Outlander's Journey

Chapter 374 Niebelheim Incident

The elevator was moving downwards. Compared with the arrogance when they went upstairs, Heather and others were obviously much lower-key when they went downstairs.

After all, not everyone likes to climb upstairs with bare hands from the outside and then jump down directly. Since there is a more convenient option such as an elevator, it will naturally be listed as the first choice.

Looking at the beating floor numbers, Bullet, who has been silent all the time, suddenly said: “Heather, I still don’t believe Rufas Shinra. I don’t believe a word of his bold words and ambitions!”

Heather glanced at him: “Did I say I believe it?”

“Oh? Then you still…” Bullet scratched the back of his head, wondering why Heather would accept Rufas’s alliance.

“The eldest master is right. It is far from enough to find Sephiroth just by a few of us.”

Heather puts both hands in Kabuto, in a casual tone:

“This world is so vast. Only the Shenluo company with bases all over the world has the ability to find Sephiroth. There are free labor to help find people, why not?”

Jesse interrupted and asked, “But why do we have to find Sephiroth?”

Alice raised her hand and shook her: “I can answer this question!”

Seeing everyone looking at her, she cleared her throat and said: “What Sephiroth snatched from the Baotiao laboratory was the original mother code-named [Xenovia]. This kind of parasite is very terrifying and has caused two Thousands of years ago, the ancient Saitra tribe was annihilated, and almost destroyed the entire planet. If the Shenra Company’s continuous extraction of demon is to make the planet chronically dead, then Xenovia will destroy the entire planet in a short period of time. The planet is swallowed alive. Sephiroth is very likely to have mastered Xenovia’s dominance. The longer the time is, the more likely it is that the planet will suffer a crisis of destruction.”

“You mean, Sephiroth was also infected with that thing?” Bullet was thinking about saving the planet. At first glance, there was something more threatening than Shinra Corporation, and his face was very ugly.

Alice shook her head: “I don’t know the specific information about Sephiroth, so let’s ask Claude. He was once the 1st fighter of Sephiroth’s class, and he must know Sephiroth better than us. ”

Claude leaned against the elevator wall with his arms folded. He didn’t want to talk about his past too much, but now the situation is not only a problem with Shinra, but also involves the safety of the entire world. He sorted out the language briefly, and then said:

“…I used to admire Sephiroth who was called [hero] so much that I joined the Shinra Special Forces. After fighting side by side with Sephiroth for a while, we became friends.””Do you call that [friend]?” Jessie stroked Sephiroth as if he was a killer to Crowder. At that time, if Heather hadn’t used Narakugawa to block the killing blow, Claude would really have been split in half.

“Forget it… he is older than me, but he rarely mentions his past. Forget it, let’s call it [comrade-in-arms].”

Claude shrugged: “We trust each other until one day…”

“One day?” Alice tilted her head.

Claude said in a deep voice: “That was five years ago. After the war with Wutai, the main job of the special forces was to suppress those who rebelled against the Shinra. This was not a pleasant job. At that time, I and Sephiroth performed a special mission, and the mission location was Niebuhrheim.”

Hearing the name of his hometown Nibelheim, Tifa’s eyes trembled slightly. Heather looked in his eyes, but did not speak.

“There is a magic furnace built by the Shinra Company in the back mountain of Niebuhrheim, because that mountain contains a lot of magic energy. Our task at the time was to investigate why the magic furnace had unstable power. Although Bao Tiao did not want this mission to go smoothly at the time. By the way, Sephiroth hated Bao Tiao very much, thinking that Bao Tiao was just an inexperienced and incompetent waste, stealing the work of the great scientist Dr. Gast Then I took the position of director of the science department.”

Alice clenched her hands tightly after hearing Gust’s name, obviously feeling very uneasy. She never told anyone that Dr. Gast, the first head of the scientific research and development department of Shinra Corporation, was her biological father.

Dr. Gast quit spontaneously because of his dissatisfaction with the cruel research of the Shinra Corporation. When traveling alone to the Ice Village, he met the last pure-blood ancient species Ifaluna, and the two fell in love and had children. And Hojo found Dr. Gast’s hermitage along the way. Not only did he kill Dr. Gast and seized all his scientific research results and took it as his own, Ifaluna and Alice were also taken away by Hojo as precious. Experimental materials.

