pure white believer

The advisor glanced at him in the dark, and finally let go, returning his right hand to him, but still holding on to his left.

There was still a wound on that hand when Nan Ting fell to the ground when he jumped off.

He held up Nan Ting's wrist and said "don't move".After a brief tingling sensation, Nan Ting saw that his wound was healing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

After the wound was completely healed, the advisor completely let go of him, stood up, and took two steps back.

It was indeed an illusion.Nan Ting sat back against the wall, staring at his restored arm, slowly thinking.

The Counselor was the same man he had known, as gentle as he was himself.

"It's okay." Nan Ting managed to squeeze out a little smile, and waved his hand to the person in front of him.

But the consultant still ignored him.

It was only then that Nan Ting remembered that as a human being, he couldn't see anything in the dark, so he had to put down his hand angrily.

"We have to leave here quickly, the guards will catch up in a while." He whispered, "...I was looking for you just now, but I got lost and triggered the alarm by mistake."

Seeing that the other party didn't move, he repeated again: "Let's go quickly."

It wasn't just the Guard that worried him.

And the guy who left him a note on the back of the whiteboard.

Only then did the consultant move, turned around, and walked towards the interior of the building.

"What were you doing just now?" He asked a few steps away.

Nan Ting: "..."

Still can't escape.

"I didn't do it on purpose." He quickly caught up with the consultant, "I don't know the road here, I accidentally walked into a dead end, and was overtaken by the guards. Don't be so careless."

"Are you afraid of the guards?"

"I... well, I can't beat them."

"Can't beat?" The consultant repeated his words with a calm tone.

Nan Ting was made more guilty by what he said, but still bit the bullet: "...well. I, am not good at close combat with trained humans."

He hurriedly looked for evidence for himself: "My grades in the previous fighting courses were all bottom..."

As he spoke, he paid attention to the movement around him.But what surprised him was that the guards were still searching for him in this building a few minutes ago, and now they couldn't hear even a little movement.

Nan Ting couldn't help feeling suspicious, and said, "Mr. Consultant, where are the people here?"

"who?"

"Guard."

The advisor paused.

"I didn't see them." He said lightly, "I only saw you about to jump off the building when I came here."

Nan Ting: "..."

Nan Ting: "I didn't intend to jump off the building."

"Then why did you let go all of a sudden?"

"...I was distracted." Nan Ting said, "You suddenly spoke...it scared me."

Counselor: "Hmm. That was my fault, sorry."

Nan Ting really thought he was apologizing to himself, and quickly said: "It's okay, Mr. Consultant."

consultant:"……"

He suppressed some restless thoughts in his heart and said, "Do you remember?"

"Ok?"

"I gave you an aptitude assessment test before."

"Remember." Nan Ting said immediately, "Your assessment is very accurate."

That's because I've seen it before.The consultant said in his heart.

"And remember what I told you?"

Nan Ting didn't understand why he suddenly mentioned this.It seemed that they had known each other for more than half a year, and it was Chi who specially invited him to make an assessment for himself.

"You said I was strong?" He tried to recall, "It fits us...their plan. And... I have good self-control, so I'm safe?"

"anything else?"

"and also……"

"Also," the advisor continued, "I said no one in this world can hurt you."

"Except for yourself."

Nanting stopped talking.

The advisor stopped and turned around.

"Nanting," he cast his gaze from top to bottom, "When did you stop caring about yourself?"

After being scolded by the consultant, until he followed the other party to the parking lot of the base, Nan Ting was always pretending to be dumb, for fear that he would say the wrong thing again.

To be honest, even he himself didn't know what he was thinking just now and why he let go of his hand suddenly in mid-air.

But the guards that haven't shown up until now, the base alarm system that is dumber than him, and the consultant's calmly taking the key to drive the car made Nan Ting really unbearable.

After getting in the car, Nan Ting decided to admit his mistake first, regardless of other things: "I was wrong."

Unexpectedly, the consultant would not accept this at all: "You shouldn't apologize to me."

Nanting was defeated.

He couldn't tell where he was wrong.

There was silence in the car.It is now 04:30 in the morning, and the gate of the base is strangely unguarded, allowing them to walk away.

"You're right, I'm waiting for the pool to come over." The consultant took the initiative to speak as the vehicle drove into the empty road.

Hearing that long-lost name, Nan Ting's heart moved for no reason.

It's not because of the name itself, but because few people know Chi's full name, and even less people call him by his first name and last name.

In his memory, he had only heard this name from one person.

Seeing that he didn't speak, the consultant glanced at him: "Don't you have anything to ask?"

"Oh." Nan Ting pulled back his thoughts, "You..."

He suddenly realized what the other party was saying.

"You...?!" Nan Ting suddenly turned his head, "You said you were waiting for Chi..."

"Yes." said the advisor.

"What do you mean?" Nan Ting asked incredulously, "Did you do it on purpose? You brought me here on purpose? Why did I suddenly fall asleep halfway?"

