Chapter 122 Endless Suspicion
There are 4 minutes and 30 seconds left in the countdown.
That is what Xiguang called "genetic pollution", which may affect her countdown reminder;
It is also the last minute before she needs to return to reality to check the current abnormality of the floating island.
The first two times she entered the "dream", although she was also surrounded by countless floating mirror fragments, the images in the mirrors were not clear, so she could only enter randomly based on her intuition.
Fortunately, when she first entered the interstellar era, Su Xi accidentally experienced the split spiritual world of 'Leila Azai', the strange and obscure memory maze, and was extremely lucky to have a real bond with the ignorant boy in the spiritual world, and finally returned to the real world intact...
These rare experiences allowed her to subconsciously identify and filter out which information fragments she needed and which were redundant and useless when faced with the huge amount of memory fragments in the "gene tree"...
This allows her to have an 'empathy' effect with the strong emotions in these memory fragments, while also maintaining a rational and objective perspective...
This allows her to acquire the skills hidden in the genetic information while maintaining her "self" intact.
Excessive amounts of inducers can cause severe shocks to the body, and there is even a high risk of causing irreversible "genetic contamination", but there is also a certain chance that the "original gene" carried by the individual will be fully awakened, allowing the advancement of mental power to no longer be restricted by physical defects.
For Su Xi, this is definitely worth taking the risk!
What's more——
As Fitzgerald became busier and busier, the situation became more turbulent. There were too many signs that a latent change was about to break out.
When the two of them were together, the strange sensations in his body during certain moments of loss of control also made her have some bad guesses.
When she questioned Chris, she only got a vague keyword - 'genetic degeneration'.
To this end, Su Xi sneaked into the peripheral database of the First Fortress Medical Department in a human-machine synchronous state, and found some clues that made her shocked.
Is his condition similar to that of Leila Asay? Or is it something even more dire?
Su Xi's heart was gripped tightly.
She didn't dare think about it anymore.
*
There are 3 minutes and 55 seconds left in the countdown.
Su Xi concentrated her attention and put all her strength into activating the chakra that had not yet been fully repaired. Fine mental tentacles burst out, mixed with golden sand, which was continuously drawn out from her heart chakra, and then suddenly scattered with the current position as the center.
The threads of her mind, which she had carefully controlled, instantly touched all the lenses around her; a large number of lives that she had never experienced came rushing in—
In reality, Su Xi, who was lying in the repair cabin, became increasingly pale due to the excessive emotional shock. The humanoid Xi Guang, who was standing still in the corner, shifted his gaze and fell on the forced awakening button in the repair cabin.
"No!" Su Xi, who was on the same frequency, knew what Xi Guang was thinking, and she sternly stopped him, "Trust me, Xi Guang."
Xiguang stopped, and Suxi began to concentrate on catching the right fragment. The broken chakra that was being madly drained of spiritual power began to show signs of faint cracking. She forced herself to ignore the almost explosive pain and burst out the newly born energy more frantically.
The golden sand wrapped around the dense spiritual threads, passing through the fragmented images one by one at a speed faster than light.
Finally——
The strong spiritual tentacles stopped at the deepest part of the 'origin point', in front of an ancient bronze mirror. Su Xi's consciousness moved slightly, and she appeared in front of the mirror.
She raised her hand and gently touched the mirror, which was as calm as water.
Ripples appeared on the mirror, reflecting her appearance. She was an old person with deep eyes, very short white hair that was neatly and delicately groomed. The fitted military uniform made her look energetic despite being nearly 70 years old. She had an aura that transcended age and gender, and a power that was pure to the point of being sharp.
Su Xi was so surprised that she was speechless. The familiar yet strange feeling was buzzing in her heart.
Without a doubt, it was herself.
'Su Xi' is in his seventies.
Just as this thought came to mind, the figure in the mirror moved. The old man smiled slightly, and a tiny light flashed in his gentle eyes. The amber eyes were not cloudy, but instead had a kind of distant charm that was immersed in time.
Then, with an irresistible attraction, she fell into the mirror.
*
Floating island. Midnight.
