Feng'er lit another cigarette and continued, "Then the battle was about to erupt, but due to the narrow and dark underground basement, firearms and blades were impractical, and some verbal abilities couldn't be used. In a moment of carelessness, two more people fell. Ultimately, the Commissioner and I forced the opponent back together. The villain escaped through the narrow hole."
"We couldn't follow him into the hole, so we used sonar combined with mathematical models to quickly calculate the location of the exit. Fortunately, it wasn't far away, and the team outside led by the specialists rushed over, surrounding the target in time. When I arrived, two more people had died. With the sunlight, I saw clearly what it was."
"It was a child, about six or seven years old judging by the height of the bones. But his expression was ferocious and fierce, with dark green scales covering his face and exposed skin. Regular bullets had no effect on him, and even small-caliber live ammunition only sparked like hitting steel. His hands and feet had grown into claws, his movements were sharp, and his strength was ferocious. In just a few flashes, he could rip the heart out of a senior specialist."
"Deadpool-ized?"
Liu Chen asked, recalling the concept he had recently learned in class.
"Yes, although we didn't know what kind of creature the child's father was, his own bloodline was already very high and unstable. Eventually, he fell into corruption and became a Deadpool, with formidable combat power. I and several A-level students of the same grade cooperated with the ace commissioner to fight a hard battle, eventually incapacitating him. Just as I was about to chop off the child's head, suddenly a woman rushed over. Because the target was abnormally fierce, all available forces of the enforcement department were called in to fight. There were no guards outside, so this woman, I don't know where she came from, had so much strength that she actually broke free from the restraints of a new student and ran over. Someone wanted to shoot her, but the commissioner stopped them. We don't shoot ordinary people, but I had to stop her because behind me was a devil. I didn't understand why she wanted to imprison a devil, and why she rushed over so urgently when I was about to kill the devil."
"I held her back with one hand and raised my knife with the other to end this devil. But the woman frantically shouted, 'Don't kill my son, don't kill my son.' Yes, this devil, was her son who had died long ago..."
At this point, Feng'er's tone also became somewhat melancholic.
Liu Chen could imagine the scene: a devil lying on the ground, awaiting judgment, and a mother rushing desperately towards the devil.
"When she saw signs of the devil's resurgence, I first cut off his legs, then pressed him down with my foot on his chest. The woman saw this scene and scratched, clawed, and bit me, but for a while, no one came to pull her away. Apparently, her madness and the cruel reality had silenced everyone. Seeing that I remained unmoved like a mountain, she begged, she pleaded."
Feng'er chuckled self-deprecatingly. "Even the embryo killers of the Enforcement Department hesitated when they saw this scene. The target was no longer a threat, and they couldn't bring themselves to kill a woman's child, even if that child was a demon... Later, I let go, and I was given a major demerit for it. The woman passed by me, and I thought it was better to let her realize firsthand how terrifying her child truly was."
"I still remember the furious roar of the commissioner when I let go. My actions were tantamount to murder, exposing an ordinary person to a Deadpool already corrupted by dragon blood. Although that guy couldn't resist us hybrids, killing an ordinary person was still within his capabilities, and he might even regain strength by consuming flesh and blood."
"Suicide?" Liu Chen inquired.
However, Feng'er didn't directly answer the question. "Afterwards, the woman was brought back to the academy for brainwashing by Professor Yamashita, and we unearthed more about the situation. She suffered from dissociative identity disorder. Normally, she believed her child had long since died because she couldn't accept that her child had turned into a monster. But another personality imprisoned the child underground, feeding him every day. Until the child grew older and ordinary food was no longer enough, he dug through the basement and went out to hunt."
"Because the woman had locked up the child, she never opened the iron door of the basement, so she and the child had never met. Even the primary personality subconsciously avoided that basement. For years, they coexisted peacefully."
"A woman feeding a monstrous child, giving him food every day, thinking that as long as the child had something to eat and could survive, it was good enough. She thought she was nurturing him, but little did she know, the devil's final words revealed everything. He didn't want the food that woman brought him. He just wanted... a hug."
Feng'er sighed. "In the end, whether it's a hybrid or a Deadpool leaning towards the dragon race, we are... creatures afraid of loneliness."
"What a sad story," Liu Chen extinguished his cigarette.
"No, junior, you haven't grasped the purpose of me telling you this story."
Feng'er shook his head. "I wanted to say that even if your target is pitiful, it doesn't change the fact that he is an enemy of humanity. That child may still have feelings for his mother, but he didn't hesitate to kill ordinary people. Even seven of us died. When he opened his mouth, I regretted. I shouldn't have let the woman pass. I should have intervened. If I had, regardless of what that child intended to do next, the next moment would have been his demise."
"He controlled his desires and didn't harm his mother. It seems like a heartwarming story, but in many other stories, the ending is the woman's neck being bitten off. I almost made a big mistake just because luck didn't leave me sleepless at night. I don't want you, junior, to end up like me."
At last, Feng'er lay down and pulled the covers over himself. "Remember, sometimes you must make tough decisions."
With that, the sound of his snoring filled the room as he drifted off to sleep.
Liu Chen switched off the bedside lamp, leaving only a pair of burning golden eyes in the dimness, their lava-like glow swirling within.