After holding the thigh and overturning the car [Zhong Yingmei]

Leila was captured by Obo and returned to an unknown Hydra underground base.

Of course, the process is not as simple as the previous sentence.When Laila arrived at the underground base, she was in a bruised and swollen state. Eric observed for several seconds before he recognized that it was Laila.

Some of the wounds on Lyra's face were inflicted by the Sentry, but most of the wounds were inflicted by Ober himself.

Although Aobo can be said to be a war scum, he is a person with a brain after all, so that he can create a big killer like a sentinel.After grabbing Laila, he asked the sentry to hold her down and slap Laila in the face several times.

Laila had almost forgotten when was the last time someone slapped her.Ever since she was a child, even the old man had never slapped Laila, except that she was slapped once at school because of some unpleasantness, but that was a long time ago.Afterwards, Laila also personally retaliated and went back, which was definitely more serious than a slap, probably to the extent of "it's cold, the Smith family should go bankrupt".

When that slap landed on Laila's face, her eye sockets turned red.

But when Laila's face became red and swollen, and Aobo finally stopped what she was doing, Laila raised her head, she looked at Aobo's face, the tears in her eyes had been suppressed, she even slightly Raised the corners of his lips.

She would never show herself vulnerable to her enemies, so even though Obo's slap quickly left Lyra with red marks on her cheeks, Lyra was still smiling.

"The weak will only show their strength in disguise at this time." Laila laughed, "Obo, you are still the cowardly you at heart. Look, if you beat me now, the sentry will suppress you Hold me, for fear that I will cause you any harm, don't you think this is ridiculous?"

Lyra said with a mocking laugh in her throat.

The smile on Laila's face was like a thorn in Obo's heart. He looked at Laila, and the raised hand didn't come down for a long time, and finally only brushed the side of Laila's face.

"Enjoy your last good life." Aobo put down his harsh words and left the area.

The fake smile on Laila's face disappeared when Ober left.She lowered her eyes and pursed the corners of her lips, feeling the sting on her face.

It really hurts, not only the physical pain, but also the mental humiliation.

Laila began to miss David, but hated her own weakness, and always wanted David to save her.

When there was only the sentinel, Laila finally showed her vulnerability, but soon, when the plane finally arrived at the destination and saw Aobo again, Laila's face was full of unbeatable smiles again.

"What a coincidence, we have become inmates again. This is probably a kind of fate." After getting off the plane and seeing Eric, Laila's smile became even brighter.

Eric watched for a long time before realizing from what Laila said that the person standing in front of him with a face swollen like a pig's head was Laila.

In fact, Eric's appearance is not much better. Although Eric has no obvious scars from the outside, his face is pale and his lips are extremely pale, as if he has lost too much blood.

The physical fitness of mutants is generally several times that of ordinary people, and it is definitely not just the reason for excessive blood loss that can make a strong Eric become like this.

Laila lowered her eyes when she thought of the similar abilities of Sentinel and Eric.

She didn't know how Sentinel needed to obtain a certain mutant ability, but it probably had something to do with genes.You can't get the mutant ability of whoever the sentinel touches, right?That was too scary.

Eric nodded to Lila, "It looks like we are destined for each other."

Aobo didn't see the reaction he had seen, so he pushed Laila hard, "I will give you some time to catch up on the past, not this moment."

Lyra soon learned what this "abundance of time" was.

The cells where Laila and Eric were held were not too close together, but the operating tables of Laila and Eric were next to each other.

Laila looked at the two side-by-side small beds, not sure if she could catch up with Eric in this situation.

Ober was wearing a surgical gown, a mask, and a scalpel.He first installed a device on Lyra, and then walked up to Eric.

"You can still enjoy your last good day," Obo said to Laila. "Wait until tomorrow, when your mutant ability is detected, and you will be treated like your cellmates."

There was a huge wound on Eric's abdomen itself, which was not stitched properly at all, and was simply wrapped in a bandage.The bandage was soaked with blood, and now, the bandage that had stuck to the wound was roughly torn off by Obo, and the wound that had finally begun to heal was torn apart again.

Eric frowned slightly.

Ober obviously had no intention of administering anesthesia to his captive. While Eric was still awake, he directly moved the knife on Eric's body.

Lyra closed her eyes and didn't look any further.

Sooner or later, she was going to put Obo through everything he had done to them.

……

The next day, Laila's test results came back.

—she's not a mutant.

Auber was furious. Like everyone else before, he firmly believed in the lie fabricated by Laila-she was a mutant, and the mutant ability was to resurrect from the dead.

But there was no way his test results could be wrong, and Laila was indeed an ordinary person.

"You are an ordinary person, why do you help mutants like this? Mutants and ordinary people are two opposing groups, why should they deserve your sacrifice?" Ober roared.

