Chapter 87
“Knock knock.”
015 carefully brought the dinner plate and placed it on the bedside table. He watched Caesar put on his military uniform and buttoned it up to the top.
Yael, lying on the bed, had been well taken care of. He was bathed in the bright morning light and was sleeping peacefully and comfortably.
The breakfast on the plate was very delicate and beautiful, but it was prepared for male insects. Xi Ze usually solved his three meals elsewhere, or simply took high-concentration nutrient solution to sustain the day.
"Good morning, Lord."
After everything was ready, Xi Ze did not leave in a hurry, but sat down next to Yael, stared at him for a while and whispered.
"Today is the last court hearing. I have to rush over, so I can't accompany you, but I will be back on time after get off work."
He reached out to push away the strands of hair on Yael's forehead, tucked them neatly behind her ears, and briefly explained today's schedule.
"...Anyway, have a good rest and don't worry about those bad things anymore. If you think the time is right, wake up and take a look at me."
When Yael was still awake, we were either too busy with work to see each other, or we were apart more often than we were together because of the war. We never got to spend any time together properly.
It seems too late to make up for it now.
Cize gradually stopped talking and traced the outline of Yael with his eyes. His face was so peaceful and gentle under the morning light that he felt a little dazed for a moment.
As if it was just an ordinary morning, he got up early and dressed, then kissed the drowsy Yael and received a loud kiss back before leaving.
…Now there will be no response.
Caesar leaned over, kissed Yael lightly on the eye, and said goodbye in a silent voice.
"I'm leaving now. See you tonight."
He picked up the military cap beside him and put it on, then tapped 015 on the head and said, "Please take care of the hero."
015, who had just pulled out the forgotten little turtle from under the bed, blinked his eyes and lightly when he heard this.
"OK!"
*
The trial of felon Anto Edeka began today. Because the evidence was solid, there were basically no obstacles and it went smoothly to the final stage.
There were not many bugs attending the trial. They were basically bugs from the military that had been suppressed by Anto, as well as some noble bugs who wanted to join in the fun. At this moment, they were all quietly listening to the judge listing off the charges.
"Anto Edeka, for violating Articles 3, 12, and ..."
The female insect on the stage had a pale face. Although she was unwilling, she still listened to the accusation against herself calmly. Her handcuffed hands were shaking slightly and she was twitching nervously.
Squeak——
There was a slight sound of a door opening. The door, which originally did not allow insects to enter or exit, was opened as an exception at this moment. Then, a rhythmic sound of footsteps approached.
The sentencing was not interrupted, but many insects still noticed the movement and looked around curiously.
Xi Ze looked calm as he strode out from behind the door.
He nodded amidst the astonished gazes and sat in the last row of seats without any unusual behavior from beginning to end.
But just by sitting there with his upright posture, he had a powerful aura that seemed to be guarding the entire courtroom. The pair of molten gold eyes beneath the brim of his hat were extremely cold, as if he was a giant dragon looking down on ants.
No insect dared to look at it any longer, so they quickly turned their eyes away, even feeling a chill on their backs, and straightened their backs subconsciously.
The trial is continuing.
"According to the court's findings, it is treason, armed rebellion, unlawful ... disorderly conduct and wilful killing of insects."
A long list of charges was read out one by one, and the atmosphere in the courtroom gradually became stagnant, followed by suppressed excitement and whispers.
Because everyone knows that the next step is the final judgment.
The judge looked serious as he read aloud the last line of the verdict, "Based on the above charges, the court will sentence according to law..."
But before he could announce the final result, the micro-communication device on his ear flashed for a moment.
A dull voice came into his ears, causing him to pause.
"——According to the law, Anto Edeka is sentenced to exile for 2000 years!"
There was an uproar in the courtroom.
Anto, who was originally waiting for the death penalty, was also stunned, and then his eyes widened a little, obviously not understanding how he had escaped.
"How is it possible..."
But soon, he realized something and turned around suddenly!
