【Ruijin】Eye of the Storm

Chapter 19

The display of the office is very simple, and there are almost no personal items related to Gray.Jin played with the only pen on the table, bent down and opened the first drawer at hand.

There is a large stack of documents in the drawer, which should be the assignment letter that was sent here for Gray to sign.On the top of the paper was a simple wooden photo frame upside down. Jin turned it upside down and took a look, and found that it was a photo of them and Qiu.

Jin carefully opened the clasp on the back of the frame and took out the thin photo.The corners of the photo are already a little yellowed and wrinkled, it can be seen that the quality is not very good.In the photo, Qiu is wearing a blue and white T-shirt, smiling very happily.He and Gray were held in her arms by her outstretched arms, Jin was wearing a hat, and Gray was holding a wooden knife. The background was a small garden, which should be their common place in Dengeru later. The one at the back of the home that I reclaimed myself.In the corner of the back of the photo there is still a line of faint ink, which says "my younger brothers" in small characters, in Qiu's handwriting.Jin calculated the date of inscription, and it should have been when he was ten years old.

To this day, he still remembers the scene when this photo was taken.The reason was that Ge Rui and he picked up a bag of plant seeds outside. With Qiu's encouragement, they worked hard for nearly half a month to tidy up the messy space behind their house and built a simple small space. Garden, sow the bag of seeds one by one.Strange to say, the seeds they sowed did not seem to germinate at that time. I don’t know if it was because they couldn’t adapt to the climate of Dengalu or the way the two children were cared for was wrong. What kind of plant is the seed.

The guide, who had withdrawn from the memory again, shook his head with a smile, and put the photo frame back in place.He crossed the two middle compartments and reached out to open the bottom drawer.

That drawer was much more empty than the previous one, only two sheets of A4 printing paper stapled together quietly sleeping in the center.The guide gently took it out. Although he was mentally prepared, his heart still sank suddenly when he saw the bold words "Surgery Report" on the header of the paper.

Jin pinched the report slightly with his fingers, and wrinkled the thin paper.After quickly scanning the complex chart data on the first page, a large number of professional medical terms make ordinary people who don't understand medical science feel a little annoyed.Jin didn't waste any more time, and turned to the second page directly.The second page seemed to be a copy of a medical record. Jin put the report horizontally in his hand and looked at it carefully. His name was filled in the column of the patient's name.

In the detailed description below, it is written that the patient underwent combined marker skin graft repair.However, due to the deep cut and massive blood loss in the early stage, half of the joint spirits that maintained the original mark were necrotic at the end, and had lost their ability to regenerate autonomously.In the column of the person responsible for the consequences of the operation in the lower right corner, Gray's name was signed.

The guide stared at the few lines of small words, and repeated them silently in his heart many times.He clearly knew every word, but he couldn't understand the meaning of these words at all.

Jin's premonition was correct, this report was obviously hidden in this office deliberately by Gray, in order to conceal the truth from himself.He was suddenly in a trance, and subconsciously reached out to touch the side of his neck again.The patch of skin that marked the swelling felt the same as before, proving that the operation had gone well.But under the perfect whitewash on the surface, the interior has long been completely rotten.With the Combined Spirit slightly incapacitated to regenerate, the result was almost a death sentence for their relationship, as without a healthy Combined Spirit Guide, they would never be able to establish a true bond with the Sentinel.

The belated sense of despair hit him, and Jin felt that he had some difficulty breathing, as if the air around him was sucked dry in an instant.

At this moment, the siren in the corner of the office ceiling suddenly blew sharply.The blond guide was startled and quickly stood up from his chair.He didn't know what happened, but Jin immediately realized that it wasn't just the alarm in the office, but the alarm in the whole tower, including the hallway and hall, was sounded at the same time.

He quickly folded his surgery report in three and stuffed it into his coat pocket, then turned around and ran to open the door of the office.The sound of people running and vague shouts came from downstairs. Jin immediately realized that something was wrong, and rushed back to the office and roughly opened the curtains to look down from the window.

The dazzling lights illuminated the night, and all the sentries who had been working in the building were running in the same direction, while the guides were organized by the guards to retreat in the opposite direction.Unable to wait any longer, Jin rushed down the stairs as fast as he could, ran out, and walked forward with difficulty against the flow of evacuation guides.

He casually grabbed the collar of a guard and sentry, and asked sharply, "What happened?!"

The young sentry was also shocked by his aura for a while, and he stammered and replied: "—Yes, it is the sentry, someone has invaded the sentry... Hey! This guide! You, you can't go there— —!”

Jin completely left the other party's eager shouting behind him, nimbly got into the gap of the crowd, and rushed towards the position of the sentry post.