Lila laughed: "Why are they not worth it? Do you think that as long as you desperately provoke the confrontation between mutants and ordinary people, all people will become puppets in your hands, and you hate mutants?" ? You are wrong, there are many, many, ordinary people like me, we regard mutants as our companions, and for companions, even if we sacrifice our lives, we will be happy."

Ober looked at Laila with a shocked and unbelievable expression on his face, but it seemed to be mixed with some other emotions, like a bit sad.

But before Laila carefully discerned whether it was sad or not, Ober waved his sleeves and left without saying a word.

Aobo left too early. Although Eric had been tied to the operating table, Lila left Aobo before he could do anything to him.

Laila was strapped to the operating table, only her neck could move slightly, she turned her head and looked at Eric.

Since Lila saw Eric here, Eric's face has remained pale, and it is the same today.

"Are you okay?" Lyra asked Eric, although she knew that her words were probably nonsense, after all, Eric didn't look good.

Eric also tilted his head slightly, looking at Lila.

His green eyes stared at Laila, whose almost identical face to David's made Laila feel in a trance.

"What about you?" Eric asked Lila.

Lila smiled: "At least it's pretty good now. Let's talk about the future."

Although Laila said so, in fact, that "later" came very quickly.

Aobo, who walked to the operating bed again, had a look of madness on his face, making it difficult to tell whether there was a flash of sadness or not.

"Then I'll see how much you can pay for the mutants." Obo said.

He pushed a tube of potion into Laila's body, "Before this, I have been experimenting on mutants, and I haven't tried the results of mutant genes on ordinary people, so this experiment will start from you .”

"Perhaps, with your help, I can try to transform ordinary people into sentinels."

Lila smiled: "Even if you have transformed countless sentries, so what? With you alone, it is impossible to kill all the mutants, even if you have sentries. What's more, you are now and Hydra Is it a partnership? Do you think Hydra will allow you to do this? As far as I know, there are mutants in the upper echelons of Hydra."

Ober looked as if he had given himself some psychological training, and he was not as easily irritated by Laila as before.He looked at Lyra and said, "That mouth looks better when it's still."

After a pause, Aobo continued: "Let's say a few more words now, wait a minute. You may not have the energy to speak again.'

Ober took out a test tube containing a bright red liquid.

"Do you know what's in there?" Ober asked.Before Laila could answer, Aobo went on to say, "I haven't conducted clinical tests on this reagent yet, so just come and test it for me."

Saying that, Obo pushed the tube of reagent into Lyra's body.

When the reagent was first pushed into Laila's body, Laila didn't feel anything special, but after about ten minutes, she felt pain like burning all over her body.The fire raged up and down in her body, as if it would burn her to ashes in the next second.

Laila gritted her teeth, her eyes closed tightly, and cold sweat covered her brow.

"How does it feel?" Ober asked.

Lyra's eyes filled with physical tears from the pain, but she held them back.

She will not show a vulnerable look in front of the person who hurt her, because she knows that that vulnerable look will not bring pity, but will only make him more excited.

Ordinary people's bodies are extremely resistant to mutant genes.Ober said he hadn't done a clinical trial before, which was largely to scare Laila.This test tube reagent contains a variant gene of Magneto, and no clinical trials have indeed been conducted.But in fact, the other mutant genes he obtained before were tested on ordinary people, and those ordinary people who were injected with the mutant genes, without exception, could not withstand the body modification of the mutant genes, and died one after another .

Of course, it is impossible for Obo to let Laila die so easily. He has improved this reagent according to the previous experimental results, at least it will not let Laila die in a short time, but how long can Laila persist under the modification of the mutant gene? For a long time, not necessarily.

But in the process of genetic modification of the mutant, Laila has to endure the pain of burning fire, which will never end... In other words, when the pain stops, Laila dies.

In a blur of consciousness, Laila thought that she was still sympathizing with Eric before... Now that she thinks about it, it's better to sympathize with herself.

……

On the third day after Leila was injected with the reagent, Obo left the underground base as if something happened outside.

Before Aobo left the base, there were only four people in the entire base, including a sentry.After Obo left the base, only the Sentinel guarded Lyra and Eric.

Before Ober left, he gave the sentinel an order - Lyra and Eric were not allowed to leave the base.

In other words, apart from not being able to leave the base, Leila and Eric were given a short period of freedom.At least, after Ober left, no one used them for human experiments anymore.

But it was no different for Laila.The difference may be that before, Laila was lying on the operating bed enduring the pain, but now, Laila was enduring the pain lying on the small bed in her own cell.

The pain didn't diminish with the passage of time, the only thing that changed was that Laila increased her pain threshold through repeated endurance, and became more and more used to the ever-present pain.

Eric left his cell and walked over to Lila, "Are you okay?"

Lila raised her head with difficulty and glanced at Eric: "Do you think I'm alright now?"

When Lila looked up, Eric saw the tears on her face.

