【Ruijin】Eye of the Storm

Chapter 18

When consciousness slowly returned, Jin felt the heat of the sun coming through his eyelids.He seemed to have a long, long dream, the main character was obviously himself, and what happened in the dream was actually experienced in reality.The nerve endings still had a faint pain after being strongly stimulated. He supported the bed with one hand and sat up with his forehead covered with the other.The white quilt hugged his lap, and the sense of fault caused by recalling his memory made him a little confused about reality and illusion the moment he opened his eyes.

He was the only one in the white noise room. He closed his eyes and felt it again. The position of combining chains in his mind was still empty.Of course, Jin silently reached out to touch the mark on the back of his neck. It was clearly the link he had torn apart with his own hands, but he still made it difficult for Gray to hide his fragile mental state all the way to this day.

The blond-haired guide crawled out of bed, tied his shoes and got out of bed, only to realize that he was fully dressed.The door was not locked, and Jin pushed the handle gently, and the door opened.

It should be closing time in the laboratory, and most of the overhead lights have been turned off.Jin walked to the far right position against the wall, bent his knuckles and tapped the wall, making two heavy knocks.The guide who was reading the document at his desk turned his head when he heard the sound, and his expression relaxed a little when he saw Jin's face.

"You're awake," Camille turned the chair to face him, and asked softly, "Do you still have any discomfort?"

"No," Jin smiled sheepishly, "I'm sorry...have you been waiting here for me to wake up?"

Camille waved his hand: "It's not on purpose, it just happened to be my shift today." He stood up and walked to the tea room next to him, pointing to the coffee machine and the original coffee beans on the small table: "Would you like Come a little?"

Jin glanced there, keenly saw the three mugs on the table that had not been put away, and slowly shook his head: "No, but thank you."

"Don't you like coffee?" Camille asked, "Because it's too bitter?"

Jin was stunned for a moment, then touched his nose: "... I don't know, maybe it is?"

Camille didn't say anything more, and turned around to fill up a cup of coffee, and the smell of sweetness and bitterness instantly permeated the whole space.

"You don't seem to want to comfort me." Jin leaned back slightly, leaned on a desk, and said in a low voice with his head down.

Camille put the three cups into the sink to clean them up, and answered him slowly: "Of course someone will comfort you."

"Can I ask you a few questions, Camille?"

The young guide wearing a red scarf nodded as a promise.

Jin looked up at him, blue eyes with ups and downs: "I didn't mean to target, but there are some things I still want to figure out."

"Why did you come to the first tower? The area where the pirate group is active should be within the jurisdiction of the second tower. According to the Sentinel Law, all sentries and guides detected in this jurisdiction will be unconditionally taken back to the local tower. The reason for giving up, isn't it?"

Camille paused, noticing the hidden meaning in his words. "...The reason is complicated, but it's not what you think," Camille said, "Brother has never been exposed to illegal drugs."

"I don't believe it." Jin quickly and forcefully interrupted him. After recalling the memory, the guide's whole temperament changed subtly, "Lei Shi appeared in that hotel, he was sent by the enemy I saw the invitation."

"That's not an invitation letter from the enemy," Camille said, "it was forged by the Second Tower for its own spies."

Jin's expression wavered slightly: "Is Lei Shi a spy from the Second Tower?"

No, Camille shook her head again: "...Yes and no."

"What do you mean?" Jin asked hurriedly.

Camille put down the coffee cup in his hand, walked up to Jin, and said to him: "Although the pirate group has had dirty interests, they have never touched guides or illegal drugs. Before I awakened as a guide, the two Tower's 'regular army' has always been at odds with the elder brother, and they have been chasing and fighting secretly for many years. At that time, the captain of the second tower's army who was in charge of arresting the pirate group was An Mixiu."

"...An Mixiu?" Jin was a little surprised, but recalled the previous meeting between Lei and An, and felt that the explanation seemed to make sense, "So it's like this..."

"Yes. The attitude of the second tower is very firm, so the relationship between the eldest brother and An Mixiu...an guide is also very bad. Until one day later, I suddenly awakened and became the only guide of the entire pirate group," Camille sighed Tone, "I am different from you, because I am a highly sensitive guide. That is to say, it is difficult for me to control myself from external influences. If I do not rely on a special white noise environment, I may have a nervous breakdown within a few years. But outside of the tower, it's almost impossible to create a living environment that suits me."

