Deity Investigation Report

Chapter 358 Miss Ai

Shortsighted and cowardly...

Is this the evaluation given to you by the person who gave birth to you in your first formal conversation?

Han Su knew this wasn't the time to ponder these questions, but his thoughts still jumped around uncontrollably.

He said he was short-sighted, so what is foresight in his eyes?
He said he was cowardly, so what is the opposite of cowardice in his eyes?
He pushed his wife and son into his plan, making them pawns to be manipulated at will.
This was a direct and piercing interrogation, a kind of questioning that could only come between blood relatives. Han Su had always thought he was different.

For example, in the 01 Life Timeline, Bai Shixing was driven to madness by his father, but he remained calm when facing Ms. Shen. He even believed that he was born unburdened by the so-called kinship between parents and could calmly face everything.

It was only then that he seemed to realize that he was not indifferent, but rather immune.

Ultimately, there was still some resentment!

"There's a way, there definitely will be..."

Almost instinctively, Han Su gritted his teeth and banished these pointless emotions from his mind. He quickly sensed the feedback from his mental power and analyzed why the No. 01 mechanical fragment could not be activated.

But the more he searched, the more his heart sank uncontrollably. He vaguely guessed why that man was able to stop the arrival of the shimmering light.

Each mechanical fragment seems to possess a coded incantation that can be remotely activated and controlled.

Without his own power, he could only forcefully activate and drive any mechanical fragment through mental power.

Just now, in the struggle for the core of mechanical fragment 04, I relied on my mental power to fight against the cipher spells of the Guardians and finally lifted the time-space freeze of the city. But I didn't expect that I would fail in activating mechanical fragment 01.

A crushing defeat.

The other party had already locked onto the mechanical fragment without even realizing it.

And so, another question suddenly jumped into his mind...

Does the ability to directly activate mechanical fragments with mental power belong to me, or was it given to me by someone else?

Thinking of the man's words, "I will tie power to you," his heart felt as if it had sunk into an abyss.

"Heh, you think you're special?"

Just as this invisible despair surged up, almost overwhelming him, Han Su suddenly heard a cold laugh. He looked up abruptly and saw his own reflection in the huge floor-to-ceiling window opposite him, carrying a black briefcase, coldly watching him with a mocking smile:
Do you think you're the absolute center of this world?

"Because you are special, you were chosen by Blink, which is why you were able to easily obtain these mechanical fragments?"

"Then, is there any possibility..."

The voice of the person in the mirror had a slightly eerie quality, whispering, "You weren't chosen by the Flash, but by some crazy, ambitious person."

"You were taken to the castle and kidnapped by Blink. And those mechanical fragments weren't something you could easily get your hands on. Someone painstakingly planned and delivered them to you one by one."

"You're smug, thinking you're gaining the upper hand step by step, but in reality, in the eyes of the person who's arranging all this, you're already too slow, so slow that he's getting impatient..."

"In the end, because you weren't obedient enough, you finally angered him, and he didn't want to give you another chance..."

"..."

"you……"

Looking at his reflection in the mirror, Han Su trembled slightly.

At this moment, I still maintained my independent consciousness, so I knew who was in the mirror.

emperor!

I just forcibly awakened the emperor through the fishermen's chant, with the aim of using his special abilities to lift the time-space freeze in Zero City and give Miss Ai the ability to resist.

In fact, he had done it, and the consciousness he had awakened remained calm, simply observing everything that happened around him before finally speaking.

Looking at his cold face, Han Su was surprisingly calm and asked in a deep voice, "What do you know?"

"I don't know more than you, because I'm a parasite in your brain."

The reflection, or rather the emperor, sighed softly: "I am merely a consciousness, so the memory hard drive I can access is the memory storage area in your mind."

"Everything I know is something you have personally experienced, or something that someone gave to you through some kind of mysterious ritual. However, my consciousness is more advanced than yours, so I can connect things that you haven't noticed."

"For example, right now, you don't need to feel despair. The No. 01 mechanical fragment has indeed been remotely locked by him. He had already locked it when you arrived in Zero City."

“However, I can see how he locked on, so I also have a way to bypass his lock, forcibly activate Mechanical Fragment 01, and send everyone back to the Void Palace!”

"...Oh, right, you usually call it a castle!"

"Heh heh, that's the emperor's tomb, the prison of the gods, and the source of everything!"

"..."

Han Su immediately asked the crucial question: "So, was it me who returned to the castle?"

Does that matter?

The reflection in the window began to laugh: "From the moment you prepared to ascend to the throne, you knew this day would come, didn't you?"

"This world is very generous to people. There are two ways to achieve any goal. For example, if you want my authority, you either need to collect the blood of the twelve knights as a sacrifice, or, like now, sacrifice yourself to me."

"Now, the time to make a choice has come: will you choose me, or will you choose to be a guinea pig and leave yourself to him?"

"..."