After Obo finally left the base, Laila finally stopped fighting back tears.She buried her face in the quilt, let the tears flow down her face, and finally disappeared into the quilt.

Seeing Lila with tears all over his face, Eric froze for a moment.He took out the paper and handed it to Laila: "Do you want to wipe it?"

Anyway, Eric had already seen her face full of tears, and Laila didn't intend to hide anything.What's more, Eric is not her enemy, and it doesn't seem to matter to let him see his vulnerable side.

Laila's voice was crying, she took the tissue from Eric's hand, wiped her face casually, and whispered: "Actually, you don't need to wipe it, anyway, it will get wet again soon."

Wiping the tears off her face, Laila took another piece of paper and blew her nose.Maybe it was because she had vented her emotions by crying bitterly, and Laila felt that the pain in her body seemed to have subsided a little.

Lila smiled shyly at Eric. She had just cried a while ago, her face was still red, her eyes were wet with tears, and now they seemed to be still shining with water, looking lovely.

Eric lowered his eyes and didn't look at Lila again.

Lyra noticed the blood oozing from Eric's abdomen. She froze for a moment. She got up and said to Eric before leaving the room, "Wait for me."

Finding bandages from near the operating table, Laila returned to her room and saw Eric still sitting on the bed.

"Your wound is open, let me treat it for you?"

"No need." Eric said.

"I didn't need to wipe my tears before, but didn't you hand me a tissue?" Laila curled her lips, "Just take it as a little repayment."

Gently lifting Eric's clothes, Lila saw the hideous wound, which was exposed and looked a little scary.

Lila bit her lower lip, first cleaned the wound with lotion, and then wrapped it tightly with a bandage.

"Does it hurt?" Lyra asked.

……

After Ober left, Laila and Eric could freely move around the entire base, and the sentinels didn't know where they went, and they were no longer in the sight of Laila and Eric.

When Auber was still there, Laila and Eric relied on the nutrient solution given to them lying on the operating table every day to maintain their lives. They were probably afraid that if they were locked up after they left, they would be lost when they came back. Obo will give Leila and Eric the right to move freely inside the base for his precious experimental materials.

Before, Laila and Eric relied on nutrient solution to maintain their lives, but Aobo would not wrong himself. At a certain time every day, someone would send food to the base.

Now that Ober is gone, he will naturally not be kind enough to let Laila and Eric have a normal meal.But it was probably because he left too hastily, and he didn’t remember that someone would come to deliver the food every day. Aobo didn’t deliberately let the person who delivered the food not come over, so there would still be a meal for one person at the base every day.

A meal for one person is certainly not enough for two of Laila's Eric, but it's better than nothing.They haven't eaten a normal meal for a while, so this taste can only be regarded as ordinary food, but it has become delicious in their eyes.

Eric brought the food to Laila's room and put it on the only crude cabinet.

Lila took the rice, divided a small half on the lid, and handed the rest to Eric: "We each have half."

Eric looked up at Laila and took the meal.

The two sat on Laila's bed and shared the precious meal.

After eating, she simply wiped her mouth with a tissue, and Lila said with a smile, "Aren't we sharing weal and woe?"

Probably because Eric and David look alike, Laila has a natural familiarity with Eric and speaks with ease.

Lila didn't feel embarrassed when she didn't hear Eric's reply. She continued to talk to herself: "Eric, what are you going to do after you leave here?"

"What are you going to do?" Eric asked back.

"I'm supposed to go home," Laila said. "I haven't been home for a long time. Although I always felt that my home was bad here and there, and sometimes I thought they were a bit annoying, but leaving After a long time, I suddenly discovered that I still miss it.”

"What about you, what do you want to do after you leave here?" Laila asked again. "The matter of the former president has been clarified. You will no longer be misunderstood, and you don't have to worry about being arrested. You can do what you want. I believe the president will give you convenience. So, you want to do something what?"

"I want to create a utopia for mutants," Eric said, "a utopia for mutants only."

"I'm sure you'll make it," Lyra said. "You will."

— because she had seen it in the future, that full-fledged mutant utopia, Kenosha.

"Would you like to come? After you get home." Eric asked.

Lyra pointed her finger at herself. "Me? But I'm not a mutant. That's not appropriate."

"The reagent Aobo injected into you contains my mutant gene. After you, you may have the same mutant ability as me." Eric said.

"Is your mutant gene? That's really cool." Laila smiled. "I've always envied you for having such a powerful mutant ability. Now it seems that I don't need to be envious in the future."

Lila and Eric sat around, talking about what they wanted to do after leaving here.They have dreams, about the future, about dreams, about traveling across the world.They sat together around the dim light, clapping their hands lightly, believing that the future was not far away.

The author has something to say: At that time we had dreams, about literature, about love, about traveling across the world.If we drink late at night and the glasses touch each other, it is the sound of broken dreams.

——Bei Dao "The Polish Guest"