The handcuffs made a loud clanging sound, and the guard in charge of escorting the person immediately drew his gun.
But at that moment, he had already seen the figure sitting at the back, and the blood drained from his face.
Xize withdrew his hand that was about to switch channels, raised his eyelashes slightly, and happened to meet those eyes that were about to burst into tears, and couldn't help but smile slightly.
But the smile did not reach her eyes, causing the female insect's expression of disbelief to turn into enlightenment and shock. She was so frightened that she howled regardless of the occasion.
"No! No no no! No no no no no no no no no!!"
"Sentence me to death! Sentence me to death quickly!!!"
Anto struggled desperately, even trying to run into the guards' guns, but his seriously injured body was very weak, and he was easily pinned to the table, unable to move.
"You are abusing your power for personal gain and condoning crime... I want the death penalty immediately!"
"I can't fall into his hands! Let me go—let me go ahhhhhhh!!"
Some of the insects in the field were still confused, but some of them were alert and looked directly at the female soldier behind them.
When I heard the judge announce the end of the trial, I knew that everything was settled.
"Push it down."
The paralyzed female insect was carried away, and Cize's expression remained unchanged from beginning to end, as if he had not done the shocking thing just now.
He nodded to the bugs in the room who had different expressions on their faces, stood up from his seat, strode out the door, and disappeared in the sunlight.
…
Inside the largest torture chamber in the prison.
A transparent barrier separates two spaces, one large and one small. There is a chair on the smaller side, which is perfect for sitting down and watching the torture scene on the opposite side.
Anto, who was escorted away in the morning, did not return to his own ward, but was secretly brought to this interrogation room.
Blood and flesh flew everywhere, making the walls of the torture room a mess. Before the old blood had dried up, new blood began to splash on it.
Layer upon layer, it's stunning to the eye.
“Aa…
"It hurts... It hurts so much, ahhhh! Heh, heh——!"
A howling sound like a slaughtered pig came from inside, so sharp and piercing that the warden, who was used to seeing bloody scenes, even felt physically uncomfortable and turned his eyes away, no longer looking at the scene inside.
Instead, the female soldier sat in the chair with her chin supported by one hand, looking thoughtful and watching the details of the torture without blinking.
"That's not how it's done."
Xi Ze spoke suddenly and waved his hand, and immediately a bug beside him presented him with a pair of white gloves.
He put on his gloves slowly, stood up from his seat, walked in amidst respectful and fearful gazes, and stopped in front of the bloody body of the insect.
The pair of shiny black military boots were totally out of place in this filthy place, but they stepped on the female insect's head mercilessly, crushing the overflowing brains with extreme carelessness.
"Look carefully, I'll only demonstrate it once."
The bugs here may have become rusty with the techniques because they haven't been tortured for a long time.
But Xi Ze will never forget the excruciating pain of those torture instruments falling on his body, and the voices in his ears discussing how to torture a bug to the greatest extent.
What now fell upon Anto was everything he had ever experienced, without bias, no more, no less.
——And this is just the beginning, we have only just begun.
He turned his wrist and signaled Chongzi standing next to him to take a closer look.
"Help me, ahhhh... spare me! Spare me, ahhhhh it hurts!!"
There were continuous sounds of terrifying snapping sounds, as well as the crisp sounds of flesh being torn and skulls breaking. The warden was so frightened that he closed his eyes, with an expression on his face that looked like he was about to vomit.
"The real pain is that you can't even scream. You used the wrong force just now. It didn't reach that point."
Xize said calmly, his head and face were splattered with fresh blood, some of it even hung on his eyelashes, dripping into his eye sockets, dyeing his vision a light red.
After he was done, he finally stood up, took the towel that was handed to him and wiped his face, then looked at Chong who was holding the torture instrument in his hand and looking stunned.
"Did you see it clearly?"
The insect stood at attention instantly and said, "Look, look...see clearly!"
"Then continue."
Caesar pulled off his gloves bit by bit, glanced at the bloody scene indifferently, a hint of disgust flashing across his brows.
