It was a room for storing things. Cabinets stood against three walls, every shelf packed with items: transparent glass bottles containing various organs, clothes and accessories in wildly different styles, and a cabinet full of medicines. Some had been marked with scraps of paper bearing an "×." Xu Huo spotted medicines bearing the NS Biological logo, also marked with the same stickers.
The door closed soundlessly. The little girl stood in the middle of the room, in front of a desk. With her back to the door, she said, "Don't adults always say they're compassionate? How can you watch a child get beaten and do nothing?"
She turned around and looked at where Xu Huo stood. "Mister, are you a bad person?"
Xu Huo removed his invisibility item. "Whether I'm a bad person doesn't matter. You can skip calling me 'Mister.'"
"How could it not matter?" The girl went around the desk, climbed onto a chair, then knelt on it and leaned over to hug a glass bottle on the desk. Inside was a pair of eyes. She shook the bottle and said, "Look, Mister. Aren't these eyes beautiful?"
"They belonged to the mister who hit me last night. He had pretty eyes, but he was a bad person. He even tried to trick me with candy."
Xu Huo watched her for a moment before replying, "Do you want eyes like these?"
The girl smiled. "I don't, but I want to collect all beautiful things."
Xu Huo pointed at the glass containers on the shelf beside them, where women's breasts floated in liquid. "So those are what you want?"
The girl tilted her head and stared at him. Her smile faded a little. "Why do you think I want those, Mister?"
"Just a guess," Xu Huo said. "You pay more