"Hmm..." Precia woke up with a groan and found herself lying on a white hospital bed with some vital signs detection equipment placed around the bed.
Her body moved slightly, and pain and a feeling of weakness were transmitted to her brain. Precia stopped. It would be very troublesome if the needles in her body were broken. After a while, when Precia got used to her current state, the memories before she fell into a coma slowly emerged from her mind bit by bit.
A few seconds later, Precia accepted the reality and raised her right hand in front of her eyes. Her originally lavender skin and dark purple nails had now returned to their original appearance.
Bang! On the left side of the ward, a window appeared on the thick iron wall. Looking out of the window, what could be seen was very limited, just some bare earth walls and a few chandeliers hanging above.
"Are all the prisons here built in caves?"
Precia was a little puzzled. In her opinion, the facilities on Tony's side were not so simple. The prison in the cave had no advantages except that it was relatively hidden compared to some detection methods.
While she was thinking, Tony walked in from out of her sight and sat down at the table in front of the window.
"Precia Testrosa, S-class magician, Fate Testrosa, AAA-class magician, I am very curious about how you knew that the Holy Stone Seed was in this remote world. Can you tell me everything?" Tony asked clearly and directly.
It's not that he doesn't want to use some trial techniques, but considering that Precia is a ruthless person who exaggerates herself, Tony thinks that it will only be effective if Fate is used as a threat, and the other methods are estimated to have little effect.
There was no special expression on Precia's face. She just moved her neck and found a more comfortable position. After turning her head and looking Tony up and down for a while, she slowly said, "You are not from the Space-Time Administration."
This sounds like a question, but it is more of a definition of Tony.
"That's right, I'm not, but that doesn't stop me from asking these questions." Tony said to Precia with his little patience. This was the first time he had interrogated a prisoner, and to be honest, he had no interest in it.
"How is Fate now?"
"Are you just going to stall for time like this? This is very boring. I thought you could see the situation clearly." Tony threw the documents in his hand onto the table in front of him, showing great impatience.
"That's a long story. If you want to hear it, I'll tell you..."
The story told by Precia is a very old-fashioned story about family and redemption. It is concise and to the point: Precia's daughter Alicia died in an accident, and she has been trying to find a way to resurrect her daughter for many years.
Fate is the product of Precia's first attempt. She used cloning technology to recreate Alicia without any harm, and then imported her memories into her.
Tony twirled the pen in his hand. To be honest, he had heard this story of cloning countless times. However, no matter whether it was cloning for experiments, cloning for immortality, or using cloning to fulfill other wishes, none of them had been successful so far.
In addition, Tony had to admit that cloning technology was an extremely profound technology. In so many worlds connected by the main god space, no clone was perfectly consistent with the original. It seemed that there was a rule in the deep rules of the multiverse that individuals were born different.
Therefore, Precia's wish failed completely. Although Fate and Alicia looked almost identical, Precia could tell from various expressions that Fate was Fate, not the Alicia she wanted to resurrect.
"So you plan to use the Holy Stone Seed to make a wish to resurrect your daughter?" Tony asked. He felt that this story was becoming more and more clichéd.
"No." Precia gave Tony a strange look, as if wondering why Tony thought so. "The wish-fulfilling method of the Holy Stone Seed is very crude and completely uncontrollable. Using it to make a wish is less practical than using cloning technology again."
It was then that Tony realized that the person in front of him, Precia, had a strong smell of a researcher. Making a wish was just the last resort. If there was any other way, she would not choose it.
"The Holy Stone Seed is an item used in the ceremony to go to Yarhasat. Yarhasat is a holy place of ancient magic, where there are magical secrets such as regenerating the dead and traveling back in time, which are impossible." Precia explained immediately, and after a pause of a few seconds, she added, "This is a legend."
Tony knocked on the table. It seemed that in Priscilla's mind, making a wish was basically equated with deception. She would rather believe in the illusory legend than put her hope on the wishing function of the Holy Stone Seed.
"I see. In other words, you killed an entire spaceship's crew and passengers just for this thing." Tony has figured out the logic. The criminal motive exists, and the suspect is already a paranoid, in other words a madman. Such a person is likely to do anything.
Tony took a deep breath and suppressed the anger in his heart. He was a little afraid that he would kill the guy in front of him with one shot.
"What are you talking about?" Precia looked at Tony's bitter and resentful expression and wanted to laugh. "Perhaps only you can think of such a stupid method."
"What?" Tony suddenly felt that his intelligence was looked down upon.
It has been a long time since he used his IQ to look down on others, but today the situation was reversed
"I have people on the transport ship, and I have bribed the staff at the transport ship's stop node. When the transport ship leaves the curvature and closes the surface repulsion barrier, he will send me a message." Precia said the beginning of her plan.
Tony finally realized what was happening. Indeed, if he really wanted all the holy stone seeds, killing all the crew members on the voyage would be an extremely stupid thing to do. If he hadn't had preconceived ideas, he wouldn't have thought so.
After the death of the crew members, the spaceship is likely to deviate from its route directly. By then, no one knows where the Holy Stone Seed on it will have flown to. Even if it does not deviate from its route and there is no manual operation, it is impossible for the spaceship to reach its destination safely relying solely on the mechanical AI on the transport ship.
What Precia needs is for the seeds of the holy stones to be gathered together safely, and then she can get them all at once.
