Tsk tsk, my things have been taken away.

The person who took it away didn't ask for my permission, and no one asked for my opinion. They just took away my "personality" and casually arranged the fate of others … Is there anything more shameless than this in the world?

Gamma Ceti, who had calmed down, didn't stay angry for too long. She was just determined to find the person behind the scenes. Even if she couldn't get back her personality, she wasn't someone easy to deal with.

In fact, from the time she was the daughter of a hairdresser to the time she graduated from a foreign university, she had understood one thing from an early age — if she didn't fight for the benefits she deserved, she would suffer a greater loss one day.

No one could take away her things so easily and without any scruples.

Even if that unknown personality wasn't necessarily very useful to her, and might even be the so-called "chicken ribs", Gamma Ceti had a rare fire in her heart. She emitted a cold air wherever she went.

There were a few children who had always disliked her and were diagnosed with different personalities this time. They thought they had become stronger and tried to bully her when the teacher wasn't around. As a result, they were beaten up by the irritable little girl until their faces were covered in blood. They cried and ran to complain.

If they complained, then so be it. She was a girl, so why would she be afraid of a few little boys reporting her?

In the face of the teacher's suspicious gaze, Gamma Ceti's little face collapsed. Her acting skills came online, and she cried bitterly, "I already said that I have no personality. I can't beat them … They still want to bully me and steal my bread!

Teacher, wuwuwu, why are they like this … "

The teacher looked at the weeping little girl and remembered that she was indeed diagnosed as one of the few children with no personality in the whole hospital. She immediately felt distressed and hurriedly comforted her.

She immediately grabbed a few dumbfounded naughty children and severely criticized them. They were punished to wash Gamma Ceti's dishes for two weeks.

When the few frightened naughty children were caught for education, they turned their heads to look at Gamma Ceti before they left. It was as if they were looking at a living devil.

The tear-stained devil grinned at them, and two of the boys were so scared that they almost peed their pants on the spot.

If they dared to provoke her again, it wouldn't be as simple as having their heads broken.

Considering that the hospital they were working with this time was a long-term cooperative hospital with the orphanage, they would send people over to help with various physical examinations every year.

Therefore, Gamma Ceti felt that her top priority was to find out if personality theft was a common thing.

Thus, one day, she asked her best friend, Xiao Mei, this question when she was in a good mood.

"Teacher, can a person steal another person's personality?"

Xiao Mei -sensei's personality was "super approachable". Even a little freak like Gamma Ceti found her approachable. One could imagine how good she was.

Hearing this question, Xiao Mei thought of Gamma Ceti's "personality" state. She squatted down with a pale face and held her shoulders with both hands. "Shun Shun, don't go on the road of crime!"

Gamma Ceti was in despair. "Teacher Xiao Mei, can you stop reading so many mafia CEO novels?

It won't help you in shaping your thinking. "

"Ahaha."

Xiao Mei -sensei smiled awkwardly. When she was reading a novel during break, Gamma Ceti passed by and found her. The two of them also discussed the direction of the plot.

But back to the topic, Xiao Mei -sensei still told her seriously: Personality is a part of a person's innate, just like hands and feet. It can't be taken away by others just because they want to.

Maybe some personalities can "copy" other people's personalities or erase them. But to take it away like an object, she had never heard of it.

— — In short, Shun Shun, don't covet other people's personalities just because you don't have a personality. In the end, you will go on the road of no return by committing a crime!

"… Don't worry, Teacher Xiao Mei.

I don't want to commit a crime for the time being. "

"So you already have that plan!" The teacher's soul of ridicule was burning.

Gamma Ceti didn't care about this. She was just very confused. Wasn't her personality cut off?

She thought that this kind of thing was a relatively common crime in the superpowered society, but Teacher Xiao Mei didn't seem to know about it at all.

Based on her understanding of this teacher who had a strong affinity, she shouldn't be lying to her.

But it didn't matter. She still had time to slowly explore.

In the end, did the doctor's actions only represent himself, or was there a dark force behind him supporting him?

Or was the whole hospital involved in this theft?

If it was the latter, it would be very troublesome. This meant that the orphanage Gamma Ceti was in was likely to be a long-term collaborator of the other party!

Thinking of this, the girl realized that she was likely to live under the watchful eyes of the watchers for a long time. She couldn't help but be horrified.

She was just a single case. Since the establishment of this orphanage, how many victims had there been?

This question was really scary. According to the 20th anniversary celebration of the orphanage's establishment last year, many rich people were invited to donate for charity activities.

