tokyo creator

Chapter 228 The Night Talk of the Three Knights
Hui Yuanchu and Arthur were talking, but at the same time they heard footsteps coming from the door of the living room.

So they half-turned around and looked behind them, and saw the fire thallium hero.

The fire thallium hero looked up and saw two people already sitting in the living room.

After hesitating for a moment, he came over and sat on the remaining square of the three-person sofa.

Moreover, he couldn't help but assume the same posture as Hui Yuanchu and Arthur - folding his hands near his lower abdomen, while raising his right leg on his left knee, raising his head and looking straight ahead, staring at the moonlight outside the window in ecstasy.

Just like that, the three of them sat in a row on the three-person sofa, moving in unison, and strangely fell into an atmosphere of silence.

Hui Yuanchu felt the atmosphere between the two people on the left and right.

Fire thallium heroes are always as heavy as dying stars.After the three of them met here, and from the moment they learned that the plan had failed and Snake was still alive, his sense of heaviness became even stronger, and he returned to his room without saying a word.

It wasn't until he came out now that the heaviness subsided a little.

And Arthur is even more obvious, not as comfortable as when chatting with Hui Yuanchu before.Involuntarily, he became serious and serious, like a middle school student who had already failed a test and hadn't reviewed the next test at all.

In the end, it was Hui Yuanchu who couldn't help it anymore.

The sound of fingers tapping on the phone rang in the silent living room.

Then he poked the fire thallium hero next to him and asked him to read what he typed on the screen.

"Why, you have insomnia too?"

But immediately, he saw Arthur, who also saw the line, sighed silently and covered his face, as if he had said something wrong.

The fire thallium hero didn't have any special reaction.

"Insomnia?" He thought for a while and said, "You can also say that since I became like this, I have lost sleep, a good thing."

"...You mean, since you became the person in power?" Hui Yuan was a little surprised at first, and he vaguely realized why Arthur had that attitude.

"Oh? So I am called a person in power?"

Arthur finally sighed and took up the topic: "Well, those in power can't sleep."

"I can't fall asleep because I can no longer dream. Dreams are the purest spiritual activity, and they are essentially the process of confrontation between the spirit and the invisible true spirit. The traces are obtained from observing from the perspective of oneself."

"And those in power no longer have a true spirit, so they have lost their dreams..." He put down his right leg, leaned forward instead, rested his elbows on his knees, folded his hands to support his chin, and whispered, "And A lot of other things. The person in power still looks like he needs to eat, still metabolizes, but is actually stuck in what appears to be a dynamic stasis."

Hui Yuanchu understood.

Those in authority are those who have lost the gift of death.

And life and death are relative.

So it can also be said that they are no longer alive.

After all, in a certain sense, the birth and meaning of human existence are all for the cage of the true spirit.

Therefore, "people in power" like Fire Thallium Heroes who have lost their true spirits may no longer be regarded as human beings by Black Mameni.

The remaining body is solidified, and when completed... it is also ignored by the world.

There are still the ashes of the remaining fire and the abandoned prison.

"That's it." Huo Thallium Hero was still very calm, "I always feel that I have lost something important, but I can't describe it... You expressed it well and professionally."

Now that the topic has been opened, Arthur finally feels calmer.

He half-turned around and bowed his head to the hero Huo Thallium: "I'm sorry, Huo Thallium."

"...Huh? What do you mean? Why are you apologizing?" The fire thallium hero turned his head, still in a daze.

"Huo Thallium believed in my plan and worked hard with Haiyuan to execute the plan perfectly, but we failed in the end... The responsibility lies with me who was responsible for the final blow. I missed the target.

Huo Thallium hesitated for a moment before saying: "Ah...it doesn't matter. Anyway, if you work hard next time-"

"There will be no next time." Arthur interrupted him decisively.

"If Zhe Lukui had not been so confident in trying to draw the thallium fire out of the hole and adopted the 'drinking party' strategy, and just protected and transported the snake according to the group's regulations, then we would not have found any gaps at all. .”

"And even now that there is a gap like the cocktail party, we have to press all the hidden cards in our hands to get the last shot."

"——That was our only chance." Arthur clenched his fists unconsciously, "But at the last moment, my shot..."

After a moment of silence, the fire thallium hero nodded and said: "So that's what it means..."

He no longer looked at Arthur, but lay back on the sofa, crossed his shoulders again and looked at the moonlight outside the window.

"That's not important." Then he uttered four words that made Arthur a little stunned.

"You didn't miss it on purpose, otherwise you wouldn't have come up with such a good plan for me first. So everyone tried their best, and that's enough." He said with a relaxed expression.

Moreover, Hui Yuanchu felt that the atmosphere around the fire thallium hero had really relaxed.

"Thank you." He even half-turned to Arthur, supported his knees with his hands, and bowed his head solemnly.