Hearing this, Jin was at a loss for words, and after thinking for a while, he continued: "Although the pirate group is an illegal organization, the Second Tower can't just give up a guide so easily, right? If Leishi wants to pick you out directly, it's not impossible. "

"Indeed," Camille nodded, "but not only because of this, but also because the second tower at that time already had signs of internal division."

"Split?"

"Yes. I'm not very clear about the specifics, but as far as I know, it seems that because of the different attitudes towards illegal drugs, the top leaders of the Second Tower have a disagreement and split into two factions: conservative/conservative and radical/radical. Conservative The /Conservative faction believes that all illegal/prohibited/drugs should be taken back into the tower and destroyed by the tower in accordance with the long-standing practice; while the radical/radical faction supports breaking the stereotypes, obtaining new formulas, and the tower develops medicines, and the 'transformation' People' legal/legal/transformation."

"...Although it seems now that Guide An Mixiu should have been closer to a neutral attitude at the time, but because his team had been directly subordinate to the tower chief of the second tower before, and this time, the tower chief of the second tower stood on the side of the shock/ On the side of the advance/pai. The eldest brother was unwilling to send me into the second tower to take risks at this time, so he contacted the leader of the conservative/conservative/pai and made a deal with him—"

Jin's heart trembled, and he quickly interrupted in a deep voice: "Wait a minute—who is the leader of the Conservative faction?"

Camille lowered his eyes and slowly spoke out a name: "It's Garderos, the chief sentinel of the second tower."

Jin took a breath, thinking that it was really him.

"So, Leishi was entrusted by Garderos to become a spy of the Conservative/Conservative/ faction and went to the auction? The exchange condition is that Garderos contact the chief sentinel of the first tower, Gray, and send you and himself into the first tower ?”

"Ah."

Jin murmured, and messed up his blond hair a little annoyed: "...Does Gray know about Garderos and Thunder Lion?"

Camille looked at him: "When? If you were asking a year ago, he didn't know; if you were asking now, before you woke up, the elder brother had already told him everything."

"Actually, An Mixiu was also present at the auction back then, but you didn't meet him. The eldest brother said that he only realized that Tower One also sent guides and spies to intervene in that incident after bumping into you by accident. All in all, Erta Bao/Shou/pai also played a role in that rescue operation."

Jin frowned, scratched the corners of his mouth unconsciously with his fingers, and said to himself: "No wonder Leishi wanted to let me go... The first time that sales organization showed its feet was in Yita's jurisdiction , The first tower should send spies to follow up, who would have thought that so many things happened inside the second tower?"

"You can't talk dead," Camille took his words, put his hands into the pockets on both sides of his white coat, and said calmly, "We also mentioned this issue during our discussion just now. Yita is not innocent, even if there is no The second tower is so blatant, but there must have been high-level officials who wanted to use that potion for their own use, otherwise the current Ghost Fox would not have succeeded so quickly—he was the first to come into contact with the banned drug that can create dark sentries, he should It was the time to rescue you."

Jin bit his lower lip with his canine teeth and didn't speak right away. Finally, he stood up straight and made a "go ahead" gesture to Camille: "Don't talk so much, I have something to do, I'll talk to you later Where did Gray and the others go, do you know?"

The black-haired guide shook his head: "Maybe he went to the school grounds, I'm not too sure... Wait a minute, Guide Jin."

Jin, who was about to turn around and leave, was stopped by the other party, and turned around with some doubts.Camille walked back to his lab table, took out a plastic bag that wasn't too big from the small drawer below, and threw it over.

Jin subconsciously caught it with his arms, opened it, and found a sandwich and a box of fresh cartoned milk lying inside.

"This is...?" He was a little dazed, looking at the thing in his hand, but he hadn't fully reacted yet.

"Before Sentinel Gray left, I asked me to hand it over to you, and let me say something by the way..." Camille's voice in the distance carried a slight smile, "——don't rush to find him, eat dinner first gone."