Now the question is, if Yuno and Precia were not lying, how did the people on the crew die, and what about the curse...
"Maybe someone made an unrealistic wish." Precia seemed to know what Tony was thinking and explained for him, "That thing is not a good thing."
Tony began to have a headache. The matter was no longer clear and the existing evidence was completely unable to confirm anyone's statement.
"I really want to find Alice, or a magician who can detect lies."
"How is Fate now?" Precia repeated her original question.
Tony raised his head and looked at Precia with some curiosity. This person's behavior was not consistent with Elf's testimony. "I thought you would be more concerned about the Holy Stone Seed."
"She is my daughter." Precia didn't say anything more than this.
"She's fine now. That's all we have to talk about today. I'll bring her to see you when I have time. If you feel unwell, press the emergency bell next to you." Tony ended the conversation and lowered the wall.
Things became complicated. Tony saved the video and walked outside. He needed to discuss with Yuno. After all, maybe all the testimonies so far were made up by Precia in just a few minutes. After all, Elf had always said that Precia was a perverted old witch who punished corporal punishment.
After talking to Yuno for a while, the two temporarily excluded Precia from the list of suspects who killed everyone on the spaceship for three reasons.
First, Precia's health was very poor, which was caused by years of decline. According to the testimony of Fate and Elf, although Precia's health had been poor for so long, she had never collapsed directly, so she should not have used such powerful magic.
Second, Precia was not qualified. An S-class mage was indeed very strong, but Yuno thought that her strength was still a little short of being able to pass through the space bubble created by curvature navigation and locate a transport ship traveling at multiples of the speed of light. Yuno had seen similar records, and those who had accomplished this were generally SS-class or even SSS-class characters.
Third, as Precia said, it doesn't make sense logically, unless Precia was in a state of madness and had no rationality when she made this decision.
Two days later, after Precia's body recovered a little, Tony took Fate to the holding room, opened the partition window, and let the mother and daughter talk.
An hour later, Fate pushed open the door of the detention room and walked out.
"It's over? Don't you want to chat a little longer?" Tony, who was standing outside, heard the voice and looked up from the detection data of the Lightning Tomahawk in his hand.
"Mom said she's not feeling well, so she wants you to go in first." Fate hesitated for a moment, then said, "Can I come over tomorrow?"
"That question depends on tomorrow's situation and whether your mother's health allows it." After confirming that Fate's age was similar to Nanoha's and that he also belonged to the human race, Tony's attitude towards Fate was still good.
After sending Fate out, Tony walked towards the holding room. It seemed that Precia was going to show her cards.
In the detention room, Precia sat on the edge of the bed, looking at her hands. She was wearing a hospital gown, and she didn't look as weird or dangerous as she first saw. She looked just like an ordinary patient.
"What do you want from me?" Tony asked, sitting outside the window.
... .Precia looked at Tony for a long time. Her eyes were strange and made Tony feel something was wrong.
"This is the magic circle used to unlock the authority lock of the Garden of Time, as well as the spatial coordinates of the Garden of Time. Lightning Axe and Fate are second in the control system of the Garden of Time. After unlocking it, she will have ownership of the Garden of Time..." Precia said as she pasted a few pieces of paper on the window.
"Wait, wait." Tony called out quickly.
He knew what that look meant. My goodness, he was asking someone to take care of his child. How could he, a talented young man in his thirties, take a kid who was less than ten years old with him
Precia looked up at Tony, misunderstanding his meaning. "If you think there is danger in the Courtyard of Time, you can go there later. It can be safely there for fifteen years, and the important things inside are some books and research materials. But if you don't plan to open it now, I have a request. When you go, please bury Alicia's body in my grave..."
"Stop!" Tony interrupted Precia loudly, "I don't mean to raise a daughter for you!"
"No, I just hope you won't target her. The friends Fate knows and the government of this planet should be interested in raising her."
"Do you really want to die?" Tony was a little angry. He hated parents who shirked their responsibilities.
Precia raised her hand, her slightly dull skin proving her age of fifty-something. "I'm already old, and I don't have the ability to master magic from scratch. I want to go downstairs to accompany Alicia in the remaining ten years. The time I spent with her in this life was too short..."
"What are you talking about? There is no hell or underworld in this world!" Tony slammed the table with a very gloomy face.
"What do you mean?" Looking at Tony's serious expression, Precia was a little confused.
If there is no hell and underworld in this world, do they exist in other worlds
Tony didn't know what to say. In fact, he and Priscilla were a bit similar. For example, they both thought about resurrecting their loved ones.
Unfortunately, in the Marvel world with hell, the souls of Howard Stark and Maria Stark had already been reincarnated. Tony had no interest in finding those little brats to be his parents, nor did he plan to take their souls back. There was no point in taking their souls back. After all, Howard and Maria only had identities in the world of the living. The souls they produced after death were the same as the souls of ordinary people. They had already merged with other souls in the process of reincarnation. You are in me and I am in you.
Tony didn't want to try the resurrection methods in the main god space. He was also too lazy to distinguish philosophically whether the parents resurrected by those methods were his own parents. He didn't want to try it simply because he was a little scared and because of the changes in his thinking over the years.
"Just stay here for now. I'll tell you something tomorrow." Tony said as he walked out of the detention room under Precia's gaze.