I, holding a long sword in my hand, only know one move

"What did they do?" Cheng Rang asked subconsciously and immediately realized something was wrong. He raised his hand and said, "I'm sorry...it's okay if you don't want to answer."

"You don't need to apologize." Xue looked at Cheng Rang with strange eyes, and then said with difficulty as if fighting in her heart: "It would be better to say... I... I should... .Thanks...."

The voice became smaller and smaller, and finally Xue clenched her teeth and turned her head away.

"Xue means to thank you, big brother~" Lina stuck her head out from the side and continued.

"...Lee, Lena

! Don't talk too much! "

"When you receive help from others, you should say thank you. Grandpa has taught us to be polite." Lina raised her finger as if it was a matter of course.

"Of course I remember!" Xue awkwardly adjusted her position on the ground, "It's just...it's the first time I want to say thank you to a human being other than grandpa..."

"Um, may I ask who the grandpa you keep mentioning is...?"

"It was the man who took us in in the peripheral area. He was very kind to us and taught us a lot of knowledge... I respect him very much." Xue Weiwei said with a smile in her eyes when she mentioned the person Lina called grandpa. The coldness will disappear.

"Ah!" Lina suddenly shouted, as if she remembered something important, "Speaking of grandpa, Xue, we haven't been back for a long time... everyone will be worried!"

Cheng Rang took out his phone and looked at the time. Although it was unclear whether the date and time were accurate, but based on calculations, he could know how long it had passed.

He said: "It's true... It's been three days since we met. If there are companions waiting for you to go back, you will definitely be worried."

"Three days?!" Xue jumped up from the ground after hearing these words, "Including the time since it was released, it has been almost a week...Lina, we have to go back quickly!"

Xue took Lina's hand and bowed deeply to Cheng Rang: "Thank you very much for your help to us... I will always remember you."

Cheng Rang waved his hands quickly and said with a wry smile: "But you probably don't even know my name now. By the way... I should have told you when I first met you that I am the one who got lost here... ....”

Xue's body seemed to stiffen as she bent over and lowered her head.

Cheng Rang: "It seems I forgot..."

Lina: "I forgot..."

"..."

Cheng Rang could catch a glimpse of Xue's white face and suddenly had a lovely blush. He couldn't help but smile, patted the dirt on his pants and stood up and said, "My name is Cheng Rang. I'm very sorry that I'm a human. But if you don't dislike me, Do you want to go with us on this journey?"

"After all, to tell you the truth, I'm actually quite strong."

Chapter 8 The plundered generation

The heavy rain that night had stopped long ago, and the sky seemed to have been washed clean and was so blue that people couldn't help but take a deep breath.

Sunlight casts down from the sky, illuminating the ruins mixed with gravel with bright flashes.

The weather today was so good that Lina couldn't help but lighten her steps and run at the front.

Seeing their lively appearance along the way, Cheng Rang couldn't help scratching his head.

Children are still children after all. Even though they were still young, they remembered that there were still people worried about them, but they couldn't help but play on the way back, as if all their worries had been forgotten by the bright sunshine.

An innocent smile, eyes as clear as rubies, powerful strength, and cute appearance - Cheng Rang stared at the laughing figures of Lina and Xue, and even if he thought about it, he couldn't understand why anyone would have the heart to persecute them.

Just because we lost the Gastrea War nine years ago? Just because your family was killed by monsters, do you want to hate the children infected with the virus?

so what? What did they do wrong? They even used their own power in the peripheral area to help humans kill the gasterozoans that crossed the monolith...

What they get in return is discrimination, bullying, and even abuse from most people.

They clearly didn't hurt anyone, just because they looked weak compared to those terrifying gastrea animals? Because you are young, don’t understand anything, and your parents are humans, so you won’t resist your bullying?

Just because of this, we have to bear the hatred that should be directed at gastrea for no reason, and can only huddle in the ruins and live a life of survival?

These scumbags who are stuck in the wall are really the representatives of bullying and fear of the strong.

I'm afraid that if a monster appears in front of me, it might even be like changing faces in a Sichuan opera, asking the person who was once bullied to come over and protect me.

