He got straight to the point.
Xiao Huasheng froze for a moment, then answered cautiously.
"Didn't I come out of that statue? What I am, I don't know either..."
Jin Li seemed to have expected this.
He slowly opened his notebook and began taking notes.
Then, he spoke to Xiao Huasheng.
"The Foundation has decided to conduct an execution experiment on you."
After saying that.
Jin Li closed his eyes and let out a long breath.
Was it finally going to end?
She closed her eyes, ready to face the death that was about to come.
Ever since Ku Tang's death, she had long lost the courage to live.
Many batches of professional psychologists had analyzed Xiao Huasheng's personality through her behavior.
She was completely willful, entirely self-centered.
Although judging an entity by human standards was somewhat laughable.
It was still a useful reference.
After Jin Li finished speaking, he prepared himself for death. At the same time, the various Mobile Task Forces outside stood ready.
Waiting for it all to happen.
The Foundation had always assumed the worst when dealing with these entities, and Xiao Huasheng was no exception.
If it had only been her first escape, the Foundation would still have shown this Angel enough patience.
But after her second escape, when she escaped along with those entities, the Foundation no longer held any illusions about her.
Perhaps only executing her, or throwing her directly into some space that would never see daylight, could truly contain her?
No matter what, the Foundation had already prepared to go to war with Xiao Huasheng.
And had already set casualty quotas.
"I'm sorry..."
Yet in the end, Jin Li heard those words.
He stared blankly, his eyes bloodshot from not sleeping for three months.
For a moment, Jin Li suspected he had misheard.
Xiao Huasheng's halo flickered faintly, like a candle flame swaying in the wind.
She lowered her head, her red hair falling over half her face.
Thinking Jin Li had not heard her, she spoke again.
"I said... I'm sorry." Her voice was soft, yet it struck Jin Li's chest like a heavy hammer.
Jin Li's fingers stiffened, and the fountain pen ink spread into a patch of deep blue on the paper.
He stared at her, as if trying to see through whether she was lying.
But her expression was calmer than ever before.
"I know... nothing I say can make up for it." Xiao Huasheng raised her head. There was no cunning, no mockery in her eyes, only a weary frankness. "Those people... the people who died because of me, I can't give their lives back."
After saying that, she took a deep breath and stopped looking at the grieving man before her.
Jin Li's breathing halted for a moment.
The agents in the monitoring room looked at one another, their fingers still on their triggers, yet no one dared act rashly.
This was completely different from what they had expected—no rage, no sophistry, not even the slightest deceitful performance.
Only... a confession.
Since when did entities confess their crimes to humans?
To most entities, humans were merely another species. Death was just death, and some even took pleasure in tormenting humans.
Jin Li's temples still throbbed, but the side effects of the memory enhancer left his mind exceptionally clear.
He remembered every victim's face, their screams before death, and the nearly innocent smile Xiao Huasheng had worn during the containment breach.
Yet now, she looked like someone who was truly repenting.
"Why?" he finally asked, his voice hoarse beyond recognition.
Xiao Huasheng was silent for a while, then gave a bitter smile.
"Because I finally understand." she said softly. "No matter what reasons I had, no matter how desperately I wanted to break through back then, those people ultimately died because of me."
Her halo dimmed slightly, as though guilt had weighed her head down.
After realizing that so many people had died because of her, she resolved to face it all.
She closed her eyes and waited quietly.
However.
If, if the Foundation truly wanted her dead.
Then she absolutely would not agree to it.
She would disappear from this world forever and never appear before the Foundation again.
As for placing other people's lives before her own, sorry.
She truly could not do that.
Jin Li's fingertips trembled slightly.
He should have sneered. He should have mocked her hypocrisy.
He should have ridiculed her, provoked her, proven that her repentance was nothing but a joke.
These words were merely her wishful thinking, just naive remarks, just a naive response.
An entity's words could not be trusted.
Yet at that moment, he found himself unable to move.
