240: Chapter 240 She is not Eve, she is Jiang Yun's mother

The underground ward fell silent.

The woman's curse stifled the cries of the technician from the capital.

Qin Yumo lifted the chin of the last technician with the tip of her blade.

Wang Ya stood in the center of the accumulated water, looking at the woman's face, the faint golden water ripples at the edges of her gray-white irises rotating gently.

Lin Yuan did not smile.

"Take her back."

The woman took half a step back.

A gray-white halo spread out from beneath her feet, and the shattered equipment fragments began to hover.

"Are you also Adam's dogs?"

Qin Yumo flipped her twin blades.

Grandmaster Ling Suzhen assumed a martial arts stance.

Wang Ya did not move.

Lin Yuan looked at the black Mental Spike on her shoulder.

"If I were his dog, you would have already been packed into a crate and sent back to the capital."

The woman sneered.

"Men's words are just like canned herring; they all stink once opened."

In the communication channel, Jiang Xiaowan clicked her tongue softly.

"This sister has a sharp tongue."

Tang Qiqi whispered in response.

"I feel like she could hold a debate with the pregnant sister."

Su Xiaonuan didn't let her continue.

"Keep the on-site channel quiet."

Lin Yuan raised his hand.

Qin Yumo kicked the technician in front of the woman.

"Speak."

The technician lay in the blood, his teeth chattering.

The woman, however, did not wait for him to speak.

She raised her hand to grab the black Mental Spike on her shoulder, digging her fingers into her flesh.

"I don't need you to save me."

The patterns on the Mental Spike lit up.

The next second, thin black threads emerged from the spike, wrapping around her shoulder and neck, burrowing toward her temple like a living creature.

The gray-white halo exploded out of control.

The walls cracked.

The iron frames of the hospital beds flew up and smashed toward the group.

Wang Ya raised her hand.

The accumulated water on the ground turned into a transparent water curtain, forcibly suppressing the spreading shockwave.

Qin Yumo held her blade horizontally in front of Lin Yuan, the blade emitting a piercing vibration.

The woman knelt halfway amidst the equipment fragments, blood seeping from the corner of her mouth, her hand still gripping the Mental Spike tightly.

"Adam, that beast."

She looked up, her eyes bloodshot.

"He even dares to drive this kind of thing into me."

Qin Yumo turned around and crushed the technician's knee with one foot.

"What is this thing?"

The technician screamed.

"Mental Spike!"

"A Mental Spike personally blessed by Lord Adam!"

"Only he himself can pull it out!"

"If an outsider tries to pull it out, the mental sea will be torn apart along with it!"

Grandmaster Ling Suzhen's expression darkened.

"This isn't about capturing someone."

She stared at that black Mental Spike.

"It's putting a lock on a living person."

Lin Yuan looked at the woman.

"Did you hear that?"

The woman gritted her teeth and moved her hand away from the Mental Spike.

Blood dripped through her fingers into the accumulated water.

"Adam."

She recited this name and gave a small laugh.

"For the sake of his pathetic plan, he can discard his wife and child."

"And he even gave me such a disgusting codename as Eve."

"Why doesn't he just change his own name to Beast?"

Wang Ya spoke up suddenly.

"You..."

Her voice was very soft.

"Are you Sister Xue?"

The woman's movements stopped.

She looked at Wang Ya.

Those gray-white irises, that face, changed by the apocalypse but still recognizable.

The woman's throat moved.

"Little Yaya?"

Wang Ya did not answer immediately.

Lin Motong's voice popped out from the communicator.

"Mom, she really knows you."

Wang Ya looked at the Mental Spike on the woman's shoulder.

"My cousin."

"After she married into the capital, the family rarely heard any news."

Wang Xue stared at her.

"How did you become like this?"

Wang Ya looked down at her own hand.

Water lines wound around her fingertips and then fell quietly.

"Something happened after the apocalypse started."

She paused for a moment.

"Mr. Lin saved me."

Wang Xue looked at Lin Yuan again for the first time.

This time, the defensiveness in her eyes was less sharp.

Lin Yuan did not explain what he had done.

He didn't need to explain, either.

He just looked at Shadow.

"Take the equipment wreckage, crystal cores, and the technician—take them all."

Shadow nodded.

Iron Arm King stood behind him, holding his shield.

"Brother Shadow, I can move the equipment."

Shadow said coldly, "Hurry up."

Iron Arm King immediately hoisted half of the silver-white device, his steps even becoming lighter.

Lin Yuan looked at Wang Xue.

"Two choices."

"Stay here and wait for Adam's next batch of people."

"Or go with me and try to save your life."

Wang Xue looked at Wang Ya.