At this moment, the full moon was high in the sky, with thin clouds lingering in the sky, and the rare animal area was caught in a changing light of bright and dark.
The hilly area that the frustrated Asay entered was exactly where the tiger-toothed beasts lived.
Although the giant ocelots have regained their human consciousness, as a species with a long childhood, Asay's rebellious period has not yet ended. At this moment, instead of feeling guilty for intruding into someone else's territory, he provoked a group of tiger-toothed beasts to fight.
One beast against a group, yet it is not at a disadvantage.
Bang--
The last tiger-toothed beast was knocked to the ground by him, and while it was roaring and struggling, it was knocked unconscious by Asay's claw!
"Boss!" Asa, who rolled down from the patrol car, shouted hurriedly, "This is the property of the island! We can't afford to pay for it! Please be kind--"
"Shut up!" A clear and deep voice of a young man sounded, decisively stopping his companion's chattering.
At this time, the full moon just came out from the clouds. The shadowy area in the hills was suddenly brightened by the light moonlight.
Before the smell of blood in the wind dissipated, a blond young man with a slender figure and tight and smooth muscles walked out from the shadows and appeared in front of the three people of Fox Tail.
"Give me a piece of clothing." He extended his hand without any hesitation.
“Old old old old old!” Asa stuttered even more. “You are not wearing any clothes!”
Pah—Pirelli slapped Asahi and he shut up. Then Pirelli laughed and gave the naked Asahi a bear hug, "Old man! You finally woke up!"
"Welcome back to human society!" Foxtail was also smiling. He took off his coat and threw it to Asai. Then he teamed up with Pierre to hold Asai down, took off his pants and let Asai put them on.
"They weren't shot to death, were they?" Pirelli looked at the conditions of the tiger-toothed beasts and was relieved when he found that they were not dead.
He couldn't figure out why a cute omega would buy and keep a beast that could spit fire and had a small amount of mental power. But as a temporary worker, he knew that if one died, all his salary would be gone.
Pierre called Foxtail and Asa to check each one carefully.
After the fight, Leila Asai, who had returned to her human form, was holding a grass root in her mouth, staring blankly at the full moon in the sky, not knowing what she was thinking.
"Not dead, but something is wrong." Foxtail squatted down and searched for the inconspicuous pinhole. As a half-orc with canine genes, he was very sensitive to the smell of this special medicine.
"It's definitely not right." Leila Asai held a grass root in her mouth and slowly walked over, kicking the beasts with her toes. "Tigertooths don't have the habit of appearing at night. Does your patrol list include this route?"
"Why are they still hanging around outside in the middle of the night? If I hadn't just happened to be passing by--"
"Indeed, there wasn't one before, but the patrol schedule was changed in the past two days."
"Because you ran away halfway, we were delayed on the road and almost missed their abnormality," Pierre added, "If no one had reminded us, we would probably have arrived here even later..."
"Who reminded you?"
"Captain of the Guards," Asa said softly, and his articulation was rare, "Lord G...Gary?"
"Gary?" Asai looked at him intently. He certainly knew that powerful, experienced and cunning alpha. "Where is he now?"
"Guards' dormitory?" Pierre said uncertainly.
"Xiguang! Check Gary's location." Asai touched the earring that Suxi gave him. It was a communicator and also a tracker to prevent him from running away out of control after transforming into a beast.
However, Xiguang did not respond, and even the communicators of the four people present were unable to make calls.
Although it was an island made of steel and iron, and a man-made wilderness, to Asai and the other four, it felt like they were in a real wilderness.
The blond-haired and golden-eyed young man's eyes suddenly tightened. His human facial features had a pair of sparkling beast pupils. He turned his head abruptly and cast his gaze in the direction of Youhuangju. He turned around and kicked, ready to rush over.
"Calm down!" The other three people held him back at the same time, in rare tacit agreement. "The island's self-defense system must still be in operation. You have crossed the zone without permission, especially rushing into Youhuangju without permission. It will definitely be considered an invasion!"
"We have no equipment. No matter how strong the orcs are, they will be dead in just a dozen seconds in front of the death ray!"