On the other side, Claude’s narrative continued.

“Because this mission does not require a large-scale battle, Sephiroth and I only brought two Shinra soldiers with us. I met Tifa while looking for a guide in the village of Nibuhrheim. Tifa was very close to the terrain behind the mountain. She is familiar with it, so she acts as a guide.”

Hearing Claude’s words, Tifa nodded hesitantly, with some doubts on his face.

“Along the way, we finally arrived at the top of the mountain with the cold wind of Niebuhr Mountain. Because of the non-disclosure agreement of the Shinra Company, Sephiroth asked the accompanying Shinra soldiers to stay outside to take care of Tifa. Safi and I The two of Rose entered the inside of the magic furnace.”

Claude recalled the scene at the time with a very ugly expression: “There are many egg-shaped culture tanks arranged inside the magic oven, which is the same as in the Baotiao laboratory. Sephiroth discovered that the system of the magic oven has been artificially adjusted, causing the evil The concentration rose sharply. Then, through the glass cover of the culture tank, we saw the creatures inside. It was a terrible monster with a twisted and weird appearance, only maintaining a basic human form.”

“Safiros said that ordinary special forces like me gain powerful strength by immersing in low-concentration demon. Although they are different from ordinary people, they are at least human. But those monsters were deliberately placed in high-concentration demon by the treasure. , In order to create a stronger existence.”

Jesse keenly grasped the key point in Claude’s words: “Ordinary special forces? What Sephiroth said, means that he is not an ordinary special soldier?”

Claude shook his head: “I also asked Sephiroth at the time. He admitted that he was very different from ordinary special forces. Before I could continue to ask, Sephiroth was sealed at the top of the furnace. I saw a sign on the metal door with the name of [Geneova] engraved on it. He seemed to be mad, changed his usual gentle appearance, and swung a long knife to chop the surrounding cultivation tanks to pieces. After the monsters suddenly lost the magic supply, they all curled up into a ball of suffocation and died.”

“[Am I really a human?] Sephiroth left only this sentence, and then returned to Nibelheim alone. I joined the Shenluo soldiers outside the magic furnace and Tifa and hurried back. I went to the village of Niebuhrheim and found that Sephiroth had locked himself in the hotel, not allowing anyone in and talking to anyone.”

“Then he was gone, right?” Tifa asked suddenly.

“Well, a few days later I found him in the largest building in Nibelheim.” Claude nodded.

“People in the village call it [Shenluo Mansion]. No one has lived there since I remembered it.” Tifa explained to the others.

“No, in fact, Dr. Gast from Shinra Corporation lived there a long time ago. I broke into the Shinra Mansion, and after searching, I found a huge hole in the mansion underground. The spiral staircase continued to hover down, and I followed The stairs went to the bottom of the cave. After digging deeper, Sephiroth found Sephiroth in the basement of the lowest level, and found that he was studying the research materials left by Dr. Gast.”

Claude began to feel severe headaches, but still insisted on telling the experience at the time:

“Dr. Gast’s research data shows that he found a creature in suspended animation in a geological formation two thousand years ago. He named it [Jenovia]. X year X month X day, [Jie Nova] was confirmed to be an ancient species. X year X month X, Xenovia plan was adopted, and the Niebuhr mountain magic oven was licensed to use. Sephiroth said he had never seen his mother, only knew her name was Being Xenovia, is this really just a coincidence with the Xenovia project with the same name?”

“He kept talking to himself, and for a while he criticized Dr. Gast for his death so early, and then he muttered Xenovia’s name, and kept reading the mountain-like piles of research materials. I think. Went to persuade him, but was driven away from the Shenluo mansion. Afterwards, Sephiroth never walked out of the mansion. He kept reading the book, almost as if he was enchanted, and the lights in the basement never went out. ”

“Then then, is the day the tragedy happened.”

Crowder oozes cold sweat on his forehead, and a severe headache makes him cover his head. But even if Jesse came to persuade him to stop for a while, he still insisted on telling his memories:

“On that day, I went to the basement to visit Sephiroth as usual. I heard Sephiroth’s laugh as soon as I entered. He just called me [traitor] contemptuously when he saw me come in. He insisted that this planet was originally Belonging to the ancient Saitra race, the Saitra race is a nomadic people. They will move into a planet and settle on the planet, and then leave. At the end of this arduous and lonely journey, they will find the promise Land and obtain supreme happiness.”

