Offer your allegiance to Chaos!

Chapter 22 The third book

"Of course it's the cat you raised." The governor laughed: "Do you still need me to say his name?"

"How do you know he's in Longmen?!" Seliya snapped: "Could it be that you've been keeping track of his movements secretly since he left Rhine Life? Then why didn't you tell me?"

"Calm down, calm down, Serena, you are always like this, getting emotional at critical moments." The governor sighed, "You don't even think about it, if I knew his whereabouts earlier, Rhine Life would let him relax So many years? It’s just that when investigating the whereabouts of Hemo and Ifrit, I accidentally discovered an operator on Rhodes Island with the same code name as our previous project. With his real name, it really hasn’t been discovered after so many years.”

After a pause, she smiled again and said, "As for not telling you right away, the main reason is to give you a surprise. Why, didn't this surprise pop out in front of you?"

"..." Serena frowned tightly. She is not a wise counselor, and it is difficult to judge whether these words are true or not from the general governor's words, but considering the current cooperative relationship between the two, she still Put this controversy to the back of your mind.

"What exactly are you trying to do when you make this call with me?" Serena kept her mouth shut about Ashe's name, and instead said, "The value of the expensive cross-city over-the-air communication is not for chatting, is it? ?”

"Okay, okay, Serena, if you can get rid of this overly serious problem, whether it's Hemo or that cute little cat, they will all like you more, believe me." The governor sighed again. He breathed a sigh of relief, and said before Sereya's attack: "According to the information I have so far, the people from the energy department are not far from Longmen. You don't have much time. You have to see Ifrit as soon as possible."

"Energy Division... Didn't you promise to stop them?" Serena frowned.

"You also know that I'm almost becoming a short-term commander. It's okay to send a few documents to make a small stumbling block, but if I really want to interfere with the energy department, it will be difficult." The general manager said helplessly: "I just I can tell you I did my best.”

"...I'm not ready yet." Serena was silent for a moment, then said: "Time is too tight, I haven't collected enough 'life points' yet."

"Really? I think it's just that you don't want to collect it seriously." The governor's sigh was very clear: "Seriya, I entrusted 'that power' to you, but I didn't expect you to slowly collect it. Practicing medicine to save lives, I told you a long time ago, compared with the pitiful amount of saving lives, plundering lives and spreading diseases are the real shortcuts."

"I'm a doctor." Serena was unmoved, and said indifferently: "If you can save Ifrit by spreading the disease, I would rather accompany Ifrit to death."

"Okay." Similar conversations had already happened more than once, and the governor also stopped persuading as usual. Through the phone, Seliya could imagine her shrugging her shoulders helplessly.

"So, are you calling me just to urge me to collect 'life'?" Saria said, "If it's just that, then I'm going to hang up."

"Don't worry." The governor sighed again: "I took the risk of being noticed by the energy department, and used Rhine Life's only inter-city communication device to call you. Naturally, it will be of great use... I’m not going to tease you anymore, let me just say it straight, do you still remember the several ways to collect life points that I mentioned when I handed over that power to you?”

"Save lives, plunder lives, and create lives." Serena said coldly: "Aren't there three types?"

"And then I added an additional situation, didn't you forget?"

"You mean...the kind of extremely rare people?" Serena's memory was awakened, and her pupils narrowed slightly: "Didn't you say that there are at most two or three such people on the entire land of Terra?"

"That's right, you can easily get a lot of health from people who are rarer than extinct species." There was a crisp finger snap on the other end of the phone, accompanied by the general manager's smile: "Congratulations!" You, in Longmen, have such a person."

"Who is it? Where is it?" Serena's heart beat suddenly faster.

"Do you still remember what I said to you at the beginning of the phone call?" The governor smiled and said, "Surprise is right in front of you."

!!!

It took Saria nearly three seconds to realize what the governor was referring to. Her pupils suddenly contracted to the limit, and she looked up in the direction of the bedroom door in astonishment.

"You mean... him?" Serena's tone was full of disbelief: "No, how is this possible, how can there be such a coincidence in the world... No, it can't be a coincidence, it really is you, you I knew from the very beginning what was special about him and what he was doing in Longmen, right!"

