Scarlet Dawn [Apocalypse]

——"He was waiting for the awakening of the ninth-level mutant, and now the time has come."

Nine spoke very slowly, and her voice was even weak, but every word pierced into Bai Yi's heart like an ice pick.

The young man was as pale and thin as usual. In the darkness, his sickly skin exuded a white shimmer, which set off the extremely black eyes, like a pair of black jade with fine luster.

After finishing speaking, he put his palms on the ground and stood up slowly.

Time is up……

The air in the depths of the spiritual domain seemed to be frozen, and the cold light emitted by the memory ball under the shadow was so strange that it was suffocating. In front of him was a fully awakened level [-] mutant. Watching his every move, Bai Yi felt an invisible force strangling his throat firmly across the distance of several meters between the two of them.

"The battle of engulfment in the spiritual domain is more brutal than you imagine..."

As if aware of his fear, the mutant Nine smiled lightly and raised the corners of his mouth. His thin white fingers caressed his neck unintentionally, and the tip of his tongue licked the crevice of his lips. The fear of prey on the verge of collapse.

The mutant's black and white eyes reflected Bai Yimo's expressionless face, the corners of the other's lips maintained a proper curvature, but the smile hidden in the bottom of his eyes faded little by little with time.

In the end, Nine shook his head regretfully, and slowly approached a shelf, pointing to the crystal ball placed on it with his fingertips out of emptiness, as if he was looking for something, his back was turned to Bai Yi, and there was no sign of defense at all from his back Taste, said lightly: "Unfortunately, our battle has some changes—"

Bai Yi was stunned suddenly, and asked in surprise, "What did you say?"

"I said, I really want to kill you, replace you, and live on, but what a pity—" The fingers raised in the air stopped, Nine showed a satisfied smile, and tiptoed to remove a memory ball on the top layer , turned around, and completed the words plainly, "It's a pity he doesn't allow it."

"Him?" Bai Yi asked subconsciously, but a name immediately popped up in his mind, "Bai Congxi?"

Nine didn't answer, but instead asked: "Did he teach you how to play chess?"

Bai Yi frowned, and nodded slowly.

"No wonder, I always feel that when he teaches me how to play chess, it's like teaching another person. He looks at you, but it's not you. This kind of feeling..." The voice stopped abruptly, Nine didn't say any more, weighed his hands With the memory ball in his hand, he said to Bai Yi: "Father taught me only one chess method in 200 years. Guess what it is?"

Bai Yi could feel that there was something in the other party's words, and he was sure that Nine knew a lot of things that they, even Nickles, didn't know. He had already calmed down from the initial fear, and he was thinking quickly about the direct connections of all the details. , and at the same time made preparations for the opponent to attack at any time, but when Nine suddenly asked him this question, he was rather at a loss.

Chess taught by my father, it's been a long time ago...

"Do you not remember?" Nine asked.

Bai Yi didn't speak, but quietly observed the other party's reaction.

"This is your memory, I think you may not remember it clearly," Nine smiled helplessly, walked up to Bai Yi, and raised the memory ball in his hand, "A Bible, a password, a message, you You probably never thought that a game that year would become the last sentence he said to you, right?"

The glass-textured memory ball glowed with blue-white light, and the transparent sphere seemed hollow, with milky white flocs rotating slowly in it. Bai Yi really didn't understand his intention, but recalled that moment with the voice of the mutant. A vague memory.

Suddenly, the crystal ball dropped from their hands and shattered under the feet of the two of them. The flocculent memory like star sand swirled up, blurring the entire world in the spiritual realm.

The surrounding scene is constantly changing, the time goes back hundreds of years ago, the darkness dissipates, the orange lights turn on, the warm and moist wind blows in from the window at night, the hair on the side of the face lifts up, everything is more real than real, white Yi stared blankly at the study room that was so familiar to him that he couldn't even breathe for a moment.

"The first and the third Bible are on the second floor of the left bookshelf, you can read them yourself." Nine walked around behind him and sat leisurely in the armchair behind the desk, resting his chin with one hand, and The fingers of one hand beeped on the black and white checkered board.

Bai Yi came back to his senses, his eyes fell on the half-played chess set, and his eyes suddenly lit up.

This is a chess game that is about to reach the game point. The white chess moves very aggressively and has already overtaken the black chess king. This chessboard has been placed on the desk all the time. He has wondered since he was a child, why the chessboard is always half a game?Why did my father never put the chess pieces back in place?