There are a total of twelve outposts in the tower, which surround the outermost edge of the base of the tower for exactly one week, and are the tower's initial defense line against foreign invasion.Jin ran all the way, and heard the fierce gunshots and the sound of heavy objects colliding from far away.All logistics personnel and guides have been safely transferred to the rear, and the sentries in combat uniforms in front of them should be elites who came directly from the school grounds, and they are currently isolating the area near the sentry tower in an orderly manner.One of the sentries was holding a walkie-talkie, and seemed to be reporting the situation to his superiors ahead.Jin felt that his face was familiar, and after careful recollection, he was sure that this sentinel should be Zeng Gray's direct subordinate.

Hearing the footsteps of outsiders, the sentry immediately turned around vigilantly.When he saw Jin, he was taken aback immediately, thinking that he recognized him, he quickly hung the walkie-talkie back to his chest, and stopped the blond-haired guide a few steps forward.

"Golden Guide," the sentinel said anxiously, "There is something going on here, it's very dangerous and you can't get close, please go back to the back immediately!"

Jin shook his head persistently, separated his body from blocking him, and asked, "Where is Gray? I have something to ask him."

"'Don't allow any non-combatants to approach the sentry post'," the sentry stepped back and stopped Jin, who was about to move forward again, with a somewhat helpless tone, "This order itself was issued by Sentry Gray, sorry, you can't go there , please don't embarrass us..."

As if being emotionally touched by a certain title in his mouth, Jin stopped abruptly, turned around and bullied the other party suddenly, and took the walkie-talkie hanging on his chest by surprise before the sentry could react.The sentry was taken aback by his movement, and he didn't dare to really push the opponent. He was about to stretch out his hand to take it back, but Jin hit his abdomen hard with his left elbow. He groaned in pain and shrank back.

Jin pressed the switch button, and said to the other end of the microphone in a bad tone: "Gerry, let me in. Now, immediately!"

There was silence on the intercom for three seconds, and then there was a slight electric sound: "Why are you here?"

Jin didn't answer him, and sternly threw the machine back to its original owner.The sentinel caught it in a hurry, and quickly connected to the communication to explain to Gray: "Sorry, Captain, I—"

"...bring him to me," Gray's deep and calm voice came from the intercom, "protect him."

"Ah... yes!"

Only a short distance away from the real sentry, Jin quickly entered the battle circle under the cover of the sentry.It was dark at night, and only then did he realize that the intruders were a group of people whose breath was obviously different from ordinary people.They are distorted in shape, but their reactions are extremely sensitive, and there are a large number of them. From a distance, they look like zombies besieging a city in a doomsday movie.Several elite sentries were wrestling with these people. Jin raised his head slightly and saw Gray standing on one side of the sentry directing the battle.The silver-haired sentry was wearing a black combat uniform and military boots, with a holster on his waist and shoulders. Jin threw off the sentry subordinate who was following him, went around the obstacle and rushed into the stairs, and climbed to the top of the sentry in a few strides.

As soon as he looked at his sentinel out of breath, he was interrupted by the monster-like roar of the intruder not far away.Now is not the time to think about other things, Jin closed his eyes and adjusted his breathing, walked up to Gray and showed him his palm, hooked his fingers and said, "Give me a weapon."

Gray paused, frowned, pulled out a gun from behind, turned it around in his hand, and handed it to the blond guide with the muzzle facing him.Jin took it and took a look. It was a Bo/Lei/Tower/M9, which was the type of gun he had used the most since he entered the tower to perform tasks.

Without saying anything else, Jin skillfully loaded the bullet, raised his hands flat to prepare for shooting, turned around and stood back to back with his sentry, turned his head slightly and asked in a low voice that only the two of them could hear: "What's the situation now?" ? Who are they?"

The silver-haired sentry shot and killed a person trying to climb into the sentry tower with a blank face, and then answered him: "Reform the sentry."

"...What?!" Jin was taken aback, "There are more than 100 people here, all reformed sentinels?"

Gray said "Yes" softly, and continued: "They launched a night attack an hour ago, but they triggered the alarm mechanism when they invaded the outpost."

"Why don't you let the senior guide come over and try it out," Jin asked. "For large-scale battles, mind control is more beneficial."

Gray shook his head: "I've tried it, but it doesn't work. These people are a little different from what we've encountered before. They don't seem to have self-awareness, so they are immune to mental attacks."

With a jump in his heart, Jin realized that this problem was really tricky.

In the history of sentries and guides, no matter how high the rank of the sentry is, they will always be subject to the spiritual constraints of the guide.If there is no such restraint, the sentinels are very likely to be controlled by the violent factors in their nature during the battle and suffer from "fugue disorder". Totally self-destructive.But there have also been such legends that in a certain century in the past, there were very few special sentries called "Dark Sentinels".The probability of Dark Sentinels appearing is even lower than that of naturally awakened S-ranks. They have extremely abnormal self-control abilities. In theory, there is no state that is difficult to control themselves, so they don't need any assistance from the guide.Whether the Dark Sentinels really existed, and why they were formed, no one has been able to give an accurate and detailed answer so far.

