"Don't be afraid of me."
At the moment of being hugged, Mute's body froze.
He hesitated for a moment, then turned to look at the person behind him.
The man squatting behind him put his arms around his shoulders, his forehead was lightly resting on his shoulders, but as he turned his head, Troll raised his head.
The eyes of the two met at this moment.
Starlight fell into the man's dark blue pupils, making those eyes glow slightly in the dark, but even if they were shining, the depths of the pupils were like black holes that sucked everything out, so deep that it was hard to see. in the end.
Those eyes looked at him quietly, even if he was silent, when they met these eyes, Mute couldn't help pursing his lips.
Inexplicably, he thought of the abandoned puppy he had seen in the corner of the hospital before. No one knew when it was left in the hospital by its owner. It always squatted quietly in the corner, neither noisy nor noisy. Nao, just looking at you with those eyes, those eyes make people feel distressed.
"I'm not afraid." The boy replied in a low voice, "I'm just angry."
He said, "Next time you do something like this, tell me first."
Mutt's answer made Troll's eyes brighten. He hummed, leaned forward, and gently rubbed his cheek against the boy's soft cheek.
The boy didn't dodge, but just looked at him.
The eyelashes moved slightly, like the traces of a butterfly's wings fluttering. Mutt watched the slender eyelashes move in front of him. The man gave him a slight smile, leaned over again, and pressed against his face.
It's against the law to smile so close with that face.
The boy shook his head for a moment, and then his face was pressed against him. He couldn't help complaining in his heart.
The snow-white skin against his cheek was a little cool, and when he was against him, he could feel the touch of the long eyelashes sweeping over his skin.
Mute didn't say anything more, lowered his eyes, and quietly let the other party hug him, and let the other party press his face, but his lips were still pursed a little bit, as if he was still a little bit entangled.
…
After staying in this ruin for a few more days, food is easy to solve. After all, there is a forest next to it. As long as you are not afraid of those terrifying monsters in the forest, you can get food and water from it at any time.
In the past two days, the two have basically been inseparable. Mutt asked Troll if he remembered anything. Troll just shook his head without saying anything, and asked him where he left him and ran away. don't say anything. Mutt couldn't ask anything, he just felt that he was hiding everything from him, so he couldn't help but sulk, but every time he sulked, Troll followed him obediently, looking at him with those dark blue eyes, bringing He looked a little confused, and his eyes were like a big dog's, which made him so angry that he couldn't even get angry.
Although there were no weird carnivores or monsters in the ruins, they met three people in the past few days. At first, Mutt tried to talk to those people to see if they could understand the planet through these people situation, and it is best not to fight each other.
However, although those people came from a civilized society, they have stayed on this planet for a long time, or they may have experienced too many bad things. They look at the same kind of people even more vigilantly and ferociously than looking at monsters.
One person died under Troll's hands, and the other two escaped with injuries. Mutt felt that Troll could actually kill the two escaped people easily, but at that time, Troll saw him With a glance, he gave up chasing and allowed the other party to escape.
Although Troll didn't say anything, Mute knew that it was because of the incident last time, and Troll was worried that he would be scared by killing again.
However, the reason he was afraid that time was not this...
In order to guard against being attacked, it is necessary to watch the night every night, usually for half the night alone. To Mutter's annoyance, Troll seems to have developed a habit. Every time he sleeps, he must be next to him, or rely on On his shoulder, or on his lap.
Once Mutt waited for Troll to fall asleep, carefully removed him from his body, and put him on the ground to let him continue to sleep. However, for some reason, Troll woke up as soon as he left Mutt. When he got up, he looked around blankly, and then his eyes fell on Mutt not far away.
He looked at Mute, quietly, without saying a word, but the little eyes looked a little bit aggrieved, and seemed to have a bit of accusation.
So Mutt was completely defeated.
Since then, he has silently accepted Troll's habit of sleeping next to him. What makes Mutt feel the most tragic is that he is still used to it. As soon as Troll sleeps next to him, he will subconsciously touch Troll. With silky smooth hair, sometimes he can't fall asleep without touching him.
After a few more days like this, Mutt couldn't help but mention where Troll went in the first place. This time, although Troll was silent for a long time, he finally took Mute to a place.
It was a basement deep in the ruins. In a very deep place, the outside was well concealed. If Troll hadn't led him around, he would have never been able to find it.
And after entering the ground, Mutt was taken aback.
