After returning home, Wendy immediately went to the research institute's assistant to ask for an electric wheelchair.
Then, I was rejected.
She was also looked at with strange eyes, as if they were questioning how she could be so shameless.
Furious, Wendy broke open Delta's door.
"Delta, you've tricked me again!"
"Pfft! Do you really believe it?"
"So why are you the only one who can do this?"
"I'm a relative, Wendy!"
Someone puffed out his chest with pride instead of shame.
Then Wendy's even more angry and frantic screams were heard from the room.
……
Those were wonderful years, so beautiful that it seemed as if the loneliness and sadness of the previous period were just an illusion, and even the pain of longing for the gem surging in the body could be completely ignored.
When Wendy woke up on the laboratory table, she couldn't help but sigh. The first thing she thought of was Delta's lazy expression like a salted fish.
So Wendy sat up from the laboratory table, and then felt an uncomfortable tingling sensation in her legs.
"?"
This discomfort is very strange.
It’s not that the condition of these legs was better before. On the contrary, they were completely permeated by the power of the Desire Gem. Not only was the pain unbearable, but there was also a sense of threat of death that could spread from the legs to the whole body at any time.
But now, those feelings seemed to have completely disappeared, leaving only a slight tingling and feeling of powerlessness, which was completely bearable, at least for the Valkyrie.
"I am..."
Wendy stretched out her hand and slowly stroked the snow-white thigh.
There is a feeling of being touched.
I clearly couldn't feel anything when I touched or pinched it before!
why?
Wendy subconsciously felt a moment of ecstasy, but then she realized a terrifying reality.
The Desire Gem seems to have been removed from her body, but this experiment has only found two qualified bearers so far. So where is the Gem now? Whose body is it in?
"Where's Delta? Where is Delta? Where is Delta!?"
Wendy grabbed the collar of the experimenter next to her and yelled like a madman.
The other party looked as if he had expected this, and although he was a little surprised, he still replied calmly:
"As for Delta, she woke up earlier than you and has gone back now."
Wendy got the answer, and without saying a word, she moved herself to the wheelchair with both hands, then pushed the wheels with all her strength and quickly rushed out of the laboratory.
Until then, she was somewhat glad that she did not change to an electric one, because the motor could hardly match the arm strength of the Valkyrie, and manual operation was much faster than electric operation when needed.
"Delta!"
Wendy rushed into the familiar room. The sweet fragrance of the room's owner still lingered in the air, but there was no sign of Delta.
Wendy was stunned for a moment, then suddenly turned around and rushed outside.
The sea breeze was a bit harsh today, and it was extremely cold for Wendy, who was only wearing a laboratory singlet. The gloomy sky and the shrill cries of seagulls made her even more uncomfortable.
Finally, at the place where the two of them often watched the sunset and sunrise, Wendy saw the familiar figure in a wheelchair.
A hand stretched out from the wheelchair, so frail and pale that one could not help but hold it in one's arms to warm it up. A strange air current was rolling above those slender fingers.
Wendy felt her eyes getting sore and hot, and she knew without looking in the mirror that she was about to cry.
Then the wheelchair turned around, revealing that familiar, delicate face, which was much paler than usual.
"Hey, how does it feel to have the gems taken out, Wendy?"
"...You are such an idiot!!!"
"Hey, wait, what are you doing? Don't come over here!"
Wendy's wheelchair came at her like a dump truck, knocking Delta to the ground.
"Oh!"
On this day, both wheelchairs were scrapped at the same time.
"Wendy, you are the idiot. It hurts!"
"Stop talking! Bastard! You deserve this!"
"I haven't offended you, have I? Is it wrong for me to just want to give you a surprise?"
"This is not a surprise! Bastard Delta, who told you to do this? Did you ask me? Bastard, idiot, wuwuwu..."
The conversation between the two was drowned out by the sound of the waves and the wind, and it lasted for a long time.
When the lab assistants received the call for help and rushed over, they saw two little girls with limited mobility hugging each other and sleeping soundly on the ground.
Delta was smiling, while Wendy's eyes were wet, and even though she fell asleep, she still held Delta's body tightly, refusing to let go.
Chapter 66: Final Agreement
Two weeks after the gemstone was transferred, Wendy had basically recovered her ability to walk and began Valkyrie-level rehabilitation training.
In the bright professional rehabilitation training room, Wendy runs on the ground, jumps into the air at the right time, grabs the aerial ring and dances. Her petite and soft body is like a butterfly flying in the wind, with an amazing agile beauty.
Even if the Valkyrie is just recovering, the physical abilities it displays are enough to make even the most professional maintenance personnel drool with envy.
But only Delta appreciated this delightful sight.
It's not that the two of them are domineeringly occupying this activity room, but...
"Speaking of which, the last mission was really dangerous. The Apocalypse Beast jumped out from the corpses and almost smashed my head... Sorry for disturbing you!"
"Oh!"
After the rapid slamming of the door, one can completely imagine the scene of those Valkyries fleeing in panic.
