The library was shaded by dense trees in the sunset, and the light was a little dim.
To be honest, Su Liang always felt that the atmosphere of the old library was a bit eerie when he came here a few times before. Today, the library was especially deserted and silent. There was no one in the huge reading room. The only noises were from the automatic robots busying around the library. The hissing sounds from the gears and belts that had not been maintained for a long time sounded like ghosts hidden in the dark whispering.
However, Su Liang did not feel uneasy at all staying in such an old library. On the contrary, he even felt that he was more relaxed and comfortable here than anywhere else.
It's a feeling that's hard to describe.
Su Liang leaned back in his chair, looking at the rustling bushes outside the window, enjoying the soft touch of the breeze blowing across his cheeks. From his fingers to his hair, he couldn't help but relax. Although he came here specifically to read a book, Su Liang was a little distracted and fell into an inexplicable laziness.
Su Liang hadn't been so relaxed for a long, long time.
Whether in his previous life or this life, Su Liang was on edge almost all the time. Eloping with Lu Zhizhao in the previous life was stupid and difficult. In this life, Su Liang wanted to change the trajectory of his life, so the spring in his heart was wound up even tighter.
Study hard.
To help my sister and brother-in-law leave the Lu family.
To save money.
I have to find a way to distance myself from Lu Zhizhao and Ning Jiayi...
Su Liang had so many things to face that he had no time to breathe.
Until this moment, he was sitting in the empty old library, and his originally anxious heart gradually calmed down.
He himself did not notice that he was absent-mindedly turning the pages of the book with his fingertips, but his body was getting closer and closer to the window.
The wind is cool.
There was a faint, extremely subtle smell floating in the air. The smell reminded Su Liang of moist mist, moss, and incense buried by ice and snow.
The fragrance was already so light that it was almost indistinguishable, but Su Liang still thought it smelled good.
Is it a perfume left here by someone before?
Su Liang thought.
It would be great if I could find out what kind of perfume it was - Su Liang, who had no interest in perfume at all, felt regretful at this moment.
This smell gave Su Liang a subtle sense of familiarity. It seemed like he had smelled it somewhere a long, long time ago.
But Su Liang tried hard to recall, but still couldn't remember.
But no matter what, even just because of the lingering fragrance in the air and the silence and tranquility of the entire library, Su Liang is willing to stay here.
However, not long after, his communicator lit up, and it was a message from Lu Zhizhao.
[Xiaoliang, we need to talk.] 】
Lu Zhizhao received several messages, and judging from the messages, it seemed that something had happened.
Su Liang stared at the screen and frowned slightly, his good mood instantly fading away.
What to talk about? 】
He replied.
This time, Lu Zhizhao's message came very quickly: [Xiaoliang, I'm at the entrance of Xingchuan, let's meet and talk. 】
Su Liang looked at this sentence and lowered his eyes.
【good. 】
He said, and then he let out a long sigh.
Although he didn't want to meet Lu Zhizhao, Su Liang also felt that it might be better to take this opportunity to talk to Lu Zhizhao face to face and clarify some things.
After packing up his things, Su Liang suppressed the slight resistance in his heart and quickly left the old library.
But just as he stepped down the steps of the library gate, he suddenly felt a slight swelling on the back of his neck. For some reason, Su Liang felt as if someone was staring at him from behind.
Su Liang subconsciously turned his head and looked behind him, but the lonely library lobby was still empty.
“Is it an illusion?”
Su Liang muttered, frowned, rubbed his neck casually, and then continued to walk outside.
The slender and slow-witted Beta naturally didn't know that on the top floor of the old library, in a dark and hidden room, a man withdrew his gaze from the front yard of the old library.
This was a very tall and thin man with pale skin, hair and eyes as dark as night, and his facial features were extremely handsome and deep, so handsome that he was almost evil.
However, no matter who you are, it is difficult to notice his handsomeness when you see him.
Because the aura lingering around this man is too terrifying.
Even if you just look at him, the animal survival instinct deep in people's bodies will immediately take effect. In the face of intense fear and a life-and-death crisis, no one can spare the energy to pay attention to the beauty or ugliness of appearance.
Moreover, the man's attire at the moment was actually quite strange.
