Rebirth in the end of the world, hold the ex's thigh tightly

"Okay, that's it."

Cheng Jing signaled to Huang Qian and Jiang Nian, and they understood and turned around to leave.

"sorry Sorry……"

The woman kept repeating her apologies to herself. She felt her throat getting hard and her voice gradually becoming dull and hoarse.

Slowly closing my eyes, the faces of my daughter and husband in my mind gradually became blurred...

Walking out of the bedroom, Jiang Nian looked at Xiaoya who was sleeping on the sofa. A hint of coldness flashed across his eyes, but he was secretly heartbroken. He clenched his teeth tightly, and there was a struggle in his heart:

'In addition to the woman in the room, the girl in front of me is also an accomplice! Even if she is controlled, in today's world, without a complete judicial process, it is only natural that murderers must pay with their lives!'

"But she is just a poor child controlled by her mother and controlled by supernatural powers. She has no autonomy and is helpless. It's right for her to want to save her father, but it's her mother's deception that is wrong..."

"..."

Jiang Nian bent down and placed his hand on Xiaoya's neck unconsciously, but his hand was shaking violently. He wanted to use force but he couldn't muster any strength.

Suddenly, Huang Qian, who had just sent a message to the others to withdraw, came over, glanced at his hand and said:

"I knocked very carefully, you won't die. Let's go, it stinks in here."

After saying that, he ignored Jiang Nian who was stunned, picked up Xiaoya along with the blanket and walked towards the door.

"..."

Jiang Nian clenched his right hand, stood up, swallowed a few times, and called her:

"Sister Qian..."

Huang Qian paused and turned around:

"what happened?"

"I……"

Jiang Nian was suddenly speechless and felt a little short of breath:

'I think she should be killed!' 'I want to kill her!' 'She deserves to die!' 'She should pay with her life!' 'Her world has already collapsed, and she will be mentally broken when she wakes up. It would be better for her to die...'

A string of words lingered on the tip of his tongue, but when he met Huang Qian's gaze and the pale little face in her arms, he could neither say them nor swallow them.

After looking at him for a moment, Huang Qian slowed down her voice:

"Jiang Nian?"

"..."

Jiang Nian finally took a deep breath and lowered his head:

"...let's go."

Huang Qian hugged Xiaoya, turned around, looked down, and walked out the door.

The people arranged by Zhou Li were waiting outside the door. Huang Qian told them to go downstairs together after they were done.

A few minutes later, fire suddenly broke out in Room 1805, and creepy screams spread throughout the community from the foul-smelling door.

Zhao Lei and the rest of the team quickly gathered up and met up with them downstairs. Seeing Xiaoya in Huang Qian's arms, he didn't ask any questions.

It’s just that Jiang Nian’s aura is a bit depressing, making people afraid to talk to him casually.

Ten minutes later, Cheng Jing, who had "high-temperature disinfected" the entire room 1805, came downstairs.

After a brief discussion, Cheng Jing asked the others to go back first, and he, Jiang Nian, Huang Qian and Xiaoya went to the command room.

Facing Zhou Li, Cheng Jing explained the cause and effect of the matter, and finally said:

"That's how it happened. Although Xiaoya was controlled, she was indeed an accomplice... her mother's deception and control pushed her into a situation from which there was no return."

"..."

Zhou Li thought seriously and nodded:

"I understand, but after all, she is only 12 years old. We can't investigate further in the current situation..."

Jiang Nian asked from the side:

"What should I do?"

"..."

Zhou Li looked back and forth at them for a moment and then asked:

"Why didn't you kill her just now?"

"..."

All three of them were stunned.

Zhou Li sighed upon seeing this:

"You can't do this to a child, right? And she's an accomplice as well as a victim."

"..."

Cheng Jing and Huang Qian nodded at the same time, Jiang Nian lowered his eyes and said nothing. This was the judgment that a normal person should make based on their psychological and moral standards.

"If you had 'accidentally' or 'mistakenly' killed her just now, this case would have ended with all the suspects dead."