Without waiting for Arthur to respond, Huo Thallium immediately asked: "So, what should we do next?"

Arthur was stunned for a moment, sighed and said: "Okay, if you still believe me, I will tell you the next plan.

"My next plan——"

He paused and sighed: "It can't be considered a plan anymore... The next thing we have to do is disband.

"The group has already targeted us, and their protection of snakes is at its highest level. So at this time, there is no point in going head-on.

“Disbanding is to avoid its sharp edges, but not to give up.

"After all, when I say 'no chance,' I actually mean that there is no chance 'at the moment' and 'in the near future.' But I don't believe that on a relatively long scale, the group will never reveal its flaws in the snake matter.

"So, Huiyuan and I will pretend that nothing happened and return to the group. And Huo Thallium, you must also learn to hibernate.

"I will find a way to get you a false identity, and we can keep in touch through secret channels. As soon as I find an opportunity to get rid of the snake, I will--"

The fire thallium hero suddenly interrupted him and said: "In other words, if you only look at the present, there is really no chance?"

Arthur shook his head and said: "No more. The snake should have been sent to the regional branch. That place is tightly guarded. No matter whether it is sneaking in or attacking by force, it cannot be done."

"But this regional branch, you know where it is, right?"

"I know, but..." Arthur finally felt something was wrong and looked up at Huo Thallium, "Do you want to-"

Hero Huo Thallium said calmly: "It is enough for you to help me get here. Tell me that location, this is the last thing you do for me. Then you don't need to come forward, I will go by myself."

"Ah..." He turned his head and nodded towards Hui Yuanchu again, "But Hui Yuan still wants to go with me, don't forget our agreement."

Arthur frowned: "Are you going to die?"

"To fulfill my justice."

"——But there's no chance of winning! What's the difference between dying and dying?" Arthur couldn't help but raise his voice.

Then he tried to persuade: "Why rush for the moment? Obviously in the long run..."

Huo Thallium asked again: "Arthur, why are you helping me? Is it because you also want to kill that guy?"

"Yes." "Why?"

"Of course it's for the word you've said so many times, 'justice.'" Arthur finally calmed down. He glanced at the fire thallium hero twice and seemed to understand his thoughts, "To protect others. Isn’t it justice to uproot evil?”

"I am not a pedantic person. Evil is like poisonous weeds in the field. Simply pulling them out is the best and fastest way to protect others."

"I understand, your justice is to protect others." The fire thallium hero nodded slightly and clapped his hands seriously: "A very good idea."

"——But." He suddenly changed the topic and asked a question, "Just like what we actually encountered at the cocktail party, the snake held an innocent person hostage. To kill him, you have to kill the one you are supposed to protect. Innocent person, how do you choose at this time?”

Arthur was not stumped and answered without hesitation: "As I said, I will not rush this moment, this opportunity. I will wait for the next opportunity to kill him for sure without implicating innocent people."

The fire thallium hero nodded without making any comments, but asked a second question: "Then at the next opportunity, he still held an innocent person hostage. But this time, he also held a weapon in his hand that could kill other people. A button for a hundred innocent people. If you let him go, he will press this button and kill 100 people. At this time, what will you choose?"

Arthur took a deep breath and said, "I will kill the snake."

The fire thallium hero nodded again, and instead of laughing at Arthur, he asked the third question: "So, assuming that the button in the snake's hand does not kill 100 people, but kills another 'one person', What would you choose?"

This time, Arthur hesitated the longest.

In the end, he didn't answer, but said instead: "What do you want to say?"

The fire thallium hero ignored him and continued to talk: "What if you will die if you kill the snake? What if you will die before killing the snake? If killing the snake can in turn make the kidnapped person survive, But it led to the death of a hundred other people? What if the snake told you that he would choose a few people from a hundred people to kill based on your choice?"

The always gentle Arthur finally had veins popping up on his forehead and squeezed out two words: "——Shut up."

The fire thallium hero nodded seriously, and seemed to sympathize with Arthur and said: "It's hard to choose, right?"

After a pause, he shook his head and said: "This is the justice of ordinary people... Choice is always difficult and painful, especially choosing the less bad one among several bad choices."

Speaking of silence, the fire thallium hero fell silent.

After a while, he raised his head and looked at Arthur: "The happiness of snakes is to let you choose."

He quickly continued: "But I understand now. I don't choose, and I don't need to choose. I don't care about anything else. As long as I know where the damn person is, I will kill him.

“It doesn’t matter if I die, it doesn’t matter if a hundred other people die.

“It doesn’t even matter if the snake is dead.

"I know very well that my purpose was not to kill the snake. It was just a process of achieving justice.

"I can't think about 'what do I choose?' Once I think about it, from that moment on, it's not justice for me."

Arthur remained silent for a long time, looking at the fire thallium hero with an incomprehensible expression: "...So what is your so-called justice?"

Huo Thallium finally showed a relaxed smile.

