Tokyo: Parasite

Chapter 342 112: Quality Exchange

The breeze blows.

The flowers are swaying.

In the vast sea of ​​white chrysanthemums, a girl in a black sailor suit stood up, like a drop of unsmudged ink.

Jingquan looked at his hands and numbly picked up another angular stone from the ground.

In the distance, the sister who had turned her back to her countless times chose to face her directly this time.

"Do you really hate me that much, Ringo?"

Jingquan's dazed eyes came back to his senses a little, and he regained some of his thinking ability in the dream.

Hate?

Ringo, who has always been under the wings of her sister, has always dreamed of becoming a cheerful, enthusiastic and capable person like her sister.

Even though she felt it was difficult for her to do so, she was still working hard to learn.

It's not so much that I hate my sister, but rather that I hate myself for being powerless.

You are such a loser for not being able to help at all, Jingquan Ringo.

Such self-blaming auditory hallucinations often appear in her life.

From the moment she learned of her sister's death, she knew that she would never be able to become someone like her sister again, and she had lost all the light that her sister, the beacon of progress, had provided.

The best response to my sister is to destroy the monsters and completely eliminate the monsters that my sister has always hated.

And now, her sister was standing among the monsters, completely shattering all her previous good impressions of her sister.

Then wouldn't all her previous goals, aspirations, and efforts have become a joke?

"I can be a joke"

"But my sister can't."

Jingquan Ringo held the stone and walked past the white chrysanthemums step by step. Wherever he passed, the ink color quickly spread backwards, and the white chrysanthemums slowly turned into black chrysanthemums.

It was difficult to see Sayuri Izumi's expression, but there seemed to be a faint smile at the corner of her mouth.

The bright red first appeared from the heart, then quickly spread, staining the white skirt and invading the white chrysanthemums around it.

Soon, the entire sea of ​​white chrysanthemums became a black and red area, and the Jingquan sisters stood at the front. The black and the red seemed to have become wings behind them.

Jingquan Ringo raised the stone in his hand high up, just like in his previous dream.
Tsushima Island.

A long island that lies almost exactly in the middle of the channel.

Because of a certain game, even though a long time has passed, there are still some players who come to the island from time to time.

Compared with Iki Island, it is more difficult to develop agriculture in the mountains here, and large areas are forests and uninhabited areas.

The largest urban area is located in Yanyuan on the southeast side, and the entire island has only a few tens of thousands of people.

Normally speaking, in a small city like this, a newcomer arriving in a residential area would attract considerable attention.

But since Augustus had made a plan, he was well prepared.

In an ordinary house built for one family.

Augustus, whose appearance had changed drastically, sat on the tatami in the living room, lowering his head to record the experimental data in the notebook on the coffee table.

The wind from the courtyard blew in through the open door, and a snowflake landed next to the tip of his pen.

"It's snowing."

Augustus stopped writing and quietly looked up at the snowflakes falling in the courtyard.

He still remembered that the first time he killed someone, it seemed to be snowing, and it was a heavy snow that lasted for a long time and almost covered the entire Britannia.

The color of the blood on the snow was more brilliant than he had imagined.

It was from that moment that he completely understood that instead of focusing on research in the Heaven Node, it would be better to use some social scum who could be eliminated and whom no one would care about to make some contribution to his research.

He has never been bloodthirsty, and many of his experimental materials were even taken as research subjects only after they came to him and caused trouble.

Of course, he could not deny that he was suspected of sting enforcement.

But so what? During chemotherapy, some normal cells will always die along with the cancer cells.

It can not only satisfy and speed up research, but also detoxify society. Why not do it?

Unfortunately, Professor Jeremy could never understand this and ended up on the opposite side that he did not want to see.

But he will not forget his promise.

Even though he is pursuing eternal life, he will not give up the subject of soul resurrection. If he has the chance, he will try to resurrect the souls of both Jeremy and his daughter.

Unless he truly saw that the two of them were well in heaven and had sweet dreams.

Tuk Tuk.

There were footsteps on the stairs, but Augustus ignored them and just silently poured another glass of water and placed it on the seat opposite.

After a while, Jingquan Ringo, wearing ragged clothes and covered with scabby wounds, walked into the living room.

