"I … Of course, I know the existence of those pictures, and I know the significance of my 'creation'!"
Chu Zhixiao almost bit his lips apart. He breathed hard and said, "But … But somebody has to bear everything in order to maintain the most important order!"
"Ha. Order? Hahahaha. What kind of order?"
Holding his abdomen, the Puppet King laughed exaggeratedly. "Is it the order that the 'worker bees' toil in silence deep inside the mines until they are dead? Or is it the order that the 'soldier bees' work without any protection at the bottom floor of the starship that is full of heat, radiation, and venomous gas, with an average lifespan of only fifty years? Or is it the order that the citizens of light here are as ignorant as pigs in a man-made dream, serving as experiment subjects and being studied generation after generation? Even if the so-called 'order' can last for thousands of years, so what? Do you not feel that it is the greatest tragedy for human beings to live in such an order forever? "
"No, it doesn't need thousands of years!"
Chu Zhixiao bellowed, "In the near future, the gods will wake up and bring the ultimate answer to all of us!"
"Haha. Gods. Do you really believe in the gods, Major Chu?"
The Puppet King was even more complacent and disdainful. Sharp brilliance beamed out of his eyes that looked like black holes and pierced into Chu Zhixiao's soul. He shook his short, thick fingers even faster. "No. Your eyes tell me that you don't believe the bulls * it. You are full of confusion, pain, and fury about your birth, but you don't know how to resist or whom to resist. You don't even know what will happen if you succeed in resisting.
"So, you can only lie to yourself and numb yourself with the lies of the Ultimate Benevolence Masters so that your wounded and bleeding soul will be healed. As long as the scabs are healed, it will not be as painful, right?
"That does make sense. Even though you are an expert in the Divinity Transformation Stage and an ultimate weapon known as the 'Goddess of Slaughter', your struggles and resistance are insignificant and hilarious in front of the five Ultimate Benevolence Masters and the national machinery that they control. So many of your brothers and sisters have been killed by them, and you are the only one left. What can you do?
"If resistance is impossible, you can only obey. Also, you have to numb yourself and force yourself to believe that obedience is the only right and even sacred thing. Only in such a way can your soul not be broken apart in pain, and you can live on like a worm or a machine. Am I right?"
"He's absolutely right!"
The mental devil said to Li Yao excitedly, "I think so, too. This King of Puppets — Lu Qingchen — is my soulmate!"
"Stand, what's your stand?"
Li Yao said, "Don't be bewitched by these villains and waver so quickly, okay?"
Chu Zhixiao's face was deathly pale.
Her soul was trembling violently. She could barely condense her physical body in the illusion. Her body was melting and dispersing like smoke.
Her face was full of pain. Thin and long red lines appeared on her snow-white skin, as if her soul had been scarred and broken into countless pieces.
"I'm sorry, but it must be very painful to tear open your wounds that have just scabbed in such a way, right?"
The King of Puppets apologized, "Only in such a way can you face your real self. So, I'm sorry."
"But —"
The red lines around Chu Zhixiao grew denser and denser, and her eyes gradually lost their previous color. She said with a bitter smile, "Since you know that the Ultimate Benevolence Masters are too powerful for mortals to resist, what can you do even if you can 'awaken' me?"
"Please allow me to repeat it again. 'If you learn the truth in the morning, you can die in peace at night'."
The King of Puppets smiled and said, "In the long run, everybody has to die, and every civilization has to be destroyed. The key is how we live and how we leave an ineffaceable mark in the sea of stars.
"It does not matter whether or not the citizens of Light Ming City can escape. Also, it does not matter whether or not you can overthrow the reign of the five Ultimate Benevolence Masters if you can be awakened. What matters is that the fact that you have awakened yourself represents the victory of humanity. That is enough!
"If 'Major' Chu Zhixiao, one of the most distinguished subjects of the 'Devil Child Project' who has been brainwashed and educated for loyalty, can unleash the brilliance of humanity, who can't in the entire Holy League?
"As long as I can extract the waves that burst out of your soul the moment of your awakening, it will be possible to develop a new thing that you call 'brain virus' and spread it to the nerve endings of the entire Holy League. Everybody in the Holy League will feel the feeling of you breaking out of the cage and finding yourself again!