After Zhou Li finished speaking, he glanced at Xiaoya and said:

"But some things have to be resolved in other ways after a certain point. She is both a criminal and a victim, and she is still a minor. Now that she is here, I will not let you kill her."

"..."

Cheng Jing and Huang Qian were silent. Jiang Nian asked in a muffled voice:

"We can't just let it go like this, can we? We can't get over it like this."

"Of course we won't just let it go. Any mistake has a price. Moreover, this is a serious crime involving more than a dozen lives. The charges against the accomplices are not light either."

Zhou Li affirmed, and then changed the subject:

"However, I don't have the conditions to transfer her at the moment. At the same time, it is not easy to take her in because it involves the sacrifice of many official rescue workers. You are the person in charge of the case and you are very powerful, so I would like to ask you for a favor."

He had considered the possibility of such a situation from the beginning, so he found a trustworthy team.

Cheng Jing had a guess, looked at Jiang Nian and Huang Qian, and then asked seriously:

"How to help?"

Zhou Li also said seriously:

"As the official person in charge of the resettlement site in the western district of Qingyun City, I would like to ask you to help temporarily supervise this child out of humanitarian considerations, and then bring her to the base for placement. Currently, conditions are limited, and all similar juvenile offenders are handled in this way."

"Then how will we explain this to the relatives of the victims?"

Jiang Nian asked, his brows furrowed.

Zhou Li confessed:

"I will tell the truth, but not now. Pushing a child out now will only cause unnecessary confusion. The country takes juvenile offenders very seriously and there will be a unified solution. I will record this case clearly, and Xiaoya will receive the trial she deserves."

The decline of the rule of law and morality makes them feel powerless in such matters, but no matter how chaotic the world is, the country is still there, and officials like them have to maintain the collapsed order.

"..."

Jiang Nian was silent, and then nodded. His indignation came from the perspective of the victim, while Zhou Li considered more things.

Cheng Jing's mind turned over and he knew what Jiang Nian was thinking. He looked at Huang Qian and then at Zhou Li with a somewhat earnest look, and finally nodded:

"Okay, we agree to temporarily supervise Xiaoya."

"Then please."

Zhou Li's expression relaxed and he expressed his gratitude to them again. The victims included official personnel, which was quite sensitive, so he could only resort to this last resort and ask the powerful team of psychics to help him calm down and stabilize the situation.

The matter came to a temporary end, and the three left the command room. The remaining tasks of reporting the results and calming people's hearts were left to the authorities.

……

It was already midnight when everything was figured out.

Lying on the bed, Cheng Jing took out two thumb-sized oval energy crystal cores and handed them to Jiang Nian:

"This is what I got when I dealt with Xiaoya's parents. The light gold one is her father's, and the misty white one is her mother's."

"The supernatural crystal core..."

Jiang Nian took it with mixed feelings, it had already formed a crystal core and was advancing very quickly.

After a careful look, I found a black spot in the middle of the misty white crystal core, gradually spreading outwards.

"Ok?"

Jiang Nian thought he was seeing things, so he took out a flashlight from the bedside and shone it on to observe. There was indeed a black dot in the middle of the misty white crystal core, which was smudged like an ink painting and looked quite beautiful. He couldn't help but mutter in surprise:

"Is this... a mutation?"

Cheng Jing heard this and looked closer:

"How to say?"

Jiang Nian frowned, stared at the crystal core and told him:

"Under normal circumstances, a single-attribute supernatural crystal core is pure in color. Only a dual-attribute mutated crystal core like yours will have two colors. Xiaoya's mother's supernatural power is pure mental control. The black spots on the crystal core indicate a mutation..."

After saying this, he denied it to himself:

"…How is this possible?"

Cheng Jing didn't know much about the supernatural crystal cores, so when he saw him talking to himself and feeling a little confused, he asked curiously:

"What's impossible? Can psychic powers control zombies after mutation?"

"Do not……"

Jiang Nian shook his head, his brows furrowed into a shape of a "川" character:

"Let's not talk about whether the psychic ability can control the zombies after mutation. The mutation itself is outrageous..."

