Gradually adapting to the pain inside her, Pei Jin turned to stare at the young girl in front of her with a disdainful smile: "Save us? Give it a rest! You might have fooled the ignorant from over a decade ago with those words, but not even my brother would believe it now. We were just unlucky to appear in that place by chance, and you rely left yourself an escape route. In the end, you did it all for yourself!"
"It makes sad to hear you say that! Truly! After all, we have shared over ten years of companionship. Do you see as such a person?" The girl listened to Pei Jin’s words and dropped her previous indifference, slowly sitting down by the bedside, reaching out to caress Pei Jin’s cheek gently. Yet her hand passed through Pei Jin’s body as if it were a phantom, leading the girl to sigh helplessly before withdrawing her hand.
Pei Jin lay lazily on the bed, clutching her pillow, gazing at the phantom beside the bed that had both guided and accompanied her throughout her adolescence. For a long ti, she even suspected this person might be a personality she had split off in her mind. Yet sotis she wished this person truly was a monster born from her imagination.
Thinking this, Pei Jin rested her head on the pillow and weakly spoke: "Are you still human?"
"Does it still matter now? Regardless of my initial motives, my actions indirectly protected your lives. Otherwise, do you think those demons, tearing apart my power like beasts, would leave two young witnesses behind afterward? I concealed your presence!"
As she spoke, the girl slid from the bed, kneeling by the bedside, reaching out tenderly to touch Pei Jin’s sweat-dampened hair: "I’m the one who granted you and your brother the right and strength to survive! We’re like grasshoppers tied to the sa rope now; only you can help break free, regain what’s mine—no, what’s ours, what’s the world’s power! I’ll make those fools regret their actions for a lifeti!" Her eyes flared with a burning intent to kill by the end.
"Enough with the nonsense. Regardless, my brother and family mustn’t face any issues. What do you want to do next?" Pei Jin shook her head to avoid the girl’s phantom, then lay back on the bed, inquiring softly.
"Hide, continue accumulating power and wait for my command. You’re the dark chess piece, your brother the bright one. Serving as the largest scattered fragnt of my essence and the last to awaken, his awakening will inevitably impact this world. Those fools who devoured my fragnts will inevitably swarm like sharks slling blood, engaging in conflict with the Bureau and this nation! Sooner or later, your brother will follow my guidance and bring them to find !"
After speaking, the girl looked at Pei Jin: "I will now sever your connection with , your brother, and other fragnts, keeping you hidden. Shortly, I will fall into slumber again, hoping next ti when you receive my orders and we et again, I will be free. Then, we can talk and walk around the streets!" As she spoke, the naked girl dissolved into specks of light before Pei Jin, and the intense fluctuations within Pei Jin’s inner source cald accordingly, the now-restored Pei Jin stared wide-eyed at the ceiling, deep in thought.
anwhile, in a luxurious residence in Hokkaido, Japan, a middle-aged man, ignoring the outside cold, wore only a Japanese-style robe, barefoot with clogs, lazily reclined on the corridor, staring blankly at the moon in the sky and the white snow on the ground.
"Shitang, do you miss your family over the past four years? I rember today is an important festival in your country, the village festival! I specifically ordered dumplings for you." Behind him, a young Japanese man respectfully knelt, speaking in broken Chinese.
"I no longer have family," the middle-aged man said, sitting up cross-legged, despite his thin attire, emitted hot steam continuously amidst the freezing weather, alternating hot and cold, causing wisps of white vapor to rise around him.
"That group of rubbish failed." As he spoke, the middle-aged man reached into his robe, rubbing his scalding chest, looking towards the distance with a grin revealing dazzling white teeth. "After all these years, they still only know how to play tricks."
"But aren’t their failures under your guidance and arrangent too?" The young Japanese man scooted forward, still kneeling, and inquired.
"Failures and expectations; humans can’t plan everything flawlessly. If I had known that kid contained such power, I would have risked everything to get him; now, it’s difficult to get him! Shitang, where’s your brother?" The middle-aged man regretfully shook his head, slapping his thigh as he stood and asked.
"He follows your teachings and is practicing sword by the lake!"
"Good, let’s go see how he’s doing!" He finished speaking and strode outside, his left sleeve flapping high in the cold wind showing nothing.
At the sa ti, in a secret US military base, Chris just finished morning training, prepared for lunch, and suddenly his chest ached sharply, making him kneel in pain, staring eastward after a mont.
Identical situations kept unfolding in Russia, the United Kingdom, France, and India.
Yet the one causing all this, Pei Yan, lay muddled as if sleepwalking, under Elder Lin’s constant guidance of his inner source, not only regaining sensation in his lost arm but feeling enveloped in warmth by the inner source, comfortably.
At so point, this comfortable feeling turned into waves of sleepiness, attacking his brain. Since yesterday morning departing, celebrating New Year at Captain Hu’s place, then a night-long battle, his nerves were worn out. After resisting several tis, thinking he’d returned to the Bureau with Elder Lin beside him, he closed his eyes and fell into deep sleep.
This sleep plunged him into a bizarre world, childhood scenes he’d long forgotten, places he’d never visited flashed in his mind like a revolving lantern.
First, the abandoned glass factory that shadowed his childhood, a hazy hot afternoon, his sister holding little him outside the derelict plant with a dragonfly-catching net made by their dad, a sudden flash, six fleeting figures chasing each other, their bodies streaming blue fluid, faces pale like ghosts, and won with vengeful eyes scanned around before fixing on him.
Pei Yan felt terrified, wanting to scream but failing, causing him anguish. Suddenly, the scene shifted to a secret basent, watching a glass vessel hosting a nude girl soaked in a glaring green liquid. Curious, he tried approaching, but the girl suddenly stretched her arms standing, eyeing him sharply.
Pei Yan, entranced by her body’s graceful curves, noticing her gaze and slightly parted lips, with his mind briefly stalled, watched her mouth shape, "Co, bro?"
Could it be "Co on, brother?"
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