"That's right, I know everything... Hahaha, I really want to say that, but as expected, I can only say that everything is arranged by fate." The chief administrator smiled: "Okay, I'm just here to inform It's all about you, as for what you plan to do, that's your freedom, just go here, intercity communication costs a lot of money, I'd better hang up before being approached by the Finance Department."

With a bang, the phone fell into a busy tone, just like her usual style, coming and going without a trace.

Serena stood on the spot holding the hung up phone.

At this moment, she could no longer take care of her anger towards the governor, and her mind was full of the astonishing truth.

ashe.

life value.

The hope of saving Ifrit.

"Arrangement of fate...?"

After a while, she forced herself to calm down, but her face was still cloudy.

She recalled the conversation she had with the governor seven days ago.

It was after Hemo and Ifrit left for a period of time, Serena finished the finishing work of the Balrog incident, took full responsibility, submitted her resignation letter, and officially resigned from Rhine Life.

After walking out of the office of the personnel department, she didn't step out of the building of Rhine Life, but went straight to the highest-level office of the general manager—with a fully armed posture.

She was going to ask the chief administrator for an explanation, from the origin of Ifrit, to the illegal experiment of the energy department, to the distortion of the entire life of Rhine.

She thought that she was greeted by the armed forces of the entire Rhine Life, but unexpectedly, the office of the general manager was undefended, and even made coffee, waiting for her arrival.

And waiting for her arrival together is... a book in the hands of the governor.

Chapter 23 The Book of Nurgle

The Book of Nurgle, this is the name of the book given to her by the governor.

It was an inconceivable book, as if it had no form, with shimmering light, like a phantom, floating in the void in the hands of the chief governor, but when it fell into Saria's hands, it had an exceptionally clear and heavy feeling.

It has a pure white cover, with an indescribable mysterious pattern imprinted on it. It is clearly not any text that Serena has seen, but the meaning can be discerned at the first glance.

【Book of Nurgle】

According to the governor, this is a mysterious thing that she accidentally obtained during an archaeological site excavation project nearly 20 years ago. It possesses all kinds of incredible powers, and it is precisely by relying on these powers that she was able to create Rhine Life. Laboratory, and gradually developed it, in just a few years, making it the leading giant enterprise in Colombia.

"Then why did you give it to me?" This was Seliya's first question.

"Because I have never been the most suitable owner for it." The governor said with a smile.

From the first day she got it, she has not fully exerted its power, she is just an agent, this book is always looking for a more suitable owner, this belief has even been forcibly instilled into her will , even the establishment of Rhine Life is largely to find the real owner of this book.

As for Sereya, this is the candidate. This is the choice after nearly ten years of investigation, including the two special projects before and after Ashe and Ifrit, which were handed over to her because of this investigation.

At that time, Serena still couldn't accept this argument. After all, she came to question about Ifrit, and the governor suddenly took out this book, which looked more like a scam to trick her into giving up her responsibility.

But the governor quickly answered the questions about the Balrog incident—she revealed the even more shocking truth to Saria, that is, Rhine's life was no longer under her control.

This matter starts with the structure of Rhein-Life. Although it is a giant company, Rhein-Life is not an ordinary company in Columbia. It maintains a "laboratory" structure from the beginning to the end, and its general management is the entire laboratory. The director is responsible for the overall situation, and under him, the energy department, structure department, ecology department, engineering department, defense department and other departments are equally divided.

Except for the defense department, which was a special department established later, the other four departments are all research departments. They have parallel status. Although the sparrow is small and complete, it has a complete and independent management, finance, personnel and even external public relations system, which is equivalent to an independent kingdom. .

Although this structure can give play to the strongest subjective initiative of each department in the laboratory stage, it also satisfies the mentality of the general manager who is too lazy to deal with administrative affairs as a scientific researcher, but after the development of Rhine Life, it has become a fatal hidden danger. .

Just like now, the most powerful energy department has expanded to occupy nearly 55% of the entire Rhine's life volume, and its director Ferdinand's ambition is even more difficult to restrain. At the moment when the general manager is busy with scientific research, he has almost become a Rhine The spokesperson of Life in Colombia is extremely prominent in the political and business circles, and he frequently puts pressure on other departments internally, as if he has the intention of annexing the entire Rhine Life.