"Observe his condition at all times. If he is dying, take him to treatment. After he is cured, continue to torture him. Do not let him find an opportunity to commit suicide."
The female soldier's voice was calm and unquestionable, as if Satan, who controls life, death and punishment in hell, had easily sentenced a future worse than death.
"No! No no no no!!!"
"Spare me! Spare me, ahhhhhh!!!"
A sharp howl sounded like a slaughtered pig behind him, filled with resentful anger and hatred.
It was like a fierce ghost struggling to climb up, but could only be dragged into hell again and again, and tortured beyond recognition.
"We will keep an eye on him. Take care, Marshal."
The warden stepped forward to open the door for him, bowing with utmost respect.
Nishizawa threw away the gloves that were completely stained with blood, turned around and walked out without mercy, and straightened his collar that was messed up by the previous action.
Bang.
The door closed behind him, blocking out the nauseating smell of blood, but fresh blood still seeped out from under the door and flowed all the way to the heels of his military boots.
"Are you going back to the military headquarters now? There is an important meeting in half an hour..."
Bai Lang hurried over and whispered about today's schedule so that he could make arrangements in advance.
But before he finished his words, he noticed that the marshal paused, then raised his military cap slightly and looked at Hall, who looked pale.
Xi Ze had a calm expression. He waited for three seconds but didn't hear the female insect speak, so he walked straight past him and continued forward.
"etc!"
Hall had never experienced being ignored like this before, and his face turned pale, but he also understood that things were different now. Besides, he came here today to find Hillzer for something.
Caesar stopped but still didn't turn around.
"Did you really openly interfere with the trial process, commuting the death sentences of Lance and Antoine to exile, while secretly torturing them?"
Hall asked, shaking his head in disbelief, his old face full of grief.
"It's fine to fight for power, and it's good to be ambitious. You do have the ability to be a marshal."
"——But how come you have no bottom line at all!"
Bai Lang stood aside in silence.
This incident has indeed shocked many insects. If the target of this incident is changed, they may be able to understand it.
But Hillzer, who remained proud and untainted in the quagmire... would never be so despicable.
"Degenerate! He took the lead in implementing such cruel and brutal means, using torture as an excuse to satisfy his own tyrannical desires and taking pleasure in torturing the enemy..."
Hall took a deep breath, thinking of the horrific and cruel methods in the rumors that were rampant, and made a conclusion with hatred.
"You'll be the next Lance in no time!"
Xi Ze looked at the wide corridor in front of him and was lost in thought for a moment. He suddenly felt that he was not in prison, but in the military training ground twenty years ago.
But the illusion only lasted for a moment before it completely disappeared, and probably will never reappear.
He was silent for a moment, then suddenly said, "Do you know what I went through during the five years I disappeared?"
The heavy breathing behind me stopped for a moment, and then some unclear words came out.
"...That has nothing to do with your own behavior... As a marshal who is a role model in the army, you should..."
Caesar seemed a little bored, and finally turned around to look at Hall, whose expression changed, and questioned him word by word.
"I just returned to him everything he had done to me. How did I become an unforgivable evil?"
He lowered his voice a little, and his indifferent expression revealed a hint of amusement.
"When I was tortured and insulted and felt like I was dying, did you also scold him like this?"
"Where were you then, and what qualifications do you have to manage me now, teacher?"
Hall fell silent, his hands hanging by his side trembling slightly. He hardly dared to look into those golden eyes, for fear of seeing something that would make him extremely ashamed.
Military wives rarely question anything, and always remain silent even when they are let down or ignored.
He adheres to those legal or moral principles, restrains his behavior and keeps his heart and hands clean.
But it only brought more misunderstanding, humiliation and harm, and even polluted the purest color in my heart.
The moon he was guarding had been dragged into the mud. How could he remain unaffected? He continued to cling to those useless things and watched helplessly as the garbage tainted the moonlight.
