Chapter 266 - Unacceptable

The night was cold but the moon was s.h.i.+ning brightly. The girl inside the quiet room was staring at it blankly. Her mind was starting to dive back to negativity and she didn't have anyone to tell her to hold on and fight.

She started to think that maybe, this is what life was. Just living for a while and then dying. From the beginning, she never thought life was great in the first place. The saddest thing was that, she was just a child and yet already thinking this way about life.

Looking at the round white moon, the girl stood and leaned on the window's frame.

"Hey moon, do you think there's still hope for us?" She asked, but the moon stayed silent, yet that didn't stop her questions.

"Shall we give up? There's no use in fighting when you know you're just gonna lose in the end, right?" she continued asking, her pale face losing its light. Her young self was drowning in this darkness and deep within, she wanted to cry for help.

She knelt on the floor and tugged her hair when suddenly, a sound reached her ears. She immediately stood and her gaze fell towards the window. A beautiful sound coming from across the building from where she stood, gave her gooseb.u.mps. She froze in place looking at the only lit room in that building across her.

The song was so beautiful and it reached her heart and her deepest soul. It was as if the moon had answered her through a song. It was a song that was sorrowful yet filled with hope. As if it was telling her the words, 'there's still hope so don't give up'.

She listened to the song as she clenched her fists tightly. Her heart was beating loudly as though the song was reviving her dying heart, nurturing the small light of hope in her that everything might not be over yet.

After the song ended, a new light enveloped her eyes. She wanted to rush to the other side of the building to see whoever was playing but she knew she couldn't.

"That song was beautiful. Whoever you are, thank you." She could only whisper to the wind when suddenly she heard her father's voice.

"Mm. That song was so beautiful. I haven't heard a song like that in a long time." He said and the girl immediately walked over to the bed he was lying on and just held his hand without saying a thing.

"My little girl. I'm so sorry for letting you live this kind of life. I'm so sorry you never experienced a normal life. I'm so sorry." He continued. His voice was hoa.r.s.e and filled with pain.

"Daddy, please don't say sorry. You never wanted this to happen. And don't worry, this little girl of yours will fight and we will leave this place. I promise." The young girl said, her gaze filled with determination, but her dad was already asleep and he didn't hear her words.

Time pa.s.sed and the day before the deadline came.

Due to her mother's anxiousness about her husband's health, the invention was a failure. The couple lost all hope especially when they also found out that her father only had a few months left to live. They started lamenting their powerlessness and feeling sorry for their child when suddenly, their daughter told them some shocking news.

They were unable to believe her so the child showed them her experiment. She had developed a dangerous bioweapon using genome editing technology and her parent's faces paled to the extent of being lifeless.

"Last year, I was just playing and accidentally came across this idea. I---"

"Oh my G.o.d, oh my G.o.d, Rin. Please stop. No, this is bad. Extremely bad. Dear, what should we do? Oh my G.o.d." Her mother cut through her words. She was agitated and became extremely fearful as she looked helplessly at her husband.

The girl was stunned. She expected them to be happy but the complete opposite happened.

Her father kneeled in front of her and weakly held her shoulders.

"Listen, my little girl. You can't create these kind of things. We are so sorry for not telling you this before but this weapon is going to be used by them to kill people. Your experiment was a huge breakthrough but it as a weapon for ma.s.s destruction." He explained and the girl just stood there, frozen. She just wanted them to survive. She just wanted to do something to save her family. She was just a child and she didn't have the luxury to think about other people. She couldn't believe that what she did was something unacceptable.

"Darling, we have to do something and destroy this before anyone finds out about this." Her father said to his wife and she nodded.

"But how? How are we going to destroy this? How are we going to do that?" She replied when the girl suddenly talked.

"Then, are we just going to die here like this? The three of us will die tomorrow if we don't show this to them." She said and the couple's eyes turned wide as they both looked at her.