"Sister Natasha?"
"Then can you answer the question just now? If Mr. Jinyun is a 'devil', what would you do?"
"..."
Bronya lowered her head, and a firm look appeared in her gray eyes:
"I believe in Mr. Kumo! Bronya will save him no matter what!"
"Mr. Yun is the only light in Bronya's heart. He is definitely not some so-called devil!"
"Even if Mr. Yun is really a devil, Bronya will fall with him!"
"This is Bronya's promise to Mr. Yun!"
Chapter 85: Unwavering Love (4K)
Promise...
Natasha fell silent.
A pair of eyes as charming as red wine flickered slightly, as if recalling some unbearable past events.
After a while, she sighed and spoke slowly:
"I see. I'll be back soon. We can meet in the garden behind the orphanage."
"Well, thank you Sister Natasha, Bronya will be waiting for you."
After hanging up the call, Natasha unconsciously covered her forehead.
The memories churning in her mind washed over her nerves like a flood.
Those distant memories, have they been gone for so many years?
She was born in a village outside the Siberian plains and depended on her brother for survival. During the second collapse, she and her brother were both eroded by the collapse energy radiation.
Although she was eventually rescued and her body was taken away by the gray snake because it was healed by the white flower and strengthened its resistance to Honkai energy, her brother who was not chosen was separated from her.
Before leaving, her brother told her to keep living.
This sentence affected her like a spell, making all her actions derivative of the meaning of "survival".
Over the years, she has been working as a mercenary, traveling to various countries and dealing with all kinds of people.
She considers herself a cold-blooded person who can do anything and kill anyone as long as the reward is right.
But at the same time she is a contradictory person.
She would pay any price for Jinyun's promise to develop an anti-Houkai serum, and was even willing to send everyone in a city to the experimental table, and would spend a lot of time to treat a dozen children.
Ural Silver Wolf...
This child can be said to be a living legend.
Before meeting her, Natasha thought that Bronya would be like the mercenaries and killers she had conflicts with before, with no opinions of her own, no emotions, and would only mechanically and numbly carry out orders, acting like a ruthless killing machine.
It turns out that this child has richer emotions than himself or anyone else.
Maybe she is a kind child by nature, but this kindness will only be discovered when she meets the right person.
Jinyun...
He's an incredible guy.
Natasha knew very well that the guy was working so hard to develop the anti-Honkai Impact serum not for himself at all.
He wanted to save Bronya's life and the many people who were suffering from the Honkai Disease.
He even has the same determination as himself, to fight against Honkai, even at the cost of sacrificing himself.
If we continue at the current pace...
Jinyun is likely to use himself as a test subject and lie on the operating table.
Perhaps out of selfishness, Natasha felt that hiding the truth from Bronya was unfair to both Bronya and Jinyun.
Bronya has the right to choose her own life.
And Jinyun...
The light he radiates should not be completely buried in silence.
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Half an hour later, Bronya met Natasha Sciorra at the agreed location as scheduled.
She didn't want to waste time on nonsense, so she got straight to the point when they first met:
"Please tell me, Sister Natasha, I want to know the specific details of the anti-collapse serum. I want to know why Mr. Yun spared no effort to hide it from me."
Natasha opened her mouth and wanted to say something, but when she saw the determination in Bronya's eyes, she knew that it would be useless to dissuade her no matter how hard she tried.
She nodded slightly, turned around and pointed at the car parked in front of the orphanage:
"The reconstruction of the Shencheng Pharmaceutical Company Building has been completed for a long time. You probably haven't been to that building since it was rebuilt, right?"
"I don't like that place..." Bronya replied, "That building looks like the organization's fortress, like a cold machine."
"I'm sorry, but if you want to know the details of the experiment, you have to come in with me."
"......it is good."
Without any extra words, Bronya nodded slightly. The determination she had already shown did not need any further expression.
She got into Natasha's car, the wheels crushed the dust, and drove all the way to the garage of the Shencheng Medical Building. The garage door not only had guards patrolling back and forth, but it was even equipped with two anti-armored turrets. The defense was so tight that it could be described as watertight.
Of course, for Bronya, this line of defense is useless. Even without legs, she can still sneak in without anyone noticing, relying on the Heavy-Armored Bunny 19c and the Ether Editor.
The really tricky thing should be the defense force after entering the building. After all, it is Shencheng Medicine, which belongs to the World Snake, so its internal security and defense should not be underestimated.
The car twisted and turned inside the garage and finally drove into a large circular open space, where it stopped.
Just as Bronya was wondering about this, the open space under the car suddenly made a mechanical roar, and then the entire ground slowly sank.
After sinking for about half a minute, a spacious underground laboratory that looked like a nuclear shelter finally appeared.
Bronya couldn't help showing a look of astonishment, and asked with her mouth slightly opened:
"How could you build such a large underground laboratory in such a short time?"