Wendy was already shunned enough, and now Delta, who was sitting by the door drinking wolfberry tea, was naturally even more intimidating.
Wendy flipped several times in the air and landed lightly. Her raised hands looked like wings that had just finished flying. Her tight gymnastics suit perfectly showed off her eye-catching and graceful curves.
Wendy raised the corners of her mouth proudly.
"Am I awesome?"
"Ah, that's amazing! Wendy is the best~"
Delta read with dead fish eyes on her face that were as unshakable as thunder.
Seeing this irritating look of exaggeration, Wendy puffed up her face gloomily, walked up to Delta, and poked her forehead gently.
"You're not going to find any!"
"How about a glass of hot water?"
"Come! Watch me drink it all up. I'll kill you with thirst. LOL~~"
Wendy opened the thermos and poured the liquid into her mouth. A second later, she stuck out her pink tongue stupidly.
"Ah! It's hot!"
"Not a very smart girl."
"Get lost! You just know how to piss me off!"
"No, it's Wendy who has a bad temper. You should learn from me and stay calm, Smiley, Smiley~~"
Delta spoke slowly, pulling up the corners of her mouth with both hands, giving Wendy a physical smile.
Wendy rolled her eyes, squatted down, packed the thermos, and placed it carefully on the wheelchair shelf. She said:
"What you call peace of mind is just that another person came to the cafeteria and spoke harshly yesterday?"
"Well, I just wanted to warm up my voice when I had nothing to do."
Delta said weakly, waving her hands slowly.
Wendy was so angry that she laughed.
"Your way of opening your voice really broadens my horizons!"
"Don't worry about it. If you live long enough, you'll see all kinds of ghosts."
"Why are you pretending to be so rude to me, you 14 or 15-year-old minor?"
Wendy chopped down with her hand.
It was very gentle, almost like a caress to Delta.
Then Wendy looked directly into Delta's calm and distracted eyes, sighed with mixed feelings, and said:
"In fact, they are not that bad. They just faced the horror of the collapse and lost something in it, so it is understandable that they behaved like that."
“You mean PTSD?”
"more or less."
"What does that have to do with me?"
Delta said indifferently, her expression unchanged.
Wendy was a little stunned.
Then Delta continued to speak slowly:
"You're not a Valkyrie? Haven't you ever been on a battlefield? Don't you have some PTSD? Everyone has PTSD, so why should we give in to them?"
"Although that's not what you said, I can't refute it surprisingly. You're really good with your words. I've never seen a Valkyrie who is so eloquent!"
Wendy was half-sighing and half-helpless.
To put it bluntly, Wendy doesn't think she is a saint.
On the day when she silently endured the verbal attack, Delta came behind her and talked eloquently, as if she was holding up a shield and a sword for her - after that, the balance in Wendy's heart had already tilted.
But just when Wendy was about to skip this topic, Delta said:
"But you are right, they are not that bad. Only reasonable people will blush for what I say, and I can't do anything about those who are so bad that they have no shame. From this point of view, they are indeed not completely bad."
"…Are you exaggerating or insulting?"
"In fact, Valkyries are just soldiers, weapons that are managed and restrained. The fundamental problem of military ethos is never with the soldiers themselves, but somewhere else."
Delta pointed upwards with a finger and smiled meaningfully.
Wendy blinked blankly, opened her mouth to speak, closed it, and opened it again, repeating this several times before she said in a muffled voice:
"Just tell me these things, but don't spread them around outside, or you'll get into trouble."
As a local Valkyrie, how could Wendy be completely unaware of the root cause of the chaotic and unhealthy atmosphere?
But what can a mere Valkyrie do to solve the huge shady dealings of Huizhong Zou^ding unless she is promoted to S-rank with a strategic position?
Perhaps this was one of the reasons why she resolutely accepted the experiment of the Desire Gemstone, hoping to achieve success through the experiment and then perhaps be able to do something.
However, what happened afterwards completely exposed the cruelty of reality.
Wendy thought about this, shook her head, and decided to end this dangerous topic.
"By the way, how are you feeling recently? Can you really handle it? I've almost recovered. If you can't handle it, you can transfer it back to me. I heard that this kind of recovery and re-transfer may improve our adaptability, and it may be a way to make the experiment successful!"
"I'm fine. I don't need to live in a box for the time being. You can run errands for me for a few days while you still have plenty of legs. The efficiency of having legs and not having legs is indeed different."
Delta said this with a lazy capitalist expression.
In fact, it's more than just okay, it's really awesome.
As a Herrscher of Thousands, how could she have ever felt such a surge of destructive energy? Not to mention the powerful power within her reach! If she hadn't known that there were many masters in the world who could smash her, Anqi and the others would have been acting recklessly now.
Wendy squatted in front of the wheelchair, holding her chin with her hands, and looked straight at Delta with her clear and beautiful eyes.
Wendy knew firsthand how terrible it was to desire gems, so naturally she didn't believe Delta's excuses at all.
