Underworld 03 Corpse Soldier and Death Flower

Maoli's mutation started from that day.Aska remembers clearly that he was colder than Akutsu Kiaya's unemotional indifference, calmer than Shinzen Hiroyuki's sense of shock, and more vain than his own cynicism—this kind of Kasato had never been seen before.

Mao Li was the murderer who killed Aska. He was a member of the cleaning team of the Yangshi Security Team. He was excluded by his colleagues because of his gray skin. Although he has been in the underworld for a long time, his IQ seems to be Not very tall, in the condition of being a child both on the outside and on the inside, he will only follow Aska who is a little gentle to him.

As if the son who came to the door automatically... Although Aska didn't really want it.

Aska was very surprised to see Maoli using the computer.And Ajiujin, who spends most of the time occasionally reading in the archives room, didn't say anything in particular about it.

After a while, Maoli jumped off the chair and ran to Aska, with his hands behind his back, poking his head as if curious about what Aska was looking at.

I'm looking at you, it's you - Aska thought to himself, but didn't say it.He pulled Maoli over and forced her to turn his back to him, "Such long hair, do you want to cut it?" Talking about Maoli's long black hair, Aska casually took a tie used to tidy up the wires, Tie up your partner's hair tightly and hang it behind your head.

Mauri shook his head.

"Ah, really." Aska didn't mean to force the other party, but just patted Mao Li's head.

After Mao Li's hair was tied up, he still walked around Aska, like a Shiba Inu trying to get his master to take him to stragglers, wagging his tail and sticking out his tongue, but he couldn't speak human words. can be expressed by behavior.

"It's needless to say." Aska sighed.He is not Ajiujin. He has no wires to detect people's hearts, nor does he have the instantaneous perception of wireless transmission. It is normal to not understand the methods that cannot be conveyed in words.

The first time I met Maoli, it was difficult for the other party to speak complete sentences. Now whenever he is free, he will use the single card to conduct the so-called conversation practice with Maoli. So far, the other party can simply convey what he wants. expressed the meaning.

"Entrust, entrust Aska." Mao Li stood in front of Aska seriously, and clasped his hands vigorously.

"Entrust? Oh? I learned a difficult word. What do you want to entrust me with? As a reward for the entrustment, just charge you a pack of marshmallows. The Welfare Club of the Five Senses Department sells the kind." Apparently Aska didn't have any Take Mao Li's "entrustment" seriously.

Or should I say, he never took what the children said seriously.Mao Li is a young man who can only obey orders most of the time, and his autonomy is not high. In this regard, he is very, very similar to his previous self.

That's why it can't be left alone.Many things will never be understood if you don't use your own brain. Ajiujin once said to him that compared to perfunctory after thinking about it, blurting out answers without thinking about anything is actually more disgusting.

"Please help me to make "Shizaki Yumeka" disappear."

"... Huh?" Aska's smile froze on his face. In "professional" terms, making someone "disappear" means killing people. Let alone whether people can be killed in the underworld. Basically, such words should not be It was right from Mao Li's mouth.

"That, uh, who is Misaki Yumeka?" Aska asked suspiciously.Or should he know why Mao Li wanted the other party to "disappear?"

Crack-crack, beep-crack-crack-

A printer next to Aska's computer rang, and a piece of information was quickly spit out from it.Aska turned his head and glanced at Ajiujin, but the other party remained silent, but Aska knew that Ajiujin must be operating.

In the entire office, apart from himself and Moori, the only person who is the head of the archives management office is Akutsu Kaya, and at this time, neither himself nor Moori was free to touch the computer.

Randomly picked that piece of information, and the personal file printed on it was a woman named "Shizaki Yumeka". After a quick scan, there was nothing particularly weird about it, except that the date of death was "tomorrow".This is obviously a file retrieved from the compilation database of the Book of Life and Death. In the compilation database of the Book of Life and Death in the Liusifu, the detailed information on the period from "birth to death" of human beings is recorded. The archives management room records the information of human beings "between death and reincarnation", and the two databases are closely linked with each other.

But even so, Asuka still couldn't understand why such a seemingly "ordinary" woman aroused Maoli's killing intent?

Jean kicked the ground doubtfully so that the chair could turn correctly to Maoli's direction, "Hey, little one, tell me why you want to make "this" disappear?"

"...Hateful." Mao Li wrinkled his face.

This was the first time Asuka saw such an obvious expression reaction from the other party.Normally, the eyes are dull and wide and cloudy almost at any time, almost making people think that this is a stunt of falling asleep with eyes open...