Everything that happened now pointed the arrow at Guihu Tianchong.As the only person who may have the latest research data on illegal drugs, the commotion of this night attack is undoubtedly his handwriting.And his purpose is also obvious - he hopes to transform the dark sentinel that can really stand at the top of the pyramid of the times through the effect of artificial medicine.And now all the "reformers" are experiments created by Ghost Fox to accomplish this goal.

Now it seems that he is getting closer and closer to success.

Jin sideways avoided the last cyborg who rushed forward, a bullet pierced through the air and penetrated into the middle of the opponent's forehead, the enemy wailed and fell to his knees, blood mixed with milky white viscous liquid splashed all over the ground.

Gray retracted the gun, stretched out his hand to pull the guide behind him, and looked around with a cold face.

"Is this the last one?" Jin asked, looking up at the dawn sky.Gray nodded, turned the body curled up with his feet, squatted down to untie the neckline of the opponent, and groped around the back of his neck.

At this moment, the communicator behind Gray's ear rang again.He stopped what he was doing and pressed the switch: "What's the matter?"

"I caught one alive," Lei Shi's electronicized voice came from the earphone, "but something is wrong, you'd better come and see for yourself."

Seeing the sentinel standing up slowly, Jin frowned more and more, and asked the reason: "What's wrong?"

Gray glanced at him, then looked away immediately, and slowly replied: "I'm going to Leishi to have a look, you—"

"Then let's go together," Jin Lang interrupted him, lowering his eyes, "Right now your business is more important. But after this, I also have something to say to you."

Gray didn't refute or promise, and the atmosphere between the two was a bit awkward.Jin heard the sentinel give a soft "tsk", and then let go of a harmless "up to you".When he looked up again, Gray had already gone downstairs on his own.

Jin caught up with him, and the two came to a blind spot on the west side of the sentry tower one after the other.Several sentinels who were wounded in the battle just now were sitting under the tree roots bandaging each other's wounds. When they saw Gray approaching, they immediately stood up and saluted, shouting in unison: "Captain."

Grey raised his hand to return the gift, passed them and went straight to Leishi who was a little further away.The black-haired sentry nodded at him, and moved away to let him see a reformed person behind him who was pinned to death on the ground by two sentries in the tower.

"Although I also tried to ask for you," Lei Shi shrugged, "but it's a pity that he wanted to see you, Grey, by name, as if he wanted to talk to you."

Gray didn't move, and looked down at the face of the reformed man condescendingly.Jin stood behind him and looked down together, and found that the reformed man must have injured his lungs in the previous fight. He was lying on his side, short of breath, and the corners of his mouth were still overflowing with blood foam, and he looked dying. .

As if sensing Grey's arrival, the reformed sentinel struggled more intensely.With all his strength, he broke free from the grip of the tower sentinel, dragged his twisted right leg inch by inch towards Gray and Jin, and finally stretched out his hand to grab Gray's military boots, and raised his face upwards. Come.

"...captain!" The other sentinels standing around were shocked when they saw this scene, and subconsciously wanted to step forward to pull them away, but Gray raised his hand and gave them an order to stop.

Jin pulled Lagerui's arm hanging by his side, intending to remind him to be careful, but at this moment, the reformed sentinel slowly revealed his face on his raised face, as if he had been given a hint. gave a weird smile.

"In three days... the basement..."

His hoarse vocal cords were like broken bellows, but the smile on his face became more and more obvious.

"—for your truth...in exchange for...my...truth..."

The protracted breath of the reformed man stopped abruptly, and Gray, who had reacted, quickly stretched out his hand to pinch his jaw, but it was still too late.

All this happened too suddenly, Lei Shi squatted down and opened his mouth, and after seeing the other party's bloody/paste/paste inside, he shook his head heavily at Gray.

Jin turned his head to look at Gray, only to realize that the silver-haired sentinel's face was very ugly.He had never seen Gray put on such a terrifying look, and he didn't know what to do for a while, so he could only tightly clenched the opponent's wrist.

The sentry took a deep breath, separated Jin's fingers holding his wrist one by one, and ordered to his subordinates in a cold tone: "Drag the body to the dungeon, and let the previous colleague of Guihu Tianchong /Party to confirm whether they belong to them or not.”

After saying that, the sentinel turned and left.

Jin's throat seemed to be blocked by something. Looking at Gray's back, he raised his foot and wanted to catch up.Unexpectedly, a force from behind pinched his collar and dragged him a step back.Jin Kankan stabilized his body, turned around and faced Lei Shi with angry eyes, and cursed in a low voice: "What are you doing?!"

Lei Shi stood on the spot with one hand on his hips indifferently, and glanced at him probingly: "It seems that you have remembered it all? Camille's method is very effective."

Jin straightened his collar and said, "I don't have time to chat with you about these gossips."

Lei Shi gave a smirk: "Oh? But what I want to say is not gossip." He patted Jin on the shoulder, and pointed to the direction where Gray left: "Your sentry has not been right recently-I just Kind reminder, believe it or not, it’s up to you.”

TBC