Chapter 219 Memories of the Past
Zero rises and falls in the warm ocean currents.
Gululu... Thousands of tiny bubbles emerged from the corners of her mouth. She breathed like a fish in water. More precisely, like a baby swimming in amniotic fluid, except that the visible umbilical cord had become an invisible chain of energy.
She opened her eyes, and her field of vision was much wider than that of an average person. Without turning her head, she could "see" the scene behind her head in 360 degrees. This was the amplification bestowed upon the body by her spirit and soul, a manifestation of perception transcending limitations.
Zero was very calm, but she could feel that she was a little "uncalm" than usual, and her heartbeat was more active.
She subconsciously wanted to find out the factors that affected her emotions. After all, according to the transformation process, her human emotions should have been almost removed.
Zero, number 0, the first Apostle of the Apostle Project.
The first one does not necessarily mean the strongest one, but it must be the first human being to undergo complete transformation.
Zero floats in the foam and solution, immersed in a huge transparent tank of water, healing the injuries left by the transformation surgery.
No one can guarantee that the surgery will be successful at the first attempt. In fact, surgery cannot transform the entire body in one step.
Perhaps later, but for now, Zero would need to go through countless repetitions, from fingers to toes, from internal organs to eyeballs. Over the next few years, she would replace all of her parts like the Ship of Theseus, acquiring a body capable of lasting for centuries.
Is she still herself?
This question was never considered again after the first operation, because human nature would withdraw first.
Her soul, spirit, and even body can be said to be "growing", but her identity and emotions as "Christie" will inevitably be erased.
I Want to Save the World
I hope human civilization can continue.
I hope for a happy future for humanity.
I can pay any price for this.
Young Zero still didn't know how much she, the researchers, and other people in the future would sacrifice for this ambition, and how much [everything] contained in it that she was unwilling to sacrifice.
But at this moment she was quiet, just a little bit unusually excited.
The space outside was bright, filled with white light. There were two figures in front of him... a figure.
Zero blinked in the liquid. She seemed to see two figures and heard two people talking, but there was only one person in front of her.
Outside the transparent compartment stood a lady wearing an old-fashioned dress. She was extremely tall, and with her gorgeous high-heeled boots, she was definitely over two meters tall.
The lady had brilliant golden hair and eyes like the most expensive rubies, far more dazzling than her court dress that was out of place in the laboratory.
“————” The voice came from nowhere and disappeared in an instant, as if it had never existed in the world.
The woman at the edge of her vision slightly raised her right hand and opened her mouth as if arguing with someone.
"——" She seemed to have called someone's name, but no sound came out of her mouth.
"..." The lady seemed to have anticipated something. She dropped her hands as if exhausted, and staggered sideways towards the water jug.
Zero couldn't help but lean forward, gently pressing her left hand against the transparent partition: for some reason, it was hard for her to imagine that this lady would have a vulnerable side, she seemed very familiar with her.
No, I don’t know her. Where does this feeling of familiarity come from? Whose influence is it?
Click.
The lady outside seemed to sense the gaze from inside the pitcher and turned towards her.
What kind of look is that?
The red flames were burning, and the glass-like pupils seemed to be gazing at the child of the person he loved most, and also seemed to be cursing the thing he hated most in the world.
The flames of love and hate were extinguished immediately, and a fierce fanaticism rose from the embers.
"I understand—" Her pleasant voice was filled with demonic temptation: "This is the memory of your past, and we are already moving towards the future."
The lady looked at her face greedily: "I succeeded."
Her gaze and whisper pierced through the barrier of her palm and the vast space and time. "I will succeed."
Zero's skin was trembling, and his intuition, which had become extremely sensitive after the transformation, was warning him: the "person" in front of him was crazy, or had fallen into a state even crazier than madness, and was very dangerous!
The woman raised her arm and swung it vigorously at the pitcher.
Bang--
The special material shattered with a sound, and a pair of hands pushed away the continuously flowing liquid and grasped her smooth arm tightly.
"zero."
......
"Zero~Zero? Zero!"
Rustle, rustle.
Her arm was shaken vigorously, and Ling slowly opened her eyes. Chen Xiao'er leaned on her shoulder and said, "What's wrong? You look dazed as soon as you come in." She had been standing stupidly in the corridor for half a minute. Had she done social practice here before?
"I'm fine." Zero smiled reassuringly, data streams passing across his eyeballs, temporarily stored in the hub waiting for the link to be restored.
She looked around, surrounded by familiar modern surroundings, with ordinary floors and light bulbs that were relaxing.
The cognitive filter that comes with zeroing allows Xiao'er to see a world similar to the early technological age. Does this mean that humans subconsciously miss the golden peace the most?
"Let's go, let's be a little quieter." Chen Xiao'er raised a finger and pressed it to her lips, then turned sideways and walked into the corridor.
The waterworks' nighttime security wasn't very good, and they hadn't encountered any security guards or staff yet. But the fewer people they ran into in the hallway, the more likely they were to bump into a bunch of people when opening a door, so they had to be careful.
Zero adjusted his leg joints and muscles, and the sound of his soles stepping on the ground was barely audible.