A component similar to an exoskeleton metal spine was like a steel monster, tightly covering the man's back to the back of his neck.
Several metal tubes as thick as fingers grew out from the metal parts and pierced into the blood vessels at the back of the man's neck.
The lower half of the man's face was covered by a mask that looked like a bite stopper, revealing only a pair of abyss-like eyes that were devoid of any emotion.
His hands and feet were also bound by heavy metal rings. If someone who knew the business saw these things, they would find that they were restraints used to restrain the highest level biological weapons.
Even the man's fingers were tightly bound, as if he was really some vicious, cruel and terrifying criminal.
But the temperament and expression he revealed when he sat on the shabby old wooden chair made people think of an extremely centralized and tyrannical king who held supreme power and the life and death of all people thousands of years ago.
A dusty window was right next to the man, slightly open.
"Huh? There are still human activities in the library area? Are the people sent by Canaan looking for death again?"
A brisk artificial mechanical voice rang out in the room.
Next to the man, a "person" with a dull face and an unusually well-proportioned body was sitting cross-legged in front of a machine, with countless metal tentacles extending from behind it and connected to the machine.
Complex symbols and data kept flashing on the machine's screen.
Judging from the appearance, the person who is speaking is a standard A-K125 domestic bionic man.
However, even the most advanced household robots cannot crack the firewall of the machine in front of them as quickly as it does, and similarly, they cannot speak as humanely as it does.
"no."
For the first time ever, the man responded to the doubts of a special android.
This caused the android to raise his voice instantly.
"Wow, this is interesting. Theoretically, as long as you appear, normal humans will stay away from your area even unconsciously based on survival instinct. Of course, I am not describing you as a biological weapon, but our current confinement devices really can't control the overflow of your mental power. It is inevitable that you will become hated by everyone. Think about those poor Alpha assassins. The ones I just caught a few days ago were scared to pee their pants before they even had time to get close to the inner courtyard... Are you really sure that the humanoid creatures that can still walk in your area now are not advanced biological weapons?"
"Just a wild cat."
The man said calmly.
He didn't seem to have any extra emotions towards the person who shouldn't be in his area.
But those who are familiar with him will know how strange he is at this moment - while he spoke calmly, he tapped the armrest of the chair with his fingers very lightly a few times, and a secret command was instantly sent to all the people under his command through the built-in communication device. In the bushes of the old library, in the shadows of the buildings, in the traps under the shade of the trees... the top private guards hiding in the dark suddenly stopped all their movements the moment they received the order.
It was also because of the man's tacit consent that the slender and slow-moving figure was able to leave the old library calmly and safely step by step.
The man's actions could not be hidden from the android beside him. After all, it could actually be considered one of the top artificial intelligences in the entire Earth Federation.
Realizing that the man had directly revoked the order to "eliminate all unauthorized personnel entering the old library", the android's eyes began to sparkle.
"Wild cat?" Its head suddenly turned 180 degrees, and its dull, plastic face stared at the man. "You mean the kind that stands on its two feet, is very, very beautiful, and is... ah, what a pity, it's actually beta...wild cat?"
While making a strange gossiping tone with a weird electronic synthesized voice, the android stretched out a sensing tentacle from its body and waved it in front of the window.
"How come I didn't know you liked cats?"
It muttered incessantly.
It adjusted its position, curiously trying to see clearly the figure that had long gone away, but at this moment, the man raised his eyebrows and looked towards the brain center of the bionic man.
Then the tentacle instantly bounced back to its original position.
"You can't even take a look? Aren't you too stingy?"
The AI complained unhappily.
It's still continuing to crack the firewall of the machine in front of it.
The man did not respond.
He was as gloomy and aloof as ever.
At this moment, he had slightly closed his eyes, and he did not give any explanation for his strange reaction just now.
A light and gentle breeze blew past the window, bringing with it a very faint fragrance.
The fragrance was so faint that it was almost non-existent. No one could detect it, not even the extremely terrifying man who was considered a monster by everyone.
But it does exist.
So, in the golden-red twilight, the man who had been tormented by the disease for a long, long time finally felt a sense of relief.
He felt that today's wind was very comfortable. When it blew on his body, the intense pain that had been lingering in his limbs seemed to have faded a lot.
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