Chapter 136 Endless Choice

A buzzing sound in my mind!

Su Xi's eyes widened in shock, and all the doubts connected in her mind like lightning.

She pushed away the chest of the alpha in front of her, jumped off the chair, and ran towards the gene pool.

Snap——

A bony but slightly pale hand grabbed her wrist tightly.

Su Xi turned around.

Fitzgerald's face showed no extra expression, he just lowered his brows slightly and said softly, "Don't go."

Su Xi's gaze fell lightly on his face, so lightly that it seemed as if it was nothing.

He explained in a hoarse voice: "Tonight's chaos will soon be over. It doesn't matter what the truth is."

In Fitzgerald's eyes, Suxi's amber pupils suddenly expanded and contracted, and the blue light on her retina flashed wildly.

His heart sank.

At this time, Xiguang has successfully broken through the layers of data flow obstacles and accurately found the door to the truth in the maze-like code wall.

"Sister, this is it." The boy's voice, which was imitated perfectly, rang clearly in her mind: "Do you want to read it now?"

'Read.'

Then the truth of the matter, the murder scenes, and the origin of the construction of this base flashed through her mind instantly. Her powerful information processing ability had already been trained, allowing her to grasp all the secrets in an instant.

Looking at the 'Fitzgerald' in front of her, Su Xi forced a smile on her extremely sad face.

She said, "Yes, the 'truth' is not that important. But tonight cannot end like this!"

As soon as the last word fell, Su Xi pulled her hand out from his control with force.

As she turned around, she saw an ice-blue mental shield opening up in front of her eyelashes, with just the right amount of force, causing Su Xi to fall into the arms behind her ready to catch her.

At almost the same moment, the pale pink mental power suddenly erupted, and the black insect armor that surged in the air was bound into a whip, which pulled his open hand away with a snap.

The ice-blue mental shield shattered in the air.

Fitzgerald's face completely sank, and he squeezed his hand tightly. At the same time, the huge black shadow at the bottom of the calm gene pool began to violently rise again.

In just a few breaths, Su Xi had arrived in front of the gene pool.

*

Chris and Holderman, who were arguing in low voices at the control desk in the corner, had already noticed the sudden change between the two men and both cast their glances over.

"Oh," Holdman retracted his gaze and smiled with disdain: "I said that being too indulgent to an omega will definitely cause trouble. Don't you believe it?"

"Forget about giving him a 'sky garden'. There are many things that are more exaggerated than what he did anyway," Holdman continued, "Forget about providing him with an unlimited supply of 'gene repair fluid'! After all, he was the one who drew blood and extracted marrow himself..."

"But he can share all his rights in the First Fortress. What's going on? Anthony still knows how to hold back on Lya, but what about him? Is he better than his teacher?"

"The word stupid, wow! He interprets it so brilliantly!"

Holdman became angrier as he spoke. Not caring that his broken ribs had not yet fully healed, he threw the bandage on the ground and strode forward to kick him.

"Teacher!" Chris hurriedly stopped him. The black-haired beta pleaded helplessly in a weak voice: "Please stop making trouble. Let them solve it themselves, okay?"

What's more, you've already been beaten badly just now, there's no point in adding more injuries!

Chris murmured in his heart but didn't dare to say it out loud.

As for the "sharing rights", Chris glanced at the fusion progress displayed on the screen. There was still one last step of "nuclear crystal" fusion left, so it was logical that it was not completely "successful" in the judgment of the base AI.

With a personality like Fitz's, even if the probability of the fusion failing completely is as small as one in ten thousand, he will not leave Su Xi completely helpless after he disappears.

Not to mention Albert's rejection of her, even if she was the friendliest to Su Xi, in Fitz's eyes, she would probably not be able to protect this omega when family interests conflicted.

Therefore, in the worst case scenario, all he could leave her was his power and the most core secrets of the First Fortress.

Unfortunately, he had taken everything into account, but he did not expect that something would go wrong in the last step of "fusion".

He also didn't expect that the only omega he wanted to hide would appear so abruptly at the critical juncture of the transition between the old and the new.

