An infinite journey starting from paradise

But he was sure of two things: First, he couldn't let Kamitsuki Yura escape.

Second, these five in front of me... a big group + two, they all have to die today!

"Cure."

Lin Shangren fixed Kamitsuki Yura on the shadow under her feet, then he turned around and looked at the two strong men who had not yet reacted to what was happening.

"Oh, what a coincidence! The clues have come to us again."

Chapter 126 I, Lin Shangren, have always been on the fifth floor!

Do coincidences really exist in the world?

We have explained this issue in the previous article when introducing fate and mechanical determinism. If a universe operates completely according to classical mechanics, then everything that happens in that universe is destined from the moment it is born.

However, the world that Lin Shangren is currently living in, which is a mixture of the "IG Shell Girl Series", "Dark Bible" and some other things, does not operate on the basis of classical mechanics.

"There's no such thing as a coincidence."

Lin Shangren thought so in his heart.

He looked at the two men, and shadows rose from the bottom of his eyes, staining his irises gray. Then the shadows under their feet turned into a swamp and completely swallowed them.

The heart shadow is activated and the torture begins.

In less than a breath, the two people who were swallowed into the Shadow Swamp reappeared on the ground: their eyes were bloodshot, tears and blood were streaming, and they were foaming at the mouth. They had been scared to death.

In the outside world, a mere second had passed, but in their minds, they had already endured a brutal interrogation that would have forced even the Gestapo to call themselves amateurs. After extracting the information he needed, Lin Shangren mercifully gave them a chance to confront their own psychological shadows. Sadly, they ultimately failed to overcome their psychological shadows; instead, they were overcome by them.

"These guys are just small-time people responsible for escorting the experimental samples. They don't know much inside information. The only important information is that Hinagami Pharmaceutical's human experiments have come to a standstill for some reason..."

After sorting out the information obtained through torture, Lin Shangren turned to look at Kamitsuki Yura who was fixed in place by him.

The girl in front of him... No, at 27, she can no longer be called a girl, but she does remind Lin Shangren of a girl:

Due to long-term malnutrition and living in a dark basement, Uetsuki Yura looked very skinny and withered at this time. Her tattered gray-brown skirt and the shocking scars on her body left by human experiments reminded Lin Shangren of the poor child named Sylvie.

Kamitsuki Yura struggled, trying to escape from the shadow that bound her feet, moaning miserably: "Ah! Wow! Woo!"

"How are you?"

Lin Shangren reached out, intending to soothe her emotions with his Eagle Finger before using his own blood to heal her gunshot wound. However, before his hand could touch Kamitsuki Yura, she suddenly turned around like a maddened trapped animal and bit Lin Shangren's tiger mouth.

"hiss……"

Releasing the shadow and interrogating the two consumed a lot of Lin Shangren's energy, so much so that his reaction was a little slow, and Kamitsuki Yura almost bit off a piece of flesh from his tiger mouth. He quickly liquefied the shadow where Kamitsuki Yura's teeth touched his hand and pulled his hand out.

Although he pulled his hand back, Lin Shangren still had a bloody tooth mark on his palm. Fortunately, Lin Shangren had the "Little Bird Doctor" skill, and the tooth mark left by Yura last month healed instantly, leaving no scar.

“Gu…?”

Seeing this scene, Shangyue Yura was suddenly stunned. She raised her head and just saw the gray shadow that had not yet faded on Lin Shangren's pupils.

"Ding."

The brass bullet that had shot into Kamitsuki Yura's shoulder was forcibly pushed out by the healed flesh and blood, falling to the ground with a crisp sound.

“Woo…Wow!”

Tears overflowed from Shangyue Yura's eye sockets, and she suddenly let out an extremely shrill howl. While crying, she stretched out her arms towards Lin Shangren, as if she wanted to hug Lin Shangren or begging Lin Shangren to hug her.

In Yura Kamitsuki's 27 years, she had lived as a discriminated freak for 14 years. She had been tortured as a military experiment for 3 years. And she had been a monster imprisoned in a basement, barely surviving for 10 years.

The first fourteen years of her life, which was definitely not a happy one, had already turned Kamitsuki Yura into an inferior and withdrawn person. The thirteen years of inhumane torture had made this girl, who should have grown into a beautiful woman, "degenerate" into a beast with only the instinct of survival left:

She had long since lost the ability to express herself verbally, as well as the consciousness and emotions that humans possess. She, Kamitsuki Yura, was like a lonely wild animal that had strayed into human society, rejected by everything and forced to struggle to survive.

