Knight Asylum

So he could be sure that the white sky in front of him was a Gurongi and had to be contained immediately.

The relative cleverness makes people feel more at ease. With a high-tech armor, he doesn't look like a weird at all.

The captain of the containment team took out a loudspeaker and yelled in Red's direction to cover up the fear that instinctively arose when he looked directly at Red.

"Red Leonardo, you are surrounded! Surrender now!"

"monster……"

"monster."

"monster!"

Qiao, who was standing among the containment personnel, heard the tiny whispers between them through the hearing-enhanced armor.

Red's shoulders slumped slightly and he returned to his original state. Just as he was about to speak, one of the shelter personnel suddenly bent over and knelt on the ground and began to retch.

The captain of the shelter team's face changed, and he turned around, squeezed aside the other shelter personnel, and took off the full-coverage helmet on the head of the shelter personnel kneeling on the ground. Suddenly, a foul smell came out, and the young man with vomit all over his face fell to the ground with a thud and began to twitch.

The captain of the reception team did not disdain the vomit on the young man's body. He opened the young man's eyelids and breathed a sigh of relief as if he had confirmed something.

"The mental pollution level is not high. Contact a psychologist."

After saying this, the reception team looked at Reid with resentment on their faces.

"Prepare for containment! If anyone resists, kill them immediately!"

Under the command of the captain of the containment team, the fully armed containment personnel began to narrow the encirclement. The containment personnel at the back put down the boxes in their hands and opened them. Rows of syringes with fluorescent liquid flowing in them were raised like living things and pointed in the direction of Red.

Reid stood there without any movement. He held his belt skillfully, tightened his fingers, slowly opened the cover of his cell phone, and pressed the button on the belt with his left index finger.

Chapter 14 Ignorance is bliss

"Wait a moment!!!"

An angry shout came from the exit of the bridge tunnel, and two straight rays of light shot out, accompanied by a heavy roar. A heavy locomotive rose up, passed over everyone's heads and fell towards Red's direction. The shelter personnel who were surrounding Red were horrified and dodged away, cursing in their hearts which madman actually drove like this.

The motorcycle landed and slid in a perfect semicircle. A long white leg came down and supported the motorcycle. The knight raised his hand, pulled off his helmet and shook his head vigorously. His soft long hair spread out. His sharp eyes swept over the surrounding shelter personnel and finally stopped at the captain of the shelter team who was holding a loudspeaker, and he shouted harshly.

"That's enough. Red doesn't need to be contained."

After saying that, the beautiful female rider turned her head and looked at Reid, with a dazzling light in her eyes.

"Are you okay? Oh - my poor Red, you must have been treated very badly, right? I understand, I understand. I'll come and check your body right away."

Reid, who remained calm in the face of the shelter team, subconsciously took a step back, not even daring to look the woman in the eye.

Because the person who came was an expert in studying Gurongi Kuga, and the examination that Seryuu mentioned was definitely not serious.

He pushed the phone up and pulled it out with great force, squeezed out of the troops in the dissipating red light, and stood in front of Reid, his face full of vigilance.

Noticing the belt around Qiao's waist, Seryu said meaningfully, "Oh..." and waved his hand, "Don't be nervous. I'm here to help you solve the problem."

Seleu turned around and raised his middle finger to the captain of the shelter team. "Get your troops out of here, who the hell is that!"

The captain of the containment unit took a deep breath, but still suppressed the anger in his heart and spoke as calmly as possible, "I am the captain of the Enochian Third Squadron of the Servi Tulia containment unit. Aoi, Chief of Staff Seryuu, you should at least remember the names of those of us fighting on the front line."

"Ah~ Captain Aoi, it's time for you to let your people go," Seryuu raised his hand and waved at Aoi with a perfunctory expression.

"Excuse me, there are monsters here that need to be contained."

Aoi narrowed her eyes slightly and raised her hand to point at Reid. The other inmates also showed no intention of leaving.

In terms of authority, the personnel they detained could not rebel against Seleucia who was the combat staff, but they actually belonged to the Enoch Group. Servius Turia was just a cover, and it was Director Iida who asked them to come, so they did not intend to listen to Seleucia.

"Red is not a monster," Qiao lowered his voice, his eyes extremely cold.

"He just looks like a human now. That was his true appearance just now. Do you know how many times I have contained him?" Aoi raised her voice and turned to look at Selyu. "A monster is a monster!"

Selyu yawned long and saw Aoi staring at him. Selyu tilted his head and said, "Unfortunately, Enoch does not own him. Only U can decide what he is. What you are doing now is a provocation to Serviteuria. According to the agreement, you will be deprived of your status as a Serviteuria containment force. Are you sure you want to do this?"

Aoi's expression was a little stiff.

Although Servitus's containment force is just a layer of packaging, they can only rely on this layer of packaging to legally carry out containment operations in [S·L]. If it is gone, they will just be a simple private armed force, and Servitus can even legally confiscate and detain them.

He should have retreated at this point, but Red Kuuga's appearance reminded him of the horror called Gurongi.

Just when Aoi gritted his teeth and decided to carry out forced detention, the communication device on his waist rang. The only one who could contact him at this time was Iida.

