Salvation and redemption

I don't know if it was because of the children's yelling or other reasons. After placing the firewood, Shi Tao suddenly straightened his waist, rubbed his shoulder with his left hand inadvertently, turned his head, and turned to the direction where Lloyd was. He hid himself behind a big tree, avoiding Shi Tao's sight.

"Shi Tao, Shi Tao, what's the matter?" The children gathered around and followed Shi Tao to look into the bushes, but there was nothing there.

"Oh, it's nothing, wait for me, it will be over in a little bit!" Shi Tao said so, but he always felt that the woods today seemed different from those in the past, and he glanced in that direction again, thinking that it should be Not his illusion.

At this time, another person came out of the wooden house. It was a young man in his early 20s, with unbelievably beautiful features and a slender figure. Although he was a boy, he had long hair that reached his shoulders. He walked out , tied his hair neatly, and said to Shi Tao, "I'll do the rest."

Shi Tao glanced at him, did not refuse, but took off his gloves and handed him the ax together, smiled and said, "Thank you."

As he spoke, he was dragged away by the children.

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Lloyd waited for the sound to go away before poking his head out again. Unexpectedly, a familiar and nostalgic voice suddenly came from behind him, "Lloyd...it really is you..."

Lloyd froze suddenly, then turned around slowly.

Behind him, Shi Tao was standing there, and the two looked at each other. For a moment, the words seemed to lose their meaning. Lloyd saw a smile slowly appearing in those amber eyes. This smile made Lloyd miss him. , and feel strange.

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"Shi Tao said his name is Lloyd?"

"Lloyd! Ah, that very powerful person! When Shi Tao told us a story, there was a knight named Lloyd..."

One by one, small heads poked into the study, whispering to each other, but the sound was so loud that Lloyd inside could hear clearly.

At this time, the young man walked to the door with the coffee, and said to the little ones, "Don't disturb the guests, go, go outside and play." He said and gently pushed the children outside, and then put the coffee on the coffee table Go up, but before putting it down, he also looked at Lloyd before saying, "Please use it."

"Thank you." Lloyd said.

Shi Tao walked in, and the young man said to Shi Tao, "I'll take them out."

Shi Tao nodded and walked into the room. When the young man walked out, he closed the door for them.

"He is..." Lloyd asked Shi Tao at this time.

"I met him when I was in Tokyo. Because of a head injury, I lost all memory after the age of ten. I can't remember anything except my own name, but he is really capable, so I will keep him here. Help me take care of the children here." Shi Tao replied, and picked up the coffee, Lloyd noticed that his left hand slightly supported the wrist of his right hand, and suddenly remembered how he raised his hand to rub his right shoulder before, and couldn't help frowning slightly , asked, "Your injury..."

Seeing Lloyd looking at his wrist, Shi Tao knew what he wanted to ask, so he said, "My injuries are all healed."

Lloyd was still staring at his wrist, but didn't speak.

Shi Tao was silent for a moment, then looked down at his wrist, and then said to Lloyd, "Maybe it's a psychological effect, sometimes there is still a feeling in the wrist and shoulder, you may not believe it, but when you came just now, I felt It's here, but look... everything is fine."

As Shi Tao said, he stretched out his hand to show Lloyd.

Lloyd held Shi Tao's hand, indeed there was not a single scar on the wrist, and even the scar on the palm had disappeared. At this moment, Lloyd gently squeezed Shi Tao's wrist bone, and asked in a low voice, "It hurts. ?"

Shi Tao shook his head, "Because of the small pill, the bone healed very well." He moved his wrist as he spoke, as if to reassure Lloyd.

"But it still hurts?" Lloyd asked again.

Seeing Lloyd's frowning and tangled expression, Shi Tao comforted him and said, "Everything is over, but you, although Mayang has told me everything about you, but I also want to know what happened in the past five years. What exactly have you been through?"

Lloyd was never good at talking about himself, but he did owe Shi Tao an explanation—something he wanted to tell Shi Tao.

"I was infected by a virus and my body was damaged, so it took me a while to reprint it."

Shi Tao heard Mayang talk about the printing-related situation, he looked Lloyd up and down, but Lloyd was still the same Lloyd, no different from the Lloyd who appeared in front of him five years ago.

"I heard Mayang say that the virus is specially used to deal with you and the little pill. According to her, the robot police from the future have had many transactions with human police."

"Well, these small pills have been found out. They left the virus in the hands of the human police. They also remodeled old machines and sold them at a high price to humans, such as your father's wheelchair. But everything stopped after the passage was closed. ” said Lloyd.

"If it wasn't for me, father would not have targeted you." Shi Tao obviously blamed himself, but Lloyd didn't like to hear it, he changed the subject and said, "Before I came here, I went to the island to find you. "

Shi Tao lowered his eyes for a long while, and then suddenly said, "It's been five years...my father, he should be dead..."

He obviously didn't mean to ask Lloyd, but Lloyd was taken aback and asked, "You know?"

Shi Tao nodded, Lloyd looked at him, wanted to ask some questions, but didn't know how to ask, but Shi Tao seemed to understand, and said, "You want to know why my father killed me in the first place, don't you?"

Lloyd thought for a while before he asked his question, "I think your father knows that you will not die, but why did he treat you like this? These... are related to his current...death... ...relevant?" Lloyd considered his words.

Holding the coffee cup, Shi Tao looked past Lloyd to the window behind him. The scenery outside the window was the same as the deep and dense forest he saw when he was a child. as cozy.

He slowly fell into the memory, and slowly opened his mouth and said to Lloyd, "I was kidnapped once when I was young. In my impression, I was locked in the attic of a wooden house like this. The kidnappers blackmailed my father, but unfortunately, that day A fire broke out. Although the police and firefighters worked together to rescue me, I was severely burned and unconscious. Unexpectedly, three months later, I miraculously recovered without leaving any scars. , that is, after that, my father isolated me and didn't let me see anyone."

This is the past that Shi Tao has never mentioned to anyone, and even he has forgotten it. Lloyd couldn't help asking him, "So at that time, did your father know about your special physique?"

Shi Tao nodded and said, "At least I know that I have amazing resilience. After being quarantined, he often asked the doctor to draw blood and bone marrow. He said it was for examination, but I didn't know until a long time later that I also became a One of the experimental subjects of the cloning research project that has been going on in secret for a long time."

When Lloyd heard this, he didn't know what to say. He learned through Klein that Shi Tao hadn't seen his father since he was ten years old, but he still didn't think that Shi Tao had already experienced this.

"Of course, I was just one of them. He also looked for other children, such as the orphanage in Mindanao. He thought it was an excellent place to provide experimental materials. I didn't know about these things until after I escaped."

"How...how did you escape?" Although Lloyd asked, he had a very bad premonition when he asked. Afterwards, he saw Shi Tao lower his eyes, and it took a long time before he spoke. That surprisingly seems to be the only way to:

"suicide."