It's so natural...it makes me sick just thinking about it.

But even so, Cheng Rang was not willing to speculate on the human beings here with the greatest malice.

Because no matter how desperate the world is, there are still people who yearn for hope, and there are souls that can shine——

Cheng Rang prayed that he believed it.

The few people had been walking for a long time, and just when Cheng Rang was about to get used to the gravel and ruins here. Suddenly, not far away, a slightly hunched figure appeared in view as Cheng Rang and the children crossed a broken building.

He stood there, staring into the distance as if waiting for someone to come back.

"Grandpa!" "Grandpa Matsuzaki!"

The eyes of Lina and Xue beside them lit up at the same time after seeing the figure, and they immediately waved their arms to him loudly.

His hair is short, but it has been dyed with a little gray. His round, thin-framed eyes are set on his face, and his eyes are narrowed into a thin slit. It can be seen from the washed white clothes and trousers that his life has also changed. He is not rich, but his face is very amiable.

This is the old man Lina said adopted them from the peripheral area, the person affectionately called "Grandpa" by the children.

Lina and Xue couldn't wait to run towards him, as if they were like swallows returning to their nests.

Then she threw herself into his open arms.

"Grandpa, we are back!"

"I'm really sorry for making you worry..."

Matsuzaki was even staggered by the children, and Cheng Rang couldn't help but raise his hands to help him, but he chuckled indifferently and rubbed Lina and Xue's heads.

"It'll be good to come back, it'll be good to come back..."

Xue, who was a little uncomfortable thanking him as his savior, apologized to him without hesitation and addressed Matsuzaki as "you", which really surprised Cheng Rang.

Matsuzaki obviously also noticed the unfamiliar faces who sent back Lina and Snow. He held the hands of the two children and said: "Thank you for sending back Lina and Snow...Excuse me -"

"Ah, there's no need to thank me..." Cheng Rang waved his hand and said with a smile: "I just got lost here for a while. If I hadn't met them, I might not have been able to come back. I want to thank you." It’s me who is right.”

"Cheng Rang."

"My surname is Matsuzaki."

The two shook hands and after briefly introducing themselves, more children emerged from the rubble or manhole covers at the sound, and gathered around Lina and Xue who had returned, chattering excitedly.

"Are these children... all taken care of by you alone?"

"Yes." Matsuzaki looked at the children tenderly, "In order for them to live among ordinary people one day, I hope they at least learn how to control their emotions so that their red eyes will not be discovered."

"The plundered generation was cruel to them..."

A plundered generation?

It was the first time Cheng Rang heard the name Matsuzaki mentioned, and after searching the system, he learned that the so-called "plundered generation" refers to people who have experienced the gastrula war.

They witnessed the horror of gastrula with their own eyes, and many of their relatives were lost due to the war. Most now hate the Gastrea and the Cursed Child.

In other words, these children... are they the same as monsters in their eyes?

...

"Lina, Yuki...where are Saki and Kana?"

The surrounding air froze as a child asked such a question, and Matsuzaki silently closed his mouth.

The chattering environment suddenly became so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.

Lina's expression suddenly dropped, she lowered her head and remained silent. Snow on the side seemed to have anticipated such a problem, and said bravely: "Aya...Saki and the others...may not come back."

"We met people from IISO. Only Lina and I escaped. Saki and Kana were captured by them."

IISO, Cheng Rang has heard this word more than once.

After Matsuzaki settled the children, Cheng Rang found him alone.

"Mr. Matsuzaki."

"It's Cheng Rang, please come in."

Matsuzaki, who was sitting on a chair, asked to come in, but the residence that was expanded in the underground waterway didn't even have anything that could be called a door.

"Lina and the others told me about you...I really don't know how to thank you."

"It's easy. I just can't bear to see them being treated like this. I also want to ask you something about IISO..."

Because whether Lina and the others mentioned it or the IISO appeared in the system task content, the information Cheng Rang could find indicated that it was something called the International Initiator Supervision Organization.

