Chapter 420: Double kill?
He is the leader of the cult who gives warmth to the cold, guidance to the lost, hope to the desperate, a beacon for those walking in the dark, and the one who weaves hope for them again.
Isn't this a hundred times better than being a mentor in a laboratory? The man looked at the female assistant deeply, sighed softly, and said with a hint of helplessness and pity:
"It's a good thing to follow the rules. It shows that you are a responsible person. But you can't throw your life away."
He paused for a moment, and said in a low voice:
"The premise of following the rules is to be alive. Because, if you die, you are really dead."
The female assistant stared at the man blankly, her lips opened several times but no sound came out. She could only murmur and repeat:
"Dead, really dead..."
The man leaned forward slightly, his voice was as soft as a whisper, but every word struck her heart: "Be more careful. If you meet those who want you to die, you must stay away from them. They are all bad people. You are a good girl, you should get in touch with more good people, so that you can live longer."
The female assistant seemed to have been enlightened and had walked back from the gates of hell. Her mind seemed to have been thoroughly cleansed, becoming clear and transparent.
She looked at the man in front of her, tears welling up in the corners of her eyes, and an indescribable gratitude and warmth surged in her heart.
Where are the good people? They are far away and close at hand.
She took a long breath, wiped away the tears from her eyes, and bowed deeply to the man in front of her: "Thank you for saving my life. You are the best person I have ever met. My name is Zhao Jingyi."
The man was silent for a long time. He slowly raised his slender fingers and gently adjusted the frame of his gold-rimmed glasses. His voice seemed to contain endless vicissitudes and stories:
"You are wrong again, Jingyi. I am not the good person you think. I am a person burdened with sin, a wandering ghost without a home..."
His tone was low and long, and every word seemed to carry the heaviness and bitterness of the past.
He was reluctant to reveal his true identity, but under Zhao Jingyi's hopeful gaze, he finally sighed helplessly and whispered his name: "You can call me... Zheng Hang."
When Zhao Jingyi heard the name, she frowned slightly and felt vaguely familiar with it, as if she had heard it somewhere before, but the memory was so vague that she couldn't grasp the specific details.
However, when Zheng Hang claimed to be a sinner, the last bit of doubt in Zhao Jingyi's heart disappeared.
How can a bad person admit that he is a bad person?
Zhao Jingyi felt ashamed of her suspicion. She said excitedly:
"No, Zheng Hang, you are definitely a good person!"
Zheng Hang's mouth curled up into a bitter smile, his eyes flashing with complex emotions, as if thousands of words were transformed into this sigh: "Hey - good person? Yes, I have always wanted to be a good person, not like now, hiding in the gutter and living with rats..."
"But unfortunately, I can never go back, alas..."
Zhao Jingyi pricked up her ears and felt a hint of sadness from Zheng Hang's expression and tone.
The sadness was not intense, but it seemed as if its edges had been smoothed out by time, leaving only numb embers.
She was very familiar with this feeling - she would often think back to the day when she first entered the laboratory in the dead of night and fantasize about escaping from there.
But the reality is that she has nowhere to escape.
Zheng Hang noticed the subtle changes in Zhao Jingyi's expression and sensed a flash of sympathy in her eyes.
He forced a smile and tried to change the subject:
"What about you? Judging from your clothes, you should be in the hospital or the laboratory, right? Why did you end up in this sewer? And why did you just yell 'Senior Sister' at the mouse?"
Zheng Hang asked a lot of questions in one breath, which were actually quite sensitive questions, but his words were well laid out and his emotions were well built.
Zhao Jingyi didn't suspect anything at all. Of course, Zhao Jingyi actually wanted to know Zheng Hang's story more.
But the painful expression on the other person's face made her unable to bear to touch his scar.
Seeing Zhao Jingyi remained silent, Zheng Hang did not force her, but his face became a little colder, his tone was still gentle and considerate: "Can't you say all this? I understand, this is the rule set by your mentor, right? It doesn't matter, I'll take you out first.
The sewers are too dangerous, and it would be terrible if the rats come back later."
The words "tutor's rules" were like a precise scalpel, accurately piercing the most taboo scar in Zhao Jingyi's heart.
This call back was a sure win.
Coupled with Zheng Hang's heartwarming words and consideration for her safety, it was a double kill.
How could Zhao Jingyi resist? She rubbed her eyes vigorously, her heart was ruthless, as if she wanted to throw all the rules that bound her behind her back.
"There's nothing I can't say, I just don't know where to start..."
She gritted her teeth and opened her heart completely to the good man who saved her. She said:
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"Oh, by the way, Zheng Hang, did you see a group of three-meter-tall humanoid monsters covered with scales in the sewer? They were chasing a female student, and those monsters were my senior sisters!"
Zheng Hang's face showed obvious astonishment, and he blurted out: "I have indeed seen a few monsters from afar in the sewers these days, and one of them was even wearing clothes... But you said they were your sisters? What does this mean?"
His face gradually became heavy, and his tone was questioning: "Zhao Jingyi, who are you?"
Seeing the shock on her savior's face, Zhao Jingyi felt an indescribable sense of satisfaction in her heart.
She had too many secrets in her heart, like heavy shackles that made it hard for her to breathe.
At this moment, she finally found someone she could trust, and once she started talking, she couldn't stop.
Without the need for Zheng Hang's guidance or his tricks, Zhao Jingyi just spilled everything out like beans pouring out of a bamboo tube.
She began to tell the story in a low and rapid voice, as if she wanted to pour out all the secrets that had been pent up for a long time.
She told about her mentor's plan - that inhumane and crazy plan, how the plan went wrong, the senior sisters appeared on the scene ahead of time, and it turned into an uncontrollable disaster.
She talked about her mentor's morbid pursuit of perfection and how her fellow senior sisters were transformed step by step into unrecognizable monsters.
She also talked about how happy she was when she received the offer from the laboratory, as if she had grasped hope in life.
And then, she passed many levels of assessment and was finally selected to enter the laboratory. At that time, she was full of hope and thought she was about to embark on a bright road.
However, when she finally got a glimpse of the horrific truth hidden in the laboratory and the secrets behind it, her world completely collapsed.
Zhao Jingyi recounted how she had come to her current situation step by step, sinking deeper and deeper, unable to extricate herself, with no way of turning back, as if she had fallen into an endless abyss.
There was a kind of desperate calmness in her tone, and she didn't even shed a few tears, as if she had already accepted the ruthless manipulation of fate.
Zheng Hang was a perfect listener. He did not interrupt or butt in the whole process. He just listened quietly and patiently.
Only at the very end, when the timeline converged from distant memories to the present moment, did he ask faintly: "So, you haven't told me yet, what is the name of the laboratory you joined, and who is the mentor you mentioned?"
(End of this chapter)
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