Zhou Xiuyun opened her arms delightedly, as if she were going to embrace all the young people.
If one ignored the content of her words and only looked at her benevolent expression and the milky white Holy Light emitted from her back, it really did seem like she was going to bestow a great "gospel" to the teenagers.
However, the "gospel" made all the young people shudder and burst into fury.
"That's … That's hilarious!"
Chu Zhiyun finally couldn't hold it back anymore. She burst into tears and shouted, "What kind of 'blessing' is this? Even the devil in the deepest level of hell wouldn't be so sordid and evil! And you call us' heretics'? No, we only want to know the real face of the Ultimate Benevolence Masters and hear the truth of the gods in person. I didn't know that your real face was like this!
"In my opinion, you are the heretics. You are the demons. You are the ones who have betrayed the gods. You are the ones who use the gods' banners to do evil deeds. Don't even think about getting my cooperation. I —"
The young girl struggled with all her might. The shackles on her hands and feet rattled, and the lightning streaks flashed in an instant. The electric arcs once again flowed through her entire body, fiercely whipping her delicate skin. Her tears turned into sticky blood red, and her following words also turned into whimpers.
"If you are not a heretic, why don't you take a minor test?"
Faced with Chu Zhiyun's curse, Zhou Xiuyun said casually, "It's a simple logic. If you really believe in the gods and believe that everything is the arrangement of the gods, you should believe that what is happening right now is also a test of the gods for you. You should embrace the test peacefully and even joyfully and test your devotion to the gods with the most extreme pain.
"You should believe that the stricter, more painful, and longer the test of the gods for you, the more important, sacred, and critical the mission that the gods are going to entrust to you is.
"However, look at yourself. Look at how you are jumping up and down and roaring thunderously. You don't have the courage to face the test of the gods at all! If you are not a heretic, then what are you? "
"Bullshit!"
Chu Zhiyun was so infuriated that she laughed. "I will never believe your bullsh * t again. If it were a normal test, I would've fought to the end even if I were faced with the iron torrents of the Imperium on a battlefield! But right now, you are going to obliterate my feelings, memories, and thoughts. You are even going to slice my brain for studies. Who will agree to such an absurd and crazy 'test'? If it were you, would you still be able to maintain your composure and devotion to the gods under such circumstances? "
"Yes, I know you don't believe me, but you don't need to say 'if it was me'. I have indeed been through the same test as you."
Zhou Xiuyun's lips curled into a perfect arc as she said calmly, "My … good sister."
"What?"
Chu Zhiyun was absent-minded for a moment. Thousands of words were stuck in her throat. Flabbergasted, she said, "You, what did you say?"
"I have been through all the pain and sufferings that you are about to go through — in an intensity ten times greater than yours," Zhou Xiuyun said.
"As a matter of fact, I am the first-generation 'Devil Child'. At that time, the name 'Devil Child Project' did not even exist yet. The researchers at that time all called me and my eight hundred and forty-seven brothers and sisters' mutants'.
"I was born more than a hundred years ago, in the years when 'heresy' was most rampant. At that time, even the most pious priests and the most brilliant brain specialists did not have any effective methods or abundant data when it came to studying 'Mutants' or 'Devil Child.' They could only … carry out simple and crude experiments again and again, cutting, assembling, fusing, tearing apart, corrupting, and repairing our brains. Believe me, compared to those experiment projects, everything you just saw pales in comparison to those experiments.
"During the long and painful experiments, none of my hundreds of brothers and sisters could bear it. No matter how many recovery drugs were injected into their brains, their souls still withered and perished one after another.
"I was the only one who never forgot the destiny that the gods granted me even in the darkest and most painful moments. Even when my brain was soaked in the black swamp at the bottom of the black abyss, I could still vaguely see a holy light shining down from the midair and comforting my cerebral cortex and soul softly.
"With the protection of the gods, I persisted in the long experiments for decades and was completely 'cured'. Also, a 'prolonged illness turned into a good doctor'. The talents in the deepest part of my brain were activated, and I became one of the most distinguished brain specialists in the Holy League and the director of the 'Devil Child Project'.
