hostage

The conversation was divided into two parts. At this time, Miyano Shiho was standing by the river in the wilderness of the suburb of Love Language City. She walked slowly for a while, and walked slowly onto another large lawn. She stopped and stood. In front of the big tree, staring at it blankly, as if wanting to understand the story behind all this.In the evening, the sky gradually turned cooler again, the wind blew up, the branches swayed and rustled, disturbing her thoughts.

She raised her hand and spread her palm, a leaf fell on her palm impartially, an oval one with sharp tip, wavy lines, yellow-green, lovely and elegant.This place is very special. Cinnamomum camphora is a common green plant, but for several miles around, even though the greenery is full of birdsong and flowers, there is only one camphor tree standing there. Fight for spring.

Suddenly Miyano shrank his pupils, his expression changed slightly, he was no longer indifferent, but became more indifferent and serious, as if warning, he closed his hands and tightened the leaves in his hands, lowered his hands, and said coldly to the tree in front of him,

"Don't hide, come out."

A man came out from behind the tree, with a familiar face and a familiar breath, they stood facing each other, his long black hair fluttered in the wind at the same frequency as the branches and leaves. However, it can break the unique peace and tranquility here.

Rye's gaze towards Miyano Shiho also suddenly focused, with cold and guarded eyes, and changed his usual attitude towards Miyano Shiho, but Miyano knew clearly that Rye was not confronting her suddenly at this moment, his The point where the line of sight falls directly is behind her.As sensitive and vigilant as she is, how could she not know that there is another person who also followed her a lot.

The people behind him slowly stepped forward, and stood sideways beside Miyano, without looking at her, they also concentrated on observing the strange yet familiar man in black clothes and black hair in front of him.

This seems to be the first official meeting between these two men. Even though both of them are silent, the sparks that surge in the aura seem to be inadvertently scattered and split, making Miyano Shiho take two steps back involuntarily. .

Just when she was hesitating whether she should withdraw from this unusual "battlefield", Miyano felt her wrist was being held. She looked back at the person who stopped her from escaping, but she didn't know why she didn't want to be a deserter. There is an inexplicable sense of determination spontaneously.The slender wrist is wrapped by a palm that is not rough, and what is conveyed is the temperature of peace of mind.

As for which of these two men can be trusted, the answer is obviously lacking.But relatively speaking, even if they are in the same organization, even if their positions never contradict each other, even if it may be because of Mingmei's ties, Rye has a good cover for herself to prevent her from being restrained by GIN.But what she always seems to be able to feel is that Rye does not belong to the dangerous atmosphere of her companions. She doesn't know whether to trust her instincts. What she doesn't know where the premonition comes from tells her that maybe one day something will ruin her life. Yu Rye...

And what about Xu Mo who was pulling her by his side?Even if they are not very familiar with each other, even if they meet each other a few times in a hurry, they seem to be independent, but every time they confront each other, until now they stand side by side, and they never convey a dangerous signal.Miyano Shiho was just a little alienated and discouraged by the mystery and unknown that Xu Mo himself naturally exudes.

In the final analysis, all the things now are just a pause in my unclarified thinking, not panic, not running away.Just like the moment they met formally for the first time, what she smelled keenly was an aura called "same kind".

"Ares!"

Rye stared straight at the man holding Miyano tightly in front of him, and called out his name, no, or a code name—a code name that he knew well but did not belong to his organization.Suddenly sparks started to burst out of the eyes, and the burst of emotion could not be regarded as hostility, but it was better than hostility.

Miyano thought, if he had a weapon on his body at this moment, I'm afraid this man who has never been gentle would draw his gun and attack him.Thinking about it again, Miyano sighed lightly. In fact, she didn't believe that he didn't carry a gun. However, it might be a matter of propriety. He should know that he couldn't, so he could only warn him.

"Don't worry, we are not enemies, and she is not my hostage to hold you back." Xu Mo chuckled, as if everything was under his control, so confident and flamboyant, the hand holding Miyano's wrist couldn't help but tighten Tight, and then let go, looking directly and indifferently ignoring Rye's intense eyes, "On the contrary, she is the partner you choose to fight side by side with me in order to achieve the goals of both parties, don't you know?"

