Chapter 507: Until the End of the Deep Sea (Part 2)

"Oh? I didn't expect that the girls sent to kill me this time were two underage girls, hehe...wait, you are...Raven and Silver Wolf? Are you still two minors? Humph, training children to be tools for killing is really perverted!"

"Hehe, then you guessed wrong. No one trained us. The reason we do this is just a necessary means to survive."

"So that's it, just to survive?"

"What else? Girls like us have only two ways to survive in Siberia. We just chose the more dangerous but more dignified one. Anyway, since we are now your prisoners of war, you can kill or cut us as you like, just don't let us do such disgusting things."

"Tsk, then you don't want to live?"

"What do you mean? Do you want to recruit us?"

"Recruit? You can understand it this way, but according to the standards of mercenaries, the word "hire" is more common. How about it, what do you think?"

"Oh, okay."

" If you don't accept, I... huh? You just accepted it like that? Don't you ask for the conditions or something? "

"If you don't accept, will you die?"

"Yeah, right?"

"That's good. Why, do you think we agreed too readily and doubt our professional ethics?"

"That's not the case. You haven't told me who issued the bounty for me yet, right? Besides, talking about professional ethics with mercenaries is a ridiculous thing in the first place."

"Yoho! You know what you are talking about. But we are different from those coquettish bitches outside. Unless the failure endangers our lives, we will definitely complete the mission we take on."

"Oh, Raven, are you trying to justify your behavior of accepting my employment after failing the mission?"

"No, no, no, who said that? The two of us have always been very professional, right, Bronya?"

"..."

Although it was nearly five years ago, every word between Raven and Cocolia was so clear in her memory, as if that conversation only happened yesterday.

But when the memories are interrupted, when a person walks in the dark and narrow tunnel inside the Haiyuan City base, a trace of...

How to describe it?

Regret? Dissatisfaction?

Bronya searched in her mind for a long time. It is hard to say whether she lacks vocabulary or the emotion is too difficult to describe. In short, she can't find a suitable word to describe her mood. If she has to say it, she just feels a little difficult to breathe. She has obviously tried her best to grab every ray of oxygen in the air, but she still feels stuffy from the chest to the head.

"Monitoring room, this is it."

Bronya forced herself to focus on what she was going to do, turned and walked into the room with "Monitoring Room" hanging at the door. There are still many people wearing anti-entropy uniforms in the room, but if you look closely, you can find the two small letters "NH" under the anti-entropy logo. This is the logo of the Anti-Entropy Far East Branch.

Seeing Bronya suddenly walk in, these people still sit back to back in the center of the room without any extra movements. Bronya glanced over and saw two familiar faces. When the two saw that it was her, they seemed to want to say something, or just wanted to say hello. However, when they thought of the notice that "all personnel waited in place for the Hyperion to accept surrender, and any extra actions will be regarded as refusal to surrender", they wisely chose to remain silent.

"I am the Valkyrie Bronya. My mission is to retrieve a surveillance video. The troops to receive your surrender will arrive soon, but before that, you only need to tell me which terminal can retrieve all the surveillance in the base."

"It's... it's the one right in front of you... go forward and walk to the end."

The guy who looked familiar to Bronya instinctively wanted to raise his finger to show Bronya, but he held back and only kept the verbal prompt.

But...

Bronya looked at the several devices lined up in front of her and felt a little irritated.

"Uh... that one, the third one from the left, the one with a red button on the table."

Now it was finally clear, Bronya didn't care about the group of people in the room, and rushed directly to the terminal. Cocolia gave her an approximate time period, so she called up at least one camera lens from each area and rewound it in one breath.

For ordinary people, keeping an eye on the movements on more than 20 small screens at the same time is undoubtedly an incredible thing, but there is no way, Bronya is in a hurry, and it is not impossible for her to do it.

What can I say?

Back then, she and Raven were snipers of the same level, and because of this, for a long time, no one was willing to condescend to be another person's observer, so she instead developed an extraordinary observation ability... At least she herself has developed it, and she doesn't know whether Natasha can do it.

But I didn't expect that this ability would be used to find those two idiots in the end...

Hmm?

Two colors, one pink and one blue, flashed in the upper left corner of her field of vision. Bronya dragged the timeline backwards to start over from the previous scene, and then easily found the corresponding camera footage based on her previous impression.

The next steps are too simple. From the camera position corresponding to the camera image on the chart on the table, and then according to the direction the two idiots left, retrieve the images of the cameras along the way, and you can easily find the place where they last appeared.

"Ah? P1 kitchen? What are they going there for? Forget it..."

If a person tries to understand the thoughts of an idiot with normal thinking, then this person is not even as good as an idiot-this is the valuable experience that Bronya has gained from getting along with Rosaria and then Kiana for several years.

After all, when you try to understand a fool, your IQ has been lowered to the level of a fool.

Looking back at the two familiar members of the Far East Branch of Anti-Entropy, Bronya only said in a businesslike manner until the end:

"The data retrieval is over, thank you for your cooperation."

Then rushed out of the monitoring room quickly.

It is necessary to speed up. A fool like Rosaria who always thinks one thing at a time may leave the current position in the next second.

But... after running for only two steps in the tunnel, a chaotic emotion and memory came to her mind, causing her to stop.

She held onto the wall beside her and covered her head to slow down, then she took slow steps again, stepped on the stairs, and headed deeper into the base and the sea.

Yes, although she was indeed worried about those two guys, she should at least take a look at where this place was, right?