Chris felt heavy in her heart as she nervously monitored the changes in the gene pool. Fitzgerald didn't have much time left to comfort his omega. Once the process of 'genetic superposition' was started, it could not be stopped.

At Chris's request, Holderman temporarily returned to the control console. He raised his voice slightly, "Fitz, quickly deal with your omega. Don't wait for me to take action!"

Holdman's voice was not loud, but it was just enough to ensure that all the 'living things' in the base could hear it.

Fitzgerald did not answer him. The 'living creature' in the pool did not react much to his words either.

And Su Xi, of course, heard it too.

She didn't care.

Her attention was focused on the "monster" in the pool. The environment here was exactly the same as when she first arrived in the interstellar space and fell on the forbidden base UFO planet.

It was ridiculous. She thought he was a victim and tried desperately to find relevant clues in Marlena's memory, but she never expected that -

The development of these events, one after another, was all planned by him long ago! Whether it was the decline of Emperor Anthony, or the mistake of the second queen's "body swap", or even the initial disaster on the UFO planet!

In the core database, in the 'strategic decision tree' that Xiguang had dug out, the only variable that could not be located, the only factor that could not be calculated, was her.

But will she be grateful?

No.

Su Xi pressed her white hands against the cold pool wall, pressing so hard that her knuckles turned white.

'Who do you think you are?'

Su Xi blinked slightly, and the original mental power mark in her brain began to glow slightly. The dense mental power spread and searched the entire gene pool. She was looking for him.

Countless tiny bubbles swarmed in the pool water, and the dark bottom of the pool seemed to be filled with black mist and began to twist violently.

'Come out, I want to see you! Let's talk, okay?'

Then, very slowly—

Through the transparent pool wall, a pair of silver vertical pupils appeared in front of her eyes, cold and bloodthirsty.

The water in the pond was turbid, and the huge and long beast disappeared in a flash... Su Xi only had time to see the tiny scales that glowed with a faint blue luster, and... the row of nasty bone spurs on its back that was filled with test tubes...

Only those pair of silver vertical pupils were staring straight at her.

'Fitz!'

Su Xi called him in her mind.

The silver vertical pupils slightly dilated, as if recognizing her, and the huge black shadow suddenly retreated, hitting the pool wall with a bang! The entire gene pool even trembled slightly.

Then a huge, long black shadow swirled and completely disappeared into the murky pool water.

"Fitz!" Su Xi's eyes turned red again, and she slapped the pool wall hard.

A strong arm from behind held her in his arms, and the familiar breath of the alpha enveloped her completely. Fitzgerald lowered his head, and his warm breath hit the back of her neck.

"I'm here."

Fitzgerald's voice was hoarse. He raised his head and glanced at the huge shadow lying motionless in the turbid water, feeling a strange jealousy in his heart. The current 'him', as the final 'evolved body', only needs to 'fuse' the 'nuclear crystal' energy of the body in the pool to complete the entire artificial gene elimination project.

Eliminate the original 1/5 of genetic risks and restore it to its previous 'perfect' state.

The shadow in the pool was just the 'degraded' part that had been peeled off. Everything was going well, but after Su Xi came in, something went wrong.

Originally, Fitzgerald could sense that the self-consciousness of the 'Him' in the pool was gradually dissipating in the darkness, and the red-haired alpha outside the pool was also gradually feeling the same way about the memories being replicated in his mind...

Until He heard her call, and at this moment, a very tiny split occurred between the two consciousnesses that were in the same frequency...

Thinking of this, she simultaneously felt the awakening of the entity in the pool, the recovery of its vague emotions, and the naked emotions that "Him" saw very clearly in her eyes through the turbid water.

Like the only light in the dark night.

With his nose slightly moving to smell her scent, Fitzgerald lowered his head and gently kissed the neck of this omega who did not resist his embrace. He kissed the special gland position marked by the original.

Retracting the strange perspective of looking at the 'real body' in the pool, he licked his protruding fangs, wanting to bite again.

But now is not the time.

*

"I'm here."

Fitzgerald emphasized softly in Suxi's ear, forcefully suppressing the unstable consciousness of the 'entity' in the pool.

His tone was extremely indifferent: "It's just a failed product with genetic degeneration."

"Don't worry about it."

