pure white believer

The Bird of Paradise couldn't hear what he was saying clearly for a while: "You..."

It only had time to utter one word, which became its last words.

Bird of Paradise had no idea what was going on.It didn't even see Wen Zhen walk into the room, the world began to spin and fall, losing its original color, and finally blurred in endless darkness.

At the last second of its life, all that remained in its field of vision were those amber-like golden eyes, which reflected its detached body.

"I'll say hello to Chi for you." The owner of the eyes said to it.

The flame ignited from the mouth of the silver lighter, instantly burning the feathers of the Bird of Paradise.The bird of paradise finally uttered that terrifying scream, and fell straight to the ground. It opened its mouth wide, as if it was extremely shocked, and seemed to continue to make some last words, but the flames swallowed it up in a second. its beak.

——It couldn't figure out how the other party put itself to death in an instant until it died.

When Wen Zhen turned the door open, the head of the Bird of Paradise had been completely incinerated.

The lighter fell to the ground, and Nan Ting hid in the water, not daring to poke his head to see the burning bird of paradise.

Wen Zhen's eyes lightly paused on the scorched black mass, walked over to pick up the lighter on the ground, and then patted Nan Ting's head with his other hand.

"Are you all right?" he asked.

Nan Ting shook his head.

His heart was still beating fast, pounding against his chest.

"It suddenly... flew towards me." Nan Ting lied with lingering fear, "It said it didn't believe me and wanted to kill me... so I set it on fire."

Bird of Paradise was right, he was a liar, but he had no choice.

"You've done a good job." Wen Zhen immediately comforted him.

Nan Ting: "...um."

His fear was indeed very realistic, and the other party didn't even have the slightest suspicion of him.

"It seems that it has been hiding here, watching us secretly." Wen Zhen picked up the bird of paradise, which had turned into a ball of charred, from the ground, found a trash can in the room, and threw it in, "it Probably thought that I didn't know its ability, and planned to threaten me with you."

Nan Ting: "..."

Isn't it inappropriate to deal with the wreckage of abnormal items in this way?

But it was inconvenient for him to comment on this, and he just looked towards the stairs on the right: "What about the two humans?"

"I don't know." Wen Zhen was wiping his hands with a piece of paper, and said absently, "Maybe he's busy reminiscing about the old days."

Two 10 minutes ago.

Fu Cheng caught up with Luan Tan who was searching for the Bird of Paradise from behind.

The corridor was dark and quiet, but his mind was extremely noisy. For some reason, the words of his dead team member Wang Xu when he opened the birdcage kept echoing.

——In your eyes, you will always only have those few teammates who died inexplicably!

——You would rather put photos of your former teammates on your desk and stare at a few dead people every day than give me an extra look, right? !

There seemed to be a bell in his head, and every word was like a heavy hammer, making a huge roar inside.

Fu Cheng's mind became more and more dizzy, and after a long time, no matter how solid the disguise was, it would eventually collapse.

He suddenly raised his head and said to the front: "Don't you have anything to explain?"

The figure who walked in front and kept ten meters away from him stopped.

Fu Cheng took a breath.He tried to keep his tone as steady as possible: "That person is not here now, if you have any...difficulties, you can explain to me. For example, you were coerced by him, for example..."

"No." Luan Tan said, interrupting him.

He continued to walk along the corridor, carefully searching for the bird of paradise: "The death of both of them is my fault. Everything now is also my choice."

Fu Cheng stopped.

He suddenly felt that everything was absurd: "The reason, Luan Tan, what is the reason? Leaving the alien tube without permission is a capital offense. You must know that you risk your life to do such a thing. There must be a reason, right?"

Luan Tan didn't answer.

After a long time, he said, "Then treat it as if I don't want to live."

"Can you answer my question seriously!" Fu Cheng's emotions suddenly became agitated, "Are you thinking that I don't have eyes, Luan Tan, that I can't see what Wen Zhen's attitude towards you is? How much does he hate you? Guanhui, how could it be possible to stand on the same front with you, a person who once came out of the executive department? What benefit did he give you, so that you were so willingly used by him?!"

After he yelled in one breath, Luan Tan fell silent.

"What the hell do you want to hear?" he said finally.