And it just so happened that a series of radical scientific research projects represented by the Balrog project were launched by the Energy Department to further expand its influence and reserve cutting-edge technologies.

Originally, in the plan of the governor, the research on Ifrit should be maintained at the same level as the research on Ashe, and there will never be such a mess as the Balrog incident, but since she has no time to visit the project site in person, she can only When learning about the progress from the documents, Ferdinand was so daring that he directly resorted to falsifying the report to completely hide it from her.

She didn't wake up until the Balrog incident broke out and one-third of the laboratory building was destroyed.

However, it was too late. She was immersed in scientific research, and she had already lost control of Rhine Life. If she turned against Ferdinand head-on, she would probably be kicked out of Rhine Life.

Therefore, the commander-in-chief kept silent, preparing to take a roundabout route to bring down Ferdinand.

And Saria, to be precise, completely qualified in the inspection and obtained the Book of Nurgle, is the main force of this plan.

After listening to the general governor's remarks, Saria was still a little skeptical, but these remarks were indeed in line with Saria's impression of Rhine's life all along. As for the Energy Department and Ferdinand, they have indeed expanded wildly and arrogantly in recent years, and single-handedly caused the tragedy of the Balrog incident.

If the general governor is lying, then the price of this lie is too great.

What really made her let go of her doubts for the time being was the information she learned after accepting the Book of Nurgle.

——Because the power of this book is too powerful, and more importantly, it contains the power that can really save Ifrit.

Even if it's a lie, even if it's a scam, for Ifrit's sake, Serena will step in without hesitation.

The Book of Nurgle possesses all kinds of incredible talents and skills, and the source of all power is the power called "life value".

According to the explanation of the governor, there are only three ways to obtain life value, saving life, plundering life and creating life.

The first two are easy to explain, saving lives, or killing innocent people, and the final creation of life is a waste of words, because this is a very peculiar category, which includes both creation of life in a narrow sense, such as childbirth, and life creation. Included in a broad sense... such as spreading disease.

Yes, spreading the disease, because the "life" recognized by the Book of Nurgle is not only human or animal visible to the naked eye on Terra, but also germs in the microscopic sense. As the population expands, even spreading the plague can be allowed—or rather, compared to other slow methods, spreading the plague is the fastest way to harvest life at a geometric rate.

These information, combined with the name of the Book of Nurgle, gave birth to a sense of evil, which naturally made Saria feel uneasy, but she had no choice but to endure this uneasiness and give up the evil of killing innocents and spreading the disease Means, use life-saving methods to slowly accumulate life points.

Of course, after knowing this method, her vigilance against the governor has also reached a new level-has this pure scientist ever done something similar.

The governor's explanation is that the Book of Nurgle has never really recognized her, so it won't let her easily gain a lot of life points. It's not that she doesn't want to, but she can't. Heard of a massive plague outbreak?

And the main way for her to obtain life value is the various drugs developed by Rhine Life. Once they are put on the market on a large scale, the quantitative change leads to qualitative change, and she doesn't need to take risks to do vicious things.

This explanation made Seliya barely convinced, and immediately after, the two also formally reached a cooperative relationship.

The terms are very simple. The chief governor assists Sereya to save Ifrit first, and then Seriya helps the chief governor to clear the energy department, and promises to return to Rhine Life to cooperate with the chief governor's further research on the Book of Nurgle.

And the first dilemma faced by this cooperation is that the life points needed to save Ifrit far exceed the amount that Sereya can collect in a short period of time, and Sereya is also extremely incomparable for this reason during this period of time. trouble.

And the governor took the trouble to persuade her to give up the indifferent moral code, at least, try to harvest life in the famous mobile island prison in Colombia, so that those condemned prisoners who deserved what they deserved can make some contributions to the great cause of scientific research?

Saria rejected the persuasion of the governor without hesitation, sticking to her creed.

After all, Ifrit's condition has not yet reached the point of dying. Although if it drags on, it will face the encirclement and suppression of the energy department, but Sereya still has confidence in her fists, and she has time to slowly complete the plan.

However, at this moment, something completely beyond the plan happened.