Yes, Augustus didn’t think that Jingquan Lingqin could not withstand such a minor injury, so he just threw her on the bed and ignored her for several days.

And she was indeed very resilient, and she was fed medicine on Iki Island, so she recovered from her serious injuries and dying appearance in just three days.

Now, except that his face was a little pale and he changed his clothes to cover his wounds, he looked no different from an ordinary person.

"I remember putting two sets of clothes on the table."

Augustus said casually.

Jingquan Ringo said nothing, sat down opposite Augustus, picked up the cup, and drank the warm water in one breath.

Augustus was not surprised and continued to pour warm water into the empty cup.

"How many days did I sleep?"

"Three days."

"How's Iki Island?"

"The Self-Defense Forces, with the support of the Special Affairs Bureau, launched a landing and demonstrated amazing efficiency. They built a large number of fortifications in a short period of time and did their best to recapture Iki Island. The above is from the news broadcast."

Augustus memorized a news script and turned on the TV.

It’s past the news time now, and a TV series is being broadcast.

[Sisters’ Mystery]

"Sister, I'm sorry, but why should everything be yours all this time? Study, work, even men are far better than me!"

"younger sister."

In the TV show, the younger sister screamed like a madman, holding a knife and stabbing it into her sister's body back and forth many times, blood splattering everywhere.

Augustus raised his eyebrows and changed the channel.

【To You Ten Years Later】

"Why?! Why did you become the person you hated the most!"

".I don't have a choice."

"Then today, I have no choice. Sorry, I'm a policeman." Augustus almost couldn't control himself and spit out a mouthful of water.

What kind of TV show is this!
He chose to turn off the TV and pretend nothing had happened.

The atmosphere inexplicably became silent and strange.

"This family?" Jingquan Ringo didn't actually care about what had just happened. She glanced at the many objects around her that had a sense of life and became a little suspicious.

Although even if that was what she thought, she seemed to have no reason to condemn it.

After all, she is now a defector from the Special Affairs Bureau, even if the Bureau has not included her in the list of defectors.

But from the moment she decided to cooperate with the Soul Assembly, she knew she couldn't go back.

"Don't worry about anything. I'm not a person who kills indiscriminately. This is a base of Yueying, and one of my disciples is in charge. Shuangling, come out and meet this... my partner."

Augustus called out to the empty courtyard.

The next second, two hands stretched out from a piece of soil that looked completely normal, the dust on its body was quickly shaken off, and then it flashed to the door and knelt on one knee.

"Soul Gathering disciple Shuang Ling greets Ms. Jing Quan."

His body was wrapped so tightly that it was impossible to tell whether he was a man or a woman, and even his voice seemed to have been specially processed.

Like a ninja.

"We have a bad reputation, and places like hotels need to be avoided as much as possible, so it is necessary to set up a safe house in each area."

Augustus introduced the disciple beside him.

"Shuang Ling is very talented in lurking, tracking, and assassination. If you come to Tsushima Island in the future, you can directly ask him for help if you have any problems."

Jingquan Ringo glanced at Shuangling, who only showed a pair of eyes, and nodded: "I will."

爽灵
Is it a code name based on the three souls and seven spirits?

Mysticism is a subject that must be learned in the Extraordinary Academy. She has learned a little about it.

"I plan to stay here for two more days, and then go to Busan in the Southern Dynasty. There, the sects are in chaos, and there are no local extraordinary people. The most powerful one should be the Holy Infant branch sent by the Special Affairs Bureau to infiltrate. The other two Chosen Ones are also there. It's a good opportunity for you to try to cultivate a tacit understanding of integration."

"Only after fusion will your God-chosen Moon Mark be activated, and your strength will be greatly improved. You will definitely not be able to match Sayuri Izumi all at once, but at least you will be able to fight back."

"After further training by Yuehui, that is, baptism by the new moon, your strength will enter a period of rapid growth."

Augustus talked about the next itinerary in a very clear and neat manner, without any messy arrangements, so Jingquan naturally had no objection.

After saying goodbye, she went back to her room, got a set of clothes, and went into the bathroom to wash up.

Hot water was used to wash the carcass which was covered with scars of varying sizes, but upon closer inspection, most of them were superficial injuries, with only a layer of blood scab on the surface looking scary.

