Albert opened his eyes and found himself in a medical room.
From the slight shaking feeling coming from all around, it seemed that he should still be in the sand ship of Father Sphinx. Only then did Albert remember that he had been on the cavalry with the Congo royal family who came to assassinate them.
The air force fought, and although the tiger finally escaped, he was seriously injured.
By the way, he went into shock before due to severe injuries and excessive blood loss. It’s really bad. How long did he faint for? I just hope that during the time he fainted, the Sandstorm Sphinx and Congo Desert Battle
The Eagles game isn't over yet.
He tried to get up, but the wound on his shoulder was still aching. He had to give up, and then lay on the bed and squinted at the surrounding environment. Only then did he realize that there was a person lying beside his hospital bed. To be more precise, he was lying on the bed.
A cat-man boy. During the time when Albert was unconscious, Mutt seemed to have been staying by his bedside, but the cat-man boy was still overwhelmed and fell asleep in a daze.
"How do you think about what I said to you yesterday?" There was actually another person guarding the room, but Albert's field of vision just couldn't catch a glimpse. Only when the other person spoke could the tiger be aware of the other person.
existence.
"Hmm...?" Albert hummed softly. Only then did he recognize that it was the voice of Father Sphinx. The voice was very low, just enough not to wake up Mutt but still enough.
Let Albert hear it.
Of course, what Sphinx did to Albert was what he said yesterday about making Albert the master of Mutt. Although now Mutt is completely devoted to Father Sphinx and is willing to do anything for him.
The lion-man father can do anything, but as long as Albert nods in agreement and the sphinx father gives an order, the cat-man boy has to follow Albert and become the tiger's little slave. However, Albert
Albert was very disgusted with slavery in his heart, and from the bottom of his heart he did not want Mutter to see him as his master, so he kept putting off the matter and was unwilling to mention it to Mutter.
"I always feel a little strange." Tiger put aside that kind of thing and changed the subject: "Every time we are assassinated, it is always when Mutt and I are together. The other party seems to not only want to get me
Death, they even wanted Mutt’s life."
The Sphinx's face became solemn, as if she had been touched on some topics that she didn't want to talk about.
"Do you remember the story about the crazy guardian I told you before?" asked the lion man.
Albert nodded strenuously.
Since ancient times, there have been two guardians in the orc camp, guarding the balance of the orcs. However, one of the guardians went crazy due to excessive desire for freedom and gave up his duty as a guardian; the other guardian and
The ancient people had some kind of connection and were planning something secretly.
The crazy guardian was deprived of almost all his power and fell into the ranks of orc civilians. However, he was used to conduct the so-called "Pandora Project" and conducted research in order to create more powerful orcs;
However, this crazy guardian noticed the darkness behind this [Pandora Project] and tried to terminate the plan, but was killed and silenced. Before his death, he secretly modified the plan, and the orc super soldiers that were created were
There is a factor called [free will] embedded in it.
This is probably what Father Sphinx told Albert before. However, it is just a legend after all, a story without any factual basis. Sphinx also said that Albert also has that kind of thing in his body.
What about the factor of [free will], but God knows what the hell is this so-called free will factor?
"For some people, [free will] is a double-edged sword." Sphinx said, "They need the descendants of genetically enhanced super warriors, but they don't want this type of warrior to be among the orcs."
Over-population. Otherwise, the more orcs have [free will], the harder it will be to control them."
"I still don't understand..." Albert muttered in a low voice. What does all this have to do with Mutt being hunted down?
Sphinx did not answer Albert directly, but instead asked: "For some people behind the scenes, the orcs with free will are both dangerous and worth using, so what methods do you think they will use to control them?"
These orcs?"
Tiger was stunned for a moment: "Uh, population control?"
"Yes, it is population control. The reproduction of all orcs with free will is strictly controlled. They can only intermarry with members of the same tribe, and generally each household can only have one child. Unless the superiors allow it, no more children can be born.
