The clothes that David took off were thrown into the garbage separator. The two of them dressed up like a pair of aborigines in a small town, and Shi Shiran entered the bar at the corner of the road.
The bar doesn't have a big front, but it's a unique place inside. It's very spacious. It turns out that most of the space is hidden underground and cannot be seen from the outside. There is a gentle slope at the entrance, diagonally downwards, and at the bottom is a huge fighting platform. There were tables, chairs and benches scattered on the steps and around the fighting ring. The light in the bar was half-dark, and the early morning light coming in from the window only illuminated less than one-fifth of the area. The lights were turned on in other parts of the room, and the projection screen was hung down. It was a competitive mecha game competition. live broadcast.
In the early morning, almost all the customers in the bar had left. The fighting ring was empty, and the surrounding tables were in a mess. There were only a few or two guests here, but they were obviously too drunk and fell asleep on the table or simply sharing two chairs. A little boy of about ten years old was collecting the empty wine bottles. The housekeeping robot followed behind him, wiping all the garbage on the table into its round belly. The bartender sat behind the long counter between the steps and the bottom of the pool, his head dozing off again and again, his whole body almost buried in the shadow of the light.
"How about we sit down for a while and have a drink?"
David walked straight to the counter, stopped Gu Hanhan from paying for the wine, and asked the bartender directly: "Boss, can I take it on credit?"
The dozing bartender didn't open his eyes and just pointed at the registration book in the corner of the counter. So David opened the book and signed his name on the last line with the pen tied to the book. Then he said: "Two glasses of green ale."
The bartender stretched, stood up, and started mixing drinks. This time Gu Hanhan saw his appearance clearly. He was an ordinary-looking middle-aged man. It didn't take much effort and the wine was mixed. The middle-aged bartender put two large glasses of dark green wine on the counter, then sat back and dozed off.
David and Gu Hanhan took their wine glasses and sat down at a random table. Only then did David explain to Gu Hanhan: "The small town bar does not charge money. What you pay for is a kind of points, fighting points." David Pointing to the fighting table in the center: "Sign up and you'll be able to play. You'll get 5 points for a win, 2 points for a loss, and 3 points for a draw. 1 point can be exchanged for a glass of any kind of wine in the bar. You can pay on credit. , just go on stage at night and play a game. There will be no suspicion of defaulting here, it is just an entertainment initiated by the people living in the small town. "
"It's really interesting-"
Gu Hanhan picked up the wine glass and took a long sip. David couldn't stop her in time and had to watch her cough due to the spicy taste of the wine.
"This wine is a bit strong." He motioned to the boy clearing the table to get a glass of water, handed it to Gu Hanhan, and said, "It's not quite the same as the ones I drank in Acropolis. It's not a well-known good wine, and there's nothing like it in the outside universe. They have to be sold, and they are all brewed and prepared by the tavern owner, using crops grown on the Gray Star. For a place full of superpowers, it is meaningless that money can buy things. They just want to have fun. This place is big Most of the wine is too strong, but they like it.”
After that, he raised the glass and took a sip. When the coldness spread on the tip of his tongue, the spiciness hit his throat and burned down his esophagus like a ball of fire. He sighed: "This is the taste that has lasted for more than ten years." Nothing has changed.”
"She loved to drink this kind of green ale wine at that time, and she would have a glass of it every night. Sometimes she would bring me to the bar with her to watch her drinking, gambling or even fighting with other superpowers. Occasionally she would take advantage of me If she accidentally gave me a sip, I would always choke and cough, causing the other adults around me to burst into laughter. She would jump up and fight with them, and then tell me, don’t listen to those trainers. How can you live without drinking——"
"It's a pity that days like that are short-lived like dewdrops in the morning, and all the good things in life seem to be stolen and fleeting. I am destined to be a person who hates my mother..." David's voice suddenly dropped, "I have arrived. After she had been with her for more than five months, something unexpected happened."
"At that time, the Dulan family was in a state of turmoil, with vassals being dispersed, power disintegrating, and the training camp unable to make ends meet. The marriage with another acropolis family, the Karlsian family, a few years ago could not save its declining destiny. , decline has inevitably become a reality. Human beings and human society are really strange things. The more they decline and are about to perish, the more fierce the internal fighting becomes. After a protracted and fierce internal fighting, the Duran family finally decided Win or lose. One line of the family promised to pay the Dulan family's official residence in the Acropolis in exchange for the support of another emerging family that was gaining prominence at the time, and seized the next inheritance rights of the family."
"The new heir of the family is a young master of the city. Of course, he also has high-level potential, but he has not yet broken through. Now that the heir has been determined, the heir of the Dulan family needs a high-level combat-type slave as a personal guard. So. , and finally picked her.”
