【Ruijin】Eye of the Storm

Jin followed Gray far away, he didn't know where the sentinel was going, the words that Leishi said in his ear just now lingered in his mind, and together with the operation report he just got in the office, Jin was disturbed. restless.

Of course he knew that something was wrong with Gray, or maybe he was the first person to notice it.The past of growing up with each other, and the experience of performing tasks together after becoming a partner for many years have long made the tacit understanding between the two of them an existence beyond the link.Rather than saying that something is wrong with Gray recently, it is better to say that the sentinel has been preoccupied since he first came into contact with the ghost fox.He seemed too urgent, which was not Gray's style at all, and it was not like Gray would make a mistake.The silver-haired sentinel has been young and mature since he was a child, with a calm and calm temper. He has never revealed so many personal emotions in missions.And what led to all this, Jin guessed, could only be because the matter of the ghost fox was directly related to the secret that belonged to Gray himself that he didn't know about.

Jin lowered his head and thought, and walked forward unconsciously. Suddenly, his eyes went dark, and his whole body hit the sentry's broad and solid back.Jin clutched his forehead and let out a short "ah", and was knocked back a few big steps.When he looked up again, he was facing Gray who turned around and looked into his eyes, with a hint of helplessness in his expression.Jin stretched his neck and glanced forward. They had reached the fork in the office area and the dormitory area, and there was a roadblock straight ahead.If Gray hadn't stopped in front of him, he probably would have stumbled regardless, so he couldn't help feeling a little embarrassed: "Gerry, I—"

"I'm going back to the tower to do something," the sentry interrupted him, and said to himself, "You go home first."

"..."

Jin was choked by him again, and was a little annoyed for a moment. He raised his volume and asked, "Then when will you come back?"

Gray didn't even look at him, and said calmly, "I don't know yet, I'll hurry up."

Jin took a few steps closer to him, raised his head and looked straight into his eyes and asked, "Are you really busy, or are you just trying to avoid my question?"

Seeing that the sentinel turned his head slightly and did not respond to his intentions, Jin Bendang acquiesced.The blond-haired guide took out the folded report from his jacket pocket, flattened it in his hands and handed it to Gray: "So, can you tell me what's going on?"

The sentinel saw something clearly with his hand, and his eyes flickered slightly.But Gray didn't seem very surprised that Jin found the operation report that he hid, and he only glanced at it, and then quickly looked away.

"The situation at that time was as you saw, I have nothing to say." The silver-haired sentinel said lightly.

Jin's hand holding the thin paper hung back to his side again, and said in a low voice, "Why didn't you tell me about this earlier?"

Gray looked at him and answered him slowly: "Because there is no need."

"... Gray!"

The sentinel narrowed his eyes and said softly: "Because I don't think it is necessary to tell you. At this point, everything is useless. If you tell you that our mark is irreparable, it will not make you feel sad and broken. For us, there is not much difference between whether there is a link that combines sentinel or not.”

Jin was silent for a while, and then asked again: "... Is there really no difference, or do you actually no longer want to maintain this link?"

Gray's expression froze, his aura suddenly became oppressive, and he scolded in a deep voice, "What nonsense are you talking about?"

Jin didn't speak for a while, and only after a while did he turn around and show a brief smile to the other party: "It's okay, I was talking nonsense. It's a joke, a joke."

This is a public area, and the two of them stopped and talked for a long time at the roadblock at the fork, which naturally attracted the attention of other sentries and guides walking back and forth.Gray also seemed to realize that this place is not suitable for them to talk, so he grabbed the wrist of his guide and walked towards their dormitory apartment.

Jin was staggered by him, and quickly adjusted his pace to trot to keep up: "Gerry, are you not going to the Tower for business?"

Gray ignored him, only a stern side face responded to Jin.Jin realized that what he blurted out just now seemed to have really touched the Sentinel's scales. He felt extremely sad, with all kinds of feelings mixed together. He opened his mouth but didn't know what to say, so he simply shut up.