The darkness under the feet was like an abyss, bottomless. Troll pressed something next to him, and with a whoosh, a disc several meters wide flew up from the dark abyss, flashing and flashing, He flew to the feet of the two of them.
The metal disc looked extremely thin, and it was still floating above the abyss, looking light and fluffy, but when Troll stepped on it, it didn't shake at all, and was suspended in the air steadily.
Troll stepped on the CD, turned around and stretched out his hand to Mutt, but Mutt hesitated for a moment, held his hand, and stood up.
The thin and light disc is very stable, just like stepping on the ground. The two stood on it, and the disc quickly fell down. It was pitch black all around, but with the faint light from the disc, Mutter could vaguely see the broken metal structures and abandoned instruments around.
The disc fell down for a long time, and Miute roughly estimated that they had reached at least a few hundred meters deep underground, and when they finally reached their destination, Miute widened his eyes in astonishment.
Although it was pitch black in the middle, the hundreds of meters deep underground was brightly lit, as bright as day.
A huge underground high-tech research institute, although it is now somewhat dilapidated. It was just below the ruins on the ground, and Mutt wondered if the reason why there was no grass growing on the ruins was because of the existence of this dilapidated research institute.
Many instruments in the research institute have been broken, and even the light curtains in the hall are not intact. There is no trace of damage in this research institute. It seems that it should be damaged by natural corrosion after being abandoned.
Mutt was a little dazed standing in this abandoned research institute. Troll took him to a side room, where the instruments seemed to be still usable. Troll opened a light curtain at will.
The boy opened his eyes suddenly.
He saw the past records of this room on that video. The instruments in the room were still brand new and flickered constantly. Numerous light curtains spread around the room, showing images of many places. Many researchers were in the room. shuttling.
What terrified him was the countless petri dishes displayed on one side of the room.
The petri dishes were huge, and there was a strange creature in each petri dish. They were obviously alive, wriggling in the nutrient solution.
Mutt saw a very familiar thing inside, the carnivorous flower king, the familiar bright red plump flower tongue, the densely packed tiny teeth on the flower tongue, and the green vines all over it. It's just that compared to the Kao, which was as huge as a battleship, the one in this petri dish was much smaller, as if it hadn't grown up yet.
Not only that, but several of the monsters in the other petri dishes were the monsters he had encountered in the jungle and were finally beheaded by Troll. It's childhood.
[Mermaid? That kind of monster made by a lunatic to hybridize human and fish genes?]
The words that Princess Salome said in disgust suddenly rang in Mutt's ears.
At this moment, he only felt his mouth was dry, and Mute swallowed a mouthful of saliva. He subconsciously looked at Troll beside him.
"what is this?"
Troll was silent for a moment, then answered.
"Things put in the proving ground."
"Proving ground?"
"This planet."
Troll's answer made Mute stunned for a while, he vaguely guessed something, but the terrible truth he guessed sent a chill down his back.
He shook his head vigorously, suddenly remembered something, raised his head and asked.
"You remember everything?"
Troll shook his head, then nodded again.
"Very few," he said, "I only remember that here... and on the ground, there were many people, very many, big and small."
He said calmly, "They threw those cultivated things into the forest, bred and raised them, and then threw us in to hunt them... Later, there were fewer and fewer people."
"In the end, I was the only one left," he said.
He turned to look at Mute and said, "I don't remember the rest."
What Troll said made Mute silent for a long time. He silently watched the recorded video still playing in the light curtain, the busy researchers, and the strange-looking creatures in the petri dish.
The hand hanging by his side clenched little by little, and an indescribable anger made his chest swell badly.
He took a deep breath, suppressed the anger in his belly, and continued to ask.
"You said before, how long ago?"
"I don't know, I don't have a complete memory, I don't know how much time has passed."
[Proving ground.]
Mute thought of Troll's deadly moves when he was fighting with those weird monsters. No need to remember, it had almost become a part of the man's body.
How many times of fierce battles will it take to melt this fighting style into the instinct of the body
What exactly has this person been through before
Seeing Troll who said these words calmly, the boy suddenly felt a little sad.
He always envied the toughness of Major General Troll, but he never knew how cruel the major general's toughness could be trained.
He died of illness at a young age, and then left his family to live in this strange era. People around him always praised him for his strength in the struggle against the illness... But now, compared with the man in front of him, what he has experienced Things, understatement is nothing at all.
In order not to make his parents feel sad, he chose to persist in the treatment and fight against the illness. That was his own choice.
