Mystery Journey (21)
In front of the rattan table, Shi Jianxia and Shi Ting were sitting next to each other, and a little bee was lying on a berry in the fruit bowl, sipping the sweet juice.
The big fat cub rubbed its head against Shi Ting's palm spontaneously, rubbing it back and forth, which was very cute. Cheng Huang lay beside it and yawned lazily.
Shi Ting liked them very much. Even when he was talking to Shi Jianxia, he did not forget to stroke their fur.
Her face was a little pale, but there was a smile between her brows and she was in good spirits. Sitting with Shi Jianxia, his eyes were always on her face, as if he couldn't get enough of looking at her.
Shi Jianxia felt a little embarrassed when she looked at him, but he still let her look at him obediently. He briefly talked about his experiences over the years, picking out the good things and glossed over all the bad things.
Shi Ting was not stupid. When he heard her mention the doctor, he knew that the doctor had caused a lot of trouble during the years when he was in a coma, and Shi Jianxia must have been wronged.
But seeing that Xia was unwilling to mention it, she pretended not to guess and spoke seriously about what had happened.
"It was the Doctor who injured me back then." When Shi Ting mentioned this, the smile on his face faded and a clear coldness appeared in his eyes.
Shi Jianxia was not surprised by this answer. She knew from her memory during the day that the doctor controlled her mother's freedom. Even though she was taken out of the laboratory by her father without anyone noticing, with the doctor's methods, he would definitely come after her.
She took out the jade pendant she had gotten from Zhou and asked, "Zhou said you were holding this jade pendant in your hand when you were unconscious. Do you know who it belongs to?"
Shi Ting's memory stopped before she was seriously injured and fell into a coma. After seeing the jade pendant, her pupils contracted slightly, and some not-so-good memories flooded into her brain.
A chaotic laboratory, researchers coming in and out, soldiers with live ammunition... and serious and indifferent officers.
That majestic face was firmly imprinted in Shi Ting's mind. She closed her eyes and uttered two words, "Clouds."
"I got this from Marshal Yunshang. He is my father. Strictly speaking, he is the source of my genes."
"I am an experiment created by the doctor using his genes." And it is a semi-failed experiment because she cannot awaken the mimicry.
Even though he had already made some guesses in this regard, when he actually heard that the jade pendant belonged to Marshal Yun, Shi Jianxia still felt a sense of oppression as if someone was grabbing his heart.
The scenes of her time with the old marshal came flooding back to her mind, but she still found it difficult to connect the manipulator behind the red spider lily with the old marshal's kind face.
Hadn't he always been committed to expelling the Zerg from the human universe? Why was he so entangled with the Bianhua organization, which had ties to the higher-level Zerg?
He even took the initiative to give her the star core. Could it be that he had other intentions?
Shi Ting saw that her expression was different and couldn't help asking, "What's wrong?"
Shi Jianxia did not hide anything from her and told her everything that happened after he met the old marshal. Shi Ting was stunned when she heard it, and remembered the time when he took her away.
It was a very quiet night. Xia Yuanji had been away from home for more than half a month to carry out a very important mission.
In the evening, she received a call from Xia Yuanji, saying that he had completed the mission and would be able to return home soon.
When Shi Jianxia, who was only two years old, was sitting on the bed and playing with Xia Yuanji's belt, she picked up the little one, held her in her arms and sang nursery rhymes to put her to sleep.
Suddenly someone broke into her house and snatched away Xiao Jianxia who was still awake. The little child seemed to have a premonition of leaving his mother and started crying loudly.
The old man who suddenly appeared just glanced at her coldly and said "goodbye". She never saw Xia Yuanji and Shi Jianxia again.
"He and the red spider lily..." Shi Jianxia didn't know how to describe the relationship between the two.
Shi Ting knew what she wanted to ask, and pursed his lips and said, "Do you know the Fusion School?"
Shi Jianxia nodded.
“He founded the Fusion School.”
"After the Zerg invaded the human universe on a large scale and humanity was completely defeated in this confrontation, he founded the Fusion Faction, hoping to find a way to artificially achieve parasitic awakening mimicry."
As a result, as we all know, the fusion faction caused an insect plague before they could produce any results, which completely pushed them to the edge of the cliff and made it impossible for them to exist openly anymore.
"During that purge, many members of the Fusion Faction died, and a lot of research data was lost. Marshal Yunshang wasn't even a Marshal at the time, but he was also implicated in this incident and was unable to protect the Fusion Faction."
Although Marshal Yunshang is Shi Ting's father by blood, she just can't say those two words out loud. There is a huge barrier between them both physically and psychologically.
"The doctor was once hailed as a brilliant researcher. He wanted to restart the research conducted by the Fusion Faction, but the conservative faction of the Federation rejected his proposal and labeled him a dangerous element. He was transferred from the Federal Zerg Research Institute, and he subsequently joined the Fusion Faction."
"Later, Marshal Yunshang also wanted to restart the research of the Fusion School and approached him. That's how I was born."
"But for some reason, they seemed to have fallen out. The doctor took me away and wanted to continue the experiment. I took the opportunity to escape and somehow ended up here."
