Chapter 316 86: Target
With no one to rely on, even if you struggle out of the quagmire of the slums, you will find that you are just crawling from one hell to another.
It is true that knowledge can change your destiny, but the knowledge that can truly change your destiny is not free.
Maria’s parents knew that life here could go on like this. They could follow other people’s example and join a gang, or find a boyfriend who is not so vicious, find a job in a restaurant, and go to work on time every day. After work, go to watch football games, go to the beach, borrow money if you don’t have it, go hungry if you can’t borrow it, steal, rob, go to the church to get relief, there will always be a way to solve the problem.
Then wait until some accident or serious illness ends your short but still happy life.
Compared with those bad guys who died in gang wars, and no one even necessarily collected their bodies, it was already very good.
But one day, the moment their daughter took back the perfect score paper and showed it to them proudly, her fate began to change.
The parents somehow made up their minds.
I stopped smoking and drinking, and stopped watching football games. I took the initiative to find more jobs and tried to provide Maria with a good learning environment.
And they did it. Despite the gossip of many people, they sent a girl to an ordinary high school outside to receive a secondary education to prepare for college and did not consider vocational high schools.
Maria was also good enough to stand out in school and successfully entered the University of Rio.
At that time, the paranormal craze was going on, and Japan, as a region with a high incidence of paranormals, prompted many colleges to add paranormal courses in Japanese. After Maria thought about it again and again, she decided to choose this.
Even if the extraordinary craze after graduation has subsided, more and more Japanese in Rio can’t afford to fake it. It should be easier to find a job in a foreign company with such a major.
At the same time, in order to prevent accidents in life, such as not getting a scholarship, she works and studies every day, calculating the only chips she has and looking for small opportunities that may exist.
However, she had basically no ability to withstand risks, and luck would not always favor a person, so when an accident happened, she fell deeper into the mud.
Maria was walking on the way back to the hospital. The ordinary pedestrians on the road now felt full of danger, as if someone would rush out in the next second, snatch away her only hope, and walk away.
Her hand holding the bank card was sweating, and now she could no longer think about why Shirai would lend a helping hand to her without asking for anything in return.
She just wants the two closest relatives who have supported her study and growth to this day to save their lives so that she can fulfill the various promises she has made.
“Ah, it’s Maria.”
A man walked out of the hospital with his arm still bandaged. When he saw Maria, he said hello sadly.
Maria secretly stuffed her bank card into her pocket and tried to calm down as much as possible.
This man was the child of one of her neighbors. His mother was also admitted to the intensive care unit. He was in a gang at the time and suffered minor injuries.
“Are you going for lunch?” Maria controlled her expression and spoke dryly.
The man sighed and shook his head: "I'm going to collect the money and ask the boss if he can give me some advance."
". I heard that the official ordered all-out treatment for this accident. Maybe it's not necessary. Medical expenses?" Maria hesitated.
"Oh, just listen. Normal saline is indeed free, but it doesn't work, right?" The man smiled bitterly and shook his head, "I have to leave quickly. Maybe there are many people borrowing money around the boss. You guys, just do your best. . ”
He didn’t ask Maria for help. He knew that Maria’s family had basically no savings to support Maria’s education, and he would not offer to help. After all, he could not protect himself.
I would never have thought that Maria had already borrowed money to transfer her parents to a hospital for better treatment.
"By the way, if someone asks you about the man in black robe, you can pretend to be there at the time and say something casually. Maybe you can get some money." The man took out two bills and shook them. Showed a little smile.
Maria nodded.
She knew about the men in black robes. Compared to the total number of injuries, the number of people in danger was not that many. Many people had only minor burns or were in a coma for a period of time.
In the middle of the night last night, many people discovered during the exchange that the people who rescued them all had the same characteristics of wearing black robes, so they started shouting.
There were some people who were grateful, but there were also many people who didn't care. Some family members scolded them, thinking that it would be better to let the injured die in the fire. If more people died, if they continued to march, the official might Compensation will be given under pressure.
