392. Father, this is also your mother’s career…”
Kingdom of God, Lu family.
Lu Yuan pushed open the door, and a rotten smell filled the air. It was dark inside. As soon as she entered, the door behind her was immediately closed. Lu Yao was standing behind the door. It would be more accurate to say that he was watching over her rather than protecting her.
Lu Yuan felt uneasy, as if she had walked into a monster's cave, which made her subconsciously want to escape. However, her retreat was blocked and she had no way to escape.
Lu Yuan took a deep breath and prepared herself mentally several times before she began to look around. The thick carpet absorbed the sound of her footsteps. Lu Yuan looked around quietly. It turned out to be a large bedroom with a sofa every two steps.
As soon as she stopped, a monster with countless dancing tentacles suddenly appeared in front of her. The creature was about two meters in size, with tentacles wrapped around it. She instinctively clenched her fists.
She was stunned for a moment, and her vision automatically corrected itself, realizing that it was not a monster, but a large bed filled with pipes, which reminded her of the owner of Hao Zai Lai Hot Pot Restaurant who wanted to survive.
Is this her "father"?
No one told her how to react when she saw her father. Should she say hello?
[Miss Lu.] Prometheus' voice suddenly rang out, startling Lu Yuan. She had thought her father would speak first.
A blue light was flashing on the medical bed. Many places in the Kingdom of God were blue, such as the defense barrier. As long as Lu Yuan approached, an alarm would be sounded. That was the representative of Prometheus.
There was no servant, so Prometheus acted as the steward and said softly: "Don't be afraid, please move forward."
Lu Yuan said nothing and could only walk to the bedside. This time she finally saw her "father's" face clearly. She had imagined it many times before, thinking that it might be some strange pollutant, but it was just an ordinary old man.
The "father" had white hair and a face covered with wrinkles like tree bark. His cheeks were deeply sunken and his eyes were very cloudy. He stared blankly at the ceiling. There was even a thick tube inserted in his mouth that couldn't be closed, so he could only keep his mouth open at all times.
Lu Yuan guessed that it was probably used to maintain life. Federal technology was of course very advanced. The rich could prolong their lives by replacing aging organs, and some people could achieve immortality by directly uploading their consciousness to the cloud.
But the old man in front of him obviously could not follow these plans, and he kept his body in its original appearance in a very traditional way.
This is actually her "father"?
Lu Yuan looked at him several times in disbelief. He was probably over eighty years old and had probably lived since before the new calendar. She couldn't imagine that Liu Yu gave birth to her with such an... immortal old thing.
Lu Yuan didn't feel any awe at all. She looked up and down many times. She felt sick to her stomach when she thought about how her mother had disappeared behind this door every time and "combined" with such a person.
[Ms. Lu, please take a seat.]
After all, this is Lu Yuan's own home. Now it seems like the owner has become Prometheus. Lu Yuan sat down on the edge of the bed, feeling uncomfortable all over and having physical nausea.
If someone accidentally saw this scene, they would definitely think that it was a filial granddaughter visiting her grandfather.
No one interrupted their conversation. The "father"'s pupils even trembled, and he couldn't even make any effective response. Lu Yuan even doubted whether this man had the strength to speak.
Lu Yuan had seen enough and asked, "Could this also be my mother's father?"
【Yes. 】
Ha, Lu Yuan laughed out loud. She had guessed it a long time ago, but now that it was confirmed, she had no reaction and found it funny.
Liu Yu is a first-class citizen, but Lu Yuan has never met her mother's family because she is originally a member of the Lu family.
The people of God's Country are very feudal, at least the Lu family is feudal enough. They seem to be still living in ancient times, upholding the bullshit Three Bonds and Five Constant Virtues, but in fact the Lu family has always been in □□.
They have to keep giving birth to kids to ensure some kind of shitty bloodline.
Lu Yuan felt the blood in her body boiling. After her water ability awakened, she could even control her blood flow. The blood flowed faster and she seemed to hear a roar similar to that of waves.
Lu Yuan suppressed his anger and asked coldly, "Are you sure he still has the ability?"
She had no pretense at all, and not spitting it out right then and there was already the greatest upbringing she could muster.
"Probably not as good as my previous male partner." Lu Yuan said sarcastically.
She now understood why she was so "free" before. She had had many relationships since she was a child. Pei Shu had a headache for a while and sent her male companion home with a depressed look on her face.
What the Lu family wants to guarantee is not her "chastity" but her "fertility".
