241: Chapter 241 Human Righteousness? Don't Treat My People Like Waste

Behind the reinforced glass next door, Jiang Yun pressed her palm against the glass.

The Green Lotus Fire flickered between her fingers, then she suppressed it.

"Father wouldn't..."

Wang Xue leaned back against the electric chair, her face devoid of color, though the corners of her mouth twitched.

"Do you remember that high fever you had when you were eleven?"

Jiang Yun's gaze froze.

Wang Xue looked up at her.

"You burned for seven days. Normal doctors wanted to use fever-reducing injections, but he wouldn't allow it."

"He sealed off the entire ward and took control using the highest authority in the capital."

"Fourteen vials of blood."

Wang Xue's voice was low.

"He said it was called a genetic compatibility test."

"At the time, I didn't understand, and I didn't dare to."

Jiang Yun's hand slid down the glass by half an inch.

She stared at Wang Xue.

"That was to save me."

Wang Xue raised her restrained wrist and pointed to the spike in her shoulder.

"The way he saves people has always looked like this."

No one spoke outside the sealed chamber.

Jiang Yun's throat moved.

She quickly averted her gaze.

"If you knew he had problems back then, why didn't you take me with you when you left?"

These words were faster than the Green Lotus Fire, piercing straight at Wang Xue.

"You left me to him."

Jiang Yun looked up, her voice suppressed.

"Now you come back and criticize him!"

"Then what does that make you?"

"A deserter?"

This time, even Tang Qiqi didn't chime in on the channel.

Her own parents had divorced when she was young, and she had been kicked around like a ball.

Tang Qiqi knew that feeling.

Wang Xue lowered her head, looking at her reflection on the floor.

"Yes," she said.

"I was a coward."

The fire in Jiang Yun's eyes stalled.

Wang Xue didn't make excuses for herself.

"Those few years, it was like he had become a different person."

"The way he looked at you didn't look like he was looking at his daughter; it was like he was looking at a set of moving data."

"I wanted to take you with me."

"But I knew that if I touched you, I wouldn't be able to leave at all."

She let out a laugh, her throat filled with the scent of blood.

"I'm not a good mother."

"I was afraid of dying."

"So I ran away alone."

The questions Jiang Yun had prepared were stifled by these words.

The Green Lotus Fire burned in her palm for a moment.

Then it went out.

Wang Ya stood beside Lin Yuan, the pale gold water patterns on the edge of her grey-white irises spinning gently.

Lin Motong hugged her teddy bear, lying in front of the second-floor surveillance screen, and whispered, "She isn't lying."

Xia Qingqiu closed her workbook.

The chicken-and-rabbit math problem escaped disaster today.

Jiang Yun clung to her last shred of conviction.

"But at least Father is protecting humanity."

Wang Xue looked up.

This time, her smile was cold.

"He is protecting all of humanity."

She looked at Jiang Yun, enunciating every word.

"It's just that you are outside that scope."

The air in B3 sank.

Su Xiaonuan looked up.

Grandmaster Ling Suzhen leaned against the wall.

Once upon a time, she had been that kind of person too.

Until the agreement with Lin Yuan pulled her out of that cycle.

Jiang Xiaowan held her stomach in the second-floor lounge, watching the surveillance screen, the smile on her face slowly fading.

Jiang Yun didn't reply.

She watched Wang Xue through the glass.

It was like she was meeting this mother for the first time.

And like she was understanding her father's name for the first time.

Beep.

The main screen suddenly exploded with static.

Liu Qing's voice sounded from the broadcast.

"A forced connection from an external encrypted channel."

"The source is the same as the last time the capital invaded the main channel."

"The other party has at least one S-rank information-type Esper."

Su Xiaonuan immediately ordered, "Cut off the external interface."

"Preheat the B2 shield."

The sound of a soda can hitting the floor came from Tang Qiqi's side.

"Received, the electric rat is on the clock!"

The main screen flashed black and white a few times.

The silhouette of a man appeared on the screen.

His face couldn't be seen.

Only his voice was steady, as if reading a report.

"Lin Yuan."

"I am Adam."

"Let's talk."

Jiang Yun looked up abruptly.

Wang Xue leaned back against the chair, the light in her eyes dimming.

She could already anticipate that once Adam knew she was here, he would do anything to get her back.

After all, in her memories, Adam was the leader of the entire Dragon Country, and even the entire Human Legion.