Alice, the last descendant of the Setra tribe, turned pale and shook her head repeatedly: “No, he was not talking about the Setra tribe, but Xenovia! Sephiroth was misled!”

“Safiros read through the research notes of Dr. Gast, whom he admired at the time, and believed in it. He said that some ancient species were tired of traveling and stayed on the planet, established a family, and chose to live a comfortable settlement. Claiming to be a [human being], I took away the fruits of the Saitras and the planet without paying anything in return. I questioned this, and he replied, a long time ago, the planet was shrouded by disasters, and the ancestors of mankind ran away and hid. They survived when they got up. The Saitras saved the planet at the expense of their own sacrifices, but the human ancestors continued to multiply their descendants. Today, the ancient Saitras are just a race that remains in the historical records.”

“Dr. Gast, the head of the science department of Shinra Corporation, intends to recreate a person with ancient powers through the Xenovia Project, and Sephiroth is the one who was created. [I’m going to see my mother], he With only this sentence left, I rushed out of the Shenluo Mansion. I chased behind, but Sephiroth was too fast. When I ran out of the mansion, I found that the entire village was in flames, and countless villagers were either caught in the flames. Or lying in a pool of blood with a fatal sword wound,”

Alice hugged Tifa, who was trembling slightly, and gently comforted her.

“I chased all the way to the depths of the magic oven on Mount Niebuhr, and found that Tifa was already lying in a pool of blood, and the sealed door on the top of the magic oven was shattered by a sharp blade. I thought that Tifa was dead at the time. After walking into the door with grief, I saw Sephiroth standing in front of Xenovia, who was full of pipes, muttering to himself [Mother, let us take back the planet together]. I denounced his cruel behavior. Sephiroth roared, so he said—[Mother possesses the best power, wisdom and magic, and should have become the ruler of this planet, but those useless creatures are stealing this planet from her mother. But it’s okay, now I’m here, so don’t worry. 】”

“My hometown, my relatives, and my friends are all destroyed by Sephiroth. With infinite anger, I raised my sword and rushed towards Sephiroth. He is no longer someone I know. That gentle and kind Sephiroth.”

Crowder realized that his headache was not so strong anymore, and he breathed out slowly:

“At this point, my story is over.”

“…Oh? That’s it? What’s next? How about Sephiroth?” Alice just felt like she was upset by the dog author after reading the novel until the critical moment.

“I don’t remember. To be precise, I don’t have any relevant memories.” Claude shook his head.

At this time, the elevator made a’ding’ sound, and everyone filed out of the elevator and walked towards the exhibition hall on the first floor.

“The official report said Sephiroth was dead. It was mentioned in the news.” Tifa remembered the scene when he first came to Midgar. Sephiroth’s death was officially announced at that time.

Bullet said gruffly: “News is controlled by Shinra, not credible.”

Claude wiped away the sweat from his head and said in a low tone: “I also want to know the truth, want to know what happened at that time. With Sephiroth’s power, I am definitely not his opponent. I challenge Sephiroth but Still alive, why didn’t he kill me?”

“Why not change your mind?” Heather suddenly said, “Perhaps you were in a brave state at the time, and you might have defeated Sephiroth in a heads-up match? After all, your strength is a typical nerve knife, and the ups and downs are particularly large.”

Claude didn’t speak, but the expression on his face was obviously listening to what Heather said.

“What Sephiroth or Xenovia, it’s all shit!” The more and more Bullet listened, the more chaotic, he had to gritted his teeth and cursed: “I found that guy and shot it directly into a sieve. I think he can crawl back from hell again?”

Jesse patted Bullet’s stout arm and jokingly said, “Yo! Bullet, it’s in great shape! Next time you meet Sephiroth, don’t wait for Heather, you come to lead the battle!”

Bullet forcefully patted his chest calmly and said that there was no problem, and then it wilted a lot.

Soon, everyone came to the gate of the exhibition hall.

Rufas said that he had prepared a “small gift” for everyone here, and he didn’t know what the “small gift” of the new president of Shinra Corporation meant?