Chapter 40 The Truth "Kill us and take everything away"...
At that time, the tower was almost collapsed, and the ground was completely occupied by frenzied alien species. People struggled to squeeze into the base that was about to take off, but the base tilted and fell because of the excessive crowd at the door.
The ground in front of the base's gate was covered in bloody handprints and scratches, and the aliens lying in wait underground kept their mouths open. Xu An looked back in the sea of corpses and blood, and his mechanical prosthetic eyes continued to shed blood-red tears.
"You want... me to kill you."
"We've become aliens now, Xu An." Yin Shu's words were unclear, and his lower lip was bleeding red from the fangs he hadn't used to yet. "The violation of [Dissolve] will allow the user to read all the memories of the [Dissolved] creature. Once someone reads away the remaining memories of our crystal core, all this will be in vain."
Behind her, the other researchers who had transformed into mutants also stared at her. The gradually rising concentration of bromine mist and the pervasive superpowers were signs of their impending madness. They mumbled, "Kill us, Xu An. Take everything away."
"Only when I become a taboo can the base take off." Yin Shu smiled, his once scabbard-faced face now revealing a hint of his former gentleness. "Xu An, forget me. Don't let anyone remember me."
Xu An closed his eyes tightly.
A strange light spread out from the fingertips and circled around like a firefly. The noise outside seemed to be blocked out, and only deathly silence remained in the ears.
Xu An didn't dare to open her eyes, but everyone's death was clearly transmitted in front of her eyes because of the triggering of [Dissolution]. Those who smiled in pain, or smiled in relief, finally at one moment, the crystal core shattered.
The first broken crystal core is pink.
Xu An clearly remembered that the pink fragments circled in the air and finally fell on her body and eyelashes, turning into superpowers and merging with her.
Perhaps, this is a kind of eternal separation.
Slowly, Xu An opened her eyes and saw Yin Shu, still wearing the same white research coat she had worn that day, holding a black umbrella, slowly walking towards her. But this time, she was no longer covered in scars.
The blue crystal core fragments fell on her hair, as if Yin Shu was stroking her head again and humming a lullaby softly, even though she had already experienced a hundred years.
Tears kept falling, and her long eyelashes were covered with a mixture of tears and debris.
"Where's Yin Xiangrong?" She murmured softly while hugging herself, "If you don't think about me, think about her too, okay?"
"I've taught her a lot. She's good at hiding, suspicious, cold-blooded, has her own principles, and has a solid knowledge of biology... She will survive the apocalypse, and she will survive well."
Finally, all her memories came pouring out to her: her lover's smile, her child's innocence, the joy of research success, and the sadness yet determination of knowing she was going to die.
"Why do you trust me so much... I am also an alien..." Xu An muttered in pain.
As the warm memories piled up, the sea of blood before him seemed even more glaring. The increasingly pervasive supernatural power spread from the tower, finally exploding in an instant.
The alien species on the ground turned into pieces in an instant. Xu An staggered out from the ruins, walked out from the sea of corpses and blood in the disbelief of everyone, and fainted at the gate of the base.
Xu An no longer remembers what happened afterwards, but she only knows that she was in a coma for a long time and lost her memory for nineteen years.
During this period, Ran Yue lied to her that she was mentally ill and kept her hidden in Tartarus. Yin Xiangrong was insidious and vicious, always using various researches to force Ran Yue to release her.
The two sides continued to clash, but Xu An submitted his own application for discharge to the dean.
The long-lost air came again, and the wind blew in from all directions, lifting her hair.
The explosion sounds of the surrounding spherical AI finally stopped. Xu An slowly came back to his senses and placed the three people who were stunned by the powerful mental wave on a high-rise building that had not yet collapsed.
The white wings were particularly conspicuous in the blood-red explosion. Xu An flapped his wings and gently landed on a tall building. Then he turned around and looked at the person who had been waiting on the side.
Ran Yue put away the pistol he was playing with, got off the black motorcycle, and nodded at Xu An, "Have you had enough fun?"
Xu An silently carried out Jie Shuqin and Baili Yunle, who had fainted in the gravity body, without looking at her. "You really went to great lengths to hide this secret, even going so far as to destroy the entire city. Aren't you afraid of extinction of the last of humanity?"
"I have you here." Ran Yue leaned on the motorcycle nonchalantly, raising his sunglasses to the top of his head. "I have taken care of the other team members. It's just that they may have seen something they shouldn't have seen. Xu An, please excuse me."
"You can do it too, don't you?" Xu An looked her straight in the eye. "When I walked out of the ruins, didn't you also use [Dissolve] to blur other people's memories?"
"You're so smart. No wonder the teacher likes you so much." Ran Yue smiled, walked over slowly, and lifted Xu An's chin with her fingers. "I'm a little reluctant to let you go."
