The blind boy shivered and crawled backwards, and did not stop until his back touched the table and candlestick.
The burning candle rolled down from the table, and when the hot wax was about to drip onto his face, No. 3 stretched out his hand to block his head.
"answer my question."
No. 3 felt no pain. His ordinary face was very close to the boy. No matter what the boy did now, it was impossible to escape under his eyes.
"Ah, ah..." The boy faltered, reaching for his throat. No. 3 opened the boy's mouth and discovered that the back half of his teeth were connected to an iron block that could block his throat.
The children who work in this "Hope Pharmacy" do not need eyes and mouths. Even if they hear the "boss"'s instructions, they cannot reveal the secret.
After removing the iron block, the boy lay on the ground gasping for breath. The first thing he did after regaining his strength was to crawl towards the middle-aged man's body, pick up the knife and stab the man's chest fiercely.
After taking revenge on the other party, he also touched the middle-aged man's wound with his hand, "appreciating" his "work" in this way.
Spitting out the blood in his mouth, the boy threw away the knife and stood blankly in front of the clay sculpture: "My name is Xin. Of the nine children who were deceived, I am the only one who survived."
It seemed that because he hadn't spoken for a long time, his voice was choppy and uncomfortable.
"My parents and younger brother are both survivors who fled to the new city. We thought this was a paradise, but after we took root, we discovered that this was only a paradise for some people."
"My father and mother lived a cautious life, and I often looked down on them. I used to think he was embarrassing, but now I realize what a hateful bad boy I am. In order for my brother and I to enter the Midtown area, they went together to a building occupied by ghosts.
Stealing cursed objects.”
"A fluke success doesn't mean anything. They left one morning and never came back."
"The members of the escort team who arranged for the survivors to go out to scavenge knew about my family's situation. In view of the contribution of my parents, the deputy captain took us into Zhongcheng District."
"But the beautiful life he imagined did not begin. He sold my brother and I to a 'store'. After the 'store' lost its value, we were sold to a 'pharmacy'."
"I lost my eyes in the drugstore. You all saw what happened next. I became a clerk in the drugstore, responsible for preparing the sacrifices needed for the sacrificial ceremony in the dark cave."
The boy's voice became more and more fluent. Even if he encountered such a horrific thing, he still did not give up hope of living.
"You still haven't answered me a question." No. 3 wiped off the solidified wax on the back of his hand, then locked his fingers on the boy's neck: "What is the most regretful thing you have ever done?"
"What I regret most is that I didn't stop my parents that morning a few years ago. If they were still here, the tragedy that followed probably wouldn't have happened." The boy had no intention of struggling at all, he was like a chopping block.
A fish slaughtered by the previous man.
"Are you sure?" No. 3 asked again, as if this question was very critical.
"Of course." The boy nodded hard.
Seeing that he was so sure, No. 3 took out the notebook from his pocket: "You regret not stopping your parents, but don't you regret that you have always made them sad? Don't you regret selling your brother to the businessman of the escort? Don't you regret that you sold your brother to the guard's businessman?
Sacrifice your soul to the evil god in the drugstore? Don’t you regret killing eight other children with your own hands in order to survive in the drugstore?”
Every time No. 3 said a word, the boy's face turned livid. He thought that after the middle-aged man died, no one would know what he had done before. Unexpectedly, No. 3 and No. 2 would investigate everything clearly.
Clearly.
"The harder you struggle, the more fate will lead you into a darker place. You are the most pitiful, despicable, desperate, and least worthy of sympathy child." No. 3 closed the note and turned to No. 2.
Said: "We found it."
"That's right, I can't see clearly the fate of this child. In the memory world of the shrine, only people related to happiness will be in this situation." No. 2's hand touched the boy's eye socket, and all the invisible chains on the boy's body broke.
, his original destiny trajectory was forcibly changed by No. 2.
"I don't know what you are talking about? I admit that I have done some bad things, but it was just because I wanted to live! How can you young masters who live in the sun understand the life of street children in the outer city?"
The blind boy was exposed and became emotional.
"Are we children living in the sun?" No. 3 and No. 2 both laughed: "The simulated sun in the laboratory is really dazzling, and almost every child's eyes have been burned."
"I really don't understand what you are talking about! I don't understand why you are targeting me. I have no use value to you. My organs were stolen by them and my body was modified. I can only barely survive underground.
I've given everything, and you still won't let me go?"
"Perhaps you don't even know your own value?" No. 3 twisted the boy's deformed legs, pulled his feet out of the big black locks, then blocked the blind boy's mouth again, and
They were tied up and put into sacks.
Dragging the sack with one hand, No. 3 picked up No. 2 and walked out of the pharmacy.
The people around them seemed to be completely invisible to them, and no one stood up to stop them. They walked through the dark alleys, walked into the crowded night market, and disappeared amid the noisy sales.
"Notify others that the happy soul has been found, and ask them all to gather at the predetermined location."
A member of the escort team passing by No. 2 heard No. 2's voice that seemed to be talking to himself, and his eyes slowly changed. After a brief hesitation, he immediately turned around and ran in the other direction.
Ten minutes later, there were fewer and fewer pedestrians on the street, and No. 3 dragged the sack to the junction of the middle city and the inner city.
When they entered within a hundred meters of the inner city, two members of the escort personally opened the side door of the inner city for them.