A child was considered a sin, and at least one of the parents would be sterilized and exiled to another country, or at worst, both parents would be killed, and the resulting child would be sent to a specific research facility for strict supervision.
"
"Is everything you said true, meow?" The more Albert listened, the more he felt a chill spreading down his spine. The more he thought about it, the more true it became.
"I believe you have experienced similar things." Father Sphinx looked at Albert as if he had seen through everything, and his gaze made the chill on the tiger man's back spread even more intensely: "Initially
They are two brothers. Then you can only choose one of the two. Even Roble, as the patriarch, cannot save his two sons at the same time. And why your mother died, please think carefully."
"Uh!" Albert took another deep breath.
"If you ask carefully, the two twin sons of Palamedes should have suffered the same thing. But he was very good, very good, and his superiors were very interested in his genes, so they didn't do anything about it.
He punishes too severely," added the Sphinx.
Albert shuddered: "Even the massacre in Egypt seventeen years ago... is the same thing?"
Albert remembered it very clearly. His brother Robert Roble was involved in the massacre in Egypt seventeen years ago and "died". If that massacre was a kind of waste treatment of Robert, then
The same principle should apply to the other hundreds of thousands of orcs who died in the massacre.
(However, Albert and the others later found out that Robert was not actually dead, but just disappeared and was imprisoned. This kind of imprisonment was inhumane, and Robert's treatment was worse than death. Even though Albert and the others later found out
Robert was found in the fox tribe's research institute. At that time, Robert was no longer human-like, even his intelligence was almost completely lost, and he lived a life of a domesticated animal in captivity.)
So what exactly is [free will]? How dangerous are these orcs with free will, that they are worthy of such a big move by an organization behind the scenes, and killing these people at all costs?
Father Sphinx may not have thought that Albert would think so deeply, and he couldn't help but be a little surprised.
But after he took a breath, the lion man nodded and answered truthfully: "Yes. The massacre in Egypt seventeen years ago was, on the surface, a conspiracy between the fox people and the Egyptian government, but in fact it was
It was a [purge plan] arranged secretly by some people to send the most dangerous orcs with [free will] to Egypt and deal with them all at once."
Hearing this, Albert already showed a painful expression: "Then why did they choose my brother instead of me?"
"Maybe it's because your brother is better and more dangerous?" The lion man looked at the tiger with a mysterious face: "Or maybe it's because you were still young at that time and they didn't take you seriously at all?"
"And now, they want to kill me?" Albert then asked: "And there is also Mutt?"
"Now, they finally see something awakening in your body, something so huge that it scares them." Sphinx sneered: "And I believe they also saw the same or similar thing in Mutt."
thing."
The father stretched out a hand, which was a huge, but human hand. He put his hand on the sleeping cat boy's head and stroked it.
"Take good care of him." Sphinx suddenly turned around and wanted to leave: "There is a reason for all this to happen. Nothing is accidental. Since he will live here, meet you, and suffer this disaster,
It means that the force in the darkness wants to get something from him, or take something away.
He is innocent. Even though he was born with free will, he knows nothing about it. He should not have been treated like this, but he was born at the wrong time and was involved in the current of the times.
If you really treat him as a friend, really care about him, and really want to save him; if you don't want your enemies to succeed, and don't want the worst things to happen - then protect him.
Let him.
When all this is over, who he is and where he will go, everything will have an answer."
After finishing speaking, Father Sphinx turned around and walked out of the medical room.
Father Sphinx has been a character surrounded by mysteries from beginning to end. When he confessed to Albert and revealed a mystery, the mystery surrounding the Sphinx was not only not solved, but became more and more complicated.
Deep, like a thick fog that never goes away. But why can Albert always feel a hint of sadness from the Sphinx's words and deeds?
------Who is he?
The door of the medical room was closed. While Albert watched the lion-man father leave, he did not notice that the cat-man boy had already woken up. Mutt lay in front of the bed with his eyes slightly open, pretending all the time.
He still looked like he was sleeping, but he kept everything quietly in his heart.