Aoi breathed a sigh of relief, took a few steps back and turned on the communication. As long as the director Iida gave the order and with Enoch's support, he would not have to worry about being deprived of his status as a member of the detention team and forcibly detained.

"Aoi, what's the situation? Have you seen Hiroshi Izawa?"

"No, Hiroshi Izawa disappeared, along with Orphino from the Intelligent Brain Group," Aoi reported the details after a moment of silence. "I was about to forcibly contain Z-01, but was stopped by Chief of Staff Seryu."

"Whose belt is it?"

Aoi was stunned for a moment and looked around before his eyes stopped at Qiao. "It was a temporary worker. It was red photon blood."

"Red photon blood? That's fine, come back Aoi."

"This..." Aoi was stunned, and suggested with some hesitation, "What about Z-01? I think he should be forcibly detained. He is very dangerous! One of the team members showed symptoms of mental pollution!"

"It has nothing to do with us. It belongs to Servier Turia."

The communication was cut off with a snap.

Aoi's face turned ashen. He paused for a long moment and then raised his hand to wave. The shelter personnel holding guns immediately put away their weapons, turned around and evacuated in an orderly manner. Soon, only Red, Qiao and Seryu were left in the narrow and dim bridge tunnel.

Red let out a long breath and looked at Seleu, "Um...what's going on with the mental pollution? It seems to be caused by me."

"Ah~ Don't worry about it. Have you heard of the uncanny valley effect? ​​It's similar to that. Although [S·L] is a place where humans and monsters coexist, humans themselves are not yet broad-minded enough to fully accept the existence of monsters, especially the containment teams who have to face those dangerous monsters and the phenomena caused by monsters all day long. When the accumulated pressure exceeds the threshold, the so-called mental pollution will occur. In fact, it's nothing. Just sleep for two days and chat with a psychologist and it will be fine."

"That guy just now... well, it looks like he worked too much overtime. It has nothing to do with you."

Selyu said it simply and easily, but Red always felt that Selyu was hiding something. Aoi's nervous and serious expression at the time did not seem like she was simply tired from working overtime for too long, but Red did not intend to ask further.

"I want to know the detailed condition of my body," Reid stared into Seleu's eyes with an extremely serious expression.

Seryu was stunned for a moment, then put away his nonchalant expression, "Are you sure? Sometimes, ignorance is bliss."

"Don't be ridiculous! Aren't you the ones who made his body become like this?!"

Before Red could finish his words, Qiao reached out and grabbed Seleu's collar, with flames burning in his eyes.

"Logically, it is indeed our responsibility," Seleu raised his hands above his head and replied calmly, "But no matter whose responsibility it is, the fact is that his body has become like this."

"you--"

"It's just a coincidence, that's enough, I chose to be like this, I'm going back."

Red raised his hand and grabbed Qiao's wrist, then shook his head at her.

Qiao opened his mouth, then glared unwillingly at Selyu, who had a dead pig-like expression that was not afraid of boiling water, and loosened Selyu's collar.

"Oh, by the way - Red, this is a gift from U to you," Seryu adjusted his collar and patted the motorcycle under him, "You can use this thing when you travel in the future, so get on board."

As he spoke, Seleu stepped on the bracket to support the motorcycle, then tiptoed back to make some space, and opened his arms towards Red. His meaning was obvious.

"I'm tired, and for now... I can't control it."

A motorcycle and a beautiful woman, no man can resist it, unless the beautiful woman in the back seat is staring at him with a rather perverted look.

So Red shrank back.

“Hmph——” Qiao raised his head proudly.

Chapter 15: Corrosion from Yaguru

Back in Selvi Tulia, Red and Qiao, under the guidance of Selyu, came to a quiet research institute. As soon as they entered the door, they saw Embe pacing back and forth anxiously.

Seeing Seleu appear, Embe's eyes lit up and he walked over quickly, but after seeing Red behind Seleu, Embe couldn't help but laugh awkwardly.

"Can you please stop smiling so guiltily, as if you have done something sneaky," Seleu waved his hand, found a chair to sit down, crossed his long white legs, and gently swung his right foot in short boots back and forth.

The corner of Enbei's mouth twitched fiercely.

From the beginning, he did not expect that Seleu, whose moral standards were far below average in the authoritative mental evaluation, would understand his feelings at the moment.

"By the way, Reid wants to see the results of his body scan. He just had a fight, so he can update a round of data to estimate the erosion rate of Aguru," Seleu waved his hand heartlessly.

Embe gasped and turned to look at Red, "I personally... don't recommend that you know."

Red was in an extremely delicate mood, "Um... am I a patient with a terminal illness?"

Seleu immediately interrupted, "In a sense, yes."

"Don't listen to her nonsense! Aguru has given you unimaginable strong vitality. You will not die even if your heart is pierced," Embe glared at Seleu.

"Then... how long will it take for [me] to completely disappear?"

After looking at Red for a while, Embe raised his hand and scratched the back of his head, leaned over and pressed a few buttons. The ceiling opened to both sides, and a holographic image fell down, with a full-body scan of Red generated in the image.

