Sanctuary Paradise

Chapter 275 Disease of the Soul
"Uncle Adolf, what's the continuation of that story last time?"

"Uncle Adolf, I have finished all the questions you gave me last time!"

"Uncle Adolf..."

Childish voices sounded one after another. In front of the gate of the orphanage, more than twenty children surrounded the tall Adolf and talked excitedly. One or two of the more naughty ones even climbed directly onto Adolf's shoulders and looked down. The child began to make faces.

"Okay, I heard what everyone said, but can you please be quiet for a while? Uncle brought guests here this time?"

Adolf gently rubbed the head of a little girl holding his thigh, looked at the children in front of him, said in a gentle tone, and pointed to Xin Lailai and others beside him.

"They are great heroes from outside the world. My uncle saw with his own eyes how they fought against the Zodiac."

"A great hero from outside the world? Really?!"

When the children surrounding Adolf heard this, their eyes all lit up, and they all looked at the three Xin Lailai beside them.

"Hello, I am a performer. Just like Mr. Adolf said, I am someone from outside this world."

Xin Lailai knelt down, looked straight at the little girl with purple hair and red eyes wearing a peaked cap in front of him, and said with a smile.

"Brother Performer, is everything Uncle Adolf said true? Have you really fought with the Zodiac?!"

A child came forward, looked at Xin Lailai curiously with his big, smart eyes, and asked.

"To say that the battle is an exaggeration is a bit exaggerated. We just narrowly escaped from the hands of the Zodiac. Without the help of Mr. Adolf, we might have died in their hands."

"Haha, your Excellency, the performer, is too humble. Without relying on the Dark Steel Mecha, you were able to fight against the two Zodiac Signs for so long with your own strength, and even blocked the attack of Sagittarius from the front. These in themselves are beyond my comparison.”

Adolf laughed heartily and the children around him stared wide-eyed when they heard what Adolf said.

The information in Leviathan is not closed at all. In other words, because it is busy with construction and soldier training, no entertainment industry has developed in Leviathan at all.

Therefore, from adults who are busy at work to children living in residential areas, the greatest pleasure every day is to listen to the soldiers returning from the outside describing the conditions of the outside world.

Therefore, even if they have not seen it with their own eyes, the children present have heard countless times how terrifying the zodiac is.

"Really...really? Is the performer brother really that good?!"

"How did the big brother, the performer, stop it? Are the zodiac signs like mountains?"

"Brother, performer, do you know brother Doji? Are you from the same place?"

"Brother, performer, what is the outside world like? Are there aliens? What do aliens look like? Do they have big heads?!"

Childish questions rang out one after another. The children looked at Xin Lailai curiously, eager to know the answer.

"Well, to compare with mountains, if Pisces could stand upright, it would probably be higher than the Himalayas. Sagittarius's attacks are also terrifying. When shooting arrows, the whole sky will be as bright as day."

"As for the outside world, although there are races with big heads, I see more humans like you..."

Xin Lailai squatted there and described it vividly to the children in front of him. He heard the eyes of each child flashing and he was completely immersed in it.

Ling Yuzi, who was standing behind Xin Lailai, looked at this scene with soft eyes, and a gentle smile unconsciously appeared on the corner of his mouth under the mask.

Quan Momo on the side rubbed the corner of her eyes in disbelief, as if she couldn't believe that the performer who could scare people to death when she got along could actually talk and laugh with a group of children.

……

three hours later.

"I didn't expect you, the performer, to be so good at getting along with children. It took me several days to get to know them well."

In the stands on the top floor of the orphanage, Adolf leaned in front of the railing, looked at Xin Lailai beside him, and said with a smile.

"Don't Mr. Adolf know that I call myself a performer? It is a matter of course that a qualified performer can adapt to various performances."

Xin Lailai narrowed his eyes slightly and looked down at Ling Yuzi and Quan Momo, who were playing with their children on the lawn below, and said with a smile.

"Your Excellency, the performer, there is no need to be so polite. Although I am not a smart person, I have lived for such a long time. Whether a person's behavior is disguised or sincere, you can still more or less tell."

Adolf heard what Xin Lailai said, looked seriously into Xin Lailai's eyes, and smiled:

"I can see that you really don't have any ill intentions towards those children. It must be because of this that the children got to know you so quickly. They are much more sensitive to people's hearts than us adults."

"Maybe, at least when you get along with a group of kids, you really don't have to think too much about why."

Xin Lailai said, leaning against the railing, looking up at the artificial sun emitting soft light in the sky, and murmured.

"Speaking of which, Mr. Adolf, I saw that many of those children seem to be cursed children?"

