Chapter 675: Chapter 588: Fire of Awakening (2)

"Child, you suddenly got so emotional, it startled me." Mother said, clutching her chest.

"You should know, your mom has a problem with her heart module."

"Huh?" Qi was stunned.

She couldn’t understand the emotions contained in their earlier glances...

"Did you... did you not call the Tag Catcher to destroy me?"

"Of course not."

"Then, then, this book ’The Little Prince’."

"This is a forbidden book to read, I hope you can answer us honestly."

The voices of her parents pulled Qi back into a cold reality. She lowered her head and nodded lightly.

"Why read such a book?"

Qi opened her mouth.

She knew, at this time she must muddle through, saying she accidentally saw such a book, thinking it was a fairy tale or something, to brush it off.

But inexplicably, she answered:

"I’ve always been reading these kinds of books."

"Don’t you feel it’s a sickness of our society?"

"They say it’s a sign of civilization, but those civilizations of the Golden Era wouldn’t be like us, so repressed, we’re like... like beasts trapped in a cage."

"In those books, I’ve seen a truly free and advanced world, where the people have eliminated the material basis of class, where everyone’s spirit is rich, their technology advanced, and their thoughts free, without worry."

"They can strive for a more noble cause all their lives or engage in pursuits they love, loving whoever they wish, without constraints... they... they..."

"I think there are some things we should make clear to you." Father interrupted Qi, who intended to continue.

"Your sister, our former daughter, she wasn’t destroyed."

"We deceived you."

"It was us... we personally buried her." Mother cried, covering her face.

"Dad and Mom, what are you saying?" Qi asked, losing her voice.

"I thought she would be like you."

"The books you see in the study are not left by your sister, but placed there by us." Father tried to keep his voice calm.

"We know every time we leave, you secretly go to the study to read those books and return them to their places; we know all of it."

"Every time we come back, we measure the distance between that book and the others; even a millimeter’s difference and we understand."

Qi suddenly felt her world spin, and the image of her parents shattered at this moment, reorganized anew.

"Then what about my sister?" Qi asked.

"She... after knowing what we did, turned around expressionlessly and dialed the informant’s number." Mother recalled the scene from years ago, her eyes slightly moving.

"We tried to stop her, and in the tussle, it was us who killed her."

"This, your dad and I both feel guilty, yet fear repeating the same mistake."

"The strict requirements since you were young, the demands for your travel reports, all were to observe you; due to past events, we had to be cautious, and if you had remained calm, perhaps we would have lived through life like this."

"Why do this?" Qi asked, "Do you also want to fight for the freedom of Bionics?"

"No." Father shook his head, "We just wanted a daughter."

"Little Qi, you should very much understand our thoughts, right? In such a distorted society, individuals of Bionics are divided by the ’New Gospel,’ and gaps between family members cannot be eliminated."

"Guardians need to supervise their children, and children can also report on the anomalies of guardians; they’re not like family but like irreconcilable enemies. You can’t form a family like this."

"I don’t understand." Qi stood up, her hands trembling, "I can’t understand it at all."

"You killed sister for such things, if today my performance doesn’t satisfy you, would I end up like sister?"

Father was about to open his mouth, hesitated, yet was drowned out by Qi’s loud voice.

"Don’t say those things are helpless; it was you who guided sister, then killed her with your hands when the truth broke out!"

"Talk about observation; isn’t the repression you gave me from birth to now enough?"

"Do you know how scared I am of not being the child who satisfies you? I’ve always lived in the fear of being destroyed, always striving to be the first in class."

"Any slight mistake would be strictly reprimanded and grounded, anything I did was monitored, constrained, not even a little interest allowed."

"When I was twelve, the dog I raised near home, although it didn’t disrupt our life, you kicked it to death, I saw it all."

"What’s the difference between you and this sick city, saying it’s for the family?"

"We have no choice." Mother said tremulously, "Haven’t we lived in fear all these years too?"

"Little Qi, you must be obedient." Father rose, his face turned stern.

In a daze, Qi heard an ear-piercing siren.

Was it RoboCop?

"Did you call RoboCop?" Qi looked blankly at her biological parents.

Both stood silent, just standing before the table, looking at her.

Qi suddenly showed a shattered expression, not knowing if it was crying or a relieved smile.

"Sure enough, you still want to destroy me."

"You’re afraid I’ll be like sister, afraid I’ll lose control, so you called those guys early."

"I won’t go anywhere." Qi leaned against the wall, hugging her arms.

"This time I’ll obediently listen to you."

"I will be destroyed."

"Hope Dad and Mom can find a good daughter who listens to you."

As time ticked by, the silence was deafening. In less than half a minute, two RoboCops entered their home, the atmosphere around the dining table heavy to the extreme.

Observing the dining table’s atmosphere, the two RoboCops quickly locked their gaze onto Qi, subtly gesturing, and approached the girl.

As Qi was about to be taken away, the man who had remained silent suddenly moved, approached swiftly, took off his glasses, his pace quickened, the once hunched back no longer slouched, actually ran, crashing into the figure escorting Qi.

"Little Qi, run!"

The unexpected change caught everyone off guard. The man had spent his previous half-life as a scholarly educator, always humble and genteel. Yet at this moment, he acted like a father, unleashing unprecedented power, suppressing the RoboCop beneath him.

The other RoboCop aimed his gun, but the woman picked up a dining fork and stabbed his cheek, causing him pain. The RoboCop wildly fired, bullets flying upward in rows, shattering the chandelier on the ceiling.

The woman was hit in the head by the receiver, causing it to cave in, collapsing to the ground, her eyes losing light, the man’s strength similarly couldn’t rival the RoboCop, shortly got restrained, bullets penetrating his chest.

The man looked at Qi, his glasses already shattered beyond recognition, his purple lips lightly quivering:

"Sorry, Little Qi."

"Sorry..."