"Um... That is to say, Sister Gui Xin, actually, you are..." Xu Ying pointed at the monster and gestured randomly with her hands, "I mean... do you understand?"
"I... I don't understand!" Wen Guixin slowly turned her head and stared at Xu Ying, "Explain it to me clearly!"
Wen Guixin obviously understood what Xu Ying and this monster were referring to, but she really couldn't believe such a thing.
Xu Xin and Shi Wanyun both felt it was extremely unreal.
There is such a thing?!
but…
seemingly…
"I mean..." Xu Ying turned her head to look at the monster, then turned her head to look at Wen Guixin, gritted her teeth, pointed at the monster beside her, "You are its mother!"
Xu Ying's words made the scene freeze for a moment.
It was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.
“What…what…” Wen Guixin was the first to react. Her face flushed and she stared at the monster with wide eyes. “I…really…”
"Of course not." The monster rolled its only two eyes that were open in a very human way, "How could you be my mother? My mother is you in that time and space. She is dead."
"Isn't that the same meaning
"Wen Guixin stood up suddenly, "I..."
"You are not her, and she is not you." The monster looked at Wen Guixin and said, "But that doesn't prevent you from being the most pleasing human on Earth to me."
This is truly shocking...
Wen Guixin stared at it blankly, then shook her head violently and sat back down: "It's so easy to say, the genes haven't changed... Half of your genes are mine..."
"Um... Sister Gui Xin, you can think of it as a clone with half of your genes." Xu Ying gestured and said, "Genes don't mean anything either. You haven't experienced that kind of thing."
"What kind of thing?" Wen Guixin turned and looked at Xu Ying.
"It's... that kind of thing." Xu Ying laughed awkwardly, "The kind of thing you imagine."
"I..." Wen Guixin took a deep breath, then shuddered, a look of fear on her face, "Oh my God... I, I, I... This is too... ah!"
Then she suddenly slapped her legs, a look of realization appeared on her face, and then she smiled bitterly: "Heh... No wonder, no wonder my ability is so strange..."
Wen Guixin's ability is to infect all living things that come into contact with her with mental toxins, and they will die after being controlled by her.
Even now, she cannot fully control this ability.
Although you can forcibly contain the toxin and contact other people, problems may still arise if you are not careful, so you still need to keep a proper distance from others.
She had complained more than once about her ability, which was very powerful in group combat but extremely inconvenient in her daily life.
But now I think about it...
This may be the greatest gift that my self at that time and space gave her.
Wen Guixin, who had fallen into the abyss and experienced hell in that time and space, did not want her other self in another time and space to follow the same path as herself. She could not let that happen again!
Give yourself in another time and space the ability to prevent any living creature from contacting you!
"So she gave me this ability..."
Wen Guixin looked at the palm of her hand, not knowing what to say.
She had not experienced those things and could not really imagine what kind of despair she had experienced at that time and space.
But being able to give her such an ability to not distinguish between friend and foe, the self in that time and space must have been very, very obsessed with protecting her.
Thinking about everything she had experienced in that time and space, Wen Guixin felt a pang of distress in her heart.
After experiencing the end of the world, he was forced to undergo such a cruel experiment.
After she was finally released, she joined a resistance group, but the group was torn apart by her own offspring. At that time, she might even be ostracized by the people in the organization because of this...
Later, after enduring humiliation, he finally invented a time machine that could change the past and change everything. However, due to his unfamiliarity with the laws governing the world, he brought the entire space-time to the brink of collapse.
Even she herself will disappear with the collapse of time and space.
What a miserable and failed life this is...
Perhaps, that Wen Guixin placed all her vision and yearning for a better life on the current Wen Guixin.
Therefore, she was given such a powerful ability and no living creature was allowed to touch her.
"Well... your ability is the strongest among us, but also... the most dangerous."
Xu Ying looked at Wen Guixin, her eyes full of heartache. Of course, she was not heartbroken for the Wen Guixin in front of her, but for the Wen Guixin in her time and space.
