Chapter 130 Will Win (5K)
Ina didn't expect to see Jellal at a time like this.
Although she had seen him yesterday, in her eyes, that was not Jellal yesterday, but just a demon that occupied Jellal's body.
And now, she looked at Jellal sitting in the corner of the alley, his face full of fatigue, but he was forcing himself to look at her. The memory fragments of Jellal forcing himself to talk to her every time he finished work as a child came to her mind uncontrollably, telling her that this was Jellal himself.
This is her "father".
"Are you... okay?"
She couldn't help but ask out loud, just like she did many years ago.
Then she felt a little dazed because it felt like she hadn't spoken to Gerard like this for a long, long time.
Jellal obviously had similar feelings. Ina could clearly see his fingers twitching unconsciously, and his steel-like expression softened a lot at this moment.
"I'm fine, Ina."
Jellal wanted to make Ina smile, but failed. After trying for a long time, he could only twitch the corners of his mouth.
"You don't look very well." Ina said.
"Haha, is that so?" Gerard said dryly.
Then the father and daughter fell into silence again.
It had been so long since they had had a conversation like this.
The last time I remember was ten years ago.
Ina was still very young at that time and had an older brother by her side, and Jellal did not lead his team into the bottomless abyss.
"I'm sorry." Ina said suddenly.
"What?" Gerald was a little unresponsive.
"I left you back then." Ina looked at Gerald and said softly, "You took my brother and I out of the orphanage and gave us a new life, but I...left when you needed me the most."
"You just want to find out the truth of what happened back then." Gerald said, "If you continue to stay by my side, you won't be able to join the Devil Army. I understand that, so you don't need to apologize..."
"No, that's just an excuse." Ina's tone gradually became excited, "It's just a response to my own excuses. I just can't bear those..."
"That's enough, Ina." Jellal interrupted Ina, looking into her eyes and said softly, "You didn't do anything wrong, really."
After hearing what Gerald said, Ina slowly calmed down. Then she smiled bitterly and said, "You are still the same, you have always been like this, but I thought you had changed."
"Okay." Gerald said, "Let's not talk about the past anymore, at least not now. We have more important things to do now, don't we?"
He paused, trying to make a joke in a lighthearted tone.
"Think about it, there are still Skeleton Knights out there hunting me down. Isn't it inappropriate to reminisce about the past at this time? Reminiscing about the past requires coffee and bread, not... um, a black iron rod. How does that saying go?"
Looking at Jellal's slightly embarrassed expression, Ina sighed softly.
"You are still the same as before, not suitable for telling jokes."
But this cheap joke still eased the atmosphere between the two of them, and made Ina realize that this was indeed not a good time to reminisce about the past.
Right now, they have more troublesome things to deal with.
"I know why you came to see me." Ina said.
Gerald was a little surprised: "You actually knew that?"
"Yes, I have understood it. That thing in your body, right?" Ina narrowed her eyes, recalling the scene of yesterday afternoon, and said seriously, word by word, "I will help you defeat it... No, I will help you kill it, father."
After hearing what Ina said, Jellal was stunned for a moment, and then he couldn't help but stroke his forehead: "Uh no, he's not that easy to kill... I mean, he's not very important... No, that's not what I meant. Don't look at me like that. I'm not schizophrenic."
Jellal took a deep breath and then regained his seriousness.
"Yina, I came to you not just because you are my daughter, but because of your identity." He said slowly, "We are facing a bigger trouble now."
…
"Stop." A dull sound came from under the heavy mask. Yuri, who was walking in the front of the team, gestured and gave orders to his teammates, "Record the coordinates, check the pollution concentration, and start searching after confirming that it is correct."
No one in the team spoke, they just responded to his orders with actions in silence.
They had reached the edge of the abyss.
In fact, there is no need to specifically check the pollution concentration.
Because of the detector in his hand, the crystal on the top used to detect pollution had turned a deep black.
This indicates that the pollution concentration has exceeded the standard.
But they still came in, wearing all the protective equipment.
No one knows how useful these protective equipment are.
But they had no choice. The orders coming from the rear were becoming more and more direct. As the captain, he had no way to refuse and could only be cautious.
After the pollution concentration and coordinates were determined, Yuri gave the order: "Begin exploration, time limit is fifteen minutes, evacuate after fifteen minutes."
Then the team members scattered and disappeared one by one in the thick fog, as if they were swallowed by the abyss.
This sense of déjà vu made Yuri very uncomfortable. He shook his head, trying his best not to think about those things, and then began to explore.
The abyss is like a huge cemetery.
The pollutants that linger here are basically large or super-large.
But they have no desire to attack or even move.
Most of them curled up there like corpses, allowing their bodies to rot bit by bit without any movement.
