Branch Line
After logging off from Yueyuan Mingzi's consciousness, Tang Lichu switched back to his own body. The moment he picked up his mobile phone and opened the APP, he realized something.
A few new lines of words have appeared silently on the task list.
【Attracting 20% of Curacao’s attention】
Meanwhile, interest in gin rose by another 5%.
Curacao... Tang Lichu belatedly recalled the white-haired girl he had seen before.
He had seen several Conan movies, some of which happened to include a pure black nightmare. He recalled the girl's white hair color - it was most likely Curacao.
Is she actually connected to her alias Weimar?
Just then, a new message popped up on the APP.
[The total attention has reached 100%, and the branch story is being opened. 】
[Host Tang Lichu, please choose:]
[Branch quest: January Garden Mingzi Chapter - Lost in the Fog City]
[Side Quest 2 Weimar Chapter - Escape from Black Crow]
really--
When the sum of attention reaches 100%, something special happens.
Now it seems that this "special thing" refers to the side story.
Tang Lichu hesitated for a moment, but finally chose branch 2.
Without the memory of the past, it would have been too difficult for him to play Weimar.
At the moment the choice was made, Tang Lichu slowly opened his eyes in a young body.
So the side quest...really refers to his vest's past!
Memories of Weimar flooded into Tang Lichu's mind, and his vision became blurry for a moment.
His previous guess was correct. Weimar was indeed involved in organizing human experiments. To be exact, he was one of the experimental subjects.
The two roommates he had in the orphanage before he joined the organization were named Huashan Zhaoze and Kurosawa Jin. He had never heard of the former, and the latter...
He was 100% sure that it was Gin.
I just don’t know why Gin didn’t like him very much afterwards.
The young Weimar was one of the last children in the orphanage to join the organization. After he finished his first experiment and was placed under house arrest in the organization's laboratory building, he realized that the orphanage he was in was actually under the control of the organization.
“…Wake up!”
Feeling the force of the push, Weimar blinked hard, trying to adjust himself to the light.
[Side quest objective 1: escape from the organization.]
【Please accept. 】
Weimar didn't have time to think about it. He accepted the target of the side quest and his vision became clear again.
"Wake up, Tokiwa Shuri." The clear voice belonging to the young Gin - or Kurosawa Jin said.
Another anxious voice came from another young man, Huashan Zhaoze, another roommate of Shi Ting Shu.
"He just finished his first experiment." said a young girl. She had strange eyes, which were the product of the experiment.
But now she still has long black hair. After a moment of silence, Weimar - or rather, Shi Ting Shuu realized that the other party was the Curacao he had just met.
But the other person's appearance is still childish, and his voice is much softer and cuter.
By the way, according to Tokiwa Hiiragi's previous memories, the girl's name was Huashan Rina, and she was the younger sister of her roommate Huashan Akizo.
"If he doesn't wake up, that idiot German Beer will come and beat him up." Huashan Zhaoze curled his lips.
He turned around and patted Tokiwa Shuriki: "Hey brother, long time no see, welcome to - hell."
"The black crow will devour every inch of your flesh." Kurosawa Jin said expressionlessly.
Huashan Rina was speechless for a moment: "...Chuuni is dead."
Tokiwa Hiiragi thought about it, and it seemed that when Gin threatened others, he always mentioned "hell", "punishment", and "darkness"...
I understand, Gin is an older man with a chuunibyou syndrome!
He acted as if he was confused.
"Ajin? Zhaoze? Lina...? Didn't you disappear? Where am I now?"
He realized his voice was hoarse after he finished speaking. The chestnut-haired boy coughed violently, and his indigo eyes looked watery.
"I told you I'm in hell." Huashan Zhaoze shrugged. "Would you like some water? Or orange juice? These are the only non-alcoholic drinks. I don't recommend you try cocktails right now."
Shi Ting Shuu followed the other person's line of sight and saw a young child holding a bottle of wine with a dull look in his eyes, sipping the strong cocktail in small sips.
If young children consume too much alcohol, it will cause damage to their intelligence.
"Let me tell you a joke. Black crows love to eat silly kids the most. Haha." Huashan Zhaoze said.
"Let's go to the vending machine." Kurosawa Jin looked away.
Huashan Zhaoze didn't say anything else, but took Shi Tingshu, who had just woken up, to drink water.
"I..." Shi Ting Shu pursed his lips, still did not ask for more information, and followed Hua Shan Zhaoze obediently.
Kurosawa Jin and Huashan Rina followed. The green-eyed boy supported Tokiwa Hiiragi, whose steps were a little unsteady.
"The items in the vending machine need to be exchanged for tokens." The girl with strange eyes explained briefly, "When you are in a good mood, the staff in the laboratory will give you tokens."
"Zhuyeqing can still imagine, but that lunatic German beer will only beat you up when he's in a good mood." Huashan Zhaoze added to his sister.
"When you're in a bad mood..." Tokiwa Hiiragi asked tentatively.
Kurosawa Jin: "He will let you see the fire of hell."
“…”
Do I need to be a bit second-year student at a time like this?
"Then I will let you fall into a bloody quagmire, unable to live or die." Huashan Zhaoze responded.
