Abyss Express

Chapter 666 Postscript ④·The power of heart

Let's push the time forward to the spring of 2032, after the pre-war mobilization meeting of the Knife Special Service Regiment.

Jiang Bailu found a veteran. This uncle was forty-four years old. Because of his excellent combat skills, he was still on the front line. Even if the expedition was over, he still had no idea of ​​retiring.

——His name is Hart Boxing. He was a communications officer of the Sperm Whale Chapter before the expedition era. He once served as a telephone line engineer, a tunnel electrical engineer, and a regional militiaman in District 31. In addition to these, after the expedition ended, Uncle Hart also worked part-time as a firefighter for a few months.

Bai Lu came on behalf of Anonymous. She was twenty-six years old. In addition to her duties as a passenger, she was also responsible for miscellaneous affairs of the Corps.

For example, this time, before Operation Autumn Harvest officially started, she had to find Mr. Hart and discuss the veteran's polarizing sextant quality review.

In a secluded corner of the [Joe Star] club, in a relatively private window seat, Bai Lu held a diary and a voice recorder, pouring tea and water for the uncle in front of her.

This man looks unsmiling and has a weathered look on his face.

He was wearing a khaki jacket and a loose shirt. There was a bright red birthmark on the chin on the right side of his face that extended to the left side of his heart. There were many scars on his face.

He is a standard European and American man, with a long and straight nose, protruding eyebrows, extremely deep eye sockets, and small eyes. If you squint attentively, you can almost not see those emerald eyes.

His lips are very thin, there is a deep scar on his mouth and nose, and his face is also asymmetrical. It seems that he suffered a severe stab wound in his early years, and before he could be treated with a panacea, a knife cut open his face. Since then, the gums can only be used to crush food with the left half of the molars. The masseter muscles above the mandible and temple have been developed for many years, and the left and right sides of the face are completely asymmetrical.

"What do you want from me? Little angel?" Mr. Hart looked like a gangster when he smiled. He was so ugly and strangely fierce.

Bai Lu felt a little embarrassed, which was very different from her eldest sister. She lacks the test of blood and fire - when communicating with these veterans, she is always shocked by all kinds of weird looks and spiritual pressure.

"Mr. Hart. I am"

Before Bai Lu introduced herself, Hart already knew the true identity of this little girl.

"You are very similar to the King of War. We should have met more than once. Don't be so indifferent - I recognize you. If you have anything, we can talk directly."

Kuai Dao is a team full of vitality. During the expedition, this special service group was a good place for the elites of each battle group to train - the personnel came and went, and Bai Lu naturally couldn't remember the names of these soldiers. . But there is only one King of War, and Bai Lu has long been the focus of the Kuai Dao soldiers.

Bai Lu immediately opened the diary and explained the main content of the meeting.

"Mr. Hart, the director counter has issued a home visit specifically for you."

Hart interrupted: "It's a family visit, right?"

Bai Lu nodded, suddenly feeling guilty: "Yes."

Hart: "It has nothing to do with my career, right?"

Bai Lu: "Well, I'm here on behalf of the Anonymous. I must be responsible for every soldier of the Kuai Dao Chapter."

Hart: "Answer me, Bailu mobilization soldiers, you haven't officially established it yet - will this home visit affect my military career?"

"Maybe." Bai Lu didn't know how to continue the conversation, so she decided to get straight to the point: "Let's put it this way."

"Let's put it this way, Mr. Hart. You were reviewed in the inpatient unit of the Council of Five Kings last week. You have congenital heart disease."

"When you were deployed to Quick Knife, the personnel specialist of the Sperm Whale Chapter had already mentioned this matter. I must confirm again that the Organization Department must start its work."

Hart still didn't give Bai Lu a chance, not wanting the girl to finish her sentence.

"I will not hold back the Chapter."

Bai Lu has no choice——

——She is not here to trouble Mr. Hart. On the contrary, this veteran has very strong combat skills and will to survive. In the Quick Knife team, he has a medal of merit from the expedition era and is one of the combat groups to which the barracks belongs. The soul who unites the military spirit.

He is a big brother, a flag, and the spiritual leader of more than a dozen sharp knife warriors.

