Chapter 666: Postscript: The Power of the Heart

Chapter 666 Postscript ④·The power of heart

Let us push the time forward to the spring of 2032, after the pre-war mobilization meeting of the Knife Special Service Regiment.

Jiang Bailu found an old veteran. This uncle was forty-four years old. Because of his excellent combat skills, he was still on the front line. Even though the expedition was over, he still had no idea of ​​retiring.

——His name is Hart Boxing. Before the expedition era, he was a communications officer of the Sperm Whale Chapter. He once served as a telephone line engineer, a tunnel electrical engineer, and a regional militiaman in District 31. In addition to these, after the expedition ended, Uncle Hart also worked part-time as a firefighter for a few months.

Bai Lu came on behalf of Anonymous. She was twenty-six years old. In addition to her duties as a passenger, she was also responsible for miscellaneous affairs of the Corps.

For example, this time, before Operation Autumn Harvest officially started, she had to find Mr. Hart and discuss the veteran's polarized sextant quality review.

In a secluded corner of the [Joe Star] club, in a relatively private window seat, Bai Lu held a diary and a voice recorder, pouring tea and water for the uncle in front of her.

This man looks unsmiling and has a weathered look on his face.

He was wearing a khaki jacket and a loose shirt. There was a bright red birthmark on the chin on the right side of his face that extended to the left side of his heart. There were many scars on his face.

He is a standard European and American man, with a long and straight nose, protruding eyebrows, extremely deep eye sockets, and small eyes. If you squint attentively, you can almost not see those emerald eyes.

His lips are very thin, there is a deep scar on his mouth and nose, and his face is also asymmetrical. It seems that he suffered a serious stab wound in his early years, and before he could be treated with a panacea, a knife cut open his face. Since then, the gums can only be used to crush food with the left half of the molars. The masseter muscles above the mandible and temple have been developed for many years, and the left and right sides of the face are completely asymmetrical.

"What do you want from me? Little angel?" Mr. Hart looked like a gangster when he smiled. He was so ugly and strangely fierce.

Bai Lu felt a little scared, which was very different from her eldest sister. She lacks the test of blood and fire - when communicating with these veterans, she is always shocked by all kinds of weird looks and spiritual pressure.

"Mr. Hart. I am"

Before Bai Lu introduced herself, Hart already knew the true identity of this little girl.

"You are very similar to the King of War. We should have met more than once. Don't be so indifferent - I recognize you. If you have anything, we can talk directly."

Kuai Dao is a team full of vitality. During the expedition, this special service group was a good place for the elites of each battle group to train - the personnel came and went, and Bai Lu naturally couldn't remember the names of these soldiers. . But there is only one King of War, and Bai Lu has long been the focus of the Kuai Dao soldiers.

Bai Lu immediately opened the diary and explained the main content of the meeting.

"Mr. Hart, the director counter has issued a home visit specifically for you."

Hart interrupted: "It's a family visit, right?"

Bai Lu nodded, suddenly feeling guilty: "Yes."

Hart: "It has nothing to do with my career, right?"

Bai Lu: "Well, I'm here on behalf of the Anonymous. I must be responsible for every soldier of the Kuai Dao Chapter."

Hart: "Answer me, Bailu mobilization soldiers, you haven't officially established it yet - will this home visit affect my military career?"

"Maybe." Bai Lu didn't know how to continue the conversation, so she decided to get straight to the point: "Let's put it this way."

"Let's put it this way, Mr. Hart. You were reviewed in the inpatient unit of the Council of Five Kings last week. You have congenital heart disease."

"When you were deployed to Quick Knife, the personnel specialist of the Sperm Whale Chapter had already talked about this matter. I must confirm again that the Organization Department must start its work."

Hart still didn't give Bai Lu a chance, not wanting the girl to finish her sentence.

"I will not hold back the Chapter."

Bai Lu has no choice——

——She is not here to trouble Mr. Hart. On the contrary, this veteran has very strong combat skills and will to survive. In the Quick Knife team, he has a medal of merit from the expedition era and is one of the combat groups to which the barracks belongs. The soul that unites the military.

He is a big brother, a flag, and the spiritual leader of more than a dozen sharp knife warriors.