The consultant didn't answer, probably waiting for him to finish asking.

Nan Ting raised his voice slightly: "So you also specially attracted them?" He was talking about the people from the previous patrol team.

The advisor still didn't speak.

Nan Ting was finally a little unhappy.It was he who was worried that the other party would be injured, so he followed all the way, otherwise he would have left in the village long ago.

He leaned back on the seat sullenly, and whispered for a long time, "So you didn't defect at all."

"You can think of it that way," said the advisor.

Nan Ting always felt that there was something in his words, but also suffered from his poor communication skills with humans, so he couldn't quite hear them.

He could only say: "Why? To catch me? So you lied to me from the beginning? Or did you regret it and get Chi's forgiveness through this method?"

The consultant answered irrelevantly: "I'm sorry."

"Ok?"

"Not to catch you. It's just that I'm a bit extreme."

Nan Ting didn't understand for a while.

"I think," the consultant didn't look at him, but looked straight ahead, and said slowly, "Since we have to face it, it's better to let it come early."

"I'm just curious," he seemed to be talking to himself, "would you..."

follow him?

will you go with him

Go back to the place where you lived for ten years, go back to your ivory tower; go back to the past, go back to the time when everyone loved you.

If he is like me, say "Of course I will forgive you" to you.

How would you choose when there is no "I" watching you?

He was simply curious as hell.

But when the matter came to an end, he suddenly realized that he seemed to have made a big mistake—the moment he saw the hands loosen.

Only then did he realize that it turned out that the other party had never run away from him, from the pool, from all the past because he liked someone, hated anyone, or because he was afraid of death.

——The person Nan Ting escaped from was himself.

Nan Ting obviously didn't understand a single word: "What can I do?"

"Is there any place you want to go in particular?"

Nan Ting: "...Huh?"

The topic was turned upside down, and he was completely at a loss.

"I'm driving," the consultant patted the steering wheel, "go where you want to go."

"Oh..." Nan Ting thought for a while, and said honestly, "No. You can drive wherever you want."

"Is there anything in particular you want to do?"

"Why do you ask this suddenly?" Nan Ting said, "No."

"Don't you have any ideas about the future?"

Nan Ting was questioned.

"Yeah." Finally he nodded, "Anything is fine."

"Then do you have anyone you particularly like?"

"No..." Nan Ting stopped suddenly, and said vigilantly, "Mr. Consultant?"

He suspected that the other party was... How do you say that word?The red-haired human had taught him.

Eight... hexagrams?

The advisor clearly had no idea what he was thinking.

"No, you have to," he said.

Nan Ting thought he heard it wrong: "What?"

"Think now—where you want to go, what you want to do, who you want to meet. You can do whatever you want," the consultant said, "I'll go with you."

Nan Ting: "...Oh."

The tone of the consultant is a bit strange.He seems to have changed a lot recently.He had never spoken to himself so strongly before.

He thought for a long time slowly, and finally said, "I'm hungry."

consultant:"……"

He turned the steering wheel, parked the car on the side of the road, got out of the car, opened the trunk, and took out a box from it.

"only this."

Nan Ting took the box and recognized that it should be a food box distributed by the base to hold emergency food.

He opened the box and looked.

Inside were two small bags of sandwich biscuits lying alone.

consultant:"…………"

"It's not my car," he explained reluctantly, "and I don't know what's in it."

Nan Ting finally couldn't help laughing.

He picked up two bags of biscuits and looked at them. One bag was filled with ordinary strawberries, and the other... turned out to be durian.

Before he could frown, the consultant reached out and took the bag of durian away.

Nan Ting asked in surprise, "Do you like durian?"

"Aren't you going to eat this?"

Just as Nan Ting was about to nod, he suddenly paused: "—how do you know that I don't eat this?"

He never ate anything with the advisor.

"I heard Chi mention it." The consultant didn't have any strange expression on his face, and he was a little puzzled, "What's wrong? Did I remember it wrong?"

Nanting looked at him.

"……No."

He did not expose the other party's lies.

In fact, Chi didn't know about it either.

Although he never lied to Chi, Chi never asked him similar questions about "what do you not like to eat", or "what do you like to eat".

The biscuits tasted average, but Nan Ting finished them silently.He carefully folded the packaging bag, and there was no place to throw it away, so he had to hold it in his hand.

Outside the car window is a barren wilderness.There will be no place to eat here either.

Nan Ting stared out of the window in a daze.Some inexplicable emotions fermented in the bottom of my heart.

He probably understood why the consultant would ask those nonsensical questions.

"You are right, Mr. Consultant." Nan Ting stared outside and said absent-mindedly, "I really don't seem to know what I should do."

"Is everyone else like me?"

"Everyone I've met seems to have a firm purpose."

Yao Fan is looking for his fiancée.Zhou Yu wanted to rescue his sister.Fu Cheng and his gang of messy little brothers are fighting in vain against the Heterogeneous Society.

