Knight Asylum

"Is that your answer?"

"Yes."

"Full marks," U raised his hand and snapped his fingers. The shrill alarm stopped abruptly, and at the same time, the shackles that bound Red's body began to be untied one by one.

"Ah?" Red was a little surprised. U's expression when he asked the question clearly told him that he could avoid being permanently detained by answering as a knight to protect humanity.

"I don't need people who already think they are monsters in their hearts, nor do I need people who have experienced such dangerous power and still rashly think they can control it. Sooner or later, these two types of people will cross that bottom line like drinking water."

"Click——"

All the locks were removed and the elevator door opened.

Embe, with a look of impatience on his face, twisted his expression at a speed visible to the naked eye the moment he looked at Red. He covered his face and screamed silently.

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"Unbelievable, absolutely unbelievable... Me? Absolutely unbelievable!"

In the central elevator, which was so spacious that even a party could be held there, Enbe huddled in a corner and kept muttering to himself, as if he was trapped in the same space with a terrifying beast and could only feel a little safe by leaning against the corner.

Reid was quite embarrassed.

It's not because of Ember's vigilant and cautious expression, but rather that this is the reaction a normal person should have. After all, he has no safety measures from top to bottom. What really makes Red embarrassed is another woman who is squatting in front of him in a rather misleading posture, lifting up his clothes and staring at his lower abdomen.

"It's incredible - all the wounds are healed, is this the power of Aguru?" Seleu held the hem of Reid's clothes with his left hand, and carefully stroked Reid's lower abdomen with his right hand, but the cautious movements were becoming unrestrained.

"Don't worry, Seleu is an expert in this area and there will be no misdiagnosis," U said without turning his head.

"This is really... reliable," Reid said with a stern face as he grabbed his belt tightly to block Seleu's right hand from exploring wantonly.

"I will conduct some basic tests on you later. Your situation is very special. Logically, you should be locked up down there until the extinction of humanity. However, I am satisfied with your answers, so from today on, you will be a D-class employee of Servier Turia. After the test, you will be arranged to live in the dormitory for D-class employees."

U raised his hand and a holographic image appeared beside his hand. His slender fingers flew around and operated as if playing a piano piece.

"Your dormitory is in the thirteenth area. Someone will take you there after the test is over. Your luggage will be delivered soon."

Reid nodded blankly.

At this time, Enbei, who was leaning in the corner, frowned but did not speak.

The elevator stopped at the negative fifteenth floor. U walked out first, and Embe carefully avoided Red and followed U. Seleu reluctantly lingered for a while before pulling Red out of the central elevator and walked in another direction.

"The test is over here. Don't look so nervous. I'm not some nympho who wants to take you to a deserted corner and eat you."

Seryu turned around and smiled brightly.

Red forced a smile and looked around.

The overall environment was a little too bright, and walking in it would give one the illusion of standing still. On the overpasses on both sides above their heads, fully armed guards holding guns and wearing metal helmets whose faces could not be seen clearly were walking back and forth. Now, several of the armed guards stopped and stared in his direction. One of them was holding the handrail of the overpass as if he was ready to roll down.

"Ah—everyone is fine! No escort needed!"

Seleu raised his hand and waved. The armed guards were silent for a long time before resuming their previous actions. However, Red could vaguely feel that some of the armed guards were staring at him with not-so-friendly eyes.

On the other side, after making sure that they were at a distance from Red, Embe moved closer to U and lowered his voice.

"We don't have a dormitory in District 13. The areas provided to regular D-class personnel are only Districts 1 to 12."

"We have District 13."

Enbei was stunned for a moment before he reacted and slapped his forehead hard. "You are not talking about the temporary dormitory for those candidates who signed up to join the shelter without any training and whose identities have not even been verified."

"Any questions?"

U turned into another passage, and doors opened one after another. At the end of the doors, researchers in white coats walked back and forth, and noisy discussions were heard. However, after seeing U, the researchers suddenly became quiet, and many of them cast unhappy looks at U and Enbe.

U, who had long been accustomed to the hostility of these researchers from different funding systems, took Embe to an empty operating table and pressed Embe on the chair. On the display screen, Red was already standing in the center of the white space, while Seleu was standing in front of Red, gesturing at something.

The research institute once again returned to its previous noisy atmosphere, but there were still many people staring in the direction of U.

