Chapter 51 The Innocent Fool (End)

The day after Gu Xi left, Lin Xiaodong took the initiative to find the staff of the military.

"I know what he's doing, and I know you all want him back," he said. "Let me go see him."

The staff officer was not confused by Lin Xiaodong's straight-to-the-point words, and it took a long time to react: "No, how did you know?"

This is a secret that the Marshal has repeatedly emphasized that must not be leaked, especially Lin Xiaodong!

"Don't worry about this," Lin Xiaodong interrupted him, "you just need to tell me where he is now and take me to see him."

The staff officer glanced at him and shook his head.

"Sorry," he said, "but I swore to the marshal that we are soldiers he brought out under his command, and we will always be loyal to the marshal's orders."

"Even if he never wakes up again?"

The staff officer didn't speak. After a long while, he sighed: "There is nothing we can do. The female worm can't be completely eliminated. The marshal has given you a lot of mental power. If it is known to the outside world, it is considered treason. Up to now, I can still how is it?"

"Just leave it to me." Lin Xiaodong insisted.

"Don't you have a way?...No, it's impossible," the staff officer murmured, "Even if the mermaid is the nemesis of brain worms, but you are only one person after all, how can you deal with the hundreds of millions of brain worms across the universe?"

Lin Xiaodong really can't deal with it, but he has a system.

Fortunately, the system can now contact the headquarters, and it is more convenient to consult various materials. Hosts like them will release a lot of energy when they leave this world, and the system can use this to convert them into mental power, forming a viral destruction program and implanting it in the instructions of the mother insect, ordering all parasites within the body. The brain worms self-destruct, in order to achieve the purpose of eliminating all brain worms once and for all.

But this method has a premise -

He had to get in touch with Gu Xi and indirectly control the brain worms through the female worms in the man's body.

Although judging from the current situation, if he does nothing, the brain worm in the sugar pill will also evolve into a female worm on its own due to the nourishment of a lot of mental power, but if it really arrives at that time, it is estimated that even the system will help. It's too late.

Lin Xiaodong grinded the staff for a whole week, and finally let the other party agree to take him to see Gu Xi.

"He's lying in the dormant bin now, don't tamper with any devices, and don't stay for too long," the staff officer instructed worriedly, "I can only give you two hours at most, do you hear?"

"I know."

The little mermaid's expression was calm.

After hearing about Gu Xi's current situation, there was neither sadness nor any other emotion on his face.

The staff always felt that something was not right, but as Gu Xi's subordinate, he couldn't help but hold a glimmer of hope - if, just if, Lin Xiaodong really had a way to cure the marshal?

In the morning before departure, Lin Xiaodong got up very early.

He quietly came to the kitchen and made a few sandwiches for the three Xu family for breakfast and put them in the refrigerator.

Because they were afraid they wouldn't find out, the little mermaid also drew a smiley sticky note on the refrigerator door, so that Lulu could see it early in the morning.

Out the door, there are still more than three hours before the appointed time.

Lin Xiaodong sat on the aircraft and went around Central Park first. Due to the fact that the original mermaid statue was not well maintained during this period, and people were constantly in anger and extreme emotions, the base was replaced by a yellow one. The spray paint was sprayed with a lot of abusive language.

Although the military will send people to clear these spray paints every day, there are still many mottled traces left.

The little mermaid was wearing a cloak, looking up at the withered flowers that people placed at the feet of the statue, and the dazzling curses on the surface of the stone.

A gust of autumn wind blows, blowing the petals all over the sky.

He reached out and squeezed the cape hat he was wearing on his head.

Although there were very few people in Central Park at this time, there were still a few nearby residents who came for a walk. Lin Xiaodong narrowed his eyes and wanted to wait for the wind to pass by before leaving, but when he turned around, the aircraft collided with a thing--

"Ouch!"

Well, not a thing, but a person.

Lin Xiaodong bent down and picked up the bunch of lilies that had fallen on the ground.

There was still crystal dew on the flawless white petals. He sniffed it lightly, and the elegant fragrance lingered on the tip of his nose, which made people feel refreshed.

"give me back."