"You have had six operations in the past two years, Mr. Hart." Bai Lu read out the contents in the diary: "Because of this malformed heart, thoracic empyema caused by pulmonary artery tumors, infective myocarditis and chronic congestion Sexual heart failure.”

"It's not the first time that panacea and surgery can temporarily revive you, but"

"Actually, it's more than that." Hart stretched out his two palms and held a silver smoking pot. His fingers were drum-shaped, which is a complication of a very severe cyanotic congenital heart disease in infancy, " My fingers used to have trouble finding the trigger guard, they were so stupid and I hated that, but the rest was tolerable.”

Bai Lu then said: "If in the mortal world, Mr. Hart."

"I'm not even qualified to join the war group. I know, little angel, I know what you want to say." Hart's mood was very calm: "There may be a way to cure it before the age of five, but I am almost forty-five years old. , panacea can’t cure it.”

Bai Lu was silent, she didn't know what to say.

After a while, she finally corrected herself and asked again.

"Mr. Hart, I don't know you. Can you tell me the reason? Why do you have to participate in the autumn harvest?"

Hart Boxing did not answer immediately—

——He was holding a silver smoking pot, and there were as many calluses on his hands as there were wounds on his heart.

He took a deep breath, tilted his head deliberately, and the smoke drifted out of the window.

"Do you have time? Miss Jiang Bailu?"

Bai Lu: "I have a whole day, and I have enough patience to spend it with you, a brute."

"Why don't you come and listen to my story?" Mr. Hart rubbed his knuckles and said with a smile, "It's a very common and simple story."

Bai Lu picked up the diary, turned to a blank page, and turned on the voice recorder.

"Speaking."

"I was born in a mixed-race family. My grandfather was a hybrid of the local war gang clan in District 31. This clan is called Alto - you may not have heard of it. The Aldo subfamily is a subfamily of cephalopods. division."

"To put it simply, I have a grandfather octopus, and I have some hybrid blood in my body."

"The Edou people have been entrenched in District 31 for centuries. There is a big city in the Peacock Strait. I was born in Port Helen."

"They have octopus heads, slippery limbs and three hearts."

"One main heart, two cheek hearts, developed brain nerves, and a strong body."

"Based on this clan, the Crazy Butterfly Holy Sect has spread in District 31. Most of the Aldo people have become cultists, including my grandfather and father. The name of the sect is the Spiritual Society. , these octopus hybrids taught the servants of the gods to call themselves mind flayers.”

"My mother was a clerk in the Tunnel Traffic Department of District 31. During a money and power transaction, my father fell in love with this ordinary woman, so he forcibly married her and gave birth to me, a freak. ”

"The hybrid blood transformed me. It turned me into a freak. That's how I got my heart disease."

"When I was born, the doctor said I wouldn't live long, so my father asked the maid at home to throw me to the sea north of Port Helen and throw me into the sea of ​​Pompeii to feed the fish."

"But I didn't die, because at that time the human trafficking business in District 31 was prosperous and the market prospects were very good. She took me to Hexagon Alley - the largest human flesh trading market in Port Helen."

"Although I looked very weak at the time, the maid spent some money to temporarily restore my strength with Lady White products, and then sold it to a poor family. This was my first adoptive parents."

"Any memories about this family were told to me by the soldiers of the Sperm Whale Regiment later——"

"——After I arrived at my new home, I didn't seem to receive any proper care. Because of my heart disease, I often fell into a state of death."

"The adoptive parents would take care of me at first. They could find many diagnostic certificates written by pediatricians at home. Finally, they went to a big hospital. After getting the test results of cardiac malformation, they stopped treating me as their son."

"I should have been only more than six months old at that time. A medic from the Sperm Whale Regiment led a dozen militiamen to investigate criminal cases in Hexagon Alley. I happened to find my adoptive parents at their home to ask for clues - the medic's sister discovered that I There are scars from cigarette butts and wounds from needle sticks.”

"When I grew up, she confessed to me——"

"——After these adoptive parents learned about my physical condition, they didn't care much about me. They thought they had bought a bitch, so they took advantage of me, burned me with cigarette butts, and stabbed me with a syringe after taking drugs."