Yes, that child, her treasure, after the unexpected reunion after a long absence, unexpectedly brought a lot of hope of collecting life points.

——And how should she get life points from that child?

Chapter 24 The Fountain of Life

life value.

Saving lives, looting lives, and creating lives, only these three methods can gain life.

Saving lives is naturally the first thing to be ruled out. Ashe is free from disease and disaster, exuding the vigor of a young man everywhere, so how can there be a need for Serena to save him?

Creation of life is the second thing to be ruled out. Since Saria is unwilling to spread the disease to innocent people and even death-row criminals, she is even less likely to attack her own family.

Of course, apart from spreading the disease, there is another more intuitive solution to creating life.

However, that was quickly rejected by her—when that possibility subconsciously flashed across her mind, Saria was even overwhelmed by the huge sense of moral shame and guilt.

Yes, that kind of method is really too tempting. Under the banner of saving Ifrit, it can satisfy the darkest desire in her heart. Just a flash of thought makes her tremble, and the depths of her soul are aroused. The impulse made her understand once again what a despicable woman she is.

But, impossible!Can't!Absolutely not!

Even before she had time to find a reason for her rejection, Seliya broke free from those obsessive thoughts with absolute willpower, extinguished the fire of desire in her heart, and turned her thoughts to the last plan.

Predatory life.

Sure enough, is this the only solution?

Saria recalled the statement of the governor.

Plundering life, the name alone sounds like the most evil of the three plans, but in fact, in addition to killing creatures completely, this plan has a more gentle method, without threatening the life and safety of the other party. , moderately stripping a certain amount of life energy, as long as there is enough nutritional supplements, it will be able to recover quickly.

For example, sucking blood.

Serena is no stranger to blood-sucking, because among the peculiarities that Ashe has shown since she was a child, there is the ability to feed on blood. For the purpose of experiments, or pure love and intimacy, She and Hemer were also bitten by Ashe's neck more than once.

Thinking of this, Serena touched the side of her neck subconsciously. From the depths of her memory, she seemed to be able to vaguely feel the pain of two sharp canine teeth biting through the veins, as well as the wonderful feeling of blood flowing into the hollow tooth canal. a feeling of.

Of course, what is more important is the comfortable whimpering sound made by little Ashe during the smoking process, and his expression immersed in satisfaction afterwards.

Compared to the so-called experiments, perhaps the main reason why she and Hemer were willing to let him suck blood again and again was because they wanted to see his expression.

Counting it, the blood that she and Hemo had donated to Ashe could fill up several refrigerators.

So, when she was young, she was the one who donated blood to Ai Xi for so many years, so when she grows up, it is Ai Xi's turn to repay her. This kind of logic is not a problem, right?

Serena's mood was a little delicate.

However, although this kind of logic is valid rationally, Seliya still hesitates emotionally. There is no other reason. Ashe has been an experimental subject of Rhine Life since she was a child. Even with the majesty of the governor and the full protection of her and Hemo, he Still withstood numerous experiments of stepping on the red line on the edge of humanity, it is hard to imagine how much psychological shadow this left on him.

As for his choice of fleeing from Rhine Life in the end, apart from the fuse of that incident, the more important reason may be that he couldn't bear his identity as a test subject.

Facing such a child, coupled with the shadow of Ifrit, Seraya no longer wanted to use a magnificent excuse to draw blood from his body and treat him as a treasure that could provide precious resources. item treats.

Ugh……

Serena let out a long sigh.

And just when she was in a difficult thought struggle, there was a sudden knock on the bedroom door.

"I'm done calling...Hemo just casually asked me about my situation after work, and I've already concealed it from you, Saria, what's wrong with you?" Ashe came with a doubtful voice.

"Oh, it's okay, I just answered a phone call from Rhode Island. I'm looking for some documents about my entry file." Serena was startled, and blurted out the excuse she had prepared, and quickly took it out of the drawer A document, and then the door opened.

Ashe blinked, looked at Saria behind the door, and instinctively told him that Saria must be hiding some secrets, but who made the two of them have countless secrets at this moment?He also had to ignore the anomaly and nodded.

"Go back to the living room."

"Wait." However, Serena stopped him.