153: Chapter 153 Seriously? You're saying those two sisters are the same person?
It was hard to tell if Qiu Min had been lazy or limited by technology when she created Di Zhenzhen and the others, as their First Form and second form looked like they were printed from the same template.
The First Form was always a Red-Scaled Wyvern, and the second form was always Red Dragon Mecha plus a corrosion energy rifle.
The difference was that for Di Zhenzhen's Saint-tier Red Dragon Mecha, the red scales were deeper in color, and the silver-white base color was brighter.
As for Jiang Jingjing and the others' second form, the red scales leaned more toward pink, and the base color was just an ordinary white without the liquid metal silver-bright effect; their corrosion energy rifles also lacked dragon scales.
Aside from that, there were differences in the curvature of their lines. Yun Zhuo felt this had nothing to do with gene editing and was instead a result of Acquired development.
Furthermore, Yun Zhuo highly suspected that the woman Qiu Min definitely had a magical girl dream; otherwise, why would the transformed forms of the War Princesses she created be so western-fantasy styled?
After finished looking at the War Princesses' second forms, next up was applying skills and Cultivation Techniques.
Dual Instant Shot was unnecessary; their corrosion energy rifles couldn't split into two like Big Teacher Su's could.
They had no use for a dual-wielding skill like Dual Instant Shot.
As for the Soul-Aweing Spear Aura, it wasn't very useful for a wingman.
Of course, the most critical factor was the lack of purple essence stones, so he had to budget carefully.
Otherwise, he wouldn't care if it was useful or not; after all, one can never have too many skills.
Finally, there was increasing the compatibility, which was the key for a wingman to act autonomously and maintain the second form.
In other words, only when a War Princess has compatibility with a War Spirit Master can she share Mental Energy, Corrosion Energy, and Psionic Energy when transformed into a wingman.
After transforming, Jiang Jingjing couldn't wait to perform Body Integration with Yun Zhuo, but she was stopped by Di Zhenzhen.
“Let's save the compatibility increase for another day. I have something to discuss with Xiao Zhuo.”
“Sister Zhenzhen, you don't want to keep this kid all to yourself, do you?”
Because there was no compatibility, Jiang Jingjing couldn't receive Corrosion Energy feedback from Yun Zhuo, and her second form automatically disassembled in less than a minute.
Returning to her human form, she stared at Di Zhenzhen with a suspicious look.
“What nonsense are you talking about? Increasing compatibility is serious business. Am I someone who can't distinguish priorities?”
After sending Jiang Jingjing and the others away, Yun Zhuo looked at Di Zhenzhen curiously. “Sister Zhenzhen, the thing you want to talk about... it wouldn't be that thing you didn't finish doing last time, would it?
The weather is nice today, perfect for going out on a spring outing.”
Di Zhenzhen was stunned for a moment, then she realized what he meant and said with a red face, “It’s not what you think.”
“Then what is it?”
“Follow me.”
As she spoke, Di Zhenzhen took Yun Zhuo's hand and walked toward the Guanyin Temple.
Once inside the Guanyin Temple and after the main doors automatically closed, she finally spoke: “What I want to say is that your Big Teacher Su and Little Teacher Su are actually not sisters.”
“That's impossible, right? If they aren't sisters, how can they look so much alike? They're practically carved from the same mold.”
At this point, Yun Zhuo suddenly paused and looked at Di Zhenzhen in shock. “Sister Zhenzhen, you don't mean to say... they are actually the same person?”
Di Zhenzhen nodded. “You could say that. Back then, Su Jingzhou promised your mother that providing protection and funding her to establish this Nun Village came with conditions.
That was for your mother to forge a peerless divine weapon for him, and that peerless weapon is Number Eighteen.”
“Number Eighteen?”
“Yes, because Su Jingzhou was dissatisfied with the previous seventeen and destroyed them. It wasn't until Number Eighteen was born that he was satisfied.