She gently reminded, "We need to investigate whoever poisoned the water, so it's best to check the underground reservoir first."
The Snake of Zero and Rebirth materialized the unknown enemy's trap in advance, taking the form of a waterworks. On the surface, it looked like a company, but in reality, it was a rift suspected of being infected by toxic power.
Judging from the existing clues, the unknown enemy probably wants to find an opportunity to bypass Chen Xiao'er and spread the power-level toxin as much as possible.
In this way, even if the church’s important strongholds can use Chen Xiao’er to “disinfect” the virus, the human strongholds outside will also suffer heavy losses.
The biggest question about this inference is why the holder of the poison power didn't do this before. Either they couldn't do it, or they didn't want to do it.
Both ideas currently lack evidence and cannot be further deduced.
Fortunately, before she lost contact, she had learned from the church's channels that so far no other human organization has reported to the Church of Light that "there are insoluble toxins spreading rapidly among the population", so they can focus on solving the trap here first.
"Underground reservoir? Okay~ I wonder where the stairs to the basement are, they shouldn't be too far."
As soon as Chen Xiao'er finished speaking, she stopped in surprise at the next corner.
A staircase connecting the upper and lower floors appeared between the doors, extending to the dark basement.
Of course, the stairs are not locked.
......
Whether it is the devil or Chen Xiao'er, they only need to reach out and pick up one person, and the Newborn Snake will be much busier.
"Hmm." She poked her head out in distress. As a creature of the abyss who had once constructed a true illusion and touched the realm of the gods, she could naturally see that these humans were wandering in their own memories.
However, the snake now has only one tail and can only mess them up one by one.
What troubled her even more was that her classmates' memories were all so strange and varied that the snake couldn't understand any of them. She had no choice but to slap them hard with her tail to see if she could force them to wake them up.
The answer is: Yes.
Crack!
"Ouch!" Lin Lang screamed, struggling to crawl out of the strange desert. She looked closely, but there was no sandstorm or ghosts, only a little girl with round eyes, wagging her tail impatiently.
She wasn't the only one who was thrown out. The classmates were lying in the corridor in a twisted state. Most of them were holding their stomachs with grimaces, feeling that there was a big bruise there.
Compared to Lin Lang who was scratching his ear, Zheng Lu reacted faster.
She didn't dwell on the disturbing memories. She stood up calmly and bowed to the Newborn Snake. "Thank you. Was that just an illusion?"
The power in the image of the Devouring Snake seemed to be a transformation between reality and illusion. The Newborn Snake was considered a half-ancestor of illusion, and of course it would not allow its "follower" to waste time in the illusion.
Chen Xiaotong frowned and shook her head: "No, it's not an illusion that imprisons you, it's an influence that stimulates your hallucinations."
Is it merely the residual influence of the power holder?
The students were not stupid and quickly understood what the Newborn Serpent meant: this waterworks was not a ritual of power. The purpose of a ritual of power was to help the great being gain power, and it was filled with surging energy and shimmering prototypes of power.
The energy in the waterworks is not much greater than that in ordinary abnormal areas, there is only a chilling sense of danger.
I'm afraid that there must have been a being with mature power passing by here, and even infused some of its power, which caused such a terrible impact.
Crackling, crackling.
Chen Xiaotong pulled the remaining students out of the illusion and curled the corners of her lips as she watched them struggling to get up.
Humans are quite cute, just like the little animals on the Internet.
Thanks to his sister, the newly born snake is willing to be more patient with humans.
She thought about Chen Xiao'er's expression when facing her classmates, and said in a gentle voice, "Okay, you're welcome. Let's go first—"
What should I do first?
The newborn snake was stuck, not being able to think independently. As a flawed individual, she instinctively wanted to rely on her sister and let her make decisions for her.
However, no one can understand the sister's feelings for her younger sister better than Chen Xiaotong.
In Chen Xiao'e's eyes, Chen Xiaotong is not a newborn snake, nor is she a part of the alien snake. She has been her "perfect sister" since her birth.
What kind of person does my sister want me to be? I've asked myself this question before.
"I hope Xiaotong can grow up happily and be happy in the future."
Is that all that's needed?
Just like this is enough, but “like this” is very difficult, right?
As long as I am with my sister, happiness is an easy option to achieve.
But I knew that was just my sister's most basic requirement. Before, I insisted on taking action with my sister, and her reaction must have been dissatisfaction.
In order to become an excellent sister, you have to think seriously!
"Ask a question." Chen Xiaotong coiled half her body on the ground like a snake, facing the students and asking earnestly, "Since we're temporarily separated from my sister, how can we maximize our benefits by making her happy?"
This is not laziness. The believers will become one with me sooner or later. Doing this now is just to adapt to the external brain in advance.
She raised her head with confidence and soon got the answer she wanted from the crowd.
"Find the abnormal creature with the highest energy value and seize its core?"
The eyes of the newborn snake lit up: As expected of my sister's classmate, this is absolutely the right answer.
She coughed lightly and said seriously, "Okay, then let's find the most powerful guy first, and then kill him with a bang!"
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