"Sister Gui Xin... has been researching this ability while we were researching the time machine, and has conducted countless experiments on herself. Her body has long been... If we hadn't relied on Sister Xue Fei and other doctors to perform countless surgeries and various drugs to keep her alive, she might not have lived until we successfully developed the time machine."
"When she knew we were going to research a time machine to go back in time, she had already been preparing this ability for you. You are her second life, and she doesn't want you to end up like her."
Wen Guixin clenched her fists at Xu Ying's words. After a long silence, she said, "You can't stop her, right..."
"We can only provide her with help. We all know what she has been through. If we don't agree, she will still do her research. But without the support of drugs, her kind of research that is so madly destructive to her own body cannot be carried out for long." Xu Ying whispered.
"…She only experiments on herself?" Shi Wanyun suddenly asked, "Why?"
"Why... Because she is the victim of the experiment."
This sentence was not said by Xu Ying, but by Wen Guixin.
"Hmm..." Xu Ying bit her lip. "She doesn't want to use even guinea pigs, because it reminds her of her own experience... Besides, the original intention of developing this technology was to use it on her past self who had not been tainted, so using her own body for the experiment was the most appropriate."
"Also... although her physical condition was very poor at the time, her abilities were the same as yours now." Xu Ying said to Wen Guixin, "No, she was much stronger than you are now. At that time, she could even add mental toxins to long-range weapons and infect a high-level mutant creature with one bullet."
"This..." Even though she was in a very complicated mood, Wen Guixin was still shocked by this sentence, "So strong..."
Her current ability is much stronger than when she first acquired it, but it can only instantly infect intermediate mutant creatures with close combat weapons. She has never faced high-level mutant creatures, but it feels like it will still take some time to infect.
But as for her to use this ability remotely, she simply can't do it now.
"At that time, the world was full of advanced mutants. You should all know this. Her ability helped us a lot during the period when our organization stopped relying on the alien invaders and began to transfer as a whole. The entire organization was transferred almost without any damage."
Xu Ying explained: "So, even if it's for the sake of the organization and our team, we must continue to support this project. The lethality of this ability is really too strong."
Xu Xin couldn't help but be shocked.
This ability can be used remotely and can instantly infect...
That is simply an invincible existence!
That would be a fatal blow to any living creature, and the toxin could even spread quickly!
One bullet to take down a... legion of advanced mutant creatures
This is horrible…
"And the techniques she used on you are actually gradual. Your abilities will eventually reach her level and you will be able to control them freely. Moreover, you will not be hurt as deeply as she was, whether physically or mentally. By then, you can choose the life you want. This is Sister Gui Xin's plan."
"Moreover, the implementation of her experiment and plan is based on the benefits of our entire organization. Her ability can strongly protect our organization and team, which makes us have to support her plan."
Wen Guixin recalled everything she had experienced here and couldn't help but sigh: "Her plan was perfect, and it really... succeeded."
If it weren't for this ability, she might not have survived the wave of elimination of survivors, let alone have everything she has now.
"How did she... die?" Wen Guixin looked at Xu Ying and asked.
"… She couldn't send you away by herself, because the two of you couldn't be in the same time and space, but even without her, her experiment still succeeded perfectly on you and sent you to the future. And she, after you left, also went to that past world, and after re-experiencing the peace of that world and the impending crisis…"
Xu Ying's eyes dimmed for a moment: "She couldn't hold on any longer. Her body was being held up by drugs and willpower. It was a miracle that she could survive until then."
"Is alien technology useless?" Wen Guixin asked subconsciously, even sounding a little anxious.
"No." Xu Ying glanced at the monster and then shook her head. "Although the alien medical care is very powerful, and it also brought us powerful medical technology, but... it's useless. The body structure of humans and invaders is completely different. The medical care that works on them is useless to us."
"So, after she entrusted everything to us, she..."
There was silence.
“So, in the end, she was like this…” The monster’s eyes slowly opened, and it seemed that some of his emotions were out of control.