It was as if the previous rampage was just an illusion.
If these super-large pollutants are made into source oil, how long can they last for Tianqin City to use?
Yuri thought about this question, and then the words he heard yesterday during the pollution process involuntarily popped up in his mind.
“The source is pollution!”
Yuri still remembers these words.
What does this mean?
What is the source? Is it the source oil?
Source oil is indeed precipitated from pollutants, but the moment it becomes source oil, shouldn’t it lose its polluting properties?
Could it be that...
Yuri felt a little heavy-hearted. Although everything he saw and heard in a polluted situation should not be believed, it was difficult for Yuri not to care.
Why is it this sentence?
As he was walking, he suddenly stopped, staring straight ahead, his breathing almost stagnant.
Because in front of him stood a fully armed man.
But it was not the attire of the devil's army, but... Evening Star.
The Knight of the Evening Star?!
He was contaminated again?!
Yuri immediately reached for the emergency device around his neck and found that it was still working properly.
...Strange, he was still aware of the emergency device, which should mean that he was not contaminated.
What's going on?
Before Yuri could figure it out, he heard footsteps. He raised his head suddenly and found that the Knight of Evening Star was walking towards him.
He immediately put his hand on the flaming sword, but he didn't know if this sword would work on the guy from ten years ago.
The Knight of the Evening Star was still advancing toward him, his footsteps pounding like the seconds of a clock.
Yuri gripped the flaming sword tighter.
Logically speaking, he should retreat quickly at this time. No matter what the other party is, he should not have direct contact with him.
However, when he thought of the corpse shouting "Run" to him yesterday, he stopped thinking about retreating and looked straight at the other party.
Then, the Knight of the Evening Star stood before him.
A dull and hoarse voice came from the old mask: "Are you... reinforcements?"
Reinforcements?
Is he looking for reinforcements?
Yuri thought quickly, but for a man who should have died ten years ago, many behavioral logics could not be directly applied, so he asked cautiously: "Why do you want to ask for reinforcements?"
"What are you looking for?" The Knight of the Evening Star tilted his head, seeming a little confused. "Ah, what are you looking for?"
I also began to ponder.
He doesn't look very clear-headed. Has he been completely contaminated?
Yuri asked calmly, "Yeah, you're looking for reinforcements, you have to do something for that, right?"
"What to do, what to do..."
The Knight of Evening Star kept repeating Yuri's words, as if that was all he knew how to say.
There seems to be no more sanity.
Yuri began to slowly draw out the flaming sword.
Then, Yuri saw him raise his head suddenly, and the movement was so big that it seemed as if his neck would be broken.
"Ah! I remember now." He said, "We have found the target object, but we can't get it back. We need to find reinforcements and ask them to get it back."
Yuri's heart paused.
Found the target! ?
What target?!
Is it the same thing they are looking for?
Yuri immediately asked: "What is it? Where is it?!"
"What...where is it..."
He began to repeat these two sentences again.
But Yuri already knew that he would answer, so he didn't rush to ask him, but waited quietly.
Sure enough, he quickly reported a coordinate, which should be the location of that thing.
But he couldn't say what that thing was exactly.
After saying the coordinates, he became more anxious than before, and his whole body became agitated at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"Reinforcements, reinforcements," he murmured, "I can't hold on any longer, I can't hold on any longer..."
"Who can't hold on anymore?" Yuri asked again.
"Who's going to be unable to hold on?"
The other party repeated the question again, appearing very confused.
He couldn't answer this question either.
Yuri could see that the knight's thinking and memory were very disordered. He only knew that he had to find reinforcements and bring them to that coordinate.
But he couldn't tell what was in those coordinates and what couldn't hold on.
It feels like... a fragmented memory.
Yuri looked into the other's eyes under the mask and asked one last question: "Who are you?"
This question instantly quieted him down.
"who I am?"
"Yes." Yuri vaguely realized that he had asked the most crucial question, "Who are you?"
He stood there quietly, without any reaction, as if he was dead.
But soon, Yuri saw liquid flowing out from under his mask.
Is this... tears?
Is he crying?
Yuri was dazed for a moment, and then the other party suddenly moved.
He ran in the direction Yuri came from.
Yuri reacted quickly and grabbed his hand immediately.
However, he caught nothing but air.
Yuri was stunned.
Is this... a phantom?
Seeing the other party disappear from sight, Yuri hurriedly chased after him.
But when he turned around a white fog, all he saw was a group of devil knights who had been waiting for a long time. After seeing Yuri, they immediately came forward.
"Captain, where have you been?!"
"What took so long?"
Yuri immediately asked, "Did you see a man running over? Wearing the uniform of the Evening Star!"
The Devil Knights looked at each other. Even though they were all wearing masks, they seemed to be able to see the seriousness in each other's eyes under the masks.