But Major General Troll had no choice from the very beginning.
No one spoke, and suddenly there was a buzzing sound in the eerily quiet room. Mutt looked down, it was the metal ring on his wrist vibrating, and it was not only his, but the one in Troll's hand next to him. The metal ring was also humming and vibrating.
Troll raised his hand and looked at the vibrating metal ring, showing a confused look.
Mute didn't care about explaining, and quickly opened his communication channel.
There was a sound of electromagnetic sizzle, and the air in front of Mutt twisted a few times, and a transparent light curtain emerged.
"I rely on you to figure it out!"
As soon as the connection was made, the magnified face of the red-haired major appeared in front of his eyes. The face moved closer, almost sticking to the screen, and yelled at him.
"I'm so fucking anxious! Where did you and the BOSS elope?!"
Before Robin could finish his sentence, he slammed a fist on his face, knocking his big face away from the screen.
As Robin's face moved away, the calm-faced blue-haired lieutenant colonel appeared in front of Mutt.
Lieutenant Colonel Via's eyes flicked from Mutt's body in an instant, and fell on Troll beside Mutt.
"Major General, please open your communication channel."
When Via spoke, the bracelet on Troll's hand was still vibrating, presumably Via had been trying to connect to Troll's information ring.
Troll didn't speak, he stared at the person in the light curtain, with a hint of vigilance in his strange eyes, then he reached out to grab Mutt's raised right hand in front of him, as if he was guarding against the light curtain from hurting Mutt. doing what.
His behavior caused a look of astonishment in Via's eyes.
"Major General?"
Grabbing Troll's hand to prevent him from making trouble, Mute decided to make a long story short.
Who knows if this damn communication will fail again in the next second.
"Major General Troll was attacked by sound waves, his brain was injured and he lost his memory!"
He quickly summed up the current situation.
"We came to this planet when we were in a coma, so we don't know the exact location, can you find it?"
Via was stunned for a moment, and then immediately recovered her calm appearance.
"I can barely catch the signal of the information ring on your body. Don't leave your current position, lest the signal be cut off. We will come as soon as possible."
He looked at Mutt with an extremely tough and undeniable attitude.
"Your Excellency Mutt, before we arrive, please take good care of Your Excellency Major General no matter what."
Before Mutter could reply, the red-haired major, who had managed to get back in front of the screen with great difficulty, had not had time to open his mouth to make a sound, and the light curtain broke with a snap.
I want to take care of it... But people don't need the force value BUG at all, okay
Tsk, as expected of Lieutenant Colonel Via, he still acted swiftly and resolutely, without delaying a second.
The young man was so emotional.
But they must have gone crazy looking for Major General Troll these days. Although Via had a calm expression on his face, he clearly saw the extremely obvious black and blue traces in front of Via's eyes. It went on and on, and Robin looked completely mad.
In any case, once he got in touch with powerful foreign aid, Mutt relaxed a lot.
When he came back to his senses, he found that he was still holding Troll's hand. It was probably because of this reason that Troll stood beside him very quietly. Mute quickly let go of his hand, but just as he let go, he let go His hand chased after him, and held his hand in turn.
Mute suddenly felt a little uncomfortable for some reason, and tried to pull it lightly, but of course he couldn't break free. He lowered his eyes slightly, and the shadow of the dark eyelashes fell in his eyes. He stood still, letting the Troll took his hand.
"You can rest assured."
The lights of the dilapidated research institute flickered on and off, and Mutt spoke.
"We'll be picked up soon and we'll be able to get out of here soon."
"leave here?"
Mo Lan's pupils looked at him with a trace of confusion.
Mute hesitated for a moment and asked carefully.
"You don't want to leave here?"
"… do not know."
Troll replied, still looking a little confused.
"I just remember here."
"You have to get out of here." Mutter looked at him and said, "You are very important to many people, many people are waiting for you to go back, without you, it will make many people distressed, so you can't stay here .”
"I do not remember."
Troll stared at Mutt.
"Those people have nothing to do with me."
"..."
Your Excellency Major General Troll, as a big boss, you control a galaxy, and you have millions of troops under your command. Is it really okay to say such willful words
"I don't remember that I will teach you slowly." Mute could only say so, "Not only you, I also have a lot of things to do, you can't stay here forever, and neither do I."
Troll didn't answer, he just looked at Mutt, focused, with Mutt's shadow deeply reflected in his slightly bright dark blue eyes.