"Let's think about it again," Foxtail advised calmly, "There are many doubts about this matter, it may not be that bad. Don't be impulsive!"
Asai calmed down, looked straight at Foxtail, and asked, "Then tell me, what could be the possible situation?"
Seeing him like this, Foxtail sighed inwardly. But this was not the time to persuade him, so he took out the patrol schedule and showed it to the other three people.
"Come, let's take a look. This is the latest revised schedule. Don't you think this route is a bit strange?"
The other three came over.
Above them, the full moon disappeared into the dark clouds again.
*
In the direction that Asai was worried about.
Su Xi's attention at the moment was all focused on the exploration of 'genetic memory'. The drug she took knowingly tonight contained an inducer that was nearly ten times higher in concentration than the normal 'repair solution'. For her current condition, it was both a trap and an opportunity for a breakthrough.
She knew very well that if she wanted to break through the level before the chakra was damaged in the later stages of advancement, she had to complete the genetic memory. Because only after completing the genetic memory could the development of the third "brain chakra" be stabilized.
Su Xi's previous advancements were all under special circumstances where her life was threatened. She had never received any systematic and formal guidance, so her mental strength was far beyond the level of her peers, but her lit chakras could never be broken through.
Although the damage to the most basic heart chakra this time was almost life-threatening, Su Xi, who was optimistic, always regarded this incident as a symbol of a new beginning.
She also comforted the red-haired alpha countless times who took time out of his busy schedule to personally run around and use all his resources to repair her.
Therefore, it is worth taking some risks behind his back.
She relaxed herself and fell without resistance into that special lens memory.
As genetic memory is unlocked, the journey along this timeline begins.
Accepting the baptism of another long life, Su Xi experienced everything that happened in the time and space line where the "younger Su Xi" was in a very short time. Although it was some incomplete fragments, it still allowed her to deduce the truth of the origin of this star.
In that timeline, after the ancient humans experienced the great drift of the ancient universe, they also experienced a long interstellar wandering before taking root in the current universe. In the process of adapting to the interstellar, humans first merged with the orc genes. That was a golden age that dominated the Siren Galaxy.
Then faced with the threat of the Zerg, in the long struggle with the Zerg, humans developed themselves and entered the current Silver Age of pursuing "superman" or even "super god" at all costs...
At this moment, what is the connection between the two 'Su Xi', one old and one young?
That was apparently the same truth she had realized when she was assimilating with the planet, before her chakra was destroyed.
The interstellar era that Su Xi traveled through and the world before she traveled through originated from the same intersection of time and space.
That intersection can only exist in a higher dimension.
Su Xi was thoughtful, she wanted to go 'there'.
Once, when she was trying to recover the damaged chip of 'Xi Guang', she had to use all her strength to go back a little bit of time. In that experience of 'fine time travel', she deeply understood the laws of time and its immeasurable power.
However, after experiencing planetary assimilation, she found evidence in the memory recall of the 'Original Gene'!
Can spacetime go backwards? Yes. But that would require something so massive that it would consume the entire mass of the universe.
However, Su Xi's eyes suddenly dimmed.
Even if the universe collapses and restarts, even if we go back to the same point in time, we will not experience the same life again.
Just as Su Xi was in a daze, falling into an ancient melancholy, a small strand of the pink smoke that originally lingered at the end of the 'Gene Tree' quietly spread to her feet -
She looked down and saw that the pink smoke had spread to the middle of the 'Gene Tree' and even produced a violent gas vortex in a branch in the middle and lower layers.
Su Xi separated a strand of his mental energy and went to investigate.
What resonated with her consciousness was an unexpected fragment.
In the picture, a toddler with short silver hair, dragging a long sword almost as tall as his body, turned his head from the fragment's memory with a cold expression, glanced at her, and then disappeared very quickly.
That is——
When Su Xi wanted to grab the fragment and examine it carefully, Xi Guang, who had been on the same wavelength as her but did not make any noise to disturb her, suddenly sounded the alarm:
'The enemy attacked in the secluded bamboo forest.'