Only those who have experienced darkness will yearn for the light.
Time seemed to freeze at this moment, Valentine opened his arms in mid-air, enjoying the joy of weightlessness. The air was as thick as gel, supporting him as he fell slowly, and also immobilized everyone's movements. Countless glass shards reflected the morning sunlight, reflecting Ceria's shocked face.
Claudel looked at Valentine who looked like an angel in the sky and closed his eyes, moving slowly. Ceria gritted her teeth and reached out to grab Valentin outside. Her palm was only a few centimeters away from Valentin's ankle, but she could not move forward any further.
So close, but across the abyss.
Ceria still underestimated Valentin and overestimated her own determination.
Half an hour ago.
After enjoying a delicious Chinese meal, Valentine decided to go to the headquarters of Black Steel International to find Claudel. Although it was only ten minutes away from the staff dormitory to the company, Valentine decided to go earlier. After all, I am a new employee, and it is necessary to leave a good impression on my boss.
Just as he was getting dressed and ready to go, there was a knock on the door.
Valentin opened the door and was greeted by Alexander in casual clothes. Because he was not wearing a combat uniform, the muscles on Alexander's body looked more obvious, especially the two pectoralis major muscles on his chest. Valentin couldn't help but want to touch them.
Everyone loves strong and beautiful things, regardless of gender.
Alexander was already used to this. Colombia is an open country, and homosexuality is legal. He doesn't know how many times he has seen a look like Valentin's. He had ignored it before, but since Valentine was his subordinate, Alexander thought it would be better to talk to him.
"Isis, Dragon is a good girl." Alexander put his hand on Valentine's shoulder and spoke earnestly.
? ? ?
Valentine was stunned.
"I know she is a good girl, but boss, you come here and you want to tell me this?"
Alexander shook his head.
"Sometimes, you have to not only like, but also notice the people who like you."
Valentine felt something was wrong. It is normal for him and Xing Yihuang to be misunderstood as a couple. After all, this is a disguise, deliberately shown to outsiders.
But boss, you came here just to tell me this?
It turns out that 'Intimate Sister' is not a joke, is it true?
Looking at Alexander's profound eyes, Valentin felt that he had misunderstood something, but it was definitely not this. He decided to drop the topic.
"Boss, the boss just called me and asked me to come over. Is there something wrong?"
Alexander's expression changed immediately, from being complicated and hesitant to speak to being serious and regretful.
He took out a stack of Longmen coins from his satchel and placed it in Valentine's hand.
"This is 100,000 Longmen coins, the mission bonus for you and Long."
"Oh." Valentine took it and handed the money to Xing Yihuang behind him. He is the one who is going out to meet the boss now, and it doesn't look good with a lot of money in his pocket.
But earning so much from the first vote was beyond his expectation. If you can continue to stay at Black Steel International, you will become a millionaire soon, right?
Think carefully about the Dragon Gate coins in the game... One million doesn't seem to be much. A six-star Jing Er costs 180,000, and there are all kinds of troublesome materials. I don't know what D32 steel and ketone arrays are here. How many Longmen coins are sold in the world.
"Do you know why I gave you cash?" Alexander asked a question, and then Valentin remembered that something was wrong. The night before the mission, Valentin familiarized himself with the employee handbook of Black Steel International. It clearly mentioned that salaries and bonuses are paid directly to employees' bank accounts and will not be paid in cash.
Valentine shook his head and said he didn't know.
"Because BOSS didn't open a bank account for you at all."
"Huh?" Valentine had a question mark on his face. "Maybe this time I'll be asked to go over and prepare for the procedures? After all, I don't have a legal identity certificate."
"You don't need this thing." Alexander shook his head. "This cash is what BOSS asked me to give you."
Valentin felt like he was being overwhelmed by questions.
"BOSS said that the money can allow two people to smuggle to any place in the world." Alexander patted Valentin on the shoulder, turned and left.
"Hey! Boss!" He called Alexander, but all he got was Alexander's retreating back and a farewell gesture.