"Well, yes, after all, most of their parents can no longer be found."

Adolf also looked at the scene in the sky, stared at the reflections of the buildings, and whispered.

"Does Leviathan's army still use the Cursed Sons?"

Xin Lailai glanced at the two children climbing the tree diagonally below him with his peripheral vision and said.

"We're not despicable enough to send a bunch of kids to war."

Adolf looked serious and said seriously, but then his expression softened and a hint of bitterness appeared on his face, and he said self-deprecatingly:
"As much as I want to say this, in fact, due to the huge gap in strength, we really have to borrow their power to protect this fortress."

Adolf said, looking down at his broad palm, shaking it, with a complicated look in his eyes.

"It's really ironic. I tried my best to learn Tendo's fighting skills in the hope that children like them would never go to the battlefield again. But without the Zero Unit they formed, ordinary people like us would have died long ago in the battle with the Zodiac Twelve The palace is at war."

"That's enough."

Xin Lailai's voice sounded, and his eyes were slightly lowered. He turned around, looked at the harmonious scene below, and said:

"At least, they have the right to make their own choices. Just seeing this scene is enough as an answer."

"Maybe, to be honest, I didn't think about that much. I was just moved by the ideas of the Satomi Archon, so I came here."

Adolf smiled softly, with a trace of reminiscence in his eyes.

"Sometimes when I think about it, life is really unpredictable. Do you know, Mr. Performer? At the beginning, I actually wanted to be a primary school teacher."

"As a result, I found that none of those schools were willing to accept these children, so I was so angry that I set up a school specifically for them."

After Adolf said this, he fell silent and looked at the scene below, his eyes stopping on a child sitting on a chair and drawing quietly.

"Is she the only one left?"

"Yes, Xiao Fu was the only one left. She was sick at the time, and I took her to see a doctor. When I came back, the school was already..."

At this point, Adolf paused again, lowered his head, clenched his hands unconsciously, and did not continue.

Xin Lailai did not continue to ask. In the original work, Satomi Rentaro, the protagonist, also served as a teacher for the Cursed Son, but in the end, someone attacked him with explosives mixed with Shaogang fragments while he was away. A classroom where children gathered.

Perhaps because of the changes in the world, this plot in the original work never happened again, but that's all.

After all, what happened to Rentaro Satomi in the original work is just a microcosm of everything that happened in a corner of the black bomb world.

"Om~!"

Suddenly, the communication device next to Adolf's ear vibrated. Adolf's expression changed slightly, he pressed the switch and started listening.

"Hey, yes, I'm right next to the performer. What's the matter?"

"Is that so, okay, I understand, I will tell him." After Adolf finished speaking, he looked at Xin Lailai aside, a look of hesitation flashed on his face, but then he became firm and said with a solemn expression:

"Your Majesty the Performer, can I ask you something?"

Xin Lailai squinted his eyes slightly, glanced at a building in the distance, nodded slightly, and said:

"Please ask."

"Do you...know how to treat disease?"

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Upon hearing Adolf's question, a glint flashed in Xin Lailai's eyes. After deliberately remaining silent for a while, he said:

"Although I can't guarantee it, I can give it a try."

……

……

The strong smell of disinfectant filled the air, white lights shone on the silent corridor, and then a series of hurried footsteps suddenly sounded.

boom!
Finally, along with the anxious sound of the door opening, Adolf's voice suddenly sounded in the ward:
"Consul, Your Majesty the Performer is here!"

In the snow-white ward, Satomi Rentaro, who was sitting next to the hospital bed and holding the hand of the thin figure on the bed with a gloomy expression, suddenly raised his head and looked at Xin Lailai who was standing at the door, with a bright light in his eyes.

Another long-haired woman standing nearby, wearing a white coat and looking haggard, also moved her gaze towards Xin Lailai.

"Mr. Satomi, can you please let me see Miss Tina's condition?"

Xin Lailai stepped forward, stood in front of the hospital bed, looked at Rentaro Satomi in front of him, and said.

"No problem, please performer sir."

Satomi Rentaro took a deep breath, nodded, stood up and stepped aside, his dim pupils showing a hint of hope.

Xin Lailai nodded slightly and said nothing more. Instead, he moved his gaze to the figure on the hospital bed:

On the snow-white hospital bed, a blond loli who looked to be about 12 years old was sitting with her eyes closed tightly. A look of pain deformed by pain could be seen on her pale face.

Tina Sprant.

In the original work, he is a starter who ranks among the top [-] in the IP rankings. He has amazing physical fitness and is a powerful plot character who was once smashed from the top of a building by Rentaro Satomi to the bottom and survived.

