A thought
"Oh, stop pretending. Cheating is cheating." Liu Xia interrupted Bai Fei's self-admiration rudely. "Once a person dies, they are dead. No matter how much you regret, it cannot erase this sin."
Hearing the words left behind, Bai Fei's gentle voice sounded again, with a hint of unspeakable frustration in her tone: "You are right, the sin has been committed and cannot be changed, but at least you are still alive."
Bai Fei's holographic projection reappeared and stood beside Liu Xia. She extended her fingers and gently stroked Liu Xia's cheek: "You have inherited Xiao Xia's memories, which means you are the continuation of her life."
Liu Xia dodged her touch in disgust and sneered, "That's just your wishful thinking. Tell me, what is your purpose in calling me here? Hao Feiyang has wanted to bring me here since the first time he saw me. It seems that this is also an idea you implanted in him."
Bai Fei was not angry because of Liu Xia's avoidance. She still smiled gently, lowered her arms and looked at Liu Xia, as if she had been separated from many human emotions and did not feel embarrassed at all.
"Yes, you and Xiao Xia are indeed somewhat different. She is simpler and cuter than you, and her personality is not as rational and unkind as yours."
"It's just that you can never escape Xiao Xia's shadow. After all, you are her copy. You are the same at heart, straightforward, brave, and full of justice."
"Even if you don't want to admit it, you share the same blood and genes. Ultimately, you are her. This is a fact, and you can't deny it even if you don't want to."
Bai Fei's voice was very soft, but it was like a sharp ice spike, piercing straight into Liu Xia's temples.
"This base was prepared by the group before the nuclear war. It was designed to ensure the survival of the top leaders. It stores a lot of knowledge and seed materials from the old world, which you will need to lead the survivors to rebuild a new home."
"There are only three such bases on the entire Blue Star. The other two have been destroyed for various reasons over the past three hundred years."
When she said this, Bai Fei slowly straightened her slender body. The transparent floor beneath her feet disintegrated and rose. White metal and unknown tissues intertwined and squirmed, eventually holding up two two-meter-high culture chambers.
In one of the transparent liquids, a complete human brain was quietly suspended, with pale pink nerve bundles stretching out like seaweed.
It was the incubator that housed Bai Fei's brain.
The other one was the incubator that held the unconscious Song Xuan. His white shirt was floating in the air due to the transparent liquid, which made his already good figure look even more outstanding.
Liu Xia stood up suddenly, his heartbeat even faster. His eyes wandered between the two cultivation chambers in surprise, and finally stopped at Bai Fei: "Wait, what do you want to do?"
Bai Fei still looked gently at Liu Xia, who was wary and suspicious, and appeared in front of the incubator carrying his brain. "This is my purpose. Over three hundred years, I have lived too long. If you hate me, then destroy this incubator for revenge. If you don't hate me, please also destroy this incubator."
Liu Xia's heart suddenly tightened. It was an indescribable complex feeling. Hatred? To some extent, yes.
But is this hatred enough to support me in killing Bai Fei?
It seems a little unclear.
Liu Xia suppressed his unspeakable emotion and said calmly, "If you're tired of living, why don't you let those robots destroy this incubator? Why must I do it?"
Bai Fei did not hide this reason. Her voice was calm, as if stating a simple fact: "These robots do not have the ability to destroy the incubator. Only you can break it."
She stroked the white culture chamber. The surface of the chamber was covered with patterns of metal and biological tissue, like a layer of living armor.
This thing is more like a combination of the wasteland world and the real world. Obviously, the "Mother Goddess" is also evolving.
"These robots have been set up with a protection protocol by the Mother Goddess. If they get close, they will be repelled."
Liu Xia keenly grasped the ambiguity in her words: "Aren't you the 'Mother Goddess' yourself? Don't you think this statement is a bit inconsistent?"
Bai Fei suddenly grabbed Liu Xia's hand, a hint of panic rarely showing on her usually calm and gentle expression. "The 'Mother Goddess' is about to awaken. Only your tearing power can break this incubator, otherwise the world will plunge into war once again!"
At this moment, Bai Fei suddenly had a strange reaction, his expression was sometimes panicked and sometimes calm, as if there were two personalities fighting in one body.
"Could it be the fusion of the AI source code and Bai Fei's personality?" Liu Xia said to himself as he looked at Bai Fei's abnormal behavior.
"What did you say?" Bai Fei asked suddenly with a calm look.
Compared to her previous emotional confusion, in just a few tens of seconds, she now looks much more stable.
Liu Xia knew that this was probably a sign that the AI source code was gradually regaining control.
After confirming what he was thinking, Liu Xia stopped thinking and suddenly took a few steps forward and placed his hands on the incubator. The biological tissues on the incubator suddenly seemed to come alive and quickly rolled towards Liu Xia's hands.
"What do you want to do?"
Bai Fei… or more precisely, the holographic projection of the "Mother Goddess" flashed beside Liu Xia. Just as she was about to do something, she stopped again, her expression twisted and struggling as she said, "Go ahead, while I can still suppress her."