Nine sat behind the desk, looked at him with a half-smile, and said, "Because this is a plan that Father spent his whole life in. Some people want to get the special memory that swallowed up the human body, and use it to create the strongest biochemical weapon. Young master, you are the king who is about to be checkmate on the chessboard, if this is Father's game, what do you think his next move will be?"

Bai Yi stared at the remnant chess set, and instantly had an answer in his heart.

"Do you understand, Bye?" Nine laughed and said, "The only chess method he taught me is 'castle of king's rook'."

"You are the king, and I am the rook. If the king is in danger, let the rook exchange positions with it—" Nine said while picking up two pieces with his fingers, and after the exchange, they dropped them again, and then manipulated the white piece to capture the black piece. The car, demonstrated it to Bai Yi, and finally concluded: "I was born to keep you."

The purpose of the king's car change is to abandon the car to protect the king, Bai Yi knew it in his heart, couldn't help but frown, shook his head in disbelief: "He...why did he do that?"

Nine said: "Bye, why don't you want to believe that Father still loves you?"

Bai Yi was noncommittal and could only remain silent.

"Is it just because he ordered Claude to kill you 400 years ago?" Nine asked: "You heard it just now, death is a necessary prerequisite for consciousness transplantation."

At this moment, there was a soft sound from outside the door, and the protagonist belonging to this memory was about to appear. Nine stood up, bowed slightly to Bai Yi, and said, "This is your memory, I don't have the habit of peeping, so I left first."

"However, in the end, I want to say one more thing." Nine picked up the eaten car and shook it at Bai Yi, saying, "This is the end of Father's game, and it's up to you how to win."

After speaking, Nine's figure faded away, and the door behind him was opened at the same time, Bai Yi suddenly turned around, watching with complicated emotions the Bai Congxi of that era walked in holding himself who was only seven or eight years old, and then he noticed that there was no A detail to note -

Bai Congxi noticed the moved chess pieces on the desk, but he didn't show anything unusual, but walked over to restore everything.

Little Baiyi didn't know what his father was doing, so he put his arms around his neck and urged impatiently, "Dad, what game are you talking about?"

Bai Congxi put his son on the armchair, told him not to fall off, then walked to the left row of bookshelves, took down a Bible placed in the second row, returned to the armchair, and placed Xiaobai again. Yi hugged him.

The pages of the book flicked and turned, and finally stopped at the creased page. Bai Congxi said to Xiao Baiyi: "There are many secrets in this world that no one else can know. Dad's secrets can only be told to Xiaoyi."

Xiao Baiyi asked, "Why can you only tell me?"

Bai Congxi touched his son's forehead and said with a smile, "Because if others find out, we will be in danger."

Xiao Baiyi blinked in confusion, "Why is there danger? Dad won't do bad things!"

Bai Congxi smiled and ignored the question, but said: "In this world, the boundaries between good and bad are very clear and fuzzy. Some things must be involved in order to prevent getting out of control and to ensure that they can always be controlled. To be a bad guy."

Hearing this, the boy's immature face wrinkled into a steamed bun, "Daddy is going to become a bad guy?"

Bai Congxi said: "If you want to control something, you can't stay out of it, Xiao Yi, one day you will understand."

"But……"

"If Dad becomes a bad person, will Xiao Yi still love Dad?"

Xiao Baiyi frowned in embarrassment, and after a long time, he said, "I will be a bad guy with you."

Bai Congxi lowered his head and kissed his son's hair, and said softly: "Remember what you said today, Dad doesn't need Xiaoyi to accompany me to be a bad guy, as long as we don't become enemies is enough."

Xiao Baiyi gave a simple oh, and returned his attention to the Bible in his father's hand, and said, "How do you play this game?"

"This game is to encrypt what Dad wants to say with four special keys, and only the two of us know these keys, so that Dad can only share the secret with you."

"Can I tell others?"

"You can tell someone you can trust."

Then Bai Congxi began to explain the password editing method to Xiao Baiyi. Children in the early childhood stage have strong learning ability, but relatively weak comprehension ability. Bai Congxi is very patient in teaching, and the same technique will be repeated many times. Until Xiao Baiyi fully grasped it.

Bai Yi stood behind the armchair and looked at the two people. He had already forgotten how he felt when he experienced this memory, and he also forgot the promise at the beginning. He only remembered the code in the Bible that he had spent a long time without being able to solve it. On the other hand, after mastering the decryption and encryption methods, my father no longer mentioned the Bible, but gave him more complicated content to decrypt.