"You have had six operations in the past two years, Mr. Hart." Bai Lu read out according to the contents in the diary: "Because of this malformed heart, thoracic empyema caused by pulmonary artery tumors, infective myocarditis and chronic congestion Sexual heart failure.”

"This is not the first time that panacea and surgery can temporarily revive you, but"

"Actually, it's more than that." Hart stretched out his two palms and held a silver smoking pot. His fingers were drum-shaped, which is a complication of a very severe cyanotic congenital heart disease in infancy, " My fingers used to have trouble finding the trigger guard, they were so stupid and I hated that, but the rest was tolerable.”

Bai Lu then said: "If in the mortal world, Mr. Hart."

"I'm not even qualified to join the war group. I know, little angel, I know what you want to say." Hart's mood was very calm: "There may be a way to cure it before the age of five, but I am almost forty-five years old. , even panacea can’t cure it.”

Bai Lu was silent, she didn't know what to say.

After a while, she finally corrected her attitude and asked again.

"Mr. Hart, I don't know you. Can you tell me the reason? Why do you have to participate in the autumn harvest?"

Hart Boxing did not answer immediately—

——He was holding a silver smoking pot, and there were as many calluses on his hands as there were wounds on his heart.

He took a deep breath, tilted his head deliberately, and the smoke drifted out of the window.

"Do you have time? Miss Jiang Bailu?"

Bai Lu: "I have a whole day, and I have enough patience to spend it with you, a brute."

"Why don't you come and listen to my story?" Mr. Hart rubbed his knuckles and said with a smile, "It's a very common and simple story."

Bai Lu picked up the diary, turned to a blank page, and turned on the voice recorder.

"Speaking."

"I was born in a mixed-race family. My grandfather was a hybrid of the local war gang clan in District 31. This clan is called Alto - you may not have heard of it. The Aldo subfamily is a subfamily of cephalopods. division."

"To put it simply, I have a grandfather octopus, and I have some hybrid blood in my body."

"The Edou people have been entrenched in District 31 for centuries. There is a big city in the Peacock Strait. I was born in Port Helen."

"They have octopus heads, slippery limbs and three hearts."

"One main heart, two cheek hearts, developed brain nerves, and a strong body."

"Based on this clan, the Crazy Butterfly Holy Sect has spread in District 31. Most of the Aldo people have become cultists, including my grandfather and father. The name of the sect is the Spiritual Society. , these octopus hybrids taught the servants of the gods to call themselves mind flayers.”

"My mother was a clerk in the Tunnel Traffic Department of District 31. During a money and power transaction, my father fell in love with this ordinary woman, so he forcibly married her and gave birth to me, a freak. .”

"The hybrid blood transformed me. It turned me into a freak. That's how I got my heart disease."

"When I was born, the doctor said I wouldn't live long, so my father asked the maid at home to throw me to the sea north of Port Helen and throw me into the sea of ​​Pompeii to feed the fish."

"But I didn't die, because at that time the human trafficking business in District 31 was prosperous and the market prospects were very good. She took me to Hexagon Alley - the largest human flesh trading market in Port Helen."

"Although I looked very weak at the time, the maid spent some money to temporarily restore my strength with Lady White products, and then sold it to a poor family, which was my first adoptive parents."

"Any memories about this family were told to me by the soldiers of the Sperm Whale Regiment later——"

"——After I arrived at my new home, I didn't seem to receive any proper care. Because of my heart disease, I often fell into a state of death."

"The adoptive parents would take care of me at first. They could find many diagnostic certificates written by pediatricians at home. Finally, they went to a big hospital and got the test results of cardiac malformation. They no longer regarded me as their son."

"I should have been only over six months old at that time. A medic from the Sperm Whale Regiment led a dozen militiamen to investigate criminal cases in Hexagon Alley. I happened to find my adoptive parents at their home to ask for clues - the medic's sister discovered that I There are scars from cigarette burns on the body and wounds from needle sticks.”

"When I grew up, she confessed to me——"

"——After these adoptive parents learned about my physical condition, they didn't care much about me. They thought they had bought a bitch, so they took advantage of me, burned me with cigarette butts, and stabbed me with a syringe after taking drugs."