Liu Xia held onto the cabin wall with his hands clenched, looked at Bai Fei looking at him tenderly for the last time, closed his eyes gently, took a deep breath and exhaled slowly.
"Crack! Crackle..."
The incubator was torn apart by an invisible force, and transparent liquid wrapped in the broken biological tissue gushed out, but Bai Fei's brain withered and shriveled rapidly as if it were dehydrated.
Bai Fei's holographic body began to become transparent, dispersing into tiny blue dots of light: "Thank you, Xiao Xia."
"it's all over."
The entire base suddenly trembled slightly, but the vibration subsided in less than ten seconds, as if nothing had ever happened.
Liu Xia looked down at her cracked palms, and an unprecedented force surged from her spine to the top of her head. She didn't hear any system prompts or anything like that, but she knew that she had awakened some kind of ability.
The ability to add a thought to the mind of any creature.
Everything in all areas of this base is clearly imprinted in her mind, and she can even operate it according to her thoughts, just like now.
The incubator that held Song Xuan seemed to be controlled by some force and began to automatically leak the transparent liquid inside. Then the alloys on the cabin walls melted like wax, turning into silver liquid streams that obediently seeped into the cracks in the floor.
Without the support of the incubator, the soaked Song Xuan fell forward, and was caught by Liu Xia who was standing nearby, holding him in her arms, as gently as if she were embracing a lover.
Liu Xia hugged Song Xuan and sat on the white metal floor, gently closing her eyes. She could clearly perceive everything around her.
The thought penetrated the metal base and continued to extend deep into the sea.
Soon, she saw Ding Ruotong and He Tianlin on the beach looking at the sea anxiously, as well as Hao Feiyang who was stuffed back into the trunk again.
Next, there were the mutant beasts from the deeply polluted areas, fighting with each other in the garbage area, hunching over and picking up food to fill their stomachs, and every one of those struggling scavengers.
After a while, the scene of Qi Yao leading a large number of guards and hunters to attack the hive came into his mind. The Hyena Gang was resisting the war fiercely. Xue Long was commanding the hyena group with a wild laugh behind the bunker. There were already many corpses lying outside the hive, including mutant beasts and humans.
It seemed that nothing could block her "sight", and she could even hear the dull sound of bullets piercing through her body, no matter how far away they were.
Liu Xia added an idea to everyone's mind.
"Stop the war and build our home together."
Suddenly, all the people and mutant beasts who were fighting stopped, as if they suddenly realized that war and fighting were extremely disgusting things.
Those who were originally fighting for food stopped, and those who had supplies also spontaneously provided help to the hungry people.
Kindness spread like invisible ripples to the people of the entire wasteland world, and no one noticed anything unusual.
Then, countless pieces of information flooded into his consciousness like a torrent. Liu Xia suddenly covered his stinging eyes, and tears and blood seeped out from between his fingers.
Liu Xia fainted at that moment, and Song Xuan, who had woken up, hugged her to prevent the back of her head from hitting the metal floor directly, which would have been a not-so-pleasant intimate contact.
Song Xuan's blood-stained hands were tightly wrapped around her back, his body trembling slightly unconsciously, as if he was afraid of losing his most precious treasure again.
When Liu Xia regained consciousness, she felt her body sinking into a warm and soft white mattress. The comfortable touch made her realize that this was definitely not something she could feel in the wasteland world.
She knew that her consciousness had returned to the real world again.
No one knows why Liu Xia knew that after he suddenly woke up, he found out that the Whale Fall Multinational Corporation had built a base somewhere on the seabed where there were few people, and was trying to remove the brain of a female college student for research.
The operation was carried out with extremely high confidentiality and speed. Before the person in charge of the group's China region could react, the base had already been secretly occupied by China.
Unfortunately, the female college student named Bai Fei had already suffered damage to all her functions and died soon after. Her father was also confirmed to be a middle or senior level cadre of the Whale Fall Group and the instigator of the car accident that killed Liu Xia's parents.
The state secretly detained him and tried him for multiple crimes including treason and murder, awaiting the death penalty.
After the operation, Liu Xia fell into a coma again.
Originally, Liu Xia’s direct supervisor thought that this was just another short coma and she would wake up in a few days.
Unfortunately, after a few days and months, Liu Xia's hibernation lasted for a very long time and he never woke up again.
Three years later, the world-class nuclear explosion did not come.
Liu Xia's existence was classified as a top national secret. Her body was always supplied with nutrient solution and hidden in a place with the highest security level.
…
Everything in the wasteland gradually returned to normal after Liu Xia regained consciousness. Everyone became united and friendly because of the implanted idea.
Liu Xia led everyone to open the supplies hidden in the base, as well as the knowledge system belonging to the old world.
No more fighting for territory, no more mechanical ascension, no more scrambling for resources.
No more fighting.
These four short words were like a divine oracle, bringing unprecedented peace to this ravaged land.
Liu Xia stood on the high platform of the expanded base, looking down at the people below who were happily building their home together. Song Xuan beside her put his arm around her shoulders affectionately.
It was as if the nuclear explosion had never happened.
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