Now he is standing at the back, looking at the simple code that can know the answer at a glance, and the back of the man teaching patiently, he suddenly remembered what Nine said not long ago.

——This is the game that Father spent his whole life laying out.

——His game is over here, the rest is up to you to win like this.

What do these two sentences mean?

-

At the same time, in the deepest laboratory of the Sydney base, Bai Congxi leaned against the glass wall to light a cigarette, a scarlet flame flickered on and off, and behind him, a highly decayed deep-sea fish dangled slowly like a ghost. past.

On the operating table not far away, the pale light of the shadowless lamp fell on the bloodless face of the young man, and beside him was the corpse of a boy whose head was shot, and the overflowing blood dripped down the operating table onto the floor , converging into a pool of dark brown traces.

Bai Congxi took the last puff, pressed the cigarette butt against the wall, and said, "Now that you're awake, get up quickly. I need to collect data to see how the fusion effect is."

The voice fell, the young man raised his hand to cover his brows and eyes, the eyelashes under the shadows fluttered open, revealing a pair of soft black eyes, a sly smile flashed from the bottom of his eyes, he sat up propped up, naked The body lines are refined and beautiful.

The young man looked up at Bai Congxi, raised the corners of his lips, and said in an evil voice, "If it was Bye who woke up, would you still be so indifferent?"

"Anyway, the procedures still have to be followed." Bai Congxi pointed to a set of clothes next to the operating table and motioned him to put them on, and then began to examine the newborn's body, asking casually, "How do you feel?"

"Not too happy~" Nine said.

Bai Congxi didn't mind if the other party's answer was wrong, he reached out and stroked his head, just like he did to the young Bai Yi, and said with a smile: "I know you've done a good job."

Nine liked this action very much, closed his eyes meekly, and said as if dreaming: "Your consolation has always been deceiving, Father, even the voice of you announcing the death penalty is beautiful."

"It's good that you know." Bai Congxi said.

Nine chuckled and stopped talking. Bai Congxi entered the inspection results into the optical brain, and said, "Major General Fanzhuo is outside the door. Try to reveal your identity as late as possible."

Nine hummed, and said in a muffled voice, "You and the Pope had better leave as soon as possible, it's not safe here."

"The aircraft is ready, but it's a pity that there is not enough time. Neil's body replacement needs to be postponed." Bai Congxi packed his things, put the optical brain under his arm, and turned to Nine and said, "Let's go, you and I Go out together."

The numerical control door separating the laboratory and the corridor was opened sideways, and the bloody smell accumulated in the room dissipated a lot. When he noticed that there was no one outside the door, Bai Congxi paused, with a smile on his lips.

Nine squinted at him from the corner of his eye, playing with the taste: "It seems that Major General Fan Zhuo didn't trust you from the beginning~ But it's good, at least you don't have to pretend to be docile in front of that annoying guy—"

"To shut up!"

The man's deep voice sounded behind him, with an inexplicable sense of oppression. The bright red blade of the lightsaber touched the side of the neck, and the electric current was entwined. Everything was done soundlessly, sealing Nine's unfinished teasing in his throat.

"You are not qualified to speak with his body."

"Be careful, major general, this is Bye's body, even if it has the ability to repair itself, you will feel bad if it is broken, right?"

"Cut the bullshit," Silverson said, "Where's Bye?"

Nine tilted his head slightly, avoiding the scorching blade of the lightsaber, and replied, "In memory."

Silvison was silent for a few seconds, and then said to Bai Congxi without looking back, "What exactly do you want?"

Bai Congxi looked at Silverson and said with a smile: "Major General, since you have chosen to come here, you should learn to abide by my rules."

"You go first," Nine said, "Leave this to me."

Bai Congxi didn't speak any more, and was about to turn around to leave, when a bright and cold light flashed under the shadows, a look of surprise flashed in Bai Congxi's eyes, the sharp side edge of the blade touched the side of his neck, blood streamed down, he He looked at the man blocking his way with a chuckle, and before he could speak, he heard Silvison say, "Konrad, kill him."

"Leave it to me outside, you go and bring Bye out." Conrad said.

Sylvison hummed flatly, and the moment he put away the lightsaber, he broke Nine's jaw, and his eyes met. A powerful and domineering mental force rushed into the sea of ​​consciousness. Nine was prepared in his heart, but he was still shocked by the fierceness of the other party. Almost brutally intrusive way.

At the same time, Conrad pulled out another single blade, and slashed away without hesitation.

"It seems that Ah Chen let you in. This kid knows how to cause trouble for me."

