Offer your allegiance to Chaos!

The head nurse blushed on the spot, and said in embarrassment: "It's all right, let Director Hemer stay here and rest, just ring the bell to call us if there is something to do, I'll go out first—"

The other nurses also blushed one after another, with an embarrassing look of wanting to find a crack in the ground, and followed the head nurse's pace and filed out.

Ashe's answer is just like the end of O. Henry's novel in his previous life. The little girls whose IQ is dominated by gossip thinking never thought about that at all, so that they seemed caught off guard, but when they thought about it carefully, they were reasonable and doubtful. Is there something wrong with my own head?

Combined with Ashe's age and the current situation, a sense of shame like social death arises spontaneously.

"Ah, what are we thinking about..."

"Brother, brother, yes, Ashe's age is about the same as Ifrit...why didn't you think about it in the first place?"

"It's embarrassing, if Director Hemer finds out, we'll just wait and work overtime until we die—"

While fleeing outside, whispers spread among the little girls.

Most of them are embarrassing words, but occasionally there are one or two wonderful questions.

"Why didn't you think about the child... Indeed, why didn't you feel a sense of disobedience at all?"

"It's mainly about the atmosphere, especially the later Ms. Saria. The way she looks at little Ashe, it's completely okay to treat her as a lover... Even Director Hemer feels a little weird. A normal guardian will talk to 15 Are the older children hugging each other so intimately? Didn't Ifrit fight with her every day..."

"Sure enough, you think so too. I think the way the two of them look at little Ashe is very weird, super weird, just like in some small picture albums—"

"Okay, okay, stop chewing your tongue, really want to work overtime to death?"

After closing the door, there was still a faint voice coming from the corridor, which fell in Ashe's ears, making the corners of his mouth twitch.

Is this... the simple wisdom of the masses?

Alas, who cares.

With a long sigh, he turned his attention back to Hemer.

Before the head nurse left, she intimately pressed Hemer's folding bed to the hospital bed so that he could touch her face with his hand.

Ashe stared at Hemo's sleeping form for a long time, feeling calmer than ever before.

It was completely different from what the head nurse was worried about at the beginning. Not to mention Hemer, even if the one who fell was Seliya who had a really ambiguous relationship with him (maybe it can no longer be described as just ambiguous), his reason for letting her stay is still the same. Nothing to do with crimson.

Just afraid of being lonely.

I don't know why, but compared to the awake Hemer, the sleeping Hemer can dispel the loneliness in Ashe's heart better.

Perhaps it was because when Hemer was awake, every word of conversation, every look in his eyes would make Ashe clearly realize that there is still a thick barrier between his heart and her heart, and that he has a thousand words to say, but it is difficult to confide in her. Language, only in the sober look at each other to feel the despair of loneliness.

The world is absurd, nothing more than this.

But Hemo, who was asleep, actually made this thick barrier disappear.

There are no more embarrassing dialogues, no more entangled emotions, only the silence of lying in the cradle when a baby was born.

Quiet.

Tranquility is the language of God, and only in tranquility can people whisper to each other.

Ashe lay in Hemer's arms, her cheek pressed against her chest, her ears listening to every heartbeat.

Warm and powerful.

He fell asleep in peace.

Chapter 55 The journey I was forced to start

In the middle of the night, Ashe woke up.

Hemo was still beside him, sleeping soundly. Ashe rubbed her eyes, looked carefully at her bright face under the moonlight, and smiled knowingly.

I haven't slept so peacefully in a long time.

But after a while, Ashe quickly realized that something was wrong.

This room is too quiet.

It's not just quiet in the usual sense, but a complete silence where even the beeping sound of the electrocardiogram has disappeared.

An ominous premonition came to mind, Ashe suddenly looked up, and saw a black figure standing in the corner.

"It took so long to notice me, brother must be too relaxed, right?"

Ifrit, no, it should be said to be the "Blaze" in Ifrit's skin, wearing a hospital gown, barefoot, leaning against the wall, smiling maliciously at him.

"You—" Ashe's pupils constricted, her first reaction was to ring the bell beside the bed, but she didn't even respond to three presses.

"Don't waste your efforts, the left-behind operators in the entire medical department have been stunned by me, and the power supply in this ward has also been completely cut off, so you can't contact anyone."