"Don't worry about it?" Su Xi's shoulders trembled slightly.

Fitzgerald paused for a moment, and he realized that she had obtained all the information about this "genetic superposition". He did not regret leaving her with her own exclusive secret permissions in the core database, but he was annoyed that if she had come ten minutes later, the data would have been completely destroyed.

Nothing will be different than before.

It would never let her realize how bad she had been.

It's really, really terrible.

"I know you'll be sad, so let's not stay here while the destruction process is going on, okay?"

Although he tried to downplay it, Su Xi's sensitive glands sensed the alpha's pheromones and became a little depressed and irritated, with a hint of unspeakable shame and anger. At this time, the body in the pool began to stir up fine bubbles again.

Whether it was 'He' or him, did they mind being discovered by her in such a terrible state?

Su Xi had some understanding. Her mental power was floating in the turbid water. She could sense 'his' consciousness wandering on the boundary between clarity and blur. She could also sense that the familiar fluctuations were no different from the alpha who was imprisoning her behind her.

They are of the same origin but are two bodies, waiting for the final step, the evolved body's "devouring of consciousness" of the original body.

"No," Su Xi grabbed the arm that was holding her tightly and denied it firmly: "It's not a failure and can't be destroyed. You can't choose the same path as Marlena!"

"In the pool! That's you—"

"Enough!" Fitzgerald tightened his arms and held her in his arms in a strong and restraining posture. He kissed her hair fiercely, "That's not me!"

"It's me who's holding you right now," he picked her up with his arms around her waist, with a strong and angry look on his face, "Remember this!"

The tall body made the small ball's flapping and struggling seem so weak and powerless. The angry alpha jumped down from the platform of the gene pool, and in a few leaps he arrived at the door that Su Xi had just entered.

"Let me go, you bastard!" Su Xi was also angry, "Will you please listen to me carefully!"

The ice-blue mental power burst out a few times, and collided with Su Xi's pale pink mental power, creating an extremely beautiful energy aftermath, leaving an arc of light along Fitzgerald's running route.

When this series of actions took place, the two of them seemed to be hugging each other intimately, but the fierce battle between their mental powers looked like a life-and-death struggle. However, both sides controlled themselves extremely delicately and did not hurt the other.

At this moment, Su Xi knew very well that once she was packed up and sent away by Fitzgerald, his 'original body' in the gene pool behind her would immediately face the end of bone and blood melting.

Finally, it becomes the 'material' that is extracted in a cycle in the gene pool.

According to the information obtained from the data Xiguang dug out, once the "gene stacking" process is turned on, the "Gerard gene" that originally relied on evolution in the "time loop" will choose another evolutionary path - it will completely rely on artificial genetic engineering to complete the body replacement from generation to generation.

Just like Marlaina, just like Anthony - the desire for 'eternal life' and 'peak' will lead to this road ending in absolute tragedy.

"Let me go!"

“No!”

"Chris, open the door!"

"yes!"

In front of the gene pool control panel, although Chris looked worried, he opened the door very quickly.

Holderman on the side frowned.

Logically speaking, one-fifth of Fitzgerald's genes come from the correction and completion of Zerg gene fragments by Red-haired Arale. Just like Marlaina, Fitz's "main body" has absolute dominance over the replica and will not have the identity confusion of multiple personalities.

Instead, under the influence of the Zerg gene fragments, a sense of synchronicity of "one body with multiple perspectives" will be generated between the spiritual bodies derived from the replication. Unless the fusion is not timely or the time interval is too long, there will be a situation of consciousness separation between the new "evolved body" and the "original body" in the current gene pool...

That's troublesome.

Holdman stroked his chin, thinking about the details of the scene in front of the pool wall, and felt something was wrong.

But the process of 'genetic superposition' has not yet been completed, so it shouldn't happen in such a short time, Holderman thought uncertainly.

Holdman narrowed his eyes and watched closely as Fitzgerald held the omega that was throbbing in his arms and walked out the door. His right hand slowly clenched, and a blue arc of light flashed between his fingers.

He planned to take action as soon as anything unusual happened and make sure the last step was completed as quickly as possible!

Can't delay! This is an important matter concerning the overall situation.