This is Cocolia's territory. The previous battles also took place outside the base. Regardless of what those two guys were doing hiding in the kitchen, at least they would not be in any danger of life.

From the beginning, her purpose was not to find Rosalia and Lilia, but simply... not to face Cocolia.

In a trance, she seemed to hear the sound of flowing water, and vaguely remembered the map given by the two doctors of Anti-Entropy before the war. It seemed that in the city of Haiyuan, the place called "Eye of the Haiyuan" still stored this pool of seawater that could not be drained. In any case, the sound of the water had already reminded her of the sound of rain on a certain night a few years ago.

"Natasha! Where's Bronya...ah! What happened to her?"

"Be gentle, carry her to the bed carefully."

"Is she injured?"

"No, don't worry. With our strength, if we both get hurt when dealing with that kind of character, we are not worthy of the name of Raven and Silver Wolf, nor the reward you offer."

"What's wrong with Bronya..."

"Ah, a small problem. Although the target is not a difficult person, he is very alert. In order to wait for the most suitable killing opportunity, the two of us stayed up for more than 70 hours without sleeping. We were also caught in the rain just now. Bronya seems to have a fever."

"You mean like a fever? Your forehead is so hot that you can fry an egg! Bronya? Bronya? Can you hear me... This child has fainted and can't hear clearly. How did you take care of her?"

"Hey, hey, hey! You are overdoing it. I was caught in the rain all day, and I carried her back..."

"...you Raven has stigmata, Bronya is just an ordinary person, how can they be the same? "

"Then I can't call you before the mission is completed and say she is sick and ask to cancel the mission, right?"

"..."

"Okay, don't be so anxious, this child is very tough... Don't... Don't look at me like that, cough, I'll go mix the alcohol and ice cubes, you help her change into dry clothes and blow dry her hair first."

"You don't need to teach me this."

"I guess you don't have much experience in taking care of children... OK, OK, I won't talk nonsense."

"By the way, ask Rosalia upstairs to stop making noises, it's so late and she's still not sleeping! If she makes noises again, I won't give her lunch tomorrow!"

"Okay, OK."

"Wait, where's the medicine?"

"Ah? I don't know? I haven't had a cold for a long time, I only have medical kits and other things to treat external injuries..."

"Go and call Seele and Xing!"

…………

The words that I heard in a daze once, now echoed clearly in my mind. If someone were to say it in a mysterious way, that is - everything that has happened in this world will eventually leave traces, and those memories that are thought to have disappeared are actually just hiding in the mind waiting to be awakened.

Bronya's memory flows like water, so smoothly that it is almost unbelievable.

The experience that night was simply a disaster. She had a severe fever, and her limbs were so sore that she couldn't move at all. When she opened her eyes, everything she saw was twisting and turning.

And although she had a fever, her body felt very cold, and her teeth were still trembling even after wrapping herself in a quilt. The two women who had extremely lacked experience in raising children were still arguing about "whether physical cooling should be performed when you feel cold during a fever". She still remembers the feeling that her brain was almost blocked by noise...

Later, probably because Seele spoke, she finally applied ice on her head, and her body was still wrapped in a thick quilt. The image can be imagined to be funny, but it's a pity that no one was in the mood to take pictures of the scene at that time.

It was unknown how long that chaotic time lasted, but for Bronya, the most profound impression was the extremely solid and peaceful dream after the pain gradually faded away that night.

When she woke up the next morning, she was hugged tightly by Cocolia.

That was three years ago. Less than a month later, Cocolia took Raven to the Far East. It was not until two or three months later that she took Seele, Rosalia, Lilia and Xing to the Far East.

In fact, her body had almost recovered when she left. Fever always comes and goes quickly, but the reason why Cocolia didn't take her with her... What can I say about this motivation buried in my heart? Some of the touching feelings may just be my own self-love.

But since then, Cocolia needs her to perform tasks less and less. Many tasks are done by Raven. Some not very important tasks would rather be found by mercenaries outside than given to her.

In any case, in Bronya's heart, there is one thing about Cocolia that cannot be denied - family, friends, love... These things that were once lost in the snow of Siberia were all found by Cocolia and given to her again.

The orphanage will be her eternal home - 13-year-old Bronya once fantasized about it.

And in order to let everyone in the orphanage live happily forever, she is willing to let her hands be stained with rust and blood again.

But she didn't expect that this "willingness" would require such a heavy burden.

Now thinking back, what is Cocolia's feeling for herself and Seele? Does she really regard them as her own children, or are they just high-quality experimental samples needed for the X-10 experiment that was not finally implemented?

Sometimes, Bronya would rather the reality be cruel than an ambiguous ending. But most things in this world are not what people want.

Moreover, as an ordinary person who is not "omniscient and omnipotent", most of the breath obtained from this world is ambiguous, and some things do not necessarily need clear results to get answers.

A person will always encounter something in his life, no matter what the cause and consequence are, he must do it, but when some things have a clear answer, a lot of unnecessary pain may be saved.

After taking two more steps forward with the help of the wall, Bronya stopped and then slowly stepped back.

After confirming that the room in front of her was indeed the P1 kitchen, Bronya placed her hand on the cold door handle, carefully distinguishing the breath behind the door, and then suddenly pushed it open——

"Ahhh! Monsters, get out of here!"

"Snap!"

Bronya accurately grasped the pink tail that was pulled out.

"Calm down, Rosalia, it's a person coming... Wait, you are..."

"Huh? Huh?? These two iconic silver drills... Lilia, am I seeing things right?"