Is the captain also... infected?
But at this moment, a devil knight stood up and said nervously: "Captain, I seem to have encountered it too, but I don't know if it was an illusion. He said something to me and then disappeared."
Sure enough, someone saw it!
Yuri immediately turned to look at him: "What did he say?"
"He said..." The Devil Knight took a deep breath and tried to suppress the fear in his heart, but his voice still trembled a little. "He said his name is Gerard."
Gerald?!
Everyone was stunned.
At this time, another knight stood up.
"I, I met him too." He was also very nervous. "He didn't say who he was, he just kept repeating the same sentence."
"What?"
"My son... is still waiting for me."
…
After listening to Gerald's story, Ina felt like her breathing was about to stop.
What did she hear?
A new god appeared in the body of Lyra, and the new god wanted to take the throne by killing Lyra?
And the so-called New-Chasing Society are the supporters of the New God?
Now they are almost successful. Even Bishop Holman, one of the five archbishops, died in this way?
The city of Lyra was built on the body of the Lyra god.
Now Lyra is in a deep sleep and cannot wake up, and Gerard went to the station this morning in order to wake Him up by directly stimulating Lyra's body.
All of this was so fantastic that Ina thought it was a lame story made up by Gerard more than ten years ago to put her to sleep.
But, it’s not completely lame, because there are many things that Ina herself is not aware of.
For example, if Jellal hadn't mentioned the image of Lyra, even she, a member of the devil army, would have forgotten it.
No wonder, Gerard said that the thing in his body was not something particularly important.
Compared to Tianqin, schizophrenia is indeed not worth worrying about.
"This is really... hard to imagine." Ina said softly.
"It seems you are willing to believe me."
"Although I don't want to believe it," Ina said with a wry smile, "but my intuition tells me that this is true."
She paused, then looked directly at Jellal.
"Have you been dealing with this alone? For ten years?"
Gerard shook his head: "No, it wasn't that long. I only found out about these things after I came back."
"So how did you realize that?"
"This... I can't tell you." Jellal said softly, "I'm sorry, Ina, at least not now."
Ina realized that this might be related to the other personality, so she nodded slightly: "I understand, so what are you going to do now?"
"The new god intends to kill Tianqin in her sleep." Gerard slowly told Bai Wei what he had told him. "If Tianqin could wake up earlier, there might be room for mediation."
"Wake up Tianqin?" Ina asked, "That's what you did this morning. I also heard the sound, but it didn't seem to work."
"Because the part exposed in the station is not the core part." Even Jellal's expression was a little strange when he talked about his own god like this, "So that part is not so... direct. The core part of the Lord is in the five towers."
"I see." Ina said, "But you can't get into those towers. They are too heavily guarded, right?"
Jellal nodded.
"So the reason you came to me is because you want to set your next target... in District 5?" Ina understood. "The sub-towers in District 4 have been damaged. Among the remaining districts, the Skeleton Army and the New Society control three districts, which are not so easy to enter. But District 5 is different. District 5 is controlled by the Devil Army. You hope to use my identity to enter District 5, right?"
Jellal was somewhat surprised that Ina could figure everything out so quickly, and his gaze towards Ina changed.
It's just like Ian back then.
She was indeed no longer a child.
A complex emotion rose in Jellal's heart, but he couldn't tell whether it was relief or something else.
"Yes." Gerard put these thoughts aside first, and then slowly said, "Operations in the Fifth District rely on passes, and the Skeleton Force will not search there, so... I need your help."
As soon as Jellal finished speaking, he saw Ina had handed the pass to him, and he was stunned.
He originally thought he would have to say something more before Ina would agree.
And Ina also saw what Gerald was thinking, she said softly: "I couldn't believe you ten years ago, but this time, I won't."
Gerard twitched his lips slightly, as if he was smiling.
He was about to take the pass, but Ina took it back: "But I have two requests."
"What do you want?"
"First, you have to take me with you."
Gerard's brows immediately frowned.
"Please promise me." Ina said calmly, "Ten years ago you took my brother with you. Ten years later, I hope you will take me with you... No matter what happens, I don't want to be left alone."
Jellal looked at Ina in silence, and Ian's appearance reappeared in his mind.
He sighed softly: "Okay."
Ina pursed her lips, as if relieved, and then said: "The second request is the one in your body... I know you don't care, but he is not a trivial matter. After everything is over, I will find the purification source crystal and help you get rid of that guy. I hope you can cooperate with me."
"How should I cooperate?"
"Before I find the Purification Source Crystal." Ina looked into Jellal's eyes, pleading, "Please hold on... don't lose to him."
After a long silence.
Jellal said with a chuckle.
"Don't worry."
"I will win."
(End of this chapter)
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