Chapter 411 Nightmare, Farewell, Iceland Conference (asking for monthly ticket)
It was the early morning of August 29th, only two days before the Battle of Iceland began.
In a villa on the top of the snow-capped mountains, Xia Pingzhou opened his eyes from the bed. A warm fire was burning in the stove beside him, driving away the severe coldness of the snow-capped mountains.
The matches crackled, sending out scattered sparks.
He looked at the unfamiliar ceiling in silence for a while, then turned his head to look out the window. It was drizzling and the snow on the mountain was melting quietly in the rain.
Xia Pingzhou had another nightmare.
Rarely, he suddenly dreamed of the long-haired girl who always wore black and white school uniform and sat alone in the corner eating biscuits.
In his impression, Yan Molin was either sharpening a knife with her eyes downcast, or eating boring puffed biscuits and watching boring cartoons, making it impossible to tell what she was thinking.
On the night just a few days before her defection, the two of them were sitting in an underground bar in Haifan City, and she said, "I wish I could kill you."
At first, Xia Pingzhou didn't think there was anything to worry about the executioner's words, thinking that it was just her bad habit of sadism and killing that had struck again.
What's there to understand about a madman? Trying to understand their worldview will only lead you astray.
But in the past few days, he suddenly remembered that Yan Molin once told him that the souls of the people she killed would be locked in her Tianqu, chattering to her day and night, and she would be able to hear it even if she covered her ears.
Logically speaking, this is indeed the retribution that the executioner deserves, but considering what he said that day, could it be that Yan Molin wanted to kill him and keep his soul in Tianqu to accompany her?
Xia Pingzhou looked at the gray-blue sky washed by the rain, and suddenly closed his eyes in the crackling sound of the fire.
He thought to himself, after all, this female devil who kills without blinking has to face the curses of those strange souls in the knife every time she opens her eyes, so it is normal for her to feel pain.
When a man is about to die, his words are good. It is because he knows that his life is about to end this year that he subconsciously thinks about pursuing other things.
So even a hopeless madman like Yan Molin, cursed by fate, would think of taking possession of a familiar soul after knowing that he was about to die.
She hoped that amidst the tiring curses, she could hear a familiar voice saying something different to her. That way, at least the voice she heard in her mind wouldn't be one-sided abuse and curses.
Maybe in Yan Molin's imagination, there is someone who complains about her daily life and little thoughts in an emotionless voice, and that person's voice may make her ignore everything else.
When the day of her death comes, she will slowly close her eyes in the sound of that man's voice until her body becomes cold and loses consciousness, as if she is dying with that soul.
That's why she said that to him seemingly casually at that time.
"If only I could kill you..."
Thinking of this, Xia Pingzhou suddenly felt a chill and goosebumps almost appeared.
This person is so twisted and sick from beginning to end, and she never changes. Maybe killing her in advance would be a relief for her.
After all, she only had one year left to live, but during this year she had to accept the judgment from those who had died day and night.
Isn't this a form of torture?
After a while, Xia Pingzhou turned his eyes away from the rain outside the window and stopped trying to figure out the thoughts of a madman. Instead, he got up from the bed and put on his indoor shoes.
Amid the sound of dripping rain, he moved forward, turned on the bedroom light, pushed open the door, and came to the living room on the third floor.
The living room was empty, but there was a figure on the rooftop connected to the living room. Xia Pingzhou looked up at the woman in a red dress who was sitting on the rooftop drinking wine.
"Having a nightmare again?"
The blood descendant turned his head, with his back to the hazy rain, and smiled at him.
"What do you mean by 'having a nightmare again'?" Xia Pingzhou took a sip of water from his cup and asked slowly, "Have I ever told you before that I often have nightmares?"
The Blood Descendant covered his mouth with his hand, looking away as if something had slipped up. He chuckled and said, "The eldest lady said that you often have nightmares and wake up in the middle of the night, especially during heavy rain... So once it rains, no matter how sleepy she is, she will wake up and seal the windows with paper to prevent you from waking."
