If I don't have money to go to college, I can only go to slay the dragon

Chapter 360 The End of the Story
"How far do we have to go?" Renata asked softly in the dark corridor.

Even though she deliberately lowered her voice to the lowest level, her words still echoed infinitely in the corridor, enough to show the length of the corridor.

"Black Swan Harbor is actually bigger than you think. This building was designed with many hidden facilities and buildings, such as attics, terraces, and... basements." Yelena said lightly.

Black Swan Harbor, at four o'clock in the morning, area B of the experimental area.

In the corridor, two girls walked side by side. They are now in the experimental area of ​​Black Swan Harbor. The owner of the port here, Dr. Herzog, will often do some scientific research that is beneficial to the motherland, and climbed to the extreme in the Cold War. However, when the arms race reaches a freezing point, there will always be people who want to find another way and create some creations that can break the situation.

I heard that Black Swan Harbor was born for this reason, so there will be a special experimental area here, covering about one-third of the entire port. The three buildings are connected together in a concave shape, making the corridors inside very long. People are terrified.

This is the most mysterious place in Black Swan Harbor. I heard that sometimes screams can be heard here at night. Bloody footprints can often be seen in the corridor. There are embryos of unknown animals hidden in the laboratory, with blood and tendons. membrane.Some people even witnessed a skinned polar bear lying on the operating table, with the viscera still pulsating from the slashed abdomen.
All kinds of rumors, it seems that the experimental area has been built as a restricted area, and this is indeed a restricted area for unrelated people. There are live barbed wire fences at all entrances, and there are words in Russian on which no entry is allowed. Even the nurses have no right to step on it. Take a step here.

But now, they broke in boldly. Yelena got the key from somewhere, opened a door leading to the experimental area, and brought Renata in. Repeat offenders are familiar with all routes without looking at the map.

Renata walked in the lonely corridor, and could only hear the breathing of herself and Yelena. Here, every word she said, the sound would resound through the empty buildings, and she could only gently cover her mouth, For fear of waking up the monster hidden in this dark building.

The only possible light source for the two of them is the lantern in Yelena's hand. The light is limited and can only illuminate the darkness within five meters. It's like walking in a thick fog. You never know what is waiting for you in the deep darkness .

"I feel like someone is following us." Renata turned her head to look behind her uneasily.

"No one is allowed in the experimental area except for the doctor and related personnel. How could there be anyone else?" Yelena also looked back and comforted Renata.

"." In fact, Renata didn't feel wrong, because someone was really following them at this moment.

Lin Nian hid in the corner of the corner, avoiding Renata's sudden turn of sight. He has undergone professional tracking training from the executive department, and it couldn't be easier to track these two children, especially one of them is still following He knew the situation, even if Renata really accidentally caught a glimpse of his figure, Yelena would probably fool her into seeing him wrong, right?

In the pink room converted from an abandoned freezer, Lin Nian, who was hiding in the closet, listened to the entire conversation between the two. Perhaps from Renata's point of view, what Yelena said, such as "emperor" or something , a little foggy.But from Lin Nian's point of view, every word Yelena said was like thunder.

'Emperor' has been around for decades.

The blond girl was also from decades ago.

The 'Emperor' actually hunted down the blond girl all these years.

Goldilocks' ability is 'cognition tampering'.

But judging from the fact that the blond girl has no physical body appearing in his mind, can it be said that the emperor was successfully hunted down?But why is the blonde girl still leaning over her like a ghost?

Lin Nian didn't know, but the blond girl told him to read on, which probably meant that some mysteries might really be solved this time.He followed the two of them to the end of the corridor, where there was a green leather wooden door with a silver house number and a sentence in German scrawled on it.

Yelena read out this string of characters in German, Renata looked up at her and seemed a little puzzled, she translated it in Russian, "Dr. Jung von Herzog, this is the doctor's office .”

"Doctor's office?" Renata's face turned green at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Every child in Black Swan Harbor is afraid of the head nurse, because the head nurse has the power to confine people. Unlike the doctor, he almost never confines people, and when the children are mischievous, he will only show a gentle smile like an elder.No one should be afraid of this old man, but when the doctor's name is mentioned, no child's face changes drastically because the doctor has performed operations on almost everyone, and the brain surgery requires the use of a cutting machine. The scalpel, that daunting memory, is deeply etched in physical form in everyone's mind.

Renata has never undergone surgery, but she lives among children who are in awe of the doctor. Over time, she also has a fearful attitude towards the gentle and rigorous old man, even if he has always been good to her and did not let her go to the surgery tower.There was a time when she naively thought that the doctor treated her as a special family member, but later, when she noticed some obscure and indifferent emotions in the old man's eyes when he occasionally glanced at all the children, Renata quietly ruled it out. This is possible.

"What are you afraid of? If I want, I can be the doctor's own daughter." The blonde girl shrugged.

"But I'm not." Renata said bitterly.

