After Linde left, the room returned to its precisely controlled tranquility, with only the almost inaudible low-frequency hum of the energy barrier as background noise.
Weiss stood there, tilting her head, her gaze shifting back and forth between the sleeping emerald-haired girl and the area of the velvet blanket she had just used to practice energy shaping.
My father's order was to "take good care of her."
Weiss's understanding was simple: to ensure that the being called "Tris" was still in place and that its state had not changed "badly".
As for what constitutes a "bad" change? Her father didn't say. But Weiss felt that if Triss turned to ashes like those toys that had crumbled after she inadvertently infused them with too much Shadow Abyss energy, then it would definitely be a "bad" change.
She walked to the stone bed and climbed up—the bed was a little too high for her—then, mimicking what Lind had done earlier, she carefully knelt down next to Triss, her black eyes, reflecting the starlight, staring unblinkingly at the other's pale yet delicate profile.
Time passed little by little.
For the Shadow Abyss singularity beings who can barely perceive the passage of time, this "caretaker" work is not tedious.
Weiss can "see" far more than ordinary living beings.
She could sense the extremely faint, spider-web-like flow of life energy within Triss's body, which operated slowly in a complex and ancient manner—an imprint left by the Zedu civilization's experiments.
She could sense the deeper desolation and emptiness left behind after her father had purified it at a great cost, where a viscous will that was extremely unsettling and wanted to merge and devour everything once lingered (the remnants of the God of Fusion).
She could even vaguely sense that at the very core of this body, there was something extremely faint, belonging to "Tris" herself, like a seed buried deep within thick rocks, dormant.
"You...don't you have a home either?"
Weiss suddenly spoke softly, her voice unusually clear in the quiet room, carrying a hint of shared sorrow that she herself might not fully understand.
"The place where Weiss used to live was dark and messy, full of things that wanted to eat Weiss or were eaten by Weiss. Father brought Weiss out."
She extended her slender fingers, hesitated for a moment, and gently touched the back of Triss's hand, which was placed at her side.
It feels cool and smooth to the touch, but it doesn't react at all.
"It's nice here, Father is nice, although Liangliang can be noisy sometimes, but the necklace makes Weiss feel comfortable. And there's delicious food too..."
She talked on and on, as if giving a report or sharing a secret.
"Father said you're not hungry, so what do you need? What will it take for you to wake up?"
Weiss's curiosity was piqued.
She recalled the energy her father had just infused. That energy felt... warm and bright, completely different from her Shadow Abyss power, even slightly repulsive, but it seemed to have some effect on Triss?
A thought popped into Weiss's head.
My father simply said that I shouldn't use my own energy to "touch" her, because it might "interfere".
But the energy her father infused himself was fine. So... what if she took a tiny bit of the "snack" her father gave her (that wisp of pure negative energy essence)... a very, very tiny bit... to simulate the feeling of the energy her father just felt... and then infused it back in? Would that count as being obedient?
Weiss was conflicted. The dark teardrop necklace around her neck shimmered slightly, as if reminding her of Lind's warning.
But looking at Cui's lifeless sleeping face, a strong urge to do something to "change" her took over.
Weiss decided to give it a try.
She closed her eyes again, trying to recall and imitate the "feeling" of the energy Linde had just experienced—it wasn't the energy attribute itself (she couldn't change the nature of her own power), but rather a "state" of high control, extreme purity, and devoid of any personal will.
She extracted an almost negligible amount of the negative energy source she had obtained from the necklace and Linde, and then used all her control to compress, purify, and strip away all her personal imprints, making it "neutral".
This process was extremely strenuous for her, and even fine beads of sweat, formed from condensed energy, appeared on her smooth forehead.
Finally, a tiny, absolutely pure energy particle, even smaller than a speck of dust, condensed at her fingertips.
It no longer exudes the coldness and deathly stillness of the Shadow Abyss, but instead presents a strange, attribute-less transparency.
Weiss held her breath (though she didn’t need to) and very gently placed the energy particle between Triss’s eyebrows.
The energy particles seeped in silently. One second, two seconds... Just when Weiss thought she had failed and was feeling slightly frustrated— Triss's emerald green, leaf-like hair moved slightly without any wind.
The trembling of her long eyelashes seemed slightly more pronounced than when Lind had injected energy earlier.
Although she was still unconscious, a faint glimmer of light seemed to flash across her pale skin, so fast that Weiss almost thought it was an illusion.
More importantly, Weiss clearly sensed that the faint, seed-like presence buried deep within the core of Triss seemed to... tremble slightly...
Like a dormant seed, in endless darkness and ice, it felt the touch of an extremely distant and unfamiliar "raindrop".
Weiss's eyes widened suddenly, the purple stars in her black pupils flashing wildly, filled with surprise and... a hint of smug satisfaction at having succeeded in doing something bad without being caught.
She succeeded! Although the change was minimal, Triss did react a tiny bit! Moreover, the warning array left by her father wasn't triggered! This shows that her operation was precise enough, without causing any "bad" interference!
Weiss covered her mouth and chuckled secretly, then immediately resumed her serious "caregiving" demeanor, though her eyes sparkled with barely suppressed excitement.
She seems to have found a way to interact with this "younger sister"! Although it's slow and difficult, it seems... to be effective.
When she looked at Triss again, her eyes held a hint of eagerness and researcher's curiosity.
“It’s alright,” she whispered to the sleeping Tris, her tone carrying a mature promise, “Wes will help you slowly. When Father comes next time, maybe you… you’ll be able to move a finger!”
She began to find that this "caregiving" task seemed much more interesting than the energy-shaping exercises she had imagined.
In this quiet room, a subtle "awakening" experiment, spontaneously conducted by a Shadow Abyss singularity life form targeting the Divine Descent container, quietly began without Lind's knowledge.
And in the deepest core of the sleeping Triss, which had been silent for countless years, a seed encased in rock seemed to have truly stirred a tiny, yet real, ripple because of that clumsy but pure energy particle from "Sister".
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