She paused and said, "Don't look at her as if she is a heartless paper figure. In fact, she still cares about you very much in her heart."
"She herself has nightmares every day, how dare she say that to me?" Xia Pingzhou said without hesitation, "Also... I don't think the young lady and you have such a close relationship that she would tell you this."
"Of course the eldest lady wouldn't tell me, but she told the Ripper's sister, and then I happened to hear it."
"Eavesdropping on other people's conversations is not a good habit."
"You, a traitor, have no right to say that." The Blood Descendant walked into the living room against the wind and rain and sat down on the sofa. "So, after spending so much time with the Ripper's sister, your opinion of her hasn't changed?"
"What's there to change?" Xia Pingzhou said expressionlessly. "You're both the same, murderous female demons with unnatural worldviews. The only difference is that you've lived too long and become indifferent to human life, while she's because of her childhood experiences."
"How sanctimonious," the Blood Descendant said, clasping his hands together and smiling. "No wonder he didn't hesitate to chop off her head."
"If I hesitate for even a second, it would be disrespectful to the parents of this body."
"This body?"
"Just ignore me."
"By the way, why don't you go meet the young lady before we go to the Salvation Society headquarters?" The Blood Descendant said, "If you delay any longer, you won't have the chance."
"I suggest you take care of yourself, Theresa," Xia Pingzhou said indifferently. "If we fail, you will never see 1001 again."
"You're really awkward sometimes, like a child. When you talk about the people or things you care about, you'll be eager to change the subject, as if you're afraid that others won't know that you care about them."
"I'm just a kid."
"So you don't deny that you care about her?"
Xia Pingzhou was silent.
The Blood Descendant suddenly curled her lips. "In my eyes, you are indeed a child. After all, you are only 19 years old." She spread her hands. "But from other people's perspective, isn't it a bit pretentious for a 19-year-old to call himself a child?"
"In the eyes of 1001, you are also a child." Xia Pingzhou poured a glass of ice orange juice and said expressionlessly.
"How wonderful is that?" The Blood Descendant tilted his head. "You all treat me like an old woman, but he treats me like a child."
"I have goosebumps..." Xia Pingzhou said unhappily, "I was just thirsty in the middle of the night and came out to drink a glass of water. If there's nothing else, I'll go back to sleep."
"Black Pupa," the Blood Descendant thought for a moment, "I want to ask him about his affairs. What is he doing now?"
"He... is traveling with a little girl." Xia Pingzhou answered casually.
"The war with the Savior Society is about to start in a few days. He's really scheming." The Blood Clan tilted his head. "He's still bringing a little girl with him at this hour. Isn't he afraid that she'll get dragged into the Savior Society's affairs?"
"That's why I brought her with me because I was worried."
"Why?"
"Because he feels that his side is the safest place in the world," said Xia Pingzhou.
"As expected of our elusive intelligence dealer, Mr. Black Pupa, he's so confident," the Bloodline said sarcastically, "So when can we finally meet him?"
"Don't worry, you'll see me in two days."
"Has 1001 contacted you?"
Xia Pingzhou picked up the puffed biscuits on the table, tore open the package, and nibbled a piece. Then he said calmly, "So you asked so many insignificant people just to cover it up, so that your inquiries about 1001's recent situation wouldn't seem so deliberate."
"You discovered all this."
"But that's normal. After all, only Black Pupa can contact 1001. You're right to pay so much attention to Black Pupa." Xia Pingzhou said, biting the biscuit into pieces and swallowing it.
"So he's in this city?"
"That's right."
After Xia Pingzhou finished speaking, he slowly walked onto the rooftop and turned his head to look at Reykjavik shrouded in rain. The Pearl Tower was shining brightly, like a giant colorful glass ball.
