My goodness, this Green Lily thing is really hard to get over.
Just wait and see, Madam Green Lily can't cure you, but can't the real "Madam" cure you?
Thinking of this, he smiled faintly, indicating a promising future.
Lu Mian naturally had no idea what Otto was thinking. He looked at Otto, then at the pot of green lilies beside the table, and his smile became more pure.
For a moment, the house was filled with a happy atmosphere.
The two were laughing happily, but Karin ran to the window in a hurry, and without saying anything, she pulled Lu Mian's wrist through the window and tried to run out.
Seeing that he looked serious, Lu Mian didn't delay any longer. He gave Otto a few instructions and then followed him through the wall.
Otto was the only one left in the house.
The light flickered gently, illuminating the almost frozen smile on his face and drying up the silence.
After a while, he sighed softly, closed the open book on the table, used it as a cushion, and then lay on the table to admire the pot of green lilies.
A gentle breeze blew past, gently opening the buds a little.
Otto thought back to the day when he made the wrong choice.
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Karin hurriedly pulled Lu Mian and walked out of the Apokalis family’s residence without explaining anything, and just asked Lu Mian to follow her.
Lu Mian had a vague idea of the reason why Karin was behaving so abnormally, so he didn't ask any more questions and just followed the girl.
The two men went around the corner and came to the residence of Priest Victor, and then stepped into the hidden basement of the residence.
Several guards and Victor fell to the ground in all directions, but neither Lu Mian nor Karen paid any attention to them.
The two of them remained silent, watching the scene in front of them.
But in the center of the huge basement, there was an enormous blood-red hexagram blooming.
There are crosses on the six corners of the hexagram, and the young girls have their tendons in their hands and feet cut and are tied up there - they all look haggard and their skin is pale, with strange and eerie purple lines all over them.
In the center of the hexagram, a purple regular hexahedron is quietly suspended. At first glance, it looks no different from the void, but only by looking closely can one detect the evil spirit and malice emanating from it.
A cold wind blew past suddenly, bringing with it a strong smell of blood and stench, which made people feel a chill on their necks.
A drop of cold sweat slid down Lu Mian's face.
He had known for a long time that Tianming was secretly capturing girls with natural stigmata and conducting inhumane experiments on them.
He is not a pushover, not even a good guy.
Except for Otto and Kallen, he has never taken anyone of this era seriously, so he will not waste his limited "time" to save these innocent girls.
Lu Mian thought he could accept everything calmly, but he was wrong.
When he saw this scene, his still beating heart felt as if it was being tightly grasped by someone, causing him to feel suffocated and uncomfortable.
When he saw this scene, he felt extremely angry.
It wasn't that he was soft-hearted, or that he had any feelings for the girls who had died in the man-made disaster.
This is merely an instinctive resistance of an existing life to acts that desecrate life.
It’s just like when you eat something delicious, you subconsciously want to eat more; when you see something dirty, you subconsciously want to avoid it; when you encounter something dangerous, you subconsciously want to escape.
So natural and so irresistible.
After all, it is these instincts that make us human.
Although Lu Mian lives in the Void, his essence is still human, and naturally he is no exception.
He has love, great love, for the "good" contained in human beings;
He has hatred, deep hatred, for the "ugliness" hidden in human beings.
[The ugly truth can be hidden for a while, but not forever. ]
[On this night when the rich are robbed and the poor are given, Kallen accidentally witnesses Tianming secretly conducting inhumane experiments in the city. ]
[For a moment, the "world" she lives in is shaken, and the justice she believes in is completely opposite to the organization she works for. ]
What should she do?
[Karen had no intention of thinking except panic, anger and disgust.]
[And in this situation, the first and only person she thought of was you. ]
"What should I do? What should we do?" Karin looked at Lu Mian with a sad face.
Hearing this, Lu Mian suppressed all the bad emotions in his heart, but did not directly respond to Karen's question:
"Why avoid Otto?"
[The remaining time of your existence: four years.]
"I don't know whether I should believe him," Karen lowered her eyelids, her tone no longer as innocent as before, "No, I can only believe you."
"Karen, you can completely trust Otto, just like you trust me now." Lu Mian gently held Karen in his arms and comforted her.
Otto would never do such a dirty thing behind his back.
He firmly believed this.
[During the days and nights of experiments to conquer the Black Death, you and Otto only had each other in your sight and in the world.]
[When you were injected with a medicine whose effectiveness you didn't know whether it would be effective or not, and when you drank a bowl of medicine that was probably poisonous, you would secretly look at Otto to see his reaction.]
[The two abstract words "pain" and "unbearable" are hard to describe the expression on his face at that time.]
[It's like - these drugs acting on you have actually turned into invisible knives, cutting into his flesh and blood heart one by one, just like slow slicing.]
