asphyxia
Vermouth and Kurosawa Jin left, seemingly wanting to discuss something.
German Beer watched the blonde woman leave, relaxed, and his facial expression became more irritable. He looked at the two children in disgust, but he didn't dare to take action because of Belmode.
In anger and irritability, he pushed Huashanli hard and said, "Go back, little bastard."
Huashan Li had just managed to calm down, but now she was aroused again. However, Huashan Zhaoze was still in the next room. She took a deep breath, lowered her head and left, perhaps to take her brother back to the rest area.
"As for you." He pointed at Shi Ting Shu, "Come with me, or you can choose to resist and let me find a reason to beat you up."
Shi Ting Shu had no interest in being beaten. He blinked, nodded, and said obediently, "Okay, Mr. German Beer."
Perhaps because his authority was affirmed, the violent expression on the face of this grassroots member of the organization softened a little, and he smiled with a fake smile: "You are quite sensible. Let's go."
After turning a few corners, the walls were still pure white. The corridor was like an intricate maze, and there was no end to it. Shi Ting Shu had no choice but to follow the German beer in front of him.
Without sunlight, the corridor, which was completely illuminated by incandescent lamps, looked cold and desolate, making people feel uneasy. After seeing He Jingting's miserable condition, Shi Tingshu had some psychological trauma. He knew that German Beer was probably going to take him to conduct an experiment.
It's okay, he told himself. He could always escape. The most important thing was not to reveal his abilities. Apart from Huashan Lina, Kurosawa Jin and Huashan Zhaoze, he could not tell anyone, not even Vermouth.
Walking through one identical white wooden door after another, Shi Tingshu felt as if he and German beer were standing still. The depressing atmosphere when he saw He Jingting made his sanity shaky, and he had to rely on willpower to support himself.
But he didn't dare stop, he didn't want to be whipped by German beer.
Finally, after walking for a while, the German beer stopped in front of a wooden door that was exactly the same as countless other doors before, with no difference at all.
"Go in." He looked at Shi Ting Shu and majestically ordered the boy who was not even as tall as his waist.
Shi Ting Shu lowered his head and obediently followed his instructions to enter the room, which made him seem obedient. German beer likes this sense of control.
When I opened the door, it was still all white inside. The pure white walls, the pure white ceiling, and the pure white floor combined gave people a sense of emptiness.
There was an operating table in the corner of the room, and German Beer seemed very familiar with it. He strode over and dragged Shi Ting Shu to the wall opposite the operating table.
Shi Ting Shu stood still as the code officer said. German Beer pressed a button. The moment the green button was pressed, a plastic partition rose around the boy with chestnut hair and indigo eyes. The partition trapped him like a cage, and soon rose above his head.
The boy, who was in his early teens, was still young and looked very small. He was blocked from escaping by the plastic board, so he panicked visibly, with his hands pressed against the transparent board.
Water overflowed from the plastic sheet.
"I don't know what results the organization has obtained from its research on you. I am not allowed to deal with you at will, but I think you should know that there are many more painful things than direct death." German Beer said happily. He glanced at the communication tool in his hand, saw the text message sent by his colleague, and laughed briefly.
He turned and left the room, allowing the water to gradually spread upwards in the space created by the plastic boards, which was only big enough for one person to stand upright.
The cold water soaked Shi Ting Shu's clothes completely, making him shiver with cold. He felt that he knew what Fang Caishan Zhaoze had been through. In that room, his roommate was suffering from suffocation. Would he become like this in a moment?
His heart strangely calmed down, and the words of German Beer just now echoed in his mind. He grasped an important message: the organization would not let him die.
At the same time, he was also very sure that without his sanity, his abilities would not be of any help to the organization.
Therefore, for the time being, the organization will no longer conduct experiments that may turn him into a vegetable or a beast, causing his spirit to fall into the abyss.
The door opened again, and German Beer led a man in. The other person seemed to be a colleague of his, so the latter's attitude was not as disdainful and contemptuous as he was towards the experimental subjects like Tokiwa Hiiragi; but he was not as respectful and respectful as he was when facing Vermouth.
"...Mad scientist." He called out the nickname jokingly and patted the man on the shoulder. "Okay, Miyano, just ask whatever you want to ask. I'm here to take care of it."
The researcher named Miyano nodded in agreement. He approached with the equipment, and Tokiwa Hiiragi thought he was going to draw his blood, but Miyano did not hesitate to draw blood from his arm and put it in front of Tokiwa Hiiragi.
"What did you see?" he asked, his words milder than the volatile German beer. "What information can you glean from it?"
Maybe it was because the water was about to reach his neck, but Shi Tingshu suddenly felt cold all over.
——Yes, Huashan Zhaoze asked Vermouth for "blood" before!