Bai Congxi's voice was as flat as ever, facing Conrad's offensive, he didn't even have the slightest intention of avoiding or counterattacking. Nine's figure flickered, resisting Silvison's mental invasion, he dodged between the two, and Bai Cong Xihu was behind him, clasping Conrad's double blades with his bare hands.

-

In the spiritual domain, Silvison came behind Bai Yi, his conscious body still maintained the appearance of a boy, looking intently at the father and son on the armchair, an open Bible was placed on the table, a small Bai Yi was held in the arms of the young Bai Congxi, holding a pen, clumsily deducing and calculating on the paper.

Silverson noticed the cipher on the pages of the Bible and couldn't help but ask, "What is the encrypted content?"

"Hush—" Bai Yi lightly touched his upper lip with his index finger, signaling Silvison to be quiet, and then added in a low voice, "I'll find out soon."

-

In the deepest corridor of the Sydney base, there was the sound of an explosion. The broken double blades were embedded in the glass wall. Under the water pressure, tiny cracks spread like spider webs, and there were continuous bursting sounds in the darkness.

Conrad leaned back against the wall, pressing the wound on his abdomen with one hand. The jacket of his combat uniform was wet with blood, and there was a strong smell of blood floating in the air.

Not far away, the young man's beautiful face was drenched in blood plasma, like a bloodbathed killer, his left arm was twisted by his side in a weird posture, the broken arm bone pierced through the flesh, protruding ferociously from his body, But he didn't seem to feel the pain, stood up in the blood, and suddenly reset the broken bone.

"As expected of Colonel Statham, even if he knew it was Bye's body, he would not be merciful at all~" Nine raised his arms, licked the blood sticking between his fingers with the tip of his tongue, raised his eyelashes, and lightly landed on the body On Conrad on the other side of the corridor, he said: "So the blood of the blood race smells like this—"

"Tsk...it really makes me sick!"

-

Outside the base, heavy gray rain covered the whole world. The brightly lit town was burning in the torrential rain. The man-made bodies playing the role of residents dragged their bodies scorched by the flames, still following the established route.

The engine roared, the propeller shredded the winter rain and stirred up a cloud of fine mist, and the aircraft rose vertically in the wind and rain.

Nicholas was sitting close to the porthole, his whole body thin and out of shape. He pressed his face against the glass, brushed away the mist that blocked his vision with his palm, and watched the burnt unrecognizable self running in the flames, followed by the little boy in his arms. Lola's sad mother.

In the cabin, the lost Lola trapped in the glass cage let out a desperate growl, and her rotten head hit the inner wall. Nicholas turned his head and said to her softly: "Don't be afraid, Laura, I will protect you. "

Bai Congxi unfolded the blanket to cover him, adjusted the seat to a comfortable slope, and said in a warm voice, "Go to sleep for a while, I'll call you when we arrive."

Nicholas curled up, his eyelids half closed, like a critically ill patient who might die at any moment, "Where are we going?"

"He asked us to return to the Antarctic base." Bai Congxi said.

"Um--"

Nicholas closed his eyes sleepily, and leaned over to rest his head on Bai Cong's west lap.

Bai Congxi had no choice but to put down his optical brain to avoid affecting his rest. After a long time, just when he thought that Nicholas had fallen asleep, he heard the boy say weakly: "We... have no chance to come back, yes Is it?"

A winter rain in the southern hemisphere made the sky dark, and the raindrops hit the glass window making a crackling sound. Bai Congxi didn't speak, but casually combed the broken hair beside his ear, and the bottom of his soft black eyes was smudged with wind and rain A piece of tranquility after the border crossing.

-

The same gaze appeared in the depths of the spiritual realm. The Bai Congxi in his memory looked at the little Bai Yi who was lying on the table. Into a wet piece.

Bai Congxi picked up his son, and put the Bible in the desk drawer casually.

The boy's hairy head was buried on the side of his neck, and even when he fell asleep, his palms were still clutching the corner of his father's shirt collar.

Standing behind the two of them, Bai Yi watched Bai Congxi carry his young self back to the room to rest. The light went out the moment the two went out, and the scene of the study quickly reversed. The sour feeling disappeared.

Silvison put his hand on his shoulder and shook it reassuringly.

Suddenly, a terrifying tremor erupted from the closed mental realm. Rows of shelves collapsed, thousands of memory balls fell to the ground and were shattered. Back off on both sides.

The star-like white catkins were suddenly broken through, and the blood-soaked young man held the broken blade in his hand, and after a second to find his center of gravity, he slashed at Silvison.