Huashan Li Na seemed to not want to know the two boys next to her.
She turned her head and spoke to Shi Ting Shu, "There are four people in charge of the laboratory area: Zhuyeqing, German beer, and a couple. They don't have code names for their wines."
"I've only heard of one name for them - Mad Scientist and Hell Angel."
The heterochromic girl paused for a moment, as if she wanted to remind someone, but quickly changed the subject.
"Speaking of which, you just went through an experiment. Are you feeling uncomfortable?" Her tone softened.
Shi Niang Shu shook his head, pursed his lips, and said hesitantly: "In fact, I don't remember participating in the experiment. Is this normal?"
Huashan Lina frowned.
"I've never encountered such a situation before..." She sounded uncertain, as if she wanted to stop the two boys in front of her to ask, but then she stopped and said vaguely, "Forget it, let's talk about it later."
The vending machine is next to the door of the lounge. In the large cabinet on the left hand side of the door, there are various drinks and snacks. Most of them look normal. In addition to water, orange juice and wine, there are also potato chips, biscuits and candy.
There was a huge TV in the middle of the lounge, playing Crayon Shin-chan.
A naked child was jumping around on the screen, his small eyes showing a silly expression. Outside the screen, a child was sitting on the sofa watching TV and giggling, with red marks left by the restraints on his exposed arms.
Shi Ting Shu looked at his three companions as if it was nothing, walked over without looking sideways, and gently pulled Hua Shan Li Na who was standing beside him.
"Is he...tied up?" he asked carefully.
"Yeah, that's right." Huashan Zhaoze in front turned around after hearing this, "Do the experiment a few more times and you will get used to it." He gave a thumbs up.
“…”
Sometimes Ting Shu felt that Hua Shan Zhao Ze was too optimistic, and sometimes he suspected that he was just keen on telling jokes about hell.
Kurosawa. Chuunibyou. Jin spoke calmly, agreeing with Huashan Zhaoze's remarks: "If we can't adapt, we will have no value to the Black Crows."
"'Experimental subjects' like us are just consumables for the organization." Huashan Rina shook her head, "Don't worry, everyone here has their own way to save their lives."
Huashan Zhaoze took out his token, picked one out, and bought a bottle of water for Shi Ting Shu.
"Cheer up, come on, I'll take you to choose a room - or do you still want to share a room with us like before in the orphanage?" He patted Shi Tingshu's head. The slight uneasiness that the indigo-eyed boy had just revealed made him feel friendly.
"...Let's just stay the same as before in the orphanage." Tokiwa Hiiragi blinked and made a choice.
"Zhao Ze, He Jing hasn't come back yet." Kurosawa Jin suddenly spoke from the side. Shi Ting Shuu followed his gaze and looked at the electronic clock hanging on the wall. It was already seven o'clock in the evening.
He belatedly realized that this building had no windows, so he could not judge the time outside.
Was it to prevent them from escaping through the windows? Or was it for some other reason?
"She told me earlier that the experiment might end a little later today." Huashan Zhaoze's eyes were also tinged with anxiety. "She said that the researchers asked her to take the new drug, otherwise they would not give her painkillers."
“…”
Huashan Zhaoze, the master of hell jokes, was silent for a while, and the atmosphere became depressed.
Shi Ting Shu glanced at his memory. The girl they were talking about was named He Jingting, she was Hua Shan Lina's roommate and had a very good relationship with Hua Shan Zhaoze.
At this moment, the door of the lounge was opened and a girl with two pigtails was thrown in. When her body fell limply, she was kicked by the man who threw her in.
The man in the white coat looked irritable, muttering dirty words and complaining something like "Zhuyeqing assigned me this kind of hard work again, I will kill her sooner or later."
"A-Ting!"
"Ting-chan!"
The Huashan siblings screamed and ran over. Even Kurosawa Jin, who was always cold and expressionless, frowned and took a few steps forward.
He Jingting coughed violently and couldn't utter a word.
"Her experiment failed." The person who threw her in was none other than German Beer, a low-level code-named person in the lab. He said with disgust, "So much medicine was wasted. What a waste."
"What are you yelling about!" He glared at the three children who gathered around him, picked out Huashan Li Na, the girl who looked the easiest to bully, and slapped her hard. Then, Huashan Zhaoze suddenly grabbed her hand.
"This is really outrageous." The unhappy bottom-level code member gritted his teeth and muttered, as if vowing to teach the boy who dared to stop him a lesson.
Shi Tingshu stepped forward quickly. Perhaps because he had never experienced the beating of German beer, he pushed the other person hard with the courage of a newborn calf, causing the other person to stagger.
Anyone who can become a code name member must be very skilled. The man was enraged and wanted to punch him, but he stopped abruptly.
"It's you, little one..." He cursed and left the lounge angrily, leaving the four children looking at each other in bewilderment, and the girl lying there gasping in pain due to the aftereffects of the whole-body experiment.
"He...didn't hit you." Huashan Zhaoze had a complicated expression, and suddenly he was a little excited, "You may not be a 'consumable', we can use you..."
Realizing that there might be organized eavesdropping here, he suddenly shut his mouth.
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