Looking at Miyano's blood, Shi Niang Shu felt dizzy. Of course, he could read what Miyano was thinking from it. In fact, the moment he saw the blood, he knew that the other party was named Miyano Atsushi, and he had a mixed-race wife, Miyano Elena, and two girls, the youngest daughter was born not long ago.
But no, this is his trump card and he can't reveal it to the organization.
German beer grinned, "Not cooperating? Are you sure, kid?"
Shi Ting Shu's indigo eyes revealed cautious confusion and obedience: "I don't know what you are talking about, first--"
Before he could finish his words, he was pushed into the water by the head. The cold water caressed his cheeks and stung his eyes, so he had to close his eyes.
"Forty-five seconds, kid. Once you get up here, think carefully about whether or not to tell the truth." The sound of German beer came through the water.
The cold water made the sounds from the outside world seem far away, and Shi Tingshu felt that his lungs were being squeezed. But it was only forty-five seconds, so he could still handle it.
He would never reveal a single detail about his abilities.
When he raised his head, his hair was dripping with water. Through the water droplets on his eyelashes, Tokiwa Hiiragi looked at Miyano Atsushi's blood again.
"If the experiment on him is indeed successful, it means that the research and development of the Silver Bullet has made outstanding progress. Perhaps after handing over a perfect answer like the Silver Bullet, our family can get rid of the organization's surveillance."
Is that what Miyano Atsushi thought? What is the silver bullet?
Shi Ting Shu lowered his eyes and shook his head in silence. In an instant, his head was pushed into the water again.
"Sixty seconds."
"Seventy-five seconds."
…
"One hundred and twenty seconds."
The seconds increased again and again, and the difficulty of holding his breath became greater and greater. When it increased to two minutes, Shi Ting Shu could no longer hold on. The exhaled gas turned into bubbles and floated upwards. The hand holding his head was strong and excited, and the air in his lungs was further squeezed. He couldn't help but struggle, even though he knew rationally that such a struggle would only consume more physical strength and air.
He opened his eyes, and the reflection of the water made his blood appear a different kind of scarlet, allowing him to further peek into Miyano Atsushi's thoughts.
"…Maybe it's because of his ability? If I use special medicine, maybe I can improve his ability even more?"
The sudden news caused Shi Ting Shu to pause; his oxygen-deprived brain was unable to process such complex information.
The countdown for the German beer was almost reaching the end. When it reached 120 seconds, Tokiwa Hiiragi quickly stuck his head out and took a deep breath.
"I'll tell you! I'll tell you!" He pretended to be panicked. "I can - feel people's emotions through their blood!"
German beer paused what he was doing. He clapped his hands and said complacently, "If you had said it earlier, wouldn't you have saved a lot of steps?"
Shi Ting Shu breathed in the hard-earned air, feeling weak all over.
"At the very beginning - I could feel that he didn't like the organization and loved his family very much." Tokiwa Hiiragi was picky, trying to make his words sound real but not important enough for the organization to take seriously.
"Later, after being immersed in the water tank, his great interest in my abilities took over." He took two breaths and continued.
"Can you feel what I'm thinking exactly?" Miyano Atsushi asked gently.
Tokiwa Hiiragi shook his head.
"Let's try it. I'm thinking of a number. What do you think it is?" Miyano Atsushi paused. "Well, how about taking a break first?"
"What's the point of taking a break!" German Beer sneered, "They are just experiments, not people like us. Come on, little boy."
It was three. He was thinking three. Tokiwa Hiiragi thought calmly but did not say it out loud.
"I don't know, sir, I can't feel it." He shook his head like a rattle.
German Beer's eyes suddenly turned cold: "Are you sure?"
"Okay, then, one hundred and thirty-five seconds."
…
While suffocating, Shi Ting Shuu swore that he wanted to throw away his weapons and tell everyone what he knew several times, but the image of He Jingting lingered in front of his eyes.
He gritted his teeth, convinced that he must have accidentally inhaled water when he was suffocating. His body was dizzy, his lungs were aching, and his whole body was as cold as ice, but he had no strength to shiver.
"I say! I know! It's seven, it's nine, it's one!" He pretended to be overwhelmed, as if he wanted to say a number at random, hoping to get it right by accident.
But at this moment he was actually extremely calm.
It doesn't matter, just fool that idiot German beer guy.
The German beer squinted and examined it carefully, then shrugged.
"Well," he said, "it seems that this kid really doesn't understand - if you ask me, such a useless ability is useless."
Shi Ting Shu breathed steadily, narrowed his eyes and observed the blood not far away that had not yet been collected.
'Perhaps my medicine can enhance his abilities, and it may even be possible to use it without the aid of blood.'
Miyano Atsushi was thinking inwardly with a conflicted feeling.
'But... do we really need to use that bottle of red medicine on him?'
Through the blood, Shi Ting Shu saw where the bottle of medicine was. It was quietly placed on the table in the office of the Miyano couple, like an ordinary cocoa decoration.
He thought that if he got that bottle of medicine, it might really enhance his abilities.
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