Can the sadness that magic cannot take away be offset by love?

That night.

Iris Adela drank the invisibility potion that had been prepared long ago and sneaked silently into the underground corridor of the Ramirez family.

Having just walked through this place during the day, she was not unfamiliar with the place. After turning seven or eight corners, she found the laboratory where the clones were often located. However, she was not in a hurry to go in because she vaguely heard voices coming from behind the door.

After a while, the door creaked open, and Ernest went out and walked back to the ground until Iris confirmed that his breath had completely disappeared.

Just as she was about to take a step forward, a familiar breath suddenly approached, so she stopped moving. A gray-blue space magic circle unfolded not far from her, and then the figure of Phoenix Ulrich gradually solidified.

Looking at the face that had frequently appeared in her nightmares, Iris did not show much fluctuation. The information of this biology doctor in the file was very detailed, because she was the main trainer and guide of the clone "Ecelia", and Iris could roughly guess why she was given such a responsibility -

In addition to her strong professional skills, her personal experience with Iris herself is a great advantage in this job.

Replacing the word "contact" with "tease" doesn't make much difference.

During Lawrence's time, not to mention how long Adela was unable to eat or sleep because of the vivid human head that surprisingly appeared in the refrigerator, the woman's repeated and rapid replacement of the identities of puppet and puppeteer was enough to scare the girl into waking up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat.

At that time, influenced by Phoenix, she lived for a long time in doubt and shadow, wondering whether the people around her would take out a puppet stone from her in the next second or whether she would see a new human head when she opened the refrigerator when she got home today.

After seeing the information sent by the "spy", in order to prevent herself from losing composure and causing irreparable consequences after meeting Phoenix, she looked at the photo of that woman repeatedly for hundreds of times, so as to be able to keep calm at the critical moment.

Because even if you use invisibility potions, if you have certain emotional fluctuations, or even just stare at someone for a little while, it can easily attract the attention of alert people and those with a strong sixth sense.

In fact, the invisibility potion she used was specially made to avoid the Ramirez family's anti-invisibility magic monitoring system. Its anti-exposure ability was much stronger than the original version, but relatively speaking, the level of her opponents was much higher than what the ordinary invisibility potion could handle.

Phoenix Ulrich is a subordinate of high status in the Ramirez family, and her strength and vigilance must not be underestimated.

After the other party left the laboratory's exclusive space teleportation array, he entered the laboratory without making any extra stops. When Iris leaned forward to eavesdrop, she heard Ulrich say:

"You must take good care of the things that the young master gave you. It's best not to leave them for a moment. You know, this is what you have always desired, and it is also your most precious opportunity."

"You already said I know... Can you please not cut so much? Just cut it here."

"No, they have to be cut to the same length. You don't want to make mistakes with such details."

"Okay, okay. Although I really want to grow my hair longer...why doesn't that person like long hair? She always keeps it to her shoulders. Doesn't she know it would look better if it was longer?"

"Stop talking nonsense, turn your head sideways, and I'll trim your hair."

"Oh."

After that, there was no more talking in the room, only the rustling sound of scissors.

By the time they finished cutting their hair, Iris's magic wave isolation array was almost complete. As Phoenix was saying "good night" to her experimental subject, Iris quietly stepped back from the door, leaving a proper distance.

"Squeak-"

As the door was slightly opened, the light of the new magic circle on the ground flowed smoothly, and the slender and sharp ice cones stabbed towards the door mercilessly, piercing the woman's neck before she could react, then passed through her and stabbed into the subject's hand which was reaching out to the red button on the wall, nailing her palm to the wall. At the same time, a long spike pressed against the subject's throat to prevent any possible scream.

These actions were completed almost instantly. Iris quickly dragged Phoenix Ulrich's motionless body into the laboratory, closed the door with her backhand, cast a few defensive and alarm spells, then turned around and kicked the woman's waist a few times, saying calmly:

"If you keep pretending to be dead, I'll put you in formalin. You can pretend to be dead for the rest of your life."

The woman's eyes, which had been tightly closed, suddenly opened wide. She stretched out her hand to cover her neck and struggled to stand up. Iris rolled her hand with her toes, signaling her to lie back down. The woman gritted her teeth and did as she was told. When she took back her hand from her neck, the scar that had been bleeding had disappeared without a trace. She said unhappily:

"Where's the problem with my illusion magic?"

Iris thrust the sharpest tip of the ice cone into her abdomen, stepped on her hand that was trying to cast a spell secretly, and then answered cooperatively:

"The problem is that you underestimate your own strength in the eyes of others."

Phoenix's other hand, which was about to cast a spell, was frozen the moment it moved. She turned her head and blinked at the stunned experimental subject:

"Did you read it carefully? This part is not written in the information, you have to read it carefully..."

Before she finished her words, a thin layer of ice covered the woman's lips. The subject watched helplessly as her body was placed in the airtight ice in an instant, and her breathing became much more rapid.

