Snapped! Snapped!
The iron whip hit the girl's naked skin, tearing the skin violently and causing the wound to bloom like a flower. The physical strength and strength flowed out along with the blood, and were smeared back to his body by the whip.
After a while, her body was stained red with her own blood, and Akaguchi Maho was hung in mid-air, as terrifying as if she had just been fished out of a pool of blood.
She didn't dare cry. Once she cried, the adults would only become angrier and the torture would only become more painful.
"What are you born for!" the whip bearer roared, "What are you studying for?
"
"...Protect the country..." Maho repeated the answer mechanically, "Protect the country."
"That's right! For the sake of protecting the country!
With another whip, Maho stopped his voice, "Can such power be able to protect the country?" ! Can such power protect everything you hold dear? ! "
The instructor was tired of beating him. He turned his back to Maho and looked at the boys and girls sitting on their knees behind him.
"It can't be done! Your power can't protect anything!
"The instructor roared, "I'll say it one last time, the war is about to begin! When the time comes, foreigners will come to the island, tear everything you value into pieces, and kill all your family and friends!
You can hate me, you can hate all the instructors! But you must turn this hatred into strength and the power to protect the country! "
The instructor's speech continued, but Maho couldn't hear it. Her ears were ringing, and at some point, Maho passed out.
When he opened his eyes, Maho was already lying on the bed. She stared at the ceiling speechlessly until someone took her hand.
"Maho-chan. Are you okay?"
It was Ayane. Ayane was sitting on the edge of the bed, looking at her with concern. Ayane is the best of all, and the least beaten and scolded of all.
Maho blinked, tears couldn't stop flowing down.
"I want to die, Ayane." She called softly, "I don't want to live here anymore, please, let me die."
Come and try it quickly. 】
"Don't talk nonsense, good things will happen only if you stay alive." Ayane held her hand tightly, "The instructors are also doing it for our own good... They said that only by overcoming such great pressure can the law of impermanence change. Strong."
"I don't want to learn the impermanent method. I want to die." Maho sobbed, "Let me die."
"It will get better, Maho-chan. It will definitely get better." Ayane said sadly.
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Akiko plan.
That was a plan carried out on Zero Island in the late stages of the Secret War for the purpose of rapidly replenishing the internal combat power. Gathering a large number of children with positive talents, and constantly putting heavy pressure on them during the cultivation stage, they will become particularly crazy and obsessed under various mental pressures, thus creating an impermanent magician who is more powerful than ordinary combat power.
Even if the senior management specially selects children with positive talents as experimental subjects, if they are not careful, the results of the plan may turn into malignant magic. Therefore, this plan was named "Chikou".
Chikou is the most ominous day in the ancient calendar, and the name of the Chikou plan has two meanings. The first is the determination to increase national power, even at the risk of creating evil spirits like Chikou; the second is the determination to cultivate evil spirits, even at the risk of transforming into a fierce god himself.
This plan has sufficient theoretical basis. The law of impermanence is the power of idealism. The stronger the obsession and willpower, and the more determined the will to achieve something, the stronger the power of the law of impermanence. Therefore, the executors of the Chikou Project chose to use external pressure to strengthen the will of the experimental subjects, allowing hatred and madness to cultivate the strongest obsessions, thereby obtaining the most suitable impermanent magicians for war.
From the perspective of cultivating combat power, this plan is feasible to a certain extent.
However, they overestimated the strength of the human mind.
In other words, they underestimated their malicious intent.
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"Your progress yesterday was unsatisfactory."
The instructor stared at a young man with a miserable expression indifferently. Maho and Ayane hid in the crowd, unable to bear to watch what was about to happen.
"What can unqualified power protect? Answer me, what can you protect?"
The young man whispered: "Can't protect... nothing, can't protect..."
"Yes, nothing can be protected!"
Two silent staff members came carrying a large box and dumped the contents on the ground like garbage. There were comic books, teddy bears, diaries, and photos with my parents. Maho knew at a glance that those were the boy's most cherished treasures.
She knew the execution was about to begin.
The tall instructor stepped on the boy's cherished treasure and stepped on it with crazy momentum. The sound of the object breaking gradually sounded, like the sound of the boy's heart breaking. He grabbed the dirty group photo, tore the three smiling people in the photo to pieces, and threw the scraps of paper into the young man's face.
"Just like this! The enemy will kill your parents too! Destroy everything about you!
"
The young man stood silently, saying nothing no matter how much the instructor scolded him. Maho looked at that scene from a distance, feeling that he was actually dead, his heart had been broken long ago, and what stood there was just a walking corpse.