Fight alongside?Miyano Shiho was dumbfounded, she seemed to understand, but she didn't understand.Xu Mo's choice of words startled her a little. No matter what purpose that gentleman chooses to cooperate with the mysterious group behind Xu Mo, she is just a seemingly frail pharmacologist, even if she is extremely intelligent. , and can't rise to the level of combat, she doesn't want to.

At this moment, Miyano Shiho was standing behind Xu Mo, a distance of one or two steps was enough to see the whole situation.Whether it is Rye or Xu Mo, Miyano captures all the undercurrents between the two. It is an evenly matched confrontation but there is no sense of tit for tat. It seems to be confirming each other's sincerity and whether they can trust each other. allies.

Everything seems to have started, and everything seems to have not yet arrived.

Miyano Shiho remembered the day Vermouth came to her, "Boss needs your cooperation on something."

"Heh, when will it be my turn to be directly assigned by that person?"

Vermouth lit a slender cigarette, twisted it between his fingers, put it gracefully on his lips, took a deep breath, and smiled without saying a word.

"I can't smoke." After he finished speaking, he paused, remembering his ridicule just now, "I am talking too much."

"It's good to understand, that gentleman is not open to comment. All matters are directly under the boss's orders, and I will convey them, you..." Vermouth took a deep breath of cigarettes before he could speak, and continued to express, "You also have the right Rejected... GIN won't ask too much about this matter."

Just when she was thinking about the credibility of Vermouth's words and was questioned and answered again, GIN entered the door and threw her a stack of Xu Mo and the unknown hidden in the darker depths behind him, However, the information of the group that almost coincides with the ultimate goal of the gentleman.So she had no choice.

"Sherry, this is your next mission... This is the person I want to investigate, and I don't need to worry about the others." GIN gave her an order that was not an order. She remembered that at that time GIN then glances at Vermouth again

, and continued, "What you are going to do... Well, I don't care, but I don't trust the so-called alliance."

After GIN left, she still vaguely remembered what Vermouth left before walking out the door with his back turned to her: "As scientists, you should also have some communication, and you... can't always stay in this dark place." in the cage of..."

Looking at the back of the graceful woman in front of him, Miyano's gaze darkened, and he raised his eyes again, staring intently, as if he could feel Miyano's puzzled gaze from behind, Vermouth half turned his body, looked back at her, The look is not the usual charm and publicity, but more of a light and long feeling of loneliness: "Not everyone wants to defy time and dominate the world."

"what?"

Vermouth didn't explain the sentence that she seemed to be muttering to herself, and seemed to be hinting to Miyano, but raised her chin, pointed at the information about Xu Mo that Miyano was holding at the time, and teased,

"Heh...he's not bad, why don't you think about it."

Immediately, she left behind a string of her trademark exaggerated laughter and went away.

"Are you talking to the kitten?"

"Animals don't understand human speech."

who is thiswhere is she nowShe looked around, as if she was still under the camphor tree, but there was no sign of Rye in front of her eyes, and Xu Mo was nowhere to be seen when she looked sideways. There was only a seven or eight-year-old boy in her sight, with a white shirt and a tie. Wearing a beige wool vest with suit shorts, it looks like a British school uniform.

He stood under the tree, looking down at a little girl about four or five years old, with a white blouse, red suspender skirt, red leather shoes, short shoulder-length hair tied with a red bow, pretty and lovely, but muttering Talk to the cat slangily.

The boy interrupted her mischievousness inexplicably, sighed like an adult, and said, "Then why didn't you go with them just now?"

"Because... I haven't had dinner yet!" The girl replied innocently, and asked again, "Big brother, who are you?"

"I come here to draw pictures every day. I came late today and saw you talking to the kitten."

The picture flashed back a bit. Miyano Shiho couldn't hear the two children's conversation for a moment, but after a while he saw the two children sitting under the camphor tree. The boy hesitated a little, but immediately handed over the drawing board in his hand to little girl.

