Chapter 148 Forgiveness Endless

"Master Originator?"

Su Xi's pupils suddenly shrank, but what shocked her was not the name from the man-worm in front of her, but the language it used.

Although the accent has changed slightly, it is still the most familiar Chinese.

Seeing the change in Su Xi's expression, 'Alissa' smiled and stepped back to stand in the center of the imprisonment device.

"Come closer and I'll tell you the truth."

Su Xi couldn't help but take a small step forward. At this moment, the originally solid imprisonment device was broken. The man-worm, who was originally wearing a white researcher's robe and pretending to be gentle and refined, suddenly expanded ten times. The sizzling venom corroded all the broken pieces of the imprisonment device, and the air was filled with thick white mist.

The speed at which the thick fog spread was not very fast. Under normal circumstances, a psychic of this level would be more than enough to deal with it. Moreover, there were many 3S-level alphas guarding the perimeter of the imprisonment device.

But at this moment, dozens of elites at the scene were all frozen under the control of the nerve toxin. Everyone at the scene, including Su Xi, realized that they had already been paralyzed by the insect fluid that the human-worm had sprayed in advance.

This process was very short, only about fifteen seconds, but Gary, who was anxious inside, could only watch the increasingly thick white fog completely engulfing Su Xi's back.

"Su--" He opened his mouth with great effort, his fingers moved slightly, and his eyes glanced at the military uniform thrown on the ground. There was insect fluid on it from the previous battle. A new type of toxin evolved in just three hours. Although he was already cautious enough, but...

That's why! Damn it-

Gary cursed fiercely in his heart! The strength of this man-worm is far higher than that of the 'king general', and it is a 'worm mother' that is ranked at the queen level, otherwise it would not release this kind of corrosive thick smoke that only appears before the worm mother arrives at the nest. That is the secret defensive weapon of the quasi-queen-level worm mother before she is born.

Bo, Bo, Bo——

Transparent bubbles suddenly appeared in the thick white mist, with colorful streamers flowing on them, occasionally mixed with very fine gold sand. These seemingly insignificant bubbles were gathering together, breaking, and dissipating... With this process, the dangerous spread of the white mist was controlled.

Then a huge transparent membrane appeared, covering the area.

Su Xi was also trapped in it.

Gary hardened his heart and planned to explode his chakra to gain control of his body. At this moment -

"It's okay, don't worry." A gentle voice suddenly echoed in his mind, and Gary suppressed his impulse. It was Su Xi's highly recognizable mental fluctuations: "Gary, I'm safe."

"I'll be out as soon as I'm done. Once you've regained your mobility, be careful of the spread of the poisonous mist."

'We must not endanger the island's ecosystem.'

"Yes." Gary was relieved, but still couldn't help but say, "Be careful."

There was no sound, no movement in response to him.

Gary had just felt relieved, but then he became anxious again.

Inside the toxic smoke surrounded by a huge transparent bubble, the situation was not as easy as Su Xi appeared.

She covered her chest, reached out to wipe the blood from her lips, then raised her eyes to look at the worm queen in front of her, which had completely revealed its original size.

This queen-level 'insect queen' possessed more than just poison. Its mental wave attack could actually penetrate the obstruction of the dark insect armor accurately and directly injure her heart chakra which had just recovered.

Su Xi glanced at the liquid beetle that was now limp and broken on the ground with mixed feelings. This feeling was like the feeling of a pen that you were used to using suddenly running out of ink, which was frustrating.

"Haha, this is a bug armor forged from the marrow of the first queen, and I am a fusion of the first queen's most direct remains. How can we attack each other when we come from the same source?!"

"Stupid and ugly human beings!"

At this time, the man-worm, which had expanded to about three meters in height, was hissing angrily from its mouthparts, "I really don't understand why the current Queen would ask me to completely merge with a weak human like you!"

"So what if you carry the most complete genes of the Originator?" Its words were full of malice, and Su Xi's injured appearance was reflected in its cold and fierce compound eyes.

Although it hit the target with one strike, the man-worm was still very cautious. It moved its densely packed tiny arthropods under its abdomen and approached little by little. Its plastron and tiny legs rubbed against the ground, making a very subtle rustling sound.

"You can't even detect such a simple trap! If it weren't for that traitor protecting you, you would have been melted into ashes by my insect fluid!"