Feeling a slight stinging pain, Jingquan seemed to be unaware of it.

She was clearly her sister's biggest enemy, so why didn't she kill her?

Could it be that the so-called Mother Goddess doesn’t even know such information?

She stroked the hidden moon mark on her forehead.

However, it is normal that her sister does not know about her Moon Mark Pattern. After all, it is an ability that her sister awakened after staying on Iki Island, and it has been well protected from the beginning, and few people have seen it.

Moreover, the complex patterns of the Moon Mark are difficult to remember if you only look at them a few times without trying hard to memorize them.

"Becoming a god?"

Watching the water flow through his fingers, Jingquan was not very enthusiastic about the idea.

More often than not, I just regarded it as a help to help my sister get rid of it.

She didn't know how much of Augustus's speculation was correct, but even if it was just a little bit, she would never tolerate her sister being treated like a tool and reduced to food for the monster mother goddess.

living room.

Heath walked in, nodded to Shuang Ling as a greeting, and then looked at Augustus.

"how?"

"Not good."

Heath sat on the tatami and took out a tablet and handed it to Augustus.

"I suspect Mr. Li hid the Baron in the Northern Alliance, most likely in Mo Cheng's place. He should be under Ye Jie's watch now, and I want to rescue him from her hands."

Augustus nodded and looked at Hiss's investigation records of various European countries on the tablet: "Did they contact you?"

"Have."

"The terms of exchange remain unchanged?"

"Yes, they still asked us to return Lisa."

Heath knew that Augustus valued Lisa very much, and for her, he was willing to even expose and sacrifice the entire Moon Shadow organization.

So it's impossible to exchange her for the Baron.

"Okay, I agree."

"Uh-huh?!"

Heath widened his eyes in disbelief and just stared at Augustus blankly, suddenly feeling that he was so strange.

Isn’t Lisa about the God-ascending Project?
This plan was barely completed by Augustus after he spent a huge amount of energy and cost.

How could I give it up for the Baron?
Although the Baron's position in the Soul Assembly is not simple and he is one of the "founding fathers", it is not impossible for him to give up if he really wants to. Even Heath can give up and he has no complaints.

Anyway, the revenge on Abdul has been completed, and he can already see the scene in the future where Abdul will be abandoned by the people.

This made Heath feel more relieved than killing him.

"Lisa has already agreed to join us. Even if she switches back, she will not take the initiative to get rid of us." Augustus looked at the snow scene outside the window with a hint of comfort on his face, making Heath unable to understand what he was thinking at once.

But years of experience had taught him that Augustus's judgment was rarely wrong.

Even if there are mistakes, most of them are caused by improper execution by others.

So, Lisa, the divine sorcerer who was discovered, trained and educated by Mr. Li himself, really succeeded in persuading Augustus to switch sides in just half a year? No, Augustus only met her for more than a month?
It's a bit unbelievable indeed.

"Nothing strange." Augustus drank the hot water. "Everyone has weaknesses. Weaknesses are weaknesses, greed is a weakness, and ambition is also a weakness. As long as we find a way to start, no one can't rebel, even me. As long as the benefits are enough, it's not a bad idea to sell the Soul Assembly."

"Besides, my cooperation attitude is sincere and genuine, and it will benefit her more than it does me, so why not agree?"

Heath was silent. That was true.
But he still didn't understand why Augustus was so sure that the other party was joining sincerely and not just pretending.

After all, after returning, Lisa will definitely have to accept some inquiries from the Heaven Node. If she reveals her plan to become a god, it will probably cause them a lot of trouble.

"Our interests are now intertwined with Lisa's. If the secret is leaked, she will be one of the people who will be harmed."

"Her desire for power is stronger than many people. She will not allow anyone to stop her from pursuing strength. And we are the most suitable people to help her now."

"But don't agree to them so easily. You can pretend that you had a quarrel with me and make a strong request, or even act without my permission and exchange Lisa for the Baron." Augustus knew that if he agreed readily, the Heaven Node would definitely think there was something fishy going on.

He knows it all too well.

"Come with me to Busan first. The Baron needs to be exchanged back, but there is no rush. Let him suffer a little first as punishment for his carelessness."

"Yes."

(End of this chapter)