"Really?" Xu An held her wrist, his brows slightly curved, and said with a smile: "Then let me stay. I want to drive the mecha."
Ran Yue was a little surprised. She loosened her hand and walked slowly around her. "First, you offered to be my experimental subject in exchange for living in the base. Now what do you want to exchange? [Dissolver]? Don't forget, I also know this."
"You mean... the large-scale use of [Dissolver] reduced your ability awakening value from 31 to 28?" Xu An raised his eyebrows. "I'm at the base and can ensure that you won't be harassed by flying aliens. My commander, this is worth more than anything else."
The traces of damage caused by the flying aliens last time the base was destroyed have not yet been fully recovered. Even the hand of Ran Yue’s favorite controller, Tan Wenshu, has not been healed yet. The base cannot withstand the second invasion of the flying aliens.
Ran Yue sighed helplessly, "I'm very curious, what exactly do you want to do by staying in the base? You don't want the highest authority in the base, and you don't want to cannibalize humans. You even kill your alien children for this? Is it just to fulfill the teacher's last wish? I am increasingly confused about you, Xu An."
"It's just something made by humans on the ground. There aren't many pure alien species left." Xu An lowered his eyes, and his gaze gently fell on the faces of the three people on the ground. After a long time, he finally spoke: "Ran Yue, I thought of the reason for staying in the base."
Ran Yue was a little surprised.
"Over the years since I lost my memory, I've been afraid of my identity and terrified of my abilities. Back then, I always considered escaping the base, but you ordered me to be locked up in Tartarus," Xu An recounted calmly. "I also know that it was you who approved the application submitted to the dean, and it was you who, against all odds, got me to A061, allowing me to reach the surface."
"I've always known that you treat me well. Although you may be afraid of my abilities, you trust me more than anything else. This feeling was particularly strong when I officially became the deputy captain of A061. I think this is what the doctor meant by honesty."
"Without mutual suspicion, perhaps the end of the world will be more gentle." Ran Yue sighed, "We old people will bear the brunt of this cold-bloodedness and jealousy, while the new generation of humans only need to know brightness and pure kindness. When the earth can be habitable again and we old people die of old age, the earth will be the true paradise."
Xu An looked at her.
The explosions around him gradually subsided, and the light of [Dissolution] spread out from his fingertips. The slowly rising supernatural light waves transformed into one distorted and dreamy bubble after another.
"Ran Yue, your thoughts are actually quite pure." Xu An raised his hand and swallowed all the memories he had read. "The doctor is right. Only by forgetting her can we end the war and make human minds simpler."
The extracted memories slowly gathered together to form a dreamy bubble. Xu An spread his wings and flew up, blowing them away one by one.
"But where do so many humans come from?"
The entire city, triggered by its self-destruct system, slowly exposed itself to the surrounding wilderness. Alien species swarmed in, gnawing at the remaining bionic limbs.
Xu An waited quietly for them to clean up the debris, then snapped his fingers. In an instant, the crystal core fragments were covered with blood, dyeing the ground colorful.
Xu An brought everyone back to the base, and everyone had completely lost their memory of this incident. They only vaguely remembered seeing fireworks and wings when they were not working, and knew that there was a creature in the world that could fly in the sky.
Then he laughed at his own wild imagination, shook his head, and subconsciously installed steel wings on the new gravity body.
Whenever Xu An passed by the mecha training base and saw the latest set of steel wings that imitated his own, he would fall into a long period of contemplation. Then, he would be interrupted by a sharp voice.
"Xu An! What are you looking at! Don't think that just because you can escape the theoretical class, you can escape my practical class!" Xie Shuqin carried two sets of holographic mecha simulation equipment and blocked Xu An's escape route.
Xu An looked left and right but couldn't get rid of it, so he could only sigh and said helplessly: "I really don't want to attend the theory class anymore, don't take me back."
"That won't do. You are the one that Teacher Wang Zhan specifically asked to pay close attention to."
Xu An felt a bit of a headache and glanced at the holographic device in Jie Shuqin's hand: "Just go inside the mecha, why are you asking me to answer multiple-choice questions inside? I want to drive the mecha!"
"That's because you didn't pass the theory class." Xie Shuqin shrugged, then suddenly looked around. Seeing no one around, she chuckled smugly. "How about this? Call me head student, and I'll reluctantly take you into the two-man mecha control room. How about that?"
Xu An curled his lips, naturally knowing that Xie Shuqin wanted to go in, but he still pretended to think for a while, then said seriously: "Senior head."
The long-lost name came out of their mouths, and both of them were a little stunned.
Even after entering the two-person mecha, Jie Shuqin still didn't react until... a dazzling red light flashed before her eyes.
Xie Shuqin practically wailed, "Xu An!!! You pressed the self-destruct system again!!!"
The sharp voice made Xu An's ears hurt, and the next second, the mecha training base experienced the third explosion.
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