Chapter 360 The End of the Story

"How far do we have to go?" Renata asked quietly in the dark corridor.

Even though she deliberately kept her voice as low as possible, her words still echoed endlessly in the corridor, which was enough to show how long this corridor was.

"Black Swan Harbor is actually bigger than you think. This building was designed with many hidden facilities, such as attics, terraces and basements." Elena said lightly.

Black Swan Port, four o'clock in the morning, area B of the experimental area.

In the corridor, two girls walked side by side. They were now in the experimental area of ​​Black Swan Port. The owner of the port, Dr. Herzog, would often do some scientific research that was beneficial to the motherland, and climbed to the extreme in the Cold War. , when the arms race reaches a freezing point, there will always be someone who wants to find another way and create some creations that can break the situation.

I heard that Black Swan Port was born for this purpose, so there is a special experimental area here, which covers about one-third of the entire port. The three buildings are connected together in a concave shape, making the corridor inside very long. People are frightened.

This is the most mysterious place in Black Swan Harbor. I heard that sometimes screams can be heard here at night, and bloody footprints can often be seen in the corridors. There are embryos of unknown animals hidden in the laboratory, with bloodshot and sinewy features. membrane. Some people even witnessed with their own eyes a skinned polar bear lying on the operating table, with the internal organs of the open abdomen still pulsing.

There are various rumors that the experimental area has been created as a restricted area, and it is indeed a restricted area for non-involved persons. There are electrified barbed wire fences at each entrance with the words "no entry" written in Russian. Even the nurses have no right to step on it. Take a step further.

But now, they boldly broke in. Elena didn't know where she got the key, opened a door to the experimental area, and brought Renata in openly. It looked like she should be A habitual criminal knows every route by heart without looking at a map.

Walking in the lonely corridor, Renata could only hear the breathing of herself and Elena. Every time she said a word here, the sound would echo through the empty building complex. She could only cover her mouth gently, For fear of waking up the monster hidden in this dark building.

The only approximate light source for the two of them is the lantern in Elena's hand. The light brightness is limited and can only illuminate the darkness within five meters. It is like traveling in heavy fog. You never know what is waiting for you in the deep darkness. .

"I feel like someone is following us behind us." Renata turned her head and looked behind her uneasily.

"No one is allowed in the experimental area except for doctors and related personnel. How could there be others?" Yelena also looked back behind her and comforted Renata.

"." In fact, Renata didn't feel wrong, because someone was really following them at this moment.

Lin Nian hid in the corner, avoiding Renata's sudden turning gaze. He had received professional tracking training from the execution department. It couldn't be easier to track two children like this, especially when one of them was following With his tacit understanding, even if Renata did accidentally catch a glimpse of him, Elena would probably fool her into seeing him wrong, right?

In the pink room converted from an abandoned freezer, Lin Nian, who was hiding in the closet, listened to the entire conversation between the two. Perhaps from Renata's perspective, what Yelena said, such as 'emperor' and so on , a bit foggy. But from Lin Nian's point of view, every word Elena said was like thunder.

‘Emperor’ appeared decades ago.

The blond girl turned out to be someone from decades ago.

The 'Emperor' actually hunted down the blonde girl during these years.

The blonde girl's ability is 'tampering with cognition'.

But judging from the fact that the blond girl appears in his mind without a physical body, can the emperor be considered successful in his pursuit? But why is the blonde girl still leaning over him like a ghost?

Lin Nian didn't know clearly, but the blonde girl asked him to read on, which probably meant that some of the mysteries might really be revealed this time. He followed the two of them to the end of the corridor, where there was a green wooden door with a silver house number hanging on it and a scrawled German sentence engraved on it.

Elena read out this string of characters in German. Renata looked up at her and seemed a little confused. She translated it in Russian, "Dr. Jung von Herzog, this is the doctor's office." .”

"Doctor's office?" Renata's face turned green at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In Black Swan Port, every child is afraid of the head nurse. This is because the head nurse has the power to confine people. But the doctor is different. He almost never confines people. When the children are naughty, he will only show a gentle smile like an elder. No one should be afraid of this old man, but when the name of the doctor is mentioned, there is no child who does not clench his legs and his face changes. This is because the doctor has performed surgery on almost everyone, and a cutting machine is required for brain surgery. The scalpel was a daunting memory that was deeply engraved in everyone's mind in a physical form.

Renata had never had an operation, but she was surrounded by children who were in awe of doctors. Over time, she also developed a fear of that gentle and rigorous old man, even though he had always been very kind to her and did not allow her to undergo surgery. tower. There was a time when she naively thought that the doctor treated her as a special family member, but then when she discovered some obscure and indifferent emotions in the old man's eyes when he occasionally glanced at all the children, Renata quietly dismissed it in her mind. This is possible.

"What are you afraid of? If I want, I can still be the doctor's biological daughter." The blond girl shrugged.

"But I'm not." Renata grimaced.