After climbing the stairs, Gray let go of his hand.Jin followed behind him slowly, watched him take out the key to open the door, and followed him in.

After taking off his shoes, Gray walked barefoot to the living room to get a glass of fresh milk from the refrigerator. Jin hurriedly explained to him, and wanted to walk over, but was fixed in place by a look from the sentinel.Gray glanced at his feet, and said unhurriedly: "Take off your shoes."

Jin had no choice but to think that the rule of "you must change your shoes before entering the house" was still set by yourself. He was speechless for a while, but he could only obediently retreat to the entrance and put on the blue cotton slippers at the side before continuing to walk over .

He flirted unconsciously, and didn't dare to look at anyone, so he could only whisper to Gray: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean that just now." He paused, and then continued: "I just think, Is it because of the combination that dragged you down to investigate...some things."

"..." Gray put down the things in his hands and said, "It's okay, it's my problem. Sorry."

"Then you have to promise first and let me know everything." Jin said.

The curtains of the living room were not opened, and the daylight shone through the fabric dimly, making Gray's facial features hidden in the halo.He was silent for a long time, Jin did not speak again, they were all waiting silently.After a long time, the sentry sighed softly, took off the black half-finger gloves on his hands, and put them on the coffee table.

"There's nothing I can't tell you," Gray said, "My parents were once a pair of couples in the tower. Many years ago, they were involved in a storm about illegal drugs and were killed in the end."

Jin stood there without moving, just pursed his lips and watched his movements.Unexpectedly, Gray came straight to him, pulled them to the sofa and sat down together.The fabric sofa they bought together was soft and comfortable. Gray looked the same, and confessed the buried past in his usual calm tone as if he was narrating a combat report: "There is no ceremony, no tombstone, their deaths are Tower ruled illegal. That's what I've been looking into."

Jin took a deep breath, turned to look at him, and whispered, "Did someone from Yita murder your parents?"

The sentinel nodded: "They disobeyed an order from the tower, and they were silenced. I saw it with my own eyes."

"About doping?"

"Well. In the previous long-term investigation, I was basically sure of this: Long before the ghost fox, Ta had already thought of using drugs to transform the human body and create a dark sentinel. Moreover, there are various signs that this kind of The technology should have originated from outside the tower at first, and after being discovered by the tower, a spy was sent to bring back the scientific research details of the development of this medicine to the tower. And the spy sent should be Sister Qiu."

"...What did you say?!" Jin was taken aback, stood up straight away, and looked at Gray in disbelief, "Do you mean that sister is Yita's accomplice? Absolutely impossible!"

Gray frowned: "Before I have the evidence, these are just speculations."

"But my sister wouldn't do such a thing." Jin became a little emotional all of a sudden, "I lived with my sister in the tower when I was just born, until one day she suddenly told me that we had to move to Deng Lu. Within a few months, you came. Later, my sister disappeared, and Tower Chief Daniel sent someone to take us back to the tower. If my sister is really an informant in Yita, why have we been expelled for so many years? You again Why did you come to me?"

Gray stood up, held Jin's shoulders with both hands and brought him into his arms, lowered his voice and said, "I know."

The comforting power of these three words surpassed everything else, Jin's body froze, and all the muscles in his body slowly relaxed.He raised his arms and hugged Gray's waist, and said in a muffled voice: "...you have already found out about my sister's clues, but you didn't tell me, because she is related to your parents' death, isn't it?"

Gray was silent for a while, and then said "hmm" softly.

Jin may have not spoken for a long time, and after a while he muttered: "Do you remember the first movie we watched together?"

Gray was a little confused, so he asked "what movie", Jin rested his chin on his shoulder, and gestured with his hands behind Gray's back: "It's the disc you picked up, the heroine is the one with a Western lady, what do you say that is……"

Gray recalled it for a while, and said, ""Romeo and Juliet"?"

