Knight Asylum

After figuring it out, Red relaxed a lot and started chatting with Qiao.

Time passed minute by minute, and Red keenly heard the sound of a chair being pulled away from behind him, as well as a heavy aura. Red's expression remained unchanged, but his eyes narrowed. Qiao, who was sitting opposite him, nodded immediately.

The trader is here.

A silver-white box was placed between two chairs. As long as Red bent down, he could take the box away naturally as if he were taking away his own things. However, Red did not do that. Instead, he frowned, because the trader behind him only put down a box, but the task file stated that there should be three boxes.

"Uncle, the number is wrong."

Reid said without hesitation.

Perhaps he didn't expect to be called uncle so casually. The trader coughed and spoke slowly after a long while, "I... don't trust you. I'm putting the remaining two boxes in a safe place. Once I'm sure you are worthy of trust, I'll give you the rest."

After saying this, the trader stood up and walked towards the flowing crowd with heavy steps.

Reid was startled and immediately stood up, wanting to chase after him, but just as he took a step, his right hand was grabbed. Turning his head, he saw Qiao Zheng staring at him with a serious face.

Qiao shook his head, "That uncle is very strong, but not like a human's strength."

Not like a human?

Red's heart skipped a beat and he turned his head to look again. The sturdy figure was like a phantom, passing straight through the crowd without disturbing anyone. By the time Red reacted, the sturdy figure had disappeared.

Here [S·L] should be considered normal.

Reid soothed his heart.

"What should I do?" After calming his heart, Red picked up the box and scratched the back of his head in embarrassment.

"This is not something we should worry about," Qiao put his hands behind his head, "The trader has left. All we have to do is to send the things back to Selvi Turia according to the route. That's all."

"That's true," Reid opened his phone and scrolled through the address book. Sure enough, there was a new contact with a question mark on both the name and the number.

After thinking for a while, Red dialed the number.

Servais command tower.

U sat in the position of the highest commander as usual, hunched over. The screens with flashing lights of all sizes flashed rapidly as his eyes moved. Then a communicator stood up and waved in U's direction.

"U, there's a communication from Red."

Enbei, who was in the process of making a plan go awry due to a provocation from the other party, immediately raised his head.

U raised his finger and waved, and the communication was connected.

"What went wrong?"

Red heaved a sigh of relief when he heard it was U's voice and explained the current situation.

U raised his eyebrows slightly, raised his hand and pressed it to signal Enbei who was walking over not to worry, it was not a big problem.

"Okay, I understand. The mission remains unchanged. You just need to transport the box back to Selvi Tulia according to the route," U ended the call, crossed his fingers in front of him, and narrowed his eyes slightly.

"What's wrong? Is there a problem?" Enbe finally couldn't help but walked over.

"Hanagata - only gave me a belt," U's expression remained unchanged, as if he had expected such a situation.

"Really? It turns out to be like this." Enbei crossed his arms and sighed helplessly, "But at least I have one belt. I just hope the remaining two belts don't fall into the hands of the Intelligent Brain Group."

"Now we have to see which belt Huaxing gives us," U picked up the still steaming coffee, spread out the three sugar cubes, picked up the silver spoon, and shook it back and forth on top of the three sugar cubes.

"It must be Delta, but..." Enbe shrugged, paused for a long time, and tilted his head. "It's really strange. Why would Enoch share this task so generously? If this task is completed, Selvi Turia will get the ownership of the belt."

A passing combat staff officer stopped and interrupted, "Are you trying to play a trap?"

"Entrapment enforcement?" Enbei raised his eyebrows slightly.

The operations staff officer stopped and gestured with his hand.

"Yes, it's a sting operation. Although Red is now a temporary D-class employee, he is actually a very dangerous containment object. Red is just an ordinary person after all. It is impossible for an ordinary person to accept that his body has become like that. Moreover, after yesterday's test, Red has probably realized that his future will be difficult, so... Red may take advantage of this mission to escape."