Qiao frowned. In the scan image, there was a huge foreign object on Red's waist, and dense nerve-like tentacles were spreading towards Red's whole body with the foreign object as the center. The target was obviously the brain. Even an idiot could see that the situation was not good.

After a while, Enbei rubbed his forehead and raised his hand to touch the location of the foreign object. "This is the Aguru you wear. Aguru is transforming your body every moment. Every time you transform into Kuuga, this energy will increase its output and instantly cover your entire body to make changes to you at the cellular level. However, this explosive energy output will not last forever. Even if you don't release it, it will disappear on its own after a certain period of time, but..."

"Every time I transform, it will speed up the erosion of my body by Agur..." Embe didn't say anything further, but Red already knew the answer.

"It's just like a cancer cell," Qiao muttered to himself.

“No, the situation is completely the opposite. Cancer cells are ultimately just cells that have failed to evolve and have defects. But the change brought about by Aguru is perfect. Red will become stronger and stronger, closer and closer to Kuuga.” Seryuu raised his head. “Maybe one day, he won’t even need Aguru to output explosive energy, and he will be able to become Kuuga naturally. Maybe…”

Seleu paused, his eyes becoming extremely deep.

"He will completely become Kuuga."

"Stop joking! Is there no way to take off this thing called Yaguru?" Qiao waved his hand vigorously.

"Unfortunately, according to our analysis, Agul has most likely already merged with Red's spine and heart, unless Red is completely dead," Embe shook his head helplessly.

He was the first person to suggest performing surgery to remove the Aguru belt from Red's body, so he knew best that the Aguru could not be removed by surgery. If it was an irrational monster, no matter how powerful Aguru and Kuga were, he would ask to abandon Red, but Red was a human being, an innocent and courageous person.

"Ha - anyway, let's check the body first to see the impact of this battle."

Embi raised his head towards the laboratory not far away that was isolated and covered by special materials.

Red nodded and followed Embe.

Just when Qiao was about to follow, Seryuu suddenly raised his head and spoke.

"Well - no matter what, Red will be completely corrupted by Aguru in two months at most."

"You——" Qiao paused and looked at Seleucus angrily.

"Don't look at me like that. There's nothing we can do about it. Didn't you see Aoi's attitude?" Seleu shrugged. "Red is the only person that Servile Turria has as a containment unit, and the only person who can be contained. The other containment units will definitely try their best to get rid of Red, or force Servile Turria to contain Red underground forever."

"You don't want to see this, do you?"

Qiao fell into silence.

"To avoid this, we can only rely on Red to continue to contain the objects and help Servi Turia obtain the objects and build his own containment team. This process will inevitably accelerate Agul's erosion of Red's body. What will happen after Agul completely erodes Red's brain... I'm not sure, but it will probably be very bad. However, there are ways to avoid this."

Seleu raised his hand and pointed at the box that Qiao was holding in his right hand.

"As long as there are other containment personnel with combat capabilities who can help Servi Turia complete containment and obtain the containment items, there is no need for us to take such a big risk and let Reid keep fighting."

"You just want to use me," Qiao frowned.

"No~ From my personal point of view... I hope Red can fight, and it would be best if he doesn't even have time to rest and keeps fighting like a machine." Seleu's mouth curled up slightly, "Now I am very curious about what will happen when Red's brain is eroded by Aguru. Will he still be himself, or will his thoughts be close to Gurongi, or..."

"A pure killing machine?"

The fingers that were cleverly gripping the handle of the box kept tightening.

"The choice is yours, I'm just giving you a suggestion."

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"You knew Enoch's containment unit was nearby?"

Embe, who was operating the machine to scan Red's body, hesitated for a moment and then spoke tentatively.

"Huh? Isn't Enoch a medical research company? They also have a containment team?" Red blinked and asked subconsciously. However, Red immediately remembered the information revealed by Seryuu and Aoi during the confrontation under the bridge. He scratched his face awkwardly. "It seems that the situation of Selvi Tulia is more complicated than I thought."

"Haha - that's what happened, sorry," Embe laughed awkwardly.

He really wanted to continue asking why Red didn't run away, but he couldn't open his mouth. He was afraid that if he asked again and again, Red, who had no intention of running away in the first place, would have the idea of ​​running away.

The examination was over quickly. After hesitating for a moment, Embe moved aside to let Red see the test results.

Reid stepped forward. He was not a professional, but the test results came with a comparison chart from before. The nerve-like substance spreading from Aguru seemed to be no different from before.

"Although it's only a little bit, Aguru's erosion of you has worsened," Embe stretched out his finger and tapped Aguru's position on the screen. "If you feel that you have any mental problems, you must tell us. Timely mental treatment will definitely be effective. If the treatment is in place..."

"Maybe even if your brain is corroded, nothing will happen."

Embe felt a little guilty, the effect of mental treatment was just the best result they expected. Only Red and Rick wore the Aguru belt, and Rick had already given them a warning with his self-sealing action. The power of Aguru was very dangerous. Even the strongest warrior who killed more than two hundred Gurongi in one breath was worried that he would be swallowed by the darkness.