"What does this mean... Why does it feel like they want me to resign?" Valentine scratched his head, puzzled.
"This is Colombia." The system's voice appeared in Valentin's mind just right, although what he said was as difficult to understand as Alexander.
"I know." Valentine sat on the sofa, staring at Xing Yihuang talking to the system, his eyes gradually losing focus.
"There is Rhine life here." Xing Yihuang said calmly.
Valentine shuddered and his pupils suddenly shrank.
One word awakens the dreamer.
"Can she hear you?" This is Valentine asking the system.
"Of course, this time it concerns you two, and I will definitely have to communicate."
"What Yihuang meant when he said that Rhine life was..."
"Yes." The system's tone left no room for doubt. "Rhine Life has laid an ambush in your boss's office, waiting for you to fall into the trap."
"So?" Valentine stood up and clenched his fists. "It's time to understand this matter. I know the best way is to leave directly, but before leaving, I want them to understand one thing."
"I am no longer the guinea pig I used to be."
He tilted his head, his joints crackled, and a fighting spirit that he had never felt before was igniting in his heart.
"I will go with you."
Now that Rhine Lifestyle has found out that he is at Black Steel International, this apartment is no longer safe. If Valentin is allowed to go alone, it is very likely that she will be defeated one by one. It will be difficult for her to live on this land alone, so it is better to leave together.
It is now the beginning of the day. The sun has risen and the city has completely woken up, looking full of life. Valentin glanced at the sun hanging in the sky, feeling a little bitter in his heart.
I wonder when I will be able to live a normal life on this land like ordinary people...
Maybe that day comes quickly, maybe it comes very late.
But it will come.
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ten minutes later.
Valentine sat on the chair in front of Claudel. He was surrounded by more than a dozen fully armed operators, and more than a dozen crossbows were placed and aimed at his head.
But this little dragon man didn't panic at all. He even wanted to wear sunglasses, light a cigarette and spin a pencil.
"You shouldn't be here." Claudel held his chin with his hands and looked at Valentine, who looked calm in front of him, with a vicissitude in his voice, mixed with a little regret.
"There is no way, BOSS. At that time, I had nothing but Origin Stone skills. This is the best place for me." Valentin shook his eyebrows, his expression looked like he was joking.
"Hey buddy at 7 o'clock, the arrow on your hand crossbow has hit me, please move back a little."
A Defense Department officer raised his head and looked at Seria at the door.
Seria nodded, and the Defense Department officer received the signal to move the crossbow a few centimeters back.
"Director Ceria, long time no see." Valentin raised his hand and said hello.
"Isis, I still have that request, you understand." Ceria glanced at Claudel and said nothing more.
"What about Xing Yihuang?"
"Business as usual."
"No, no, no." Valentine stretched out a finger and shook it. "I'm talking about you agreeing to her request."
“As long as she fulfills our demands.
"But you are just conducting endless experiments." Valentine hit the nail on the head.
"You're stalling for time."
Ceria was silent. She was not a person who was good at talking nonsense, not to mention that what Valentine said was the truth.
"You can put forward your conditions, and I will report it to my superiors." Ceria thought for a while, but decided to give in.
"This is not a negotiation, Director Ceria." Valentin touched the arrow next to him. The arrow was very pointed and had a dark yellow Originium explosive at the end. He had no doubt about the destructive power of this thing.
"Your destructive power is beyond our imagination." Seria objected. "I can only choose the safest way."
Of course, ordinary medical warlocks would not let Rhine Life be so aggressive, but Valentine has the ability to conjure weapons out of thin air, which makes Ceria's risk assessment of him rise several levels.
"If you're worried about their safety, wouldn't you just come and arrest me yourself? Why do you have to call a bunch of people here?"
Ceria was silent again. Negotiation is a technical job, but she is extremely bad at it. The senior management of Rheinland Life also understood this matter, but they did not arrange a negotiator for Seria.
Because the order from the top is simple: either bring the experimental subjects back alive or let them die. They must not be allowed to leave Colombia alive.