Then it closed all its eyes again and looked at Wen Guixin.
"You are not my mother, and I am much older than you. But you and I share half of the same genes, so I can be your brother."
Wen Guixin looked at the monster with complicated eyes.
From a physiological point of view, she should refuse. Even if she tried to get used to the monster in front of her, she could not ignore the physiological nausea and disgust.
But... this monster really wanted to help himself in that time and space.
Without the technology it brought, the plans of that time and space would not have been completed.
At this moment, she could no longer show disgust towards the monster in front of her.
"I say, even if she's not your biological mother, she looks exactly like your biological mother and has the same genes. Can you call her sister?"
Seeing that everyone was in a low mood, Xu Ying quickly tried to liven up the atmosphere and looked at the monster unhappily.
"… In my opinion, you all look the same." The monster tilted its head slightly. "Only the length and shape of your hair, as well as your aura, allow me to distinguish you relatively clearly. Of course, I can still recognize my mother by her appearance. But her aura is completely different from my mother's, so it doesn't matter."
Is the smell different
Indeed, the Wen Guixin who experienced that kind of life in another time and space is not the same person as this Wen Guixin.
"What? Anyway, I can't accept it..." Xu Ying glanced at Xu Xin beside her, "How about I call you my brother from now on? Ah!"
Xu Ying covered her head which was hit by the bullet and glared at Xu Xin.
"Haha..." Wen Guixin also forced a smile, then she stood up, "I... my mind is a little confused now, can I leave first? For other things, just tell me after you finish your discussion..."
The monster raised his head: "But, the most important thing I came here for this time, I haven't done yet..."
"You go ahead." Xu Xin said to her softly, "Leave this to us."
She really needs to digest this on her own now.
Wen Guixin in another world has a heavy burden on her.
"Sister Gui Xin, don't think too much. The goal of Sister Gui Xin in that time and space was just to make you live a happy life. There was no deep hatred or grudge." Xu Ying saw Wen Guixin clenching her fists and hurriedly reminded her.
“Hmm…” Wen Guixin nodded and left in a daze.
"I say, can you be considerate of others?"
After Wen Guixin left, Xu Ying rolled her eyes at the monster and said, "Sister Guixin, even if you stay here now, you won't be in the mood to continue listening to your long speech, okay?"
"But it's really important," the monster said in a puzzled voice.
Although they are highly intelligent creatures, monsters have never had any interpersonal interactions since they were young, and have no control over the emotions of their own kind, let alone being considerate to people.
"Okay, okay, I hope Sister Gui Xin can figure it out." Xu Ying glanced out the window.
Wen Guixin's back looked a little distraught.
Now, only Xu Ying, Xu Xin, Shi Wanyun and this monster are left in the tree house.
Shi Wanyun said helplessly: "I feel like I'm a little redundant here."
"Not redundant." Xu Xin said, "Xu Ying is from that time and space. I was sent to the future by someone in my team, but you don't seem to be one of them. You were brought here from the past by alien invaders, right?"
As he spoke, Xu Xin looked at the monster.
"I've always wanted to know the whole story of this. Regarding the other survivors being sent from the past to the future, I think... you are the one who is in charge, right?"
"…It's me." The monster said, "I am a participant."
"What do you mean?"
"When the world was on the verge of collapse, even though my brain was in very bad condition at that time, I still came to their organization. I wanted to see my mother for the last time. There, I found a time machine, but I... didn't know how to use it. So, I didn't travel to the past, but to the future."
Traveled to... the future
"I traveled to a time nearly seven hundred years later, which is fifty years ago."
Fifty years ago...
That was the eve of the survivors appearing!
The first group of survivors appeared forty-eight years ago!
It did not go back to the pre-war past like the people in Xu Xin and Xu Ying's team, but directly traveled to the future!
Everything seems to be coming together!
"So, this matter is really you..."
"It's a long story. I was only responsible for the execution, not the initiator."