Looking at the table of desserts and delicacies, as well as the children and smiling parents sitting around the table, the corners of Hui Jin's mouth couldn't help but twitch, "So, you brought us here just to give it to your children."

Celebrating a birthday?”

With a daughter-like look on his face, Hughes laughed so hard that his mouth almost split open as he said, "Yeah, look, my lovely Alicia-chan is celebrating her birthday today. There aren't enough people and it won't be fun!"

Hui Jin covered his forehead and sighed helplessly. Wenli on the side also looked helpless, but looking at the cute little girl, she still asked gently, "How old is Alicia-chan this year?"

The little girl seriously stretched out two fingers and said "two..." She was stunned for a moment, looked at the cake on the table with three candles, thought for a while, then stretched out another finger and said "three years old!"

Obviously not immune to cute things, Wen Li was instantly struck, and she and Hughes marveled at Alicia-chan's adorable performance.

After blowing out the candles, several children happily shared the cake and ate it. Seeing Alicia's happy appearance, the fire prevention girl sitting next to Mrs. Hughes smiled softly and stretched out her hand to wipe the cake.

Licia smiled and said with a smile, "Such a child is really the cutest angel..."

Wen Li came over and looked at the smile on the fire prevention girl's lips that seemed to warm people's hearts. She couldn't help but sigh, "The fire prevention girl is so gentle and beautiful. She will definitely become a gentle mother in the future!"

"Alicia thinks so too! But my mother is the gentlest!" The cute Alicia also ran over and climbed onto the fire girl's lap, saying cutely.

The fireproof girl gently picked up Alicia, placed her on her lap, and said happily, "Well, Alicia is also the cutest daughter~"

Seeing this happy family scene, Hui Jin felt like he was healed.

…

The birthday party was over. Seeing a few children playing happily, Lieutenant Colonel Hughes wiped his glasses.

"Do you have a good relationship with those brothers? Miss Wen Li?" Hui Jin looked at Wen Li and suddenly asked.

"Ah? Hey, yes, we grew up together. They are like brothers." Wen Li was stunned for a moment, then said with a smile.

Hughes smiled happily and said, "Hahaha, that's it, then they must have given you a lot to worry about!"

"Yes, you called me here this time because Edward's arm needs repair..." Suddenly Wen Li's expression became a little lonely, and she said slowly, "When I came here, I found that Edward was injured, and Al also looked listless... But...

I won’t tell you why I was beaten to death…”

Looking at the slightly lonely Wen Li, Hughes said lightly, "Maybe it's because they don't want you to worry, man... Actions speak louder than words, maybe they think you can understand them... Even if there are difficulties,

I won’t hurt others, that’s all…”

"That's why I need you. When they start to be unbearable and start to complain, you will be needed to comfort them...Isn't this good?" Hughes looked at the depressed Wenli and said comfortingly.

arrive.

Ashes on the side responded with a smile, "I quite agree with this. No matter how much hardship I endure, as long as I look back and see the fire prevention woman behind me, I will have the motivation to keep moving forward. Whenever I can't stand it anymore,

When I was about to collapse, she was the one who made me pick myself up again... So... people need each other, Wenli-chan, those brothers need you, there is no doubt about it!"

…

In the early morning of the next day, several people met to visit Edward and went to the hospital where he was receiving rehabilitation treatment. When they walked to the door, they heard Alphonse's excited voice coming from inside, "It's not like I want to."

It’s become like this!”

Wen Li hurriedly pushed the door open and saw Alphonse standing up excitedly, knocking the chairs behind him, and the armor all over his body was shaking...

Edward was a little overwhelmed and said, "I'm sorry...it's my fault. You're right. I made you become like this...I will change you back."

"Can you really change my body back? What can I, an empty shell, believe? Even the information in my head is entirely possible to be forged! The soul and memory are all man-made and false.

Something!" Alphonse said tremblingly, as if he had discovered some truth...

"Both Wen Li and mother-in-law, they all worked together to deceive me!" Seeing Wen Li who was at a loss, Alphonse said emotionally. "Answer me!"

Edward suddenly clenched his fists and punched the breakfast plate in front of him, and said tremblingly, "Is this what you always wanted to say? Have you been holding this back...Yeah..."

Slowly pushing the dinner plate in front of him, Edward left the ward without saying a word, and left slowly amid the worried eyes of everyone...