There is an independent high-rise building on the southwest side of the tower, which is the location of many important agencies/offices including the database.Jin hurriedly finished the dinner that Geri gave him on the way here, and the feeling that his stomach was filled with food slightly eased his inner uneasiness.He inserted the straw into the milk carton, and the sweet liquid slowly flowed down the throat.Standing at the entrance of the building, Jin seriously drank the whole carton of milk, unpacked the folded corners of the carton, flattened it, and threw it into the nearest trash can.

The sensor door opened, and Jin, who was still in casual clothes, instantly felt that he was out of place.He pretended to be calm and skipped the probing gazes that were looking at him, thinking that only a year had passed, and among other things, the regulations that mandated tower uniforms here were getting more and more rigid.

The office of the Chief Sentinel is on the top floor of the building. Although Gray himself has not officially taken over the title, Daniel still assigned him a separate office here.Jin thought about it for a while, and felt that Gray probably didn't want to be restricted by a name because of his personality, which favored field work over clerical work.Although he never said it explicitly, the number of times this office has been used that can be counted with two hands seems to have proved this point from the side.

Jin swiped the elevator with his ID card, and when he pressed the floor, he realized that his current authority could only go directly to the sixth floor.In the past, he had never been so deeply aware of the advantages of the highest authority of S-level as he is now. Jin sighed at the empty elevator room. After reaching the sixth floor, he climbed seven more stairs, and finally arrived top floor.

The corridors on the top floor were empty, and the soles of your shoes made no sound when they stepped on the specially treated floor.Gray's office was in the farthest corner. Jin walked over and stood at the door, not surprised to see that the door was locked with a combination lock.

He took a closer look at the door lock, maybe because it is not commonly used here, Gray did not set up complicated checkpoints for his office, no pupil detection, not even fingerprint verification.A short four-digit password input device was fixed on one side of the wall, and Jin stared at it for a while, with a hesitant expression.

Just trying it casually, he comforted himself, even if he guessed wrong, it's no big deal.The blond wizard took a deep breath and carefully entered his birthday on the keyboard.

After about three seconds, the indicator light changed to green."Password input is correct" was displayed on the narrow screen, and then accompanied by a noise of mechanical friction, the door of the office was opened.

Jin stood at the door and paused, for a moment he didn't know how to describe his inner emotions.It's obviously just a trivial matter, but it makes people feel that the chest is completely filled with sour and sweet feelings.

The guide opened the door and walked in. The curtains of the office were completely covered, and the light was dim.Fine dust floated in the air, proving the fact that the owner hadn't returned for a long time.Jin walked to the large desk in the room, pulled out the armchair and sat down.

He sat on the seat where Gray had sat, looked at the empty table and the white wall in front of him from the same perspective, and fell into deep thought.

When exchanging mental images, I don't know if it was his own illusion. The moment Jin entered the sentinel image, he saw some images that he had never understood before, and the images deep in the other party's heart.

Jin always knew that Gray was different from himself. Before they met, Gray also had a beautiful and peaceful family with both parents.This family is composed of a strict and powerful sentinel father and a gentle and intellectual guide mother. Gray's mother has the same beautiful silver hair as Gray, and she looks very gentle when she hangs on her shoulders.When Jin looked at her from Gray's perspective in the picture, he could clearly feel the nostalgia in the sentinel's heart.

However, the images of a happy family living in Gray's memory are very limited, and what follows is blood splattered everywhere and a dark laboratory.

As soon as the screen turned, the screen in front of him jerked violently like a frame-drop animation. In the blur, Jin saw the man in white wearing a mask stabbing the liquid in the needle into the skin on the back of Gray's neck.The silver-haired child began to struggle in pain, roaring crazily, the effect of the medicine made his blood look like boiling magma, and even the oxygen he inhaled turned into a highly toxic mist.Around him, more people in the same clothes swarmed up and clamped down on the child's limbs.Jin saw through the out-of-focus purple pupils that they all had a uniform black circle tattooed on their collars, and in the very center of that circle, a capital letter "T" was engraved.

At this moment, the picture began to collapse rapidly.In the end, Jin heard the man standing condescendingly in front of Gerry, who was kneeling on the ground, with distorted ecstasy, announcing his new life to the scarred child in a godlike tone: "—from From today, you are the strongest sentinel of the tower."

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