"I……"

Han Su listened to these light-hearted words, yet each word felt as heavy as a mountain. It was as if an unprecedented choice had appeared before him without warning.

But when faced with something too heavy, he felt a sense of ease, and he couldn't help but smile: "If you were living inside my brain, why would you need to ask me for this so-called answer?"

Han Su, standing inside the floor-to-ceiling window, seemed to instantly lose his smile, looking at him coldly.

Han Su, however, appeared indifferent, but suddenly asked a strange question: "If I gave it to you, what would you do? Who would you help?"

"help?"

When faced with this question, the emperor suddenly laughed and shook his head, saying, "I won't take sides!"

"They must all die!"

"You've already sensed a lot of things through the contamination of that machine, haven't you?"

"This so-called reconstruction of civilization was a loan I took out from the Doomsday Machine. In the end, everyone else enjoyed everything, while I was left to bear the burden of the loan alone. So when I had a choice, of course I packed everything up and returned it all..."

"Of course, one thing is certain: that ambitious man outside will become extremely desperate because of this..."

"..."

The word "despair" seemed to convince Han Su instantly.

This was what he wanted; the expressions on those people's faces made him feel good.

He shifted his gaze from the shadows cast by the floor-to-ceiling window to the angry yet powerless people around him.

Lu Xiaoba, who was cursing and trying to rush out again and again, was being held in the arms of the old vampire. Lu Neng, whose eyes were rolling around, realized that his strength was indeed insufficient, so he simply sat on the sofa and slowly drank a glass of wine.

There was also Li Manman, pale-faced and staring blankly at herself, and Rong Qiyue, who had hidden under the table.

Filled with inexplicable irritation, he suddenly looked up sharply, pointed at the man outside, and answered the question that Lü Xiaoba had asked when he had just suffered: "That man... is my father, his name is Han Changming!"

"He is the architect of the divine descent plan and the mastermind behind the kidnapping incidents we've experienced!"

"He is the root of all evil!"

"so……"

He gritted his teeth and shouted, "You must remember him!"

"If I ever have the chance to see him again, I must kill him by any means necessary, without any mercy."

"No matter what path he takes in life, no matter his identity or status, he must be killed..."

"Even if it means traversing endless time and space, I must kill him..."

"..."

Lu Neng, Lü Xiaoba, and Guo Litou were all shocked by his words and felt a sense of foreboding.

Not far from Han Su, Li Manman was slightly startled. Suddenly, she understood what Han Su had said to her earlier about the fortunes of the friends in the castle.

The unfortunate ones are those whose parents have been kidnapped; the fathers are anxious and want to find them. But some are unlucky in fact, having been sent to prison by their own parents...

For example, the protein in the product "倒霉蛋白世醒".

However, Han Su also said that he was even a little bit more unlucky than Bai Shixing.

That's because his father orchestrated the kidnapping; he was the child of a criminal and also the kidnapped person.

These issues may not seem so important to others, after all, everyone inside and outside the castle has been through thick and thin and has long been numb to them.

But in this situation, Li Manman suddenly felt a powerful shock, the anger and despair on Han Su's face instantly imprinted in her mind. "He'll kill me even if it means traversing endless time and space..."

Outside Zero City, Dr. Han also heard Han Su's voice and paused slightly in his actions.

He looked at Han Su's angry eyes in the party with some surprise.

For some reason, he felt a little scared.

But he wasn't going to change any plans; all that surfaced in his mind was a faint sense of regret: "There's nothing I can do..."

"If we don't do it this way, what other way can we win..."

"..."

"..."

At the Zero City party, after Han Su finished speaking, he suddenly turned around and looked at the figure reflected in the floor-to-ceiling window. At this moment, he did not even feel the struggle and pain, and it seemed that making this decision was unusually easy.

He didn't look back at anyone again, and strode towards the mirror, when suddenly he heard a voice shouting, "You can't do that!"

The sound was so forceful that Han Su's steps faltered slightly.

It was Li Manman who spoke. She spoke with great difficulty, her eyes filled with complex emotions and a hint of tears as she looked at Han Su: "Just now, I saw those life lines you mentioned. I saw my father and mother on that life line..."

"you……"

Han Su didn't expect to face this problem at this time. Did Li Manman remember?
She clearly wasn't awakened by herself...

wrong!

A thought suddenly flashed through his mind, and he realized the key point: just now at this party, first mechanical fragment No. 03, then mechanical fragment No. 04, and even the state in which mechanical fragment No. 01 was remotely locked was also a kind of "activated" state.

Therefore, it was unavoidable for Li Manman, who was closest to her, to come into contact with the mechanical fragments; in fact, she had been constantly subjected to the "contamination" of the mechanical fragments.

And she is a pale authority.

The pale authority is both to dissolve and to integrate everything; it is also the constitution most easily corrupted.

Therefore, in this unexpected situation, she had actually been awakened and had already processed everything.

"I remember now..."

