Overturned Tower

Malt Wine looked at Qun Qing, but for some reason, he seemed to see the shadow of the godfather from him.

She smiled wryly, raised her hand and lowered her head, and said sincerely: "This time I told the truth—in fact, it is also because the truth I tell may be less trustworthy than lies."

"Don't worry," Russell said indifferently, "I have a way to distinguish whether what you said is the truth."

"Because of the inheritance I have mastered, I have some ability to predict."

The malt wine replied crisply: "It's not complete, and it can't be triggered actively.

"But I occasionally see something in the future in my half-dream. Usually, only a few people can trigger...such as 'Godfather', 'Discordant', or 'Silent Voice'-all some Great man. By the way, Silence is Mr. Bad. He also serves the Godfather with us today.

"I would do weird things in my dreams that didn't fit my logic, but if I actually followed the behavior that I saw, I would definitely get the same result.

"I saw that I hijacked the airship to prevent you from boarding the plane, and saw that the airship would be attacked and exploded. I saw that you were safe and sound in a large manor, and I also saw that I was After returning to the happy island, I will chat and laugh with you at the same table...

"I think this future is valuable, so I chose to anchor it. The result is also an unexpected fit."

This is a very outrageous answer, but Russell is willing to believe it is true.

Although Maltwine couldn't give any evidence at all, Russell still believed her and stayed.

Even though this matter is outrageous no matter how you think about it, and Ale himself can't figure out what kind of organization dares to be so bold, but the airship was indeed blown up.

The reason why those behaviors seemed so dangerous, but Malt Wine still dared to do it—it was because she captured the traces of "fate".

Destiny...

"Godfather", "Discordant", "Inferior", "Ultramarine"... If there is one thing in common, I am afraid that they are all related to the fate of the elf director.

He suddenly realized that he had to face up to the "fate" that bound the directors of the elves, because he was already in the middle of the game.He has also been caught by the thread of fate... The spider's web is gradually tightening.

——What is the so-called "fate"?

Chapter 23 The Whistleblower

Delphinium took a deep breath and slowly opened her eyes.

She unplugged the data cable from her waist, reached out and rubbed her temples, showing a tired expression.

Since Russell left, she has been investigating information about the "sheath".

As she guessed, this part of the information was completely blocked.Even if she used the authority of the head of the executive department, she still couldn't find out.

So Delphinium changed direction and went to investigate Russell's mother "Alice".

In the end, I found something useful this time...

Alice and Dodgson, who is now the director, are biological siblings, but they are not considered a big family.

As proof...they don't have "surnames" like Bad Day and Delphinium's mother.

The mother of Alice and Dodgson used to be the deputy director of the public relations department of Tianen Group; their grandfather once served as a board member, and the grandfather's mother was the archbishop of the Cyber ​​Church.

As a clergyman of the church, despite her high position and authority, she is at most only a little influential.It can't be called having any authority on the outside, and it can't be called rich at all.

In other words, their "family" has actually been passed down for three generations, not even a hundred years.Delphinium further checked the specific time and found that Alice's mother got married shortly after the old man became a director.By that time the family had no wealth at all, not even a housemaid, let alone a housekeeper, chauffeur, and governess.

As the husband of the only daughter of the director of the head office, what identity and qualifications does Alice's father have to be recognized by his father-in-law?What kind of wealth and talent must he possess to make Dodgson and Alice become "nobles" at birth only by relying on the efforts of his own generation?And most importantly, why did Dodgson and Alice never tell Russell about their other relatives?

The old man who became the director, Alice's maternal grandfather, of course he had more than one child.He had four children in total at that time, but none of these children are now working in Tianen Group... but working in the family business he opened.Only the line of Alice and Dodgson's parents went out independently.

Delphinium, curious, went straight to the records of four or fifty years ago.

The best cyber detective on Happy Island spent three hours investigating before digging out the identity of that person from the dust of history.

The result surprised the delphinium—

Alice's father is not unknown.But after giving birth to Dodgson, he lost his name and personality.

——He is one of the permanent directors of Today En Group, the elf director who inherited the name of "Cournieri"!

The destiny of "Cunieri" is "partnership". He is in charge of the personnel department, external affairs department, and public relations department of Tianen Group, and is also the vice president of Tianen University.He is one of the few directors among the elves who are really in charge and responsible for their work.

Alice inherited more of her father's looks, while Dodgson inherited a little more of her mother's.

So although they are brothers and sisters, their appearances are very different...

It's no wonder that Alice had the opportunity to meet Amirus, the elf director, in her teens; Dodgson and his good brother "Ram" had no parental discipline.

Because Alice and Dodgson had no father to speak of—their father had become an elf after Alice's mother conceived for the second time and before giving birth to Dodgson.