At this moment, in Reykjavik, in a seafood restaurant by the harbor that is open until late at night.
The restaurant was brightly lit, standing like a lantern in the rain, with the blue-green light spilling into the room. At this moment, two figures were sitting at the bar, with fragrant mutton soup, a bowl of crab roe pasta, and a serving of dried fish on the table.
"Is it delicious?"
Gu Wenyu held his chin with his hand and rested his elbow on the table, and asked curiously to the girl with a high ponytail next to him.
"Delicious." Su Zimai asked suspiciously while eating crab roe pasta, "Brother, how did you know there is such delicious food here? Have you ever secretly come to Iceland before?"
"Xizel told me," Gu Wenyu said, "He's only been here two or three days, and he and that stinky shark have already eaten everything in the city. Impressive, isn't it?"
"Oh...it's that little white-haired kid." Su Zimai suddenly realized.
Gu Wenyu said helplessly, "Can you please not use the same nickname when calling Xizel and Yuriel? It makes me look very perverted."
"Please, at first I also thought that the person Big Brother liked was that little brat from Weird News. I was so shocked that my worldview was almost distorted, and I even started to doubt my life." Su Zimai sighed.
Hearing this, Gu Wenyu couldn't help but chuckle.
"As expected of our diaper devil, he has such a rich imagination," he said.
"By the way, brother, what type of girls do you like?" Su Zimai suddenly asked.
"Why do you ask that?"
"I just felt a little emotional after learning that Big Brother liked someone from Hongyi," Su Zimai said calmly, "so I wanted to know what type you like?"
Gu Wenyu thought for a moment, "How can I have time to think about these things? If I don't rescue my original body, I'm doomed. Do you understand the sense of crisis?"
"Oh yeah... I almost forgot you said you were just a twelve-year-old elementary school student." Su Zimai suddenly thought of something, so she glanced at him smugly, covering her mouth with her hands and chuckling, "Elementary school students should study hard and make progress every day. Sister will introduce you to someone later."
Gu Wenyu rolled his eyes at her, curled his lips and said nothing more. He turned his head and stared at the rain outside the store in a daze.
In the two days after arriving in Iceland on that plane, he had been taking Su Zimai around Reykjavik. It would be more accurate to say that Su Zimai forced him to do so.
Sometimes they would go to see the famous local attractions, sometimes to try the local delicacies, sometimes to take a boat ride to see the sea, and even go to the snow-capped mountains for a stroll. However, if they met Unit 2 on the snow-capped mountains, it would definitely be very embarrassing.
Gu Wenyu found it hard to imagine the scene of two machines appearing in front of his sister at the same time after he confessed to her.
Rather, he thought Su Zimai would be furious, so he decided to give up and told Su Zimai that the snowy mountain was off-limits and there was a possibility of an avalanche. Su Zimai was obedient and just nodded, saying that he would not go.
"I'm very happy." Su Zimai suddenly said, bringing Gu Wenyu back to his senses.
He raised his eyebrows, looked away from the rain outside the window, and turned to look at Su Zimai's profile.
"What?"
"I'm so happy to be able to travel with you," Su Zimai said. "It feels like I haven't felt this way in a long time since Mom passed away."
"Those are all fake memories," Gu Wenyu said. "In fact, I don't even exist in your life."
"Even if the memory is fake, my feelings are not fake." Su Zimai lowered his head and pursed his lips.
Gu Wenyu thought for a moment, then said, "Feelings based on false memories are also false... If it were 1001, he would answer you like this."
"What is 1001? Could he understand me better than I do?" Su Zimai frowned.
Gu Wenyu was silent for a moment, then shrugged his shoulders. "Whatever you want."
"How long...will we stay here?" Su Zimai suddenly asked.
"In two days, I will go to Hofs Glacier and meet Dad and the others."
"Then I want to go too." Su Zimai said decisively.