Li Manman's voice trembled as she spoke urgently, "I not only remembered Flash, but I also saw you saving me time and time again. I saw you struggling in the castle, being kidnapped again and again, and I saw you investigating and seeking revenge on that life's path..."

How could she see so much?

Han Su looked at her reddened eyes and understood.

In order to let others know about Miss Ai's background, he had imprinted the memories into his mind and then released them.

Others could only sense Miss Ai's secret, but she sensed much more through her pale power.

"So, you can understand my choice, right?"

This unexpected change made Han Su smile wryly. All along, whether facing Lu Neng, Rong Qiyue, or even Xu Ji and Wei Lan, there were always some things he couldn't say.

These friends, who also recalled the kidnapping case at the castle, were also separated from each other by a layer of distance. However, during this unexpected party, someone who knew everything appeared.

He shook his head slightly and said softly to Li Manman, "This is nothing serious."

"My struggle all this time has been simply to survive."

“But a thought once told me that sometimes, when facing a war with a huge disparity in strength, winning or losing is not what we should be most concerned about; the courage to face our opponents is. So, I acknowledged that this was a war and decided to join it.”

“In this war, death is inevitable, including for me, or rather, it is my destiny.”

"But there's only one thing I absolutely cannot let my guard down in the face of this war, and that is... I can lose, but they cannot win!"

"..."

I understand you!

Li Manman spoke loudly: "I understand more than you can imagine!"

The way she looked at Han Su revealed a hint of sympathy and anxiety that Han Su himself was unaware of: "So, you can't do this."

"Because we have other ways..."

"..."

"what?"

This time, it was Han Su's turn to be puzzled. He felt that Li Manman was acting very strangely.

Most importantly, there was a sense of...familiarity in her eyes.

He had only just met her as an adult, and apart from this party they attended together, they had no other interaction.

But why this feeling of familiarity...?

Li Manman noticed Han Su's confused look and forced a smile: "We are all kidnapped."

"In this war, everyone is yearning for victory..."

"..."

The next moment, before Han Su could react, she suddenly stood up, gently raised her hand, palm down, and lightly pressed it down. Her voice carried a mysterious heaviness, and a contradictory sense of relief that followed the decision:
"I am the world!"

"..."

This is an extremely simple incantation.

But as the incantation was recited, Han Su suddenly felt her spiritual power permeate out, filling the world with a white, misty feeling.

A powerful force, deeply hidden within her, was released from all suppression and grew instantly, like a seed of the World Tree that, after absorbing enough nutrients, suddenly shot straight into the sky.

pale!

The force was so strong that it even broke through the dome of the banquet hall.

Even outside Zero City, Dr. Han, the Thirty-Six Red-Robed High Priests, and the old man in the Zhongshan suit all saw it.

"Is heirs of the Pale?"

The first reaction was astonishment, followed by concern from the elderly man in the Zhongshan suit: "Has that girl gone mad?"

What makes the survivor squad special is that each of them is a wild heir, which makes the guardians of the world unable to underestimate them, because each heir has a god sealed inside their body. However, the price of releasing this god is extremely high.

Their own consciousness will be the first to be annihilated!
Did the heir inside see no chance of winning and decide to sacrifice himself?

but……

The old man in the Zhongshan suit couldn't understand this the most. In the current situation, even if a god really appeared, so what?

Only Chao Xiaobei, who was being attacked nearby, saw this pale face and suddenly realized something.

His expression suddenly changed drastically, and he rushed towards Zero City in a hurry.

……

……

"What are you doing, you..."

During the party, Han Su also noticed the change in Li Manman and suddenly felt anxious. He had already made a decision, so what was Li Manman planning to do?
He could even feel that as that endless pale power awakened, Li Manman's own consciousness became extremely fragile and could disappear at any moment. He subconsciously ran forward a few steps, but suddenly felt a gentle power in front of him.

This power was like a hand that blocked him. The next moment, he suddenly saw this endless pale power spread into the entire city and even to the abyss. The powerful divine power resisted the abyss and also resisted Miss Ai's torrent of consciousness.

In this confrontation, Li Manman's fragile consciousness was preserved.

Then, this wisp of consciousness, suddenly aided by the penetrating and intrusive properties of the pale power, flowed towards a certain place.

That was a gap in Miss Ai's body, the surgical wound that Dr. Han was currently performing.

Through this wound, Li Manman entered Miss Ai's hidden core, triggering a massive upheaval in the mechanical data stream. Her voice was gentle and relaxed: "I know who this Miss Ai you're talking about is..."

“Mr. Han Su, I understand the World-Destroying Machine better than you do. Its very nature dictates that it has always been cold and insane, incapable of possessing the kind of humanity you describe…”

"...Unless we give it to her!"

"..."

"you……"

Feeling the immense changes deep within the abyss, the intense sense of familiarity finally became tangible at this moment.

At that moment, Han Su felt a chill run down his spine: "Miss Ai, it was actually... you?"

(End of this chapter)