After that, his temperament changed drastically and he never went home.There is no good attitude towards Alice and Dodgson. Compared with the relationship between father and son or father and daughter, it is closer to a kind of indifference of "completing the task"-only responsible for giving money, and disappearing if you can.

The two siblings have only met their mother.

But Dodgson differed from Russell in that... his mother hardly cared about him either.

His mother is the type of strong woman, who cares more about her job and status than taking care of her children. Xia Xia now has some shadows of her.Since then, their family hired servants to take care of Alice and Dodgson.Because Alice's talent is much stronger than Dodgson's, she will have a better attitude towards Alice and teach her personally.Now that the old lady has retired to live at home, she is still very strong, and she will point out Dodgson's strategies of weakness and compromise.

When Dodgson wanted to see her but couldn't, she hired servants and tutors to take care of her...

But now his mother is free, clamoring to see him and her granddaughter every day.

But he no longer wanted to see her.

So Dodgson moved his mother far away from his home and hired three times as many servants to take care of her.If not necessary, he would never go back to see her.

That's why Dodgson never mentioned his parents and relatives.For him, his only relative is his sister.

As the grandson of the human director, the deputy minister and the son of the elf director, he can be said to be the most noble on Happy Island in terms of blood.

However, Dodgson may not be able to see his mother several times a year, and he didn't even know what his father was called or what he looked like before entering Tianen University.Although he has a really good temper, even if he is disrespected by his daughter or made fun of by his subordinates, he always smiles meekly and cheerfully... But when he treats his parents, he doesn't have the gentle attitude he has in front of his subordinates , On the contrary, the attitude is extremely sharp.

There's another reason here...and that's Alice.

From here, Delphinium finally found out about the sheath——

Shea is a graduate of Tianen University, and he is also a trusted student of Cunielli.It was Cunielli who introduced him to work as a tutor and bodyguard for his daughter, and he had the opportunity to abduct Alice.

Yes, the reason why Shea had the opportunity to take care of Alice, who was 12 years younger than herself, was because of the trust and appointment of Alice's biological father.Who can veto the proposal of an elf director, her own father?

So, why did Shea, who has not yet graduated from university and has never shown her talents, be favored by an elf director?

And following the student roster of Tianen University, delphinium finally found out the origin of the sheath:

She suddenly realized that although the man on the road just now looked like he was only 30 or 60 years old, he was now [-] years old.

Aiming at the true age of the sheath, Delphinium looked backwards...

Finally, I saw his childhood photos from a tabloid news report that has not been deleted.

"It was him..."

Delphinium murmured.

——In the "Peter Pan" incident 50 years ago, Peter Pan brutally killed the "Neverland Legion" he led. Half-grown children who are bound by morality and are no longer deceived by him.

By the time he was arrested, he had killed sixteen children.Just because they don't want to obey themselves to do evil.

And the "sheath" is the No.17 one.

It was he who found the opportunity to quietly report "Peter Pan".

Unfortunately, the executive department was as slow as ever, leaving get off work on time and never working overtime - because there was no "first consensus" at that time, the executive department did not need to transfer personnel from prisons.At that time, Happy Island had two holidays a week.

And because the day they received the report was Friday afternoon, they were late for three full days.

The two children "Michael" and "John" who reported together with him and testified for the sheath have been found out as informers and were persecuted and killed... But they did not sell the sheath, but chose to cooperate tacitly. They identified each other and kept the sheath.

So only Sheath barely survived Peter Pan's murder.

From that report, Delphinium found the half-grown boy with short messy black hair who looked timid and frightened, almost crying.

His name is "Wendy".But no one called him by his first name.

People call him "the whistleblower of Never Island" and "the only surviving whistleblower"-this is from the cover-up and protection of his name in the first report.

The follow-up reports of other newspapers released his photo and name, but because it was convenient for people to still call him "The Whistleblower of Never Island", they later directly simplified it to "The Whistleblower".

And that became his first code name.

He was 13 years old at the time, on his first day at school.

All his classmates called him this, and this title accompanied him until he graduated from college.

—they called him "The Whistleblower."

Chapter 24 didn't fall, it just failed to fly again

Delphinium pursed her lips.

Although she left school very early, Delphinium also attended school back then...

Of course she knew that when she entered the campus with such an ugly nickname and used it as her first impression in front of all her classmates... what kind of campus violence would it bring.

Not to mention, Wendy's ghost symptoms back then were so obvious - unlike regular bird ghosts, which only have "ear feathers" type hair behind the ears.He has a real pair of wings...just can't fly.

The bones and hearts of birds are designed to facilitate flight.With the weight and heart strength of a human being, it is simply impossible to support flight powered by wings.

Perhaps it was precisely because he realized that although he had bird-like wings, he couldn't fly at all...he joined Peter Pan's Never Isle Army.