The little girl who was knocked down by him patted the dust on her skirt, got up from the ground, and stretched out her hand to him confidently: "This is what I want to give away!"

"Who is it for?" Lin Xiaodong turned to look behind him, there was only a mermaid statue, "Is it meant for him?"

"yes."

"Why did you send him flowers?" Lin Xiaodong asked curiously.

The little girl pointed to the old man on crutches in the distance: "This is my grandfather, he asked me to give it."

Lin Xiaodong looked up and saw a gray-haired old man standing in front of the statue from a distance. He couldn't go down the steps, so he just stared deeply at the mermaid statue singing to the sky with his old face. The ravines are vertical and horizontal, and I don't know what to think about.

"Thank you for the flowers," he smiled. "Tell your grandpa, I got them."

"what?"

The little girl turned her head, but found that the aircraft parked in front of her had disappeared. She pursed her mouth and cried aggrievedly:

"Woooooooo-there are flower thieves!!!"

Lin Xiaodong, who was regarded as a thief, took the flowers to the cemetery on the outskirts of the city and placed the bunch of lilies in front of the queen's tombstone.

"I'm not a generous person." He was silent for a while, then took a half step back and bowed slightly, "I'm sorry, although Lu Xing is your biological son, I will not forgive him. And Lu Sheng Zun, and those nobles...the sins they committed will eventually be returned to themselves one by one."

Back in the castle, the researchers under Lu Xing's blood pumped so much blood from him, but it wasn't for nothing.

There are still thousands of merman's lives, and it is time to pay the debt of blood.

He stood in front of the slowly opening dormant cabin door, thinking lightly.

The icy white mist filled the room, and the little mermaid looked at the man lying silently in the dormant cabin, except for the man whose face was completely covered with silver-gray hard bones, and asked softly, "Let me be here alone. Will you stay for a while?"

The staff officer frowned.

Although he agreed, in the end he still asked him uneasy: "Come out early, I'll wait for you outside!"

"Yeah." The little mermaid nodded obediently.

But as soon as the staff officer went out, he immediately asked the system to block the monitoring, and then he hummed and unplugged all the pipes in the dormant warehouse, regardless of whether it was 3721, and pulled Gu Xi out of it. came out.

"To be honest, he looks a bit like an armored warrior now," he fiddled with the man's body curiously, and analyzed it in an academic tone, "Or is he Iron Man? But compared to the steel shell For example, the weight of the female insect armor seems to be lighter."

He tapped the hard-shell breastplate on the man's chest, then bent down and lay on it to listen to his heartbeat.

But nothing was heard.

"If the female worm is not responsible for production, how does the brain worm reproduce?" Lin Xiaodong has been puzzled by this question for a long time.

System: "Have you seen the paramecium split?"

"So it is." He suddenly realized, "So the female worm is just a central brain, and has no other function other than controlling the brain worm?"

System: "That's not..."

Before he finished speaking, suddenly, the man who was lying quietly on the ground suddenly opened his eyes.

Gu Xi's eyes have completely turned blue, and the eyes staring at him are cold and indifferent, with no human emotions.

Lin Xiaodong held his breath and looked at him for a few seconds, then cautiously stretched out his hand and shook it in front of him.

"Hello? Can you hear me?"

The man pursed his lips tightly without making any sound.

Just when Lin Xiaodong relaxed his vigilance a little, suddenly a slender skeleton like a spider stretched out from behind Gu Xi's back, the tip of which was a small sickle-like shape. It swayed back and forth in front of Lin Xiaodong's neck, as if to verify whether the little mermaid was a threat to him. Lin Xiaodong was forced to raise his head high to prevent the tip of the sickle from cutting through his skin.

It was just a dazzling effort, and the offensive and defensive positions of the two were instantly reversed.

He was slammed against the wall by the man and let out a painful cry, but before he could struggle, his two arms were separated by a hard worm bone, and his icy tentacles slid down from his face, as if he was sensing the shape of his prey. Find the weakest blow to kill; it's like playing tricks with ease, waiting for some more wonderful time to enjoy.

The little mermaid trembled uncontrollably.

But his eyes were still firmly fixed on Gu Xi's inorganic blue eyes, and even if he might be dismembered by the monster in front of him in the next second, there was no fear on his face.