"That's what she said. She always shed tears when she talked about it. I remember it very clearly - but I forgot what came out of her mouth. I couldn't feel it. I couldn't remember the pain. The baby's heart remained. Don’t live in anything.”

"In this way, this medical soldier of the Sperm Whale Regiment adopted me. She is my second mother."

"As I grow older, the hybrid blood is transforming my body. It makes me stronger, and the diseases caused by my heart are becoming more and more common."

"I like running, crawling and jumping everywhere, and I like the feeling of blood flowing through my body."

"She was chasing after me, and every time she caught me, she would warn me to stop me—"

"——Every step I take in my life leads to death."

“I didn’t know what [death] meant at that time, and maybe I still don’t know what it means now.”

"I'm very distressed. I think to myself, this heart is really bad——"

"——It's always holding me back, it's always blocking me, what's wrong with it?"

"I talked to the mother."

"Let me tell you, mom, can you give me a different heart? A stronger, more powerful one that won't hurt?"

"There was nothing my mother could do. At first I thought she was lying to me - every disease can be cured with a panacea, so wouldn't mine be cured?"

"When I grow up, I can run further and go to the First People's Hospital of Helen Railway Station, then I will know that what my mother said is true."

"I am a mongrel, a mixed race, and there is no match for my heart."

"The probability of children born between hybrids and humans dying in infancy is too high. Even if I find another hybrid child to provide me with a heart source, there may not be a match."

"The sister at the nursing station heard my story and when she took me to the outpatient department, the doctor showed me a photo of my blood test and said that my situation has been rare in decades. It is a miracle that I survived."

"I have a knot in my heart, not because of the heart disease, but because my mother lied to me."

"She is not my biological mother. She is hiding something from me. I am a mongrel and she is a pure-blooded Homo sapiens."

"On my fifteenth birthday, I asked about this matter. She finally told me all the causes and consequences. She named me Hart (English literal translation: Heart), and she took me back The day I get home is my birthday.”

"At that time, I was a 100% pure idiot. All the grievances, all the resentments, and all the suffering I suffered from illness over the years, I blamed it all on my biological parents - I was overcome by an inexplicable pain. Yeah, I'm controlled by it."

"I ran to the gathering place of the Erdou people's religious order and ran in front of these blood nobles. I wanted to ask clearly - where are my father and mother?"

"But this question brought disaster to my mother."

"I was studying at Helen No. 2 Middle School at the time. Although I had to go home on time at night, there was no one at home. As a medical unit of the Sperm Whale Group, my mother often had to work night shifts for security inspections."

"I decided to take action at night. Mom doesn't know about it anyway. I just want to go back before dawn."

"I ran to Six Corners Alley. I knew this was a place for the human flesh business. Maybe I could find someone who would buy and sell me. I squatted near a gambling stall and waited in the dead corner at the end of the alley. I waited until two professors The blood nobles come out - they all have cold blood, wet tentacles on their chins, hairless skulls, and high bulges on their soft heads."

"The blood in my body tells me that these people must be right."

"I stopped them, but I didn't know how to ask. What should I ask?"

"Ask these two strangers? Ask them? Who is my father? Who is my mother? Ask these unknown things? I don't even have any clues or evidence in my hand."

"My head was burning, and I just felt pain and anger. I just blocked them in the alleyway, and these two blood-giving nobles couldn't get out. They were upset - it seemed that their good deeds had been ruined."

"At this time, my mother found me——"

"——She was patrolling the Six Corners Alley area with three of her fellow soldiers, and when she was talking to acquaintances in the shops in the street, she suddenly heard about me. She knew that I didn't go home at night, so she was hanging around nearby."

"When she came over with the emblem of the regiment, the two blood-granting nobles were completely panicked. The later mission record said that these two blood-granting nobles of the séance had just completed a drug deal. He was immediately found by the members of the war group, and a firefight broke out."

"It was difficult for me to recall what happened in the narrow alleyway."

"The gunfire kept ringing, and the dark alley was lit up by gunfire. Every time it went off, my heart ached."

"When I came to my senses again, it was already noon the next day."

"I was in the infirmary of the military station. My mother was lying on the hospital bed. She couldn't speak."

