Symbiote Ninth

The diary ends here.

Link looked at Caesar, Caesar still had no expression on his face, he looked at Link blankly, then at Chenghe, and finally at Freesia with the same dull expression.

"...This is just his one-sidedness." Link closed the diary with a snap, threw it aside, and turned Caesar's face so that he could look at him, "I've never heard of any artificial angels, nor Never heard of the human part of the symbiote."

Caesar said, "I am Test Subject No. [-], am I?"

"Don't believe so easily—"

"Then tell me what is real?" Caesar's face was in a trance for a moment, and his dark red pupils blurred like a ball of paint, "Am I a machine with a disordered program, or am I a half-artificial monster? , which one should I believe?"

Link opened his mouth, but couldn't say a word.

Caesar took out the memory card that Shi Yu gave him from his pocket, Link looked at him for a while, picked up the computer as if unable to hold back, and put the memory card into it.

There are two videos in the storage card. The first video is in the underground laboratory. The fruit green liquid in the cultivation cabin is clear and transparent. Caesar is suspended in it, naked, with a pair of plump wings curled up behind him, and the culture fluid is emptied. , the training cabin opened, Caesar came out, water jets sprayed towards him from all directions,

He was washed clean, his wings returned to dazzling white, and the eyes of the people around him were mixed with fear and disgust.

They dried his skin, wings and hair, and Caesar stood still, looking around blankly like a baby, as if expecting a hug from his mother, but no, he just stood there naked, wings slightly Trembling, two slender white hands curled up restlessly.

The camera is very close to his shoulder blades, a white-gloved hand is placed at the base of his wings, trying to push away the layered feathers, so that everyone in front of and behind the camera can clearly see that the wings broke him It grew out of his skin and was closely connected with his body, like tree roots entrenched in the ground.

Behind him, several cultivation cabins were filled with "angels" like him, and Freesia was the third from the left. Like the others, he closed his eyes with a serene expression, suspended in the fruit-green liquid.

Video is over.

The second video shows Caesar lying in an operating room with his hands and feet bound by shackles. He didn't struggle, but looked at the shadowless lamp in front of him with a slight frown, and said softly, "Ah—"

A man who looked like an assistant came over and stuck a piece of wide tape tightly on his mouth. He finally felt scared and couldn't help hiding inside, crying like a child with low self-control.

The other party gave him an anesthetic, and within a few seconds he relaxed again and fell asleep with his eyes closed.

On the bed next door was a robot that looked exactly like him, its eyes were full of milky mist, motionless, like a dead puppet, the inside was exposed, and inside were layered circuits and complex bones.

After the first cut, Caesar's wings trembled and blood flowed out.

Link slammed the computer shut.

Freesia felt great fear, his back felt cold, as if falling into an ice cave, Cheng He's hand came up, his pupils were dilated, and he struggled hard, only after seeing clearly that the other party was Cheng He, Freesia returned Come on.

Caesar stretched out his hand to Link and asked the other party to give him the computer. He wanted to finish it, but Link didn't give it to him, so Caesar had to grab it, but he forgot that his left arm was almost useless now, and he couldn't move with his right arm. It’s inconvenient, the combat power he is proud of has been exhausted by the ups and downs of this period of time, Link hugged him tightly, and what he said was like an order or a plea, “Don’t look.”

"They killed me," Caesar said, "Did they?"

"Shh..." Link couldn't help stroking his back, his smooth shoulder blades touched Link's palm, and Caesar suddenly thought of the angel posing on the big screen.

After waking up, when he was taken from District [-] to District [-] by Er Zhen, he saw a lot of electronic screens on the road, all of which played this kind of picture without exception. The angel with dark red pupils was naked, scratching his head and posing, behind him. His wings were rotting, and his bloodstained feathers were scattered all over the ground.

He thought it was just some kind of uncomfortable modern aesthetics, or some strange advertisement with a vague theme. It was not until today that he figured out that this was a vicious mockery of the Free Army and the Holy See inspired by them.

The seductive and indifferent eyes of the disheveled angel met him until he fell into the boundless darkness.

When he woke up again, he found himself lying in the tent, surrounded by darkness, when he moved, the person holding his hand also moved, the night light in the tent was turned on, and he saw the face of the person opposite, it was Xiao Cang. orchid.

Freesia breathed a sigh of relief, touched his face and said, "Are you okay?"

"...um," Caesar said.

A strange silence spread, and Freesia let out a sigh and asked Caesar, "What are you thinking?"

Caesar looked at Freesia and said in a daze, "I didn't think about it, how about you?"

Freesia said, "Me too."

The wind and snow outside were howling. Caesar didn't know where Link and Chenghe were, and he didn't ask. The pair of trembling wings kept dangling in front of his eyes, like a curse that couldn't be shaken off.

Caesar looked at Freesia and said, "You seem to be much calmer than me."

"I—" Freesia was at a loss for words, and after a while, he said, "I don't know, I don't think we should exist at all, to be honest, when I saw myself in the video, I felt a little sick "

"But we have no right to choose." Caesar stared into his eyes. "No matter what form it exists in, we have no right to choose. Is it you who is disgusting? Is it me?"

His expression was indifferent, and he looked very strange. Freesia felt scared, but she didn't back down.

"It's not us." Freesia whispered, "I know."

Caesar reached out to touch Freesia's thin eyelids. He felt that at this moment, there were only the two of them in the world. He finally understood why he felt close to Freesia when he saw Freesia, because they came from the same origin. There are only two unfortunate survivors left in the world.

The remaining symbiotes cannot be repaired, because the part of them that belongs to the angel has been completely damaged, and even if the complex machinery is repaired to perfection, they will not be resurrected.

Caesar opened the tent and looked out. The car was parked not far away. Link and Chenghe were sitting in the car, talking face to face. The expressions of the two were very calm, as if they had reached an agreement. With these materials, they contacted the Free Army and planned how to counter the general.

He went to the car window and knocked, and Link opened the door to let him in.

Chenghe didn't dare to look at Caesar, as if he was hiding something, Caesar looked at the thick frost on the glass, and said to Link, "What are we going to do next?"

He was talking about us, not you, Link breathed a sigh of relief, and said to him: "Since I met you, I have been trying to contact the Freedom Army. I can't use my identity to connect to the Internet, so I can only try to send an The message is sent to a specific channel, but the chances of both parties receiving the other party's message in this way are very slim and unstable, so it has never been successful. The Free Army does not have a fixed camp, and I have no way to locate it and take you away. Fortunately, just now I got a reply from them—"

He rarely talks a lot, but Caesar is indifferent to everything. Link paused and continued: "They gave me a location, and we can probably arrive before we finish eating our rations."

"Okay." Caesar said, "Then let's go tomorrow."

"I'll get out of the car to take a pee, you guys talk." Cheng He didn't look at him, opened the car door and left.

"Caesar." Link said, "I want to talk to you."

"Okay, tell me."

"Will you come with us?" Link asked him.

"Yes." Caesar said.

"Is that all?" Link held his face, "Is there anything else you want to say to me?"