Ifrit spread his hands, walked slowly in front of Ashe, tapped his forehead with his hand, and said with a smile: "Even if we get in touch, I can easily break my brother's hand while they are rushing over. neck, a hundred times."

"...Why didn't you kill me?"

Ashe calmed down, looked straight at her and said, "According to what you said in the dream, haven't I changed from a god to a human now? Then why don't you do it? Or, can't do it?"

"Brother is so smart." Ifrit smiled and said, "Guess why I didn't do it?"

"There are two possibilities. Either I haven't become human enough, and the power of the Book of Slaanesh still exists, so you can't kill me."

Ashe took a deep breath and said: "Either because of the existence of Ms. Sicily, you don't have the confidence to bear her fury after killing me, and you must use me as a bait to get rid of her before you dare to do anything to me... If this possibility holds true, then the second letter was written by Amy herself."

When he said the last sentence, he stared closely at Ifrit's eyes.

"No need to test, I don't know who wrote those two letters." Ifrit curled her lips and looked at him without flinching: "I don't know which of these two possibilities is true. You know, I am just following the orders of my mother, and I want to collect information from me, do you think she will leave such a big loophole?"

"That's right." Ashe was silent for a while, "Then what do you want to do tonight?"

"Of course it's my brother."

Ifrit's smile became more malicious, but it became kind in an instant: "Just kidding, I haven't played with my ex-mother's bad habit in front of my mother, I came tonight just to say hello before parting. "

"Farewell?"

"Yes, I have completely controlled Ifrit's body. There is no need to stay in Rhodes Island and Longmen. It is time to go to the next stage according to Mother's plan."

Ifrit said: "Of course, on the stage, just having one villain is not enough, you have to bring in the hero and heroine, but my strength is not enough to take away three people under the eyes of these monsters in Rhodes Island." , I can only save the country in a curve, and let you take the initiative to come to me."

"Active?" Ashe frowned: "Using Ifrit's body as a threat?"

"No, threaten my brother's life."

Ifrit flashed a bright smile.

The next moment, she threw Ashe onto the bed and bit him on the neck.

Ashe's eyes widened, Ifrit didn't suck his blood, but injected warm liquid into his blood vessels, hot and scalding.

"The blood of the Balrog, this time, it's not the fake and shoddy product that my brother tasted before, but the pure poison."

Ifrit got up, wiped his mouth, and said with a smile: "How bad is the poison, brother, you can just experience it by yourself in the past few days, I just give a little hint - if you don't catch me within ten days, force me to find out Antidote, you are dead, not even the Book of Slaanesh can save you."

Ashe had already curled up on the bed into a large shrimp, and the blood vessels in his neck seemed to be flowing with magma, burning his brain to the point where it was difficult to think.

"Then, see you on the next stage."

The Balrog gave a princess salute gracefully, even though the hospital gown didn't have a skirt.

In the next second, it disappeared.

At the same time, the power supply of the ICU returned to normal, and the beeping sound of the electrocardiogram sounded again.

With the last of her strength, Ashe punched the call bell.

The force was so great that Hemo, who was sleeping, was awakened—or she should have woken up long ago, but was kept asleep by Ifrit's power.

Sleepy-eyed, she stared blankly at Ai Xi who was struggling beside her. Her brain was still stuck in the warmth before falling asleep and the phantom in the dream. For a while, she couldn't understand whether what was in front of her was reality or a nightmare.

After a while, the pupils gradually tightened.

"Ash—!"

……

……

after an hour.

The conference room of the medical department was once again full of people.

"The basic situation has been sorted out."

The doctor rubbed his temples, looking tired: "First of all, it's Ifrit's whereabouts. She didn't mean to cover up her whereabouts at all. She swaggered past every surveillance camera and greeted her like showing off... But all the security guards who saw her along the way The personnel from Rhodes Island to Longmen Port all fell into a coma on the spot, although they woke up afterward, but no hallucinogenic substances were found in their bodies."

"Her destination is the wilderness outside Longmen. The last image that appeared in the surveillance range was at the outer defense line of Longmen Port. After entering the wilderness about 1000 meters away, she disappeared."

"We can only collect the last footprint at 1000 meters, and further on, there is no smell, no footprints, no fluctuations in Originium skills, and no discernible residue."

