Chapter 44
In the empty classroom, Lan Yexing closed his eyes again.
The dial on his right wrist emitted a cold light, and Lan Yexing once again saw those vague memories that were born of love but stained with blood.
There are many people who love the hidden child.
In addition to his parents and the old housekeeper, the child's grandparents and uncle also knew of his existence. They would visit the child at the manor on important holidays. Like the couple, they chose to use all their strength to fight against authority and protect their loved ones.
But one day, the existence of that child was exposed.
The main house of the Qiao family and the secret manor were both engulfed in flames. Countless clones broke into the two places and, in the name of authority and punishment, they vented their anger by slaughtering those people with golden hair and green eyes.
When they forced those people to submit, they said mechanically, coldly and condescendingly that everything was done for justice and the future of the country.
Qiao You's father hid his wife and children in a basement connected to the outside world, guarding the escape route of the one he loved with his life - even though he knew very well that the escape route was actually shaky and the royal family would never let it go.
But when people are forced into a desperate situation, they always need a little beautiful fantasy to hang on to themselves, so that they can live a little longer in this horrible fight, and buy a little more time for the people they love, as if if they persist in this unfair fight long enough, the people they love will really be able to leave through that escape route and live on and be happy...
The woman in the basement never drew strength from fantasy, and she would never escape no matter how cruel and brutal the reality was. So, she did not struggle to escape with the child in vain, but took him to the room closest to the exit.
In the extremely dim room, the woman's blonde hair was disheveled and she looked dishevelled, but her green eyes were frighteningly bright, filled with some kind of neurotic and crazy hatred and determination.
She hugged her three-year-old child tightly, her lips trembling as if she was about to say something.
The three-year-old boy was held in his mother's arms. His delicate face still had that indifferent and cold expression, but he was quietly crying. His little hands were tugging at the corner of the woman's clothes. He was so quiet and rational that it was almost cruel: "Mom, why don't you just hand me over."
Child: "You and your father all encountered these misfortunes because of me, right?"
The woman's breathing was stagnant because of the child's tears and words. She pushed the child away and slapped him hard for the first time.
In the dim room filled with choking smoke, the child was hit and his head was turned to one side. The woman opened her beautiful nervous eyes, tears streaming down her face. Her slender hands trembled slightly as she touched the child's swollen face distressedly: "I'm sorry. Mom shouldn't have hit you. But -"
She said loudly and firmly: "Don't say those words, and don't think like that, understand! - For the rest of your life, I won't let you think like that!"
Woman: "Not confronting the perpetrator and only blaming the victim is the most cowardly behavior, understand!"
As she spoke, the woman's eyes curved with tears, and she smiled at him gently and nervously, "Xiao You did nothing wrong, so you must stand up straight, live uprightly in this world, and be happy."
"You have to know that this is the obsession and wish of your father, me, and all your relatives."
The woman was smiling, but she was crying. She stroked the child's tearful face with her bloodstained slender fingers and said softly, "I'm so sorry, mom and dad can't stay with you any longer."
Her voice was morbid, paranoid and gentle: "Xiao You, you must be happy, you must be happy. If you are lucky enough to forget everything, that would be great, just forget everything and live happily; if you are really unlucky and still remember these things, then go and kill those beasts with your own hands and avenge us... After revenge, you must also be happy, baby..."
"Mom and Dad brought you into this world, and they just hope you'll be happy..."
The child just shed tears, his temples were numb with pain, but he still looked at her indifferently and blankly - he didn't understand what happiness was...
The woman's beautiful eyes began to glow like fireflies. The child realized something and opened his eyes wide in shock. The next moment, his body softened and he fell into the woman's arms.
He tried his best to stay awake, but in the end he could only pull the woman's clothes weakly, mumbling in vain: "Mom, don't..."
His eyes gradually dimmed and his brain was slowly losing consciousness.
Until now, he still doesn't understand his parents and relatives.
He had read in a book that the human instinct for survival is above all other wills, and when faced with a survival crisis, humans will seek all means to find ways to survive.
And now, it would be better to just hand him over...
Obviously, if we just make such a simple choice, we can all continue to live a glamorous life...
He didn't understand why his parents and relatives were so stupid, nor did he understand their motives for going against the human instinct to survive in order to protect him...
How stupid! How could you be so stupid...
They made such a stupid choice, and now his heart and body are in pain...
