Chapter 147 Zero One and Thirteen
He didn't know if he had another name. He only knew that he had been killing people since he could remember.
After this training, only twelve people survived, including him.
The eleven children who survived him had blood on their hands, but they were still panicked even though they had killed someone. They were afraid and they stood among the corpses, trembling.
He was the only one who was the calmest. His young face was covered in blood. He looked at the corpses and walked to the leader without any emotion.
He killed three of his companions and earned the title of "chief".
The leader raised his hand to wipe the blood off his face and said with a smile: "Well done. From today on, you will be called Zero One, the leader of your group of secret guards. You have the authority to dispose of the life of every person here."
Lingyi turned around, looked at the remaining eleven children behind him, and nodded slightly.
In this training, they were named based on their performance and also received the final roster of personnel.
He stayed in the secret guard training camp for eight years. When he was thirteen years old, he became the best secret guard among the Ling clan secret guards and was about to be assigned a master.
By chance, he met a little boy who was kidnapped and sold to human traffickers.
Seeing the cute child being abused because of crying and resisting, he kept hesitating whether he should save the child.
The child was too young, only about four or five years old. If he rescued the child but didn't take him away, the child would not be able to find his parents and would definitely be caught and sold again.
And if he takes the child with him, the child must become like him in order to survive.
Who is he? He is a man who would even kill his companions in order to survive. He bears the name of a secret guard and works as a killer and a spy.
Looking at the child huddled in the corner, Lingyi's heart, which had been frozen for so many years, was finally moved. In the end, he chose to give up saving the child.
Because he felt that even if the child was sold to another family as a child or a servant, it would be better than following him to kill people.
His world was dark, and he couldn't drag this child into it.
But what he didn't expect was that the human trafficker actually sold the child to a single man.
Lingyi thought that the man was childless, so he bought a child to raise and take care of him in his old age. However, he found out that the man wanted to do something bad to the child on the first night.
Lingyi finally couldn't bear it anymore, drew his sword and killed the man, brought the child back to the camp, and named him Thirteen.
This is the thirteenth person among their group of secret guards.
In order to make Thirteen a tool as emotionless as them, Zero One threw him into another group of children to train together.
But Thirteen seems to be different from him. He doesn't want others to get close to him, nor does he want to hurt others.
He has both physical strength and learning ability, but the only thing he cannot pass is his ruthlessness.
After each training session, Thirteen would pull at the corner of Lingyi's clothes and cry, "Big Brother, I don't want to kill anyone. I want to go home and find my mother."
Lingyi looked at the little hand on the corner of his clothes, pushed him away ruthlessly, and turned away.
If a child enters here, he will not be able to get out alive unless he becomes a qualified secret guard.
Therefore, there is nothing Zero One can do.
But Thirteen is really good, his only shortcoming is that he can't bring himself to kill anyone.
When the chief gave Thirteen one last chance to kill someone, he locked him up with two other companions, wanting to see if he could walk out alive.
When Zero One sneaked into the room, Thirteen had already tied up the other two children, but after tying them up he did not take any further action.
Looking at the three tools on the table, water and poison, rope and dagger.
Lingyi hugged Thirteen from behind, and while Thirteen was screaming and crying, he grabbed his hand, slowly opened the medicine bag and put it in the water, then controlled him and poured the poisoned water into the mouth of one of the children with his own hands.
Seeing his companion's eyes turn pale within a few seconds, Thirteen burst into tears. But before he could feel sad, Zero One stuffed a dagger into his hand and stabbed it into another companion's body...
Seeing his companion fall down and his hands covered in blood, Thirteen was completely stunned.
But Lingyi said: "You can live."
From that day on, Thirteen no longer cried about going home. He became Zero Thirteen and a qualified secret guard.
But as if to take revenge on Lingyi, she always likes to cause trouble for him.
Even after Lingyi became He Qin's secret guard, he still had to go back from time to time to clean up the mess for Shisan.
Even if Thirteen grows up and goes on a mission, he will cause him some trouble that will be difficult for him to resolve.
Gradually, Lingyi no longer wanted to see Shisan, and even avoided him intentionally or unintentionally.
But he didn't see Thirteen's eyes over the years, from resentment to dependence, from dependence to love...
Later, he followed his master to Lujia Village and met the lively and simple Lu Xiaobai.
He knew that if it weren't for this trip to the countryside, he would not have many opportunities to appear in public again in his life.
He felt that his entire life was dark, and Lu Xiaobai, a spoiled and willful boy who actually treated everyone equally, was like a ray of light shining into his dark world.
It was so bright and beautiful that he couldn't help but want to pursue it.
But light is light. It can bring warmth and brightness to people, but people can never keep it.
So, Lingyi knew that he was destined to fail, but he still flocked to it like a moth to a flame.
He thought that was love, he thought that was his salvation, but he didn't know that it was just his natural yearning for beauty.
It was not until Thirteen, who had been following him, turned around and left that he realized that the person who had been stumbling and trying his best to follow him had always meant a lot to him, but he had subconsciously ignored it.
When that person left, he felt a sense of emptiness in his heart, which made him feel painful.
He spent the whole night struggling with whether to continue guarding the light or to protect the child who had followed him and accompanied him for ten years.
But when he thought about what Thirteen was going to go through next, his heart could not calm down. In the end, he chose to go find Thirteen without hesitation, the child who had never grown up in his heart.
When he found Thirteen again, he discovered that Lu Xiaobai wasn't the only one who could be the light in his world...