Hui Jin sighed helplessly, looked at Alphonse and said, "He is still a child after all... he would quarrel over such a thing, it's really..."

Alphonse shouted "You don't know anything!"

"I know everything!" Ashes, whose expression suddenly became serious, looked at Alphonse, interrupted him, paused and continued, "You don't know anything. What do you think a soul is? A building block? Whatever.

Anyone can forge it and assemble it at will! I have said more than once that you should respect life and soul... It seems that you have turned a deaf ear to me! You actually don’t even value your own soul and life!

That's what your brother got in exchange for his own mind and body!"

"But..." Alphonse wanted to say something, but Wenli suddenly rushed up and knocked Alphonse to the ground with a wrench. She looked at Alphonse with tears in her eyes and said, "Alphonse... you are really

You don’t know anything, which idiot would risk his own life to be a false brother! You...are only blood relatives to each other..."

He stood up, looked at Alphonse seriously and said, "You guy, hurry up and apologize to me!"

"But..." Alphonse also climbed up from the ground and said hesitantly.

"No but, come quickly!" Looking at Wenli who was swinging the wrench again, Alphonse responded hurriedly and ran out in a hurry.

"Isn't this great? It's when boys quarrel that their relationship becomes stronger. It's really touching to say what you want to say..." Hui Jing smiled, looked at everyone, and said happily,

Suddenly he turned his head and whispered to the fire prevention girl, "You think those people in the Wang family have this kind of feeling..."

"Lord Ashes, you are making fun of the dead again... I told you, this is not good!" The fire prevention girl sighed helplessly and reprimanded Ashes in a low voice.

Shrugging, Hui Jin said with a helpless smile, "Yes, yes, okay, okay, don't look at me like that, I won't be able to change it in the future...really..."

…

In the afternoon at the hospital, several people gathered in Edward's ward, having a meeting to discuss something...

"Why do I have to come? I haven't had my afternoon tea yet..." Hui Jin was eating the patient's banana out of boredom and said helplessly with dead eyes.

"There's no other way, just get over it. Who asked you to go with them..." Hughes said with a joking look on his face, looking at Ashes who looked like a salted fish, then suddenly his face straightened and he said seriously

"And I know more than them!"

"So...how much do you know about this?" After saying this, Hughes took out a simple drawing from the table and handed it to Ash, who was holding a banana in his mouth.

"Ah, this little man doesn't know, but this woman met in Dongfang City some time ago. Her name... seems to be Rust. I met her by chance in the sewer. At that time, there was a man named Gulade beside her.

Ni's cute little fat guy was chasing Scarface...but I drove him away..."

"Really... Nothing else besides that?" Hughes asked seriously with a glimmer of doubt in his eyes.

"Besides that? Well, let me think about it, oh! By the way, they are not human beings!" Ashes suddenly said with a smile.

"Not human...what do you mean?" Armstrong asked in confusion, his eyes widening.

"I don't know what it is specifically, but it's not a human being." Ashes shrugged and said helplessly. Edward on the side also frowned and said, "Ah, that woman's fingers seem to be able to turn into something like a spear... indeed.

Very different from ordinary people!”

"It turns out he's not a human... Edward, if you can escape from such a being, you have to thank Mr. Ashes for saving you!" Armstrong looked at Edward and said seriously.

Ashes laughed at this moment, "No, Major, even if I don't save him, Edward will be fine. That woman could have killed the unsuspecting Edward directly, but she spared his life. You understand this

What does it mean?"

Hughes put the information on the table together, held his chin and thought carefully... He murmured to himself, "The fifth research institute... the guardian of the soul state... the formation of the Philosopher's Stone... let Edward go."

, it’s really suspicious, but even if we want to pursue it now, the research institute has been reduced to ruins.”

Ashes suddenly raised his head and looked in the direction of the door, with an interesting smile on his lips.

"In this case, we can only start from somewhere else... I'll try to find any clues from the records of the Court of Justice..." Hughes said with a frown as he looked at the information in his hand.

Armstrong also said seriously, "Then I'll check it out from the researchers that Marco used to work for!"

At this moment, the door of the ward was gently pushed open, and a person who surprised everyone appeared in the ward.

"Excuse me, ah, you are all here..." Kim Bradley, the president of this country, suddenly appeared in Edward's hospital room.

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Chapter completed!