"No, you have to stay here." Gu Wenyu shook his head and said firmly, "When I'm done, I'll send a message to your team leader and ask her to pick you up."
"Then why on earth did you bring me here?"
Gu Wenyu said frankly: "I'm worried that they won't come to help me. I can't do this alone; but if they are worried about you, they will definitely come. Doesn't it sound despicable?"
"Then you are wrong. Even if you didn't take me away, they would definitely come to Iceland to look for you."
"What if?"
"You really underestimate your position in their hearts."
"Actually, I never considered you as family. I was just collaborating with you, so I didn't expect you to really treat me as family."
Gu Wenyu paused, lowered his eyes and said, "I've helped you so much, it's not too much to ask for rewards now, right?"
"You don't need to explain so much."
"Yeah, I won't explain next time."
Su Zimai was silent for a moment, then looked into his eyes and asked, "Do you want to hear me scold you?"
"Go ahead and scold me." Gu Wenyu said nonchalantly, "You scolding me a few times will make me feel better.
"How can I bear to scold you, you fool."
Su Zimai suddenly took his hand and pulled him up from the bar. She placed a stack of banknotes on the table, said to the owner in her broken English, "No need for change," and then pulled Gu Wenyu out of the room.
"Are you having a brain seizure again? It's raining."
"What's wrong with this little rain?"
Su Zimai and Gu Wenyu walked on the long street. Pedestrians in raincoats hurried past them. The two of them walked one after the other in the drizzle.
Gu Wenyu was too lazy to say anything. They were all superhumans and wouldn't catch a cold or anything if they got caught in the rain occasionally.
I heard that many people in Northern Europe don't use umbrellas when it rains lightly, and it seems to be true. But Gu Wenyu didn't have time to care about the people on the street. His eyes were fixed on the back of the girl with a high ponytail.
She held his hand and walked lightly in the rain, occasionally looking up at the sky, then turning her head to look at the sea in the distance, but she never looked back at him.
If it were anyone else, Gu Wenyu would definitely ask, "Why are you dragging me out for a stroll when it's raining? Are you crazy?" But this is Su Zimai, his sister, and she always does such nonsensical things.
After a long while, Su Zimai suddenly turned around and let go of Gu Wenyu's hand.
Through the rain, she stared into his eyes quietly.
The two stood on the deserted street, looking at each other silently, as the rain fell heavier and heavier.
"Brother, come back safely." Su Zimai suddenly hugged Gu Wenyu and whispered in his ear.
She lowered her eyes and whispered, "Please don't make me sad a second time..."
New York, USA, at the base of the Empire State Building, in the Rainbow Wing dedicated conference room.
At this moment, the six members of Hongyi were gathered here, sitting in different corners around a round table.
"Li Qing Zhi Zhou" Fan Dongqing was still dressed in white and had long black hair, while "Liushao" Ke Qingzheng had neat short hair and wore frameless glasses;
The "Princess" Alexandra wore a silver-white bun and sapphire earrings, and the "Arms Girl" Ninety-Nine had pink twintails, a military uniform, and a military cap.
"Gothic Doll" Esther wore a black Gothic skirt, had black hair and red eyes, and her pupils glowed with an evil light in the darkness. "Overloader" Garfield had blue hair and wore a black sweater.
But the "Ice Girl" Uriel is not here, because she has already gone to the capital of Iceland.
At this time, at the very end of the conference room, Hongyi's commander "Chen Qian" was sitting at the conference table, looking down at the tablet in his hand.
"That's the thing," Chen Qian said. "Although the credibility of the intelligence source is not high and the identity of the black pupa is unknown... even so, this is the only clue we have. We have no right and no reason to miss this opportunity."
Garfield thought for a moment, then asked, "Did he approach Yuriel because Yuriel and Gu Qiye are more familiar with each other?"
"Yes, this is most likely the reason." Chen Qian nodded while looking at the information.