“Not really. This building was rebuilt from the previous ruins. The space you see was once used by Shencheng Medicine as a confidential research institute and warehouse.
After the reconstruction of the building was completed, we rearranged the space below.”
“Now what exactly is it used for?”
"You'll find out soon enough."
"..."
Natasha stopped talking after she said this. Perhaps it was because the atmosphere in the underground laboratory was rather depressing. Bronya always felt that the atmosphere was very heavy, making her feel a little breathless.
When the platform was completely lowered and stopped, Natasha patted Bronya on the shoulder, opened the door and got out:
"Do you need my help?"
"No, Bronya can still move."
Bronya manipulated the Heavy Armored Bunny to form a pair of metal arms, supporting her body and moving forward with Natasha.
"It's a very interesting little thing." Natasha praised. "Did Mr. Jinyun give it to you?"
"Ah."
"That guy always brings a little surprise to people, doesn't he? Sometimes even I can't help but marvel at him."
"..."
Bronya frowned slightly, pursed her lips imperceptibly, and a hint of jealous vigilance flashed in her eyes.
Under Natasha's guidance, as the two of them got deeper and deeper, Bronya felt more and more nervous.
This kind of tension was just like when I found out that Jinyun was infected with Honkai disease. It was like a stone was blocking my chest and I couldn't breathe.
Natasha stopped in front of a huge metal door, which required pupil and palm print authentication. Bronya calmly used the Punklord chip to analyze the security of the door remotely.
The result was as she expected. Even she couldn't open the door.
Because the security encryption method of this door is exactly the same as the top-secret information in Jinyun Laboratory.
Moreover, judging from its thickness, ordinary anti-armor weapons cannot destroy it. At least it will take missile-level heavy firepower to destroy it.
Perhaps it should be possible to use the heavy-duty rabbit to forcibly destroy it, but if we do so, the laboratory behind the door will probably be reduced to ashes.
"Are you sure you're ready?"
When the door opened, Natasha asked one last time. Although Bronya had a complicated expression, her answer remained the same:
"Well, no matter what the result is, Bronya will definitely stand on Mr. Yun's side!"
"Tsk, what a stubborn little girl."
Natasha raised the corner of her mouth slightly, pressed her palm on the door, and looked directly at the camera to check the pupil lock.
With a slight "click", the complicated metal door slowly opened to both sides, and row after row of dazzling lights slowly lit up, illuminating the dim and gloomy interior of the laboratory.
When Bronya saw everything in the laboratory, even though she was mentally prepared, she still widened her eyes in disbelief.
On both sides of the laboratory are two huge walls, each of which is filled with densely packed biological culture chambers like an insect nest.
What is immersed in the incubator are, of course, human bodies one after another.
"this......"
Bronya opened her mouth and asked in a faint, doubtful voice: "Are these... all corpses?"
"Most of them are corpses, and the small number that remain are not yet."
After a pause, Natasha lowered her voice and sighed with compassion: "But, it will be soon."
"..."
Bronya drove the Heavy-Armored Rabbit and floated towards the incubation chambers.
She came to one of the chambers and placed her hand on the cold glass.
Through the glass, she clearly saw the body soaked in liquid.
A pretty girl.
She was only the same age as himself and at the same age as a flower, but her eyes would no longer open and her heart would no longer beat.
Only the purple lines that were coiled on the surface of the corpse like a sacrificial altar were still hideous, as if showing off its achievements to Bronya.
Bronya slowly stepped back and looked around. There were endless incubation chambers like this, at least thousands of them.
She returned to Natasha with a dull look on her face, staring at her with her gray eyes, as if waiting for her to confirm her speculation.
"It seems that you have guessed it."
Natasha looked at the densely packed incubators, a bitter smile curled up at the corners of her mouth:
"When Jinyun was helping us make the anti-Houkai potion, he proposed an idea, which was to use humans' natural resistance to any virus to specifically produce a serum that would make them completely immune to the virus.
Although Honkai Disease is not a virus, as Jinyun said, when it enters the human body and erodes human organs, the human immune cells instinctively resist the threat and produce very few antibodies.
What we are going to do in this experiment is to extract the antibodies in the bodies of patients infected with Honkai disease before they die, and use them to synthesize anti-Honkai serum.
The amount of serum required for cure varies depending on the clinical trial subjects.
Statistically speaking, to extract a serum that can cure one human being, you need antibodies from at least a thousand Honkai disease patients."
Bronya's body trembled slightly. She moved her throat and her voice was a little dry:
"That is to say..."
"That's right. To cure one patient, you need to sacrifice a thousand patients."
"..."
"This is the truth you wanted to know. Now that I have granted your wish, what are you going to do?"
Bronya covered her forehead with her hands, her body trembling slightly, and her delicate little face turned pale in an instant.
