ETERNAL NIGHT STRANGER

Shadow

"Wake it up, if it's you, it must be manageable."

Zero's hand moved uncontrollably, touching the young girl's neck. Along with the searing pain, crimson lines actually surfaced on his hand.

The hot ripples spread across the young girl's skin, greedily expanding outwards, cutting through the darkness and spreading further throughout space.

"No! Don't come over! Don't!" Suzy struggled desperately upon seeing the scene in front of her, as if she had seen something very frightening.

The same ripples surfaced on Suzie's body, the inexplicable force preventing her from breaking free as well.

And the woman who called herself Lilith was still standing still, staring intently into Zero's eyes.

For only a moment, Zero seemed to have grabbed hold of some kind of powerful force, and like he was peering into some kind of deep madness... ⋯ He regained his senses. Turning back, Suzy's isolation room had been destroyed, and she collapsed on the ground with a pained expression.

"Bastard ...... bastard ...... I want to finish you off! ...... I will definitely finish you off as soon as I get the chance ......"

"She can't do it." Lilith says, "He who is branded with the deed, all will be at your disposal."

Lilith looks at you, the dark shadow beside her clearly in front of you at the moment.

"These are my powers, I call them 'Shadows'."

This was the true form of the terrifying black shadow, a black shadow that surrounded Lilith as if it devoured everything that was light around her, and she gently touched the black shadow with her finger and said:

"You can order me to do anything, like ...... kill them."

With that, she looks to the other end of the corridor - the

The thugs have chased you this way, attracted by the commotion from earlier, screaming weapons and rushing over.

Zero looked at the lines in the palm of his hand and whispered, "Clear them."

"Heh ...... obeyed." A reminiscent smile appeared on Lilith's lips.

Several shadows extended from Lilith's feet at a rapid pace towards the thugs chasing them, and in an instant the shadows pierced through the thugs' chests.

The difficult thugs had their lives ended by Lilith in only a split second, and death enveloped the entire detention center in an instant.

Every time Lilith unleashed that abnormal power, the shackles in Zero's palm throbbed, as if some kind of crazy power was burning.

His vision gradually blurred, and he realized that he had once again returned to that dream ......

Zero in the dream world seemed to be whispering to someone-

"Come here Lilith, this isn't the end ......"

"We had a deal ......"

After a short silence, someone reached out a hand to Zero, and that person tried to approach Zero with strong emotions. Zero tried to grab the hand, but the broken dream pushed him away from it...

"It's over ......"

Zero woke up again with only the corpses of the thugs in front of him, the sacrificial blood stained the entire ground, and the smell of blood spread throughout the detention center.

Looking at what was in front of him, Zero had a dry heaving fit.

"Are you okay?" Lilith looked at Zero, who was dry-heaving, and asked.

Zero shook his head, but his consciousness was still somewhat chaotic. The images that were hard to distinguish from the real ones just now, coupled with the pungent smell of blood, only caused his stomach to flip.

"Let's go there are people waiting for you in front." Lilith walked towards the direction the thugs had come from without looking back like a haughty queen.

Zero looked back at Suzy who was paralyzed on the ground and inquired Lilith "Is she ...... dead?"

Lilith faintly explained "She just has too low a degree of assimilation of the black plague, your deed strengthened her, perhaps her body is not able to accept it for the time being."

"Take her away with you, we need some hands now."

Zero was ready to assist Suzy when Suzy had regained some mobility.

"Damn ......" Suzy stared viciously at Zero.

She looked at the crimson tattoos on her wrists and looked up at him "I will not submit to you, kill me! ...... Or I will kill you!"

Zero extended his right hand towards her and said, "I didn't think about making you submit to me, you can leave anytime you want, I won't order you by deed. But right now this place is very dangerous, there are thugs and monsters everywhere you can come with us or you can find a way to leave on your own. See how you choose ......"

Suzy sat on the ground, her hands wrapped around her knees, and after a moment of silence, she stood up holding onto the right hand that Zero had extended to her.

"Then it's better ...... to be with big brother, big sister ...... I ...... am afraid of those thugs and monsters."

Suzy's 180 degree change in attitude really left Zero a bit speechless.

From the outside Suzy looked like a harmless middle school student, but in reality she was a master of Sichuan opera face changing, able to change from a demon to an angel in an instant. One second she was screaming about killing Zero, and the next she was able to call Zero big brother in a pitiful voice.

Lilith leaned against the corner wall without speaking inexplicably looking at Zero, as if this Zero in front of her was both strange and familiar.

The three of them walked through the dark corridors of the detention center and returned to the secret passageway where they had just separated from Megan.

Megan was currently sitting on an ammunition box, her left shoulder looked like it had been penetrated by something and was bleeding profusely, fortunately the trauma opening wasn't too big, the guards next to her were bandaging her wound.

"You really did it, great, you finally got your own power back!" Megan saw Zero excitedly trying to stand up.

"The most important thing is that you're alive, Zero."

Zero was just about to attend to Megan's injuries when Suzie jumped out from the side.

"I didn't expect the adjutant to survive either, this is - so delightful."

Suzy put on an innocent and harmless expression as if what just coerced you never happened.

"I'm surprised you didn't take advantage of the chaos and run away Suzy." Megan said as she looked at Suzie.

"I'm the most disciplined Infected, I'm sure I'll have to live and die with the Lieutenant-sama ah, how could I possibly run away." Suzie continued to act like a goody-two-shoes.

Megan teasingly said, "Alright, put away your hypocritical expression. Everyone else here except for Zero should be well aware of your character."

"I'm sorry, I've just gotten to know her as a person in the detention center." Zero interjected.

Suzy spread her hands and shook her head to put on a helpless expression and said, "Ugh, how can a simple and kind girl like me appear so cunning and hateful in your mouths."

"Alright, let's talk about some business, the coordinates of the intruder have been grasped, the target is now at the Institute on the bottom floor of the Authority, leave the cleanup of the upper floors to the rest of the guards, let's go after that woman."

--The 'woman' who forcibly awakened Zero and disguised herself to look like Zero.