But I can't tell which of them is Number Eighteen.”
“Are you sure?”
“I'm certain. Although I don't know the specific details, I was already eight years old when I saw Number Eighteen and had begun to remember things.
When your mother handed her over to Jingjing and me, she was still an infant not yet a month old.
Your mother was quite busy at that time, so Jingjing and I were the ones who took care of her until she was eight years old and taken away by the Su Family.”
“Eight years old? Then she should have memories of that time too, right?”
“Jingjing and I tested them long ago. Neither of them has memories of living in the Nun Village, yet they both have memories of growing up together since childhood.
Jingjing and I believe their memories were likely edited; they are fake.”
“Then is it possible that Number Eighteen isn't even between the two of them?”
“Impossible. Three years after she left, I went to her house to work as a maid for a period. At that time, Number Eighteen's appearance hadn't changed much, and I could recognize her at a glance.
But the problem is there were two of them, and neither recognized me. From that moment on, I couldn't distinguish which one was truly Number Eighteen.”
“You even went to their house to be a maid?”
“Yes. At that time, your mother went to Tianding City, and later she called me to Tianding City as well. But when I arrived, I didn't see her; instead, I was taken back to the Su Family by Su Jingzhou and became a maid in his house.
It wasn't until three years later that Su Jingzhou told me I could leave, and I finally saw your mother outside the city.
Not long after returning to the Nun Village, your mother completed the statue of the Goddess and then returned to the Goddess's embrace.”
“Meaning at that time, you were nineteen, the Teachers Su were eleven, and I was only seven?”
“That's right, why?”
Yun Zhuo shook his head. “Nothing. Besides this, do you have any other evidence or clues?”
According to Di Zhenzhen, Qiu Min didn't leave until he was seven, which further confirmed that Qiu Min was definitely not his mother.
In his own memory fragments, the earliest he could trace back was to age five, and at that time, he had always been in Dawn City.
The memories of the neighbors could trace back to before he was born—the year Qiu Jie was pregnant with him. They had all seen Qiu Jie, and she had passed away when he was two years old.
Even if she hadn't died, she would have disappeared after he was two, which didn't match the timeline Di Zhenzhen described.
“I do.”
“What is it?”
“This...” Di Zhenzhen’s face suddenly turned red. After hesitating for a moment, she leaned into Yun Zhuo’s ear and whispered a few words.
Yun Zhuo looked at her in shock after hearing it. “Are you sure?”
Di Zhenzhen nodded shyly.
Her words roughly meant that while others had three brushes, they—the androids—only had two.
“Sister Zhenzhen, using this as evidence is a bit far-fetched, isn't it? After all, some people are naturally like that, and besides, that place isn't usually visible to others.”
“It is a bit far-fetched, but it can serve as supporting evidence. You must have seen Su Qingyuan's, right?”
“Uh... that, she isn't.”
Di Zhenzhen’s eyes lit up. “Then it must be her sister.”
“Don't go talking nonsense without evidence.”
Di Zhenzhen nodded. “I told you all this today not because I necessarily have to figure out which of them is Number Eighteen.
I just want you to know that you have now contracted Su Jingzhou's peerless divine weapon. No matter how well he treats you, it's all fake.”
“Sister Zhenzhen, you're so good to me.”
“So, do you want to look for where your mother's laboratory is now? Maybe there are clues she left for you inside, or something else.”
“Are you sure it's in this temple?”
“It should be. Every time a new sister appeared, it was in this temple.”
“Have you checked under the divine throne?”
Yun Zhuo had checked once before out of curiosity. Just as he was about to pry open the divine throne, Di Zhenzhen had suddenly arrived, so he hadn't succeeded.
Di Zhenzhen shook her head. “The laboratory is definitely underground, but the entrance definitely isn't in the divine throne. We've opened the throne every time we maintain the statue and never found an entrance.”
“Maybe you just didn't look carefully enough. Why don't we take another look?”