Star City Academy.

At night, the moon was bright and the stars were sparse.

Mu Qing knelt down under the willow tree by the lake in front of the dormitory building, and played the harmonica quietly with her lips touching it.

The breeze brushed across her cheeks, blowing up a few strands of her hair.

As she played, Mu Qing's pupils turned into vertical pupils, and the rune crystals inlaid on her arms flickered.

She took a deep breath and tried to suppress her inner restlessness, but she couldn't help but think of the past, making it more difficult for her to control herself.

Her eyes gradually turned scarlet, and two small canine teeth appeared from the corners of her mouth.

Resisting the throbbing in her heart, Mu Qing showed a painful expression on her face, and her body curled up and began to tremble.

She was close to losing control again.

At this moment, Feng Qi, who had arrived as promised, appeared not far away.

Finding that Mu Qing seemed to be a little abnormal, he immediately stepped forward and came to her side:

"Senior sister, what's wrong with you?"

As he spoke, his hand pressed on Mu Qing's shoulder, and in an instant, a strong suction came from Mu Qing.

Because Mu Qing's mind was extremely disordered, the "nightmare" ability he had just acquired was automatically triggered at this moment, and many broken memory images emerged in his mind.

A little girl appeared in the picture. It can be seen that this little girl, who was about seven or eight years old, was Mu Qing. At this time, she was lying in front of a wooden bed, and she couldn't stop crying.

A swollen and black man was lying on the wooden bed. He reached out and grabbed the little girl's hand, and said with difficulty:

"Don't blame us, we have no way. You will go alone in the future. Sorry, I have to go to find my mother first... You have to learn to take care of yourself and must live strong."

Looking at the girl who was still crying, the man began to cough violently, and black blood flowed from the corners of his mouth. Then he picked up the harmonica beside him with difficulty and handed it to the little girl:

"This is the only thing your parents can leave you..."

"Mu Mu, don't be afraid, you will have the strength to stand up after you are full."

...

The picture in his mind flickered and jumped at this moment.

When the picture became clear again, the little girl was holding a few documents, timidly standing in the hall of the Xingcheng Civil Affairs Bureau, waiting silently.

"No. 024, handle business at window No. 3!" The electronic broadcast sounded throughout the hall of the Civil Affairs Bureau.

After hearing this, the little girl immediately trotted to the window, climbed onto the chair with some difficulty and sat down.

The staff at the window was very surprised to see that it was the little girl who came to handle the matter:

"Little friend, what can I do for you?"

"I'm here to apply for an orphan certificate." The little girl pursed her lips and said.

Looking at the surprise on the staff's face, the little girl took out the death certificates of her father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, and grandpa and grandmother in turn, and then said:

"I just went to apply for my father's death certificate. Now I have no relatives and need to be sent to an orphanage, so I came to apply for my own orphan certificate."

The picture in his mind made Feng Qi stunned.

She couldn't imagine how Mu Qing endured this dark moment at that time.

He suddenly felt very distressed for this strong girl.

"Now that I have applied for the orphan certificate, I am considered an adult and can take care of myself." At this time, the little girl timidly looked at the staff at the window and asked.

Hearing this, Feng Qi felt mixed emotions.

The resources in Star City are relatively sufficient, but also limited. When a child loses all his relatives and has no cash savings, he will lose the opportunity to get an education and be sent to an orphanage to be raised by the state.

When he turns thirteen, he needs to be self-reliant. The final way out is generally to become a low-level resident of Star City and do the hardest and most tiring work.

The reason why he can receive education is that his parents left him a legacy, and he does not need to run around for a living.

But orphans without cash savings are completely different. After getting an orphan certificate, they can see the end of their lives at a glance.

In response to Xiao Muqing's inquiry, the staff opened his mouth, squeezed a smile on his face and comforted:

"Well, after getting the orphan certificate, you are an adult."

The picture in his mind flickered and jumped again, and the scene changed. A tall woman in a black uniform appeared beside Xiao Muqing. She bent down and whispered in Muqing's ear:

"Their blood flows in your body. That is the result of our experiment, so you have to go back with me to continue to complete the subsequent experiments."

As she said that, she took Muqing's little hand and walked away step by step. At

that moment, Feng Qi could feel Mu Qing's inner resistance and struggle.

The scene suddenly interrupted at this moment, and then he felt a pain in his chest, and his body flew back several meters and fell heavily to the ground.

Feng Qi came to his senses and quickly stood up, barely avoiding the heavy punch that Mu Qing threw at him.

"Bang!" A dent was smashed into the ground.

"Senior sister!" He shouted hurriedly.

Hearing Feng Qi's shout, Mu Qing's face showed a struggling look. After standing there for a moment, she took a deep breath, and the scarlet light in her pupils slowly dissipated.

"I'm sorry." Mu Qing, who had recovered, seemed a little at a loss, and even dared not look at him.

During the days in the academy, Feng Qi was the only student who wanted to be friends with her.

But she knew that Feng Qi would soon be like other students in the academy, just avoiding her and even discriminating against her.

"I'm fine, next you should teach me how to play the harmonica." Feng Qi grinned and said indifferently.

Hearing this, Mu Qing looked up in disbelief:

"You... Aren't you afraid that I will lose control again?"

Looking at the dent on the ground, he pretended to be cool:

"No, do I look that weak? This punch is okay, it doesn't hurt much."

Mu Qing: ...

Looking at Mu Qing with a complicated expression, he smiled and said:

"Senior, you don't seem to be in a good condition today. Go back and have a good rest. I'll teach you harmonica next time. By the way, remember to have breakfast together tomorrow." Feng Qi grinned.

Mu Qing heard it, opened her mouth, and finally nodded with a complicated expression:

"Okay."

After Mu Qing walked away, Feng Qi rubbed his chest, making a "hissing" sound, and his expression finally couldn't hold it anymore.

The power of Mu Qing's punch was comparable to that of a prehistoric beast, and it hit his chest and almost beat his soul out of his body.

If his body hadn't been strengthened several times in the future dream, he would have been lying in the emergency room after being hit by this punch.

Lifting his clothes, he found that there were indeed bruises on his chest.

But the amazing thing is that these bruises are now fading at a speed visible to the naked eye.

He was not surprised by this, because his prefix title in the dream had changed from weak to "strong", and one of the abilities given by strong is to speed up the body's self-repair ability.

After staying there for a while, he turned and walked towards the dormitory building.

Recalling the scenes he saw in Mu Qing's broken memory, a fierce light flashed in his eyes.

Now he really wanted to know who the woman in black was.

Mu Qing became a rune-modified human, perhaps because she was used as an experimental subject by the woman in black.

He even thought that the cause of death of Mu Qing's parents might be caused by some evil human experiment.

He felt that he seemed to be one step closer to the truth.

Behind all this, perhaps there was a close connection with the "Scarlet Research Institute".