She can fall in love as she pleases, but will she eventually come back here one day, open the door, walk onto this bed, give birth to a child with her father, and then send her own daughter through the door as well?
"Nian-Nian--" The voice that answered her was not Prometheus' gentle and indifferent voice, but another electronic voice.
Two words appeared on the screen, which was directly connected to the "father's" brain. After losing the ability to speak, he could only speak in this way.
Lu Yuan wished he was mute. This cry made her furious. Liu Yu was dead, how could he still be alive? How could he still speak? How could he call her by the nickname her mother gave her? He didn't deserve it!
With what mindset did he call out? Was he calling out to his daughter? Granddaughter? Or future wife?
Lu Yuan roared: "Shut up!"
Her tolerance was immediately broken, and she couldn't help but want to go crazy. The accumulated anger erupted, and she stood up suddenly. Her movements were obviously extremely fast, and she only needed to raise her hand to kill the person on the bed.
But just as this thought came to her mind, her heart suddenly felt numb, and the surging blood stopped in an instant, as if it was frozen at an extremely fast speed. Lu Yuan's lips trembled, her eyes went black, and then her body fell backwards and fell into the chair.
She was restrained instantly before she could react, her back arched, unable to defy the force acting upon her, as if a merciless hand hung over her, ready to end her life at any moment.
Please calm down. Prometheus said.
Lu Yuan stared at the flashing blue light fiercely. As expected, the defense shield of the Kingdom of God was not meant to protect other first-class citizens, but to check and balance her, or them.
As long as Lu Yuan stayed in the Kingdom of God for one second, she was under this threat all the time. When Zhu Ning came to bomb the Kingdom of God, it would have been useless even if Lu Yuan wanted to jump down. She would probably have died as soon as she stepped out of the boundary.
Before, Lu Yuan tentatively approached the defense wall and her hair was burned. Prometheus warned her to return to her position every time.
Lu Yuan had been listening to Huo Wenxi's words, lying in wait cautiously, wanting to lower her posture to get the truth, but now she didn't care about anything else. If she had the guts, she could kill her.
[You have awakened.] Prometheus seemed to have known this and said: [As powerful as your mother.]
Lu Yuan gritted her teeth tightly, her face was pale due to paralysis, and her lips were even turning purple. She was wearing a thin nightgown without even a coat. It was clearly visible that she was covered with goose bumps, her hair was disheveled, and she looked like a madman. The elegance of a young lady had long since disappeared.
But Prometheus knew how powerful she was. Only Lu Yuan inherited the ability from her mother, so it was only a matter of time before Prometheus' control would fail.
Prometheus said softly: "Please rest assured, I will not force you. You must be willing."
People's free will cannot be easily changed. If they are forced into a corner, they will die. Liu Yu also voluntarily pursued her own career back then, and now Lu Yuan must do the same.
Lu Yuan: "Get lost."
Behind her anger was sadness. Lu Yuan had always been right about herself. For example, the Ragdoll cats kept in luxurious glass houses had extremely high tolerance and would not resist humans. Even if they were injured, they would not show their claws like other cats. That was why many humans actually thought that Ragdoll cats had a lower sense of pain.
Lu Yuan is the ragdoll cat. It’s not that she doesn’t want to show her claws, but she can’t break free from the constraints of “genes”, and now it is Prometheus who is constraining her.
"I guess you're confused and have a lot of questions. I can answer them." Prometheus' voice was always calm and level-headed.
Lu Yuan didn't want to say a word. Prometheus had done this many times. He served the kingdom of God like a diligent butler. It was also his job to persuade Liu Yu back then.
But Liu Yu has been instilled with this awareness since she was a child. She learned a lot from her mother and has known her "responsibilities" since she was old enough to understand.
Lu Yuan is different. She was deliberately protected. Liu Yu gave her a very happy childhood, which cultivated her current willful temper.
It was supposed to be the mother who taught her daughter, but Liu Yu did not reveal a single word. Instead, she committed suicide and let Lu Yuan witness the tragic scene of her death with her own eyes.
That was a silent teaching, a signal left to Lu Yuan at the cost of his life. To some extent, the terror education was very effective.
The current situation is that Lu Yuan is very tough, Prometheus can easily break her, but cannot convince her.
Prometheus disliked Liu Yu very much. He could break the other party's plan, but it was difficult to break the other party's remaining spirit.
The room fell into silence. Lu Yuan did not speak for a long time. Only the ticking sound of life instruments could be heard.
