"Are you really Lorissa? The Elven Queen, Lorissa? "
Hao Ren stared into the eyes of the elf 'girl' and asked very seriously.
As soon as Hao Ren asked the question, Lily, who was looking out of the window for something delicious on the street, suddenly turned her head. "Ah? Mr. Landlord, haven't we already confirmed her identity before? "
"All our confirmation was based on what she said," Hao Ren said, leaning back in his seat. "I have been thinking for a long time, and finally decided to ask. Are you really Lorissa?"
The elf frowned slightly, but her expression did not change. It seemed that Hao Ren's sudden question was not enough to shake her mind. In fact, since leaving the Gloom Mountains, the ancient mage emperor had quickly calmed down. It seemed that the impact of the passing of thousands of years had only shaken her for a short while, and soon she returned to the state of the Elven Queen.
"Why do you suddenly ask?" After a few seconds of silence, she asked indifferently.
Seeing Lorissa's reaction, Hao Ren had a knowing look on his face. He relaxed his body and asked, "Do you know the Tree of Life Project?"
"The Tree of Life Project?" Lorissa's expression finally showed a trace of doubt. Apparently, it was the first time she heard the term. "In the legend of the elves, there is a Tree of Life, the first tree in the world. All the elves were born from the leaves of the tree. But the Tree of Life Project … I have never heard of it. "
Vivian seemed to understand what Hao Ren was thinking. She looked at Lorissa with a puzzled expression.
"The Tree of Life Project, in short, is to use the power of the lifeblood and the secret magic of the elves to create an artificial plant infinitely close to the legendary Tree of Life, and then use the 'Branches of Origin' simulated by the Tree of Life to fuse with the tentacles of the First Born, thus sealing the First Born. The plan eventually failed because the artificially simulated 'life of origin' was too different from the real First Born born from the Seed of Origin. The Tree of Life was burned by the recoil energy, "Hao Ren explained. His eyes fell on Lorissa's face." Lorissa was the initiator of the plan. "
The elf blinked her eyes. Her face did not show the panic of being exposed, nor did she show the anxiety of trying to find an excuse. She just looked at Hao Ren for a while with a faint smile, and then nodded noncommittally. "Oh, so that's how it is …"
"So who are you?" Vivian scratched her chin. Faint blood-red runes appeared around her. "Why do you call yourself the Elven Queen Lorissa?"
"I just call myself Lorissa. The title 'Elven Queen' has always been given to me by you," Lorissa said indifferently. "I have never called myself the Elven Queen. Also, the title of Elven Queen is not appropriate — at that time, we addressed the emperor as the Mage Emperor. "
"So your name is really Lorissa?" Lily also came to her senses at this time. She stared at the elf in front of her. "Then what is your relationship with the legendary elven woman … oh, the Mage Emperor?"
"In that case, I'd better be frank. I am her, but I am not her. "Lorissa adjusted the lace edge of her dress and sat up straight as if she had finally decided to tell the truth." From my self-perception, I often confuse myself with the Queen. But from a logical and rational point of view, I know that I am not the real Mage Emperor. I don't know if you can understand this concept, but I am a clone of Lorissa … "
"Oh, I know, a clone, right?" Hao Ren nodded. "Even the memory is cloned?"
"Emotions are also cloned?" It was also Lily's first time seeing a real clone. Her eyes suddenly lit up as if she had found a treasure. "Oh, why are you so careless? The most fearful thing of a clone is the inheritance of emotions and memories!"
Vivian also looked Lorissa up and down. "Well, with your technology back then, it is not unusual for you to create a clone."
Lorissa was about to explain what a clone meant to the group of people in front of her. At this time, she was a little surprised. "Err, you all know?"
The three nodded together. "Yes, we know."
The mercenary's life on Earth was basically addicted to shopping and all kinds of low-IQ variety shows. Her advanced cultural knowledge was limited to how to use the computer to search online stores and find movies, which did not make the time-traveler proud at all. At first, she also had the ambition to be a cross-world trafficker, but this ambition was extinguished by Hao Ren.
