Jiang Si wanted to reach out to stop Jiu Feng from bending down to ask for her help, but she didn't. She slowly closed her fingers and pressed them on the blood-stained jackfruit knife on the table, taking a deep breath: "It's not that I don't want to help you, it's that I can't help you."
"You can't help me?" Jiufeng looked up in astonishment, her red eyes glistening with tears. "He told me that you are an all-around superhuman. You have the superpowers that others have, and you also have the superpowers that others don't."
"You erased and altered my memories before, so why can't you help me with him?"
The blood-stained knife on the table was a manifestation of Jiang Si's spiritual power. With a forceful movement, she made the knife disappear completely, leaving not even a trace of blood: "Yes, I can't help you."
“My powers work on you, but not on him. I can’t brainwash him or implant other memories into his brain.”
Jiufeng still looked at her in disbelief.
Jiang Si continued without pausing, "As you probably know, before you, I was his food, my blood, my flesh, and my spiritual energy were all his sustenance."
"Similarly, his blood and flesh have a healing effect on me. We have each other's blood in our bodies and our spiritual power has been integrated. To put it simply, we have developed antibodies against each other."
"This antibody is in his body, in my body. Unless I strike him with lightning or cut him with a knife, this kind of brainwashing ability, illusion ability, will not work on him at all."
She wasn't lying. She could use illusion magic to see what Shu Xubai was thinking, and she could also use illusion magic to temporarily confuse him, but only for a short time.
You can know what he's thinking briefly and confuse him, but it's impossible to maintain that for long.
He has werewolf blood, vampire blood, hunter blood, and other miscellaneous bloodlines and genes.
His subconscious defense system is extremely strong. It is precisely because of this strong subconscious defense system that he is not allowed to be dominated by messy thoughts and bloodlines.
Jiang Si looked at Jiu Feng, who didn't believe her: "I don't know if he told you that he and I were once experimental subjects."
Jiufeng was shocked: "No, he didn't tell me."
Jiang Si smiled and said, "He didn't tell you, so let me tell you. No one is born strong. The reason why he and I are so strong and have lived so long is because he and I are experimental subjects."
“I don’t know where I came from. I know him. He’s in the lab. He knows me. I’m in the lab. We met in the lab.”
Do you know what lab mice are?
Agares, who had just finished dealing with the Yin and came to the kitchen to find Jiang Si, happened to hear her speaking. He stopped in his tracks, not going in, but standing there with a look of heartache in his eyes.
Jiufeng's pale lips trembled, and her throat tightened: "I know!"
“Shu Xubai and I were just lab rats.” Jiang Si’s smile deepened slightly, a mixture of bitterness, sadness, hatred, and anger. All these emotions intertwined, pulling her back to the days when she was a lab rat: “No, strictly speaking, we weren’t lab rats.”
"There were so many mice in the lab. A batch died every day, and in the end, only Shu Xubai and I were left."
"Because there are only the two of us left, they will inject any kind of gene, blood, bacteria, or legendary substance they can find into our bodies so that we can fuse with that blood, those genes, those cells, and those bacteria!"
“We live in agony every day, a life worse than death, but even so, we must keep our minds clear. All sorts of nonsense is injected into us, and we have to stay alert.”
"We cannot be devoured by bacteria, we cannot be eliminated by other genes, and we cannot let other emotions dominate us. Therefore, our consciousness must be strong and we must be clear-headed. Over time, a defense system will form in our subconscious. Even towards our closest and most beloved people, we will be wary of them. Do you understand?"
It's not that she doesn't want to help, it's not that she doesn't want to erase Shu Xubai's memories, it's just that it's truly impossible to erase them.
Even if it were possible to cleanse his memory and recreate those beautiful memories, it would only last a short time—a month, three months, not even six or nine months.
Time is so short, why deceive yourself and let Shu Xubai resent her later!
Jiufeng is right. Shu Xubai is her mortal enemy, her confidant, her friend, and her family. That's why she won't force him to cleanse her.
Standing at the door, Agares felt a pang of pain in his heart, heartbroken for his wife and resentful that he was born more than 3,000 years later than her.
If we were from the same era as her and she were taken under my wing, would she have had a different life? Would she have been like a normal girl, laughing when she should laugh, crying when she should cry, and speaking loudly when she should speak loudly?
Jiu Feng's pale lips trembled even more violently, her heart felt like it was being gripped by a hand, and her mind was filled with images of Shu Xubai, that hypocritical vampire, being tortured in the laboratory.