He wanted to cry so much, but his mother had used her mental power on him, and now he could only shed tears powerlessly, blurryly looking at her face that was filled with strong love and morbid neurosis.
He saw that the light in the woman's green eyes became brighter, and she began to speak - he knew that she was using her mental power in a way that was burning her life and soul.
It was as if there was a layer of terrifyingly flexible water waves blocking his ears. He could clearly hear her talking, but he couldn't make out what she was saying at all.
He only knew that her voice was so beautiful that it sounded like some forbidden ballad.
Her eyes began to bleed, her lips began to bleed, her ears began to bleed, and in the end, it seemed as if her entire body was bleeding...
At the last moment of her life, her pupils were filled with blood, yet they shone brightly like blazing flames.
She looked towards the nearby exit with arrogance, disdain and coldness. She knew that the royal family was waiting there - the king was the most hypocritical and loved to show off his so-called compassion.
Now she and her child are the only ones left in her family, a woman and a child. The king will most likely show mercy to them. He will destroy her mental power and take away her child, but will "mercifully" "spare" her life to satisfy the king's own twisted kindness and charity.
As she watched, an extremely arrogant, disdainful and neurotic smile appeared on the woman's face: their family runs the blood of arrogant, rebellious and protective lunatics.
Just as her parents and relatives had chosen, she would never bow her head, never.
Finally everything was done, a satisfied and arrogant smile finally appeared on her face, and her body finally couldn't support herself and fell to the ground. The child in her arms, who was almost unconscious, fell to the ground with her and rolled not far away.
She looked at him with her bloody eyes, stretched out her bloody hand and stroked the child's cheek. Her voice was paranoid and gentle, as if she was casting a curse that would definitely come true: "You must be happy, Xiaoyou..."
As she spoke, she tilted her head and revealed her last sweet smile amidst the blood on the ground: "Also, don't have children with your future lover. I'm sorry, this is the only gap that mom can't fill..."
As she spoke, the woman's hand slid down the child's cheek, leaving a thick bloodstain on the delicate little face. Her beautiful eyes finally went out like a lamp...
The child, who was lying on the ground unable to move, stared at her blankly with his eyes wide open, tears quietly seeping from the corners of his eyes. The bloodstains were so hot that he felt his soul was burning. The precocious child opened his mouth and wanted to cry desperately for the first time, but his throat and vocal cords seemed to be swallowed by the abyss, and he could not make a single sound...
Later, the real Song Wen who was waiting at the exit finally lost his patience, and in the midst of a fire, he pressed the unconscious old housekeeper whose life or death was unknown into the room - he was wary of women's mental power, and did not want to cause excessive casualties and waste the clones that had been over-consumed by other members of the family. He wanted to follow the king's instructions and use the old man who had taken care of her since she was a child and her own life to threaten her to surrender and hand over the child.
However, after entering the room in the basement, Song Wen only saw the dead body of the woman with her eyes open, and the silent child with tears in his eyes, staring at him with a horrible and creepy numb look.
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Lan Yexing suddenly opened his eyes, and the corners of his eyes were frighteningly red.
His face turned pale, and the cold sweat on his forehead wet his hair. His light-colored eyes were filled with shock and pain. Because of the excessive emotional fluctuations, his body instinctively wanted to retch, but he relied on willpower to stay calm.
The dial on the right watch lit up, and the system's voice was filled with deep concern: "Host..."
Lan Yexing suppressed the anger in his body and soothed it with a hoarse but gentle voice: "Don't worry, it's okay, I'm fine."
As he said this, he looked at the injection in his hand with a look of pain that made him almost cry: This injection contained not only the cells of Qiao You's father, but also his mother's, so he could see the memories of both of them...
His fingers, which were tightly gripping the injection box, were trembling slightly, and his knuckles were faintly red due to the force. His eyes were filled with a rare cold anger: How dare they, how dare they...
However, this is not the whole truth.
Those memories were still chaotic and disorganized, and many key nodes were unclear. He still didn't know why Qiao You became the core of all the conspiracies.
Lan Yexing bit his lower lip and thought for a moment, then took out the chip Leon gave him. He looked at it thoughtfully: Will there be more truth in this chip?
This is a chip that needs a computer to read, and his computer is in the dormitory.
Lan Yexing took a deep breath, stood up, and walked out of the classroom. His face was pale and his expression was cold, like a ghost.
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It is already noon, and the streets are full of young students going to the canteens for meals.