"It's not that there's a problem," Enbei put on the headset with an awkward look on his face, "We understand what you mean."

There is no doubt that Red is now a unique existence in the whole world, but before becoming that unique existence, Red was just an ordinary person who had just come to [S·L]. To them, things as common as eating and drinking were all big events that made Red shout "Wow!". They have seen many people become mentally ill due to the continuous subversion of facts.

It would be fine if it was an ordinary person, but Red was wearing Aguru, so if he got confused, he would be done for.

Therefore, the temporary dormitory, which was filled with employees who knew nothing about the internal affairs of Selvi Turia, was just right to relieve Red's mental stress.

"Reid, don't take off your clothes. There has never been a test that requires you to take off your clothes. Seryu, please come out quickly. The test is about to begin."

Red, who already suspected that Selyu had ulterior motives, immediately tightened his clothes. Selyu was not embarrassed and even reached out to help Red tidy up his clothes quite naturally. Then he patted Red on the shoulder, turned around and waved his hand as he left gracefully.

As Seleu left, the door to the outside world closed. Facing the pure white dirt with no visible lines, Red looked around in confusion and raised his head, "What should I do?"

"A simple physical fitness test."

Embi put his right hand on the joystick and shook it left and right.

The black lines divide the white space into countless white blocks of one square meter. The blocks rotate to both sides in an orderly manner, and the equipment that is very common in the gym is pushed out by the robotic arms.

Red breathed a sigh of relief at the unexpectedly normal development of the situation. He raised his hands and rolled up his sleeves. He was quite confident in his physical fitness.

At this moment, a dumbbell marked 50kg fell in front of Red with a clang, and Embe's emotionless voice hovered over Red's head.

"Anyway, do twenty curls with this thing to warm up."

Reid's pupils flickered and he slowly pulled his sleeves down.

Chapter 6 Testing

When a very heavy object appears in front of a group of men, the situation will change drastically. Every man will transform into a strongman to challenge the heavy object. Red naturally has had such experience, so Red knows very well that asking him to do twenty curls with 50kg dumbbells to warm up is definitely playing a joke on him.

Red thought Ember was joking.

"What's wrong? Is there any problem?"

Embe wasn't kidding.

Reed had no choice but to bend down and hold the dumbbells with both hands. He took a deep breath and stared at the dumbbells that were thicker than his wrists. He suddenly understood King Arthur's feelings. Even though the unreliable Merlin repeatedly brainwashed King Arthur in reality and in dreams and told him that he could draw the sword of the king, when he actually held it, he would definitely have doubts: "Can I really do it?"

But Rhett felt that he was a little more miserable than King Arthur. King Arthur was just not sure whether he could definitely pull out the sword of the king, and he had experienced many failures and was sure that he could not...

Red blinked and stood up straight, lifting the 50kg dumbbell that was thicker than his arm.

Can you lift it?

Reid tentatively loosened his right hand and shook the 50kg dumbbell in his left hand up and down.

It was not as light as a feather, but rather heavy. It was a genuine 50kg dumbbell. What was wrong was his body.

Embe's voice from above answered Red's doubts.

"The Agur belt is improving your physique. If you can't even lift a 50kg dumbbell, how did you survive that Gurongi's attack?"

"That makes sense," Reid nodded, curling his left hand up and down.

"If you understand, finish your warm-up quickly. There are still a lot of tests waiting for you."

Embe's tone was quite cold, as if he was treating a machine, but in front of the screen, Embe kept wiping his sweat, and his right hand was showing Red's full body scan and brain wave gaps.

Selyu came to the research institute with his hands stuffed into the pockets on both sides of his white coat. He stood next to Ember and leaned forward to glance at the scanned image. A strange light flashed in his eyes, "It's incredible, but... it's real. We are witnessing an evolution."

Embe reached out to turn off the communication, raised his hand and tapped Red's full body scan. "Rather than evolution, it's more appropriate to describe it as erosion."

The full-body scan clearly showed that there was a huge foreign object on Red's waist. Countless tiny nerves spread from the foreign object to cover Red's entire body. And just now, when Red picked up the 50kg dumbbells and his brain wave reaction became intense, the speed of the nerve spread increased, so Embe used a relaxed tone to calm Red's emotions.

"Aguru, is it really just a belt and not a living creature?" Embe's expression was extremely serious.