"Hate, "this"." Chiuri pointed at the photo on Misaki's personal profile.

"...Even if you say so—" Aska scratched his head.

It is very simple for "who" to hold this hatred for "who", but it needs to be catalyzed to a certain extent to really transform into "killing intent". As for the implementation of killing intent, this is another level of matter up.In my impression, it seems that an uncle who looks like a mafia once said to himself: As long as you kill the first one, you can't stop after that.

If you don't talk about this kind of argument that seems to be something here, based on actual experience, it is indeed "as long as there is a way to kill the first one, there is nothing to be afraid of in the future."

Among the Three Realms and Six Realms, the heaviest crime is murder. If there is no special reason or some pardon is obtained, they will all enter the hell realm to receive punishment.like yourself.

He is still here now, actively working around to pick up some cases, or inputting data in a bored way, all thanks to someone who has taken a fancy to him... To be precise, it is because he thinks his "action" is interesting, so, just Throwing it casually into the pocket of a coat like grabbing a dead flower petal blown by the wind.

That look is not worth mentioning.

But so lucky.

"No, it's not possible to ask someone to disappear because you hate it." Even Aska felt that such words were not convincing for a guy who had done a lot of murder. .Anyway, Mao Li's IQ should not be high, so he will be obedient, right?

"Please." Mao Li clapped his hands together again.He looked as pitiful as the day he killed himself, running to the toilet desperately begging for forgiveness.

"There should be other reasons, huh?" Asuka patted Mao Li's head, "Tell me slowly, does this woman have any relationship with you? Or, did she bully you here in the previous life?"

"I have the soul of "this". Three, it's already a lot, I don't need it anymore. Every time "this" comes, I will become "this", and I will be broken." Mao Li said hard, thinking Toddlers are like gesticulating.

Even Aska, who claimed to be "the No. 1 person who can communicate with Maori the most", couldn't understand what he meant this time.Although I seem to have heard some very important keywords, it is useless to piece together the meaning. Even Sherlock Holmes took some time to solve the mystery of the dancing dolls, right?

"Ajiujin translator, get out!" Aska raised his index finger and shouted.

But there was still only blunt typing on the keyboard, and the head of the archives management office, who was busy with work, seemed to ignore him.

Aska had no choice but to turn around and look at the usual slender figure, "Please, please just plug in the wire to scan and translate, you won't be able to understand me at all."

"Aren't you the one who said before that you can't infringe on the intellectual property rights of others at will?" Ajiujin hummed faintly.

"It's the right to privacy!" Aska retorted reflexively, "Ah, now is not the time to complain, the children in the family are about to turn bad, and they say they are going to kill someone, even if you want to give up custody, you can wait until later. "

"I have never given birth to this kind of child." Ajiujin said, "and he was not "born" either."

For a moment, he thought it was just the other party's rebuttal as usual, but Aska noticed that there seemed to be a slight difference in that cold tone.As if, revealing some information.

"What do you mean?" Aska wanted to smell the carrion vulture, and rushed down following the smell.

"Maoli, come here." But at this moment, Ajiujin beckoned to the brat.

Maoli walked over obediently, but Ajiujin just stared at each other for a few seconds and then said: "The cake shop in Taishan hall launched a limited autumn chestnut dessert series today. If you don't go early, it will be sold out. There are three kinds in total, chestnut cream Rolls, Montblanc and pudding, two each. Understand?"

Maori nodded.Ajiujin hung the identification card on the table around his neck.

"If you show this to the clerk, he will know that it is what I want. You can also use this to pay the bill. Don't lose it."

Mauri nodded a second time.

"Go." Ajitsu said.

Mao Li walked out quickly, as if he had completely forgotten the strange request he had made to Asuka just now.

"...Hey, when are you going to talk about the mood of the person involved? Can you still distract the kid?"

"Oh? I thought you were going to give me custody, so I wanted to be a little cautious here." Ajiujin had a cold smile on his lips—just like the corners of his mouth were twitching.

"Are we a couple who are negotiating a divorce?" Aska pretended to sigh, "Tell me, what's going on with Maoli?"

""That" is not human." Ajiujin said.

"We are not now." Aska shrugged. "It's the state of the soul. It's just because the soul core is turned into a "pseudo-body" for the convenience of activities in the underworld."

""That" is something that was created, and it has never been a human being from the beginning to the end. "That" is called an artificial soul. If it is called more simply, it is called a white mouse used by humanitarians."