But now, she seems to have met her own kind.

"Our eyes are both gray, and our wounds heal quickly. We must be the same kind, right? Then can you help me... take me away from here... to a place where no one can hurt me. Please... I'm really in pain, and I'm really scared... really... so scared..."

But Kamitsuki Yura couldn't express herself that way. All the words, all the overflowing emotions, turned into a piercing wail the moment they left her mouth.

"It's okay..."

Lin Shangren gently hugged the dirty, skinny girl and stroked her dry black hair and back.

"You are safe."

Yura Uetsuki's hand touched Lin Shangren's body, and she felt Lin Shangren's emotions and thoughts: compassion, anger, sadness and... a sense of security.

No, it wasn't Kamitsuki Yura who felt the sense of security, it was the sense of security that wanted to invade her body. She instinctively rejected this foreign feeling, but... that sense of security was too warm, an emotion she had never experienced before.

Kamitsuki Yura relaxed her mind, allowing the warm feeling of security to invade her body and completely envelop her consciousness.

“Ah… ah…”

She wanted to say something, but she couldn't utter a complete sentence.

"I'm so tired... I really want to sleep... But if this is a dream, then once I fall asleep, I'll wake up..."

Yura Kamitsuki dropped her hands weakly and fell into a peaceful sleep.

[Detecting the consciousness layer spying, should we use defensive disguise? ]

【The peek has disappeared.】

"no need."

Hayashi Naoto picked up Kamitsuki Yura, who weighed almost nothing.

"Let's go."

His figure disappeared from the spot.

……

"Zheng!"

Feng Ling Yueying's blade cut open Lin Shangren's palm, and sweet blood flowed out, moistening Shangyue Yura's dry lips and flowing into her mouth.

As she drank Lin Shangren's blood, Shangyue Yura's emaciated body gradually became healthy. Her once dry skin began to radiate. Her spine, hunched and deformed from huddling in the corner of the basement, began to crackle: her bones were slowly returning to their proper places. Even her dry, dull hair began to gleam—she was recovering at a visible rate.

"Shangren, is this okay?" Dongzi asked with some concern.

"It's okay, I have plenty of blood. If it's not enough, I can just eat some chocolate."

"So...should we take her away from here and call the police first? Will someone else come and arrest her?"

Lin Shangren had just explained to Dongzi in a concise and concise manner the life story of Shangyue Yura, and Dongzi felt very sympathetic towards this poor older sister.

"The police may not be trustworthy. As for the people from Hinagami Pharmaceutical, if they don't come looking for me, I will go find them."

Seeing that Shangyue Yuliang's body had almost recovered, Lin Shangren took the initiative to heal the wound on his palm.

"But before that, I have to settle you down first." Lin Shangren continued.

"No, before that, I have to help her take a bath and change into clean clothes. We are similar in size, so she can just wear my clothes."

As she said this, Fuyuko was about to help up Yura Kamitsuki who was lying flat on her back.

She said to Lin Shangren: "Help me carry her to the bathroom, I will give her a bath first."

"Now?"

"As long as Shang is here, I don't need to worry about any danger, right?" Dongzi said with a smile.

"really."

Hayashi Naoto picked up Kamitsuki Yura and walked into the bathroom with Fuyuko.

"Put her in the tub, and then, back off."

"what?"

"Do you still want to stay?"

"Isn't this because I'm worried about you? Her condition is very unstable. If she wakes up suddenly, she might hurt you."

"Wouldn't you have been able to protect me in time if you had just stood guard at the bathroom door?" Dongzi asked back, "A girl's body shouldn't be seen by anyone, even if you saved her."

"Too."

Lin Shangren turned and left the bathroom. He leaned against the bathroom door and began to think about the current situation.

"We must rush to Hinagami Pharmaceutical's headquarters and kill those beasts. There must be many poor people like Kamitsuki Yura there.

And...what exactly does it want to guide me to do? Or...is it not actually in the same group with them?"

As early as when he obtained the Dark Bible, Lin Shangren had a vague feeling that something was deliberately guiding his actions. That thing was using his hands to accomplish something.

"Because of its guidance: those somewhat abrupt coincidences and inopportune clues greatly accelerated the speed at which I solved the two cases. Especially the chance encounter with Mamiya Shinji.