“Who knows,” Seryuu, an expert on Gurongi and Kuga, gave a rather vague answer, “Maybe if we dissect Rick or Red, we’ll know the answer.”

"..."

“Speaking of which, how long will this boring physical fitness test last? It’s time to test Kuuga’s data, hehe - it would be best if we could test the data of the black Kuuga,” Seryuu licked his lips.

"We should contain it and prevent anyone from wearing this belt. We should prevent a Kuuga like this from appearing in this world... Who is that person?" Ember pressed the button on the console hard to prevent Seleu from doing anything wrong.

"It's me," Seleu nodded straightforwardly, but immediately shrugged nonchalantly, "But it turns out that I'm just a little ignorant. Isn't that nothing?"

“That’s a miracle!”

"That black power is too dangerous. Don't test that power for now," U said.

"Eh……"

"Great."

"Once the basic test is over, it's time to test Kuuga's power," U raised his hand to adjust his glasses, "We must know how much power White can exert."

Embe's face tightened and he paused for a long moment before nodding and turning to look at the screen. While they were talking, Reid had already completed his warm-up and started various physical tests under the prompts of a mechanical synthesized voice.

Standing long jump, high jump, shot put, 50-meter sprint, each value is breaking existing human records, but they are only breaking human records.

A researcher who was passing by took a look at the value displayed on the screen and chuckled, "Even among the modified fighters, they are inferior products. What kind of garbage are you testing?"

U and Embe's expressions did not change, but Selyu turned around and glared at the researcher who had started to laugh at him. He looked even more unhappy when he saw the nameplate with the three-headed dog logo on the researcher's chest. "Are all Enoch people so disrespectful? U is the supreme commander of Serviteur."

"He's just a broker chosen by investors. I want to ask you, do you really want to talk to me like that? Enoch is an investor in Selvi Tulia, and I am the technical instructor appointed by Enoch to Selvi Tulia," the researcher laughed viciously, and other researchers who had the same three-headed dog logo representing Enoch on their chests laughed along.

Some even started to mock him, "Mr. Iida, how can you just say something like this? Keep a low profile and give face to the supreme commander."

Seryuu looked a little unhappy.

Enoch, whose full name is Or Enoch, is a scientific research company that occupies 45% of the global medical market. Medical facilities and drugs produced by Enoch can be seen in almost every hospital. It is one of the investors of Servais Turia.

Logically speaking, as a rescue organization and shelter within [S·L], Servieri Tullia is completely independent, and U, as the supreme commander, is equivalent to the supreme leader of mankind in power. But that's only theoretically speaking. The investors are not that kind. They invested in establishing Servieri Tullia not for charity, but to gain huge benefits from [S·L].

Therefore, in the early stages of construction, investors carefully wove hundreds of agreements to divide and undermine the power of Servitua. Two of them were the capital for the arrogance of Enoch's technical instructors headed by Jingtian.

Ownership of the contents contained in Servier-Turrian belongs to the unit that completed the containment.

All investors are obliged to train and provide Servier Turria with sophisticated containment forces. In return, Servier Turria needs to provide research on containment objects to minimize damage to the containment forces.

At first glance it seems that Servieri Tullia is a treasure in the hands of investors, but if you think about it carefully, it is not right. The obligation to train and provide does not mean that the containment troops belong to Servieri Tullia. The containment objects belong to the troops that have completed the containment, and those troops belong to those investors. The containment objects naturally belong to the investors. Servieri Tullia, which has no ownership, can only keep the objects and conduct research within the scope permitted by the sponsors. The results of the research must also be used first to strengthen the containment troops provided by the sponsors.

As a result, Serviera Turria was working for its sponsors for nothing, and the existence of those warm and friendly containment forces from the sponsors completely squeezed out the resources and space for Serviera Turria to train a containment force that belonged only to Serviera Turria. As a result, the troops trained and formed by Serviera Turria from the beginning of its construction to the present can only be used for evacuation, and they have no ability to deal with incidents that reach the containment level. Containing monsters is even more nonsense.

Even though U's status in human society is comparable to that of the supreme leader, these researchers sent from outside hardly take U seriously and treat Servius Turia as a handyman.

However, these researchers will not publicly provoke U, after all, the funders need U.

But today, a subtle accident happened.

