Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 824 Zhang Heping's Reason
"Okay, as long as it's not too much of a request." Xia Shou agreed.

No. 58 also perked up and looked seriously at the person on the other side of the glass.

"Is he the one you asked me to see?"

Xia Shou nodded and pressed the button to send a message: "Hello Zhang Heping, you said Lin Rizhe is your adoptive father, can you just chat about your daily life with him? Anything is fine, but it's best to be as detailed as possible."

Zhang Heping pondered for a moment and began to talk about his life with Lin Rize. He recalled Lin Rize's strict teaching, daily running exercises and horse stance, push-ups and pull-ups, his first winter swimming and first hunting of wild animals, as well as the daily Chinese teaching.

Zhang Heping spoke with great involvement and detail. No. 58 stared at his face and, when Xia Shou interrupted his questioning, he would give him suggestions and point out new directions for his inquiries, but he did not lie in any of his answers.

But he also lost a large part of his memory.

To be precise, it is not that his memory is lost, but under certain circumstances, he will lose his normal sanity and become a completely different existence, which is the form he used to fight Charles before.

He himself doesn't know why it becomes like that, he only knows that once he falls into a deep sleep or coma, another him will wake up, just like another personality full of destructive and destructive desires.

As for the fact that he was parasitized by the Killing Meat Mud, he knew about it, but he didn't know when he was parasitized, nor did he know how he was parasitized. The Killing Meat Mud was not a common abnormal phenomenon in the Scar Era, and there were only a handful of cases.

"Did Lin Rizhe ask you to come here and tell us these things?"

"It wasn't my godfather who asked me to come. He suddenly disappeared. It was Uncle Barto who asked me to come here." Zhang Heping replied.

Barto, one of the personnel sent by the underworld, is the combat captain.

"Since he has found the ladder, why doesn't he come here himself?" Xia Shou asked.

"Who could have thought that we would reach the modern era so quickly? We only found one way upwards at that time, but no one knew how long it would take to get here, and no one knew how many dangers we would encounter in the process of climbing up. So I, who was parasitized by the meat paste of killed creatures, was actually the best candidate," said Zhang Heping.

"I didn't lie. Everything I said was true." said No. 58.

They were all true, but a little strange. Xia Shou just felt that there was something wrong in Zhang Heping's description, but he couldn't put it into words.

This uncomfortable feeling is like an itchy area somewhere on your body wriggling under the skin, reminding you all the time, but when you really try to scratch it with your hands, it moves away.

Xia Shou felt that the image of Lin Rize described by Zhang Heping was incomplete and imperfect. It was a very beautiful but not three-dimensional silhouette, which was very different from Xia Shou's impression of Lin Rize.

But Xia Shou didn't dare to draw such a conclusion, because he didn't dare to say how well he knew the other party. After all, he had only carried out one mission with Lin Rizhe.

What's more, people will change. After living in such an unfamiliar era and environment for decades, it is not surprising what Lin Rize has become. However, Xia Shou still feels that the Lin Rize described by Zhang Heping is full of subtle contradictions.

There is no doubt that Zhang Heping was telling the truth, and his description of his life with Lin Rizhe was so detailed that only someone who lived with them day and night and had an extremely close relationship with them could describe it. However, Xia Shou could still feel a sense of alienation from that intimacy, an alienation that only the closest people could perceive.

It was precisely because of this feeling that Xia Shou felt that Lin Rize would not entrust such an important matter to Zhang Heping.

If it was Xia Shou, he would not do this, even though Zhang Heping was the son of his good brother and he had raised him since childhood. This has nothing to do with the closeness of the relationship, it is just a simple matter of judgment.

The simplest question: Is Zhang Heping on their side?
Of course not. Although he is the child of two modern people, he grew up in the Scar Era. All the people he comes into contact with are from the Scar Era. This child’s peers, friends, and social concepts are all from the Scar Era. How can he feel a sense of belonging to a distant modern era?
What control bureau, what freedom and democracy, what air conditioners and refrigerators, these wonderful things that have never been seen before, before you see them with your own eyes, are as unreal as the harmonious society and anti-gravity spacecraft in the eyes of modern people.

Isn't it a joke to use these excuses to make a child lurk like an undercover agent in the era in which he was born and raised, and to pledge allegiance to another future that has never been seen and only exists in descriptions?
Although Zhang Heping's current behavior proves that he is indeed on the side of modern people like them, Xia Shou still feels that Lin Rize at that time would not let a child born in the past take on the responsibility of moving towards the future.

He wouldn't make such a stupid decision.

Moreover, the Lin Rize described by Zhang Heping does indeed have that subtle sense of contradiction.

But No. 58 proved that what he said was true, so did Zhang Heping deliberately conceal something?

Could it be that he used a narrative trick common in detective novels, making everything he said true, but by concealing key information, he misled the listener's thinking?
"Are you hiding any key information?"

"No."

"Do you want to help the inhabitants of the Scar Era, or do you want to help those of us living in the present world?"

"I want to help you."

"Please tell me the reason. You don't feel any sense of belonging to this era, right?"

"Ah."

"Then why are you helping us?"

"In order to allow me to have a peaceful life, and by the way, to prevent people of your era from being harmed by the Time War. Of course, the latter reason is just incidental." Zhang Heping frowned slightly.

"What do you mean by a peaceful life?"

"Let's live a peaceful life. I hate fighting and hurting each other. I think normal people don't like war. For people in the Scar Age, this war has no time limit, because history will constantly reset and cycle, so even if you die in the war, you will have the opportunity to start over. They don't need to succeed once, they just need to successfully reach this modern era in the constant reset.

I can imagine what the scene would be like: the entire world over there would unite to launch an invasion of the modern world, and everyone would stop enjoying life or start to ignore order and try a more indulgent life. This state of national preparation for war might last for a hundred or even two hundred years.

But I am not from the Scar Era. History will be reset but I will not. My life span is the same as yours. I don’t want to spend my short life in an atmosphere full of gunpowder and tension, and I don’t want everyone around me to become a warmongerer.

So you understand, right? I have no sense of belonging to your era. I don't want to help you at all. I just want to live my life in a peaceful and beautiful country.

If I want to pursue nominal immortality, then I have no reason to help them, because I essentially belong to the modern era, but was born in the past. If they knew my true identity, they would be murdered. After all, I am also a modern person and a place that can be replaced.

So...how should I put it...even though I love the era I was born in more, I am indeed on your side." Zhang Heping said calmly.

(End of this chapter)