Seria is best at fighting, but the higher-ups also understand her intentions and have specially arranged for ten of the most elite Defense Department officers. Even if Seria doesn't kill them, these defense officers can kill Valentin and Xing Yihuang.
However, there are always surprises in everything.
"Director Ceria, please allow me to call you sister." Valentin stood up from his seat, turned around and looked at Ceria, with a harmless smile on his face. The Defense Department officers slowly retreated, their arrows still aimed at his head.
"After escaping from the Vaifan Alliance, I haven't met a Vaifan person who is friendly to me. As an infected person, I have been treated with all the looks and contempt."
"Later I was deceived into Rheinland Life. Except for Dr. Herington at the beginning, I didn't feel any warmth. What enveloped me every day was only the cold experimental machines and painful drugs."
"I met you very late. At that time, I woke up during the experiment with a compound bow in my hand. I used that bow to sneak attack you. I'm sorry." At this point, Valentine said to Ceria lowered her head slightly and apologized.
"Even an ordinary person, when holding a weapon, will use all his strength to rush towards those who cause him pain. But I didn't expect that you are so powerful."
Valentin was not surprised that Ceria saved Andrea. What surprised him was the square shield that was blown away and could fly back to Ceria's feet.
"But some things I experienced later gave me some life experience." Valentine pointed to his head, and his smile slowly disappeared. "I'm still too naive. I'm naive enough to think that this world is really gentle to everyone. In this world, if you don't have strength, you can only be at the mercy of others."
“With power, you can control your own path.”
The Defense Department officers around Valentine tensed their muscles and put their hands on the triggers. As long as Valentin makes a little extra movement, they will pull the trigger and shoot this guy into a sieve.
"You are the only ordinary person who is friendly to me, even though you have only met me for a few hours. When you escaped from the Rhine Life Laboratory, you had many opportunities to defeat me and bring me back, but you did not do it. Watch Xing Yihuang and I run out of the laboratory building."
"During the negotiation, you told me that you would give me legal identification and better experimental conditions. I believed you, but I did not believe the senior management of Rheinland Life."
"I will try my best to fight for it." Ceria frowned.
She was a little inexplicably impatient and always felt that something was going to happen next.
"Ha." Valentine laughed. "As expected. In fact, the mission you received today is to kill us."
There was a fierce sound of clothes rubbing together, and the spirits of several operators surrounding Valentine went into a state of high alert.
"No...I...hope you can live safely. Come back with me." Ceria acquiesced to Valentin's statement.
For her, any infected person is worthy of her efforts. Whether it is Ifrit, Valentin, or Xing Yihuang, they should all be enjoying normal lives outside, but because of their damn The ore disease and the decaying Rhine life came here to suffer.
Before the Balrog Incident, she was still a staunch supporter of Rhine Life, but when she saw the tears on Ifrit's face when she lost control, and when she saw Ifrit crying out in pain every night in her sleep, her heart felt... There were cracks in the stone. When Valentine escaped, she did let go. The main reason was also because of what Valentine said to her.
Now, Valentin stood in front of her, and Ceria just saw two roads in front of her.
It's time to make a change.
"Well, Doctor Ceria, I believe we will meet soon, maybe a year, maybe two years." Valentine's voice brought her back to reality.
"Wait, what are you going to do?" Ceria saw Valentin's little move.
That was a shock bomb.
Gan!
"Everyone lie down!" Ceria shouted and rushed forward, trying to snatch the shock bomb from Valentine's hand. But Valentine was faster.
The blinding bright light and the deafening explosion enveloped her again, and Ceria silently made a decision in her heart.
Next time you fight Valentine, be sure to prepare earplugs and sunglasses!
If she wasn't ready, she would directly summon the spirit behind her to punch the bastard first!
It seemed that she had been shocked too many times, but this time Ceria quickly regained consciousness. When she opened her eyes, she saw all the Defense Department officers knocked to the ground, as well as Valentine standing by the floor-to-ceiling window.
