampire, I'm not human, so I can leave here, and I can take you away too."
"...What are vampires?"
Xia Yue thought for a while and then explained.
"A powerful creature that gains strength from sucking blood."
Although high-level vampires do not rely on blood to survive, it is always right to brag a little at this time.
The girl blinked, looked at Xia Yue, and then said, "...mosquito?"
You are the mosquito, your whole family is mosquitoes.
Xia Yue kept herself calm, and then continued: "Anyway, you help me untie it first, and I will take you away."
She guessed that this Yin Qi might be some kind of clone or bionic human.
That means Mendarosa has never stopped their inhumane underground experiments.
The girl hesitated for a long time, and finally walked to Xia Yue's side.
"I want to see your teeth again."
The girl said.
Xia Yue was speechless, but there was nothing she could do now, so she slowly opened her mouth.
The girl came very close and even reached out to touch Xia Yue's sharp teeth.
"It's true, your teeth are different from ours, so amazing."
"Do you believe it now? I will bite anyone who tries to can you to death."
Xia Yue's words made the girl giggle.
Finally, she grabbed the chain that bound Xia Yue, and then with a slight force, the chain was torn apart.
"Sister, you are so powerful, why can't you break free by yourself?"
Xia Yue was speechless again, but she still forced a smile and said, "Because I want to see if you are a good child and whether you will help your sister."
"What is a good boy?"
"...same as a good kitty."
"Well, I'm a good kitty, can you ask them to give me a few extra points? I want a cookie."
Xia Yue moved her hands and feet, trying to mobilize the strength in her body.
But both the scarlet power and the moonlight power seemed to have completely disappeared from her body.
"I also want to drink that kind of sparkling water, which is sweet and delicious. Every time a cat behaves well, they can drink a small cup. I don't want to take medicine."
Xia Yue discovered that this so-called room was actually a prison, with a rusty copper lock hanging on the door.
"The calico cat said he had behaved very well before, and the owner even said he would take him to buy nice clothes. But I haven't seen a calico cat since then. Sister, can you ask the owner to give me some points..."
At this moment, Xia Yue suddenly heard some noise.
It sounded like some kind of metal rubbing against the ground, accompanied by very heavy footsteps.
"Because I'm one of the first test subjects, I have many flaws. In fact, my points have almost been deducted. If I don't perform well in the next experiment, I might..."
"Quiet!"
Xia Yue stood by the iron gate and growled at the girl behind her.
The girl was so scared that she immediately covered her mouth and then slowly moved closer to Xia Yue.
"Do you know what that sound is?" Xia Yue asked.
The girl also went to the iron gate and listened, then shook her head: "I don't know, I've never heard this sound before."
So Xia Yue made a gesture to the girl to keep quiet, because the voice was getting closer and closer.
With the dim light outside the cage, Xia Yue finally saw the figure appearing at the corner.
It was a huge black cat.
In the dim light, the huge black cat looked particularly terrifying.
Half of its body seemed to have undergone cruel mechanical transformation. It was no longer soft fur, but cold, hard metal and wires that gleamed with an ominous luster.
These mechanical parts are twistedly combined with its biological tissues, as if it is some kind of deformed product of technology and nature.
The most terrifying thing is its mouth. It is no longer a common cat's mouth, but an iron mechanical structure inlaid with sharp metal teeth, which makes a harsh clicking sound from time to time.
It was holding a bloodstained sickle in its mouth. The blood dripping from the sickle looked particularly bright red, forming a sharp contrast with its black fur.
As it moved slowly, each step was accompanied by the creaking of metal and the sound of inharmonious mechanical movement, as if each step foreshadowed the approach of death.
"Well, well, what is that... Sister, it's such a big cat, so scary..."
Xia Yue immediately hugged the girl, covered her mouth, and hid in the dark corner of the cage.
As the giant mechanized black cat slowly approached, the inharmonious sounds of its messy mechanical parts filled the air, interweaving with its heavy footsteps to form a terrifying symphony.
Its red eyes kept looking into the cage, as if looking for any unusual movement.
A bloody smell filled the entire cage.
The girl's body was shaking. Xia Yue hugged her tightly and held her breath.