Thirteen sat up suddenly, breathing rapidly. He looked down at his white hands and saw that there was no blood. Then he breathed a sigh of relief.
Zero stood up, put his arm around Thirteen's shoulders and asked, "Having a nightmare again?"
Thirteen shook his head: "It's not really a nightmare, it's just something from my childhood."
He always dreams of Zero One forcing him to kill someone. Although he knows that Zero One did it for his own good, he just can't forget it.
Lingyi also knew that Thirteen's nightmares all came from him, but he did not regret it at all. He touched Thirteen's hair and said, "It's okay. Judging from my current life, I probably won't kill anyone in the future."
There are no more dangerous missions.
Hearing this, Thirteen chuckled softly and said, "Killing people is nothing. I'm not afraid."
Thirteen said he was not afraid of killing people, which was the most painful thing for Lingyi, but he had no idea how to answer him.
At this moment, the door of the room was suddenly pushed open, and a young woman walked in. The two of them were so scared that they quickly let go. Thirteen blushed instantly and whispered, "Sister."
My sister smiled and said, "Thirteen, that's fine. You're not afraid of killing people, so are you afraid of going to jail?"
Thanks to their master Xiaobai, they came to the modern era, where their lost family members were, and they were also neighbors with Lingyi.
Thirteen felt that being able to be with Lingyi and see his family again was the fulfillment of all his life wishes.
But my sister had no memory of the past, and didn't know that the murder they were talking about wasn't referring to the present. She smiled and put the fruit plate on the table and said, "You have to be a good person. You can't think about nonsense every day. And hurry up and get up. It's almost twelve o'clock, you two lazy bastards!"
My sister left after saying that.
Thirteen smiled secretly, stood up and followed Zero One to visit his parents.
There are no brothers in this world, only men and women, and men can also marry each other.
Lingyi told his father privately that he wanted to marry Shisan.
But they are all ordinary families, and they hope that their children will study hard and have a bright future to change their family.
So, their father rejected him on the grounds that they were still in school and asked them to get married after graduating from college.
Lingyi smiled helplessly. They would not be here anymore after graduating from university.
However, Master Xiaobai said that after a month, the people here would forget about this? Yue and everything related to them.
He also couldn't cause trouble to his original body, so he gave up the idea of getting married.
However, he smashed the piggy bank that his original body had saved since childhood, and used the money inside to buy a pair of couple rings, intending to give them to Thirteen.
After Thirteen finished his dinner, he came to the door and looked out of curiosity.
Why didn’t Lingyi, who used to come to see him every day, come today?
Did he go to find his master?
Thirteen was unhappy and lowered his eyes. He secretly ran to the door of Lingyi's house, looked inside on tiptoe for a while, and after confirming that Lingyi was not inside, he put his feet down and walked back disappointedly.
He was very scared. He was afraid that Lingyi came back to find him just because they had known each other for a while. He was afraid that the love Lingyi said to him was just a habit.
He was even afraid that every time Lingyi was with him, he would involuntarily call out Master Xiaobai's name.
He has been following Zero One for ten years, and while he appears playful and fierce on the surface, he is cautious beneath the mask.
What he feared most was that Lingyi would leave without saying goodbye, and that Lingyi would say that he still liked Master Xiaobai.
Thirteen sat dejectedly on a bench by the roadside, staring at the bright modern street lights in a daze.
Suddenly, a black shadow flashed before his eyes. Thirteen became alert instantly. Just as he was about to stand up, someone held down his shoulders. He subconsciously used Eagle Claw to grab the person behind him, but he grabbed a - box?
He looked at the person behind him curiously and found that it was Zero One.
Thirteen finally relaxed, clutching the small box, his eyes dodging as he said in a somewhat blaming tone, "We're all secret guards, so if there's nothing wrong, don't grab me from behind."
Lingyi ruffled Thirteen's soft short hair and said, "Open it and take a look."
Thirteen then noticed the box in his hand, opened it curiously, looked at it, and asked, "A pair of rings. You bought this to make... this, this..."
They have no modern memories, but having been here for so long, they have also watched TV.
You know, the ring that represents status or power there is a symbol of marriage here.
Thirteen's eyes instantly turned red. He rubbed the ring lightly with his fingertips and said, "Think carefully. If you still love Master Xiaobai after marrying me, I might betray my husband and my master one day."
Lingyi raised his hand to wipe away Thirteen's tears that were about to fall, took the ring and put it on his ring finger, saying: "That's unfortunate. You will never have that chance in your life, because you are the only one in my heart."
Thirteen looked at the ring on his finger, his nose aching. He raised his hand and pinched the tip of his nose, his eyes filled with joy and disbelief. He asked in a low voice, "Are you sure?"
Lingyi nodded: "Yeah."
He is a secret guard and needs to protect He Qin and Lu Xiaobai with his life.
If one day, the master and Thirteen are in danger at the same time, he will choose to save the master without hesitation, and then accompany Thirteen on the road to the underworld.
He chuckled softly and said, "Loyalty and love are different. I can still tell the difference."
Thirteen then smiled softly, raised his arm and put his arm around Lingyi's neck and said, "I want to wear this when I go back to Nanhe."
Ling nodded: "I'll make it for you when I get back."
"Um."
Lingyi bent down and kissed Thirteen, then took his hand and walked forward under the street light.
The two of them were talking in low voices, and laughter could be heard all the way, which made those who heard it curl up the corners of their mouths involuntarily.
And they, even their elongated shadows on the ground, seemed so happy...
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