In the good autumn weather, the campus was extremely beautiful and elegant. The young students who represented the future of the country also had lively and vigorous energy on their faces. Lan Yexing walked aimlessly in the crowd, but he just felt cold all over.
When passing by the King's Lake, there were still noble students boating on the lake. Lan Yexing looked at the lake expressionlessly, but he only felt that the lake was full of terrifying ghost shadows.
I finally got back to the dormitory, fortunately Jiang Xiaozhou was not there.
Lan Yexing locked the door of the room, took out his laptop, and inserted the chip Leon gave him into the mapped card slot.
An unknown document soon appeared on the computer desktop.
After opening it, after the harsh noise, Leon's voice came out:
"When this document is opened, it means that I am no longer in this world. Lan Yexing, I apologize to you. Even though I hate you so much, I have to entrust you with the two people I care about most - yes, this document is specially prepared for you. A long time ago, I decided to regard you as my back-up plan."
Leon: "I know this is very mean and despicable. So, I apologize to you again. And these data involving a corner of the truth of the world are my thank you gift to you."
"There's no need to beat around the bush, let's get straight to the point. First of all, Lan Yexing, do you know the operating mechanism of the existence called "System" on your right wrist?"
Lan Yexing's pupils shrank, his hand subconsciously and gently covered the dial, he bit his lip and continued listening.
Leon: "My father doesn't allow me to participate in the system-related projects, so I don't know much information. But I can confirm that its operating mechanism is based on a mental power called [precognition]."
Lan Yexing was startled, and suddenly opened his eyes wide: No wonder, the system can know those strategy events in advance and issue tasks in advance...
But, foreknowledge...
Is there such a spiritual power?
If a human possesses such a spiritual power, in a sense, as long as he has enough wisdom and power, he can change the direction of the entire world...
If this kind of spiritual power is controlled by the royal family from generation to generation...
He suddenly remembered the bizarre reason for the Su Lou family's demise - "Because there will be a revolutionary in my family two generations from now!"
Leon: "Lan Yexing, you may have guessed it. This is why the royal family has never been overthrown and can still control the world in secret from generation to generation, no matter how technology develops and how the world changes. You haven't had time to understand it yet. There is only this country in this world."
This was because, as long as any spark of rebellion appeared among the people or the nobles, the royal family could use this spiritual force and the existing power in their hands to completely extinguish it in advance.
The development of the times is indeed unstoppable, but the royal family can use this mental power to control in advance those important humans who will cause great changes. As long as enough people are controlled in advance, they can force the unwanted development of the royal family to stagnate or make an abrupt turn.
For example, the royal family believed that the vast sky and universe would seduce humans to become "disobedient". They believed that the sky would cultivate more dangerous ideas and countless rebellious people who yearn for freedom, and that the technological development in the aerospace field would eventually promote the birth of more influential and threatening weapons. Therefore, they started from countless causal gaps a long time ago and artificially intervened to suppress the development of this field. The development of this field has been blank so far.
The past and the present have changed, and the future will naturally change. The royal family predicts the new future through repeated changes, and then uses its predictive ability to continuously interfere and create a newer future.
In this way, countless causes and effects were superimposed, and the royal family's hands were stained with countless blood that can be seen and invisible to the naked eye. The power of the royal family was like an immeasurable tree, with its roots intertwined and unshakable in the depths of this world. It regarded this world as the private property of the royal family, passed down from generation to generation.
Leon: "You may not understand, for a family or a person, having the power to hold the whole world firmly in their hands is an irresistible temptation. Once a human has tried it, they will never let it go, and they will never want to let it go again for generations. Therefore, the spiritual power of [precognition] is too important to the royal family."
Leon: "But, ironically, every generation of kings can inherit all spiritual powers through some special method, except for [precognition]."
"For the royal family, the power of Precognition is like a sweet curse. It will only be born randomly among all people who have it, and only one will be born. The power of the previous Precognition psychic will continue to decline with age, and he will gradually predict who the next Precognition will be. He can even predict who will give birth to the next Precognition. When the previous Precognition psychic dies, the next one will completely inherit his (her) ability."
"The royal family will use the information given by the previous [Predictor] to lock on to the target in advance, and as soon as the next baby is born, he (she) will be taken away and controlled."
"In order to completely control these people and ensure that they are obedient, the royal family will dissect those babies and only cultivate their brains. Those people will live in the royal family's cultivation tanks for their entire lives and only serve the royal family."