Fortunately, this thing didn't seem to have the ability to find prey through its sense of smell. It arched its huge head against the iron bars a few times, and when it found that it couldn't get in, it continued to move forward.
Xia Yue didn't breathe a sigh of relief until the sound of metal rubbing against the ground completely disappeared.
Now her strength is not even as good as the child next to her. She doesn't know what's wrong with her mother. The feeling of having her physical strength controlled by others is really terrible.
"Sister... what is that..."
"I don't know, but we can't stay here any longer."
Xia Yue slowly walked to the cage door and tried to break the huge lock, but her strength was too little and she was unable to move it at all.
"Come here and unlock this."
Xia Yue turned and looked at the girl and said.
"No, no, you can't. Opening the lock without permission... will result in points being deducted."
"Your owner is too busy to take care of you right now. Did you see the blood on that sickle? I could smell it. It was human blood. Your owner is probably dead now."
Xia Yue's words stunned the girl.
"The owner is dead...?"
Her voice was trembling. Xia Yue originally thought that this child was brainwashed and was actually worried about the lives of those people.
But the next second the girl started crying and said, "I, I behaved well once last month and had a chance to redeem that sweet water. But they died, and I, I can't drink it anymore."
Xia Yue sighed. Just now when she was holding the child, she found that the girl was not a bionic person. She should be some kind of clone. Xia Yue didn't quite understand this, but from a certain perspective.
She should also be considered Yin Qi.
So Xia Yue walked up to the girl and whispered, "Don't cry. After we get out, I'll take you to eat something delicious."
"...delicious?"
The girl stopped crying and looked at Xia Yue: "Yes, do you have sweet water?"
"Yes, there are also cakes, chocolates, and all kinds of meat. I will let you eat as much as you want."
"Really? I only ate meat once! It was on my fifth birthday, when a sister who owned the animal secretly gave me half a piece of meat! But after that, I don't think I ever saw that sister again."
"...Well, okay, I'll buy you whatever you want to eat when we get out, so open this lock first."
.......
at the same time.
Li Muhan had changed his clothes and arrived at the former site of the Mendarosa Children's Rehabilitation Center in the suburbs of Tianhai City.
Even from this abandoned building one can see its former glory.
This rehabilitation center was once affiliated with the Special Management Bureau, and it was the World United Special Management Bureau, which has similar institutions all over the world.
Before the inhumane child tragedy broke out, the Tianhai City Special Management Bureau also had some cooperation with Mendarosa.
He even personally sent some children to this hellish rehabilitation center.
Su Xue and Lin Ziyu have been investigating here for two days, and Lin Ze is now listening to their reports.
When they saw Li Muhan coming, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
"You're finally awake, Captain." Lin Ziyu's tone didn't sound very excited.
Instead, I feel a little guilty.
"I'm sorry... If we had noticed Sister Yin Qi's abnormality earlier, we wouldn't have..."
"Don't talk about this. The most important thing now is to find Yin Qi and Xia Yue as soon as possible."
Li Muhan patted Su Xue and Lin Ziyu on the shoulders, then looked at Lin Ze.
"Director Lin, can you tell me about the situation?"
Lin Ze nodded.
"Do you still remember the incident with Raven and Zuo Qi?"
"Of course I remember."
"At the time, Raven was hiding in the city, evading all of the Special Management Bureau's detection methods. However, someone found him, immediately apprehended him, and sent a signal to you."
Li Muhan nodded.
"Yes, it was Yin Qi. I didn't find it strange at the time, but now it seems very strange. Why could Yin Qi find the raven?"
"Because she sought help from a force she shouldn't have, the Cheshire Cat, she owed the organization a debt. Carrying a debt means she can't leave the organization. This is why the Court of Arbitration determined that Yin Qi had defected."
"Yin Qi isn't here to repay a debt," Li Muhan said, his tone firm. "She wants to cut off all this. She wants to return to us, to the Special Management Bureau, to Team 7."
Lin Ze looked at the members of Team 7 in front of him. Unknowingly, these children had grown up and were able to take care of each other and rely on each other.
"Well, then, as captain, Li Muhan, I'm giving you orders now to bring back both Yin Qi and Xia Yue. They're both from the Tianhai City Special Management Bureau, and no one can be left behind."
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