Mystery Journey (13)
Shi Jianxia never thought that she would meet the mother she had always been looking for in such an unexpected situation.
She stared at the familiar yet unfamiliar face for a long time without coming back to her senses, until the deep purple star core resonated with the power of other star cores and carried the woman floating in the air. The other party lowered his head and leaned slightly in her direction, just like he had looked at her gently and lovingly before.
Shi Jianxia moved her lips and whispered "Mom".
Zhou, who was standing beside her, heard it clearly. His golden compound eyes flashed, filled with complex emotions.
Shi Ting could neither see nor hear, and could not respond.
As the state of the star core stabilized, the vitality extracted from the energy crystal gradually gathered, forming a shallow halo around Shi Ting.
The power of the seven star cores intersected with each other, and the pressure on the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" as a medium was greatly reduced. It spontaneously floated to the center of the energy cycle and received the feedback of power.
Shi Jianxia's chaotic emotions calmed down in the silence. She suppressed the chaotic thoughts in her mind and looked at Zhou, who had regained his strength and was looking at Shi Ting with his head slightly tilted up. She asked directly, "Why is my mother here?"
Zhou withdrew his gaze, his expression returning to his usual calm and peaceful state. He said with a slight oath, "As you know, she is my queen."
Shi Jianxia frowned slightly, "Then why am I here?"
She didn't know about the emotional entanglement between her parents, so she naturally couldn't judge it. However, in her limited life and memories after traveling through time, her father played the most important role, so she naturally sided with him.
Zhou stopped talking.
Shi Jianxia narrowed her eyes slightly and boldly guessed, "You took her away from my father?"
If Zhou was confident enough, he would not remain silent at this time.
Dad has been looking for Mom. When they parted ten years ago, he said he would go and bring Mom back. They must not have broken up peacefully, but were obstructed by external forces.
Zhou was probably struck by these words, unable to maintain his composure. He scoffed and said, "He's too weak to protect Shi Ting. Since he doesn't have the ability, why can't I protect her?"
Shi Jianxia keenly realized that there was something behind his words and immediately asked, "Why did Mom become like this? What happened to her?"
As soon as the words came out of her mouth, a flash of lightning flashed through her mind.
Shi Jianxia's pupils contracted, and he subconsciously grasped the space bracelet on his right wrist.
Zhou originally wanted to speak, but after seeing her movements, his gaze shifted to the space bracelet, and he sensed her suddenly accelerated heartbeat, and couldn't help but frown slightly.
Shi Jianxia didn't care about his attitude and reaction at all. He opened the space bracelet in a panic and took out the transparent experimental jar that he had found in the secret laboratory in the deep sea.
A huge experimental tank appeared in the tree house, and the space around Shi Jianxia suddenly became cramped. She held her breath and looked up at the completely dead experimental subject from bottom to top.
The experimental subject floated in the culture medium, her black hair floating like seaweed, her skin was bluish-gray, and because she was completely dead, her eyes were closed and her face was expressionless, like a sculpture.
She looks very similar to Shi Jianxia, but if you look closely you can see the difference. She has the same face as the woman sleeping in the core of the star, even the small black mole on her left cheek is exactly the same.
Shi Jianxia's throat tightened, and a terrible thought came to her mind uncontrollably -
My mother was an experimental product created by the doctor using the genes of the old marshal and his wife.
Perhaps something happened after the experiment was successful, causing her mother to break free from the doctor's control and give birth to her with her father, but the good times did not last long. Their relationship was discovered and the two were forced to separate.
During this process, the mother was actively or passively stranded in the Zerg universe and became the queen that the doctor always wanted to revive. The person that the doctor kept sending people to the Zerg universe to look for was also the mother.
After many unsuccessful searches, the doctor set his sights on her and her father. While her father was in the Zerg Universe to carry out a mission and look for her mother, he colluded with the Xia family on Mosasaur Star and continued the mimicry awakening experiment on her that had failed on her mother.
Many thoughts flooded into Shi Jianxia's mind. She pursed her lips tightly, trying to connect all the clues she had discovered in the past, but she still couldn't figure out what the doctor's last words meant.
Why did she know who her mother was and her death was imminent?
Is it Day who will kill her?
Shi Jianxia looked up and happened to meet Zhou's dangerous gaze. He pointed at the dead experimental subject in the transparent glass jar, and his voice almost condensed into ice, "What is this?"
Zhou didn't understand the complicated and perverted experiments of humans, but he could sense that the experimental subject and Shi Ting had the same aura, they were completely identical.
Shi Jianxia looked him straight in the eye. "You know that space crack under the deep sea? Don't you know there's a laboratory there? This is what I got from that laboratory. I also want to know why this experimental subject looks exactly like my mother."
Zhou immediately frowned, "Experimental subject?"
He really didn't know that there was a secret laboratory near the space crack. After all, when he traveled through the universe, he could directly open the vortex without the help of the space crack.
The reason why he knew about the space crack was because Shi Ting came to the Zerg universe through it.
"You mean, she is a replica of Shi Ting?" Zhou asked.
Shi Jianxia shook his head, "I don't know either."
Zhou was obviously not satisfied with her answer. Shi Jianxia then said, "I don't know what you know, and you may not know what I know. Since you like my mother, and I also hope that she can wake up, how about we cooperate and exchange information?"
This king lacks confidence and is probably in unrequited love. I just don't know how he met my mother and why he fell in love with a human being across races.
Shi Jianxia felt that he needed to find out what had happened and uncover the secret hidden in the words the doctor left before his death.