Accompanied by her words, all the high-level members of Rhodes Island were not looking very well—tonight's incident, just like Ashe's time freeze last night, gave the entire Rhodes Island's high-end combat power a resounding slap in the face.

"As for the condition of the Ashe operator, it is even more incredible than Ifrit's problem."

Kelsey took the doctor's words, her complexion was no longer as calm as usual, but her brows were rarely frowned, and she said in a complex tone that was almost never used:

"Unbelievable... It's really incredible... I can only use this word to describe it. What Ifrit injected into the body of Ashe operator is a substance that has never appeared in the entire Terra. It can only be found in Aishi. The survival in the body of Xigan members shows a property similar to that of blood, accounting for about 1%, but after leaving the host body, it will naturally dissolve within a second, and not even a single large molecule can be left, so no research can be done at all .”

"We have tried to change the blood of Ashe's whole body, but that thing is like cancer cells, no, it is 1 times more terrifying than cancer cells, and the new blood transfused will be assimilated in an instant, until the ratio of [-]% is restored. "

Warfarin raised his hand and said in frustration: "It can't be studied, it can't be expelled. This fundamentally blocks any treatment channels. We can't conduct experiments through Ashe's body, right?"

"And that substance is still proliferating slowly at a linear rate, and it is estimated that... it will reach 239% in 100 hours."

Shining sighed: "The only good news is that it has not shown any obvious side effects. Except for the initial severe pain, after the sedation, the vital signs of the Ashe operator are all stable."

But no one knows how long this stability will last.

Everyone knew what Shining did not say.

"That's basically it."

Kelsey knocked on the table: "If the problem is clear, the solution should be discussed. Let's listen to the opinions of the two parties first."

Following her, everyone turned their attention to the two people across the conference table.

Homer with a haggard face, Ashe in a wheelchair and wearing a breathing mask.

As Shining said, after being sedated and surviving the initial pain, Ashe has returned to normal. Of course, the excessively weak organs made him need to try his best to avoid physical activity and virus infection, so he sat in a wheelchair and wore Isolation mask.

The exhaled white air made the mask foggy, and everyone couldn't see Ashe's expression clearly.

"My opinion, I told the doctor in the ward."

Ashe was silent for a moment, and said: "Thank you Rhodes Island for your kindness, but this matter is beyond the scope of your capabilities, so let me solve it myself."

There was a commotion in the conference room.

"According to Ifrit, go catch her on the next stage?" Gavial, who has the worst temper in the medical department, knocked on the table vigorously, "Don't be kidding, you can use your toes to know it's a trap! Besides, maybe she doesn’t have any antidote at all, there are too many toxins in nature without specific medicines, and science is the most—”

"But science can't do anything about it, can it?"

Ashe's nonchalant question made Gavial speechless.

Yes, the essence of science is a set of methodologies to quantitatively study things, but the characteristics of Balrog's blood directly make it impossible to study unless Ashe is dead or alive. What science is there?

The atmosphere in the meeting room became tense.

"It's still the same sentence, thank you Rhodes Island for your kindness, whether it's for the patients or the operators, you have done the best within your ability."

Ashe said this with sincerity:

"But this matter has nothing to do with Rhodes Island. It's me, and maybe Hemer's private matter is included. Rhodes Island, which is committed to eradicating ore disease on this land, should not waste its strength on fighting an unrelated If you still have any unwillingness or guilt, then just provide me with more equipment and materials for survival in the wilderness, presumably Rhodes Island, with its great family and business, will not be stingy on this point, right?"

The last little banter didn't liven up the conference room.

"Okay...but even if you choose the plan of chasing Ifrit, you really don't need Rhode Island to provide human help?"

The doctor sighed, and said: "Although most of the security personnel are somewhat vulnerable to the various methods of you and Ifrit, there are still many stronger forces on Rhodes Island, such as those who once belonged to the deep sea hunters. of……"

"Regarding this, I have already borrowed a high-end fighter from Rhodes Island." Ashe shrugged.

"Huh? Who?" The doctor was taken aback, "I don't remember—"

The voice stopped abruptly.

Because the door of the conference room was pushed open.

It's Serena.

Chapter 56 Make do with make do, just...