He did not answer Arthur's question directly, but said: "The Red Warrior of the Star said - 'Justice will never fail'.

"I didn't understand this sentence before. Because even if you are a partner of justice, there are obviously many things that you can't do, right?

"But then I understood."

"This sentence is absolutely correct, because justice is not about looking at the results... No, justice cannot only look at the results. And since it doesn't look at the results, there can never be a 'failure'.

Finally, the fire thallium hero said calmly: "Justice means 'burning out'."

After a long silence, Arthur finally shook his head and sighed deeply.

"But what if there is really no chance of winning, and there is really no chance of killing the snake?" He smiled bitterly, "Don't forget our speculation. The snake may have some kind of immortality ability, if it is not turned on by the P device If you kill him under such circumstances, he may not die at all."

The fire thallium hero said nothing and his expression did not change.

It seems that the idea has not changed at all.

But at this moment, a mobile phone squeezed between Arthur and the fire thallium hero: "——I suspect there is something wrong with this speculation."

That was when Hui Yuanchu, who had been watching, finally joined the conversation.

"How to say?"

Hui Yuanchu started typing unhurriedly: "I was at the scene when you shot the snake, so I was observing his reaction."

"After falling down, the medical team members rushed forward quickly. At that time, the snake was holding on to the team members' hands with a frightened expression and its lips moving rapidly. Although it made a sound, what it said repeatedly was Sayings like 'Help me', 'I don't want to die'."

"His emotions are real and he is not acting. I have a way to be sure."

Arthur froze.

But before he could react, the fire thallium hero suddenly slapped his palm: "So that's it."

"Actually, since the reunion, I have been vaguely feeling that something is not right this time, so I have been thinking hard, but I can't figure it out... So, the answer is this?"

Seeing that the attention of the other two people was directed towards him, he explained: "It's like this. You know that I have been chasing snakes for a long time, but I have never been successful. Although I am 'lucky' I can always find clues about snakes, but every time Before the final shot, for various reasons, he was only 'nearly', and the guy escaped."

"...Later I realized that 'almost' won't happen several times in a row. So, maybe every 'good luck' before was also within the snake's plan." The fire thallium hero sighed, "Maybe, that guy has been manipulating the information around me to play tricks on me."

The hero of Huo Thallium laughed at himself: "After all, what source of information can a homeless man who occasionally does odd jobs have? All I have access to are newspapers, online TV news. The so-called 'clues' found in this way are almost certainly him. It was released on purpose."

"I just suddenly remembered that I had not seen him in person these few times. Almost every time, when I broke into his residence, he just happened to leave first, leaving only a triumphant and mocking message for me. .”

When the fire thallium hero said this, he frowned and thought for a moment, and finally said suddenly: "But this time is different... the snake's mood is different."

The fire thallium hero recalled with a thoughtful expression, "Just an ordinary person who is about to die. That kind of despair, fear, unable to accept the reality and helpless, can only wait for death to come... If it is If you feel like this, I’ve seen it once, only once.”

"——That was the emotion he showed before I saw him killed by a meteorite with my own eyes."

"It's just that he came back to life a month later, so I naturally forgot about such small things as his reaction at that time..."

"But now that I think about it, that guy... seems to be really afraid of death. He can be resurrected, but his fear of death is real? How to explain this..." Huo Thallium Hero frowned.

Arthur then frowned and began to think deeply.

Finally, he said slowly: "Maybe there is some secret about the snake's resurrection, maybe there are some conditions, and the snake itself cannot control it at will."

"Only in this way can we explain his behavior at that time. He was afraid of death...because he might really die."

The other two people also started thinking together.

"Forget it, even if we know this, we really don't have any cards to play." Arthur finally let out a breath, then he looked at Huo Li, and tried to persuade him again, "As long as we can't break through the group's defense, the result is not bad." You can’t kill it, just like you never found the snake in the first place... Why don’t you just give up like this?"

But this time, before Huo Thallium could answer, his cell phone rang first.

Arthur answered the phone and his expression changed dramatically after only hearing a few words.

After hanging up the phone, a bit of confusion and disbelief appeared on his face.

Then he took the initiative to confess to the other two people: "One of my personal intelligence sources came with the news... Due to the poor condition of the snake, Orilu Aoi arranged a long-distance transport of the snake to send him from the Tokyo branch to Osaka. Go to the branch.”

"Of course, it has been determined that this is a trap targeting us. The source also pointed out that Oro Aoi's tactics are very crazy, almost entirely based on luring us out for total annihilation. Other than that, she seems not to have any Don't care about the initial goal, which is the safety of the snake... It's strange, she shouldn't care so much about the fire thallium."

"No, what's even more strange is, how did this information flow to my source?"

After standing up and pacing in the living room for a moment, Arthur suddenly punched the wall hard: "Okay - since the success rate is not zero, let's try again!"

(End of this chapter)