The turmoil caused by the Peter Pan incident lasted for many years. The children who were abducted by him were threatened by him saying, "If you go back, your parents will be angry enough to kill you."Those children who have left their parents at the willful age of six, seven or eight, and yearn for freedom, of course do not understand what death is, what parents are, and what love is.

They trust their leader completely... But although Peter Pan himself will not grow up, these children will.

Wendy has joined the Neverland Legion since she was eight years old, so she is considered an older group.There are more than a dozen children older than him, and when they are thirteen or fourteen years old, their intelligence level has also been greatly improved as their bodies and brains develop.When they instinctively began to empathize with the parents who were attacked and cursed by them, and cried after their children were taken away, they first learned to "doubt".

It was an eight-year-old girl who caused all these changes.

She had just started school at the time, and because she didn't want to do her homework, she had a falling out with her family and said she was going to run away from home.And Peter Pan sensed her yearning for freedom, and he was already a little arrogant at that time, and he went to arrest the girl directly before leaving the sight of her parents.

And her parents' crying and begging for mercy softened the girl's heart.But she didn't break free immediately, but wanted to see more of her parents begging her to come back.

But when she arrived at "Never Island", Peter Pan realized that he had caught the wrong person—she was not a child longing for innocence and freedom, but a willful and undisciplined person who was unwilling to obey anyone.She also disapproved of Peter Pan's leader status, and clamored to go home and have a look.At that time, a 14-year-old boy relented.

They have just reached puberty, and they have a sense of the opposite sex in a ignorant manner.Even though the girl's waywardness made other brothers and sisters hate her and not play with her, the boy decided to secretly go back for her to "see if her parents have repented".

As a result, the teenager accidentally met the parents who loved their daughter too much, and was discovered by them.

The boy who was frightened and wanted to run away was tried to stay by the begging parents of the girl.Teenagers are also on a whim... Even though Peter Pan warned them many times not to talk to treacherous adults, he still rebelliously decided to listen to them.

Hearing this made him feel the difficulty of his parents, and learned how many people were made unfortunate by the reckless actions of the "Never Isle Legion" on the Happy Island.

He had the idea of ​​repentance, and went back to tell the other brothers the "knowledge" he had obtained.After serious thinking, I decided to go home and have a look.

But he was still a young man after all, he didn't realize the danger of Peter Pan at all, and he didn't know what kind of thoughts his behavior would bring.So, in this way, in public and under the eyes of everyone, he seriously told Peter Pan his feelings, saying that he would go home and have a look.

Children are always easily infected and driven.The children who were told to cry by the teenager also said they wanted to go back and have a look.And Peter Pan realized that his authority was threatened-so he pretended to be merciful, put the boy back, and brutally killed him after he left.

However, the "fire" brought back by the boy has already begun to burn.

Those thirteen or fourteen-year-old brothers and sisters died one after another.Until then, the children still don't want to trust adults—this is a deep-rooted concept they have acquired since they came to Neverland.

Wendy was the first child to decide to ask for help, the only child to unravel Peter Pan's rule and end the five-year Peter Pan incident.

And like Peter Pan's false threats to them—

——He was also really betrayed by those grown-ups.

The Executive Department, which received his request, did not trust his words at the first time, and the leisurely investigation and vacation afterwards caused his only two friends to die;

The media who learned of all this did not follow the original agreement with him to hide his name and photo, but secretly exposed everything for the sake of traffic, unintentionally promoting the birth of the nickname "Whistleblower";

The teachers at the school arranged for him to go to school for tutoring and go to school with children who were four or five years younger than him, but they didn't stop those children when they yelled the nickname "informer".

Just like the code name "bad one".

The difference is that the code name of the inferior is his own, based on a desire for self-destruction.

But Wendy doesn't like this code name at all, it can even be said to be disgusted and feared.And when he finished his tutoring, with the fantasy of escaping from all this, he skipped a grade to middle school with great interest, and when he studied with his peers...

He heard the familiar code name again from those unfamiliar classmates.

--"informer".

The difference from before is... By this time, the Peter Pan incident had already begun to ferment.

At that time, the Seven Sky Islands began to fanatically implement the "First Consensus".That is to say, "no organization or any individual may use violent or non-violent means to deprive others of their lives under any circumstances", which of course also includes the lives of criminals.

Although Peter Pan and his Neverland Legion have caused huge economic losses; let alone those who were killed by the "Neverland Legion's collective evil", as long as there is clear evidence, the people he personally killed are There are sixteen.And they're all minors.

However, in order to show that they have "the compassion of forgiving others", the adults did not deprive Peter Pan of his life. Anyway, those who really suffered economic losses or their children were robbed were very few people on Happy Island.For more people, Peter Pan is just a distant legend.

Before that, Sky Island had the death penalty.Since then, the Seven Great Sky Islands have abolished all capital punishment.