"Let me put it this way. People who can awaken superpowers have good mental strength. After the superpowers are awakened, their properties become stable. In the past life, the research institutes at various bases have conducted experiments to try to interfere with the mutation of superpowers, but in the end they were unsuccessful."

Cheng Jing suddenly became interested:

"Tell me more about it."

"Well, it's like this..."

Jiang Nian stroked the energy crystal core and thought about it, then slowly told him the relevant research results he had heard in his previous life:

In the previous life, researchers proposed that if they could interfere with superpowers and turn them into desired attribute types, humans would have a greater chance of winning against zombies and more casualties would be reduced.

The idea and concept are good, so many people with special abilities volunteered to do the experiment, but they all failed in the end.

There were even many people with special abilities who died during the experiments, or whose crystal cores broke and were removed, turning them back into ordinary people.

Ultimately, the results of this experimental study are:

The energy properties of the supernatural crystal core are too stable to be controlled artificially. Unless a non-isochronous resonance occurs between the energies, the supernatural crystal core can be caused to mutate.

As for how to make the energies resonate with each other at different frequencies, it depends on chance.

"..."

After finishing speaking, Jiang Nian recalled his memory and sighed:

"The expert groups at each base tried many methods to destroy the energy stability, but they couldn't find any regular triggering factors. No matter how they operated, the crystal core didn't change at all, so they finally declared that there was no solution."

"I see……"

After listening to Jiang Nian's explanation, Cheng Jing had an idea in his mind and looked at the black spot in the center of the misty white crystal core again:

"So this is... a special mutation?"

Jiang Nian hummed:

"It's more than just a special mutation. According to the research results of experts in the previous life, this is simply a miracle."

"..."

Cheng Jing thought for a moment and said:

"This kind of mutation is probably affected by the relationship between the owners of the supernatural crystal cores, such as their spiritual compatibility... If we simply interfere with the energy of a crystal core itself, we won't be able to overcome its stable properties."

"Probably."

Jiang Nian nodded in agreement, thinking back to the woman's determination to save her husband, even to the point of not caring about her daughter, and combining it with the experts' research theories, he secretly guessed:

Probably because she had been using her supernatural powers to control her husband since the early stage of infection, and she did not stop until her husband completely turned into a zombie. During the period of zombie transformation, she wanted to keep her lover, and he also wanted to cooperate with her...

Driven by their tacit understanding and obsession, the couple caused the crystal core energy to produce a non-synchronous resonance. In order to continue to "communicate" with her husband, the woman's supernatural powers changed unconsciously.

This is also the reason why she can still control the man to be quiet even though he has obviously become a zombie.

Of course, this is just speculation. After all, the mutation of properties and stable things is caused by more than just one or two reasons.

"..."

Putting his messy thoughts aside for the time being, Jiang Nian handed both crystal cores to Cheng Jing:

"No matter what, put it away first. It might be useful in the future. It's safer for you to keep it, Brother Jing."

He himself is not capable enough, and if people find out, he might not be able to keep it.

"it is good."

Cheng Jing did not refuse. Many times, being special means being dangerous, so it would be best if he took her along.

He put away the crystal core and turned off the flashlight, and the room fell into darkness.

They looked at each other in silence. Just when Jiang Nian wanted to say good night, Cheng Jing suddenly hugged him tightly.

PS:

[Xiaoya's story is not over yet. The official commission has official reasons, and the protagonist has his own considerations for accepting it. She will not become a member of the protagonist group. She has the consequences she should bear. This is a foreshadowing and also explains how the official handles juvenile criminals in the end times.]

[If you can't accept that the protagonists temporarily take Xiaoya with them, you can give up. Don't force yourself, and don't misinterpret the unfinished plot to attack, abuse, and give bad reviews. Anyone can say nasty words. Thank you for your kindness.]

[The protagonists are not pushovers. Everything they do is related to their professional identities. Also, they have always been close to the authorities after the apocalypse. Everything has a reason. This is just the beginning.]

【Avoid hostility and respect each other! I hope everyone can read the novels they like (●v●)】