Now that I am a wounded person, I don’t know if there will be any compensation. If there are any sequelae left in the future, it will cost more, so it is better to die.
Maria has observed that there are not many people who think like this.
But she was not surprised that the concept of the Rocinha ghetto was so straightforward and unabashed.
“Are you also a family member of the Rocinha victims?”
The neighbor was right. As soon as Maria walked in, someone came to ask her.
“Yes.”
“Did you see one or several faceless mysterious people wearing black robes at the fire scene yesterday? Or some strange people who showed that they were not afraid of fire. "The person who asked has no intention of taking out the money, he is just pretending to be an official and simply asking.
"I'm sorry, I was not at the scene last night. I came here after being notified by others. My relatives are still in first aid, can you let me go?" Maria looked anxious.
"Oh, excuse me, I wish your family is safe." The man nodded and went to find the next target.
Maria did not take this matter to heart. She had no intention of saying anything. The man in black robe was kind to her no matter what. Without knowing the situation, it was best not to mention it. of gratitude.
Across the noisy hall, she quickly found the doctor who persuaded her to transfer her parents to the hospital.
“Have you borrowed the money?” The doctor looked at Maria carefully and felt a little surprised.
Originally, he just made such a suggestion because he saw that the other person's temperament did not resemble that of someone from the slums. Otherwise, he would have been too lazy to say it to other people from the slums. If he did, it would be basically useless, and he would be easily attacked by the emotional family members.
"Yes, I'm not sure about the procedures in this regard. Can you help me?" Maria guessed that the other party should have a corresponding commission and would be willing to help. "It's best to be hidden, you know "Yes, I don't have the energy to help others."
"Yes, I will arrange for your parents to be transferred from another door."
After confirming, the doctor will leave the matter at hand temporarily. The arrangement was given to someone else and an ambulance from another hospital was called.
After seeing the words on the ambulance clearly, Maria was relieved. It was indeed a relatively well-known private hospital.
The ambulance arrived at the scene without saying anything. A nurse handed over a prepayment form with a smile, requiring Maria to pay a certain fee first. After the payment was completed, they showed extremely professional qualities and arranged for his parents to undergo surgery. transfer.
The equipment in the ambulance alone seemed to be more professional than the treatment her parents were currently receiving.
The role of money is once again clearly demonstrated without any concealment.
Maria naturally followed the car and sent the news to Shirai with excitement on the way.
[Shirai, I am already on my way to transfer to another hospital! 】
【Thank you for your generosity! 】
Shirai looked away, feeling a little regretful in his heart. It was a pity that such a good seed as Maria might disappear. However, she does not regret doing this, deliberately manipulating the other person's emotions and dragging the other person into the experiment. She cannot accept that she has become someone like Hirosue Yoshimiya.
Although the seeds she selected were more or less experimental in nature, Australia’s Oakley and Rio’s Tada were both found by her from the crowd and with their consent.
"This is the situation. They are planning the next sacrifice, and the action will be much bigger than this one. Angel, do we want to prevent this from happening in advance?"
Tower Tatsu knelt in front of Shirai and put together what he had heard and reported it.
From his standpoint, eliminating all evil is the meaning of life in the future. All that needs to be considered is that the other party's evil is not enough to deserve death.
At the same time, it is to protect good people and prevent them from being poisoned by evil people.
Shirai looked out the window, seemingly in a daze. He waited for a while before answering the question.
"Tada, what do you think sin is?"
"It is an existence that I will spend my whole life to eliminate. Sin is cruelty to mankind and a blasphemy to heaven. Only Creating a world without sin is the real perfect world." Tada's face was flushed, and it was obvious that he was very excited.
It's normal for Tada to have such thoughts. In his life, he almost died in a certain alley because of his strong sense of justice.
At that time, he fell in a pool of blood and watched the person he rescued flee without saying a word. Instead of regretting it, he approved of what the person did.
Because in this way he succeeded in saving at least one person.