At that time, Gamma Ceti also got a lot of candies to eat during the celebration …

Seeing that Teacher Xiao Mei couldn't get any information, Gamma Ceti decided to postpone the investigation to avoid alerting the enemy and being silenced.

After all, at her age, her body was still too young. She couldn't withstand too much acceleration. If she rashly activated her personality, she would directly play herself to death.

Let's wait and see. Anyway, she had already waited for five years for the truth. She didn't care about this little bit of time.

Soon, spring went and autumn came. In the blink of an eye, it was close to the New Year.

After observing the night patrol's movements for more than half a year, Gamma Ceti decided to act tonight.

In these days, she found a very interesting phenomenon. In the entire orphanage, not all the children were "without personality". On the contrary, the children without personality were only a minority. The children with personality accounted for about 70% of the total number.

If those caring families wanted to adopt an orphan, they would usually send the children with personality for selection. As for a strange child like her who didn't have a personality and didn't have a good temper, very few people cared about her.

Wasn't this quite interesting?

It was as if there was a hand manipulating everything behind the scenes. The carriers of valuable goods were left behind to be monitored, and the carriers of worthless goods were thrown out in exchange for fame and fortune.

Gamma Ceti felt that the "mother of the orphanage," who was always kind, might be part of the theft.

Of course, the above was only her personal guess and imagination. Even if she guessed wrong, it wasn't illegal, was it?

The reason why they chose to act tonight was because it was close to the New Year. Some of the volunteers and teachers had asked for leave to go home for the New Year. The rest of the staff had to manage the group of children who were more excited than usual. The energy used to monitor and observe was obviously diverted a lot.

Of course, the most important thing was that at around four o 'clock in the morning, Gamma Ceti saw the orphanage get into the black car that was specially used for business trips. At that time, she had a strange premonition in her heart: The opportunity to gather information might have come.

At 1: 23 that night, Gamma Ceti opened her eyes on time. She sat up quietly. After making sure that there were no children around her who were awake, she tiptoed out of bed and approached the door.

The door was collectively locked by the teachers outside to prevent naughty children like Gamma Ceti from sleepwalking in the middle of the night and causing trouble. However, a small metal lock was not a problem for the former top student. As an elite student, not to mention whether or not she knew how to pick locks, even if she was caught at the last minute, she would still have a card up her sleeve. So, our little girl only used a wire from a hairpin and spent five seconds to successfully pick the simple lock.

so

Easy. Mom doesn't have to worry about me not being able to go out in the middle of the night and cause trouble anymore.

The orphanage was dead and silent at night. Gamma Ceti walked down the long corridor without any lights. Only the moonlight outside the window faintly spilled into the corridor through the screen window.

She inexplicably thought of horror movies like "The Orphan's Resentment." That was a film and television series that she had watched in her previous life. She wondered if there were similar works in this world.

By the way, appreciating horror movies was one of her personal interests.

Along the way, Gamma Ceti avoided three rounds of patrolling staff. Looking at the tall and sturdy guards with vigilant eyes and carrying stun batons, the girl felt that her guess was increasingly correct. Would a normal orphanage need to be so heavily guarded at night?

They even locked the doors of all the children's rooms. This was the outskirts of Tokyo, not the ghostly place set in the game where monsters would attack at night.

After this round of guards passed by with flashlights, Gamma Ceti appeared from the corner where she was hiding. She raised her head and looked at the room number in front of her.

Archives.

Yes, she wanted to find out how many children with "no personality" had appeared in this orphanage so far, especially the children before the age of five. Was the ratio higher than the generally accepted 8: 2?

In fact, the reason why a newborn baby became an orphan generally did not include the factor of personality (if the child's appearance was so strange that even the parents could not accept it, then there was no other way). As the doctor who came to check said, children before the age of five or six were very difficult to be diagnosed with "no personality". Normal parents would not abandon their children just because they thought, "Oh my, my child looks like he has no personality, I might as well not have him" or other such nonsense reasons.

There was no one in the archives. Obviously, the orphanage did not expect that a naughty child would sneak in in the middle of the night just to investigate the information from the dusty files, just to verify an unfounded guess.

Mr. Hu Shi once put forward an academic slogan during the May 4th Movement, called "Guess boldly, verify carefully." In short, it meant that the hole in one's brain was big, but the proof must be paid attention to science and logic.