"At that time, even if everybody on the Eternity Light dies, even if you and I die, the spirit of mankind will be passed on forever. The brilliance of humanity will illuminate every corner of this evil nation. Millions of people, millions of our compatriots, will stand up and inherit our last will. They will love as we do, hate as they grit their teeth, fight as fiercely as we do, and live in infinite splendor!
"Such a world is what the future should be like, isn't it?"
Chu Zhixiao was lost for words.
However, the narrow, long red lines all over her body crawled toward her face and her eye sockets, as if they were swallowing her eyeballs.
"Humanity cannot be resisted. Neither the Ultimate Benevolence Masters nor the deities can resist it. Look at your companions."
The King of Puppets said calmly and snapped his fingers again.
In the burning flames of blood around, apart from the pictures that he stole from the database of the 'Devil Child Project' and the pictures that Chu Zhixiao had been through since childhood, there were more than ten new pictures.
The protagonists of the pictures were 'Titan' Yuan Kou and 'Seven Star' Guan Qixing!
However, the Yuan Kou in the picture was no longer the super brawny man with the back of a tiger and the waist of a bear. Instead, he was like a thin and terrified child who was holding his head and crying loudly.
In the other pictures, the little boy was lying on the operating table and receiving all kinds of horrifying modifications.
Even Li Yao was secretly shocked and speechless by the bloody and cruel modifications.
In another scene, Guan Qixing was constantly splitting into seven people who looked exactly the same at first glance. They gritted their teeth and stared at each other.
It was as if he had fallen into a maze filled with mirrors. The surrounding walls, the sky, and the ground were all mirrors. There were even new mirrors within the mirrors that were constantly reflecting, refracting, and diffracting. The seven Guan Qixing became seventy, seven hundred, and seventy thousand Guan Qixing's.
"Ahhhhh! Don't come here! Don't come here! It hurts! It hurts so much!"
The little boy on the operating table screamed in fear and even peed in his pants.
In another picture, Yuan Kou, who was a super brawny man, was also crouching and crying in fear.
Guan Qixing looked at himself in the mirror and fiercely said: "You are not me, I am me. Who the hell am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?!"
He crashed into the mirror abruptly, breaking it into thousands of pieces. However, he only added a new version of himself to every piece.
The confusion in his eyes made him even more confused and almost crazy.
"You invaded their brains at the same time and trapped them in illusions!"
Chu Zhixiao found it hard to believe. "How is it possible? You are —"
"You still don't understand. It's not how strong I am or how skillful I am at creating illusions."
The Puppet King said, "It's them who have mental devils inside their bodies.
"If you truly believed in and were loyal to the Ultimate Benevolence Masters and the gods, it would've been impossible for me to invade your souls however powerful my illusions were.
"It's a pity that you and every member of the Holy League have mental devils inside their bodies. The name of the mental devils is' humanity '.
"'Titan' Yuan Kou was just an ordinary little boy at the beginning. He was even thinner and weaker than his peers. It was only after he went through a refinement that was a hundred times harsher than yours that he became what he is today. This is both his luck and his misfortune. His innate super self-healing ability forced him to endure decades of torment, and he could not enjoy eternal peace like his companions who died early.
"Although he had turned into an iron beast that looked like a black tower from his internal organs to his appearance, deep inside his soul, he was still the little boy who was scared of pain and blood. He was scared that he would be sent back to the operating table to be 'repaired' after every battle. Therefore, he tried his best not to be wounded and blew up all the enemies with the craziest firepower before he bled even one drop of blood!
"That was his mental devil. Can you say that such a mental devil shouldn't exist?
"It was the same for Guan Qixing.
"On the surface, he was an extremely calm specialist who was obsessed with technology. He never cared about anything other than crystal processors and the Spiritual Nexus, including the unsolvable question of who he was exactly.
"However, hehe. How could anybody not be interested in the question of who they were? The calmer he appeared to be, the more tormented he was inside. The question entangled his soul like a venomous boa, splitting his soul into seven parts that hated each other without him knowing. Every part wanted to swallow the other six parts and become the unique 'Guan Qixing'.
"Nobody craves to share the memories, feelings, and body with other people. That's human beings who attach great importance to 'self'!
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