"That's what she said. She always shed tears when she talked about it. I remember it very clearly - but I forgot what came out of her mouth. I couldn't feel it. I couldn't remember the pain. The baby's heart remained. Don’t live in anything.”

"In this way, this medical soldier of the Sperm Whale Regiment adopted me. She is my second mother."

"As I grow older, the hybrid blood is transforming my body. It makes me stronger, and the diseases caused by my heart are becoming more and more common."

"I like running, crawling and jumping everywhere, and I like the feeling of blood flowing through my body."

"She was chasing after me, and every time she caught me, she would warn me to stop me—"

"——Every step I take in my life leads to death."

“I didn’t know what [death] meant at that time, and maybe I still don’t know what it means now.”

"I'm very distressed. I think to myself, this heart is really bad——"

"——It's always holding me back, it's always blocking me, what's wrong with it?"

"I talked to the mother."

"Let me tell you, mom, can you give me a new heart? A heart that is stronger, more powerful, and won't hurt?"

"There was nothing my mother could do. At first I thought she was lying to me - every disease can be cured with a panacea, so why can't mine be cured?"

"When I grow up, I can run further and go to the First People's Hospital of Helen Railway Station, then I will know that what my mother said is true."

"I am a mongrel, a mixed race, and my heart cannot be matched."

"The probability of children born between hybrids and humans dying in infancy is too high. Even if I find another hybrid child to provide me with a heart source, there may not be a match."

"The sister at the nursing station heard my story and took me to the outpatient department. The doctor showed me a photo of my blood test and said that my situation has been rare in decades. It is a miracle that I survived."

"I have a knot in my heart, not because of the heart disease, but because my mother lied to me."

"She is not my biological mother. She is hiding something from me. I am a hybrid and she is a pure-blooded Homo sapiens."

"On my fifteenth birthday, I asked about this matter. She finally told me the whole story. She named me Hart (literal translation: Heart). The day she brought me home was my birthday."

"At that time, I was a 100% pure idiot. I blamed all the grievances, resentments, and sufferings I suffered in the past years on my biological parents. I was conquered by an inexplicable pain and I was controlled by it."

"I ran to the gathering place of the Eldo people's cult and ran to these blood-giving nobles. I wanted to ask clearly - where are my father and mother?"

"But It was this question that brought disaster to my mother. "

"At that time, I was studying at Helen Second Middle School. Although I had to go home on time at night, there was no one at home. My mother was the medical unit of the Sperm Whale Group, and her security patrol work often had to work night shifts."

"I decided to act at night. Anyway, my mother didn't know, so I just had to go back before dawn."

"I ran to Liujiao Alley. I knew that this was a place where human flesh was traded, and maybe I could find someone who bought and sold me. I squatted near a gambling den and waited in the dead corner at the end of the alley until two blood-donating nobles came out - they all had cold blood, wet tentacles on their chins, no hair on their skulls, and high bulges on their soft heads."

"The blood in my body told me that it must be these people."

"I stopped it But I didn't know how to start. What should I ask?"

"Ask these two strangers? Ask them? Who is my father? Who is my mother? Ask these meaningless things? I don't even have any clues or evidence in my hands."

"My brain was hot, and I felt painful and angry. I just blocked the alley. The two blood-donating nobles couldn't get out. They were upset-it seemed that their good deeds were caught by someone."

"At this time, my mother found me-"

"-She led three soldiers from the same class and happened to be patrolling in the Liujiao Alley area. When she was talking to acquaintances in the shops on the street, she suddenly heard about me. She knew that I didn't go home at night and was hanging around nearby."

"When she came with the Corps emblem, the two blood-donating nobles were completely panicked. Later mission records It was written like this, these two blood-giving nobles of the psychic society had just finished a drug deal, and were immediately found by the war group, so a fight broke out. "

"In the narrow alley, it was difficult for me to recall what happened at the time."