"My uncle who was in the same class said that she was shot twice in the head. The two bullets left very serious mental damage, but she is not dead. She should be able to get out of bed healthily. She just needs time to recover."

"She was almost forty years old at the time. She was staring at the ceiling blankly. I couldn't wake her up no matter how much I shouted. She didn't wake up after that, and she never woke up again. It seemed that her soul had slipped away from her body and could not come back. ”

"A week later, the doctor gave her a diagnosis of brain death."

"Without my mother's care, I will never have the chance to study. I want to know why."

"Why did the doctor lie? She could obviously survive, so why could she suddenly not wake up?"

"I was always late, always one step behind. It wasn't until three years later that I figured it all out."

"I applied for a job at the outsourcing company of the Ministry of Tunneling and Transportation, starting from the most basic porter job. After learning some skills from an electrical engineer, I wanted to be a militiaman and find a job in the city's subway system, even if I started out as a fire fighter. I'm willing to do it, even if my heart is broken."

"When I arrived at the militia station, I found a set of scientific research reports on the psychic biology of the Edou people, and I learned that these monsters have a very powerful psychic talent. These octopus monsters have two sets of memory systems, just like their names. , they are mind flayers - they can suck away part of the consciousness of Homo sapiens."

"I gradually learned about the Crazy Butterfly Sect and the mixed race clan of the Erdu people."

"My heart brought me so many illnesses, I thought I had enough pain."

"Until I figured out the true cause of my mother's death - this mental torture beyond the physical pain almost drove me crazy."

"My mother didn't die because of those two bullets, no."

"When she was dying, someone put the Mind Flayer in the Sperm Whale Corps' infirmary and took her away quietly."

"Just because she came to me with the Chapter emblem, just because she took one more look at these blood-granting nobles."

"Just because she was nosy, she drew her gun at these nobles. She was worried about my safety and said a few more words."

"At that time, I thought, I must find my biological parents."

"I'm going to kill them. I'm going to kill these Erdos and their freak masters together. From warbands to religious orders, no one will be left alive."

"I swear to God, as long as I'm alive, I will keep running."

"Even if this heart tells me that every step I take is heading towards hell."

"I've been fighting and fighting since the militia days, and when I got to the Sperm Whales, I took up my mother's mantle."

"For a goal, for revenge, to find the biological parents, I would rather kill the wrong person than let them go. Kill all these Edou people, and the matter will be over."

"For me, this heart is the only one worth trusting. The mind flayer's abilities are almost the nemesis of Homo sapiens. My partners will be mind-controlled, and they will suddenly become... in a very short time, just a few minutes. Idiots, obey these octopus monsters - in those days, the Sperm Whale Chapter was no match for the séance."

"I have been fighting them for more than twenty years. This mouth has been cut open by the enemy, half of my face has been replaced, and there is not a good piece of meat left in my body - but I am not afraid of these monsters. Their talents are of no use to me, because I It’s a bastard, and I have this kind of blood too.”

By the time Mr. Hart Boxing was talking, the grass blades in the pot had been burned dry.

"My cute little angel, until the King of War came to me. I finally killed all these blood-giving monsters, and I finally saw the morning light at dawn."

"Are you going to persuade me to stay here?"

Bai Lu pursed her lips, tears welling up in her eyes. She held Mr. Hart's hand, but asked him to take his palm and put it on his chest, pressing it on the deformed heart.

Hart continued.

"I have many wonderful things-"

"——There are military canine companions, and a litter of stray cats. They don't live for ten or eight years and then leave. Before the golden age of BOSS comes, new comrades come to the battle group to report and join the army, and most of them don't live as long as these cats and dogs. "

“In order to fill up this riddled heart, I have been running on the road of revenge all my life. Later, I fought side by side with the King of War and walked more than two thousand kilometers. By the end of the expedition, my heart did not let me down. "

"My ugly face will make children cry when they see it. Your face turned pale when you first saw me. I know I am not a teacher."

"I'm a warrior, I just have to fight."

"Don't leave me here, I don't want to die in a coffin-"

"——Please, I want to run forward in big strides. I have been running for a long, long time. I don't want to stop."

"Can you hear my heartbeat?"