"Actually, she is not a suitable candidate to be a personal guard. She has been wandering in the universe for too long before and after her breakthrough, and she is always on combat missions. Her personality has long since lost its tameness and has become wild. Even the training officers are treating her badly. She relaxed her vigilance and started to turn a blind eye, thinking that she would never have a chance to be with the Acropolis in her life, and even if she could leave the camp in the future, she would end up hanging around in the family guard or even the security army."
"But the world is so unpredictable. It's not that easy to find a young, pretty good-looking female high-level super-powered slave in a training camp that has begun to decline. At least she is in the combat department. The hardware is still up to standard, and as for the minor flaws in character, that can be completely made up for. If it’s not tame enough, then wouldn’t it be enough to tame it again?”
"In order to satisfy the heir of the family, they took her away and spent a week in the base's management center to re-train her intensively according to the heir's tastes and hobbies. But you know, Young Master Acropolis' Tastes and hobbies are always beyond ordinary people's imagination." David's eyes were deep and his tone was calm as usual, but deep in his eyes was an unconcealable disgust: "Later, I checked the archives at that time——"
David shook his head, clearly unwilling to mention the details in the archive. He said: "After a week, they thought she was qualified and sent her to the Acropolis. On the way, she escaped."
"She has planned it for a long time. The training camp and the Bureau have always held the view that strict control is useless for super-powered slaves, and taming is important. That's right, you can only be a thief for a thousand days, there is no guard against thieves for a thousand days, only Slaves with advanced superpowers cannot be controlled by strict defense. From the perspective of a slave manager, of course it is best to tame your heart and voluntarily create a prison. In fact, this is one of the criteria for a slave with superpowers to be qualified to leave the camp. .”
"So, they are actually very lax about the supervision of the tamed slaves who leave the camp normally, and they will not force sleep or restraints on the way, which gives her a chance to escape. She pretended to cooperate during the training and successfully deceived her. After passing the training officer, they thought she had been tamed, but in fact, she had been accumulating strength and looking for an opportunity. When the spacecraft entered the depths of the universe, with the help of a turbulent flow of energy, she finally escaped."
"She wants to escape to the black canyon in space. The vast black areas and raging energy turbulence in the black canyon can shield or interfere with the influence and positioning of the biochip on her to the greatest extent. And that kind of place is usually owned by space pirates The lair, regardless of origin or origin, relying only on skills, she could find a livelihood from there. But in the end she failed. Although the Dulan family was in decline, it was not a problem to capture a defected super-powered slave. Of. Soon, she was caught."
Hearing this, Gu Hanhan said "Ah" and covered his mouth.
"She is not dead, she was captured alive." David took a big gulp of wine and held the cup firmly with his knuckles. "Defecting a superpower family is indeed a serious crime, but high-level superpowers are also valuable strategic resources and cannot be wasted. Kill. No family will kill any superpower in the family for any crime. Because that is not punishing the crime, but punishing yourself. There are many ways to punish crimes, and damaging one's own strength is the most effective way. The price is stupidity.”
"They took her back to the training camp, put her in a dark cage, and tortured her with all kinds of cruel methods beyond human imagination. They were going to use real methods to completely tame her and turn her into a dog without any thoughts and The super-powerful female beast with personality thinks that she can avoid past mistakes and warn those who come after her. Anyway, the hope of breaking through to level 7 is extremely slim, and the current level 6 is enough. A level 7 ability user from the Management Bureau personally monitors her, and she can't even commit suicide. arrive……"
"I heard the news from the trainer - I had returned to the training camp and was temporarily under the supervision of the trainer, waiting for the management center to assign a new adopter - it was really a bolt from the blue, the moment I heard the news, I was completely desperate. In the two years from my mother’s death to being sold into slavery and then to the training camp, I had never been so desperate as in that moment.”
"At first, I thought that I could be saved as long as I had superpowers, and then I thought that everything would be different if I could reach a higher level of life. When the truth came out, I realized that everything was completely useless, and all the good things were illusions. Painting cakes to satisfy hunger, and looking at plum blossoms to quench thirst can't help. That’s it. I really don’t want to live anymore. If you can’t choose a life according to your own wishes, what’s the point of living. Just to be a doll in the hands of others and fate, it’s better to die.”
"My trainer is the hairless young assistant who wrote a plan to throw me directly into the primary training ground with a risk level of 95%. Because of his detailed data analysis, he is considered He was familiar with me, so he became my trainer. He told me in a very high mood that there was still a chance before despair. He asked me if I dared to risk my life and break into the training ground. He pointed. The perfectly twisted model full of charming power on the wall told me that if I find it, I will get a key to save everyone I want to save and control my own life."
"——I actually believed his lies!"