"You can be, do you think so?" The blonde girl tilted her head and looked at Renata, "I can set you to be the doctor's illegitimate daughter. Your mother is a popular singer in the Soviet Union, so boys can I’m beginning to think that you are just underdeveloped now, and you will definitely grow into a real woman with long legs and a slim waist in the future!”

"I feel like I can't grow much taller." Renata said subconsciously.

"Try to drink more milk. If you have time, jump with rubber bands to help stretch your bones. This is scientifically based." Yelena opened the door to the office as she spoke. Renata was distracted from the topic and forgot to stop her. .

When she opened the door, it was dark in the office. Yelena turned on the lights on the wall. The warm yellow light illuminated the room filled with bookshelves. Compared to an office, this place was more like a study room, with bookshelves on both sides. There are books in various languages, most of them in Russian and German, and a few in rare languages ​​that Renata has never even seen before.

"Aren't we going to find that little boy, Matvey? Why are you here?" Renata asked, shrinking her head and looking at the bookish room.

"He is right here." Yelena said.

"Right here?" Renata and Lin Nian, who was hiding outside the office door and eavesdropping, were both stunned.

For example, the office in the study room is not big, only about fifty square meters at most, and most of the place is filled with bookshelves and books. There is no place to hide people. Could it be that the little boy is hiding under the desk?

Just when Renata wanted to ask a question, she found that Yelena walked straight to the chair behind the desk and sat down, adjusting her sitting posture comfortably, making her completely confused as to who this girl was here for. It's just a human being who came to the doctor's office to cause trouble as an excuse.

"Come in a little. If you don't come in, you won't have a chance to come in for a while." Yelena said.

Renata subconsciously took a few steps forward at the door. Yelena bent down and opened the third drawer of the desk. She didn't know what she did inside. Suddenly, the whole office shook, and the books on the bookshelf collided with each other. Unusual noise.

Renata's whole body tensed up, thinking she was in trouble. She looked back at the door she came from, only to find that the door outside was no longer a corridor, but a slowly moving wall! It's not that the walls are moving, it's that they are moving. This office is like an elevator, taking this study-like room slowly sinking toward the underground of Black Swan Harbor.

No wonder Yelena said that if she didn't come in, she would have no chance to come in. This sentence was not said to Renata, but to Lin Nian outside the door. He also entered the room the moment the elevator started. Nata stood behind her without noticing it at all. When Renata turned her head, he moved his position. His speed and reaction were fast enough to ensure that he was always hidden out of the opponent's sight.

Elena seemed to be completely unable to see such a big person behind Renata. She looked at the bewildered girl in front of her and asked calmly, "We are going to find Matvey now, but Matvey's condition remains. None of it is too good, so don’t panic and don’t scream when you see him.”

"Why is he in a place like this?" Renata's lips were a little dry, and she realized that she seemed to have touched a taboo that she shouldn't touch. The experimental area was already mysterious enough, and there was something hidden in the doctor's office in the experimental area. How taboo must be the place a secret elevator leads to? What is the situation of Matvey who is hidden there? She had no idea what would happen next, and could only look at Yelena helplessly, because Yelena had led all of this to happen, and now she could only follow the other person's pace.

"Actually, I've known Matvey a long time before you did." Elena said, feeling the vibration of the office sinking. "It's just that the timing of our first meeting was not very good, and I couldn't communicate with him at all."

"Unable to communicate.? Didn't he know how to speak at that time?" Renata thought of the little boy who couldn't even use a spoon.

"No, it's worse than this." Yelena looked at Renata or the boy behind her and said, "At that time, he was just like a bloodthirsty beast, a complete little monster."

"Little monster?" Renata couldn't understand, because in her opinion, the boy named Matvey was so harmless, even stupid and timid. This kind of child would hide in the corner with his head in his hands even if he was bullied. Are you going to be hit by rocks? How could it be related to monsters?

"Without reason, without consciousness, completely controlled by the killing instinct." Elena said, "What did you think of?"

"Monster?" Renata originally wanted to say polar bear, but polar bears sometimes have very cute scenes, such as playing with the little polar bear in the snow. There are only man-eating monsters in fairy tales that have no reason or consciousness.

"He was like that the first time I saw him." Yelena said, "The first moment he saw me, he pounced on me and bit my throat like a mad dog. Fortunately, his There were five chains on my body, so I wasn't thrown to the ground by him, but the force he burst out in that moment almost tore down the wall. I admit, I was frightened at that time and almost turned around. Flee in despair."

"Five chains? What did he do wrong to be imprisoned?" Renata asked in a low voice. In her impression, chains were only worn by criminals, and only by the truly heinous and inhumane villains. He will be chained by five chains, but Matvey is only a four or five-year-old child. What reason is there for him to receive such inhuman treatment?

"I don't know, maybe his birth was a mistake." Elena said, "A mistake that is never allowed by the ethics of the world."

"Even you can't communicate with him?" Renata asked softly.