The wind blew up the tree, and also the pages on the drawing board. The pages seemed to dance with the wind. Miyano saw sketches of various characters. Although the brush strokes were immature, each expression was meticulous and vivid. It's not thick and colorful, but it's also bright in color.Tossing and turning, she didn't know what segment was skipped, the noisy rustling sound made her only hear the small echoes, but she couldn't grasp the words.Suddenly everything was calm again, and she heard the little boy ask,

"What's your name? How old are you?"

"I'm going to be five soon, I just learned to write my name, I'll show you."

She saw the little girl holding the boy's hand and gesticulating in his palm. This moment fell into Miyano Shiho's eyes so clearly, like a slow motion playback, Miyano couldn't help following the little girl's fingertips in the air Describing, this, this is: Leisurely? !

"how about you?"

"I am 8 years old, and my name is Xu Mo."

In an instant, as if something was broken, Miyano was able to hear the sound of his heart beating faster and faster. Every time the strength of the sound was conveyed to his mind, he could break out in a sweat.

"Give me your hand."

Like a call, from a familiar and gentle whisper, Miyano stretched out his hand unconsciously, and let go of his clenched fist. The leaf that was once wrapped in his palm regained its freedom, blowing away with the wind. And it floated away, and landed again.The wrist was held by another hand, with the same temperature and the same peace of mind.

"The sun is setting, it's time to go back."

"it is good."

The picture turns around, and it is in a room, like a living room, a typical arrangement of a Japanese-style apartment, with sofas on both sides facing each other, and only an ashtray on the coffee table in the middle, with cigarettes and lighters on the side.The curtains on both sides were drawn, leaving only the window in the middle, with a faint light shining through, but the sky was not good, and the room was shrouded in obscurity.

There was a man with his back to him, in a brown suit, standing tall in front of the dim light, looking helpless and lonely; on the other side, he was sitting with a woman on the sofa, with his head bowed , her waist-length brown hair slightly covered her side face, and she was only seen wearing a pair of black sunglasses, which added a layer of weirdness to this dim room.

But such a strange woman doesn't make Miyano Shiho feel terrible, even if he can't see the woman's expression, Miyano can still feel a natural tenderness.Looking down, she saw that she was sitting on her knees, with her hands on her knees, her head lowered, with a lonely and helpless expression on her face, she should be looking at the little girl who was trying to get her legs up.

The girl was only four or five years old, with short black hair down to her neck, a taupe-colored top and black suspenders, and she looked at the woman with an innocent and ignorant look, as if she was calling her by mouth, it should be: Mother.

"Mother?"

Wait, who is this girl?Why is it so familiar, as if I have seen it somewhere.Miyano was shocked, as if he was about to wake up, sister!

The picture turned again, and the little girl seemed to have grown up a lot, about ten years old, and said to a strong and vicious man: "We are only so little, these pharmacological theories, how can we understand them?" .”

"But your sister is very happy."

The little girl turned her head and saw a girl who was a little smaller than her, with tea-brown shoulder-length short short hair, but it was not smooth, like a natural curl, and it seemed a little messy on the top of the head, curled up on the window sill, holding a book A thick book, read with gusto.

"Let them come with me." There was a man sitting in a wheelchair with his back facing them, but Miyano Shiho didn't seem to be able to see his attire clearly, he only felt that the wheelchair was a mass of black.

Afterwards, they were taken to a laboratory. Many people were wearing white coats and masks, staring intently at the instruments in their hands, without any special expressions, and no one paid attention to them.The curly-haired girl suddenly looked very happy, looked around, and then suddenly escaped from the restraint of several men in black suits, and shuttled around the various experimental platforms, as if possessed by a demon, staring at the experimenter's movements intently.

Until she came to a table and saw a few pages of paper scattered around the table, she stood on tiptoe, pulled the edge of the table with her immature hands, looked at the words on the paper for a while, and then opened her mouth lightly, immature The child's voice came, but it was in a tone completely inconsistent with his age: "No, this formula should not be written! It should be..."