"You can be, do you think so?" The blond girl turned her head and looked at Renata, "I can set you as the doctor's illegitimate daughter, your mother is a popular singer in the Soviet Union, so boys will I began to think that you are just not developed yet, and you will definitely grow into a real woman with long legs and thin waist in the future!"

"I feel like I won't grow very tall," Renata subconsciously said.

"Try to drink more milk. If you have time to jump on the rubber band, it will help the bones stretch. This is based on science." Yelena opened the door of the office as she spoke, and Renata forgot to stop her when she got distracted. up.

Opening the door, the office was dark, and Yelena turned on the light on the wall. The warm yellow light illuminated the room full of bookshelves. Compared with the office, this place is more like a study room, with bookshelves on the left and right. Books in various languages, most of which are in Russian and German, and a small number of rare languages ​​that Renata has never even seen.

"Aren't we going to find that little boy Matvey? Why are we here?" Renata shrank her head and looked at the book-like room and asked.

"Here he is," said Yelena.

"Here?" Renata and Lin Nian, who was hiding outside the office door and eavesdropping, were taken aback.

The office like the study is not big, only about [-] square meters at most, and bookshelves and books are piled up in most places, and there is no place to hide people at all. Could it be that the little boy is hiding under the desk?

Just when Renata wanted to ask questions, she found that Yelena went straight to the chair behind the desk and sat down, and adjusted her sitting posture comfortably, making it completely unclear to her whether this girl came to find her. It's still an excuse to come to the doctor's office to make trouble.

"Come in, if you don't come in, you won't have a chance to come in soon." Yelena said.

Renata at the door subconsciously took a few steps forward. Yelena bent down and opened the third drawer of the desk. She didn't know what she was doing inside. Suddenly, the whole office shook, and the books on the bookshelves collided with each other. Abnormal sound.

Renata tensed up, thinking that something was wrong, but when she looked back at the door she came from, she found that the door was no longer a corridor, but a wall that was slowly moving!It's not that the walls are moving, but they are moving. The entire office is like an elevator, leading the study-like room slowly sinking towards the underground of Black Swan Harbor.

It's no wonder Yelena said that if she didn't come in, she would have no chance to come in. This sentence was not said to Renata, but to Lin Nian outside the door. He also entered the room at the moment the elevator started. Nata stood behind her without noticing it. When Renata turned her head, he moved his position. His speed and reaction were fast enough to keep him hidden from the other party's sight.

Yelena, as if she couldn't see the big man behind Renata at all, looked at the bewildered girl in front of her and said calmly, "We are going to find Matvey now, but Matvey's condition has been It's not very good, so don't panic when you see him, don't scream."

"Why is he in this kind of place?" Renata's lips were a little dry, and she realized that she seemed to have touched a taboo that she shouldn't have touched. The experimental area was already mysterious enough. And how taboo must the place that the secret elevator leads to be?What happened to Matvey who was hidden there?She had no idea what would happen next, and could only look at Yelena helplessly, because Yelena led all of this to happen, and now she could only follow the other party's pace.

"Actually, I knew Matvey a lot earlier than you guys." Yelena said as she felt the sinking vibration of the office, "It's just that the timing of our first meeting was not very good, and I couldn't communicate with him at all."

"Can't communicate...? Did he not know how to speak back then?" Renata recalled that little boy who couldn't even use a spoon.

"No, it's worse than this." Yelena looked at Renata or the boy behind her and said, "At that time he was like a bloodthirsty beast, a complete little monster."

"Little monster?" Renata couldn't understand, because in her opinion, the boy named Matvey was so harmless, even clumsy and timid. Even if he was bullied, this kind of child would hide his head in the corner Get stoned?How could it be related to monsters.

"No reason, no consciousness, completely controlled by killing instinct." Yelena said, "What did you think?"

"Monster?" Renata originally wanted to talk about polar bears, but polar bears sometimes have very loving scenes, such as playing with little polar bears in the snow. The only things that are irrational and unconscious are man-eating monsters in fairy tales.

"He was like that when I first saw him." Yelena said, "The first moment he saw me, he jumped up and bit my throat like a mad dog. Fortunately, his With five iron chains on my body, I was not thrown to the ground by him, but the strength he erupted at that moment almost tore down the wall. I admit that I was frightened at that time and almost turned around. Run away."

"Five iron chains? What did he do wrong to be imprisoned?" Renata asked in a low voice. In her impression, only criminals would wear iron chains, and only the truly heinous and inhumane bad species would wear them. He will be locked by five chains, but Matvey is only a four or five-year-old child. What reason can he be subjected to such inhuman treatment?

"I don't know, maybe his birth was a mistake." Yelena said, "A mistake that is never allowed by the ethics of the world."

"Even you can't communicate with him?" Renata asked softly.

"Yeah, my tampering cognition has no effect on him. I tried to use my ability to change my status in his mind many times but failed. From the beginning of 'master' to 'doctor', and then to a gentler' "Family" and "friends" have no effect, but I crossed the red line of safety many times and was almost killed by him." Yelena said.