The operations staff keenly noticed that the atmosphere on the entire command platform had become solemn, and he immediately felt a little regretful. Although he did not think that his speculation was wrong, if such a thing really happened, U would definitely be held accountable, and they would not have an easy time either.

"Well, it's not impossible," U gently stirred the coffee with the silver spoon.

"U..."

Enbei looked at U, who was ridiculously calm, with helplessness on his face.

"Well - of course there are other possibilities. For example, they want to use this mission to secretly get rid of Reid," the operations staff laughed awkwardly.

A communicator couldn't help but complain when he heard the operations staff say this, "That's impossible. Even the lowest-level missions are kept strictly confidential. The only people who know the specific route are the mission staff and us."

"Ahem - Enoch might also target the staff, for example -"

Enoch coughed awkwardly after being choked. He looked around and quickly walked to a communication station to pick up the mission file. He flipped through it and raised his hand to knock on Qiao's file. "For example, this guy named Qiao is a mystery from head to toe. His personal file can only be traced back to two years ago."

"As for this Hiroshi Izawa..."

This time the operations staff paused for a while, because compared to Qiao's rather perfunctory and brief personal file, Izawa Hiroshi's personal file was quite detailed. In the past, he was neither a good guy nor a bad guy, and was a first-rate gangster. However, after seeing that he was an official employee of Servier Turia and had a detailed mission record, the operations staff did not care so much.

"That Hiroshi Izawa is a staff member of Enoch," the communicator added.

"Then it's even less likely to be Hiroshi Izawa. Enoch wouldn't expose himself just to deal with Reid. It's impossible," the operations staff waved his hand.

U's fingers that were stirring the coffee paused slightly.

Red put his phone back into his pocket and turned to Qiao, holding the box in his hand, "Go back."

Qiao yawned, stood up, patted his coat, and returned to the parking lot with Red. He carried the box and started to return along the route marked in the mission.

Chapter 10 Killing Red

Selvi Turia, Enoch District, as an expatriate technical instructor, Jingtian is not only the director here but also has a very luxurious special office. Now Jingtian is drinking coffee and leisurely listening to other Enoch researchers holding a meeting to discuss the research on Orpheus Enoch.

"The experiment to extract the mark has failed again, and another Orphino has been lost."

"Is there really an error in some step?"

"Failure is a very normal thing. The Orphino factor can make the human body evolve at the genetic level in an extremely short period of time, and it will become Orphino's personal memory and emotions. There will be no problems at all."

Iida frowned slightly.

These people were telling him in a roundabout way that the research had hit a bottleneck again, and they began to shirk responsibility by blaming the bottleneck on "difficulty".

Just as Jingtian was about to open his mouth to scold the old foxes in front of him, a pleasant music came from the mobile phone next to Jingtian. The researcher, who was trying to save face while secretly observing Jingtian's reaction, immediately stopped the discussion.

After glancing at the numbers displayed on the phone screen, Iida put the phone down, picked up the phone, turned his chair and answered the call.

"it's me."

"Master, Director! The mission information has been changed. They have received the goods and started transporting them!"

The director's office was very quiet, so the researchers sitting around the conference table could vaguely hear the voice coming from the phone. It was Hiroshi Izawa.

"Really? So? What do you want from me now?"

Hiroshi Izawa, who was wandering in the alley, paused, sweat pouring down his forehead, "Eh? No, didn't I just say that after they get the goods, I'll notify the director and you'll..."

Before Hiroshi Izawa could finish, Iida suddenly raised his voice, "Is that all?! Think about it carefully again?"

Even the researchers present lowered their heads, not daring to breathe, let alone Hiroshi Izawa.

"I, I will receive the goods before they are delivered to the headquarters, and I will not let Selvi Turia get the ownership of the goods! Director, you can rest assured that I will do the job. I will deal with those two temporary workers well, and they will never say a word!"

"Well, what else?" Iida's oppressive voice suddenly became much softer and continued to ask.

