In the airtight and dark room, time is stagnant like being sealed in a box, and a ray of light leaks slightly from the heavy curtains. The ray wanders on the ground as the position of the sun changes in the sky, zigzags past piles of wine bottles.

The room was filled with the smell of alcohol and dust, the door was opened suddenly, Rolla walked in, and could not help frowning when she smelled the smell of alcohol in the room.She knocked impatiently on the wall twice to light up the light strips surrounding the ceiling. She was about to scold the people who lived here, but stared at the empty beds in a daze.

Deng Huailing is not here.

This is a room on the second floor of HOPE. Since Rosie left, Rolla has taken in the frustrated little hunter.CyberRose issued a city-wide arrest warrant, marking Deng Huailing as a dangerous fugitive. The bounty related to it has risen, but no hunter dares to take up the task—not to mention Deng Huailing's sword skills that everyone fears, it is because of Rolla'sIn terms of face, they can't just break into HOPE and arrest people.

Deng Huailing stayed in this room for three days. At first Rolla strictly forbade him to drink alcohol, so he hit sandbags in the training room next door and practiced boxing desperately until blood flowed from his knuckles, as if he could vent his fire in this way.Rolla couldn't see the other party's physical abuse, so she simply sent someone to deliver boxes of wine, thinking that getting drunk was better than practicing to death.

Who knew that Deng Huailing brought both of them to the extreme at the same time.Rolla walked over helplessly, picked up the half-disassembled sober medicine by the bed, sighed, and put the medicine down again.The other party drank his sorrows and indulged himself recklessly, but he did not sink completely in the illusion of alcohol, and always kept a string of sobriety, not allowing himself to degenerate.

She opened the food cabinet again, and there were fewer nutritional supplements and compressed biscuits neatly stacked inside. Deng Huailing was indeed eating on time and according to the amount, and he didn't miss a single meal.Rolla smiled and felt that he was worrying for nothing. The other party became an A+ hunter with extraordinary self-discipline. Of course, he would not be overwhelmed by a momentary slump.

There was a rhythmic muffled sound from the training room next door, it was Deng Huailing practicing boxing.Rolla pushed open the door connecting the two rooms. Under the bright lights, the other party was naked to the waist, with blood-stained bandages wrapped around his fingers, and he hit the sandbag hard, and occasionally followed up with a flying kick.The forehead hair was soaked, and water droplets dripped from the trembling hair ends, and the sound of the sandbag was mixed with panting.

Rolla leaned against the wall and watched for a while, but Deng Huailing didn't stop to pay attention to her.She asked with interest: "Did you take this sandbag as Rosie?" Combining the few words the other party revealed when he first came to HOPE, she could guess what was going on, it was about a day after the seed of infatuation was used.A kick-off story.

The sound of boxing was suddenly interrupted.Deng Huailing stopped his hands, blood was flowing out from the knuckles of the knuckles, soaking through the entire bandage.He took off the blood-stained bandage, wiped the back of his hand carelessly with a towel, and wrapped a new one.

"No." He lowered his head and said sullenly, with a slightly hoarse voice, "I don't hate him."

"Since you don't hate him, why do you torture yourself so hard?" Rolla said indifferently, "It's no good being trapped in this relationship. You went through fire and water for Rosie, but you didn't get anything in return. Instead, you lost yourself."

Deng Huailing remained silent, holding the bandage around his fingers, without answering.Rolla added: "As a friend, my suggestion is to reach a settlement with the government and revoke the city-wide arrest warrant. Igor and I initially tested the government's intentions on behalf of the Hunter's Guild. As long as you share all the information related to Rosie, you can stillGrant your innocence and restore your revoked bounty hunter license."

"Thank you, Rolla." Deng Huailing raised his eyes and said seriously, "But, there is no need to contact the government for me anymore, I don't intend to betray him."

"I don't understand, he was the one who betrayed you first. What benefits do you get from defending a cold-blooded and heartless person like this?" Rolla said with her hands clasped on her chest, resentful.

"I probably owe him." Deng Huailing smiled sadly, "He saved my life, and he has been a bionic human for a while without dignity. There should be a lot of complaints."

Rolla said angrily: "Deng Huailing, you are such a fool—" She wanted to grab the other party by the collar, but the person in front of her was not wearing a shirt. She glared at those brown eyes, and suddenly found the firmness in the other party's eyes.love.

Deng Huailing's eyes are calm and deep, the color is like a closed lake covered with autumn leaves, reminding Rolla vaguely of the bionic man named Rosie, their love seems to suddenly have similarities.

She has never understood such love. The longest relationship Rolla has ever experienced was only one week and three hours. She threw the gift box given by others into the trash can with her own hands. The reason is that the cheap gift that can be bought everywhere is too perfunctory.She never accepts that she gives more to others than she gives back, which is the rule of business; not to mention that Rosie betrayed Deng Huailing, if she were in the same situation, she would have chased Rosie to the ends of the earth.

However, Deng Huailing proved one thing to her, love can be unequal, even unconditional.

Rolla can't imagine how stubborn this indifferent hunter is in love. Rosie has tamed him, and Deng Huailing obediently takes care of himself. When drinking alcohol, remember to take sober tablets, and practice physical skills in self-torture, waiting for the dayRosie is back and will need him again.