If the other party is stupid and doesn't know how to run, he will be disappointed.
“Are you willing to die like this?”
"If you were given a choice, would you be willing to be reborn?"
Later, Shirai came and asked the above two sentences.
He agreed.
The price is to become her subordinate from now on and complete the experiments she arranged.
The experiment can be refused, but Tada did not refuse.
Shirai immediately asked him to kill the person who almost killed him and became familiar with controlling his power, while she was responsible for finishing the work and making the body disappear.
Then the experiment is to let him observe the person he saved and give him two choices, let that person go, or kill that person.
At first Tada didn't understand why, but it wasn't until not long after that that Tada discovered that the man was also a heinous bastard, even worse than the person who killed him.
So not long after the man was rescued by Tada, he was killed by Tada again.
He fell into self-doubt.
Are the people saved necessarily good people? Although he doesn't understand it at all, why does he subconsciously ignore the possibility that the other person is guilty when he becomes a victim?
Shirai has no intention of solving his doubts. It is better to figure out some problems by yourself.
So after conducting experiments, Shirai confirmed that Tada was controllable and that he was completely unlike Oakley who couldn't stop killing him, so he officially regarded him as his first subordinate.
Oakley was much more extreme than Tada at the time. Even though the seeds she planted could ensure the other's eternal loyalty, they could not control the other's character.
Oakley kept begging Shirai to let him kill the sinners he considered. If he didn't kill them for a day, he would be in pain as if he was suffering from a drug addiction.
For Shirai, his subordinates who couldn't even control him were doing more harm than good, so he was left to fend for himself in South Australia.
In contrast, although Tada has his own persistence, he is much gentler. He takes Shirai's orders first in everything. Even if he does not understand, he will not force his demands, and his mood is very stable.
However, the so-called stability is only relative, Tada still wants to destroy all evil beings.
This idea is similar to that of Shirai who had just awakened the Black Light Angel.
She did the same.
But the more she killed, the more confused she became.
I feel like I am doing something meaningless.
“The evil you think is just the definition of human beings. Human nature is inherently mixed with evil, but it is only limited by conditions. Some people are inspired to rush out, while others choose to suppress it.”
"I have killed many sinners, but the world has not become a bit better."
"In the killing, I discovered that if sin were completely eliminated, mankind would not necessarily move towards a better future."< br>
"But just because sin exists, the disgusting smell lingers in my nose. Tada, we can't save every life swallowed by sin, and many of the people who are swallowed are also sinners."< br>
"Tada, do you still insist that evil must be eliminated?"
Shirai calmly expressed the feelings he had gradually gained over the years, looked at Tada, and asked A question.
Tada was speechless. Shirai's words were contrary to his past justice, but he was certain that Shirai's understanding of crime must be better than his. In the end, he could only remain silent, struggling with thoughts in his mind.
“It’s actually very simple. As long as we can make up our minds.”
"Let evil hurt more people, and I can transform more people into beings like you, Tada. As long as we accumulate enough power, we can establish an earthly kingdom of God in the human world, supervise the operations of the human world, and leave aside Eliminate all evil, and guide mankind to always develop upwards. "
Shirai's words made Tada stunned, but there was also a heavy feeling that God was about to impose a great responsibility on him, and his spirit was lost in the prospect described by Shirai. .
Can such a world really be built?
Yes!
Definitely!
As long as they are guided by Lord Angel, they will definitely be able to accomplish such shocking feats and achieve their own unprecedented value.
"Sir, then we will ignore their plans?" But when he thought that thousands of people might suffer, his heart still ached.
"We'll see what happens then. Everything is changing and nothing remains unchanged."
Shirai, on the other hand, does not have the same confidence as Tada, who is sure that the Kingdom of God on earth can really exist on earth. Establishing, after all, Shirai clearly understands how serious the threat from other supernatural beings is compared to Tada who doesn't know enough about the supernatural in the outside world.
But this is indeed a good goal and slogan.
(End of this chapter)