He suddenly lowered his head slightly, and Mutt took a step back subconsciously, but his hand was grabbed, and he could only take a step back if he wanted to.
The man held the boy's hand and lowered his head slightly.
His forehead rested lightly on the young man's forehead, and the same jet-black hair was tangled together and slipped from their eyes.
The way he looked at Mute was like looking at the whole world.
"I'll go with you," he said, "I'll go wherever you go."
...
In the dead of night, Troll was sitting at the door of the abandoned research institute, his gaze kept on the sleeping Mutt.
After a while, he got up and walked to Mutt, half-kneeled down, and leaned over to look carefully.
The boy was in a deep sleep, with his eyes closed, his jet-black hair fell on his childish face, and he looked as peaceful as a child.
The man's breathing was very light, and he looked at the young man with extremely deep eyes, which were so deep that there was no end in sight at this moment. That gaze was a little less confused than in the daytime, but more incomprehensibly sharp and painful.
After a long time, he stood up again.
The black-haired man fumbled on the metal wall, pressed a button, and a barrier of light emerged, enclosing the deeply asleep teenager within. A virtual keyboard appeared in front of the man, and he tapped it a few times quickly, the light curtain flickered, turned into a ring, and then disappeared into the air little by little.
But that is not disappearing, but invisible.
As long as any creature touches this invisible light curtain barrier, he will know it immediately.
After all, everything in this seemingly abandoned research institute that is actually still running well is under his control.
After reconfirming that Mutt was in a deep sleep, Troll left the room, his footsteps were so light that no movement could be heard.
After leaving the room, Troll strode straight towards the center of the seemingly abandoned research institute.
There was a thick rusty metal pillar - Troll was about to hit the pillar, but in the next second, half of his body was embedded in the pillar, and the originally seemingly hard The broken metal column twisted and moved a few times in the air, and it turned out to be just a projected virtual body.
Step inside the pillar, and inside is a quick lift disc similar to coming down from above.
As soon as Troll stepped on it, the disc dropped rapidly.
What he passed was a cylindrical metal passage, and he landed quickly from top to bottom. The alloy walls shone slightly, illuminating that handsome but cold face without any emotion at the moment.
The dark blue pupils reflected the unique icy luster of metal, as if frozen at this moment.
With a beep, the seemingly endless fall finally came to an end because of the long time. Troll stepped out of the passage with one foot, and there was a short corridor ahead.
The entire body of this deeply buried basement is made of alloy castings. No matter where you look, there is a unique cold luster of metal flashing, and that kind of cold image can penetrate into the bones of people.
The pitch-black boots stepped on the metal floor, making a heavy knocking sound, which echoed in the long corridor.
It took only a few minutes, but it seemed like a century, and Troll finally came to the end.
The erected laser railing made a slight sizzling sound, separating the two.
Troll stood there, watching the man imprisoned in the metal dungeon through the fine laser prison bars.
The man sat on the ground with his back against the cold metal wall, one of his slender legs raised up, his right hand resting casually on his knee. Silver alloy handcuffs were worn on his wrists. Thick chains extended from his hands to the metal ground, and the ends melted deep into the ground.
The pitch-black boots were also locked with heavy chains, and the silver luster shone on the chains.
The people in the metal prison lowered their heads and sat there quietly without any movement.
Soon, perhaps sensing someone coming, that person reacted.
The pitch-black hair moved, and the man in the metal prison raised his head, the delicate and soft black hair scattered around the corners of his eyes.
A pair of slender red phoenix eyes looked at Troll beyond the laser bar.
The gazes from the two pairs of dark blue pupils collided at this moment, sparks seemed to explode in the air.
Laser prison bars separated the two.
Those two people have exactly the same face.
It's like looking in a mirror, it's exactly the same enough to be described as terrifying, even the little arcs on the corners of those red phoenix eyes are exactly the same.
Yes, it's not similar, it's the same.
Almost weird similarity, the sameness printed by a mold, the sameness that makes people feel chills inexplicably at a glance.
"Troll...Major General."
The 'Troll' outside spoke, even with the same voice.
He looked at his other self who was chained up in the prison with cold eyes.
"As your backup, I've been in this place for decades."
He says,
"Now, it's your turn."
"I'll take your place."
"Your identity, your status, and what you own will all belong to me from now on."
"The world only needs one 'Troll'."
The gaze he stared at his other self was colder and crueler than anything else.
"You will stay here forever."
— until reduced to bones.