Chapter 119: 『Outsiders』 and the Creed of the Sky Viper

Bang!

The console was smashed into a long, narrow pit by the long spear, and the instrument began to emit black smoke once again.

Hong swallowed hard, raised his hands tremblingly, and said, "I'm from the Laboratory. The Sky Viper said they could give me the best research environment and help me capture Mutants, so I stayed."

There was no need to use any methods; Hong confessed voluntarily. Liu Mu asked, "What is your status within the Sky Viper?"

Hong stammered in reply, "Red... Red..."

"I know your name is Hong, what about your status?"

"Red... Flower."

"Holy crap!" Liu Mu, who had been acting cool the whole way, couldn't keep it together. "What did you say?"

"Red Flower," Hong thought Liu Mu didn't believe him and felt quite aggrieved; he really wasn't lying. "I didn't want this title either. It was Joseph who said I couldn't reveal my real name, that using a title in the organization was safer, and that it wouldn't be, uh, wouldn't be grasped by the official authorities of various countries."

The boy sadly tugged at the cuffs of his worn-out white shirt, revealing arms that had a little muscle but not much, trying his best to prove through his actions that he was not a 'delicate flower'.

But Liu Mu's thoughts were the exact opposite of his. "Kid, logically speaking, I should shoot you dead right now and throw your corpse into the sea."

"Don't, Sister Liu Mu, I really want to help you," without even considering the question of life or death, Hong was completely controlled by the rhythm of the negotiation set by the person in front of him, and he anxiously blurted out his true reason. "I want to thank you for helping me kill Yamaguchi Hisashi. With this debt of gratitude, I will never betray you in this life."

"How did this get back to..." Liu Mu suddenly leaned in close, staring at Hong's delicate face with its distinct South Asian features, and suddenly understood something.

Hong was a bit embarrassed by her almost face-to-face scrutiny and stepped back. Liu Mu withdrew her movement, feeling a bit sour. "Just a little Jap, I killed him while I was at it."

Enduring his immense disgust for Yamaguchi Hisashi, Hong's expression was somewhat resistant, but he still spoke up, "Our village was occupied by the Sky Viper. To protect me, my parents were killed by that... little Jap. When we were taken away, the oldest among us was only ten..."

"Stop talking!" Liu Mu suddenly interrupted the boy recounting his past, finding it quite dull. "Don't show off that you've seen your parents in front of someone like me who has no mom or dad. Damn it, it's annoying to hear!"

"In any case," Hong looked up, his large eyes bloodshot from excitement. "Thank you. This ship, and everyone on it, I give to you. Sister Liu Mu, can you let me follow you?"

Liu Mu, who just minutes ago had found Hong's status a nuisance and wanted to throw him into the sea, still found him a nuisance.

What kind of luck is this? She struggled so hard to survive in her previous life, and in this life, she just goes out to take revenge and ends up getting the number three person from inside the enemy organization?

"I'm asking you, do you know what's going on with the Black Glutton?"

"I know. I helped her complete the Mutation. Her ability is called 'Dream Girl', and its essence is to control the other person's body by invading their brainwaves. At that time..."

It was great that he could provide information, as it meant the other party could make use of him. Hong immediately began to explain in detail, trying to prove that he was a useful person.

After Hong finished his detailed explanation, Liu Mu suddenly asked a seemingly unrelated question, "Why do you research these things? Because you like it, or for some other reason? Aren't you afraid?"

"I..." Hong was stunned by the question, not knowing how to answer for a moment.

No one had ever asked him if he liked it or if he was afraid. Whether it was that old beast Yamaguchi Hisashi, the people in the organization, or even his assistants, they all seemed to naturally feel that he should be doing this research and should be facing these inhuman things...

Before the Sky Viper occupied the village, he was just a carefree village child. At that time, he didn't even feel poverty; after all, the families around were all about the same, and his little friends were all about the same.

The Sky Viper killed some people, but their goal was the drug den in the mountains. The village became a drug transit station, and Hong was also noticed by the organization for his outstanding performance in refining, entering the youth training class.