It is an international organization that manages and assigns starters and promoters to partner, and formulates and manages IP rankings. Inhibitors will be regularly allocated to those who log in to prevent the increase in gastroenterovirus erosion rate in the body caused by the use of abilities.

In the event that the facilitator dies or loses his qualification as a civilian police officer, the initiate will be brought back under control as soon as possible.

However, the system cannot explain how to log in to starters, how to allocate starters, and more detailed matters.

These are more focused on the "man-made" direction than regulations. They are the most important information now, and they are also information that cannot be queried from the system.

Matsuzaki was silent for a while, then glanced at the door.

A small figure seemed to realize that he had been discovered and left quickly.

Matsuzaki looked at Cheng Rang with sincere eyes, sighed silently in his heart, and then stood up from the chair.

"This kind of thing. Let's talk somewhere else."

"..."

"good."

Chapter 9 The cold-blooded massacre

Cheng Rang followed Old Matsuzaki to a secluded corridor, away from the children.

"IISO, this organization is indispensable." Matsuzaki sighed, "Although I don't want to admit it, it is undoubtedly a fact."

"The longest children here have only stayed with me for more than a year. The number has always been around 20. Sometimes I want to take in more, but most of them are too sensible. They have to let me do this." The old man feels distressed..."

Cheng Rang chose to listen quietly without interrupting, just staring into the old man's eyes.

Seeing this, Matsuzaki just smiled bitterly.

"To put it bluntly, it's still a matter of money. Even though life is very tight, there are too many children, and I can't support their lives alone. Instead of starving here every day, in the ruins Scavenging for scraps, fighting gastrea, and sometimes being picked by the IISO is never a bad thing.

"

"At least the children who can pass the selection will have a job, no longer have to worry about food, will have beautiful new clothes, and will no longer have to face monsters alone." Matsuzaki said, taking off his glasses and raising his head Wiping his eyes with his hands, "Actually, many police officers don't get along so badly with them. Many of them will spend the rest of their lives in a small amount of happiness."

"...for the rest of my life?" Cheng Rang was surprised by the word used by Matsuzaki, "But they are not even ten years old, right?"

"As a [cursed child], possessing extraordinary power is a curse, and this curse comes with a price. As long as you use power, or are injected with a virus during the battle with the gastrea, the gastrea in your body will The virus erosion rate will increase. Although it is not easier to be infected than ordinary people, if the erosion rate exceeds 50%, it will still turn into an animal. Only IISO can suppress the natural increase in the erosion rate. Free distribution to registered starters.”

Cheng Rang was speechless for a moment and looked in the direction of the children.

"In other words... they will become... sooner or later one day..."

Matsuzaki nodded silently, "The expense of purchasing this inhibitor is the largest proportion. Although some well-meaning policemen will help us from time to time, this is ultimately a drop in the bucket. Some children know this, and they will take the initiative to go out and look for IISO people. I took myself away, and some children with high erosion rates came to live with me..."

"..." Cheng Rang could no longer imagine what he had experienced here.

"Children whose erosion rate is too high and do not have the conditions for regular testing will mutate into gastrula. They either have this premonition and leave silently, or..."

Matsuzaki's words struck Cheng Rang's heart like a heavy hammer——

"After the mutation, he was killed by his companions who lived with him day and night here."

The scene of those gastrea animals wandering around the huge stone monument being easily slaughtered by him suddenly reappeared in his mind. Cheng Rang's eyes trembled violently as he stared at his hands that were once stained with purple blood.

He became a massacre...

Before that, some of those monsters must have been these children. They became like that because they were poor, had no conditions for treatment, or were injured while fighting gastrea. They helplessly lost consciousness and became monsters wandering around with their companions. Laughing and playing under the blue sky.

Then....

And then.....

What he regarded as cold mission points, he personally used the "original intention of the long sword" to brutally slaughter them in a venting way.

"Why......?"

They obviously don’t know anything——

"Mr. Cheng, are you okay?" Matsuzaki asked with concern, looking at the man who suddenly lost strength and fell to his knees.

[Today, let’s kill a hundred of them first. 】