"Once the royal family controls the first Precognitive Person, they will be able to control all Precognitive Persons from generation to generation."
Hearing this, Lan Yexing's breathing stagnated and he bit his lower lip, his heartbeat getting faster and faster: So, the reason why the royal family attacked Qiao You's family was because of this kind of mental power...
However, Qiao You's mental strength was clearly [withdrawn]...
As if knowing Lan Yexing's question, Leon's voice continued in the audio file: "Nineteen years ago, this generation of [precognizers] predicted that the daughter of the great noble Qiao family would give birth to a child with [precognitive] spiritual power with her lover. Therefore, even though he also predicted that the descendants of the Qiao family were no longer so loyal to the royal family, the king did not send anyone to purge the Qiao family immediately. He had to wait for the child to be born, so that year, he only implemented strong secret surveillance on the couple and the entire Qiao family."
"However, for three whole years, the people sent by the king did not see the woman become pregnant, nor did they see the birth of the child. The royal family once suspected that this generation of [predictors] had made a mistake. Later, the king found out that it was the woman from the Qiao family who had deceived the royal family with her mental power."
"The Qiao family's spiritual power is the [Spirit of Words], which can change reality with words to a certain extent. But before that woman, this theoretically too powerful spiritual power was actually so weak that it couldn't even change the most insignificant reality - even the head of the family at that time couldn't even make a seed germinate early. Unlike other families that rely on spiritual power, the Qiao family was originally a big family that relied on wisdom and that kind of desperate madness to gain a foothold among the nobles."
"But in this generation, no one expected that the woman had unparalleled power. She only realized the danger after she gave birth to the child. She did not use the power of [Word Spirit] to make the child disappear, but hid the child's existence. She repeatedly reversed and changed the fact that the monitors had discovered the family of three. At the same time, she was still fighting against the king's eyes - the spiritual power of [Precognition]."
"The spiritual power of [precognition] predicts the reality that is about to happen. The woman then uses her wisdom and spiritual power to create a new reality to fight against and deceive [precognition] itself. She persisted in this way for three whole years, until her body weakened to the point that her spiritual power had a loophole and she was discovered by the royal family."
"In order to get that child, the royal family did something very...despicable and despicable. They were determined to get the next [Precognizer] at all costs. But that woman was too powerful."
"She and her husband and family resisted until the last moment of their lives. Until her death, she fought back fiercely and dealt a fatal blow to the royal family, forcing the royal family to protect her children and do everything possible to make her children happy."
Lan Yexing immediately thought of the beautiful woman’s shining eyes at the last moment and the words he did not hear clearly... Now, is the truth going to be revealed?
He held his breath, bit his lip until it hurt, and continued listening.
Leon: "The woman named Qiao Man burned her life and made the final [Word Spirit] that even my bastard father could not reverse. She transferred the [precognitive] power of Qiao You to Qiao You's next generation, and insisted that the child born by Qiao You and someone in the future, who will have the [precognitive] power, must be born in freedom, in the love between Qiao You and his other half, and in pure happiness. Without this prerequisite, the [precognizer] will never be born."
"She also used that power to let the core members of all the noble families know the secret of the power of [precognition], which greatly checked and weakened my father's rule."
"What an absurd and wonderful, genius and crazy move. From now on, as long as my father, who holds the supreme power and strength of this country, wants to obtain the next [Precognizer] to continue the family's powerful rule with countless causes and effects, he must protect Qiao You and let him get freedom, love and happiness to ensure the birth of the child with [Precognition] ability in the future."
"And those powerful families, after being tempted by the power of [precognition] and becoming greedy, will also protect Qiao You and work hard to make him happy. At the same time, they will also suppress my father's gaze and control over Qiao You."
Leon: "But, Lan Yexing, what exactly is love and happiness? Do you know what that is? Do I know what that is?"
"Will my father, who was born into the most twisted family in the world, know what love and happiness are? Will the heads of the big families who are trapped in the curse of spiritual power and have only a fanatical obsession with power in their lives know what love and happiness are?"
"So, as you can see, they desperately sent out heirs and various clowns to gain Qiao You's love and get the child in the future, but they all failed, and Qiao You did not get happiness. And these young privileged people with spiritual power were also controlled by those old men like my father who had lost their humanity but controlled the world. They were actively or forced to be involved in the endless misfortune called [Love and Happiness] like a curse. Among them, my younger brother is included."