"When Lance was arrested, didn't the court sentence him to death? Did I interfere at that time? Why am I interfering with the torture now? Do you really not know the reason?"
Xi Ze walked a few steps towards him and sneered almost sharply.
"You know, but you only see what you want to see."
"Hall, I am no longer the green rookie. Only you remain arrogant, conceited, narrow-minded and selfish. You have never changed."
The female soldier lowered her eyes slightly, looked at the pair of astonished eyes, reached out and grabbed Hall's collar, and pushed him to stagger in an extremely contemptuous manner.
"Get lost."
Under the silver-white hair were a pair of beast-like golden pupils, which still shone brightly in the shadow cast by the brim of the hat, and flashed a line of extremely sharp cold light.
"If you show up in front of me again, I will kill you too."
*
Xi Ze returned home in the evening sunset, but he did not go to see the male insect first, but turned to a guest bedroom.
Only after all the blood on his body was washed away and the strong smell of blood was covered by the fresh fragrance of shower gel did he change into clean casual clothes and go to find Yael.
The room was filled with a blood-red glow, and the male insect was lying on the bed just as it had been in the morning, only its posture had changed slightly, as if it had woken up for a moment.
Xize's heart skipped a beat, and the next second he came to his senses and realized that it must have been 015 who moved, otherwise he would not have missed the message, and he pursed his lips in disappointment.
"My Lord, I'm back."
He whispered, reached out and touched Yael's face, and felt relieved when he felt the warmth.
"How was your day? Are you feeling unwell?"
Not getting a response, Xi Ze felt a slight pain in his heart.
The strong sour taste attacked the nasal cavity, easily destroying the cold mask during the day and exposing the scarred heart inside.
Yael curled up in his arms, his face peaceful. The female insect paused for a moment, but continued to whisper.
"Today's trial went smoothly. I shouldn't have interfered, but I'm still angry. I'll shoot them when you wake up."
"For dessert, I asked them to make a strawberry shortcake, but unfortunately the Lord didn't wake up, so I helped you eat it... It tasted great, just like you."
"Have you settled down there?"
"The Lord said before that he was still in school. If he was in a coma for three years before waking up, he would inevitably be out of touch, and his family would probably be in a lot of trouble."
The military wife was always taciturn, and at this moment she didn't know what to say. Sometimes she said the same thing and couldn't even remember it.
I was just desperately trying to collect some trivial things, not wanting to fall into a deathly silence.
But the air gradually became quieter.
The day's work consumed too much of Xi Ze's energy. Now he finally embraced the familiar breath and was able to relax.
Knock knock.
There was a light knock on the door, and then 015 poked his head out.
"A bug is visiting. Do you want to see it?"
The villa's surveillance was connected to 015's system. It received the results of the identity scan and read out the name of the bug hesitantly.
"Do you know who this is?"
An unfamiliar name.
Xi Ze lowered his eyes slightly, staring intently at the male insect in his arms, and directly refused, "No."
"He said he had something to give you. Ah, he left it at the check-in counter. I'll go get it for you..."
Without waiting for the female insect to reply, 015 quickly left the room.
It quickly brought back a black velvet box from outside and scanned it over and over again in its hands.
"There are two circles inside, the danger level is 0!"
Xize was already too tired to respond, but when he heard the two circles, a strong premonition suddenly came over him, shaking him all over.
"…Bring it here so I can see it."
He took the small black velvet box. For some reason, his hands began to tremble. After hesitating for a while, he pressed the lid of the box and opened it little by little.
Two silver-blue rings lay quietly on the sponge in the center.
Xize could tell at a glance that the raw material of these two rings was the heart of the mecha.
The outer silver part is carved into classic plain circles, with the size of the jewel and his.
The center of the ring is inlaid with ice crystal fragments, which emit a deep blue glow in the sunset glow, as beautiful as a corner of a falling star. It seems that you can glimpse the entire universe through this one glance.
“…”
The female insect was completely stunned, and even subconsciously suspected that she had finally gone crazy, which was why she imagined this fantasy to comfort herself.