Gamma Ceti liked this sentence, and she thought that it was very appropriate to use it at this time and place. Life, wasn't it back and forth between courting death and admitting defeat?

There were rows of iron cabinets in the archives, and each of the cabinets was several times taller than Gamma Ceti, but Gamma Ceti took out a small flashlight from her sleeve. She missed the pair of eyes in the past, which could easily see anything in the dark.

The small flashlight that she secretly assembled was not very bright, but it was enough for her use.

This year's files … The financial report of the previous year, the information of all adoptive families in the past three years, the bidding for bedding products five years ago … No, no, that's not it.

Useless, it was all useless data!

The little girl, who looked like a bean, walked alone in the seemingly endless archives in the middle of the night. There was no fear on her childish face, and her mind was spinning fast.

After realizing that she only had six minutes left to investigate, Gamma Ceti thought for a while and activated her newly awakened "personality."

In an instant, a long-lost and familiar sense of pressure fell from the sky, as if a cold airflow drilled into the top of her head and reached her whole body!

The powerful force of unknown origin pressed down on her bones and made her bones creak!

At this time, there was a faint anomaly in the outside world. She saw that there was a sudden gust of wind with her as the center, blowing the covers of the files in the cabinets next to her.

When the files stopped being blown by the wind, the personality had been successfully activated. In Gamma Ceti's eyes, everything around her seemed to have become extremely slow — in fact, it was only her own timeline that was accelerated by four times.

This was the personality called "Instant."

The moment was fleeting, and Instant was eternal.

However, her current body was only six years old. If she overused this personality from her previous life, would she be stunted? With such an inexplicable worry, Gamma Ceti quickly sped up, wanting to end this quickly. Finally, she found all the information she needed at the 19th minute.

She didn't care about her image, lying on the ground and opening the files and files. In the dim environment, she skimmed through the seemingly boring data and some yellowed handwriting, calculating crazily in her mind.

Soon, she got the answer she needed.

In the past twenty years, the total number of orphans with and without personality before the age of six in this orphanage had been cleverly limited to a nearly fixed ratio!

And this ratio was far beyond the recognized ratio of 8: 2!

In other words, someone was artificially creating "without personality" children!

Why did this happen?

The answer was very simple, because they had lost their original personality!

The reason why this matter had never been discovered was that this orphanage was located near the capital of the country. All kinds of infrastructure were in place, and it had always been well-known. Few people suspected whether it was doing something shady behind the scenes.

Second, the operation was done properly. The behind-the-scenes manipulator cleverly manipulated the proportion of the children's personality through the way of personnel flow.

For example, the number of children with personality they took away this year was relatively small, so correspondingly, the number of children with personality registered in the record would be relatively lower.

Thirdly, a personality was not like a body organ. There was no indication of whether it had been stolen or not. This was obviously different from organ trafficking. For example, a child who lost half of his kidney was a horrifying thing, but if he lost his personality... did that mean that he was a "person without a personality?"

Everyone often thought so, and their first reaction was not that their personality had been stolen.

The reason why Gamma Ceti knew that she had lost her personality was that she had an amazingly good memory from the moment she was born. Otherwise, she would have naively thought that this was her fate.

After verifying an important part of her guess, Gamma Ceti organized her thoughts and continued to think, "Is the current headmistress the culprit?

If so, how can I destroy or even expose her crime?

If not, it means that there are others behind her … "

"No, the headmistress' resume clearly states that she worked in this orphanage seven years ago. There should be one or two headmistresses before her."

"So, are these seniors also involved in this conspiracy of stealing personality?"

Gamma Ceti opened the first page and wanted to compare it with the information of the first few years when the orphanage was just established. However, she unexpectedly found that more than a dozen of the most important pages of the files were missing.

Obviously, they were taken away.

The intention behind this was self-evident.

Just as she was in a dilemma, suddenly, the girl's ears moved. "What's going on!

Why are there footsteps outside?! "

"Did the patrol find out that I left the room?"

But before she left, she had locked the door in the same way. The guards would not be so stupid as to break in to check if the children were asleep.

As the footsteps got closer and closer, Gamma Ceti only felt that one of the footsteps was a little familiar, as if she had heard it somewhere before.

There was no time to think too much. Since it was an emergency, she could only hide with the file first!

Less than three seconds after she chose a hiding place, the door of the archive room was opened.

The girl held her breath and remained motionless. Her body temperature dropped sharply, and her heartbeat became extremely slow. She was forcing herself to enter the camouflage state of suspended animation.

Because it was not one person, but two people.