He was frustrated and sinking, but he didn't dare to destroy himself, fearing that he would lose the last bit of use value.In the depths of his consciousness, he is still the confused child in Bloody Christmas, thinking that all setbacks stem from his weakness. If he were stronger and more valuable, he might not be abandoned by Rosie.

"...Forget it." Rolla shrugged helplessly, "I'm just a suggestion, you can do whatever you want. But you live in my place, you can't eat and drink for nothing."

"My account has been frozen," Deng Huailing thought for a while and said, "There are still some valuable things in the apartment. If you can bypass the government's surveillance, you can take whatever you want."

"Who cares about your crap?"

"How do you want me to pay it back?" Deng Huailing looked around, and his eyes fell on the black ring on his ring finger, "This one can sell for a good price, but..."

Rolla teased him with a smile: "If you really have no money, sell yourself to pay off the debt. I have a few regular customers who have been complaining about the burning of Kabukicho for the past two days, and the hostesses they summoned are not good-looking enough."

Deng Huailing glanced at her indifferently: "I don't know that you still work part-time as a pimp?"

"Of course not," Rolla waved his hand, "I only pimp between the hunter and the quest. Come with me, there is a quest for you, and the bounty will be considered a debt."

Deng Huailing was stunned for a moment, got dressed, and followed Rolla back to the connected bedroom.All the lights were turned on. When they were talking just now, Rolla had already called someone to assemble a set of metal ball cabins in the room.It was the most advanced external device of the Huanhai system. He and Rosie had seen the same configuration in Chen Wei's laboratory. At that time, they were still puzzled by the death of Mary Ellis.

Rolla caressed the surface of the metal ball: "You know that there is a virtual city deep in the fantasy sea system, right? Cesina von Richthofen buried the lock of her brain there, as far as I knowYou know, right now the government and the Second District are searching for her estate, and the situation inside is very chaotic."

"I discovered that city." Hearing the phrase "Second District", Deng Huailing seemed to be stung in his heart.

"No matter who discovers it, anyway, the information has been spread all over the sky now." Rolla said seriously, "If the lock of the brain falls into the hands of the government, Cesina will be overthrown, even if it is taken away by the second district,There may not be any good results.”

"You remind me of a person. Dr. Chen told me so before. I accepted his commission, but he died before everything started." Deng Huailing frowned, "Rolla, II can help you with this, because this is also my goal, but I have to figure out, why do you want to find the lock of the brain?"

"I said it was for peace, do you believe it?" Rolla took out a lady's cigarette and lit it, held it between her fingertips, watching the blue smoke rise, "When those powerful and powerful get the lock on their heads, the whole city will change, I have no business to do... Peaceful years are the best times to do business."

"Take a step back, who doesn't like treasures?"

Areas under the administrative jurisdiction of East 3 of District 2, underground buildings.

In the vast space like a planting shed, dozens of external devices are displayed, all of which are metal spherical cabins with the highest specifications.All the decorations here are very simple, the walls glow softly with white light, soldiers in black military uniforms come and go, occasionally sit in the cabin to connect electrodes, connect to the Magic Sea system, and are sent away by the emergency pop-up program with disappointment.Back to reality.

"From yesterday to now, only ten people have succeeded in total, and all of them have suffered different degrees of mental damage." Piper and Rosie stood in front of the main console, observing the people coming in and out, and sighed, "To enter the Lost City, You must dive to a very deep level in the sea, as expected, not everyone can do it.”

"Can you?" Rosie asked.After the meeting with Parisa, he spent a day in other areas of East 3 to meet with Bai Shijin and Xue Nai to help everyone in God's Residence adapt to the environment, so he didn't join the queue to find the brain lock immediately.

Although thousands of people are frantically pouring into the Magic Sea system and falling into the sea, and Robert, Victor, and Parisa are leading the army to explore the lost city day and night, Rosie still chooses to care about the people she cares about first.After the visit, he rushed to Piper's place without closing his eyes for two nights, his face a little pale.

"Of course I can reach the Lost City," Piper glanced at the other party worriedly, "but after coming out, I felt dizzy for a while. Exploring below is too exhausting. Since you don't have enough sleep, don't try it."

Rosie covered her mouth and bit her lower lip, trying to restore a little blood to her lips: "It doesn't matter, give me equipment and emergency procedures, if I can't hold on, I will come out by myself."

"You..." Piper stared at this brave man with a headache, and finally couldn't resist him, "Forget it, there is indeed a shortage of manpower now. Go in, don't force yourself too much, the most important thing is, don't be caught by someone in the Lost CityOne shot fell."

"Is there anyone else who is against me?" Rosie said with a nonchalant smile, "I'm curious what kind of powerful enemy is looking for the lock of the brain."

"Stop turning on the screen, you peacock spirit! The Black Ring cannot be used in the Magic Sea system!" Piper couldn't bear it anymore, but Rosie had already left the main console and walked near the queue of metal balls.

He found a free external device, connected electrodes for himself, and connected it to the Magic Sea system.The gray mist enveloped him in an instant, and when the mist dissipated, the surrounding scene changed drastically, with heavy snow blowing towards his face.

"This is..." Rosie was stunned for a while, looking up at the huge statue standing in the center of his own fantasy sea system, "Who the hell would build..."

——Deng Huailing.