The room was dark, with no lights on and no windows, just a vent on the ceiling. The furniture in the room was very simple, a table and a chair, and Valentine sat on the chair. The chair was made of iron and it felt like sitting on an ice cube. Although the room was dark with no lights on, Valentine's eyes were extremely bright, to the point where he wanted to reach out to cover his eyes. A strong desk lamp was placed on the table, and the light bulb was facing Valentine's eyes. Eye.
The air was very quiet, and through the light Valentine could hardly see any floating dust. It was worthy of being a pharmaceutical company. On the other side of the table, Kelsey and Warfarin were sitting upright, with extremely serious expressions on their faces, but with a hint of cruelty in their eyes, as if the Valentine in front of them was a heinous criminal.
This made him very uncomfortable.
Valentin swallowed and stretched out his hand to loosen his collar, his movements stiff. Although it wasn't hot here, he was covered in sweat. His left hand rested casually on the armrest of the chair, and his index finger shook regularly, pretending to be relaxed.
Seria and Gavel stood behind him, very close. Gaviel still holds the staff in his hand, and Valentine can see it by turning his head slightly.
The atmosphere was eerie.
As a socialist successor who has been law-abiding since he was a child and has never even been to the police station once, Valentine naturally does not know what the police uncle's interrogation process is like, but he has watched many police and gangster movies, and the interrogation shown in them The prisoner's scene was much the same as it is now.
Of course, it would be more like turning on the lights and posting the words "Leniency for confession, leniency for refusal" on the wall.
The environment that Valentine was in now was more like a Kuomintang agent interrogating a Communist, and he was tied to a chair, with scars all over his body, bloody flesh, and his mouth was as hard as bone.
"I said I don't know anything, just kill me."
Valentine suddenly had a determined look on his face, and he immediately assumed the role of a member of the Communist Party of China, and uttered those all-too-familiar words.
…
Kelsi and Warfarin looked at each other, countless little question marks popping up on their heads. Jiavir covered his face, and the hand holding the staff was trembling slightly.
Does this guy’s brain circuit follow the mountain roads of Kalan?
It’s impossible to follow the nine twists and turns!
Of course, these are all nothing in front of Ceria. As a woman with the title of "Immortal Diamond", she can pick up any topic.
"Are you feeling uncomfortable?"
Ceria put her hands on Valentin's shoulders, squatting on the ground and looking at him, her orange eyes full of confusion.
Aren't the physical examination and psychological test just now normal? Why did this kid go crazy so soon?
Looking at Ceria's innocent and caring eyes, Valentin felt that it would be better to stop joking in front of this sister in the future.
It's not fun at all, but it makes me very embarrassed.
"No, no." He laughed awkwardly and waved his hand to show that everything was fine.
"Then what you just said..."
"I think the environment here is depressing for her. Tell a cold joke to liven up the atmosphere. Doctor Seraya, don't take it seriously."
Valentine showed an extremely bright smile and released a little of the holy light of the Blade Angel, making a second light source appear in the dim room.
"If you have any physical or mental discomfort, be sure to tell us and we will help you." Ceria patted his shoulder, stood up and returned to his original position.
The atmosphere in the room returned to silence again, even more awkward than before.
"Ahem...that," Valentine coughed and broke the silence again.
Counting on Ice Queen Kelsey to speak first, Valentin felt that he was more likely to be beaten to death by Gaviel's hammer.
"What exactly do you want to ask me? Do you have to make it so depressing?"
He spread his arms and looked around.
"I even want to release Holy Light Raphael and use it as a lamp, okay? The Rhode Island family is so big that they don't need this little electricity, right?"
"The next question is very important, and we hope you can answer it truthfully." Kelsey did not respond to Valentine's question. Her words were as cold as herself, and pressure emerged from her whole body, shaking Valentine's heart. Suffocated.
Before the time travel, many people speculated that the Doctor and Kelsey were having an affair, but they didn’t know why they got divorced later.
Valentine thought he had found the answer.
Who wants to live with a big ice cube all day long? Even Xing Yihuang cares about people, right?
(Xing Yihuang, who was sitting on the bed and reading a book, sneezed)
"You have the right to remain silent, but everything you say will become evidence in court."
Warfarin answered.
At this moment, Gaviel felt that Valentin and Warfarin would get along well when going on missions together.
Kelsey just turned her head and looked at Warfarin silently, the expression on her face did not change, but everyone in the room clearly felt that a high pressure was building.