"Hey, that's right, this is it."

Gray withdrew a little and looked at Jin, raised his eyebrows: "What? You think you are Juliet?"

Jin Hammer punched the sentry, pretending to be annoyed: "What are you thinking about! I didn't say anything!"

Grey's mouth curved in a rare way, and Jin stared at that smile for a moment, almost forgetting what he was about to say next: "...you should have told me earlier, otherwise I wouldn't even know that combining with me would cause you harm. So much trouble."

"No."

"...What?" Jin stared blankly at Gray, his own face was reflected in the silver-haired sentinel's purple pupils.Gray's fingers slowly stroked his browbones, the corners of his eyes, and finally fell on his cheeks. The sentinel looked at him with a low voice: "Combination is my own choice, and you didn't drag me down. Jin, you are a natural S-rank , Whether you realize it or not, the top being chased by everyone is not me, but you."

Jin grabbed Gray's hand and looked back at him seriously: "I'm S-class, aren't you? I don't care about that, I just know that marriage is a matter of mutual love and mutual choice. I chose You, you are my only sentinel, what other people think of it has nothing to do with you or me."

As soon as he finished speaking, the sentinel suddenly said, "But what if I shouldn't be me?"

Jin's heart trembled, and he hurriedly asked: "What do you mean by that? Isn't Gray just Gray? What else should or should not be?"

The sentinel kept silent and wanted to go around, but Jin was impatient.He was vaguely aware of the root of the problem, and grabbed Ge Rui's arm to prevent him from avoiding it, and put on a look that was not willing to let go: "You said you were willing to tell me just now, how long has it been since you regretted it?"

Gray also knew that he could no longer fool around this time, so he could only tell the truth in a compromised way: "I mean, I'm not actually a real S-rank sentry."

Jin almost laughed angrily at him: "Are you kidding me? When you awakened, my sister and I were at the side, and the level test when entering the tower was also done together. Maybe I'm a bit slow, but it's not that even All kinds of things go wrong."

Gray shook his head: "The awakening is true, but I am not a natural S-rank sentinel, and the awakening is also caused by artificial factors."

"When I was six years old, I was forcibly brought into the tower's laboratory as a test subject. My parents tried to stop them, but they were killed." Gray closed his eyes, "My memory of being in the laboratory is already very vague. , but I can be sure that it was the medicine injected in the laboratory that made me awaken to S rank, and now it seems that that medicine is the 'banned drug' developed by the tower at that time, and I became S It should be regarded as an accident among accidents."

Jin looked at him dully, and suddenly remembered the memory picture he unintentionally read from the depths of Gray's mind during the picture exchange, and murmured: "What the ghost fox said is true?"

Gray lowered his eyes: "It's true. That's why I doubt it even more. He should have the evidence I've been looking for, which can prove that Ta killed my parents and abused drugs for human experiments. I—"

Before he could finish his words, Jin threw himself into his arms.The guide's raised arms wrapped around his neck, and the soft blond hair rubbed against his bare skin, causing a faint tingling sensation.The sentinel froze for a second, then heard the other party leaning over and whispering in his ear: "Does it hurt?"

At that moment, Gray once again felt that the softest part of his heart was hit hard.

He didn't speak immediately, but slowly raised his hand and rubbed the fluffy top of the other party's hair, then slowly moved down, and finally pressed his finger on the mark that had undergone surgery on the back of the guide's neck: "...that time when I cut here , are you in pain?"

Jin laughed, but his nose was sore immediately, so he tried his best to bury his face into Gray's shoulder: "Of course it hurts, it hurts me to death."

Gray shook his head slowly, covered the guide's wound with his warm and dry palm, and hugged him tighter with his arms.There was a stream of light in his purple eyes, and then he replied in a low voice: "...the pain of the injection is less than one ten-thousandth of when I lost the link."

TBC