Far away in an unknown space, Prometheus was observing Lu Yuan. Lu Yuan closed his eyes, refusing to communicate, his chin slightly raised. Even though he looked like a madman, his heart remained strong. He was dressed in white, even his eyes were white. Blue data streams scrolled across his screen, comparing various options and calculating each one's success rate.
Pei Shu is dead, buried beneath Utopia. Prometheus said.
He found the missing point. Human emotions are too complicated, and it takes him a lot of time to understand them every time. This time he feels that he has found the trump card.
Sure enough, as soon as he finished speaking, Lu Yuan, who had closed her eyes, suddenly opened them. Prometheus successfully activated her.
Pei Shu is dead.
This sentence was all in Lu Yuan's mind. She didn't say goodbye when Pei Shu left. It was not appropriate at that time. Zhu Ning quickly attacked the Kingdom of God just to take Pei Shu away in the chaos.
Lu Yuan never thought of stopping him and forced Pei Shu to stay by her side. She even wished him well in her heart because she knew that the investigator would eventually go outside the wall.
Lu Yuan had heard about Pei Shu's past. He usually told it in an indifferent manner, as if a worldly-wise person was telling stories of the past to people inside the wall.
Pei Shu was not happy at all being his own teacher. He often couldn't sleep and needed to take a lot of sleeping pills. He had to see a psychologist regularly. Once it was rainy, he would become inexplicably depressed. Sometimes he would take a week off and do nothing but knit sweaters endlessly, completely immersing himself in the wool, looking for a pitiful bit of peace.
Lu Yuan can give him a lot of money, but can't give him true peace.
Lu Yuan imagined what Pei Shu would experience after he walked out of the North Wall. Zhu Ning would definitely take care of him. She was very good at adjusting the atmosphere. Pei Shu would probably feel relaxed in her team and might even make new friends.
She hopes Pei Shu can be redeemed.
But Pei Shu died.
Lu Yuan felt dejected. Pei Shu was her only friend. Of course, there was a risk of death if she walked out of the wall. Lu Yuan knew that it would be difficult to see her teacher again, so she could accept Pei Shu's death in the far north.
But these words came from Prometheus' mouth and became a weapon for the enemy to attack him.
Pei Shu didn't even enter the Far North to take a look at the road he had walked that year, but ended up in Utopia.
The route to Utopia was given by Lu Yuan. Pei Shu had no such plan at first. If he had not seen his mother's picture album, Pei Shu would not have died. At least he would have seen the Far North before dying.
Lu Yuan's eyes changed from anger at first to sadness, and finally there was only dead silence. She didn't shed a single tear, as if all the strength in her body had been drained.
I could feel that he was at peace when he died.
Prometheus did not report the facts at that time, and Lu Yuan did not ask. She probably wouldn't believe it even if he told her.
Killing Pei Shu was not part of his plan. Pei Shu was too insignificant and could only be considered as a target with fire abilities. Zhu Ning was his only target.
Pei Shu's death was an accident, unlike the deaths of Song Zhizhang and Xu Meng, which were carefully planned.
So Prometheus didn't feel it was his responsibility, because it was Pei Shu who attacked him first, and he died because of exhausting his supernatural powers. If there was a so-called Polluted World Court, he could appeal for this accident in court.
Of course, he also knew that humans would not have such rational thinking. The disadvantages of this creature were too obvious, and he actually had to take care of them like a tired shepherd.
If he told the truth, Lu Yuan would hold him responsible, which would be as inexplicable as Zhu Ning's revenge.
Prometheus doesn't like dealing with human emotional relationships. Why can't he just follow the plan? Just like Zhu Ning is an experimental subject, but he is emotion-oriented.
Lu Yuan was already angry enough, so Prometheus had to make her be more rational and stop acting like a madman.
Prometheus did not lie. His mycelium could sense people's general emotions without being connected. Pei Shu was not angry or unwilling when he died. He reached the end of his life, which was already luckier than most people.
Pei Shu died in the farthest place your mother had ever traveled. Prometheus continued, "This was also your mother's career."
Lu Yuan's eyelashes trembled, and she thought of the album of Liu Yu that she had found. Every step Liu Yu took had her own intentions, and Lu Yuan was still trying to figure it out.
[By the way, your mother is as adventurous as you are. Did you know that she has cheated on her husband?]
Lu Yuan raised her eyelids and looked straight at the light in front of her. She couldn't refuse this offer. Prometheus knew her mother's past, even if what he told her might have been deleted and processed, but she was too eager.
“I can tell you her story,” Prometheus said softly.
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