The test site of Project Akaguchi is in the northwest of Yamato Island, in a forest near the seaside.
That night Ayane quietly pulled her out and ran out, saying that she was worried about the child. Maho always had good eyesight. When she looked into the forest, she saw a rope hanging from the thick branch of a tree. The young man who was executed in the morning was hanging on the rope.
They managed to save the child, but he almost died. When he finally took a breath, fear and gratitude appeared in the young man's eyes. He said death was terrible and he never wanted to die again.
Ayane was very happy. She said that she had done something meaningful again.
"Why can you still laugh, Ayane?" Maho was puzzled, "I have to do my best every day just to try not to cry."
"Because I am the Master of the Sky, Maho-chan!" Ayane smiled, "I think it is a good thing to help others, so as long as I can help you, I will be happy. I don't have anything that I value very much. , so you are not afraid of punishment from the instructors!"
"You are so awesome, Ayane."
In this small experimental field, Ayane is everyone's hero. She would encourage everyone not to commit suicide, talk with everyone, and sing interesting children's songs. Maho thought more than once that if Ayane hadn't been here, everyone would have died long ago.
But Ayane's power can't change the cruel status quo, and they still spend every day in misery. The instructors' training became more and more rigorous, because no one could reach the state of spiritual connection.
One night, several girls took Maho and Ayane to discuss, saying that they wanted to call the gods.
"God?"
"Yes, Lord God. I heard from my parents that there are guardian gods in every forest. As long as you pray sincerely, the gods will come to help you!"
Maho did as he was told, praying extremely devoutly, hoping that the gods would come to rescue him.
The prayer came true. Late that night, a beautiful bird flew from the depths of the forest and landed on their bedside. The little bird chirped and whispered to them: "God be damned, poor children! Wait until the day after tomorrow, wait until the day after tomorrow. I will invite a few more good friends to find a way to drill a hole in the barrier. Just you guys. Get out of that hole!"
The children were overjoyed that the gods had really come to save them.
The morning after tomorrow, they saw a field of beautiful feathers at the entrance of the tent. The children walked out following the guidance of the feathers and saw six beautiful birds pierced by iron needles and stuck on everyone's dining table. Their blood stayed along the needle, staining the wooden table red.
That day, Maho knew for the first time that the gods were not omnipotent.
It turns out that evil people are more terrifying than gods.
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From then on, everyone no longer had hope in their hearts, and Ayane gradually stopped laughing. The instructors' reprimands became more intense and terrifying. They started hurting more things, and one child's parents were kidnapped and tortured in front of his eyes. One child had a stomachache, and they beat his abdomen violently... The pressure and pain made them breathless, but no one succeeded in channeling the spirit. All of them stayed in the realm of clarity, even the smartest Ayane.
Ayane went to accompany the children who were punished day after day, but her words were also shriveled, and she could not say anything nice.
“It’s been almost a year since I learned the Impermanence Method, why hasn’t anyone learned the magic yet?! Where has your backbone gone?!
"
"Hurry up and use the gods!" The instructor cried and laughed at the same time, "We are also under pressure... Hurry up and use the gods. This plan will be over. Why don't you understand?!"
The instructors also went crazy. They gave up on those silent children and instead specialized in cultivating the few who "still have hope." The first ones to bear the brunt are Maho and Ayane. They will be executed every day and suffer different tortures every day. They encourage each other and support each other to get up, hoping to survive tomorrow...
"It will be fine, Maho-chan." Ayane said unconvincingly, "You see, everyone is encouraging us. Everyone hopes that we can survive."
But still no one can understand God.
The instructors gradually began to laugh, like a nervous breakdown, and the laughter spread throughout the camp. They made a new plan and brought the terrible beast into the camp, leaving Ayane to face it alone.
"Come on, Ayane." The instructor laughed, "Come on and kill it! Otherwise, everyone will be eaten by wild beasts. If you don't come on now, everyone will die in the future war!"
The children were so frightened that they burst into tears. Everyone was shouting, Ayane, come on, Ayane, don’t lose. Ayane rushed forward and was knocked down by the beast. He stood up amidst everyone's support, only to be knocked down again. After repeating it countless times, Ayane successfully knocked down the beast.
"Awesome! Ayane!" "Ayane did it!
"Ayane is everyone's hero!"
"
Maho also thinks so, Ayane is everyone’s hero.
But the instructors didn't laugh. Because Ayane still doesn’t have psychic powers.
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Time passed day by day, and one morning, the instructors went crazy.