Fu Cheng took a deep breath.

"What the hell happened that day," he said, "don't tell me you don't remember, I'll help you recall the memory now - we set off from the Ministry that day, followed him to South Carolina, and then you proposed that we Divide into two groups, you and I are in the first team, and the two of them are in the second team."

"On the way, you received a call for help from the second team being attacked. You asked me to stay where I was and continue the mission. You went to meet them, because you said that the person who attacked them was not that person."

"But you never responded to my communication after that. When I arrived at the scene, there was already an explosion, and the two of them had only stumps left, and you, I didn't even find the 'body'. Surveillance nearby showed that it was Wen Zhen who caused the explosion at the scene—do you still remember?"

After a long time, Luan Tan gave a "hmm" as a response.

"Okay, then let me ask you now." Fu Cheng clenched his fists tightly, "When did you start lying? Since you received their call for help, but told me that the person who attacked them was not Wen Zhen?"

Luan Tan didn't answer his question directly.

"I can't tell you what happened," he said. "You shouldn't know these things."

Fu Cheng squeezed his fist hard: "Do you think I'm ridiculous?"

"Yes, I thought I was defending you after you died, but I was expelled from the executive department by the high-level executives, but you are here to do your underground illegal business?" He tried his best to suppress the anger in his tone, "— —That’s because I really regard you as my teacher! You taught me all of this!!”

"And you, Luan Tan, have you never taken my student seriously?!"

Luan Tan quietly appeared in front of him, closing and opening his eyes again, as if he was engaged in some kind of psychological struggle.

"When I arrived, Xiao Yan and Xiao He had already fallen to the ground. There were no obvious wounds on their bodies. I don't know exactly what kind of injuries they suffered." He said, "I didn't check their wounds because Wen Zhen Just sit on the bench next to them and watch them."

"Seeing me coming, he said to me: 'Don't be in a hurry to scold me, just ask them what happened just now.'"

"At that time, Xiao He was... dead, but Xiao Yan was still conscious. I didn't know where he was injured, and I couldn't save him, so I asked him who just attacked them."

"He said it was..."

Luan Tan's voice paused.

After waiting for a long time without waiting for the next text, Fu Cheng asked, "Who?"

"……a stranger."

Fu Cheng was taken aback for a moment, and then "sneered": "You should make up your lies in a decent way."

Luan Tan ignored his ridicule. "The two of them first discovered Wen Zhen's traces, so they followed, only to find that Wen Zhen was not alone, but talking to that stranger." He continued, "They were shocked by the content of the conversation, Forgot to contact us for a while, and when I remembered again, Wen Zhen had already found them, and that stranger attacked them."

"There are many lies." Fu Cheng said coldly, "Could the two of them be so stupid? Seeing Wen Zhen with a stranger, would they not know that the stranger is Wen Zhen's accomplice?"

"After he told me, just... the first time, I didn't believe him, because there was no trace of the third person present at the time." Luan Tan was still talking about it on his own, without any embarrassment of being exposed, " I stood up and wanted to question Wen Zhen, and then I saw... the person Xiao Yan mentioned."

He closed his eyes: "That person wanted to kill me, but at the same time Wen Zhen blew up the entire area. I lost consciousness, and when I woke up, I had already come here from South Carolina."

"that's it?"

"That's it." Luan Tan said, "It's gone."

"I..." Fu Cheng turned his head to the side, looking very angry, "Well, according to what you said, Wen Zhen saved you, right? He saved you, so you betrayed the Alien Society ?”

Luan Tan said calmly: "If I go back alive, I will only be able to confirm the charges they have set against me."

"Then you can at least defend yourself!"

Luan Tan lowered his gaze.

"It's not necessary." He said softly, "And now I feel that the outside world is more free."

Fu Cheng stood where he was, staring at him.

After a long time, he asked, "Why did Wen Zhen save you?"

"Because he finds it interesting." Luan Tan said, "He doesn't need a reason to do anything, as long as he finds it interesting."

After a pause, he added, "Fu Cheng..."

"Say something."

"After you get back to the bureau, if you see Mr. Chi," Luan Tan said, turning his head away from him, "don't mention to him that you saw me today."