With such a physique, coupled with the gastrula genes in the body, it is impossible for ordinary viruses to defeat it.

Therefore, when he heard that the other party was "critically ill", Xin Lailai understood that there was something going on in this world that he had no idea about.

And now it seems...

"Is this... gastroenterovirus infection?"

A confused voice came from under Xin Lai Lai's mask. Xin Lai Lai looked at Tina Sprunt lying on the hospital bed in front of him, a serious look flashed in his eyes.

At a glance, one can see purple-black marks like corpse spots on the girl's body and arms. Not only that, but slender black feathers are seen breaking out of the girl's body. And out, lying there quietly.

The scene in front of him, as well as the results detected at the edge of Xin Lailai's sight, all explained the root cause of the girl's current appearance:
[Gastrelovirus erosion rate: 48.7%]

"I remember that the erosion problem of gastrula virus has been solved, hasn't it? Why would she..."

"It has indeed been solved, but the method is ineffective for them."

A hoarse female voice sounded, and the woman in a white coat standing aside, as if she hadn't rested for several days, said:

"Obviously after taking out their blood, we can use instruments to purify their blood back to a normal state, but they themselves are still showing signs of irreversible erosion by the gastrula virus."

"Even after trying various methods, we can only alleviate the process, but we can't treat them at all."

The woman in the white coat stared at Tina on the hospital bed and said in a deep voice.

Totally incurable erosion?
and……

"The blood taken out can be purified, but the body itself can't?"

Xin Lailai looked at Tina Sprunt in front of him, opened his psychic field, and observed every detail of her body with a solemn expression, trying to discover something.

"Huh? This is...?!"

Suddenly, Xin Lailai seemed to have discovered something. His pupils shrank slightly, he looked at Ling Yuzi standing behind him, and asked hurriedly in his mind:
‘Ling Yuzi, can you try to extract her soul? ’

‘Her soul strength is not very high, so she should be able to do it. ’

Ling Yuzi replied, beside the hospital bed, he stretched out his hand and concentrated on controlling the soul energy.

An invisible hand began to form, slowly sinking into Tina's body, and then...

Whoa-!
As the soul palm pulled, a soul shadow that no longer looked like a human was suddenly pulled out.

It is exactly what Tina Sprunt looks like after being eroded, but the degree of erosion on the soul shadow is much more serious than what appears on the body. The entire body is almost completely covered by feather-like things. The limbs also began to show obvious deformation, and the shoulder blades on the back were also severely bulged, as if they could break out of the body at any time.

‘Sure enough, there is something wrong with the soul! ’

Xin Lailai looked at Tina's soul, which was being held by Ling Yuzi in front of him, and his pupils shrank slightly, confirming his suspicion.

"Doctor! Tina...Miss Tina's erosion rate has stopped growing!"

At this moment, a shout of surprise sounded, and the little nurse in front of the screen shouted, but before Rentaro Satomi could show his joy, Xin Lailai's cold voice suddenly came:
"Unfortunately, that is just an illusion. The cause of Miss Tina's illness is in her soul. The physical changes stopped just because we just extracted her soul, but the condition of her soul is still deteriorating. .”

soul?

Hearing Xin Lailai's words, several people were slightly startled and seemed unable to realize what Xin Lailai meant.

"Give them that."

Xin Lailai looked at Ling Yuzi aside and said. Ling Yuzi nodded, took out a few charm-like objects from the storage space, and placed them in the hands of several people in the ward.

"Put it on your body, and you can temporarily see what Tina really looks like now."

This is a prop called [Yin Yang Talisman] that she mastered after studying soul science and alchemy seal science, which allows people to temporarily see the soul body of living things.

Satomi Rentaro, Izumi Momo and others did as they were told, and then their breaths suddenly suffocated. Izumi Momo was so frightened by the ferocious appearance of Tina's soul that he lost his legs.

"This...is this really Tina?!"

"Yes, although it's not clear why it became like this, her soul is indeed undergoing serious mutations now."

Xin Lailai said, looking at Rentaro Satomi, his eyes slightly lowered, and said:

"I'm sorry, Mr. Satomi. As you can see, although I have figured out the cause of the disease, I still cannot cure her with my methods."

When Satomi Rentaro heard this, his expression froze, he looked at Xin Lailai, his mouth opened slightly, as if he was planning to say something, but in the end he nodded and said in a hoarse voice:

"Is that so? I understand. Thank you so much for your help, Mr. Performer..."

"However, while there is no cure, there are ways to stop the condition from getting worse."

Before Rentaro Satomi could finish speaking, Xin Lailai's voice came again, bringing a gleam of light to Rentaro Satomi's gloomy expression.

……

(End of this chapter)