Jiang Si still had a smile on her lips, and she didn't seem to be talking about herself at all, but rather about someone else. "Little Phoenix, it's not that I don't want to help you, it's that I really can't help you."
"Perhaps I didn't put it bluntly enough, which made it difficult for you to feel or to imagine that we were experimental subjects, like lab rats being experimented on."
“It doesn’t matter. Just bring in your Phoenix Clan. Multiply the harm done to the Dragon Clan over the past few thousand years by a hundred or a thousand times, and that’s the treatment that Shu Xubai and I received in the laboratory.”
Slices, blood draws, injections—these are all routine. Staying up all night and not being fed all day are also common occurrences.
In order to cultivate their next generation, in addition to genetic engineering, they also sought out beautiful women and men. If the men did not cooperate, they would put out smoke and inject them with drugs.
Those cigarettes and those drugs could have made them lose themselves, could have turned them into a different person, but they stubbornly persevered.
The suffering involved is beyond the comprehension of outsiders; even if I told them, they wouldn't understand, and they wouldn't believe me.
People always think they are the darlings of heaven and earth, the luckiest people, for having so much and living so long.
Jiufeng staggered, turned around, and slammed her back against the table. Her fingertips turned white, and the veins on her hands bulged. Not only her heart, but also her neck was being gripped.
His heart ached, his neck clenched so tightly he couldn't breathe, and in his distress, he seemed to mutter to himself, "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, I was too offensive."
“You’re right. A dream is a dream, and the future is the future. That was just a dream I had. It’s not necessarily the future. I was just his food. Our relationship was just that of being eaten and eating each other. What food cares about the person who eats it? What food would like the person who eats it?”
Jiang Si looked at him: "Are you feeling sorry for him?"
Jiufeng blurted out in denial: "No!"
Jiang Si looked at his pale face, trembling lips, and swaying body, and his insincere expression: "That's true. People like us, strong enough, don't need anyone's pity."
"Alright, go sit over there and rest for a bit. The meat is almost cooked through. I'll peel this jackfruit and then go cook some dishes. Today I'm preparing a ten-course fruit platter, ten stir-fried vegetable dishes, ten meat dishes, and ten seafood dishes!"
Unable to suppress her trembling, Jiufeng lifted her heavy legs, walked to the stool, sat down, and clasped her hands together tightly.
He didn't know; he didn't know why he was like this.
He couldn't stop thinking about the white mouse that Jiang Si had mentioned. Shu Xubai was a white mouse, a white mouse tied to the experimental table.
He couldn't imagine how uncomfortable it would be for someone as proud as him, who loved to hold his chin high and hum at the drop of a hat, to be stripped naked and tied to a laboratory as a guinea pig. It would be a living hell.
Even though Agares, who was standing at the door, knew some of it before, every time he heard it again and learned something new, he wished he could travel through time and go back to tear that laboratory apart and destroy it.
But he also knew clearly that he could never go back to that point in time. Everything Jiang Si endured and experienced was something he could never make up for or empathize with.
What he needed to do now was to pamper her, love her, and give her his complete trust. Agares exhaled almost imperceptibly, silently took a few steps back, then lifted his foot again, taking heavy steps, and walked towards the kitchen.
He was wearing military boots and deliberately walked with heavy footsteps. Jiang Si, who was busy with jackfruit in the kitchen, naturally heard him. She turned around, saw him come in, and gave him a bright smile: "Agares, are you done?"
Agares pretended not to have heard what she had said earlier, acting as if he had just arrived: "Finished your work? Came to see if you were done?"
"I'm not finished yet!" Jiang Si pointed to the vegetables she had chopped: "I've washed, chopped, and prepared my vegetables, but I haven't started cooking them yet. I'm busy preparing fruit right now and can't cook anything for me. Can you cook a dish for me?"
Agares rolled up his sleeves, took out an apron from his spatial storage, and wrapped it around himself: "Okay, you take care of the fruit, and I'll take care of the cooking."
Jiang Si smiled, her eyes crinkling slightly: "Okay!"
And so Agares began to cook.
Jiang Si started making a fruit platter, peeling and pitting ten kinds of fruit together. She made two large platters and placed them on the dining table. She glanced at Jiu Feng, who was still not recovered, and returned to the kitchen counter to start cutting the braised meat.
After slicing the braised meat, she sliced the stewed meat and prepared the cold dishes. For each dish, in addition to the ones already on the plate, she also took two bowls, filled the plates with the leftovers, and then chopped them up and placed them in the two bowls.