Fu Cheng sneered: "Why, are you afraid that he will find out that you, a traitor, are still alive?"

"Well, I'm afraid of death." Luan Tan said vaguely, "Don't tell him."

Fu Cheng was silent for a moment.

"How is that possible," he said at last, "no one can keep a secret from him."

"You...you can do it yourself."

Luan Tan was slightly stunned, and just about to speak, suddenly there was an extremely tragic scream from downstairs.

"...Bird of Paradise!" Fu Cheng reacted immediately, regardless of the wound on his abdomen, he rushed towards the source of the sound with big strides.

Luan Tan didn't move immediately, but stopped on the spot.

In the dim corridor, he stared at the other person's back for a while, and suddenly felt that ten years passed so quickly, everything seemed to have happened yesterday.

But the impermanence of the world has already turned them into strangers.

"sorry."

After a long time, Luan Tan whispered.

When Fu Cheng rushed upstairs to the door of the room where the Bird of Paradise was, Wen Zhen was trying to find a way to carry Nan Ting out of the water tank.

The water tank was too high, and Nan Ting's center of gravity was also high, so he could only hug Nan Ting tightly and drag him out of the water tank bit by bit.

Nan Ting thought that the other party couldn't hold him, so he asked cautiously: "Should I... lose weight?"

He searched in his mind for a word that 241 always talks about.

Wen Zhen: "..."

He suddenly laughed: "Nanting, look at yourself, and then look at other mermaids—lose weight? Who told you that you should lose weight?"

Nan Ting suddenly became vigilant, and felt that if he continued to speak, he might reveal that he hadn't seen the same race very much.

He hastily "hmm" several times, saying "No less, no less", trying to divert the topic away, and then hugged the other party's neck tightly to prevent himself from slipping out of Wen Zhen's arms and falling to the ground.

When he raised his eyes, he saw Fu Cheng who came down from upstairs at some point and was standing at the door with a complicated expression.

Fu Cheng: "..."

Nan Ting: "..."

Nan Ting was a little uncomfortable being watched by the other party, and subconsciously wagged his tail, but he forgot that he was no longer in the water, and his tail patted Wen Zhen's leg straight, making a loud "pop".

The corner of Wen Zhen's mouth moved slightly: "Honey, you hurt me when you patted me."

"..." Nan Ting felt even more ashamed, "I'm sorry."

Fu Cheng: "..."

Fu Cheng: "Where's the bird of paradise? I just heard its voice."

"There." Wen Zhen glanced in the direction of the trash can, "If you need it, you can pick it up and return to your command, anyway, your Control Bureau likes to collect trash."

"..."

Fu Cheng resisted the idea of ​​cursing back, walked over, and saw a mass of black coke and countless tiny ashes in the trash can.

"Nanting solved it." Wen Zhen said again behind him, "He is much better than you."

Fu Cheng stopped where he was, and wanted to slap the other person's face, or slap him on the head, to wake himself up and remember that he was not the opponent of this person in front of him.

Before deciding who to hit, the two people in front of them turned around and were about to leave in the direction they came from.

"Wait." Fu Cheng stopped them from behind, "I have a question."

Wen Zhen stopped in his tracks, his tone a little impatient: "What?"

Fu Cheng gritted his teeth, as if making up his mind.

"Three years ago, the day that happened, who was that guy you were with in South Carolina?" he asked.

"Huh?" The impatience in Wen Zhen's tone disappeared in an instant. He turned around with Nan Ting in his arms, showing an expression of interest, "You guys talked? Didn't your teacher tell you?"

Fu Cheng frowned: "Who is it?"

"You have such a bad attitude when you ask for others, Captain Fu, you should change your temper." Wen Zhen said, "However, Luan Tan didn't tell you who that person is? After so long, he still wants to protect you. It's touching."

Fu Cheng's heart sank: "What do you mean?"

"It's nothing." Wen Zhen said lightly, "If you have sufficient authority, you can go and look up the information of that day, July 7th, right? See what your chief executive's itinerary is that day."

"But I guess you don't have that high authority, so I can tell you directly - when you started following me, I just left home and was going to South Carolina to meet your respected Mr. Chi."

