foreigner's journey

Chapter 404 Leave, the truth

"Brother, Claude, this is..."

Seeing Heather walking this way, Tifa asked anxiously.

Jesse reacted even more, hugging Claude directly in his arms, and beggingly looked at Heather: "Heather, please, Claude, he definitely didn't want to do this by himself! He, he was forced to Manipulated!"

After all these years together, Jesse knows Heather's character well.He is absolutely indifferent and ruthless when dealing with enemies, and can even be called cruel. The little brilliance of humanity will only shine when dealing with friends, and the gentle smile will only bloom for Tifa.

Most importantly, Heather hated [Traitor] the most.Claude rebelled before the battle and injured Barrett, and even fought with Tifa and almost killed her. With Heather's character, he would never forgive Claude.

With Yuffie's support, Barrett also sat up from the ground, covered the sword wound on his shoulder and forced a smile: "Heather, I'm fine, Claude can't hurt me."

Now Heather doesn't wear glasses, and that ferocious aura can be called a "violent beast" without the suppression of glasses. Just walking around will bring a strong sense of oppression.

It was the first time Yuffie saw Heather without glasses, first she was distracted by her extraordinary handsome appearance, and then flinched back in horror.As a genius ninja, the girl is very sensitive to 'power', and now Heather is the strongest she has ever seen.

Walking in front of Barrett, Heather frowned and looked at Barrett's injury, and then looked at Claude and Jesse who was holding him when he saw that there was no serious problem.Tifa came over and took Heather's hand, and said in a worried voice, "Brother...that's not Cloud."

"I understand." Heather nodded, and then said to Jesse, "Idiot, let him go quickly, you'll strangle him to death."

Jesse was taken aback and quickly let go of Claude. Claude was still holding his head and howling. It was conceivable how intense the pain could be for the calm and tough man to let out such a miserable howl of pain.

Heather's right hand suddenly turned into a whip and pulled out towards Claude, precisely on the back of his neck. Claude groaned and lay down on the ground without moving.

"Bring him up. This guy's situation is very complicated. I'll explain it when I get to a safe place."

Heather carried the fainted Claude on her shoulders, and led everyone along the shuttle ladder that was not affected by the attack and fire to the second cable car hall below, where the Red Comet and their vehicles were stored.

Fortunately, all the upper floors were affected by the flames of war, and the venues on the bottom floors were still intact, but the tourists and staff were in panic.It's no wonder that when I was having fun, I suddenly encountered a fight with gods, and anyone who was swept away by the aftermath of the battle would immediately return to the west, and everyone would panic.

No tourists asked to take the cable car to leave, because just now there were continuous lightning and thunder in the sky outside the venue and the terrifying scene of giant beasts fighting each other. Wouldn't it be courting death to go out by cable car?

Regardless of the staff's persuasion, Heather and others boarded a cable car with half demand and half coercion, and transported the vehicle and the red comet away from the Kingdee playground.

Under the night sky, two cable cars flew down the track.Looking out through the window, the top area of ​​the originally brightly lit, luxurious and extravagant Kingdee Playground was now blazing with flames. Several venues on the upper floor either disappeared or burned into flames. The screams and cries resounded through the night sky.

"Is this our fault..." Alice covered her mouth, her face pale.

Heather glanced at Alice, not wanting her students to blame themselves too much: "Don't blame yourself, it's obviously Sephiroth's responsibility. Remember, we are protecting and fighting for this planet, Safi Ross is the enemy of the planet, and if there is a battle, there must be damage, so don't put unnecessary extra pressure on yourself."

Having said that, everyone remained silent.

In the midst of this silence, the cable car arrived at the cable car hall at the bottom of the mountain. Everyone ignored the inquiring staff and left Corel Mountain in a vehicle.

It was not until they drove far that the convoy camped in the wilderness.

Around the campfire, everyone's mood is very low.Jessie put a wet towel on Claude's forehead, caressed her boyfriend's side face worriedly, and turned to look at Heather after a long time: "Claude, what's going on?"

Heather and Tifa looked at each other, and seeing the latter nodding, Heather was silent for a while before speaking:
"According to my speculation, Cloud should be infected with Jenova just like Sephiroth."

"Jenovia?" Jessie's face turned pale. She has heard how dangerous and terrifying the alien life forms that can destroy ancient species are.

Alice sat in front of the bonfire with her knees hugged. The bright fire made her face flicker: "But Claude usually doesn't show Xenovia's strong aggressiveness? Teacher, how did you find out?"

"It was Tifa who found out that something was wrong with Cloud in the first place."

Heather pulled the bonfire with absolute royal power, and said:

"We haven't seen each other for seven years, but when Cloud and Tifa met in Midgar, they said 'We haven't seen each other for five years'. Tifa was very surprised at this, but it was just a slip of the tongue by Cloud. Then Cloud claimed It's 1st, but the name Claude Strife has never appeared among Shinra's official 1st fighters."

"Don't you think it's weird? I believe in fictional experiences as my own memories. My name has never appeared on the list of special forces, but my strength is no less than those of the 1st. Then, when I invaded the Shinra headquarters building to rescue Alice, I Saw some classified material in Hojo's laboratory."

"After concatenating these confidential materials, I finally figured out the truth of the matter."

"Most of the 1st experiences that Claude claims to have originated from a 1st fighter named Zack Phil. The real Claude left his hometown of Nibelheim seven years ago and joined God Luo Jun, but his experience was not as smooth as he said. A taciturn soldier can hardly make a difference even if he has good skills, and such unknown soldiers are not uncommon in the Shenluo Army."

"I don't know when, Claude and Zacks Phil met. One is a low-level soldier who is taciturn and the other is a warm and cheerful 1st soldier. The two people who are completely different from each other have become good friends."

"Then, five years ago, Zack Phil and Sephiroth received a confidential mission to Nibelheim to deal with the accidental Mako Furnace, and Cloud was among the accompanying soldiers."

"Tifa was leading the way for Zack and Sephiroth as a guide, but Cloud did not take off the soldier's helmet to recognize Tifa for unknown reasons."

"Then, there was the Nibelheim tragedy. No one knew what happened in the Nibelheim Demon Furnace, but when Hojo led the Shinra troops and the scientific research team to arrive, they only saw the corpse lying in a pool of blood. Claude and Zack in the movie, a lot of Sephiroth's blood was left at the scene, and his body is missing."

"Hojo found that this was a good opportunity for experimentation, so he assigned the Shinra Army to bring the dying Zacks and Cloud to the laboratory at the bottom of the Nibelheim mansion, and carried out a brutal and inhumane experiment on them." experiment."

"In the end, the two were implanted with Jenova cells by Baojo, and they were immersed in the culture tank for observation."

"Previously, Hojo had done many experiments related to implanting Jenova cells, but all of them failed except Sephiroth, a perfect individual. This time, he didn't have much hope, and only regarded it as an ordinary human body. test."

"According to the records in Baojo's laboratory, the last record of the culture tank data was two months ago, which means that Claude and Zacks were still soaked in the culture tank until two months ago. But we In Midgar, I found Cloud who was confused and took Zack's experience as his own, something must have happened during this period, and it must be inseparable from the Jenova cells."

"I have discussed with Tifa for a long time, but I have not been able to find a suitable opportunity to reveal the truth. I am afraid that this will bring an irreversible blow to Cloud. But now..."

Heather pulled the bonfire and said calmly:

"Jesse, you have to prepare for the worst."

"...What is the worst plan?" Jesse's voice trembled.

Heather stopped fiddling with the fire, looked at Jesse and said seriously:
"It is very likely that Claude will never wake up again."

(End of this chapter)