"Anything else?" Hiroshi Izawa's legs felt a little weak.

"Ha - there are only a few such places. Can you get it with just this level? Do you want to stay in the storage area? Thorny fish," Iida's voice was extremely calm. It seemed that he was trying to persuade him kindly, but he was constantly putting pressure on Hiroshi Izawa and exposing Hiroshi Izawa's true identity. He was the Thorny Fish-type Orphino who should have been detained in the storage area as a prisoner.

Hiroji Izawa collapsed against the wall as if all his bones were pulled out, gasping for breath, his pupils trembling wildly.

A researcher subconsciously raised his hand and scratched his face.

This is a tactic Iida often uses. He never reveals his own subjective will from beginning to end, forcing others to achieve his goals on their own. This is also one of the reasons why Iida can sit firmly in the position of director.

"Go kill Red."

The researcher who was scratching his face froze, and the other researchers raised their heads and looked at Jingtian in disbelief.

"Huh?" Hiroshi Izawa opened his eyes wide.

"It shouldn't be a difficult thing for you, Ophiino," Jingtian picked up the coffee slowly and smiled contemptuously.

"No, no," Izawa Hiroshi swallowed hard, "This is murder..."

"How can this be considered murder!" Ida immediately raised his voice. "He is no longer a human being, but a monster. Moreover... even if you don't kill him, he will be completely corroded in half a year at most. However, according to the intensity of their test, it may not even take three months for his brain to be completely corroded and reduced to an irrational killing machine. If you kill him... you are helping him to be free. As long as you kill him and bring back the things that fell out of his body, it will not only be me who will benefit you."

After saying that, Jingtian simply hung up the phone. The researchers sitting opposite Jingtian looked at each other in bewilderment. Finally, a researcher with more experience said, "Director, it's too risky to use this matter. The target of this transaction is Hanagata, that..."

The researcher hesitated, as if he was afraid of something, but under the urging of others' eyes, he gritted his teeth and continued.

"If the former president of the Zhinao Group were to learn of our deal with Hanagata, things would get really bad. What if the Zhinao Group terminated its cooperation with Enoch..."

The researcher did not continue speaking because he felt that Iida should know the seriousness of the problem.

Because Orpheus is a monster that has a probability of reviving and awakening after human death, the group-based Orpheus is more suitable as a trading object than other monsters, and Orpheus has always maintained close ties with the Zhinao Group.

As an organization, the thing it fears most is the emergence of "traitors" who go against the purpose it advocates. The larger the organization is and the more unable it is to independently screen and absorb new members, the more it fears this. And Ofinno has both of these points.

[S·L], the existence of monsters has been stimulating the reproductive instinct of mankind. The population has been increasing year by year, and the number of deaths has gradually increased. The birth of Orphino is entirely based on probability, and there is no pattern to be found. The Intelligent Brain Group can still control the birth of Orphino in [S·L], but outside [S·L], the world is too big. The Intelligent Brain Group is worried about the emergence of a second Intelligent Brain Group whose purpose is completely contrary to theirs.

Therefore, the Intelligent Brain Group cooperated with Enoch. In order to make the Intelligent Brain Group completely the spokesperson of Orphino, it not only condoned Enoch's capture of Orphino, but even helped Enoch capture Orphino to a certain extent. All of Orphino's [traitors] were handed over to Enoch to deal with, but in return, Enoch must also help the Intelligent Brain Group in certain things, including doing its utmost to seize Servius Turia's decision-making power over Orphino.

This is the contract between the Enoch Group’s board of directors and the current president of Zhinao Group, Murakami Kyoji.

Murakami Kyoer's position as the president of the Zhinao Group was snatched from the former president Hanagata. Even now, Murakami Kyoer is still using thundering means to rectify the voices that support Hanagata within the Zhinao Group. If Murakami Kyoer knew that Servier Turia had a deal with Hanagata to obtain the secrets of the Zhinao Group, he would not just say one or two words [This is different from what was agreed]

It can be solved by cursing.