He opened his mouth and hummed softly.

Gu Xi tilted his head, as if he didn't understand why the prey dared to provoke him.

Perhaps he sensed the brain worm that was about to evolve in the little mermaid. His expression was a little restless, and a murderous intent gradually appeared in his eyes. He began to make a low hissing sound from his throat, lowered his head, and bit Lin Xiaodong's throat. .

"Um..."

A tingling pain came from the neck, and the singing stopped abruptly.

Lin Xiaodong's body tensed for a moment, but he quickly forced himself to relax again.

"Not here," he panted, taking this opportunity to break free of one hand and slowly stroke the back of the man's head, "You can bite your arms and legs, but if you bite your throat, I won't be able to sing."

Under the comfort of the little mermaid, Gu Xi's vigilant eyes gradually subsided, and returned to a daze again.

He stepped back half a step, let the little mermaid fall to the ground from mid-air, turned around and stabbed the dormant cell with a scythe.

The sound of sizzling electric current sounded along with the sound of broken parts, and the staff officer outside the door immediately asked loudly, "Are you alright?"

"……fine!"

Lin Xiaodong covered his throat and tried his best to answer in a normal voice.

Disregarding the blood on his hands, he rushed over and hugged the man who was crazy all over the room. Feeling the weight on his waist, Gu Xi paused, and subconsciously carried the little mermaid in front of him, shaking it like a rabbit. Shaking.

Lin Xiaodong: No, what is wrong with this person! ?

But soon, the little mermaid's open mouth caught his full attention. Gu Xi stretched out a tentacle and tentatively touched the two soft wet/moist lips, and as if fascinated, he also pushed in the end of the pointed bone and stirred it up.

Lin Xiaodong, who felt like he was doing a nucleic acid test: ... ugh.

He couldn't take it anymore: "System, get out of here, get out of here!"

System: "Wait a minute, it will take about ten minutes, please bear with it."

Lin Xiaodong rolled his eyes, he couldn't bear it anymore!

Fortunately, probably stimulated by the bloody aura of the little mermaid, Gu Xi's originally empty eyes flashed slightly, struggling to appear for a moment of sobriety: "Little... Dong?"

"it's me."

Lin Xiaodong breathed a sigh of relief, otherwise the last ten minutes would be hard enough.

Gu Xi stared at him for a few seconds, then suddenly covered his head, knelt on the ground and gasped violently, his expression painful and hideous.

"Go... don't..."

The system explained: "This is a normal phenomenon after the female worm is impacted by energy. Try diverting his attention, it may relieve some pain."

"But," Lin Xiaodong coughed twice, a hint of sweetness in his throat from the squeeze just now, "I'm hoarse and can't sing."

Sitting in a messy room, he looked around, and suddenly found a book in the damaged dormant bin.

——It was the book of "The Little Prince" that he couldn't find no matter how he looked for it.

"This guy," a helpless smile appeared in his eyes, "It's boring enough."

The little mermaid sat on the spot for about half a minute, slowly crawled over, and picked up the book.

Because of the gesture of holding his throat just now, the pages of the book were inevitably stained with blood when he turned the book, but Lin Xiaodong couldn't care less about it at this moment. He helped Gu Xi up, who was lying on the ground, put the man on his tail, let out a long sigh, and leaned against the wall sweating profusely.

This armor is really heavy.

"Kakkaka..."

There was a rough and mocking sound between the beetle's friction, which proved that Gu Xi's current state was very bad.

Lin Xiaodong glanced down at him, and said in a hoarse voice, "Just bear with it, it's only ten minutes. Do you want to hear a story?"

Gu Xi opened his eyes and looked at the little mermaid above his head in confusion: "Ka?"

Lin Xiaodong smiled tiredly, and he felt very tired after being drained of mental energy in a short period of time. But he still kept his spirits up, flipped a page casually, and slowly read:

"I should have guessed that the deepest tenderness is hidden behind her unsophisticated tricks. The mind of the flower is always unpredictable. I am too young to know how to love her..."

Time passed by minute by minute.

The little mermaid's eyelids drooped gradually, her voice became softer, and the pages in her hand turned to the end.