"Yes, my tampering with cognition has no effect on him. I have tried to use my ability to change my status in his mind many times but failed. From 'master' to 'doctor' at the beginning, and then to a milder ' Neither family members nor friends had any effect, but many times I crossed the safety red line and was almost killed by him," Yelena said.

"He is just a child, how could he kill someone?"

"Leopard cubs will also practice biting when they are young, let alone monsters."

"But he looked normal during the day today." Renata was really confused and couldn't connect the little boy she taught him to use a spoon during the day with the terrifying monster hidden underground in Black Swan Harbor that Elena described now. Come together.

"So this is what I'm curious about." Yelena said, "It seems that the doctor did something to him during this period. It might be an experiment or an operation to make him suddenly become polite. Yes. Maybe I can seize this opportunity to get some useful information from him."

The office stopped, and there was a dull vibration. After that, there was no more vibration, and the office fell into silence.

They arrived.

"Don't look back yet." Yelena said when she saw Renata showing signs of turning around.

Under Renata's confused gaze, she added, "First of all, promise me, be mentally prepared, don't scream, don't faint, because I haven't tried pinching people to see if they can wake up unconscious people. I don’t want to carry you all the way back to your bed from here.”

"Is there something scary behind me?" Renata's face began to become a little stiff.

"Not really." Yelena said, "I just think that if I stand beside you, your ability to bear it will be stronger, right?"

After saying that, she stood up from the desk and walked to Renata's side in front of the door.

At this time, Renata also gradually realized that outside the door was no longer the corridor of the Black Swan Port experimental area, but a red light. The scarlet red light shining into the study from the outside seemed a little cold, like Someone is pressing against his neck to catch his breath.

Renata, who was blown away by the air-conditioning, couldn't help but turn her head early.

Just like Orpheus who was about to break out of hell, he didn't hold back his curiosity. The moment he turned around, he was swallowed up by the red light. He couldn't help but take a half step back with his right foot. The hairs all over his body stood on end, and his sympathetic nerves were under tremendous pressure. After the incomparable stimulation, the pupils dilated to the extreme.

Before the childish screams could rise, Lin Nian, who had turned behind Renata, had already gently covered her mouth, knocking her unconscious before she could react.

At this time, Elena also walked to Lin Nian's side. The two stood in front of the office door and looked at the scene outside for a while, without anyone speaking first.

"If this dream is a story you made up, then this should be the climax and end of the story, right?" Lin Nian put down Renata in his hand and let her lie down unconscious on the ground.

"So be it." The blonde girl nodded.

Lin Nian glanced at Renata on the ground, then silently looked up at the door of the office. There were figures in the reflection in his eyes.

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The corpses of children were everywhere.

Cheeks of children of different ages and looks came into Lin Nian and Elena's eyes. The red lights in the underground space brought a different color to the cheeks of these children, but the thick frost on their pupils But it shows that they have been dead for a long, long time.

The breath of coldness and death is the smell of cold rust, which makes people feel it so clearly with every breath. It turns out that death is not just a concept, but a real thing on the material level, and it exists in the dark. Ground floor of Dr. Herzog's office in Swanhaven.

"You must be kidding." Looking at the scene in front of him, Lin Young sighed loudly.

"I thought I was joking, but that day, Renata did see this scene, but she didn't faint, but screamed." Elena said lightly.

"I don't take this seriously." He shook his head.

"I know, it's up to you whether you believe it or not. The 'Emperor' has already found you. I think you should know some things, such as your life experience."

"Life experience? I grew up in an orphanage."

"I'm not denying this." Elena turned to look at him.

"The orphanage I grew up in was called Sunflower House, and I have complete memories of growing up there, including before the age of five."

"Are you sure?" Yelena just asked, and Ju Yiwenzong had already unsheathed and placed it on her neck.

"I suddenly remembered that you seemed to have mentioned the usurpation of your abilities before." Lin Nian turned to look at her, his eyes as cold as the ice of the Arctic Ocean frozen outside the port.

"Yes." Elena said, "But I also mentioned that this ability is not effective against Matvey, right? Then why don't you go and see Matvey yourself, that poor little monster?"

As soon as she finished speaking, Lin Nian beside her had already disappeared, leaving only a handful of chrysanthemum and one moji norimune stuck in front of her like a straight nail. The blade cut the ground and spread out spider web-like cracks. .

The blonde girl stared at the knife and suddenly laughed.

Then she passed by the knife that escaped the dream and appeared in reality, walked into the underground space like a corpse display room, and walked among the frozen corpses.

At the end of the underground space, at the end of everything, there was a dark red wall with chalk peeling off to reveal red bricks, where Lin Nian stood quietly.

She stood behind Lin Nian, but Lin Nian was looking down at something without looking back.

In front of him, there were five chains growing out of the scarlet wall, tightly binding a little boy with black hair, and the little boy was looking up at him.

The two looked at each other, their eyes reflecting each other's faces.

"You're back?" he said timidly.

The pair of dark pupils reflected infinite expectations.