"I hope that my story can give some comfort and encouragement to the 'children of heresy' who are lost in the swirls of darkness. Perhaps, as long as you never abandon your faith in the gods, you can be completely 'cured' like me and make greater contributions in your new posts.
"Of course, it's also possible that I haven't been cured yet. Making me the director of the 'Devil Child Project' is also part of the tests and experiments. It's an 'ultimate test' for me. But does it matter whether or not I'm cured? I know that I'm contributing to the harmony and order of the gods, the people, and the universe in a certain way. That's enough. My heart is more peaceful than ever, and I'm more than willing to endure everything that is about to come. "
"You … You …"
Chu Zhiyun stepped back and grabbed Thangka's hand subconsciously, but her hands were bound tightly and could not be pulled away at all.
She was going to say that Zhou Xiuyun had completely lost her mind, but she swallowed the words when they were on the tip of her tongue, because it was a waste of energy to roar at a lunatic.
She simply arched her back, breathed heavily, and mumbled, "What did you call me just now? Did you call me 'sister'?"
"Yes. Judging from the meaningless blood relationship, we share the same maternal gene provider, which means we share the same mother."
Zhou Xiuyun said casually, "Our mother was the most evil 'heresy' in the Holy League more than a hundred years ago. She was even the most dangerous, evil, and confusing 'heresy' since the establishment of the Holy League a thousand years ago. Although she was annihilated by divine punishment more than a hundred years ago, her legacy is still corrupting the body of the Holy League to this day. The heresy organization that she established on her own is even showing signs of resurgence.
"The 'Devil Child Project' was created to study her thinking and behavior at the beginning. For a hundred years, we tried to combine her genes with all kinds of normal or dangerous genes and raised brand-new 'Devil Children' generation after generation. I was the first generation, and you were already the twenty-ninth generation, the generation that was very close to her.
"During the process of creating you, we tried our best to eliminate the influence of the paternal genes and only kept the genetic features of the mother. As a result, you are more than 97% similar to her. From a certain point of view, you are not only her daughter but also her.
"Therefore, we began to observe you a long time ago and were surprised by your unbelievable abilities. We knew that you boasted the ability to freely control your brainwaves and secretion of hormones. You could also simulate the most indifferent brainwave models with your remarkable computational ability, forming a vivid 'camouflage'. On the surface, you were born to be indifferent and emotionless, no different from other people of the Holy League. But in fact, you were a passionate and self-righteous person. You were born to not believe in authority or anything that other people told you. You had a small world of your own, and you were … your own god!
"This is a genetic defect. It is even the 'Awakening Bomb' that the extraterrestrial devils implanted into human beings in the primeval age. It was exactly with such evil genes that the extraterrestrial devils instigated the Nuwa Clan and human beings to betray the Pangu Alliance. However, the 'genetic bomb' inside your body did not explode until hundreds of thousands of years later.
"Look, we know everything. Right now, we have precisely located the genetic defect. The next step is to find a way to cure the genetic defect, or to filter out and destroy all the people who carry such a genetic defect. Then, the possibility of heresy will be completely eliminated. This is the sacred mission on your shoulders, and it is also the way for the two of us to atone for our poor mother who has been corrupted by extraterrestrial devils and can't extricate herself from the abyss of hell forever.
"Do you have any other questions, my sister?"
"You —"
Chu Zhiyun's heart was in a mess. Her teeth that had just been frozen into ice finally hit each other in cracking noises.
Her pale lips shivered for a long time before she finally asked, "I want to know what's the relationship between Little Tiantian and you. Is she really your daughter? Also, we clearly triggered the roadside bombs by accident and fell into the sewers. We were washed all the way to the south of the city. Even we didn't know where we were. How did you locate us so quickly? "
"Little Tiantian is indeed my 'daughter', but such an identity is meaningless," Zhou Xiuyun said coldly.
"The so-called 'mother-daughter bond' is nothing more than the remnants of animal instincts in our bodies. In order to devote ourselves to the sacred mission, we should cut it off without any hesitation. For me, Little Tiantian is nothing more than a test subject for the 'Devil Child Project'. She is even a tool to test whether or not I have 'recovered'.
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