"What else could it be?" Alexandra smiled, her chin in her hand, her earrings swaying slightly. "Our Ice Girl is completely captivated by the Blue Arc."
"I'm more curious about why the black pupa is still alive." Fan Dongqing hugged his shoulders and yawned.
"Some time ago, they said that black thing was dead." Arms Girl Ninety-Nine said, "You people are really short-sighted."
As she spoke, she glanced around with disdain, her gaze lingering on the faces of Fan Dongqing, Ke Qingzheng, and Garfield for a second, as if she wanted to see their expressions of being choked.
But the three of them looked calm, as if the matter had nothing to do with them.
At that time, Jiujiu and Alexandra were trapped by the black pupa in an independent space created by Urushihara Ruri's special ability, while Esther stayed in Osaka to protect the city and prevent the sudden attack of the light-eating bees.
Therefore, the three of them were unable to see the situation on the front battlefield.
Afterwards, Fan Dongqing, Ke Qingzheng, and Garfield, three members of the Rainbow Wing who were on the front line of the battlefield, reported that Black Pupa had died in the explosion, which was caused by the self-destruction of the Mechanical Buddha. The Puppet Father, Oda Hideo, and Kalina all died at the hands of the enemy, and Urushihara Ruri's whereabouts were unknown.
Fan Dongqing shrugged, turned to the pink-haired girl and said, "Are you annoying, pink-haired? How do we know he faked his death, but he acted it out like it was real."
Ke Qingzheng adjusted the glasses on his nose and said, "He even deceived his own people, so it's normal for him to deceive us."
"Alright, my judgment was flawed." Garfield was the only one who admitted his mistake. "It's impossible for someone who can kill the Queen Bee to die so easily."
Ninety-nine snorted coldly, "Really?"
At this moment, the Gothic doll Esther, who had been taking a nap with her eyes closed, suddenly opened her eyes, turned her crimson eyes to look at the commander, and asked her quietly:
"Little thing, don't you think this is their trap?"
Chen Qian shook her head and replied, "Even if this is really a deliberate bait thrown by the other party, we have to take it because there are no other clues. Do you understand?"
"Although I don't approve of your actions, you're the commander, and there's nothing I can do about it." Esther said, yawning and covering her mouth. "Where is the location?"
"Iceland."
After Chen Qian finished speaking, a map suddenly appeared on the projection screen in the conference room, showing the landmark of Hofs Glacier and a panoramic view from above.
Fan Dongqing leaned his head against the back of his chair and turned to look at the map coordinates on the projection screen. "Iceland, I haven't been there for a long time. I remember the seafood there was pretty good."
"By the way, the Uriel people are already in Iceland," said Chen Qian.
"Isn't it dangerous for Baimao to go alone?" Fan Dongqing raised his eyebrows.
Alexandra teased, "Maybe he's anxious to see his renegade lover?"
Garfield said coldly, "White Hair didn't go to Hofsjokull alone, but to Reykjavik. That's her hometown. She often goes back there after work. There's nothing strange about that."
Ke Qingzheng adjusted his glasses and said expressionlessly, "She's still under observation, so she can't participate in combat meetings like us... But when the battle really starts, we'll still need her fighting power."
"It's exactly what Ke Qingzheng said, so... let's start preparing. We have to set off today and arrive in Iceland before the 30th. Once we get there, we'll have two days to relax."
After saying that, Chen Qian put away the documents and looked at the six people at the table.
"It's been one mission after another lately," Garfield said numbly, pulling at the collar of his black sweater to cover his mouth. "I've only had a few days off. If this keeps up, I'm going to become the next puppet father."
"We are the same, aren't we? What are you complaining about?" Jiujiu said, and hit him on the head with a chestnut viciously.
"Let's go... to Iceland. I can't wait to see that traitor again."
After saying that, Fan Dongqing was the first to stand up from his chair, put his hands in his pockets, and walked towards the elevator without looking back.
(End of this chapter)
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