"Artificial...soul?" Asuka could only murmur and repeat.

"I have practiced the reincarnation system test of Chujiang Office several times in the past. For various reasons, I couldn't let the "real" soul go through the process test. I used it to make an artificial soul. Apart from not being able to think for myself, I will also " Instinct "reduced to the point where it can only be mere attachment."

"What about the artificial soul and Maoli..." Asuka asked this, and suddenly stopped.

Wait a minute, what Ajiujin said just now, isn't the "characteristic" of the artificial soul just...

"Maoli? Is it Maoli? But you said just now that artificial souls cannot think on their own. No matter how incompetent Maoli's actions are, as long as they practice a few times, they can communicate?" Asuka immediately Put forward counterarguments.

"Mauri is a combination of artificial souls and "Shizaki Yumeka"... No, it's not something that blends so beautifully. On the contrary, it's mutual exclusion, resistance, blocking, and killing. They hate each other. each other."

"what are you talking about?"

Who said that when you don't know what expression to show, you just need to smile.Aska's atmosphere is like that now, "Who are "they"? Please, genius Dr. Akutsu, please speak in a language that can be understood immediately by ordinary people like me."

"Didn't Maoli just say that there are already "three" in his body? That is Shisaki Yumeka... Phew, the artificial soul copied from part of the memory and personality of Shisaki Yumeka's previous three lives. "The collection of that kind of fragments" is the current Maoli. By the way, just like Frankenstein, the maker exported to rob the tomb, took the necessary part of the test questions and sewed them together, and finally turned into a human form... umm, "Ajiujin curled his beautiful fingers under his lips, squinting his eyes in amusement, "No, the principle is not like this, ah, there is a legend about raising Gu in Yunnan, China, and putting Gu in jars to make them fight, now, Maoli's The state is like this, the artificial soul spent a long time arguing endlessly, smashed into missing corners and broken pieces, but combined for survival, just like this repeatedly, killing back and forth in the soul shell."

"Isn't that painful?" Asuka blurted out.

Ajiujin tilted his head and looked at the other party, "I don't know exactly what kind of pain non-humans will suffer." In fact, even if it is a human being, he is quite unclear.But it doesn't affect his life.

"Then, who the hell... did this kind of thing? For what purpose did Maoli make it?"

"I don't know what the purpose is, I'm not interested in what the purpose is for. It's like a boring experiment that knows too many variables but insists on doing it. It can't get any meaningful data. However, since If you want to know, come and exchange terms. If you can’t agree, I won’t say a word about all the information that follows.”

Ajiujin's behavior at this time was very abnormal for Aska, especially when he offered to exchange conditions.In all the previous cases, Aska had always been brazen enough to pester the other party for information and information.

Because he felt that they were already partners.And to be honest, the remuneration he got was actually much more spent on the reference room equipment and various fruit desserts that Ajiujin wanted to update than on himself.

Moreover, although Ajiujin complained softly for a while before, he didn't give it up in the end.That is to say, the representative did not have much objection.

"What do you want me to promise?" Askar asked.

"Absolutely, you can't start a war with that person."

"what?"

Seeing Aska's stunned expression, Ajiujin said a little irritably, "I hate seeing you in tatters." Recalling the earth spider incident not long ago, I felt sick to my stomach.

The severed head, the wormy legs of a cow, and the idiot Aska, who looks for provocations everywhere like a wild boar, rampages and makes himself and others covered in blood.If it is a pig, at least do some economically beneficial work.

...Like finding a few truffles or something.

"But the ultimate solution may be to use inability to solve it. I only have these few points." Aska looked at the boss who was still full of pacifism to some extent in distress.

"Because you can't win, so you are not allowed to fight. This is not a fighting comic. There is no need to fight every episode. Well, how about just giving up like this? Maybe there is a notice on the bulletin board. You can take that kind of case." Consciously made a good suggestion, the genius engineer showed a slightly satisfied expression when he saw Ajiujin who was an anti-war element.

"The selling point here is different from that of the building next door. It doesn't take the healing route. You and I are both pawns walking on the distorted path of the underworld. Everyone will automatically fall to their feet. It makes no sense to cross the river, right? And, Don't you think Mao Li is pitiful like that?" Aska crossed his legs in white jeans, although his attitude was relaxed, but his eyes were serious.

"It's not that kind of problem." Ajiujin squirmed his better lips, "If you shoot casually here, it will be obliterated."

Aska's eyes widened.