Warfarin lowered her head and looked at the PAD very wisely. During this interrogation of Valentin, she was mainly responsible for recording information.
"Ha... uh, I can just answer whatever you want to ask... There's no need to be so serious, right?" Valentin looked at Warfarin and gloated, but Kelsey's laughter soon became full of oppression. Li's eyes were blinded.
"In this environment, the person being interrogated will feel more pressure and it will be easier to tell the truth." Gaviel bent down and chuckled in Valentine's ear.
"Why do I feel that this is your idea..."
Valentin stretched out his finger and poked Gavel's head lightly, and was glared at by the other party.
"No matter how big or small, I am your senior, how about the respect you should have as a newcomer?"
"Unreliable seniors will not get the respect of outstanding juniors." Valentine rolled his eyes.
"..."
Looking at the two people who were about to fight, Kelsey felt very tired and wanted to take some medicine to calm down. Every department has its treasures, but the medical department has a lot of them. Warfarin, Javier, white-faced owl, hibiscus...
Not to mention that she also has the idea of absorbing Valentine into the medical department.
This is a research and development department with high technological capabilities. It should be extremely serious, but the researchers inside are more cheerful than the other...
Warfarin tapped the table lightly and pointed at Kelsey beside her. Gavel and Valentine stopped their "friendly" communication and instantly became docile than kittens.
Kelsey never had to say "quiet" or "shut up". Anyone in Rhode Island would take the initiative to quiet down when they saw that she was about to have an attack.
No one dares to mess with the Queen of Rhode Island unless he doesn't want to do it anymore.
"I'm looking for you about the "key"." Kelsey went directly to the topic and stopped talking nonsense, lest these three guys take the topic away again.
"Key? Why do you ask for this?" Valentine felt confused.
"When Dr. Hemmer came to our island, he brought several milliliters of the key. We conducted various experiments on it, but we couldn't figure out its ingredients at all. Currently, we only know one piece of information about the key. "
"It can maximize human potential and help humans open the door to the road to godhood."
Valentine's eyebrows moved, and a bad premonition formed in his heart.
"Don't you... want to make this thing?"
His voice was louder and even trembling.
"We are not interested in this suicidal way of growing up, and Ifrit is a good example."
Kelsey's eyes were fixed on Valentine's face.
"But you are different. After being injected with the key, you can still maintain your sanity. Even if you summon the spirit behind you, it will be no problem. You are no different from an ordinary infected person."
"It's just that the infection is a little more serious."
"only?"
Valentine covered his face and chuckled.
Soon, he stood up like a spring, slammed his hands on the table, his eyes were bloodshot for a moment, and his voice was as loud as a dragon's roar.
"Do you know how painful I was after injecting the key? The pain never disappeared from my body in those days. From beginning to end, from the inside out, it was as if countless needles had penetrated every part of my body. Cell, even the dreams I had when I was sleeping were scenes of myself being imprisoned!"
"Even now, I have to endure great pain to fall asleep every night. If I were not a Vaifan, I might not even survive the day when I was first injected with the key!"
"Why do I have such a big need for inhibitors? Not only the level of infection in my body, but also because I don't feel so much pain after being injected with inhibitors, and I can sleep well!"
Ceria took Valentin's arm and asked him to sit back in the chair. Kelsey just sat there without any rebuttal or sympathy.
"But at least you still have your sanity."
Valentine knew who she was talking about.
"Who is not a child?" Valentine smiled ugly.
"Ifrit's mental state is very unstable, and we can't get any useful information from her."
"You are our only hope."
Valentine covered his tail with both hands and stared at Kelsey, the anger in his heart gradually subdued.
The thing about the key was indeed his most painful memory, but it was not something he couldn't face.
"What do you want to know? I don't know anything about the ingredients of that thing. That damn researcher won't tell her test subjects the formula of the potion."
"We just need to know how you feel after injecting the key, not just in your body but in your soul."
Kelsey pointed to her head.
"And how did you break free from that pain. Maybe you are in pain now, but Ifrit is in more pain than you. She can't even control her Origin Stone skills freely."
Ceria pursed her lips and placed her eyes on the back of Valentin's head. At this moment, Valentine can not only control the spirit behind him at will, but also has no mental control. If he could tell in detail his inner journey at that time, he might be able to save Ifrit from her suffering.
That was a crime committed by both her and Hemo. Ceria had already regretted it and just wanted to find a solution as soon as possible.