The teacher of this training class was none other than Yamaguchi Hisashi.

"Yamaguchi Hisashi would regularly take us to a sealed room to watch him dissect human bodies, and then he would make us do the same. If we didn't dissect well and left marks on those bones, we would have to be locked in with the corpse. If we didn't pass the organization's assessment, we would also be treated like raw material by him."

The twelve-year-old boy recounted his past with a cold expression, as if it were not something he had personally experienced.

Liu Mu finally knew the origin of those skeletons in Yamaguchi Hisashi's basement. Besides the few children who disappeared from Yang Family Town, the rest were all those abandoned by the Sky Viper. "Your performance has always been excellent, so you rose to your current position within the Sky Viper?"

"No," Hong seemed to possess a powerful ability to regulate his emotions; after just a moment, one couldn't tell he had been red-eyed before. "Good grades are only one aspect. There are many teenage geniuses in the organization in various fields. I mainly participated in and led the anti-invasion operations, effectively sabotaging surrender incidents, and analyzed the first arrival of the 'Outsiders'."

"'Outsiders'? Arrival?" Liu Mu instinctively felt something was wrong, but then she thought, this must be internal classified information of the Sky Viper. If Hong really was the third person of the Sky Viper, it was normal for him to grasp some secrets.

"Sister Liu Mu, do you know about 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'?"

"What's that? E. T.?"

"Yes, it's the contact between humans and alien spacecraft or even alien civilizations. As early as several decades ago, various countries had records of alien spacecraft, and the Sky Viper's intelligence organization also collected a lot of information in this regard.

"But the beginning of the matter was fifteen years ago. The Sky Viper obtained specific information about alien civilizations from a certain human organization and learned the specific time they would arrive on Earth. From that time on, the entire organization, under the leadership of the current leader, began to go underground and rapidly invaded and expanded the power of the Sky Viper.

"It was all to resist the conspiracies of certain organizations and countries with the 'Outsiders', and to protect Earth from being invaded and destroyed by alien civilizations."

The amount of information was too huge and unbelievable; Liu Mu couldn't think at all for a moment. "You're not making up a story, are you?"

"No!" For the first time in front of Liu Mu, Hong's little face stiffened, and he said seriously and solemnly: "The first creed of the Sky Viper organization is: Never cooperate with extraterrestrial civilizations, eliminate all 'Outsiders', and punish all human traitors!"

Before she could question him, Liu Mu finally grasped the main point. "You mean... aliens are coming to Earth?"

"No, sister, they have already arrived." While speaking, Hong suddenly pressed one of the few remaining buttons on the console, but the operation was done with his hand behind his back, and Liu Mu did not see it.

"The incident in June was a battle between the Sky Viper, allied with many forces, and the 'Outsiders'. It's just that there were some miscalculations in the collision this time, which developed into a disaster that almost destroyed the world."

"Wait a minute, wait a minute," as someone who had lived two lives, Liu Mu was truly hearing for the first time that the Burning was caused by Earthlings fighting aliens, and she knew nothing about aliens.

"Let me get this straight... you're saying that aliens made contact with Earth more than a decade ago. Then they came recently, and they fought a few battles with you guys. The Ten-Day Burning was because both sides didn't control their firepower well when fighting, and they set the Earth on fire?"

"The first part is correct, but it wasn't setting it on fire," Hong's little face became increasingly grave. "According to our original research, our weapons were not enough to destroy the aliens' spacecraft. But this time, their near-Earth spacecraft suddenly disintegrated during our attack, and at least one-third of it fell directly into the atmosphere, causing serious consequences.

"These Fragments also contained energy that does not belong to Earth, causing the 'Ten-Day Burning' you mentioned, and the residue also triggered the Mutation of Earth's organisms."

"Wow, then what is the Mutation?" Liu Mu suddenly felt a needle-like pain in her brain; that was a certain defensive reaction produced by Heitao A.