Is this a line that the other party will say?No, it was weird from the beginning. This guy, when he heard that he was going to get involved in another case, he would always show a face of "tsk, I can't stand it!". Although his attitude was still the same cold, his behavior was quite positive. Ah, from calling out the information of Misaki Yumeka to even sending Chiuri away.

That is Ajiujin's unique way of expressing emotions. Although I usually want to be a flower wrapped in layers of thorns, as long as I can endure the pain here, a little kindness will overflow from the gaps in the long thorns.

Therefore, telling myself not to "go to war" is not because I don't care about Mao Li, but because there is a bigger hidden crisis behind it... Is this interpretation acceptable?

"Is it such a strong opponent?"

"Hmm," Ajiujin responded.

"Then, why do you know Maoli's origin?"

"When you brought him here at the beginning, a little bit, scanned it."

"Ah, that time..." Aska recalled, it was the time when Ajiujin was still wary of both himself and Maoli. Of course, not only Maoli, but even the back of his neck is often Wires plug in, steal ideas.But ever since he told Ajiujin not to do that to Maoli again, Ajiujin seemed to think that he had lost interest in exploring the gray kid, and never did that again.

Aska, on the other hand, felt that he had nothing to hide, so he didn't particularly resist Ajiujin's occasional brain searches.Rather, allow.

"If there is a way to go out and defeat the devil directly, is there any other good way to save Maoli?" Aska asked in another direction.

"No." Ajitsu replied quickly.

"...Then how should this script go on?" Aska scratched his head vigorously.

"Originally, there are things that can't be undone no matter how hard you try." Ajiujin seemed indifferent, but after a few seconds, he slowly moved his shoulders, "But it's something only you can do."

Aska took a breath, if the information was interrupted here, it would be called directly entering the final chapter.Mao Lilai "entrusted" himself, and Ajiujin seemed to "want to help" this time.Isn't it a state of gratification and congratulation?

"I promise you, I won't fight the devil head-on, just say it." He snapped his fingers.

"There is no picture data of that person, so I used to say, "Kyoya Shirakawa"." Akutsu spit out.

There was silence between the two for tens of seconds, and finally Aska scratched his head, "Uh, should I know him?"

"The head of the current security department." Ajiujin had no choice but to remind.

"?... Huh? Wait, wait! Is that Bai Chuan... that "Bai Wuchang"?" Aska suddenly jumped off the wheelchair, and all the muscles in his body tensed instantly.

Akutsu's silence had the same meaning as a nod.

"Bai Wuchang" Bai Chuanxiang, the current chief of the security department, and "Black Wuchang" Kurosaki Takasaki, the current chief of the supervisory department, are the right and left hands of the city god, Gao Xun.Power is second only to the prince, and power is also...

No wonder Ajiujin said at the beginning that the opponent was an opponent who could not win a fight.

"Indeed, if you mess with that kind of person, there is a possibility that this side will be completely wiped out... No, everyone should be completely wiped out, but why would a guy like this treat Maori..." Aska muttering to himself.

"Does not understand the cause of the problem and how to solve the problem are sometimes two different things." Ajiujin said.

"Is this the experience you have gained in your short life?" Aska mocked.

"This is the experience of an engineer. If you can't make the user understand the principle a hundred times, then you don't need to explain it. What the user wants is the result of solving the problem," Ajiujin faced the other party's words. attack. "By the way, your life is many years shorter than mine."

"Wow... I was seriously injured." Aska clutched his chest.

"Well, the blood is all over the floor, please clean it up." After Ajiujin finished speaking, he faced the glowing computer screen triumphantly.

Aska pursed his lips, walked behind Ajiujin, bent down and slammed on the back of the other's chair, tilted his head and saw the slightly frowning brows of the other side.

"Hey, hey, Mr. Akutsu."

Akuzu didn't reply.

"Sure enough, it's enough to get along with each other, so it will be a little empathetic, right?"

"What are you expecting from me?" Ajitsu asked sharply.

"Actually, I have felt it thinly since before. In fact, you want to help someone, but once you judge that the other party can handle it by yourself, you will immediately withdraw. Because Chao is not good at working together, so before you can connect with someone Will run away first. This is really cute."

"Why do I have to be told by you? When you can think thoroughly, you should think thoroughly and make a judgment that is beneficial to yourself. It is best if you can live without getting involved with anyone. If not, you have to Reduced to the minimum, you, and Mao Li, if there are only two people, it is still within the range that can barely bear."

"...It turns out that you also have the consciousness that you are behind my back." Aska casually pulled the wire behind Ajiujin's head, and could make a sound of surprise.