After a few seconds of silence, Valentine told everything that happened after he was injected with the key, including what happened to him in the spiritual world and the appearance of the flying dragon.
Of course, Jiao Zhengyu's existence was erased by him.
The description was slow and detailed enough to make Gaviel break into a cold sweat. Especially the tone of Valentine's story was full of resentment and pain. She could even hear Valentine's grinding of his teeth, as if his teeth were about to be broken.
Ceria froze on the spot, her eyes dull. It was only then that she realized how much pain Ifrit's thin body was suffering. Valentin has come out, but Ifrit is still trapped in it and will only feel more uncomfortable than him.
After a few minutes, Valentine's description ended, and a deathly silence fell over the room. The experience was indeed very detailed, and he described the impact on his body, mind and soul in detail, but no one understood how Valentine overcame the pain, as if he was carrying it all on his shoulders. , as if he had adapted to that power.
"So... how does the pain you feel now compare to that then?" Kelsey was unwilling to give up and asked another question.
"It's so much better. It's like the difference between heaven and hell." Valentine was a little listless.
"Of course I don't mean that I won't feel uncomfortable now."
The room fell into silence again. Kelsey tried hard to think about the doubtful points in Valentine's description just now. Sometimes clues are buried in places that are easy to ignore and need to be thought about carefully.
Soon, she discovered something was wrong.
"In your description, did the spirit behind you speak to you?"
Valentine was stunned.
"It seems like...the words 'No self-harm' and 'Raise your head!'?"
At this moment, Kelsey decided that this was a breakthrough.
Among the other operators in Rhode Island who have a back spirit, no one can communicate with the back spirit, because the back spirit is themselves, not others.
How could there be two different souls in a human body?
"You mean the spirit behind the scenes shouldn't speak?" Valentin also noticed something was wrong.
The dark blue flying dragon said a few words at that time. From then until now, it has never opened its mouth again, and Valentine didn't think there was anything wrong.
But when Kelsey reminded him, he really felt that this was a bit strange.
What does a talking back spirit represent? It is a brand new soul that is independent of itself. What it thinks is not what you think, even if you later work together as one person.
A bit scary.
"But... I can feel that it is me. Didn't I say at the end that I can see what the spirit behind me sees? If he can really think independently, why won't he reject my control?"
Valentin didn't give up, and he didn't even notice that the name of the spirit behind him changed from "it" to "he".
"You can see the image from the camera, but can you say that you are the camera?"
Kelsey directly killed the remaining hope in Valentin's heart.
Snapped.
The lights in the room were turned on, and the surroundings looked like a laboratory again. Kelsey closed the holographic projection device on the cabinet, and Warfarin and Javier moved the table back to its original position.
"Dr. Ceria, I'm sorry that we still can't let you have contact with Ifrit. This is Hemo's request, so I will inform them myself about this matter. Of course, if there is any progress in Ifrit's matter, I will I will also notify you.”
"Forgive me."
After saying that, Kelsey went about her own business, leaving only Seria who looked lonely and Valentin who looked confused.
"So...the interrogation is over?"
"It's over, you can leave." Gavel put down the sleeves he had rolled up not long ago.
"Of course, because your situation is too special, you must come to the medical department twice a week for physical examinations, and you will also be given double the amount of inhibitors."
"Is this a benefit?" Valentine only noticed the double inhibitor at the end.
"Of course, your salary will be deducted twice as much."
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"You are indeed a black-hearted enterprise." Valentine curled his lips and muttered softly.
"But when internal employees buy inhibitors, the price is 50% off, so it's very cheap, not to mention that you are an operator, not those working on the assembly line."
"So you don't have to worry about money at all. After buying the inhibitor every month, you will have enough left over to take the two girls out shopping."
"Only discount stores and food stalls." Valentine added.
"Ha, it's not that bad. You'll know when the wages are paid." Gavel lightly hammered Valentin's shoulder.
"Don't have money and don't know how to spend it. If you really can't spend it all, you can come to me. I like helping others the most."
Valentine glared at the shameless crocodile sister, turned around and left the laboratory.
As a result, I almost bumped into someone at the corner of the corridor.
"Hey, walking..." Valentine took a step back and looked at the operator in front of him, and was stunned before he finished speaking.
Wheat-colored skin, a face full of aggression, orange-red eyes, the iconic Rheinland Life checkered suit, and the familiar onion-shaped twin ponytails.
Looking at the familiar face in front of him, Valentine stretched out his hand to extinguish the flames on his bangs.
Why is this naughty kid here?