At that time, Shi Ting was seriously injured. Although he escaped from the laboratory, he didn't know where he was, and he didn't even know that he was picked up and protected by Zhou for so many years.
It turns out to be like this.
It is unexpected, yet reasonable.
In this case, the genes used by the doctor to create the experimental subjects were given to him by the veteran marshal.
He was unwilling to let his wife's genes combine with other people's genes, nor did he want to clone a wife with only appearance but no soul, so he asked the doctor to conduct experiments using his and his wife's genes.
But there are still many points that don’t make sense.
For example, who was the doctor's words directed at before his death?
"Why did he send me away?" Shi Jianxia asked.
The one he was referring to was naturally Marshal Yun.
He wanted to solve the Federation's predicament, and the Fusion Faction had discovered that the owner of the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" mimicry was a breakthrough. There was no reason to send her away, who also inherited the bloodline of the "Classic of Mountains and Seas".
Shi Ting frowned slightly, as if he couldn't figure this out.
Shi Jianxia saw that she looked tired and said quickly, "You can think about these things slowly. You just woke up and need more rest."
Shi Ting nodded, and with the help of Shi Jianxia, he returned to lie down on the rattan bed.
朏朏 and Chenghuang jumped down from the table one after another, followed by da da da. After Shi Ting lay down, they jumped onto the rattan bed and lay down with their front legs tucked in for cushioning.
Shi Ting was almost melted by their cute looks. He gently touched their little heads, but finally, he couldn't resist the fatigue and fell asleep with his eyes closed.
Shi Jianxia patted the little butt of the baby and told it to stay there and take good care of its mother. Then he picked up Cheng Huang and the little bee that was flying over staggeringly and walked out of the tree house.
When Zhuo saw her come out, he snorted lightly, as if he had the words "I don't like you" welded on his forehead.
Shi Jianxia was too lazy to argue with him and pointed outside the tree house, meaning that she wanted to talk to him alone.
Zhou frowned slightly, and when he saw Xia was about to walk out of the tree house, he followed reluctantly.
He didn't dare tell Shi Ting that he liked her. When Shi Ting learned that he was the little bee from the past, the way he looked at him was almost the same as the way he looked at Shi Jianxia, which made him very depressed.
More importantly, when Shi Ting was talking to Shi Jianxia, after asking about her situation, the next person he asked about was Xia Yuanji. When he learned that he was seriously injured and unconscious like himself, he wanted to go back in a hurry.
Zhou was so depressed, but he had no right to stop it.
Shi Jianxia was speechless and amused when she saw how slowly he moved.
Mom has woken up and she doesn't want to waste any more time here, but before returning to the human universe, she needs to improve her strength.
Recently, the cubs have been consuming energy crystals, and their levels have been improved to varying degrees, but currently only Gonggong has reached the extraordinary first level, and the combat levels of the other cubs are mostly distributed between levels eight and nine.
In the eyes of Shi Jianxia in the past, this was already a very strong strength, but to those who had ulterior motives, she was just a slightly larger ant.
She must have at least the third level of extraordinary strength to truly have a place in the Federation.
Shi Jianxia said straight to the point: "I need to devour a large number of insect vortexes."
Every high-level Zerg has the ability to control the vortex. What Shi Jianxia lacks most now is high-level vortex. As long as the potential level of the cubs is improved, it is only a matter of time to raise the combat level to the third level of extraordinary.
Zhuo said with a half-smile, "You're asking me, a Zerg, to eat the source of our power. Isn't that a bit too much?"
Shi Jianxia replied calmly, "I'm not going to eat you, or your subordinates."
She raised her hand and pointed to the other side of the river. "According to our previous agreement, now is the best time for me to help you get rid of Lu. If you continue to allow him to grow stronger, you will only die."
Just as a country cannot have two emperors, a group with distinct hierarchies like the Zerg cannot have two kings at the same time. Sooner or later, Zhuo and Lu will fight.
Zhuo looked at her and said, "How do I know if you will turn around and devour me after I help you? After all, humans and Zerg are in a mortal conflict."
From the moment the Zerg invaded the human universe, the relationship between humans and Zerg has been either the east wind prevailing over the west wind, or the west wind prevailing over the east wind.
If the Zerg loses the battle with humans, Zhou never believes that humans will be satisfied with expelling the Zerg from the human universe, especially since there is a space rift between the two universes.
Shi Jianxia tilted his head. "I'm a protective person. My attitude towards my family is naturally different from my attitude towards outsiders. You just behave like my half-brother. Why would I swallow you for no reason?"
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Shi Jianxia continued, "If I can't survive in the human universe, I'll bring my mother to seek refuge with you. You'll have to make me a princess, right?"
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Shi Jianxia added: "Look, what a good way out. I must be stupid to kill you."
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Shi Jianxia patiently coaxed him, "I not only consider you my brother, but also my backer. I trust you so much! What's wrong with eating some high-level Zerg under your mortal enemy? We can benefit from each other and achieve win-win cooperation."
Zhuo said with a forced smile: "You are quite kind."
Shi Jianxia nodded shamelessly, "I've only been so kind to you. I don't even bother to look at other people."
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