Chapter 126-125- You want to eat me?
It was a rainy night without a starry sky. Icy rain streamed through the screen of holographic advertisements, flowing through the cracks between buildings and into the deepest crevices of the city. On the lower streets, swarms of shuttles whizzed by, and passersby hurried by, holding transparent umbrellas. Puddles on the ground acted like mercury mirrors, reflecting the neon lights of the sky.
Soon, a boot crushed the neon. It was a member of the Guardian Corps, dressed in a white robe and a closed, fully reflective helmet. The body beneath the robe was not human, but a metal structure with gears and seams.
With a long black staff in his hand, he walked to one of the entrances to the hive and began knocking on the door of the nearest house.
The fierce knocking on the door continued for a long time, but the family still did not open the door. The priest stopped and the long staff in his hand shone. He pointed the long staff at the door, and with a bang, an invisible pulse sent the iron door flying, twisting and falling into the room.
The people inside the room screamed in panic: "What are you doing? This is my home! Do you have a search warrant?"
"The Guardian Corps is investigating. No search warrant is needed." The white-robed Guardian said coldly. Then, several policemen rushed in from outside and began to investigate the room.
After a while, he confirmed the homeowner's identity: "Although he is not a target, he has a criminal record and is a fugitive. Come with me honestly."
Soon, the householder was dragged out by the police. The white-robed priest nodded slightly and continued to search house by house. If the householder was not at home, or pretended to be away, he would break in and conduct a violent search.
This process soon continued to the first floor in a corner, but surprisingly, the door of the house was not closed properly and was open.
The white-robed priest walked in and searched all possible places where people might be hiding. He smashed any cabinets that could not be opened until the room was in a mess. After he was sure that there was no one else here and no information left, he turned and left.
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"There are so many people here." Liana, who was in disguise, sighed as she stood in a dark underground tunnel, hugging the sleeping Zero.
Yvette nodded and looked to the side. Under the dim yellow light of the underground corridor, a crowd of people stood densely packed. As the den of the Fusijiang slums, the Hive naturally had some well-known locations for locals to hide from the police, such as this underground corridor connected to the sewer, which was dug by an unknown person.
Due to pressure from the New Eden government, the Holy Spirit Cult's search for the two test subjects has become increasingly aggressive, even resorting to violent searches involving the Guardians and police. Yvette's primary goal is to drag things out. After all, President John and the Holy Spirit Cult's Pope have reached a secret, but traceable, agreement. This curfew only lasts about ten days. After those ten days, she can then take Zero and One to another city.
Yvette warned, "If anything happens, I will distract them. You move from here to the designated location."
This was the contingency plan she, Liana, and Firefly had finalized together. That is, Firefly would identify several suitable hiding places through investigation of the city map and sewer system. If the location was exposed, Yvette would break out violently on the ground to attract the attention of important figures such as Soul Fire Saint. Liana and Firefly would take Zero through the sewer to change hiding places.
Once it's safe, Yvette will find a way to escape and then reunite with them.
"It's too dangerous. Let's run together, sister." Liana said worriedly.
"It doesn't matter to me. The important thing is whether you can escape." Yvette smiled and ruffled her hair.
If she wanted to leave, she could just break through head-on, and no army or religious group at any checkpoint could stop her.
Moreover, the federal president will put pressure on Rustbones and the Holy Spirit Sect and reach an agreement with the Pope, nominally to rescue her as a "national hero". If she goes directly to the border, she will immediately receive protection from the New Eden government.
The only reason she was here was, of course, to ensure that Liana and Zero could escape safely.
As for observation and non-interference... I can only say that the butterfly effect has reached this point, and she no longer has such extravagant hopes.
Plans cannot keep up with changes!
"Sister..." Liana was a little moved. She stood on tiptoe and nudged Yvette's chin with her head.
Yvette smiled and lowered her head, then she saw Zero, who was sleeping in Liana's arms, suddenly raised his head and stared at her with lifeless dark red pupils, like a zombie who had just woken up from a coffin.
Liana reacted faster. She immediately raised her hand to cover Zero's eyes and gave Yvette a "reassuring" look.
Sure enough, after maintaining this state for a few seconds, Zero slowly lowered his head and fell asleep again.
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I don't know how long it was, a few hours, or maybe more than ten hours. When everyone in the basement was lying on the ground and sleeping without caring about the dirt, someone finally came in from the outside and announced that the people from the Guardians had completed the inspection and left, and everyone was safe.