"The gunshots kept ringing, and the dark alley was lit up by the gunfire. Every time it sounded, my heart ached. "

"When I came to my senses, it was already noon the next day. "

"I was in the military station clinic, and my mother was lying on the bed. She couldn't speak. "

"The uncle in the same team said that she was shot in the head twice. The two bullets left very serious mental damage, but she didn't die. She should be able to get out of bed healthy, but she just needs time to recover. "

"She was almost forty years old at the time. She stared at the ceiling with lifeless eyes, and I couldn't wake her up no matter how I shouted. Later, she didn't wake up, and she never woke up again. It seemed that her soul had slipped away from her body and couldn't come back. "

"A week later, the doctor gave her a diagnosis of brain death. "

"Without my mother's care, I never had the opportunity to study again. I want to know why. ”

“Why did the doctor lie? She could have lived, so why did she suddenly not wake up?”

“I always realize things late, always one step behind others. It was not until three years later that I figured it all out.”

“I applied for a job at an outsourcing company of the Tunnel Transportation Department, starting as a basic porter. After learning some skills from an electrical engineer, I wanted to join the militia and find a job in the city's subway system. I would be willing to start with firefighting, even if my heart was broken.”

“When I arrived at the militia's military station, I found a set of research reports on the psychic biology of the Airdo people, and only then did I know that these monsters had a very powerful psychic talent. These octopus freaks had two memory systems. Just like their name, they were mind flayers - they could absorb part of the consciousness of Homo sapiens.”

“I gradually learned about the Mad Butterfly Cult and the hybrid clan of the Airdo people.”

“My heart brought me so many diseases, and I thought I had suffered enough. ”

“Until I figured out the real cause of my mother's death - this mental torture beyond physical pain almost drove me crazy. ”

“My mother didn't die because of those two bullets, no”

“When she was dying, someone put the Mind Flayer in the Sperm Whale Corps' infirmary and took her away quietly.”

“Just because she came to me with the emblem of the warband, just because she looked at these blood-donating nobles for a second.”

“Just because she was nosy, she pulled a gun at these nobles, she was worried about my safety and said a few more words.”

“At that time, I thought, I must find my biological parents.”

“I want to kill them, I want to kill these Ailduo people and their freak masters together, from the warband to the cult, no one can be left alive.”

“I swear to God, as long as I am alive, I must keep running.”

“Even if this heart tells me that every step I take is towards hell.”

"I have been fighting since the militia days. When I joined the Sperm Whale Regiment, I took over my mother's mantle."

"For a goal, for revenge, to find my biological parents, I would rather kill the wrong person than let them go. Only when all these Ai'erdou people are killed, the matter will be over."

"For me, only this heart is trustworthy. The ability of the mind flayer is almost the nemesis of Homo sapiens. My companions will be mentally controlled. They will suddenly become idiots in a very short time, just a few minutes, and obey these octopus freaks. In that era, the Sperm Whale Regiment was no match for the Psychic Society."

"I have fought with them for more than 20 years. This mouth has been cut open by the enemy, half of my face has been replaced, and there is no good meat on my body. But I am not afraid of these monsters. Their talents are useless to me because I am a bastard and I also have this kind of blood."

When Mr. Hart Boxin said this, the grass leaves in the pipe had been burned dry.

"My lovely little angel, until the War King came to me. I finally killed all these blood-donating monsters, and I finally saw the dawn."

"Are you here to persuade me to stay here?"

Bai Lu pursed her lips, tears welling up in her eyes. She held Mr. Hart's hand, but asked him to hold her palm and press it on her chest, on the deformed heart.

Hart continued.

"I have a lot of beautiful things——"

"——There are military dog ​​companions and a litter of stray cats. They die after no more than ten or eight years. Before the golden age of BOSS, most of the new comrades who came to the regiment to report for duty did not live as long as these cats and dogs."

"In order to fill this broken heart, I have been running wildly on the road of revenge all my life. Later, I fought side by side with the War King and walked more than 2,000 kilometers until the end of the expedition. My heart did not let me down."

"Children will cry when they see my ugly face. You turned pale when you saw me for the first time. I know I am not suitable to be a teacher."

"I am a soldier. I can only fight."

"Don't leave me here. I don't want to die in a coffin——"

"——Please, I want to run forward in big strides. I have been running for a long, long time. I don't want to stop."

"Can you hear my heartbeat?"