"Super troublesome subordinate. Troubled to the point where the truth would have fired him if he had the authority. He said he was behind the back, but he was. He was looking for a chance to break that guy's neck. In comparison, Mao Li It can be said that he is very well-behaved." Ajiujin continued to type on the keyboard, and his words were interrupted sentence by sentence, as if answering questions in sequence.

"Mr. Akutsu, I'm full of complicated emotions right now. I became so active because something happened to Kayori... It should be said that my behavior has become more understandable. I didn't say that it's not allowed, it's just. It's just a little jealous." Aska sighed.

"So, in order to avoid the desire to get rid of it, didn't you tell you not to go to war?" Ajiujin completely expressed his disdain for this kind of question in his cold but soft voice.

"what?"

"If your memory has degenerated to this extent, then I have nothing to say. I hate your tattered look, why do you have to put something you hate on your body? So it can only happen in the worst situation before stopping you."

"...This kind of consolation is really..."

"I don't mean to comfort you any more." Ajiujin said firmly.

"... Huh." Aska, who knew that the other party would never say any comforting or tactful words, but still had some expectations for it, could only chew the word "stupid" repeatedly. Maybe it smells like rubber bands.

"It's no use pouting, I'll tell you everything I can say." Even if he didn't turn his head, Ajiujin can now understand the embarrassing expression of his subordinates.

I really can't do anything about this guy. It has changed from "I want to push it away" to "Forget it, let's do it" and then "Pick it up and put it away, alas." Whether this is progress or regress, I have no idea .With whom to bond or bond with each other... Trouble is dead.

After receiving the keyword again, Aska pulled himself together from his weak sense of powerlessness, "That is, is there anything else you can't tell me?"

"If there's anything I haven't said, it's something that 'I judge' wouldn't help the matter if I said it."

"Why can I be so sure? I can't probe people's hearts like you, so if you don't say it, I will need to spend more energy guessing."

"Don't waste your time trying to find out what I'm thinking!"

Aska didn't feel particularly frustrated by Ajiujin's refusal, because he was used to it.

"...Then, if you are a qualified genius, guess what I'm going to do next?"

"Go to the library to get rescuers." Ajiujin only said softly.

"Correct answer." Aska smiled, and finally straightened up the half of his body that was pressed on the back of Ajiujin's chair, and quickly left the office.

Only then did Ajiujin temporarily stop typing on the keyboard.

Although this is the archives management room, new files of the deceased are entered, classified, and saved every second, but under his rewritten system, in fact, they will be automatically classified and archived regardless of whether they are left. The keyword design of the search comparison is very dissatisfied, so whenever the dead line of defense has new features, or other departments add new databases or classification items, this side will quickly catch up and obtain more reliable links.

So he kept typing on the keyboard. In fact, he was mainly writing the experience classification search function, rather than simply listing the file number and filing.He likes to do things like this, how to keep things neatly lined up in a sea of ​​electrons.The program is very faithful, what order is given, what response is given.

Human beings are much more annoying, unpredictable, and will get angry, worry, or happy about boring things anyway.He seems to be inherently slow to this kind of thing roughly called "emotion". Usually he can only stand there sluggishly, thinking hard about the crying and laughing of others. Is it really bad that he can't resonate instantly?

But after Nanami Yoshimitsu's incident, since he died and lived in the underworld, he has mostly given up trying to understand those himself.

To put it bluntly, Nanami's behavior was fatal to him.It has nothing to do with physical harm, but the verbal stabbing and mental oppression made him become more and more extreme.Just by locking yourself up, you can get protection from something that you're totally bad at.Obviously, just do it.

Swah——

The door of the archive room was pushed open, and the sound of pattering footsteps came near Akutsu.

"Here." Mao Li's childish voice sounded.

Ajiujin turned his head and took the paper box in Mao Li's hand. It must have contained desserts. He reached out and took the identification card from Mao Li's neck, "Let's eat together."

"Yeah." Maori nodded.

While unpacking the cardboard box, Ajiujin stretched the wire and rolled it over the chair, letting Maoli sit beside him.

"... Askar, what about it?" Maury asked.

Ajiujin understood that the other party was not asking where Aska had gone, but whether there was Aska in this box.

"Leave him the one you hate the most."

"Yeah." Maori nodded.With a small face propped up, he was trying to study the one he hated.

Ajiujin picked up the cream roll but moved it to his mouth.Put it down for a while.Did the guy… ever say he likes creme fraiche?