After lining up, everyone returned to the surface. It was already dawn, either seven or eight in the morning. Not long after, a large number of curses were heard from the various rental houses in the Beehive. Apparently, many people found their homes in a mess, as if they had been ransacked.
"Cults are really scary." Yinghuo sighed.
It must be terrifying if even an intelligent AI calls it scary... Yvette thought to herself, and then worked with others to restore the messy interior.
I have to say that Liana is indeed a very capable and good child. She quickly restored most places to order. Her hands-on ability is far ahead of Firefly, not to mention the lazy Yvette.
In addition, they were all little blonde girls, and sometimes, when looking at her back, Yvette would occasionally have some hallucinations.
"Liana," she said suddenly.
"Huh? What's wrong, sister?" Liana was putting the things that fell out of the cabinet back. Hearing this, she turned her head and blinked her beautiful big eyes.
"Do you want to learn magic?" Yvette asked.
"She doesn't want to learn." A voice sounded next to her. Yvette turned her head and saw that Zero, who was thrown on the sofa, had opened his eyes at some point and was looking at her with a smile.
Asking someone, what are you going to answer? Yvette glanced at her, and then heard Liana say embarrassedly: "That... This is too difficult, sister... I can't learn it..."
"Have you learned it?" Yvette asked in surprise.
"Yvette taught me... but there are so many symbols, I can't remember them all..." Liana said with a bitter face.
Sure enough, there was a difference between the little blonde girl and the other blonde girl. Yvette nodded softly and said, "Okay, I understand."
But soon she thought of something and turned to look at Zero: "Where did you learn magic?"
She remembered that the Abyss Base didn't teach this kind of knowledge to the orphans participating in the Transformation Project, and there was no reason to teach it. They had escaped from the Abyss Base two years ago, and it had only been a little over two years. In that time, they had to hide, travel to various major cities, from Ish Island to the mainland, and then through New Eden, all the way to Rustbone...
During this period, what opportunities did Zero have to get in touch with the extremely high threshold of runeology?
"Call me sister and I can tell you." Zero looked at her teasingly.
Such rude remarks, before Yvette could respond, Liana beside her said unhappily: "Yvette, what are you talking about? How can you talk to your sister like that?"
Zero closed his eyes and fell asleep.
"There's no point in pretending to be asleep!" Liana walked over, pinched her soft cheeks, and pulled them repeatedly to deform them, but Zero pretended to be dead very thoroughly, and she would not do anything too extreme, so she could only give up in disappointment.
"She really wasn't like this before." Liana looked at Yvette a little embarrassedly, feeling like she had led someone else's sister astray.
"I know, she's just targeting me." Yvette nodded lightly.
"Why is this happening?" Yinghuo asked curiously. "Sister, do you think Yvette is blaming you for not saving her before, and is holding a grudge against you? I recently read a detective novel with a story like this: the protagonist's resentment for being abandoned by his family grows as he wanders the world, and eventually turns into a murder."
"Ah~" Liana showed a frightened expression.
"We can't rule out this possibility." Yvette stroked her chin and pondered.
"That's not the reason." After hearing the three people making up stories about him in front of him, Zero finally stopped pretending to be dead.
She opened her eyes and glared at Firefly. After a "fearful" expression appeared on Firefly's screen, she looked at Yvette and asked with a sneer, "If I tell you that if you eat me, you can know everything and get everything, will you do it?"
The air suddenly became quiet. Liana and Yinghuo stared at her blankly, not knowing what she was suddenly saying.
Yvette quickly realized something and said with a cold expression: "You want to eat me?"
She had no intention of eating Zero, not even the concept of eating him, so this must be Zero's "judging others by himself" due to his own reasons.
If this hypothesis is true, her behavior can naturally be explained - if in her eyes, someone is just a food, then of course she is unwilling to have a good relationship with that person. Otherwise, if she has a good impression of him, how can she bring herself to take action?
Even from Zero's perspective, this suspicion still exists. She might think that Yvette harbors the same evil intentions, which is why she suddenly appears and takes the initiative to contact them.
But surprisingly, Zero shook his head, smiled and said, "No, I'm just reminding you."
After saying that, she closed her eyes, leaned into Liana's arms, and fell asleep peacefully.
(End of this chapter)
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