"Don't be so proud!" Doudou, the mother insect that had curled up behind Su Xi, stuck its head out from behind Su Xi and shouted at the top of its voice. It had escaped from the 'artificial worm cocoon' the moment the accident happened, and these bubbles that resembled an isolation barrier were doing its masterpiece.

At this moment, it has almost turned into a human form, and it has revealed very obvious insect characteristics as if under stress. Its originally chubby lower limbs have now become the appearance of an arthropod, but the bubbles that have been continuously sprayed out from its tail due to tension are now trembling as it sprays.

Although this scene seemed a little funny, it was extremely effective. As Doudou sprayed wildly, a small safe zone was cleared around Su Xi, isolating her from the erosion of the thick white poisonous mist.

The man-worm rolled its scarlet compound eyes, staring at Doudou fiercely from top to bottom: "You piece of waste? You actually relied on human blood to hatch! And you surrendered to humans!"

Provoked by his own people, Doudou's originally chubby face immediately turned red with anger, and the dense bubbles that were spraying out shot out even more vigorously, instantly filling the entire sealed space.

"Her Majesty the Queen also gave me an order to find out your whereabouts, so now - let me devour you and take your life!"

The man-worm's mouth opened wide, splitting into six petals like a blood-red lily, and was about to swallow up Su Xi and Dou Dou along with the isolating foam.

At this moment, a faint silver light flashed in the thick white mist, and the limbs of the giant man-worm were instantly decomposed, and the poisonous mist around it was completely dyed red!

Silent counterattack!

Just like Su Xi's expression at the moment, cold and rational.

After the blood-red mist gradually settled, Gary, who was isolated outside the transparent protective bubble, happened to see the final scene.

The man-worm that was originally so imposing now collapsed on the ground. Its threatening limbs and poison sac were completely decomposed by the silver insect armor, leaving only the breastplate wrapped around the crystal core standing alone on the ground...

And those tiny silver lights were flickering at this moment, gradually gathering together like the light of a fire, and finally turning into a few silver strands, shrinking back to Su Xi's wrist like a silk thread.

It was an offensive insect armor that Fitz forged for Suxi under extremely limited conditions. Naturally, just like his own style, it could only be driven by Suxi's third level consciousness, which symbolizes "reason".

The drive on the 'rational' level must rely on deliberate practice, rather than Su Xi's usual reliance on 'intuition' and 'instinct' reactions which are more efficient and fast.

Gary, who had practiced with her several times, knew the difference between the two very well. But the results of such precise manipulation still amazed him and made him feel ashamed.

Really, so strong that no one can be jealous of him.

Gary, who had recovered basic mobility, quickly cleaned up the scene.

When he turned around again, he saw the pet named 'Dou Dou' beside Su Xi, flapping its transparent wings like a little bee and flying in the air, and diligently spraying more tiny bubbles with its tail to neutralize the remaining toxin.

"Hee, hee, be careful, don't get close! Wait until Doudou finishes cleaning up!"

"It's okay." Su Xi looked up and smiled warmly at the hardworking 'little bee' in the air. Then she gently stretched out her hand, and the silver beetle armor on her hand instantly activated and covered her left hand, with beautiful patterns flowing on it.

Su Xi's movements were already very practiced. She stretched out her hands to peel off the remaining body of the human-worm and took out the glittering insect crystal core. It was a beautiful purple crystal.

But this piece of purple insect core crystal pulled out some nerve tissue, and connected to a certain position of the remaining breastplate like a broken lotus root. And the head that originally belonged to Alyssa was now half-closed, hanging powerlessly on the remaining breastplate of the human-worm.

"Alyssa," Su Xi squatted down and asked softly, "Are you still conscious?"

“Ah, ah——” Hearing this, Alyssa’s broken head suddenly opened her eyes, and she struggled to make a sound: “I, I’ve been dead for a long time——”

"I know." Su Xi pursed her lips, feeling a little sad.

"I shouldn't have lived, but I was unwilling to accept this. My gene fusion technology shouldn't have been experimented on humans! It shouldn't have been used by Yin Du to carry out the so-called 'ultimate human-insect fusion plan'! I..." Tears mixed with blood and some pus flowed out of Alyssa's eyes.

Strong self-blame and regret, mixed with some incomplete memories, rushed towards Su Xi through the link of the purple crystal insect core.