It's strange that Mamiya Shinji, having already decided to temporarily step down due to Kusaka Tatsuhiko's arrest, still chose to meet with Tsuchiko, hoping to get her to become Kara no Maiden. And he contacted Tsuchiko through the editor. This completely defies logic and his usual cautious approach to crime.

When I interrogated him, he couldn't explain it, saying only that he had gotten carried away. It was obvious that he was under the influence of that thing.

Why did it lead me to capture Mamiya Shinji? Think about it, what is the most important information I will get after solving this case?"

【what? 】

"Fuyuko's life story and the experiences of her mother, Misa Nakahara."

[Isn't this right? Master, you are interested in Fuyuko's life story because of her commission to you, and because you killed her nominal father, Yukito Nakahara, at the Kuchiki Pathology Institute.]

However, killing Nakahara Yukito wasn't directed by anyone else. It was purely a spur-of-the-moment decision.

"No, even if I hadn't killed the beasts at the Kuchiki Pathology Institute, I would still have doubts about Fuyuko's background. It's because of a painting, the 'Girl in a Shell' exhibited at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum."

[Yes, Nakahara Misa and Fuyuko look almost identical! Looking at that painting, combined with Mamiya Kokoro's testimony, you can easily learn Fuyuko's life story...

That's still not right. What if you didn't go to the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum a day in advance, then you wouldn't be able to meet and catch Mamiya Shinji, right?

You didn't follow anyone's lead when you visited Takigawa Chiyo that day. Furthermore, there's no necessary connection between Takigawa Chiyo's sudden madness and your visit to the museum. It was a completely spontaneous decision.

"Why don't you understand? Even if I hadn't run into Mamiya Shin'er and Tsuiko that day, I would have caught him a few days later. But, then, that girl Tsuiko would..."

[I understand! She led Mamiya Shinji to a hasty meeting with Tsumeko just so you could capture him and get information about Nakahara Misa. But who is he? Why did he do this? ⊙▽⊙]

"Come to think of it, who decided to visit the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum that weekend?"

【Hiroko Takagi! 】

Lin Shangren nodded.

"Then the identity of the guy guiding me behind the scenes is about to be revealed. The Warp Demon that is inextricably linked to the Dark Bible, ツ浮!"

[Huh? Why would it lead you to capture its followers? Isn't that just shooting yourself in the foot? (?_?)]

"Xiao Ai, are you pretending to be stupid, or are you really stupid? I suspect you are just playing the supporting role to amuse me."

【Hehehe~ Acting a little dumb makes the master look good~ヾ(＾。^*)】

"How could the devil be on the same page with humans?"

Lin Shangren shook his head.

[So, my Lord, you've always known that there's something fishy going on with the recent events, and you've been pretending nothing happened because...]

"Throwing stones to test the waters, fishing for law enforcement."

"So you're casting jade, and the bait you're using is pretty precious, too. What if you mess up?"

"How could that be? Besides, don't I still have my lovely System Girl?"

"You're trying to CPU me again? I won't fall for it. You must have a backup plan already! (?_?)"

"It's not like I've really planned everything out." Lin Shangren said helplessly in his heart, "Besides, although I always rely on others, I also need people I can rely on. Like you, Ashe."

[Eh~ You're disgusting. (? ???ω??? ?)]

"laugh."

Lin Shangren chuckled, and another person came to mind: Maryse Stella. He remembered the scene when she, who had previously stuttered, spoke eloquently about the painting "Shell Girl."

"Mamiya Shinsou's masterpiece? It was clearly his last work, hidden away... but you were the one who put it on display, right, Researcher?"

Who else... In short, I can't act rashly. If I don't act, it won't harm innocent people, at least not before it accomplishes its goal. After all, that would make me aware of its guidance of me. My most important bargaining chip now is that I can leave this world at any time, thus thwarting its plans.

What exactly does it want Dongzi and I to do?"

The ultimate goal of the Black Madonna must be related to Kuchiki Fuyuko, but now Lin Shangren still cannot confirm what it exactly wants to do.

"Hina God Pharmaceutical? Then let's go check it out. And..."

Lin Shangren stretched out his right hand and summoned the Four Beasts Dice. Looking at this artifact that contained terrifying power, Lin Shangren smiled meaningfully.

Chapter 127 Water