Time has stopped.
The movements of Irene and Xiao Hui remained at the moment before shaking hands. The rare expression on Xiao Hui's face was well preserved, and Irene's helpless expression was also frozen.
No, that body can only be called "Tachigawa Rena" now. Li Zheng, who unknowingly floated out of the yin-yang fish on Dongfeng Tanihui's chest, had seen Irene's true form.
A faint shadow floated above Rena Tadokawa. It was the soul of Irene and where Irene's consciousness was.
Compared with Tatokawa Rena's body, Irene is very thin. After all, she has been in the hospital since she was a child. Material matters determine consciousness. The image reflected in her soul is also a very thin woman.
[This feeling seems familiar. 】At this time, Li Zheng suddenly remembered a scene from the past.
That was the feeling after completing the duel with Li Ao, who had traveled through time and occupied the body of the Duelist Killer on the island of the Duelist Kingdom. The power of the "super fusion" that destroyed the world was still deeply imprinted on him. In Li Zheng's memory.
This time, although there is no "hyper-fusion", the situation is just not so dangerous. In fact, the reasons for the two incidents are the same.
[Upgrade patch detected, the system has started downloading, please wait...]
That's right, it's an upgrade patch! In fact, when Li Zheng met Irene for the first time, the system had already detected the upgrade patch (please see Chapter 141 for details), and now it may be because Li Zheng defeated Irene, the "upgrade patch" on Irene will be Taken away by the system.
Li Zheng held the terminal and wanted to go out to download the upgrade patch. He still had many questions to ask Irene.
Irene no longer looks like a girl in appearance. She should be around twenty-five years old, which is the best years of a woman. But for Irene, apart from choosing to become a witch and killing people everywhere, she can only act like a witch. A corpse usually lies on the bed, unable to see, hear, speak, or move.
Although she was a little thin, Li Zheng could still see that if she had adequate nutrition, Irene might be as good as those popular movie stars in appearance.
"Well, we really can't leave this time." Irene looked at Li Zheng walking towards him, waved to him with some relief, and said to him: "It seems that the thing in your hand is very dangerous." Want to eat me? Why don't you let it go? There shouldn't be anything worthy of mercy for people like me, right?"
"It's not pity." Li Zheng held the terminal and contacted Zero to ask her to turn off this guy's voice system, otherwise it would be too noisy. After the environment became quiet, Li Zheng continued: "I still have some questions to ask you."
"Oh? It's an honor." Eileen simply sat down, "I know everything, but there is a condition. Can you at least keep me in this state for a while? I haven't been able to move freely with my body for 20 years."
Li Zheng nodded, and then said with some curiosity: "You are quite open-minded. But I am very curious as to why you killed so many ordinary girls to carry out the operation without any pressure. If you are really just like that stupid kid, Normally you just want to go outside and see the outside world, so you just need to choose a contractor and see the world from her perspective, right? You have no scruples in using this extremely destructive and very... An easy way to expose yourself?”
"If you really want to say it, it's my obsession. Of course, you can also say it's because of my greed." Irene spread her hands and said that she had anticipated this problem and said, "Many people once said that I was A greedy witch who kills other people's lives to maintain filthy souls that should not exist in the world. Later, I simply admitted that I was a witch and that I was doing things that were harmful to nature and unacceptable to heaven and earth."
"You're so straightforward. Don't you know how to restrain yourself at all?" Li Zheng said helplessly, "Looking at it from this perspective, you are simply inhumane."
"When you lose your humanity, you lose a lot; when you lose your animality, you lose everything." Irene closed her eyes and said calmly: "I never deny that I am a wicked person. If I die, I will be in hell forever, right? But I Everything I do is just to survive, to take a look at this world that I still like even though it is full of malice towards me."
Li Zheng remained silent.
"I can see that you and I are the same kind of people - maybe the word 'spirit' should be used here? Forget it, it doesn't matter. The only difference is that you are very lucky and have the foundation to be able to do it without hurting the other party. Possession skills, and..." Irene glanced at Dongfeng Guhui, who maintained a rare smile during the time pause, and continued: "And a person who is willing to let you possess him and is willing to hand over everything in his body. To your people.”