Servieri Tullia completed the containment without relying on the containment forces from the sponsors, and obtained the containment object that belonged only to Servieri Tullia - Red.

Clearly, funders are getting a little restless.

Jingtian stood on tiptoe and glanced at the operating table in front of Enbe. His gaze paused on Reid's full-body scan, then he spread his hands to both sides and shook his head with regret.

"Ah~ It seems that it won't be long before these nerves will erode the poor guy's brain. By then, he will probably become a horrible creature similar to Gurongi from the inside out. Do you really want to believe in such a horrible creature?"

The corner of Seryu's eye twitched fiercely, "It's not your turn to say that as someone who studies Orphino."

Ida raised his finger and shook it left and right. "NONO - Ms. Seleu, I think you have a big prejudice against our research. Ophiino is a dead person who came back to life. He is the evolution of human beings who have overcome death. Neither his memory nor his cognition has changed at all, and you..."

Iida paused and raised the corner of his mouth.

"Excuse me, but the Aguru Belt is not for humans. If a human wears it, they will only be transformed from the inside out into an inhuman monster. Moreover, Rick has warned us that this Aguru has flaws. Oh my God, the man who sealed all the strongest warriors in the past thought that no one could control that belt. How can an ordinary, ordinary person control it?"

Jingtian's face brightened and he raised his hand and stood beside the operating table. "So, as the technical director of Servier Turia, U! I oppose your conducting this dangerous experiment and demand that this horrible creature be contained immediately. No - the contained object that is so dangerous that it can't even extract any value should be thrown directly into the darkness at the bottom of [S·L] and abandoned forever!"

U raised his hand to adjust his glasses without even looking at Ida and leaned over to open the communication, "Red, warm-up is over, it's time to test the power of White Kuuga."

Reid, who was pushing the instrument back into place, paused, and looked up after a moment of silence. "I'm not sure if it will be the same as last time."

"Ha, no, you don't have any awareness of being a containment... Your future is worrying."

Jingtian immediately crossed his arms and shook his head, then turned around and raised his chin to show off at the operating table where the other Enoch researchers were sitting. The Enoch researchers immediately nodded, turned on the communication device, and displayed the situation on the test bench on the central exhibition stand of the institute.

In the middle of the equally pure white test field stood a strange man whose entire body was as pale as ashes and whose appearance was hideous and had the features of a thorny fish.

Ida raised his hand and beckoned, and Researcher Enoch immediately leaned over and said, "Stingray, it's time to conduct the test."

The strange man called Thornfish in the center of the venue clenched his fists and pulled out a trident.

"Obedience!" Iida raised his head proudly, and the other Enoch researchers immediately stood up and applauded.

Enbei held his forehead and sighed deeply. If he had not seen these Enoch researchers putting electric collars on sticky fish and using various electric shocks to punish them more than once... he would probably think that Jingtian was very powerful.

Orphino, a monster that was created by the probability of resurrection after human death, had already existed in human society before the emergence of [S·L], and even had its own organization called the Intelligent Brain Group. After the emergence of [S·L], the Intelligent Brain Group no longer concealed its existence and openly showed its existence in [S·L]. Almost all Orphinos are members of the Intelligent Brain Group.

And the existence of Orphino is extremely subtle. Although they have become monsters, they have retained all the memories and emotions of their previous lives. Moreover, Orphino is a monster that is resurrected after a person's death and cannot be eradicated. But Orphino has characteristics that are quite dangerous to humans. So, whether to treat Orphino as a human or a monster, human society has not yet had an accurate answer. It is precisely because there is no accurate answer so far that, as a monster group, the Intelligent Brain Group has grown to a quite terrifying level in [S·L].

But for Selvi Tulia, Ofiino is a weirdo, a person who needs to be taken in and can legally undergo various inhuman experiments. As for Enoch, it was Enoch who claimed that Ofiino was a human being and vigorously promoted the protection of Ofiino's human rights, but it was also Enoch who took Ofiino in and studied him to death every time.

Embe shook his head and didn't want to pay attention to Ida. He pressed his body down, "Don't worry, according to our research, Kuuga's white form is the safest state. It won't go berserk. If nothing unexpected happens, you won't turn into the black Kuuga. Now concentrate and recall the feeling at that time. Remember, stay calm, as calm as possible."

Embe glanced at Red's brain waves displayed on the side and swallowed subconsciously.