[It's the kind that when you look at him, you inexplicably feel that the medicine in your mouth doesn't taste so bitter anymore.]
[Even so, the two of you continued your experiment and achieved ultimate success.]
【why? 】
Chapter 4 He Can’t (5/)
[Despite all the hardships, you and Otto's experiment continued and finally achieved success.]
【why? 】
[Has Otto never thought about participating in human experiments? ]
[No, he had thought about it, more than once.]
【But he can’t. 】
【But he can't...】
[This is a road of no return that you can never turn back or stop once you embark on it. 】
[After the first injection of the drug into your body, as long as Otto is involved in human experiments, it is equivalent to announcing to the world that you and he are both pancakes, you are a big pancake, and he is a small pancake. ]
【All your efforts, hard work, and the pain you endured for each other have been in vain. 】
[Just like Sisyphus pushing a rolling stone, even if no one knows, even if no one laughs at it, it will only be a joke in the end. ]
[Everything you and Otto have been through is like an umbrella, shielding Otto from the dirty raindrops of the world; it is also a shackle, limiting Otto's possibility of doing whatever he wants in the future.]
[Just like I never regretted meeting you. ]
[Otto Apokalis never regretted following your wishes and conducting this absurd and childish experiment.]
[He only hated himself for being incompetent and causing you to suffer so much in this experiment.]
【But you are different. You still feel that the frequency of testing the drug six times a day was not enough. 】
[If you double the amount, you two will definitely be able to get rid of this drug testing pain sooner.]
[The remaining time of your existence: four years.]
His complicated thoughts came to an abrupt end. Lu Mian looked down at Karen. Seeing that her emotions were gradually calming down, he loosened his arms and said softly:
"Promise me you won't doubt Otto again, okay?
"As for what the two of us should do now, I already have a plan, but I'd like to hear your opinion even more. Kallen, make the choice you think is right. I'll support you no matter what."
Hearing the sound, Kallen slowly raised her head.
Their eyes met, and the azure blue eyes reflected the ink-stained eyes.
A long time, a long time.
"...I think the root of the matter lies in this purple box. As long as we can take it away from destiny and seal it away forever, things will be better." Kallen's words were full of determination.
Obviously, in order to realize her ideals and to fulfill Kaslana's responsibility as the people's shield.
She has made up her mind and determination to completely cut off ties with her hometown and everything in it.
[However, the answer given by Karen really does not match her determination and awareness at this moment. ]
[What is the claim that Tianming uses purple boxes for human experiments? 】
[They said this was all to defeat Honkai, for everyone. ]
【But this is just talk. 】
[Excluding the entire Kaslana family, you can bet that the number of people in the world who will fight against Honkai to the death can be counted on one hand. 】
【For everyone. 】
[Heh, launching an aggressive war and then issuing indulgences after the war fails doesn't seem to be for everyone. ]
[Or in this context, we are not referring to it in general, but in a specific sense.]
[Great righteousness is nothing more than a fig leaf that destiny has put on itself, and underneath it is full of ugly ambitions and dirty greed.]
[Will everything really be better without the purple box? ]
[No, the experiment will only be more extreme than before.]
[The fundamental contradiction has not been resolved.]
[However, you are still very satisfied with Kallen's answer. ]
[You already have a complete plan for destiny, but you are just not willing to use it yet. ]
[You asked about Karen's choice, not because you expected her to give a perfect answer.]
[What you want is the process of her answering the questions. ]
[After all, you can't always be by her side, helping her arrange everything and make decisions. ]
[Karen must make her own choice. ]
【Um. 】
She must make her own choice.
“Although it is not mature yet, it is already a very good choice. Go forward, no matter how rough the road ahead is, I will be with you.” Lu Mian said to Kallen.
This pure support seemed to have touched the softest spot in the girl's heart, making her unable to control herself and throw herself into his arms again.
Lu Mian gently patted Karen's back with his hand, and at the same time used his other hand to arrange everything.
Those guards and priest Victor are no longer useful, so let them drown in their nightmares.
It was clear without even a glance that those little girls didn’t have much time left. Lu Mian couldn’t save them, but he could let them sleep peacefully in their dreams.
In the end, the only thing left to take away was the purple box representing erosion.
Lu Mian thought about it again and again, and finally decided to wrap the purple box tightly with a Judas-like chain to prevent any possibility of leakage.
After doing all this, he gently smoothed the snow-white hair of the girl in his arms and chuckled:
"Okay, okay, you are such a big girl, and you still don't know shame? You won't get married in the future?
"Before I leave, I have to tell Otto something. You can come with me."
[Karen has acted like a spoiled child to you many times in the past. ]
【You have not yet made a clear statement on this. 】
[But now, you inexplicably begin to expect her to act like a spoiled child to you. ]
【after all......】