You know, the purpose of the Zhinao Group now is that Orphino must kill people, and if he doesn't kill people, he will be treated as a traitor.

If it were to be revealed that the Intelligent Brain Group, which holds the principle of killing people for the sake of Orphino, was cooperating with the human rescue organization Servius Turia, not only would its international reputation and prestige, but all the research invested so far would be ruined.

By then, not only Servier Turia, but even the Enoch Group might be dragged into the water, so this deal cannot afford any mistakes.

But Iida performed a rather dangerous operation in this matter.

Originally, Hiroshi Izawa was sold to Enoch by the Intelligent Brain Group because he was afraid to kill people. Now Iida is forcing Hiroshi Izawa to kill Reid. Although they know that Iida wants to kill Reid and snatch Aguru away, they can't understand why Iida is so impatient.

Several researchers thought of some rumors.

Ida wants to replace U as the supreme commander of Servitoria.

"What are you afraid of?" Iida threw his phone on the table and crossed his legs. "How can a thug who doesn't even dare to kill people dare to resist me? Besides, haven't I already given him an excuse? He's not going to kill humans, but monsters."

"You have all seen how powerful I am. Do you think a loser who was pinned to the ground and beaten by a D-class fighting robot can defeat Ophino?"

The other researchers looked at each other, not knowing how to refute. One of the younger researchers hesitated for a moment and then spoke carefully, "But that is Kuuga's power after all. It is the same as Riku's power."

Iida raised his hand and waved, "That depends on who is wearing it. There is no useless power in this world, only useless users. There is no doubt about it! Red is the useless user!"

In the alley, Hiroshi Izawa stared blankly at the phone in his hand that displayed the recording. After a while, his expression suddenly twisted and he suddenly raised his hand to throw the phone to the ground, but after holding it for a long time, he finally lowered his head in extreme dejection and stood up little by little against the wall, holding his head with both hands, his pupils contracted and dilated, and he kept shaking.

"I don't want to die, I ...--"

Chapter 11: The End of Life

"Red, I'm telling you...what's in this box?"

As they were waiting at the traffic light, Qiao suddenly spoke up, glancing through the rearview mirror at the box in Red's left hand.

Red was stunned at first, not realizing why Qiao suddenly asked this question. Then, he saw Qiao's curious eyes through the rearview mirror and immediately hid the silver box behind him. "We can't look at it."

"mean--"

Qiao stretched out his voice and leaned back towards Red to silently express his dissatisfaction.

“We really can’t watch it!”

Red moved back awkwardly, but unfortunately the back seat of the motorcycle was some distance away, and he was caught up by Qiao after he backed up twice. Fortunately, the green light came on at this moment, and the horns of the motor vehicles waiting behind kept urging him, so Qiao had to start the car and temporarily put off his protest against Red.

"We are just a temporary worker. How could they let a temporary worker transport important things?" Of course, the behavioral protest stopped, but it did not mean that Qiao was no longer curious about what was in the box. Rather, after Red stopped her, Qiao wanted to see what was in the box even more.

Facing Qiao's temptation, Red expressed helplessness, "I say... Is it possible that this box is actually a test for us, and if we resist the urge to look at it, we can become official employees?"

Qiao blinked his eyes and suddenly realized, "What you said does seem to make sense, but... is becoming a formal employee really a good thing? That, that annoying guy, do you want to work with a guy like that?"

Reid smiled awkwardly.

The annoying guy was most likely referring to Hiroshi Izawa. Apparently Qiao really hated Hiroshi Izawa, so much so that he didn't even want to say Hiroshi Izawa's name.

"Who knows? The world is so big and there are so many people. How can you know whether something is right or wrong if you don't try it yourself?"

Red didn't know whether he was comforting Qiao or comforting himself.

Sitting up straight, opening the mask, and feeling the wind blowing into his eyes, Reid felt extremely complicated.