Bird of Paradise seeks revenge on Chi.Before dying, Wen Ling wanted to protect her child.All ordinary people want to live...

And what about him?

What does he want to do?

A few days ago, he kept telling himself "you want to run away", but now he didn't understand what the reason for running away was.

He just instinctively wanted to hide, to hide in a place where no one knew him and no one could see him.

"Things I really want to do... I have done it before."

"For a long time in my life, a long time, like ten years," Nanting said softly, "everything I do, I have a purpose. You know, Mr. Advisor, they told me to Kill that man."

"That person?" The consultant suddenly said.

Nan Ting was stunned for a moment: "You know what I'm talking about..."

"I know," said the advisor, "I'm just curious."

"?"

"Why don't you call him by his name?"

"..."

Nanting couldn't tell why.He could only say: "Everyone...that's what they call him."

The consultant gave a "hmm", probably agreeing with his statement.

Nan Ting continued: "So..."

"After I'm not going to kill him, it seems that I don't have anything in particular I want to do."

"I didn't feel it when I first made the decision," he said. "It became more and more intense after I left home."

The consultant did not ask him where his "home" was.

"I didn't think about it when I was with him." Nan Ting's voice became softer and softer, and he didn't even realize what he was saying, "Because I was very happy at that time. That's enough."

"Nanting." The consultant called his name.

Nan Ting: "Huh?"

"In fact, everyone is doing what they think is meaningful." The consultant said, "It doesn't have to be a goal."

Nan Ting was silent.

"I don't feel that doing anything is meaningful." After a long time, he calmly said, "I am separated from them. I only create death."

This is what Chi wanted him to be.

No relatives, no friends.No one will mourn him after his death.

"Actually, I was thinking about this when I was at Base 4 just now. Because I never thought about it before, but now I suddenly think about it, and I feel very novel."

"Thinking about what?"

"Death." Nan Ting said, paused, "My own."

The corner of the consultant's mouth moved, and he wanted to say something, but he didn't say it.

"I found that human beings are very resistant to death. I didn't know why they were like this before, and I didn't think there was anything wrong with it. Now I seem to know a little bit." Nan Ting said firmly, "Because someone will feel sad for them."

He added: "If my friend died, I would be very sad too."

"But," Nan Ting changed the subject, "I don't seem to have any friends or relatives."

So there is probably no difference between living or dying.

He was still staring out the window in a daze.

Counselor: "What about me?"

"..." Nan Ting was shocked, and said quickly, "I forgot!"

"?"

"I've been talking to you just now, so I forgot to take you into consideration." Nan Ting nodded, and the corners of his mouth suddenly raised unconsciously.

Counselor: "What are you laughing at?"

"No." Nan Ting said vaguely.

He looked out of the window again, motionless in ecstasy.After a while, he suddenly turned his head and blinked.

"—if I die, will you come and bring me flowers?"

Nan Ting finally said.

He smiled.

It's not a joking way of laughing, but a happy, expectant one, mixed with a little cautious laugh.

consultant:"……"

He looked out following Nan Ting's gaze, and finally saw what he was looking at: a silver-white tombstone with a cross stood quietly on a hillside overgrown with wild grass.

A cluster of delicate red roses lay on the ground in front of the tombstone.

"will not."

It's been a long time, the advisor said.

Nan Ting obviously showed a puzzled expression, and looked away in disappointment.

He didn't ask why again.The carriage was extremely quiet, and Nan Ting felt a little uneasy for no reason, and didn't know what to say, so he reached out and pressed the button of the car radio.

He adjusted the frequency absently, and pressed the number "5588" habitually.

A familiar female voice came from inside:

"Around 4 a.m. today, Base 4 reported a report of an intrusion."

...?

Nan Ting realized belatedly that he had never listened to human broadcasts at all, and he just clicked on the broadcast channel inside the base.

Hearing the words "Base No. 4", he couldn't help pricking up his ears, listening anxiously, for fear that his name would be mentioned in it.

"According to the current investigation, the number of casualties..."

casualties?

In terms of casualties, the most seriously injured person in the entire base seemed to be himself.

From the tone of the announcer, it seems that this is not the case...

"The investigation is still ongoing...the video data has been damaged...but some evidence shows that the intruder is suspected to be heard..."

"clatter".

The female voice disappeared from the carriage.

Nan Ting was taken aback.

He turned his head and saw Mr. Consultant reach out his hand expressionlessly, and turned off the radio.

Nan Ting: "You..."

The advisor interrupted him with a raised hand.

He snapped his fingers, and a rose that was exactly the same as the one just now appeared on his fingertips out of thin air.

"I can give it to you now," he said.

The author has something to say:

(The little mermaid's thinking is kind of weird, well, his current attitude towards Wen may be similar to... wanting to escape, but can't live alone

Classmate Xiaowen: ...Okay, I was taken care of

There will be an update tomorrow

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