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Raya doesn't understand and can't understand.

Where is my Holy Tree? What about the freshman patron saint tree?

Just a second ago, she was arrogantly showing off her new mother to her girlfriends, but when she came back to her senses this second, she suddenly turned pale with shock. This person was pretending to be cool in the front, but he never expected that his mother in the back row would be stolen by a lunatic dressed as a bat.

Careless loss of mother belongs to yes.

The point is that the patron saint tree is synonymous with invincibility in her mind. She once believed that all living beings are ants in front of her invincible tree mother. She even thought up the script of Dashu's mother taking her to punch Nanshan Nursing Home and kick Beihai Kindergarten. She never wanted to die before she was born. This great plan didn't even have time to be put into practice, and her mother was gone.

"Impossible, this is absolutely impossible..."

Laya was still immersed in the horror of being disillusioned, but before she had time to digest the facts, she saw that the phantom in red was approaching.

A bloodless slender hand protruded from under the red clothes, as cold as steel, but as strong as pliers. She grabbed Raya by the throat and lifted her off the ground with one hand. The slender fingers almost pinched her throat out of shape.

Raya felt her breath cut off. She saw Fana approaching herself under the dim and flickering firelight, her light blue eyes were full of emptiness that made her feel strange.

It was at this moment that Raya suddenly realized something that terrified her.

The girl in front of her, her former best friend... really wanted to kill herself.

"Fana...you want to give me..."

She really couldn't speak the second half of the sentence, and her whole face was distorted due to suffocation.

Fana looked at the girl who was held by her phantom in front of her.

And the friend she had cherished the most.

Contrary to what many people think, she didn't forget everything that happened here after leaving the orphanage. She remembered everything, especially every detail with this one and only friend.

She vividly remembered them slipping out of the compound to play together, how they had discovered the cave behind them together. She remembers them sharing books, sharing stories, comforting each other, being a pillar of support for each other during the days of hell.

She remembers it all.

But that doesn't change anything.

Phantom's hand seemed to be clenched a bit tighter, and the five fingers almost seemed to be embedded in Raya's skin. Laya's consciousness began to fade.

"You broke the law." Fana said earnestly, "The infected...are eliminated."

However, she didn't give the final blow immediately, but took out a small device from nowhere.

That is the portable handheld scanning device equipped by Professor Miyazaki for field agents, which can roughly but quickly test the degree of infection of infected people to determine whether to eliminate it.

Nine agents usually have no choice but to fight back when they are besieged by infected people and threaten their lives, but once the infected person is subdued or gives up resistance, they must scan with equipment before execution to confirm that the infection level of the other party is 40% Only when the above is the case can they be killed on the spot.

This is the rules and regulations of field agents, and Fana has always strictly followed the rules.

I thought that Raya, who controlled so many people, was a high-risk infected person. She was ready to be killed on the spot, but after scanning with a handheld device, the readings seen on the display were unexpected. .

The infestation readout on the monitor was...zero.

Fana tilted her head and looked at Raya who was caught in mid-air and passed out with some surprise.

She is not infected.

The Phantom in Red let go of her hand, and the girl fell limply to the ground. She began to cough violently, greedily breathing in the stale air mixed with lifeless air in the cave.

"You are not," Fana looked down at Raya who was coughing violently, "infected."

In other words, everything Raya does is out of her own will, and all of these are what she wants.

Raya coughed violently for a while, and finally recovered.

"I just want what everyone else has." Her face was still ugly, which made her look extraordinarily weird, "Is there something wrong with that too!?"

"without."

While Fana was speaking, Phantom lifted Raya up again, but this time it was the wrist.

She stepped forward, took out a pair of black handcuffs, and clasped them around the girl's wrist.

"But you broke the law," she said earnestly.

Raya: "..."

Raya shuddered suddenly.

She thought she had changed, became stronger, possessed power, and dared to pursue what she longed for, but at the same time, she was so strange that even she was afraid.

But she was wrong. Now that she has lost everything, she realizes that nothing has changed. She is still the little kid who was forgotten and cried helplessly in the corner, longing for someone to hear her voice.

Instead, it was Fana.

She suddenly felt that it was Fana in front of her who made her feel strange.

 …

Secret Service Nine quickly arrived at the scene and pulled up a long cordon behind the orphanage.

After roughly understanding what happened, Agent Xiang Xuantong who came to the scene from the Jiangdu Branch of the Ninth Secret Service couldn't help casting admiring glances at Fana who was quietly standing aside.

Find the culprit on your own, single-handedly take down so many infected and take down the enemy.

No wonder Professor Miyazaki is full of praise for her.

They soon also discovered the real source of infection deeper in the jungle, the giant tentacle tree that had already burped.

When the nine found it, the tree was riddled with holes. The trunk was dry and lifeless, and broken branches and vines were everywhere.

When Raya saw this tragic scene, she couldn't help but rushed forward, crying like "Mother, you died so miserable", and the agents present were dumbfounded.

Later, the ins and outs of the matter were roughly clarified, and the analysts also roughly figured out what was going on with this thing after investigation.

"From the analysis of the existing signs and corpses, it is speculated that it should be a plant-type infection source with relatively weak infection ability. It can infect the target only when the fruit and body parts enter through the human digestive system.

However, relatively, the source of infection itself is more prominent. It has been found that its exterior is very tough, and it is difficult for conventional ammunition to do effective damage. Weapons such as high-explosive grenades or individual rocket launchers can penetrate the shell to cause damage, but the target should also have the self-healing ability similar to the infected, and ordinary damage can quickly repair itself.

In addition, it will use vine tentacles to capture the target, and the fruit on the tree is suspected to be an explosive, which can be thrown and detonated under the control of the infection source's own will. The blast radius and power need to be further tested, but it is estimated that it is not weak. …”

The more the analyst said, the more horrified Xiang Xuantong's expression became. He looked at Fana next to him with a strange expression: "You also settled this thing by yourself?"

Hearing this, the tree made him feel like a fortress, completely beyond the scope of a single agent's ability to deal with it. No matter how you say this kind of thing, it should be dispatched to the special operations team to serve with heavy weapons.

If one person handles this source of infection, even if it's a phantom, it's a bit outrageous, right?

But Fana shook her head lightly, indicating that she did not do it.

An investigator next to him also came up and said, "No. It seems to be Batman who killed this tree-shaped source of infection."

"Batman?"

Hearing this, Xuantong's "out of line" expression immediately disappeared, revealing an expression of "Oh, that's all right".

Anyway, I don't know when they have begun to accept this setting. Some say it's outrageous to single-handedly take down the tree, but if you add that it's Batman it seems like suddenly you'll accept it.

"So, the source of infection is this tree." Xiang Xuantong glanced at Laya, who was already in handcuffs, "Then that little girl, the culprit who spread the source of infection...is she just an ordinary person? "

"Yes." The investigator next to him said, "But about the source of infection...she said someone gave it to her."

"Someone gave it?"

"Yes. She said that someone gave her the seeds of the tree and asked her to sow it. Then the tree grew like this in a very short period of time, and she was asked to infect others instead of herself."

Xiang Xuantong narrowed his eyes.

This problem can be more serious than the source of infection itself.

He walked up to Raya: "Who gave you the seed?"

Raya lifted her eyelids and glanced at him.

"A man, I didn't see his face." She said coldly, "I was adopted by the Jordans at the time, and he came to look for me at home. He showed his ID to the Jordans, saying he was an official person, They should have seen the face."

But the Jordans were dead, lying among the fallen infected in the cave.

"but,"

Raya paused, glanced at Xiang Xuantong, and showed a playful smile.

"He's wearing exactly the same clothes as you."