A foreigner's journey

In a secluded alley, Alice stood leaning against the wall holding a flower basket.

Her face was full of worries, and she was just bathing in the fluorescent flow of life, which seemed to bring her some sense of security.

"You have something on your mind."

A male voice with an echo suddenly sounded in the alley. Alice suddenly looked up at the entrance of the alley and found Heather's figure looming in the vapor that filled the alley.

Without any preconceived notions, Alice discovered many details that she had not noticed before - sometimes Heather walked without any sound at all, and even the flow of life was not disturbed. In addition, his attraction to the life stream is different from that of himself and his biological mother Ifaluna, and he is more like a suspicious person being monitored by the planet.

Sure enough, Heather is not of his own race...

"Heather, you...are you not an ancient Settra?" Alice hesitated for a moment, then asked.

"I'm human."

Heather's answer was very bland, and she didn't have any additional reaction to the ancient species Alice mentioned.

"Do you know that I am an ancient species?" Alice continued to ask.

"Yes, I knew it the first time we met."

Heather, who was in the mist, kept a distance of three meters from Alice, who was wrapped in the flow of life, as if the two worlds were looking at each other.

Alice fell into silence, and the green fluorescence emitted by the life stream beside her became more and more dazzling.

Heather tilted her head: "I haven't seen you for a week, and you don't seem to be practicing the way I told you. Are you planning to give up?"

Alice did not practice in the way Heather said. She has been in distress and psychological struggle since Zeng left. She is afraid that Heather is also a person with ulterior motives who covets her identity as a descendant of the ancient race.

She clenched the flower basket in her hand and suddenly said loudly: "I, I want to know why you want to get close to me!"

Heather was stunned for a moment, and then couldn't help but laugh sarcastically: "Ha...Miss, did you make something wrong?"

"……Um?"

"When we first met, you took the initiative to talk to me and asked me, a stranger, to teach you, and I agreed. When we met for the second time, I tailored a suitable training method and plan for you, and you agreed with confidence."

Heather put her hands in her pockets and spoke calmly:

"Now, the third time we meet, you actually ask me why I want to get close to you?"

"That's because I recognize you as one of my own race..." Alice tried her best to defend herself.

"So? Am I from Settra? Can I help or change your current situation in the slightest?"

"!!"

Alice was stunned for a moment. Yes, her situation couldn't get any worse. She seems to have enough safe living space but is being monitored all the time. Once she reveals her ancient species' abilities, she will be forcibly captured and taken to the Shinra Corporation's research institute for various investigations. Such a cruel and inhumane human experiment, until death. If he continues to be mediocre, I am afraid that the terrible scientist named [Hojo] will not let himself continue to live peacefully, but will use himself as experimental material to extract all available value, and the methods will even be worse than the human experiments my mother suffered. It's ten times more intense.

This is a dead end.

If you want to resist and break free from the shackles, you need to have strong power to break free from the shackles of the Shinra Company.

What does it matter if the other person is a member of his own race? If he practices according to what Heather said, he can become as strong as him, so strong that even Tuckers will be afraid of him, then even if Heather has other plans for him, his situation will not become worse than it is now. Even more miserable.

"I'm sorry, I got distracted."

Alice took two deep breaths, bowed deeply to Heather, and said in a sincere tone:

"Please give me another chance. I will definitely practice hard."

Heather took a high look at Alice's decisiveness. She was putting all the bet chips on her side, choosing to believe that she could help her break the situation.

It seems that the eldest lady is not as innocent as she appears in the game.

"In order to dispel your concerns, I will make it clear."

Heather took a few steps forward and emerged from the mist: "Originally, I was willing to teach you [Reading] in order to have a reference and comparison. If possible, I will improve the method to teach others. Human. But now... I really hate Shinra Company, so I want to see how far you can struggle. I want to give you a message——"

He slowly walked up to Alice and looked at her condescendingly:

"As long as you learn it, no one can take it away."

Alice's slender fingers grasped the flower basket harder and harder, and the joints were extremely pale. Everything around him may or has been taken away by Shinra Corporation. Mother Ifaluna, Mother Emina, a comfortable and warm home, flower fields, and even body, freedom... But only what you have learned and kept in your mind, no one can take it away.

The life flow of the planet spread and spread, and countless green fluorescent stars circulated between Heather and Alice, like stars.

The planet whispered in her ears, and everything the person in front of her said was sincere.

"Teacher Heather, I will prove it to you."

Alice, a nineteen-year-old girl, had unprecedented fire and light in her eyes, the look of a desperate pedestrian walking in the dark wilderness when he sees a ray of sunlight.

At least at this time, for the first time, she felt that Heather's extremely ordinary face was full of charisma, and it even made her heart beat like a deer.

On the tall building in the distance, Zeng slowly put down the telescope in his hand. His calm face showed no trace of what he was thinking in his heart.

He was still wearing a black suit and a black coat, the hem of which was rustling in the wind.

There was only Reno standing next to him. The red-haired agent still looked carefree. He tilted his head and said, "Director, the eldest lady seems to be determined to fall to Heather's side?"

"Heather is just an ordinary person and cannot be called a 'reverse'. This does not violate the communication rules set by Hojo for Alice."

Rather than explaining to Renault, Zeng was explaining to himself:

"There is no need to report to Baojo. Let's add Heather to Alice's 'friends' list... I am in charge of the internal monitoring records of Tuckers and have nothing to do with you."

"Hey, are you serious? What if Baojo finds out..." Renault was not stupid, and he could vaguely feel Zeng's unusual feelings for Alice.

On the one hand, it was his boss's petty thoughts, and on the other hand, he sympathized with Alice, so Renault always turned a blind eye when spying on her. But this time it's different. Alice is really playing with fire, and Heather's danger has already been registered in Tuckers. If Hojo knew about it, it would take less than an hour for the Shinra Special Forces to surround Alice's house three floors inside and three outside. From now on, the eldest lady would have to live in the laboratory and on the dissecting table.

If you don't report to Hojo, it's equivalent to putting all the responsibilities on your shoulders. Once something happens, Alice will not be the only one who will be unlucky, Zeng will not be able to escape the blame. Everyone knows that in the Shinra Company, Hojo's position is truly inferior to that of one person and superior to ten thousand people. He controls the scientific research department, the most critical department, and is like the supreme king of a small kingdom. Even Tuckers cannot compete with him. , let alone a little girl like Alice who has no power to resist.

Zeng didn’t bring anyone else here this time, and he only brought the most trusted Renault, who probably already had confidentiality considerations in mind.

"I also want to see that tiny possibility..."

Zeng looked at the steamy alley in the distance, his fists wrapped in black leather gloves clenching.

Alice... As the supervisor of Tuckers, I cannot actively disobey Shinra Corporation's orders. But as a friend who has watched you grow up, I sincerely hope that you can break free from the shackles and gain true freedom.

A small bar owner, a descendant of an ancient race who has no power to resist.

Even if there is only a slight possibility, if there is such a thing as a [miracle], please let me witness it with my own eyes.

Thanks to the unknown patient for the 500 starting coin reward