"Isis! What are you going to do? Calm down!" Ceria wanted to rush forward to stop Valentin, but was stopped by Claudel.
A gun was pressed against the back of Seria's head.
"Claudel?" Ceria gritted her teeth.
"I'm sorry, someone asked me to stop you." Claudel's voice was calm.
"You should know what your fate will be!" Ceria yelled, but her eyes never left Valentin.
"I know." Claudel opened the safety of his gun. "This is a hand gun that uses heavy-duty Originium-etched ammunition. It is as powerful as a sniper gun at close range. You can try whether your calcification is faster or the bullet exits faster."
Seria glanced at the unconscious Defense Department officers lying on the ground and said nothing.
"Ha, I didn't expect you, BOSS, to help me." Valentine made a salute gesture common to mercenaries at Claudel. "Thanks."
"And Ceria, I hope our next meeting won't be so tense. Dr. Hemmer's opinion is very useful, and Ifrit is just a child."
He bent his legs and kicked forward suddenly.
Crack!
The entire floor-to-ceiling window cracked, and countless fragments flew into the sky, reflecting the sunlight and reflecting Valentin's smiling face and Ceria's surprised face on the glass. Ceria ignored Claudel behind her and rushed directly to the window to reach Valentin's ankle, but she couldn't reach it, just a few centimeters away. And these few centimeters are just the distance between life and death.
Valentine opened his arms in mid-air, enjoying the pleasure of weightlessness. The flow of time seemed to slow down, and he was slowly falling in the air like an autumn leaf.
Claudel looked at Seria at the window and slowly closed his eyes.
Valentin looked at Ceria at the window and tilted his head playfully. He made an OK gesture to Seria, then turned around and spread his limbs outward.
Snapped!
A flying squirrel suit appeared on him.
"Tell Ifrit, I will always like..." Valentin adjusted his posture and glided in mid-air, while turning his head and shouting at Ceria.
Then before he finished shouting, he jumped into another building and banged his head directly into it. Ceria felt pain just looking at it.
"What a young man full of surprises." Claudel appeared next to Ceria, looking at the gap in the building in the distance with a smile.
Ceria glanced at him.
Claudel broke into a cold sweat.
"There are no bullets in the gun. We are all actors." Claudel explained in a low voice.
Ceria ignored him and walked straight out of the room, not even glancing at the unconscious Defense Department officers on the ground. The camera failed after the Rheinland Life Defense Department entered the office, and no one except Seria knew about Claudel's little actions.
He looked at the mess on the ground and felt his head hurt.
Three hours later.
Valentine stood on the deck of a ship, looking at the shrinking New York City not far away, and exhaled a breath.
"I didn't expect... I've only been out for two days and I have to leave this country." Valentin closed his eyes and sounded a little disappointed.
The breeze from the sea blew over his cheek, bringing with it a hint of coolness and a faint fragrance. This is the smell of Xing Yihuang.
"Have you finished taking a shower?" Valentine looked at Xing Yihuang beside him and smiled maliciously.
"Yes." Xing Yihuang ignored Valentine's smile and reached out his hand to brush his hair. The hair gently brushed Valentin's cheek, bringing out bursts of fragrance.
Valentin felt that she did it on purpose.
"I'm really sorry, because the system made you run around after me with just one sentence." Valentin looked at Xing Yihuang's profile and decided not to be shy.
"There's nothing to apologize for. Besides, I believe you too." Xing Yihuang turned to look at Valentine and smiled.
This woman is so damn sweet!
Valentine felt like he was going to die.
"Um, Yihuang..." He felt that he should say something now. The window paper was crumbling like an umbrella in a typhoon, and it seemed that it would be broken with a little force.
"It's noon, it's time to have lunch." Xing Yihuang suddenly felt cold and returned to the state of a three-no girl.
Watching Xing Yihuang's leaving figure, Valentin felt a mouthful of old blood stuck in his throat, but he could only swallow it now.
There is still a long time in the future, and there are plenty of opportunities. This will happen in a while, so there is no rush.