Wang Ya stood by Lin Yuan's side and did not retreat.

This action was more effective than any words.

Wang Xue covered her shoulder and spat out a mouthful of blood foam.

"I don't trust you."

"I trust her."

Lin Yuan turned around.

"That's enough."

When the convoy returned to Cloud Top Palace, a sealed chamber on the B3 level had already been cleared out.

After the last A-rank Zombie Girl incident, the observation windows had all been replaced with triple-layered reinforced glass, sandwiched with explosion-proof film and an electromagnetic net.

Su Muxue stood in front of the sterile operating table, the cuffs of her white lab coat fastened tightly.

Wang Xue sat on the electric chair, with only the wrist containing the Mental Spike restrained.

Su Muxue scanned Wang Xue.

On the screen, two sets of energy fluctuations lit up simultaneously.

[S-rank Light type.]

[S-rank Spatial type.]

Liu Qing's voice rang out.

"Double S-rank confirmed."

Su Xiaonuan held the tablet, her fingertips pausing for a moment.

Grandmaster Ling Suzhen looked at those two curves.

"No wonder Adam wanted to capture her."

Wang Xue leaned back against the chair, her face devoid of color.

"He didn't want to capture me."

"He wanted my Little World."

Lin Yuan looked up.

"Little World?"

Wang Xue sneered.

"My Spatial Ability allows me to build houses in another dimension."

"Food, medicine, solar panels, water circulation systems, planting boxes—I moved them all in."

"After the apocalypse started, I lived inside."

"Nobody bothered me."

Tang Qiqi spoke up over the channel.

"You call this 'My World: Deluxe Edition'."

Wang Xue looked at Wang Ya outside the glass.

"I knew the apocalypse would come ten years ago."

"It's not because I'm very smart."

"It's because Adam let it slip."

"He changed back then."

"It was like someone else had replaced him in his body, talking every day about the 'End of Humanity'."

Lin Yuan's eyes finally flickered.

Someone else had replaced him in his body.

The first batch of transmigrators.

This foreshadowing had partially landed.

Wang Xue continued, "He didn't bother me, and I was happy to be left alone."

"As for Little Yaya..."

Wang Xue looked at Wang Ya.

"During the years I went back to Jiangcheng, I heard you got married."

"Later, when I wanted to find you, I couldn't get in touch."

Wang Ya lowered her eyes.

The water surface rippled silently for half a turn.

Lin Motong said in a low voice through the communicator, "He was a beast, and he's already dead."

Wang Xue was stunned.

Wang Ya said, "I killed him."

Wang Xue was silent for a few seconds.

"Well done."

Su Muxue picked up the cryo-needle.

"I need to suppress the activity of the Mental Spike."

Wang Xue looked at her.

"Can you pull it out?"

Su Muxue pushed up her glasses.

"Not right now."

"But I can make it shut up for a while."

Absolute Zero seeped into the wound along the tip of the needle.

The patterns on the Mental Spike slowly dimmed.

Wang Xue gritted her teeth and didn't cry out.

Lin Yuan asked, "Which Red Moon cycle are you from?"

Wang Xue looked up.

"You also know about the Red Moon cycles?"

Lin Yuan did not answer.

Wang Xue smiled.

"It seems you aren't an ordinary survivor either."

She let out a breath.

"In my previous life, I lived until the twelfth Red Moon cycle."

"That night, the Deity of the End appeared."

"It wasn't the Zombie King you've seen now."

"That thing could speak, could plan, and could make all Superpowers ineffective."

Outside the sealed chamber, Su Xiaonuan, Liu Qing, and Grandmaster Ling Suzhen all fell silent at once.

Wang Xue looked at Lin Yuan.

"Adam probably knows too."

"That's why he forcibly pulled me out of my Little World."

"His SSS-rank Superpower is to devour other people's Superpowers."

Grandmaster Ling Suzhen's eyes turned cold.

"Killing for treasure?"

Wang Xue shook her head.

"It's not that simple."

"The other party must be willing."

She pointed to the Mental Spike on her shoulder.

"That's why he had to lock me up first to make me his key."

A sudden impact came from the adjacent sealed chamber.

Jiang Yun stood behind the reinforced glass.

She looked at Wang Xue, the Green Lotus Fire lighting up in her palm, then extinguishing.

That arrogant face cracked for the first time.

"Mom..."

Wang Xue did not respond immediately.

She just looked at Jiang Yun, the light in her eyes sinking.

"Long time no see."

Jiang Yun's lips moved.

"Father said you betrayed humanity."

Wang Xue let out a laugh.

"He can even write his wife into his plans."

"Guess what position he left for you?"