"you you……"

Seeing the man with the same appearance as himself, whose clothes were stained with scarlet blood, walking towards him step by step, the subject was dazed for a moment, then quickly came out of his thoughts, his eyes full of fear and vigilance:

"Don't come over... don't kill her... please, give her some room to breathe... No... don't come over... wait... if you kill me, can you please not kill her?"

Facing the subject's plea on behalf of himself and the trainer, Iris responded by pressing the dagger she had sharpened in advance against the subject's neck:

"If you could do me a little favor."

The experimental subject knew the location of important information such as the original data of various related research, crude experimental samples, etc. Iris destroyed them one by one to ensure that they could not make a new "Ecelia" in a short time, and then thawed Phoenix in the experimental subject's eager eyes.

Under Iris's cold gaze, the subject knelt down beside Phoenix, and blood from the hole in his palm dripped onto the woman's body, each drop was heart-shaking.

"Teacher, teacher, how are you... Teacher... Woo..."

The girl tried to feel Phoenix's breath with shaking hands, but was pushed away by the woman who suddenly sat up.

Before they could fully savor the joy of recovering an important person, the shadow gradually approaching them under the incandescent light set off the alarm bells in the subjects' hearts once again.

She turned her head sharply and saw Iris approaching quickly with a dagger in her hand. She said angrily:

"I've already taken you to see those things, are you going to go back on your word?!"

Iris smiled and said:

"Can't I go back on my word? I thought I was being merciful enough by giving you two minutes to spend time together."

Ulrich, who had been holding his breath for several minutes, had not yet caught his breath. Seeing this, he said anxiously:

"I gave you several puppet stones for free. Do you want to kill the creditor before you pay off the debt?"

Iris thought of the broken but useful stones dotted around the human head in the refrigerator, and she still kept her original smile:

"Really? But I don't think you have the authority to mobilize those puppet stones that are worth more than you. Did your young master ask you to hand them over to me?"

She observed Ulrich's expression and continued indifferently:

"If so, that's even better. I'm not afraid of owing him something, because he already owes me a lot."

Wu Li hoped that the tip of his knife would get closer and closer to him, and he said in a very steady but fast tone:

"After all, I handed the things to you. It's fine if you want to kill me, but you can't kill my experimental subjects again - that would be a waste, don't you think?"

At the critical moment of life and death, Ulrich calmed down. She was close to Iris so that she could clearly see her face reflected in the dagger in her hand.

The experimental subject also understood what his guide meant and tried to buy time for the two:

"That's right. Since I can be used by people other than you, I can certainly be used by you. You know I can't resist you, and I won't resist you. If you want to kill me, I can't escape. But before that, you can squeeze out all my remaining value."

Iris paused in her steps, and after receiving the trainer's affirmative gaze, she mustered up her courage and continued:

"And if, if you want to control me better, you will need to understand my weak spot——"

While speaking, he was looking at Iris's experimental subject devoutly, and at the end of his words he looked at Phoenix.

She was trying to make sure Iris could keep both of them. Then, she added:

"You just need to make me more like you - I mean, I can better play my role - like..."

The subject was a little stuck when he said this. Iris narrowed her eyes and slowly repeated:

"for example?"

The experimental subject was forced to swallow his saliva under her pressure, and said nervously:

"Like, take me to some place you've been, like, like an amusement park."

The subject had been deliberately avoiding Iris's gaze when he spoke, but this time he accidentally made eye contact with her, so she lowered her eyes in even greater panic, her fingers tightly grasping the hem of her clothes:

"I, I have never been to the amusement park. I was next to you when I had the physical examination this afternoon, and I heard you talking... I haven't seen the carousel that glows and sings as you said, nor have I seen a pirate ship that swings back and forth, nor have I seen a bungee jumping machine with protective gear that can be used to whip people... I, I just want to see these things, I don't want to die. I was created by someone who has bad intentions towards you, and I was born unable to refuse the mission given by the creator. This does not mean that you and I will always be on opposite sides - you see, you have brought about a turning point. You can use me, really, I will listen to you, please..."

The subject's tearful plea made Iris frown. Even Phoenix Ulrich couldn't tell how much of her words were true and how much were false.

Including Iris Adela's subsequent reaction, Ulrich was unable to figure out the reason -

She cut off the biology doctor's hands from the shoulders, then gave Ulrich a hemostatic potion and a healing potion, saving his life. Then, she wanted to take both of them away.

Was it because of the experimental subject's words that aroused sympathy, or was it simply because he wanted to take advantage of the experimental subject and find its weak spot?

Or maybe it's both?

Ulrich's consciousness gradually blurred in the severe pain. Before she fell into a coma, she saw the silly experimental subject squatting on the ground. Her tears had clearly fallen all over the ground. She probably couldn't even see the road clearly, but she was still trembling as she took out a ring from her broken hand that had fallen to the ground.

It is called a ring, but in fact it is just a crude ring made of a wire, and the shape of the ring is very irregular, and it is obviously made by hand.

Oh, it turns out that this silly girl was looking for the fake ring that her breeder had made for her using scraps that were about to be thrown into the trash a few days ago. She almost forgot about it after putting it on her hand.