"..." Li Zheng was silent. Indeed, he was very lucky. If his contractor was not Dongfeng Guhui, who was willing to communicate, obey the teachings, and be willing to be possessed to control everything about his body, but was a person who used himself as a plug-in tool. , If you think of using it when you are pretending to be cool, if you are a proud young man who usually gets sidelined and uses Li Zheng's ability to open a harem as a stud, his choice may not be much more humane than Irene.
"Really? But I don't have such good luck. I also wanted to negotiate with them, but the final result was failure." Eileen changed her posture and continued: "If you are not desperate, who would like to be Being hunted every day as a witch? But my childhood experience tells me that this world cannot tolerate me: when I was five years old, the plane crashed, and it was my mother who saved my life with her own actions; later on, my five senses were reduced a little bit Fading away until I become a waste that is no different from a corpse; I finally have the ability to get out, and all the dark ability users in Europe want to kill me. Fortunately, they did not take these things away in order to monopolize my power. The news reaches District 11, otherwise I will be dead in this competition."
"Actually, it seems like you won't live much longer now." Li Zheng looked at the terminal that was becoming more and more unbearable and the countless warning sounds coming from the system, and said to Eileen: "Then why did you go to Europe before?" Cup? It’s easier to expose this way, isn’t it?”
"That time I went there because I wanted to die. But those people were driven away by John. Really, don't treat yourself as an adult even though you are only twelve years old..." Irene's expression appeared for the first time. In the past, Irene had a look of indifference, but now she has a doting look on her face. "It was also that time that I discovered that I was not alone. After that, I hoped that the organization under my name could go all out to Do research on prosthetics instead of continuing to hunt people.”
"Then you came to Duel City because of a shortage of funds, right?" Li Zheng frowned, feeling that the situation was not that simple, "Then why did you continue to kill people? Logically speaking, you let others use the 'Beetle Installer' Is it okay to come and win? I also know the strength of this deck.”
"As for this, I can only say that I'm used to it." Irene finally showed a very apologetic expression. She looked at the body of "Tachigawa Rena" who was standing still in time and said: "I'm used to this way of action. It was done before I knew it. I'm so sorry..."
When Li Zheng talked about this, he felt that he had nothing to say. He should be able to answer all Xiaohui's questions from now on. Eileen is indeed a villain, and she even admits that she is a real witch who has given up her humanity in order to survive; but if you think about it from another perspective, the novels that Eileen and Li Zheng occasionally read in their previous lives have been read by others. Compared with Long Aotian, whose own woman was about to kill a whole family at a glance, and who shouted "My fate is up to me" when she felt the slightest displeasure, and then massacred everyone, Irene's actions could only be considered mild.
To be fair, if the Q-level dark ability is placed in the "Academy City" of an anime in the previous life, it can easily be rated as lv5, and it can even compete for the top two. If the person who obtains this theory is an ordinary middle school boy or If you are a cynical person, the consequences can be imagined.
Of course, reality cannot be compared with fiction. This is the 21st century after all, and Irene's behavior can be considered outrageous.
Then, he stretched out the almost uncontrollable terminal in front of Irene and said: "Xiao Hui gave you the right to surrender so that you can freely decide your own destiny, so I will give it to you now. A right: Tell you clearly that the time stop will end soon, and you will be able to use your ability to leave at that time, and I will not stop you; then, you can also choose to be eaten by this thing now, it has It may only eat your abilities and turn you back into the fragile sick body you were before, or it may directly eat your soul and prevent you from even going to hell. Choose."
"There is no need to choose at all." Irene smiled slightly and reached out to catch Li Zheng's terminal. Then Li Zheng released all restraints on the terminal, and the terminal sucked in all of Irene in an instant!
[The upgrade component "Greedy" has been downloaded, and the installation of the upgrade patch has begun. Please wait... the installation is complete! 】
["Greedy"? ] Li Zheng pinched his chin and thought: [Is the struggle for the most basic right to survival really just greed...]
——————Fragments of the Pot of Desire——————
Thanks to book friend Shenyin’s humanoid master for the reward.