All the children were tied to wooden stakes that day, and only Maho and Ayane could move freely. The instructors smiled cruelly, holding long knives in each hand.
"The execution is about to begin now! It's all your fault, it's all your fault for not succeeding!" The instructor was laughing, and he slashed one of the children on the arm with his backhand.
Ayane rushed towards him like crazy and was kicked down by him. The adults swarmed up and inflicted violence with fists, feet and weapons. It has nothing to do with reprimands or punishments, it is just the destruction and torture of humans by humans.
"Come on, Ayane! Stand up! What should we do if we are at this level?! How can we protect everyone?!"
Ayane stopped moving, and the instructors walked away bored. They swung their swords again, and they swung their swords again. Blood, bright red, bright red everywhere. The children first begged for mercy, cried, and finally began to curse. Everyone was cursing the two people who were not tied up. Why are you not strong enough. Why can't you protect everyone. Why don't you have a spiritual connection yet? You deserve to be killed too, it's all your fault.
Maho covered his ears and closed his eyes, feeling that the world was going to end.
"Hey, Maho-chan."
Then she heard a new laughter, as sweet as a song from hell, as clear as the bells of summer.
"Living for everyone is so tiring."
"I discovered it, Maho-chan! Why didn't I understand it earlier! Compared to everyone's happiness, I still want, want..."
She saw Ayane lying in a pool of blood, her shoulders shaking uncontrollably and laughing happily.
"——Make yourself happy!"
Gululu, Gululu, something is rolling on the ground. Maho lowered his head and found that the instructor's head was rolling like a ball in a pool of blood.
She subconsciously held up the instructor's head. When she raised her eyes, she saw that all the instructors had turned into red people. The bloody instructors clapped their hands and smiled as happily as children. They held hands and spun around in circles, then all knelt down in the center of the camp, cheering and raising their hands high in the air.
boom! Bang bang bang!
The instructors' heads flew up one after another, and blood poured out of their necks like wine, dyeing the world red.
A color deeper than blood appeared, and the power rose like light, climbing high into the sky. The midsummer sun seemed to be covered with a layer of anti-color filter, as black as the night sky.
After that, she couldn't see anything. In the bright red world, only Ayane's laughter echoed.
Maho thought drowsily about who killed the instructor at that time. After that, who brought the children out...
"...Senior! Senior!"
She couldn't remember clearly. She couldn't remember anything, nothing... only the color of blood...
"doctor!"
Who is calling her? Can't hear clearly...who is the doctor...
She is, she is...
“Akaguchi Maho!
"
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The doctor opened his eyes in panic, thinking for a moment that he was still dreaming. She heard a piercing scream that hurt her ears. It took her a few seconds to realize that it was her own voice.
"Ah...ah..."
The doctor stopped screaming and gradually woke up. She saw Caldesia standing beside the bed, and another gray-haired person shook her shoulders vigorously.
"Hey, doctor! Are you awake?" Gongsun Ce said anxiously, "You——"
Gongsun Ce stopped talking in embarrassment. The doctor held his waist tightly like a drowning man holding a lifeline, and his clothes were wet with tears.
Caldesia gave him a slightly threatening look, and Gongsun Ce quickly patted the doctor's back.
"It's okay, this is your home, no one will attack you, we are all here." Gongsun Ce comforted, "Tell me what happened and who attacked you."
Caldesia handed over a few tissues and whispered: "Senior? What happened?"
The doctor took the tissue and covered his face. It took a while before he made a muffled sound.
"It's okay. No attack. Just a nightmare." She sniffed, "Why are you here?"
"My dear, I sent you a message before going to bed last night, but you didn't reply when I got up this morning." Caldesia said with concern, "I couldn't get through when I called your mobile phone, so I thought of calling Gongsun Ce. Come and see...are you okay, senior?"
last night? The doctor thought in confusion. Didn't she go out with Gongsun Ce last night? How could she not see the news... Last night...
"What's the date today?!" A thought suddenly popped into the doctor's mind.
Gongsun Ce replied solemnly: "June 30th, 8:30 in the morning. The last time you saw me was the night before yesterday. We went to find Chen Bao together."
"Have you seen Ayane?" the doctor asked in a panic, "Where has Ayane gone?!"
No one answered her. Gongsun Ce's cell phone vibrated. He glanced at it, his face suddenly darkened, and fire-like anger flashed in his eyes.
"...Doctor, Caldesia, follow me."
Gongsun Ce couldn't help but grab the confused doctor and Caldesia and ran outside. Only a cold assertion echoed in the room.
"problem occurs."