Many experimenters suddenly seemed astonished, and stopped their movements for an instant. Time seemed to pause at this moment, and an unusual silence gathered in the air.The curly-haired girl raised her eyes and looked around. There was no sense of innocence in her eyes, but instead, she was puzzled, curious, and undeniably stubborn.

Only then did she realize that this was a place she didn't know, and she was surrounded by people she didn't know, but she didn't seem to be afraid. Looking back and searching around, she saw a weak and familiar girl, and she smiled. Wei Wei was not very happy.But at this moment, Miyano Shiho saw the other girl's expression clearly, she frowned, fear and worry rose spontaneously in her eyes.

"Hahahahaha, very good, very good, as expected of the mad scientist's daughter!"

A violent and arrogant laughter broke the silence, the sound came from the man in the wheelchair, Miyano still couldn't see the man's appearance clearly, only his voice could be heard.

"Focus on nurturing well." Hearing the repeated yes replies beside him, he immediately glanced at the boy with short silver hair and a cold expression standing in the corner, "Children, remember these two girls. The daughter is under your control, um, the younger one, send her to America."

Time flies, I don’t know how many springs and autumns have passed, the girl has grown up, she still has dark brown shoulder-length curly hair, wearing a beige long coat, standing alone on one side of the airport, a man walking towards him, wearing a black windbreaker, The long silver hair vibrates and flies with the steps, and it is born before it reaches the eyes, but there is no nonsense,

"Remember, my name is GIN, from now on...you belong to me!"

Then he turned his ankle, turned and walked forward again, the girl had no choice but to keep up with him, and two or three burly men in black suits came over to carry her luggage for her.The man named GIN suddenly turned his head around again, biting his head and said coldly,

"Please also remember, from now on, your code name, Sherry!"

what--

Miyano Shiho sat up straight all of a sudden, put her hands on the bed, propped on her sides, and kept panting heavily. After a while, she felt a little calmer. She raised one hand and put it on her forehead I don't know if it's cold sweat or tears, in short, there are either water drops or water scratches on the hands.

She took out a piece of tissue and wiped her face. What happened to her?She doesn't even remember, but she clearly remembers Xu Mo saying "give me your hand" under the camphor tree, and she clearly remembers that she answered "yes", but now?She was already on the bed in the hotel where she was staying.

After calming down for a while, Miyano remembered that everything just seemed like a movie, was it just a dream?Is that room in the dream, the men and women in the dream, my home and my parents?

For a long time, she has very little understanding of her family and her parents. She only knows that her parents are both pharmacologists of the organization. Her father, Koji Miyano, has the title of mad scientist, while her mother is called "Hell Angel". ", but she has never had the impression of these, it is said that they died unexpectedly not long after she was born, but now looking back at the scene in the dream...their appearance makes people feel as if their deaths were foretelled in advance Scattered and decisive...

And my sister when I was a child... So I was chosen like this?She suddenly remembered her sister's expression in her dream, that frowning, which firmly stuck in her heart, and she suddenly had a doubt, is it because her sister is really not talented enough to get into this embarrassing situation today?And what about herself?

My desire to express myself when I was a child, now I look at it, is really ridiculous, not like naive but more like naive, bit by bit, I pushed myself into the cage.is that so?For more than ten years, she has never recalled everything about her childhood, and even with her own sister, she has few memories worth recalling because of the lack of contact.And tonight...

But what is going on? !

Yes, it's Xu Mo!It seemed that before the nightmare, she also saw Xu Mo when she was a child, and... Tao Youran when she was a child?

Thinking of this, Miyano Shiho reached out and groped on the bedside table, as if looking for something, but found a pencil, then remembered that he had not turned on the light, pressed the button to turn on the light, and saw a piece of paper under the pen, the paper An address was written on it, and there was a line:

『When you wake up, come and meet me at the Firefly Exhibition Hall of Love Language City. —— Xu Mo

——TBC——