This kind of emotional resonance is very different from when they entered Asai and Gary. It was as if a collapsing world suddenly found an outlet to pour out, and Su Xi not only had to bear it, but she also had to use her mental power to build a temporary house for this broken spirit body...

"I know." Su Xi interrupted her regretful words that had lost their tone due to excitement, "The technique itself is correct, your talent... It's not your fault."

"I, I saw Daniel, I..." The memory gradually became clear, and Alyssa remembered Daniel. She tried hard to drive her severely mutated vocal cords and barely made a human voice: "I'm very sad to hurt him."

"He won't blame you." Su Xi reached out and used her sleeve to gently wipe away the blood and dirt on Alyssa's face. In the process of tracing back the O-type original gene, fragments of memories of the fierce battle between humans and Zerg flashed through her mind like lightning.

Therefore, she did not think that Alyssa's current appearance was horrible. Instead, another strong empathy rose from the bottom of her heart, which was the most basic emotion belonging to the "human" race.

Su Xi controlled the huge emotional pressure brought to her by the surging genetic memory, and said as rationally and calmly as possible: "Alyssa, next I will crush this crystal core and completely destroy the consciousness of this 'queen'. Before that, what else do you wish for?"

"I'm already dead."

"I have no wish." Alyssa opened her eyes with great effort and looked at Su Xi, "You are a very gentle person. His Highness must like you very much."

"Yes. I love him, too."

Tears welled up in Alyssa's eyes again, and she murmured, "Then I have no more obsessions."

Su Xi was about to crush the crystal core when she paused: "Alyssa, I'll retrieve the Sun Swallow's surveillance log for you to see."

Su Xi entered the human-machine synchronization frequency and called: "Xi Guang?"

But there was no response. Su Xi frowned slightly and could only switch the line to wake up the dormant AI Xingyue.

'Xingyue, retrieve the logs related to the 'Human Living Insect Core' on the Sun-Swallowing Ship.'

"As you wish." A cold female voice echoed around the man and the insect, and then the light screen flashed. When Su Xi first arrived at the interstellar space, the secret and tragic scenes on the Sun-Swallowing Ship appeared one after another in an instant.

But at this moment, Alyssa could no longer see anything. Without the nourishment of the Zerg fusion, her body was originally a deformed creature created by extracting residual genes, and it would soon rot completely like a rotten apple.

Su Xi lowered her eyes, clenched the insect core crystal in her left hand, and gently pressed the index finger of her right hand against Alyssa's brow.

A faint glow of light shone on her fingertips.

She used herself as a bridge to connect Alyssa's senses with her own, and the past scene unfolded in Alyssa's consciousness from another perspective. It was the scene before her death in the sealed cabin of the Sun Swallow.

From a strange angle that she had never experienced before, Alyssa saw the beta who looked exactly like her, saw the original version of herself with her wolfish and malicious look, and... heard the original version of herself screaming in regret before her death, and heard the original version of herself's voice becoming increasingly faint, desperately begging for the last forgiveness: "I... I am guilty!"

However, before she could get the response she hoped for, she died.

The reason why she was chosen to be resurrected was because of her countless reluctance, countless concerns, and the regret of not having been redeemed. All these regrets caused her dying bio-electric waves to be stored in a powerful form in the crystal core that was "alive" in her abdomen at that time.

In the last few frames of the surveillance video, 'Alyssa' also saw Chris with a sad face, her mentor Kolot... and also saw the man's back...

At the moment when the original body had already died, in front of that grim face that was still open--

"I believe you did not intend to betray me," she heard the calm and indifferent voice of the Crown Prince of the Empire, "Your final actions did not betray your oath as a soldier."

She saw him reach out and close his half-closed eyes, and she heard him say in a deep and clear voice:

"The Empire remembers your glory."

The picture stayed at this frame.

Alyssa smiled, her silent, gray eyes staring blankly into Su Xi's, as if she was trying to see his face as clearly as possible, and as if her gaze was focused on something farther away...

Su Xi listened silently to her dry lips opening and closing, and said in a low and weak voice: "Thank you, your forgiveness."

Su Xi closed his eyes slightly, exerted force with his left hand, and the purple insect core crystal immediately collapsed in mid-air like fine sand.

Along with the last instinctive consciousness of the 'Queen', the remaining duplicate consciousness of 'Alissa' completely dissipated.

Do it cleanly and without any regrets.