"Ah, that … that is easier to explain," Lorissa finally adjusted her expression. "I am a clone of the Elven Mage Emperor Lorissa. I have part of her memory and way of thinking. But in the end, a clone is a clone. I only know what happened before the accident in the laboratory. After that, like the Tree of Life Project you just mentioned, I know nothing."
"A clone with only part of the memory and emotions …" Hao Ren looked at the ancient clone in front of him with some surprise. "And it is a clone of a mage emperor. You guys really played it big back then. Did the mage emperors create their own clones and then use them in biochemical experiments? Did you guys create a lot of such clones? "
"How could it be? It is very difficult to clone a mage emperor." Lorissa shook her head. "I am the only successful clone. Ah, basically a success. My memory and emotions should be unexpected to them. But anyway, one success is better than all failures."
"Why did they have to clone a mage emperor? Isn't it safer and more controllable to clone ordinary people directly? " Hao Ren frowned and asked puzzledly. "And it sounds like they did not initially expect that you would inherit part of the memory and personality of the original. In this case, how dare they let an uncontrollable factor like you participate in the experiment?"
"They cloned the mage emperor because no one could bear the 'grace' except for people of this level. They had tried to clone ordinary people before, but without exception," Lorissa said, pointing to herself. "In fact, I also failed in the end. I had a mental breakdown after I came into contact with the deep information of the oracle. You know what happened after that. As for why they allowed me to participate in the experiment … Haha, it is very simple. Because they had no choice. It was the critical moment of the experiment. They had no time to create a new clone, and I have always been very cooperative. "
"What is going on with the oracle? Is it really the goddess of creation who ordered you to create divine life? What is the so-called 'bearing the grace'? Is your current state the result of bearing the grace? What did you guys do in the lab? "Hao Ren blurted out a series of questions.
Lorissa smiled. "You have a lot of questions … Well, it seems that we still have a little time. I can tell you from the beginning. You said that you have been investigating the deicidal incident 10,000 years ago. Do you know what we thought at the beginning? "
"You?"
"The mage emperors, and people like me who 'participated' in the experiment," Lorissa said with a self-deprecating smile. "From the beginning to the end, we did not know that someone was conspiring to usurp the divine power. The mage emperors on this planet knew nothing about what happened in the 'divine kingdom' in the distant universe. All our sources of information were the oracles we heard during the sacrificial prayers. This thin connection made it difficult for us to grasp the truth. I'm not even sure when the problem began because my memory in this regard came from Lorissa, and the inheritance was incomplete. All I can remember is a fragment. One day, at the grandest ceremony, with four mage emperors present, the will of the goddess came to the mortal world. She said that the time of the mortal world's new life was coming. According to a plan that was set at the beginning, when the mortal mind grew to a certain level, we would be qualified to share the secret of the creation of life with the goddess. "
"Is it to study the demon hunters … I mean the super life that you created?" Hao Ren raised his eyebrows, feeling that he was getting closer to the truth. "And you believed it? Was it really the will of the goddess of creation that came? "
"Of course we believe, because the will of the Goddess of Creation is supreme, and her mighty power cannot be faked. We are all the Goddess' people, and when she descended, everyone who stood in front of her could feel the agitation from the depths of their souls. This is a natural phenomenon that arose spontaneously. You do not belong to this world, so you cannot understand this. "
"That is to say, it was the goddess of creation who came?" Lily's eyes widened. "Then why did you yell that the oracle was fake?"
"I … don't know," Lorissa said with a blank expression for the first time. "From the memory I inherited from the original body, I can be sure that it was the power of the goddess that came. But when the power of the oracle was injected into my body, I found that there was a shadow of madness and darkness hidden in the deepest part of the power. It was something evil in disguise. But I had no time to warn others because when the power was injected into my body, my perception of the outside world was blocked. I tried to break free from its grip on my soul, but this resistance led to the loss of control of the energy. You know what it eventually led to. "
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