Lin Yuan sat in the main seat outside B3, not rising.

"Speak."

Adam didn't engage in small talk.

"Last week, I acquired a new deduction-type Superpower."

"I completed the twelfth Red Moon simulation."

Liu Qing quickly marked the energy fluctuations.

Interference code kept popping up at the edges of the screen.

Adam continued.

"The God of the End will appear."

"It is not a simple Mutant."

"It will cause all Superpowers to fail."

"Even your subordinate Lin Motong's corpse-control ability will fail."

"At that time, tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions, of zombies will swarm humans who have no Superpowers."

"Can you imagine that result?"

Wang Xue's wrists tightened.

The black patterns of the Mental Spike lit up.

Su Muxue immediately increased the freezing.

Adam's voice cut through the electrical static.

"There are only two key figures who can change the outcome."

"The fetus in Jiang Xiaowan's womb."

"Wang Xue's Small World."

In the second-floor lounge, the cup of warm water in Jiang Xiaowan's hand paused at her lips.

She watched the screen, not cursing.

This was rarer than cursing.

Adam said, "Lin Yuan, hand Jiang Xiaowan and Wang Xue over to the capital."

"I will concentrate all resources to protect them."

"This concerns the survival of all humanity."

After listening, Lin Yuan rested his fingers on the armrest.

"If you want to fight the twelfth Red Moon together, we can talk."

"But using my people as expendables is not an option."

Adam paused for a second.

"You cannot bear the responsibility for failure."

Lin Yuan looked up.

"If you had told me from the beginning that you were looking for Wang Xue, I wouldn't have bothered with your family affairs."

"But you sent people to infiltrate Jiang City."

"Disrupted Tiangong No. 1."

"And you even tried to reach your hand to my bedside."

He watched the blurry silhouette on the screen.

"You didn't make a strategic error."

"You provoked me."

Outside B3, Qin Yumo gently tapped her dual blades together.

The sound of the blades was very faint.

Director Xu Changfeng, isolated in another interrogation room, lowered his head and closed his eyes upon hearing this.

He knew that Adam had chosen the wrong entry point.

Or rather, he had misjudged Lin Yuan.

For Lin Yuan, humanity's greater good was simply not within his scope of consideration.

Adam's voice remained steady.

"Personal possessiveness will kill more people."

Lin Yuan chuckled.

"Stop pinning labels on me."

"In your plans, the people who sacrifice are never yourselves."

"The last nuclear bomb was sent by you."

"This time, you want Jiang Xiaowan and Wang Xue again."

"What about next time?"

Adam didn't answer.

He only said, "Wang Xue's Small World is the optimal container for preserving the seeds of humanity."

"The fetus in Jiang Xiaowan's womb is the key to opening the End Sequence."

"Lin Yuan, you have no right to keep them in a private fortress."

Jiang Xiaowan suddenly laughed.

The laughter traveled through the second-floor channel into B3.

"You bastard, I suddenly feel like you aren't that annoying either."

Lin Yuan didn't respond to her.

Liu Qing's voice turned cold.

"Master, the other party is using the communication to probe the structure of B3."

Lin Yuan raised his hand.

"Cut him off."

Liu Qing's fingers fell.

The screen exploded with static.

Tang Qiqi slammed down the diverter valve in B2.

Blue and white electric arcs crawled all over the shield interface.

Adam's voice came through in the last second.

"You will come to beg me."

The communication went black.

B3 returned to silence.

Only a little black pattern in the Mental Spike was still jumping.

Jiang Yun watched Wang Xue through the glass.

Then she looked at the extinguished main screen.

Adam mentioned Jiang Xiaowan.

He mentioned Wang Xue.

But he didn't mention her.

The daughter locked in B3 by Lin Yuan.

Wang Xue closed her eyes.

"See that?"

"He didn't even bother to ask about you."

Jiang Yun's lips moved.

No sound came out.

Lin Yuan stood up.

Wang Xue looked up at him.

"Do you want my Small World too?"

Lin Yuan looked at her.

"Of course I do."

Wang Xue was stunned.

Lin Yuan's tone was indifferent.

"But I will make you open it voluntarily."

"Not by treating you as a key."

Wang Xue stared at him for a long while, then swore.

"You men really know how to pick the nice things to say."

Lin Yuan turned around.

"Humanity can be saved."

"But no one is allowed to take my people."

He stopped at the doorway and looked back at Wang Xue.

"And you, you're mine now."