Zhou looked at Shi Ting, who was enveloped by the power of the star core and didn't know when she would wake up. His golden compound eyes flickered slightly, "What do you want to know?"
Shi Jianxia said: "You know, everything related to my mother."
Zhou said with a half-smile, "I'm afraid your information isn't worth the price."
He was not merely half-baked at the situation in the human universe; he even knew a great deal. This little girl was clearly trying to take advantage of him, thinking that he would become confused due to his concern.
Seeing that he wasn't taking the bait, Shi Jianxia had to take a step back and said, "How about we each exchange a question? What do you think?"
This way of exchanging information is much more reasonable.
Zhou did not reply immediately, but squinted his eyes and looked at the experimental subject in the transparent experimental jar, which was already deader than dead. No one knew what he was thinking.
His attitude was unclear, and Shi Jianxia pinched her fingers, waiting patiently for his reply.
Suddenly, he raised his hand and grasped the huge transparent experimental jar in the air. Golden air currents gathered from all directions and instantly enveloped the experimental jar.
Snap!
The outer glass of the experimental tank could not withstand such a terrifying force and cracked.
Shi Jianxia realized that he wanted to destroy the experimental tank and immediately stopped him, "Stop!"
Zhuo tilted his head to look at her, "You want to keep this eyesore?"
His tone was as cold as ice, and there was a dangerous glint in his golden compound eyes.
"If you destroy her, how can I find out who she is?" Shi Jianxia asked sternly.
Zhou's power stagnated for a moment, and his reaction made Shi Jianxia realize that this king might not know why his mother was in danger and even fell into a deep sleep, and could only rely on the power of the star core to maintain her life.
The majestic and dangerous aura receded like a tide. Zhou sneered, "You humans always try to get what doesn't belong to you, and your schemes are endless. Even if you find out who is persecuting Shi Ting, what good will it do? If you kill one, there will be another. If she returns to the human universe, she will only be in danger again."
"You two, father and daughter, can't even protect yourselves, so don't boast about protecting her in front of me!"
Zhou's words hit the nail on the head.
Shi Jianxia pursed her lips and couldn't respond to his words.
The Federation is full of twists and turns, and the top leaders all have their own little thoughts. Even when facing the major crisis of Zerg invasion, they never forget to fight for power.
This time, if the old marshal had not appeared immediately to calm the situation, she would never have had a say in the Federal Parliament, and might even have been eliminated because she touched the interests of many parties.
She seemed to be in a safe place, but in fact she was walking on mountains of swords and seas of fire.
After a few seconds of silence, Shi Jianxia looked up and asked, "Then can you protect her forever?"
"Lu is constantly sending low-level Zerg to invade the human universe, plundering resources to feed the higher-level Zerg. If I'm not mistaken, the number of higher-level Zerg under Lu's command is growing rapidly. It won't be long, no, even now, the power he controls will surpass yours. Sooner or later, the forest you rule will face war."
"No one can protect another person forever. Mom has her own ideas, and none of us are qualified to make choices for her, but we can eliminate potential dangers as much as possible."
Shi Jianxia's words hit the nail on the head, and Zhou fell silent.
Ever since he took away half of the territory from Lu, Lu has regarded him as a thorn in his side, but since neither of them can do anything to the other, he can only maintain superficial peace with him.
But in recent years, Lu has increased his invasion of the human universe, continuously seizing resources to cultivate advanced Zerg. This time, the Butterfly-Faced Man dared to cross the river and come to his territory, which was a provocation to him.
Lu is ambitious and will sooner or later take back the lost territory. It is only a matter of time before an internal war breaks out among the Zerg. By that time, he may not be able to protect Shi Ting.
The man and the bug stabbed each other in the heart, and then remained silent together.
In the end, it was Shi Jianxia who spoke first, "I can help you rule the Zerg, and after you gain the right to rule, you need to make the Zerg withdraw from the human universe."
This time, Zhou did not laugh at her arrogance, because he knew that the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", which controlled the power of star cores, was a terrible death warrant for the Zerg.
Shi Jianxia is a knife that can help him cut through obstacles, but it may also pierce his heart in turn.
This is a dangerous trade.
Zhou raised his eyes and looked at Shi Ting, who was incredibly beautiful even when she was sleeping.
"Okay," he replied.
The two sides shook hands as a sign of agreement.
When the applause died down, Shi Ting, who was sleeping in the core of the star, seemed to be aware of something and trembled his eyelashes slightly. The slowly flowing power of the core of the star paused for a moment, and then formed an energy flow, oscillating outward in a circular shape!
"Classic of Mountains and Seas" suddenly lit up, forming a new black and gold halo that radiated outward, sweeping directly towards Shi Jianxia who was closest to it.
Her brain felt like it was hit by a heavy hammer, causing her to feel extremely dizzy.
Shi Jianxia shook his head, trying to get rid of the sudden dizziness, but he stumbled and fell forward.
The little bee was startled and flew over quickly to support her, but the golden airflow supported Shi Jianxia first.
At the same time, the sound of a distant bell rang in Zhou's ears, and memories hidden deep in his mind came flooding back.
Shi Jianxia felt like she had turned into a duckweed, drifting along with the current. She tried hard to open her eyes to see what was happening around her, but she couldn't do it.
After waiting for a long time for the drifting feeling to disappear, a dim light shone over, along with the sound of low conversation.
"This newly arrived specimen is extremely important. It's suspected to have the potential to be a high-level Zerg larvae at level 3S. Shi Ting, come here. This specimen will be under your care for the time being. Record its changes daily and report back every three days."
Footsteps approached from afar, and a gentle female voice sounded, "Okay, Doctor."
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