“I couldn’t compete with the pain in my heart. In the war between heterogeneous and humans, I couldn’t hold on to the end.” Polly stared up at the night sky and spoke after a long silence. “At first, I was miserable about killing my compatriots. Later, even the death of a heterogeneous couldn’t be tolerated. I had been with them for too long and knew that every monster had its own life. I have blood on my hands and was guilty. Later, I betrayed the base with a few colleagues and came to the Highland Research Institute to continue the research of the fusion faction. We accepted the heterogeneous species and I have been atoning all my life. Now it has been 100 years.”

100 years.

An Zhe was slightly puzzled as he looked at Polly. Polly seemingly understood his doubts and smiled. “I’ve lived too long.”

“In the wilderness, the most inevitable thing is infection.” Polly rolled up his sleeves and revealed messy black lines on his right arm.” I was infected by a member of the institute by accident and I left them before I lost my consciousness.”

“Perhaps it was because the person who infected me was sober or perhaps the small probability came to me.” Polly smiled. “I thought only a few seconds had passed but it had actually been decades. My consciousness seemed to have travelled through time and space in an instant. Could you guess where I woke up?”

An Zhe shook his head.

“I was still in the research institute. They recovered me, even though I was a monster at that time. They didn’t give up. Just as I once protected them, they also protected me. Emotions between humans are like this. What you give, you get. In this day and age, trust between humans is more precious than life but I actually got it.”

An Zhe saw the gentle and serene look in Polly’s eyes and understood why Polly and the members of the institute had such a deep affection.

“I don’t regret leaving the baes but I can never forgive myself for escaping and my incompetence.” Polly finally stated.

An Zhe told him, “It is because of your high moral character.”

Thinking about it, he added, “It is because you’re so kind.”

Polly loved everyone so much that he was in such pain. In peaceful times, he must be a man who couldn’t even kill an ant—such a person had to raise his gun to kill his fellow people.

“Kindness…. kindness is the most significant weakness of humans. Kindness to myself is the starting point of selfish desires and kindness to others is the cause of shaken beliefs. I couldn’t be completely indifferent and merciless so I wasn’t destined to be a qualified judge.”

They were silent for a long time.

Thinking of Polly’s words, An Zhe frowned slightly and remembered a man.