Everything seemed to be arranged. The eyes of the escort members along the way were strange, numb and absent-minded, as if they were puppets being manipulated.
It wasn't until the shift change later that their eyesight gradually recovered, but No. 3 and No. 2 had already entered the heavily guarded inner city.
"Okay, you have nothing to do here anymore." No. 2 said to the two escort members who were leading the way. After listening to the two people, they all pulled out their sabers and stabbed each other in the chest without hesitation.
.
"Ahem!" No. 3 coughed, and then the two escort members stopped, and they turned around and left in a daze.
"Everyone will die, so why bother?" Just listening to No. 2's voice, it's impossible to judge his mood when he spoke.
"There is no reason, I just did it subconsciously." A smile appeared on No. 3's ordinary face: "In life, many moments are done casually. I think it is these unconscious behaviors that constitute
A destiny with countless tributaries.”
"It's just the sophistry of losers. They always blame fate for everything. I don't want you to become such a person." No. 2's attitude towards No. 3 is completely different from his attitude towards other children. In his eyes, it seems that
Only No. 1 and No. 3 exist equally with him.
This equality does not have any special meaning. It just means that in the eyes of No. 2, No. 1 and No. 3 are not the ones to be protected. They are the ones who have to stand up to protect other children.
"I have no idea about controlling my destiny, I just don't want to be changed again."
Hearing what No. 3 said, No. 2 did not speak again. No. 3's personality and ability were very special, and his words seemed to have another meaning.
The inner city is obviously more prosperous and tidy than the middle city. Almost everything produced by human society in the past can be found here. I hope that the inner city of the new city is the last seed of human society, at least that is what the people who live here think so.
of.
Walking all the way to the end of the clean and tidy road, in the inner city where land is at a premium, the independent building in front of No. 2 also comes with a large garden.
At the end of the courtyard full of flowers, there is a billboard for the Hope Pharmaceutical Main Store.
"I also want to save a lot of people, but is it worth it?"
Number 3 entered the building and other children were cleaning up the blood stains. They covered all the blooming flowers with black cloth and blew out all the candles in the pharmacy.
"We are all ready and can start at any time." No. 4 pointed to the clay sculpture placed in the center of the main store: "It took me a lot of effort to move this statue out of the cellar."
"Thank you for your hard work." No. 2 nodded, and he signaled No. 3 to release the blind boy.
The boy with his eyes gouged out and a severely deformed body lying on the ground, whimpering helplessly, would make anyone look at him very pitiful.
"Is this the child? He does look miserable." No. 4 walked to the child and frowned: "But there is no death intention in him. He has a strong desire to survive. If we don't intervene,
, he should be able to live in such misery forever."
"I have changed my destiny. Let No. 1 come over and take action according to the original plan." No. 2 does not seem to have the complex emotions of ordinary people. Everything he does is to finally be able to change his destiny.
"What on earth do you want to do!" The blind boy lying on the ground suddenly spoke, spitting out the iron block and two teeth in his mouth.
The blind boy was not as honest as he appeared. He never gave up escaping from the drugstore. In order to be able to speak smoothly, he secretly smashed his own teeth back early.
"What we have to do is very simple. Kill you in advance, make all the hatred around you go crazy, disrupt the steps of your blood sacrifice, and accept all the sacrifices for you."
"You madman! I don't know what hatred and blood sacrifice are! What does this have to do with me!" The blind boy has never been so desperate as now, and No. 2 brought him an unprecedented sense of threat.
"Stop struggling, Gao Xing." After No. 2 said the name Gao Xing, the necrotic flesh in the dark eye sockets of the blind boy turned a bit, and then blood flowed out, and he covered his eyes in pain.
"No way! I have never done those things! I just want to live! I just want to live well like everyone else!"
A crack appeared in the bad flesh in the eye socket. He grabbed the dirt on the ground with his fingers and tried to stand up.
"In reality, you should have also spent a day like this. Anger and fear tortured your mind, and you suffered heart-rending pain. You were unwilling to give in to fate, even if you turned into a monster that everyone feared in the end." No. 1
He opened the door and walked out from behind the clay sculpture. His tall body gave all the children a sense of peace of mind.
Seeing No. 1 appear, No. 2 also breathed a sigh of relief.
"I have nothing! I'm not born with a personality like you freaks! I just want to live! Did I do anything wrong?" Blood slid down the eye sockets, and the bad flesh was slowly torn open, and two pieces
The stinky black pupils were rolling.
"Those people you killed, did they do anything wrong?" No. 1 raised his arm. At that moment, all the faceless clay sculptures hidden in Hope New City began to tremble, and invisible chains were wrapped around them.
On the wrist of the number.
Those fate chains are very similar to those used by No. 2 before, except that they are made entirely of dead souls, with dirty blood flowing on them.
"When the fate of the majority can be determined by the minority, the fate itself loses its original meaning. My existence is to break it." Dragging all the chains of dead souls, No. 1's belief gathered on his right fist.
, getting closer to the boy's eyes.
"Fearless personality?" As the pupils were completely opened in the bad flesh, another person's voice appeared in the boy's mouth.
The chain of fate tightly bound No. 1's arm, and cracks began to appear on all the clay sculptures on the other end of the chain!
"Fearlessness is only the first step towards miracles."
This chapter has been completed!