Because those eyes, that gaze... looked too much like Ku Tang's.
Like the girl who had once looked at him with the same calm eyes.
Jin Li fell silent.
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As for the fact that she was about to die, Xiao Huasheng was actually quite frightened.
She did not know whether she could withstand the Foundation's execution.
If the Foundation went all out against her, she would be completely unable to resist.
Even Slaanesh's incarnation could toy with her at will, let alone the Foundation, which was even more terrifying than the four Chaos Gods.
The Foundation had truly suppressed all kinds of things even more terrifying than the Warp Gods.
Xiao Huasheng did not think she could survive this.
Angela also let out a faint sigh.
Looks like our company is ending here, huh?
As an A-rank manager, he had the authority to judge whether Xiao Huasheng should be executed.
Ku Tang's appearance kept flashing through his mind.
His daughter's smiling face, the way she stuck out her tongue while making coffee that was too sweet or too bitter, even the way she wailed on the floor after breaking a toy when she was younger.
They kept flashing past, over and over.
"Why, why... why can't you just kill me? As long as you do that, as long as you do it, that's enough."
Clenching his fists, Jin Li's body was incredibly stiff.
For the first time in three months, large tears flowed from the old man's eyes, dripping onto the ground and soaking into the cold metal floor.
After closing his eyes in pain, he finally gritted his teeth and said wearily, "Tell me all of your abilities, all of your power... the Foundation needs you."
At the same time, within the Foundation's records.
An order was silently canceled as Jin Li spoke those words.
The Gun Angel Execution Plan remained an unsent file on the computer, but it would never again be entered into the archives with a press of the Enter key.
"My abilities?"
Xiao Huasheng's eyes widened slightly as she looked at Jin Li.
Jin Li nodded and said, "Yes, your abilities."
"Ah, okay."
Realizing that the Foundation might be planning to recruit her, she immediately began demonstrating them.
Since she would not have to face the Foundation's terrifying methods, she was naturally willing to do so.
The foundation of cooperation was transparency and trust.
This was also very important in a logistics company.
If teammates constantly hid skills from everyone, the whole process would become extremely difficult.
Of course, Xiao Huasheng still held some things back during the process.
For example, she did not tell the Foundation about Lobotomy Corporation, Abnormalities, or the fact that she would die if she exhausted all her energy.
"First, my guns!"
The red-haired Angel casually pulled out a Vector and fired a shot at the ground.
Boom!
A huge crater visibly appeared in the floor. "The guns I create are all very powerful, and they consume very little of my energy. If I use too much energy, I'll fall asleep."
"I can see that." Jin Li nodded as he looked at the crater, then waved to signal the task force at the door not to panic.
Seeing that he was genuinely listening to what abilities she had.
Xiao Huasheng immediately became more enthusiastic.
"Then there's line of sight. If you aren't looking at me, I can twist your neck off at an extremely fast speed!"
"I know that too." Back in the Foundation, the moment they lost observation of Xiao Huasheng, she had nearly reached the main gate in an instant. Jin Li remembered that vividly enough.
"Then you definitely haven't seen this."
Xiao Huasheng blinked, the corners of her mouth lifting into a sly smile.
She raised her hand and lightly snapped her fingers—
Snap.
In an instant, the air throughout the room seemed to freeze.
Jin Li's pupils suddenly contracted. His body tensed, and he instinctively wanted to press the alarm.
But in the next second, his movement froze.
Because a huge, exquisitely decorated chocolate cake had appeared out of thin air on the metal table before him.
The cream decorations were delicate and smooth, the chocolate glaze shone enticingly, and there was even a lit candle stuck into the top of the cake. The flame swayed gently, reflecting off Xiao Huasheng's slightly smug face.
"Well?" she asked with a giggle. "You haven't seen this before, have you? I only recently learned it."
Jin Li's breathing stopped.
Reality Warping.
The term exploded in his mind like a thunderclap.
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