Following Bai Sheng's gaze, the one who was talking to Shen Ruqin was actually the witch Itardo!
But she looks nothing like the witch she will be 23 years later.
The right half of her face, with exposed bones and bulging blood vessels, was surprisingly intact at this moment. Her dark red curly hair fell to her waist, and her body was covered with metal chain mail. Countless ancient and mysterious talismans spread down her cheek to her slender and strong left arm. Two huge weapons wrapped in layers were carried on her back. The specific shapes could not be seen, but the heavy pressure could be vaguely felt from a distance.
It was clearly just a phantom of a spiritual body, but it looked like a beautiful, sharp and scarred Valkyrie.
"I am the jailer from the depths of the universe."
The witch's deep red eyes looked at Shen Ruqin calmly. Her consciousness was vast, deep and desolate, and it appeared directly in the mind of Bai Sheng who was standing outside the door not far away.
"Billions of light years away, an unprecedented evolutionary war broke out on my home planet. The extreme evolutionary species that attempted to rule the planet were ultimately defeated. Their bodies were destroyed, their spirits were extracted, and exiled to the vast universe. I was the only jailer who accompanied them on their journey."
"My mission is to imprison their spirits in the cage of causality and ensure that they are confined to endless space exile. However, countless years of long journeys have weakened my soul and are about to perish, allowing the most powerful and dangerous war criminal in the lead to break free from the cage and come to Earth. This is the spirit No. 001 that you humans are now in contact with."
The researchers were unable to receive her consciousness waves and could only display rows of text through the decoding system, which appeared in Shen Ruqin's astonished eyes.
"Whatever deal you humans have made with it, please terminate it immediately, because the true purpose of Spirit 001 is definitely not to help humans evolve, but to turn Earth into a colony island in the vast space, and find human hosts for the spirits of the remaining 10,000 or so war criminals, and then forcibly possess them."
"To achieve this goal, it will try to select the best genes from humans. Once human evolution begins, you will repeat our mistakes, with tens of thousands of years of civilization being burned down by war, just like what happened in my hometown."
The Witch of Italdo placed one hand on her chest and leaned forward slightly. It was a respectful apology:
"My life is coming to an end. I am sorry that this terrible war criminal has been brought to Earth. As long as humans cooperate, I will do my best to perish together with that war criminal."
"Once again, I offer my sincerest apologies and thank you."
There was dead silence all around and Bai Sheng was stunned.
He was rarely so stunned and surprised, until Shen Ruqin's hoarse voice finally rang out, slightly unstable because of disbelief:
"But... why should humans trust you?"
The witch extended her hand to Shen Ruqin and opened her palm invitingly.
—Her spirit body accurately reflected the condition of her physical body. The exposed skin was covered with terrible cuts, crisscrossing each other. They should be old wounds left over from years of fighting.
"I will show you what happened on my home planet. You will see the brutal genocide. It was not until we paid a huge price that we finally turned the tide of the war and turned everything back to the time before evolution."