"Perhaps, all of this is under the control of that woman. While protecting her own children, she was desperate for revenge, revenge on my father and my family, and revenge on those big families who stood idly by and even added insult to injury during the fire night, even though they knew they would face the same misfortune as her family in the future."
"She wants those great families who have passively learned of the royal family's deadly secret to share the king's gaze and control with her children. She also wants to use their greed to push their children to share the curse and misfortune of the vicious circle of [precognition] ability with her children."
"What a genius and crazy woman - she is more genius and crazy than her father who is very famous in the big family..."
Lan Yexing listened to all this in shock, his body stiffened and he was unable to move for a long time.
Finally, Leon said, "My brother was also involved. Because of his special mental power, he, he was subjected to human experiments by my father... I don't know what the specific experiment was, I only know that Lin Qian was one of the failed products of that experiment - it was also because of that experiment that I only saw the tip of the iceberg that I had the opportunity to know the existence of something like your right wrist, and the opportunity to recognize your true nature."
"It's just that, until the end, I didn't get to see my brother, and I don't know what his condition is like..."
"I despicably wanted to use Lin Qian to get Qiao You's love, in order to free my brother. Being pushed to the extreme, I also wanted to kill Qiao You to end all this disgusting madness, but I also knew that there was a high probability that I would fail - my father was too superstitious about his secret weapons and the test results analyzed by technology. He always believed that Qiao You was under his control, innocent, soft and kind, but I knew that was not the case. I knew that Qiao You was more terrifying than all the young psychics I had ever seen..."
The usually cold and arrogant Leon pleaded almost madly at this moment: "One day, my father will send my younger brother and sister to that school. I beg you to save them. I am willing to bear all the karma and sins of the family alone and go to hell to atone for my sins. If there are souls in this world, I am willing to use my soul to atone for my sins for eternity."
Leon: "I am willing to give everything to exchange an innocent and pure position for them. Lan Yexing, you just treat them as innocent and reach out to them when necessary. And these secrets and truths are my insignificant sincerity."
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Leon's audio lasted really long, until the sun set, the sunset fell, and now even the stars rose.
The dormitory, which was not lit, was empty and silent, as if it were a coffin or a grave. Lan Yexing sat stiffly in the chair, feeling cold all over, unable to move for a long time.
He needed time to accept and digest all of this. He also had to plan how to protect Qiao You and Xiao Song, and even to find out the obscure truth about his life experience - for example, when did Leon and Yan Min meet him and recognize him...
There are so many things that can and need to be done...
only--
Lan Yexing hugged herself and lay on the table, revealing a cold, white and fragile neck - it was really cold now, and she really wanted to be hugged by that person, hugged tightly... and then kissed.
He really wanted to confirm his existence at this moment through that man's domineering and powerful kiss - even if he was in such a useless and unfit state to meet people, he wanted to touch him, hug him, and kiss him - even if it was just to hear his voice -
With a loud "bang", the floor-to-ceiling window was forcefully opened from the balcony. The curtains swayed for a moment, and the familiar and pleasant scent of lime rushed into the entire room with the wind.
Then, clear and powerful footsteps seemed to sound, and a tall shadow was cast on the ground by the moonlight.
Lan Yexing, who was lying on the table, suddenly felt his breathing stagnate. He suddenly opened his eyes wide and felt his whole body go limp. There was a buzzing sound in his ears: This must be an illusion. How could this be possible...
In the next moment, a slightly cold big hand reached into Lan Yexing's collar, forcefully pulled him up and pulled him into his arms, with one arm domineeringly wrapped around the boy's waist.
In that possessive embrace, Lan Yexing opened her eyes wide, her nose touching the young man's strong chest, and she almost shed tears.
The three-year-old child back then had such a strong chest when he grew up. He was putting his thin lips close to his ear, his voice was low and hoarse, his tone was dangerous and terrifying, but it sounded so good that it was bewitching: "Lan Yexing, what a pity, I can't wait until tomorrow..."
A cold and dangerous smile appeared on Qiao You's face: "I want you to tell me all your secrets right now. Otherwise," he lowered his eyes, his green eyes shining frighteningly, and he murmured: "I really don't know what I will do, baby..."
Lan Yexing pursed his lips, his eyebrows and expression disappeared in his black hair. He thought, in fact, it doesn’t matter what you do to me from the beginning to the end... Do you really know that you are actually allowed to do so?
The next moment, Lan Yexing slightly tiptoed, grabbed the young man's collar tightly, and kissed the young man's lips hard.
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