"I'm going home today... The road is long and difficult..."

He yawned, and finally couldn't hold it any longer, put down the book, leaned against the corner and fell asleep.

Four hours later, the staff officer who was guarding outside finally led someone to pry open the door of the vault that was locked by the system.

The moment he broke into the room, he saw Gu Xi in the corner holding the little mermaid with his head down, with blood on his chest.

It is no exaggeration to say that the heartbeat of the staff officer stopped at that time.

He raised his hand to stop the soldiers behind him, walked carefully to Gu Xi's side, and asked softly:

"Marshal, you...?"

"Don't talk," Gu Xi didn't raise his head, just whispered, "Go out, you've disturbed him."

The staff officer quickly glanced at the deep tooth marks on Lin Xiaodong's neck and the pale face with his eyes closed, opened his mouth, and finally summoned up the courage to say: "Marshal, it's not your fault, the Information Department just now. To report, the brain worms all over the world have been dying within an hour, and this can only be achieved by impacting the female worms with mental power hundreds of times more than normal humans in a short period of time..."

After saying this sentence in one breath, he closed his mouth and silently bowed to the little mermaid lying in Gu Xi's arms.

Although there was no order, the soldiers behind the staff officer raised their hands tacitly.

Although they are not parasitized by brain worms, they also have family members, friends, and people they care about and love. These days, how much Marshal has endured openly and secretly, and how much Lin Xiaodong has sacrificed for mankind, they are all for all to see.

It's a pity that things can't always be both.

Gu Xi was alone in the room for a long time.

The man was silent, and slowly picked up the "Little Prince" that had fallen on the ground with his normal human palm.

On the pages, the bright red that had not completely dried up seemed to sting his eyes.

But he still forced himself, like self-abuse, staring directly at the illustration of the little prince returning to his own planet, until his fingers trembled slightly because he couldn't hold on.

Perhaps, he should not have taken Lin Xiaodong away from Mermaid Star in the first place.

No, if only they never met.

Gu Xi remembered the tears of despair on the little mermaid's face after hearing that Mermaid Star was destroyed, he suddenly laughed lowly, hugged the cold body in his arms, and asked in a hoarse voice, "You just went home, didn't you? "

The little prince returned to his own star.

That star is in the distant universe, with flowers and grass, clear water and blue sky, and many beautiful mermaids.

At that time, will he still think of himself?

Gu Ximen asked himself.

He doesn't know the answer.

Because from today, that unique rose that belongs to him has withered forever in his arms.

*

"Host 68711 has completed the mission, has left the world, and requests to connect to the headquarters."

"The connection progress is 10%, 20%, 30%... The connection is successful."

"Detecting the physical and mental state of the host..."

"The test progress is 10%, 20%, 30%... The test is completed. The host's physical and mental state has reached the standard, and it is approved to enter the next world."

...

…………

"Hey," Lin Xiaodong was a little strange, "why didn't you have a clear memory of the broadcast this time?"

System: "This is originally an option. The main reason is that after the previous mission, those hosts will have some psychological problems more or less, so the headquarters set the default clear memory in our program."

Lin Xiaodong understood and was a little proud: "That means my psychological quality is very strong, I don't need this function, right?"

"No," the system said slowly, "it's because you have thick skin."

Lin Xiaodong: "..."

He was about to roll up his sleeves and fight the system for three hundred rounds when he suddenly heard someone say to him in front of him, "Miss, I'll light a cigarette for you."

"Oh." Lin Xiaodong responded subconsciously.

He sat on the seat, following the movement of the other's raised hand, bending over and leaning over.

A match lit up with a squeak, and the pungent smell of tobacco spread between his lips and teeth, causing him to subconsciously cough a few times.

"You slow down."

The man hurriedly nodded and bowed to apologize to him. When he lowered his head, his eyes swept around Lin Xiaodong's bulging chest imperceptibly. He quickly pulled down the rickshaw shed before being discovered by others on the street, and turned around to pull up the car.

"Miss, sit down, we'll be home soon!"

Lin Xiaodong leaned on the soft seat and pondered for a while with a cigarette in his mouth.

...it always feels like something is wrong.