Nan Ting almost fell from his arms.

He pinched his hand tightly, his nails almost digging into the flesh, and used the pain to remind himself not to overreact when he heard the name.

Fu Cheng's expression was as if he had been struck by a bolt of lightning.

He opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say a lot, but in the end he just said "impossible" dryly.

"Is there anything impossible?" Wen Zhen said, "Isn't it normal for me to talk to him when he goes there for business?"

Nan Ting: "..."

Wen Zhen is probably the only one who can describe "troubleshooting" as "chatting".

But he didn't understand why Fu Cheng was so surprised.Because it is indeed a regular occurrence.

Three years ago... are they talking about the manhunt?

What does that action have to do with Chi?He didn't remember any reference to pool in the records at the time.What's more, South Carolina is a full [-] kilometers away from their base. What is Chi doing there?

Fu Cheng obviously didn't take what he said seriously: "Why should I believe you?"

Wen Zhen said, "It's none of my business whether you believe it or not—Nanting, let's go."

Nan Ting responded.

Fu Cheng: "..."

Nan Ting lay on Wen Zhen's shoulder, looking at Fu Cheng's frown, suddenly felt that Wen Zhen's words were really unreasonable.

But the part about "Wen Zhen's words are actually very annoying" has never been recorded in the materials about him.

But this is not a particularly strange thing.After all, even Chi, who is usually the most unsmiling, would show anger when he mentioned him.

Nan Ting can only be thankful that Wen Zhen can still be considered kind when speaking to him, but the consequence is that until now, he can't hate Wen Zhen like Chi, Fu Cheng, or other humans in the base. get up.

He couldn't help but think that maybe Wen Zhen could be a pretty good person—as long as he wanted to, he could shape himself into any beautiful image with just a few words.

Especially when Wen Zhen coaxed him to eat with an intimate tone, he fell into those packaged delicious food and sweet words several times, and in a few seconds, he mistakenly thought that the other party was a gentle and kind human being.

He's not all that inherently annoying either.Nanting thought.

It's just that he wants them to hate him.

During the few minutes Nan Ting was distracted, Wen Zhen took him back to the hall where the Bird of Paradise was slaughtered.

When Wen Zhen pushed open the door, there was an exclamation in the room.But there was no scream of the bird of paradise followed, and they realized that the bird of paradise was dead, and they ran out of the room screaming.

Some were crying, some were laughing, and some even hugged each other recklessly, as if preparing to celebrate the joy of the rest of their lives.But soon, after seeing the scene in the hall clearly, everyone fell silent in unison.

After a while, someone held the corner of the wall and vomited violently.

Wen Zhen's eyes twitched, and he immediately led Nan Ting away from them.

In fact, from the first day Nan Ting came home, he had doubted whether he had a cleanliness habit.Because he lives in a transparent glass room, he wipes all the cabinets in the house every day to ensure they are spotless.

He doesn't know what prompted him to take home the sand-covered version of himself with seaweed on his head.

"Leaving Nanting." Wen Zhen was unaware of his thoughts, "Go home."

Nan Ting nodded.

But he felt a little uncomfortable, as if something was hanging, ever since Wen Zhen came to the boat, it never fell down.

So he turned his head, looked through the crowd, and found Fu Cheng who was bandaging the wound on his abdomen.

While bandaging the wound, Fu Cheng said something to the people beside him, with an expression of disbelief on his face.

And Luan Tan beside him had an extremely ugly face, a little paler than when Cai Wen Zhen asked him to take off his mask just now.

Yes.Nanting thought.

This drama directed by Wen Zhen himself still lacks an ending.

Wen Zhen actually planned to leave just like that, as if he came to the boat just to bring himself home.

It doesn't quite fit his style of conduct.

What's more, from Wen Zhen's point of view, the humans on this ship were the ones trying to take away his collection.According to the records in the data, these people usually do not end well.

However, Wen Zhen really planned to leave.

Compared with the tail of the story, Wen Zhen seems to care more about Nan Ting's tail.Holding it in one hand, he made his way to the escape pod.

After taking two steps, he suddenly stopped.

"Not too good, baby." Wen Zhen thought for a while and said to him, "The troublesome person is here."