"He's just a child, how could he kill someone?"

"Cubs also practice biting when they are young, let alone monsters."

"But he looked normal during the day today." Renata was really puzzled, unable to connect the little boy she taught him to use a spoon during the day with the terrifying monster hidden in the black swan harbor that Yelena described now together.

"So this is something I'm curious about." Yelena said, "It seems that what the doctor did to him during this period of time may be an experiment or an operation that made him suddenly become polite. Yes. Maybe I can seize this opportunity and get some useful information from him."

The office stopped, and there was a dull vibration when it settled down. After that, there was no longer any vibration, and the office fell into a constant silence.

Here they are.

"Don't look back yet." Yelena said when she saw Renata showing signs of turning around.

Under Renata's puzzled eyes, she said again, "Promise me first, be mentally prepared, don't scream, don't faint, because I haven't tried pinching people to wake up a comatose person, I And I don't want to carry you all the way back to your bed from here."

"Is there something terrifying behind me?" Renata's face became a little stiff.

"That's not true." Yelena said, "I just think that if I stand by your side, your ability to endure should be stronger in the future, right?"

After saying that, she stood up from the desk and walked to Renata's side in front of the gate.

At this time, Renata also gradually realized that the corridor outside the gate was no longer the corridor of the Black Swan Harbor experimental area, but a red light, and the scarlet red light shining into the study from the outside seemed a little cold, like Someone was chasing after his neck.

Renata, who was blown hairy by the cold air, couldn't help turning her head ahead of time.
Just like Orpheus, who was about to break out of hell, didn't hold back his curiosity, and was swallowed by the red light the moment he turned his head, his right foot couldn't help taking a half step back, the hairs all over his body stood on end, and his sympathetic nerves were under tremendous pressure. After the incomparable stimulation, the pupils expanded to the extreme.

Before the childish screams arose, Lin Nian, who had turned behind Renata, had already gently covered her mouth, and knocked her out before she could react.

At this time, Yelena also came to Lin Nian's side. The two stood in front of the office door and watched the scene outside for a while, neither of them spoke first.

"If this dream is a story you made up, then this should be the climax and the end of the story, right?" Lin Nian put down Renata in his hand, and let her lie unconscious on the ground.

"Probably." The blond girl nodded.

Lin Nian glanced at Renata on the ground, then silently raised his head and looked out of the office door. In the reflection in his eyes, there was a faint figure.

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The corpses of children, the corpses of children everywhere.

The cheeks of children of different ages and looks caught Lin Nian and Yelena's eyes. The red light in the underground space brought a different kind of blood to the cheeks of these children, but the thick frost on the pupils But it shows that they have been dead for a long, long time.

The breath of cold and death is the smell of cold rust, which makes people feel it so clearly with every breath. It turns out that death is not just a concept, but a real existence on the material level, and it exists in the black world. Underground of Dr. Herzog's office in Swan Harbor.

"You must be joking." Looking at the scene in front of him, Lin Qingtian sighed.

"I also thought I was joking, but that day, Renata did see this scene, but instead of fainting, she screamed." Yelena said lightly.

"I don't take this seriously." He shook his head.

"I know, whether you believe it or not is up to you. The 'Emperor' has already found you. I think you should know some things, such as your life experience."

"Birth experience? I grew up in an orphanage."

"I'm not denying that." Yelena turned to look at him.

"The orphanage where I grew up is called Sunflower Home, and I have a complete memory of it from childhood to adulthood, including before the age of five."

"Are you sure?" Yelena asked, Ju Yiwen Zezong had already unsheathed and lay across her neck.

"It suddenly occurred to me that you seemed to have said before that your ability usurped cognition." Lin Nian turned his head to look at her, his eyes were calm and cold like the ice that froze the Arctic Ocean outside the port.

"Yeah." Yelena said, "But I also mentioned that this ability doesn't work on Matvey, right? Then why don't you go and see Matvey yourself, that poor little monster?"

As soon as her words fell, Lin Nian beside her had disappeared, leaving only a handful of chrysanthemums, a word Zezong stuck in front of her like a straight nail, the blade cut the ground and spread out spider web-like cracks .

The blond girl stared at the knife and suddenly laughed.

Then she brushed over the knife that escaped from the dream and appeared in reality, walked into the underground space like a corpse exhibition room, and walked among the frozen corpses.

At the end of the underground space, at the end of everything, there is a dark red wall with chalk peeling off to reveal red bricks, where Lin Nian stood quietly.

She stood behind Lin Nian, but Lin Nian looked down at something without looking back.

In front of him, on the scarlet wall grew five chains tightly bound a black-haired little boy, and that little boy was also looking up at him.

The two looked at each other, their faces reflecting each other's faces.

"You're back?" he said timidly.

There is infinite hope reflected in the pair of pitch-black pupils.

(End of this chapter)