hsntnovel Chapter 327 It's Time
Chapter 327 It's Time
In the pure white base, Jiang Xingni relied on his memory and the guidance in his eyes to wander around for a long time before finally finding the fireball.
Without the stimulation of the deer's cries, Shanqing at least regained some of his senses.
While Jiang Xingni and the others were negotiating with Lu Ming, Shan Qing wasn't doing nothing; she was simply recalling memories she couldn't remember.
Since I can't remember it, I'll just leave it at that.
Anyway, he would figure it out sooner or later—so in this situation, wanting to get some useful information, the very experienced Shanqing directly chose to go back to VOID and search the database.
Her face was still writhing in the flames as she carefully kept her distance from the paper documents, afraid that if she got too close, the papers would suddenly burst into flames.
So she stayed in the archives room until Jiang Xingni pushed open the door and walked in.
"Xingbao." Shanqing looked at her friend's daughter through the flames and subconsciously uttered a nickname she was familiar with. Seeing Jiang Xingni's wrinkled face, she couldn't help but laugh.
Xiao Jiming raised an eyebrow and repeated, "Xingbao."
Then Jiang Xingni delivered an elbow strike to his lower abdomen.
Xiao Jiming winced in pain and made a gesture as if he were cutting his mouth shut with a zipper.
Shan Qing simply watched the two arguing with a smile, and then said, "I know how they turn people into monsters and superhumans. They are still researching the pathways to catalyze superhumans into monsters."
Superpowered individuals can transform into monsters. This is a piece of knowledge that Jiang Xingni discovered while cramming for the exam. It was a new point of knowledge that was suddenly added recently. That's the downside of superpowered individuals. All the newly researched knowledge points are updated and replaced at any time, leaving no time for others to refute them.
If their obsessions become too strong, they can easily turn into monsters driven by those obsessions. Therefore, we now make time to help them regulate their physical and mental health, and pay attention to the mental and physical well-being of underage individuals with superpowers...
Jiang Xingni has reservations about whether these measures are effective, but in any case, his daily life has become much easier since they were implemented.
"So their goal is to turn people into these things? And then transform them into each other?" Jiang Xingni was highly suspicious of their motives. "What is their purpose? Is it just to demonstrate their advanced technological capabilities?"
Of course, that's not all; Shan Qing's tone was relaxed.
"They believe that since monsters can retain their humanity, and humans and superhumans can all become monsters in the future, this means that monsters are the ultimate direction of human evolution."
Jiang Xingni: ?
She felt as if she had suddenly lost the ability to understand Chinese.
Although Jiang Xingni had indeed considered that VOID might ultimately have this purpose, a purpose that is quite common among villains in shonen manga, and although Jiang Xingni frequently reads manga and is already used to such things...
Although Jiang Xingni came up with many excuses, she still felt that it was somewhat surreal for such a villainous organization to have such a purpose to happen before her eyes.
Jiang Xing looked around and realized with even greater despair that neither Shan Qing nor Lu Ming, especially Lu Ming—who, at this age, should be the target audience for shonen manga—seemed to think there was anything wrong with the purpose of VOID.
Shan Qing's expression was solemn, while Lu Ming tilted his head in confusion: "Why do you all look so serious?"
Jiang Xingni sighed inwardly, once again feeling this feeling he hadn't felt in a long time—the feeling that he was actually living in a comic book.
This feeling was even more difficult to explain to Lu Ming and Shan Qing.
Xiao Jiming's expression became even more solemn, and he asked in a serious tone, "So, I was also their test subject... They actually had such an idea."
"Xingxing, you'll stay with me, right?" He turned his head and whispered, asking Jiang Xingni.
Xiao Jiming knew that the chances were slim, but he still stubbornly clung to a promise, hoping that Jiang Xingni would stay by his side and live for them, rather than choosing to die at some point.
If Jiang Xingni didn't want to die, she clearly possessed the ability to see the future. If she hadn't chosen death herself, how could she have chosen death in every single one of the hundreds or thousands of possibilities Xie Yungui saw?
Jiang Xing smiled but remained silent.
That's not necessarily true.
Having received the expected answer, Xiao Jiming lowered his eyes and said nothing more.
"You know, if you had spared Ji Shanqing back then... instead of killing her outright, letting her reincarnate or whatever, whatever, just killing her completely," the system asked Jiang Xingni in his mind. "Then wouldn't you have a monster as a summoned beast now, just like that other person?"
Who...? The name circled in Jiang Xingni's mind, and finally Jiang Xingni locked onto the target the name pointed to - Wells Creed.
Foreign names are always hard to remember. Compared to Sera, Creed's name was obviously more difficult to pronounce. Jiang Xing glanced at it in his mind for a while before finally figuring out who this person was.
The moment he figured it out, Jiang Xingni almost spat it out.
Even Ji Shanqing—who was the one among all the monsters she had ever seen who had maintained the best sense of humanity—she didn't believe that the Ji Shanqing who became a monster was the same person as the Ji Shanqing who was alive.
Giving Ji Shanqing death is a sign of respect for all those she killed, and also a sign of respect for Ji Shanqing herself.
Those who inflict death on others will eventually face their own death.
It would have been better if the system hadn't mentioned Ji Shanqing. But after it did, Jiang Xingni became even more certain of one thing.
Even without the influence of VOID, a human who becomes a monster might retain their original sanity. As for whether this monster is the original person who is already dead—that's a matter of opinion.
Shanqing was a test subject who was transformed, and Sera was a test subject who was successfully transformed by chance. Therefore, VOID has been trying to recruit that person into their group, while Ji Shanqing was naturally formed. After being observed, VOID consciously began to let the whole thing develop unchecked, wanting to know how far she could go after killing so many people.
Is it possible to become a "human" in some sense, like an esper, possessing superpowers and intelligence?
The experiment failed to produce any results and was successfully sabotaged by the main characters midway through.
If it were Jiang Xingni herself, and her plan was suddenly disrupted midway through, she thought she would hate the other person to death.
【Star.】Shan Qing mimicked Xiao Jiming's way of addressing her, softly calling Jiang Xingni by her nickname. 【It's time.】