Nan Ting didn't react for a while, and turned his eyes subconsciously.

——Then he saw an extremely familiar figure in the chaotic hall.

A man in the uniform of the committee stood at the edge of the hall, holding a weapon in his hand, aiming straight at Nanting.

No one knows when he appeared.

The man had short black hair, combed back neatly, sharp eyebrows, and a knife-like curvature on the side of his face.

Nan Ting lay in Wen Zhen's arms, looking at the man who pointed a gun at him.

They have been together day and night for ten years.

That's the pool.

The highest officer of the Alien Management Association, No. 001 Base [-], Chi.

Nan Ting's hands were still clasped behind Wen Zhen's neck.He could clearly feel that at this moment, the heartbeat of the person holding him didn't fluctuate at all, and his breathing fell smoothly into the nest of his neck, warm and pressing.

He stared at Chi's muzzle, thinking that Chi should be pointing it at Wen Zhen behind him, not himself.

But Nan Ting still felt a little sad.He didn't want to be pointed at like that.

"The coward is here." Wen Zhen spoke softly at first, then raised his voice, turned around, and greeted the other party in a casual manner, "Good evening, Chi Yue."

He deliberately bit the last two words very hard.

Nan Ting felt that it might be some kind of provocation, because no one would call Chi by his first name.They all called him Chief, or Mr. Chi. Those with a better relationship, such as myself and 241—241 is Chi's fiancée—would not call him with too many polite titles.

Nan Ting and Chi looked at each other for a second, quickly lowered their eyes, and then noticed that the other's chest was obviously rising and falling.

For the first time, he personally realized how much Chi hated that person.

After Wen Zhen finished greeting, neither of the two spoke again, they just stared at each other from a distance across the crowd.

After a minute or two, Wen Zhen was the first to lose his temper.

Nan Ting heard him chuckle next to his ear.

In the next second, without warning, the two people acted almost simultaneously——

Wen Zhen hugged him and took a step back.

Chi's muzzle suddenly deflected.

"boom"!

Wen Zhen took Nan Ting and jumped out of the escape pod amidst gunshots.

Chi withdrew his hand and looked at Luan Tan who was hit in the heart by him and fell slowly to the ground.

He tilted his head and retracted the gun expressionlessly.

"……Um?"

Fu Cheng didn't seem to react.Reason only allowed him to utter a short, questioning syllable.

He turned his head away.

Aside from the "X"-shaped scar that was probably left by the explosion, the 34-year-old Luan Tan actually looks not much different from the 24-year-old him.Time seemed to never leave any marks on this person's face, so at that moment, Fu Cheng even thought he was going to open his mouth and said to himself, "Hi Fu Cheng, I am your captain Luan Tan, You can also call me teacher, they all call me that."

But in the next second, the building of memories collapsed.

The 34-year-old Luan Tan's chest was covered with a dark bloodstain, his right hand grabbed the air, and then hung down weakly.

His eyes looked at Fu Cheng, and he opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something, but he couldn't say anything after all.

Fu Cheng stared at him blankly.The bandage fell from his hand.

"Luan Tan?" He tentatively called the other person's name, his voice was so soft that he seemed afraid of waking up a sleeping person, "... Luan Tan? Teacher?"

"Search for the remaining illegally traded goods on board." A calm commanding voice suddenly came from his ears, pulling him back from the extreme trance to reality, "The medical team took the injured team members away."

Chi stood in an unoccupied corner, his gaze coldly swept over everyone in the room: "Others, execute them on the spot."

Behind him, at some point, there were members of the executive team in black and white uniforms.

Screams and cries soon echoed throughout the Liberty.Everyone either fled in a hurry, or turned into a motionless corpse on the ground. The injured Fu Cheng was also carried away from here. Soon, he was the only one left in the room.

With his hands behind his back, Chi stared at the escape pod where Wen Zhen left.

After a long time, he looked away and looked indifferently at Luan Tan who was lying by the wall.

"I hate traitors the most," he said softly.

The author has something to say:

Xiaowen: I just prefer to kill with a knife

Just in case, let me tell you that Nan Ting doesn't like Chi, and he doesn't like anyone

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There will be a second update at 12 noon today.

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