Ten kinds of meat were served on plates, and the two bowls were half full. Next came various kinds of seafood, including fried fish, steamed fish, braised fish, boiled shrimp, steamed shrimp, braised shrimp meat, and so on.
When cooking these fish, they were all cooked in one pot, plated in one dish, and the rest were put into two basins.
Next came ten dishes of vegetables, various stir-fried greens, which were placed on plates and then into a bowl.
An hour later, 10 seafood dishes, 10 vegetarian dishes, 10 meat dishes, two large bowls of rice and vegetables, and baby food for the two children were all served.
The spaceship is now stationary. Lunch is ready, and Jiang Si has called everyone to eat. Before Shu Xubai arrived, Jiu Feng washed her face, changed her clothes, and her eyes were no longer red, except for a little red at the corners.
Yan Liu came with her two children and Wei Chi and Yan Qi. Looking at the table full of dishes, she almost drooled.
Hu Xian understood once again why her cat was always running outside. It turned out that there were not only fun and exciting things outside, but also food that tasted even better than dried fish.
Cangying brought Quanjian and Fuhuan back from repairing the space jump tunnel. Quanjian saw the table full of dishes, cheered, hugged Jiangsi and gave her a big kiss, then rushed to the pot, hugged it, and said, "Jiangsi, I hereby officially declare that you are the love of my life. I love you, I love you, mwah!"
Yanliu: "!!!!"
Look at her, so easily pleased with a little food. She's nothing like a queen.
Agares glanced at the spring; his wife was using her love, kissing him there!
Wei Chi wasn't to be outdone: "Jiang Jiang, I love you too! Sending you hearts!"
Fu Huan, not wanting to miss out on the fun, chimed in, "Daughter, daughter, I love you too! Sending you hearts!"
Hu Xian coughed and said, "Um, Your Highness Jiang Jiang, shouldn't I also make a heart shape with my hands? I can't seem too out of place or different from everyone else, right?"
Jiang Si placed the children's food beside them and glanced at everyone: "No need, everyone hurry up and eat, eat and drink well, and then go about your business."
Wei Chi, Yan Qi, Fu Huan, and Quan Jian cheered and exclaimed in unison, "Dinner's ready! Dinner's ready! I won't be polite, Xuan!"
As they said, the four of them started showing off after they finished doing it.
Seeing them showing off, Yanliu grabbed her basin and started showing off too.
As the saying goes, many hands make light work, and food tastes better when there are many people around.
The two children can eat on their own without being fed. They even started eating ginger. While Agares was eating, he peeled shrimp shells for her and picked out the bones.
Even Cangying would serve Yanliu a plate when she was grabbing food, and block Quanjian's chopsticks so that she could eat more and Quanjian could eat less.
Quanjian was so angry that she hugged her basin and moved closer to Fu Huan, away from her high priest, lest he snatch the food from her basin and give it to Yanliu after they finished eating the dishes on the table.
Everyone was eating, but Shu Xubai wasn't interested in the table full of food. The elegant and noble vampire was drinking blood, so how could he possibly eat stir-fried vegetables, stir-fried meat, and stir-fried seafood? Wouldn't that be a slap in his face?
So, in front of a crowd of people eating, the noble and elegant vampire poured himself a glass of blood-red wine, drank it while picking at the food, and then tossed it into Jiufeng's bowl: "This meat looks tough and doesn't taste good. You eat it."
"These shrimp look undercooked and too delicate. You can have them."
"What kind of meatballs are these? They're so greasy, they're disgusting. Little Phoenix, you can have them."
"Tsk tsk, look at this vegetable, it's all yellowed. How can I eat it when it's so yellow? I'm not eating it anymore. Little Phoenix, you can have it."
Jiufeng didn't need to pick up the food herself; the bowl in front of her was piled high with food.
At the dinner table, everyone who was grabbing food couldn't beat Shu Xubai. He would swiftly place whatever piece of food he wanted into Jiu Feng's bowl.
After the meal, Wei Chi and Yan Qi were left to wash the dishes, while the others went about their business.
Jiang Si originally wanted to go to the command room with Agares or take a nap, but unexpectedly, Shu Xubai intercepted them halfway.
Unable to take a nap, she left with Shu Xubai, and only after they had walked quite a distance away from Agares did she speak: "Why did you come looking for me instead of keeping your little phoenix company while it takes a nap?"
Shu Xubai pinned Jiang Si against the wall, trapping her in his arms like a domineering CEO. He reached out and lifted her chin, saying, "Little zombie, tell your brother, is Little Phoenix going to die soon and trying to escape me to find his former dragon mate?"
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