But he remained silent for a long time, and the ring in his hand still did not disappear.
The softness of the velvet and the coolness of the metal told him that everything was real.
"What is this?"
015 looked at the circle, not reacting for a moment, and blinked at the female insect.
But he happened to see Xi Ze suddenly covering his face, breathing rapidly, and almost shaking all over.
He clutched the ring box tightly and leaned over to hug Yael tightly in his arms.
"My Lord..."
"My Lord...Yell..."
He murmured again and again, unable to suppress the subconscious reaction of his body. The warm body in his arms also trembled, and the exposed neck was wet again.
How wonderful, how magical.
He never thought that one day he would get one of the wedding rings.
It was clear that Yael had not yet given him a title, nor had she mentioned that she wanted to be his queen.
But it was as if all the love had turned into a graspable entity, drowning his soul at this moment, condensing into Yael's smiling eyes and the shape of these two rings.
Those unanswered words and the hopeless waits seemed to echo at this moment, loud and clear.
"Ring, this is a ring."
Xi Ze's eyes were red and his voice was hoarse.
He picked up one of them and saw the "Y" engraved on the inner ring, and knew it was Yael's.
The other one was engraved with "X". He carefully put on both rings and found that they fit perfectly and were obviously custom-made with great care.
015 let out a wow, stuck his head out and looked again and again, wowed again and again.
Xi Ze stretched out his hand and interlocked his fingers with the male insect. As they intertwined, the two rings touched each other again, emitting an extremely beautiful light, as if catching a shooting star in the palm of his hand.
He lowered his eyes and looked at it carefully for a long time. He couldn't help but smile and murmured, "It's really beautiful and suitable, right?"
Yael did not answer him, but quietly placed his hand in the female insect's hand.
It's like a puppet that plays one of the main roles in a play. No matter how another actor manipulates it to make it laugh, it is unable to respond.
Xize couldn't help but chuckle, but when he took another breath, he heard a sob in his throat. He reached out and touched his face, only to find it was wet.
Really, crying and laughing, just like a madman.
"Didn't you order a custom ring? Why didn't you wake up after the ring was made and delivered? It's not good for the surprise to be discovered so soon."
He couldn't help but hold down Yael's shoulders and shook a little, "Master, wake up..."
"I lied to you when I said I could wait. I can't wait even for a second. Can you please wake up soon? Don't stay in that world. There's nothing good there. Can you please come back..."
His expression was so painful that it was almost distorted for a moment, his pupils kept shrinking, and he stared at Yael's face without blinking, his voice was very soft.
"You said you would stay with me, you said you would not leave me, you won't break your promise, right?"
Because of the change in posture, Yael's head tilted to one side, almost overlapping with the scene he saw when he hurried to the top floor.
The image of the male insect covered in blood reappeared before his eyes. His heart seemed to be pierced for an instant. Xi Ze suffocated for a moment and closed his eyes tightly.
"…Forget it. The fact that you are still alive and well is the best outcome."
He pulled the corners of his cracked lips, as if expressing relief at having survived a disaster, but it could not conceal the bottomless despair within.
Cesar put Yael back on the bed.
At the moment when the last ray of light outside the window was swallowed up, he leaned over and kissed the male insect.
"Good night, my lord."
Whether in his days as a cub struggling to survive on his own or in those five years of torture, he had never felt so miserable as he did now.
Hate is something longer lasting and easier than love.
Strong love, tempered by the years and those endless years of waiting, can too easily turn into extreme hatred.
But if possible, he would like to keep loving Yael.
It doesn't matter even if loving is too painful.
The author has something to say:
General: He seems to be still conscious, but he has actually been crazy for a long time (bushi)
Yeah yeah, I remembered the next chapter!
Recover the foreshadowing "Heart of the Mecha"! Currently obtained achievements: Communicator Ringtone 1/1, Heart of the Mecha (Ring) 1/1, ??? ? 0/1, please look forward to it~
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